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Speaker 2: A look at college football news, analysis and insight from

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Speaker 1: All Right, Welcome in week nine edition of the Florida

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Football Insiders podcast, part of the College Gridiron Coast to

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Coast podcast network. I am your host, Jason down here

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in Tampa. Lots of news in the state of Florida.

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We have upsets, coaches, fired, coaches getting the proverbial uh.

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We're going to assess the program at the end of

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the year, comments and all things in between. Usf in

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a monster game for a potential college football playoff spot

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this week. Lots of doings in and around the state

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of Florida. Jaguars get crushed in London, the Bucks get

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beat bad on Monday Night, and when will Mike McDaniel

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finally get put out of his misery in Miami? Lots

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to get into, lots to talk about. We've got two

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great guests for you. We're gonna go to Gainesville, Florida

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to talk to Kevin Brockway Gainesville Sun to give you

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the lowdown on the Florida coaching search. How did we

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get to where we are? The inside doings of did

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the Boosters have anything to do with this? Was this

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a Scott Strickland decision? Who kind of was pulling the

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trigger here? And the reasoning behind the timing of it.

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And we're also gonna stay here in Tampa and talk

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to Joey Johnston as part of the USF Bowls Radio

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Network previewing their huge game at Memphis on Saturday, talk

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about the future of potentially Alex Golish and Rob Higgins

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joining USF Athletic as the new athletics director. So lots

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to get into. Let's get right to it. Let's start

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last Friday night as I was on the high school

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football field, check the score at halftime. I saw Louisville

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winning at the half and lo and behold. Following the

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conclusion of my high school game, get back on the

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phone and I check and I see Miami has been

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stunned at home by Louisville. Jeff Bram and company. Miller Moss,

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the former USC transfer pull off a huge upset down

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at hard Rock beat the Hurricanes twenty four to twenty one.

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Story this game was turnovers, Carson Beck, four interceptions, Miami's

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inability to run the ball, only sixty three yards rushing

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and their leading rusher Mark Fletcher only had eighteen yards rushing.

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Major problem there, Just a you know, a game you

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always worried about with the Hurricanes. The Louisville is a

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good team, not great, but they are a solid, solid team.

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Jeff brom is a really good coach. I think this

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is third win as a head coach at either Louisville

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or Purdue against the top five rated team, so he's

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very accustomed to beating these teams. And again, very good job. Again,

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but Miami kind of self destructed with four turnovers. Carson

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Beck was bad. Carson Beck again. You know, this was

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the Carson Beck that we saw at Georgia last year.

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Through for a decent amount of yards, but just too

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many interceptions. I did not get a chance to watch

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this game, but again from all indications, the turnovers were

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the factor here. Nine penalties for the Hurricanes didn't help

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as well. So the Canes falled a six and one

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against no longer have all the cards in there in

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there in their hand. As far as the ACC title game,

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he got Georgia Tech undefeated, whof Miami does not play.

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You have Virginia, you have some other couple of Louisville

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who have who has the head to head on on Miami. Now, again,

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Miami should still be in great shape for the playoff,

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but you cannot have any more of these performances, these

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slip ups leading to the end of the end of

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the year. Got a home game at Stanford this week. Again,

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Stanford came off a big win against Florida State, which

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we'll get to in a second here, But again, you

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can't mess around. They're gonna be a huge favorite in

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that game. Then a tricky game at SMU, who is

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playing much better now. They SMU just went to Clemson

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last week and beat Clemson soundly in Death Valley, so

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that will not be an easy game in Dallas in

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a couple of weeks. So Miami has got to get

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back to the fundamentals and the and the turnover free

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football they've been playing and dominating the trenches like they've

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been doing with that with the offensive and defensive lines. Again,

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Stanford comes to town should be a game they should

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handle pretty easily and I would expect them to uh

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lay the wood to the to the Stanford Cardinal. But

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again there they can't have any more slip up slip

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ups if you're the Miami Hurricanes. Moving forward, let's go

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to said said team Florida State. Florida State had another

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disastrous performance out on the West Coast at Palo Alto.

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They lose twenty to thirteen to Stanford. Just a very

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lackluster performance, very disinterested type of performance as well. The

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Seminoles are now to four in the ACC. Hard to

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believe that four weeks ago they were in a monster

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game with with Miami and now four weeks later, three

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weeks later, four games later, three weeks later, they're in

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this position where they're oh to four, three and four

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on the year. Massive questions about Mike Norvel's future. The

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Florida State athletics director came out earlier in the week

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and said there will be a full assessment of the

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football program at the end of the year. That leads

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me to believe, uh, they better not lose another bad

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game this year. I think Mike Norvell is going to

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be out. I think they will figure out a way

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to pay pay that, pay that buyout. I think the

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out somewhere in the fifty million dollar range, which is

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ridiculous the net. Florida State never should have given Mike

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Norvel the monster contract extension. They did a couple of

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years ago after the undefeated year, but they did, so

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they're in this boat. But Mike Norvel just continues to show,

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you know, show lack luster results. The one thing that

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really alarms me about Mike Norvel is I don't see

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any much player development. He has lived nearly exclusively in

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the transfer portal. I've seen very little development of freshmen,

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the homegrown recruits, things like that. Again, other than Thomas Castelons,

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I don't see another decent quarterback on this roster. And

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again that's something again, you have to have a big

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quarterback and you have to have some camaraderie, in some

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team building, in some player development going on. I just

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do not see a lot of player development going on. Again,

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this is a game at Stanford, playing a backup quarterback,

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terrible crowd. You have to go into Stanford and win

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that game and for them to be as as lackluster

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as they were till midway through the fourth quarter a

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wild finish. If you saw the game, Florida State basically

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down seven throws a hail mary that's caught at about

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the ten yard line eight yard line with two seconds

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to go in the game. They're able to get another

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playoff there's a pass interference call in the end zone

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which gives them another play and then they run a

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shovel pass and a controversial replay of did he score

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did he not score, which would have tied, potentially tied

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the game, replay did not overturn the call on the

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field of short on the field, and thus Stanford wins

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the game twenty to thirteen, again sending Norvelle to three

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and four zero to four in the ACC and again

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this will be a massive, massive decision that the Seminoles

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have to make and the administration has to make about

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whether you keep Mike Norvela or not. To me, it's

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going to be whether you can generate rate the money

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to buy him out. I think his buyout is strung

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out over five or six years. You don't have to

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pay it all at one time. But at Florida State

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is not the most not the most prosperous program when

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it comes to nil money resources stuff like that. So again,

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writing that kind of check to a guy who's not

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going to be the coach would be a massive thing

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for that for that athletic department. And again, remember they're

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not getting SEC money, they're not getting Big ten TV

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money that some of these they're getting ACC money, which

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is substantially less than than the Floridas of the world

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are getting in the Big ten coaches the Penn States

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of the world are getting. That can make that make

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that buyout a little more manageable. So, uh, we're gonna

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see what kind of coach Mike Norvell is here these

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next four weeks, because he's coaching for his job in

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my view in tallahassee all Right's head up to USF

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USF manhandles FAU forty eight thirteen. Again they're their Their

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next test is obviously this week at Memphis, their huge

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showdown with the Memphis Tigers, who got upset by my

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UAB Blazers last week in Birmingham. QB from Memphis got hurt.

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Fresh backup quarterback had to come in the game finish

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the game, and they had a calamity in the inside

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the one yard line in the last minute of that game,

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but USF moves to six and one. Again, everything is

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right in front of USF. You're gonna hear from Joey

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Johnson in just a few minutes talking about the Bulls

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and their playoff chances, the keys of this game at Memphis,

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the areas that they've shown improvement, the future potentially of

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Alex Golish. His name has been mentioned in several of

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these job openings Arkansas, potentially Florida and some other places.

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So again you'll hear a great chat with Joey and

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I had concerning the USF program and again their monster

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matchup and how their college football playoffs, their path is

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right in front of them. You beat Memphis, you're gonna

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be favored in the other next couple of games leading

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into the game, but potentially at Navy in early November.

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to go do it on the road at Memphis at Navy,

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but it's right in front of you if you're USF

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and you've got the team to do it, especially if

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you have a compromise quarterback. At Memphis this week, you

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may be playing against the true freshman quarterback, which is

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again a game you should win if you're playing a

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true freshman. Byron Brown continues to play well, both throwing

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and running. And then you'll again you'll hear Joey talk

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about the depth on this roster of wide receivers and such.

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Leading into the game. Florida moves to the Florida finally

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pulls the trigger. Let's go Billy Napier on Sunday, right

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around one two o'clock Sunday afternoon, after their twenty three

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twenty one win over Mississippi State to get to two

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and five, Florida is on a bye this week. Georgia

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on deck. In two weeks in Jacksonville, Billy Gonzalez named

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a new interim coach for the remainder of the year.

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And again you'll hear and Broackway and I talk about

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the Florida coaching search. What are they thinking some candidates,

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thinking about so again check out listen, hang hang out

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for just a couple more minutes, and you'll hear my

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chat with Kevin Brockway the Gainesville Sun. Kevin covers the

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Gators every day of the every day of the year, football, basketball, baseball,

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and he is, uh, he'll have some good he has

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some good information for you how this decision came about,

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Obviously we knew, we saw this coming for several weeks.

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weeks back that I thought this would be the time

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to do it during leading into the bye week of

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the Georgia game. One, it gives the interim coach two

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weeks to kind of get things organized a little bit.

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six week head start on the coaching hier hiring process,

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especially if you're wanting to hire, you know, start those

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back channel discussions with somebody who might already still have

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a job. Interesting notes here, Florida's a d. Scott Strickland

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made it very clear he wants somebody to that he

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expects to win championships, which means he's he's big game hunting.

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a coordinator. You're not gonna see a mid tier, you know,

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a Sun Belt kind of coach. You're not gonna see

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that kind of guy. And you're not gonna see a

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defensive coach. This is gonna be an offensive coach. Number

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one on the list is gonna be Lane Kiffin. They're

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gonna make him have to say no. They're gonna offer

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him a boatload of dough I think to say no.

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He may still say no, but Lane Kiffin is clearly

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the number one candidate on this on the list here

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and again we'll talk with Kevin about some other candidates,

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a couple of wild card candidates that you might be

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excited for for Gator fans. But again, finally, the end

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of the era of Billy Napier at Florida is just

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something that had to happen. The malaise and the and

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the discontent with the FLA, the fan base was apparent

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their fire. Indications were that he might have been told

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on Thursday he was and fired. If you watch the

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game on Saturday, he kind of took in the aftermath

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of that game, you know, kind of knowing what was coming.

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any surprise of what was coming to Billy Napier. He

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is owed about twenty million dollars and again you'll hear

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Kevin talk about the buyout situation, how that potentially could

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affect the coaching search moving forward. All Right, you see

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if nice win four and three, win for moves to

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four and three, beat West Virginia soundly at home forty

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five thirteen, Tavin Jackson throw us for two seventy seven

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and two touchdowns, Jaden Mixon one hundred and sixteen yards

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rushing in two touchdowns. They head to Baylor on November first.

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They are off this week. A nice job for Scott

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Frost get his first big twelve win of the year,

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go to four and three, and again, if you if

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you're Central Florida, you're trying to get Bowl eligible, this

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is a this is a transition here. We've talked about

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that you can get to six and six and go

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to a bowl. Being very successful year one Scott Frost

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and such for the Knights. FAU obviously lost to USF.

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give me one second here, I believe they are off

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this week, but let me double check here. FAU is

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gonna be and I'm sorry, They're playing at Navy on Saturday.

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So that'll be another tough, tough deal for the for

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the FAU Owls. They head to Navy on Saturday. Navy

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coming off a bye week, undefeated, the last non power

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for team in the country, undefeated, throwing the ball, running

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the ball. It's gonna be a massive test at three

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point thirty for the FAU Owls. I would expect struggle

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city for FAU as a head up to Annapolis to

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face the Naval Academy. Last one we'll hit on as FIU.

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They fall to three and four. They played on Tuesday

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night this week. They just they lost to kennesof eight

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forty six Keon Jenkins two hundred ninety six yards passing

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and a touchdown. Keon Owens key John Owens one hundred

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and fifty one yards rushing in a touchdown. These two

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guys have been the stars of this FIU Panther team.

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They fall to three and four. They will head to

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Missouri State next Wednesday night, again part of this midweek stuff.

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They've been on the midwek circuit for the last couple

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of weeks here, but FIU again. Year one. Willie Simmons

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falls to three and four after losing to Kensall State

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in Miami on Tuesday night on ESPN. So there's your recaps. Again,

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you're gonna hear from Kevin Brockway Gainesville Sun, Joey Johnston

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USF Bulls Radio Network previewing USF Memphis, as well as

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giving you some lowdown on the on the Florida football

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coaching search as well. Quick note about the Jaguars. They

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got crushed in London thirty five seven as they head

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into their bye week four and three, just a you

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know over, got totally man handled by the Rams. I

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remember Liam Cohen used to coach under Sean McVay with

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the Rams. But just not a very good performance leading

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into the bye week. But they are four and three

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heading into the by the Buccaneers fall on Monday Night

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Football twenty four to nine in Detroit to fall to

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five and two. Again, give Detroit credit for the defensive effort,

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but the Bucks were just a little bit off offensively.

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The defense had a couple of turnovers and kept him

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in the game. But the big news out of this

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game is the loss of Mike Evans broken clavicle concussion

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as well, probably gonna be out probably the remainder of

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the regular season. I would think you may not see

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him again this year, regardless of how far they go.

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But just a tough injury for Evans on a long

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post route where he landed on his clavicle, broke his

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collar bone and again a bad It looked like a

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concussion as well. So get well soon, Mike Evans. The

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Bucks headed New Orleans prior for Week eight before they

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go on by in week nine, so again a critical,

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critical game. They gotta you gotta win this game in

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New Orleans. New Orleans has been one of the worst

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teams in the league. In a game, a game, a

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game you should win, even though you have some injury issues.

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You got to win this game. I expect Mayfield and

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that offense to be much cleaner and crisper in New

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Orleans on Sunday. But again, division game always are always

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more competitive, and you got to take care of business

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in the division. On the road. One thing I'll say

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about the Bucks, They've had a lot of road games.

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I think this is five. This will be their fifth

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road game of the year, so they will have a

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very favorable home schedule the back half of the year

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following the bye. So if you can win this game,

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I believe this actually might be their fifth road game,

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fifth out of eight games on the road. So they

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actually this. This will be their fifth road game, so

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critical game for the Buccaneers not to slip up and

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make it two in a row heading into the bye.

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You'll get healthier coming out of the bye with hopefully

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Godwin coming back, Bucky Irving in company h and and

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potentially Looke getticky Miami Dolphins. Last one we'll hit on

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the Dolphins. Just a dumpster fire, get crushed in Cleveland,

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thirty one six in the rain, two or three more interceptions.

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Do I have to check and see when the Miami's bias,

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but I would expect that's probably when Mike McDaniel will

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get let go. He's dead man walking, There's no doubt

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about it. He's not coming back with Labor Day in

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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back.

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Speaker 1: To the podcast. Now it's time to head up to

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Gainesville to get all the in tell on the breaking

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news over the weekend. Billy Napier finally replaced as the

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Florida football head coach. Kind of a move that we

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thought was coming. It's just a matter of kind of

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win and the win became on Sunday morning when Billy

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was relieved of his duties following the win over Misssippi State.

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No better person to talk to all things around this

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situation that Kevin Brockway, the Gainesville son. Kevin covers the

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Gators every day of the year and he's very dialed

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into what's going on up in Gainesville.

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Speaker 4: So welcome in, Kevin.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Jason.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was inevitable and it, you know, kind of interesting.

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It happened over a win. But if you were at

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that game, it didn't feel like I mean, they're up

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twenty seven in the fourth quarter, almost let the game

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slip away. I mean there were fire Billy Chance in

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the stadium after they punted the ball back to Mississippi State.

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Speaker 3: But give credit to McKai.

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Speaker 5: Burrow came up with a big interception late in the

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game and they held on and we got that twenty

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three to twenty one win.

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Speaker 1: Take us back to last week when the reports came

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out that there was a meeting between a D. Scott

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Strickland and some prominent boosters, and the kind of the

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message was either your fire billy now or the financial

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commitments may not be where they need to be down

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the road. You can give a little sense of how

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that came about and just was it a one person

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Was it one person kind of making those demands? Was

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it kind of a group of boosters represented by one guy.

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Speaker 4: Give us a little sense.

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Speaker 1: Of how that all happened.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 5: Scott refuted that on which I thought was interesting, But

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I do think that.

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Speaker 3: There was some meetings.

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Speaker 5: I think the meetings probably had more to do with, hey, look,

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you know, if we're gonna have to buy this guy out,

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you know, we may need some help because as you know,

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you know of that twenty million dollar biot ten is

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going to come with him thirty days. So I think

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it might have been more along those lines or what

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the what the boosters could do to kind of help

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this situation. I think Scott kind of had his mind

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made up after the Texas A and M game that

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you know, this wasn't going in the right direction right,

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And basically from there it was just a matter of

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you know, thinking, you know, in regards to the to

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the bi week.

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Speaker 3: I think they wanted to.

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Speaker 5: Try to give Billy the full season, but I think

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they realized and especially you know the way, like I said,

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you know, the crowd situation with them, that it was

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just too toxic to go on. And you know, you

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figure that you give you know, the interim staff, you know,

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the bye week before Georgia.

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Speaker 3: To get reorganized.

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Speaker 5: From a timing perspective, I think that that works pretty well.

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Speaker 1: And it also gives the other big thing that it

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allows Florida to openly negotiate with somebody who maybe doesn't

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have a job, I ea. John Gruden, somebody like that,

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if they wanted to talk to somebody who's not currently

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employed somewhere else. And it gives you a head start

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on the behind the back, behind back channel discussions and

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all the stuff that goes into those things with agents

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and all that stuff potentially of.

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Speaker 4: Of who you want to bring in.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, Scott Strickland made it very much a point in

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his press conference to say he wants a guy with

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winning with a winning background or a winning you know,

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a pedigree that probably eliminates assistant coaches and coordinators that

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maybe haven't been head coaches. Give me a sense is

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Scott Strickland. Do you get the senses this big game

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hunting or do you really think they're looking for the

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best football coach.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think what they're looking for is someone

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that's gonna win championship. But I do think that it

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would be a hard sell if it was like a

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group of five guy like an Alex Skulish. I think that,

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and I think in the back of their minds they

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may realize that.

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Speaker 3: And listen.

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Speaker 5: I think that Lane is the obvious, you know, front

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running choice. You know, he would win the press conference.

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But I think they'll do their due diligence in their

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background to see what kind of fit it would be.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 5: I think Eli drin Quitz is another guy that certainly

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has had success in the SEC.

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Speaker 3: I think in general, you know.

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Speaker 5: You need a schemer, you know, I think what what

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what the Billy Napier high approved was. He wasn't really

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because everything that Dan Mullen wasn't like. Dan obviously was

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a very good game coach, but wasn't a program builder.

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And they brought him Billy who was a program builder,

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without really fully investigating, you know, in terms of you know,

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how he would run his offense, the fact that he

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called and wouldn't let go of that. And you know,

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I think the coaching in this league is too good.

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You need someone that's going to be a good game manager,

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a good schemer, and then you know, hope he grows

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into being a good program builder as well. But I

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think what Billy Napier did and stuttying a foundation for that,

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I think will benefit the next coach greatly.

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Speaker 1: Do you get the sense that there's the financial commitment

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from the universe. Obviously it's gonna be a big commitment

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to pay off Billy Napier, but now you have to

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then come up, come up with the money to be

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able to pay Elane Kiffin or whoever you end up hiring.

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That's probably going to be in the eight to ten

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million dollars a year range at least, plus the nil

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resources needed to pay the players.

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Speaker 3: Is floored.

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Speaker 1: Give us a sense of where Florida is that maybe

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relative to other teams in the SEC compared to all

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the revenue.

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I think that's one of the reasons why

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he met with They met with the Boosters too, was

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because of that, Like, you know, the financial commitment, But

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I think it's there, you know, and I think it's uh,

478
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it's tricky, and I mean listen, you know, on top

479
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,160
of that, they're going to be, you know, going full

480
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:32,519
steam head with the stadium renovation. But you know, this

481
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is a state with twenty two million people, as you know,

482
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,359
the University of Florida, I mean, it's a vast network

483
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,319
of alumnis even throughout the country.

484
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,039
Speaker 3: It has the power and the resources.

485
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Speaker 5: To come up with the money in a state of

486
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twenty two million people to do all this. It's just

487
00:25:50,039 --> 00:25:53,240
going to be a matter of you know, how they

488
00:25:53,279 --> 00:25:56,039
deploy those resources and and and if they can get

489
00:25:56,039 --> 00:25:58,400
the right guy, which you know has eluded them for

490
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,599
the better part of a decade and a half.

491
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Speaker 1: The tricky part is if if you're trying to get

492
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,359
a guy that's got a current job, i e. Elane

493
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:10,720
Kiffin and Eli Drinkwitz, you may have to wait. I mean, unfortunately,

494
00:26:10,759 --> 00:26:12,720
you may have to wait because they could potentially be

495
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,079
mid December because of a playoff run and all that stuff.

496
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,599
So how much of a timeline. I mean again, do

497
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you get the sense that they're gonna publicly make Lane

498
00:26:21,839 --> 00:26:23,880
say no? I mean, I think Lane's clearly the number

499
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,920
one target. They're gonna probably back channel it and make

500
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,799
Lane have to say no at least once, if not

501
00:26:28,839 --> 00:26:31,559
a couple of times with with whatever offer they're going

502
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:33,480
to try to put together. How do you get the

503
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sense of how they're going to handle this next six

504
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to seven weeks.

505
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you know it's gonna be interesting because of

506
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,440
the you know, transfer portal window now is a little

507
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,920
bit later, it's January two, so that works in their

508
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,480
favor a little bit. I think ideally they would like

509
00:26:51,599 --> 00:26:54,880
to hope that you know, a school like an on

510
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,680
miss Herm, Missouri falls out of the college Football Playoff picture, right,

511
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so that they could you know, hire guy like that.

512
00:27:01,279 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 3: I'll give you another under the radar name.

513
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Speaker 5: That's interesting, you know, and that I've heard you back

514
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,240
channels that that Florida may be interested in. Is Rent

515
00:27:09,319 --> 00:27:13,039
Lashley at SMU. Another guy, very good schemer, got the

516
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,839
Mustangs to the College Football Playoff last year. You know,

517
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,759
now has power for coaching experience because you know, they

518
00:27:19,799 --> 00:27:23,839
were in the ACC last year. And I think the

519
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:28,039
spread works pretty well in Florida because of the speed,

520
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,119
and I think that that might be something that maybe

521
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,200
in the back of their minds because Irbert Meyer was

522
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:37,000
a spread coach. Mullin was a spread coach. And you

523
00:27:37,039 --> 00:27:39,279
look at those two offenses, we're both successful in the

524
00:27:39,319 --> 00:27:40,559
SEC as a result.

525
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Speaker 1: Is this be an offensive head coach in your mind?

526
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Is there any chance there's a defensive head coach?

527
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Speaker 5: I mean, I think that slight possibility if they could

528
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,480
convince a guy like Dan Lanning, right, But I don't

529
00:27:52,519 --> 00:27:55,119
know if there are too many great defensive coaches on

530
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:59,839
the board really that you can say with with confidence.

531
00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:03,160
I mean Marcus Freeman, right, you know at Notre Dame.

532
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:07,039
That's a possibility if you can woo him. But I think,

533
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:11,000
you know, the fans want offense, they want excitement, you know.

534
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:14,240
I think Billy Napier suffered from very similar to the

535
00:28:14,279 --> 00:28:17,720
Will muss Champ syndrome of you know, thinking you can

536
00:28:17,759 --> 00:28:20,920
win a game twenty seven to twenty four to seventeen

537
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,680
in college football like you can in the NFL. I

538
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,759
just think, you know, with college kids, there's too much

539
00:28:25,759 --> 00:28:27,319
margin for air for that. You know, you've got to

540
00:28:27,319 --> 00:28:29,519
try to score as many points as possible if you

541
00:28:29,559 --> 00:28:31,960
never know what's gonna happen. And I think that was

542
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:37,359
the problem, was that conservatism, you know, and what will

543
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:42,039
mustsh Up and Billy Napier have in common both Georgia background,

544
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,240
you know, and that old school background just doesn't work

545
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:46,960
in today's college football.

546
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Speaker 4: Last couple, I'll get you out of here.

547
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,119
Speaker 1: Is there anybody in the Florida family I A Steve

548
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,720
Spurriy or anybody like that that's Scott Struckland made lean

549
00:28:54,799 --> 00:28:59,240
on for advice, for recommendations for a temperature of the

550
00:28:59,359 --> 00:29:02,200
of the of the fan of the booster bass. The

551
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,680
financial guys that will help fund.

552
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Speaker 5: This Spurrier you know, don't get his advice. I mean,

553
00:29:08,599 --> 00:29:11,000
you know, another interesting candidate if you want to go

554
00:29:11,119 --> 00:29:14,160
that route, would be Jen Fish and Wiscon at Washington.

555
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:19,400
Excuse me, former spurrier GA has had some success at Washington.

556
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,720
Certainly another very good offensive coach, you know, Brian Schottenheimer.

557
00:29:23,839 --> 00:29:27,839
Speaker 3: Now obviously he's with Cowboys. He's doing decent there, so

558
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:29,079
that ship may have sailed.

559
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Speaker 5: But yeah, I don't you know, it'll be interesting to see,

560
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you know, who they canvas, how they canvass. You know,

561
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,200
they've you know, also going to get advice from a

562
00:29:39,759 --> 00:29:44,759
search firm called Turnkey as well. So there'll be a

563
00:29:44,799 --> 00:29:47,599
lot of people you know that will consult, but you know,

564
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,519
Scott's man to clear that he's the one that's gonna

565
00:29:49,519 --> 00:29:50,480
make the ultimate decision.

566
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Speaker 4: And then the last one.

567
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Speaker 1: I'll get you out after this one. You know, all

568
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,880
the speculation down here where I'm at in Tampa John Gruden,

569
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do you has there been any scuttle but about you know,

570
00:30:00,039 --> 00:30:02,759
the again home run higher would probably be a pretty

571
00:30:02,759 --> 00:30:06,759
good asset. And from recruiting perspective, we know offensive acumen

572
00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:09,279
he's got, and what has been the chatter in and

573
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around Gainesville about a potential John Gruden.

574
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Speaker 5: I think my one trumpidation with Gruden is like, how

575
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long has it been since he's been a college coach

576
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,720
and it's just different. You know, it's kind of like

577
00:30:19,759 --> 00:30:22,359
the same thing with college basketball coaches going to the NBA,

578
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and then you know, we saw with Bill Belichick it's

579
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not working very well. An NFL guy going to college

580
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that would be my trepidation. I have not heard anything,

581
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,559
you know, specifically about John Gruden, but you know he's

582
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a Tampa guy.

583
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Speaker 3: You know he's inching to get back into the.

584
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Speaker 5: Game, and you know it would be and you know

585
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,119
he's a pretty good offensive schemer too.

586
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Speaker 3: But you just don't know how that would translate.

587
00:30:44,759 --> 00:30:47,039
Speaker 5: I mean, Bill Belichick was a great defensive steamer in

588
00:30:47,079 --> 00:30:49,839
the NFL, and his North Carolina teams can't stop anyone.

589
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,440
So there's a lot to it, and it's a lot

590
00:30:53,519 --> 00:30:57,079
different in dynamic dealing with eighteen to twenty one year

591
00:30:57,079 --> 00:30:59,559
olds and dealing with grown matt as well.

592
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Speaker 4: Brockway Gainesville Son, great job. You can find Kevin's great work.

593
00:31:03,599 --> 00:31:06,359
Speaker 1: He'll be covering this search from start to finish at

594
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,880
Kevin Brockway g One. He also covers the Florida get

595
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,759
A basketball program. Obviously another big year in store there

596
00:31:12,839 --> 00:31:16,079
for the defending national champions and Todd Golden. So check

597
00:31:16,079 --> 00:31:19,119
out Kevin's great work again every day, and as this

598
00:31:19,839 --> 00:31:23,839
search starts to percolate here in the coming days and weeks,

599
00:31:24,119 --> 00:31:26,119
Kevin is the guy you need to be following and

600
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,480
reading up on his great work with the Gainesville Son

601
00:31:28,519 --> 00:31:31,839
and elsewhere. So Kevin, appreciate the time and we'll stay

602
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,400
in touch as this moves forward.

603
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 3: All right, thank you.

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606
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whatever it is, or are you in the in the

607
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Speaker 4: Blie, Welcome back to the podcast. Appreciate you finding us.

619
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Speaker 1: We just went to Gainesville to get a little background

620
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on the Florida coaching situation. Now we are going to

621
00:32:39,559 --> 00:32:43,039
come back here to the state of Florida, Tampa, where

622
00:32:43,079 --> 00:32:45,279
the all the news is about, not what's going on

623
00:32:45,319 --> 00:32:47,160
off the field, but what's going on on the field.

624
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,839
The six and one USF Bulls have a big, big

625
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,920
showdown up in Memphis this week against the Memphis Tigers

626
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,279
for the lead potentially in the American Athletic Conference. A

627
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,519
kind of a playoff eliminator type of game. No better

628
00:33:01,559 --> 00:33:03,279
person to talk to than somebody who will be in

629
00:33:03,319 --> 00:33:05,839
the building in Memphis on Saturday, part of the USF

630
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,480
Bulls Radio Network, Mister Joey Johnston.

631
00:33:08,519 --> 00:33:11,319
Speaker 4: Welcome in, Joey, Thanks Jason, thanks for having me.

632
00:33:11,359 --> 00:33:13,119
Speaker 6: Appreciate it all right.

633
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:17,519
Speaker 1: So six and one heading into Memphis, potentially playing the

634
00:33:17,839 --> 00:33:20,240
Memphis without maybe their starting quarterback. We don't know the

635
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,400
status of their starting quarterback. Give us a little sense

636
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,599
of those of the fans that maybe haven't followed the

637
00:33:26,599 --> 00:33:29,400
Bulls through the first seven weeks. Obviously we know the

638
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,000
Florida game, the big win at Florida, then the Miami loss.

639
00:33:32,119 --> 00:33:34,319
Give us a sense where this USF team has gone

640
00:33:34,519 --> 00:33:35,880
the last three or four weeks.

641
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's in a great place, Jason.

642
00:33:37,759 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 7: They're probably playing their best ball that they have not

643
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,119
only this season but many seasons. Playing well on both

644
00:33:43,119 --> 00:33:46,519
sides of the ball. They're leading the nation in turnovers

645
00:33:46,559 --> 00:33:51,000
with seventeen. They're also operating in a very efficient clip

646
00:33:51,039 --> 00:33:53,119
on offense. They've had some injuries, they have a couple

647
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,559
of guys down running backs and wide receivers, but to

648
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,400
continue to churn out the yards. They've been scoring like

649
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,799
nobody's been business the last four weeks during a four

650
00:34:01,839 --> 00:34:05,440
game winning streak. Last week, for example, they beat Florida

651
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,679
Atlantic forty eight to thirteen and rolled up five hundred

652
00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:11,199
and twenty two yards and it just seemed very routine

653
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,400
to get in that five hundred and six hundred yard range,

654
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,960
which is what's going on with them. Byron Brown is

655
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,679
playing his best ball of his career at the quarterback.

656
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,599
He's going to have big numbers he stays healthy and

657
00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:28,000
continues this pace. And the biggest thing, especially on offense,

658
00:34:28,039 --> 00:34:32,079
I would say, is there's tremendous depth at the skill positions.

659
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,760
Certainly some luminaries, some older guys, but man, they're getting

660
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,440
some great play from freshmen and not only in the

661
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,880
backfield but at the receiving corps. So Byron has never

662
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,039
had this many weapons before, and they've got a couple

663
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,519
of guys down, but he still has a plathora of weapons.

664
00:34:48,559 --> 00:34:51,320
So really the best of times for the Bulls, and

665
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,880
they seek to keep it going at Memphis, which is

666
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,159
a place they've always had a little trouble winning at.

667
00:34:57,119 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, again, you mentioned the American conf and Byron Brown

668
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,920
talk about for me, the defense has been so much

669
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,920
more consistent this year as in years pass. They're not

670
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,760
getting gouged and gashed on defense. They're giving up a

671
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,480
few points here and there, but they're not getting either

672
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,639
gotten there. You know, years past they were giving up

673
00:35:13,679 --> 00:35:17,320
thirty five to forty five most every week. Much more consistent,

674
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,119
much more disciplined with Todd Orlando's defense.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and that was the thing from the get go

676
00:35:22,559 --> 00:35:25,320
that we noticed from in the opener against Boise State

677
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,760
was how well the defense played. And that is, for

678
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,039
the most part, carried on throughout. They had some struggles

679
00:35:31,039 --> 00:35:33,280
obviously at Miami with the Hurricanes putting up a lot

680
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,440
of points game a lot of yards, but other than that,

681
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,960
the defense has really been consistent with its ability to

682
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:44,000
keep games manageable, to play well in the red zone, and.

683
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Speaker 6: To take the ball away.

684
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Speaker 7: The biggest thing, like I said, seventeen turnovers lead to

685
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,639
the country and they've just they've got this unit that

686
00:35:51,079 --> 00:35:52,880
everybody's flying to the ball. You get a lot of

687
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,159
guys around the ball all the time, and they're they're

688
00:35:55,159 --> 00:35:58,239
not putting great pressure on the quarterback, but they've improved there.

689
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They're getting their get into the pocket and get some sacks.

690
00:36:02,599 --> 00:36:04,159
Would like to do it more than they have, but

691
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,280
at least they've gotten better and they are getting a

692
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,199
lot of tackles for loss, a lot of turnovers, as

693
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,920
we said, so a lot of categories that are very

694
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,280
very positive defensively, and that you know, even with the

695
00:36:16,519 --> 00:36:19,199
high flying offense, I'd say that the way the defense

696
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,719
has played, it's probably been the biggest story of the year.

697
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 4: No, I agree.

698
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,119
Speaker 1: I think the defensive effort is we always know Byron

699
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,559
can can turn ups in yards for that defense is

700
00:36:28,599 --> 00:36:31,039
really all right, let's go to the game Saturday.

701
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Speaker 4: Obviously we don't know the QB situation at Memphis.

702
00:36:33,519 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: We saw Memphis lose at UAB in a kind of

703
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,559
a pretty good upset last week, so you know they'll

704
00:36:38,559 --> 00:36:40,840
be focused and dialed in no matter who the quarterback is.

705
00:36:41,039 --> 00:36:42,039
Speaker 4: Give me a key or two.

706
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Speaker 1: And what's kind of been what's been USF's issues when

707
00:36:45,039 --> 00:36:46,679
they played at Memphis in years past.

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Speaker 7: You know, their issues has really been giving up too

709
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,920
many points and too many yards. I mean two years

710
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,639
ago the score was fifty nine to fifty. The bull

711
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,920
score fifty points and lost. So you don't see that

712
00:37:01,159 --> 00:37:03,559
happen very often. But it happened that day and they

713
00:37:03,599 --> 00:37:06,119
gave up you know, upwards the six hundred yards that day.

714
00:37:06,159 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 6: And I know there was.

715
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 7: A critical point in the game two years ago on

716
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,360
a third down situation where I think they gave up

717
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:18,000
a touchdown screen pass of eighty plush yards. I mean,

718
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,840
that was, you know, ridiculous to happen in that situation.

719
00:37:21,039 --> 00:37:25,599
So you know, the Bulls last one in the Liberty

720
00:37:25,599 --> 00:37:27,760
Bowl in twenty sixteen. They haven't played every year, but

721
00:37:28,119 --> 00:37:30,840
they haven't once since twenty sixteen. That was when Quentin

722
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,679
Flowers was the quarterback. So the number one thing is

723
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,920
to deal with this Memphis offense. And obviously you touched

724
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,079
on it. Brendon Lewis, their starter was dinged and we're

725
00:37:41,079 --> 00:37:42,599
not sure if he's going to play. But they have

726
00:37:42,639 --> 00:37:45,880
a freshman a J. Hill, who's a big time freshman,

727
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,960
a four star guy from Warner Robbins, Georgia. That's that's

728
00:37:49,119 --> 00:37:52,239
very very good. Alex Gulish knows him well. He was

729
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:57,199
recruited by everybody in the South, so's he's a great player,

730
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,639
but just not an experienced player. He just played for

731
00:37:59,639 --> 00:38:04,280
the first time last week against UAB. So we're not

732
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:05,880
going to know who the quarterback is probably till a

733
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,159
day of game. But either way, that doesn't change the

734
00:38:09,159 --> 00:38:11,440
fact that Memphis is also very good at running the ball.

735
00:38:11,679 --> 00:38:14,960
I think they're twentieth nationally. They've got two, maybe three

736
00:38:15,039 --> 00:38:17,840
guys that can really tote it very well. So you know,

737
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,159
it's like the same key every week. You got to

738
00:38:20,159 --> 00:38:22,119
stop the run and then put pressure on the quarterback

739
00:38:22,199 --> 00:38:24,440
here again, that's the same thingables have got to do

740
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,639
in this game, and if they can do that effectively,

741
00:38:26,679 --> 00:38:28,119
then I think they have a great chance to win.

742
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 1: All right, we've all talked to I mean, obviously we've

743
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:32,840
been highlighting this game since the Miami game that if

744
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:34,880
they take care of business, this is the next step

745
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,079
in the ladder. Here, a lot of national attention on

746
00:38:38,119 --> 00:38:40,480
this game. Potentially Game day would have been there had

747
00:38:40,519 --> 00:38:44,039
Memphis not lost. How do you think Alex goals to

748
00:38:44,079 --> 00:38:46,800
the coaching staff and the program is handling They all

749
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,800
know what's at stake. They win this game, then they

750
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,159
know what's next potentially on the wrong How is the

751
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,239
how on the inside there, how they handle the expectations.

752
00:38:55,639 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 7: Well, the way they're handling it is the same way

753
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,880
they handle it every week. It's you know, it's all

754
00:39:00,599 --> 00:39:03,159
the biggest game is the next game, and this is

755
00:39:03,199 --> 00:39:05,440
the next game, and they don't want to make it

756
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,639
too big, but certainly everybody you know that follows this

757
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,159
knows this is a critical one. And it's changed slightly

758
00:39:12,199 --> 00:39:16,559
with Memphis losing, probably more pressure on Memphis and Memphis

759
00:39:16,559 --> 00:39:19,039
goes down again and they're really up against it. They

760
00:39:19,039 --> 00:39:21,320
still have Two Lane and Navy on their schedule, so

761
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,760
that they may be maybe cooked if they can't beat USF.

762
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,519
The other end of it is it's a very competitive

763
00:39:28,599 --> 00:39:34,159
American Conference race. Navy is still undefeated, you know, they're

764
00:39:34,199 --> 00:39:36,519
in there. Two Lane is still undefeated in the league,

765
00:39:36,599 --> 00:39:40,039
and they're not on USF's regular season schedules, So there's

766
00:39:40,079 --> 00:39:42,360
still a lot of things to be solved. But if

767
00:39:42,519 --> 00:39:46,360
USF can just continue to win every week, they they'll

768
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,440
be where they need to be again moving forward. On

769
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:53,239
November fifteenth, they have the road game at Navy that

770
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:57,199
figures to be even more of a mammoth matchup, and

771
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,519
I know Navy's got Notre Dame and maybe some.

772
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 6: Others on their schedule.

773
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 7: Nfy'll be able to be undefeated all the way to

774
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,360
November fifteenth, but it's gonna be a big one. And

775
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,639
again it's at Navy, it's in the middle of November.

776
00:40:07,639 --> 00:40:09,760
Who knows what the weather's going to be like. So

777
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,880
but again Alex Polish is not thinking like this. He's

778
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,880
thinking all about Memphis getting it done and gets Memphis,

779
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,400
And the fact that Memphis lost to UAB it doesn't

780
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,760
change the fact they're still a really good team and

781
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,960
they've got great players, and they beat Arkansas. They're a

782
00:40:25,039 --> 00:40:28,840
very worthy team. They just for whatever reason, stubbed their toe,

783
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:29,679
which happens a.

784
00:40:29,599 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 6: Lot this season.

785
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 7: As we can see, if you're not ready to play,

786
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,000
you're gonna get beat by just about anybody. So it'll

787
00:40:36,039 --> 00:40:38,599
be a challenge and it'll be definitely a milestone. If

788
00:40:38,679 --> 00:40:41,039
USF can win it, they would be four to zero

789
00:40:41,119 --> 00:40:44,800
in the conference. That has happened just once twenty seventeen

790
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,639
in the history of the program, so can't diminish that.

791
00:40:47,679 --> 00:40:49,760
It would also make for a five game winning streak,

792
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,480
which is the longest one in quite a while.

793
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:57,679
Speaker 6: So there's milestones falling by the week for this program.

794
00:40:58,199 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 7: But the way they've been able to get to the

795
00:41:00,159 --> 00:41:02,800
point is just focus on what what the task is

796
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,400
ahead and not get carried away with anything. I would

797
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,679
say psychologically and mentally, this team has done a pretty

798
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,760
good job of staying in where their feet are for

799
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,199
all season, and that's another reason why they're, uh, you know,

800
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:15,079
have a good record.

801
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 6: Well.

802
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:19,039
Speaker 1: The last layer of this conversation of expectations is obviously

803
00:41:19,039 --> 00:41:21,960
the more they've won. Now your head coach's name is

804
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,559
getting mentioned in other jobs that have now that are

805
00:41:24,559 --> 00:41:29,000
already opened Florida, Arkansas, Virginia Tech places like that. How

806
00:41:29,119 --> 00:41:30,519
is you know, and every and you know, the guys

807
00:41:30,519 --> 00:41:33,320
in that locker room understand that. And Alex Goldish knows that.

808
00:41:33,599 --> 00:41:36,039
He probably hasn't publicly commented much about it, but you

809
00:41:36,119 --> 00:41:38,599
know that's weighing on his mind to some degree. Who

810
00:41:38,599 --> 00:41:40,840
knows how much. How do you think that plays into

811
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:42,199
this whole equation as well.

812
00:41:43,119 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 7: I don't think it's it's played in that much. It's

813
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,920
not like it's some kind of distraction. He did actually

814
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,679
address that last week. Somebody asked him in the press

815
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:54,719
conference and uh, you know, uh, he said.

816
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 4: Uh, coach speak, coach speak, coach speak.

817
00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,519
Speaker 7: But a couple of things he said, and we'll see

818
00:41:59,519 --> 00:42:01,320
if the true proves true. He said, you know, I

819
00:42:01,639 --> 00:42:04,880
came from nothing, a Russian immigrant. They came to America

820
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,920
with not much money in their pockets. He's grinded his

821
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:12,519
whole career, worked up from grunt jobs to where he

822
00:42:12,639 --> 00:42:15,320
is now. And he said, I've got more money than

823
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:18,960
I could have ever imagined right now. So is he

824
00:42:19,039 --> 00:42:21,559
one of the rare people in America that don't let

825
00:42:21,559 --> 00:42:25,960
the almighty dollar decide everything they do. We'll see, we can't.

826
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,480
We can answer that till the end of the season.

827
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,960
But at least that's what he's saying. And the other

828
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:34,480
thing he's saying is regardless of whatever jobs might be

829
00:42:34,519 --> 00:42:37,440
out there, he's got a good job right now at USF.

830
00:42:37,639 --> 00:42:39,679
And he says, and I believe this to be true,

831
00:42:39,679 --> 00:42:43,079
that he has gotten everything that he's asked for resource wise.

832
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 6: They're building a new stadium.

833
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 7: He's got the money he needs to recruit, to take

834
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,320
care of his staff, to build all the infrastructure. So

835
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:53,840
it's not like this is a bad job. And let's

836
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,199
say Alex Guolish does go somewhere else. This is a

837
00:42:57,199 --> 00:43:01,840
great job for somebody, great job for somebody, And I

838
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,639
think that always will be with with the infrastructure that's

839
00:43:04,679 --> 00:43:09,480
in place, So you know, You can't predict these things.

840
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,760
It remains to be seen. They still have to play

841
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,159
their schedule, they still have to win games. So it's

842
00:43:15,199 --> 00:43:18,000
early in the process. But the fact that his name

843
00:43:18,119 --> 00:43:20,800
is being linked to all these jobs, that's a positive

844
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:22,840
because it means there's a good coach in place here

845
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:26,079
in a good staff. So that's that's better than the

846
00:43:26,079 --> 00:43:27,079
alternative for sure.

847
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 1: A couple more and I'll get you out of here.

848
00:43:29,559 --> 00:43:32,119
Leading into that, that whole process of the program. You

849
00:43:32,159 --> 00:43:34,199
got a new ad on board. Rob Higgins came on

850
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:37,360
board about them two three, four weeks ago something like that.

851
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:39,960
Give me a sense. I know you probably know Rob

852
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:41,719
a little bit. He's from the Tampa Bay area. He's

853
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,320
been involved with Tampa Bay sports for a long time.

854
00:43:44,519 --> 00:43:45,760
Give me a sense of how do you think Rob

855
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,599
Higgins is going to fit into the USF community and

856
00:43:49,039 --> 00:43:50,760
you know what things he will be able to do

857
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,800
from a business perspective and a fundraising perspective and even

858
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:54,719
make things even better.

859
00:43:55,559 --> 00:43:57,159
Speaker 6: You know, I think Rob's going to fit in great.

860
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:59,519
Speaker 7: You know, the first time I met Rob, but he

861
00:43:59,599 --> 00:44:02,760
was a ball kid at USF basketball back in nineteen

862
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,519
ninety two. So he has truly come up the ranks,

863
00:44:05,519 --> 00:44:10,119
he became a manager, he became an assistant athletic director here,

864
00:44:10,159 --> 00:44:12,280
and then of course the work he did with the

865
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,639
Tampa Bay Sports Commission as well known, attracting all these

866
00:44:14,639 --> 00:44:16,000
great events to our area.

867
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:18,760
Speaker 6: Rob is a diehard.

868
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:22,079
Speaker 7: USF Bowl Green and Gold bleeds it like nobody's business.

869
00:44:22,159 --> 00:44:23,159
Speaker 6: He loves this place.

870
00:44:24,199 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 7: I think one thing he'll definitely be able to do,

871
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:32,719
maybe not immediately, but in time, whatever money, whatever funds

872
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,760
are available in this community to support this program, he's

873
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,679
going to get to him. He's got a contact list

874
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,880
that would blow you away. He knows everybody in town,

875
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:45,480
and he's loved and trusted by everyone in town. So

876
00:44:45,599 --> 00:44:48,760
I think he's going to help elevate this USF program

877
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,920
to an even higher level. And I know he is

878
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:56,199
fully aware of all everything going on. In other words,

879
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,320
if there's a coach, a football coach being highly sought,

880
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,920
which there is, he knows about it. He's got a

881
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:05,239
plan and it's been addressed, so these things are not

882
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,320
left a chance. He's not gonna be caught by surprise

883
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:10,119
by these things. So I think Rob will He's got

884
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,679
a lot of things on his plate, obviously, but he

885
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,079
will do everything in his power to make sure this

886
00:45:15,159 --> 00:45:17,159
program reaches the highest level.

887
00:45:17,159 --> 00:45:18,119
Speaker 6: I have no doubt about that.

888
00:45:19,039 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 4: All right.

889
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,760
Speaker 1: For our fans outside of the Tampa Bay, tell everybody

890
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:23,519
where they can find the broadcast on Saturday.

891
00:45:23,519 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 4: What is it a three thirty game Saturday.

892
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:29,159
Speaker 7: It's a New Eastern game, which means it's an eleven

893
00:45:29,199 --> 00:45:33,000
am Central game, which isn't great. I mean, I think

894
00:45:33,039 --> 00:45:36,280
the players like maybe get road games. They like to

895
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:40,559
get to it. And the positive thing that's much different

896
00:45:40,599 --> 00:45:44,119
than North Texas on a Friday night. A few weeks ago,

897
00:45:44,199 --> 00:45:49,039
we landed at four fifteen am, Jason, which was not

898
00:45:49,159 --> 00:45:51,360
a ton of fun. So at least this one will

899
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,000
be we'll be back home at a reasonable hour regardless,

900
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:55,159
So that's a good thing.

901
00:45:55,559 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 6: But we will we will have to.

902
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,079
Speaker 7: We'll fly into Memphis on Friday, get settled in, and

903
00:46:00,119 --> 00:46:02,480
then we're going to go on early on Saturday morning

904
00:46:02,519 --> 00:46:05,079
and we'll be like we're hardly there. Maybe we'll get

905
00:46:05,119 --> 00:46:08,440
a good barbecue in once. That's about it. But other

906
00:46:08,519 --> 00:46:11,079
than that, it's it's it's a speed game we're playing,

907
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,599
and you know, you get sometimes you got to create

908
00:46:13,639 --> 00:46:17,760
your own energy for those early games, and and sometimes

909
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:19,719
you start slow. The Bulls have got to have got

910
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:21,639
to find a way to get going quickly because it's,

911
00:46:22,039 --> 00:46:24,679
you know, eleven ams a little early, although they do

912
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,960
practice in the morning, so they're not they're accustomed to that.

913
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,079
But eleven am is an odd time to play a

914
00:46:30,119 --> 00:46:33,199
football game. But that's that's what we have for ESPN

915
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:34,440
to to accommodate it.

916
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: Last thing, Jim Luck, you're the longtime voice of the Bulls,

917
00:46:39,039 --> 00:46:41,199
just announced that he's going to be retiring at the

918
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:41,840
end of the year.

919
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 4: Just give me a little perspective of Jim.

920
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: He's been to this program for a long time since

921
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,400
its inception, and I know you've worked many many a

922
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,960
game with Jim, and just give the fans who maybe

923
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,400
don't know Jim very well little sense of Jim Luck.

924
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:54,039
Speaker 6: Yeah.

925
00:46:54,039 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 7: Well, I've known Jim for since nineteen eighty three, when

926
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,760
the day he walked in here doing basketball games, and

927
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:03,159
he has he did basketball for years. But the really

928
00:47:03,199 --> 00:47:06,360
amazing thing is he's done every single football game. He

929
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,639
hasn't missed one since that since the program began in

930
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:14,320
nineteen ninety seven. He is a true professional. He is

931
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,920
very good at what he does. I work with him.

932
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,239
I'm on the sidelines, and I'm talking to him in

933
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:23,440
the headset constantly. He wants information, so I'm essentially giving

934
00:47:23,519 --> 00:47:25,800
him a play by play to help him spot the

935
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:29,679
ball and spot the ball carrier. So we're in constant contact.

936
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:33,360
But Jim is wonderful at at giving me my space

937
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,519
on the broadcast, and you couldn't ask for a more

938
00:47:36,559 --> 00:47:39,880
fundamentally sound broadcaster and a guy that has done it

939
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,480
for a number of years. So we're all very happy

940
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:44,639
at all the attention that Jim is getting. Wish him

941
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,880
all the best for beyond this, and I'm hoping that

942
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:51,199
the football team will cooperate and send him out with

943
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:52,039
a conference title.

944
00:47:52,079 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 6: That would be kind of cool.

945
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: And if you win a conference title, you'll probably be

946
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:56,639
playing in a playoff game somewhere.

947
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 4: You might be in South Bend or Tuscal, Looser or where,

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but you'll be You'll play football.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's the one. That's an amazing thing to

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think about the possibilities. But we're not there yet. But

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the Bulls are capable of doing if they take care

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of business, So we could have some really really cool

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stuff ahead for this USF football program.

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Speaker 1: Well, Joey, keep up the great work with it with

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football and Joey be part of the basketball broadcast as well.

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You can listen locally here in the Tampa area Q

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one O five on on the radio broadcast. Keep up

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the great work, Joey, get a w in Memphis. Don't

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need too much barbecue and if you do, make sure

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you have UH. Make sure you make sure you take

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care of take care of your business before the game starts.

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Speaker 6: Enjoying us exactly.

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Speaker 4: Enjoy the Liberty Ball and we'll talk soon.

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Speaker 8: Okay, thanks a lot, Jason, thanks for listening to the

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Florida Football Insiders Podcast as part of the College Gridiron

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Coast to Coast podcast network.

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Speaker 1: Please remember subscribe, rate, and review if you've not already

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done so, and you can reach out to me on

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Twitter at jPOS Sports. Love to hear your comments and

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feed back about our episodes and any program suggestions moving forward.

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Check out our video interviews as well on my YouTube channel,

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Jason Power's Sports channel, and we'll see you next week

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