1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:05,960 The Florida Football Insiders podcast is presented by BFO Brady's Here in Tampa located at 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:10,199 the corner of Bush Boulevard and Himes Avenue, as well as host Slice Pizza 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:20,359 Company and Hanks Barbecue. Enjoy the podcast a look at college football news, 4 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:26,839 analysis and insight from around the Sunshine State. This is Florida Football Insiders, 5 00:00:26,839 --> 00:00:31,120 a part of the College Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast sor and here's your host, 6 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:56,280 Jason Collers. Welcome into the Florida Football Insiders Podcast, presented by BFO 7 00:00:56,439 --> 00:01:00,159 Brady's Here in Tampa BEFO bays on the corner of location in the corner of 8 00:01:00,399 --> 00:01:06,719 Bush Boulevard and Himes Avenue. Appreciate you finding us this week. We have 9 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:12,319 gotten our Championship week, champions have been crowned, and all of our major 10 00:01:12,359 --> 00:01:18,040 Power five conferences we know what the playoff brackets look like. Now. We've 11 00:01:18,079 --> 00:01:23,599 got Georgia and Ohio State in one semifinal and we've got TCU in Michigan and 12 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:30,000 the other semifinal. So we're gonna have a good episode for you today. 13 00:01:30,079 --> 00:01:33,640 Before we get to coach, We're gonna talk to Coach Levitt one more time, 14 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,799 and we're also going to talk to Vince Ferrara from ninety nine point one 15 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:42,480 s The Sports Animal in Knoxville, Tennessee, concerning the USF hiring of head 16 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:49,120 coach Alex Glesh, the Tennessee offensive coordinator under Josh Hypel takes over the USF 17 00:01:49,239 --> 00:01:53,599 program. So we're gonna have a good, in depth talk about coach Glesh 18 00:01:53,719 --> 00:01:59,079 and his philosophies and all that kind of good stuff as he comes to Tampa 19 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:04,280 to take over the struggling USF program. Other news around the state, yet 20 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,759 FAU hired Tom Herman, the former Texas coach, to be their new head 21 00:02:08,759 --> 00:02:12,759 coach. They let go to Willie Taggart at the end of the year. 22 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:19,159 There is some speculation that Willie Taggart might be involved with Dion Sanders's staff out 23 00:02:19,199 --> 00:02:23,120 at Colorado since as he as he was taking that job out in Boulder, 24 00:02:23,199 --> 00:02:29,439 So we'll stay tuned on that. You know, there's some transfer portal news 25 00:02:29,439 --> 00:02:34,280 that there's transfer portal has opened up this week and lots of players from the 26 00:02:34,319 --> 00:02:37,520 state of Florida involved in that. I know a lot of USF guys are 27 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:42,400 involved or have entered the transfer portal. Numerous guys out of Florida have entered 28 00:02:42,439 --> 00:02:46,400 the transfer portal. You will probably see a couple of guys from Florida State 29 00:02:46,479 --> 00:02:51,319 trickle into the portal here as he gets going. So plenty and plenty of 30 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:55,240 Transfer Portal news to come here in the coming days and weeks, as as 31 00:02:55,439 --> 00:03:00,159 kids enter the portal and then commit to new places, so we will have 32 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:05,400 some updates for you as we move along. We will have one more episode 33 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,400 of the Florida Football Insiders podcast. We remember we're part of the College Gridiron 34 00:03:09,479 --> 00:03:15,520 Coast to Coast podcast network. We'll have one more episode leading into the into 35 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:21,960 the college football Playoffs semifinals. So between the week of Christmas and New Year's 36 00:03:22,039 --> 00:03:28,520 we will release another episode previewing the semifinal games and a couple of bowl games 37 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,000 and such, and I'm sure there will be some other coaching news and such, 38 00:03:31,039 --> 00:03:36,039 and will have Coach Levin on one more time during that during that podcast 39 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,199 as well, and we'll have some good guests for you as well previewing the 40 00:03:39,639 --> 00:03:44,719 semifinal matchup. So we're going to take a couple of weeks off after this 41 00:03:44,879 --> 00:03:50,199 episode concludes for the Christmas holidays, but again we will have another episode coming 42 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:55,639 out between Christmas and New Year's because remember the college football playoffs are on New 43 00:03:55,719 --> 00:04:00,159 Year's Eve on the thirty first, so there'll be plenty of bowl games throughout. 44 00:04:00,599 --> 00:04:06,879 I know Florida and Florida State will play. Florida plays in mid December, 45 00:04:06,919 --> 00:04:10,680 I believe, and I'll die of the double check when Florida State plays 46 00:04:11,439 --> 00:04:15,120 their bowl game. It's probably closer to New Year's Day than it is in 47 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,959 the middle of December. But I just want to give a shout out to 48 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:21,160 Steve Carney again one more time. He's kind of been our quarterback here of 49 00:04:21,199 --> 00:04:26,439 the podcast network that we're part of. Thanks for all the hard work with 50 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,360 Steve putting together the podcast and getting them posted every week. So thank you 51 00:04:30,399 --> 00:04:35,199 Steve again. Shout out to coach Levitt for being such a tremendous guest for 52 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:41,279 us and for you the audience. Throughout these fourteen weeks, Hopefully you've gathered 53 00:04:41,759 --> 00:04:46,399 some inside knowledge and some more details of what it's like to be a head 54 00:04:46,399 --> 00:04:50,879 coach, what coaches are thinking in certain situations, how coaches handle all the 55 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:55,959 different things that go into being a head football coach throughout the year. So 56 00:04:56,439 --> 00:04:59,000 you're gonna get one more great episode with coach level. 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But 93 00:07:40,519 --> 00:07:44,639 we all know you are college football fans at heart as well as NFL fans, 94 00:07:44,639 --> 00:07:47,120 and we want you to be with us all season long on bet us. 95 00:07:47,279 --> 00:07:51,000 Check them out at BetUS dot com and remember one hundred and twenty five 96 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:57,279 percent matching bonus for all initial sign ups with our code Coast twenty two. 97 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:01,959 Bet Us, you bet, you win, and you get paid all right. 98 00:08:01,959 --> 00:08:07,759 Welcome back coaching the Kicker Segment Coach Jim Levitts. We have wrapped up 99 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:13,199 championship. We finally know who's in the playoff. It's Georgia one, Michigan 100 00:08:13,279 --> 00:08:18,319 two, TCU three, even after losing a heartbreaker and overtime, and number 101 00:08:18,319 --> 00:08:24,879 four Ohio State slips in the back door thanks to USC going down on Friday 102 00:08:24,959 --> 00:08:28,839 night in Las Vegas. Coach, welcome back. It could be back, 103 00:08:30,199 --> 00:08:33,039 Boris. It's uh, is this our last last one? Well, we're 104 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:35,799 gonna do one more before the playoff. I mean you're I'm gonna give you 105 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:39,759 a couple of weeks off and we're gonna do one more before the playoff. 106 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:43,000 All right, But yes, you've been awesome this year been It's been a 107 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:48,159 real pleasure getting on and again you've you've provided such great insight on all the 108 00:08:48,159 --> 00:08:52,080 different aspects of coaching in the college football world. All right, let's get 109 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,440 right, I get all the Colorado stuff, fun, the honor d On 110 00:08:54,879 --> 00:08:56,919 I was gonna say, you're not going to da are you? You're not 111 00:08:58,159 --> 00:09:03,480 going out to Boulder now with d on our Oh no, I did my 112 00:09:03,799 --> 00:09:07,120 You know, we won ten games. They're the one yards there years the 113 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:11,320 one first year we only won four, then we won ten and that's where 114 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,879 I won. Of the season they've had about twenty years. I think he 115 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,559 swears they're gonna win out there. He'll he'll bring some juice out there though 116 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:20,879 with some He'll get some kids and he'll bring some juice out to Boulder. 117 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:24,840 Yeah, it would be fun see what happens. All right, let's get 118 00:09:24,879 --> 00:09:31,440 to the playoffs. Any any just overbearing thoughts on obviously the dramatic game in 119 00:09:31,519 --> 00:09:35,480 Dallas with TCU. In Kansas State you talked about, we talked Kansas State 120 00:09:35,639 --> 00:09:37,720 was a live team last week. You really liked what you saw at of 121 00:09:37,799 --> 00:09:43,159 Kansas State. TCU goold, come back, they get stopped on the goal 122 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,919 line and overtime on the one yard line, and then keep TCU goes down, 123 00:09:46,919 --> 00:09:50,200 it kicks the game winning field goal. And then obviously USC and Utah 124 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:54,240 Friday night, Uh, you know, Utah just the we again. We 125 00:09:54,279 --> 00:09:58,559 talked about Utah. The greedy, guttiness, the toughness of Utah just overwhelmed 126 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:03,159 USC. You know, Utah's interesting program because in some ways I'm not so 127 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:07,720 sure they're not one of the top programs in the country. It's you know, 128 00:10:07,759 --> 00:10:09,960 I mean, they beat uh, the USC twice, right, I 129 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:16,480 mean that's pretty good. And they lost a game in Florida. I thought 130 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,039 you talk was a better team and that the only other lost that was Oregon, 131 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:24,320 I blake, and you know Oregon had a good team as well. 132 00:10:24,399 --> 00:10:28,320 So you talk, you taught a very good team this year. And uh, 133 00:10:28,639 --> 00:10:31,480 you know it's um. You know Ohio State. I think a lot 134 00:10:31,519 --> 00:10:35,120 of people kind of joy seeing them in it because they were date. You 135 00:10:35,159 --> 00:10:39,000 know, they they just dominated everybody all year long till the end, and 136 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:43,000 they lost to Michigan. Michigan did a great job that one game. And 137 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,759 it's gonna be interesting now House Safe back in there, and well those Ohio 138 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,960 Safe people are excited, and you know, I was wish Sunny Dike said 139 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,919 it's of you. You know, so TCU, what a great job he 140 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:58,600 and his staff have done there this year to get the playoffs, and you 141 00:10:58,639 --> 00:11:05,840 know, and they were so explosive, uh offensively and they've played um good 142 00:11:05,919 --> 00:11:09,679 enough defense to get him there. And then Georgia is just man, they 143 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:15,399 seem like the team certainly to be uh and then miss Kim you know, 144 00:11:15,519 --> 00:11:18,519 so I don't know it's gonna be um, it's gonna be fun to watch 145 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:24,559 and we'll talk, like I said, we'll have one more uh coaching the 146 00:11:24,639 --> 00:11:28,080 kicker sitting in here in a couple of weeks preview in the championship games, 147 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:30,879 We'll really get into the coach and I'll really get into the xs and o's 148 00:11:30,919 --> 00:11:33,879 of each of these matchups. For the for the playoff games here in a 149 00:11:33,919 --> 00:11:37,600 couple of weeks, talk about, um, you know a lot of people 150 00:11:37,639 --> 00:11:39,720 would you know, questioning should Ohio Steak getting should Alabama get in? Now? 151 00:11:39,759 --> 00:11:43,720 Obviously heard Nick Saban. Over the weekend we lose two games by four 152 00:11:43,799 --> 00:11:46,399 points on the last play of the game, as opposed to a house Steak 153 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,799 getting blown out at home. Any thoughts of Alabama getting in over Ohio State? 154 00:11:50,799 --> 00:11:54,120 Are you okay with that? No? You know, it's it's um. 155 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:58,960 I think Saban's got uh, he's gonna do it. He's you know, 156 00:11:58,039 --> 00:12:01,720 he's head coach that program. Yeah, and I'm not so sure that 157 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:05,320 Alabama is not one of the shouldn't be in there, But you know, 158 00:12:07,399 --> 00:12:09,759 you just you can't. You can't do it. The president with two losses, 159 00:12:09,759 --> 00:12:13,879 you know, and Tennessee was one of them, and you know it's 160 00:12:13,919 --> 00:12:16,559 just gonna be hard. It would be hard to take Alabama. And then 161 00:12:16,639 --> 00:12:18,919 you know, I could see people arguing in debating it. I'm not so 162 00:12:20,039 --> 00:12:24,159 sure that they're not right, and that's why people want to expand it from 163 00:12:24,159 --> 00:12:28,399 Florida, you know, just six or twelve or whatever. You know, 164 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:33,120 are you excited that it got expanded to twelve? Basically they came to an 165 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:37,720 agreement last week those Bowl to go to twelve. A you're excited? You 166 00:12:37,799 --> 00:12:41,320 like twelve as a number? Oh, I don't know. You know, 167 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:46,039 I haven't thought a lot about it. You know, it's just you know, 168 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:50,480 more money, more TV, you know, more teams getting in probably 169 00:12:50,519 --> 00:12:54,720 helps. You know. I'm such a whole school guy. I kind of 170 00:12:54,759 --> 00:12:58,320 liked it when they all the Bowl games meant a lot and they didn't just 171 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,039 name it, know, team that was the best team in the country, 172 00:13:01,039 --> 00:13:07,320 and that seemed to work forever until they changed it. And so I know 173 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,720 people would probably criticize me because they you know, you know, because all 174 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,200 the Division two, Division three had you know, playoffs, right, so 175 00:13:13,279 --> 00:13:18,879 they're probably going more towards that format. Uh So, you know, it's 176 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,919 one thing, yeah, one one thing. I'm not I'm surprised I've not 177 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:28,000 heard anybody talk about that a playoff team could potentially have to play four more 178 00:13:28,039 --> 00:13:33,679 games seventeen games you could potentially have to play in a college football if you 179 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:37,360 were the twelve seed and let's say you went to a championship game and loss. 180 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,919 That's that's thirteen games right there. Four more games in the playoffs. 181 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,399 Are these kids gonna Do you think that these kids ought to get a little 182 00:13:46,399 --> 00:13:50,559 bit of a stipe in each playoff round they go to Financially with as much 183 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,679 money that's going into these games from the TV networks, I haven't already may 184 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,639 talk about do you pay these kids a couple of thousand bucks per game for 185 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:01,759 every team that makes it? What your thoughts on that? Well, you 186 00:14:01,799 --> 00:14:03,679 know, college football has changed so much, and I'm not so sure for 187 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,000 the better, you know, personally, it's just it's just different, and 188 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:13,080 there's so many variables out there and things to talk about. It's it's difficult, 189 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,080 you know. The TV. Yeah, they're making all this money, 190 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:20,120 and I certainly see the argument for papal arms, I really do um And 191 00:14:20,279 --> 00:14:24,399 but you know, we we've we've missed the boat somewhere, you know, 192 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:28,759 the nil the transfer portal. I don't like it at all. I think 193 00:14:28,759 --> 00:14:33,279 it's much and I don't think it's a good thing for college football. I 194 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:37,720 think it's a very bad thing and uh um, you know, I think 195 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:41,039 it's sad. To be honest with you, the direction of college football is 196 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,240 going. Uh you know, it's you know, it's supposed to be an 197 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:48,320 amateur athlete. The education meant so much. I remember when I got a 198 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:52,399 scholarship University of Missouri, and I thought that was the greatest thing in the 199 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:58,480 world. But times change, TV market is different, everything's different. But 200 00:14:58,559 --> 00:15:03,159 it's I think it's gotten to be out of control and I don't I don't 201 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,399 like it, you know personally. Now you know how many games to the 202 00:15:05,519 --> 00:15:09,679 Division two and Division three? Uh you know it used to be all one 203 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:15,519 double a's right games A play? How to uh you know they do? 204 00:15:15,559 --> 00:15:18,960 They have to play that many games. People are gonna make the argument, 205 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,360 well they can't. I don't know why anybody can't, but it seems too 206 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,720 much. Yes, you know, you know when when I was in the 207 00:15:24,799 --> 00:15:28,679 NFL, we went to the NFC championship game, uh three times, playing 208 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:31,840 Super Bowl once. You know, it was twenty three or twenty four games. 209 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:35,519 As a lot of football bros. But they don't have it, they 210 00:15:35,519 --> 00:15:39,440 don't have school that it's different and it's a long season for them. Of 211 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:43,120 course, your top don't play those four games, those preseason games much, 212 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,120 but it was, it was. It was a lot of football, it 213 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,440 is. That's a lot of balls, a lot of a lot of ball, 214 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,279 for sure. All right, let's let's um, you know, let's 215 00:15:52,279 --> 00:15:54,679 transition to some of the coaching hires. Over the weekend. Several jobs got 216 00:15:54,679 --> 00:15:58,559 filled. We have some breaking news Monday morning, and we'll talk about here 217 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:02,200 in a second. FAU fills their job. Willie Taggert let go, Tom 218 00:16:02,279 --> 00:16:07,679 Herman, the former Texas coach, brought in us Let's obviously Jeff Scott was 219 00:16:07,759 --> 00:16:11,559 let go several weeks ago. Alex galesh who's the off co offensive coordinator at 220 00:16:11,559 --> 00:16:17,720 Tennessee with Josh hypel Is brought in to be the new USF coach. Colorado 221 00:16:17,799 --> 00:16:22,799 hires Dion Sanders. Liberty hires Jamie Chadwell, who went from Coastal Carolina to 222 00:16:22,879 --> 00:16:26,000 Liberty to Liberty to fill the job where Hugh Freeze left. And then breaking 223 00:16:26,039 --> 00:16:30,080 news on Monday morning, the Louisville coach, somebody I know, you know, 224 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:34,600 Scott Satterfield leaves Louisville to go to right up the road to Cincinnati, 225 00:16:34,639 --> 00:16:38,759 which is kind of a you know in that part of the world that that'll 226 00:16:38,759 --> 00:16:42,799 get a lot of attention. So any of those names strike you as somebody 227 00:16:42,879 --> 00:16:45,080 that you really think is gonna do a really good job where they're going. 228 00:16:47,039 --> 00:16:48,559 Well, I like Shatterfield, I said, you know, I know him, 229 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:53,720 and it was interesting Louisville when I was at SMU was the interim head 230 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:59,200 coach before we were supposed to play Virginia and in the bowl game, they're 231 00:16:59,279 --> 00:17:02,679 in uh, you know in Ah, I guess Yankee Stadium up there. 232 00:17:02,759 --> 00:17:07,039 We Uh, they came and practiced on our fields and I but I've known 233 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:11,319 him and I've always watched him, you know. When I was at Florida 234 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:14,759 State, we ended up beating them in a really good game. I like 235 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:17,920 him. I think he's very good coach. You know, you gotta wonder 236 00:17:18,079 --> 00:17:26,200 um the motivation and why he's doing whether it was kind of just time to 237 00:17:26,279 --> 00:17:30,240 leave Louisville and a lot of pressure, and I don't know, but I 238 00:17:30,519 --> 00:17:33,920 think he's really good coach. The new guy at South Florida, I don't 239 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:38,240 really know him. Uh. Tennessee's certainly had a really good year. Uh 240 00:17:38,319 --> 00:17:41,880 So you know, you just don't know. You know, you really don't 241 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:47,400 know till you know after they play and you know, and you know, 242 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,400 it's it's certainly not about the press conference, even though everybody wants it to 243 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:55,839 be. Uh, it's it's a body of work, and we won't know 244 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:00,279 how good these moves are till you know years later. I mean, Jeff 245 00:18:00,279 --> 00:18:03,400 Scott took the job at South Florida, I'm sure to feel pretty excited coming 246 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:11,039 from Clemson co offensive coordinator from Florida. A great guy. Um dad was 247 00:18:11,039 --> 00:18:15,599 was a you know, had lots of coaching. Yea. You know, 248 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:21,519 the program was down and you know, struggled. So you know, in 249 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:23,960 time you may may be a great hug. You just don't know, it 250 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,240 may not be. And there's so many other things that are involved. Um, 251 00:18:27,799 --> 00:18:32,920 you know. So the Liberty, I don't know, he's done a 252 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,839 great job at Coastal Carolina. I don't really know him. Yeah, Oh 253 00:18:36,839 --> 00:18:41,720 he's done. They've done great there, so uh you know Liberty. It's 254 00:18:41,759 --> 00:18:47,279 interesting Liberty's gotten some pop some money into that program, man, and they're 255 00:18:47,279 --> 00:18:51,559 paying their coach and they are pumping some money into their resources. I guess 256 00:18:51,559 --> 00:18:52,920 four million a year. They're talking about paying him. That's a lot of 257 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:59,640 money. Uh So it's it's um, you just don't know. You know, 258 00:18:59,759 --> 00:19:02,720 you've fres going to Auburn. I think that's I think you Freeze a 259 00:19:02,759 --> 00:19:04,319 heck of a coach. I think he does a great job. You know, 260 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:07,599 people are gonna get involved in all the different off field things. But 261 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,119 you know, Hugh Freeze and I met, you know about the old miss 262 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:15,640 defensive coordinator job, and you know Hugh Freeze. Um, you know, 263 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,680 I was set to go there, and then I interviewed for the head job 264 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,960 at Kansas State and that kind of and then I ended up going to going 265 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:27,160 to Oregon. So it was crazy. They obviously hired a really good guy 266 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:32,799 at Kansas State. What's the first order of business when you take a new 267 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,519 job like this head coaching job. I don't care if it's in a big 268 00:19:36,519 --> 00:19:38,720 school, little school, whatever. What is the first couple of days? 269 00:19:38,759 --> 00:19:41,920 Well, I mean obviously you probably are making calls about his staff and all 270 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:45,319 that stuff. What is the first I mean, when you get there, 271 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:48,720 you don't have a place to live, I mean, do you find what 272 00:19:48,759 --> 00:19:51,240 are you trying to find a place to live? What's the first day or 273 00:19:51,279 --> 00:19:53,400 two like at a new job of actually doing work, and what are you 274 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:59,000 doing. Well, if I'm going it's a job, I'm gonna find my 275 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:03,880 quarterbacks good, I'm gonna go find him right away. And I think you 276 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:10,160 gotta get your players immediately, like right away, and you guys started having 277 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:14,079 meetings with your players. You're gonna have uh, you know, you're gonna 278 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:15,720 multitask. You're gonna have a lot of things going on at the same time. 279 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:21,279 You gotta hire staff, you gotta get recruiting, you got the transfer 280 00:20:21,319 --> 00:20:26,039 portal involved, You've got you've got a million things going on at one time, 281 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,720 and you gotta go handle all of it at the same time. You 282 00:20:29,759 --> 00:20:33,240 know. So, but you better see your players, and you better get 283 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:34,839 one on one with your players. You know, you can have that team 284 00:20:34,839 --> 00:20:41,000 meeting, and then you better start setting up a schedule with with you know, 285 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:45,839 your assistant. You better start putting a schedule there to meet with your 286 00:20:45,839 --> 00:20:49,160 players one on one. So when you're hiring a staff, obviously on the 287 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,680 day you hire, you get the I mean there's some of these jobs you 288 00:20:52,759 --> 00:20:55,359 may not. I mean a guy like Alex Kleshman, I'd have known he 289 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:59,480 was getting the job. Bill Saturday nine who knows you already got you already 290 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:04,000 have that list together of guys you're gonna call before Saturday. This these couple 291 00:21:04,079 --> 00:21:07,920 guys in every position, How do you As far as putting together staff, 292 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,200 that can't be a one phone call and it's done. It probably takes some 293 00:21:11,279 --> 00:21:15,039 time to put put together a ten or fifteen person staff, right, yeah, 294 00:21:15,039 --> 00:21:18,559 it will, it will. It's like could be easy, you know, 295 00:21:18,559 --> 00:21:22,079 because the most important things you better get a great strength coaches best number 296 00:21:22,079 --> 00:21:26,359 one, right, you're good in that area. And then your coordinators. 297 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:27,759 You know, you got to get those because a lot of times coordinators are 298 00:21:27,759 --> 00:21:32,400 gonna want to bring their own people with them anymore the way it is now, 299 00:21:32,519 --> 00:21:34,599 So you'll lean on your coordinators quite a bit. But you gotta gives 300 00:21:34,599 --> 00:21:38,799 strengths because the players off final exams, they'll go home, but they'll come 301 00:21:38,839 --> 00:21:42,079 back and done and and started hitting the weight run. You know. So 302 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:45,519 you want to get you want to get that that position. You want to 303 00:21:45,519 --> 00:21:49,680 make sure that position is really good, you know, it just it just 304 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,799 takes time. You're gonna do it, and and you don't have time, 305 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,519 you know. So when it comes to recruiting lists and stuff like that, 306 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:02,200 does the does the place you're going to do they provide you that information or 307 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,119 is that something you gotta bring with you. I mean, you're going from 308 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:08,640 like Dion Sanders, from Mississippi to Colorado. You're not gonnasily know all the 309 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,799 kids out west? Where do you get that information from? If you're a 310 00:22:11,799 --> 00:22:15,839 guy like Deon Sanders, well, you're gonna lean on the recruiting coordinator that 311 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:21,640 was there, you know a little bit. But if they're gone here you've 312 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:26,960 already been recruiting at Jackson State, You're certainly going to recruit different guys right 313 00:22:26,559 --> 00:22:30,279 about the people you know? You know? I mean you you know he 314 00:22:32,079 --> 00:22:34,960 Dion probably has this staff all set maybe you know, and and those guys 315 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,759 will just start working it. They got to get into La. They know 316 00:22:37,799 --> 00:22:40,880 they're in the Pac twelve. They've got to get out there. And they 317 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:42,240 got to go to Texas because they've been going to Texas quite a bit because 318 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:47,680 it's about eight hour drive from Dallas to to Boulder, Okay, So you 319 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,880 know they'll probably work that angle. But Dean's gonna work National. You'll work 320 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:53,599 all the transfer portal. But then you gotta evaluateate your team. You gotta 321 00:22:53,599 --> 00:22:57,440 evaluate for what your scheme are offensively defensively, and you've got to look at 322 00:22:57,519 --> 00:23:02,359 the players you have and that that takes time though, right, that just 323 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:06,319 takes time and watching film, right right, Yeah, you gotta do it. 324 00:23:06,759 --> 00:23:11,519 You're not gonna sleep, You're just not you know, you're gonna get 325 00:23:11,519 --> 00:23:15,759 three four hours of sleep at night, that's it. But you're so excited 326 00:23:15,759 --> 00:23:18,599 about the job that you don't need any more than four hours a night, 327 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,440 and you're just gonna crank it out, you know. You know in the 328 00:23:22,559 --> 00:23:26,640 nighttime, after ten eleven at night, you can do a lot of work 329 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,079 till two or three in the morning, you know, do a lot of 330 00:23:29,079 --> 00:23:33,920 that film work and evaluate, you know, and you'll talk to the coaches 331 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,920 that are there. You know, they all want to stay on, they 332 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,440 want a job. They're gonna give you as much information as they can. 333 00:23:41,599 --> 00:23:45,680 But it's it's, uh, you know, you're so excited about the job. 334 00:23:45,519 --> 00:23:48,960 You know, you're excited about being hired. So you're just going on 335 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:55,400 adrenaline and you just you just do the best you can. But you gotta 336 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,279 see your players. Got to hold off players and going to transfer bort at 337 00:23:59,319 --> 00:24:03,519 least two or three for that. You really want to keep and do the 338 00:24:03,519 --> 00:24:06,440 best job you can there. You know, So when you when you're going 339 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,200 to hire a staff, does the athletics director does he tell you, hey, 340 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,400 coach, you got X number of dollars in total to hire your assistant? 341 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,039 Or does he does he give you a specific number for each coach? 342 00:24:17,319 --> 00:24:19,200 How does? How does kind of nego? Because you know, obviously these 343 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,680 guys all want to make as much money as they can as assistance. But 344 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,920 do you tell the assistant, hey, coach, I got I got X 345 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,279 number of dollars to pay you as the running backs coach, I got I 346 00:24:27,279 --> 00:24:30,279 could pay you. Is that? Is that determined by the athletics director or 347 00:24:30,279 --> 00:24:34,599 do you have any wiggle room in that as the head coach? The athletic 348 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,839 director is gonna tell your this is done before you're hired. Okay, what 349 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:44,480 you're sarry pool is if you don't, he won't care how you're gonna dib 350 00:24:44,519 --> 00:24:47,640 you it up? Okay? Or should he? You know, but he's 351 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,039 gonna say, hey, here's here's the pool of money that you have. 352 00:24:51,079 --> 00:24:52,880 Work with it, you know. I mean that was when I interviewed for 353 00:24:53,599 --> 00:25:03,160 a number of different jobs Alabama or UH Kansas State or Texas Tech or Klas 354 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:07,279 State, those that was told me what the pool money was going to be. 355 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,759 Okay, you know, you know, so that was that was all 356 00:25:11,799 --> 00:25:12,960 there. You know, so you knew going in what you were going to 357 00:25:14,039 --> 00:25:18,200 have. And then you know you're right if you if you if you're you 358 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,160 need a little bit more, maybe one hundred thousand more here or there. 359 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,119 You feel like this this guy is that good? You go to your A 360 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:29,599 D and work it out. Find a way. How fast will this? 361 00:25:29,799 --> 00:25:33,319 How fast that these new places? Will the staff all be in whatever city 362 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,200 there? And are they all there? If the guy gets hired, you 363 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:37,799 know, if the coach gets hired Saturday, are they are they there by 364 00:25:37,799 --> 00:25:41,079 the end of this week? Everybody's gonna be in in that new city. 365 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:45,200 How does that work? Well, if he's hired saterity, he might be 366 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:51,279 there Saturday night. You'll go fast. You know. He's like most of 367 00:25:51,279 --> 00:25:55,000 these guys getting these head jobs, they've heard a gout relationships. They already 368 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,839 know who they probably want to hire. Okay, and and you know for 369 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:03,839 about four or five six physicians, they're they're they're already set. And sometimes 370 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,319 you will there are sometimes you want assistant coach and that courtinator may not want 371 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,799 that assistant coach, but you're gonna hire them because that's who you want. 372 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:17,000 And um for recruiting or for whatever purposes you want. And huh, you're 373 00:26:17,039 --> 00:26:21,680 you're moving fast, really fast, you know. I mean, it's it's 374 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,200 and you know what's gonna happen. Also, some of these heading coaches are 375 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,920 gonna hire somebody and they're gonna and they're gonna be there and then they're gonna 376 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:34,680 go to another job in like three weeks a better opportunity, Like the guy 377 00:26:34,759 --> 00:26:37,359 that just got hires South Florida. You may hire a staff and they might 378 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:42,759 end up at US Sincenati, right, they end up at Colorado in a 379 00:26:42,839 --> 00:26:48,319 number of weeks. That's and that's not unrealistic. That's happened. That was 380 00:26:48,319 --> 00:26:51,440 happening a number of times. No, we don't ever hear about We hear 381 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,119 about all the head coach and stuff in the media. We don't hear about 382 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,720 these about the running back coach and the special team's coordinators and I like that 383 00:26:56,799 --> 00:27:00,519 and jumping ship and all that kind of good stuff. That's just part of 384 00:27:00,559 --> 00:27:03,759 that business, as you well know. Yeah, um, all right, 385 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,279 I want to hit you a couple of things before we let you go Army 386 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,839 Navy this week? What what what a trip? What rivalry? What a 387 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:15,480 game just for the country and for those kids. Just talk about the spectacle 388 00:27:15,559 --> 00:27:18,640 that is an Army Navy game. Well, I'd really like to go to 389 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,359 this this game sometimes in my life. I really would. Um, I 390 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:30,240 can't imagine more fun game to go to. And uh this year, boy, 391 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:36,279 I don't know where the line is on this game because Army has had 392 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,640 struggled, but then they've won some other big games. Navy struggled early, 393 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,480 but then look at some of the teams they beat. This game. I 394 00:27:44,599 --> 00:27:45,799 think it's gonna go down to the wire, and I don't I would It's 395 00:27:45,839 --> 00:27:51,839 a flip of the coin. He's gonna win this one those pageantry rivalry games. 396 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:53,839 It doesn't matter what the records are. You know, most years the 397 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,519 game is very competitive. I mean most years it's a one score game, 398 00:27:57,599 --> 00:28:00,880 going to the fourth quarter kind of game game. And just the pageantry of 399 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,119 the game, of all the tradition and all the kids that are in the 400 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:08,599 stadium, all the military paraphernalia. Obviously we all know people that have got 401 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,640 military background. Just I'm with you. I think that's a bucket list. 402 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,240 I'd like to take my dad to that game one of these years. And 403 00:28:15,519 --> 00:28:18,640 uh, you know, whether it's Philadelphia or I know they rotate the location 404 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,480 where they play, but it's typically in the Northeast. But just what a 405 00:28:21,559 --> 00:28:25,039 pageantry game. Have you ever been in a military kind of game like that? 406 00:28:26,279 --> 00:28:30,079 Well? No, I mean we played Army and maybe you know I've 407 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:36,039 done that a few times, so you know I've I've faced the Air Force 408 00:28:36,079 --> 00:28:37,359 at Colorado. When you were at Colorado, you guys play air Force? 409 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,960 Oh we never I've never lined up against Airforce. Okay, they're all that 410 00:28:42,119 --> 00:28:47,119 offense. You know. When I was at SMU when I was interim head 411 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:52,079 coach, the decision was between Virginia and air Force, two of the most 412 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:56,359 prolific offenses in the country last year, I didn't know who I'd rather go 413 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:02,640 up against. There was there neither there both both the challenge so but never 414 00:29:02,759 --> 00:29:04,160 never lined up against their force. I really liked their head coach. I 415 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,160 think he's a really good guy, knowing him for a long time and done 416 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:11,839 a great job there. All right, Heisman Trophy, they're going to announce 417 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,400 that in a couple of weeks. Here probably a couple of names. You 418 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,480 got the kid from USC Caleb Williams, you got the kid from You got 419 00:29:18,559 --> 00:29:22,680 the kid from TCU, Dougging, you got c. J. Stroup potentially 420 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,559 from Ohio State. Who do you like in the Heisman Trophy? I don't 421 00:29:26,599 --> 00:29:30,240 know. I haven't followed it like that. You know, with specific players, 422 00:29:30,119 --> 00:29:34,599 you know who's done the best for their team. You gotta look at 423 00:29:36,039 --> 00:29:38,799 quarterback. I know Duggins. I mean, you look at TCU. I 424 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,960 mean, Dougas wasn't even really the starter at the beginning of the year. 425 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:47,720 They had kind of going back and forth, and then Douggan's got in there. 426 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,240 I don't know if the other guy got hurt or what happened, but 427 00:29:49,359 --> 00:29:55,079 Duggants got in there and then just took over the quarterback at USC is. 428 00:29:56,799 --> 00:30:00,359 He is unbelievable. He is a great alb and uh but they all are. 429 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:04,920 You know who has done the most, impacted the team the most, 430 00:30:07,079 --> 00:30:11,920 probably USC guy because they got no defense out there. Yeah, but look 431 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,759 at Tcuhan It's true. I don't know. I don't know, because you 432 00:30:15,839 --> 00:30:19,279 know, nobody expect to TCU be in a final four. That's right, 433 00:30:21,559 --> 00:30:25,839 They're They're not USC so that's right. And then he had the kid from 434 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:27,240 Michigan who hurt his knee or he would have been there a quorum, the 435 00:30:27,359 --> 00:30:33,839 running back who had an unbelievable year from Michigan. Yeah, it's you know, 436 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,200 I don't know, boy, I don't know. I don't I don't 437 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:41,839 know this year, who's gonna be That's good question? All right, last 438 00:30:41,839 --> 00:30:45,359 thing I'll get you out of here. Talk about the momentum of a big 439 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,480 winning like a team like Kansas State. What is this momentum of a huge, 440 00:30:48,559 --> 00:30:52,680 big, twelveth championship in a you know, year that you weren't supposed 441 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,200 to win? It a lot to be why other people winning it? How 442 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,039 does that momentum go give you such a bounce into the offseason, both just 443 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,640 from your own program and recruiting. How to talk about how how that being 444 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,119 on the national spotlight of beating a team like TCU for a conference title is 445 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,839 such a boom to your program? Well, you know, I don't even 446 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:15,519 I think how do I put this in the right way? You know, 447 00:31:15,599 --> 00:31:19,160 one of your goals is to win the conference. So have you've established that? 448 00:31:19,359 --> 00:31:26,440 So whether it is momentum for the future or helps your recruiting or makes 449 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:33,640 everybody whatever. I mean, the moment in itself is is what you're what 450 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,400 you you know what you're you're coaching, and you're working your winter conditioning and 451 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,759 your spring ball and summer workouts and for years and years and years for that 452 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:47,599 one moment, you know, and you take that in as long as you 453 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:53,720 can, you know, because the next day's recruiting. It's the props starting 454 00:31:53,759 --> 00:31:59,799 all over again, you know. Uh, And it's just that moment. 455 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,200 It's just like when we know it's not the same. I know, when 456 00:32:02,319 --> 00:32:06,720 you want a conference champions like that, that's a big tea on the way 457 00:32:06,759 --> 00:32:09,240 they want it. Yeah, yes, it's gonna be great for him. 458 00:32:09,319 --> 00:32:13,480 But my point is this, Like we beat West Virginia that one Friday night, 459 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,279 I'll never get walking back out in the field with the police officers, 460 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:21,240 the guys that were already hanging out with me. And I told him, 461 00:32:21,279 --> 00:32:23,279 I said, you know, I always like walking out in this field right 462 00:32:23,359 --> 00:32:30,359 now after everything's you know, everybody's picking up a little calm just for the 463 00:32:30,519 --> 00:32:35,279 moment. I said, just to pause right now, to take this in 464 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,440 because when we leave this field right now and I'm talking to those those guys, 465 00:32:40,039 --> 00:32:44,599 I said, then it's onto the next game, onto the next recruit, 466 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:49,039 onto the next whatever. And for Kansas State, when you win a 467 00:32:49,039 --> 00:32:53,559 conference championship is different because it's you know, the you know what you're trying 468 00:32:53,599 --> 00:32:59,000 to get done. It's the epitome of everything. You know, it's you 469 00:32:59,119 --> 00:33:04,960 know, so sure it's gonna help. It's it's gonna help everybody because that's 470 00:33:05,039 --> 00:33:07,200 such a huge goal for you, you know. And on the flip side, 471 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,799 what about the fuel of a huge loss a team like USC that knows 472 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:15,400 they would have been in the playoff. You're no longer in the playoffs because 473 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:20,960 you lose the conference title game. From the players perspective and the coaching perspective, 474 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,599 obviously, the coaches are always gonna that's gonna be a new thing. 475 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,799 Oh, we gotta get better on defense and all that. I get it. 476 00:33:25,119 --> 00:33:29,960 But just the emotional, like you said, the emotional letdown of damn, 477 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,480 we were one. You know, we're one half of a way or 478 00:33:31,559 --> 00:33:35,640 one bad quarter away from being in the college football playoff to win a national 479 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,160 title. Yeah, it's it's hard. It's it's it's hard. You never 480 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:43,480 get over those games when you lose. And that was part of the thing 481 00:33:43,519 --> 00:33:51,279 I told the team, Um, you know when I was, when I 482 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:52,720 was, when I was in South Florida or other places, I used to 483 00:33:52,759 --> 00:33:55,279 tell players this whole the time. I said, what's gonna get me out 484 00:33:55,319 --> 00:33:59,519 of coaching? As losses? I cannot know. I don't know how to 485 00:33:59,559 --> 00:34:02,319 deal with them. I have a hard time of losses. And because it's 486 00:34:02,359 --> 00:34:07,160 just because I always felt like it was my fault, right. I never 487 00:34:07,279 --> 00:34:10,159 felt like it was the offensive coordinator or defense coordinator or any assistant coaches. 488 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:14,440 I never felt like it was the players. I always felt like it was 489 00:34:14,559 --> 00:34:19,159 me. And to take that on yourself is hard. And you know, 490 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,719 fortunately we didn't. We won a lot more games and we lost and it's 491 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:30,320 been throughout my career. But losses are so devastating and so difficult. It's 492 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,880 really really it's a real it was a real challenge for me to get over 493 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,320 losses, which it's really really hard. So, um, you know they'll 494 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:43,119 bounce back, you know. Every day that happens is you know, you 495 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,800 breathe a little bit better, and they don't have time. You know, 496 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:52,039 they got a bowl game, it gets a really good team. You know, 497 00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:54,800 you embrace that you've had a great season. You lost to one team 498 00:34:55,320 --> 00:35:00,039 twice. Yeah, but you had a great season, and you know, 499 00:35:00,159 --> 00:35:04,960 you try to try to talk about the positives and every way you can. 500 00:35:05,679 --> 00:35:10,760 You know, you certainly don't want to show your sadness or depression the people. 501 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:15,400 You know, Um, you had a great season, a great year, 502 00:35:16,079 --> 00:35:22,440 you know, and you know, onto recruiting, be positive. Now 503 00:35:22,519 --> 00:35:24,360 for the four teams that are still playing, you're gonna give them this week 504 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:29,400 off pretty much. Let them recruit, recover, let them get their obviously, 505 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:30,920 most of those kids got final exams coming to the next probably week, 506 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,800 week and a half to get out of school. You're gonna let You're gonna 507 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,639 let that this next nine or ten days. Really let light on the football 508 00:35:37,679 --> 00:35:42,079 and let them take care of their academics and all in recovery. Yeah, 509 00:35:42,079 --> 00:35:45,039 absolutely, I tell him get away from football, you know, do everything 510 00:35:45,079 --> 00:35:50,519 but football. You know, goes. See your families get your fire exams 511 00:35:50,559 --> 00:35:53,280 done, you know, see your families get some to take some time off. 512 00:35:53,599 --> 00:35:55,360 I wouldn't you want them in to wait fro them, be honest, 513 00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:00,960 right, want to, but I I'd let your stramp coaches get away too, 514 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,440 you know. Right now, of course you got recruiting, so you 515 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:08,119 know you're gonna keep them around. But um, absolutely, because it's it's 516 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:14,719 it's the timing on building for these these these games are are big and you're 517 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,400 preparing to win it all, so you're not talking about one game but two. 518 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:23,400 So yeah, absolutely, Well, coach, great job. I know 519 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:27,840 you're you're heading. You're heading to Monday Night football on Monday Night the Bucks 520 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,719 in the Saints. I'll be there. Yep, yep. It should be 521 00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:35,480 a good atmosphere in Raymond James Stadium. Appreciate the time. We will, 522 00:36:35,639 --> 00:36:37,920 Like I said, uh fans, we will have coach back the week of 523 00:36:38,039 --> 00:36:42,920 the championship of the semi final games, which I believe is right before New 524 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,400 Year. So we'll have one more episode Coaching the Kickers part of the Florida 525 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:51,360 Football Insiders podcasts. That week of we'll do a little break We'll do a 526 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,440 little XS and O's breakdown of each game, maybe a couple of the big 527 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:58,119 Bowl games and all that such. But but coach, great work. When 528 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,679 I'm giving you a couple of weeks off, now you can go recover. 529 00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:06,840 You can got no no recruiting now, no recruiting. I don't want you 530 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:10,320 on the recruiting trail I was at. I was Friday night. I'll tell 531 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:15,039 you this. I was refereeing Friday at the state semifinal in Venice. It 532 00:37:15,199 --> 00:37:20,880 was Venice High School, which I know, you know, against Gainesville Buckholtz, 533 00:37:21,519 --> 00:37:23,320 and there were some there were a lot of coaches on the sidelines. 534 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:28,800 I saw Ohio State coach there recruiting. So, I mean, you're what 535 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,320 you say is right on, man. These guys are always recruiting. Um. 536 00:37:31,639 --> 00:37:35,239 So I was fortunate enough to referee the game. It was a great 537 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:39,159 game, forty two thirty five. Venice wins, great game. Venice goes 538 00:37:39,199 --> 00:37:43,480 to the state championship coming up in a week or so. But your your 539 00:37:43,519 --> 00:37:45,440 point is well taken. These guys don't ever really take much time off. 540 00:37:45,519 --> 00:37:50,239 These coaches. They're freaking A guy from the Ohio State coach was right there 541 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,760 on the sidelines in Venice floor to Friday night. Yeah, oh, no 542 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,159 doubt. You know. I used to as a head coach, I used 543 00:37:55,199 --> 00:38:00,599 to give them a week off after signed date in Fibruary because you don't have 544 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:04,599 time. You got to grind right through Christmas. And it's just the way 545 00:38:04,599 --> 00:38:06,639 it is. Now they've changing your calendar a little bit, so they do 546 00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,719 give us a little bit more time and Christmas. But you know, yeah, 547 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:15,119 it's it's on, It is on for sure. 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A lot of people thought Dion 575 00:40:16,159 --> 00:40:21,239 Sanders a lot of people thought maybe a couple other names that were in the 576 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:27,960 mix, but no. Alex Golish, the offensive co offensive coordinator at the 577 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,559 University of Tennessee, is hired to replace Jeff Scott. Kind of a similar 578 00:40:31,599 --> 00:40:36,880 boat as Jeff Scott comes in with a lot of offensive pedigree coming from the 579 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:38,679 Josh hypeol system. Was been with Josh for a couple of years now, 580 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,679 one year at UCF than two years at Tennessee. And no better person to 581 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,360 talk about all things Alex Golesh who's covered him for two years in Knoxville. 582 00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:52,679 He's at University of South Florida graduate, so I know he has some vested 583 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,559 interests in this higher as well. Vince ferrar a ninety nine point one, 584 00:40:55,639 --> 00:41:00,199 the sports animal in Knoxville, he's covered him for two years. Talk to 585 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,639 him. I'm sure a bunch we're gonna talk to to Vince about all the 586 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,519 things about Alex Golish to getting the job here at USF. So welcome back, 587 00:41:07,639 --> 00:41:12,480 Vince Man. Great to be whether Jason as always. Yeah, all 588 00:41:12,519 --> 00:41:15,840 right, let's let's get right to it. Co offensive coordinator. I know, 589 00:41:15,159 --> 00:41:17,800 I know you've told me and you've been on this podcast several times, 590 00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:22,920 talking about the access that Hypel's allowed the coordinators to talk to the media over 591 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:27,039 the years. Just talk about his media presence, talking to you guys in 592 00:41:27,119 --> 00:41:30,679 the media. How is Alex done handling the media and just interaction you guys 593 00:41:30,679 --> 00:41:34,639 have had the last couple of years. Yeah, you're absolutely right. Well, 594 00:41:34,679 --> 00:41:37,400 you've had a chance to talk to him even during the season that they 595 00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:44,239 would make in a rotating assistance, two of them available on game weeks and 596 00:41:44,559 --> 00:41:49,360 he was in a Heman DC Tim Banksman a regular rotation. So I'd say 597 00:41:50,079 --> 00:41:52,880 we've talked to him, gosh, since he's been here, you know, 598 00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:59,840 fifteen twenty different times, which is which is cool. He is he's a 599 00:42:00,079 --> 00:42:06,920 different personality. He's very thoughtful in his answers. He is very energetic. 600 00:42:07,639 --> 00:42:14,559 He's one that I think thinks through everything. But he'll give you some honest 601 00:42:14,679 --> 00:42:17,440 answers. Also like if a guy it's like, look, you know, 602 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:23,480 just needs to mature some for example, things like that. Or we think 603 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:30,960 our standard here at Tennessee is we expect to be the number one offense in 604 00:42:30,039 --> 00:42:36,000 the country. And he said that earlier before the season ever started, or 605 00:42:36,079 --> 00:42:38,880 maybe very early in September and that's what ended up happening. For a good 606 00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:43,000 part of the year they had the number one offense. So he'll give you 607 00:42:43,119 --> 00:42:45,280 some stuff. He's not just all coach speak. He's a you know, 608 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:52,920 young, younger guy at thirty eight. So there's not the long list of 609 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:58,280 NFL guys his coach I think going into this upcoming draft, I think it's 610 00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:02,440 five guys, including Velis Jones, who's who's a rookie in the NFL some 611 00:43:02,599 --> 00:43:07,199 of those guys. But I think he's impressive. To me, he comes 612 00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:15,519 with a little bit more overall juice than what Jeff Scott did. I still 613 00:43:15,559 --> 00:43:19,119 expected more from Jeff Scott at USF, honestly, I think a lot of 614 00:43:19,159 --> 00:43:25,039 people did. But I think Alex Golish, with how great the offenses have 615 00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:30,519 been that he's been a part of, I think he's an excellent hire. 616 00:43:30,119 --> 00:43:37,440 He knows what has worked under Josh Hypel at his two stops, And the 617 00:43:37,559 --> 00:43:45,440 big thing for USF is he's a relentless competitor and recruiter. I think USF 618 00:43:45,639 --> 00:43:50,000 needs both of those things. What position, what's his position specialty as far 619 00:43:50,039 --> 00:43:52,280 as before you know what what if he coached or kind of grown up in 620 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:57,519 the business. Coaching tight ends is what he has done. That's his baby. 621 00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,480 Now, they have not had an elite athlete. They haven't had any 622 00:44:01,599 --> 00:44:07,840 brock Bowers or Washington or any of those kind of talents there, but they've 623 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:12,760 improved their tight ends that they've had there under him. It's been Jacob Warren 624 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:17,119 and Princeton Fan guys that he inherited, and other than that, they've had 625 00:44:17,119 --> 00:44:22,960 a couple of freshmen either depart or just now hit the transfer Portally, they 626 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,400 haven't had that elite athlete. Now they do in this upcoming signing class, 627 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,639 but they haven't had it yet, so we really haven't seen him utilize the 628 00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:36,320 position that he coaches to the maximum of what they'd like to. They'd like 629 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:42,119 to have stud tight ends to where they can use both guys at the same 630 00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:49,960 time and not be a personnel a specific and based on who they have and 631 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:57,679 just really have multiple threats on the field at the same time. So expect 632 00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:01,599 that to be addressed in recruiting. When we see them on the practice field, 633 00:45:01,599 --> 00:45:07,760 which was before the season and in the spring. He's so detail oriented 634 00:45:07,079 --> 00:45:12,719 and the way he coaches guys, he will compliment them, but he will 635 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:19,320 get after them as well when we when we're in the press box and there's 636 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,719 some angst, let's say, coming from the press box to the coach's box, 637 00:45:23,079 --> 00:45:27,880 a lot of times is Alex Golish. So he that's another thing, 638 00:45:28,039 --> 00:45:30,599 is he's been in the press boxes. There will be a different deal for 639 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:37,400 him to be on the sideline. So he's a really high energy, super 640 00:45:37,599 --> 00:45:44,880 detailed guy that has focused on the tight ends, but he's been involved in 641 00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:51,880 the game planning and play calling as well, even though Hypel has handled the 642 00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:53,400 day to day stuff. That was gonna be my next question, is he 643 00:45:53,639 --> 00:45:59,119 here a lot of these coaches, whether it's NFL College, Hypel, Sarkisi 644 00:45:59,199 --> 00:46:01,920 and guys like Andy Read the NFL, they've got a coordinator that's got a 645 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:07,920 title, was Alex Golish calling plays And that's you know, obviously you got 646 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:12,400 the title as those ce But what's he given the opportunity to call plays periodically 647 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:15,960 throughout the year. What was kind of that relationship of who called the plays 648 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:21,360 with this high prolific offense. Well, he was involved, but I mean 649 00:46:21,519 --> 00:46:27,559 clearly you can see Hypol call him in the plays and you know, covering 650 00:46:27,679 --> 00:46:30,679 up and things like that. So I think Alex Golis was involved. I 651 00:46:31,599 --> 00:46:36,280 think there's times where Alex Golish would say, hey, look we need to 652 00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,719 do this, let's do this, and maybe Josh was the one to execute 653 00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:45,760 it. I think it was a shared deal in the game planning also, 654 00:46:45,519 --> 00:46:51,880 and frankly, quarterbacks coach Joey Halseley was probably the lead candidate to be the 655 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:57,079 new OC to take his place. They were all involved in all those things 656 00:46:57,159 --> 00:47:01,199 and would contribute input. But and it's it's it's weird. It was never 657 00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:10,239 really truly answered by anyone. But in the preseason his bio Josh Hype not 658 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:15,519 Josh Appele. Alex Golis's bio changed and somebody found it to where it said 659 00:47:15,519 --> 00:47:19,000 he's a play caller, and everybody's like, wait, how is that? 660 00:47:19,639 --> 00:47:23,480 How was he the play caller? But I think it was a strategic move 661 00:47:23,639 --> 00:47:30,679 to help him in terms of getting a future head coaching job. And so 662 00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:35,880 there there's some technicality to where yeah, he was involved in calling plays, 663 00:47:36,079 --> 00:47:38,679 but I don't think that was a down end, down out thing. I 664 00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:44,599 do think it was hypel his offense and then kind of some shared duties to 665 00:47:44,679 --> 00:47:49,039 where you could technically say he did contribute in that area. Do you expect 666 00:47:49,159 --> 00:47:52,800 him to bring this exact Saint Tennessee offense? You know, fans, if 667 00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,440 you don't, if you didn't watch about Tennessee this year. A different offensive 668 00:47:55,480 --> 00:48:00,199 formational thing that most people don't run a lot of wide receivers, really wide 669 00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:04,800 splits with the wide receivers opening up the middle of that field for the runners 670 00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,519 in the short passing game. Do you anticipate in bringing that same exact system 671 00:48:07,519 --> 00:48:10,960 of USF I do? And there's a lot of aspects to it. You 672 00:48:12,039 --> 00:48:15,119 hit on some of the key ones, Jason. The wide splits of the 673 00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:21,960 receivers, forcing teams to have to cover sideline the sideline, which puts you 674 00:48:22,039 --> 00:48:27,360 in conflict in where you're gonna go if you're in zone coverage. It also 675 00:48:27,559 --> 00:48:35,119 forces teams to declare when they motion guys because you can't get out and change 676 00:48:35,199 --> 00:48:38,880 and do a lot of switching unless they do a bunch set. And they 677 00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:45,280 would take advantage bunch to the boundary and switch guys a lie to where now 678 00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:50,639 you can get a linebacker on Jalen Hyatt. And they did that a bunch 679 00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:55,239 during the season. So it's it's a very smart offense. Another thing that's 680 00:48:55,280 --> 00:49:00,320 a part of it is clearly the tempo to see not only had the number 681 00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:05,960 one offense in the country, but they were one and two all the whole 682 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:12,360 time. Hypol has been here in plays per minute. Yeah, and then 683 00:49:12,559 --> 00:49:16,639 and then the team Bowl. It's just crazy. Another aspect of these of 684 00:49:16,679 --> 00:49:21,559 the power running game, they still run on the football. They all running 685 00:49:21,559 --> 00:49:24,320 on the football, sometimes more than the throw of the football. It's running 686 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:30,559 and shoot offense. Because they have this tambo. They still want to run 687 00:49:30,639 --> 00:49:36,239 on the football. And I bet that they will work to have to always 688 00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:40,559 have a quarterback that they kick ball in the run game and as well and 689 00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:46,079 not just have a station pocket quarterback. So um, all of those things 690 00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:52,000 still be bounced offense. That the tambo, the fourth seams of the player 691 00:49:52,079 --> 00:49:57,239 the wise to really put a lot of teams as a difficult season coverage and 692 00:49:57,639 --> 00:50:00,360 um, and then teams have to they can't something to either, right, 693 00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:07,360 So it gives you a lot of advantages. Maybe some transition there, uh, 694 00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:12,000 based on the personally have but man, it really work. There had 695 00:50:12,079 --> 00:50:16,639 been a ton of offenses unless you have to like lee corners right or your 696 00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:22,199 team is ready to play like behind the game. Um, it's harder to 697 00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:28,400 beat them with a Do you anticipate him bringing some Tennessee guys with him, 698 00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:31,440 you know, whether it's the strength guy or maybe some analysts who have been 699 00:50:31,559 --> 00:50:35,679 or some GA potential kind of guys, A couple of those kind of guys 700 00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:37,760 to fill in part of his staff. I do. I don't have him 701 00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,679 inside on those guys. It's hard to be honest with you, but it 702 00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:47,719 is something that we talked about wondered air and and you know, elevating guys 703 00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:53,119 with their roles. You mentioned analysts and then gas and maybe a position coach 704 00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:59,280 people who's been sort of a young ross was eating in his first year as 705 00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:05,039 a wild coach after the Saint as a wild reach, so you know, 706 00:51:05,079 --> 00:51:08,000 may either there was a recruiting title or a guy like him there's money. 707 00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:14,079 Another aspect of it is is what did his Tennessee to do in response and 708 00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,960 trying to heat those guys? Right, they have all Tennesse. He already 709 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:24,639 had those discussions the look we we will recruity that assistant in pool. Trying 710 00:51:24,679 --> 00:51:30,599 to heap some guys. I bet he's wise at least with with some guys 711 00:51:30,679 --> 00:51:35,400 because there was so much familiar Also, the entire offen the side of all 712 00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:39,320 those guys they came with them from Ucah other than that wilde receiver positions, 713 00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:45,079 so um, I bet you want some comfortable pieces and then build around the 714 00:51:45,119 --> 00:51:51,519 base. He's available, so he'll try. Whether he's able to do it, 715 00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:55,880 Uh, not sure, but I would think it at least a couple 716 00:51:55,960 --> 00:52:01,559 of those guys with in your organization gether, we'll go with him. And 717 00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:06,280 obviously the last part of this is kind of the lifeblood of any good program 718 00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:08,559 is recruiting. What what kind of reputation does they have as a recruiter, 719 00:52:08,679 --> 00:52:12,639 both from at the high school of I know you call high school games the 720 00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:15,159 big prominent games in that Knoxville area. It would see a guy that you 721 00:52:15,159 --> 00:52:17,800 would see at a game every once in a while, that kind of stuff, 722 00:52:19,039 --> 00:52:22,159 and more and just as important the ability of recruit guys from other places 723 00:52:22,199 --> 00:52:24,880 through the portal. You know, there's gonna be guys maybe a Tennessee that 724 00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:30,360 maybe want some more playing time whatever their situation is, or around the Southeastern 725 00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:32,440 Conference. Do you think he'll do a good job being able to foster those 726 00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:36,880 relationships with the high school coaches and other guys that are in the potentially in 727 00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,360 the portal. Yeah. The first part of it, he's an all recruiter. 728 00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:46,119 Um. You know, there's there's different different recruiting sites of different rankings, 729 00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:54,639 so he's not always those ranking one guy ends up, but as a 730 00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:00,679 lot of different guys. So, um, I think it will be an 731 00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:05,840 excellent encloser. I think he'll do well in the area. Uh As, 732 00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,239 he probably won't be able to do a lot of the day to day as 733 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:14,599 much just be running a program, but his relationship will will help him. 734 00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:20,320 And that's the second part of it is that he's already has a term of 735 00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:25,480 relationships in the state of Lord when he was he was recruited that state before, 736 00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:30,800 so I think that will give him a job to be able to continue 737 00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:35,639 to transition. And I'm sure he's had some of those responsibilities in a Tennessee 738 00:53:36,079 --> 00:53:42,000 to are already, so I don't give it will be his biggest transition. 739 00:53:42,119 --> 00:53:47,000 But um, he is relentless in the and in the terms of Josh people, 740 00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:52,400 a relentless recruiter and he's been in all of them a lot of guys, 741 00:53:52,559 --> 00:53:58,079 and I think maybe the biggest we have because he has him around that 742 00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:05,400 the biggest pay this was probably in this current class, right guys. Right 743 00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:07,280 now, he's not going to get a chance to coach. So it's just 744 00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:12,039 kind of a weird situation. From that standpoint where they got out to tie 745 00:54:12,159 --> 00:54:15,760 ends, they got at the quarterback. Um. So yeah, but I 746 00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:20,119 think one of the best things is about goal. It's just gonna be on 747 00:54:20,159 --> 00:54:23,159 the player to development mentioned the tie ends, the offensive line, I made 748 00:54:23,199 --> 00:54:29,599 it a drastic improve man the wide receivers. He's involved in all those things, 749 00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:34,280 and so that will buy him to the time and to be able to 750 00:54:35,039 --> 00:54:40,760 continue to improve and and a relationships and implorided and recruiting with the high school 751 00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:45,920 players and then yeah, to transfer for World two. Super aggressive from that 752 00:54:45,039 --> 00:54:51,920 standpoint and the name they've hit on some some but that's kind of the world 753 00:54:52,039 --> 00:54:55,760 for everybody and up right now, which as you know, setting records and 754 00:54:55,880 --> 00:55:00,400 the non numbers that are out there. Yeah, like to me, one 755 00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:05,400 of the big jobs down here is usf offensively was okay, it's their defense 756 00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,320 has really struggled under coach Scott the last several years. And whether that's a 757 00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:14,320 recruiting, an element of recruiting, lack of recruiting, scheme, coaching, 758 00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:19,280 and he's bringing in Todd Orlando to be the defensive coordinator when Orlando's got some 759 00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:22,960 experience at some other places, but that's to me where he's really got to. 760 00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,440 It's great if you score a bunch of points, as you saw in 761 00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:29,800 Tennessee, but in crunch time, when it's time to win, you got 762 00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:31,239 to stop some people. I know, you know, obviously Tennessee had the 763 00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:35,199 issue there at the South Carolina game at the end. And I know he's 764 00:55:35,199 --> 00:55:38,079 not a defensive coordinator guy, but still you're now the head coach of the 765 00:55:38,159 --> 00:55:42,800 program. You got to spend some time on the defense as well. Yes, 766 00:55:43,159 --> 00:55:47,159 and then a lot of that is a higher and then that's you know, 767 00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:52,639 when people the Tennessee team at the time last year on the Bible and 768 00:55:52,719 --> 00:56:00,440 then when they lost, the people come out of when they were were to 769 00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:02,840 be found before that. Right. But one of the things that the people 770 00:56:04,039 --> 00:56:08,599 kind of wonder about long term is that that offense goes so fast and gets 771 00:56:08,639 --> 00:56:15,400 off the field, so minute two eighteen a lot of that, and then 772 00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:21,199 to put their defense back on the field and down then you have some room 773 00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:24,760 march there there, and then you had at the end of the game you 774 00:56:25,519 --> 00:56:30,119 slow down to get to the finish sign, you go three and out, 775 00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:36,239 Yes, and you knew that then that's where it's a problem. Tendenty in 776 00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:40,039 the first year and third their defense right back out on the field tenendents. 777 00:56:40,079 --> 00:56:44,599 He had improvements as a run on defense this year, but also the tendent 778 00:56:44,639 --> 00:56:49,000 the offenses was better on the third down, so they were able to move 779 00:56:49,039 --> 00:56:52,039 to the change and leanings vibe. Their d defense is a literally more time 780 00:56:52,119 --> 00:56:58,480 they were as bad short of the South Carlin day forward, but other times 781 00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:04,760 the defense was was pretty good. It is just hit the ball games. 782 00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:08,679 But that would be something to watch. Is that pays putting the defense back 783 00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:14,880 out You can't keep the change and that boy on that side of ball. 784 00:57:15,159 --> 00:57:17,039 And obviously this is a minor thing, but it's still a factor, especially 785 00:57:17,039 --> 00:57:21,280 here in Tampa. The heat can the conditions of the weather when it's so 786 00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:23,280 hot down here. Obviously, when those guys are on the field and you 787 00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:27,679 don't have as much depth as you need, you get exposed in a hurry 788 00:57:27,719 --> 00:57:30,320 on defense when you don't have those guys at depth, and then will be 789 00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:37,239 some position not the defense offense too with the offensive line, and it took 790 00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:40,960 those big boys on the offensive line for some time. They admitted they didn't 791 00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:52,639 the last year there the then like hey, gas and line proved a lot, 792 00:57:53,119 --> 00:57:59,400 but man, experition, those guys aren't that seed. Then you're not 793 00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:08,239 gonna have much success. It's gonna be in for everybody to go everything. 794 00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:15,760 The last year. I bet maybe able to alas get some guys to the 795 00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:25,719 transition and and maybe at least keep it together progress And I agree. So 796 00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:30,480 so in your opinion, you think Alex is ready for this role to be 797 00:58:30,639 --> 00:58:35,320 the headman at a program like US if it's not Tennessee obviously, with the 798 00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:39,000 demands and the expectations. But you can't. You can't roll two more years 799 00:58:39,039 --> 00:58:43,440 where you win two or three games. You gotta show some progress pretty quick, 800 00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:45,599 and there's some opportunity to do that with the transfer portal. Yeah, 801 00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:52,719 I do. I've said I'm kind of a little bit by. He can 802 00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:57,480 have to success there and I'm leading him, but the school's got to help 803 00:58:57,559 --> 00:59:01,679 them. They got to help them from the minutment. They got to give 804 00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:07,400 him the resources to be able to cry the last county. And we all 805 00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:13,000 know there's a tough player there right in sane. But man, if you 806 00:59:13,159 --> 00:59:15,960 gotta if you gotta till you'll give it a guy, then you gotta let 807 00:59:16,079 --> 00:59:22,760 them do it. And so there resources there. Goal should have gotten some 808 00:59:22,039 --> 00:59:28,360 sort of assurances that they're going to invest if they don't know of that element. 809 00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:34,039 And and then here's thing and you can't. You can't just not participate 810 00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:39,360 or we're just dabbling when everybody else altosort like it is everyone to get the 811 00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:46,719 best deal colective uh relationships to help you from that, I see him the 812 00:59:46,719 --> 00:59:52,079 point because everybody else is own. So if he has, I do think 813 00:59:52,119 --> 00:59:59,079 he will, right, they'll understanding relationships Jo the culture is a big part 814 00:59:59,119 --> 01:00:02,599 of the them turning so quickly is it'll be real to the guys. You 815 01:00:02,639 --> 01:00:07,920 need to give a different process with the Jones Raman. They about those guys. 816 01:00:08,039 --> 01:00:12,960 So I think he'll he'll do a lot of those things to give him 817 01:00:13,079 --> 01:00:15,599 a base, and I do think it will be accessible with us album too. 818 01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:19,800 All right, Convince, great work. Man. Really appreciate the time. 819 01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:22,760 So there's some great analysis on coach out Scoalish tell Bray where they can 820 01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:25,920 find out your great work online. Yeah, I really appreciate it. And 821 01:00:27,159 --> 01:00:30,599 you want to see any Goals interviews. He would you like to go to 822 01:00:30,679 --> 01:00:36,400 those really inpressive to stop from him. You can go to my YouTube channel 823 01:00:36,639 --> 01:00:40,760 it's been in sports and give me a father to drive there and you scroll 824 01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:45,840 through the fine goals to the bunch there or website. You can see on 825 01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:52,719 the video nine channel dot com video podcasts bunch that my blogs and predictions. 826 01:00:52,159 --> 01:00:57,360 And then I also on Twitter A been in Fort There as well. We 827 01:00:57,519 --> 01:01:04,199 will be in Miami. I'll escape. I'll see you the example before after 828 01:01:04,599 --> 01:01:15,719 we go the Tennessee game for ten weeks. Not a boy. We like 829 01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:17,360 to hear that. We'd like to hear that awesome, awesome work. Vince, 830 01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:21,960 you're you're the man again. He's he he's covered Alice goals for two 831 01:01:22,039 --> 01:01:24,599 years. Knows this guy inside announced and he's giving you some great knowledge about 832 01:01:24,599 --> 01:01:29,519 what to expect as the new head coach of the South Florida Bulls. And 833 01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:34,039 Vince is a graduate two so I know he's super excited about the new hire 834 01:01:34,079 --> 01:01:36,639 as well. So Vince, keep up the great work, man, appreciate 835 01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:39,880 and go falls company. Is that a New Year's Day? That's New Year's 836 01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:49,199 Day, December thirty game, So it game, so a lot of a 837 01:01:49,239 --> 01:01:52,320 lot of attention will be down there, let me anything from there and go 838 01:01:52,559 --> 01:01:55,679 hold him. Don't don't be getting caught on South Beach now, don't be 839 01:01:55,760 --> 01:02:00,719 getting in the in the blogs down there on South Beach. No promises, 840 01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:04,800 so you never know. All right, Bud, have a great week. 841 01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:09,800 Thanks all right, thanks for listening to the Florida Football Insiders Podcast as part 842 01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:15,679 of the College Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast Network. 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