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number five of the college football season here in the state of Florida. We
had a good week in the state for the state teams four and two when
it wins by Florida State, Florida US and Miami and losses by FIU.
Excuse me, three and three, I'm sorry, not four and two.
Three and three Florida, Florida State, Miami. The big Boys win along
with you the USF four and three. So four and three if I can
learn to add here, four and three Florida Florida State, Miami, USF
win, UCF, FIU and FAU lose. So a four and three week
for the state of Florida. But the marquee matchup around the country was the
Florida State Clemson game went to a thriller that went to overtime in Death Value.
Going to talked about that game in depth with JP Peterson, hosts of
the JP Peterson Show. He had JP's covered Florida state for many many years.
He used to work in the Tallahassee market as a sports director up there
in Tallahassee and has now got his own online show every day that you can
find on the fanstream Sports app at fanstream JP. So we're gonna talk to
JP about all the goings ons here in the state of Florida. We're gonna
highlight the FSU game. We're gonna talk a little Florida, Florida, the
USF Miami and such. So got a good episode for you. We're gonna
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again. Florida State thirty one, twenty four and overtime at Clemson. They
moved to four and ozer. Tremendous game if you saw it. It was
the twelve o'clock game last week. Turning point of the game obviously, you
know, kind of a defensive game the first quarter and a half or so.
Clemson was kind of dictating play a little bit more than Florida State was.
Game got very much more offensive in the second half and Clemson started to
was up a touchdown and driving for more. And the play of the game
was the safety blitz which led to the strip sack of club Nick which turned
into a Florida State defensive touchdown. Then he had all the drama at the
end of the game with the miss field goal by Clemson, the short twenty
nine yarder. The kid was brought off basically back off the street. He
had been on the team previously, was not on the team this year.
Was brought back flori Clemsons had all kind of kicking problems this year, and
the kid was brought to who's the backup kicker the last several years, brought
basically back off the off campus to kick and missed the twenty nine yard field
goal. Game goes to overtime Florida State scorers and then Clemson with there was
some it was driving, had the ball a third and one at like the
sixteen yard line and inexplicably throws a wide receiver screen that loses two yards,
setting up fourth down, and then a deflected pass on fourth down ends the
game. And just a terrible decision by club Nick to throw the screen pass
on third and one when you can run the ball the shipley up the guts
and get the first down. They were moving, they were running the ball
pretty comfortably against Florida State, and you saw if you saw the rep you
saw the angst and Dabbo Sweeney's face after the third down play, like do
not check out of that to a screen. You know, these these quarterbacks
sometimes they get they get very cute instead of just and part of that's Dabo
Sweeney's fault. You gotta call a play that you can't audible out of call
the play call a call, the run, play up the middle. You
got two downs to get a yard. They end up losing two, and
then obviously fourth down you throw the ball and you throw it a complete So
not a great job coaching by Clemson and Dabbo Sweeney, But give Mike Norvell
credit. They get out of September at four and Ozero heading to a bye
week this week. They've kind of gone there through their first gauntlet that they
had to get through. The two huge games LSU and Clemson. They win
them both. Now they potentially have a little room for error, but you
still got some tough games coming up. You've got some home games in October
which you'll be heavily favored in, and then you obviously you potentially have Miami.
You got Duke in Miami down the road here, and then potentially a
ACC championship game, probably not against Clemson, cause now Clemson has two conference
losses. You're probably looking at maybe in North Carolina or Duke potentially or Miami
again. You never know, so excuse me, but again, Florida State
gets through the first month of the year. Everybody thought that this was going
to be the the kind of make it or break it month for them and
they've obviously made it. So give Norvelle in Company credit. Very tough win
in a tough environment. Hadn't beat Clemson in Death Valley in ten years since
jamis they get it done. Hadn't beat Clemson in seven years overall, So
great win, Like you had to beat you to knock out the bully kind
of Clemson's been the bully this ACC conference for the last seven eight years.
So great job by Florida State getting it done. Wasn't pretty areas to improve,
but they get it done. And again that just shows the veteran leadership
of that team. We're gonna get into this game again. Talk a little
bit more in depth on this game with JP Peterson here just in a few
minutes. But Florida State four and OHO thirty one twenty four winners. Florida
beat Charlotte and their last non conference well not their last, but they're they're
kind of their last non conference prior to SEC season starting twenty two seven.
Moved to three and one. Kind of a ho home game, kind of
the highlight of this game was Ricky Piersall kind of the catch of the year
of college football. He made an unbelievable one handed catch in traffic, and
then he got lit up after he makes the one handed catch. So not
a whole lot else will talk about in this game, to be honest with
you, Florida again moves to three and one to kind of a methodical twenty
two seven win over Charlotte. They will go to Kentucky next week, which
would be a tough, very tough game up in Lexington. Ups and companies
are always very difficult to beat in Lexington. Again, Florida coming off the
Tennessee win, follows it up with the Charlotte win. So in Kentucky coming
up next week in Lexington. So third game I want to talk about as
USF. USF bounces back after the Alabama Lawson beats Rice forty two twenty nine.
I really liked the bounce back following the physical Alabama game. Obviously,
in years passed, this USF team would not have recovered like this and played
well. They did face some adversity in the Rice game. I think at
one point I saw they were down twenty one twenty middle of the third quarter
Byron Brown. Tremendous game, four hundred and thirty five yards passing two touchdowns,
another eighty two yards rushing in a touchdown run the freshman quarterback, so
they've definitely found their quarterback. At USF, the defense is playing better and
again big nice good conference win to start for Alex Golish in year one.
Again if USF moved to two and two, and when I like about this
team, they're playing very competitively. They're not getting blown out, they're not
getting gashed. I'm sure they're giving up some points. But again, good
job by Alex Golish and company getting that team to recover following the Alabama game.
Back focused and disciplined to follow up the good performance against Alabama with a
winning performance against Rice. So good job by USF on that front. So
give me one second and I will let me. I forgot to write this
down. Let's see who USF has this week. Let's see us football schedule.
They are gonna play at Navy again, tough matchup. They go to
Navy, go to Annapolis. Shout out to my guy Andy Wood, who's
from the Annapolis area, My boss Titan Home Lending. So shout out to
Andy and Titan with with with the midshipman again. Tough, tough offense to
prepare for kind of the option offense is. Again, this is kind of
a once a year offense that I have to prepare for, So it'll be
injuring you see how they respond to that. Playing up at the Naval Academy
on Saturday, all the pageantry and is. One thing I would like to
do at some point here in the next handful of years would be to make
it up to either Army or Navy for a game. Maybe even the Army
Navy game would be something I'd love to do moving forward. I think it'd
be cool to have spend a weekend up there on those campuses for a home
game. But USF goes to Navy this week. Again, will be a
tough matchup again, but a matchup that they can win. They'll probably have
better athletes overall. But again, can you defend the triple option and have
the discipline to do the things you gotta do against a triple option compared to
the spread offense? So good job byous goals two and two USF Central Florida.
They fall on their conference opener at Kansas State forty four thirty one.
They fall to three and one. Remember Timmy McClean was the back is the
backup quarterback. He's in there for John reach Plumbly who's still out injured.
Again. Tough place to go play in your open in Manhattan. You know,
I don't think you could have expected them to win. Member Kansas State
was in won the Big Twelve last year, came back with a lot of
players, good program, very solid again, tough place to play, so
us UCF starts their Big Twelve careers oh and one, and they will now
host Baylor in their Big twelve opening game, the first game they've ever hosted
Big Twelve wise will be in Orlando this week. Baylor comes to town.
Who then got who got throttled last week by Texas, so this should be
a winnable game for UCF. Very competitive game. Be interesting to see again
how they recover from a tough, tough game last week. We don't know
the status if Timmy McClane will still be in the lineup or will be johnres
Plumbly. But again, first ever home game for the Nights in the Big
twelve, So a lot of excitement in Orlando at the Bounce House in anticipation
for the Baylor Bears come into town and for all ucfans just so you know,
we've tried to get some people from UCF to come on and talk about
the program and the team this year, have just not had any success with
anybody returning our requests. So we definitely want to talk UCF UCF, and
we are efforting to get some people from the UCF football program to return a
request to get them on here to talk some UCF. So we are trying.
So just know that FIU they fall at home to Liberty thirty eight six.
They fall to two and two. Mike McIntyre and company. Not a
great performance if you know you lose thirty eight six. Obviously, Liberties one
of the stronger programs in that conference, and they put it to FIU pretty
good. So the Panthers fall to two and two. Their next game is
a week from Wednesday, October the fourth, at New Mexico State. That
would probably be a TV game, one of those midweek games that you might
see on ESPN or CBS Sportsnet. So again two and two, FIU gets
a little bit of a kind of a mini buy get about ten days to
prepare as a head out to New Mexico State. I think that's lots.
I believe that's Los crucis New Mexico's where that will be. I believe that's
where New Mexico State is. But again, you'll probably see them on TV
next week as they go too and two again, good job by McIntyre,
you know, stabilizing this program. So two and two FIU. And remember
you heard a j Ricketts play by play voice of the Panthers a couple of
weeks back to a little preview, So if you missed that episode, go
back and check out AJ's preview of FIU if you want to hear a little
more FIU back on the Florida Football Insiders podcast. I think that was week
one or week two of the podcast that we talked to AJ Ricketts, but
you can find it in the annals of the Florida Football Insiders podcast. All
right, FAU, a close lost, Good job by Tom Herman. They
go to Illinois, lose twenty three seventeen at Illinois one and three. Now
for Tom Herman and the Owls again as they come. You know, they
played two money games in a row. They remember they played they played Illinois
this week in the in the week last week they played at Clemson, So
two kind of money games for them. They will now have a buy as
they head into conference season. Again for all you, all the FAU fans
as well the Owls. We've reached out to FAU as well. We're trying
to get some people on from somebody on from FAU. Have not had a
whole lot of cooperation from those guys down there. So again, we're trying
to get every We're trying to get representation and chatter about all the programs in
the state of Florida. We definitely think it's important to cover all the programs
and we definitely want to do that, but not a lot of response from
the people we've reached out to a FAUS, which I don't I don't get
it. I figured they would want as much attention as they can get.
We're not asking for much time, so but we'll keep trying. So FAU
Faster one in three year one Tom Herman. Remember Casey Thompson, the quarterbacks
out for the year, hurt his knee a week ago at Clemson. So
they lose a close one. Good good good performance though at Illinois Big Ten.
Kind of one of the underachieving teams so far in the Big Ten is
Illinois. But Illinois gets it done. Twenty three seventeen at home. So
last team we're gonna hit off before we get to JP Peterson. Miami ups
goes up to Philadelphia and smokes Temple forty one seven. They moved to four,
and oh they are sneaky, kind of laying in the weeds here.
I think Mario Christovall likes how this team is moving forward. They have they
also have a bye this week, but again, I think Mario's really really
encouraged about where they're at. Moving to four and oh, you're gonna get
into the heart of their ACC schedule. They've got North Carolina and Clemson coming
up in October, and if they can get through that gauntlet, you've got
a potential showdown with Florida State early November, which could have a massive,
massive ACC and potential College Football playoff implications for both teams that they both come
in undefeated. So Miami's off to a good start. Tyler Van Dyke playing
really well. These are the kind of games that you like to see Miami
winning. Handle a note, there was a no doubter at Temple, a
team you're way better than you go up there and you beat them. That's
what I like. That's what you want to see if you're a Canes fan,
No struggle with the teams that you're supposed to beat. So be a
good week for these for Florida State and Miami to get rested, get healthy,
kind of work on the fundamentals, do a little self scouting these teams
of that buys this week. And again if the other team, you know,
Fay using the same boat, get healthy as you head into conference season.
And again for the other state teams. We got Florida at Kentucky.
You see f hosting Baylor FIU. Kind of a mini buy this week,
So a lot of bye weeks in the state of Florida and then they'll probably
play They'll then they'll have the Long Gauntlet the rest of the year. So
a lot of good action here in the state of Florida. Again, check
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zero one four zero four. All right, Welcome in Florida Football Insiders Podcast.
Appreciate you find us. Hopefully enjoyed my recap of all the state schools
over the weekend. Now we're going to get in a little more in depth
about a couple of the school's most importantly the huge win by the Florida State
Seminoles going to Death Valley and getting it done in overtime over Clemson with my
man JP Peterson, instider, extraordinary former media guy up in Tallahassee for many
years, and now he is has his own great show down here in the
tep Bay area, the JP Peterson Show as part of the Fans Stream Sports
platform. Welcome in, mister Peterson, Thank you, Jason, good to
be here. Love your stuff. Big weekend for FSU fans. I was
just reliving it with a couple of friends reading their blogs and just some guys
that went up to Clemson with it. I must give them a nod to
their hospitality. They are the most welcoming, hospitable fans maybe in America.
Okay, I think you feel great and then normally kick your ass with a
with a with a nice buzz and a full belly. By the way,
the way it's should always be on every campus that's stadium. It's football,
people, It's not war. You know. You know this just in Philly
fans. You don't have to hate the other team or the people wearing the
other colors and beat the shit out of them. So it's just football.
But yeah, hats off to the Clemson fans. They're always the best,
most hospitable. Hey, they're they're they're they're down home South Carolina people.
That that's my business all the time. There you go, there you go.
And finally, Florida State's on the good side of a miss kick one
of these days. How about that? How about that wide left? You
know what, I felt bad for that kid for like five seconds, I
really did, and his mom and dad sitting up there. But we've been
there, I know you're Florida State fan, You've got you're you know,
it's all right, It's all right now, I know how they feel.
Yeah, that was that was a tough one. But you know interesting that.
You know, Clemson goes out and recruit it's maybe the best kicker in
high school football, and the kid just can't handle the pressure. And then
you gotta go get a a kid that never got the kick because the guy
ahead of him was so good for four years and finally says enough enough,
and they recruit this other kid. He never gets a shot, and Dabo's
gotta go begging and pleading back to him, you know, on the golf
courses of Myrtle Beach, and he doesn't quite answer the bell. But let's
be honest, you know, if we're being totally objective, FSU probably didn't,
you know, need to bring it down to a kick many of those
years, probably should have been more aggressive and punched it in while they were
moving the football. Lead it up to a kicker. That's what's gonna happen.
That's what's gonna happen. And you know he Dabbo Dabbo and his group
did not manage that game very well. They that overtime a series of play
one call in overtime. That screen they threw was awful. They could have
just handed off the Will Shipley every time in overtime and just won the game.
FSUs defense at that point was not stopping the run. And he and
but and he wants to say, well he had a check with me.
Well, he shouldn't have a check with me in his fifth start in that
situation. That's band the ball off. Hand the ball off. You shouldn't
have an option there. Don't give your quarterback an option on a check with
me there right, you know, hand the ball off. So he's got
to wear that when he Dabbo has been a good part of the day pointing
fingers and other people on the sideline and on TV. So interesting, Yeah,
it's it's interesting where that clips of programs going. There's been very anti
transfer portal, you know, so that to see how they how they react
in the next this year's done, they're not they're not going to be in
the mix this year. How he responds in the off season with the transfer
portal and staff changes or whatever, they got to do differently at clips because
they're kind of they're kind of going down a couple of notches here. If
you don't ask the dinosaurs, if you don't adapt to your surround soundings,
you become extinct. Yeah, Dabo is looking very much like a ronosaurus right
out now. And it's clear. Yeah, it's clear. The talent level
not near what it was five six years ago at Clemson. Yeah, I
mean, and he's got a destination program. How many people love to transfer
in to Clemson? Right, the facilities there, everything, I mean,
I mean, that's a great place to play football, and you know you
want to keep the door closed. Yeah, yep, that's right. Let's
get to the Florid State side of things. To me, the pos the
play of the game was the strip sack on the blitz turned into the into
the you know, tying touchdown. Florist was cheatering right there. If Clemson
punches it in right there and puts him down fourteen, that game is probably
over. But give Florida State defensively credit that they continue the pressure and the
depth. I think the depth that Norvella is built up over there with the
both sides of the ball is really starting to show here with this huge September
run they've had with Clemson, in LSU Halin DeLoach the player of the year,
no question about it. Without that play, they don't win that game.
That was a complete game changer, a season changer for FSU. You're
absolutely right, Clemson had the momentum. You know the FSU. Let me
just say this first and foremost. Okay, that's a huge win for FSU.
You have won there since twenty thirteen. You gotta beat the big dog.
To beat the big dog, to quote Rick Flair and or Butcher whatever,
you know what I'm saying. To be the man, you gotta beat
the brother. That's right, you gotta. So they had to do it.
And to walk into Clemson like that, in that situation where they know
their program is on the line and the dynasty is on the line, and
to win that game, I don't give a crap. How you get it
done. That is a huge, huge win and and and four years in
the making for Mike Norvell, two years removed from losing to Jacksonville State,
You're back on top in the ACC which gives you a play at the table
for the for the championship game, to get into the playoff. Let's go.
So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna, you know, apologize for any
of that. Now that said, this defense has got a long way to
go right Without that big play, this defense just gets trampled. They did
not. They gave up four hundred and twenty nine yards. The Nose were
outgained by over one hundred yards in this one. The time of possession,
all the numbers pointed to Clemson. And but but when you make big plays
like last night, the Bucks had opportunities to make big plays. They didn't
make it. Right, Meldan can't make the plays, made the play,
missed this block and then Fisk, thank god, handed it off to get
to get the pick six. What a huge play man, What a huge
play. I have a lot of issues with the way Adam Fuller is calling
this defense at third downs. It seems like the other team always gets the
matchup that they want, which is the essence of coaching, right. So
they've got to do a lot of self scouting in this off week and get
their coaching in line with the talent. I think offensively they're playing subpart.
Now, I'll say this, you got you got four games to win in
September. You got to maybe simplify things and let your athletes just go win
those games. And they did that. Okay, they did that. Now
self scout, get that offense much more varied, much more multiple. Get
Jaheim Bell involved, get the other tight end involved, get the backs involved
in the passing game. Let's not just be you know, Johnny Wilson,
ball jump balls, jump balls they're doing. I know that's what Clemson was
giving them, and they were daring him to do it. But I think,
you know, at some point you gotta use some other weapons. Obviously,
and Jordan was hurt, he couldn't run. They knew that, so
gutsy performance by him. But this was a hell of an overall hell of
effort by this team. They fought to the end. The fight in this
team from the day Mike Norvelle took over has been completely different than what we
saw with Willie Taggard or Jimbo Fisher. So complete buy in, hell of
a win on so many levels. Now, let's nitpick it. Why is
this team different? Why can this team run the table, go the distance.
As a post of teams in the past, I think you have so
many fifth year guys coming back, Jordan verse guys in the secondary. I
think that the depth and the experience is kind of like the old school Florida
State. We have the internal leadership where you don't have to the coach doesn't
have to beg you to try to motivate you. I think the internal leadership
is what's gonna hopefully get this team over the top end of the playoff.
I agree, you know that there's they're getting all those guys to come back
is big. But Jordan Verse time to start playing some football, young man.
It's beating somebody off the corner, double team whatever single team wouldn't double
team to all that much, beating people and making plays because your draft is
sinking, My friend, he needs to step up and play a lot better.
But yeah, I think the leadership on this team, the back end
still worries me a little bit. They may, you know, want to
get some of their younger corners who are sitting on the bench involved. I
see. I just guys are not making plays when they should be making plays,
and that front seven is way more talented than their teams should not be
able to run to football on them the way they are, so I think,
you know, I think their best football is ahead of them. They
need to they need to clean some things up. They need to get healthy.
But they you know, the schedule obviously looks you know, you always
go into it saying, oh, you know, it looks it looks easy.
Well, suddenly, Duke doesn't look that easy, does it. It
looks like a tough football game, right. Miami doesn't look that easy,
right, you know, you beat them forty five to three last year.
I don't think that's gonna happen this year. So that looks a little bit
tougher. Florida and they just beat Tennessee. That might be a night game
in the swamp, So you know, that doesn't look at and you're gonna
have North Carolina possibly in the championship game. So it's no cakewalk. It's
no cakewalk, but you got a little probably have a little bit of cushion
right now. One loss of cushion. You probably got one loss. I
would agree with that, if you know, as long as it's not too
whoever you're you know, wake Forest. Yeah, you can't lose one of
those, can't lose one of those. But yeah, so I think you
have a little bit of cushion. You could maybe lose to Miami, and
then you know, if you come back and win an ACC championship, but
you might not get in the game if you lose to Miami. Right,
we win it, you know, win a champion championship game. You might
be able to get in because of the win over LSU, which I think
is gonna look like a really, really good win at the end of the
year. So yeah, I think they have a shot. You know what,
what percentage would I give it? Eight to one? Maybe, you
know, eight to one shot, But like I said, two years removed
from losing to Jacksonville State, to have an eight to one shot to win
a national championship, I'll take it all. Right, Let's go down to
Miami. Let's talk about the Hurricanes. You mentioned them again. Much seemed
like a lot more buttoned up than they were last year year to A Mario.
The quarterbacks playing good again. They've reinforced the offensive defensive lines. What
do you see out of the Hurricanes after the big win against Jimbo and A
M. How good is A and M. I don't know, I don't
know, but it's a big win, right, it's a big win.
They're they're scoring points, they are fair scoring points. They're they're they're an
offensive line will allow that when you've got as many skilled players as they got,
and Tyler van Dyke is clearly a different quarterback than he was last year.
Yeah, year two is a big deal. It's a big deal to
be in the system. I think krist the Ball is a great coach.
I think you'll get them right. I still think it might be a year
or two early for them, but they got talent. I'm glad this FSU
game will be in Miami, but Miami's better, no question. But I
don't think A and m is as the program you think it is. I
have some insight information and let's just say, behind the scenes, that place
is a mess. How how cool? How cool would it be if we
can get an undefeated Florid State and undefeated Miami early November? For I will
say, all the marbles, but for a lot of the marbles be nice
again, right, it'd be nice with a little well, Chris air allahassee
maybe on a Saturday night, Ye see that flaming spear hit the sun on
the head. With Miami and FSU both in the top ten. Yeah,
sign me up for that. I'll be I'll be I'll be ready for that
absolutely one percent. But I think, you know, I think Miami they
still have a couple of you know, games in them that that they may
not be able to win. So I'll wait to see if there's a little
bit more consistency. Fs U's one ten in a row now, so Miami's
well, well short of that. Let's get a shout out to our guy,
Brad jump and how about today and m last week? Sound son to
brother to brother combination. Max comes in relief, throws to his to his
to his younger brother the tight end. Cool cool moment there at Texas A
and M when they score and beat Auburn. How about that? That was?
That was so cool? And that's a long time coming to right,
you know, So that that that was a nice moment for Brad, I
know, for for the kids. And I guess I don't know how how
injured the A and M quarterback is is Max? Is Max gonna o that
now? I don't know, but yeah, that was a special moment.
Let's go to Gainesville, couple, let's talk a minutes all the Gators.
What do you see at a napier? Obviously that the semi signature win against
Tennessee. Still not where they need to be but they're getting you can tell
they're getting better, a little more organized. What do you what do you
think of Billy Napier year two? Well, I didn't see much of the
shot at game, but the final score certainly was not impressive twenty two to
seven. But I watched the entire Tennessee game, and that was that was
a quintessential Swamp win, right, That was a Florida That was a crowd
win. That was the players were inspired, and I think Napier coached a
really, really good game. I think Billy Napier is gonna be fine.
I think the heat on him is a little excessive, to be quite honest.
In year two, he's got it. You know, he's got a
lot of guys to get rid of, just like Mike Norvell did you gotta
take out the trash. You see who's you know, who's invested in who's
not. That takes a little bit of you know, sifting rowe to do
that. So and he's got a lot of young players and he's playing them.
He's building something for the future. He's got a great recruiting class.
To me, his deal this year has keep this class together. That's then
win enough games to keep this class together. You recruited a top five class.
You're on your way to doing something special, and that's the most important
thing. I think the jury is still out on him as a coach in
a major conference, but I think he'll figure that out. He's a super
smart guy, he's charismatic, he knows how to recruit. I think if
you're a Gator fan right now, just chill a little bit and let him
work. Let him get the recruits in. They'll be fine. Last thing,
give me a thought on USF again, Alex Golds two and two.
Good performance against Alabama. They seem so much more buttoned up and more competitive
than they've been in years past. The defense played really well against Bama.
Granted Bama's quarterback situation wasn't was pretty bad that day in Raymond James, But
give me a thought on USF's improvement in year one. Well, first and
foremost for all of those who are still given me crap for you know,
saying Deon Sanders was ninety percent headed to USF and saying that I made it
up and it wasn't even that close. I hope you heard his interview with
my good friend Bubba the Love Sponge where he said, oh yeah, that
was real. That was absolutely real. We looked at it really really hard.
But in the end he got He knew that he would be at a
disadvantage in recruiting with the big boys and not being in a Power five,
but he would have, you know, if he joined USF. I don't
know if that's USF and the ACC or SMU, I'm not quite sure,
but anyway, that being what it is, Alex scolesh is there. It's
not Deon Sanders, and I think what he did against Alabama and then this
last week against Rice, and I know it's just Rice, but you know
that team got they got down, and that's when USF teams quit. That's
what I've seen the last few years. They get down a couple scores and
they're just done. Not this team. That team kept fighting. It came
back offensively. They are they are gonna be really, really good. And
they put up what six hundred, seven hundred yards against Rice. Byron Brown
is the real deal man. That kid can throw the football. They've got
they're developing some weapons on the outside now. They got Nickquine right right steamrolling
people from the backfield. Their offensive line looks you know, at least uh
doable, you know, and their defense doesn't isn't great, but they make
plays every now and then. They've got some athletes that can make some plays
and get some takeaways. So that formula will help you win a few games,
especially in that conference. So I think the last two weeks against Alabama
and the win over Rice, that's huge for USF. And I think I
think they're headed in the right direction. Goalish Goalish is his offense is dynamic.
We know that from Tennessee, and he's got to get some players.
They don't have nearly enough players to compete for anything serious right now, but
his portal is open. They need to get some nil money at USF.
That's in embarrassment of a atmosphere that a USF fan base is providing. But
I get it. One to eleven doesn't bring a lot of people in.
But I've said this a lot at USF. You got to bring an atmosphere
before you're going to get good players. So if the fans want a bitch
and moan, get your ass out to the games. Create some type of
atmosphere instead of an empty stadium, and that will help your team get players
I know it's hard sometimes, but when your team's not winning, but this
team's interestingly interesting enough, they're fun enough, get your butt out there,
support your team, create an atmosphere so he can go get some players.
And to me, I was I was very disappointed. You couldn't you know,
we talk about USF wanted to be a big program. We couldn't even
sell out against Alabama. There were ten thousand empty seats against Samon James against
Alabama, the biggest hole game in your history, Nick Saban in town and
you still got ten thousand empty seats and of those people that were there,
twenty five thousand were Alabama fans. That's right, Yeah, it's Look,
it's hard to bitch at base that has, you know, endured what three
wins and three years. I get it. It's hard, but again,
you gotta in college football. It doesn't work like pro football. Man.
You got to create an atmosphere before the players are gonna come. So suck
it up, Buttercup, get your best friend paid for your ten dollars for
your ticket. Tickets aren't expensive for the games, and go to a college
football game. And by the way, the US provide provide buses for the
students, right, saw a couple of tweets this past week that they weren't
running buses from campus to the to the stadium. If you have an off
campus stadium, that is non negotiable, right, it is non negotiable.
If you got money to build a new stadium, you got money to run
buses from from the student union to Raymond James Stadium on a Saturday. Let's
go. I'm with you now, I'm with you, JP Pearson. Great
job, man. We're gonna tell all the fans where I can find out
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JP, give you onto a little uh info about the show every day
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