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Speaker 1: August twelfth, the U of R Lord twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Needless to say, as usual jam packed. I've got camp

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Speaker 1: Intel wall to wall, coast to coast. We're going deep

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Speaker 1: diving in the SEC. But I've also got some stuff

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Speaker 1: from Texas, a lot of quarterback sauce in the show tonight.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of quarterback position battles that I

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Speaker 1: think may be presented one way, let's say in the

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Speaker 1: preview magazine culture that I just don't think are as.

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Speaker 1: They may appear on the surface. Now you may end

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Speaker 1: up getting the starter you thought you would. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of competition out there. That's not a bad thing,

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Speaker 1: that's a good thing. So we've got several updates there. Also,

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Speaker 1: I think defense and for that matter, competitive balance may

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Speaker 1: be secretly making a comeback in college football, at least

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Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty one season. There are many different

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Speaker 1: reasons for that. I'm going to detail those tonight. Also,

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Speaker 1: really good piece on twenty four to seven sports dot

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Speaker 1: to be a movement year. I think there are several

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Speaker 1: on your perspective. In my opinion, it's both. But it's

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Speaker 1: a little teas and we're going to enter the show.

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Speaker 1: I cannot tell you any more than this. I'm just

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Speaker 1: a half that I've worked here. If you want to

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Speaker 1: you to watch the Sunday night show. Let's dive into

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Speaker 1: the Thursday night show sec Camp Intel wall to wall.

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Speaker 1: We have no time to waste. Let's dive in. You

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Speaker 1: smell that, don't you. There's a little bit of smoke

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Speaker 1: coming from Athens, Georgia. Not the practice field, mind you,

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Speaker 1: but mainly the message board talk radio culture, and it's

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Speaker 1: about Eric Gilbert. Eric Gilbert, by way of LSU, after

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Speaker 1: Georgia wide receiver, at least that's what he's listed as.

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Speaker 1: But if you believe some of the smoke on the

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Speaker 1: message boards, there's something going on on. What is that

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Speaker 1: something we don't know. That's the nature of a message

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Speaker 1: board rumor. It carries with it precious little value and

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Speaker 1: So here's what I would caution you to do. I've

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Speaker 1: had a bunch of people asking me about this. I

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Speaker 1: called Rusty manzel Street named coach Rusty this morning and

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Speaker 1: I said, Rusty, what's going on? And Rusty said, dude,

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Speaker 1: me directly. I'm telling you after I talked to Rusty,

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Speaker 1: don't worry about this. There are some things happening this weekend.

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Speaker 1: One of them is called a scrimmage. They're gonna have

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Speaker 1: all their donors in Sandford Stadium to watch that scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: Number two, the head coach there goes by the name

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Speaker 1: of Kirby Smart. He will meet with the media this weekend.

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Speaker 1: So if there is anything to the speculative nature of

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Speaker 1: Literally every person I have known to come to trust

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Speaker 1: matchup nightmares. This is why you should have a lot

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Speaker 1: it's one thing if you've got a lot of names

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Speaker 1: you don't remember him at wide receiver. You remember him

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Speaker 1: It's a scholarship to play football at South Carolina. So

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Speaker 1: there's some good and some bad there. It's usually all

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Speaker 1: a really high standard. I almost think like a Southern

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Speaker 1: Cal fan, So when I talk about them, I am

431
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Speaker 1: speaking about them with the entire backdrop being a national

432
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Speaker 1: contending standard. And if they're not there, then it's not

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Speaker 1: good enough for me. So understand that when I'm talking

434
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Speaker 1: about Southern Cal. But what's the real story here? Well,

435
00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,879
Speaker 1: the real story is at quarterback. Now we can talk

436
00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:06,640
Speaker 1: about quarterback because that is the name of the game

437
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Speaker 1: at Southern Cal. You may think to yourself, if you

438
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Speaker 1: just flip through a preview magazine and you're a Minnesota

439
00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,600
Speaker 1: fan who otherwise doesn't follow this program, you'd say, what

440
00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,760
Speaker 1: happened to Keidan Slovas get hurt? No, he's not hurt. Well,

441
00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:19,320
Speaker 1: did he quit the football team? Well? What are we

442
00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,200
Speaker 1: talking about quarterback here? Quarterbacks decided at Southern Cal. Well,

443
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,720
Speaker 1: it may be, but they're in a really good spot.

444
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Speaker 1: They're in a really good spot because I think they

445
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Speaker 1: may have three guys they can win with and you

446
00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:30,880
Speaker 1: don't know much about the other two if you don't

447
00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:35,040
Speaker 1: follow recruiting, because they're true freshmen. Jackson Dart is making

448
00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,359
Speaker 1: big moves at Southern Cal. This is the talk of

449
00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,760
Speaker 1: fall camp right now. It's certainly the talk of a

450
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Speaker 1: lot of the team insiders at USC. And I was

451
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Speaker 1: reading Blake Brockermeier, for example, who does a lot of

452
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Speaker 1: the national camp intel stuff for us on twenty four

453
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Speaker 1: to seven sports dot Com, and he was writing about

454
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Speaker 1: this yesterday said he had talked to some people at

455
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Speaker 1: Southern cal and all they wanted to talk about was

456
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Speaker 1: the progress Jackson Darts making. Now, who is that? You

457
00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,520
Speaker 1: may not remember. That name is a great quarterback name,

458
00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,560
Speaker 1: but you may not remember him if you don't follow recruiting.

459
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Speaker 1: This is a guy that I think our rankings council

460
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Speaker 1: had some trouble with. Remember, there were some places playing

461
00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,080
Speaker 1: high school football, other places weren't. So Jackson Dart ended

462
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Speaker 1: up rocketing up the twenty four to seven player rankings.

463
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Speaker 1: I think he finished number sixty nine overall in the country.

464
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Speaker 1: So he's a four star kid, top one hundred kid.

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Speaker 1: But even at that lofty rating, there were some people

466
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Speaker 1: out there who would tell you, I don't care what

467
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Speaker 1: he's rated. Circle that kid. In my mind, he is

468
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Speaker 1: a five star slam dunk, can't miss. He's one of

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Speaker 1: the best I've seen. Well, okay, you just file that away.

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Speaker 1: Well now I'm flipping through the roller decks in my

471
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Speaker 1: head because I start to hear it. It's kind of

472
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Speaker 1: manifesting itself. And I'm not telling you quarterback controversy because

473
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Speaker 1: I don't believe in the phrase. But I am telling

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Speaker 1: you I don't think Keten Slovas is in a position

475
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Speaker 1: here where they can go out there to start the

476
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Speaker 1: season and they're just whole humming their way to victories,

477
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Speaker 1: and this offense is sputtering along. I think he's got

478
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Speaker 1: pressure on him, as coaching staff understands, they got pressure

479
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Speaker 1: on them. So if you think that they're going to

480
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Speaker 1: maintain status quote just for the stake of steps quote,

481
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Speaker 1: you're kidding yourself. I want to read you this. This

482
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Speaker 1: is from our Blair and Gulo. I'm going to briefly

483
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Speaker 1: read so you know what this kid's about. And them

484
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,720
Speaker 1: talking about Jackson Dart, the kind of scouting report we

485
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Speaker 1: had on him. There's some pretty rare language in here.

486
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Speaker 1: I read a lot of these quarterback scouting reports. Our

487
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 1: guys don't talk like this very often. Prototypical size for

488
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Speaker 1: the position, accurate passer, great feel for the game, good

489
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Speaker 1: arm strength and timing, versatility to operate different looks, tremendous touch,

490
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Speaker 1: anticipation to fit throws between levels, athletic, gritty enough to

491
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Speaker 1: run for tough yardage flashes, all the intangibles necessary can

492
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Speaker 1: sustain Zip on his throes when rolling outside the pocket.

493
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Speaker 1: Potential multi year starter at the power five level projects

494
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Speaker 1: as a future NFL draft selection. That guy is capable

495
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Speaker 1: of playing winning football for Southern cal this year. I

496
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Speaker 1: don't know if he will play this year. I'm telling

497
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Speaker 1: you a lot of people around that program think he's

498
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Speaker 1: there now as a true freshman, and that is a mouthful.

499
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Speaker 1: That's why I don't say it lightly. Move on. Let's

500
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Speaker 1: go from USC all across the country to UNC at

501
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Speaker 1: North Carolina. What's the name we have continued to speak

502
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Speaker 1: about at North Carolina. Well, on this show, it's been

503
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Speaker 1: ty Chandler. We adopted him. We adopted young Ti, who's

504
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,679
Speaker 1: not young at all, into our family here and so

505
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Speaker 1: he's one of ours. But we need more than ty

506
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Speaker 1: Chandler in the running back room there at North Carolina.

507
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Speaker 1: I was doing the Inside Carolina YouTube show right after

508
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Speaker 1: our show the other night, and we're kind of going

509
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Speaker 1: back and forth, and some of the guys there think

510
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Speaker 1: that he's not quite the hinge player that I think

511
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Speaker 1: he is. And one of the best strategies if you're

512
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Speaker 1: a national host is to go on a website where

513
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 1: all those folks do is follow that one team all day,

514
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: every day and disagree with him. What a great strategy

515
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,639
Speaker 1: I chose, but I do feel this way. I do

516
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:45,640
Speaker 1: feel this way about ty Chandler. I think he's a very,

517
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 1: very disproportionately important player in the context of the ACC race,

518
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 1: maybe even the playoff race. But I need to get

519
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,159
Speaker 1: him some help, and I think they found it. I

520
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 1: think they're starting to develop some depth there. This is

521
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Speaker 1: not a new name to Tar Hill fans, but I

522
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: think Caleb Hood maybe a name you want to keep

523
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,400
Speaker 1: an eye on. He has a different style back now.

524
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Speaker 1: He is five eleven, two thirty at the moment, so

525
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Speaker 1: obviously he's not a guy that you're gonna use like

526
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Speaker 1: Steve Sarkesan used Najie Harris last year. Different skill set,

527
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Speaker 1: even the ty Chandler, but he's a guy that you

528
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 1: can clearly tell just by the body type alone, can

529
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: take eight to twelve carries off of your shoulders if

530
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Speaker 1: you want him to, or more and be very effective.

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Speaker 1: I think they're where they want to be at wide receiver.

532
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Speaker 1: The team thinks they're where they want to be at

533
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Speaker 1: wide receiver, but they've got momentum going on all fronts

534
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Speaker 1: right now. Obviously, you got to win football games, and

535
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 1: that Virginia Tech game is not gonna be an easy opener,

536
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 1: but pay attention to this. There is a massive announcement

537
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Speaker 1: coming up next Saturday. Looked like I was gonna have

538
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Speaker 1: to go to this one, but I'm not. Travis Shaw

539
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 1: is the number three overall player in the country. He's

540
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Speaker 1: out of Greensboro, North Carolina. He is a six y

541
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Speaker 1: three to sixty five, three hundred and ten pound defensive lineman.

542
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Speaker 1: The smart money is on North Carolina there, and if

543
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Speaker 1: they land him, it's going to be the biggest commitment

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Speaker 1: for North Carolina and that staff to date. And that's

545
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 1: a staff that's been rolling and recruiting already. So a

546
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 1: lot of good things, a lot of positive vibes around

547
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Speaker 1: North Carolina football, not the least of which is they're

548
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Speaker 1: expected to contend in the ACC this year. And lastly,

549
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,160
Speaker 1: a program we have not spoken about yet. I came

550
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 1: up with a new phrase, kind of a new term,

551
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 1: by accident. The other night Rattler wasn't talking about the

552
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: quarterback situation at Oklahoma. I was trying to come up

553
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Speaker 1: with a name to give a team that people are

554
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,160
Speaker 1: not talking a whole lot about, but yet they are,

555
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: in my mind, expected to make some noise. And I

556
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: came up with Rattler, and basically that's the same deal

557
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:38,920
Speaker 1: is when you got the radio turned up in the

558
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 1: car and you hit mute and there's just a sound

559
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,159
Speaker 1: coming from somewhere and you don't know what it is,

560
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 1: but you know the sound's not supposed to be there,

561
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: and it's distracting and you wish you to go away.

562
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 1: The car's not operating as it should. Well, the Big

563
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 1: Twelve this year is supposed to operate as follows. Oklahoma

564
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 1: steam rolls everybody. They get a stiff push from Iowa State.

565
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 1: Texas may maybe not, but it's supposed to be Oklahoma

566
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 1: with the crimson and cream confetti raining down in the

567
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,360
Speaker 1: Big Twelve championship game, punch their ticket to the playoff.

568
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Speaker 1: All we have to worry about is what seed we are.

569
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Speaker 1: But there's a rattle in the Big twelve car, and

570
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Speaker 1: I think it's TCU as much as I want to

571
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Speaker 1: say at Iowa State, and it may very well be

572
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Speaker 1: them too. TCU's got a rattle about this team. TCU

573
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: is an extremely dangerous team this year, and I think

574
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Speaker 1: TCU could could not only be a nice little story,

575
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Speaker 1: this is a team that can contend in the Big Twelve.

576
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Speaker 1: They very much can do that. Health is required for

577
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Speaker 1: all teams, so I'm not going to even continue to

578
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: state that prerequisite. But I want to tell you a

579
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: little story here because there's one unfolding that's pretty wild.

580
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Speaker 1: Do you remember the name Marcel Brooks? Those of you

581
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: at LSU, do those of you who follow recruiting. Do

582
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Speaker 1: those of you in Fort Worth know the name? But

583
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: if you live in Norfolk, Virginia, does the name Marcel

584
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: Brooks really mean anything to you? Probably not. Marcel Brooks

585
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: was originally a linebacker who went to LSU out of

586
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: high school six three about two ten, two fifteen. Right

587
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: now is what he plays that he doesn't play linebacker,

588
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 1: and he's not at LSU. He has transferred to TCU,

589
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,919
Speaker 1: did that a couple of years ago, and he is

590
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,199
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. Now. The thing about Marcel Brooks is

591
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 1: even when he was going to be a linebacker, he

592
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: was going to be one of those freaky athletic linebackers

593
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Speaker 1: because he is just that. He's a guy who happens

594
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 1: to be big, but he can fly. He's got incredible

595
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: quick twitch about him. He's got now a really good wingspan,

596
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 1: but he's got really advanced route running ability for a

597
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: guy who used to be a linebacker. He's going to

598
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 1: probably start as a wide receiver for TCU this year.

599
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: And TCU, need I remind you, has a cat named

600
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: Quentin Johnson who projects as a very early draft pick

601
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,679
Speaker 1: coming up. A big bodied guy, he's a guy you

602
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: can lean on. He is a game changer. But now

603
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: we're adding depth to that wide receiver corps. And also,

604
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: don't forget this is also a team it has Zach

605
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: Evans at running back. Zach Evans was passed over by

606
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: a lot of teams despite his five star talent because

607
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: there were some off field concerns. All the while. The

608
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 1: talk in the recruiting industry always was if the off

609
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: field stuff ends up working itself out, like if he's

610
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: not a problem from the neck up, TCU just got

611
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,640
Speaker 1: the steal of the recruiting cycle. Well, the off field

612
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: stuff hasn't been that big an issue for Zach Evans

613
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: since he got to TCU. And now they're gonna have

614
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 1: him second year guy now, and they're gonna have a

615
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: couple of probably future Sunday freak type guys. They're gonna

616
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: have a much improved offensive line, which was the Achilles

617
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: heel of this team last year, and they got Max

618
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 1: Duggan there. Max Duggan, Poor Max Duggan forgotten. Seems like

619
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: he's drawn AARP mail. I think he's listed as a

620
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: sophomore right now. This is a very dangerous team. If

621
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Speaker 1: all I have to worry about is defense for TCU,

622
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: and I got Gary Patterson running things for his forty

623
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Speaker 1: fifth year in a row. I think TCU is a

624
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: dangerous team. So these are some things to keep an

625
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: eye on. That concludes our national camp whispers and intel.

626
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Speaker 1: But we will return to this very topic on Sunday.

627
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: But now, there is a lot of excitement about this season,

628
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: as there is every season. But I've got a little

629
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: bit of extra reason to excite you right now. Does

630
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: competitive balance excite you? Does parody excite you? Does the

631
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: ability to contend for more than just a couple of

632
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: teams for a national championship? Does that kind of stuff

633
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: excite you? Because that's all I hear people complain about,

634
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: or it's a lot of what I hear people complain

635
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,239
Speaker 1: about in college football, And I hear the quote all

636
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: the time. You've probably heard this, maybe you said it

637
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: the same four teams make the playoff every year. Fascinating

638
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 1: considering the fact, by the way, that we've never had

639
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: the same four teams make the playoff twice. We're seven

640
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: years in now, it's never happened. But still your point

641
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: is taken. I do understand what you mean. A majority

642
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: of the time, it's the same few teams in the pool,

643
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Speaker 1: and maybe occasionally a random Washington or a random Michigan

644
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: state works themselves in. By and large, we understand who's

645
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: at the head table. College football is always going to

646
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: have redwoods in the forest. They're always going to have

647
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: those monsters that stand out well above the rest of

648
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: the canopy of the sport. But that doesn't mean you

649
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 1: can't trim the tops off the redwoods every now and then.

650
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Speaker 1: And I think there are a lot of things coming

651
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Speaker 1: together at the same time this year, a lot of

652
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: factors that are going to trim the tops off of

653
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 1: some of these redwoods in college football, and it's going

654
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: to make things a lot more exciting. See the expectation

655
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: right now. The new normal, if you will, in this

656
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: sport is for two or three teams to buzz saw

657
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: their way through their conference, not even competitive, and they

658
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: lock up a number one or number two, number three seed,

659
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: and they're all undefeated. And then we've got a couple

660
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: of undefeated teams meeting in the title game, and which

661
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: team's going to remain undefeated the whole way and rewrite

662
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 1: the record books because that's what we've seen lately. Bama

663
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: just did it, LSU did it before them, Clemson's done it.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's happening this year. And if we

665
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: do have one, I think they'll have several more fights

666
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: on their hands. I think they'll know what their blood

667
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: tastes like a lot more than some of these teams

668
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: in the past have come to know during the season.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about the reasons for a second. The

670
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: first reason is very simple. Look across the country. Where

671
00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: are these slam dunk transcendent quarterbacks at. Where's my Trevor Lawrence?

672
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: Where's my Justin Fields, Where's my Tua my mac Jones?

673
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: Where are they at? You've got Spencer Ratler, and I

674
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: will buy it if you try and sell me that.

675
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: But elsewhere you are not selling me JT. Daniels as

676
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: a transcendent talent. You are not selling me Bryce or

677
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: DJ or CJ. Stroud right now as a transcendent talent,

678
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: and the reason is because I've never seen him win

679
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: a game. They have all the potential in the world.

680
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: I certainly believe in them, but we're talking about twenty

681
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: twenty one, not twenty two and twenty three. I'm not

682
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: fearful of any of those guys laying waste to the

683
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: rest of college football at the moment. And so that's

684
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: one factor that I would argue is the most important factor.

685
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: But I've got several more important factors here. I think

686
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: defense is making a big return in the sport this year.

687
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: Defense being back is going to greatly contribute to a

688
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: lot more balance in college football. A majority of the contenders,

689
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: a majority of the teams at the top of the sport,

690
00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: have net upgraded defensively. Think about this, is all Obama

691
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: better or worse this year? Defensively? I think they're a

692
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: lot better. Should Clemson be better or worse this year?

693
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: Should Ohio State be better or worse this year? Should

694
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: Oklahoma be better or worse this year? Everyone's upgraded. Every

695
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: one of the big boys is upgrading defensively. What about

696
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: North Carolina upgraded? Florida upgraded, A and M upgraded? All

697
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: these big time teams that you expect to be parked

698
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: at the top when we get to the finish line,

699
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: they're all upgraded defensively. You're not raining fifty points a

700
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: game on these teams. You're not ruining forty a game

701
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: on these teams. These games are going to be a

702
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: lot more competitive, These meaningful games are going to be

703
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: a lot more competitive. That, plus the lack of transcendent

704
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: quarterback play, is going to create a lot more level competition.

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00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: Maybe not when you watch, you know, for instance, a

706
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: thirty point dog going to the Horseshoe, No, I don't

707
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: expect that to be competitive. But Wisconsin or Minnesota on

708
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: the front end of Ohio state schedule, maybe they do

709
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: have a chance. Bama going to the swamp in week three,

710
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: maybe they do have a chance to get upset. Now

711
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: there's a third factor here. I'm not done. The returning

712
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 1: experience levels in college football this year off the charts.

713
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: Never seeing anything like it before. I don't think you'll

714
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: ever see anything like this again. Bill Connelly over at

715
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: ESPN released as S and P plus rakings today, but

716
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: he also in the feature that they released over there,

717
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: he included his average returning production ratings I'm showing you

718
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: the chart right now. Well, our friends in Fort Lauderdale

719
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Speaker 1: are showing you the chart, which I appreciate on YouTube.

720
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Speaker 1: Right now, here's what you're looking at. This is the

721
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: average returning production percentage by conference. Now, these numbers don't

722
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: mean anything to you without a baseline. Here's the baseline.

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Speaker 1: Normal returning average production percentage is somewhere around sixty four percent.

724
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Speaker 1: That's an average for a team. The average for all

725
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Speaker 1: these conferences is above that. Every conference has a well

726
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: above average to an exceptionally well above average returning production

727
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: ranking that is going to disproportionately pause latively impact defenses.

728
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Speaker 1: I firmly believe that every coach believes that, like every

729
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: coach you talk to believes that as well. And there's

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Speaker 1: a fifth factor. I don't know how deep we are now,

731
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: but think about this. If you are any kind of

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00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: relatively young team, almost half of your roster has not

733
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: played a road game in a true road environment. At

734
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 1: this point, you got freshmen and sophomore second year guys

735
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: at least that have not played in a full house,

736
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: and you're about to send them out on the road.

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00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: And so any given Saturday, some team is going to

738
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: be playing in an environment that they'd never played in,

739
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: and you're going to try and function your offense against

740
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: more experienced teams, and you probably don't have as good

741
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: a quarterback play as you normally do. There are a

742
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: lot of things coming together, and lastly, this is an

743
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: insanely deep defensive back year for college football. I was

744
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: listening to some of the senior Bowl guys the other

745
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 1: day and reading what they had to say. They think

746
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 1: this may be one of the deepest corner and safety classes,

747
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: so defensive back classes that they've had. So we've got

748
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,439
Speaker 1: increased levels of play at the dB positions. We've got

749
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: home field so disproportionately high value. We've got no real

750
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: transcendent quarterbacks maybe outside of Spencer Rattler in the preseason.

751
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: We have got a lot of teams that have upgraded defensively,

752
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: and I look at all this along with the returning

753
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: production levels being off the charts, and I'm asking myself,

754
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: do we really think it's just going to be two

755
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 1: or three teams that pull away from the field again

756
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: this year? And my answer is no, I do not

757
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: think that's going to be the case. I think it's

758
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 1: I think it's equally as likely we have a couple

759
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: of one loss teams in a national championship game as

760
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: opposed to having a couple of undefeated teams in there

761
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: this year. But my point is a lot of these

762
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: programs that you have started to define as immortal and unreachable,

763
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: they'll have mortality about themselves. They're still better than you.

764
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,840
Speaker 1: Bama is still better than the rest of the SEC.

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00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: How much better are they There's a big difference between

766
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 1: them being favored by an average of seventeen every week

767
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: and then being favored by an average of eleven every week.

768
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you that's going to be the case.

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00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: I'm telling you with Ohio State Bama. But across the

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00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 1: board Oklahoma, Oklahoma can be beaten. All these teams can

771
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: beating Clemson can be beaten. All these teams can be

772
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: beaten this year. So that's fascinating. The returning production level

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Speaker 1: alone was I think a stat that was worth doing

774
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: that segment for all Right, I wanted to wrap it

775
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: up with this. This is something that we would normally

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00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: do probably after spring, but I wanted to really hit

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00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 1: this one more time as we enter the season, cause

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, I think is going to have a

779
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: very very big impact on what we're about to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Who are the next big time head coaches in college football?

781
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 1: You got a bunch of high profile assistants out there.

782
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 1: I cannot remember very many times where more assistant coaches'

783
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:38,359
Speaker 1: names were widely known throughout college football, and that means

784
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: a lot of them are primed for a future head

785
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: coaching position. So Matt howeover on twenty four seven sports

786
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: dot Com today, compile a list. We're going to do

787
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: the top seven here the ones that stood out to

788
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 1: me of assistant coaches that are in line to rapidly

789
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 1: elevate to a future head coach. So I wanted to

790
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: just kind of start with Tony Elliott and we'll go

791
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 1: down the list here. Tony Elliott, you know how old

792
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: he is. By the way, I'm going to give you

793
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: the age and salary of most of these guys. Tony

794
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: Elliott's forty one, making two million a year to coordinate offense.

795
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: When you talk to some people in the industry, one

796
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 1: of the first things they mentioned about Tony Elliott he

797
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: is very genuine in recruiting. Okay, let me get that

798
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: out of the way. Tony Elliott's a phenomenally genuine guy.

799
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 1: In recruiting. Everyone loves him. I cannot find Tony Elliott's

800
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: biggest enemy speaks glowingly of Tony Elliott. So he's a

801
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: great guy. He checks all those intangible boxes. But I'll

802
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: tell you what some people bring up very quickly when

803
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: you start mentioning him, They say, go back and watch

804
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: the Ohio State game. Clemson ended up getting beat by

805
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 1: him in the semifinal last year. If you've forgotten, Tony

806
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: Elliott missed that game, he was out COVID protocol, and

807
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: the thinking was, oh, don't worry, Clemson's got plenty of

808
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: time to prepare. And you know, everybody believes that even

809
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,399
Speaker 1: if a coordinator misses a game, you got some kind

810
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,720
Speaker 1: of way, somehow to communicate, whether it's legal or not. Well,

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00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 1: Clemson was not themselves offensively. Ohio State would tell you

812
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 1: they had something to do with that, But I'm going

813
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: to tell you, and more importantly, administrators believe in the

814
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 1: sport that Tony Elliott missing in action had a lot

815
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: to do with it. And so his value offensively, if

816
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: it wasn't already defined, was defined for a lot of

817
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: people that night. He checks all the boxes, and he's

818
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: had chances to leave already. Dado has been very open

819
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: about this. Both of his guys this past cycle, Venables

820
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 1: and Elliott had chances to leave. They pay both of

821
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: them as highly as any program in America. Hats off

822
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: to Clemson for being serious about football. A lot of

823
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: other programs would tell you they are. Clemson backs up

824
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: the brink struck anytime they need to. So, Marcus Freeman's

825
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: the next name I want to go to. Marcus Freeman's

826
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: thirty five years old, got his whole life in front

827
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: of him, thirty five years old. He's been a major

828
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 1: riser he was at Cincinnati. This was a major tug

829
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: a war over the last hiring cycle. Let's call it that.

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00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: You notice how creatively I get around using the O

831
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: word on the show off season, terrible word, terrible word.

832
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman looked for all the world like he was

833
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: going to LSU, and Brian Kelly pulled off one of

834
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: the biggest moves of his career and he got him

835
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: to Notre Dame. Defensive coordinator formerly at Cincinnati, now at

836
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,399
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. He's walked in. He's not coached a game

837
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 1: in South Bend yet. He is a rock star on

838
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,720
Speaker 1: campus because he's recruiting lights out. He is their best

839
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: recruiter since the day he walked in. And I want

840
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 1: you to think about what they're doing there. Clark Lee

841
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 1: left and took a head coaching job in the SEC.

842
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: That's what they're replacing. That's supposed to leave a big void.

843
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: And I'm not down in clark Lee at all when

844
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,399
Speaker 1: I tell you, no one up there even misses him

845
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,479
Speaker 1: because they found a high quality candidate to replace him. Again,

846
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: that's not easy to do, but Brian Kelly pulled it off.

847
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: Recruiting at a high level, but also his messaging everything

848
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: about himself. If you want to call him a brand,

849
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 1: it's all a plus. You don't sacrifice one on field

850
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 1: aspect to get the other off field aspect. Next up

851
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: is Dan Lanning, another defensive coordinator. Got quite a few

852
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: dcs on this list. Dan Lanning is at Georgia right now.

853
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: He's the defensive coordinator there. He's thirty four years old,

854
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 1: making one point seven mil per year. Dan Lanning is

855
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: in an interesting spot. I would compare the spot Dan

856
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,320
Speaker 1: Lanning is in right now to the spot his head coach,

857
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart used to be in. He's in a very

858
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: safe space. See, at some places, you want to strike

859
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: while the iron's hot because your star may fade and

860
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,359
Speaker 1: you don't want to miss your window. And that's true

861
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 1: ninety five percent of the time. But sometimes you find

862
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: yourself at a program where you're gonna be in the

863
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: window for a long time because George is never gonna

864
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: be bad. They're always going to have enough talent to

865
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,240
Speaker 1: where they're not going to be bad. So Lanning could

866
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 1: be I'm not comparing smart to save, and I'm saying

867
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: the caliber of the program he's under is a lot

868
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: like when Kirby was at Alabama. He could just afford

869
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: to sit around and wait forever and make a healthy

870
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 1: amount of money per year with a fraction of the

871
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: responsibilities of a head coach, and he got to hand

872
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: pick his job. Dan Lanning is going to get to

873
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: handpick his job. A lot of these guys are. But

874
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 1: Landing's looking around right now and he's had opportunities too.

875
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: But he's saying, I'm gonna have opportunities every year, and

876
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: I make it again. One point seven million dollars a

877
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: year to live in Athens, GA. Nice place to live,

878
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: great program, to be a part of and if it

879
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: comes along, it comes along. I'm not in any hurry

880
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: to get out of here. By the way, I'm thirty

881
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 1: four years old. If I'm Dan Lanning, I'm not fifty four,

882
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: I'm forty four. I'm thirty four years old. So who

883
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: follows him is my next question. If Lanning leaves after

884
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: this season, if he gets a big time job offer,

885
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,839
Speaker 1: he takes it. You notice Will Muschamp just hanging around

886
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 1: up there. Will must Champ, I don't know how widely

887
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: known it is, had an offer himself, big time defensive

888
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: coordinator offer, recently turned it down to be what well

889
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: to be an analyst who has briefly taken an on

890
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,879
Speaker 1: field role at the University of Georgia. Now he's making

891
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,719
Speaker 1: all the buyout money in the world. So Will muss

892
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:47,280
Speaker 1: Champ's not hurting for money. But you would think a grinder,

893
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: a football guy. He want to coach football. He does.

894
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: But Will must Champ's playing the longer game. I think

895
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 1: he has his eyes on that Georgia defensive coordinator role.

896
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: And I'm not alone and feeling that. By the way,

897
00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:00,399
Speaker 1: Alex Grinch, next step, this is another guy they can

898
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: afford to bide his time or bite his time. And

899
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 1: he's forty years old. He's the DC at Oklahoma. He's

900
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: making one point four per year, very similar spot to

901
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: Tony Elliott. Alex Grinch is in a spot right now,

902
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: the same as Tony Elliott is at Clemson where you

903
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: know that your team's going to contend every year. You

904
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 1: are in no threat whatsoever if your star fading and

905
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: Alex Grinch is entering his money year. This will be

906
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: the year of Alex Grinch because this will be by

907
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 1: far the best defensive product Oklahoma has had. I think

908
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: it'll be the best team that they've had under Lincoln Riley.

909
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: And if it is, you know, good and well, what

910
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: the talk's going to be between the Big twelve championship

911
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 1: game and the National semifinal. Sure they'll talk about Lincoln Riley,

912
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: but the bigger thing they'll talk about is what changed

913
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 1: around here? Alex Grinch is what changed? Next question, why

914
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: hadn't anyone hired him? Well they're going to. You better

915
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: believe they're going to come after him. So Alex Grinch

916
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,399
Speaker 1: is in a really good place too, because again he's

917
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 1: forty and so this is his biggest tha't coming up.

918
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 1: He's been very smart. Even if there have been offers

919
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,959
Speaker 1: come his way, he's been very smart and he's boy,

920
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 1: it's going to be a good year for him. What

921
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: Aboutrhet Lashley. This is the one that's most interesting to me.

922
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: Ht Lashley is the offensive coordinator down at Miami right now.

923
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 1: He's thirty seven years old. Miami's private, so we don't

924
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: really know what the salary is. He's the one who

925
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: stands the best chance offensively to explode this year, which

926
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,400
Speaker 1: sounds kind of weird because he was the offensive coordinator

927
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: at Auburn for a while, so you would think, well,

928
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: don't we know who he is? Well, the thought about

929
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 1: any offensive coordinator for Gus mals On, right or wrong,

930
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: is they're kind of a figurehead. Gus runs the offense,

931
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,959
Speaker 1: and so people don't really know if they know about

932
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 1: Rhet Lashley. And then he went somewhere for a little

933
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: while and came to Miami. He's in a golden opportunity

934
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: this year because he's going to have a very very

935
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: high level quarterback and he's gonna have an opportunity to

936
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: make a name for himself because this is the year

937
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: a lot of people are circling for Rhet Lashley. If

938
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,320
Speaker 1: he were to do some big things with Miami's offense

939
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: this year, building off of last year when they were

940
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: second in terms of overall offensive efficiency in the conference,

941
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: then Rhet Lashley would be a name that some people

942
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: started to circle. Now. I don't know if the biggest

943
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 1: of the big time programs would come along for Rhet

944
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: Lashley after one year like that, but I do think

945
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: some pretty noteworthy programs would come along for him. And

946
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: that's expected. That's pretty widely expected. If they do anything

947
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: worth while at Miami this year, it's expected, Ht Lashley,

948
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: you'll get a shot somewhere. What about Bill O'Brien. That's

949
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: a weird name to bring up. Bill O'Brien. Half of

950
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: you who tuned out for a little while may not

951
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: even know he's the offensive coordinator at Alabama, but he is.

952
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,439
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien is fifty one years old, making a little

953
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: over a million dollars a year. It was at Houston

954
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: for a while, Houston Texans, and so every time you

955
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 1: get fired in the NFL, people say you were a

956
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: failure in the NFL. O'Brien was like a five hundred

957
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,720
Speaker 1: coach in the NFL. So I wouldn't call that a failure,

958
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: but you can call it whatever you want to. Here's

959
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: what people and in the college world think. They think

960
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 1: it's a miracle what he did at Penn State. And

961
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,439
Speaker 1: now that you got a little benefit of hindsight when

962
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: you realize the abject disaster that he had on his

963
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: hands there, because he was there post Sandusky. He was

964
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 1: there as it happened, and as the penalties were handed down,

965
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:07,319
Speaker 1: and as the scholarships were ripped from their clutches, and

966
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: as the bowl band got put in place, and they

967
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: still won. They were winning game. They were beating ranked

968
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 1: teams up there. No shot that should have ever been happening.

969
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 1: And he was so good up there and so highly

970
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: thought of. The NFL came Colin and he was in

971
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: the NFL for a while. Bill O'Brien will quickly be

972
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: in the Steve Sarkeesian position. If he needs to rehabilitate

973
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,359
Speaker 1: an image, he's going to do it pretty quickly. Yes,

974
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien will have offers coming up. And Mike Elko,

975
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,439
Speaker 1: lastly but not least, he's forty three, making a little

976
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 1: over two million per year. He's at Texas A and

977
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:45,760
Speaker 1: m Mike Elko is probably the least heralded big story

978
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: in college football because what he's done with Texas A

979
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 1: and M's defense is the reason, the secret reason that

980
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: they are in contention for the playoffs. They were last year,

981
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: they will be this year. And I'm not sure. The

982
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: only reason I put Elko down here and I talked

983
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: about him last was I don't know what his goals are.

984
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: All these other guys, I'm pretty confident they have aspirations

985
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: to be head coaches. Maybe Mike Elko does too. I

986
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 1: don't hear as much about him, and he's been around

987
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: the block quite a while now. He's been defensive coordinator

988
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: at several places, and I know that he's it's been

989
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: a big deal for Jimbo Fisher to keep this defensive

990
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: staff intact, and he's done it successfully and did it

991
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: at least one more year, And now he's made A

992
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: and M a place, and Mike Elko has two where

993
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: even if Elko moves on, Jimbo Fisher's gonna largely have

994
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 1: his choice. He can cherry pick at a national level

995
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: who comes in there to replace him. But those are

996
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 1: some names that if you're following this sport at a

997
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: more granular level, those are names to be paying attention

998
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: to because those are names and several of them are

999
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: set to have big years this year that could be

1000
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 1: on the move because just as much as August is

1001
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: about camp intel, December and November for that matter, is

1002
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: about hot seat talk. And so you will hear some

1003
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: of these names coming up at the worst possible time,

1004
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 1: and that means when their teams are smackdab in the

1005
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 1: middle of a conference championship in playoff run. Good show.

1006
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 1: I am really looking forward to the Sunday show because

1007
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 1: that's when we're going to have a whole basketful of

1008
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: scrimmage intel from pretty much everywhere. And that'll be one

1009
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 1: if we're starting to go over an hour on shows

1010
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: every now and then, that'll be probably one that we

1011
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 1: go over an hour on. And so for that reason,

1012
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 1: we need to save our voice. And so I bid

1013
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: you a duke and a farewell for director Colin and

1014
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,359
Speaker 1: our entire crew in Fort Lauderdale. I'm Josh Bate, Thanks

1015
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 1: so much for watching, have a great rest of your evening,

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00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: and God bless