1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:06,000 The Florida Football Insiders podcast is brought to you by Titan Home Lending, Ticketsmarter 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:11,679 dot Com, Print and Marketing Solutions, and Star Alvarado, our real estate 3 00:00:11,759 --> 00:00:22,600 agent. Enjoy the podcast look at college football, news, analysis and insight 4 00:00:22,839 --> 00:00:27,719 from around the Sunshine State. This is Florida Football Insiders, a part of 5 00:00:27,719 --> 00:00:32,520 the College Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast ever and here's your host, Jason Tylers. 6 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:44,840 Alright, welcome in week to Florida Football Insiders podcast, part of the 7 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:51,640 Coach College Football College Gridiron. Excuse me, Coast to Coast podcast network feed. 8 00:00:52,439 --> 00:00:58,920 I'm your host, Jason down in Tampa. A pretty wild week one 9 00:00:59,079 --> 00:01:03,200 of the college football season. We had some upsets, we had some near 10 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,079 misses, some disappointing play and such throughout the state of Flooria. Remember this 11 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:12,599 podcast is gonna focus on all things State of Florida college football. We'll probably 12 00:01:12,599 --> 00:01:15,920 sprinkling a little NFL. Here's the NFL season's about to kick off, but 13 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:19,920 we're most of our focus will be on the college football seen here in the 14 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:25,760 state of Florida. And it was a very up and down week for teams 15 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:30,040 in the state of Florida. We had one let's see one, two, 16 00:01:30,519 --> 00:01:36,280 three, four, five teams win in two teams lose the USF Bowls, 17 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:42,879 and the Florida Gators fall as the Florida State Seminoles, UCF, FIU Miami, 18 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,879 and FAU all win week one for them on the schedule. Let's start 19 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,200 off with the show showcase game of the weekend in the state of Florida. 20 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:59,159 The Florida States Seminoles Sunday Night in Orlando get off to a so so start 21 00:01:59,159 --> 00:02:01,079 in the first half. LSU kind of had the better of play. Give 22 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:06,760 the Florida State defense credit. They stepped up with two fourth down stops in 23 00:02:06,799 --> 00:02:12,000 the first half. LSU takes the lead seventeen fourteen at the half on a 24 00:02:12,039 --> 00:02:16,960 late field goal last play the first half, and then the Seminoles destroy LSU 25 00:02:17,039 --> 00:02:23,680 in the second half forty five twenty four final. They outscore LSU thirty one 26 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:29,000 nothing until a late garbage touchdown by LSU, But a tremendous performance by the 27 00:02:29,039 --> 00:02:34,199 Seminoles on offense scored five straight times with the ball in the second half, 28 00:02:35,599 --> 00:02:39,159 led by Jordan Travis with four touchdown passes, three of those going to Michigan 29 00:02:39,199 --> 00:02:45,719 State transfer Keyon Coleman, who was a impact player. If you're the Seminoles, 30 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:49,439 you want to cut down on the penalties. Had several personal foul of 31 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,000 fouls in the first half, a couple of bone headed plays there on, 32 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:57,879 a couple of late hits, but all in all, the defense showed up 33 00:02:58,319 --> 00:03:01,800 to me the difference in the game. Florida State's ability in the trenches to 34 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:08,240 withstand LSU and hold up to LSU and as well as on the offensive line, 35 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:13,680 they were able to protect Jordan Travis, did not hear Harold Perkins's name 36 00:03:13,759 --> 00:03:15,879 one time, and they were able to run the ball with a lot of 37 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:21,319 effectiveness in the second half. So kudos to the Seminoles and Mike Norvell. 38 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:25,039 As you head to week two, you have the showdown with at Clemson in 39 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:30,400 three weeks. If you saw Clemson getting beat pretty pretty handily now I want 40 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,400 to say handily, but they did not play very well at Duke. Duke 41 00:03:34,479 --> 00:03:38,039 beats them twenty eight to seven, move the ball a lot, but several 42 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,759 turnovers and miss field goals and all that stuff. So if you're Florida State, 43 00:03:40,759 --> 00:03:44,840 you got to be feeling good knowing three weeks from now you're gonna be 44 00:03:44,919 --> 00:03:50,919 in Death Valley against Clemson. In your ACC hopes and National Championship playoff hopes 45 00:03:51,039 --> 00:03:54,719 are very much in the offings win or lose. But if you, especially 46 00:03:54,719 --> 00:03:57,919 if you win that game at Clemson, you're gonna have it your first of 47 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:00,560 all, you're gonna knock Clemson out of the race Clemson and we'll be out 48 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:05,719 with two losses and your path to the CFP playoff will have just gotten a 49 00:04:05,719 --> 00:04:10,520 lot, lot clear. But so kudos to Mike Norvelle and the Seminoles for 50 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,759 a big forty five twenty four win. Let's go to the second game, 51 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,399 which was the first game of the weekend on Thursday night in Salt Lake City, 52 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:21,639 Utah beats Florida twenty four to eleven. It's just a very blase performance 53 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:27,759 by the Gators. Not a whole lot of pizzazz. Merch did Graham. 54 00:04:27,759 --> 00:04:30,879 Merch did end up throwing for over three hundred yards, but those were a 55 00:04:30,879 --> 00:04:33,680 lot of those yards were empty calories late in the game with kind of the 56 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,079 game was out of hand. Just not very impressed. Not a very good 57 00:04:36,079 --> 00:04:41,839 performance by Billy Napier and the Gators. You know, they're just they're just 58 00:04:41,879 --> 00:04:46,040 gonna be a very very mediocre team. In my view based on what I 59 00:04:46,079 --> 00:04:49,720 saw on Thursday nights, not a lot of running game, only forty five 60 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:54,399 yards rushing. I believe in the forty three yards total rushing in the game. 61 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,360 And Utah has got a really good defense. I get it, but 62 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,800 I just don't see the explode veness on offense. I don't see a lot 63 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:05,680 of you know, impact players yet on offense for the Gators. Merch did 64 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:09,480 okay, but the offensive line wasn't great. He got hit a lot. 65 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:15,959 Uh and the Gators are oh and one with a tough schedule ahead, So 66 00:05:17,079 --> 00:05:20,560 I would have some concerns if I'm Billy Napier and the Gators. They go 67 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:27,519 down twenty four to eleven. U SEF wins big uh John John R's plumbly 68 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,920 two hundred and eighty yards, three touchdowns, two picks. We're not gonna 69 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,240 talk much about that game. That game was blowout city against Kent State. 70 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:39,160 Uh f A f I you excuse me. They win fourteen to twelve to 71 00:05:39,199 --> 00:05:44,360 go to one to one over main a loose performance there against a one double 72 00:05:44,399 --> 00:05:47,839 A team FCS team, but they do get the w you are gonna hear 73 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:54,800 from uh A. J Ricketts play by play voice of the Panthers. You're 74 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,560 also gonna hear from Josephaki, play by play voice of the Miami Hurricanes. 75 00:05:58,759 --> 00:06:00,639 And you're gonna hear from Matt mersh show from The Orlando Sentinel. We're gonna 76 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:06,279 preview the UCF nights after I finish up here with the recap from last week. 77 00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:11,399 So three great guests, three more team previews from the State of Florida. 78 00:06:11,759 --> 00:06:15,199 The only team we're missing is FAU, so we are. We've got 79 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:20,759 a request out to FAU to try to get potentially Tom Herman hopefully to give 80 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:25,279 us a little preview of the team, but we'll see. So you're gonna 81 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:28,199 get three previews this week. And remember, if you missed the previews last 82 00:06:28,199 --> 00:06:34,480 week, go check out Florida Florida State and and who's my other team and 83 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:39,720 USF. We did Florida Florida State USF last week. We talked to Jeff 84 00:06:39,759 --> 00:06:43,680 Kolhan, voice of the Seminoles, Sean Kelly voice of the Gators, and 85 00:06:43,759 --> 00:06:46,759 Joey Johnston, sideline reporter for the Bulls Radio Network. So if you missed 86 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,160 any of those previews, we gave you some great insight that led into these 87 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:55,399 week one games. Go check it out last week on the Florida Football Insiders 88 00:06:55,439 --> 00:07:00,079 podcast, Week one, So all right again, FIU win fourteen twelve goes 89 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,160 to one and one. They have North Texas this week, which we're gonna 90 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:12,240 get to. Let's see one more note about UCF Xavier Townsend five catches for 91 00:07:12,279 --> 00:07:15,759 eighty one yards and a touchdown. The reason I mentioned him he is a 92 00:07:15,759 --> 00:07:19,600 product of Tampa where I'm at Berkeley Prep. I actually know people that coached 93 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:24,680 him. So he is a wide receiver, really good athlete. It's gonna 94 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,839 be a good player for UCF. So shout out to Xavier Townsend five for 95 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:33,600 eighty one and a touchdown for UCF in week one. So let's see Miami. 96 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:39,839 Nice performance by to Miami thirty eight three over Miami of Ohio and very 97 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,759 again. They've got a showdown this week with Texas A and m We're gonna 98 00:07:43,759 --> 00:07:46,439 talk to Joe Zagaki about that. You'll hear that, so you will know 99 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,519 much more where Miami's at the end of this week with Texas A and m 100 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:55,720 coming to Coral Gables in Miami. So that's that'll be a very very high 101 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:59,040 profile game. This is a good week for games. You got Texas Alabama, 102 00:07:59,399 --> 00:08:01,519 you got my me, A and M. You got some good, 103 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:05,879 good games on the schedule. FAU gets off to one and oz start under 104 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:11,879 Tom Herman. They win forty two twenty over Monmouth. The FAU Casey Thompson, 105 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,360 the quarterback, who is the I believe the quarterback from Texas and then 106 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:20,160 he went to Nebraska last year. This guy's transferred more times than UH than 107 00:08:20,439 --> 00:08:24,639 UH. It's about the third or fourth school through for five touchdowns, probably 108 00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:28,720 a grad Yeah, through for five touchdowns for FAU. Good for him, 109 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:35,399 and a nice start for Tom Herman and FAU. And last but not least, 110 00:08:35,519 --> 00:08:39,360 USF they go down. They played pretty pretty well at Western Kentucky, 111 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:43,039 end up losing forty one twenty four, but the game was much closer than 112 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:48,679 that. Some costly turnovers by Byron Brown the quarterback, but the USF can't 113 00:08:48,879 --> 00:08:52,879 really. Good start for Alex Golish. Again, not a lot of people 114 00:08:52,879 --> 00:08:56,120 thought they would be super competitive, and they very much were in that game 115 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:00,600 to late into the fourth quarters. So good start for you USF, even 116 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,240 though they come up short. They win, they lose forty one twenty four. 117 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:07,759 They have Florida A and M and then two weeks. They have Alabama 118 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,320 coming to Raymond James Stadium here in Tampa that I will be at the game. 119 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:16,159 So USF again, good start for Alex Scoli. Is still plenty to 120 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:20,480 clean up, but again a good start. They had the lead there for 121 00:09:20,639 --> 00:09:22,799 much of that first half and it was a back and forth game till about 122 00:09:22,799 --> 00:09:26,600 middle of the fourth quarter. So good start there for Alex Scholis. So 123 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:33,399 there's your recap again again, huge win Florida State, kind of a lackluster 124 00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:39,519 loss out of Florida. Miami looked good, USF look pretty decent, and 125 00:09:39,519 --> 00:09:45,200 then we have fiu FAU will know more about them when their competition level ramps 126 00:09:45,279 --> 00:09:46,639 up a little bit. In the same with UCF. UCF has a big 127 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:52,320 game this week as well. They go to Boise Boys. He played Washington 128 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:56,519 last week and Michael Pennocks from Washington who's a Tampa guy, Tampa high school 129 00:09:56,519 --> 00:10:01,440 product. He lit Boise up pretty good. But again he's gonna light up 130 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:03,600 a lot of people, so that'll be a very competitive game. UCF at 131 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:09,919 UCF at Boise State on Saturday. Long trip for those guys, so that'll 132 00:10:09,919 --> 00:10:13,879 be an interesting That'll be an interesting non conference matchup. There, So there's 133 00:10:13,919 --> 00:10:18,440 your recap again. We're gonna talk to Josiahacky first from Miami that We're gonna 134 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:22,519 talk to Matt Mischelle covering UCF for the Orlando Sentinel, and then we're gonna 135 00:10:22,519 --> 00:10:26,759 wrap it up with a j Ricketts play by play man for the FIU Panthers. 136 00:10:26,759 --> 00:10:31,600 So I think you'll enjoy the chats, get some good insight about these 137 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:37,039 rosters, about the storylines for each team and such. So enjoy the podcast. 138 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:39,279 If you haven't already done so, hit that subscribe button on your podcast 139 00:10:39,399 --> 00:10:46,440 platform Apple, Google, Spotify Podcasts. Again. We're part of the College 140 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,679 Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast network feed Florida Football Insiders. If you'd like to 141 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:56,559 send me a note, reach me at JPO Sports on x You can reach 142 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,840 me at JPO Sports on x I E. 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So we did a great season preview this week 169 00:12:56,799 --> 00:13:03,159 that that came out this week that previews the game against at Minnesota. We 170 00:13:03,159 --> 00:13:05,679 talked about the roster, we talk about the salary cap, we talk about 171 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:07,720 Mike Evans contract situation, a lot of stuff. We're talk about stuff. 172 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:11,759 You're a Tampa bab Buccaneers fan, No Quarter Given Podcast, It's the place 173 00:13:11,799 --> 00:13:16,600 to go, so appreciate the support, appreciate the time. We'll be right 174 00:13:16,639 --> 00:13:20,360 back in just a minute or two with Josighaki play by play guy the Miami 175 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:26,159 Hurricanes, and now a word from Titan Home Lending. Are you in the 176 00:13:26,159 --> 00:13:31,120 market to purchase your first time home, relocate to the state of Florida, 177 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:35,039 or just purchase that second home or investment property. 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Longtime legend in the 194 00:14:58,039 --> 00:15:03,120 Miami sports media world, mister Joe Osaghacki been the long time play by play 195 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,759 voice of the Canes football and basketball, and again a fixture in South Florida 196 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:11,679 sports. If you're down in that area, you know Joe very well. 197 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:16,120 So welcome to the podcast. Joe, Thank you, appreciate you having me 198 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,559 ready to talk about the Hurricanes. That's right, before we get to the 199 00:15:18,639 --> 00:15:24,440 Hurricanes, I gotta ask you to Miami sports scene questions. Give us a 200 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:28,679 sense of the hype about Messi being in Miami and the whole just the whirlwind 201 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:33,200 of what that's been the last month or so. Well, obviously he's been 202 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:39,799 magical. Messi has been magical. Everybody's talking about it. Has created more 203 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:45,799 interests in soccer in this area than probably ever before. What I do find 204 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:50,919 funny about it is everybody talks about Miami, Miami, Miami, and they 205 00:15:50,919 --> 00:15:54,679 play the games in Fort Lauderdale. So I feel like I live in Browery 206 00:15:54,759 --> 00:15:58,440 County, not too far from Fort Lauderdale, that Fort Lauderdale is getting the 207 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:03,720 short end of the stick. But he certainly has turned this community upside down. 208 00:16:03,759 --> 00:16:07,360 One more question, before we get to the Canes football side. You 209 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:11,840 had the pleasure of being a part of the final four run for the basketball 210 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:17,480 team this year, first ever Final four run for larenag and the Hurricanes. 211 00:16:17,559 --> 00:16:21,600 Just just give us a sense of the excitement and just the thrill of the 212 00:16:21,679 --> 00:16:26,279 Canes making a Final four. Yeah, for me personally, it was one 213 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:32,519 of the greatest months of my broadcast career. Probably the most intense three or 214 00:16:32,559 --> 00:16:37,200 four weeks that I've ever had high level games right to the Final four, 215 00:16:37,799 --> 00:16:42,679 and just being at the Final four personally was you know, it's the whole 216 00:16:42,759 --> 00:16:48,120 event that I've never been through or done or broadcast, So I felt like 217 00:16:48,159 --> 00:16:51,799 I was able to check that off my list. But to follow the team 218 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:59,000 and be able to narrate and deliver the soundtrack of that season was really really 219 00:16:59,039 --> 00:17:03,840 special. It was thrilling. It meant a lot to the program. I 220 00:17:03,879 --> 00:17:07,440 think in the long run, is you know, going to change the program? 221 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,160 I think a little bit, because now you know, players are gonna 222 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,279 look at the University of Miami and say, yeah, hey, they play 223 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:18,160 basketball too. It's not just a football school. They legitimately, legitimately have 224 00:17:18,279 --> 00:17:25,200 a really good basketball program. But it was just so exciting, so passionate, 225 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:29,640 and just a great throw ride. Really something that I will will never 226 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,960 forget. Yeah, it was a great run for sure, and obviously you 227 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,720 had the other added storyline that he had Fau right up the road from you 228 00:17:36,759 --> 00:17:38,839 guys that were in it too, and just for that South Florida market. 229 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:44,839 Just a great funny thing. Is sorry to interrupt, but FAU game was 230 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:48,599 right before our game, and the way the broadcast positions are set up at 231 00:17:48,599 --> 00:17:53,559 the final four, you're kind of below the floor and you're not center court 232 00:17:53,599 --> 00:18:00,279 because that goes to CBS and network radio. So you're right about the free 233 00:18:00,279 --> 00:18:03,160 throw line, maybe a little bit below the free throw line, and just 234 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:08,559 below the floor. Your eyes were like even with the floor and the last 235 00:18:08,599 --> 00:18:12,799 shot of the game for San Diego State, I probably could have helped Fau. 236 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,960 I could have tackled the San Diego State shooter. He was right in 237 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:19,480 front of me, and I thought, Man, if there is ever a 238 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:25,359 time to have a call that would you know, as luck would have had 239 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:29,400 it, that would have been a great, great spot because in the broadcast 240 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:33,759 world now you're kind of getting pushed farther and farther away from the action. 241 00:18:33,079 --> 00:18:38,680 It just so happened for that game. That game winning shot was probably three 242 00:18:38,759 --> 00:18:41,440 feet right in front of me. Of course it wasn't my game. I 243 00:18:41,519 --> 00:18:45,319 wasn't calling it, but it was race smack in front of me. I 244 00:18:45,839 --> 00:18:51,799 thought so bad for FAU because this such a great story as well. Nah, 245 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:53,599 you're right it was. It was a dream, dream season for both 246 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,359 South Florida schools for sure. So all right, let's get to the football 247 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:02,720 side of things with the hurricane. Obviously, Mario crystal Ball year two year 248 00:19:02,799 --> 00:19:07,319 one, five and seven overall record three and five in the ACC not kind 249 00:19:07,319 --> 00:19:10,839 of what they wanted to start off the era with. But again, Mario 250 00:19:11,039 --> 00:19:15,640 comes in. He's been known as a great recruiter, and you're seeing the 251 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:19,359 fruits of that labor here last year and obviously well into this year. Give 252 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:25,160 us a sense of just Mario's re acclimation in South Florida. How how's that 253 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:29,759 gone from just reintegrating himself into the community. Obviously we know he played there 254 00:19:29,759 --> 00:19:33,599 back in the glory days. Talk about that relationship with Mario in the community. 255 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,599 Well, I think he's got a very good relationship with the community. 256 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,440 He's from here, he understands this community. He came back to get this 257 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:48,640 make this program prominent. I think the where the wires all got crossed was 258 00:19:48,519 --> 00:19:55,279 after Miami made that transition from many Diaz to Mario many Das his team when 259 00:19:55,319 --> 00:19:59,119 he lost his job. They had lost that season, I don't know, 260 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:03,200 three or four game games by a couple of points. Lost in Virginia on 261 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:07,240 a field goal that hit off the upright, lost to North Carolina going in 262 00:20:07,319 --> 00:20:11,599 for the game winning score. Again ball's intercepted at the line of scrimmage. 263 00:20:12,039 --> 00:20:18,079 Lose the Florida State up there on a fourth and fourteen play. If you 264 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,160 get off the field, you know you win that game. So that's three 265 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:25,160 games right there, right, And I think people thought, well, here 266 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:29,480 comes to Mario with his great coaching staff. We ought to be able to 267 00:20:29,519 --> 00:20:33,519 improve on those three games we lost with Manny. That's that's coaching, right. 268 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,759 And then it didn't go that way, and Van Dyke got hurt, 269 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:44,680 the offensive line got hurt, and I'm not sure that either scheme was the 270 00:20:44,759 --> 00:20:48,279 right scheme for the defense or the offense. So there wasn't a connection there. 271 00:20:48,319 --> 00:20:53,039 And then I think Mario he looks at the big picture. You know, 272 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,200 you lose a couple of games along the way here. He looks at 273 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,559 the big picture and says, oh, wait a minute. You know, 274 00:21:02,039 --> 00:21:06,720 I understand we should be beating the likes of Virginia and Duke a hell Middle 275 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:11,440 Tennessee. But you didn't bring me here just to win those games. You 276 00:21:11,559 --> 00:21:15,720 brought me here to compete with Alabama and Georgia whether they lose those games, 277 00:21:15,759 --> 00:21:18,039 the Duke and everything, and fans are like, well, hell, we 278 00:21:18,079 --> 00:21:22,079 can't beat Duke, and you're talking about Georgia. So he finally comes out 279 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:26,200 and says, listen, I'm gonna say when no one else has had the 280 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:30,720 balls to say, which is we need to rebuild this program. Nobody has 281 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,920 said that. It's always been for the last twenty years. Oh, Miami's 282 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,799 back, Miami's gonna be back. We're gonna get close to being back. 283 00:21:37,279 --> 00:21:42,000 Well, when you have the things that have happened to this program, the 284 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:49,039 amount of attrition, the amount of coaching change, the amount of getting beat 285 00:21:49,079 --> 00:21:55,839 on recruiting, throw in a scandal. You've dug yourself a gigantic ditch. 286 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,279 You can't get out of that by saying, oh, we're one player away, 287 00:22:00,279 --> 00:22:03,440 we're one scheme away, we're one coach away. So finally, when 288 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,720 this thing just hit rock bottom last year, he said, look I'm here, 289 00:22:07,799 --> 00:22:11,880 I'm tough. I can take it. Fly your airplanes, do whatever 290 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,400 you want. I can take it. So I think people now are warming 291 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,880 up to the fact, like, okay, we see what his vision is 292 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,039 now, So marn't some are just gonna, you know, go to that 293 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:26,799 default position of well, we're Miami and we should win. But that doesn't 294 00:22:26,799 --> 00:22:30,400 work anymore. We're Florida, We're gonna win. Doesn't work. We're Texas, 295 00:22:30,599 --> 00:22:34,759 We're gonna win. Doesn't work. We're usc We're gonna win. Not 296 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:41,279 working. Alabama, Georgia. Look at what the NFL says, you know, 297 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,119 Georgia the last shot or three years, like thirty players in the NFL 298 00:22:45,559 --> 00:22:49,880 recruiting, managing your roster. That's what wins. That's what he's doing. 299 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:56,799 And now he's he's building it the way he knows how, which is size 300 00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:02,279 and speed, size in the trenches on the perimeter. It's not a complete 301 00:23:02,319 --> 00:23:06,640 project right now. It's a work in progress. But I can I can 302 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:11,279 finally see this vision, this blueprint you mentioned, you mentioned kind of the 303 00:23:11,759 --> 00:23:17,119 chemistry wasn't there last year. He changes both coordinators brings in Shannon Dawson from 304 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:22,680 Houston, Lance Geddri from Marshall to as far as offensive defensive coordinators. Is 305 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,240 that a key part of this element is the coaching in the and the cohesion 306 00:23:26,319 --> 00:23:30,359 of a of a system to fit kind of what you want to do offensively. 307 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,200 I know, Mario's our offensive line guy, or you know, he 308 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:37,319 wants to play a physical brand of football. You think these these two new 309 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,200 hires are gonna fit that mold better? Yeah, I think they're more in 310 00:23:41,279 --> 00:23:47,160 line with what Miami had when they you know, uh, we're successful in 311 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:52,559 the eighties and nineties. Just go to Jimmy Johnson, right, he follows 312 00:23:52,559 --> 00:23:56,559 Howard Stillenberg. He comes here from Oklahoma State. At that time, nobody 313 00:23:56,599 --> 00:24:00,599 really knew who Jimmy Johnson was. He was an up and I mean coach 314 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:04,720 from from the big Big eight, I guess at the time, right, 315 00:24:04,799 --> 00:24:08,880 Big twelve now Big sixteen, at the time, the Big eight, And 316 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,960 I guess My point is this, guys like Dawson and Giddry are still on 317 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:22,079 the way up and in their position as as coaches at Marshall and at Houston, 318 00:24:22,559 --> 00:24:26,640 they were fighting every single day for their job. It's like, you 319 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,319 know, these high school coaches in Texas who you know, battle every day 320 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,559 because it means so much. You lose the game, you're out right. 321 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:40,359 So Dawson and Gidrey are creative, They're they're finding ways to be successful. 322 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,640 I thought it was interesting that Gidrey looked at looked at the defense and said, 323 00:24:45,039 --> 00:24:48,160 well, I want to see what they do, well, what's good 324 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,880 for them, what they like doing. And you know, we're kind of 325 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:56,119 back to what many Diaz was doing defensively a little bit, and that is 326 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,559 attacking the quarterback, being aggressive, giving the offense. It's a lot to 327 00:25:00,599 --> 00:25:07,319 think about trying to mess with the offensive line the opponent's blocking policy. Getry 328 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:11,240 though, is more in line with we got to stop the run. I 329 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:15,759 think, Manny, you know, fair unfair stopping the run with something you 330 00:25:15,799 --> 00:25:19,279 did on the way to the quarterback. So maybe both guys high risk defense. 331 00:25:19,559 --> 00:25:22,440 When you play a high risk defense, you're gonna pay the price for 332 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:26,400 that, right. You're gonna make some big plays, but be prepared to 333 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,519 give something up. You can't defend everything. You gotta make a choice. 334 00:25:30,839 --> 00:25:37,359 People think you can defend everything, you can't. So then offensively, you 335 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:41,319 know, Miami was abysmal last year, ninety fifth and rushing ninety sixth and 336 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,480 scoring eighty six in the red zone. Twenty three points a game for the 337 00:25:45,559 --> 00:25:51,559 University of Miami. Shannon Dawson his offense last year at Houston forty or more 338 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:56,599 points four times, thirty or more points ten times, and Miami out to 339 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:00,720 score thirty or more points every time out right, with the kind of the 340 00:26:00,799 --> 00:26:04,920 kind of athletes available to Miami, they should and the way football is played 341 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:11,160 today, twenty three points of the University of Miami. I think I could 342 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,920 could come up with twenty three points a game. Miami should the average thirty 343 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,960 points a game the way college football has played today. Now, defending is 344 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,319 a whole different story. You know. I feel bad for defensive coordinators. 345 00:26:23,839 --> 00:26:30,039 And I think Shannon Dawson has got that right attitude mentality. I hate using 346 00:26:30,079 --> 00:26:34,960 that word swagger, but he's got this confidence and I think he's just in 347 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:40,440 line with the way the game is played today. And I'm not so sure 348 00:26:40,519 --> 00:26:44,799 that you know, I hate to say this, but you know, maybe 349 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,119 last year some of those guys looked at their talent went well, you know, 350 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,880 hey, I didn't I don't have anybody here that could start for you 351 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,599 know, Michigan or Alabama. All Right, I get that, right, 352 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,200 That's why you're here. You got to figure out what to do with this 353 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,640 this group. And I think that's where Dawson and Gidrey are. They understand 354 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,839 that Miami probably is not elite yet and if you're not elites, then what 355 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,279 do you gotta do? You got to figure out how to make it hard 356 00:27:11,319 --> 00:27:15,079 on the other team. That's always been the beauty of Jim Laronega. You 357 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:19,480 know, we get really good talent in Miami and basketball, probably not what 358 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:25,480 Duke and Carolina get, but he figures out a style that makes it hard 359 00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:29,759 on the other guys. And Gidrey and Dawson I think also like Coachell look 360 00:27:29,799 --> 00:27:32,279 at it and say, Okay, I know what the weakness is going to 361 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:36,240 be. What the crypt that I is for those for the opposition, and 362 00:27:36,279 --> 00:27:38,400 we're going to attack it. And so I think that's why that will be 363 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,920 better this year. And you're putting to your point. On offense, Miami 364 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,319 only had one game when they scored over twenty four against the Power of five 365 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:49,359 team, and five times they were left they were held to seventeen or less. 366 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,400 Last year. That's just not a way of formula. You can't win 367 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:56,640 that way until he's college football. I mean, I don't care who's staying 368 00:27:56,759 --> 00:28:00,960 new Rockley can be on the side. You're not gonna win in today's football 369 00:28:02,039 --> 00:28:04,640 with that kind of production. Looking at the guys that are back on offense, 370 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,400 obviously, Tyler Van Dyke is a key. We all thought he was 371 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,400 gonna have a good year last year, didn't play as well. This guy's 372 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,680 an NFL prospect, a lot of talent. Give me, give me what 373 00:28:14,759 --> 00:28:18,559 he needs to do better in this new system to be able to make Miami 374 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:23,039 a viable contender in the ACC. Stay healthy. Can't play with a bad 375 00:28:23,079 --> 00:28:29,839 shoulder, so stay uprights and trust his protection and trust the offense. And 376 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,839 I think it's incumbent on Dawson to understand about Van Dyke, and I think 377 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,519 he does. I hope he does, at least this is my opinion. 378 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,160 Maybe I'm the one that's wrong. I'm you know, I'm just a broadcaster, 379 00:28:41,559 --> 00:28:45,519 so I throw out opinions like everybody else. I think Van Dyke is 380 00:28:45,599 --> 00:28:51,880 best when you get him into a groove. It's like a pitcher who can't 381 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,640 get into the strike zone. Well, if he's not throwing strikes. It 382 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,680 doesn't have command. You got to figure out how to get him to throw. 383 00:29:00,759 --> 00:29:04,160 And Van Dyke's case, he's a little bit streaky. So sometimes I 384 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:11,119 think the evidence would show with Rett Lashley two years ago, we go fast, 385 00:29:11,359 --> 00:29:14,240 we get the ball in his hands and we throw it to somebody who's 386 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:18,279 open. We go fast, we hit open receivers. Not everything has to 387 00:29:18,319 --> 00:29:22,440 be a deep over route for Van Dyke. We get him going, we 388 00:29:22,519 --> 00:29:26,000 get him some confidence, we get him going. And so I think Miami's 389 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,400 trying to manage this fine line between going fast like they did a couple of 390 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:37,279 years ago, and then also grinding up the opponent of his Mario wants to 391 00:29:37,319 --> 00:29:41,880 be physical and run the football. So Dawson two years ago with Houston, 392 00:29:41,319 --> 00:29:45,720 they were numbers six in the country in time of possession, So I think 393 00:29:45,759 --> 00:29:49,039 he understands that bounce. To answer your question, Van Dyke's got to stay 394 00:29:49,039 --> 00:29:52,240 healthy. He's got the five best lineman in front of him that he's had 395 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:57,000 since he's been here. All that being said, you know when he plays 396 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:02,319 against Miami of Ohio, it would be his eighteen start. That's all eighteen. 397 00:30:02,359 --> 00:30:04,920 He hadn't gone a full season but if you look at his sample size 398 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:11,079 in those eighteen you look at what he did in twenty twenty one when he 399 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:15,119 had six straight three undred yard games, he had seven games and three touchdowns 400 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:21,240 or more. And then last year there was a small glimpse when they went 401 00:30:21,279 --> 00:30:26,039 back to let's speed it up for him. North Carolina Virginia Tech. North 402 00:30:26,079 --> 00:30:32,039 Carolina four ninety six, Virginia Tech three forty two. Then he gets hurt. 403 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:37,920 So I think you know where he feels comfortable, what his sweet spot 404 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:41,640 is. They got to get him there. Give us a couple of names 405 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,759 of some dynamic offensive players. I know they've got a good running backs room, 406 00:30:44,759 --> 00:30:47,720 but give me a couple of names of some guys who they expect to 407 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,880 be really productive at the skill positions on offense. Well, I'm going to 408 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,839 change that to a little bit of the guys they need. I don't know 409 00:30:56,519 --> 00:31:00,880 that they are as dynamic as they you know it probably need to be more 410 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,200 dynamic, but you got to work with what you have. So they have 411 00:31:06,319 --> 00:31:11,640 safety and numbers. They've got different combinations. You have Colby Young who's six 412 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,960 foot five, so you throw him the ball in the red zoe, he 413 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,880 can go up and snatch it. The guy they can't do without is Rostreppo, 414 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,920 Xavier Rostreppo. I don't know if I would call him dynamic, but 415 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,359 I would call him dependable, and I would say, you know, he 416 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,000 got hurt last year and that was a real thorn in Van Dyke's side. 417 00:31:30,319 --> 00:31:36,920 He's just he's a player that Van Dyke has such confidence in and great chemistry 418 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,519 with. So does Rostreppo beat you deep? I don't know. Maybe he 419 00:31:41,559 --> 00:31:44,960 does. Is he out jump people? Probably not, But what he does 420 00:31:45,039 --> 00:31:48,200 he just outworks everybody. Throw him the ball, He's gonna die for it. 421 00:31:48,359 --> 00:31:52,799 He's gonna make a great attempt and I most likely he'll catch it, 422 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,079 but he makes acrobatic plays. It might be a catch and fall down, 423 00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:00,599 but he's gonna catch it. Maybe he sneaks the high in the defense. 424 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,960 If he does and you lay it out for him, he's gonna he's gonna 425 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,559 catch. It's gonna be great on third downs, gonna be a great decoy. 426 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,920 They can't do without him. The guys they need to elevate their games 427 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:16,240 that could be dynamic Jacobe George but Charge Smith. Guys that are dynamic but 428 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:22,920 are too young are Ray Ray, Joseph and Robbie Washington, at least I 429 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:28,039 think they're true. We'll see, you know, Ray Ray Joseph was great 430 00:32:28,039 --> 00:32:30,759 in the spring, been great in camp. My concerned with young players like 431 00:32:30,839 --> 00:32:35,079 that when you throw them in and you need to use them a lot. 432 00:32:35,119 --> 00:32:38,799 As they get they get banged up because you know they're gonna be not physically 433 00:32:39,119 --> 00:32:44,440 where everybody else is. But Ray Ray Joseph can be a game changer, 434 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:49,240 and so can Robbie Washington. You'll listen to jose Zagaki, the voice of 435 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,839 the Miami Hurricanes for football and basketball, were just giving it give me a 436 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:57,839 preview of the twenty twenty three Hurricanes and interesting staff that I research in Miami. 437 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,400 Last year, turnover margin was huge. Since two thousand and seventeen, 438 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:07,039 the Canes are one in seventeen in games with two plus turnovers. Last year 439 00:33:07,359 --> 00:33:10,240 they were oh and six in games with two plus turnovers and five and one 440 00:33:10,279 --> 00:33:15,240 when they didn't turn it over twice. How much of an emphasis is possessing 441 00:33:15,279 --> 00:33:20,359 the ball in ball security. It's funny that you bring that up, because 442 00:33:20,599 --> 00:33:27,359 what was odd about Miami is they were they were I think it's minus five 443 00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:32,599 over the season for turnovers. They were minus five. The defense took the 444 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:37,640 ball away twenty times. Right. That's pretty good. Now, not as 445 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,480 good as two thousand and one people want to be two thousand one. Two 446 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:44,640 thousand and one they took it away forty eight times, but the offense gave 447 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:49,319 it away twenty five. Right. So to your point, that's to a 448 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:54,359 game they're not gonna win, So big emphasis on offense protecting the ball. 449 00:33:54,720 --> 00:34:00,880 I think a lot of that again was there was no consistent consists since at 450 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:06,240 quarterback, so there were more interceptions because he played three quarterbacks. Jake Garcia 451 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,800 not with the program anymore. I don't know what he had for interceptions, 452 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:15,840 but he had a lot. Van Dyke had five, Jakari Brown had had 453 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:21,679 a couple. Garcia seemed like he threw a lot. Threw him in really 454 00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:24,639 a bad spot, like pick six is coming off the goal line. So 455 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:30,559 it wasn't only the turnovers. It was also where they happened often. It 456 00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:34,599 was I mean, it's one thing to play sudden change, but I mean 457 00:34:34,599 --> 00:34:37,760 we were throwing pick sixes or the other team is getting the ball at the 458 00:34:37,119 --> 00:34:40,000 ten yard line. You're not gonna win. Do that. I would say, 459 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,039 clean up the turnovers, but also they were number one oh six in 460 00:34:46,079 --> 00:34:52,519 the nation and penalties, and maybe some of that was frustration. Some of 461 00:34:52,559 --> 00:34:59,760 that's probably the lousy refereeing in the ACC. It's always been bad. You 462 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,840 know, they just over afficiate in this league. I think the SEC looks 463 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:08,000 at the ACC and says, are you guys playing flag football in that league? 464 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:13,800 You know, they just always over officiate games. And then, but 465 00:35:14,079 --> 00:35:21,559 that being said, especially on defense, Miami said gets way too many, 466 00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:27,719 you know, personal foul penalties, fifteen yard penalties that extend drives. They 467 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,639 lost to Texas at M last year. I think by a touchdown whatever it 468 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:35,199 was, thirteen to six, sixteen to six, whatever the score was, 469 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:40,800 and they played pretty good defense. A and M hit him. Uh Iannis 470 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,639 Smith had a forty yard catch, twenty thirty yard catch. James Williams gets 471 00:35:45,679 --> 00:35:50,480 called for a personal foul. He picked them up, grabbed them, you 472 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,159 know, bear hugged him and slammed them down. In the SEC. Not 473 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:59,719 a penalty, ACC officials in that game. I guess an SEC team penalty 474 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,760 fifteen yards. Now, you can't do that. Fifteen yards. He's he's 475 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,639 got him gathered in, you know, lay him down. He slams them 476 00:36:07,679 --> 00:36:13,320 down next play, No, two plays later, touchdown, right, So 477 00:36:13,599 --> 00:36:15,599 you can't shoot yourself in the foot like that. One hundred and sixty in 478 00:36:15,639 --> 00:36:20,400 the nation and penalties, you can't have that. My point of the ACC 479 00:36:20,599 --> 00:36:23,360 though, I don't know what it was last year, but a couple of 480 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:32,559 years ago, fourteen teams in the ACC ten we're in the bottom fifty of 481 00:36:32,639 --> 00:36:38,519 most penalty penalized in the country. How do you have a conference where ten 482 00:36:38,559 --> 00:36:45,280 of your teams are in the are the worst penalized teams in the country. 483 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,880 You're right, now, that's a that's a great point. Every league officiates 484 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:52,960 their games differently and they should just blow up, you know, a league 485 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:57,960 officiated and just thinking nationwide. That's that's that's that's a valid point as well. 486 00:36:58,199 --> 00:37:00,159 A couple more things I'll get you out of here. Let's look the 487 00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:02,719 schedule a little bit. Obviously a huge game early with Texas A and m 488 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:07,400 coming to Miami. Then in October you got a gauntlet, you go to 489 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:13,480 North Carolina, you got Clemson early November, go to NC State in Florida 490 00:37:13,519 --> 00:37:15,880 State and back to back weeks. Talk about the importance of getting off to 491 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:21,000 that good start in that Texas A and M game. You know A and 492 00:37:21,119 --> 00:37:23,679 M. You know they they underachieved and there's a lot of pressure on them. 493 00:37:24,039 --> 00:37:30,280 So Jimbo goes with a play Callege Savant and Bobby Petrino. Dame is 494 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:35,039 here A and M. I mean, I have their depth chart right in 495 00:37:35,079 --> 00:37:37,960 front of me. I'm already up to that game, and I just can't 496 00:37:37,039 --> 00:37:43,519 believe the amount of talent on their team and how they lost six games in 497 00:37:43,519 --> 00:37:47,480 a row last year is beyond beyond me. Now, what they did is 498 00:37:50,039 --> 00:37:52,119 they got rid of all the people they didn't want, and they kept all 499 00:37:52,159 --> 00:37:57,719 the guys that they wanted, and every guy in that roster is like a 500 00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:04,480 five star guy. They a chain with the Dolphins. They replaced him with 501 00:38:04,559 --> 00:38:07,960 Ruben Owens, five star, number one running back in the country. And 502 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:13,480 they do that at every position. Now I'm looking at their defensive line. 503 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,960 They've got one, two, They've got nine nine guys that are either four 504 00:38:19,039 --> 00:38:24,119 or five star guy on their defensive line, their linebackers, their safety DEMONI 505 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:29,400 Richardson, who was throwing out of our game last year, is a SEC 506 00:38:30,159 --> 00:38:35,400 all SEC player. He's back. Chappelle is back, Bryce Anderson's back. 507 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,559 Anderson was a five star player, Gilbert's back, their entire secondary's back. 508 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:45,119 So that's a monumental challenge for Miami. To answer your question, I'll answer 509 00:38:45,119 --> 00:38:47,480 it this way. I saw the stat the other day. The last five 510 00:38:47,599 --> 00:38:53,800 years against ACC opponents, MINAI is eleven and nine at home, twelve and 511 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:59,239 nine on the road. First of all, eleven and nine at home against 512 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,360 the ACC, and that's third best in the conference. Another reason shows you 513 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:08,079 to why the ACC really struggles. Just Clemson's undefeated at home in the last 514 00:39:08,119 --> 00:39:14,719 five years, Miami's eleven and nine. They lose ninth home games at home 515 00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:21,719 fifteen or twenty years, So you've got to re establish a home field advantage. 516 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,519 It's not the stadium in Texas, A and m the not an ACC 517 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:30,119 team, but you got to win these games at home. And then to 518 00:39:30,199 --> 00:39:35,400 your point, if you want to play for the championship in the ACCA, 519 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,000 the way that the schedule came out, everybody that's picked in front of Miami, 520 00:39:38,559 --> 00:39:43,719 Florida State, Clemson, Carolina, Ncctate, they're all in Miami schedule. 521 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,320 If they win those games, they'll play for the ACC champion championship. 522 00:39:46,559 --> 00:39:51,320 So then that gets me to Miami's got a lot of players that want to 523 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,800 play in the NFL, and I just sell those guys, Well, you 524 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:58,559 think you're an NFL player, go prove it. You're playing teams of NFL 525 00:39:58,639 --> 00:40:04,000 players on it. Don't dodge it you Okay? Is it? You want 526 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,159 to go to the NFL? All right? What you want to be a 527 00:40:06,199 --> 00:40:08,000 free agent? Or you want to be in the sixth round, seventh round, 528 00:40:08,519 --> 00:40:13,480 or do you want to show the NFL you know you're worth the first 529 00:40:13,559 --> 00:40:16,119 round, third round. We'll go do it against Clemson in North Carolina or 530 00:40:16,199 --> 00:40:22,159 Florida's Sea right now, big quart I mean, Carolina's got a big quarterback, 531 00:40:22,159 --> 00:40:25,880 Clemson's got a big quarterback. Florida State's got expectations this year. So 532 00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,559 the schedules right in front of them. If they could perform. And remember 533 00:40:30,639 --> 00:40:35,599 the ACC takes the top two teams now or division, So there's opportunity there 534 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,320 that you can lose a game and still make it to the title game. 535 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:42,400 Yeah, and look, Carolina has had Miami's number. They gotta go beat 536 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,239 Carolina, you know they I think it's four years in a row, five 537 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:52,519 years in a row, Carolina has beatn Miami and you know they've beaten they 538 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,719 crushed them, a couple of times. I think three or four of the 539 00:40:54,760 --> 00:41:05,239 seed loss up there on a fourth down and fifteen play Miami, uh may 540 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,480 daz his first year, come all the way back. They've got him beat 541 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:15,800 beat one play, one play on defense. Can't can't get it. Next 542 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:22,280 year Carolina comes down here and runs for eight thousand yards, you know, 543 00:41:22,559 --> 00:41:25,159 but up seven hundred yards on the ground, couldn't stop him. Go to 544 00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:30,760 Carolina two years ago, marching in for the last for the game winning score. 545 00:41:31,559 --> 00:41:36,679 Balls deflected at the line of scrimmage, interception game over last year, 546 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,440 Van Dyke throws for almost five hundred yards and you lose the game. Right, 547 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:49,159 You've got a right. And obviously with Florida State's resurgence under Mike Norvell, 548 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,320 you want to see that Miami Florida State rivalry re emerged. Are you 549 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:58,800 hearing anything about realignment? Obviously Miami Florida State had been talked about. Is 550 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,760 Miami inned the accor is this a team that potentially could be on the move, 551 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:07,920 And you know, six months to a year, nothing will surprise me, 552 00:42:07,039 --> 00:42:12,679 Jason. I think that the Miami brand, you know, I feel 553 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:16,800 like there are a certain amount of people in and around the ACC that are 554 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:22,320 trying to hold on for dear life with the ACC. And then I think 555 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,719 there are a whole bunch of people outside of the league that's say, you 556 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:30,559 know, we gotta not we gotta get rid of this league so that we 557 00:42:30,599 --> 00:42:36,639 can get to what we really want, which is X amount of teams in 558 00:42:36,679 --> 00:42:39,840 a smaller amount. Really, I guess what they want is the NFL and 559 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:46,920 the NBA, right they want that on Fox and ESPN, And how that 560 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:52,199 plays out, I don't know. It's doesn't make a lot of sense. 561 00:42:52,199 --> 00:42:57,159 Some of it doesn't make a lot of sense to me beyond football, which 562 00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:01,760 really nobody's thinking about. And I understand in that, uh it's it's very 563 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:07,000 peculiar. But you know, I think Miami's going to be in play, 564 00:43:07,039 --> 00:43:10,920 I think, and they have to be in play because the way it's it's 565 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:17,199 shaping up. Major schools I think could be left out. Look callin Stamford 566 00:43:17,639 --> 00:43:21,920 right now are out on the outside unless they come into the ACC. And 567 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,920 there's no guarantee the ECC survives after that, and there are teams inside the 568 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:32,760 ACC, there's no guarantee that they get absorbed by whatever this uh this uh 569 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:37,480 game is that the networks are playing, which is you know, we want 570 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:44,519 these great matchups all the time. Problem with with with that is on paper, 571 00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,079 you know, this Big ten thing looks great or Big twelve, whatever 572 00:43:47,119 --> 00:43:50,440 whatever. They're gonna call it the Big ten, Big twenty, you know. 573 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:58,039 Okay, so Michigan is going to play all the USC, UCLA, 574 00:43:58,119 --> 00:44:00,960 Oregon watch all those teams. Right, So we get to what week seven 575 00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:07,039 and we got this great matchup of Michigans in Miami. No, no, 576 00:44:07,079 --> 00:44:10,760 but gonna do it the other way. Michigan, Michigan and USC. Oh 577 00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:15,280 they played in the Rose Bowl for so many years. Well guess what now 578 00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:21,079 they're both four and four right because they're playing, you know, killing each 579 00:44:21,079 --> 00:44:23,519 other inside their conference. Right. I don't know, but I think Miami's 580 00:44:23,559 --> 00:44:28,360 going to be in play. They want to be in play. I wouldn't 581 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,880 be shocked if they end up in the Big ten. You know a lot 582 00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:37,440 of rumors about Big ten. Once Miami in North Carolina, maybe the SEC 583 00:44:37,639 --> 00:44:40,559 takes Florida, Satan Clemson and then we're done. I don't know. All 584 00:44:40,639 --> 00:44:44,360 I tell the fans where they can find your broadcast if they don't have a 585 00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,599 Miami radio affiliate in their town. Where can they where can they listen? 586 00:44:46,639 --> 00:44:52,039 All the great broadcast you who who's your who's your analyst? My partner is 587 00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:59,880 Don Bailey Junior. He was the center of the ninth from nineteen eighty seventy 588 00:45:00,119 --> 00:45:05,039 nine to eighty two. Jimmy Kelly was his quarterback. Mark Rip was his 589 00:45:05,159 --> 00:45:09,559 roommate. Don was the captain of those teams and really was part of the 590 00:45:09,599 --> 00:45:15,599 teams that transformed the University of Miami. So he's my partner. We've got 591 00:45:15,679 --> 00:45:20,800 Josh Jarrow who is my sideline reporter. And outside of well anywhere in the 592 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:25,719 world, you can listen on the Odyssey app Odyssey dot com or the Odyssey 593 00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:32,440 app au d a c y Odyssey and it's free, the free Odyssey app. 594 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:37,159 You know some some colleges are stuck behind a paywall. We are not. 595 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:43,159 And of course satellite radio also a serious satellite radio. That's awesome that 596 00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,119 Joe's been on the call? Is is this year twenty two or twenty three? 597 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:51,639 This would be my thirty fifth year on the broadcast and my twenty second 598 00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:57,679 as a play by play, okay, twenty second play again. Joe is 599 00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:00,000 a fixture in Miami sports. If you if you've lived in that area. 600 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,280 He's been on TV, he's covered, he's done everything in the Miami sports 601 00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,519 me a true a troop legend in that in that market. Last thing, 602 00:46:07,519 --> 00:46:10,400 give me, give me a quick though on the Dolphins. You expect him 603 00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:15,800 up contend for the AFC East brutal Division. Is he's gonna be brutal? 604 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:20,039 Yeah, I do. I think, uh, you know, I just 605 00:46:20,079 --> 00:46:22,239 like everything else. To me, it's pretty simple for them. I think 606 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:28,840 they're gonna be better on defense. They've changed their strategy and Vic Fangio's really 607 00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:34,280 you know, he's a defensive savants. Offensively, to me, it's pretty 608 00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:38,519 simple, keep two upright, keep a vertical. Yeah, when he's when 609 00:46:38,519 --> 00:46:43,519 he's upright, I think he's very good. But every time he drops back 610 00:46:43,559 --> 00:46:45,039 the throat. Now I think you kind of go like this year you're looking 611 00:46:45,079 --> 00:46:52,480 through played fingers. And the other thing is which they didn't run the ball 612 00:46:52,519 --> 00:46:54,719 really well. And Daniel came from the forty nine ers, and I thought, 613 00:46:54,760 --> 00:47:00,360 for sure, you know, there'll be a much better running team. 614 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,599 And I really like the way the forty nine ers play offense because I think 615 00:47:02,599 --> 00:47:06,880 that's the week you gotta win in the NFL. You gotta you know, 616 00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:08,440 you've got to be able to slug it out a little bit, and their 617 00:47:08,519 --> 00:47:14,639 run game has just been awful, so certainly a good run game would probably 618 00:47:14,639 --> 00:47:16,199 help to it. But I think it all comes down that's true. What 619 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:22,960 they got those you know, between the Hill and Waddle just throwing the ball, 620 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,360 they're gonna out run everybody, right right right, Well, Josip Gacy, 621 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:29,679 appreciate the time, and have a great year with the Hurricanes. Hopefully 622 00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:31,880 we'll see you guys in the a SEC title game, maybe a Florida State 623 00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:37,559 Miami second coming of that game'd be awesome for the state of Florida. And 624 00:47:37,599 --> 00:47:39,559 we really appreciate your time. All right, thank you, appreciate it. 625 00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:43,039 Have a great year, Joe, and we'll be right back on the Powers 626 00:47:43,079 --> 00:47:49,159 on Sports and Florida Football Insiders simulcasts. Well. A fall football season and 627 00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:53,159 fall sports calendar is finally here, and there's no better place to buy your 628 00:47:53,199 --> 00:47:59,159 tickets for whether it's for the NFL, college football, Major League Baseball, 629 00:47:59,519 --> 00:48:06,159 or any sporting event in between the in the fall months of August through December, 630 00:48:06,199 --> 00:48:09,599 then ticketsmarter dot com. 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All right, welcome back Florida Football Insiders podcast. 639 00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:53,119 You just heard from the voice of the of the Miami Hurricanes, Joe 640 00:48:53,199 --> 00:49:00,440 Sagaki talking about the twenty twenty three Hurricanes. And next up on our preview 641 00:49:00,519 --> 00:49:07,320 list is the Central Florida Nights. UCF Gus Malzon and company making the big 642 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,719 jump to the Big twelve this year, coming off a nine and five season 643 00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:15,559 in twenty twenty two. Again, big big move there for UCF joining the 644 00:49:15,559 --> 00:49:19,559 Big twelve. Obviously with all the realignment stuff, they were kind of ahead 645 00:49:19,559 --> 00:49:22,559 of the curve, which was a great thing for UCF. And we'll see 646 00:49:22,559 --> 00:49:27,000 a lot of a lot of benefits moving forward for the UCF athletics program. 647 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,760 And no better person to talk all things UCF other than our guy, Matt 648 00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:36,039 Murchelle from the Orlando Sentinel. You've heard me and talk with Matt many many 649 00:49:36,079 --> 00:49:38,960 times the last year or so about Florida State. He is now covering the 650 00:49:39,079 --> 00:49:44,960 UCF beat there in Orlando. So welcome to the podcast. Matt. Appreciate 651 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,719 you joining us, No problem, thank you, I appreciate it. All 652 00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:52,239 right, Let's get right to it. Talk about the just the chatter about 653 00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:55,039 joining the Big twelve and what has been the kind of the community sentiment and 654 00:49:55,119 --> 00:50:00,719 campus and athletics wise, about the challenge and thrill of joining such a big 655 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:06,199 league and such a well known football conference. Yeah, there's a lot of 656 00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:07,719 excitement as you can imagine. I mean they've known about this for a couple 657 00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:12,000 of years now. They accepted the invitation and then they kind of had to 658 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,440 wait until you know, everything can kind of become official and the buyeout and 659 00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:17,159 everything, and and this is it. You know, they've they've they've been 660 00:50:17,199 --> 00:50:22,280 welcomed in along with you know, BYU Houston and Cincinnati. As you mentioned, 661 00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,679 they were ahead of the curve as you look at all the realignment news. 662 00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:28,360 I don't think anyone would have thought, you know, two years ago 663 00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,599 when this first move came about for the Big twelve, that we would see 664 00:50:30,639 --> 00:50:35,599 so much movement that the Back twelve would basically collapse and these other schools would 665 00:50:35,639 --> 00:50:38,000 join the Big twelve. So they really kind of got it, got in 666 00:50:38,039 --> 00:50:40,079 on the ground floor, so to speak, when it came to realignment, 667 00:50:40,079 --> 00:50:44,119 and it's it's really helped them out. They don't have to feel necessarily like 668 00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,320 they're trying to find a home or somewhere to go to. And like I 669 00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:51,760 said, excitement has been the main word. This is something that ucfans and 670 00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,840 the UCF athletic department in the football program have been building up for. They 671 00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,199 wanted to do this back in twenty thirteen, you know, they were they 672 00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:00,880 submitted a proposal, they wanted to the Big twelve to accept them. It 673 00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:04,360 didn't happen at that time, you know, so there was a lot of 674 00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:07,559 disappointment, But then it came around this time around Obviously the twenty seventeen twenty 675 00:51:07,559 --> 00:51:12,840 eighteen seasons really kind of had a big factor and some of this decision the 676 00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:17,119 success that they've had as well, so lots of excitement and as you mentioned, 677 00:51:17,199 --> 00:51:22,920 lots of financial implications for this move, but almost doubles almost good pointed 678 00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,360 being triples what they were making from the American Athletic Conference when it comes to 679 00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:29,800 media rights deal, that's huge for them, Lots of buzz, lots of 680 00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:32,199 attention. All their games are going to be on big major networks with the 681 00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:37,239 ESPN and Fox, So everyone's excited and you know, almost to the point 682 00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:40,039 of wanting to move past that. Gus balls on in the beginning of preseason 683 00:51:40,079 --> 00:51:43,320 camp. We kept asking about the Big twelve and he finally just said, 684 00:51:43,559 --> 00:51:45,480 I don't when we're past that. We got to move on and get to 685 00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:50,280 talking football and what we need to do. So they're not focused so much 686 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,159 so on that as then just playing their football games, but others outside the 687 00:51:53,159 --> 00:51:58,920 program, everybody really is looking forward to this seasons. Has Gus talked about 688 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,360 how he thinks the recruiting is maybe already improved knowing that they're going to the 689 00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:07,119 Big twelve. Obviously, you know the high profile aspect you mentioned of all 690 00:52:07,159 --> 00:52:10,679 their games are gonna be on TV. Gus has used to big profile programs 691 00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:15,719 obviously his time at Auburn. What's been his thought about the recruiting side of 692 00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:19,480 things, How that's going to improve things. Oh, the recruiting are It's 693 00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:21,719 already paid off. I mean, and he knew that when they when they 694 00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:24,239 accepted the invitation, that then they could go into kids homes and say, 695 00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:27,280 listen, we're gonna be in the Big twelve and a couple of years. 696 00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,199 We're gonna be in the Big twelve in a year, you know. And 697 00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:30,880 that's really paid off. They've been able to add a lot of talent to 698 00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:37,280 this roster. This twenty twenty four recruiting class is ranked in the top thirty 699 00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,000 right now, which has never happened. And you see have football history. 700 00:52:39,559 --> 00:52:43,920 He's got nine four star players. That's something they haven't haven't been able to 701 00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,800 do. They've got a lot of guys around the state of Florida, which 702 00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:51,360 they've done a great job of Orlando. They've hooked a lot of local kids. 703 00:52:51,559 --> 00:52:53,039 He's been doing that over the last couple of years. But I asked 704 00:52:53,079 --> 00:52:55,800 us about recruiting and he said, yeah, believe me, the Big twelve 705 00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:59,840 is a big part of what we're trying to do. Kids are excited about 706 00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:01,639 this. They want to be able to play on a national stage they want 707 00:53:01,639 --> 00:53:05,639 to be able to play for you know, college football playoff championship. You 708 00:53:05,639 --> 00:53:08,440 know, so this Big twelve has really helped them out. And of course, 709 00:53:08,679 --> 00:53:13,159 you know it's everything kind of parlays into that recruiting success. You know, 710 00:53:13,199 --> 00:53:15,800 you look at the fact that when they get more money, they'll upgrade 711 00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,480 facilities, they'll do things like that. That's going to be attractive option. 712 00:53:19,559 --> 00:53:22,280 Plus, anytime you could point to the TV, like as I mentioned and 713 00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:24,639 say, look, we're on you know, Thursday night on FS one, 714 00:53:24,679 --> 00:53:27,599 you know, I think kids are gonna be excited. You know, they're 715 00:53:27,599 --> 00:53:30,000 gonna be able to be on national television and people are gonna be able to 716 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,440 watch them. Let's get to the guys on the field, the current roster 717 00:53:32,519 --> 00:53:36,840 and such. Let's start with the offense. Obviously, John Reese plumbly comes 718 00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,920 back as you're as starting quarterback, led the team with eight over eight hundred 719 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:45,199 yards rushing last year, almost twenty six hundred yards passing, fourteen touchdowns eight 720 00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:46,679 picks. To me, the one thing, you know with that offense, 721 00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:52,440 we know when Gus was really successful at Auburn, a tremendously strong running game, 722 00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,760 offensive line, running backs. Where does John Reese plumbly need to improve. 723 00:53:55,800 --> 00:54:00,280 To me passing, He's just not been a consistent enough pass sure. 724 00:54:00,519 --> 00:54:02,559 Is that the biggest part of his game that needs to improve? Yeah. 725 00:54:02,679 --> 00:54:05,360 You know, Well, in the off season, you know, Gus brought 726 00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,760 in Darren Henshaw, you know, to be the new offensive coordinator, and 727 00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,760 he's a guy that that had some familiarity with Gus and and and Gus said, 728 00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:14,679 listen, I'm gonna turn over play calling duties to Darren, you know, 729 00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:16,000 because he said, I've got a lot of a lot of things i 730 00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:19,760 gotta do with you know, name image and lightness and some of the he 731 00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:21,840 kind of took on the kind of a jam role more, you know, 732 00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:24,360 this thing. And so Darren Henshaw came in with the idea of I'm gonna 733 00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:28,440 we're gonna expand this offense. We're gonna push this offense. You know, 734 00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,039 they want to push the ball downfield. They felt like last year they just 735 00:54:31,079 --> 00:54:35,000 didn't do enough of that, you know, and that getting the ball downfield 736 00:54:35,119 --> 00:54:37,280 going vertical really kind of helps the running game, you know, and that's 737 00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,760 gonna be something they're gonna have to do. So when he took over, 738 00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:43,760 and he took over the quarterbacks coaching duty. He sat down with John Rice 739 00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:45,000 Plumbing. One of the thing they talked about is they don't want him to 740 00:54:45,079 --> 00:54:47,639 run nearly as much as he did last year. They felt like at the 741 00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:51,119 end of last season, Gus told me he was beat up. He was 742 00:54:51,159 --> 00:54:53,360 banged up. He took credit onus on that. Gus said, listen, 743 00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:55,559 I shouldn't have run him as much as I did, you know, because 744 00:54:55,599 --> 00:54:59,079 that really hurt us in the end because he was just banged up. And 745 00:54:59,119 --> 00:55:01,920 so the thought now is they want John Rice Plumbing to be a better quarterback. 746 00:55:02,039 --> 00:55:05,599 They wanted to sit in the pocket, to make his reads, to 747 00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:08,480 find his talented receivers, to find the escape valve, to look for it 748 00:55:08,519 --> 00:55:12,440 for guys instead of having to fill right away that he has to run with 749 00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:15,480 the football, because they don't want to take that away from him. But 750 00:55:15,519 --> 00:55:17,280 they also know that they can't have him be the leading rusher on this team. 751 00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:21,840 They've got five talented running backs coming and what's leading with RJ. Harvey, 752 00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,360 and they feel like those guys can carry the bulk of the rushing duties. 753 00:55:24,559 --> 00:55:28,280 They want John Rice really to kind of set in the pocket and find 754 00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:31,000 those receivers and make plays now, you know. I asked us and said, 755 00:55:31,039 --> 00:55:34,440 how do you take a dual threat guy and maybe rein him in a 756 00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:37,639 little bit? And he said, it's really hard because he brought up Cam 757 00:55:37,639 --> 00:55:38,719 Newton. You remember when he had Cam Newton. He said, I told 758 00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:42,119 Cam Newton all the time. I said, Cam, you got you gotta 759 00:55:42,199 --> 00:55:44,159 run on a bound, you gotta slide. We don't want to get hurt. 760 00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:45,760 And he said, Cam ignored every instruction I gave him on that, 761 00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:49,880 and he said, and he was successful. So he said, I've done 762 00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:52,199 the kind of with John Rice. I've told listen, you've got to be 763 00:55:52,199 --> 00:55:53,719 better. But I'm not gonna put handcuffs on him. So these guys gonna 764 00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:57,079 be able to do his things. So I think what you're going to see 765 00:55:57,079 --> 00:55:59,960 in a year two with John Rice is just that maturity of stepping up, 766 00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:04,760 making throws, finding the open receiver and not maybe getting happy feet and trying 767 00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:07,239 to run out of the pocket anytime there's a little bit of pressure. One 768 00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:12,519 of the biggest jumps I guess that you will see obviously jumping from from from 769 00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:16,519 UCF to the big twelve bulk of the offensive line, depth of the old 770 00:56:16,559 --> 00:56:20,920 line. Talk about the offensive line. Are they prepared to be able to 771 00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,480 compete at the Big twelve level from an offensive life perspective, Yeah, that's 772 00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:27,159 a That's a unit that Gus has talked a lot about in the preseason. 773 00:56:27,159 --> 00:56:30,159 And you know, they really liked the depth they built on both the offensive 774 00:56:30,199 --> 00:56:32,119 and defensive lines. And he pointed the offensive line and said, we need 775 00:56:32,159 --> 00:56:35,840 to be deeper. We need to be better than that because we're gonna They've 776 00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:38,840 got six road games this year. They go to Boise State. That's gonna 777 00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:42,440 be a long trip for them. He understands they're gonna be a lot guys 778 00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:44,800 are gonna get tired. They need to switch some guys out. So in 779 00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,960 the off season they brought in four offensive linemen, guys with experience. You 780 00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:51,880 know Drake Metcalf, who's gonna take over at center. He's a guy from 781 00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:55,920 Stanford. Blulish Schmidt was a guy who started thirty or so games at Fresno 782 00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,760 State. He's gonna start at left guard. You look at a guy like 783 00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:02,760 Marcellos Marshall, he was at Kent State. You know they're bringing him in. 784 00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:06,800 He's gonna play right tackle. At this point, Amari ili Kite comes 785 00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:10,000 in he's probably gonna step in and back up in some spots. So they've 786 00:57:10,039 --> 00:57:13,840 got a lot of guys that they feel like I've experienced from the transfer portal. 787 00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:15,679 They've got guys they've been developing. You know, they feel like that's 788 00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:19,599 going to be an opportunity for them to run. I think Gus told us 789 00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:22,679 maybe they feel like they can go nine ten deep on the offensive line now, 790 00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:23,519 I mean, and that's something they haven't been able to do. And 791 00:57:23,679 --> 00:57:27,639 he thinks it's gonna be a huge benefit for them, especially when they get 792 00:57:27,639 --> 00:57:30,719 down the road and some of these long road trips, you know, when 793 00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:32,599 they go to Oklahoma, when they go to Lubbock for Texas Tech, that's 794 00:57:32,599 --> 00:57:36,599 gonna be where they need this the depth. Talk about some of the skill 795 00:57:36,639 --> 00:57:38,840 guys you'd mentioned r J. Harvey. They seem like they're pretty excited about 796 00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:42,679 their wide receiver corps. If they've got if Plumble can get them the ball. 797 00:57:42,719 --> 00:57:45,159 They like what they have out. Why talk about the skill guys a 798 00:57:45,199 --> 00:57:47,119 little bit? Yeah, you know, the running back room they say is 799 00:57:47,679 --> 00:57:51,360 the best they've had. They got five guys, different types of styles. 800 00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:53,000 R J. Harvey is gonna be the primary back, but they got Johnny 801 00:57:53,079 --> 00:57:55,920 Richardson, who's a speedster, a guy who can really break big plays. 802 00:57:57,639 --> 00:58:00,039 You know. They've got Jordan McDonald who's guy's short yards. They really like 803 00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:04,719 DeMarcus Bowman's the guy that they brought He's a transfer from Florida a couple of 804 00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,760 years ago. They feel like he can really be a big time ruiser. 805 00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:12,039 So they like their running backs room. You look at the receivers. They 806 00:58:12,079 --> 00:58:15,159 got Javon Baker, Kobe Hudson coming back, Xavier Townsend's coming back. Townsend 807 00:58:15,199 --> 00:58:19,039 was injured last year. They feel like he can take on a bigger role 808 00:58:19,119 --> 00:58:21,880 this year. They brought in some transfers as well. In that position. 809 00:58:22,079 --> 00:58:25,599 Trent went Moore from Florida comes in as well. They feel like they're they're 810 00:58:25,599 --> 00:58:29,480 set at that position. They feel like those guys are really going to stand 811 00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:30,320 out. And then you got the tight ends. You know, let's talk 812 00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:34,159 about Alec Haller, who's been around for a long time. He's really going 813 00:58:34,199 --> 00:58:37,320 to be the primary. They brought in a freshman and Randy Pittman, who 814 00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:39,320 was really highly regarded. He's had a great camp. They feel like he 815 00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:42,920 could step up and be able to make some plays as well. So I 816 00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:45,679 think there's more than enough skilled position players around John Rice pluming that he's got 817 00:58:45,719 --> 00:58:50,280 opportunities to make this offense a lot more versatile than it was last year. 818 00:58:51,079 --> 00:58:54,000 Look look into the defense to me, the look at their stats and you 819 00:58:54,039 --> 00:58:58,519 know, just watching them play a few times, getting disruption with the front 820 00:58:58,559 --> 00:59:00,679 set would seem to be the biggest issue. Pass rush, that kind of 821 00:59:00,679 --> 00:59:04,599 stuff. Again, back to the trenches, being able to hold up in 822 00:59:04,599 --> 00:59:07,639 the trenches. Obviously, the Big twelve is not a huge running league. 823 00:59:07,119 --> 00:59:09,920 You say, you don't have to be as dominant, but it's important to 824 00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:13,599 be able to put pressure on the quarterback with as much passing. That goes 825 00:59:13,639 --> 00:59:15,800 on to the Big twelve. Talk about the defensive side of the ball, 826 00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:20,000 a front seven, especially where they need to get better. Yeah, and 827 00:59:20,039 --> 00:59:22,360 that's a group where they're really excited about. You know, you look at 828 00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:24,920 you know, Josh Salazar comes back, Ricky Barber, Tremon Morris Brash, 829 00:59:25,039 --> 00:59:29,519 those guys have come back. They've got lots of experience in the defensive line. 830 00:59:29,719 --> 00:59:32,519 Lee Hunter steps in at that defensive tackle position. They really like Lee. 831 00:59:32,599 --> 00:59:36,760 He wasn't really in shape last year. They feel like his motors great. 832 00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:38,920 I've had so many guys telling me this ball camp that he's a guy 833 00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:40,840 to watch. They feel like you can really put a lot of pressure. 834 00:59:42,039 --> 00:59:44,800 They want to be disruptive. As you mentioned up front, they've got to 835 00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,039 get to the quarterback. They've got to stop the running game because they've got 836 00:59:47,119 --> 00:59:51,320 some guys in the secondary they feel like can make plays. They need to 837 00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:53,480 make some turnovers. That's something that they got to focus on. They've got 838 00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:58,119 a deep linebacker corps. Jason Johnson had over one hundred twenty tackles last year. 839 00:59:58,239 --> 01:00:00,159 He leads the linebackers. Walter Yates, the third is back as well. 840 01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:02,639 And then the secondary. You know what I mean, this is a 841 01:00:02,559 --> 01:00:07,840 younger secondary. You know Brandon Adams, Corey Thornton, Quadrick Bullard, you 842 01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:10,360 know Nicaa Martinez. But they've also got some depth in the secondary as well. 843 01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:15,000 So Addison Williams the new defensive coordinator. He was there last year as 844 01:00:15,039 --> 01:00:19,159 their defensive backs coach. He's he's taken on the role of defensive coordinator now. 845 01:00:19,239 --> 01:00:21,159 And you know he told us, you know, listen, we want 846 01:00:21,159 --> 01:00:22,679 to be aggressive. We've got to stop the run, but we also got 847 01:00:22,679 --> 01:00:25,880 to get great turnovers because they know if they could flip the field, you 848 01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:30,039 know, short field. That just makes that offense more opportunities to score points. 849 01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:34,400 Listen to Matt Marschelle Orlando Sentinel or preview in the UCF nights. As 850 01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:37,159 they head into year one of the Big Twelve, they're big transition. Let's 851 01:00:37,199 --> 01:00:39,960 get to the schedule. You kind of mentioned it a little bit before. 852 01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:44,320 A lot of road games. You know, this week they're at Boise State 853 01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:47,400 with it, which is a big non conference game, long trip to Boise, 854 01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:51,599 Idaho. You go to Kansas State, you go to Oklahoma, you 855 01:00:51,639 --> 01:00:54,880 go to Cincinnati. Just talk about the gruel and the and the demand and 856 01:00:55,239 --> 01:01:00,440 just a grueling road trip that UCF drew in year one. Yeah, you 857 01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:02,480 know, I think Gus has talked about this a lot, about this road 858 01:01:02,519 --> 01:01:05,800 schedule. You know, listen, they've got six road games. I think 859 01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:08,239 that's the most. They travel the most miles than anyone in the Big Twelve 860 01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:12,400 this year. I think of seventeen thousand miles when you look at round trip, 861 01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:15,079 it's a lot of road trips, you know. And what Gus talked 862 01:01:15,079 --> 01:01:17,000 about a lot was not so much the you know, yes you have to 863 01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:20,440 prepare for that, but he talked about it's on the back end of the 864 01:01:20,519 --> 01:01:22,639 trips that you start to feel it, he said. Listen the Boise State 865 01:01:22,639 --> 01:01:24,920 game, for instance, he said, we probably won't get back to Orlando 866 01:01:25,039 --> 01:01:28,519 until the sun comes up, you know, six seven am in the morning. 867 01:01:28,519 --> 01:01:30,559 Our flight gets back here. He's like, that's gonna change how we 868 01:01:30,599 --> 01:01:35,400 handle things because normally they like to practice, you know, on Sunday afternoons. 869 01:01:35,679 --> 01:01:37,960 Well, they may not be able to do that because when they're traveling 870 01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:39,000 so much, he said, they may have to push things back a little. 871 01:01:39,039 --> 01:01:43,079 So that's gonna have to change something. So they have to change up 872 01:01:43,079 --> 01:01:45,400 a little bit of a schedule. They have to understand that, yes, 873 01:01:45,679 --> 01:01:47,400 we're gonna be on the road, We're gonna face hostile crowds, We're gonna 874 01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:51,199 get places we haven't been before. I think that's gonna be a challenge. 875 01:01:51,199 --> 01:01:52,800 I mean, I don't think anyone can prepare for, you know, being 876 01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:55,119 in Manhattan, you know, for the Kansas State game, or going to 877 01:01:55,159 --> 01:01:59,320 Oklahoma Norman. You know, that's a historic site, you know, and 878 01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:00,960 playing there. I'm going to love it, you know, Texas check is 879 01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:05,039 going to be interesting. So there are some some challenges. I think that 880 01:02:05,079 --> 01:02:07,800 this team is going to face, so they're gonna have to find a way 881 01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:10,760 to kind of put that aside and not focus so much on being on the 882 01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:15,360 road and just focus on like it's a regular football game. But again, 883 01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:16,960 it's a lot of miles on this team, and you know, that's where 884 01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:20,920 the depth that they've tried to build up over the last two years, it's 885 01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:24,159 really they think we'll pay off in the end. Does Gus Does Gus realistic? 886 01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:27,440 And he's probably never gonna say this publicly, but do you think that 887 01:02:27,719 --> 01:02:30,000 deep down Gus realistic to think this is a year if we can go five 888 01:02:30,119 --> 01:02:32,239 hundred and the Big Twelve, it's a hell of a year for us. 889 01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:36,480 Oh, he'll he'll never say that. I mean, I think they're focus 890 01:02:36,599 --> 01:02:38,599 is winning the Big Twelve. Obviously they feel that way. I think they've 891 01:02:38,639 --> 01:02:42,320 got the best chance of any of the new teams coming in. I think 892 01:02:42,360 --> 01:02:45,119 they're the best, better fit and quipped, and I think they'll do better 893 01:02:45,159 --> 01:02:46,280 than a lot of people give them credit for. You know, I think 894 01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:51,079 they're picked to finish eighth in the media poll. I had them at seven. 895 01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:52,679 I just think some of these road games are going to be a little 896 01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:55,000 challenging, you know, I mean, I think and then, as you 897 01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:59,320 said, you're making the adjustment, you're stepping up and playing a different level 898 01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:01,039 of competition. You know, Gus is familiar with that, but you've got 899 01:03:01,079 --> 01:03:04,920 a lot of these players who've been playing in the American they haven't played in 900 01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:07,320 it. Let's just say, you know a Kansas state, you know who's 901 01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:10,440 been there, Baylor for instance. You know you're gonna get some of these 902 01:03:10,519 --> 01:03:15,719 challenges coming in Oklahoma. Even so they have to kind of adjust to that. 903 01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:19,679 So I think they feel like, listen, if they can be Bowl 904 01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:22,000 eligible or they can get to seven or eight wins, I think that's pretty 905 01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:24,559 good I have on my mind in eight win season. I think they can 906 01:03:24,599 --> 01:03:28,039 get there now if they stay healthy. I think they got a great chance, 907 01:03:28,239 --> 01:03:30,880 and there's opportunities to flip some games that maybe they aren't going to be 908 01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:34,679 favored in. But Gus will never say publicly, we want to go find 909 01:03:34,679 --> 01:03:37,920 what. I think he feels like they want to win every games as much 910 01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:39,920 as they can, and that's why I think he's trying to deflect a little 911 01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:43,280 bit the attention on the Big twelve. I don't think he wants everyone to 912 01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:45,880 focus on what I think he wants to focus on one game at a time, 913 01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:47,880 which you know every coach puts that out there as well. Last thing 914 01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:51,719 I'll get you at a coaching staff wise, I know you mentioned Darren Henshaw 915 01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:54,880 coming in on the offense or any other any other major coaching changes on the 916 01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:58,880 staff. No, I think Darren's the big one. I mean, Darren 917 01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:02,320 was a guy and Darren he's former UCF quarterback. He's a guy that knows 918 01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:05,440 the history of the school. He went to U A B. He went 919 01:04:05,639 --> 01:04:09,000 went over to UAB last year. I think he was working with them. 920 01:04:09,039 --> 01:04:11,960 He worked with Gus two years ago as an analyst. I think the biggest 921 01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:14,920 thing for Darren is just developing the quarterbacks. You know, the quarterbacks have 922 01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,360 talked all about how they've gotten so much better in the footwork, They've gotten 923 01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:21,440 so much better and reading defenses. Those are the little things that necessarily don't 924 01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:24,760 show up in the statbox so much, but I think are going to be 925 01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:27,920 huge for them because they need to understand that. Listen, you know, 926 01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:30,079 we can't just sit back and run the ball every time. We got to 927 01:04:30,119 --> 01:04:32,599 find ways to make these plays. And they've got enough talent that they could 928 01:04:32,599 --> 01:04:36,679 be able to do that. Fan base wise, you think it's gonna be 929 01:04:36,679 --> 01:04:41,559 a pretty pretty busy bounce house. You think it's gonna be with the Big 930 01:04:41,599 --> 01:04:44,440 Twelve. You've got Big twelve teams coming to town, a little bit better 931 01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:46,719 of a home schedule as far as national names, things like that. How 932 01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:49,920 excited do you think that the student body is for the for the bounce house 933 01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:54,599 to be jumping? Well? I think I want to say every home Big 934 01:04:54,639 --> 01:04:57,519 twelve game is a sellout at this point. Maybe you know, I mean 935 01:04:57,519 --> 01:05:00,960 that they've they've talked about. I mean, there's a a ton of excitement, 936 01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:03,039 and again, you know you expect that, you know, you expect 937 01:05:03,039 --> 01:05:05,760 to see that kind of excitement going on. I expect to see them have 938 01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:09,840 record sales, you know, when it comes to everything. What you hope 939 01:05:09,880 --> 01:05:12,920 is that they can If they can start out strong, I think that just 940 01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:15,280 only goes well for them when you're looking at the tickets, and I think 941 01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:17,079 they'll do well on the road as well. I think, you know, 942 01:05:17,119 --> 01:05:19,360 I've spoken to some fans. I mean, again, we talked about the 943 01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:23,280 travel. It's gonna be different for some UCF fans. I mean, listen 944 01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:27,320 to go to Kansas and Kansas State and to go to Boise State. Listen, 945 01:05:27,519 --> 01:05:30,000 just beat packing, you know, getting a trip together to Boise State, 946 01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:34,840 took ale that tots neither is Lummock by the way, So you know, 947 01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:39,760 I think there's there's there's things challenges that UCF fans they'll probably pick and 948 01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:42,440 choose a lot of their games where they want to go to because but I 949 01:05:42,480 --> 01:05:45,000 still expect them to show up because I think this is exciting. This is 950 01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:46,480 the first year in the Big Twelve. They want to check out these new 951 01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:49,800 cities and these new stadiums and see these new teams. So I think that's 952 01:05:49,800 --> 01:05:53,880 where the excitement is going to come from. Well, Matt, celebrate where 953 01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:56,280 they can find out your great coverage of of UCF. And I know, 954 01:05:56,320 --> 01:05:58,880 Matt, you do other things throughout the year, but UCF's kind of your 955 01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:00,440 main beat this time of year. So tell the fans where they can find 956 01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:04,239 out your great work. Orlando Sentinel dot com to check out all the latest. 957 01:06:04,239 --> 01:06:08,559 We had a couple of our football section came out this past weekend, 958 01:06:08,599 --> 01:06:11,800 lots of previews and stuff like that. Also, you can follow me on 959 01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:15,559 Twitter at os Matt Michelle or threads or whatever you like to get your your 960 01:06:15,559 --> 01:06:19,360 social media news from If you're watching the video, you can see his Twitter 961 01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:23,519 handle in the background there on on his wall if you're watching the video here. 962 01:06:23,559 --> 01:06:27,519 So Matt does a great job covering UCF and all things Orlando sports. 963 01:06:27,719 --> 01:06:30,119 We'll definitely check in with Matt as we moved through the football season to get 964 01:06:30,159 --> 01:06:34,159 some further updates on the nights and other things. So about one more question, 965 01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:39,280 how excited city of Orlando? You got Florida You had Florida State LSU 966 01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:42,280 over the weekend, a big, big match up there, and uh, 967 01:06:42,559 --> 01:06:45,239 any other big news coming out of Orlando. The Orlando sports team. You 968 01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:47,320 guys make it through the storm. Okay, we did make it through the 969 01:06:47,320 --> 01:06:49,800 storm. Okay. Yeah, there's a lot of excitement for florist State, 970 01:06:50,119 --> 01:06:54,280 the Floris State LSU game obviously surrounding that, and you know, they just 971 01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:56,840 it's just sports. You know, this is a great sports city. So 972 01:06:57,159 --> 01:07:00,239 you know Football's coming in. There's a lot of discussion with you know, 973 01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:03,159 NFL, you know Pro Bowl coming and at the end of the year. 974 01:07:03,239 --> 01:07:08,119 So lots of excitement in Orlando, I think for their sports. Well, 975 01:07:08,159 --> 01:07:10,159 Matt, keep up the great work man, and we'll be in touch, 976 01:07:10,599 --> 01:07:14,679 all right. Sounds good. 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The Panthers year two of Mike McIntyre, coming 994 01:08:40,199 --> 01:08:44,520 off of a four and eight record in twenty twenty two. They were one 995 01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:46,840 of the few teams that played in Week zero and played very well at LA 996 01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:50,479 Tech, but came up just short. And then they've wrapped. They follow 997 01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:56,159 that up with a with a victory last Saturday night at home versus Maine to 998 01:08:56,239 --> 01:08:59,800 get to one and one, and no better person to talk to about all 999 01:08:59,840 --> 01:09:04,600 things Panther football then the Voice of the Panthers, uh aj ricketts Aj. 1000 01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:09,000 Welcome to the podcast, my man. Yeah, excited to talk fi you. 1001 01:09:09,159 --> 01:09:12,520 Thanks, thanks for having me on and uh looking looking forward to chopping 1002 01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:15,880 it up about FIU. All right, tell me a little bit about your 1003 01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:17,840 history. How many years is this for you at FIU? Man, this 1004 01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:21,840 will be the seventh now that flew by, but you're you're seven now joined, 1005 01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:27,000 uh joined as the play by play guy in twenty seventeen, and it's 1006 01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:30,439 been been a fun couple of years. And hoping we can be part of 1007 01:09:30,439 --> 01:09:33,239 a year or back in a bowl setting by by the end of it all, 1008 01:09:33,319 --> 01:09:35,560 right, tip, before we get to the football team, tell me, 1009 01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:38,800 give me a little career path of you. Always like to know how 1010 01:09:39,159 --> 01:09:42,199 guys like you get to where you're at now. And uh, you know, 1011 01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:45,560 give give, give the audience a little career path of a j Ricketts. 1012 01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:47,720 Sure, man, I mean it's ironic. I went to school down 1013 01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:53,279 the road at you Miami, ran track and cross country there, ended up 1014 01:09:53,279 --> 01:09:56,359 in Wilmington, North Carolina, which was a lot of fun. Another beach 1015 01:09:56,399 --> 01:10:00,960 town, coastal town, ACC country and got to cover UNC Wilmington basketball, 1016 01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:03,119 all the innsitable a tournament, a lot of acc stuff. But man, 1017 01:10:03,199 --> 01:10:06,319 I always enjoyed play by play a bit more to be a part of that, 1018 01:10:06,439 --> 01:10:10,640 being the broadcast booth, you know, be chronicle the game as it's 1019 01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:15,279 happening and have our own preparation process and execution process, kind of like the 1020 01:10:15,319 --> 01:10:17,439 players. Not as much depending on us though here, you know. But 1021 01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:23,439 uh. And in twenty seventeen, the FIU job opened up and I was 1022 01:10:23,479 --> 01:10:26,560 fortunate to be able to join the program. And I've been a lot of 1023 01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:30,399 fun moments through the years right now, you know, I alternate between the 1024 01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:33,600 mainly FIU, but also will do some work for Apple TV with with MLS 1025 01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:39,079 Season Pass and ACC Network Extra for for some U Miami games. So it 1026 01:10:39,119 --> 01:10:42,800 keeps things busy down here. But man, college football seasons the prime time. 1027 01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:45,439 It's what the most eyeballs are on, the most interest, the most 1028 01:10:45,399 --> 01:10:49,800 investment, and uh so a lot on the line when college football comes for 1029 01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:55,560 every team and excited to hopefully chronicle another good season. I want to know 1030 01:10:55,800 --> 01:10:58,600 you mentioned, uh you mentioned MLS. Give me, give us, give 1031 01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:01,119 the autumn a little sense of the whole to see phenomenon down your way. 1032 01:11:01,319 --> 01:11:04,520 They've been playing great since he got here. I mean they, I mean 1033 01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:09,399 obviously they won't they win the League Cup title, and just the euphoria of 1034 01:11:09,439 --> 01:11:12,119 having Messy. Just give the honors a little sense of what it's like to 1035 01:11:12,159 --> 01:11:15,600 have Messing in the neighborhood. Mean Miami. Man, it's it's been the 1036 01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:18,920 center of the sports world this year, like all of a sudden between you 1037 01:11:18,920 --> 01:11:23,960 know what Jimmy Butler did getting the Heat to the finals and the Panthers making 1038 01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:28,159 the run to the Stanley Cup finals, and and then that was You're competitive, 1039 01:11:28,279 --> 01:11:31,399 the Marlins started getting good and then and then you know, that was 1040 01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:35,760 just apparently the precursor for you know, the greatest soccer player in the world 1041 01:11:36,319 --> 01:11:41,119 coming to our backyard. So, you know, it's been been so much 1042 01:11:41,159 --> 01:11:45,239 fun. I'm telling telling myself, telling my friends, we need to go 1043 01:11:45,319 --> 01:11:46,479 to a game here, so like we have to find a way to get 1044 01:11:46,479 --> 01:11:49,479 to ourselves to a game, like just let's just spend a couple hundred dollars 1045 01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:53,800 and just get up there. Obviously the tickets aren't eight dollars any more, 1046 01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:57,680 unfortunately, but uh, you know, I think it's been worth the investment 1047 01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:01,600 for everyone who's gone and seen a lot of the magic of MESSI. So 1048 01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:04,039 that's pretty cool. Reminds me when I was in college and you know, 1049 01:12:04,159 --> 01:12:09,399 Lebron was here. You know, he just hopefully you don't take the greatness 1050 01:12:09,439 --> 01:12:13,319 for granted when when it's there, you know, every every week, so 1051 01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:15,000 definitely any unfortunately, and you only know he's only going to be there a 1052 01:12:15,039 --> 01:12:18,800 couple of years at most probably, so right, we'll take advantage of the 1053 01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:21,479 opportunity to see the guy. And he's an all timer for sure, and 1054 01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:27,359 such a world world legend around the world and club football. So all right, 1055 01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:30,239 yeah, so let's all right, let's get to the roster. Give 1056 01:12:30,279 --> 01:12:33,079 the audience a little sense of coach McIntyre. Year two. Obviously we knew 1057 01:12:33,079 --> 01:12:35,760 he's been at some other he's been at He was head coach with Fort Colorado, 1058 01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:39,760 had some success there, you know, went to Old Miss as a 1059 01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:43,000 defensive coordinator. But now he's back back and being in the head chair there. 1060 01:12:43,239 --> 01:12:46,000 Give us a little sense of coach McIntyre and his kind of coaching philosophies 1061 01:12:46,039 --> 01:12:50,000 and coaching style. Yeah, Jayson, I mean, what what coach mac 1062 01:12:50,079 --> 01:12:55,560 does is is just build programs. He knows the formula. I mean, 1063 01:12:55,640 --> 01:13:00,039 I think there's there's very few coaches in college football who you can say I 1064 01:13:00,199 --> 01:13:05,479 took programs from scratch and built them into real formidable teams. I mean Colorado. 1065 01:13:06,119 --> 01:13:10,920 I mean it seems more feasible now with with Dion there, But for 1066 01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:15,840 a long time, like he had he had such a great he did such 1067 01:13:15,840 --> 01:13:19,920 a great job. Colorado was in the Pactual Championship game, like in twenty 1068 01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:26,000 sixteen, Like people forget that they were a top ten program called Colorado at 1069 01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:30,479 that point in time, Like are you kidding San Jose State? They were 1070 01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:33,640 thinking they were thinking about folding the program, like no more football at San 1071 01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:39,279 Jose State, and he came in there and turned them into a top twenty 1072 01:13:39,319 --> 01:13:41,960 five team. Like those are not easy things to do. And so he 1073 01:13:42,359 --> 01:13:45,560 almost won national Coach of the Year twice. I know he got it once 1074 01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:48,600 and I think it may have been one Coach of the Year award and then 1075 01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:51,199 a different Coach of the year, so it wasn't the same overarching coach the 1076 01:13:51,239 --> 01:13:54,000 year, but there were there were some that were given to him, even 1077 01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:58,560 at San Jose State. So he knows the formula, and you know he's 1078 01:13:58,760 --> 01:14:00,680 he's on track to doing that here again at FIU. Look, it's, 1079 01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:03,840 you know, on the surface to a lot of people, you know, 1080 01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:08,880 four job, yeah, a tough job, and four and eight last year 1081 01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:13,239 doesn't raise a lot of eyebrows outside of South Florida, right, But you 1082 01:14:13,520 --> 01:14:15,199 look at where the program was and Butch did a lot of great things, 1083 01:14:16,640 --> 01:14:20,279 but it reached a point where it was one it was one win in two 1084 01:14:20,359 --> 01:14:24,720 years, you know, the O and five COVID season and then the one 1085 01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:28,520 in eleven twenty twenty one campaign. So to go from one win in two 1086 01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:32,359 years to four very easily could have been five, maybe six, depending on 1087 01:14:32,399 --> 01:14:38,880 a few different bounces. I mean that that was awesome exponential progress from one 1088 01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:42,880 year to the next. So internally, everyone on around the program feels that 1089 01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:46,760 momentum knows the step fourth that was taken. Hopefully that can be a little 1090 01:14:46,800 --> 01:14:50,560 bit more external and nationally recognized moving forward this year. But he knows, 1091 01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:54,920 he knows how to do this, and it feels like this is this is 1092 01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:58,279 the latest chapter of that. The speaking of that, you mentioned the kind 1093 01:14:58,279 --> 01:15:02,840 of the roster refere reclamation project of the roster when Butch left and he started 1094 01:15:02,840 --> 01:15:06,039 that process last year. Give us give the audience a sense and the fans 1095 01:15:06,079 --> 01:15:10,560 a sense of how active were they in the transfer portal this last year. 1096 01:15:10,600 --> 01:15:14,359 How many guys did they bring in transfer wise related to high school kids. 1097 01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:19,439 Give us a little roster kind of breakdown of transfers versus non transfers. Yeah, 1098 01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:24,199 you know, it's it's always it's tough every year, and you know, 1099 01:15:24,239 --> 01:15:28,520 who knows when we'll see changes to the structure, whether it comes from 1100 01:15:28,560 --> 01:15:30,880 the NC DOUBLEA or whatnot. But we're seeing it. What you know, 1101 01:15:31,159 --> 01:15:35,199 whatever group of five program you are, it's it seems like some power fives 1102 01:15:35,199 --> 01:15:40,800 are gonna are gonna take away some of your better guys. And it seems 1103 01:15:41,079 --> 01:15:44,520 at the same time, now every year there's going to be some Power five 1104 01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:48,279 guys that for whatever reason, that that role hasn't worked out there. They 1105 01:15:48,279 --> 01:15:50,960 want to be a little bit closer to home. You know, Mac talks 1106 01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:56,479 about the South Florida guys whether maybe maybe they're Iowa or Nebraska, and you 1107 01:15:56,479 --> 01:16:00,079 know, they they have that first winter, go through a couple of winters 1108 01:16:00,079 --> 01:16:02,680 and you know, either maybe they're not where they're at on the depth chart, 1109 01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:06,640 and you know, being close to family becomes a bigger priority, and 1110 01:16:08,039 --> 01:16:11,399 you know, getting some of those guys to come to Miami. So uh, 1111 01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:14,720 you know we've been we've been the beneficiary of that in some capacity. 1112 01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:21,319 You know, I'm thinking of who came in from this past this past offseason. 1113 01:16:21,399 --> 01:16:26,000 You know, Shamari Lawrence. That's a great example, right our our 1114 01:16:26,079 --> 01:16:30,479 starting running back, a Pompano Beach native, spent some years in South Dakota, 1115 01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:34,039 some successful ones as well. Nearly ran for a hundred yards and the 1116 01:16:34,079 --> 01:16:39,880 season opener last year at Kansas State, wanted to wanted to take the jump 1117 01:16:39,920 --> 01:16:43,039 to the FBS level, felt he could play a bigger role. And so 1118 01:16:43,079 --> 01:16:45,560 now he's back in South Florid. He's got a lot of friends and family 1119 01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:48,680 coming to his games. He ran for nearly two hundred yards and the season 1120 01:16:48,720 --> 01:16:54,520 opener. That's a classic example of a success story. There wasn't a Power 1121 01:16:54,600 --> 01:16:59,000 five guy, but but you know, went way away from Miami and came 1122 01:16:59,039 --> 01:17:02,159 back. So you know, starting tailback is a great example. So look, 1123 01:17:02,199 --> 01:17:05,560 it's it's fascinating we're in this world of college football or who we don't 1124 01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:10,960 know what it's gonna look like in five years, whether it's regarding transfer eligibility 1125 01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:14,760 in the portal out of the portal conference realignment, but right now, you 1126 01:17:14,760 --> 01:17:16,800 know you could transfer, you could play, and so we've got to use 1127 01:17:16,840 --> 01:17:21,119 that to our advantage, whether it be bringing talented players from the FCS in 1128 01:17:21,840 --> 01:17:26,520 or Power five guys that want to get back close to home as as well. 1129 01:17:26,560 --> 01:17:29,880 So Mac knows that the staff understands that. H you know, we 1130 01:17:29,920 --> 01:17:32,239 had some tough losses in the portal, whether it's Tyree's Chambers or leading receiver 1131 01:17:32,279 --> 01:17:36,640 to Maryland, Sean Peterson a great edge rusher to UCF. But it's you 1132 01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:41,640 know, I think the best staffs realize that that's going to happen, and 1133 01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:44,920 so they did a good job getting in the portal port of themselves. And 1134 01:17:45,640 --> 01:17:48,079 you know this, I mean the hotbed that my Broward and Dade County is 1135 01:17:48,119 --> 01:17:53,520 for high school football. Even when Miami and Florida State and other teams Alabama 1136 01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:57,039 come and get their guys, there's still plenty of other guys in those in 1137 01:17:57,039 --> 01:18:00,840 those two counties within a fifty mile hundred mile radius that fi you can pick 1138 01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:04,800 that might be three star kids or maybe a little underside, maybe not quite 1139 01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:09,439 heavy enough, that can be productive players for you guys. That's a good 1140 01:18:09,479 --> 01:18:12,880 point, right with with how much teams are relying on the portal now to 1141 01:18:12,960 --> 01:18:18,279 stack their rosters, that might leave a little bit more possibility right in terms 1142 01:18:18,279 --> 01:18:23,239 of getting players from from high schools here. It's especially in South Florida where 1143 01:18:23,239 --> 01:18:27,359 it's you know, so fertile recruiting ground that you may not have been able 1144 01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:30,680 to get before. So you know that that's a dynamic that continues to be 1145 01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:34,239 explored for a lot of schools. But I think our starting quarterback and we'll 1146 01:18:34,239 --> 01:18:38,359 probably talk more about him, but Kiwan and Jenkins is a great example. 1147 01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:42,319 Nearly was at Auburn. Uh want to play in front of in front of 1148 01:18:42,319 --> 01:18:45,079 his family here where he was. He was a legend at Miami Central. 1149 01:18:45,279 --> 01:18:47,960 And man, he had a big family. He had a big contingent at 1150 01:18:47,960 --> 01:18:50,720 at the Home Open or the other day. And man, that's that's what 1151 01:18:50,880 --> 01:18:54,640 I feel. Fi you can can really do a good job. I get 1152 01:18:54,680 --> 01:18:59,640 these these high school stars from South Florida and pack the stands with with their 1153 01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:02,199 support orders and the beautiful thing is again, you and I both know this. 1154 01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:05,239 If they're big, big players at FIU, they're gonna get drafted. 1155 01:19:05,279 --> 01:19:10,079 Guys like t Y Hilton come out of FIU. You're if you're good enough, 1156 01:19:10,319 --> 01:19:13,319 it doesn't matter where you're playing. There's enough at pro scouts, especially 1157 01:19:13,359 --> 01:19:15,319 in the state of Florida that are scouting. If you're good enough, even 1158 01:19:15,319 --> 01:19:18,600 if it's an NYU and maybe the team doesn't have the team success, you're 1159 01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:21,239 gonna get nos and you're gonna get scouted, and you're gonna have plenty of 1160 01:19:21,279 --> 01:19:26,039 opportunity to get an opportunity in the NFL. Yeah, we've seen it. 1161 01:19:26,119 --> 01:19:29,000 We've seen it recently. You know, he got hit a little bit by 1162 01:19:29,159 --> 01:19:31,880 graduating around COVID. But Maurice Alexander has found his way to the league and 1163 01:19:31,920 --> 01:19:34,920 he had his first pro reception with the Detroit Lyons the other day. He 1164 01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:40,640 was our converted quarterback that became a receiver's in. He's in the league. 1165 01:19:40,680 --> 01:19:45,479 Now are my broadcast partner on Saturday against North Texas coming up? Jonathan cyprian 1166 01:19:45,079 --> 01:19:48,760 All Conference defensive back late seven or eight years in the league. You mentioned 1167 01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:55,079 ty certainly as well. He's probably the highest you know, name recognition sort 1168 01:19:55,079 --> 01:19:57,920 of guy. James Morgan, our quarterback from a few years ago, got 1169 01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:01,159 drafted and it continues his pursuit. So by all means, it is certainly 1170 01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:05,399 a factory to to have that potential to move forward. Okay, give me 1171 01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:09,079 a couple of guys on offense other than t one you just mentioned. Give 1172 01:20:09,079 --> 01:20:13,079 me a couple of offensive guys to be a note, whether it's skill guys 1173 01:20:13,119 --> 01:20:15,680 or an offensive lineman here or there. Give me a couple of guys that 1174 01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:17,680 when you're watching FIU football, hey, watch this guy. He's keeping. 1175 01:20:18,479 --> 01:20:23,239 We have to mention Chris Mitchell now, I mean because he just tied t 1176 01:20:23,560 --> 01:20:29,800 Y and I think Tyrese. Yeah, t Y and Tyrese with with for 1177 01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:32,720 the school record and receiving yards in a game on Saturday. Two hundred and 1178 01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:38,600 one receiving yards on Saturday. So when you're in the company of ty and 1179 01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:42,399 Tyreese, that's that's pretty good. So he had his best game as an 1180 01:20:42,399 --> 01:20:46,960 FIU Panther this past weekend and so we're hoping that continues to spur. And 1181 01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:50,920 four, Jaylen Bracy has been a guy at the wide out spot that's had 1182 01:20:50,960 --> 01:20:57,920 some big games for us before UH. Antonio Patterson's our second string tailback, 1183 01:20:58,159 --> 01:21:03,079 Rechard freshman from Murphy's Burr around UH where Coach Mack has spent a lot of 1184 01:21:03,079 --> 01:21:06,000 time as well, and he had a touchdown in the season opener on the 1185 01:21:06,039 --> 01:21:11,760 road. Tough, physical running back that we think can do good things alongside 1186 01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:15,359 Shamar. So those are a couple of guys that had the skilled position spots 1187 01:21:15,439 --> 01:21:17,720 that I'm excited to see moving forward. But yeah, Chris Mitchell was dynamic. 1188 01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:25,199 Pair of touchdowns on Saturday, tightly contested to the first one was was 1189 01:21:25,199 --> 01:21:28,359 not an easy catch, second one who did well to bust some coverage, 1190 01:21:28,399 --> 01:21:31,720 but it was. It was good to see the receiving games see some success. 1191 01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:36,079 I know the season opener was tough and everybody knows the stat four or 1192 01:21:36,239 --> 01:21:41,199 passing yards in that opener. Uh key wand passes for two ninety two on 1193 01:21:41,279 --> 01:21:45,880 Saturday, So things were corrected his past leak. You guys run a traditional 1194 01:21:45,920 --> 01:21:48,199 spread offense up really up tempo. Are you guys a little slower? You 1195 01:21:48,239 --> 01:21:53,199 guys really fast. It's been interesting to see this year. You know, 1196 01:21:53,279 --> 01:21:57,119 David Yost came in has you know, some air raid experience Texas Tech to 1197 01:21:57,159 --> 01:22:02,520 his background, mentor Jordan Love as well when he was out west and uh, 1198 01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:08,079 you know against law Tech, we actually went a little bit slower and 1199 01:22:08,159 --> 01:22:12,279 that was that was you know, uh, purposefully done, you know, 1200 01:22:12,439 --> 01:22:15,359 try to take away some possessions. I don't think we only wanted to run 1201 01:22:15,439 --> 01:22:17,680 forty four plays. By the time it was all said and done. We 1202 01:22:17,720 --> 01:22:19,800 had a couple of we had a bit too many three and outs in the 1203 01:22:20,279 --> 01:22:23,800 in the second half. But you know, it was a slower tempo game 1204 01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:27,039 to your point, whereas last year we're a little bit more up tempo. 1205 01:22:27,319 --> 01:22:30,640 I'm not afraid to do that. I think they the staff has shown some 1206 01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:33,520 versatility depending on who the opponent. Maybe yeah, yeah, I think I 1207 01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:36,479 remember last year, you know against UTSA and that high powered offense. We 1208 01:22:36,520 --> 01:22:40,359 certainly went slower than we were used to and try to get Frank Harris as 1209 01:22:40,399 --> 01:22:43,279 few possessions as possible. It was working for a while, just couldn't get 1210 01:22:43,319 --> 01:22:46,079 the offense going like like we wanted. At times last week, I thought 1211 01:22:46,079 --> 01:22:48,359 we went pretty fast, you know. It was one of those situations to 1212 01:22:48,439 --> 01:22:55,000 replay was still going while the next play began began because we didn't anticipate that 1213 01:22:55,039 --> 01:22:58,680 tippo. So we have to we have to be sharp with that. But 1214 01:22:58,920 --> 01:23:01,720 yeah, they showed they showed versatility. It'll be interesting here on Saturday against 1215 01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:04,479 North Texas. All right, talk about let's go to the defense a little 1216 01:23:04,479 --> 01:23:08,039 bit. Give me a couple of names and give me what the are you 1217 01:23:08,079 --> 01:23:11,520 a blitzing defense? You more of a four three three four defense? Give 1218 01:23:11,560 --> 01:23:14,800 a little perspective on the defensive side. Yeah, you typically see a bit 1219 01:23:14,840 --> 01:23:18,319 more a three down lineman with with an edge rusher showing uh, you know, 1220 01:23:18,640 --> 01:23:23,680 trying to disguise coverage. Certainly, are our most impactful player defensively, 1221 01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:27,760 Its appeared to be Donovan Daniel are are starting middle linebacker? You had to 1222 01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:30,720 get fifteen tackles and the season opener forced to fumble on Saturday. He's just 1223 01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:34,760 all over the field. Uh. You know, it's been nice this year 1224 01:23:34,840 --> 01:23:38,880 to see, you know, the linebackers picking up the majority of the tackles. 1225 01:23:38,960 --> 01:23:41,920 Rather it felt like for a while there was a lot of the secondary 1226 01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:45,720 that was our leading tacklers and that's usually never a good thing. But but 1227 01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:49,279 donov Emmanuel Reggie Peterson's also the linebacker linebacker spot. He's a former walk on. 1228 01:23:49,399 --> 01:23:53,760 And you know, I was talking with our defensive coordinator Jabon de Witt, 1229 01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:56,239 and I asked, I asked about Reggie the other day. I said, 1230 01:23:56,279 --> 01:23:58,479 you know, does he feel like a former walk on? Still? 1231 01:23:58,560 --> 01:24:00,159 Do you do you trust him? Like? Where where you at with Reggie? 1232 01:24:01,439 --> 01:24:08,960 And he referenced the first week that he was the coach and brought Kim 1233 01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:11,840 in as a defenseive coordinat Reggie came to his office and said, Coach, 1234 01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:15,319 I'm I'm going to make you trust me. I'm going to make sure I'm 1235 01:24:15,359 --> 01:24:18,640 gonna make you trust me. And Javan said it before that season open. 1236 01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:20,159 He just walked up to him. I was like, man, I'm so 1237 01:24:20,239 --> 01:24:23,720 proud of you. I'm so proud of you. Like he had he has 1238 01:24:23,760 --> 01:24:28,199 had to earn every rep Every opportunity has not been easy on a guy like 1239 01:24:28,239 --> 01:24:31,399 Reggie. Peterson has made him work for but he's become He's gone from a 1240 01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:36,119 walk on to a very trusted UH starting linebacker. So stories stories like that 1241 01:24:36,159 --> 01:24:42,079 are are cool to see. I'm really really confident with the linebacker position, 1242 01:24:42,119 --> 01:24:45,159 and we've had a little bit more depth and size on the defensive line as 1243 01:24:45,199 --> 01:24:47,560 well, so and so hopefully that can be something that pays dividends. It 1244 01:24:47,600 --> 01:24:51,039 did on Saturday. We had three sacks, including one on the final drive 1245 01:24:51,079 --> 01:24:55,239 to help take Maine out of field goal position. So that that's shown through. 1246 01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:58,319 That's showing through in the end. Very good, Very good. Are 1247 01:24:58,319 --> 01:25:01,680 you listening to aj Ricketts play by place voice of the FIU Panthers. We're 1248 01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:06,319 here on the Florida Football Insiders podcast, you Little FIU preview If you haven't 1249 01:25:06,319 --> 01:25:11,279 already done so, hit that subscribe button on your podcast platform and drop us 1250 01:25:11,319 --> 01:25:15,199 a review. Is what we'd love to hear that uh AJ tell about where 1251 01:25:15,199 --> 01:25:16,960 they can find John on Twitter, an X or whatever we're calling it these 1252 01:25:17,039 --> 01:25:23,000 days. I keep reading I read, whether it's The Journal or the Times. 1253 01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:26,479 Every time they refer to it. It's like on X, which used 1254 01:25:26,520 --> 01:25:28,880 to be known as Twitter, and like, I guess, I guess the 1255 01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:33,039 AP standard is now X but uh yeah, pretty simple A j Ricketts two 1256 01:25:33,079 --> 01:25:38,319 ts, same on Instagram, same on TikTok. You on TikTok, Jason, 1257 01:25:38,359 --> 01:25:40,640 have you made your way over? I can't say that I've got a 1258 01:25:40,640 --> 01:25:44,439 TikTok account. I'm on the Gram, not I'm not on the Gram, 1259 01:25:45,119 --> 01:25:49,359 not not on not TikTok. That's perfectly acceptable because my dance skills just don't 1260 01:25:49,399 --> 01:25:53,119 don't add up. Man. Hey, we got to know our strengths and 1261 01:25:53,119 --> 01:25:56,159 we we gotta know. We gotta know them. What did you what did 1262 01:25:56,159 --> 01:25:59,199 you? You said you were so you were a cross country runner, rand 1263 01:25:59,239 --> 01:26:01,600 cross country track? I did? Yeah? Are you are you? Did 1264 01:26:01,600 --> 01:26:04,640 you grow up in the Miami area. No? I grew up as far 1265 01:26:04,680 --> 01:26:08,359 away in Florida as you can be, but still be in the state. 1266 01:26:08,399 --> 01:26:12,960 So up in the Panhand up in Pensacola, essentially South Alabama. Yeah, 1267 01:26:14,079 --> 01:26:16,560 ten hour drive away. Yeah, you know, you get. It's a 1268 01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:20,840 beautiful, beautiful area of Florida, just just not close enough to ever take 1269 01:26:20,880 --> 01:26:24,880 a trip home. In college, you know, talk about staff changes. 1270 01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:30,279 You mentioned new offensive coordinator any other significant staff changes on the staff, it's 1271 01:26:30,279 --> 01:26:32,800 been good to have some continuity and most of and most of our spot, 1272 01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:36,840 you know, offensive coordinator Davidios, defensive coordinator Javon de Witt both both back 1273 01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:40,520 for the second year. So I think that's, uh, you know, 1274 01:26:40,600 --> 01:26:44,520 that's obviously ideal to have some continuity in the offense. You know, obviously 1275 01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:46,800 we have a first year quarterback in that spot. Now he doesn't have as 1276 01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:50,359 much time with it, but I think I think Keiwan Jenkins is is going 1277 01:26:50,399 --> 01:26:54,760 to do just fine in this adjustment. What's so impressive, you know, 1278 01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:58,960 talking with the coaches and just being at practice and watching them, like there 1279 01:26:59,119 --> 01:27:03,319 is an already level of trust with ke Won making checks at the line of 1280 01:27:03,359 --> 01:27:08,840 scrimmage, with him seeing something and making an audible making a check to his 1281 01:27:08,920 --> 01:27:13,319 receivers because that's what that's what he did at at Miami Central and all the 1282 01:27:13,359 --> 01:27:16,439 time as he was en route to winning state championships. And you know, 1283 01:27:16,600 --> 01:27:20,439 there's there's times when you know, maybe you don't have to be reined in 1284 01:27:20,479 --> 01:27:25,079 a little bit, but they they really trust him. The one of the 1285 01:27:25,119 --> 01:27:28,079 touchdowns to Chris Mitchell that that was an audible. I was supposed to just 1286 01:27:28,119 --> 01:27:30,800 be a I think a screen pass we had. We had run in a 1287 01:27:30,840 --> 01:27:33,239 couple of times. It had been successful, so the coaches called it a 1288 01:27:33,319 --> 01:27:38,560 good and and he one saw something of the defense made a check and take 1289 01:27:38,680 --> 01:27:43,000 the fake the screen pass, and I mean Chris Mitchell was all by him 1290 01:27:43,039 --> 01:27:46,399 selling that's awesome, that's his that's his first college football game, and he 1291 01:27:46,439 --> 01:27:51,840 has the trust and the stuff, the stones to make it happen. So 1292 01:27:53,039 --> 01:27:56,920 look to put it in a perspective. I wanted to get this stat out 1293 01:27:56,960 --> 01:27:59,760 there too. Was looking it up a little bit like two hundred ninety two 1294 01:27:59,720 --> 01:28:03,680 pass yards in his first start. I mean, James Morgan has looked at 1295 01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:06,760 us like one of the top quarterbacks in FIU history, right. I saw 1296 01:28:06,920 --> 01:28:11,520 sidelines FIU post the top five today, love their coverage, love their account, 1297 01:28:11,520 --> 01:28:14,159 and then they posted a top five, and I think James was one 1298 01:28:14,279 --> 01:28:17,039 or two. And I looked at James the stats in twenty eighteen, when 1299 01:28:17,039 --> 01:28:24,319 when you had a school record nine wins and won a bowl game in the 1300 01:28:24,399 --> 01:28:28,520 regular season, I wanted to say James had two games where he threw for 1301 01:28:28,560 --> 01:28:31,800 two ninety two plus. In twenty nineteen, the year where we beat Miami. 1302 01:28:32,239 --> 01:28:35,399 He had one game, so three total, and in twenty nineteen, 1303 01:28:36,159 --> 01:28:42,479 which was in decent years, Bow Bowl game one time, over two ninety 1304 01:28:42,640 --> 01:28:45,720 two times in twenty eighteen our school record year, and Keywan comes in gets 1305 01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:50,119 ninety two and his first ever game. I knows, yeah, I know, 1306 01:28:50,159 --> 01:28:56,399 as an FCS opponent. But look, there's it's it's still still a 1307 01:28:56,479 --> 01:29:00,439 very positive sign something that hasn't been done a lot. It's been done times 1308 01:29:00,439 --> 01:29:04,199 in the last five years. So I'm really excited about what he was able 1309 01:29:04,199 --> 01:29:06,319 to do. And I just think it's only going to get better if he 1310 01:29:06,359 --> 01:29:12,079 can continue to be protected well and develop his confidence. All Right, a 1311 01:29:12,079 --> 01:29:13,680 couple more things. We'll get you out of here. Let's go to the 1312 01:29:13,680 --> 01:29:16,039 schedule a little bit. They go to North You've already played a conference game. 1313 01:29:16,079 --> 01:29:19,800 You go to North Texas this week. North Texas got beat hammered pretty 1314 01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:23,960 good by cow which a lot of people thought North Texas might be in that 1315 01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:27,199 game and win the game. Talk about just the schedule in general, any 1316 01:29:27,239 --> 01:29:30,880 any any weird things in the schedule. You play at Arkansas Real late in 1317 01:29:30,920 --> 01:29:33,079 the year, which is kind of the kind of a goofy time for you. 1318 01:29:33,119 --> 01:29:36,079 Guys to have to play them late, but you do as a money 1319 01:29:36,119 --> 01:29:40,159 as a kind of as a money game. Talk about the schedule a little 1320 01:29:40,199 --> 01:29:44,560 bit and just your thoughts of the CUSA. Yeah, I think North Texas 1321 01:29:44,640 --> 01:29:50,239 is one of those games that will be a nice gauge of progress from from 1322 01:29:50,279 --> 01:29:55,159 one year to the next. I think Western Kentucky will be the the other 1323 01:29:55,279 --> 01:29:57,720 one. I'm not going to say what the score of that game was last 1324 01:29:57,800 --> 01:30:00,279 year, but I will say it's not going to be the same, right. 1325 01:30:00,319 --> 01:30:04,479 I'm excited for for those two games because you know, we took it 1326 01:30:04,520 --> 01:30:09,039 on the chin at North Texas last year and Western as well. So I'm 1327 01:30:09,560 --> 01:30:13,279 I think Western Kentucky will actually be Senior Day if I'm not mistake. I'm 1328 01:30:13,319 --> 01:30:15,359 just going up to schedule here to be sure. Yeah, and next weekend 1329 01:30:15,359 --> 01:30:19,479 we had to Yukon. Yukon could have been a different game last year. 1330 01:30:19,479 --> 01:30:23,239 Obviously, you can end up having a pretty good season for what the recent 1331 01:30:23,279 --> 01:30:27,479 standards had been just one of those games like UTSA, we couldn't get things 1332 01:30:27,520 --> 01:30:30,279 going offensively, but we were hanging around Liberty. Look, the Liberty is 1333 01:30:30,279 --> 01:30:33,720 a team new to Conference USA. They're pumping in resources, They've got some 1334 01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:39,479 recent tradition. That'll be a great challenge on homecoming. Look, I'm excited 1335 01:30:39,479 --> 01:30:41,880 about our scus. We go to New Mexico State again, that's a place 1336 01:30:42,239 --> 01:30:46,479 where we won last year. That was right after the big loss to Western 1337 01:30:46,520 --> 01:30:48,439 Kentucky. And then we go out by the way, by the way, 1338 01:30:48,479 --> 01:30:54,840 by the way, how was that travel day to get to Lodge Cruises. 1339 01:30:55,960 --> 01:30:59,880 I've this, you know, you get you just you try not to complain 1340 01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:02,520 too much because we're just so we're so lucky to be where where we're at 1341 01:31:02,560 --> 01:31:04,960 and be a part of the program, and just no one wants to hear 1342 01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:12,279 you complaintball day, So I have to just like be like, shut up, 1343 01:31:12,399 --> 01:31:14,640 Hi, no one cares. But yeah, if if, if, 1344 01:31:14,920 --> 01:31:17,000 Since I've been provoked with the question, yeah, it's a long travel because 1345 01:31:17,039 --> 01:31:20,319 it's it's if it's a night game. Especially yeah, I'll say it was 1346 01:31:20,319 --> 01:31:23,640 a I think it was a seven o'clock click kick lesser. I'll tell this 1347 01:31:23,760 --> 01:31:27,239 in thirty seconds. Nobody, nobody wants to hear me event about travel. 1348 01:31:27,279 --> 01:31:29,600 No, we want to hear travel. We like good travel stories. Come 1349 01:31:29,640 --> 01:31:32,479 on, it's just to give a perspective, like the seven pm kick, 1350 01:31:32,479 --> 01:31:36,199 it's Mountain time game ins. Let's say the game ends at eleven, you 1351 01:31:36,199 --> 01:31:40,119 don't leave the stadium until twelve. They had showers, get some food, 1352 01:31:40,279 --> 01:31:43,479 see their parents phone calls. We don't leave till twelve. When we play 1353 01:31:43,560 --> 01:31:45,880 New Mexico like that, we can't leave out of the airport. In loss 1354 01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:48,600 cruises that the charter flight leaves out of El Paso on that trip. So 1355 01:31:48,640 --> 01:31:51,159 if we leave the stadium at twelve, we don't get to the airport till 1356 01:31:51,279 --> 01:31:56,319 one. We're not loaded and ready to go till two thirty. Let's say 1357 01:31:56,359 --> 01:31:58,920 it's a three and a half hour flight three thirty four, thirty five, 1358 01:31:59,039 --> 01:32:01,720 thirty six. You add two hours for the time difference. Landing at eight, 1359 01:32:01,920 --> 01:32:04,000 it's another half hour to get off. So by the time you get 1360 01:32:04,039 --> 01:32:08,640 back to FIU, it was like nine or nine straight straight to the waffle 1361 01:32:08,680 --> 01:32:12,800 House or International House of Pain. You know. I hope you saw my 1362 01:32:12,840 --> 01:32:15,600 Twitter. I'm a waffle house guy. Yeah, that's the play. That's 1363 01:32:15,600 --> 01:32:17,640 the place I love. Yeah. So, unfortunately there's not a lot in 1364 01:32:17,680 --> 01:32:20,920 Miami, but if there, if there was one right by f I'd be 1365 01:32:20,960 --> 01:32:26,119 straight to the Wahoe and then straight straight to my straight to my couch straight 1366 01:32:26,159 --> 01:32:30,239 to my bed, face down. But again, it's part of college football. 1367 01:32:30,279 --> 01:32:32,239 You know, we all we all go through it. But it's it's 1368 01:32:32,239 --> 01:32:36,079 a lot better after a win. And I'll I'll tell you, I'll tell 1369 01:32:36,079 --> 01:32:39,399 you that the law Tech one was tough, but you know, I think 1370 01:32:39,399 --> 01:32:42,159 the guys were still, you know, motivated for the season. You know, 1371 01:32:42,199 --> 01:32:45,720 you can't can't have your heads down too much after week zero, right, 1372 01:32:45,920 --> 01:32:48,319 head up, move forward and onto the next game. And they did 1373 01:32:48,439 --> 01:32:51,560 enough to to get the win here against Maine. So yeah, to finish, 1374 01:32:51,680 --> 01:32:55,119 to finish the question. You know, I'm excited for u TEP. 1375 01:32:55,199 --> 01:32:59,479 That's Vice Night. Got over a million impressions on social media for for that. 1376 01:32:59,479 --> 01:33:00,840 Look, there's like we see the mine Heat do it, but we 1377 01:33:00,840 --> 01:33:04,039 don't see a lot of college football program like pull off Ice and they're not 1378 01:33:04,079 --> 01:33:10,680 a lot of Ken So I think the jersey, the field, the branding, 1379 01:33:10,720 --> 01:33:12,600 the apparel that will go with that will be a lot of fun. 1380 01:33:12,640 --> 01:33:15,760 That'll be a nationally televised game, so there's a lot of fun ones to 1381 01:33:15,760 --> 01:33:16,840 look forward to. You guys are on CBS Sports and at a couple of 1382 01:33:16,880 --> 01:33:20,720 times nationally, so you'll get some good you know, publicity as far as 1383 01:33:21,159 --> 01:33:26,000 just exposure around the country. Yeah, part of that new television contract. 1384 01:33:26,039 --> 01:33:29,600 I thought Conference USA did a great job with that. Look, there was 1385 01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:32,479 that availability in October, kind of like maction. Okay, but we'll be 1386 01:33:32,520 --> 01:33:38,199 the only games on in October on those Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and hopefully that 1387 01:33:38,199 --> 01:33:43,680 that raises some brand awareness and some national recognition for the players that this team 1388 01:33:43,720 --> 01:33:45,560 and in this league has. And that'll be a lot of fun and I'm 1389 01:33:45,560 --> 01:33:49,159 excited to do four I think three or four ESPN Plus games as well for 1390 01:33:48,800 --> 01:33:53,640 the non CBS one, So we'll have some fun with it. Last thing, 1391 01:33:53,399 --> 01:33:56,000 tell the audience where they can find your stuff online as far as the 1392 01:33:56,039 --> 01:34:00,760 broadcast and through if it's a if IU website or tell us where we can 1393 01:34:00,760 --> 01:34:04,159 find many. Yeah, this weekend will be ESPN plus, uh six thirty 1394 01:34:04,239 --> 01:34:11,359 Eastern kickoff when we're on the road. Our flagship radio stations eleven forty am, 1395 01:34:11,760 --> 01:34:15,800 Univision w QBA eleven forty am, and that's also also have a web 1396 01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:20,199 stream as well, So half our game CBS Sports Network, half of our 1397 01:34:20,239 --> 01:34:26,560 games ESPM plus, and our our radio broadcast on eleven forty am. So 1398 01:34:26,680 --> 01:34:29,880 we're excited to keep rolling. Like I said, we'll have Jonathan cyprian NFL 1399 01:34:29,960 --> 01:34:33,880 veteran on the on the ESPN Plus broadcast with me this weekend, Billy Gill 1400 01:34:34,239 --> 01:34:39,079 from the from the Dan Levitard Show, and a noted FIU alums. He's 1401 01:34:39,119 --> 01:34:42,520 going to join for for some radio broadcast this year, like as as the 1402 01:34:42,600 --> 01:34:45,520 analysts. So we'll we'll have who knows, like we'll have we know we're 1403 01:34:45,520 --> 01:34:48,159 gonna have some fun with that. We may not be talking football the entire 1404 01:34:48,199 --> 01:34:51,960 time. There's there's there's a clip when he joined a couple of years ago 1405 01:34:53,520 --> 01:34:57,600 I don't on the ESPN Plus broadcast and it went in all sorts of directions, 1406 01:34:57,640 --> 01:35:00,479 but it was alsome. It was it was hilarious. So I'm excited 1407 01:35:00,479 --> 01:35:02,119 to have him again, and yeah, we'll have some fun with it. 1408 01:35:02,560 --> 01:35:05,880 Well A j Ricketts, what was your fastest mile? How fast for you? 1409 01:35:05,960 --> 01:35:08,800 The mile? May give me your best mile? Oh man, I 1410 01:35:08,880 --> 01:35:12,119 was slow by college standards. Man, I think four thirty seven was my 1411 01:35:12,119 --> 01:35:15,880 first slow. Come on, bro, Really, I was usually doing the 1412 01:35:15,039 --> 01:35:18,760 five thousand or the three thousand. I'm excited that I'm going to the Philippines 1413 01:35:18,800 --> 01:35:21,000 next month to run a track meet, so we'll see if I still have 1414 01:35:21,039 --> 01:35:24,720 it. We'll see if I still have it. Maybe, but I'm old, 1415 01:35:25,039 --> 01:35:28,600 some old man track running. Huh. I don't want to use that 1416 01:35:28,680 --> 01:35:31,640 term yet. I don't need that. I'm not ready to say that yet. 1417 01:35:31,920 --> 01:35:34,680 The four thirty seven is pretty damn good. So congrats to you, 1418 01:35:34,800 --> 01:35:39,079 my brother, Thank you, thank you need the ego boost. Appreciate it 1419 01:35:39,520 --> 01:35:43,239 all right, A j Ricketts played by Playboys fi U Panthers. Appreciate the 1420 01:35:43,239 --> 01:35:45,000 time. Have a great year on the broadcast, and we will check in 1421 01:35:45,039 --> 01:35:47,439 with you as we moved through the year. All right, sounds good, 1422 01:35:47,439 --> 01:35:51,239 Thanks Jason, I appreciate it. You got it. Thanks for listening to 1423 01:35:51,279 --> 01:35:58,479 the Florida Football Insiders Podcast as part of the College Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast 1424 01:35:58,239 --> 01:36:01,720 network. Please remember some scribe, rate and review if you've not already done 1425 01:36:01,760 --> 01:36:05,640 so, and you can reach out to me on Twitter at j Post Sports. 1426 01:36:06,039 --> 01:36:11,640 Love to hear your comments and feedback about our episodes and any programs suggestions 1427 01:36:11,720 --> 01:36:15,399 moving forward. Check out our video interviews as well on my YouTube channel, 1428 01:36:15,840 --> 01:36:21,479 Jason Powers Sports Channel, and we'll see it next week on the Florida Football 1429 01:36:21,640 --> 01:36:23,880 Insiders Podcast.