WEBVTT - Fantasy Things Recap 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:04.280 Haverballers. Do you have big plans for the new year, 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:07.720 why not check out squarespace. They make it easy to 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:11.440 turn your idea into a unique website where you can 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:15.360 showcase your work, your blog, publish all your content, even 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:19.520 sell products and services of all kinds. In just a 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.720 few easy clicks, you can customize everything from the look, 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.560 to the field, to the settings and the products using 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:31.200 beautiful templates created by world class designers. Nothing to install, 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.400 patch or upgrade ever. Right now, head out to squarespace 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.360 dot com for a free trial, and when you're ready 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:42.680 to launch, use the offer code solid sol id and 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.760 save ten percent off your first purchase of a website 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:53.080 or domain. Welcome to the solid verbal. Coll that for me, 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.560 I'm a man, I'm for it. I've heard so many 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:58.640 players say, well, I want to be happy. You want 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.920 to be happy for a day? To stay? Is that? Whoo? Whoo? 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:08.759 And them and tie, Welcome back to the solid verbal 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.319 Boys and girls. My name is still Ty hilden Brandt. 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.000 His name is still Dan Rubinstein. He's still over there 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.040 in New York City, Sir, how are you? 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:21.200 I'm pretty good, Ty, I'm pretty good. We haven't done 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.399 a show in two weeks because we put up our 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:25.920 live show from Atlanta last week. 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:29.240 Correct that that is correct. We have not actually convened 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.360 to record in our normal capacity since I contracted what 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.640 I would describe as the black Death and tried to 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.640 do a show on the Tuesday following the National Championship. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:40.600 This is true. 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:42.800 And I don't get to talk into a microphone that 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.160 much anymore, tie, So I really do miss you and 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.720 I missed doing this, So we're going to ramp up 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:48.680 from here on out. 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.040 How does that sound? It sounds good? And you actually 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.400 you have me in rare form today? Full disquote? Do 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.800 I you have me in rare form today? I got 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.520 at home a little bit later than usual from the 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.200 mysterious day job, so I am dressed in full business 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:07.680 casual regalia. Ooh, normally it's just something comfy, so you 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.720 could go to say a cocktail party right now. No worries, 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.000 no worries whatsoever. And actually I'm got perfect segue there, 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.880 Thank you for that. Oh, no problem, full business casual regalia. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.440 And I popped open the fridge when I got home. 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.200 And I don't usually do this on a on a 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.399 recording night, certainly not on a school night. But there 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.560 was one tie one singular bottle of wire bocker. Last 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.200 Chance IPA just staring back at me, looking lonely in 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:39.440 the fridge. Are you sepping? I'm sipping down, oh little 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.839 Last Chance IPA here on my lips. Yeah, all right, 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.919 I am not. I am in a soundproof, very small room. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:48.880 Just I stand up now, by the way, I don't 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:50.639 know if you stand when you do the show. I've 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:54.320 never actually gotten an office chair from my studio, so 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:59.200 I'm still sitting on like a collapsible stool. Okay, soa 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.320 ask you a question, please please? What are we doing today? 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.919 What's the plan? Skip? That's a hell of a question, man, 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.120 Like you said, we did our live show. We ran 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.239 our live show from Atlanta, which I hope everybody enjoyed. 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.920 I hope that gets everybody juiced up for our next 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.720 live show wherever that may be. Details forthcoming in the 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.360 next couple months, for sure. But we've got a bunch 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.960 of news items that have accrued since we last had 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.959 a chance to record, and when we talked about the 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:34.480 National Championship. We've also got our Fantasy Things recap ahead 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.920 of us. Yes, so the live show that we did 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:42.280 before this last live show in Atlanta was up in 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.360 New York City at Hill Country Barbecue, where we did 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:50.440 a live draft of our twenty seventeen Fantasy Things. Well, thankfully, 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.040 because the Internet is a wonderful place, and because we've 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.720 got a subreddit, we've got fans who care about this 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.360 thing as much as we do. We have an official 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.560 scorecard of how we did on the Fantasy Things draft, 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.040 and we're going to go through each of our items 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.520 and discuss them a little bit and recap just what transpired. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.080 The other thing we're going to do towards the end 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:16.480 of this show because it is National Compliment Day. Are 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.000 you aware of this? No, not at all. It is 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:24.040 National Compliment Day here on the Solid Verbal and we 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.000 are laid on the draw as we always are in 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.960 giving out T shirts as part of that contest that 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:35.000 we trotted out at the end of November. Certainly, so, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.120 we read through each and every story that was submitted 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.360 to us, and we're going to pick out a couple 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.320 winners a little bit later on in the program. 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.160 Relieved to hear it, ty because we did get a 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:50.200 ton because people, you know, really seem to appreciate the show, appreciate. 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:54.000 Hundreds upon hundreds of submissions came in and I took 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.680 the time. I know you did too. We read through 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.240 each and every one of them. I've got a big 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.400 Google document that I shared with you before the show, 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.240 which we're going to go through and we're gonna talk 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.200 at length about what we liked and who we think 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:10.839 some of the winners might be. So thank you for 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:11.560 all your submissions. 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.920 We appreciate it all right, So can we catch up 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.760 real quick since we haven't really two weeks ago we 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.360 talked about the National Championship Game. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.160 Before that we were talking were. 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.080 Previewing National Championship Game and reviewing Bowl games. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.839 So before we get into all the news that we missed, Dan, 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.160 we do need to give a shout out to our 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.320 friends over at squarespace who are supporting this episode of 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:36.880 the Verbal. 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I think what you're saying 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:57.200 is we have. Yeah, man, a lot going down here 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.800 in the college football world. Where do we want to start? 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.800 All right, Let's start with very very very old news. 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:08.400 And that is after a pretty quick search. After Arizona 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:12.160 let go of Rich Rodriguez, their head coach and solid 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:19.000 verbal guest, amidst investigations that cleared him, but still there's 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:24.360 ongoing lawsuits over misconduct that is alleged by a former assistant, 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.240 Arizona decided to move on, and this of course is 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.400 a new ad. After Greg Burn left the Arizona job 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:35.160 to go to Alabama, so fresh start for Arizona football. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.160 They hire Kevin Sumlin, who of course was let go 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.560 from Texas A and M after some drama involving a 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.240 ken Nea Modelolo interview in Khalil Tate saying you didn't 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.959 come to Arizona to run the triple option, which I 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.960 think was not a great outlook on it. But whatever, 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.680 Kevin Sumlin is your new Arizona Wildcat football coach. Okay, 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.280 and I saw that he's got Marcel Yeates keeping defensive 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:02.680 coordinator still at defensive coordinat offensive coordinator I think remains 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:03.640 a little bit up in the air. 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.199 There are rumors about Cale Gundy, who has helped to 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.920 run Oklahoma's offense these past couple of years with Lincoln 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:14.240 Riley and before him, Bob Stoops, of course, and Oklahoma 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.920 is making moves of their own. I believe Shane Biemer 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.480 is coming over to be an offensive assistant who helped 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:25.400 to run special teams for Georgia. So certainly, Kevin someone 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.160 comes into a PAC twelve South that I think is 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:29.679 I would say vulnerable. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:34.319 Is that fair? Yeah? Well, Herm Edwards we could talk 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:38.000 about Herm Edwards later. Yeah. A lot of turnover. Look, 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.439 USC is losing their quarterback Sam Darnold and a lot 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.560 of players leaving early on body players leaving early. We've 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:49.400 got turnover at ASU, We've got turnover at UCLA. I 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.680 think to bring Kevin someone in is a good move 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.920 given the fact that this happened relatively late in the process. 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:59.080 I've always liked Kevin someone. I hope he succeeds at Arizona. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.760 I don't know if he is demonstrably better or worse 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.360 than Rich Rodriguez based on what we saw given his 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.800 tenure similarities certainly at Texas A and M. But he 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.040 is a hot name in the coaching world who we 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:14.800 know can put up some points. So that'll at least 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:15.880 at a minimum be fun. 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.079 Yeah, And the connection is being drawn between Cleil Tate 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.360 and Johnny Menzel, which I don't think is fully fair 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:25.800 to either player because of different situations and you know 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.400 the fact that there were different assistant coaches and different 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.120 teams on their schedules. The fact is both Kevin Somlin 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.640 and Rich Rodriguez have helped to develop transcendent dual threat 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.960 quarterbacks at least at times at various places. You know, 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.839 case Keenum was somebody that Kevin someone had a great 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:42.839 deal of success with a Houston throwing the ball, and 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.160 Johnny Manzel and his dual way and Texas A and 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:49.680 M eventually became a pretty substantial running team. So interesting 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.480 to see what happens because Arizona schedule is pretty good 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:54.880 not much, you know. I know they have a Houston 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.400 team that's going through some changes in the non conference 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.280 part of the schedule. Well, yeah, as you mentioned, a 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.800 lot of turnover in the South with ASU and UCLA 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.600 and USC. Colorado certainly does not look to be necessarily 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.400 on the upswing after a good year a couple of 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.360 years ago. So it's a good time right now to 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.319 be Arizona. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens there, 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.240 I suppose, And this is all sort of tie as 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:19.400 you know, in the much broader picture of the final 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.840 signing day is I believe two weeks from. 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:27.640 Today signing Day part duh, correct, Yeah, this is a thing. Now. 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.720 We did a signing day show a couple weeks ago 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.840 during Signing Day Round one. Now there will be a 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:41.120 signing Day Round two. I mentioned Herm Edwards. Herm Edwards 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.839 talked a little bit about the process. There are a 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.760 lot of coaches out there talking about this new sort 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.920 of cycle, if you will. I saw some things being 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:56.800 written about how now the term best available has really 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.559 bubbled up in the college football recruiting world. If you 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.800 need a guy at a certain position, or if there 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.560 is an area on your roster where you need to 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.960 try and add some depth. Best available ie guys who 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.040 didn't sign the first time around, is now something you're 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.160 going to hear a little bit more of in college football. 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.920 Yeah, and with the new signing period, there are players 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:24.079 who have locked into places where head coaches have since 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.280 been let go or have since on their own volition, 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.280 decided to leave their schools, and yet they are locked 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:34.560 in early not necessarily the best situation position coaches, coordinators. Obviously, 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.920 we saw all of the techs A and M offering 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.000 the world to Dave Randa at LSU. He decides to say, 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:43.760 at LSU for a ridiculous and deserved because he was 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:45.599 able to negotiate it and had all the leverage. I 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.520 think he's he's got a two and a half million 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.760 dollars a year contract for your deal for ten million. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.000 Also the governor of Louisiana. We're still waiting to confirm that, but. 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.000 It's the governor of Louisiana that's part of it. Maybe a 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.680 lieutenant governor. Sure, Mike Alco goes from Notre Dame to 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.839 College Station, tex A and M and Jimbo hire him away. 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.800 And so we have all these moving pieces, and some 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.120 players are locked in, some are waiting to see where 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:13.080 everything falls by early February. But to me, the most 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.320 interesting thing year over year, since it's generally seems that 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.520 the strongest, sort of legacy type programs tend to do 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:25.640 the best during recruiting cycles. This year, you know, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.560 you know, Miami, Penn State, you know, all doing very 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.960 very well. The most interesting thing to me is new 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.600 coaches that come in and have six weeks, eight, nine 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:39.640 weeks whatever to keep a class together and add pieces 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.320 to the class, be it from the place they were 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.080 last at or just scrambling to sort of fill out 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.200 the class of talent. Both that and so this year, 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.200 you know it's you know, Willy Taggart at Florida State 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:54.439 and Mario christobal Is, Scott Frost, Chad Morris, Joe moorehead 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.200 you know all over the country. There are sort of 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.960 big stories like that, Kevin someone, as we mentioned herm Edwards. 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.600 There's there are huge stories like that. I'm also super 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:07.560 interested in the first full cycle coaches when they actually 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.840 have a chance, because there are some intriguing stories from 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.280 guys that had the full opportunity. Now to go through 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.440 a cycle and to see how they can actually recruit 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.200 when given a year or a year and a half 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:19.040 or whatever the case. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.000 So those to me are the you know, PJ. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.280 Flack, for instance, is a very good, very very good class, 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.280 all things considered, a Minnesota. So those are the kinds 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.280 of stories I like paying attention to. They're a little 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.480 bit more exciting to me than you know, is Georgia 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.520 going to close with the biggest class in the country. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.520 Yeah, I'm interested just from the standpoint and you know, 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.680 you know my stance on recruiting. Yeah, I've never been 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.560 the biggest fan of recruiting. You have tonowledge it. It 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.480 is the lifeblood of college football. I've never been such 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.560 that I'm really jazzed up to go and follow what 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:51.880 an eighteen year old is thinking. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.360 It's eight by the way, twenty eighteen fantasy thing. Recruiting 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.120 is the lifeblood, right of course. 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:02.360 Yeah, but this is different, and because it's different, that 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:06.320 makes it more interesting to me. I concur with you. 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:10.200 I'm interested in seeing how these first couple cycles really 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.640 play themselves out. I find myself paying a little bit 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.560 closer attention to what's going on on the recruiting trail. 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.480 We will, by the way, be doing another Signing Day 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.560 show to kind of conclude what's going on in the 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.240 recruiting world, and that's coming up in what two weeks 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:29.320 I guessks two weeks from today I believe is Signing Day, 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.440 official Signing Day or late sign Day, whatever they're calling 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.640 it this year. Okay, so stay tuned for more information 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.400 on that front. You did talk about guys who are 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:42.520 locked in. Obviously there's a lot of coaching turnover going 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:47.160 on around college football, which now leads into new transfer rules. 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.640 So nothing is official yet. This is what's being proposed. 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:53.640 These are the sort of the idea is to give 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:55.960 players a little bit more freedom in the way that 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.000 coaches have freedom to just up and leave to better 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.320 their own situation, in which you can't. You know, we 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.920 live in a capitalist society. You know, if you want 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.120 to pursue a job that you consider be better for 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.280 you and your family, you have that freedom. And so 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.240 now we're looking at players having a little bit more 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.760 of that freedom. You know, if they go somewhere and 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.280 they really don't like it and the situation changes and 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.600 a coach leaves or whatever the case, you know, they 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.720 have a sick family, whatever, that they can go transfer 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.680 back or transfer to a better situation, could be to 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.120 a lower situation. It could be very clear that they're 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.360 not going to be getting a starting job anytime soon, 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:32.560 or they get injured and they want to be close 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:32.840 to home. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:33.160 Whatever. 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.360 There are all sorts of reasons to transfer that are 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.880 I think are pretty life legitimate. So the idea and 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.160 the proposed rule I believe is you can transfer without 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.400 sitting out. I think you can only transfer without sitting 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.840 out once. We still have the grad transfer idea. Obviously, 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.080 people who look at NCAA rules and the freedoms that 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.320 players don't have now, I think like both of us 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:58.040 look at this as a positive thing more than negative. Yeah, 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:03.840 and sure, coaches now are crazy concerned that they're going 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.040 to have to recruit now twice as much because they 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.040 have to recruit transfers and sort of recruit their own 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.080 players to stay in a weird way, and everybody is 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:17.240 sort of terrified of having dramatic roster turnover, perhaps in 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.760 other sports like basketball where you don't have really big 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.840 rosters to play around with, more so than football. But 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:27.639 that is sort of an ongoing story, which how do 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:28.639 you feel generally, is. 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:30.600 There anybody out there who's a college football fan who 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.240 is dramatically opposed to this idea of not having to 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:33.720 sit out. 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:38.200 Yes, the idea is you should be more loyal. This 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:39.919 is college sports, this is you know. 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:44.600 Okay. The counterpoint coaches can leave on a moment's notice. 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.080 Right, right, right right, And I think there's very few 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.760 people who acknowledge having a problem when it's put into 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.920 like that sort of dichotomy. But the worry, the slippery 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:56.080 slope type people who already kind of soft and worry 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.760 about everything, say, well, then it's just becomes pro sports. 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:02.200 The idea is you're there for three or four years, 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.280 and it's that we have free agency, and that takes 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.600 away the allure of amateurs. 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:11.320 I was once told by a D one or a 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:15.400 couple D one athletes, I should say that there are 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:19.719 very few, if any Division I college athletes who go 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:24.440 to play football who don't think when they sign on 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:25.800 with the school that they're going to play in the 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.359 NFL someday. Right. And that's not to say the only 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.320 reason they go to school is to play football, but 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.359 the larger point is that they all think they can 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:39.720 play in the NFL. Sure, so you know the ability 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.960 to transfer to get playing time, the ability to transfer 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.240 out of a situation be it a coaching situation or 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:52.640 otherwise that a player doesn't deem palatable for them. I'm 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.399 okay with that. Please email us, tweet us, let us 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:57.600 know your thoughts on it. I'd be very interested to 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.879 get some other feedback on this. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.879 But you discover the weather in South Bend isn't what 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:08.000 it was in May when you visit it. Listen, I'm 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.600 right there with that sentiment because I did visit Eugene, 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.280 Oregon when it was beautiful out, and I was it 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.919 was a rude awakening come early January when I returned 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:18.680 from winter break. 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.919 Not my favorite moment, all right. So we'll have to 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:26.000 pay attention to transfer rules and where that ends up, 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.919 settling a few other odds and ends here before we 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:33.800 jump into fantasy things. Yes, on that topic, there have 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:38.680 been some quarterback transfers. There have been some graduate transfers 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:40.280 of note, correct. 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.760 Yeah, announcements more than anything, and there hasn't been you know, 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.480 Brady White from Arizona States going over to Memphis, which 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.760 feels like a good fit. He was behind Blake Barnett 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.080 and Manny Wilkins. Keller Christ also from the Pac twelve, 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.200 who started a bunch of games and was only good 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:54.520 against Oregon by the way. 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.480 Wow, he was very bad. Funny how that works right 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.560 against everybody but the vaunted Oregon d defense of these 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.080 past couple of years. Now, But you know Wilton Spate 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.240 who is from Virginia but obviously has been at Mischion 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:08.439 in these past few years. He is a grad transfer 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:10.480 and that was announced a while ago. Donovan Tate from 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:13.439 Arizona with Khalil Tate succeeding. We'll see what happens with 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:17.359 Brandon Dawkins. It's presumed that Joe Burrow at Ohio State 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:21.359 won't necessarily be winning the job in Columbus, so he 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:23.280 could be I don't think anything's official with that. 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:27.160 He could be a name. kJ Cart of Samuels, who 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:29.840 has been Jake Browning's backup, is going to UCLA as 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.720 a grad transfer, so that at least gives Chip Kelly 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:37.120 some depth after Josh Rosen has left for the NFL 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.960 all over the place. It seems like I'm trying to 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:45.600 think of other situations, but there seems Jacob Park at 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:49.080 Iowa State. Obviously, he lost the job after some off 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:52.800 field stuff made sort of everything pretty easy for Kyle 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:57.600 Kemp to come in and succeed. Quinton Dormandy at Tennessee 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:03.320 decided to transfer. Jeff George June year at Illinois. I'm really, 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.240 I'm really going down here with this. But my final 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:08.080 one is Montgomery Van gorder. 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.240 Ty, Yeah, going to Youngstown State going to Youngstoe. 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:15.160 I did see that, yes, So I assume more of 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:19.720 these situations will start happening after springball, when depth charts 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:22.800 become a little bit more clear. But yeah, it's there. 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:24.760 Seems to be a lot in the way of transfers. 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:29.080 And on a similar but also drastically different note, Clemson's 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:31.320 entire defensive line decided to stay. 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:32.960 Yeah, and I was I was going to go there 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:34.840 next with it. So I've got in front of me 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:40.400 the list on nfl dot Com underclassmen who have declared 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:45.639 for the NFL Draft, now the official final list. I think, 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:49.280 in the interest of time, we might be best suited 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:52.280 to read off the notable players who intend to return 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:55.880 to school, as opposed to going through all the players 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.960 who have declared, because it is a long list of 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:01.879