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Let me ask you this. I think you brought this up months ago, right one of us did. We talked about it briefly. But this is when the craziness of college football in December, with everything going on, playoffs, portal, recruitment, guys committing, just a million things going on, coaches getting fired, coaches getting hired, do you still would you still want the portal to be moved to one time in that time being now, get rid of December, Get rid of December's that's for recruiting. That's that's for recruits, high school recruits. Post spring is for portal instead of two.
I It's it's tough to say, Aaron, because If you listen to the show, you probably know that I tend to side on I tend to land on the side of player empowerment overall, and I think for a player, the December transfer portal window is so massive because you get a full off season with your team, with your new team. Now, I hate what it did to uh guys like, oh, why am I blaking? Who's Texas backup quarterback? Who got yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Milik what whatever, It doesn't matter. You get the point, Bob and I forgot it. Yeah, what are you gonna did? It's like we're constable share or anything. But it's like, I mean, here's a guy who started multiple games for them, right and what was a very good season, was a critical part of that team, and then couldn't play with this team in the playoff. Like that sucks. Uh, but but it's great as a player to be able to get off season fourth core program or Matt Drills whatever virgin of that. You have an entire spring ball with which to learn, install and start to prove yourself to the coaches, and a climb up the depth chart. Like it's gonna be significantly tougher for spring transfers to have the impact that December transfer as well. And I think that's why you said the majority.
I'm trying to get the schedule. I'm trying to make December a little less crazy. And if if I and let's not forget this year, there's an expanded playoff. So we're gonna have an expanded playoff twelve teams within at that point, it's not just four teams that are worried about, Hey, we may lose a guy or a guy that like Malik has to make a decision do I stay on Texas and make a national championship run or do I hit the portal and then yeah, he's left it out the back of pork. Now you're talking about twelve teams that are gonna be put in that situation. I just think it's a little much for for everything that's going on. I'm just trying to clean it up a little bit, I think.
But I think if you're asking me if I wanted one portal window, it would still be closer to December, i'd maybe if you want to do it in January or do it right after the season ends, I would. I don't know that I would want the only portal window to be after spring, although it would be fascinating if it was like now you had guys like Caleb Downs entering the portal and n that just seems like it might be. I don't know. I find that the clean break after a season is actually probably best for all parties, right for a both the teams themselves and the players, for everybody to start a new So I'm okay if you want to push it to one, but I would still put it a bit earlier.
Yeah, and I did. I do think, sorry, just the whole cleaning up the schedule. If you move the season up a little bit, you know, if you do move the season up into mid August early August, and the season essentially ends at the end of December with the National Championship somewhere around there, maybe the you know, New Year's Day or something like that, then you could open the portal up for nice you know, fourteen twenty one days in January where kids could still enroll in school but still complete a season. So I think if you wanted to keep that in a similar place, I think you do have to consider maybe moving up the entire season, which I would be all.
For, Uh, moving up the entire season, moving up the entire season instead of starting the end of end of August, first week of Septembers generally where you're starting right.
Now, you start second week of August, so you get even more time away from the NFL. You get two or three weeks where it's just college football, so you could do you know, the whole you know, you know, Saturday, Sunday, Monday for a couple of weeks if you wanted to to get more primetime games, which I think would be sweet. And I think at that point too, you and I've talked about discussing ending the conference championship weekend and rolling right in the playoffs, say right around Thanksgiving, and then having the playoffs run through December, be done in December, and then Baying Portal opens in first week of January.
In an ideal world, that sounds great, feels like a lot of moving parts to get people to agree with. Scott di says, those games will be hot as fuck in the South. Yeah, I mean, I guess they already are hot as fun, but yeah, uh there was. One of my favorite things from being a college football player in the South was watching teams maybe not even from the air, I mean even teams in the South would sometimes come down to South Louisiana and be like, what the fuck is this? But like, I'll never forget playing at State to open the year and they're warming up in all black and they didn't even have shoulder pads on, and you could tell they were done before the game ever even started. They're like, what sort of fucking hell scape have we been transferred to? Where are we right now? We can't even breathe. I walk outside and it feels like I'm in a sauna. It's the uh, it's it's again. Because it's it becomes a great advantage. The same way if you're Oregon or maybe not even organ as much as USC and let's say you gotta go to the Big House in November, that's gonna be fucking brutal.
You know, Hessi in the chat and a lot of West Coast schools don't start classes until the last week in September. They still play games. I mean, those guys, that are a huge advantage. I remember when I was visiting UCLA that was one of the pitches of like you could truly be a professional athlete for the first part of the season because there's no classes, it's just football. You have your camp time and then you'll get two, three four games. For some schools where it's just practice, film, play game, new school, that's it. So you gave me more time to just focus on football.
Shepherd Duck says, T bobit snow's here in Oregon in Washington. Okay. Again, that's why I caught myself with the organ and I said, more so usc because yes, I imagine Oregon actually does get cold weather that I don't really appreciate as does Washington. I mean, hell, you know what the flip side of that is. I remember one summer, so we spent a whole summer in Louisiana heat building up that, and then we opened on the road in Washington. Bruh, it was fucking fifty five degrees. You would have thought that we had injected super serum into our veins. I felt like it run a million miles an hour. I could never stop. Also, coincidentally, one of my favorite settings and stadiums I've ever played in, right there on the water, great crowd, you know, not one of the one hundred thousand behemoths in the SEC, but like a really solid fifty to sixty k and just a ton of fun to have your first ever, first ever start. And to be clear about this as well, Emil says t Bob, geography, oil and water. Yes, there is not a subject that I know less about than geography. Aeron, did you know that Minnianapolis is north of Toronto?
That's weird, though I wouldn't say a lot of people would.
Know that exactly, mind blowing.
Yeah, I don't think that's like a known fact that if you ask ten people, I think one or two would get that.
All right, let's uh, okay, let's think about this that. Okay, let's go ahead and dive in on three had a really good article today talking about the top team's top needs in the transfer portal. And they looked at the odds, and they looked at the teams that had the ten best national championship odds, and then they said, okay, what do they need? And it's interesting to talk about individually but collectively, Aaron, there is one position that really rings true above all. I don't know what exactly has happened, but coaches are on the country and I are asking themselves, where have all the big guys gone? What is that? Said Dixie chicks either way. In this article, UGA, Texas, Oregon, FSU, and LSU all said are by Jesse Simonson, their biggest need was defensive tackle specifically. So if you are a big guy and you to get paid and you're even halfway decent, okay, there is going to be a very robust bidding market for your services.
Well, and I don't even know if it's just if it starters, but it's all. I think it's mostly just depth. Like that's just my opinion. Obviously, you look at Texas, you lose two potential top two round, first round guys, and so yeah, you focus like, Okay, why was Texas so good last year? Well, their front seven was tremendous. They're they're they're you know, front four got after the quarterback and stop the run. One of the best teams in all of America stopping the run. So yeah, you have to replace those guys, and and and Texas is recruited well, and Sarka's recruited well, and I'm sure they got plenty of guys that can get in there and play, but do they have the depth. Same thing with Georgia, same thing with a lot of these schools, And that goes to the whole portal thing. You know, Kirby's hit it a lot when when every time I hear him talk about certain position groups at Georgia is we just don't have the competitive depth that we did prior to the portal, which makes sense. Like if I'm if I'm a four or five star guy and I'm pready, damn good, I want to be a starter. I don't want to be a rotational guy. I want to be a starter. And this also goes to the fact of the way a lot of offenses go nowadays. Offenses are spread you out. Offenses are a lot of up tempo, a lot of no huddle, a lot of stat the ball within fifteen seconds. You need to rotate the big boys. They get tired out. They're big, the three fifty. You know that they can't go Tennessee. You know, speed match that offense and expect not to need breaks here and there. So you need competitive depth at that defensive tackle position. So yeah, I agree, like everyone's looking to bolster that position group.
Yeah. And so that's where it gets interesting kind of even within these conversations, because while they all need defensive tackles, there are some that are more desperate than others, Like you're saying, for Youga, it's mainly depth, whereas a school like LSU needs frontline, immediate help. I think Texas probably needs a bit of both. I would say their thumbs a bit heavier on the scale than is for Georgia, I think, or in that same boat. I'm not exactly as clear on FSU situation, but especially after losing a guy like Bradon Fisk, who was probably one of the more underrated players in the entire country last year, and they just had one of the most athletic combines you've ever seen in your entire life, Like, yeah, they too need him, and again that kind of four and five stars not wanting to sit and wanting to play. That is the I remember every time we talked to the portal, we talked about the kind of two triangles that meet right where all the lower end teams the best players leach upward. But on a lot of these top end rosters, instead of having nine deep of Alabama guys that would be in the NFL, like Nick Saban used to have those guys kind of go and funnel outwards to other schools as well. So there's never been a better time to be a defensive tackle than right now in this portal, because even if you're not that good, you're gonna be overvalued and by extension, likely overplayed.
Overplay. Yeah, l was your first, one hundred percent. I do want to get one chat in, Zach says, not many good tackles in the portal. I don't know why on three doesn't have Caden Procter. As about dam Malocke, though he said he was already coming back, I believe he hit the portal and put up the notification of leaving the fuck alone essentially.
Yeah, and he's not and I'm guessing that's more of a I don't know why they're not projecting him to Alabama. I mean, he was at a day. Yeah, he was at a day. He's on campus. Caaden Proctor is absolutely not someone too.
We talked about yesterday with a day of Alabama's offensive line looking really good. Yeah that was without him too well.
And it's interesting because maybe this is a sign of a team that is just used to being so deeper dominant there. But like according to some Alabama Beat reporters I was reading, they actually still purport that offensive line is something they're shopping for actively in the portal. Maybe not frontline guys, but yeah, backups, Yes.
I think I think big people are premium. Let's just be honest. I mean, it's it's a it's it is. It is a sport that puts a premium on giant individuals. It is a physical football game, no matter you watch Ole Miss and they did a spring game that was seven on seven. You watch, you're just putting an all in general though, like, it is still a game no matter how soft or how much the rules favor the offense or whatever. It may be that the great coaches understand that we need to dominate the line of scrimmage. And let's let's let's look at last year's four top the top four teams in America. Yeah, Washington won the Joe Moore Award Best offensive line in America. Texas probably had the premier defensive line in America. You know, one of the top your rush defenses. Alabama was good on both sides of the offense line and defense line. The offense line, as we alluded to yesterday, got really really pretty talented towards the end of the season. It was one of the premier ones. And then Michigan for for two three years. For three years now have been one of the better offensive lines. Want it back to back years. Was in contain last year, win for a third year, and had a premier defensive line. Georgia same thing, elite offensive line. But what held them back, possibly a little bit last year the defense line wasn't as good as it's been.
And that has happened. But it is funny though, because it's like they were still like thirty seventh or something, and I think it was like a tior rush rat, which again is awful maybe by extension, but where Georgia normally is and has been. But again we have to remember that all these things are relative. LSU fans would have murdered someone to get a certain thirty seventh ranked rush defense last season.
But once again just goes to the point of we love throwing the football, we love the big plays, we love the home run shots. But the best coaches and the coaches that are getting to the championship still understand it takes great offensive line play, takes great defensive line play togein.
Why did Jada Daniels win the Heights win? Yeah you know, I mean you had the weapons also, but like, I mean, the only knock on Jayden Daniels from a draft perspective is his supporting cast was so good that it makes it tough to judge. Like Hall, he'll do on a more even playing field when their offensive line isn't. Now, granted, you go look at the Alabama film and stuff like that, and you're like, Okay, look pretty damn good in that game. But still, I mean, like still ken believe Bell. She wasted a national championship color offense in Heids winner last year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it'll drive you crazy for sure. Jimmy sadderfield Michigan as replaced all five starters on the offensive line, it gets even worse. Michigan ascually lost there a lot six guys. I gotta say, dude, the more we think about Michigan, I'm just really feeling for sure own more. Dude, so.
Grace though he will be giving grace this season. I don't think Michigan fans are crazy in the sense that they expect the same result next year. This building to this moment, The team had been building to the moment. You know, everything was just aligned for Michigan to make a deep run and have their best opportunity to win. You're losing way too much talent, so to think that you're gonna replace it, I think they're smart enough to know that.
I think that is completely level headed. But you know, I used to work with Stadium shout out, Red Corner, Blue Corner. It's my guy, Jake but and Josh Perry, and they took a lot of big ten And when I was selling in on that show the other day, Jake thinks Michigan's gonna beat Ohio State. Why thinks they have the mental edge that basically they are big brother, They're tougher in Ohio State.
They have the players though, because they.
Have no no. But what I'm telling you is, yes, the more level headed Michigan fans and Jake is levelheaded like. But again, I guess all I'm getting at is Sharon Moore will be given some grace, but he's not devoid of expectation. And this is such a massive exodus of talent that it's not like it's like the climb back is gonna be pretty fucking hard. Like in this On three article Michigan for Needs, they just basically said the entire offense anything they can get offensively if they can add a quarterback, they can add a receiver, if they can add offensive linemen. They need it all. And so not only did you lose a ton of coaches, you lost more NFL talent we'll see after the draft than maybe potentially anyone ever. Uh And you're defending national championship and your main rival in Ohio State, if they can figure out their own line problems, look potentially stronger than ever. It's yeah, Look, Samara Howard's is go Blue. It'll be a rock fight game. See what I'm saying, Eric, The Wolverines, they're not They're not going anywhere, Dude, They're believe in.
They're not. I I believe when I see it once.
I agree, I'm becoming worried for them. I think it's too much to overcome.
At a certain point, when we listen, we'll get a lot of their Their spring game is this weekend. We saw Ohio State last weekend. It was very underwhelming offensively, and we you know, if you miss that, we talked about that yesterday. Maybe some of the reasons why Ohio State's game was nothing nothing. You walk away saying, oh my god, this team is the team that is going to win a national championship. This is the team that's going to break this three game drought against Michigan and be back in the Big Ten championship game. So like you were, you didn't, I didn't. I didn't walk away watching the game saying that, you know, maybe at the defense offense still has some kings to work out. So like Michigan has an opportunity this weekend to to prove it to us that they can win a championship, be the kings of the castle, you know, top of the mountain, lose all this NFL talent and then be able to and a head coach and then be able to do it again the next year. It's uneasy and who knows it better than anyone else?
I mean, you lay it out like then, it feels damn near impossible. Right, So, like I want to be clear, I'm not holding Michigan to a championship expectation. I think they should probably finish third or fourth. I think I think it should be tough even really to pick excuse me to pick Michigan over Penn State even I think right now this year, who Michigan. I mean, that's where I would That's where I would have them. Uh but but but that's understandable, right. I just don't know though again if if Wolverine fans are gonna remain that level headed. But you know what else though, a championship does go a long way towards uh like, Like again, you mentioned LSU on LSU Baseball Front. You win the national championship last year, you start three and twelve this year. If you were not coming off of a Natty, they would be calling for Jay Johnson's job. So having Natty being new coach, Trummore is gonna get a couple of years to figure this out. But it's just again, I don't care how good your culture is. What they're being asked to overcome and to compete with is is uh like almost in theoretically and are mountable.
Well, let's also not forget this isn't like a team that is that is built like Alabama, that is built, like Georgia that is built like Texas or some of these other schools that have had consistent top five recruiting classes. Yeah they haven't. They've been somewhere in that twelve the twenty range of bringing top tier talent and they've gotten that those players to exceed what their stars were coming out of high school, no doubt about it. Like they've developed incredibly. But you know, the one thing we've always thught about with Alabama at least, is they can they reload? There isn't a rebuild, it's a reload. And you trust that because you know all the four and five star guys that are on the roster. Do we truly think that that Michigan can just reload with a bunch of three stars and some four stars with not a bunch of five stars.
Very It's it's it's tough too, because you're telling me on one hand that Michigan's greatest strength is development, but they're gonna have to go into the transfer portal and play bunch of holes. It's like, okay, well those two are at odds with one another. So I think it probably takes a couple of years. But look, if Michigan can hit a quarterback, nothing helps on getting you back sooner. That's the big gift though, because again we've talked about Michigan's quarterback history in the past, and it's I mean, JJ McCarthy might legitimately be or might have one of the best single seasons if not the best single season that a Michigan quarterback has.
And it was ever had super impressive.
That's no hyper efficient, but yeah, Michigan's never had overwhelming quarterback players, which I think Michigan needs everything well.
And I think that's going to be the area that has to take another step. I mean, sure, more offensive, guy, it's your team now. You have turned this offense into really a dominant offense, but it's been mostly a running football team. It's been that for three years. You've had one of the best offense lines in the country. They won the Joe Moore Ahead Joe Moore Award twice. You've had Blake Koram, You've had Donovan Edwards. You've been able just to bully teams. If you can't do that, can the quarterbacks that have been in the system and part of the reason why you promote from within to keep the system similar. Can those guys elevate their game? Can they be even better than what JJ McCarthy was last season, which is not a high bar like you said, it was mostly.
Though it is efficient. Yeah, it's a high bar from efficiency. Though I don't want to I don't want to like completely throw out what JJ did just because he didn't have volume stats, but like he not only was efficient, but in big moments. JJ McCarthy's been very very good.
JJ McCarthy Mac Jones, I don't. I would say no.
I think it was completely different to me. Mac Jones had massive volume numbers and he had the best receiving cores we've maybe ever seen on a single college I would.
Say skills set are very different. Mac is your true pocket quarterback, timing on rhythm throwing the football, JJ far supior athlete. I would say upgrade when it comes to arm strength, Uh, he just doesn't have the volume, you know. I would say, you put those two anymore, or yeah, we have no voint.
I mean, I'm sorry, I get it as an awful joke that I just completely ruined your point with.
I apologize, You're good. I would say if you put those two in a combine situation, JJ would impress more. Mac just has better tape coming in.
Yeah, yeah, I would agree with that. As snaps. You'll think Urban Meyer will get back into college coaching. I don't think so, dude. I think I think that boat has sailed. I think I think Meyer probably doesn't even want to get back in either.
I like this comparison from Emil JJ reminds me of a more of an Alex Smith at Utah.
Yeah, like I like that. I would agree. And look, Alex Smith became a very good NFL player, and I could see, yeah, that would be the comp. That's a good comp as we are in comp seasons this draft season. All right, So Michigan kind of needs everything. Ohio State just needs a tackle. Uh, they need offensive blind help, but it's specifically kind of zeroing in on right tackle, which is why I'm uh, you know, I'm sure they would have loved nothing more than to get Caden Proctor, but they got to add bodies. They got to get some help there. That is because look, nobody really went and grabbed the job by the throat quarterback wise. And so if you're already having question marks about your quarterback, no position group has a great or I don't know, I'd ask you what has a bigger impact on trying to become a great quarterback, Having a really good offensive line or having the great weapons that Ohio State like. I give you one choice. You either get like lsu'soh line to play behind but OK receivers, or you get to Okayo line with Ohio State receivers.
I mean I put more emphasis on on on offensive line really because because because at least it gives you the ability if you have that elite offensive line, it gives you the ability, especially if you look at Ohio State, to run the football. And and as as a quarterback, there's nothing better than being going against a defense that has to put an extra defender in the box to match up with the run game and you get one on ones in the outside. If you have an average offensive line and you can't move bodies, you can't run the football. And a team could just play six in the box and play cover two. I don't care how good your receivers are. That is not the situation you want to be in as a quarterback. So I would rather have some freaking maulers up front that can move bodies protect, give me some one on ones, and if you're a good enough quarterback, you'll take advantage of enough one on ones or in a football game.
Yeah, and the meal's on fire today because I really like this take as well. He mentions Chip Kelly's philosophy, which is ultimately built on running the ball first in a lot of ways, and that yeah, a better O line would be a better way.
That is the consult. You're going to have top five defense in America. Tumberdahowk sit here. You're going to have the best running back tandem in America. You're going to have elite receiving play as always. They just they're loaded there.
I mean, Jeremiah Smith is apparently everything he was hyped up to be. And then some we talked the other day. I got the black stripe taking off his helmet faster than any freshman in Ohio State Buckeye history.
So you defense, elite receivers, elite running backs, elite. I think quarterback will be as good or maybe slightly better than it was last year.
You know, like I just think so interesting for all the hand ringing over Kyle McCord that you could have run him out of town and then end up worse at that position.
I don't think it's gonna be worse. I would say as good, if maybe a slightly better. I wouldn't say worse, which I think. You know, Kyle played fine last year. It was an elite it was. I think the biggest issue last year was still the offensive line for Ohio State. So but the good thing is, you know, you're one loss to you know, obviously I'm not including the bowl game with all the mass exodus they had at certain positions, but you know, if you have better offensive line play, you have a bear shot be in Michigan last year.
I do agree with Joe and Zach and the Chad year. I I I think by the end of the year, Jam Miller and Justice Haynes could maybe give that Ohio State running back tandem A yeah, yeah, for sure.
We don't know, we don't know.
They don't they don't have the uh, maybe the accomplishments yet of a Travon Henderson and quinch On Judkins. But that's Jam and Justice is gonna be pretty damn prettymn strong, great name.
But the difference once again for those two is their offensive line is significantly better then.
Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah you're gonna be.
And plus you throw in Alabama and and you know Jalen's ability to run the football as anodynamic if they do incorporate a little bit more zone read, which may give those guys you know, some more some more rushing lanes as well. So yeah, we we may turn around the end of the season and say, wow, look at Alabama's rushing attack, which I think we we expect to be there, and Ohio State may have the studs, but if you can't block from it doesn't really matter.
One thing for a ho State is you know you are going against the Ohio State defense, and not a lot of defenses are gonna look at good either. Now they will in the championship game, so I'm not saying it's not relevant, but the O line probably will look much better against the majority of the Big Ten than maybe it did even in the spring game where you're going after some dogs Alabama's needs. In the partal, Aaron, it's quite simply the secondary. I mentioned there are some thoughts of adding depth pieces to the O line, but I mean, it's rare that you see what Alabama just had where you just lost an entire secondary worth of NFL players. Now to your point about Michigan, it is the inverse of what the Wolverines have, where Okay, you lost a whole group of NFL guys, but that happens almost every year, and you know what you do, You replaced him with another group of NFL guys. Nearly every single year. The only thing that maybe give me a bit of pause is that you're also losing Nick Saban, and that is his position group, and he is an offensive back whisper. He knows how to get the most out of that position. Can you carry that forward post Saban? But again, it's not the worst weakness maybe to have, because I mean, think about the think about the contenders in the SEC. Who has the great weapons to be able to take advantage of it? Now, it's why you beat Georgia last year. Yep, Like, does Georgia have the weapons to take advantage of a of an Alabama secondary that's gonna take a step back?
Well, I think there's there's two concerns and I and and and I would say there they are the skill positions on both sides of the football. You know, let's not just throw out the fact that Alabama has not had elite receiving play for a couple of years.
Now, Yeah, that's true.
I love the offensive line. I I you know, we we hope Jalen Is is an improved thrower for this season. We like the running back play, but if Jalen Is gonna be a better throw this year, part of the part of it's gonna have to be We're gonna see, we're gonna need better receiving uh out put and they just they even't had that. So, you know, you lose one of your top guys to to Texas, Isaiah Bond. You you bring in a couple of guys. I think guy from Washington.
Isaiah Bond left for Texas. I do not remember that. Yes, Oh that ain't good.
And Jermaine Burn's gone. You know, I like Kobe, I like a couple of the pieces they have. I'm just saying like they don't have a lot of proven elite talent on the outside for receivers, and then they got to replace some guys in the secondary as well. So that is they're good upfront offensive line front seven. I would say, you know, they they've they're they're they're they've been deep at the defensive tackle and defensive end position. It's the perimeter play for Alabama this year that could bite him in the butt.
Yeah, speaking of Jeremih Smith of there Ohio State, Ryan Williams, the two time Alabama Mister Football, gonna be a true freshman weapon that is probably going to need to be relied upon or if Alabama is going to reach their full potential. He needs to be somebody who's Contrie Beteen immediately. Greg Hendrix says, T bob Els you ever gets there, get their defense figured out over time, Right. I believe in the coaching changes that are made, even if you don't believe that Blake Baker is a two and a half million dollar coordinator, which is a fair argument. Again, he gets that because you had to pry him out of another spot. He does have a good resume. But then you look at a guy like Bo Davis on the D line like that's a unqualified success there of a hire. You hear great Corey Raymond, so what he did, so over time they will get it fixed. It's just this year just needs to be a step forward. You are not going to have one of the top defenses in the country this season. It's it's it's gonna take a couple of years to get it back to where it it used to be.
Let's got a meal in the chat ass snaps. Its came proger scenario with Iowabama, something that could be an emerging trend or more of a one off where a portal entrant commits to one school. Reniggs after semester in goes back. I think this is something that will be addressed pretty soon. I would say, like as things start to clamping up about what college football looks like going forward, I think there's gonna be some some heavy rulings on how often you can transfer, when you can transfer, all that, how many times all that. So I just I think that's you if you, if you open that can of worms and allow it to keep happening, it gets way too messy.
Yeah, I mean again, it's it's just such a weird thing where everybody agrees it's kind of fucked up, or even even if you don't, because like again I don't think it's I'm like kind of like, fuck it whatever. I kind of love the madness of it. But most people is the I would say that the democratic consensus is that it's pretty fucked up, right, But again, there are just so many legal hurdles Like Okay, for instance, Okay, so a five star UH safety, former five start of high school Kobe Matthews played twenty games at A and M over the last couple of years. He just enters the transfer portal. UH he cannot transfer within the SEC. But I wonder, like, what if he challenged that in a federal court, say that players.
That's not that's lda ruling. That's not an NCAA ruling. I think that's an SEC ruling.
But why would the SEC have any more power over his eligibility than would the n c double A. Unless you're telling me that SEC coaches are just gonna handshake agree that okay, well we're not going to get him regardless.
I think I think it's I think it's more of all. I think I think at that point, because there's not a lot of universities that that are willing to back the NCAA. I do think that all the SEC schools are kind of in agreement that this is a ruling that we all agree upon and want, and that you know, if you're gonna if you're gonna come at the SEC, you're coming against all the schools. And at that point then that then these schools are like no, like sorry, like we don't want you because we we we agree with this ruling, like we're all staying behind it.
So that could be the case again in an honor amongst Steves sort of deal. Yes, But if if if Jacoby Matthew, he's not going to by the way, he's looking at Oregon and FSU, who is recruited highly by in high school.
It's just a second, just a second portal window, not the first, just a second.
And Evan Stewart, yeah, just second, yeah, on the sec front. And Evan Stewart already made his way to Eugene from Texas A and m the five star wide receiver. So I'm sure that he's been in contact with him. So I don't think Jacoby Matthews is gonna press this. I'm just pointing out that, like, if somebody wanted to challenge this legally, I wonder if they could the same way that every NCAA rule has been struck down once it's at federal court. Okay, so howse State needs on line, Alabama needs secondary, old Miss needs a running back.
Right.
If old Miss is looking to fill any additional holes losing Quinnchun Junkins, you maybe haven't replaced him as well as you would. Hope you did get Logan Digs from LSU, who's pretty good a name to watch out for. Penny Boone. I don't know that he's being linked to Ole Miss, but if you just go look at the top available transfer portal players right now. Boone is one of the few uncommitted guys. Uh, and he's got kind of an interesting story. He was the twenty three MAC Offensive Player of the Year rusher over fourteen hundre yards fifteen touchdowns at Toledo and he originally Nimeer. He was originally somewhere transfers to Toledo, took off, transferred to Louisville in the first portal window, decided he's not into it, and just hit the portal again. So ole miss. It's a running back kind of the final piece that lane given needs to complete this roster top to bottom. I would be surprised if they don't go pursue Penny Boone.
Well, and you know, they did a good job obviously getting some very talented guys in the portal on the deep inside of football. They got a top receiver as well, but.
They got Walter, the defensive tackle that everybody was after.
Do they have the depth though, or they just you know, front line guys. I think that's that's that's a question everyone's gonna have to answer. I once this goes back to what we talked about earlier. Yeah, it looks good on paper. We got this guy and this guy and this guy. But it's not like Old Miss has been more like Alabama or Georgia where they already have a stockpile of elite talent and the on the the offensive line, defensive line and that and the offense line is an area that you know, I brought up to you last year when I watched Old Miss go against Bama and maybe some of the other teams you know, with good defense line play, they they crumbled.
Yeah, that's what held the helm. And I don't know that they've really gotten that much better in that regard. No, So that's actually a really good point. Like for as much kind of doom and gloom as we were just uh foreshadowing for their house state offensive line, I would say the Old Miss offensive line is worse. Yeah, and so uh may again, but I don't. I also don't think you're really gonna find anybody in the portal that's going to change that significantly. How do you feel about Old Miss doing the skills competition and not having an actual spring game? Are they pitch made?
I think it depends on did they have the depth to do it? I mean, did you get enough? And also did you get enough out of spring I mean, if you're a coach and you can put you and rest your head at night saying for fourteen practices and say they did three scrimmages, my team busted their ass. It was successful. The areas of competition that I needed to see compete were answered for me. Guys stepped up, guys were physical during those fourteen days. Then I'm fine with it. And that's something that you as a coach have to answer for yourself. And everyone's different, so I don't know. I mean, i'd have to sit down and ask Lane himself, like, do you did you feel like you got enough out of those other fourteen practices where you just wanted to kind of have the mentality of I just want to stay healthy at this point, questions were answered that I needed to get answered were healthy, and I don't want anything crazy to happen in a spring game. Let's just be done with it.
So I wonder if it's kind of the first sign of bigger changes in spring games, because so many of these things start to feel like almost like go through the motions affairs. But I guess that's not diculously, that's not entirely fair though, because to be because I mean, like Brian Kelly was very clear about no. I told the guys like we're treating this like a game, Like there's people in the stands, Like I want to see. Yes, we're running a limited menu and everything, but like I want to see who's going to show up situationally, who's going to make plays when it's third and four. Is the quarterback going to convert or is it even gonna come up with the big stop? So, like, I guess I don't want to go to fear Mongerene on the death of the Spring game front.
But I do remember last year though, when I was getting ready for the LSU Spring Game, when I was on the call for it leading up to it, there were some questions about health and and I don't know if these rumors were for true or not. I don't know how it got to my production team, but the rumors weren't getting to a set that Brian Kelly was thinking about having essentially a combine because of the lack of depth at certain positions heading into the game, And that didn't happen. The end up playing in a game and it was it was fun. But I'm with you, like I would still rather there's fans in the stands. You know, if you're going to be playing young talent, freshman mid years, guys who red shirted last year that didn't get playing time. I want to see what they look like in a more game like situation when there's twenty thousand to sixty thousand fans more than you they've ever played in front of. I want to see how do they handle it? I agree, quick age.
Mariorial and music. How would you have snaps? How would you run the snaps spring game? I'd probably run it like you saw a lot of these coaches run it, you know, you have a little bit of offensive normal or would normal team practice at first? Uh, get a clock, move the ball?
Running clock in the second half?
Yeah, running clock in the second half. I was how many how many plays did? I mean? Beck ended up playing a ton? Huh?
Like they've made the whole game besides one possession?
Yeah they did.
He threw it about fifty times.
Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, that's a bit surprising to me, right. I I kind of if I had like a known quarterback or known starters, I would feel pretty comfortable maybe giving them like one or two series, almost like an NFL preseason game, and then I would just have the young guys go at it, you know, or anybody who's fighting for a job, anybody who is not solidified. But if I had an upperclassman like a Carson Beck, Now granted quarterbacks don't ever get hit. Because he got rolled up on Oh what.
Oh he got rolled up on? It was pretty it was It looked nasty. First plits like round oh no, oh, right into Carson. He Carson bent and you could dropped and you saw Kirby like run up there. Like I was like, oh.
God, where are you freaking out?
Uh for Georgia not having any experience behind Carson back, Uh, that would have not been good.
Who is going to be the two you do?
Yeah, Brad Bush, that that uh, that roll up scared the ship out of me. I think it's scared of everyone.
Can you okay, let's let's let's use our words literally here for a second. Can you imagine if literally everyone in the stadium just shipped themselves. They got so scared that all at once, all of Sanford Stadium just shipping their pants. It just means more, just means more.
Speaking of using will be the backup.
By the way, okay, gutters docked. Well, uh, speaking of using your words, correct, that kind of fucked up on off the bench. This morning, Aaron I once again put my genitals on the line for a bet. This time it was that L s U would not finish last in the SEC for baseball. They're not going to. I'm not worried about it. Uh. But I later accused Tim Tebow of castrating little kids, and everybody's looking at me like I'm crazy, and I'm like no, come on, I'm like nobody fucking it was circumcising. He ain't castright kids. It's actually you know, look, I'm being a cynical asshole. But yes, doing mission work. He went some other privileged areas and they helped out with a variety of things, including like cleft lips. But yes, castrating, not castrating circumcising kids was on the docket. But for a little bit this morning, I did accidentally accuse Tim Tebow of castrating villages of small underprivileged children, which you did not do. What you did not do, to be fair, Daniel Bashim Tibot offering up his like you got stockpile of them?
True? True, I used they don't work so it doesn't really matter.
The balls don't but I mean they still do though, right, It's I don't know. I I thought previous economy that maybe just nothing would come out anymore, just blanks. Yeah, just complete blanks. So that's not true. I don't know. The science is great, interesting snip that vast deferende.
A lot of towels. If it was like that, that'd be nice.
Oh I'm trying to think about how degenerate I want to go here. So you finished in a towel?
No, I'm just saying clean up.
Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm just a big belly guy. Is that wrong? Just nut on your belly and then wipe it off?
You something to use a towel to wipe it off?
Yeah, normally it's like toilet paper, maybe hopping the shower or something. But yeah, I just I mean, belly's there for a reason, right, Harry.
Belly just just sounds like a lot of wiping.
I guess. I mean it's just like a moisturizer or something.
You know, looks like like cheat is It looks like maybe I'm a little off face with the towel stuff.
I thought everybody else is gonna be on board. Maybe maybe not. It's like that old uh Tom Segura and Brett Kursner clip where they're talking about how like you know, like you do something you don't think it's weird until you tell somebody else and you realize how weird it is and it turns out just like just basking Bert eating, like just drinking har Chest and Billy Uh and okay, nothing, I mean, come on Chest maybe every now and then, Bro, I mean what I mean. The Keagles work. Don't get me wrong here. Uh you know what. I have more here, but I'm gonna save it for to day. I don't want you to think I'm too weird too fast here, Yes I do. And I don't see that Bert Kurser. Sorry, I can't remember his name. My bad, Britt Cristalia. No, look, guys, I do okay whatever, get out of here. I don't think it's weird. I think it's normal.
It's it's it's right there, It's situated right there for a reason. Oh, Penn State needs a receiver.
DeAndre Lambert Smith, Penn State's leading twenty twenty three wide receiver to football, has hit the portal and Aaron Uh, I am not an expert, but I would say anytime your biggest need as a team is to increase offensively, especially in the passing game, losing your senior top Fratorney receiver after spring it's not ideal, especially when it is now three scholarship wide receivers from last year's team that have left the Nitney Lions in this office.
Not liking the new OC in the new offense. I guess, yeah, that's that's a problem. That is a problem. Uh has Penn State been? Penn State has had good defenses, Penn States had good running backs. They got great running backs returning next year for their third season. You expect, at least I personally expect Jeweler to take a step forward next year. But if you don't got anyone to throw to, I know, they got Julian Fleming the portal from from Ohio State.
Grad transfer though, I mean, yeah, buried in a room.
But like it's yeah, you never know. So yeah, that's that's but we truly expect it might get We brought up earlier, like we are expecting Penn State to possibly overtake Michigan this year. You know, so can they if they take can they overtake Oregon two. Can they be the number two team in the Big ten? If you're number two team in the Big ten? We said it the the expanded playoffs, one of the bigger winners. When when when? When? When it got to twelve?
I think I would if I was a Penn State fan, I would be absolutely expecting to finish ahead of Oregon. You know, if i'll Penn State fan, I would feel like, hold up, now, the only games we've lost the last two years have been to Ohio State Michigan, and now we should be better than Michigan. They've taken a major back. There's no way that we should let the Oregon fucking ducks from out west come into our conference, uh and from the PAC twelve and immediately passes up. Now outside looking in, I think Oregon's gonna do that. That's my tea Bop, I agree. I think most people do. But if again, but I don't think that Penn State fans should feel that. I completely understand if they're feeling no, no, no, no, no, we'll take we'll take Ohio State being better than us, but we should be better than everybody else.
Also thought that they should have split the series the games between Michigan and Ohio State for the past three years, probably two. You know, they don't know where their ceiling is and I don't know do they play Do they play Oregon this year? I'm with you. I think most people that are that are not knit Kney Lion fans would have them three headings of the season. But we said this yesterday, two sec Big ten. We expect three teams from each conference to be in the playoffs.
Yeah, at least, and then one will likely get four in.
I would imagine one make it four.
In boulmult Mary, that's bold.
You have.
The Ducks are gonna spashalized. Look I I again, I agree. I think Oregon feels like the better team right now, a better quarterback situation and more wide open offense. I mean, let's be clear, I better coach Jans James Franklin is just he cannot wait to fuck another oc. He just does it every single year. But maybe this is mother they finally let him go. Yeah, or he's gonna Superman that host c if you will, right on the back and then the hotel. They do not play Oregon, Penn State does not. They will get Washington at home November ninth, and they will go to USC October twelfth, but they avoid Oregon. So that's big, that's really big for them. They they play Ohio State.
At home, at home. Yeah, they don't play Michigan.
They don't play Michigan. Okay, Yeah, Mince State's got to be thinking they finished.
Second, dude, what a what a schedule penn stake?
Yeah, I have not really looked at until now right now either, like Police gotta be gott to be thinking they finished second in the big tim West.
Virginia Bowling, Green, Kent State, Illinois, USLA, USC, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Washington, Purdue, Minnesota, Maryland.
Royal Payne. How as easy as to get Wisconsin looking a year two for Pickle, I don't know, man, Wisconsin's kind of just I mean, they hired Alex Grinch to be co DC, which is mind boggling.
As they continue to try and run a spread offense with a bunch of white boys.
Yeah, I don't I don't feel great about Wisconsin. Like there, I don't know where there's been any major pickup. Who's their quarterback again?
Uh, Mordecai again this year?
Yeah? I think it's probably Sultan or Mordecai right, Like, have we heard anything from that? Like, I think Luke Fickle's a guy that over time will build Wisconsin back. I think he's struggling maybe to be the guy that can flip them. And also, look, I think Wisconsin kind of suffers a bit from some new big dogs entering the conference because now some of the oxygen that they were sucking up, like Oregan's coming up and taking a lot of that. USC sucks right now. But maybe USC gets good and then they they they them as well. So yeah, it's a tough time. Like Luke Fickle waited so long to finally make the move, and you could argue that he almost couldn't have timed it worse with where Wisconsin was at to where Michigan was now out. And remember when Wisconsin was really good, Michigan tended to be down. And now they're back in states.
They got your boy. Uh I just look at the rate I forgot They got h Tyler van.
Dyk potentially exciting. Yeah, yeah, that's an upgrade. That's an upgrade. That's an upgrade over tenner More Decai. It is an upgrade. So I'm not saying it's great, but that is an upgrade. So good good on Luke Figle Wisconsin. I apologize we didn't know that off the uh BO sickle Sill would rather talk about t BOM's wet stomach than Wisconsin football. Greg Hendries, you sell the Nebraska bandwagon. Absolute fucking lootely. Okay, eight wins, baby, eight wins guaranteed this year. Yes, the wins and losses and in fact the one score wins and losses were no different than last year. But if you zoomed in, you could see a different team, a more competent team, a tougher team, a more culture team. They just turned the ball over thirty one times more than anybody in the entire country. Rayola doesn't even have to be great or anything out the shoot. He just has to be better than what you had.
Last You're putting all your eggs in the bast kind of a freshman quarterback to uh.
So, you know what that sounds like? You know what that sounds like? What do they call it when you're a little salty about maybe being left to the altar?
Oh?
You milk, spoiled milk? Yeah, what it's just like when it's just like when we had Brooks Austin on here, and although I'm sure we check the tape, he's sitting there sucking uh Rayola's uh sweat stomach the entire time. And then the second d commits, he's like, Oh, this Pagola guy, he's got a rocket arm. Royola doesn't really have the rocket arm. I'm like, get the hell out of here. Books, I don't believe that for a second, sour grade. So I was like for a lot of Yeah, you just don't want to see Rayola succeed because he because he bailed on Uga.
I'm fine with him succeeding. I like him. I think he's a stud. I think he's a chance. I'm just saying like, that's yeah, why did you take this massive one snap?
Why didn't police he played one snap?
But gen hurt, bitch. We expend a massive jump from Nebraska and it's a freshman quarterback. So this may be year three for Nebraska more than a year two.
We know no, no, no, no no, because Matt Rule is a master of your two's first off. Secondly, it's not a massive jump. It's a couple of scores. It's not turning the ball over more than anyone in the country. That should not be hard Bo says, and t Bob only wants him to succeed because he left Uga. Well, I'm not denying that wouldn't make it a little extra sweet, but no, I mainly wanted to succeed because I'm a Nebraska believer and I went to Nebraska to do well. I feel like about Nebraska the way Aaron does about Texas. Okay, when Nebraska is good and relevant, I think all of college football is better. Because I'm old, maybe so, but that's how I feel. And that will probably be today's show.
Tomorrow we get a great We're going live tomorrow, not Thursday noon.
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So send you question draft little quarterback evaluation with him as well. What happened Toby we I think I think we need sorry my mat Aeron, I think we need to if super chats are not open, We'll look into it in our settings. Also, I think we need to attach a bank account. Maybe, Hey, just check this out, Eric, Now super chats actually go to us? Yes, how about that? They can be plugged immediately back into paying for the people that we now have doing our social clips.
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Yeah, maybe we should we ask Greg where he comes.
Yeah, first question, every every person question.
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