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Speaker 2: Awesome, awesome, Welcome to the this Week in the Atlantic

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Coast Conference. This is the podcast for All Sports Discussion

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in the USA. And you can tell us getting close

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to college football. Starting with our friend from Pick six

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CBS Sports Headquarters. Also They also had very kind words

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about Brett. Josh is a big fan of Bret, just

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like we are. So Brett, welcome back to the All

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Sports Discussion ACC podcast. As we said, this is the

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longest running independent ACC podcast and we've been blessed enough

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to have you on the last couple of years. Before

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we start, do you do we have anything here that

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we want to plug, Brett? I mean, I've given you

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a huge, huge plug to start out with, but is

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there anything you'd like to plug out there on the

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Twitter content shows that you're on or other media shows

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that you're on the floor?

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Speaker 3: Is yours friend? Thank you for spending years. Thanks Matthew

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and Jeff for having me back. It's probably our ninth

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annual now is almost a decade's worth of talking ACC

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season previews together. So I'm honored to be back on.

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Congratulate you guys on what you've built and it's one

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of my go to resources throughout the off season and

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during the season too, So nice job again, it's great

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to be back. I can't wait to break down this

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ACC with you. In terms of things to plug, I

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think you guys did a good job with that long intro,

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so I appreciate all you had to say for me there.

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And yeah, let's break it down. Let's talk acc football.

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Speaker 2: Boy, Let's get to a topic near and dear in

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my heart. And I can't believe I'm saying this, but

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football and the Commonwealth of Virginia A hardcore question just

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turned off the show. Will the Commonwealth Cup, that's the

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game between Virginia and Virginia and Virginia Tech. Will there

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be interim head head football coaches in the Commonwealth Cup game?

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Speaker 3: Well, I hope not for the sake of both programs

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because that would mean that they had another losing season

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if they're heading into the final week of the year

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without their head coach. Pressures on at both spots and

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you know, both these guys were hired in twenty twenty two,

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and first with Virginia of course, with Tony Elliott, he

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was part of that Clemson dynasty calling the offense for

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dabos teams. He comes in and they really fell flat

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a couple of three win seasons. Of course, the first

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the end of the year and just had to grow

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through that as a program. Last year got the five wins,

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but still have not made a Bowl. This time around,

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they put a lot of resources into it. You saw

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they went out, finally collected the nil money, put together

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a great transfer class, a reason why I bumped them

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up a little bit up the ACC standings for twenty

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twenty five. So I think, if not now, then I

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don't think it's going to click. I think that they

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have all the the resources possible. They have a proven quarterback,

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so I like what they have in the building to

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make it to Bowl season for Virginia Tech. Similar it's

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his fourth year for Brent Pry. I really like talking

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to him as one of my favorite interviews. I get

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to talk to a lot of the head coaches. He's

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one of my favorites. But I don't think any Virginia

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Tech fan would have signed up for these results three

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years in, you know, kind of disappointing. So farther last

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year was supposed to be the breakthrough. They were very veteran,

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if remember back, They had the most returning starters in

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the country heading into twenty twenty four. But it didn't

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click at all. It actually got worse. So a lot

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of pressure on both spots, I'll bet you. Instead of

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both being fired. I think you might have one interim.

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rolls around, Well said Jeff, you're up rand.

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Speaker 1: All right, britt A team that's near and dear to

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my heart, and I want you to get your opinion

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on them. Tech. Will they get to double digit wins

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, I was looking forward to this question because

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so many years in a row now we've talked about

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your Yellow Jackets, and they've been towards the bottom of

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the conference. They've been struggling. Part of that was such

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a big program shift when they moved away from the

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flexbo and the triple option with Paul Johnson. You know,

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it's one thing to change coaches, but to change from

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a traditional option attack to a more modernized scheme like

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a multiple year transition, and it really fell flat. It

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was some of the worst football we've seen. So all

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that to say that what Brent Keith took over was

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really a tough situation, and he's grinded out winners every

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year that he's been there. A couple seven win seasons

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in a row. Now, I think this is their best

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team yet in probably a decade since that twenty fourteen team.

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it down here. Love their offensive line that's always been

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strong under Brent Key, that's his expertise being a former lineman.

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I like their running back Justice Haynes. Good job in

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the transfer portal at receiver. So I like what they

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making some stat gains. So I think it's his best

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team yet coming off a couple of seven win seasons.

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year is actually their schedule. And you know the way

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that this breaks down now without divisions and you have

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these mega conferences, it's all about your your league schedule

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draw And when you look at what Georgia Tech drew

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this year in the ACC, they play seven of my

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bottom ten in the conference. And their only game that

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they're they're gonna be, you know, heavily underdog in is

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that Clemson game. But outside of Clemson in the ACC,

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uh yeah, I think double digits as possible. They're going

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to be a surprise team and they're just outside my

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top twenty five to enter the season.

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Speaker 1: All right, I like it. Now I want to ask you,

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which ACC team do you think is gonna take a

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dive this year? Year that might be unexpected?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know a team that had a surprise

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breakout last year was Syracuse and that was really caught

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everybody off guard. They made a wild card higher at

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head coach. They hired fran Brown, who was a positional

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coach at Georgia, you know, not from you know, it

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was not part of the ACC or the New York

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frame footprint at all. Comes up there, gets great transfers in.

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He gets Kyle McCord, the starting quarterback from Ohio State,

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to come up there. They light up the scoreboard, a

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ton of yards, a ton of points, and they get

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to ten wins. So total surprise last year. But I

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think it'll be equally surprising how bad they fall off

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this year. And I say that because so many starters

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are gone. They sent a lot of guys to the

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pros to graduation and then what happened, which would really hurt.

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heading into spring, you could maybe talk yourself into a

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bowl season for them. But after spring, another round of

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their starters and their best players transferred out. They're they're

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all ACC caliber receiver at Trevor Pena went the in State,

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and a couple of defensive linemen there. They're true freshman

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All American. Watson he went to Texas. It's just one

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hit after the other. So I see a lot of

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starters go on a lot of production to replace, and

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a really tough schedule. Now just talk about Georgia Tech

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schedule being favorable, this one flips the other way. They

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have a tough draw, and I think they're gonna fall

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down towards the bottom of the conference.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the other side of that.

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Which ACC team will do better than everyone is expecting.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think I kind of gave it away there

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with Georgia Tech. But I'll you know, I'll save you

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the double answer of doing Georgia Tech again, And that

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lot of folks. They're gonna surge up the ACC rankings.

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that was really strong offensively last year. And that's what

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Jeff Bron does. He continues to turn out top notch

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offenses no matter where he's been. It was at Purdue,

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now at Louisville, and he's going for his third straight

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transfer quarterback from the Power four level. He's done great

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the first two times, trying to make it three in

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a row here with Miller Moss coming from USC and

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game against Washington. But I think now at a new place,

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and this is what je F. Brown does. He resurrects

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these quarterbacks in their old Power four stature. I think

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he's going to be good here again. So long story short,

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I love Louisville's offense, and now some key pieces are

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back on defense, especially a linebacker. I love their duo there.

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think Louisville and Georgia Tech are great candidates.

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Speaker 1: All right, great stuff there, Brent. This next segment we're

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going to call our lightning Round, and to avoid firing

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away all six questions that you at once, we're going

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to go two at a time. Who do you have

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that you'd have in the ACC title game?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? You know, the hot seat question is interesting because

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and that was Troy Taylor from Stanford, and you know

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he'd been struggling a couple of seasons out there, a

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couple last place finishes. I again have them projected as

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the worst team in Power for sixty eighth out of

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sixty eight. So I was ready to give you Troy Taylor,

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but new general manager Andrew Lucky Neater did that for us.

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He fired him in March. So they are restarting with

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Frank Reich, former Indianapolis Colts coach NFL coach. So I

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can't give you Stanford, and I think it's Syracuse. Fran

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that he'll survive I think the hottest seat might just

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be Justin Wilcox at Cal and I know they're a

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newer team to the ACC, but it's very interesting what's

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happening out there where They brought Ron Rivera back. He's

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a Cal grad. They brought him back as a general

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manager and in charge of the player personnel. But the

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boosters out there, the alumni, the boosters, the big money.

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decisions anymore. We want Ron Rivera to really run everything

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and basically get rid of Wilcox. So very strange situation

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at Cow. And you might have noticed the transfer portal.

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They lost a lot of players, star players, Jade and not.

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was going on, and now we might know behind the scenes.

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very strange a Cow. I'll give you that one as

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the hot seat coach. And now that I've been rambling,

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I realize this is the lightning round. So I went

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way too long on that lightning round. Two teams in

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the ACC title. I'll be quicker. I've got Clemson versus Miami,

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Clemson being the defending champions with twenty starters back, Miami

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being your top recruiters and top transfer team. So Clemson

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Miami to play in Charlotte.

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Speaker 1: All right, nixt to questions in the Lightning round, who

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wins the ACC at of Clemson Miami and then who

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do you have as your ACC coach of the year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I have Clemson winning the ACC Pretty solid with

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that pick too. It's just more proven. We know what

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we have with them. Like I said, twenty starters back

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Cadeklubnick might just be a Heisman favorite coming into the year.

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I like their offensive coordinator, Gary Reiley, their defensive line,

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their offensive line, their trenches are strong. So many all

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American candidates. And I'll leave you with this in the book.

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This year, I have my high school recruiting, my transfer recruiting,

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but then also mock NFL drafts. I know it's early

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for mock NFL draft, but just to get a sense

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of the pro caliber players on the team. Clemson's number

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two in the country there with twelve twenty twenty six

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mock NFL draft picks. So talent everywhere, NFL talent everywhere.

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I'm going to go Clemson to win it ACC Coach

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of the Year. I'm going to call for Brent Key,

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and I just talked up Georgia Tech for a couple answers,

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But to continue the pattern, I think it's his best

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team yet. They placed five players on my all ACC

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offense alone, a lot of that being the receivers, the

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running back, the quarterback. But yeah, I like him as

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a coach. I think it's a lot of winnable games

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for them this year. It's gonna have you know, seven, eight, nine,

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even ten wins this year. I think that'll get him

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credit for a Coach of the Year.

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Speaker 1: All right, last two questions in this lightning round, who

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are the twelve college football playoff teams right now? What

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you have in August? And then who's going to be

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the national champion?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's really a wide open field, I think more

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so than ever because over the most of the years

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we've been talking on this show. In the preseason, it

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was mostly the Saban dynasty and then it was the

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Dabo dynasty and both at the same time. You always

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pretty much had Ohio State and Oklahoma in there. It

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was kind of your four teams every year. So it's

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way more wide open now, not just because of the bracket,

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but because of nil and these mega conferences. So here's

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where I got to my twelve this year. I broke

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it down by conference. From the ACC, I have two,

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I have Clemson winning it, and I also think Miami

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is strong enough to get an at large as a

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ten and two type team with a tough game there

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Notre Dame and Clemson on the schedule if they were

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to match up in Charlotte. So I have two from

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the ACC. Three from the Big Ten. I see Penn State,

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Ohio State, and Oregon. From the SEC, I have four.

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I think it's going to be the most this year,

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just three superpowers with Texas, Alabama, and Georgia. You just

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see five stars at every position group And LSU got

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another at large spot for me Brian Kelly's fourth year.

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It's really do or die time for them. All the

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money and resources in the world he's got to put

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up now in year four. So those are the four

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from the SEC. The Big Twelve was wide open this year,

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and I mean I could go another hour on this

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show talking Big Twelve and trying to pick a team

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out of that. Probably the most wide open conference I've

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ever covered. In fourteen years of doing the magazine, but

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ultimately went with last year's champ, Arizona State. Nineteen starters back,

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very veteran team, and they weren't a fluke. You look

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at their advanced stats last year. They had it all.

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They lose the running back pretty much everybody else's back.

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So that rounds it out. A couple open spots. I

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had Notre Dame getting a spot again, and then I

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have Boise State winning the non AQ bid. Last year,

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everybody picked Liberty. I went Boise State. They proved me right.

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I'm going to see if they proved me right again.

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I trust that Mountain West as the strongest conference out there.

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So that's the twelve. Again, not a lightning round answer,

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but you can't really lightning round twelve teams.

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Speaker 2: That's tough.

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Speaker 3: But for the national champion, I'm going Penn State. And

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this might raise some eyebrows, but you know, here's the

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deal with the Big Ten this year is that they

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are a very talented team. They were in the final

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four last year, one throw away from being in the

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national title, and they bring everybody back, a lot of

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guys that could have gone pro as mid round or

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late round draft Picks decided to come back to state college.

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They also added some of the best coordinators in the game,

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some of the smartest brains in the room. I mean

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Andykotelnecki calling the offense again. And now they stole Jim Knowles,

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the defensive mastermind from Ohio State. Their rival plucked him

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out of Columbus. So you're talking brain power, very veteran team,

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first round grades everywhere, and then you're catching Ohio State

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in Oregon as younger versions of themselves. So I like

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Penn State. It's a really one year opportunity for them

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to go get it, and this is their best shot.

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So I'm gonna go Penn State as my national champion

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number one to ender the season.

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Speaker 1: Outstanding stuff, britt All right, Matthew, I'm gonna turn it

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over to you for our final segment in the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Oh but microphone time, what do you got for his Brett?

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Speaker 3: The floor is here? Well open mic. I mean just

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want to say thank you guys for having me again.

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You know, I love talking acc with you guys. You

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guys have been doing it the longest of anybody, So

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great to be back on with you and looking at

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this conference. Yeah, I mean I see it as a

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two team race with Clemson in Miami. But it really

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gets interesting for me is that next tier. I mean,

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who is gonna come up and run and win the

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third place battle or even break into that game in Charlotte.

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I talked to Louisville, I talked Georgia. You could really

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debate about Florida State having a big bounce back. They

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brought in a great transfer Hall. I know that last

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year was a fluky, weird season for them, after that

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snub of twenty twenty three. I think they're going to

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get back to bowl season, maybe even push seven eight

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wins SMU can they find lightning in a bottle twice

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in a row? Will lightning strike twice in a row?

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Pittsburgh is a sneaky good team. Their linebacking corps is

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one of the best in the country. They placed in

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my top five linebacking groups. They call themselves the Sharks

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great position group. You got to pay attention to them.

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And I can't believe we went this whole episode twenty

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minutes in and have not even talked about one of

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the biggest storylines in the country of all football, not

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just college but nfln college and that's Bill Belichick returning

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to the college ranks. What a storyline in Chapel Hill.

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I think that signal is just longer term vision for

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them that they're going to invest all the resources needed

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to really awaken what many call the sleeping giant of

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college football. So I mean, yeah, we did a good

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half hour. We could have done three hours. There's so

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much to cover in this conference, but encourage you good

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to check it out. Pick Sicks Previews dot com Pick

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Sicks Previews for the book, I go in depth. It's

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you knows as in depth as you could get on

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all seventeen ACC teams. But thank you guys for the

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great coverage. Your guests all year are great. I love

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tuning in and you know, usually one guy per team.

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It's great. So congrats to you guys getting them all

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in and uh, you know, keep up the great coverage

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for twenty twenty five. We'll see how these predictions shake

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out come December.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Brett, Thank you so much. Bred

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So for my open mic, Brett, I'm gonna ask you

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a brief question, and I mean it's it's it's sort

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of it's sort of funny to me, like today I

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I don't know how I miss this, but I guess

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it's easy to miss things in the transfer transfer portal era.

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And it's why I'm thankful that I have your magazine, Brett,

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because you keep on top of things. But how hard

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is it to keep track on who goes where in

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this era of the transfer portal, because I honestly had

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no I hate to to say that I was today

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years old when I learned that Marty Brown went to Miami,

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you know, from DYSU. I hate to say that, and

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I'm admitting that. I'm fully admitting that on an ACC podcast.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it's really changed because think back to twenty twelve.

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That's when I launched Pick six Previews, the magazine. Back

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in twenty twelve, it was simpler times. We had the BCS,

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we had something called the Big East and the Pac ten.

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We still had regionality in the sport, and you didn't

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have this transfer circus. What it really was was you

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would look at the recruiting class and then if anybody

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went pro early as a junior. I was rare back then.

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But that's those are the two things. Otherwise, you had

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your roster year to year. You really got to know

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the players at your school, at your rival schools. Now

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it's so scattered, you know, you don't even know the

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players on your own team anymore if you're a fan,

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even if you're a diehard fan. So that's the point

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of the magazine is just to get everybody caught up.

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It's a busy time in the summer to try and

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learn about your team and all the opponents and really

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the whole power for landscape. But I think you'll find

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in the magazine it's very visually appealing. It's easy to rea.

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No acronyms, no formulas like that. I mean, it's it's

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written word right, it's narratives. I also have things in

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there to help with the transfer thing. I have something

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called the All Transfer Team, where you know, we know

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the All America, the All ACC, but now an All

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Transfer team to show you where are these top players

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going within the ACC and elsewhere. And you'll see in

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there teams like Miami and UNC and Florida State. They

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really went hard in the portal and added a lot

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of good players. So to answer your question, it is

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complicated the preview magazine process tenfold since twenty twelve. But

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I think in a sense it provides more value to

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the reader because this is kind of your spark notes,

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you know, catch up for the quiz, catch up for

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the season exam, because I get you up to speed

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pretty quick with the book. You definitely do, You definitely do.

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Speaker 2: Jeff, You're.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, am I open Mike. This what we did

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right here for the last half hour. You know, that

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gets me excited and ready for the season, which is

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only two weeks away from yesterday, week zero. But I

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had to say, What's what's getting on my nerves here

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the last few weeks is the constant realignment chatter that's

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still going on. We know it's a part of the

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game now, it's a business. We don't even I mean,

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no one's gonna even on this ACC podcast. We don't

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know what the ACC is gonna look like, you know,

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at the end of the decade. But what I know

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right now is it's this. We have the seventeen teams

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plus the Notre Dame next this year, next year for sure.

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And every time you know, an ad that comes out

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and says, hey, we're gonna do you know what's best

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for our program, which is some of the recent comments

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by the North Carolina A d it doesn't necessarily mean

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that there's a deal signed with the SEC or Big ten.

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Of course, every AD is going to say that in

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the ACC and that's what exactly they should do. They

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should be looking out for their programs, their fan bases.

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But we've seen it over and over again. If an A,

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if if an AD in a conferences, we are absolutely

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one hundred you know, gonna stay and we love you know,

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this conference or that conference, then all of the realignment

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accounts say, oh, it's just mixed direction. It's just a

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smoke screen. That means they're leaving in five years. And

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if they say we're going to do the best we can,

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our focus is on our university, it means they're leaving

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to you know, the season started, nobody's leaving right now.

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We can we can pick it back up at the

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for me, we can pick it back up at the

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end of March madness and and and and dissect everything

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in April and May uh and then you know, as

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the summer gets going into August, kind of wind it

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down again and when actual news comes out, you know,

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we can we can we can focus on that. And

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I mean these schools in ads, they as they should

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be doing looking out for them schools in themselves. But

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you know, we're still a little while away from teams moving.

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So yeah, I'm kind of ready for it to be

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toning down. I'm about to just just mute realignment on

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my timeline feed so that it gets ignored here for

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the next six months.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it doesn't it bother you too that we're

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so close to kickoff. Every year they do this, the

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national media. They just keep bringing up playoff expansion and

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conference expansion. It's like, all right, we do that in

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February when there's nothing going on. But we have real

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fall practices, fall camps, we got Week one spreads coming out.

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We're in the season now, we don't have to do

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these big topics. But it's almost like it's right on

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que like we're about to enjoy the thing we love

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college football season kicking off, and then they got to

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rehash all these old debates, these old media deals. It's like,

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you know, do that in January please.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm with you there, I'm with you there.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: I'll make one prediction before we go. Jeff and Brett

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Marty Brown from Miami will be on one of the

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All acc teams at the end of the year.

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Speaker 3: I'm that confident. I'll keep an eye on him for sure.

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Speaker 2: Okay, very good, Very good, Brett. Thank you so much

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for joining the All Sports Discussion ACC podcast. We appreciated

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you spending your Sunday night with us, and thank you

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so much for joining us. We're all fired up for

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college football to start.

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Speaker 3: Oh of course, anytime, guys, and good luck to the

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seventeen ACC teams out there, and we'll talk again soon.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks so much, have a great week, guys,