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American Patriots will bask in the spectacle that is the Army Navy Clash this Saturday.
But otherwise there's no college football until bowl games commenced the following Saturday.
So for this week, it's all about National Signing Day coming up in two
weeks. The Transfer Portal opened on December fourth, and it is flooded with
over one thousand college football players already. Right here on the Big Ten Paradigm,
we will break down Transfer Portal losses, targets, and upcoming bowl games
for three specific Big Ten schools at Ohio State, Iowa, and Nebraska.
First for the Buckeye Steve hell Wagon of buck Nuts two four seven Sports,
Tony Gerdaman and Kevin Noon of Buckeye Huddle joined me each and every Wednesday at
eleven am Eastern Time at the Voice of College Football Nebraska with Greg Peterson of
Husker Online and Justin Adams, our postgame host on our Huskers Channel. And
for the Hawkeyes of Iowa of course Corey Brada from the Hawkeye of the Storm,
each and every Tuesday at five thirty Eastern time. Once again, we're
in the same spot we were a year ago. You know, where you
have to go and improve to take that next step, because as long as
Phil Parker's here, this defense is going to be really good. And you
know, unless there are significant changes with philosophy and play calling and scheme,
the offense is not going to be to a level where it can compete on
that stage. You know, we've talked about it for so long, but
like what we saw Saturday was just further evidence that you cannot beat the best
teams, even in the Big Ten with this style. You can't. And
when I say this style, I'm not talking about you know, field position
and you know, utilizing your special teams unit, and you know, I
understand that has worked in the past against some of the better opponents in the
country, but you cannot do that with this level of offense. You just
can't. You can win a lot of games like this, especially in this
division and even in this conference as a whole. They beat Rutgers out of
the East twenty two zero. My guess is they probably would have beaten Maryland.
We don't know that they would have beaten Indiana. I mean, there's
other teams outside of the division. I don't think people realize that there are
bad teams in a lot of divisions, including the Big Denist. But you
cannot expect to compete and beat teams like Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan
with this type of style and offense. You just can't. There's just not
enough. There's not enough defense to go around. There's not enough special teams
to go around. If I was special teams unit had played perfect perfect on
Saturday because the defense basically played perfect. I mean, in large part it
basically played perfect. The special teams unit plays perfect. I think they still
lose. It might be close because I don't know how you know, who
knows, but I don't think it would have maken It made a twenty six
point difference. They scored zero points, you know, I mean, you
just can't win scoring zero points. You just can't do it. And you
hope that your defense. You know, the one thing the defense didn't do
Saturday was they did not convert on a couple of opportunities. Nick Jackson had
an opportunity in an interception. He just dropped and I don't know if he
would have taken it back to the house he had green in front of him.
No missed opportunity. But in general, are we really relying on the
defense to score? In the past, they have, and it's worked in
some bigger games, but when they're not getting that type of production, you
have no chance. When you have this type of offense. I would have
to scour my brain, or I could just simply go in the internet and
go to all the championship results in every conference. But I believe that is
the first shutout in any conference championship game in the history of Power five football
going back to nineteen ninety two, the first SEC championship game, not just
in the Big Ten. I think that is the first shutout. So that
underlines how incredibly atrocious that offense is. And you made a comment about style,
and it's not that I disagree with you about the style, because I
do think that they need to be more creative. But Michigan plays in a
similar style as Iowa. From an offensive standpoint, they're just better. They
just have more dynamic players. They've coached the offensive line better, they've just
developed their players. They've recruited better players, and then they've coached them better
on that side of the ball. Yeah, And when I said style,
I meant that's why I kind of corrected that style. When you have this
bad of an offense, like, you better get creative. If you're going
to have this bad of an offense, you can't just do what you're doing
and have you know, like you said, the problems. Everyone's talking about
the development of the offensive line. I mean I went back and listened to
part of one of the postgame shows, I think was after Wisconsin the other
day, and there were callers. I mean, there was one guy that
called in, and you know, I love our callers, they're great,
as you love your callers, but this one guy, I mean, he
just rattled off every phase of the game. Oh, the offensive line was
amazing, and Brian called a great game and the linebackers just dominated. Oh
I'm just so happy. And it's like, Okay, you're a Homer.
That's fine. But the fact of the matter is, go back to the
Big Ten Awards. Not a single old lineman was named to an All Big
Ten team. That's concerning, not a first team, not a second team
All Big ten. Maybe they got a third team all Big ten lineman.
I have to go back and look. But not good. I mean,
when you're talking about an Iowa team, they're supposed to be known for offensive
line play, and you got a bunch of guys that they just saw will
give them an honorable mention. That line is still not even close to where
it needs to be. And so those are problems. And you know what's
crazy about Saturday, Mark, And this is the first time you and I
have spoken face to face about this game. What's crazy about Saturday is it
played out like exactly the way we kind of thought it would and as Iowa
fans kind of feared it would, like it's so predictable. It's not like
twenty It's not like the game result was like wow, look at what Michigan
did. It's like, this is what we expected. The Iowa defense is
going to show off. The Iowa offense wasn't gonna do anything I gave.
I tried to give Brian Ferns a benefit of the doubt going into the game
because I thought he'll do something different, like play calling, he'll have wrinkles
ready. They didn't do anything different mark. I didn't see him look down
the field. What was your score? What was your score? Prediction?
I had twenty three thirteen oh thirteen points? Yeah, I had. Well,
here's the deal. At some point I expected to be able to get
in field goal range and convert on one or two good punt plays, which
Tory Taylor played really well, and then maybe you get a pick six or
you break a big run like I was done a couple of times. But
it's not It wouldn't be crazy. If you had told me beforehand I was
going to get shut out, I wouldn't have called you crazy. And honestly,
people may disagree with this. I think if they don't give up the
eighty seven yard punt return, maybe they only lose by ten or fifteen.
I know they lost by twenty six, but I do think that has a
significant difference. But they would I think that would have lost either way.
I want to make that clear. So that's kind of where I was thinking
as far as prediction is concerned. Definitely, Corey, make that clear.
You don't want any Michigan fans coming after you, so make that clear that
you still believe that Iowa. I'm making it clear and I wouldn't want them
to continued. Yeah, I'll give Michigan fans credit. I have had less
flack and less pushback. There were less Michigan fans on the show, the
postgame show Saturday than I expected. Now there's as you know, when you
get these big shows that everybody's tuning in for, you can't get through all
the chats. So I didn't see everything. But I'll give Michigan fans credit.
A lot of people were just relentless heading into the game. I have
not heard as much postgame and why what do you have to brack about?
I mean, you won the game. Your offense didn't really do anything.
You dominated a bad Iowa offense. You did win special teams in that eighty
seven yard that is. Somebody asked me during the game, what's the play
of the game. Who's the player of the game. I was sitting next
to somebody from I think it was the Indianapolis Star or some Indianapolis outlet next
to me, who didn't have a horse in the race. I mean,
he's just a local reporter covering it in press box. Him and I were
chatting, and of course the Big ten wanted credentialed media to vote on Player
of the Game, and he asked me, well, who's player a game?
And I'm like, well, it's not Corum, it's not McCarthy,
it's nobody specifically on defense. I just said, you know, it's the
guy who returned the eighty seven yard punt, because that was the biggest play
in the game. In my opinion. If I'm a you know, I'm
not going to Selectory Taylor on a team that got shut out. So and
I think Michigan's punter they I don't know how many times they punted, but
my guess is his numbers were okay. They certainly weren't what Tories were,
and so I give Jim Harbaugh credit to two years ago. There was some
criticism even from Don Patterson about kind of how they carried themselves late in that
game, kind of tried to run up the score. I don't know that
they would have been able to run with the score. On Saturday. Had
a fourth and one in field goal range, up twenty three zero, and
the smart play was to kick a field goal, and that's what he did,
you know, just put it away, put it up by more than
three scores and games over at that point. So I give Jim Jim Harbaugh
credit for that, but now you you know, turn the table, turned
the page to Tennessee, and this is probably strength against strength with Tennessee's offense
versus Iowa's defense. And the guy who's got strong connections to Iowa. They're
head coach of course, coach with Bob Stoops down at Oklahoma, coach with
Jane Norvel, and I think played for Boy would have played for Chuck Long
down at Oklahoma and knows Mike and Bobby from Oklahoma coached against Iowa and the
twenty eleven Insight Bowl that was a win for Oklahoma. So song connections there
should be an interesting game and a sunny destination at least for Iowa fans.
See late in that game, I was just hoping. I didn't have any
money on the game, but just I make my predictions, and I was
just hoping at twenty three nothing that Iowa could just kick a field goal,
just kick a field goal. I took iowen twenty two and my predictions,
just kick a field goal, but they couldn't get that accomplished. And I
have not checked the chat, but I wouldn't be surprised if somebody corrected me.
This was a miss on my part that should have been pretty obvious to
me when I said I cannot think of any and I get a pretty good
recollection of all conference championship games scores throughout history. There was one in the
Big Ten that I should have obviously been able to get because it led to
a national championship. Ohio State fifty nine, Wisconsin nothing zero. Yeah,
it was that one. So everybody out there consider this. I'm not going
to go through all the names of the starting quarterbacks, but I'll just say
it this way. Consider starting quarterbacks at Oregon State, UCLA, Mississippi State,
Arkansas, Minnesota, Ohio State, and we could keep going. I
could name some other ones. Kansas State comes to mind. All those guys
I've entered the transfer portal, all sorts of experienced quarterbacks. And we know
what we know right now. I mean, Lebrosha has already talked to Kansas
State's Will Howard. We know that they've already talked with Michigan State Sam Levitt.
They went to Baylor today to see Blake Sap and they're en route to
Columbus, Ohio to talk to Tom McCord right now. So that's basically in
a nutshell, what they're up to right now. Yep. And the biggest,
you know, the biggest thing about the QB room and what might come
from this is it's the question marks of are they going to want to get
one quarterback in the portal? I know Rule again had alluded to a guy
he wanted for multiple years. Well, Levitt fits that perfectly. He's got
four years. He somewhat fits what they want to do in the offense,
you know, because he's he's mobile, really good pocket awareness. You know,
he made some great throws. The twenty five yard touchdown pass he threw
was actually against Nebraska. It was that little tight window throw where they dove
in the with the guy dove in the end zone. Wasn't a catch.
They called it a catch. It wasn't a catch, but the throw was
still money, Like he put the throw right where it needs to be.
He was. You know, he's underthrown a few deep balls just looking at
his game film back, but he makes some exceptional tight window throws and there's
no doubt in his confidence. He's very confidence ability. So that and that
that leads me to wonder if that scratcher to me too, though. He
doesn't really fit the mold. And you know, like like Rule said,
he wants definitely fits the you know, has multiple years, but like Will
Howard, doesn't really make sense to me. He's only got a year left.
H Yeah, lake shape and you know he recruited him at Baylor connection
there. Cal McCord is a passing quarterback. He's not that dual threat guy
like like Matt Rule wants. So that one's kind of strange to me as
well. Why do you you win eleven games at Ohio State with the kind
of weapons that you have, Why would you want to come to Nebraska that
you have a bunch of freshmen fast wide receivers that don't have much experience,
and you know, the product hasn't shown on the field. So that's weird
as well. I mean, this is going to be a long way from
over and obviously nil has a big thing to do with it. So many
of these quarterbacks are in the portal and you don't know are they are they
in it for the payday or are they in it to win at the next
level. And you know, right now, Nebraska hasn't shown that on the
field that's going to make you get to the NFL any faster with what's going
on right now. So it's just, you know, with so many options
out there, it's just in my mind, it's it's kind of silly to
try to to try to us who who they're going to take this time right
now. Yeah, there's there's no telling. It's just to just a matter
of trying to see what the rest of the quarterback room is going to do
too. When we do get one of these guys, you know, because
you know, Jubba Party can probably you know, get some money somewhere,
just you know, with the name value party itself. And then also you
know, does he potentially want to come sit behind a guy, you know,
if we bring in you know, I think if we bring in Will
Rogers or something like that, of course he's going to be the starter.
So does Chubbo one of them come sit behind him? What happens there?
You know, what happens with the churn Harburg and all them. That's another
thing too, is just I'm wondering if they're courting multiple just in case we
lose a quarterback in the portal after we make a move or so. But
now they're doing their own thing now, I mean, last year, you
know, they the big get was Jeff Simms, and that was a suggestion
from a head coach colleague. To this year, they're actually going out and
looking for a guy. That's so they don't really They're they're gonna take this
meticulously slow and you know, gauge gauge it to you know, who's definitely
going to fit into the system and who really wants to play here. So
yeah, right now, like you know, with all these guys out there
that have not made any kind of a decision yet, I mean, it's
so wide open right now, it's going to be interesting to watch, yeah,
for sure. And it's with the SIMS stuff. It's you know,
a lot of you know, SIMS was a very quick thing and it was
you know, there was surprise, like even with Casey Thompson last year,
Like we didn't anticipate him leaving last year, but he ended up in there
in the portal surprise, you know. So with SIMS, the only thing
that is concerning is you know, hoping that their evaluation process is better this
year, and I think it will be, just because last year there were
so many moving parts, you know, hiring the staff. They had forty
seven people visit between December January. I believe I read forty seven visitors between
the transfer portal and the twenty twenty three class in December and January. So
last year it was just go go, go, gun, gun gun,
And it seems like they have the opportunity to slow it down a little bit
more this year and do their due diligence, which I think will hopefully pay
off in the long run. So who do you guys want? Do you
have a wish list? I actually like Levitt and Howard. I like Levitt
as a as a future prospect. His you know, just watching his highlights
and stuff like that. He has really good moments, more good moments than
bad moments. And you know, he was a four star recruit, number
one kid out of Oregon, twenty first overall quarterback in the twenty three class,
you know, so he has the makings of a good quarterback. He
just was behind Jonna blank On his name Hauser, who also under the portal,
but he was behind Hawser and like I said, in the limited action,
he had two touchdowns, two interceptions, so nothing to write home about.
Just trying to look at him as a quarterback, though he had he
there's some good, but there's more good than bad, and so that's that's
the biggest thing. And then I think if they I don't know if if
they go with Levitt since he hit a you know, second year guy with
four years to play, I don't know if they then try to go get
you know, both them and a Will Rogers. I don't know how that's
gonna work, but I guess time will tell. But I really like Levitt
as a as a future play at prospect. You know, I think I
think I would just take a one year rental of Dylan Gabriel is what I
would like to see. That would be nice. That'd be nice if they
can land him for sure. There you see Levitt got his feet wet in
four Big Ten games. There you see the touchdown pass against Nebraska and two
attempts. He also faced Minnesota again the Michigan State was in until late in
the fourth quarter through for seventy three yards and a touchdown there got in the
Michigan game as well, four for seven and also against Maryland. If we
would pull up Dylan Gabriel's numbers, we would see them then pop off the
screen at ten thousand yards and one hundred touchdown passes in his career compared to
Levitt. Obviously completely different objectives, as Justin said in getting either one of
those guys as a one year guy versus a developmental approach, and you got
I mean, you know, if your coach Rule and coach Cyerfield, you
got to I try to consider that what's best for your squad right now,
the stock file a few wins on a very different looking conference next year where
your schedule is loaded, you know, somebody that's proven winner instead of a
guy that like, like you really want a guy that you can develop a
little bit. So it's it's a tough decision, yeah, for sure.
Yeah, And just it's it poses the question of whether you know, Rule,
you know, he's a he's a developer of talent, just in in
his nature, and I you know, he is alluded to wanting to stick
to that kind of game plan of bringing guys and develop them. It's just
a matter of, yeah, does he you know, there's a little bit
of urgency I feel like on you know, like you said, winning,
And it's like, does he trust bringing in a guy like Levitt and trust
his ability to develop him quickly? Or does he want to go for broke
next year and really try to just attack it with a one year guy like
a Dylan Gabriel or Will Rogers. I just wasn't sure if he was willing
to go, you know, top of the top, if he can get
Elevitt type of guy for a little bit less. Yeah, definitely, mm
hmm. Yeah. I mean there's a reason why, you know, his
statements about how much a transfer quarterback costs still on ESPN right now. You
know, some of these guys are worth five million bucks right now. Crazy,
you know. You know, I know Nebrons is in good shape,
but that eighteen ninety initiative, you know, they don't want to fork out
five million dollars for one player. And that's why, you know, the
business side comes into this so much more that we're not used to anymore.
And yeah, I mean Nebraska needs to uh get some of that Warren Buffett
money on board and Berkshire halfaway. Where is he at when we need him?
He could buy us a few quarterbacks, yeah, like with with pennies
to him essentially, and that never mind he offered you know, he offered
my grandmother a job way back in the day. Turned him down. No,
she was a market wizard and that impressed him. Yeah, imagine how
it's different my life could have been now, mooch and never mind me to
his point, Yeah, that's something we talked about last week, where he's
like their college players making more than the pros. We talked about the rookie
minimum, like rock Perties making because like the Brookie minimums like seven or fifty
K. And then yeah, these these guys are getting upwards of one point
five to two million, making more than Tony White, if Chubba, if
Chubba. All of a sudden, there's the guy man. Maybe he can
make him more than Brock. Yeah, exactly. Well, that that would
be interesting, wouldn't it. Brock. I'm guessing that San Francisco is taking
care of Rock Party. I'm guessing that they bumped that. I might be
wrong, like in the top of the MVP conversation right now. So he's
getting some bonuses for sure, exactly, So based on what I'm looking at,
Yeah, officially he's still at age seventy the rookie minimum or the second
year minimum, but yeah, they picked in with bonuses and compensations. Yeah,
and who's paying him for advertising too? He probably Yeah. So that's
why I feel like Chubba might be, you know, get an opportunity to
to just with his name value, you know, to make money. Yeah.
Essentially there might be people trying to you know, get barbecue plays out
of pay for you know job. Yeah, yeah, yeah, barbecue.
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four, five, six, seven under classmen leaving as well. It's a
mass exodus right now at Ohio State. So the twenty twenty four team will
have a vague resemblance of the twenty twenty three team, and in some ways
that's a good thing because they won't carry the baggage of losing the Michigan three
years in a row because hardly any of them will have ever played against Michigan
in a live football game. So that's maybe the one positive thing out of
this. Well, and we can dovetail into the super chat if you want
in terms of the who is actually going to be at the Cotton Bowl,
because this is You've already got what twelve twelve guys in the portal, and
thank you running DAWs for the super chat. With those twelve guys out,
and there's going to be I don't know, five opt outs or so maybe,
and you've got some guys that are injured. The FCS scholarship number is
sixty three. I would be shocked if a high state is around that number
going to the Cotton Bowl in terms of scholarship players in that game against whatever
Missouri is going to take in there, their eighty five or whatever. So
they're gonna be a little undermanned in that. The walk Ons are gonna have
a great trip. I'll probably play some special teams and things like that.
So that's that's why I asked Ryan Day back on Sunday, is this do
you view this as the start of the twenty twenty four season? And he
talked about, well, you get, we want to finish the twenty twenty
three season the right way, but it is also the start of that.
It's kind of a pre spring spring where you're get to look at all of
these young guys and then you actually get to see what they can do in
a game, provided you give them that opportunity. And of course we talked
to him before all of the comm accord stuff came out, but yeah,
it's gonna be an interesting look at the buck Eys because at this point,
I don't know that you can safely assume any of the guys that we're talking
about going into the port are going to the NFL Draft, as Steve talking
about, like these ten guys or what at this point where you can't assume
those guys are going to play. So if you are a starter and you
have an NFL decision, just assume that guy is not going to play in
this game, and then you know the guy below that moves up. Basically,
yeah, I think about ten years ago, they played Clemson in the
Orange Bowl down in Miami, and the safety play for Ive State had been
terrible all season, so they made the decision. During bowl practice they pushed
Von Bell, who was a true freshman, played mostly on special teams and
maybe a little bit as a backup. They pushed him into production and played
him quite a bit in that game, and he ended up having an interception
on the goal line against Tas Boyd and Clemson in that game. And then
I don't know if he was a first team All American when they won the
national championship the following season, but that was a guy who leapt out at
you in bowl practice and in the bowl game who the following year that ended
in a four just like the one. Next year, Will came on and
was a certainly all Big Den player. It got some All American acclaim I
believe, and then jumped off to the NFL after twenty fifteen, So a
three year player for the Buckeye. So I think that's the example. That's
the film I would put up. You know, see this guy right here,
and then you know, juxtapose that with the fact that he's now in
his eighth season in the NFL or whatever and say this can be you.
With a good month of December, this can be you. So you know,
that's the goal for those young guys this month is to jump off the
chart, make a winning play against Missouri, and you know, set yourself
up for a big spring in a big year in twenty twenty four. That's
what this this month is development. You don't want to lose this game because
you don't want the negative recruiting and the whispers from the Dodds in the forties
to be oh Ohio State's the next Clemson, you know that was at the
top and has now falling completely off the side of the mountain. You know,
you don't want a South Carolina out back Bowl twenty four to seven job
to hit you here. You want, you know, you want to make
a representative showing you don't want to get knocked out of the box in this
game by playing all the young guys. But at the same time, the
result of this game is not anything anybody will remember three months from now.
It's what's going on, you know, requisite with twenty twenty four. Yeah,
it's crazy obviously, you know, since we last we're here, Ohio
State lost Kyle McCord. He decided on Monday to enter the transfer portal,
and that created an opening in Ohio State. You figured he would be at
minimum in the competition to compete for the starting job at Ohio State next year,
and now that job's wide open. You got Devin Brown, Redschard freshman
currently, Lincoln keynots a true freshman, and Aaron Nolan who's coming in as
a twenty twenty three I need will sign his letter of intent here in two
weeks from today, I guess. So are they in the market for a
transfer portal quarterback? I think if they can get one of the top ones
who could come in right away and put this team in contention for the Big
Ten championship and another playoff berth next year, I don't think you can turn
that down. If you get somebody with multiple years, obviously you're going to
run the risk of losing Devon Brown. Only Ryan Day and Brian Hartline and
Corey Dennis, you know the triumvirate. You know on the Ohio State coaching
staff know for sure what they have with Devin Brown or what they think they
might have with Lincoln Keenhole, who they've only seen you know a little bit
of at this point, So it would be hard to turn down the likes
of say a Dylan Gabriel, a guy you know coming from Oklahoma and Central
Florida through for a bazillion yards. You've got Cam Word from Washington State who's
kind of an intriguing possibility as well. Thirty seven hundred yards this past season,
although the team was only two and seven in the Pac twelve. He
only threw seven interceptions. But he's not much of a runner, you know.
I just keep coming back to the fact that you're own three against Michigan
and starting quarterbacks who do not run the football. And you know, there
are a number of things wrong right now with Ohio State football, even at
eleven and one. Got to fix the offensive line, got to fix the
defensive line, could use some impact players at linebacker. You know a lot
of different things that are that are happening with this program. But you know,
you need better quarterback play. And I think that that's kind of what's
led us to this point today. Yeah, and I don't know that the
thing necessarily would have gone to the portal if Kyle McCord had stayed, but
him leaving now you're in a position where you want to explore your options more
fully, and from my understanding, they are exploring those options. But it's
not a one way street. It's a it's a two way dance. And
then you're constantly being somebody's constantly cutting in, asking to dance with your date,
that sort of thing, and bringing in a fatter wallet, and so
it's not just a a you know, two way communication. There's there's a
ton of moving parts in this. As I was telling somebody earlier in the
day, it's all of the sand is constantly shifting and you're just trying to
stay above it. And at some point the sands going to stop, the
musical chairs are going to stop, and either you have a quarterback in the
portal or you're going to go with the guys that you've gotten, you know,
through recruiting, and we've talked before. They're very high on Lincoln Keynoles.
They think he's the future. That future may be coming sooner than maybe
they anticipated. And the move I think they make if they go and get
a quarterback out of the portal, I assume it would just be a one
year guy, one year rental, and I would assume that that would mean
you're doing that knowing that Devin Brown's going to hit the portal like it's going
to be. A reaction from Brown would be to leave if you're bringing in
somebody to start. So there's things like that too way and you're not concerned
about losing somebody necessarily. You just want to have the best team that you
can. You want to be able to win all of the games that you
should and so maybe that you shouldn't and you got to do it's best for
the program. And if they can get in agreement, and again this is
going to be as Matt Ruhl talked about Nebraska and coach talked a week or
two ago, good quarterbacks are going to cost you about a million, million
and a half. High State had a good quarterback. They need a better
quarterback. So do the math on that one. You're talking two million,
two and a half million dollars for one of these top line quarterbacks. And
is that it's not our money? So it's not my money, it's not
your money, it's not the fans money. Is that an investment that is
wise doesn't matter? You know, if it brings in another quarterback, who
cares. It's just play money. Anyway basically, So I do think obviously
they're looking at the portal. I would love to see what happens with Lincoln
Keenolds starting next year, just to see, you know, I think it
would give some life to the program. But once you start losing, then
all of that life goes away. So I know, the the loss,
the the calm accord going to the portal. I don't know if I saw
a single dry eye on Twitter in terms of there're nobody there's nobody necessarily upset,
so there's a lot of celebrating on Twitter, and Twitter is not necessarily
the best representative of the way things are going, but it does just the
mystery. I think it does rejuvenate some things. But the cotton Bowl,
my understanding is Devin Brown's going to stick through the cotton bowl and then see
what happens after that. So you've got that. But I think that either
way, honestly, if they're probably going to go to the portal in terms
of either they don't get a starter and they have three guys and they need
to bring in a fourth. In terms of Brian Day likes to have four
guys, so you bring in somebody another Tristan Jebia type because you can't bring
in a start if you miss on one of the top guys. You can't
bring in one of the mid tier guys to be a starter because you're not
proving anything. And also you're you might send one of your your you might
send Devin Brown into the portal because of that. So you need to bring
in somebody to just be that fourth guy if you don't get that number one.
I think there's a pretty large portion of the fan base that feels secure
in bringing in a guy that has started games and proven something. And most
fans are locked in on their teams, so they don't know that. Beside
looking at a stat sheet or whatever they hear about kJ Jefferson, cam Ward,
you can fill in the blank with about five so guys that would be
under consideration, Dylan Gabriel, They don't. That seems like, Okay,
well, that guy started over there, so he's proven something. I'd rather
have a proven commodity than be starting over with some first time starting quarterback.
But obviously, if a player never gets an opportunity to start for the first
time, then they this is what they will be doing from year to year.
But then also there's the experience, most recently with Kyle mccor to say,
well, first time starting quarterback, see what we got. However,
that's evaluated, which with most of the fan base means not good enough.
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