Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal.
Speaker 2: I'll that for me. I'm a man, I'm forty. I've
Speaker 2: heard so many players say, well, I want to be happy.
Speaker 2: You want to be happy for Dake Edith State is
Speaker 2: that whoo whoom?
Speaker 1: And then and tie Welcome back to the solid verbal,
Speaker 1: boys and girls, Monnayme is Ti hilden Brand joining me
Speaker 1: as always my good friend. He wasn't with us last week.
Speaker 1: Dan Rubinstein, sir, how.
Speaker 2: Are you back from the dead. I'm great, Ty, thanks
Speaker 2: for asking it. I was in Where was I last week?
Speaker 2: I was in Charlotte Shore. Yeah. I don't think I
Speaker 2: can talk about why I was in Charlotte yet. It
Speaker 2: was really fun and mysterious but fun. And then I
Speaker 2: went to Nashville, which was not fully planned, but Jody
Speaker 2: with and I had a work trip to Nashville and
Speaker 2: I was like, great, I'll be in Charlotte. I'll meet
Speaker 2: you there and she said great, and so I booked
Speaker 2: a flight and then forty eight hours later, her work
Speaker 2: was like, no, we don't need you in Nashville anymore.
Speaker 2: And I called up American Airlines and they said, cool,
Speaker 2: it's going to be slightly more expensive to cancel your flight.
Speaker 2: Than to just go. I was like, cool, so I
Speaker 2: went to went to Nashville.
Speaker 1: I went to Nashville, anyway, did you do anything cool
Speaker 1: in Nashville. I've heard good things about Nashville.
Speaker 2: It's a great town. I ate and I walked around
Speaker 2: a ton. I walked like ten miles according to my phone.
Speaker 2: I went to the Country Music Hall of Fame, which great.
Speaker 2: I went to three different overpriced coffee places and got
Speaker 2: crazy caffeinated.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I went to Husk for lunch with our pal Travis Haney. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's cool. He's doing really well. Good sa our pal
Speaker 2: Stephen Godfrey Nashville residence.
Speaker 1: So this is like the Dan Rubinstein Goodwill Tour now
Speaker 1: that you're sort of out there and trying to promote
Speaker 1: promote your fine services. The good will it was.
Speaker 2: It was a whistle stop ty. Is that what Truman did?
Speaker 2: Is that what they're called? Uh? Yeah, so this is
Speaker 2: great in the past couple of months.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, thanks to everyone for tuning in.
Speaker 1: Dan and I are back in US. We've decided to
Speaker 1: call this show. Actually I made the call earlier today
Speaker 1: on g chat to call this show Wednesday night raw.
Speaker 1: That's true, which, of course implies some sort of a
Speaker 1: controversial show programming this evening.
Speaker 2: Would you say, ty that we are going to go
Speaker 2: we're going raw and we're going to go deep on
Speaker 2: topics without the protection of editing.
Speaker 1: I would not go that far, but okay with say sure,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go that raw with the labeling of the show.
Speaker 2: But are we not going deep on topics without the
Speaker 2: protection of editing?
Speaker 1: That is correct, Dan, There will be no editing this
Speaker 1: on this ba mak if we screw up, if we
Speaker 1: make any mistakes whatsoever. It seemed to resonate quite well
Speaker 1: when you did it a couple of weeks ago with
Speaker 1: your interview with Bruce, when you said We're not gonna
Speaker 1: do any editing. I'm not gonna cut anything out. No,
Speaker 1: it's just going to be us raw, unfiltered. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna do it here on the show. We're going to
Speaker 1: prove to one and all that we can do it
Speaker 1: on the solid and we are going to prove it
Speaker 1: in the most difficult way possible because before us, we
Speaker 1: have a giant Google doc that you compiled. I didn't
Speaker 1: see how many pages this ended up being. Looks like
Speaker 1: about ten here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that this is down from about nineteen or twenty.
Speaker 2: We got a ton like we just only asked today
Speaker 2: and we got probably five times more questions than we could.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's it was like a verballer repression
Speaker 1: of some sort that we just vented. And now we
Speaker 1: got all these questions that came in about college football
Speaker 1: and grocery stores and god, you name it, in addition
Speaker 1: to a few news topics that we want to discuss
Speaker 1: at the top. We've got more than enough to cover here.
Speaker 1: And it's going to be you and I shooting from
Speaker 1: the hip for most of it.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to go. We have questions about big teams,
Speaker 2: medium teams, little teams. I asked for questions about grocery
Speaker 2: shopping and clothing and I don't even remember what else.
Speaker 2: But you know, I think it tickles a part of
Speaker 2: people's brains. It doesn't always get tickled listening to sports podcasts, hopefully,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe it does.
Speaker 1: It does tickle the inners again. We're at Solidverbal at
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Speaker 1: if you can find a podcast there. The solid verbal
Speaker 1: is also there. We're a college football show. We broadcast
Speaker 1: year round once a week in the off season, which,
Speaker 1: of course is where we're at now. So let me
Speaker 1: start here, Daniel, please, before we get into the questions,
Speaker 1: there is a topic that you and I decided to
Speaker 1: chat about online today and I they're always yeah. I
Speaker 1: feel like we need to bubble this a little bit
Speaker 1: to the surface of the verboler hood. Here. I read
Speaker 1: in my normal course of college football reading and study
Speaker 1: and research and what have you here in the off
Speaker 1: season that by the name of Blake Barnett. Do you
Speaker 1: remember Blake Barnett.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Corona, California's own sort of deep into Orange County.
Speaker 1: Didn't he win the Elite eleven way back when maybe
Speaker 1: I think I think he won the Elite eleven. If
Speaker 1: he didn't win it, he was in the finals of
Speaker 1: the Elite eleven. Blake Barnett, noted five star quarterback prospect
Speaker 1: at one point I think was going to go to
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, then decided he wanted to go to Alabama instead,
Speaker 1: started his college football career at Alabama. Well, clearly it
Speaker 1: got a little bit clogged in terms of the depth chart, YEP.
Speaker 1: At the quarterback position at Alabama, Blake Barnett decides he's
Speaker 1: going to transfer to Arizona State.
Speaker 2: Makes sense.
Speaker 1: Blake Barnett has now decided that he's going to transfer
Speaker 1: away from Arizona State, and if reports are to be believed,
Speaker 1: he's going to go to USF.
Speaker 2: Okay, he'll have also kind of makes sense.
Speaker 1: It does make sense. Blakenett, Dan, for those keeping score
Speaker 1: at home, has twenty four career pass attempts, two career
Speaker 1: touchdown passes at the major college level, and now two transfers.
Speaker 2: Two trans technically more than that. I think he has
Speaker 2: been at a JC for a little while, so technically
Speaker 2: more college enrollments than touchdown passes.
Speaker 1: So then we got fun and we got the thinking.
Speaker 1: Is this a Blake Barnett thing? Is this a California
Speaker 1: slash San Diego area quarterback thing? Dan?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Orange County is slightly north of San Diego.
Speaker 2: Corona's I think it's by Irvine. I had thought for
Speaker 2: a long time Blake Barnett was from San Diego, but
Speaker 2: I was mistaken. But yeah, Tate for Cia with his three, four,
Speaker 2: five different, Oh though he was another one right, he's
Speaker 2: from the San Diego area. There is something definitely strange
Speaker 2: and varied about top blue chip high school recruits from
Speaker 2: San Diego. Either they are amazing, Ricky Williams from San Diego,
Speaker 2: Marshall Fox, Royce Freeman, the running back history is amazing.
Speaker 2: Brennan Clay went to Oklahoma and he had like a
Speaker 2: weird DeMarco Murray situation with accusations of infidelity with his wife.
Speaker 2: Like it got very strange. So there is something. And
Speaker 2: I started looking up blue chip California quarterbacks and it's
Speaker 2: just I mean, this year we'll have Ricky Town who
Speaker 2: you remember from such schools as Alabama, USC Arkansas, a
Speaker 2: junior college and now might be the only quarterback on
Speaker 2: the roster at pitt after seventeen guys left the pit
Speaker 2: quarterback depth chart after last year. So there definitely is
Speaker 2: something strange. Like we found one guy who there's a
Speaker 2: couple transfers to the IVY League, at which point they
Speaker 2: either switch positions or burnt out at the IVY League level.
Speaker 2: It's just if you start pulling threads on like the
Speaker 2: I don't know, we could look at maybe the last
Speaker 2: ten years since Saliver became a show of blue chip
Speaker 2: California quarterbacks. There's a lot of stories out there.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of stories, and if you pull
Speaker 1: on the threads, perhaps, I mean, it's so interesting. Perhaps
Speaker 1: we should focus our attention at some point, not on
Speaker 1: the coaching carousel, but the California quarterback carousel.
Speaker 2: Can I make an A plus transition?
Speaker 1: Go for it.
Speaker 2: This was all in the context of talking about grad transfers, right,
Speaker 2: and we were talking about Blake Barnett and transferring another
Speaker 2: guy California didn't work out, transferring away Keller christ Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Oh right, this isn't recent, mind you, Right, we just
Speaker 2: haven't been talking about grad transfers, and there have been
Speaker 2: many of them.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna it's it's a thing, and it's a
Speaker 1: it's a California quarterback thing. They cannot be monogabous with
Speaker 1: their first their first signing for some odds.
Speaker 2: So what is interesting to me in terms of the
Speaker 2: national scope of college football too, is you know, there
Speaker 2: was there's the big Alabama situation, which is now it's
Speaker 2: sort of double prong because the ECU quarterback Gardner Minshew
Speaker 2: was going going to Alabama and now he's going to Wazoo,
Speaker 2: so he's coming west. Jalen Hurts. His dad was talking
Speaker 2: about how Jalen Hurts if he were to transfer because
Speaker 2: he didn't get the Alabama's starting job, he was going
Speaker 2: to be the most sought after free agent in college
Speaker 2: football history, which I don't know. Cam Newton's okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: Cam Newton's right there. But Jalen Hurts is still at
Speaker 2: Alabama and some people think he might just ride out
Speaker 2: the year and then graduate and transfer without having to
Speaker 2: sit out. So that could be. But we've had it's
Speaker 2: been a robust grad transfer season and I'm curious. You know,
Speaker 2: Oregon's been involved, Notre Dame has been involved. Yeah, there
Speaker 2: was a big Nick Harvey from Texas A and m
Speaker 2: is going to South Carolina. There across whatever rivaled, across
Speaker 2: division rival if one can actually exist in a new SEC.
Speaker 2: So it is. It's a thing, and it's worth following.
Speaker 1: Very very much.
Speaker 2: The thing.
Speaker 1: We've got a big paragraph almost of names here that
Speaker 1: are going to be going through their own grad transfer process.
Speaker 1: Travan McMillan, m mag just a back name for Colorado, Yeah,
Speaker 1: running back, Yeah, going to Colorado.
Speaker 2: I saw Kenny Bigelow.
Speaker 1: Another name here that we know from USC going to
Speaker 1: West Virginia. Quinton Dormody amid some of the transition at
Speaker 1: Tennessee will be transferring away from Knoxville going to Houston.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Keller Christ going to Tennessee. Who else do
Speaker 1: we got here of Noe.
Speaker 2: Brandy dawk Ins Indiana from Arizona.
Speaker 1: Brady White, another quarterback at AMU, a very highly recruited
Speaker 1: quarterback at ASU going to Memphis. Yeah, there are a
Speaker 1: number of names here. We already talked about Wilton Space
Speaker 1: going to UCLA a couple of weeks ago, So this
Speaker 1: is the time here we start hearing more and more
Speaker 1: about this. We talked a little bit with Stuart Mandel
Speaker 1: a week ago about how all that impacted shape Patterson
Speaker 1: up at Michigan and the Michigan situation as a whole.
Speaker 1: But we are at a situation now where, yeah, guys
Speaker 1: changing changing schools here late in the game.
Speaker 2: I do feel bad. There's a Temple going to Alabama,
Speaker 2: Alex Jones, which is totally fine, like that is. It
Speaker 2: is a definite step up to go from Temple to Alabama,
Speaker 2: But damn is twenty eighteen a bad name, bad year
Speaker 2: to be named Alex bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, got great, could do better. Go by the
Speaker 1: middle name maybe.
Speaker 2: And a totally common name. Just ended up screwing you,
Speaker 2: just ended up getting you. So yeah, there's I think
Speaker 2: there's a website that has all This is a.
Speaker 1: Cool transfer tracker dot com.
Speaker 2: Go to there and learn because there are a lot
Speaker 2: of very familiar names and entering your conference of choice,
Speaker 2: exiting your conference of choice. They do a great job.
Speaker 2: That's all. I have.
Speaker 1: The other name here, it's not a grad transfer. Oh
Speaker 1: who Joe Burrow? Oh that's right, Yes, Joe Burrow transferring
Speaker 1: out of Ohio State.
Speaker 2: I think he actually did graduate. Okay, that's relative excuse.
Speaker 2: I think he did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a grad transfer. He is reportedly drawing
Speaker 1: interest from LSU Cincinnati, where I think you might be
Speaker 1: visiting or along with LSU.
Speaker 2: Obviously, Luke Fickle connection is robust.
Speaker 1: Also Arizona State. Obviously Arizona State would love a quarterback
Speaker 1: to stick around.
Speaker 2: And who wouldn't want to go to Arizona State. I mean,
Speaker 2: aside from the uncommon situation there at the moment, but
Speaker 2: I mean it's great to hang out in Phoenix while
Speaker 2: everywhere else is.
Speaker 1: Cold Arkansas and Wyoming two other schools that, okay, have
Speaker 1: sort of throwed their hat in the ring here.
Speaker 2: For Joe Burrow, No, it definitely feels like because he
Speaker 2: hasn't played significant time, but he's well regarded and was
Speaker 2: recruited to Ohio State and just isn't as good as
Speaker 2: prospects at quarterback with more tantalizing talent. Perhaps it is
Speaker 2: funny that he came up through that system and everybody
Speaker 2: is just sort of looking at him like, well, he
Speaker 2: might be good. Who's to say, we know our guys aren't.
Speaker 2: So yeah, if he ends up at LSU. I think
Speaker 2: he's visiting LSU either this coming weekend or shortly thereafter.
Speaker 2: There are somebody who have I mean now without Danny Etling,
Speaker 2: they do not have any even close to sure things
Speaker 2: on that depth chart, So who knows? Could be interesting?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, before we get into our vast and
Speaker 1: I do mean vast list of questions here, yes, raw
Speaker 1: and unfiltered, on this Wednesday evening, I have one important
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Speaker 1: they delivered it to my They delivered to my door. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I gotta be honest. When I brought it in,
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Speaker 1: going to think that they were coming from another female.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're a look at you, ty, How could
Speaker 2: she not be nervous? Look at me?
Speaker 1: How could she not write? I was a little concerned
Speaker 1: how this was going to go over in the Hildebrand household.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, A beautiful vase, a beautiful bouquet of flowers.
Speaker 1: We brought it in. We looked it was from FTD.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now I got an email from my former apartment
Speaker 2: company because they had an old address, which is fine.
Speaker 2: We just recently moved down the block and they're like,
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Speaker 2: think so. Yeah, I don't believe in like they're made
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Speaker 2: I guess uh, I guess ty cares about me more
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Speaker 2: It was the Clemson defensive line of bouquets. It was
Speaker 2: everything you could possibly want. There was, There was beauty,
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Speaker 2: Absolutely So here is.
Speaker 1: What we did. M Dan sent out the bat signal
Speaker 1: to send in soliverbal questions. Send in college football questions.
Speaker 1: Send in questions on a variety of different topics. You
Speaker 1: did so on Facebook and Twitter, on Reddit. Is there
Speaker 1: anything else? I'm leaving out another place where you posted
Speaker 1: questions FTD flowers okay, great to their shop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you posted all.
Speaker 1: Over that We were seeking questions about college football and
Speaker 1: other topics. We've got pages upon pages here, let's just
Speaker 1: let's start going through them. Dan, where do you want
Speaker 1: to start? You put this document together today.
Speaker 2: Let's start here. As everybody is anticipating, will Northern Illinois
Speaker 2: ever fire Rod Kerry? That is amazing And I'm going
Speaker 2: to answer that question as earnestly and genuinely as I can. Okay,
Speaker 2: go for it. I don't know why Northern Illinois would
Speaker 2: fire Rod Carry.
Speaker 1: Rod Carry is under fifty. He is thirty two to
Speaker 1: eight in conference in five full seasons as head football coach. Yep,
Speaker 1: that's a good number regardless of what conference you play it.
Speaker 1: So if you take that number on its face, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'd ever be inclined to fire him.
Speaker 1: As long as he wants to stay around, it's a
Speaker 1: successful program.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if that question was genuine But
Speaker 2: and I use a really good story as they went
Speaker 2: from that like huge, crazy, fun offense where they went
Speaker 2: to the Orange Bowl a few years ago and now
Speaker 2: their defense Sutton Smith is ridiculous. They lose their defensive
Speaker 2: coordinator Kevin Kane to SMU and Sunny Dyke's but they
Speaker 2: put up a top what fifteen to twenty defense nationally
Speaker 2: last year. Recruiting has improved. Their schedule this year is rough,
Speaker 2: at least early on, so they go to Iowa, they
Speaker 2: have Utah, and they go back to Florida to play
Speaker 2: Florida State early on in the season. But you know,
Speaker 2: in conference the schedule is pretty nice. They have Ohio
Speaker 2: and Toledo at home. No more Logan Woodside at Toledo.
Speaker 2: So I am buying a near repeat performance of this
Speaker 2: defense from NIU, And I'm gonna call it right now. Ty.
Speaker 2: What's today's date? May ninth, May the ninth? Yeah, Rod
Speaker 2: Kerry gets his first Bowl win. I believe he's zero
Speaker 2: and five technically right now. I'm calling it right now.
Speaker 1: Where are we going next? Uh?
Speaker 2: We got a question about Georgia Tech and Chuck and
Speaker 2: I like the phrasing of this question. Will Georgia Tech's
Speaker 2: more aggressive defensive scheme because he got a new coordinator? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, and he's not wrong though, work better in
Speaker 2: concert with their offense than the bend and then break
Speaker 2: scheme they were in the last few years, obviously with
Speaker 2: well the ted roof.
Speaker 1: The operative phrasing here is bend and then.
Speaker 2: Break, bend, and break little variety.
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, I think anything, anything on
Speaker 1: the Georgia Tech defensive side of the equation will be
Speaker 1: viewed as a success. Now. I like it because I
Speaker 1: had the more attacking, aggressive mentality on the defensive side
Speaker 1: of football as my Fantasy Things selection either last year
Speaker 1: or the year before. I'm all in favor of that.
Speaker 1: I think anything on the defensive side, any kind of
Speaker 1: change in mentality from what Tech was doing previously, should
Speaker 1: be a net positive in twenty eighteen and beyond. Is
Speaker 1: that fair?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah? And Nate Woody has been a very good
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator. Yeah for app State these past few years.
Speaker 2: They've only been on this level for I think four
Speaker 2: or five years, and so after year one of a
Speaker 2: bunch of disappointment, he's put together top forty defenses, if
Speaker 2: not top twenty twenty five defenses. They've been excellent versus
Speaker 2: the pass in the ACC that seems to be especially
Speaker 2: early on Right now, Florida State will be improved through
Speaker 2: the air. We assume Clemson will still be solid through
Speaker 2: the air. North Carolina State returns a potential first round pick,
Speaker 2: and Ryan Finley Syracuse is going to throw the balleton.
Speaker 2: George is going to throw the balleton these next few years.
Speaker 2: He should be able to help with recruiting in the area.
Speaker 2: He's long been a coach in that region. Atlanta and
Speaker 2: Greater Georgia area has a ton of talent and ty.
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech. You know a lot of people say, like,
Speaker 2: who wants to go play defense at Georgia Tech because
Speaker 2: they're gonna be going in practice against option stuff, even
Speaker 2: if it's the whatever team, the scout team. That's what
Speaker 2: app State not a triple option, but app State is
Speaker 2: running a lot of option sort of crazy misleading read
Speaker 2: stuff for the past few years on offense, so there
Speaker 2: is a familiarity as they switch over, I think to
Speaker 2: a different kind of three four under Nate Woodie. So
Speaker 2: in terms of you know, coordinator to coordinator, you know,
Speaker 2: upgrade hires. I really like this hire for Tech.
Speaker 1: Sure can't go anywhere but up that's yes, all right?
Speaker 1: Where we going next?
Speaker 2: We I think was it Juice? Somebody named Juice as something? Yeah, No,
Speaker 2: this wasn't Juice, but I got if we want to
Speaker 2: talk Juice Williams for the rest of the show, we can. No.
Speaker 2: This is from I'm going to try to get this right.
Speaker 2: I promise you I'm doing my very best. I'm going
Speaker 2: to say Sikhar Gupta, Okay, s H, I k H.
Speaker 1: That looks right.
Speaker 2: Sikar is my guest.
Speaker 1: It's better than what I would do.
Speaker 2: Who are your top five breakout players of twenty eighteen?
Speaker 2: And I ask you this question both in terms of
Speaker 2: who your top five ish players are that fit that
Speaker 2: and what breakout actually means to you.
Speaker 1: Breakout to me means that the player becomes more known
Speaker 1: on the national stage, a household name, more of a
Speaker 1: household name. Yeah, that to me is breakout. Now. I
Speaker 1: don't know if this is a top five per se,
Speaker 1: but this is at least five names that I will
Speaker 1: be watching very closely in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: Steve Hank DeMarcus, She's gonna be five random names.
Speaker 1: Let's first start with Kyler Murray.
Speaker 2: Oh, a no good one.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, of course, had some acclaim coming out of
Speaker 1: high school, right somewhat known, transferred away. Now playing in
Speaker 1: a wide open system with Lincoln Riley at Oklahoma, he
Speaker 1: stands to take over for Baker Mayfield. I think the
Speaker 1: world is his oyster. I'm excited to see what he
Speaker 1: can do in that system. So an athletic kid, not
Speaker 1: the biggest of quarterbacks, but should be a lot of
Speaker 1: fun to watch in again, a wide open system.
Speaker 2: Kyler running game alongside for Rodney Anderson.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is my number one. I'm also going to
Speaker 1: throw out some other names in here. DeAndre Swift, the
Speaker 1: guy that we had the pleasure of meeting, great name
Speaker 1: down at the National Championship. We're down there, DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to say it was crowded
Speaker 1: out by Sony Michelle and Nick Chubb in the Georgia backfield.
Speaker 1: He's certainly got a lot of premier work, but this
Speaker 1: year he's going to be the featured back. He's a
Speaker 1: local guy to me up here in Eastern PA, and
Speaker 1: I think big things await him in the SEC. So
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what twenty eighteen has in story
Speaker 1: for DeAndre Swift. Adrian Martinez to.
Speaker 2: Me, oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Is an interesting name now. Adrian Martinez true freshman. If
Speaker 1: you believe what people have reported about Nebraska spring football
Speaker 1: and spring practice as a whole, he has impressed. It
Speaker 1: would seem as if he might be the early front
Speaker 1: runner to take hold of that quarterback job now under
Speaker 1: Scott Frost. Mm hm. I am excited to see what
Speaker 1: Scott Frost can do with the true freshman quarter who
Speaker 1: comes in with a lot of a lot of talent, a.
Speaker 2: Lot of expectations from you.
Speaker 1: Adrian Martinez to me, is of interest in the Big
Speaker 1: ten west of Nebraska on the Big Ten quarterback front.
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins.
Speaker 2: Ah, he's on my list too.
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins. Now, look, he's playing at Ohio State, so
Speaker 1: he's clearly got all of the tools around him to
Speaker 1: succeed in a big way right out of the shoot.
Speaker 1: But Dwayne Haskins will have his opportunity now that the
Speaker 1: stage is cleared. He can step foot into that role
Speaker 1: as the head signal caller at Ohio State.
Speaker 2: And we think, are we following? Are we falling into
Speaker 2: a trap?
Speaker 1: You're always falling into a trap when you put a
Speaker 1: brand new starting quarterback up here. But I think he's
Speaker 1: got the skill set and certainly the tools around him,
Speaker 1: the support network around him where it won't all fall
Speaker 1: on his shoulder, and whatever he brings to the fold
Speaker 1: is going to be viewed very nicely. I will work
Speaker 1: out very well.
Speaker 2: For Dwayne Haskins, I'm more saying, are we following falling
Speaker 2: into a trap that he is one of two candidates
Speaker 2: most susceptible to Beckmeyer syndrome in that it appears that
Speaker 2: the world is his oyster. And then how State plays
Speaker 2: Michigan State in its close game and they run him
Speaker 2: twenty four times and lose by three. That is my
Speaker 2: concern that we forget about BMS in mid May. But
Speaker 2: he's on my lost here, Dan, I'm going a loss,
Speaker 2: I want to believe, but he's he's on your list. Okay,
Speaker 2: So that's for And then the other one that I'm
Speaker 2: going to throw in there, we saw him in limited action.
Speaker 2: He got hurt later in the year, but he's going
Speaker 2: to be a monster.
Speaker 1: Dylan Moses. Dylan Moses for Alabama at the linebacker position
Speaker 1: is going to be a monster. He's eventually going to
Speaker 1: be a first round pick, probably a top ten pick
Speaker 1: at some point. Gonna be an absolute monster, a one
Speaker 1: man wrecking crew on that Alabama defense. Again, embarrassment of riches.
Speaker 1: It's Alabama. But if he didn't know Dylan Moses's name yet,
Speaker 1: it'd be a good time to familiarize yourself with what
Speaker 1: he brings to the table. So those my five for now.
Speaker 2: I will run through my four quickly because I've already
Speaker 2: mentioned Dwayne Haskins, and I am confident I really liked
Speaker 2: what he was able to do in limited action last year.
Speaker 2: Donovan Peoples Jones at Michigan has a full on, real
Speaker 2: life decent quarterback now in Shaye Patterson. And we saw
Speaker 2: Shaye Patterson's connection with AJ Brown at least the first
Speaker 2: half of last year, and I think he should be
Speaker 2: able to buy time even behind a suspect offensive line,
Speaker 2: to allow Donovan People's Jones to get behind any and
Speaker 2: all secondaries. Juwan Washington, he is the new Rashad Penny,
Speaker 2: who was the new Don L. Pumphrey, who both ran
Speaker 2: for two thousand plus yards these past couple of years,
Speaker 2: which I did the math. That's over two miles of
Speaker 2: just running on West Coast teams time. And I have
Speaker 2: no reasonably Juwan Washington, who by all accounts is very talented,
Speaker 2: won't do something similar Daylon Mack, who is a known
Speaker 2: name Dalen Mack Texas A and M I think has
Speaker 2: a defensive coordinator who will not necessarily feature him because
Speaker 2: he's an interior defensive lineman. But I think the organization
Speaker 2: around and the improvement we saw from Mike Elco's defense,
Speaker 2: coming from coming what he did at Notre Dame in
Speaker 2: South Bend, he should be able to, I think thrive
Speaker 2: given his ceiling talent wise. And my final pick Juwan Pass,
Speaker 2: who has just a perfect, excellent last name for being
Speaker 2: a quarterback. His last name is Pass and he as
Speaker 2: a quarterback at Louisville. The system is in place, Bobby Patrino.
Speaker 2: You know, it's one of those things like say what
Speaker 2: you will tie about Bobby Petrino, but he knows quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: The template is there, the playbook, the system, the ability
Speaker 2: to develop the time he's had, the flashes he's shown.
Speaker 2: We've seen it recently with Heisman level quarterbacks and guys
Speaker 2: that come in after that, at least in the short term.
Speaker 2: There's a lot to like about having that infrastructure in place,
Speaker 2: whether it was Verne Adams at Oregon, you know, Colt
Speaker 2: McCoy following Vince Young. There's a lot to like about
Speaker 2: these guys coming into good situations, and I think he is.
Speaker 2: So Juan Passes my fifth. All right, where are we
Speaker 2: going next? Next question? We got some Iowa questions, and
Speaker 2: TI I say, screw it. Let's talk Iowa all right quick,
Speaker 2: Let'shiowa football. Let's go Phillip. Can Iowa increase their offensive
Speaker 2: production sixty six yards last year versus Wisconsin and win
Speaker 2: the Big Ten West? So here's my question that I'm
Speaker 2: going to posit to you and to America. What has
Speaker 2: Iowa done to get better this offseason? Where is the encouragement?
Speaker 2: Is there a new offensive coordinator? No, there is not.
Speaker 2: Is there a quarterback who stays there and showed promise
Speaker 2: last year? Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, there is definitely.
Speaker 2: Are they without their most talented running back who is
Speaker 2: no longer there? And Akrom Wadley he's gone, he's gone.
Speaker 2: Are they without their two best offensive linemen from last year?
Speaker 2: And certainly those guys developed from a point as well,
Speaker 2: Yes they are. Are the receiving options robust and varied? No,
Speaker 2: they're super not And I do have a tough time.
Speaker 2: The Big Ten West year over year is going to change.
Speaker 2: I don't think Wisconsin's defense is going to be nearly
Speaker 2: as good as it was. I still think it'll be fine.
Speaker 2: I don't think Nebraska's defense is going to be all
Speaker 2: that impressive Perdue loses a ton on defense, So Iowa
Speaker 2: will I'm saying it right here, Ty, you can write
Speaker 2: it down and put it in an envelope. They will
Speaker 2: put up more than sixty six yards first Wisconsin this.
Speaker 1: Year, so yeahst likely. Yeah. So in the end my
Speaker 1: answer is yes, I like their defensive line. I think
Speaker 1: their defensive line should hold up quite well against a
Speaker 1: conference that we know likes to pound it out on
Speaker 1: the ground. And I think their schedule actually sets up
Speaker 1: pretty well. They don't have to play Ohio State, Michigan
Speaker 1: or Michigan State from the east. They do travel to
Speaker 1: Penn State, which will be a tough a tough game,
Speaker 1: no doubt. In Antenne Plain State College that's the case.
Speaker 1: But I think that works their favor. And I like
Speaker 1: Nate Stanley a lot, and Nate Stanley had a really
Speaker 1: quiet but very successful campaign, go to the extent where
Speaker 1: now it doesn't feel like the quarterback position is at
Speaker 1: all in jeopardy, is at all a question, and Iowa
Speaker 1: might be able to get back to more of the
Speaker 1: I guess identity philosophy that we came to know on
Speaker 1: some of the better Iowa teams in the past, where
Speaker 1: they could pound it out in the ground, but they
Speaker 1: also were balanced enough that they could beat you on
Speaker 1: a play action pass.
Speaker 2: They had weapons to go deep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they got the weapons too. So I'm I'm
Speaker 1: excited about Iowa football in twenty eighteen. And I know
Speaker 1: that might be a bit of an oxymoron, Dan, because
Speaker 1: Iowa football isn't all that sexy, But I liked what
Speaker 1: I saw from them a year ago, and I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of reason to be optimistic. Twenty eight Team.
Speaker 2: Kyle wants to know when will the new shirts slash
Speaker 2: hats people want hats. Yeah, we just recently learned this.
Speaker 2: When will they be available? We're recording this on May ninth.
Speaker 2: Do we have a an acceptable answer? Do we have
Speaker 2: a target date? Because we have not fully discussed this
Speaker 2: off air, so let's just talk now. Do we think
Speaker 2: we can do this by June first?
Speaker 1: I think we can realistically expect that we're going to
Speaker 1: have new offerings in place by to say it, mid
Speaker 1: to late June, mid to late June.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to June first, but yeah, it'll be
Speaker 2: in the month of June. And I will say right now,
Speaker 2: we have designs plural that we are very excited about.
Speaker 2: We have products plural that we are very excited about,
Speaker 2: both as it relates to the show and beyond the
Speaker 2: show that I think people will appreciate and want to
Speaker 2: be a part of. If you know, if you got
Speaker 2: some cash laying around you want to support the show,
Speaker 2: we'd be more than happy to outfit you in soft,
Speaker 2: comfortable shirts and hats and other products.
Speaker 1: I will tease by saying the following, Yeah, we have
Speaker 1: had we have had a teasy right. We have had
Speaker 1: a really good response to our solid verbal designs over
Speaker 1: the last two two and a half years, and now
Speaker 1: given that we have a good way to do it,
Speaker 1: we're going to be expanding upon that. So Designs Plural
Speaker 1: is really our effort to expand a bit on the
Speaker 1: merchandising front. There will be more than one T shirt.
Speaker 1: This gentleman mentioned hats. There will be hats. We've got
Speaker 1: some really exciting plans I think ahead of us here
Speaker 1: in the early part of the offseason that can get
Speaker 1: people more connected to the verbollerhood than ever before.
Speaker 2: Now that's my famous, my favorite Paul Thomas Anderson movie.
Speaker 2: There will be hats. There will That's right, there will
Speaker 2: be hats. His second question is what single game are
Speaker 2: each of you most excited about this season. I have
Speaker 2: a list of like six, but I've picked one. Do
Speaker 2: you have a game?
Speaker 1: I'm assuming your number one is Oregon versus UCLA on
Speaker 1: November three.
Speaker 2: No, well, this is he just asked about, you know,
Speaker 2: any game. I'm going to say no Oregon games for
Speaker 2: this question, the Notre Dame game.
Speaker 1: Can I please say that mine is Oregon versus Ucla.
Speaker 1: Because of that, you can requisite anguish that I know
Speaker 1: will take place on your side.
Speaker 2: It's going to be running into an X. You guys
Speaker 2: have both moved on. You guys are both thriving, but
Speaker 2: at the same time we're like, what if?
Speaker 1: What if?
Speaker 2: So that's fair to say that's your answer.
Speaker 1: Is that if I'm not gonna go Oregon or Ucla
Speaker 1: out of spite, I probably say, and I know it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a tired answer here, but I am genuinely
Speaker 1: curious about Michigan Ohio State this year in a way
Speaker 1: that I feel I haven't been in previous years because
Speaker 1: of the shape factor.
Speaker 2: Okay, they have two new quarterbacks, technic.
Speaker 1: Excited to see which direction that one goes. I'm also
Speaker 1: interested in Penn State Michigan for obvious reasons. But are
Speaker 1: we not allowed to pick like headliner games here?
Speaker 2: I have I have new matchups that we don't usually get.
Speaker 1: What are your new matchups?
Speaker 2: So my two or maybe two and a half, I
Speaker 2: have Auburn Washington, which turns out Auburn is a place
Speaker 2: in Washington September.
Speaker 1: What second in Atlanta?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's week one. I can leave in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's in Texas. That's They're are not
Speaker 2: that many quarterbacks going into the Seas and we're like,
Speaker 2: he is going to definitely be good, and this game
Speaker 2: has two of them.
Speaker 1: Auburn has a ridiculous schedule this year, by the way.
Speaker 2: Yes they do. It's they very much do. But this
Speaker 2: this is basically you get all summer of Gus Melson
Speaker 2: Chris Peterson planning things. I love both of these teams defenses,
Speaker 2: especially Washington's secondary. Jake Browning is excellent when healthy. They
Speaker 2: you know, Miles Gaskin is one of the more underrated,
Speaker 2: although if everybody is saying he's underrated, then at a
Speaker 2: certain point he is the most properly rated underrated running
Speaker 2: back in the country. But I like Washington a whole
Speaker 2: bunch and everything. They return Auburn as well, that'll be
Speaker 2: that'll be fun on a big, if not unfortunate stage.
Speaker 2: That it's not, you know, a home and home in
Speaker 2: Seattle and Auburn. So that's my other like, very short
Speaker 2: answer is FAU Oklahoma Lincoln Riley. Yeah, offense points great.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. Yeah, all right, where are we going next?
Speaker 2: Next question? I don't like, we're just banging time. Let's
Speaker 2: just go man Wednesday night, Rod just banging through. Right,
Speaker 2: This is the juice question. The three best overall position
Speaker 2: groups in the country. By the way, somebody did notice.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was Twitter or an email
Speaker 2: or comments whatever. They're like typical Dan fashion. Somebody asks
Speaker 2: for one, he gives four and a half. Somebody asks
Speaker 2: for three, he gives five and a quarter. I just
Speaker 2: like a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Oh well, hold on back to this question here, Yes,
Speaker 1: overall position groups. So is that then to ask, if
Speaker 1: you take all of the wide receivers in the country,
Speaker 1: is that the best position group in football? Are we
Speaker 1: doing per conference, per team? What are we looking at here?
Speaker 2: I think when he says overall, he means which position
Speaker 2: groups on a national scope, so not necessarily, this is
Speaker 2: a great year for receivers, which you know, which receivers
Speaker 2: on a certain team are so good that they have
Speaker 2: to be considered the best in the country at any position. Okay,
Speaker 2: so like last year you could have said Oklahoma's offensive line.
Speaker 1: Okay, this year you could say Clemson's defensive line. That's
Speaker 1: exactly right, Clemson's defensive line, I think, I think that's right.
Speaker 1: The most obvious answer here, right.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. I've got a few because I'm bad. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm a bad boy. I really like Michigan's defensive line
Speaker 2: with Rashaun Garry, Aubrey Solomon, Chase Winovich, a ton of
Speaker 2: experience and anger. I like Bama's running back corps. That's
Speaker 2: too easy an answer, but sometimes you just got to
Speaker 2: please the butt Bama people because they have Damien Harris
Speaker 2: and naj Harris and Josh Jacobs. Here's the one that
Speaker 2: I here's my deeper cut. I won't say it's a
Speaker 2: deep cut because they're a major team in a major conference,
Speaker 2: but West Virginia's wide receiver Corpsry Jennings, Marcus Simms, David Sills,
Speaker 2: who how David Sills is still in college football in
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen remains a mystery.
Speaker 1: Him and Ryan Finley are like I've olt on retirement benefits.
Speaker 2: Ryan Finley may be our age and that's fine. But
Speaker 2: West Virginia's wide receiver corps is great, and they have
Speaker 2: a what could be a very very good situation at quarterback.
Speaker 2: And Will Greer if he is able to come back
Speaker 2: and stay healthy all year long. I think that is
Speaker 2: That is my answer, at least for you know, the
Speaker 2: non obvious Clemson defensive line, Washington secondary is right there,
Speaker 2: Bama's linebacking corps is right there, but I really like
Speaker 2: what Dana Holgerson has out wide.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll go with that. Clemson's defensive line, to me,
Speaker 1: I think is the most obvious answer. Can I can
Speaker 1: I pose a question here?
Speaker 2: Get in there, ty one that I saw.
Speaker 1: I saw this question here from a gentleman named Anthony,
Speaker 1: and it is a Notre Dame related question. I do apologize,
Speaker 1: but I thought it was an interesting dilemma that he posed.
Speaker 1: Since you're talking about Michigan, He says, does Notre Dame
Speaker 1: have a better chance of beating Michigan the first game
Speaker 1: of the year or USC the last game of the year.
Speaker 1: Dan Okay, better chance, I see what he's alluding to,
Speaker 1: A beating Michigan, better chance of beating USC. I sat
Speaker 1: and I stroked my chin thinking about this for a
Speaker 1: good fifteen minutes. Thank you.
Speaker 2: You weren't expecting it, were you.
Speaker 1: Thank you? I could tell that you were up to something.
Speaker 1: Normally you'd respond a little quicker. I think that I
Speaker 1: am more worried about the Michigan game me first week
Speaker 1: of the year than I would be USC last game
Speaker 1: of the year for a number of reasons. I think
Speaker 1: that because of Notre Dame replacing the left side of
Speaker 1: their line again, losing two guys top ten of the draft,
Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson mcglinchy both going pro. I think they lose
Speaker 1: their top running back and josh Ada. We've got some
Speaker 1: of their bigger play threats in Equinemias Saint Brown going pro,
Speaker 1: Kevin Stepherson getting booted off the team. With all of
Speaker 1: that being said, even despite the fact that they should
Speaker 1: have a really sound defense this coming season, I am
Speaker 1: a little bit worried about the first game of the year.
Speaker 1: It all falling on the arm of brand new Wimbush,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be a recurring theme that you
Speaker 1: hear from me on this show, not only in the
Speaker 1: build up to the season, but perhaps throughout the first
Speaker 1: couple weeks before he gets pulled. I am concerned about
Speaker 1: that matchup in particular because Michigan's got the defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the answer is probably Michigan. It's week one,
Speaker 2: and there's less certainty after fall camp just what the
Speaker 2: team is actually going to look like against a good
Speaker 2: team right off the bat. That's why a lot of
Speaker 2: coaches like to schedule down a little bit. That first
Speaker 2: week of the season. USC is on the road, albeit
Speaker 2: USC I think has the UCL game the week before,
Speaker 2: so there's there's letdown potential there, just as we look
Speaker 2: six months into the future. But yes, I think the
Speaker 2: Week one factor the more proven quarterback situation for Michigan
Speaker 2: at this point in shape Patterson. Then you know, if
Speaker 2: it's JT. Daniels, eventually I'm going to take Michigan as well.
Speaker 2: And I also think the defensive line for Michigan. You know,
Speaker 2: the more I've thought about things, and this is definitely
Speaker 2: not my theory, is just trying to appreciate as much
Speaker 2: teams that have some sort of combination of good quarterback
Speaker 2: play and a really good defense and defensive line in particular.
Speaker 2: And the better your quarterback is, the worser defense has
Speaker 2: to be, as we saw with Oklahoma last year, And
Speaker 2: the better your your defense is, the not as talented
Speaker 2: and productive your quarterback can be, as we've seen with
Speaker 2: previous Alabama teams. But I'd like this Michigan defensive line
Speaker 2: more than I like USC's defensive line. And I like
Speaker 2: shape Patterson right now better than what USC will have.
Speaker 1: So you're agreeing with me here essentially. All right, let
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Speaker 2: Follow the leader? Oh as an Oklahoma state fan? Okay, which,
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Speaker 1: would consider her favorite DJ.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that, Yepkay.
Speaker 2: As an aside, Yeah, now I'm an Oklahoma State fan
Speaker 2: but also a Bengals fan. How should I feel about
Speaker 2: Mason Rudolph and Junkyard Jim Washington going to Pittsburgh. I
Speaker 2: just have a very simple thought about this, But the
Speaker 2: floor is yours.
Speaker 1: I really like Mason Rudolph as a pro prospect. We
Speaker 1: had Taj Boyd on the show.
Speaker 2: But he's asking about emotions.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm getting to that, Dan, Okay. I we we
Speaker 1: had talked to TODJ Boyd, and part of what we
Speaker 1: edited out because he included so much good information was
Speaker 1: actually how he felt about the upcoming quarterback class. And
Speaker 1: he said in that interview that Mason Rudolph was his
Speaker 1: favorite pro prospect at the quarterback right. Of all the
Speaker 1: big names that you heard, Mason Rudolph was his favorite.
Speaker 1: Ever since that moment, I took Mason Rudolph and his
Speaker 1: NFL prospects a little bit more seriously, and I gotta say,
Speaker 1: maybe it's a little bit of confirmation bias. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I started to feel very similarly. So my long
Speaker 1: answer here is, given the fact that big Ben is
Speaker 1: clearly in the twilight of his career at this moment,
Speaker 1: and at any single solitary moment in the NFL season,
Speaker 1: he could go down with an unforeseen injury. I would
Speaker 1: feel terrified as a Bengals fan to have Mason Rudolph
Speaker 1: on the other side, because we know he can throw,
Speaker 1: and Junkyard Jim Washington also going to Pittsburgh. Dan, Yep,
Speaker 1: the hookup, the handcuff is there for potential fantasy team
Speaker 1: owners three years down the road. I am really excited
Speaker 1: about that possibility. As someone who lives in Pennsylvania and
Speaker 1: on rare occasion roots for the Steelers, I would be
Speaker 1: terrified as a Bengals fan. So all salient points, all
Speaker 1: good points. I'm going to approach this question on how
Speaker 1: should he feel about the two of them succeeding for
Speaker 1: a team he doesn't like, Like I feel like he
Speaker 1: is going to be mixed about this, And I will
Speaker 1: say this, Mason Rudoff and James Washington, Junkyard Jim JUNKI
Speaker 1: did not choose to go to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: No, it's not like they said to themselves, where can
Speaker 2: I cause the most damage in the NFL? And just
Speaker 2: tear off the lid off this league. Pittsburgh, that's the answer.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to beat up on Cincinnati. Who are
Speaker 2: They're probably both from the Southwest if they went to
Speaker 2: Oklahoma State. So I'm thinking as an Oklahoma State fan,
Speaker 2: root for them to be excellent, Root for them to
Speaker 2: make a ton of money. Root for them to stay healthy.
Speaker 2: Maybe they don't beat Pittsburgh, but they stay healthy. Root
Speaker 2: for the Steelers mostly because you like rooting for them
Speaker 2: at Oklahoma State, I presume. And the better they are
Speaker 2: in the NFL, the better indirectly it will be for.
Speaker 1: Almost Oklahoma State in a positive.
Speaker 2: Wade you the next Mason Rudolph, Look how we prepared
Speaker 2: him for the NFL.
Speaker 1: Another similar example here is Saquon Barkley. Because there are
Speaker 1: a lot of Penn State fans who are also diehard
Speaker 1: Eagles fans, and when the Giants took Saquon with the
Speaker 1: second overall pick, a lot of mixed emotions on this
Speaker 1: side of the state.
Speaker 2: Not gonna lie he chose to go to Penn State,
Speaker 2: he didn't choose to go to the Giants.
Speaker 1: Now, as a Penn State alum who has hated the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, his entire life and strangely rooted for the Giants.
Speaker 1: This could not have worked out any better for me personally,
Speaker 1: but that's neither here nor Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, where are we going next? Same guy Sikar wants
Speaker 2: to know. Can y'all do a live show in Socow please?
Speaker 1: Okay, dan Ah, what do we think in terms of
Speaker 1: live shows? We've already spilled the beans on our plans
Speaker 1: to do a Chicago live show at some point early
Speaker 1: to mid August. Correct fantasy things draft. We're gonna blow
Speaker 1: it out. It'll be all sorts of fun. We have,
Speaker 1: according to our survey, a number of hotspots around the
Speaker 1: country where people will be very excited, very motivated to
Speaker 1: come and see a Sliverbal live show. One of those
Speaker 1: is Washington, d C. Which we will get to m hm.
Speaker 1: Another one of.
Speaker 2: Those is the event on any city's social calendar, of course.
Speaker 2: Another one of those live show is Texas. Somewhere in between.
Speaker 2: It'll be Austin. It will be Austin. It's going to
Speaker 2: be Austin, lied to the people.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Austin. But we had a lot of interest
Speaker 1: from Houston, from from Dallas, the Fort Worth area, as
Speaker 1: well as Austin, and then we had a bunch of
Speaker 1: places out on the West coast. We had San Francisco
Speaker 1: throw its name in the ring. We had La obviously,
Speaker 1: La throwing its name in the ring. Seattle had a
Speaker 1: pretty strong showing on our survey that we conducted about
Speaker 1: a year ago.
Speaker 2: We'll see you soon. Let's split the difference. What's up, Bakersfield?
Speaker 1: The question here is can you all do a live
Speaker 1: show in southern California? You're from this or dan? How
Speaker 1: do you feel? I have this?
Speaker 2: I would love to. Yeah, there would be nothing more
Speaker 2: fun than to do a show for me in southern California.
Speaker 2: I don't know where we would do it, somewhere Central,
Speaker 2: Culver City or something, but yeah, hell yeah I would.
Speaker 2: I would. That'd be a dream. I want to go
Speaker 2: all those cities at Austin, whatever, DC, Chicago, but yeah,
Speaker 2: southern California.
Speaker 1: Would you would you do the following? First off, did
Speaker 1: you have any enemies in high school?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Would you somehow try to get it back to that
Speaker 1: person that, Oh, by the way, I'm doing a live
Speaker 1: show in your back.
Speaker 2: I think fences have been mended.
Speaker 1: We'll get where I'm at now.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think who that would be specifically, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think so. I don't think I would reach out,
Speaker 2: but I would. I would somehow try to make it publicly.
Speaker 1: It's sort of like passive aggressively, like, Oh, Danny's coming
Speaker 1: to town and he's doing a live show thing really cool.
Speaker 2: I'm doing a live college football podcast that a bakery
Speaker 2: turns out. My life turned out better than yours. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: you don't know how I do have an enemy.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try to do more live shows this year.
Speaker 2: Can we stay with food because we asked for groceries questions?
Speaker 2: I love this question so much, and I'm so disappointed
Speaker 2: that we haven't delved deeper when we originally talked about
Speaker 2: you advising, I believe it's meg More, Damn meg On.
Speaker 2: You know where she should try to find love in
Speaker 2: the real world. Robbie wants to know what sections of
Speaker 2: the grocery store are the most prime for picking someone up? Wow,
Speaker 2: and what are the signs that a man slash woman
Speaker 2: is that there are the receptive to your attempts.
Speaker 1: So we must add here that Robbie kind of addressed
Speaker 1: this question to me.
Speaker 2: Yes, told disclosure.
Speaker 1: I've never actually done this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Come on.
Speaker 1: I was shooting from the hip when I answered the question.
Speaker 1: I thought it might be a good idea. Now, in fairness,
Speaker 1: it didn't have legs initially, but then after the show
Speaker 1: was released, even you came around on that, you said
Speaker 1: it was a sneaky good answer.
Speaker 2: It's not a bad answer. It's just so tricky. It's
Speaker 2: basically likeicky.
Speaker 1: Yes, but it's a good answer. I stand by that
Speaker 1: answer wholeheartedly.
Speaker 2: You know, in action movies where there is a very
Speaker 2: select team and they're tasked with an extraction, whether if
Speaker 2: it's like an antiquity or if it's they're rescuing a
Speaker 2: kidnapping victim, where they're like, here's the blueprint, here's the plan,
Speaker 2: here's if things go wrong, the exit strategy. It is
Speaker 2: such a specific thing, and you don't have you know,
Speaker 2: you won't have control of the objects of your potential desire, right,
Speaker 2: and so your plan both where and how and why
Speaker 2: and when and frankly tie from what angle. Approach from
Speaker 2: the left side, make sure there's no ring, don't waste
Speaker 2: your time and shame. Approach from the left side. And
Speaker 2: I do think it's aware and how so, I don't
Speaker 2: know how much thought you've given this decidedly, not single person,
Speaker 2: but I not single person have given it. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: these are my let's start with your don'ts Okay, I
Speaker 2: say avoid cereal, Avoid crackers. Why because they don't elicit anything.
Speaker 1: Because they're cereal and crackers.
Speaker 2: That's why.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: It's just sort of like, oh, we're out of corn flakes,
Speaker 2: we're out of you know, lucky charms, we're out of
Speaker 2: frosted flakes, we're out of you know, grape nuts. That
Speaker 2: doesn't do anything for the synapses in your brain. Same
Speaker 2: with wheat thins, triskets, whatever, soda, crackers. I would stay
Speaker 2: away from the meat slash butcher now hold on, oh ty.
Speaker 1: George Costanzas said that pastrami is the most sensual of
Speaker 1: the cured.
Speaker 2: But that's when you've already sealed the deal. Okay, that's
Speaker 2: a complimentary meat. There is nothing sexy or at least,
Speaker 2: you know, riveting in some sort of social way about
Speaker 2: chicken thighs, raw meat, ross.
Speaker 1: Brown, Salmonella E coli. I'm with you, it is with
Speaker 1: you on this.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is not a visual that you want to
Speaker 2: associate with new love. Sorry, that's me.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe that's your thing, but I tend to
Speaker 1: agree you can't assume. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I would also say bread is sort of a no
Speaker 2: fly zone. That's just like, are we out of bread?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I guess I should get more read. How many grains
Speaker 2: is too many grains? What? It's just it is a boring,
Speaker 2: non sexy part of a grocery store.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think now that's actually in agreement so far.
Speaker 2: Here Okay, here's where I would focus. Yeah, because you
Speaker 2: want conversation starters. You want somebody's the synapses once again
Speaker 2: to be tingling in a positive way. I would say
Speaker 2: frozen food is dicey because nobody really spends a ton
Speaker 2: of time there. It's an in and out kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Like and also desserts great, yes, converse station starter. What's
Speaker 2: your favorite flavor of this? Have you ever if you
Speaker 2: see that they have a new flavor of this? Have
Speaker 2: you tried this kind of bar or whatever? Great desserts
Speaker 2: are exciting, tie, It's it's sort of like the what
Speaker 2: do you say at the end of a meal, Like
Speaker 2: when you're trying to decide if you're going to order
Speaker 2: dessert or not. I shouldn't, but I want it. I shouldn't,
Speaker 2: but I want it.
Speaker 1: Here's the sort of here's the thing about that aisle
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, you've got a lot of machinery with
Speaker 1: the freezers. Little buzz, little buzz not always the clearest
Speaker 1: conversation takes, but little breeze ryle. Yeah, it's cold. People
Speaker 1: are uncomfortable. Yeah, they're looking to get out of there
Speaker 1: as quickly as possible. Get what you want. It's a
Speaker 1: search and destroy mission. It's not a great place to
Speaker 1: just hang around and start a conversation with the stranger.
Speaker 1: So I agree.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's got to be dessert area, not frozen
Speaker 2: French bread pizza area. It's high risk, high reward because
Speaker 2: it's either exciting and titillating or it's sad and solo.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: I will say your your bakery great smells. A lot
Speaker 2: of the time it's oh, I'm getting cupcakes for a friend. Ooh,
Speaker 2: I'm feel like something sweet and naughty. Tie get that
Speaker 2: bakery gone.
Speaker 1: Okay, bakery is not a bad answer.
Speaker 2: Busy deli people waiting around with their number.
Speaker 1: Oh, so they can't.
Speaker 2: They're not in the middle of buying something or looking
Speaker 2: at a nutrition label at a.
Speaker 1: Little impatient and maybe more receptive to common chit chat.
Speaker 2: You know what I would do, tie this is me,
Speaker 2: and it would almost assuredly fail. I would walk up
Speaker 2: to somebody waiting there looking like they were in a
Speaker 2: pretty good mood, and I would say, let me guess
Speaker 2: pepper jack and see where that's a Seinfeld move, right
Speaker 2: there is? That's one percent, Yeah, Seinfeld move. Produce isn't
Speaker 2: bad because you can say, like, how do you actually
Speaker 2: know if avocados are ripe? There's entry points. Pet food
Speaker 2: is good because you can talk about pets. What if
Speaker 2: you don't have a pet, well, then you should not
Speaker 2: go to the pet food. Okay, but it's the old like, oh,
Speaker 2: you have a gold Nu strip bar, gold Rehiver. You
Speaker 2: ever go to this park? We should go.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's tough.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say it's easy, but I'm just telling
Speaker 2: you that's an option. And my final one would just
Speaker 2: be whatever you consider your brand strengths to be. If
Speaker 2: you have lots of what you considered to be fun, clever,
Speaker 2: witty thoughts about hummus, spend some time in the hummics area.
Speaker 1: See Dan, I think you missed the boat on this.
Speaker 2: What did I miss all the.
Speaker 1: Years we've been doing this show. Usually you have a
Speaker 1: very creative answer that I haven't, that I haven't thought
Speaker 1: through that I don't think I can go toe to
Speaker 1: toe with. I think I have the answer here.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: We're two gentlemen who like to cook. What is your
Speaker 1: go to recipe? What would you cook for somebody if
Speaker 1: you were taking them, you know, on a date.
Speaker 2: They were coming over, if they were coming them dinner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'm thinking maybe you've got an Italian dish,
Speaker 1: maybe you've got some other kind of dish that you're
Speaker 1: very proud of. Why not hang around lurk?
Speaker 2: Not not.
Speaker 1: Just hang out? Go casually in the Italian section, you know,
Speaker 1: talk about some some spaghetti sauce, talk about use that
Speaker 1: as like your entry point to talk about Yeah, I
Speaker 1: use this in my spaghetti sauce and it's really good.
Speaker 1: Try to build on that and see where you go.
Speaker 2: I think that's too ordinary. Not that Italian food is ordinary,
Speaker 2: but I think the idea of cooking pasta is like, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't have anything else left, but I have these
Speaker 2: like shells and marinarias. I'm just fine.
Speaker 1: Kind of along the same lines as your pet food commentary. Right,
Speaker 1: see if you can spin that off into like a
Speaker 1: future engagement, not literal engagement. But you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I know I'm thinking along the same lines, but just
Speaker 1: in a more human sense.
Speaker 2: Dan, what do your cross we jars? Don't? It doesn't
Speaker 2: get me worked up? Ty?
Speaker 1: What do you do well? And can you spin that
Speaker 1: off into something okay down the road?
Speaker 2: I'm okay with it if you have lots of clever
Speaker 2: thoughts about dried pasta and jard Marin AA sauce. If
Speaker 2: you do, that's fine. But I think it's a It's
Speaker 2: tough because I don't think a lot of people do
Speaker 2: my spaghetti sauce about it? With starting out there, how
Speaker 2: Kate ever landed on you, I will never know.
Speaker 1: Where are we going? Next? Good question, Robbie, thank.
Speaker 2: You, amazing question. Let's go to I like this question
Speaker 2: a lot. It's from chance. I can't all these questions.
Speaker 2: It's a really great name. I love that it is
Speaker 2: a good name. As athletic departments continue to invest in
Speaker 2: graphic design and video production, how much do you think
Speaker 2: that the quality of a team's media affects the perception
Speaker 2: of the program to recruits media members? And fans. How
Speaker 2: much do you think it enhances the fan experience? And
Speaker 2: what I think he means by this, and maybe I'm
Speaker 2: totally off base graphic design is you know a lot
Speaker 2: of the materials they'll send to kids in the mail,
Speaker 2: but also you see what's called like I feel so old,
Speaker 2: what the kids are calling edits on Twitter, where the
Speaker 2: schools will send kids these illustrated versions of themselves wearing
Speaker 2: a team's uniform with like cool backgrounds and like cool
Speaker 2: splashy graphics to help kids picture themselves in that whatever
Speaker 2: it is, UCLA, Clemson, Texas, Minnesota lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Right, So, Dan, wouldn't this be essentially chances question? Here
Speaker 1: a more superficial application of what we saw go on
Speaker 1: at Oregon over the sort of decade and a half.
Speaker 2: I think it's under the same umbrella.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it all kind of classifies. Oregon was
Speaker 1: able to rebrand itself essentially, or brand itself for the
Speaker 1: first time as the coolest program in college football, and
Speaker 1: that paid dividends. It continues to pay dividends. Oregon built
Speaker 1: itself up now into one of the top fifteen college
Speaker 1: football institutions in America. I think anything that you can
Speaker 1: do to enhance the packaging of your program is usually
Speaker 1: a net positive. So whether that's graphics on Twitter or
Speaker 1: cool video production tricks that you can get an intern
Speaker 1: to pull off, I think all of that helps. I'm
Speaker 1: big on package.
Speaker 2: These schools have full on vlogs now.
Speaker 1: I know. I'm big on how that packaging can help
Speaker 1: can help elevate the brand of your program. And so
Speaker 1: I'm trying not to sound too much like Darren Ravel here,
Speaker 1: but I do think branding goes a long way, and
Speaker 1: it can certainly enhance the way that your program is
Speaker 1: viewed by potential prospects. That's what it really comes down to.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much it truly enhances the fan
Speaker 1: experience other than indirectly. If you get better players to
Speaker 1: come to your program and you start winning, then it's
Speaker 1: clearly a better fan experience.
Speaker 2: I think it's incredibly savvy to be to invest in
Speaker 2: this kind of stuff, and I don't think it's for
Speaker 2: like Darren Ravel reasons. I think it's for like the
Speaker 2: most basic human reasons of when you were this is
Speaker 2: not that personal, even though it involves your personal life.
Speaker 2: When you were dating Kate and things got more and
Speaker 2: more serious, and you were just thinking whatever about the
Speaker 2: relationship and where it was going. Essentially what you're doing,
Speaker 2: and this is what I did. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: put this on you. Is you think to yourself, could
Speaker 2: I picture myself with this person for the rest of
Speaker 2: my life? Right for a long time? And that's not
Speaker 2: true of college football. It's not the rest of your life.
Speaker 2: But it's the act of picturing yourself and a major
Speaker 2: life decision. And these are means by which schools can
Speaker 2: say you don't need to just do this in your head.
Speaker 2: We can show you what you're going to look like
Speaker 2: scoring a touchdown in a Clemson uniform. Or even though
Speaker 2: you live in Georgia, we at Ohio State are recruiting you.
Speaker 2: And we have this weekly vlog where you see what
Speaker 2: it's like to be a player in the weight room,
Speaker 2: in the dorms, playing video games at practice. You see
Speaker 2: what the coaches are like, you see what the support
Speaker 2: staff are like, things that you might not fully be
Speaker 2: able to experience during your unofficial or official visit, but
Speaker 2: you get a sense for oh, this is how I
Speaker 2: can picture myself in Columbus as a contributor to Ohio State.
Speaker 2: And it's a way for the schools to do it
Speaker 2: without spending basically anything just in the grand scheme of things,
Speaker 2: but caring about production value and graphic design and helping
Speaker 2: to plant seeds. Like if Jody with and I or Kate,
Speaker 2: you know, had the opportunity to say, here's a video
Speaker 2: of what it's going like, all of the good times
Speaker 2: that lay ahead of you and be like, oh cool, sweet,
Speaker 2: we're going to a lake house. Do yeah, they would have.
Speaker 2: I think this is a it's a very savvy way
Speaker 2: to sort of not just say things, but show things,
Speaker 2: proof of concept.
Speaker 1: To a man and woman, but to a person, to
Speaker 1: a college football fan. Most people that I've kind of
Speaker 1: informed on this matter talk to them about the infrastructure
Speaker 1: that takes place, that goes on, that is in place
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, that takes care of this sort of thing.
Speaker 1: People are always a gas by it. They always sort
Speaker 1: of roll their eyes, like, oh my god, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: The longer you think about it, the more it makes
Speaker 1: sense though, and to your point, the more savvy it becomes.
Speaker 1: I think it's incredibly savvy. I think branding and packaging
Speaker 1: and all that stuff that we grow to hate it
Speaker 1: is important and whether it's college football or buying stuff
Speaker 1: at the store. It definitely plays a factor.
Speaker 2: And obviously schools are showing kids what they want to
Speaker 2: show them. They're not showing them any ugly side of
Speaker 2: anything or anything realistic necessarily. But if Ohio State is
Speaker 2: showing the kid from Georgia, this is the entirety of
Speaker 2: the Ohio State experience in as much as we can
Speaker 2: put into a weekly vlog. And then I don't know,
Speaker 2: Purdue is saying trust us Purdue and were great. You're
Speaker 2: going to say I have a much better concept for
Speaker 2: Ohio State. Even if I visit wes Lafayette, even if
Speaker 2: I visit you know wherever, if Syracuse or cal if
Speaker 2: a school is going above and beyond to try and
Speaker 2: help you picture what your life would be like at
Speaker 2: that place. I think it's going to be a significant
Speaker 2: difference maker.
Speaker 1: All Right, Dan, we got time for like, let's say three.
Speaker 2: More, let's bang time three more. Where we going these questions?
Speaker 2: Let's go to have we done a lot out we have?
Speaker 2: We had a couple Willy Tagger questions. Let's go to
Speaker 2: Matt Brown not one of at least the two Matt
Speaker 2: Brown's working in college football media, okay, but a separate
Speaker 2: Matt Brown, Jeff Robin Perdue need to do what to
Speaker 2: consider this year a success? The schedule looks light to
Speaker 2: start the year, which maybe, but this is a Purdue
Speaker 2: team that loses a bunch, especially upfront on defense. What
Speaker 2: do you what do you think is success in a
Speaker 2: year in which Purdue does not return a significant number
Speaker 2: of players on defense like Nick Holet did inherit last year,
Speaker 2: the defensive coordinator for the Boilers.
Speaker 1: They finished strong last year, didn't they?
Speaker 2: They did?
Speaker 1: They finished strong last year and we had a lot
Speaker 1: of fun in this program talking about the singularity.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: You remember that they've got to build their defensive front seven.
Speaker 1: They lose a lot on the defense.
Speaker 2: That was the strength of that team.
Speaker 1: That was the strength of the team. So I think
Speaker 1: to some degree success will be measured by how well
Speaker 1: the defense performs. If they get run over by the competition,
Speaker 1: that's going to be an issue. But they got to
Speaker 1: find some way to rebuild in a hurry and keep
Speaker 1: themselves respectable on offense. And it's not just front seven,
Speaker 1: like they got issues at cornerback too. It's sort of
Speaker 1: a defensive shit show. If I can curse a little
Speaker 1: bit sorry season. Yeah, so I think that will be
Speaker 1: the most obvious point where Jeff Brown's gonna have to
Speaker 1: make some, you know, some magic. Beyond that, though, I
Speaker 1: would hope that they can continue to take a step
Speaker 1: forward on offense, because it feels to me like the
Speaker 1: quarterback position did get a little bit more consistent throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the season, and that's something that we
Speaker 1: hadn't seen at Perdue in quite some time. So I
Speaker 1: would say, just on a very very basic level, build
Speaker 1: the defense to a point where it's not going to
Speaker 1: get blown away every time they step out on the field.
Speaker 1: They can keep the games close and keep the offense
Speaker 1: at the same level, or maybe take the offense a
Speaker 1: step further into the future here and get a little
Speaker 1: bit more production. I'm not looking for Purdue to go
Speaker 1: like eight and four this season. I'm just looking to
Speaker 1: know Purdue to achieve a level of consistency that we
Speaker 1: hadn't seen prior to brom getting there.
Speaker 2: If p Due makes the ball game, it's a successful year. Totally,
Speaker 2: it's a totally successful year. The problem is if Purdue
Speaker 2: does win eight games again or gets to eight games.
Speaker 1: He's gone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. Well, he's in West Lafayette.
Speaker 1: He's gone.
Speaker 2: I mean there was, there were conversations last year, and
Speaker 2: he's too good for his own good or for West
Speaker 2: Lafayette's own good. But yes, I would be for as
Speaker 2: long as he's there, I would be optimistic that he
Speaker 2: has done a good job marrying a lot of pro
Speaker 2: passing concepts with understandable looks for eighteen and nineteen year olds,
Speaker 2: and has thus far done a very good job defensively,
Speaker 2: bringing Nicolet with him and taking advantage of returning experience talent.
Speaker 2: Next question, Ryan odds that Georgia can overtake Alabama as
Speaker 2: the pre eminent WOW college football program in the nation
Speaker 2: during Nick Saban's ten year. I would say, I mean,
Speaker 2: we don't have to spend a lot of time on this.
Speaker 2: Nick Saban has done what no coach has ever done
Speaker 2: at Alabama. So I'm gonna put.
Speaker 1: One up debt.
Speaker 2: I to put it on a percentage basis, I would
Speaker 2: say less than one percent. And who in the Big
Speaker 2: Ten West poses the greatest threat to Wisconsin over the
Speaker 2: course of the next five years? And why is it
Speaker 2: Purdue slash Minnesota and not Nebraska.
Speaker 1: I don't think it is Perdue or Minnesota, Dan.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have a very convoluted answer. No, it's the
Speaker 2: answer is Scott Frost wins the Big Ten in year
Speaker 2: two and takes the job with whoever in the NFL,
Speaker 2: and Purdue recruits well and manages to keep Jeff Brahm,
Speaker 2: and Minnesota recruits well and manages to keep PJ. Fleck,
Speaker 2: and they're able to find diamonds in the rough quarterback,
Speaker 2: and Nebraska has to hire Ba Polini back. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but then then Nebraska's a threat. Yeah, Bo Polini was
Speaker 2: totally decent in Nebraska, but that would be a mess.
Speaker 2: I would. I would basically say, if it's not Nebraska,
Speaker 2: it's because Scott Frost has succeeded, has even overwhelmed the
Speaker 2: expectations that have been put on him.
Speaker 1: Keep your keys, your eye on the Big Ten West
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 2: It's going to be better and fun.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be better, It's going to be sneaky good
Speaker 1: sneaky entertaining to watch. Anyway, let's leave it at that.
Speaker 2: What questions intrigue you? You want to go to lemons Est,
Speaker 2: We can go to lemons Es, Dan, Do you want
Speaker 2: to go to We've got a lot of good questions
Speaker 2: here we did. Oh, I know what you want to go?
Speaker 2: Do you want to go to Gilgamesh?
Speaker 1: Gilgamesh? Yeah? I do?
Speaker 2: Okay? Will you guys pick a team to follow in
Speaker 2: the Japanese X League. A Sahi Soft Drink Challenger sounds
Speaker 2: awesome or the Licksil Deers.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So, I will admit ty, I did not know what
Speaker 2: the Japanese X League was.
Speaker 1: Did you look it up?
Speaker 2: I did look it up.
Speaker 1: According to Wikipedia, the X League is the top level
Speaker 1: American football league in Japan. Founded in nineteen seventy one
Speaker 1: as the japan American Football League, it changed its name
Speaker 1: to the X League in nineteen ninety seven. Here's what
Speaker 1: you need to know. There are three divisions in X one,
Speaker 1: an X two, and an X three, which, as college
Speaker 1: football fans, that kind of sounds familiar, right m M.
Speaker 1: Teams in the three tier league are split into East
Speaker 1: and West and Central divisions. Two types of teams, one
Speaker 1: being a company team in which only employees of that
Speaker 1: particular sponsoring company may participate as a player, and the
Speaker 1: other classified as a club team for which anyone can
Speaker 1: try out. So it's part college football, part intramural football
Speaker 1: and part just like open club in the city football. Dan.
Speaker 2: So, when I saw that this was a mix of
Speaker 2: different types of players in Japan playing American football and
Speaker 2: was called X, I was really hoping it was a
Speaker 2: play on the word ex And I was really hoping
Speaker 2: that it was only open to former college football players
Speaker 2: who were not good enough as essentially or had flamed
Speaker 2: out or decided to start a comeback at an older age.
Speaker 2: And it was those players playing with Japanese players, Japanese
Speaker 2: college aged players. So I was hoping for Nate longshore
Speaker 2: Lyle moy Vow, Austin Arnad, Ryan Lindley. It has to
Speaker 2: be doing something, Dan Lafever, Jevin Snead.
Speaker 1: There is very much a Homer at the bat slash
Speaker 1: Springfield Nuclear power Plant element to this that I love.
Speaker 1: They also have relegation and promotion, which is a famous
Speaker 1: concept here among US college football nerds as to ways
Speaker 1: they could improve college football. I love everything about this,
Speaker 1: So I feel like we need to pick a team now.
Speaker 1: I am still not clear after reading up on it
Speaker 1: for a good chunk of my afternoon, which are the
Speaker 1: best teams in this league and which are not the
Speaker 1: best teams, but I'm thinking that the ones associated with
Speaker 1: individual companies are probably the more exciting variety. Okay, like
Speaker 1: the Tokyo Gas Creators. I don't know what that means,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if Tokyo Gas is like a company,
Speaker 1: but a team named the Gas Creators is pretty damn
Speaker 1: funny to me. I can relate, ty, we all can, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the Tokyo Gas Creators is up there in my book.
Speaker 2: So you have IBM Big Blue, obviously, the Chess Master, right,
Speaker 2: you have as or as one Black Eagles.
Speaker 1: I like this one. I'm thinking Gladiator. I'm thinking Russell
Speaker 1: Crowe yelling as one.
Speaker 2: The Nojima Saga, Mihara Rise, Okay, the All Mitsubishi Lions,
Speaker 2: one of my favorites. Bowls just called bulls Bowls, the
Speaker 2: lakom Kobe Finney's. Yeah, okay, there's the Panasonic impulse. We've
Speaker 2: all had that.
Speaker 1: What about Club Hawkeye.
Speaker 2: Club Hawkeye is pretty good, It is pretty good. They
Speaker 2: they're head coaches, Nozomu Nishimura, and so obviously that's a
Speaker 2: loaded conversation we'd have to have if we support it,
Speaker 2: if we became Club Hawkeye supporters. But this it mostly
Speaker 2: was just useful for me because I got to remember, like,
Speaker 2: there's a seventy one percent chance that Cody Hawkins is
Speaker 2: in this league, right, he almost assuredly. Cody Hawkins and
Speaker 2: John Parker Wilson are like the Big Ben and Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers and Tom Radio this.
Speaker 1: So does this mean that if you want to play
Speaker 1: in this league the company Mitsubishi has to hire like
Speaker 1: Nate Longshore.
Speaker 2: Yes, he has to work for them, and like the offseason.
Speaker 1: Just tremendous, by the way, breaking news, Blake Barnett has
Speaker 1: just transferred to the Asahi Soft Drink Challengers.
Speaker 2: I think it's a great fit.
Speaker 1: Ty Oh my god, this is I think it's I think.
Speaker 2: I mean he'll he'll be in a battle with Riley
Speaker 2: Skinner Chandler Harnish might have something to say about his prospects,
Speaker 2: and don't count out Tyson Lee, Hi, dark Horse.
Speaker 1: I need to know more about this league. I really
Speaker 1: need to know more about this league. We do have
Speaker 1: listeners that are in Japan who I'm sure are aware
Speaker 1: of this, so please email in more details in Layman's
Speaker 1: terms so we can understand exactly what's going on here.
Speaker 1: But right now, right now, I think the as one.
Speaker 1: Black Eagles are the.
Speaker 2: Black Eels are. That's a strong name. Can we close
Speaker 2: out with a very quick question, yes, please tie this
Speaker 2: from Josh? How do you feel about Lacroix as a beverage?
Speaker 1: I have one in front of me. What? I literally
Speaker 1: have one in front of me.
Speaker 2: What flavor?
Speaker 1: Lime?
Speaker 2: And just you go straight up? Is it cold?
Speaker 1: Is it in a glass with ice cold? I'm drinking
Speaker 1: it straight out of can dan because I'm a brute.
Speaker 2: How many cases of Lacroix do you keep on hand?
Speaker 1: Why would somebody ask this question?
Speaker 2: I don't personally love Lacroix. I think it might be
Speaker 2: a heated sort of opinion that people have.
Speaker 1: So here here is the genesis of me with Lacroix.
Speaker 1: I have been to family gatherings where they've either had
Speaker 1: Lacroix or there's like another brand, Bubbly basically the same thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: And I was at Wegmans the other day looking to
Speaker 1: get some drinks in the house, saw Lacroix was on
Speaker 1: sale and decided I'd pick him up because we just
Speaker 1: recently had it at a family gathering. And since we
Speaker 1: picked it up now the solid wife said, hey, that's
Speaker 1: that's pretty good, looked at it. No, no calories, sodium free,
Speaker 1: no artificial sweeteners. That's what they tell you. That may
Speaker 1: or may not be true. But hey, that's not bad.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should get more of that. So Ever, since
Speaker 1: we live right next to Wegmans, we don't have a
Speaker 1: palette of it on hand, but at least recently we've
Speaker 1: been keeping Lacroix in the house in the fridge. I'm
Speaker 1: drinking a cold out of the can.
Speaker 2: Okay, I just it's for whatever reason, don't care for it.
Speaker 2: Drink it at a like a cookout once or a
Speaker 2: barbecue for you people who speak English. It just made
Speaker 2: me thirsty, or I'd rather just have water.
Speaker 1: I will say, if you're expecting something sweetened when you
Speaker 1: drink your Lacroix, I think you're more inclined to have
Speaker 1: a negative impression of what it is, because then it
Speaker 1: just sort of shocks you, like, oh, this is the
Speaker 1: worst sod ever.
Speaker 2: Do you know about our pal Stephen Godfree's invention, his invention,
Speaker 2: his invention. No with Lacroix. Oh you're not really a
Speaker 2: coffee drinker, But apparently to Lacroix enthusiasts, mixing a cold
Speaker 2: brew and I don't know the ratio. Mixing a cold
Speaker 2: brew coffee, so essentially a more dense iced coffee with
Speaker 2: coconut flavored Lacroix can be quite refreshing, and he calls
Speaker 2: it a pensacola.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Yeah, he was a creative and dapper gentleman, Stephen Gostrol.
Speaker 1: So on this topic, it has been a while, and
Speaker 1: if you're listening about an hour and fifteen minutes into
Speaker 1: this monstrosity, maybe you'd also be interested in a Lacroix
Speaker 1: related secret.
Speaker 2: Verbal Oh okay, So first of all, how do you
Speaker 2: spell Lacroix.
Speaker 1: You spell Lacroix capital la space capital c r o
Speaker 1: i x Lacroix, Lacroix as a French say, mm hmm.
Speaker 1: We need a secret verbal subject, Daniel.
Speaker 2: So that the subject will be Lacroix, and some kind
Speaker 2: of like is it true that you're creating your own
Speaker 2: flavor in the lap of Lacroix, Like how how did
Speaker 2: you get involved with the Lacroix people? You know, what
Speaker 2: are your early impressions of what you ever your flavor
Speaker 2: is going to be?
Speaker 1: Anything Lacroix related for that matter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anything, I think Lacroix create flavor, creation, but yes, okay,
Speaker 2: I can go. I think it needs I think it
Speaker 2: needs to be specific, because then it'll make it seem
Speaker 2: like there is this very specific rumor about me creating
Speaker 2: a beverage for this beverage company, and it's not true.
Speaker 1: We need a target that we haven't previously secret verbaled.
Speaker 2: Okay, uh, I'm looking, I'm scrolling through. Ty I've got it. Okay.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna have people that are listening right now,
Speaker 2: you beautiful, wonderful people. You're going to tweet something about
Speaker 2: I didn't know you're getting your own Lacroix flavor. What's
Speaker 2: the what's the backstory behind you getting your own Lacroix flavor?
Speaker 2: How do I get my own Lacroix flavor like you
Speaker 2: are getting for yourself to be very talented? Mike Gollick Junior,
Speaker 2: Notre Dame related. Yes, yes, So do not indicate why
Speaker 2: you are tweeting about Lacroix to him. You are just
Speaker 2: doing it. Do not indicate that it's part of the
Speaker 2: solid verbal. Do not indicate a hashtag anything like that.
Speaker 2: Do not tweet us about it. No, m goliic mg
Speaker 2: O l I C. Junior. So it's Jr. Five to seven,
Speaker 2: M Golic Junior. M. Goliic Jr. Five to seven, Do
Speaker 2: not leave a trace of the solid ary.
Speaker 1: Not leave a trace. It's an off season secret verbal. Here,
Speaker 1: let's talk a little lacroix with Mike Golick Junior.
Speaker 2: M Golic Junior, fifty seven Jr.
Speaker 1: All Right, Dan, well, fun show. We've got pages upon
Speaker 1: pages of questions. Perhaps we can save this doc and
Speaker 1: come back. Oh my god, it later on in the month.
Speaker 1: So here's the deal. I am moving. I will be
Speaker 1: moving next week and won't be able to record, So
Speaker 1: you're going to be back on your own.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine. I have some ideas maybe Mike Golick Junior.
Speaker 1: And then hopefully I'll be back the week falling from
Speaker 1: the new studio.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Thank you to everybody who emailed in.
Speaker 1: We're gonna hold on to this document and come back
Speaker 1: to some of these great questions at some point in
Speaker 1: the very near future. Don't forget. You can find us
Speaker 1: always at soliverbal dot com. We're also on Facebook, on Twitter,
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Speaker 1: We're on Spotify, We're on Stitcher anywhere where you can
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Speaker 1: will be with you talking some college football and a
Speaker 1: lot of other stuff all off season long. Yes in
Speaker 1: the meantime for that fine gentleman over there, Dan Rubinstein,
Speaker 1: for myself, Ty Hildebrand, thanks again for catching up with us.
Speaker 1: We'll catch you all in a week. Stay solid, Peace,