A New Era in Blacksburg

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Welcome back to D, boundary
Corner podcast, I am Curtis

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Wilson.
I'm Brian Sigler man.

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We've got a lot, a lot to cover
tonight especially for an

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episode.
We're not even talking about a

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game, no games.
No.

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But can I say something Braun?
If you watch Sunday night Y'all.

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So Curtis is a nervous wreck on
social media potentially DM

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stuff this week.
Y'all know I was a nervous wreck

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because my fear was, We're not
gonna get a decent fucking

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coach.
Junk, our not going to get a

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good coach Jesus, without going
to get a coach.

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When we have some whiskey here.
Oh, I'm nerve-wracking bronze,

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more, cool and relaxed.
Kind of if he shot me a few

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texts.
We're a little worried came over

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it.
Yeah.

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Yeah.
You know, that not that worried

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but definitely getting a little
anxious and especially as we got

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into late Monday night, we
started to see a couple other

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names pop off.
And we're like, all right, who

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we getting?
Who we getting and it turned

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out.
We got a dark horse.

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One of our Dark Horses.
I don't think you pulled the

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clip Brian, but if you go back
to Sunday during that episode,

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Print proud was a dark horse.
Brian.

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I was like he's a dark horse.
I don't know if we'll talk to

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him.
You said Point Blank.

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He will get a phone call.
And he clearly got a phone call.

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He was one of the first three
phone calls with Babcock made

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and that would be Brent.
Pry, your new hockey head coach

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and can I say, well, we kind of
put him at the Dark Horse level.

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Go for it.
If you recall, when we were

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going through it, we've
mentioned, Brent Pride, couple

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times just as behind-the-scenes
me and Brian talking, and I

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said, you know, it's a name.
Good defensive coordinator

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coached a long time.
Some experience in Blacksburg,

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But when James Franklin locked
in that 10-year deal instead of

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being in our list, we moved him
out because he'd been with

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Franklin so long.
I mean that 10 years do

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right-hand man, it was like
Maybe they call him.

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But is it is he one of these
DC's for life and he's making

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over a million bucks?
He's got, you know, an elite

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defensive unit.
I mean, they're a couple games

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this year.
I mean, the Ohio State game this

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year in the Michigan game
against those offenses at

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defense kept them in those games
and I mean, just a linebacker

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Factory.
Oh yeah.

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And we're going to hit all that
tonight.

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So it was this Underlying
reasons like he's just not going

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to come and then lo and behold
mid morning on Tuesday, Pete

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them on first reported and
Pete's pretty good, but it was

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about 30 minutes later.
I think all of Hokie nation was

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like when David teal put out the
Tweet.

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Yeah, we got our guy.
Once you saw till you're like,

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all right.
Somebody on the inside has

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confirmed it because Tia wasn't
just going to repeat a report

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from family.
Tia was going to confirm Shit

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himself before he put it out
there and here we are.

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We wanted to wait and do this
episode until after we saw the

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press conference introduction.
All that stuff that was going on

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today and I'm thankful for that
because I feel like we get to

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kind of talk about some fun
stuff to on top of just here's

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the higher.
Here's here's why we like it and

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here's who we hope he brings
along with them.

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We get we get to have a little
bit more.

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To talk about on that.
So I'm thankful for that.

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I'm thankful that we play a
little bit of a waiting game.

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They're pushed it back a day and
hopefully, you guys enjoy what

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we're about to about to bring
your way.

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Absolutely.
All right, well, Brian, just,

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I'm sure everybody's heard it.
But let's get a quick run of his

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background obviously, born in
Altoona, Pennsylvania.

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But spent kind of his formative
years at Lexington is dad was a

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football coach smaller schools
and high schools.

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High schools around basically
West Virginia Virginia in the

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greater Middle Atlantic area.
So played football at Lexington,

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High School and I'm going to
start in 1998 because the last

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piece everybody knows 98.
He has a run at Western

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Carolina. 2000 to 2006.
He was at ull with a name.

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If you are a hokie fan of Our
Generation, you know, Ricky

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bustle, the offensive
coordinator for the 99, team

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offensive coordinator,
throughout the 90s some of those

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big teams.
He was the DC for Ricky down

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there, they have some success
and probably two names that pop

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out immediately.
He coached Peanut Tillman, if

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you watch the NFL in the 2000
was a ball.

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Hawking Ike Taylor.
So already coaching at a

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defensive.
Native level NFL type players.

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Yep and you know muscle gets let
go and no 6 and he goes over to

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Memphis.
Is that a red flag for anybody?

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He coached at Memphis for three.
It's not when you see who he

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coached.
Oh yeah.

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And he coached Ontario, who was
like a low level 2 Star and that

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kid when the first round played
quite a few years that big one

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of the most unreal talented,
guys, to be 300 is the the size

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to athleticism ratio that done.
Tha repo brought to the table

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was ridiculous early.
Um, settle and yeah, I'm

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settled.
Yeah, so he stays there.

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Just just three years goes over
to Georgia Southern where he was

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defensive coordinator and
safeties coach.

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So, right there, it kind of
tells you linebackers safeties

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d-line, own thing and coaches
really is the corners.

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But then in 2011, essentially,
this is his big break.

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He's hired by James Franklin and
Vandy, and basically, Linebacker

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defensive coordinator associate
head coach recruited.

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The likes of Oren Burks, who's
currently the Green Bay Packers,

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and a very, very good linebacker
in.

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Jack Cunningham never coach
those guys but recruited them to

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Vandy.
And then obviously the Penn

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State follows Franklin. 2014
associate head coach

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co-defensive, coordinator there
and Vandy with Bob shoot.

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Then he takes over when Shoup
leaves coaches, linebackers and

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Brian.
Give us the laundry list of

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players he coached there and
recruited.

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Yeah.
So we've got Michael.

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Parsons is the big one.
These five-star crushing it for

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the Cowboys.
I mean, it's just there's not

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there's not really a whole lot.
You can say that people already

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know about Micah Perkins, you
got shotgun, Tony yeutter gross

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motto, microphone hole, Yeah,
Fredericksburg Mike whole Big

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Ten linebacker the Year, guys.
He also recruited that aren't in

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the league yet.
Brandon Smith.

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Linebacker at a Louisa.
He's been having a good season

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there for the Nittany Lions and
was also on the yeah.

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And then obviously Devon for the
4 star running back out of

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Stafford.
He's the guy that stolen, he's

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the guy.
So yeah, that's a, that's a list

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of nothing but like, four and
five star guys that he's been

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able to pull a handful of them
coming out of Of Virginia.

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Well just think about the list
really for the last 20 years.

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Consistently guys he's coached
on his defense have made it to

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the league with the exception of
the stop at Georgia, Southern

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and 2010 every stop at least one
or multiple players making it to

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the league.
Now that is a huge selling point

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and it's almost this thing is I
can do it at any level, you have

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a Feelin, Tillman and Ike Taylor
we're not five-star guys, they

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were you LL.
Shows you some developmental,

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but also shows you can recruit,
well, he can recruit, he can

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identify talent, and he can
develop.

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So it's kind of the trifecta,
right?

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And it's what the Hokies need.
We never affected.

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We're never gonna pull all the
files Stars.

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So we've got to be able to
develop.

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Now Brian, we need to identify
the guys, we need to be able to

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pull enough of those four or
five star to keep us in that top

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25 top 20 recruiting ranking but
we also need to be able to uh,

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In a Five Guys that other
schools aren't that probably are

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under under ranked in their
their star ranking.

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And once we get those guys on
campus we got to be able to

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develop them and get them to
reach their maximum potential.

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Absolutely.
Now obviously we did Skip and

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obviously the biggest point was
he was here from he was at

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Virginia Tech as a grad
assistant under Bud under Frank

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from 1995 to 1998 of rlq know
what those years.

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Were 93 and 94 with the
emergence 95 and 96, especially

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95 and 96, where the brought
with it, bringing to the

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National stage, the Sugar Bowl,
and the Orange Bowl playing,

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Texas and beaten, Texas, and
play Nebraska in the Orange

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Bowl.
And it's this feeling I

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mentioned to a couple people
today.

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If you watch the, we'll talk
about the pressure in general

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later, there's some orange and
maroon blood in him.

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You just, you feel it.
You feel it.

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He talked about coming to camp
at Tec when Frank was a coach,

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when he was in high school.
So this isn't like you direct.

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Perfect.
This is the Hokey Pokey.

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This is like the second cousin
Right.

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Yep.
And and this is and just hearing

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him speak.
I mean, this was the stop that

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mattered a lot for him for
years.

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Yeah.
And I think that I think that's

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the biggest thing and having
having someone that is familiar

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with what it takes to win in
Blacksburg, what Blacksburg is

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all about what Virginia Tech
football is all about sometimes.

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You have to live it to know it.
Yes.

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Sir and here's an example of
someone that did live it.

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So I think that that's going to
be big for us and he's had stops

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at obviously Penn State being a
bigger time program than

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Virginia Tech.
He seen what it takes to compete

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at that type of level.
Yeah.

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In in the in the Modern Age of
college football essentially

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since kind of the big flip that
happened kind of towards the end

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of the 2000s where some of the
the Being and everything else

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really went went into overdrive,
their right so he knows how to

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win in that environment and
that's something that we really

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haven't had at the head coach
position because you know,

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towards the end of Frank's
career, he had he hadn't figured

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it out.
He hadn't been able to adapt

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towards the towards the end.
There went a never really got it

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fully.
Yeah.

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And and the other other aspects
that were negatives in his role

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there it just it wasn't a good
fit.

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We finally got someone that has
seen the inside of that type of

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program and knows what it takes
to win.

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So I'm looking forward to it.
I'm really I mean obviously the

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big thing is going to be what is
the staff fill out?

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Like, but we did get some big
news today on that front.

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So this kind of came out just
before the oppressor

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compensation for coach.
And assistant salary.

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Oh yeah.
It's an and that's that's big

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because I didn't see it going
this High.

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I didn't think we were going to
look for it getting this High

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because he's getting four
million at the gate 3.5

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supplemental and then the 500k
you know, State salary.

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Yeah.
So he's getting 4 million at the

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gate but went was true to his
word.

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Two million dollar bump in
assistant salary pool.

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Another 2.75 allocated for
recruiting assistance.

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Those those are a single bucket.
So if you need to name of one to

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the other, you know, a little
little more in one little more

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in the other, you're essentially
looking at almost eight million

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combined between those two
buckets to bring in quality on

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field, coaches tent on field,
coaches and a very solid

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recruiting staff.
Yep.

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It is.
It's going to be second behind

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Clemson as of this year.
And it's one of those things

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it's did some math with some
folks today you can play both

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coordinators a million bucks in
the average, starting salary for

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your assistant, coaches is
400,000.

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Eight significantly lower than
that right now.

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And everybody knows that so
dipping into that bucket is

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huge.
I mean, it's one of those things

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especially the way we would set
it up to be able to shift it.

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You know, you get your
recruiting staff in place and

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you still have a, you know, an
excess of 300,000 dollars.

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And you know, somebody has a
great year because hundred

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thousand dollar bonus for this
guy.

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Won't 650, not 550.
Okay, we're going to move this

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over here to here.
I like them in the same.

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Look at, they need to stay in
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the recruiting departments going
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You're going to have some
stable, guys, But to me, it's

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going to be people who want to
get their foot in the door.

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You know, guy comes in, he's
here, two years, he's making 60

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Grand a year, he gets goes up to
75 but he leaves for a bigger

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position that's going to
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years to where it's going to go
a little higher than a little

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lower where you can move the
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So I think with did that
perfectly and he was true to his

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word, it was going up, it is a
hell of a lot more money.

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And yeah, we went from middle of
the pack of the ACC two number

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two, number two in one move, so
I It's bets big.

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That shows a firm commitment to
football, which we've been

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begging for four years.
And what have you been saying,

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Todd water?
Put the money in your cash cow

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and your cash cow will make you
more money for everybody.

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Exactly.
And we're doing, it's great to

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see Brian.
Some other things that have came

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down the past few days since the
Brent pry announcement.

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You've got four guys in
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Pretty much already saying that
they are locked in Paris and st.

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Germain from up the Nova,
Malachi Madison down here in the

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r-va Bryce, Juke up another
running back and to me probably

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the biggest because you feel
like he is a Bell cow leader of

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recruiting for the guys
committed Rashad Purnell had a

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Highland Springs even bigger
where he is.

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I think having those guys
confirm, I looked somebody I

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can't remember who it was.
One of the guys I think might

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have been Lamar law.
Someone like the Tweet of the

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higher.
I know over the next few days,

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they're going to be having
conversations with the coaches

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but to have four guys.
Good and especially Pernell

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already kind of back in the boat
is got to feel great.

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Yeah, I mean parnell's
definitely a big one there.

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Just speaking personally having
a player from a program like

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Highland Springs or confirm what
they're doing, he's very, he's

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been very vocal on Twitter
throughout his recruitment so

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that's been big as well.
So that's something that I'm

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looking forward to getting it.
To him on campus.

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And he's also he kind of fits
that mold of what we're looking

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for in those those defensive
linemen.

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I know we got a new new system
that we're looking at here.

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Probably coming in, but more
than likely, we're looking for

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the same type of player.
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Because it's going to it's going
to be a very Gap oriented

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defensive line technique.
So we're looking for, the

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probably the same type of
players that can hold those

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gaps.
Bigger and taller type type,

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type lime.
And then we are accustomed to

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recruiting.
And some of the recruiting that

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we've seen in the last couple
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Yeah.
So kind of one of those things

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where luckily, the resurrection
that we take in it even though,

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you know, we there are some
holes in this.

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They be ready for the portal,
we're going to start having a

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portal segment every time we
record, but it's going to be

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some in and we're hopefully, I
mean some out and hopefully we

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get some in as well.
And I mean will identify Defy

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those, when we talk that segment
a little bit later guys, but

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getting those for to express
commitment, you know, we're

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hearing whispers that sounds
like orgy is still ready to

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potentially committal the 15th
and enroll early.

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So so that that that's a big one
as well.

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It's not Twitter official or
social media official but that's

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the that's the word we're
getting on him and that's going

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to be big because more than
likely We're going to have two

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freshmen, quarterbacks
potentially being the only

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quarterbacks on our roster and
unless we get the portal we're

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definitely hitting the portal
for a quarterback.

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I'll make a bet on that,
something else won at least one

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something else that will set up
and this was pretty much

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confirmed this will set up
within 30 minutes of his

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announcement.
So basically the announcement

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was a noon on Tuesday within 30
minutes, there was a zoom call

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setup with football alumni that
happen.

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Today and white Vic, put out
there, almost 170, former

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players on this call who to have
that done in less than 48 hours,

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that tells you that a lot of
these guys respected and it's

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already been seen.
You have guys like antoniou

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Banks, the white obviously JC
you've got guys who set here and

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did it by putting that stamp on.
And by all accounts, this was

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something that prize suggested.
This wasn't like width:auto.

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Was a good idea.
Had it set up.

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This was something that price I
wanted to do, brought it up, it

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got set up rolled out and by all
accounts, that that have been

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made public at this point,
absolutely crushed it with those

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football alumni between Dwight
Brandon Hill out there saying

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some good stuff on what he's
heard saw some good stuff for my

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think Rock Carmichael's.
Out there.

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So yeah I mean a lot of a lot of
folks that you know and love

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that you see active on social
media, have have made it.

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Well, clear that you know,
they're stamping this this

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higher at this point.
Obviously, you got to see the

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winds come obviously, and
obviously year one is going to

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be interesting with all the
roster management issues that we

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have set up for us.
But You know, year 2 year 3, I

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think, if the winds come it's
going to it's going to be a home

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run here and if the portal can
be our friend, then, you know,

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we'll see what year one looks
like.

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Yeah, absolutely.
And you know something that they

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did not check the box for wit
and he said it, he mentioned it

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today, he didn't have any head
coaching experience but the way

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it seems as those opportunities
had been there.

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Not once not twice, but three
times.

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In the last eight years, the
opportunities at Georgia,

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Southern and opportunity that
you LL, that essentially would

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have been the Billy Napier
higher and then last year at

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Buffalo he didn't take them.
And then today during the

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presser and this was when I
unfortunately had a step off but

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I kind of heard what was said.
I think you were still on the

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cabron.
Yep.

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Basically.
I didn't want to go to this

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place to this place to this
place to this place but Virginia

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Tech, I would go there.
Yep.

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Again, it's that whole I believe
he has ballooned maroon and

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orange and his Blood.
Like because he had a handful of

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programs in the entire country
that he was willing to take that

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step out there outside of the,
the zone that he was comfortable

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in and say, I want to give it a
shot here, I want to see what I

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can do here, and it sounds like
he wanted to be a head coach,

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but he wanted to be a head coach
when it was the right fit the

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right time.
And we were lucky enough to be

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in that in that number.
So, Here we are.

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Brent, prize the head coach?
We hear it.

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We've heard a lot of people
excited and apparently it was

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mentioned at a couple places but
everybody's looking forward to

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the spring game again.
Everybody get, please get that

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released as soon as possible for
me and Brian.

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So we can essentially start
talking our lives and be like,

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listen, we want to go, we're
liking this shit and we're

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going, it's going to be a party
up there.

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Exactly.
And it's the whole thing.

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He said, the fans matter at
that.

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I mean music to your ears,
that's because the fans do

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matter and talked about
embracing the community.

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And I think when he said that, I
think he meant Hokie nation in

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general.
Not just the blacks were.

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I think he's going to be
unbelievable up in Blacksburg

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Iran, that Community.
But to get a Big Spring Game,

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usually spring game, if you can
remember and we went the West

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stands, where we were right?
Right.

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Always north south.
They always close it.

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I think they might have to just
bully open the stadium because I

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think they could get a full
house for this.

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The excitement around it.
It's definitely more excitement

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than 20 and I think there was
some excitement with Flint a,

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but I feel like there's a lot
more excitement right now,

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because I think we've seen how
bad it can be.

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Yes.
And if in this isn't just so

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I'll say this for about it.
Talk about the pressure and my

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overall impression of the
presser was this.

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Everybody has maroon and orange
colored glasses on right now,

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right?
We absolutely moved on.

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We got a new coach.
Yeah that's great.

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This went beyond that.
This wasn't just a guy got up

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there and he said the right
things.

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This this was legitimate you
feel this guy cares about what

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he's about to do.
He cares about this community

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cares about doing the right
thing to get this program where

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it needs to be.
And in that I think is where

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we're kind of, we're kind of
feeling ourselves right now,

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right?
Yes, it feels good to be a hokie

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fan.
Again, it doesn't feel like

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there's something around the
corner that's going to bite our

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ass at least when it comes to
football.

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Right now.
We feel like we're on the

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upswing here and it feels that
way.

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Not just because we got a new
coach but because of what he's

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doing, what he's saying and how
he's caring about his business

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and how he's expressing his
Admiration for the roots of this

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program and what it means.
Well yeah, 100% And I think

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today too, I was listening, you
know, usually everybody wins

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depressor, usually everybody has
it's hard to lose the pray.

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You might not win it, but you're
not going to lose it.

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Everybody.
It's a little on the presser.

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Even if you do it bad to me,
this was a borderline home run,

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especially when he got into
discussing and I know you've got

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this a little later, but I think
it's Good time to hit it before

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we Deep dive a, the way you
mentioned, James Franklin.

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In the emotion.
He showed about that about him

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being like a brother they've
known each other for close to 30

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years.
How do you motion?

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He talked about him, given the
opportunity and, you know, bring

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them along to Penn State.
But then the emotion, when he

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talked about bud and Frank or as
he called Frank coach, And it

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was one of those things when he
said it.

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Like you met Frank like you soon
as he said you could just get

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that Vibe.
Like he means Frank and he got a

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little choked up and you can
feel the emotion from him.

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No one that 26 years ago, he had
coached at East Stroudsburg.

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He said, 30 letters in stinney
was on staff.

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Had coached him in high school,
in the game of g a job and you

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could hear the emotion in the
feel of they gave him his first

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big opportunity in 26 years
later, they're sitting in the

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room as he's announced.
The head coach of the first big

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university that took a chance on
him and it was genuine.

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It wasn't it wasn't fake.
It wasn't, it was so genuine and

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you can say all the right.
Right things.

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But when you have two moments
like that, you know, this guy's

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genuine real deal.
Yeah.

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Not some bullshitter.
Well, I'll tell you what the

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difference is and we've seen it.
The last two weeks is that him

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and JC?
You're Cut From the Same Cloth,

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they are the way they are
personable with in relatable

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with everyone, they come in
contact with, but the way they

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wear, their emotions on their
sleeve, you see it, you feel it

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when they talk and that is
resonating 100% with the fan

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base right now, it is 100% is.
Yep.

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And so, one of the things that
coach pry LED off with was

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talking about kind of his
philosophy, what he's bringing

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as a head coach to Virginia
Tech.

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So this is going to be a little
bit more.

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Little bit less abstract than
some of the things we're talking

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about here.
But I mean right out the gate

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hire the right people and
recruit the right players.

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Yep.
And when I hear how the right

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people, I don't think that means
ever jigna Tech will go higher

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the most high-dollar person.
You've got to find someone

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that's going to fit in this
culture.

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You can't just go out and be
like, well, he's a good coach,

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you got to find somebody to fix
the culture.

451
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:27,900
So when I hear him discussing
hire the right people, you got

452
00:28:27,900 --> 00:28:29,800
to have the right mentality.
You got to have the right

453
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,400
background.
And you got into me also, thank

454
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,700
you gotta have the right
Connections in the footprint.

455
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,900
Yep.
And you got to be the right

456
00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:43,400
person that will do the job,
well, but also be able to sell

457
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,800
the culture and vision and what
it is to play in Blacksburg

458
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,100
because it's different than
other places.

459
00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:55,000
And the thing I like about him
coming from a place, like, Happy

460
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,300
Valley is that he understands I
know that's more of a an

461
00:28:58,300 --> 00:29:04,400
established and prestigious in
terms of football program that

462
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:10,200
were jigna Tech has been
historically but Happy valleys

463
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:11,600
in the middle of fucking
nowhere.

464
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:17,800
He understands what it takes to
recruit big-time players to a

465
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:22,400
place that isn't a major metro
area that doesn't have all the

466
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,500
bells and whistles within a
short drive.

467
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:30,000
Yeah, he knows what it takes to
recruit to that type of

468
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,800
community.
It's absolutely true.

469
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,000
And and it's also the
expectations, right?

470
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,800
They have expectations up there.
Like we have down here.

471
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,900
We expect winning, we expect.
Good football product.

472
00:29:44,300 --> 00:29:46,800
Now, the other PC talk about was
recruiting, right, people?

473
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:53,900
We've hit on this already and
it's not only Virginia Tech.

474
00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:57,500
You know, like you said, Ron
earlier, you need to get a

475
00:29:57,508 --> 00:30:01,000
five-star every now and then and
we kind of had them periodically

476
00:30:01,300 --> 00:30:05,100
but get the four stars but then
find the under the radar guys.

477
00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:08,700
Find the athlete.
And bring them in and develop

478
00:30:08,700 --> 00:30:12,500
them.
Because in also, he said it,

479
00:30:13,900 --> 00:30:16,500
people recruit people that want
to be here.

480
00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:19,000
And he kind of and I love what
he said today.

481
00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:22,100
There's gonna be some people
would go after that, they're

482
00:30:22,100 --> 00:30:25,300
just not going to fit here.
And that's okay, right?

483
00:30:25,300 --> 00:30:29,600
It's okay, it's okay on the
people that want to be here.

484
00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:35,200
And Brian, you know, we talked
about managing developing, the

485
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:36,700
roxtor, what's the biggest
thing.

486
00:30:36,700 --> 00:30:39,200
And I think, Think, if you
follow closely what this

487
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:47,100
statement right here?
Say it recruit our footprint.

488
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:54,400
He hammered that point home and
what we're talking about is

489
00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:58,600
much, like we've seen Mac Brown
due to a point much like we've

490
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,300
seen some other folks, do he's
going to try to put up a fence

491
00:31:02,300 --> 00:31:06,800
around this state.
Get as much of the High Caliber

492
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:11,700
talent in the state to stay home
and play in Blacksburg.

493
00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:17,800
And I mean, he emphasized it
from a relationship perspective,

494
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:22,200
he wants play.
Here's where, you know, Mom, Dad

495
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,100
uncle grandma.
They can get her car and drive.

496
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:27,400
Yeah.
They can get in the car and

497
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:34,000
drive and see their son play
big-time college football.

498
00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:37,900
Yep.
And you can't do that.

499
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,900
If some of the best players are
going to Alabama or some of the

500
00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:44,200
best players are heading down to
Florida, but you can do that

501
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,800
every damn weekend if they're
going to Blacksburg you.

502
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:47,600
Damn right.
They are.

503
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,900
Every weekend and I think that
that's something that we can

504
00:31:52,900 --> 00:31:57,300
start getting some wins there.
And I, it seems like he's the

505
00:31:57,300 --> 00:32:01,200
type of guy that can sell that
Vision to those players.

506
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,400
And say, yeah, you can go to,
you know, fucking Chapel Hill,

507
00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:09,500
but drive an extra hour to
Blacksburg stay in your home

508
00:32:09,500 --> 00:32:14,800
state and let's build something
big and get get Virginia Tech

509
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,600
back to where it was when they
played for a national title.

510
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,500
You ever seen you and see in the
National Title, never actually

511
00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:32,600
ever seen them in a big bowl.
It's been a while, like one time

512
00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:36,500
compared to where from 1995 to
2011.

513
00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:39,500
It was about every other year,
sugar, orange sugar aren't

514
00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:41,400
Peach.
Another thing.

515
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:46,800
He said that I liked and they
talked about, he's like when he

516
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:51,900
walked into Lane and he saw
that, the, the last ACC

517
00:32:51,900 --> 00:32:55,100
Championship is 2010.
He's like that's too damn long.

518
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,900
Yeah.
We need to get that back and

519
00:32:57,900 --> 00:33:02,600
that that says that he's he's
ready to take that next step.

520
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:07,200
He's not just there to get us to
the coastal, he's there to hang

521
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,300
banners, he's here to hang
banners.

522
00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:11,700
And I think the other thing that
kind of went about his

523
00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:14,100
philosophy is I don't think he's
going anywhere.

524
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,400
I think.
I think the why it took so long

525
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,800
and like he mentioned a day,
only a handful of places.

526
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,500
This is one of those places is
like home to him.

527
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,800
It's like home to him and
something else.

528
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,900
He said about welcoming the High
School coaches and trained like

529
00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:33,900
almost like opened or just come
on down.

530
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:41,700
I think having him already
established at Penn State and I

531
00:33:41,708 --> 00:33:44,700
said, this about Charles off and
I, you know, and I'll say it

532
00:33:44,700 --> 00:33:46,600
about Brent.
I don't think Brett's going to

533
00:33:46,608 --> 00:33:49,600
have too much of a problem
walking in to Highland Springs

534
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:53,900
or down to Oscar Smith or up.
You know, like to Stafford in

535
00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:57,800
those counties and piss, they
know Brent and now Brooks going

536
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:04,500
to be selling something.
In state where, hey, you're two

537
00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:07,100
and a half or three hours from
Blacksburg.

538
00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:12,100
Let's get these kids here.
We know when the top people in

539
00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:14,000
the state come to this
University.

540
00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:18,600
We know the greatness that can
be with can be attained we saw

541
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,100
it.
We saw when he says we can be

542
00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:24,699
talking to the coaches and he's
the one that's got to sell that

543
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,600
when the best players in the
state come here.

544
00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:30,199
And we look in our other
Regional Footprints and a couple

545
00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:33,900
other players, big things
happen, big things happen,

546
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,300
Brian.
Do you feel like me and you

547
00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:39,300
could You got your drink, a
drink too.

548
00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:42,500
I feel like we could go to any
bar in Blacksburg.

549
00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:49,300
Sit down with this guy.
Have a drink and have a an hour

550
00:34:49,300 --> 00:34:54,100
conversation without blinking.
Yeah, any talked about it?

551
00:34:54,100 --> 00:34:57,900
He's all about building
relationships, all about

552
00:34:57,900 --> 00:35:02,300
building relationships having to
open door policy and that

553
00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:04,400
applies.
He said to folks that come on

554
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:11,300
campus everyone in merryman
players and you know, talk about

555
00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:15,100
welcoming the High School
coaches and getting back in the

556
00:35:15,100 --> 00:35:17,300
house.
Schools like we haven't seen a

557
00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:21,500
blitz like that in a while and
that's big for me because that's

558
00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:24,100
what we really.
That's where the recruiting

559
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:29,500
problem started was, was not
establishing those relationships

560
00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:33,200
with the High School coaches and
you know, we talked about it but

561
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,600
with the trainers and some of
those folks that run the

562
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,000
Academy's down there, especially
in the 757 were.

563
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,600
That's a that's a big part of
Developmental Football in the

564
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:48,000
middle and high school level.
Yeah, and it's becoming a

565
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,700
culture thing down there, like,
cultures, change down there, a

566
00:35:51,707 --> 00:35:53,100
little bit.
Don't be afraid to.

567
00:35:53,500 --> 00:35:56,300
I think he's going to be a guy.
It's probably going to adapt

568
00:35:56,300 --> 00:36:02,000
pretty quick to it.
You know, he also talked about

569
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,800
our history in terms of
recruitment.

570
00:36:04,100 --> 00:36:10,000
It's another big piece.
Essentially amazing, no hear

571
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:15,900
what he said.
Man, The Pride for Virginia kids

572
00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:20,000
how that used to be a big thing
to go to your in-state school

573
00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:26,400
with your State's name on it in
ball and he talked about

574
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,800
bringing that back.
And I think, you know, so many

575
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,800
times when you have a Virginia
kid at Virginia Tech do great

576
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:36,000
things, it goes so much further,
I mean, just a few weeks ago, a

577
00:36:36,008 --> 00:36:41,300
DB and Harris going in to get
from the state Highland Springs

578
00:36:41,300 --> 00:36:44,900
in a 757.
Kid going in, who were ungodly

579
00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:48,400
on the football field?
And we saw firsthand.

580
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,500
We saw both of them play
firsthand.

581
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:55,600
They were crazy good.
So getting that back in and like

582
00:36:56,300 --> 00:36:58,300
again you can you feel like
that's going to be a selling

583
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:02,100
point like be prideful of the
state you live in you come here

584
00:37:02,100 --> 00:37:04,300
do something.
You're going to build it in.

585
00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:05,700
Your name is going to be on
there.

586
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:10,000
And you know, I think bringing a
alumni back in we've already

587
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:15,100
discussed it and having that
discussion like you know one of

588
00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:20,100
the coolest things about going
to In spring game was

589
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:24,400
approaching former players and
just talking to them.

590
00:37:25,700 --> 00:37:30,000
It like it was just so, so
approachable mean, that's what

591
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,600
we're met Darryl Tapp.
And since then, we've got to

592
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,100
interview in which is just even
crazier than we met him.

593
00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:39,200
And then interviewed him in the
course of the span they come.

594
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:47,200
Here, you come back here.
You're God the next level.

595
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,100
And I think that, I think that's
the big thing that we were

596
00:37:50,100 --> 00:37:52,000
missing in.
The Fuente era that we had

597
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,100
talked about with several
people.

598
00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:57,400
We talked about it with Dwight,
when he was on here with us, we

599
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:03,300
talked about it with Christina,
being able to look back but keep

600
00:38:03,300 --> 00:38:06,600
it moving forward, right?
Appreciate the history,

601
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:11,000
appreciate the culture but still
do it your own way, do it?

602
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,200
Do it, the way you have to do it
in this modern era while still

603
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,000
honoring.
What got you here in the first

604
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,000
place?
And he's already seen it at a

605
00:38:18,008 --> 00:38:19,500
big place, right?
Yeah.

606
00:38:19,500 --> 00:38:22,400
I mention that today about how
you have to respect what

607
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:26,400
happened then, like, as a
Virginia Tech, Coat you must

608
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:27,900
respect, what happened in the
nineties.

609
00:38:27,900 --> 00:38:30,900
You must respect what happened
since then in all those big

610
00:38:30,900 --> 00:38:34,200
games but you got to move
forward, you've got to move

611
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,300
forward, you gotta know how to
change things but still respect

612
00:38:37,300 --> 00:38:38,600
it.
Exactly.

613
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,300
I think, seeing that process
happen already, I think he's

614
00:38:42,300 --> 00:38:44,600
probably got an idea of what he
wants to do.

615
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,900
And you feel like if he can put
some of those plans into place,

616
00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:51,300
it's going to be really big.
Yeah.

617
00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:54,300
And and the other thing he
talked about was, you know, once

618
00:38:54,300 --> 00:38:57,300
you get these players on Campus
the development aspect, get them

619
00:38:57,300 --> 00:38:59,800
to be the best version of a
football player.

620
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:04,500
They can be while they're here
and to a bigger point, he talked

621
00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:09,500
about being willing to have hard
conversations and that was with

622
00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:13,300
players that was with coaches,
that was with looking at himself

623
00:39:13,300 --> 00:39:15,800
and what he's doing.
And I think that that level of

624
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:20,100
self-reflection and reflecting
on what needs to be done to get

625
00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:21,700
the most out of you and your
players.

626
00:39:21,700 --> 00:39:25,100
And that's big that's going to
be big for this program because

627
00:39:25,100 --> 00:39:29,100
I feel like That was one of the
big things that was lacking with

628
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,900
with the Fuente regime.
Absolutely a huge thing lacking

629
00:39:32,900 --> 00:39:37,700
and I think as as I've joked, I
just want to, I just want to

630
00:39:37,700 --> 00:39:40,300
coach who's going to be willing
to sit down and tell another

631
00:39:40,300 --> 00:39:42,300
coach.
We're going to have to let you

632
00:39:42,300 --> 00:39:43,300
go.
You're not living up to

633
00:39:43,300 --> 00:39:48,100
expectations or before that have
some hard-ass conversations

634
00:39:48,100 --> 00:39:51,000
where chain, you're trying to
get them on the Right Temp

635
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,900
track.
Well yeah and and he said he's

636
00:39:53,900 --> 00:39:57,800
and that that's what we need.
We need somebody that was

637
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,100
willing to have.
Those are conversations because

638
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,600
that's part of being a leader
part of me.

639
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:08,300
And he can't just, you know, be
the nice guy, I'll be the best

640
00:40:08,300 --> 00:40:10,900
friend be, you can't be that guy
all the time.

641
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,100
Did you hit him?
And he showed him this press

642
00:40:16,100 --> 00:40:18,700
conference.
He's like, I'll push them, but

643
00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:21,000
I'll at the same time, he's
having a good time up there.

644
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:26,300
He's laughing, he's joking.
And that's something that Day is

645
00:40:26,300 --> 00:40:29,300
night and day from what we're
used to in a press conference,

646
00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:32,000
dude.
I think I mean, just so so

647
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,700
natural.
When he was asked answering

648
00:40:33,700 --> 00:40:38,400
questions from the media folks
that were asking the questions

649
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,200
up there.
You said the right things but he

650
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,100
tied it back to like the
personal experiences he's had

651
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,400
brought up some hokey history
brought up history with with

652
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:52,100
other folks that he's
experienced over the years come

653
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:59,000
calling out JC on Bourbon Street
after the Sugar Bowl.

654
00:41:00,100 --> 00:41:02,600
That was like, maybe the
hands-down, the best moment says

655
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,100
he was sitting there and I can't
remember, was it burned in

656
00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:07,000
Brooklyn?
Or did ask him about that?

657
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,400
I think so.
Yeah.

658
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,500
And he was like, well, we've
stored it Owen to.

659
00:41:11,500 --> 00:41:13,900
And here comes Miami, man.
The Flash, their Miami.

660
00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:16,700
It's the you and I know I'm
paraphrasing some stuff.

661
00:41:16,700 --> 00:41:19,800
He said they have the Orange,
please, cherish and shiny and

662
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,200
that day.
We play hard nosed defense and

663
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,400
we ran the ball out them and we
beat them.

664
00:41:25,100 --> 00:41:27,400
And we won 10 straight and we
want to Sugar Bowl.

665
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,000
And then right here not say
anything else but where you felt

666
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,000
the genuine level with JC in the
room.

667
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,500
And I tell you, when me and JC
and West Worsham Worsham, just

668
00:41:37,500 --> 00:41:41,000
think of worship field and you
wonder who that guy is, what out

669
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,600
on Bourbon Street and you're
like, basically he just told us,

670
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,900
we were super excited.
We won that game and we went out

671
00:41:46,900 --> 00:41:52,600
and we got hammered, it's
relatable?

672
00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:54,800
Yeah, because that's what,
that's what you.

673
00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:59,300
I can do that.
Same situation you ever told us.

674
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,900
Oh, he's going to Sugar Bowl and
you guys went and you guys had a

675
00:42:01,908 --> 00:42:03,000
huge win.
What would happen?

676
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:08,100
Well, a I hope we have a mani
or, you know, wife users come

677
00:42:08,100 --> 00:42:11,600
because we would go get drunk on
Bourbon Street without even a

678
00:42:11,607 --> 00:42:13,000
doubt.
Damn, right.

679
00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:18,700
You relatable like you feel like
if If he had that went and if

680
00:42:18,700 --> 00:42:22,700
next year we're walking off Lane
stating, we beat UVA, we have

681
00:42:22,700 --> 00:42:25,500
the Commonwealth cup.
You feel like he would be the

682
00:42:25,500 --> 00:42:29,900
guy that at evening cracking
open a bottle of bourbon and

683
00:42:29,900 --> 00:42:32,000
slamming it down and celebrating
a win.

684
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:33,800
Yep.
Right.

685
00:42:34,700 --> 00:42:37,600
And he made another joke about
about bud.

686
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,500
When he was asked what type of
Defense he was looking to do is,

687
00:42:40,500 --> 00:42:42,900
like, your defenses have been
aggressive.

688
00:42:42,900 --> 00:42:47,500
He's like, wonder who I got that
from It's just

689
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:06,200
because we will be there
whenever if they have

690
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:11,300
restriction will whatever
whatever and the big takeaway

691
00:43:11,300 --> 00:43:15,900
for me is that just everything?
Seems so genuine like yes there

692
00:43:15,900 --> 00:43:18,100
wasn't.
Manufactured it was just like,

693
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,200
here's the answer.
Here's how I feel about it.

694
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,900
I'm going to kid with you.
I will joke with you but I'm

695
00:43:24,900 --> 00:43:28,200
going to be serious when I need
to professional when I need to.

696
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:29,700
But I'm going to cut loose when
I need to.

697
00:43:29,700 --> 00:43:31,800
And I think that's something
that we're not used to.

698
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:36,700
He's just, he seems comfortable
in who he is at all times.

699
00:43:36,700 --> 00:43:40,700
It's not just those moments
where he has to open up.

700
00:43:40,700 --> 00:43:45,100
It's like he is who he is on,
are off, are in different.

701
00:43:45,100 --> 00:43:48,100
So I think that's something
that's that's going to be big

702
00:43:48,100 --> 00:43:50,100
for us because that's kind of
how Frank was, right?

703
00:43:50,100 --> 00:43:55,000
I mean that's exactly how Frank
was exactly how Frank was tell

704
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:58,600
you the other piece and I know
you everybody seen the videos

705
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,700
and him coming in, flying in
getting off, the band that he

706
00:44:02,700 --> 00:44:06,700
was taking selfies with all the
guys with numerous band members,

707
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:11,000
having fun In later in the
video, he's walking down that

708
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:16,400
tunnel and talked about how
coming down that tunnel, brought

709
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:20,800
back a ton of emotion for him.
And it gets worse.

710
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:23,300
Well, then he sews them on the
field and I think it's his mom.

711
00:44:23,300 --> 00:44:25,400
I don't think it's his wife and
kids because I think they were

712
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,800
with him, but I think it was his
mom and he's just, he's got the

713
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:32,900
he's got his phone up and he's
kind of showing her around and

714
00:44:33,100 --> 00:44:36,800
like he gets it.
I think he gets the culture of

715
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:41,200
this place and not only just the
football aspect, not only just a

716
00:44:41,207 --> 00:44:46,100
football aspect of it.
I mean when you saw tell me what

717
00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:49,000
you, what your immediate thought
was, you saw that post?

718
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,100
To him this morning with the
court, it was like the butt

719
00:44:51,100 --> 00:44:53,300
crack it.
There was no light yet outside,

720
00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:58,300
but when you saw that, I mean,
the first thing I mean we've

721
00:44:58,300 --> 00:45:01,600
said it before but as soon as I
saw was like, yeah this dude

722
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:06,500
gets it, he gets he gets what it
means to be here he gets what's,

723
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:10,000
what's important to people on
this campus?

724
00:45:10,700 --> 00:45:13,200
And not just people that are
associated with the football

725
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:17,600
team, and I think that's that's
a big part.

726
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,400
I think of what we missed with,
with the Flint areas that Fuente

727
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:25,600
was very much compartmentalised
into football.

728
00:45:25,900 --> 00:45:29,500
Ball.
He wasn't necessarily Community

729
00:45:29,500 --> 00:45:34,800
member, he wasn't necessarily,
you know Outreach to everyone on

730
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,900
campus.
There wasn't that type of role

731
00:45:38,900 --> 00:45:40,900
for him.
It was like this is my job as a

732
00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:45,100
football coach.
And yeah, I don't get that sense

733
00:45:45,100 --> 00:45:47,900
with pride.
I think price seems to have a

734
00:45:47,900 --> 00:45:51,800
great understanding of what it
means to be a part of the

735
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,600
community.
Not just part of the community

736
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:55,900
as a football coach.
Ouch.

737
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,300
And what I think, that's what's
been missing, because that's

738
00:45:59,300 --> 00:46:04,400
what Frank was.
Frank was the embodiment of

739
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,500
Virginia Tech.
Not just I'm a football coach

740
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:12,100
wasn't just the football coach.
He was forgetting, you Tech.

741
00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:17,000
And I think you're right with
Justin Fuente and never bought

742
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,100
into being a part of the whole
Community.

743
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,900
Like, you didn't see Orion.
You didn't even hear stories

744
00:46:23,900 --> 00:46:26,500
about.
Going to some of the downtown

745
00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:28,600
restaurants.
Me even, even going out like in

746
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,700
Roanoke, somewhere, that's 35.
40 minutes up the road.

747
00:46:31,700 --> 00:46:34,300
But if you, if you're seen in
Roanoke is Virginia, Tech head

748
00:46:34,300 --> 00:46:38,900
coach people know, and how do we
know this our musical director?

749
00:46:38,900 --> 00:46:41,900
Jason long, what was it about
six weeks ago?

750
00:46:41,900 --> 00:46:44,800
We messaged him and he's like,
yeah, people are not happy up

751
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,000
here with this coach, he is
going to be gone.

752
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:53,100
In again it's the different
culture of this place.

753
00:46:54,900 --> 00:46:58,500
And you had Frank for so long
and Frank is who he is and it

754
00:46:58,500 --> 00:47:03,200
was the genuine article and you
know Frank to this day still

755
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,900
walks has you know dog or Walter
around campus?

756
00:47:08,300 --> 00:47:10,700
The freakin College Football
Hall of Fame coaches walked

757
00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:16,000
around campus, that's crazy.
And you know, we sit here and

758
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:20,800
talk about the other thing about
it, you know, We talked about it

759
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,900
earlier but talking about Frank
and budding in starting his

760
00:47:23,900 --> 00:47:26,700
journey to choke up peace.
And I know I mentioned all the

761
00:47:26,700 --> 00:47:31,700
times When you get choked up
like that, it truly means

762
00:47:31,700 --> 00:47:35,200
something to you and what it
truly means something.

763
00:47:35,300 --> 00:47:39,100
I think this guy will fight
tooth and nail, I think he will

764
00:47:39,100 --> 00:47:43,900
do everything he can to make
this program where it was and

765
00:47:44,100 --> 00:47:48,300
that's all we can ask right now.
And you know how about this?

766
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:51,300
Guy went to high school in
Lexington.

767
00:47:51,300 --> 00:47:54,300
Guy went to high school in
Radford Dead head.

768
00:47:54,300 --> 00:47:56,400
Coaches of the football team and
the basketball team now.

769
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,500
And he met Mike young, Danny
talked with the players, the way

770
00:47:59,500 --> 00:48:00,800
we don't have this mention
tonight.

771
00:48:00,900 --> 00:48:04,200
What up fucking Victory last
night because they did not play

772
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:07,400
their best game.
Marilyn's house was rocking.

773
00:48:07,500 --> 00:48:09,800
We were getting some really
shitty under the basket foul

774
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,700
called but they dip fucking
Grand.

775
00:48:12,700 --> 00:48:15,900
They sacked up in the last five
minutes and pull that shit out.

776
00:48:15,900 --> 00:48:18,400
Yes they did.
Huge win.

777
00:48:20,100 --> 00:48:22,500
Shout out my other.
That was that was a big win.

778
00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:25,400
My Mike young.
Definitely there was a point

779
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:28,500
where you saw.
All right, I see that what we

780
00:48:28,500 --> 00:48:32,800
normally do isn't working, let
me call a few sets here.

781
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:36,400
Let's manufacture some points to
get a lead and then let the

782
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,100
defense close it out and that
that's what he did.

783
00:48:39,700 --> 00:48:43,700
I know this is this is off topic
even with the losses to Memphis

784
00:48:43,700 --> 00:48:48,100
and Xavier, you know, the
offense not clicking, the

785
00:48:48,100 --> 00:48:51,700
defense is playing, its nuts
off, defense is going to put us

786
00:48:51,707 --> 00:48:55,600
in every game this year.
Every game in when the nights,

787
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,400
when the offense clicks, which I
think he'll eventually get to it

788
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,600
in the diesel Works storms, got
to play into form.

789
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:06,800
He is not, he's not in Rhythm.
He's got to figure out that he's

790
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:08,900
playing against a hell of a lot
better competition now.

791
00:49:09,300 --> 00:49:12,400
And I think Mike understood that
in the second half and got him

792
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:14,900
Distributing a little bit more,
makes sense.

793
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,400
Wow, we've got to destroy, he's
got to distribute more, but he

794
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:20,800
also has to win the shots.
There, he can't be thinking

795
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,900
about that last Miss know
because Towards the end of that

796
00:49:23,900 --> 00:49:27,400
game.
He passed up two threes that he

797
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,400
should have took wide open.
All right.

798
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:32,700
Somehow we just win the
basketball for the last couple.

799
00:49:32,700 --> 00:49:35,400
Sorry guys.
Yeah, but yeah, media up with

800
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:40,400
Mike young today, that was big
baseball team.

801
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:46,400
I didn't I never saw a lot of
interaction ever between

802
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:48,700
Wednesday and young.
I mean, it was, it was very

803
00:49:48,700 --> 00:49:51,400
minuscule.
If, if anything getting that

804
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,800
relationship going right out the
gates, going to Big.

805
00:49:53,900 --> 00:49:56,600
I mean, they're the two biggest
faces of the athletic department

806
00:49:56,600 --> 00:50:01,500
outside of wit Babcock.
So, look, you got, you got to

807
00:50:01,500 --> 00:50:05,900
put them front and center and
seeing them reciprocate like,

808
00:50:05,900 --> 00:50:08,300
that is going to be big.
And the other thing I know we

809
00:50:08,300 --> 00:50:10,600
talked about him tearing up with
Frank and Bud.

810
00:50:11,100 --> 00:50:15,700
But the big thing for me is that
when Wednesday was announced,

811
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:19,400
Frank was stepping down Bud was
staying on.

812
00:50:20,300 --> 00:50:24,900
They were obligated to vouch.
Ouch, for the new guy coming in.

813
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:30,000
There was absolutely no
obligation to vouch for the next

814
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:34,000
head coach here, but Bud and
Frank are front and center.

815
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:41,700
Yes, they are singing Brent
prize, praises. so, the lot It

816
00:50:41,700 --> 00:50:44,600
says a hell of a lot.
It says a hell of a lot to you

817
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,700
seen.
Tony Robi already shouting them

818
00:50:47,700 --> 00:50:51,200
out the baseball.
Team is running laps making

819
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,900
jokes about making sure they get
all the seats prepared for the

820
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,000
next fall.
It's one of these things, it's a

821
00:50:57,008 --> 00:50:59,300
cultural higher, it's a cultural
hybrid.

822
00:50:59,300 --> 00:51:01,100
It's a high of a damn good
football coach.

823
00:51:01,700 --> 00:51:05,400
Because D, again, I said it the
defense is yielded, whether it's

824
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,500
Cody, see or full-time or the
primary defensive coordinator at

825
00:51:08,500 --> 00:51:14,200
Vanderbilt, And Penn State or
been top ten in the last eight

826
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:16,700
years.
The other eight like, I think 37

827
00:51:17,900 --> 00:51:22,600
to go back and look, I think 37
might be the lowest if you tell

828
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:26,100
me we're going to feel the top
35 defense every year, and every

829
00:51:26,100 --> 00:51:28,100
other year, we're going to be in
the top 10.

830
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:30,900
Watch the fuck out.
Sign me up.

831
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:32,500
Sign me up to.
All right.

832
00:51:33,100 --> 00:51:36,900
I don't think this is any shot.
Obviously it was announced.

833
00:51:38,100 --> 00:51:40,900
Back last Tuesday, JC's be
entertained.

834
00:51:40,900 --> 00:51:43,100
JC is going to be the associate
head coach along with the

835
00:51:43,100 --> 00:51:47,700
defensive line coach Pearson,
Prelude retain makes a lot of

836
00:51:47,700 --> 00:51:48,700
sense.
It's another one of those

837
00:51:48,700 --> 00:51:51,700
connections, right?
Pearson was here during his time

838
00:51:51,700 --> 00:51:58,100
here, and it's pretty awesome to
hear that JC and Pearson are on

839
00:51:58,100 --> 00:52:00,900
the road.
Trying to lock down this

840
00:52:00,900 --> 00:52:05,100
recruiting class.
I don't think you could ask for

841
00:52:05,100 --> 00:52:11,600
two better guys to do that.
I'm 100% with you the quote was

842
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:13,200
JC.
What are you doing?

843
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:15,300
Today is like I'm about to hit
the road.

844
00:52:15,700 --> 00:52:19,600
Recruiting.
Yeah so he's not hanging around

845
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:22,700
dicking around.
He made his appearance this

846
00:52:22,700 --> 00:52:27,000
morning with the with the
presser and then he got it back

847
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,400
on the road, trying to get this
class closed out.

848
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:37,000
And that's big retaining JC
associate head coach going to be

849
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,500
coaching some of the defensive
line, but obviously still

850
00:52:39,500 --> 00:52:42,300
carrying a big mantle for the
recruiting to close out this

851
00:52:42,300 --> 00:52:47,000
year and, you know, Pearson
Player Development for defense.

852
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:51,100
He's still rolling with JC and
getting this class finished out

853
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:54,400
and hopefully we can retain most
of this class.

854
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,100
Keep it together.
I know we talked a little

855
00:52:56,100 --> 00:52:59,400
earlier about the for that have
already kind of kind of

856
00:52:59,500 --> 00:53:05,500
Confirmed there we think orgies
in the boat as well, but keeping

857
00:53:05,500 --> 00:53:08,300
this class together, it's
probably one of the best classes

858
00:53:08,300 --> 00:53:13,100
that Wednesday was able to put
together during his tenure.

859
00:53:13,100 --> 00:53:16,000
It being able to maintain that
and then build upon that next

860
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:17,800
year.
With all the resources that

861
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:22,300
we'll have and what what seems
to be a stat?

862
00:53:22,300 --> 00:53:25,000
At least a head coach that we do
of in a staff that's going to be

863
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,000
geared towards recruiting our
footprint, the sky is going to

864
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:29,400
be the limit with this thing
man.

865
00:53:29,500 --> 00:53:31,900
So, I'm, I'm looking forward to
it big.

866
00:53:31,900 --> 00:53:36,600
Shout-out to j.c. price and
Pierson prioleau to close this

867
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:39,600
thing out for us.
But, you know, the big question

868
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:43,900
card is that we were asking
ourselves right up the gate

869
00:53:43,900 --> 00:53:47,400
right was was, why is Brent pry,
the best fit?

870
00:53:48,100 --> 00:53:53,800
And for us, we kind of really
identified four areas Culture

871
00:53:54,400 --> 00:54:02,500
identity vision and passion?
And a lot of those go hand in

872
00:54:02,500 --> 00:54:05,000
hand, right?
The actually probably all four

873
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,500
but really you put that culture
in the passion together.

874
00:54:08,700 --> 00:54:11,600
He understands the culture.
He understands how passionate

875
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,200
this culture is.
You also see how passionate he

876
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:18,000
is about it.
I have a feeling we're going to

877
00:54:18,008 --> 00:54:20,200
run the ball even though we were
in a lot during the 20-year, I

878
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:25,700
think we're going to run the
ball, he just as much and I

879
00:54:25,707 --> 00:54:30,600
think if we can hold on to that
kid, on the South Side, Ramon

880
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:35,400
Brown.
I think he has that potential to

881
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:40,100
be, you know, the next running
back that we will talk about

882
00:54:40,100 --> 00:54:45,000
forever, no disrespect to
Malachi Thomas, although I'd

883
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,500
love get them in there.
Let's get an Untouchables part

884
00:54:47,500 --> 00:54:48,900
2.
Yeah.

885
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:54,900
You know, I'm all for it, you
know.

886
00:54:55,500 --> 00:54:58,900
Yeah, but I mean the identity, I
mean, it goes back, art art

887
00:54:58,900 --> 00:55:04,900
identity is always been defense
first, Teams defense crippled

888
00:55:04,900 --> 00:55:08,600
you into submission and I think
we're going to get back to that

889
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:09,700
identity.
Yeah.

890
00:55:09,700 --> 00:55:13,100
And I think that's big and he
was talking about it even to the

891
00:55:13,100 --> 00:55:17,000
point where he's like, you know,
we're bringing in a DC but he

892
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,100
will call plays.
Once I'm comfortable with them

893
00:55:19,100 --> 00:55:21,800
calling plays if that's after
Spring ball.

894
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,900
That's great.
If it's after year one, that's

895
00:55:23,900 --> 00:55:29,300
great ability.
I fear that our ability.

896
00:55:29,700 --> 00:55:32,200
Yeah he wants the he wants to
make sure.

897
00:55:32,300 --> 00:55:38,300
That that that defense is
humming that's first and

898
00:55:38,300 --> 00:55:43,400
foremost on his mind and and
that's that's big for us because

899
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:47,600
I think when we look at what
Virginia Tech is it is a defense

900
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:52,300
and special teams first program.
I mean the offense will come and

901
00:55:52,300 --> 00:55:54,700
I think that offensive
coordinator higher is going to

902
00:55:54,707 --> 00:55:59,100
be the most important higher
that Brent Pride makes because

903
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:02,100
that is not his area of
expertise, he's going to have to

904
00:56:02,300 --> 00:56:06,300
Lean on that person from day one
to be, making a lot of decisions

905
00:56:06,300 --> 00:56:07,800
that happen on that side of the
ball.

906
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:12,500
Absolutely.
So that's going to be the most

907
00:56:12,500 --> 00:56:13,900
important higher.
He's going to have to have

908
00:56:13,900 --> 00:56:16,600
somebody that he trusts.
But also someone that can do

909
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:20,500
things at a high level identify
and recruit talent to the

910
00:56:20,500 --> 00:56:23,700
offensive side of the ball.
That's going to be the most

911
00:56:23,700 --> 00:56:28,400
important higher that he makes.
I think that entire staff is I

912
00:56:28,408 --> 00:56:30,500
think you eat.
You got to have guys that can

913
00:56:30,500 --> 00:56:34,700
coach put in the right system
that can work here on, but

914
00:56:34,700 --> 00:56:37,200
you've also got a again I think
you're going to see footprint

915
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:42,500
hires, I think you're going to
see guys that know what's always

916
00:56:42,500 --> 00:56:46,900
been the DMV the 75, the
Carolinas Georgia and Florida.

917
00:56:48,300 --> 00:56:52,600
I think as we start seeing that
staff go and I know and the

918
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:56,300
occasional handful of stars from
Southside Virginia.

919
00:56:56,600 --> 00:57:00,400
Hey, you got one down there.
Go get it because they love,

920
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:03,200
stay Virginia Tech.
Shout out all the ovens brother.

921
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:07,400
Shoutout, David Wilson,
shoutout.

922
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:16,000
Oh Ron Martin cam cam over in
Henry County but I think what

923
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:19,300
what what And I don't know if
we're going to do an episode

924
00:57:19,300 --> 00:57:23,600
next week, guys, because we've
done a lot of episodes this

925
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:25,300
year.
Brian, click it up real quick

926
00:57:25,500 --> 00:57:28,200
just so that you can see how
much we've done we're at.

927
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:32,700
For this is 4444 episodes.
We might need to take a break

928
00:57:32,700 --> 00:57:36,200
because we are going to have a
banger in about two weeks here,

929
00:57:36,900 --> 00:57:39,500
but if we start seeing all the
coaching hires come down.

930
00:57:39,700 --> 00:57:43,800
Yes, we will be back And that
probably means we're going to be

931
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:47,900
back in sometime next week.
So what I want to see who it is.

932
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:55,000
I think for for me because I've
been around you freaking 20-plus

933
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:58,600
years of my life.
I want to know who the yellow

934
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:01,600
line coach is.
I'll definitely do the old line

935
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:06,800
coach is in something we're
probably going to do, guys write

936
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:09,100
this in your calendar, probably
January, right?

937
00:58:09,100 --> 00:58:13,700
Brian Once we find out who the
o.c. in the DC is bronze, going

938
00:58:13,700 --> 00:58:15,600
to take the offensive side of
the ball.

939
00:58:15,900 --> 00:58:20,400
Do some tape break down, our our
buddy coach, Robbie Compton down

940
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,200
in Wilkesboro North Carolina
coaching high school ball down,

941
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:27,000
their defensive coordinator.
He's going to do some defensive

942
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,000
tape breakdown.
And what we're going to do is

943
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:33,200
kind of say, this is what we're
looking at doing next year for

944
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:34,200
Robbie.
It's easier.

945
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:36,500
I tell Rob, he's probably, we
talked to him the other day

946
00:58:36,500 --> 00:58:39,800
about, he'll probably is already
pulling Penn State tape to get

947
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:41,700
an Idea in general, what's going
on?

948
00:58:41,700 --> 00:58:43,200
Because it's going to be burnt
system.

949
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:51,100
I can't wait to do that but
culture identity his vision and

950
00:58:51,100 --> 00:58:54,900
his passion this is the job he
wants for the next 15 years.

951
00:58:56,300 --> 00:59:01,200
And I hope because of being a
fan, he can be as successful as

952
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:05,500
Frank's 15-year run, because the
way college football is shaping,

953
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,800
if the next 15 years were like
those 15 years, Brian.

954
00:59:10,500 --> 00:59:13,500
We're going to go to the
playoffs a lot. because it's

955
00:59:13,500 --> 00:59:16,500
going to be a lot more teams, we
have a lot more chances and I

956
00:59:16,508 --> 00:59:22,700
think fire All right, y'all
before we get into even more,

957
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,000
we've been talking a full hour.
We are going to take a quick

958
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:28,700
pause so I can drink something
Brian.

959
00:59:28,700 --> 00:59:32,400
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Now back to the episode All

968
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:02,700
right, guys, we we kind of tease
this early and we're going to

969
01:00:02,707 --> 01:00:04,500
probably hit it real hard right
now.

970
01:00:04,900 --> 01:00:07,800
Something will be doing any time
we record between pretty much

971
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:11,400
now and March, because maybe
even the summertime.

972
01:00:11,700 --> 01:00:14,800
We're look at portal review.
Obviously, you know, just with

973
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:18,200
the higher Just Happening.
We have no one in but we do have

974
01:00:19,300 --> 01:00:21,100
we have three guys.
Technically in the portal.

975
01:00:21,100 --> 01:00:24,700
We already talked about Daryl
Bailey, backup, quarterback,

976
01:00:24,700 --> 01:00:26,500
knocks.
Kadem came in.

977
01:00:27,500 --> 01:00:29,000
Put his Name in the portal
earlier this week.

978
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:30,100
I don't think that's a shock to
me.

979
01:00:30,100 --> 01:00:35,200
Are you Brian?
But the big one happened today

980
01:00:36,700 --> 01:00:41,500
and we don't know if this is
just him being in the portal,

981
01:00:41,500 --> 01:00:44,700
being available to talk to other
people or what.

982
01:00:44,700 --> 01:00:47,900
But unfortunately, Tavian
Robinson did put his name in the

983
01:00:47,908 --> 01:00:51,900
world de bruyne.
Yeah, that's a big one because I

984
01:00:51,900 --> 01:00:55,900
mean, obviously that's going to
be from a overall talent and

985
01:00:55,900 --> 01:00:59,300
experience perspective that was
going to be the top receiver

986
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:02,600
coming back for us in 22 and
Parker.

987
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:10,300
Yeah, so I mean that's big but
you know, as always, you know,

988
01:01:10,300 --> 01:01:11,900
players got to do what's best
for them.

989
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:15,700
And I can understand looking at
our current quarterback

990
01:01:15,700 --> 01:01:20,400
situation and also not knowing
what the offensive coaching

991
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:22,700
situation is going to look like,
at least for another couple

992
01:01:22,700 --> 01:01:24,900
weeks.
I understand him making this

993
01:01:24,900 --> 01:01:28,300
business decision.
And, you know, as always with,

994
01:01:28,300 --> 01:01:30,400
with player choice.
I mean, we wish him the best of

995
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,500
luck.
This is definitely a once a

996
01:01:32,500 --> 01:01:34,500
hokey.
Always a hokie situation,

997
01:01:35,300 --> 01:01:39,200
anytime he wants to, you know,
have a beer, if I see him, I'm

998
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:41,600
buying him a beer because he did
some damn good things.

999
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:46,100
Here is a hokie.
Hopefully there's a scenario

1000
01:01:46,100 --> 01:01:50,400
where Things fall into place and
he wants to come back to

1001
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:53,700
Blacksburg but if that's not the
case we wish him well in his

1002
01:01:53,700 --> 01:01:56,200
next stop and hopefully he goes
there and tears it up.

1003
01:01:57,400 --> 01:02:00,600
Absolutely.
Um it's just it's going to

1004
01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:02,000
happen.
It's going to happen more.

1005
01:02:03,100 --> 01:02:06,100
Over the next few weeks, you're
also going to have guys with

1006
01:02:06,100 --> 01:02:10,100
some eligibility.
Not come back and it's just the

1007
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:13,700
it's just what it is right now.
Especially okay covid to, I

1008
01:02:13,700 --> 01:02:18,400
mean, right now we had a roster
full of extra Year guys, that

1009
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,400
are not going to exercise that
extra year.

1010
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:22,400
I mean trade Turner's, one of
them.

1011
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:28,900
We had changa, Hodge said he's
declaring for the for the draft

1012
01:02:28,900 --> 01:02:32,000
as well.
You're probably going to see a

1013
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:33,700
couple more guys.
Is that do this?

1014
01:02:33,700 --> 01:02:37,200
You're probably going to see a
handful of guys transfer that

1015
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:39,400
mean it's to be expected right
now.

1016
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:46,300
We're looking to probably clear.
I'd say you're at least other

1017
01:02:46,300 --> 01:02:48,400
than the ones we already know.
I'd say your least looking at

1018
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:53,600
another 55-27 that that are
going to clear out.

1019
01:02:53,900 --> 01:02:55,900
Oh yeah.
The other piece that I don't

1020
01:02:55,900 --> 01:02:57,900
know if you remember and we're
going to kind of back to the

1021
01:02:57,908 --> 01:02:59,900
press or but I got to talk about
this.

1022
01:03:02,700 --> 01:03:07,800
Coach pry, basically said he is
going to have a specific unit in

1023
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:10,200
his recruiting staff.
That is Portal only.

1024
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:14,100
And I think, believe it or not,
I think we've already kind of

1025
01:03:14,107 --> 01:03:15,800
got a jump on.
That the way we've worked the

1026
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:20,500
portal last few years, but it's
the way the school, it's the way

1027
01:03:20,500 --> 01:03:23,700
it's going, and it's going to be
crucial.

1028
01:03:24,500 --> 01:03:27,600
I don't know if he's listening
tonight, sometimes it doesn't

1029
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:28,800
mean that.
I got a cousin in South

1030
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:32,000
Carolina, South Carolina fan.
The portal is going to be big

1031
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:36,000
for schools, like Virginia Tech
in South Carolina because when

1032
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:42,200
we need When we need a really
good run, run guard.

1033
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:45,700
And there's this kid coming out
of Michigan.

1034
01:03:45,700 --> 01:03:48,900
Can't Get Me Petey.
He can run block his ass off.

1035
01:03:48,900 --> 01:03:50,200
We get him.
Go get him.

1036
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:52,000
Well he has some flaws and
password.

1037
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:53,800
I don't give a shit, I'll give a
shit.

1038
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:56,000
He's a really good run.
Blocker, that's our identity.

1039
01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:00,100
I mean, look at what we pulled
with Johnny, Jordan, this in

1040
01:04:00,100 --> 01:04:03,500
this cycle, I mean, Johnny
Kaleo.

1041
01:04:03,500 --> 01:04:08,700
I mean, yeah, I mean if that
that's only really having one

1042
01:04:08,700 --> 01:04:12,300
part-time person that was
focusing on that in Adam.

1043
01:04:12,300 --> 01:04:17,100
Lichtenberg you think if we
actually have two or three

1044
01:04:17,100 --> 01:04:22,600
folks, the team of people that
are just focused on evaluating

1045
01:04:22,700 --> 01:04:27,500
and recruiting Talent from the
portal recruiting and That's a

1046
01:04:27,500 --> 01:04:30,300
very important year one because
we probably need two

1047
01:04:30,300 --> 01:04:32,500
quarterbacks.
A wide receiver.

1048
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:36,000
At least one offensive lineman
and at least one defensive end

1049
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:40,500
and one defensive tackle.
So that's the Starting Gate and

1050
01:04:40,500 --> 01:04:43,300
that's if that's not knowing if
there's any any other attrition

1051
01:04:43,300 --> 01:04:46,300
at any other positions that were
thin at and you know that we're

1052
01:04:46,300 --> 01:04:50,000
talking about at least leaving
five players out the gate that

1053
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:52,400
we need to give the portal if
you want to know the thing.

1054
01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:55,800
Brian.
There are players in Collegiate

1055
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:58,400
football.
Right now sitting on the bench,

1056
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:03,900
not getting an opportunity at
certain programs that it's going

1057
01:05:03,900 --> 01:05:06,100
to be back channel, right?
Yep.

1058
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:08,800
There's going to be people that
see it on tape and they're going

1059
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:12,500
to call someone like, listen,
you need to talk to this kid

1060
01:05:12,500 --> 01:05:16,900
about potentially going in the
world, like it.

1061
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:18,700
I don't care.
If you call a dirty, it's going

1062
01:05:18,700 --> 01:05:22,000
to become part of the game.
Like, you need to get him in the

1063
01:05:22,008 --> 01:05:22,700
portal.
Why?

1064
01:05:22,700 --> 01:05:25,400
Because if he gets into Me, we
can talk to him, we can show my

1065
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:27,700
vision.
We do that another way.

1066
01:05:27,700 --> 01:05:30,300
It's going to screw us up, but
he's got to get to the portal.

1067
01:05:30,900 --> 01:05:36,000
So again I really believe me.
I think there's a possibility

1068
01:05:36,100 --> 01:05:39,300
that we there are some good
quarterbacks out there that will

1069
01:05:39,300 --> 01:05:42,800
step away because say what you
will do.

1070
01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:49,200
You want Adrian Martinez, know
where you're starting lost his

1071
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:53,100
job this year, I just had to
clear it out there.

1072
01:05:53,500 --> 01:05:55,600
Popped out today.
I was like, I gotta I gotta see

1073
01:05:55,600 --> 01:06:03,200
if Spencer Rattler.
Yes, okay, I think I'm fine with

1074
01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:06,200
that.
I mean, I think that's a, that's

1075
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:08,000
a worth the risk Type move
there.

1076
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:10,100
Yeah.
But you know, in my mind.

1077
01:06:10,700 --> 01:06:16,100
Yeah.
There's a there's a question

1078
01:06:16,100 --> 01:06:21,100
whether we Kick the tires on
Eugene, Asante, I know he hasn't

1079
01:06:21,100 --> 01:06:27,300
lived up to expectations but he
is a Nova kid.

1080
01:06:27,300 --> 01:06:32,800
He's a player that has flashed
at times.

1081
01:06:34,300 --> 01:06:36,300
It is our staff.
Someone that thinks he can get

1082
01:06:36,300 --> 01:06:40,200
more out of of him in our type
of system, than they're getting

1083
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:44,600
out of him at UNC.
I mean, he's had some of the

1084
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:48,300
same type of issues that Tisdale
had, and in terms of play, He's

1085
01:06:48,300 --> 01:06:52,200
probably a bigger faster version
of Alan Tisdale.

1086
01:06:52,900 --> 01:06:57,100
What is he?
He is a redshirt sophomore,

1087
01:06:57,100 --> 01:07:00,200
technically, right?
He has two years left County

1088
01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:02,600
including the fact.
You got the free covid here.

1089
01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:04,800
I would be willing to take a
risk on him.

1090
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:10,800
I'll be willing to take a risk
on him, a because of who are

1091
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:17,200
head coaches now. it's
essentially a guy who's, you

1092
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:20,500
know, Coached a bunch of damn
good linebacker.

1093
01:07:20,500 --> 01:07:22,800
So if it's one of those things
where if you see him coming

1094
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:28,100
here, it's definitely a head
coach move.

1095
01:07:28,100 --> 01:07:31,300
Right?
And you know, with Tisdale right

1096
01:07:31,300 --> 01:07:36,300
now, I haven't is do the same.
It also depends on what we're

1097
01:07:36,300 --> 01:07:40,200
going to run on defense, right?
Are we going to go into any true

1098
01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:42,800
for three looks because Penn
State does have some truth from

1099
01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:46,300
true for three looks where they
have a true weakside linebacker?

1100
01:07:46,700 --> 01:07:51,200
Yeah they stay still you.
Use it on a lot of instances.

1101
01:07:51,900 --> 01:07:54,900
They kind of, you know, it's
kind of a for to look it's still

1102
01:07:54,900 --> 01:07:59,400
that but they use their whip as
as a more traditional, kind of

1103
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:04,500
weeks out outside, whereas, you
know, our whip is pretty much

1104
01:08:04,500 --> 01:08:07,400
became a nickel that can slide
in the Box.

1105
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:10,400
Can you just say they use their
whip-like bug used his whip up

1106
01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:18,000
until about seven years ago?
Like Cody like like Tweety Where

1107
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:20,300
it was.
You have to be athletic.

1108
01:08:20,300 --> 01:08:22,899
It's almost more of like you're
playing a third safety on the

1109
01:08:22,899 --> 01:08:26,500
field, not more of a third, it's
more of a safety line backer

1110
01:08:26,500 --> 01:08:32,800
versus of safety corner.
So the portals will be crazy.

1111
01:08:33,300 --> 01:08:36,000
You know we've already had some
portal conversation.

1112
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:42,300
All right everybody.
We've already talked about him

1113
01:08:42,300 --> 01:08:43,399
one time tonight.
Coach.

1114
01:08:43,399 --> 01:08:46,600
Robert Compton has officially
joined in here.

1115
01:08:46,700 --> 01:08:50,800
Must have found a good tree down
there in Wilkesboro to it's a

1116
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:53,800
good signal.
The Wi-Fi is no longer spotty.

1117
01:08:54,100 --> 01:08:55,700
No, I thought I was no longer
spotty.

1118
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:57,800
He found he found some rabbit
ears.

1119
01:08:57,800 --> 01:09:00,899
He's like standing on his head.
He's doing something out there

1120
01:09:00,899 --> 01:09:03,800
to get the service going.
I'm just thanks for joining

1121
01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:18,700
buddy.
Well have an actual round table

1122
01:09:18,899 --> 01:09:23,500
with exact right there.
Look, I got two more bowls to

1123
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:26,500
somewhere in the house.
All right, let's let's jump off

1124
01:09:26,500 --> 01:09:31,500
portal and in Brian we've all
watched you watch Game of

1125
01:09:31,500 --> 01:09:35,300
Thrones correct.
Oh yeah, huge Game of Thrones

1126
01:09:35,300 --> 01:09:38,000
from the beginning to the end.
The end sucked.

1127
01:09:38,300 --> 01:09:40,200
Yes.
They should have read it, but I

1128
01:09:40,200 --> 01:09:43,399
digress.
How about Game of headsets in

1129
01:09:43,399 --> 01:09:48,899
the fucking craziness That's
happened and the craziness that

1130
01:09:48,899 --> 01:09:51,100
broke.
While I was eating dinner

1131
01:09:51,100 --> 01:09:54,000
tonight, having some delicious
stuffed peppers.

1132
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:57,900
By the way, Bronco Mendenhall
announces that.

1133
01:09:57,900 --> 01:09:59,400
After the bowl game, he will
leave.

1134
01:10:00,700 --> 01:10:04,900
You texted me and wear them,
like, you're like, holy shit.

1135
01:10:05,100 --> 01:10:10,000
What?
Yeah, this is full-on

1136
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:12,900
Littlefinger.
Chaos is not a pit chaos is a

1137
01:10:12,900 --> 01:10:17,000
ladder and thankfully we came
out of the right side of that.

1138
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:20,300
Well UVA.
Meanwhile is holding their dicks

1139
01:10:20,300 --> 01:10:25,500
a little bit because I don't
think anyone saw this coming.

1140
01:10:25,500 --> 01:10:30,300
They were not prepared for this.
They are in full scramble mode.

1141
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:34,800
They could end up working out.
Something that works out for

1142
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:38,700
them, but they definitely put
themselves behind the eight ball

1143
01:10:38,700 --> 01:10:45,500
and Bronco has put them there in
a lot of ways because this isn't

1144
01:10:45,500 --> 01:10:47,500
we're planning on firing you on
X date.

1145
01:10:47,500 --> 01:10:50,200
But we're already having
back-channel discussions with

1146
01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:53,300
who the next guy is this is oh
holy shit.

1147
01:10:53,300 --> 01:10:57,300
This guy decided you know, five
days after the last game of the

1148
01:10:57,300 --> 01:11:03,300
regular season that he's done
and we've done. 10 prep work on

1149
01:11:03,300 --> 01:11:06,100
how we're going to handle this.
They're so fucked.

1150
01:11:06,300 --> 01:11:10,300
It's, and if they could look
into getting the right, that's

1151
01:11:10,300 --> 01:11:11,800
right higher.
They might be able to lure.

1152
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:16,100
Someone like Dan Mullen in, they
might take a risk and name.

1153
01:11:16,100 --> 01:11:20,700
Someone like Anthony Poindexter
as a head coach out of the gate.

1154
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:25,600
I think that's their own voice.
I mean, well, a because of what

1155
01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:27,700
happened a few years ago and
they kind of screwed him over,

1156
01:11:28,100 --> 01:11:31,400
but be, it's, it's, it's one of
those.

1157
01:11:31,400 --> 01:11:35,000
It's like, it is one of your
best football players

1158
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:37,800
All-American, drafted played in
the league, came back to coach.

1159
01:11:37,900 --> 01:11:39,900
You screwed him over on the
coaching situation.

1160
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:44,300
He's a Penn State right now.
He's praying in the rumors are,

1161
01:11:44,300 --> 01:11:46,200
we're fighting for him to Become
dc.

1162
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:49,400
Yes, people are putting, I'm
sure Penn State is trying to

1163
01:11:49,400 --> 01:11:53,100
keep him there to be to take
over for prize DC and then you

1164
01:11:53,108 --> 01:11:55,700
got UVA.
I don't think he's going to come

1165
01:11:55,700 --> 01:11:59,100
to UVA to be DC.
Know he, if he, if he's got a

1166
01:11:59,100 --> 01:12:04,800
job at Penn State head coach,
And yes, also it unless they're

1167
01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:07,800
willing to roll the dice and say
I because I mean all he has

1168
01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:10,300
right now is some Cody see
experience.

1169
01:12:10,300 --> 01:12:15,000
So he hasn't even been a
full-time coordinator at this

1170
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:16,500
point.
Can I Buzz?

1171
01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:22,600
It's a culture higher, yeah,
big-time culture and culture

1172
01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:26,300
higher and they would be idiots
not to because the one of the

1173
01:12:26,300 --> 01:12:30,400
best runs you VA had was when
that man was coaching or was

1174
01:12:30,400 --> 01:12:34,300
what was playing for you.
One of the best runs.

1175
01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:37,700
And to be honest, we talked
about this with the white back

1176
01:12:37,700 --> 01:12:42,200
last winter Grime.
The best, the Rivalry had ever

1177
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:46,100
been, when guys like him Jeff,
you know, from Lynchburg guys,

1178
01:12:46,100 --> 01:12:50,900
like the white Jake Grove, when
all the in-state Talent was in

1179
01:12:50,900 --> 01:12:53,200
both Pro Tech was a top-10
program.

1180
01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:56,900
Virginia was a top 20 program
and that's Saturday meant

1181
01:12:56,900 --> 01:13:01,200
something every year.
It makes sense something and

1182
01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:04,800
they've been playing against
each other whether It was in

1183
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:08,300
high school, all-star games,
like all that shit used to go on

1184
01:13:09,700 --> 01:13:12,400
back then and used to see some
legit rivalries.

1185
01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:15,200
Even from folks that didn't play
each other on their regular

1186
01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:18,400
season schedule.
So I'll be there was a lot of

1187
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:22,600
that type of stuff going on and
it carried over into the UVA,

1188
01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:26,200
Virginia Tech rivalry.
And Poindexter was kind of one

1189
01:13:26,200 --> 01:13:32,600
of the kind of the last big
big-time players in that.

1190
01:13:33,900 --> 01:13:37,000
Well, share along with like
Thomas Jones and guys like that

1191
01:13:39,200 --> 01:13:41,900
getting a guy back in like that
would be big for them from a

1192
01:13:41,907 --> 01:13:45,400
cultural perspective and from a
recruiting perspective because

1193
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:50,400
he's a guy that could definitely
recruit the state and and he can

1194
01:13:50,400 --> 01:13:53,400
make a case, you know, I did it
here, it can be done here.

1195
01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:58,200
So that would be big for them.
I'm hoping it doesn't happen.

1196
01:13:58,200 --> 01:14:05,700
Just for I want him on our
staff. listen, if you want to

1197
01:14:05,700 --> 01:14:11,900
talk about the biggest Fu, if he
literally, if they, if they do

1198
01:14:11,900 --> 01:14:16,600
not offer him and he comes here
as the DC, I don't think I'll

1199
01:14:16,600 --> 01:14:19,900
ever go back there.
I mean, for real, like, right

1200
01:14:19,900 --> 01:14:23,700
now, if they don't at least
offer him, DC, then there's no,

1201
01:14:23,900 --> 01:14:27,100
they're fucking awesome.
The head coaching job.

1202
01:14:27,700 --> 01:14:30,900
You have to the little black
dress.

1203
01:14:30,900 --> 01:14:33,300
All right.
So the other robberies got

1204
01:14:33,300 --> 01:14:34,300
Robbie's.
Got a suggestion.

1205
01:14:34,300 --> 01:14:36,000
He thinks they should bring back
grow.

1206
01:14:37,600 --> 01:14:41,000
Tall like 80 now though, how
old's Al groh.

1207
01:14:42,300 --> 01:14:44,800
Well, it has Al groh Robbie CR2
old.

1208
01:14:44,900 --> 01:14:48,100
He's old too old.
All right, let's talk about

1209
01:14:48,100 --> 01:14:50,000
this.
So the Lincoln Riley stuff we

1210
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:52,500
talked about Sunday, which was
pretty wild.

1211
01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:58,800
This is even crazier.
Your team is 11 and one, your

1212
01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:01,500
team is on the verge of the
playoff, is just one or two

1213
01:15:01,500 --> 01:15:07,400
things happen.
You're out recruiting your staff

1214
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:11,600
is out recruiting and all of a
sudden, Brian Kelly to LSU.

1215
01:15:13,900 --> 01:15:19,100
The the word is that one of the
guys had just left a fucking

1216
01:15:19,100 --> 01:15:23,500
recruiting visit, where they
were pitching Notre Dame and

1217
01:15:23,500 --> 01:15:27,500
Brian Kelly's Notre Dame and
they pull out their phone and

1218
01:15:27,500 --> 01:15:34,600
they're like, oh shit.
Yeah, I mean this is classic

1219
01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:38,200
Brian Kelly, right?
Did he just like leave Central

1220
01:15:38,200 --> 01:15:41,100
Michigan to go to Cincinnati
like out of nowhere?

1221
01:15:41,100 --> 01:15:45,000
Like literally drop the bags and
like East, he's definitely.

1222
01:15:45,700 --> 01:15:49,400
Yeah, I mean and I'm obviously
there's, there's no like, well,

1223
01:15:49,400 --> 01:15:54,500
we need X number of days that I
get that but like The situation

1224
01:15:54,500 --> 01:15:57,900
that Brian Kelly is walking out
of, I mean, it's even different

1225
01:15:57,900 --> 01:16:01,100
than what Lincoln Riley did it
Oklahoma.

1226
01:16:01,100 --> 01:16:02,900
I mean we thought that was
abrupt.

1227
01:16:02,900 --> 01:16:10,300
This is like next-level, it is.
I mean I mean like I guess the

1228
01:16:10,300 --> 01:16:13,400
only been the only positive is
that you know Brian Kelly wasn't

1229
01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:18,700
actively recruiting players to
potentially align up to go to

1230
01:16:18,700 --> 01:16:23,700
his next school like I know that
I know that was inadvertent but

1231
01:16:23,700 --> 01:16:26,000
bullshit it looks shady as hell,
doesn't it?

1232
01:16:26,100 --> 01:16:28,700
It looks shady as hell.
We're going to recruit

1233
01:16:28,700 --> 01:16:30,700
California.
Real heavy this year.

1234
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:38,300
Real real heavy, like he played
the long game at USC like As

1235
01:16:38,300 --> 01:16:41,500
soon as clay loses a game, we
are going to fire him so be

1236
01:16:41,500 --> 01:16:46,100
ready.
I don't know how this is gonna

1237
01:16:46,100 --> 01:16:51,000
work, like don't get me wrong,
it's working nicely for Notre

1238
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:53,200
Dame right now.
Oh, yeah.

1239
01:16:53,300 --> 01:16:58,100
Well, it's They're getting
sympathy, right?

1240
01:16:58,200 --> 01:17:00,200
Like they're getting sympathy.
And they're pretty much

1241
01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:04,800
maintaining all of their staff.
This is a Brian.

1242
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:06,900
Kelly is leaving for LSU and I
can't.

1243
01:17:06,900 --> 01:17:11,200
Can you think of a worse fit,
from a cultural perspective?

1244
01:17:11,200 --> 01:17:14,500
The Brian Kelly at LSU.
Apparently, there's a video him

1245
01:17:14,500 --> 01:17:15,500
out there.
The basketball game.

1246
01:17:15,500 --> 01:17:18,100
He's developed a Southern accent
in like two days.

1247
01:17:19,500 --> 01:17:20,900
Pretty fucking impress.
Come on.

1248
01:17:21,500 --> 01:17:24,500
If he starts talking like coach.
Oh, you know, what's up?

1249
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:26,400
Oh my God, the fixes.
In.

1250
01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:32,300
It doesn't seem like there's he
can coach football and I mean he

1251
01:17:32,300 --> 01:17:35,500
can he can talk his way out of a
paper bag apparently.

1252
01:17:35,500 --> 01:17:39,500
So I mean I mean you know, he's
a recruiter in a Salesman like

1253
01:17:39,500 --> 01:17:45,000
that but you know the slimeball
tactics can only go so far and I

1254
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:51,400
mean it's true.
When you start, he's not

1255
01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:54,000
bringing his staff with him.
So he's going to have to build

1256
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:59,800
either from the base of folks
that have coached and recruited

1257
01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:02,500
in that area.
Or he's going to have to plumb

1258
01:18:02,500 --> 01:18:05,300
some new pipelines, right?
Well, here's the deal, though.

1259
01:18:05,300 --> 01:18:08,000
It's LSU, there's going to be
somebody.

1260
01:18:08,100 --> 01:18:11,000
There should be good coaches at
schools all across the country

1261
01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:13,600
that if he goes and says, do you
want to coach here?

1262
01:18:13,600 --> 01:18:16,900
They're going to be like.
Yeah, because it, oh, yeah, me

1263
01:18:16,900 --> 01:18:20,900
and Definitely getting a
situation where it's going to be

1264
01:18:20,907 --> 01:18:25,100
hard to say, no, because a, it's
LSU and be, they're going to pay

1265
01:18:25,900 --> 01:18:30,400
top dollar for everybody.
To be a first all assistant

1266
01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:34,400
coach and said everybody's
making over 750,000 and he's

1267
01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:36,900
making like nine and a half
million a year over 10 year

1268
01:18:36,900 --> 01:18:38,700
deal.
They also gave a 10-year deal.

1269
01:18:38,700 --> 01:18:45,300
Do you hear that ten years?
Yeah 60 good Lord but um I don't

1270
01:18:45,300 --> 01:18:48,000
know how that's going to work.
It's going to be so interesting

1271
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:51,800
to see but the guy has say what
you will that guys?

1272
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:56,500
Fucking killed it everywhere.
I mean literally Michigan.

1273
01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:06,100
All You're welcome.
Hey, he'll kill you.

1274
01:19:09,100 --> 01:19:12,900
Oklahoma is to me is not in a
war situation.

1275
01:19:12,900 --> 01:19:17,200
Is you vehicles are Oklahoma?
But you know, everybody thought

1276
01:19:17,200 --> 01:19:19,800
this week will the younger
students brother will come.

1277
01:19:19,800 --> 01:19:22,700
Well, no, Mark says, I'm good at
Kentucky.

1278
01:19:22,700 --> 01:19:25,600
They like me went in between
seven and nine games a year.

1279
01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:29,400
I'm going to go ahead and get a
7 year extension and basically

1280
01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:33,600
I'm coaching here until I'm
retired, he's making good money

1281
01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:39,800
to with only medium expectations
and he's doing a good job of

1282
01:19:39,800 --> 01:19:42,400
hitting or exceeding.
Those expectations every year

1283
01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:47,100
right now and if he can maintain
what he's doing on the

1284
01:19:47,108 --> 01:19:50,200
recruiting Trail and maintain
the level of plays getting from

1285
01:19:50,200 --> 01:19:53,700
his players, he's gonna ride
this into the sunset and I don't

1286
01:19:53,700 --> 01:19:55,500
blame him.
I don't blame them either.

1287
01:19:56,300 --> 01:20:01,000
I mean why do you want?
He's old enough where he doesn't

1288
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:03,000
need a Prestige hiring his
resume?

1289
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:06,400
No, he well, you know, he has
done, he had national title

1290
01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:08,800
rings from some
assistant-coaching job.

1291
01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:13,200
Yeah.
And again, for us for us our age

1292
01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:18,700
group, He's doing what a
Kentucky, they're winning games,

1293
01:20:18,700 --> 01:20:21,600
they're going to bowls every
year like they're fighting with

1294
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:24,000
their beating Florida.
They're competing with Georgia,

1295
01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:28,500
no way.
So the last time their program

1296
01:20:28,500 --> 01:20:32,100
was even decent, Jerry Lorenzen
was throwing for him to have to

1297
01:20:32,100 --> 01:20:35,700
Lefty God, Rest his soul, there
are rumors out.

1298
01:20:35,700 --> 01:20:37,200
Now what?
This is going to flip back to

1299
01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:40,800
Notre Dame, I don't know.
This is us putting this to get

1300
01:20:40,900 --> 01:20:44,300
this as this is might be one of
the longest run down Chiefs

1301
01:20:44,300 --> 01:20:48,300
we've ever had.
Literally like on a non-game

1302
01:20:48,300 --> 01:20:51,000
week episode, it looks like
Notre.

1303
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:52,800
Dame is going to hire Marcus
Freeman.

1304
01:20:52,900 --> 01:20:54,600
Tommy Reese is going to stay in
house.

1305
01:20:54,600 --> 01:20:56,700
A lot of the other coaches are
staying in house.

1306
01:20:57,700 --> 01:20:59,600
Hey Brian.
Kelly said it last year, he's a

1307
01:20:59,600 --> 01:21:03,700
future coach of Notre Dame.
Yeah, I don't know.

1308
01:21:03,700 --> 01:21:07,500
Maybe his foot was already out
the door to like linking Riley.

1309
01:21:14,900 --> 01:21:17,700
If you ever go on YouTube and
find some of his, you know,

1310
01:21:18,300 --> 01:21:24,000
interviews, I think that locks
it up and now let's have two

1311
01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:27,100
left.
Yes, definitely our hero Robbie.

1312
01:21:27,100 --> 01:21:31,800
Compton also better known as JC
prices down.

1313
01:21:31,900 --> 01:21:37,200
Double ganger true but I think
they're fine.

1314
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:38,600
I think Notre Dame is going to
be fine.

1315
01:21:38,700 --> 01:21:43,000
Notre Dame might be better than
what they were with hundred

1316
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:46,500
killing for good on your Kelly.
Amy Freeman's a great hire.

1317
01:21:46,500 --> 01:21:49,600
I mean, he was on our short list
and we talked about candidates

1318
01:21:49,600 --> 01:21:53,800
that we would be good with we
were looking at all right.

1319
01:21:53,800 --> 01:21:56,800
Who's the coordinator that you
would be most comfortable with?

1320
01:21:56,800 --> 01:22:01,000
That doesn't have any Virginia
Tech ties Freeman Freeman top of

1321
01:22:01,008 --> 01:22:05,000
the list.
In the fact that he's able to

1322
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:10,700
stay at Notre Dame that that
helps them both this year to

1323
01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:12,500
potentially keep their college
football.

1324
01:22:12,500 --> 01:22:16,400
Playoff, hopes alive.
If a couple things happen going

1325
01:22:16,400 --> 01:22:21,200
to this weekend and it sets them
up, good going into next year

1326
01:22:21,200 --> 01:22:22,900
because there's a whole lot of
continuity.

1327
01:22:22,900 --> 01:22:27,900
Not only in recruiting, but also
the systems that they're running

1328
01:22:27,900 --> 01:22:34,000
on offense and defense.
It's true and I think I think

1329
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:36,600
there's a better place he's a
34-year there's only one job he

1330
01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:41,300
leave for one and the way Ron
day is going in the age of Ryan

1331
01:22:41,300 --> 01:22:43,200
day and let's Rendezvous decides
to go to the NFL.

1332
01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:45,500
He's not going to Ohio state
anytime in the next 10 years.

1333
01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:49,500
Alright, we've kind of already
hit a couple times Lincoln

1334
01:22:49,500 --> 01:22:51,500
Riley, what the hell is Oklahoma
doing?

1335
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:54,700
I mean, we're like, on day four
and they still don't have a head

1336
01:22:54,700 --> 01:22:58,600
coach where, I think a lot of us
expected after Sunday, it'll be

1337
01:22:58,600 --> 01:23:03,200
Matt Campbell They'll go hard?
Like, are they, are they waiting

1338
01:23:03,200 --> 01:23:06,600
for like the mean, Brent
venables, is should be the

1339
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:08,000
candidate.
He was the o.c.

1340
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:10,200
They're understood from, they
had a shit ton of success.

1341
01:23:11,500 --> 01:23:14,200
Why aren't you calling him and
saying 9 million?

1342
01:23:14,900 --> 01:23:16,600
Eight years?
Thank you.

1343
01:23:16,600 --> 01:23:25,000
Ever the hell you want to bring?
Yeah, I think that's what

1344
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:28,200
they're looking at.
You know, the question is going

1345
01:23:28,200 --> 01:23:32,400
to be, do we see any movement
after this weekend?

1346
01:23:33,500 --> 01:23:36,700
I don't know if they're waiting
on somebody else that is playing

1347
01:23:36,700 --> 01:23:43,000
in a game this week.
You know, we had a guy like Dan

1348
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:47,500
landing on our on our board.
Is that somebody they're looking

1349
01:23:47,500 --> 01:23:51,800
at I don't know.
I don't know.

1350
01:23:52,700 --> 01:23:57,500
Venable seems like the, the best
fit out the gate.

1351
01:23:58,100 --> 01:24:00,600
Matt Campbell seems like the
best upside.

1352
01:24:01,300 --> 01:24:03,000
Like the higher-ups?
I'd pick.

1353
01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:08,800
I don't know.
Oklahoma just seems like, I

1354
01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:11,400
think they'll get somebody good
because they are in.

1355
01:24:11,400 --> 01:24:16,400
They are Oklahoma their top 15
top 10 program of all time but

1356
01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:18,800
the issue now becomes it's not
so much.

1357
01:24:18,900 --> 01:24:21,300
Much this year next, right?
Or next year in the year, after

1358
01:24:21,300 --> 01:24:24,200
its dude, y'all are going to the
SEC.

1359
01:24:24,200 --> 01:24:26,200
You're going to be like the
seventh program there.

1360
01:24:27,200 --> 01:24:30,600
I still believe that's why
Lincoln loved like Lincoln's.

1361
01:24:30,600 --> 01:24:33,200
Like why do I want to?
Why do I want to be halfway down

1362
01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:37,200
the peg when I can be a top dog?
Yep.

1363
01:24:37,500 --> 01:24:41,700
And that that that's a program
that decided that the money was

1364
01:24:41,700 --> 01:24:47,500
more important than the clout.
But eventually the money can't

1365
01:24:47,500 --> 01:24:49,500
solve all issues.
Not when everybody's getting the

1366
01:24:49,508 --> 01:24:53,200
same amount of money you are.
Yeah, that's that's the thing.

1367
01:24:53,500 --> 01:24:56,500
What he said that they decided
that the money that the program

1368
01:24:56,500 --> 01:24:58,600
is bringing in was more
important in the clout.

1369
01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:01,400
And I think it's going to cause
some long-term because at best

1370
01:25:01,400 --> 01:25:05,000
they're going to be kind of the
fourth or fifth team in that

1371
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:09,000
conference year to year.
They could be lower, but Lord, I

1372
01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:11,200
think, I think they'll be lower
some years, but I think they'll

1373
01:25:11,200 --> 01:25:15,200
be higher some years, but I
think on the only, Average,

1374
01:25:15,200 --> 01:25:17,200
they're going to be like 45 in
that country's.

1375
01:25:17,200 --> 01:25:21,600
You're saying 45, you ready?
They can be better than Georgia.

1376
01:25:22,100 --> 01:25:23,900
Every year.
No.

1377
01:25:26,400 --> 01:25:27,900
Bama.
No.

1378
01:25:28,900 --> 01:25:32,200
What about am?
I mean?

1379
01:25:32,200 --> 01:25:34,500
I think they're right there with
A&M LSU.

1380
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:38,900
Depends on what Brian Kelly.
Does.

1381
01:25:39,200 --> 01:25:42,100
Alright Florida.
They be a beat this year's LSU

1382
01:25:45,400 --> 01:25:51,100
Florida.
It depends on Legend Napier

1383
01:25:51,100 --> 01:25:54,100
does.
Let's talk about the last 20

1384
01:25:54,100 --> 01:25:58,100
years in Oklahoma.
I mean Oklahoma's played

1385
01:25:58,100 --> 01:26:02,300
Oklahoma's played for more
national titles than all but two

1386
01:26:02,300 --> 01:26:03,700
of the teams were talking about
here.

1387
01:26:05,300 --> 01:26:07,400
True.
I just think the issue is

1388
01:26:07,400 --> 01:26:11,000
they're going to be seventh or
eighth because remember, Texas

1389
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:13,100
is coming with them.
I think they have.

1390
01:26:13,300 --> 01:26:16,100
I think they both have screwed
themselves and it's going to be

1391
01:26:16,100 --> 01:26:19,500
funny in 10 years.
Our weirdest part, is that Texas

1392
01:26:19,500 --> 01:26:37,500
did need more money like that.
Your entire life, huh?

1393
01:26:38,600 --> 01:26:41,400
Now we understand.
All right Brian.

1394
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:46,100
This is the last piece of news
before we get into pickles on

1395
01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:50,100
the ACC Network after football
season.

1396
01:26:51,700 --> 01:26:55,200
Is coming to Comcast.
I don't have time cast, I don't

1397
01:26:55,200 --> 01:26:56,700
care.
I've had the ACC Network since

1398
01:26:56,700 --> 01:27:01,600
its Inception I watch it through
Phi 0, so I don't really care

1399
01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:06,300
either.
But everybody's big, it's big

1400
01:27:06,300 --> 01:27:09,700
for our market and it's been his
big for Virginia Tech because

1401
01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:13,400
that's going to be more media
Revenue that's coming in

1402
01:27:14,200 --> 01:27:17,500
directly through the network
because you in more markets, so

1403
01:27:17,500 --> 01:27:20,300
that's going to be more Revenue.
So that's a good thing.

1404
01:27:21,800 --> 01:27:26,700
And, you know, the big thing is
that the, the footprint that not

1405
01:27:26,700 --> 01:27:30,000
only we recruit but that You
know, most of the fans are

1406
01:27:30,000 --> 01:27:34,900
living in is in that that
Comcast footprint.

1407
01:27:34,900 --> 01:27:39,700
So unless you have, you know,
you're in a metro area, you've

1408
01:27:39,700 --> 01:27:42,900
got FiOS.
If you've got, you know, or you

1409
01:27:42,907 --> 01:27:46,800
stream of the satellites, I mean
there's some options there but

1410
01:27:47,500 --> 01:27:52,200
they're streaming but people
that are still on, you know,

1411
01:27:52,200 --> 01:27:54,800
most small towns most
communities throughout these

1412
01:27:54,800 --> 01:27:57,600
Regions.
They're locked into one provider

1413
01:27:57,600 --> 01:28:01,400
and satellite more unlikely.
They've got Comcast and they

1414
01:28:01,400 --> 01:28:07,900
have not had access here so this
is big for them and it's big

1415
01:28:07,900 --> 01:28:11,600
long term in terms of media
dollars for Virginia Tech and

1416
01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:16,700
the ACC as a whole.
Abso-freakin'-lutely, it's also

1417
01:28:16,700 --> 01:28:20,900
big to certain family members.
You know who have been take?

1418
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:24,200
Can I get your hoop stuff and
get your filing stuff?

1419
01:28:24,200 --> 01:28:26,700
Why I need to, I need to sign
into the ESPN app so I can watch

1420
01:28:26,700 --> 01:28:28,000
the game.
Okay?

1421
01:28:28,900 --> 01:28:32,200
So it's good again.
It's good for all the various

1422
01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:35,200
reasons, it just hilarious.
It literally took the week after

1423
01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:39,100
football in sport to happen and
it's still in the coming week.

1424
01:28:39,100 --> 01:28:43,000
So this is probably a start of
the New Year type deal if I had

1425
01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:46,500
to guess.
Exactly what again for ACC

1426
01:28:46,500 --> 01:28:50,900
country basketball is huge.
So maybe came at the right time

1427
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:54,100
to get people to watch the
network of ton.

1428
01:28:54,100 --> 01:28:58,100
Once the meat of the ACC regular
season kicks in, at the start of

1429
01:28:58,108 --> 01:29:01,500
the New Year, you'll be able to
watch it on Xfinity.

1430
01:29:01,700 --> 01:29:05,700
Exactly.
I also scored a football game.

1431
01:29:05,900 --> 01:29:09,000
You got it up there tonight?
I don't man me either.

1432
01:29:10,000 --> 01:29:11,900
I'm just interested.
I don't think I have anybody

1433
01:29:11,900 --> 01:29:17,500
playing the night and fantasy
but I don't think I'm playing

1434
01:29:17,500 --> 01:29:23,500
anybody.
I was officially eliminated from

1435
01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:27,400
all you got.
Yeah because Mike one last week

1436
01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:30,200
so I mathematically couldn't
jump him even if I won this

1437
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:35,900
week, Well, he's got me on.
He's got me on points in

1438
01:29:35,900 --> 01:29:39,700
head-to-head.
Well, if you jumped above 75

1439
01:29:40,300 --> 01:29:46,800
points, you'd be okay, yeah, I'm
not bidding on Ron.

1440
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:50,400
Listen, you should be commended
for how you manage this fantasy

1441
01:29:50,400 --> 01:29:53,500
football year.
You have a shit ton, go wrong at

1442
01:29:53,500 --> 01:29:55,900
the beginning of the season, to
be even considered in the

1443
01:29:55,900 --> 01:29:58,100
playoffs.
At it at the last few weeks is

1444
01:29:58,100 --> 01:30:01,400
impressive.
I was dead last and week for

1445
01:30:02,300 --> 01:30:06,100
dead last two, knocking on
playoffs door in week, 11 and

1446
01:30:06,100 --> 01:30:07,500
12.
So, kudos to you.

1447
01:30:07,600 --> 01:30:11,600
You all right Ron.
Let's flip it over to Saturday.

1448
01:30:11,600 --> 01:30:14,300
Pick homes.
We will be picking all the bowl

1449
01:30:14,300 --> 01:30:17,400
games as well.
But we're going to start here.

1450
01:30:17,800 --> 01:30:25,200
Brian 6655.
And to I'm 71 47 and to and

1451
01:30:25,200 --> 01:30:26,700
we're going to pick all the
conference Championship game.

1452
01:30:26,700 --> 01:30:30,400
We got 10 of them will start
Friday night, Brian Conference.

1453
01:30:30,400 --> 01:30:36,400
USA championship UTSA versus
Western Kentucky UTSA was

1454
01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:39,800
undefeated until just a couple
weeks ago watching Kentucky's

1455
01:30:39,800 --> 01:30:43,400
lane two and a half Washington.
Tucky blew the doors off of

1456
01:30:43,400 --> 01:30:50,700
Marshall last weekend and I
beloved Charles Huff but I don't

1457
01:30:50,700 --> 01:30:52,700
know.
I know there are some, there's

1458
01:30:52,700 --> 01:30:55,300
some swirling, some people have
said, let's take a look at

1459
01:30:55,300 --> 01:30:58,800
Western Kentucky.
Oh, see, I think based on what

1460
01:30:58,800 --> 01:31:03,000
bring problems to do now.
Yeah, he's an Airaid type guy.

1461
01:31:03,000 --> 01:31:06,400
I don't see print going doing
that, but I also don't see

1462
01:31:06,500 --> 01:31:10,100
Western Kentucky beating UTSA.
I think UTSA wins this game

1463
01:31:10,100 --> 01:31:14,100
outright.
Give me the points and I'll take

1464
01:31:14,100 --> 01:31:17,400
UTSA.
Yeah, I'm going the same way

1465
01:31:17,400 --> 01:31:19,600
with you here.
I think Western Kentucky had a

1466
01:31:19,608 --> 01:31:21,300
really good game against
Marshall.

1467
01:31:21,700 --> 01:31:23,700
Think was just a bad matchup
overall.

1468
01:31:23,900 --> 01:31:28,000
I think they're a good football
team, but I think UTSA is going

1469
01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:31,300
to pull this one out outright
win.

1470
01:31:31,300 --> 01:31:33,700
Probably probably, even maybe a
touchdown win for them.

1471
01:31:33,700 --> 01:31:37,000
So I'll go the same route, there
bud.

1472
01:31:37,700 --> 01:31:40,200
And if you want it in the
records UTSA is 11.

1473
01:31:40,200 --> 01:31:47,200
And 1 Western Kentucky is Aiden
for and you know, Western

1474
01:31:47,200 --> 01:31:51,300
Kentucky loss to UTSA by six
earlier this season.

1475
01:31:51,400 --> 01:31:53,400
That game was at Western
Kentucky.

1476
01:31:53,400 --> 01:31:55,900
So, this one of those highlights
there.

1477
01:31:56,100 --> 01:31:59,300
All right.
The Pac-12 Championship is

1478
01:31:59,300 --> 01:32:01,900
Friday night, Brian Oregon
versus Utah.

1479
01:32:01,900 --> 01:32:04,400
In Las Vegas.
I think that's the smartest

1480
01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:07,300
thing that the big, the Pac-12
could do is put that game in

1481
01:32:07,300 --> 01:32:13,300
Vegas every year, regardless and
big time and try to work to get

1482
01:32:13,300 --> 01:32:17,000
that thing move to a Saturday
night or at least a Saturday

1483
01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:19,700
afternoon.
Because me sitting here like,

1484
01:32:20,000 --> 01:32:22,400
hey, let's go to Vegas and watch
the Pac-12 Championship Games.

1485
01:32:22,400 --> 01:32:25,900
Why we're going to Vegas but how
about this one Ron?

1486
01:32:26,800 --> 01:32:28,000
Game was just a couple weeks
ago.

1487
01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:31,400
Utah, beat Oregon Utah.
The three-point favorite.

1488
01:32:31,400 --> 01:32:36,400
What do you say on this one?
I think the Revenge factor and

1489
01:32:36,400 --> 01:32:39,500
neutral site, is the difference.
Give me Oregon.

1490
01:32:39,900 --> 01:32:42,500
I'm with you, the neutral sites,
the biggest difference.

1491
01:32:42,500 --> 01:32:47,300
They're dry Cycles is a tough
place to play, and the middle of

1492
01:32:47,300 --> 01:32:50,300
nowhere.
Utah in this is what organ does,

1493
01:32:50,300 --> 01:32:52,900
right?
They lose a game two weeks

1494
01:32:52,900 --> 01:32:55,400
before the championship game
while they're in the playoffs.

1495
01:32:56,400 --> 01:32:59,300
We get kicked out of the
playoffs that they come wreck

1496
01:32:59,300 --> 01:33:01,600
shop on whoever they play and go
to the Rose Bowl.

1497
01:33:02,100 --> 01:33:04,600
Yeah, we're getting.
Give me the three organ Tale As

1498
01:33:04,600 --> 01:33:08,100
Old As Time.
Morgan wins by 10 3828.

1499
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:15,100
All right, the MAC Championship
for one of our action, you know,

1500
01:33:15,100 --> 01:33:18,100
the saddest person is on a week
night without my action.

1501
01:33:20,500 --> 01:33:27,100
Is it John Earl tomorrow Jenner?
Did he is Northern Illinois,

1502
01:33:27,100 --> 01:33:30,600
Kent State.
I know very little about the

1503
01:33:30,600 --> 01:33:32,300
Mac.
This year is one convert to have

1504
01:33:32,300 --> 01:33:36,800
not kept up with.
So, while doing my research this

1505
01:33:36,800 --> 01:33:39,700
week, Kent State has a good
offense.

1506
01:33:40,900 --> 01:33:44,100
One of the best in the country.
Northern Illinois is I know beat

1507
01:33:44,100 --> 01:33:46,900
Georgia Tech but after what we
saw from Georgia Tech the last,

1508
01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:50,000
basically rest of the year,
they're hot.

1509
01:33:50,100 --> 01:33:51,900
Trash.
I'm gonna take Kim State.

1510
01:33:51,900 --> 01:33:53,900
I think the offense wins this
one out.

1511
01:33:55,400 --> 01:34:00,000
Lay the three points, give me
Kent State, not so fast.

1512
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:02,900
My friend.
I'm gonna go Northern Illinois

1513
01:34:02,900 --> 01:34:08,900
here and this is purely on.
I know they play really good

1514
01:34:08,900 --> 01:34:14,500
football almost every year for a
Mac team that that that's my

1515
01:34:14,500 --> 01:34:17,900
rationale here.
I haven't done any deep Dives on

1516
01:34:18,200 --> 01:34:22,300
on these two teams.
But I feel like they going to

1517
01:34:22,300 --> 01:34:26,600
pull it out and I think it's
gonna be an hour a win for them.

1518
01:34:27,100 --> 01:34:31,000
All right, it's a Revenge game.
Will annoys beat Kent State by

1519
01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:33,800
five early as year Revenge, Kent
State.

1520
01:34:34,600 --> 01:34:38,700
All right, buddy.
Now we're getting into some of

1521
01:34:38,708 --> 01:34:44,000
the bigger games and this one is
huge, big 12 Championship noon,

1522
01:34:44,000 --> 01:34:47,900
kick.
On Saturday Baylor.

1523
01:34:47,900 --> 01:34:51,000
Oklahoma State rematch earlier
this year, Oklahoma State beat

1524
01:34:51,000 --> 01:34:54,900
Baylor and a pretty good lower
score and contest for Big 12.

1525
01:34:55,300 --> 01:34:59,500
Oklahoma State laying five and a
half points to Baylor.

1526
01:35:00,100 --> 01:35:01,600
What do you say on this one?
Brian.

1527
01:35:04,900 --> 01:35:07,600
I really like the way Oklahoma
State's been playing.

1528
01:35:09,700 --> 01:35:15,500
The only thing that gives me
pause here is that About once or

1529
01:35:15,500 --> 01:35:18,600
twice a year you get those Gundy
games where for some reason they

1530
01:35:18,600 --> 01:35:21,500
don't get it done against good
competition.

1531
01:35:21,500 --> 01:35:23,100
But I think this is going to be
the year.

1532
01:35:23,100 --> 01:35:26,100
They kind of shake that off a
little bit so I'm going to take

1533
01:35:26,100 --> 01:35:32,100
okey state Lay the points.
All right, Ron, take Sookie

1534
01:35:32,200 --> 01:35:37,100
laying the points.
I'm going to go off of you.

1535
01:35:37,400 --> 01:35:39,200
I don't think Baylor's going to
win this game.

1536
01:35:39,200 --> 01:35:42,400
This game was a ten-point game
the first time down in

1537
01:35:42,400 --> 01:35:48,800
Stillwater. 24:14 back in, I
think it was September was early

1538
01:35:48,800 --> 01:35:52,200
when I believe early October
actually.

1539
01:35:52,200 --> 01:35:55,100
I remember watching part of it.
Went down to a neighbor's house

1540
01:35:55,100 --> 01:35:58,000
for a while.
I think okey State wins.

1541
01:35:58,500 --> 01:36:01,600
But I don't think it's as, I
think it's a three-point game.

1542
01:36:02,500 --> 01:36:06,500
I think being at a neutral site
is going to help out Baylor, but

1543
01:36:06,500 --> 01:36:11,100
I still think Gundy pulls it out
something like 2824.

1544
01:36:12,900 --> 01:36:18,200
Okay, when State Baylor covers
though, you know in Baylor inoki

1545
01:36:18,200 --> 01:36:21,100
State sets themselves up to get
into the playoffs as some things

1546
01:36:21,100 --> 01:36:23,300
happen.
All right, let's go out to the

1547
01:36:23,300 --> 01:36:29,500
mound, West Brine Utah State vs
San Diego State, the Mountain

1548
01:36:29,500 --> 01:36:31,900
West, sorry.
Kind of put this breaker here

1549
01:36:31,900 --> 01:36:34,000
because I'm literally put them
in the order that they come on

1550
01:36:34,000 --> 01:36:39,400
television.
Is this me or you leave them?

1551
01:36:39,400 --> 01:36:43,000
This one or me.
Let's meet lean on it.

1552
01:36:43,100 --> 01:36:46,100
I'm San Diego State.
Best team in the Mountain West.

1553
01:36:46,100 --> 01:36:47,900
Brady Hoke leading on Brady
Hoke.

1554
01:36:49,100 --> 01:36:51,100
I think eventually Brady who's
going to get a second chance at

1555
01:36:51,108 --> 01:36:53,700
a P5 job?
I think the time he went to

1556
01:36:53,700 --> 01:36:57,000
Michigan was just not right.
But I watched it.

1557
01:36:57,000 --> 01:37:00,800
The good amount of the San Diego
State Boise, State game, good

1558
01:37:00,800 --> 01:37:05,000
offense, very efficient.
Definitely a damn good defense

1559
01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:08,700
as they always have.
Yeah, are with you.

1560
01:37:10,000 --> 01:37:13,200
They always play good defense.
I think that's the difference

1561
01:37:13,200 --> 01:37:15,900
that I think they're able to
probably probably win by about a

1562
01:37:15,907 --> 01:37:18,100
touchdown.
Time ago.

1563
01:37:18,100 --> 01:37:21,200
San Diego State.
All right, let's go to the fun

1564
01:37:21,200 --> 01:37:25,400
belt Billy Napier in his
university.

1565
01:37:25,500 --> 01:37:30,300
Lafayette.
Raging Cajuns versus appstate,

1566
01:37:30,600 --> 01:37:32,400
Chad.
I'm a buddy at work Malik.

1567
01:37:33,500 --> 01:37:35,200
Appstate.
Laying three.

1568
01:37:36,500 --> 01:37:40,000
Does Napier get it done?
Once he's announced it, there's

1569
01:37:40,000 --> 01:37:42,000
nothing to hide.
I'm leaving at the end of this

1570
01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:46,700
game or is it appstate getting
revenge?

1571
01:37:47,800 --> 01:37:50,800
This is the tough one, does he
rally the troops through the

1572
01:37:50,800 --> 01:37:56,000
troops rally around him in his
last game at Lafayette or is

1573
01:37:56,000 --> 01:37:59,100
this one where he's got one foot
out the door and they're not

1574
01:37:59,100 --> 01:38:03,400
prepared and they lay an egg
against a quality opponent.

1575
01:38:07,000 --> 01:38:11,100
I tend to go with the former, I
think the players are going to

1576
01:38:11,100 --> 01:38:14,300
Rally around him, get the job
done.

1577
01:38:14,700 --> 01:38:20,100
Send him off with a big win.
So, I'll take Lafayette.

1578
01:38:20,100 --> 01:38:23,000
I think they're going to win
outright, all right.

1579
01:38:24,400 --> 01:38:28,400
Give me AB State.
I think you have state is the

1580
01:38:28,400 --> 01:38:31,400
best team in the Sunbelt year,
in year out.

1581
01:38:32,100 --> 01:38:36,000
Always a good running game.
Always a good defense and losing

1582
01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:40,000
the Lafayette this year.
I think it's a little Revenge

1583
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:45,700
Factor, but also, I want to say
this Braun We watch that

1584
01:38:45,700 --> 01:38:49,600
Thursday night game a little bit
of it with Lafayette, right?

1585
01:38:50,200 --> 01:38:53,300
You watch the little face, they
have been struggling offensive

1586
01:38:53,300 --> 01:38:57,200
ly for several weeks now and I
think against a team like

1587
01:38:57,200 --> 01:39:01,200
appstate, we saw appstate Take
Miami to the brink we've seen

1588
01:39:01,200 --> 01:39:03,400
have state meet other teams.
They took Penn State to the

1589
01:39:03,400 --> 01:39:07,300
bring a few years ago.
I think they spoil his last game

1590
01:39:07,600 --> 01:39:10,300
and don't get, I think they won
the Sunbelt.

1591
01:39:10,900 --> 01:39:13,100
Give me appstate.
I'll lay the three and like a

1592
01:39:13,300 --> 01:39:18,800
Touchdown game.
All right, we go next to

1593
01:39:18,800 --> 01:39:23,300
probably the game that is going
to determine how the playoff

1594
01:39:23,300 --> 01:39:27,200
looks one way or the other.
It's Bama.

1595
01:39:27,200 --> 01:39:30,800
It's Georgia.
Georgia is laying six and a half

1596
01:39:30,800 --> 01:39:36,600
points.
This one is just tough because

1597
01:39:36,700 --> 01:39:39,800
only one, Nick Saban assistant
has ever beat him.

1598
01:39:40,400 --> 01:39:46,000
Only one that was issue a Jimbo
fichter But the am in the

1599
01:39:46,500 --> 01:39:48,300
basically last second field
goal.

1600
01:39:50,100 --> 01:39:54,100
Watching, Bama over the last two
weeks, I watched a good amount

1601
01:39:54,100 --> 01:39:56,700
of the Arkansas game and even
though I was watching the tech

1602
01:39:56,700 --> 01:40:02,500
game Saturday, it was up on my
upper left TV and I was really

1603
01:40:02,500 --> 01:40:08,200
keeping an eye on it.
Bam has offense showed against a

1604
01:40:08,400 --> 01:40:10,300
Albarn defense, that was
aggressive his shit.

1605
01:40:10,300 --> 01:40:13,200
It struggled, they struggled to
score points.

1606
01:40:13,200 --> 01:40:16,500
Literally it took them to the
end of the game, to get to 10.

1607
01:40:18,700 --> 01:40:21,600
The other piece, we saw the
Arkansas game, right?

1608
01:40:22,100 --> 01:40:24,900
They could not stop the Arkansas
running attack.

1609
01:40:26,400 --> 01:40:30,100
And even though I think Arkansas
is a slightly better offensive

1610
01:40:30,100 --> 01:40:32,100
team.
I think George has got more

1611
01:40:32,100 --> 01:40:35,600
studs.
I think this games about a 14

1612
01:40:35,600 --> 01:40:38,700
point game, I think this game is
going to be somewhere like

1613
01:40:39,900 --> 01:40:46,400
Georgia. 30, you one and Bama
17.

1614
01:40:47,100 --> 01:40:48,800
And I'm going to lay the six and
a half and I'm gonna take the

1615
01:40:48,808 --> 01:40:53,500
dogs.
I'm right there with you.

1616
01:40:54,600 --> 01:40:58,600
Bama will not be able to score
more than 17 points.

1617
01:40:58,800 --> 01:41:04,000
I think, probably 14 points.
I think this is 24:14 Georgia.

1618
01:41:04,800 --> 01:41:09,800
So I will take Georgia here.
Alright, so when our scenarios

1619
01:41:09,800 --> 01:41:12,900
bamas out now okey States one,
right Brian.

1620
01:41:13,700 --> 01:41:18,300
Yep, they're on the Cuffs.
Let's go down to Houston.

1621
01:41:19,100 --> 01:41:23,000
Cincinnati, Cincinnati,
undefeated 12, and 0, 8, 10 and

1622
01:41:23,000 --> 01:41:27,800
a half Point favorite their
number for right now behind

1623
01:41:27,800 --> 01:41:32,200
Alabama.
What do you think they win?

1624
01:41:32,500 --> 01:41:39,600
They cover, or they win or lose?
Good teams win, great, teams

1625
01:41:39,600 --> 01:41:42,900
cover.
Since he is a good team, they

1626
01:41:42,900 --> 01:41:46,100
will win.
They will not cover hunt, takes

1627
01:41:46,100 --> 01:41:48,000
Houston in a 10 and a half
points.

1628
01:41:48,800 --> 01:41:51,000
I'm going to go completely
opposite of you man.

1629
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:54,300
I think since he is going to
prove a point against a ranked

1630
01:41:54,300 --> 01:41:57,900
Houston team with only one loss,
I think they pound them.

1631
01:41:58,000 --> 01:42:02,900
I don't think that offense gets
off the ground in Houston 31:10.

1632
01:42:03,500 --> 01:42:07,200
Cincinnati.
OH domination domination.

1633
01:42:07,400 --> 01:42:10,800
I'm going to legal limit here.
I don't know if I'd go to legal

1634
01:42:10,800 --> 01:42:14,300
limit, but you know, it's not
one of them were.

1635
01:42:14,300 --> 01:42:17,100
I see them when I'm like my 40,
I haven't seen him in about 20.

1636
01:42:17,700 --> 01:42:22,900
All right?
So now we've got a man out.

1637
01:42:22,900 --> 01:42:27,800
Okey state in or okey State
winning Cincy likely holding on

1638
01:42:27,800 --> 01:42:31,500
to their spot before we get to
the last spot.

1639
01:42:33,300 --> 01:42:37,600
Let's go to wake pit.
What I think is probably I think

1640
01:42:37,600 --> 01:42:39,500
that's going to be.
This is going to be the most

1641
01:42:39,500 --> 01:42:46,700
entertaining game of the day
regardless, regardless wake or

1642
01:42:46,700 --> 01:42:52,400
she's me, pit is a favorite by
Three points.

1643
01:42:53,400 --> 01:42:58,000
The over-under 71.
I think they take that perfect.

1644
01:42:58,300 --> 01:43:00,000
Yeah, that's about what I would
pick it as well.

1645
01:43:00,000 --> 01:43:03,300
Yep, like right at 35.
So what do you say?

1646
01:43:03,300 --> 01:43:06,100
Brian here?
Well, actually, it's me right?

1647
01:43:06,500 --> 01:43:09,200
Because you took Euston want to
take.

1648
01:43:09,200 --> 01:43:14,200
Wait, I think wake.
Is that team that has shown.

1649
01:43:14,200 --> 01:43:19,700
They can get in some shootouts
and win and there's been a

1650
01:43:19,700 --> 01:43:23,700
couple of times this year.
We're pit just done a couple

1651
01:43:23,700 --> 01:43:25,300
things just very strange and
loss.

1652
01:43:25,300 --> 01:43:29,800
I think weight wins the fight
and clausen's go to the Peach

1653
01:43:29,800 --> 01:43:34,700
Bowl.
I've been struggling with this

1654
01:43:34,700 --> 01:43:40,100
one, you've got the first-team
all-acc quarterback on one side.

1655
01:43:40,100 --> 01:43:47,700
The second-team all-acc for back
on the other, you got Good at

1656
01:43:47,700 --> 01:43:50,000
times.
But very uneven in questionable

1657
01:43:50,000 --> 01:43:54,000
defense has very high risk, High
reward.

1658
01:43:54,900 --> 01:43:57,700
I think the difference is that
pits going to do a good job of

1659
01:43:57,700 --> 01:44:01,000
attacking that long mesh.
So I'm going to take pit.

1660
01:44:01,500 --> 01:44:03,400
All right, bronze, lion, the
three.

1661
01:44:04,100 --> 01:44:06,200
I'm taking the three.
All right, Brian.

1662
01:44:07,200 --> 01:44:10,900
The final pick is Iowa versus
Michigan.

1663
01:44:12,000 --> 01:44:15,000
Michigan and 11-point favorite.
You know the over-under on this

1664
01:44:15,000 --> 01:44:18,800
game, if you looked at that,
That can I have it 43 and a

1665
01:44:18,808 --> 01:44:23,600
half?
43 and a half.

1666
01:44:24,000 --> 01:44:27,700
Michigan lane, 11 points.
What do you say on this one?

1667
01:44:29,600 --> 01:44:31,300
I like Michigan to win this
game.

1668
01:44:31,600 --> 01:44:34,100
The 11 is just a little too rich
for my blood.

1669
01:44:34,100 --> 01:44:37,100
I think it's somewhere between a
7 and 10 point win for Michigan.

1670
01:44:38,200 --> 01:44:41,200
So I will take Iowa here.
I'm with you on that.

1671
01:44:41,200 --> 01:44:42,800
I think Michigan, definitely
wins the game.

1672
01:44:42,800 --> 01:44:44,300
I think they win the game
somewhere.

1673
01:44:44,600 --> 01:44:47,600
Probably exactly like the over
unders, predicting somewhere,

1674
01:44:47,600 --> 01:44:52,000
like 2410.
So the, the 11 is just a little

1675
01:44:52,000 --> 01:44:57,200
bit too much.
Alright, Braun in this fun.

1676
01:44:58,200 --> 01:45:04,500
So, Bam has outright, they can
smell their out.

1677
01:45:06,300 --> 01:45:10,400
George is one, we keep in
Michigan it to her cfp.

1678
01:45:12,900 --> 01:45:15,700
If Michigan wins.
Michigan is staying Michigan's

1679
01:45:15,700 --> 01:45:17,500
to.
What are you do with sin?

1680
01:45:17,500 --> 01:45:19,900
See you, we both predicted, they
win.

1681
01:45:20,200 --> 01:45:24,400
You predicted, Houston covers.
I predicted a big blowout or

1682
01:45:24,400 --> 01:45:27,500
they three.
Are they for if they win like a

1683
01:45:27,500 --> 01:45:29,400
blowout?
I think you move them to three.

1684
01:45:29,800 --> 01:45:32,800
What if they just win you?
Since you should have one loss,

1685
01:45:32,800 --> 01:45:34,700
Houston's 11:00 in the morning,
they're 24.

1686
01:45:36,800 --> 01:45:43,000
Yeah.
I think they, Principally.

1687
01:45:43,000 --> 01:45:44,600
I think they should move to
three.

1688
01:45:44,600 --> 01:45:47,700
I'm trying to think what is the
college football playoff going

1689
01:45:47,700 --> 01:45:51,300
to do?
Well, I think they stay in for,

1690
01:45:52,000 --> 01:45:54,600
I don't think they say it for
because if they stay at forced

1691
01:45:54,600 --> 01:45:58,000
the biggest in the world, the
biggest Fu in the world.

1692
01:45:58,100 --> 01:46:01,800
Well, go play, Georgia.
Now, although last year to

1693
01:46:01,800 --> 01:46:04,600
similar teams and they hung with
Georgia, right to the end.

1694
01:46:05,200 --> 01:46:08,200
All right.
Mo if our scenario holds true

1695
01:46:08,200 --> 01:46:11,900
with both think, Oklahoma State
wins no chance Notre Dame's in

1696
01:46:13,400 --> 01:46:18,200
Not if Oklahoma State wins if
Oklahoma State loses, then the

1697
01:46:18,200 --> 01:46:21,000
college football playoff has
going to have to make a big

1698
01:46:21,000 --> 01:46:23,700
decision, you know, they're
going to do to get how they're

1699
01:46:23,700 --> 01:46:25,100
going to get it.
They're going to put payment

1700
01:46:25,100 --> 01:46:28,300
three.
But they all stood George and

1701
01:46:28,300 --> 01:46:34,500
George is a really good team.
They, they the whole thing that

1702
01:46:34,500 --> 01:46:37,800
they did with the well Notre
Dame doesn't have their head

1703
01:46:37,800 --> 01:46:38,800
coach.
And we're going to take that

1704
01:46:38,800 --> 01:46:43,000
into account was it was to
create a scenario where Bama can

1705
01:46:43,000 --> 01:46:45,600
lose and be in.
That's the only reason that shit

1706
01:46:45,600 --> 01:46:47,400
was in there.
That's bullshit.

1707
01:46:47,900 --> 01:46:51,400
You've lost two games, you lost
to I've lost team, you lost to

1708
01:46:51,407 --> 01:46:55,600
the best team in the country.
We're Beyond I test, if you lose

1709
01:46:55,600 --> 01:46:58,700
two games you should have.
Yeah.

1710
01:46:58,800 --> 01:47:00,800
With this isn't, this isn't 12
yet.

1711
01:47:01,600 --> 01:47:03,300
Yeah.
Well, was where two games can

1712
01:47:03,300 --> 01:47:06,800
get you in in three games?
Depending on who you lose to my

1713
01:47:06,800 --> 01:47:12,600
kitchen?
Yeah, I mean, I test is I test

1714
01:47:12,600 --> 01:47:16,400
is a good differentiator all
things being equal, I test

1715
01:47:16,400 --> 01:47:20,800
should not put you in someone
over someone that has a, a

1716
01:47:20,800 --> 01:47:24,800
better resume and be
head-to-head matchups that are

1717
01:47:24,800 --> 01:47:28,200
comparable that can say, okay,
well, they beat this team or

1718
01:47:28,200 --> 01:47:31,500
they Beach this team heads up
like at some point, the games

1719
01:47:31,500 --> 01:47:33,100
have to matter.
Yep.

1720
01:47:33,100 --> 01:47:35,700
Games have to matter.
I'm still waiting for, if we go

1721
01:47:35,700 --> 01:47:38,900
to 12, there's a seven and five
a sec.

1722
01:47:39,100 --> 01:47:43,200
Aim that they try to push in but
the losses are all about like a

1723
01:47:43,208 --> 01:47:45,900
touchdown.
That's that's, that's the

1724
01:47:45,900 --> 01:47:48,100
Oklahoma that's Oklahoma.
Three years.

1725
01:47:51,100 --> 01:47:54,600
Ron has anything broken?
The last almost two hours.

1726
01:47:54,600 --> 01:47:57,600
I knew this was going to go.
I'm in probably two hours.

1727
01:47:58,600 --> 01:48:00,100
Hey, I think I think we did
good.

1728
01:48:00,100 --> 01:48:05,100
Our just over our 45 we were we
were pretty smooth All Things

1729
01:48:05,100 --> 01:48:07,400
Considered.
We had a couple breaking points

1730
01:48:07,400 --> 01:48:10,100
just before he went on here.
That That, you know, probably

1731
01:48:10,100 --> 01:48:13,600
pushed just from just over 132
just under 150 here.

1732
01:48:13,600 --> 01:48:16,600
So what can you do?
I hope you guys enjoyed it

1733
01:48:16,600 --> 01:48:18,600
though.
They really enjoyed it at all.

1734
01:48:18,600 --> 01:48:20,200
Hope you enjoy you.
Listen tomorrow.

1735
01:48:21,700 --> 01:48:26,100
Press, you know, press like send
us a send us some feedback guys

1736
01:48:26,100 --> 01:48:29,500
of what you want to hear more
from us and we got an offseason

1737
01:48:29,500 --> 01:48:32,400
come up with.
I mean this is when your guys is

1738
01:48:32,400 --> 01:48:36,200
input, really kind of, you know,
can set the table for what type

1739
01:48:36,200 --> 01:48:39,100
of content we put out in the
next five to six months.

1740
01:48:39,400 --> 01:48:42,500
Exactly in our brains are
turning trust those.

1741
01:48:42,500 --> 01:48:45,000
Oh yeah, we're gonna have some
fun stuff regardless.

1742
01:48:45,000 --> 01:48:48,400
But yeah, if y'all if it's
something y'all want, you know,

1743
01:48:48,400 --> 01:48:50,100
we will do our best to give it
to you.

1744
01:48:50,300 --> 01:48:51,200
Damn right.
We will.

1745
01:48:51,600 --> 01:48:53,900
It's a Braun.
This is a great day and hokey

1746
01:48:53,900 --> 01:49:00,100
notion print pry officially
Essentially he is announced.

1747
01:49:00,100 --> 01:49:03,900
He is our head coach.
You feel like it's about to be

1748
01:49:03,900 --> 01:49:08,700
old times back in Blacksburg
again, correct, I feel it.

1749
01:49:09,000 --> 01:49:12,400
I was feeling well that will
wrap up this episode of The

1750
01:49:12,400 --> 01:49:16,000
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1751
01:49:16,500 --> 01:49:19,900
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1752
01:49:19,900 --> 01:49:23,600
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1753
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1756
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1757
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1759
01:49:41,100 --> 01:49:44,900
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