Speaker 1: What the heck is going on. We're gonna talk about
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Speaker 1: Sport Show. Me and Coop got a few things we
Speaker 1: need to dive into, like the latest recruiting whiffs, and
Speaker 1: there is potential for some great news right behind it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the strategy as well as who
Speaker 1: do we see still on the list, and then we'll
Speaker 1: wrap things up. It is sec media days. That's why
Speaker 1: you see me traveling and Coop has a vendetta again
Speaker 1: Superman and I don't understand why we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: all of that here, Coop. Happy Sunday, my man? How
Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 2: Jay? I'm fighting off a food coma. I know this.
Speaker 2: This ain't Facebook and nobody needs to see no pictures
Speaker 2: or anything like that. But uh, man, you know it's
Speaker 2: the weather has been crazy. But with crazy weather comes
Speaker 2: like a great garden, right, and my wife loves loves
Speaker 2: gardening it up. And so I get to use get
Speaker 2: to use the Blackstone pretty much, pretty much four or
Speaker 2: five times a week. Uh, to you know, get some
Speaker 2: garden veggies. And so uh we pushed the pushed the
Speaker 2: show back a little bit for a couple of different reasons.
Speaker 2: And uh and man, I just I decided I would
Speaker 2: eat myself without any hesitation, not eat myself, but eat
Speaker 2: my fill. And yeah, cannibalism is I I went to
Speaker 2: therapy for self cannibalism and it's over. I don't have
Speaker 2: to mess with that anymore. But self can just trying
Speaker 2: to trying to trying to stay awake, but kind of
Speaker 2: excited now because we got it. We got some fun topics.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got some fun topics. And I think the
Speaker 1: self cannibalism piece is a little bit on the weird side.
Speaker 1: We won't go too far into that, even though I'm
Speaker 1: actually kind of intrigued by the idea that you are
Speaker 1: here to self cannibalize. Said, that's funny our yet Wow,
Speaker 1: everybody that is coming out here to where I'm at.
Speaker 1: I'm here in Atlanta at SEC Media Days. As you
Speaker 1: can see behind me another hotel room. Your boy's always
Speaker 1: going to go. And it was hell getting here. It
Speaker 1: was hell getting here too hot Atlanta. I'm seeing online
Speaker 1: now that Cole Kublick is dealing with traffic like crazy.
Speaker 1: Alyssa Lange says she just got here after five hours
Speaker 1: of traffic from Charlotte Commissioner Paul Paul. Greg Sankey's white
Speaker 1: has been delayed, and yeah, he's gonna be like a
Speaker 1: super late. So he's on the list of what we're
Speaker 1: all dealing with, which is very fascinating. But me mine,
Speaker 1: I gotta I'm gonna tell you all my quick story
Speaker 1: of how bad it is, and this is why I'm
Speaker 1: kind of looking kind of glossy here. But thank y'all
Speaker 1: for pulling up. We appreciate y'all always joining us for
Speaker 1: the evenings. The rooms are filling up. We've got about
Speaker 1: eighty people populating in here on this stream. Thank you'll
Speaker 1: for joining. So Coop, I was scheduled to get here
Speaker 1: today at two thirty three o'clock I think Christern time.
Speaker 1: So I was pretty excited about that. That meant because
Speaker 1: it was a direct flight from Oklahoma City on Delta,
Speaker 1: so that means I was not gonna be here until
Speaker 1: I had to leave until eleven fifty was my flight time,
Speaker 1: So perfect. Saturday night, got stuff together, started packing, verifying
Speaker 1: I had all my equipment, my extends, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I got my big mic stuff so I can record
Speaker 1: some shows and locked on sooners here while we're here,
Speaker 1: and all of that. So I'm getting all this stuff
Speaker 1: packed up, put it together, put in the back. It's
Speaker 1: about eleven o'clock. I'm like all right, showered up, climbed
Speaker 1: in the bed, decided to go ahead and fall asleep.
Speaker 1: Around twelve thirty, twelve forty five, I woke up. I
Speaker 1: have a tendency of doing that. I'm getting old, so
Speaker 1: I wake up random for no reason. So I'm pissed, like,
Speaker 1: what is this? Why am I awake? This is dumb?
Speaker 1: All right, let me go get up and get some benadryl.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put my butts asleep somehow, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get about to get up. So I said, you know,
Speaker 1: of course, the thing we all do. We start doom scrolling.
Speaker 1: I grabbed my phone see if any news is populated.
Speaker 1: I mean, I noticed there was the during the NCAA
Speaker 1: stuff that's going on the House and the Score Act
Speaker 1: and those nil deals that have been declined. The opposing
Speaker 1: attorneys just filed and said that's violating the settlement. So
Speaker 1: that's about to get interesting again. And so I was
Speaker 1: trying to see if there was another like Saturday night
Speaker 1: news dump something that I may have missed. So I'm
Speaker 1: looking and I get a notification my phone. I got
Speaker 1: an email Delta just told me my flight was canceled.
Speaker 1: What how is my flight canceled? Coop? What am I
Speaker 1: supposed to do here? So I get up, go to
Speaker 1: my computer, hop on there, do my research, do my digging,
Speaker 1: and they couldn't move me to another flight. The reason
Speaker 1: they couldn't move me to another flight automatically was because
Speaker 1: the only flights available were seven am. My alarm was
Speaker 1: set to wake up at eight. I was gonna sleep
Speaker 1: right through a flight going through. So I schedule it, finally,
Speaker 1: get everything settled, have a seven o'clock flight to New
Speaker 1: York that connects there and brings it back to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Because all of the direct flights are full and I
Speaker 1: got two hours of sleep. So your boy is here
Speaker 1: on mumes, but excited to talk to you all and
Speaker 1: to answer the question that's in here. Oklahoma Day is
Speaker 1: on Wednesdays, So I'm gonna pull out my handy dandy
Speaker 1: pamphlet from here, and I'm gonna tell y'all the dates
Speaker 1: real quick, so y'all have them, and then we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about recruiting and why we actually push this stream back.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Coop, I am on these yumes and hopefully
Speaker 1: bad things don't happen me today. Well I'm stous just
Speaker 1: say that.
Speaker 2: Hey, listen, you look good. I mean, some people, they
Speaker 2: they're they're just zombies on the airplane. They're they're walking
Speaker 2: around and you're just like, how's this person a functioning
Speaker 2: human being? Listen, I've been on I've been on the
Speaker 2: Red Eyes. I have gotten in from a night with
Speaker 2: a client at like two thirty am and then ordered
Speaker 2: the uber to arrive at five. You know I've done
Speaker 2: all those. So you look better than I do. So
Speaker 2: then so I'll give you. I'll give you, I'll give
Speaker 2: you credit to that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, you know, I did a really good
Speaker 1: job of pampering my face live. I just I have
Speaker 1: I've had a few beers and I have a lot
Speaker 1: of water, so and I just ate and so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be good for about two more hours and then
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna just, you know, pass out. And so
Speaker 1: you guys get to have a fun episode of me
Speaker 1: probably rambling in a lot of capacities. But let's get
Speaker 1: off of that. Let's talk about what we're here for.
Speaker 1: First and foremost. We pushed the show back because rumor
Speaker 1: has had it that we might get some news on
Speaker 1: the recruiting trail, potentially a commitment, potentially a top teams.
Speaker 1: Something may come tonight, but we don't know who and what,
Speaker 1: which is the most annoying part. So it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: if it's good stuff, we're gonna wait. We're gonna push
Speaker 1: it back and push it back and hopefully we can
Speaker 1: talk about it and it happens while we're here live,
Speaker 1: and it appears that we're probably not gonna get that lucky.
Speaker 1: So guess what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna like
Speaker 1: pretend like it's not gonna happen, but we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about all the bad stuff. As Robert here has posted
Speaker 1: in here. Over the last couple of weeks, Oklahoma has
Speaker 1: lost recuse to Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky. Bayley b why you
Speaker 1: okaham mistake and a big problem or big question is
Speaker 1: why I'm gonna be honest. I don't see it as
Speaker 1: a big problem, but it is interesting on how these
Speaker 1: quote unquote struggles have gone, especially past July one, all
Speaker 1: the ones before July one, Coop I did I saw
Speaker 1: as oh, y'all just gonna f low people money. And
Speaker 1: if there's one thing I'm gonna be honest with you,
Speaker 1: are Oklahoma is not just gonna toss people money before.
Speaker 1: They weren't gonna toss people money before July one, that
Speaker 1: they didn't feel like it was worth it. That's why
Speaker 1: you've got a Bopentley. You've gotta select group of people
Speaker 1: you're gonna pay early. You ain't paying everybody because you
Speaker 1: don't know what you're gonna get out of that as
Speaker 1: a right now. But to me, it was more of
Speaker 1: a schools are desperate and you're seeing as from the
Speaker 1: smaller schools doing that. What you think about all of that?
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, other people, it's I tell my kids,
Speaker 2: this is you don't change who you are because of
Speaker 2: what other people are doing. Correct, And I think that
Speaker 2: you've seen a lot of schools go out and just
Speaker 2: spend massive bankroll over the past couple of years and
Speaker 2: it didn't produce the way that they envisioned it to do.
Speaker 2: And if we're being honest and we keep it abuck,
Speaker 2: like we all want every single top rated guy, we
Speaker 2: all want every single you know, every single recruiting win.
Speaker 2: You only can take so many people. And so you
Speaker 2: know this this new staff led by Jim Nagy is
Speaker 2: it is one that is going to do things from
Speaker 2: a from a perspective of this is his first time through.
Speaker 2: He goes and he looks at some of these grades
Speaker 2: such as you know in the NFL, it is, hey,
Speaker 2: let's you know, we may see a guy you know,
Speaker 2: at the mid to late round one and we really
Speaker 2: really like him. But there's more, you know, more pressing
Speaker 2: need that we should maybe do where you look at
Speaker 2: your draft from a macro standpoint, you want to maybe
Speaker 2: back off of that pick and see if you can
Speaker 2: get guys similar to that, because you know, in football,
Speaker 2: it's not like basketball to where like one guy comes
Speaker 2: in and can you pretty much change the franchise. You're
Speaker 2: going to need a lot of different positions, and I
Speaker 2: think that some of these losses that we're seeing are
Speaker 2: in positions that we can afford them. You know, like
Speaker 2: let's just go from the most recent with Jake Beverheart.
Speaker 2: Yeah we'll put We'll get into him deeper here in
Speaker 2: a few minutes, but right now, the safety room looks
Speaker 2: pretty good, and your path to play is quite difficult
Speaker 2: at this point. Brandon Hall has done a great job.
Speaker 2: You know a lot of people don't even bring up Hardy,
Speaker 2: but you know, you have Boganowski, you have powers. You
Speaker 2: still have Robert Spiars Jennings, you still have Peyton Bowen,
Speaker 2: and then you have a Murray Robinson and Marcus Wimberley
Speaker 2: in there too. And so if there's a space where
Speaker 2: you can maybe take in l and maybe not bump
Speaker 2: up and come out of what you want in what
Speaker 2: you're slotted to do, it's there where the places that
Speaker 2: we have, you know, really taken it to where we
Speaker 2: wanted to is you know, on the offensive line. You
Speaker 2: know with Deacon Schmidt, Deacon Schmidt was a guy that
Speaker 2: we really really wanted. So you know, when those when
Speaker 2: those requests went a certain way. We met them quarterback,
Speaker 2: same place, you know, on the defensive line. The guys
Speaker 2: that we really you know, thought that we were in on.
Speaker 2: It was the same thing with their I think, Jay,
Speaker 2: and then I'll pass it to you. The other point
Speaker 2: is there's a lot of guys who are going to
Speaker 2: come in and want to make you know, the top
Speaker 2: capability of their nil and money, you know, from now
Speaker 2: the collective slash university. And I'll just point out one
Speaker 2: guy who, you know, a defensive lineman, Taj Overton. Taj Overton.
Speaker 2: It was a situation where he kind of got quiet
Speaker 2: over you know, maybe mars Ish things started quieting down.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a lot of buzz. There wasn't a lot
Speaker 2: of talk out there, and that guy was not going
Speaker 2: to be able to come in and really see the
Speaker 2: field anytime soon. He had a lot in front of him.
Speaker 2: And I don't think that he is rated or envisioned
Speaker 2: as a guy who's going to come in, you know,
Speaker 2: at the around the two hundred and eighty pound mark
Speaker 2: and make it a make an immedia impact and get
Speaker 2: the you know that high four star money, come in
Speaker 2: and do some production on the field. It was when
Speaker 2: we were going to see itself with another David's oone
Speaker 2: situation where you have a high rate for CRUW who
Speaker 2: doesn't get a lot of field time because the guy's
Speaker 2: out in front of them, and then you have to
Speaker 2: have that awkward conversation, you know, after year one on
Speaker 2: bumping down the NIL money. So you've got so much
Speaker 2: money that you can spend, and if you think that
Speaker 2: a guy is not going to come in and really
Speaker 2: put it up right from the get, you know that
Speaker 2: you don't bend on what you're what you're willing to do.
Speaker 2: In Oklahoma State, we all heard Mike Gundy this past week.
Speaker 2: Mike decided that Nil was not going away apparently, So
Speaker 2: congratulations for Mike for coming around to Nil sticking around finally.
Speaker 2: But you know the university, they they up their offer
Speaker 2: for him, and they went after him, and they made
Speaker 2: him a good pitch. And so I think that it's
Speaker 2: not just playing it simple. That recruit comes and says, hey,
Speaker 2: I want this amount of money, and and OU says
Speaker 2: can we afford it? Cannot afford it. There's a lot
Speaker 2: that goes into it, and what the staff doesn't want
Speaker 2: to do is we don't want. We don't want to
Speaker 2: get to an emergency or get to a spot to
Speaker 2: where we need to spend some money. We already spent
Speaker 2: it all. And I think that it is a more
Speaker 2: I guess you'd say cautious point of action for this
Speaker 2: team and uh for this for this recruiting, uh, this
Speaker 2: recruiting staff at this point, and uh, you know, we
Speaker 2: won't see really right now if if it if it's good,
Speaker 2: or if it's bad. But I do think that the
Speaker 2: recruiting trail, you know, there's a lot of negative recruiting too.
Speaker 2: And I think that this team comes out and plays
Speaker 2: how you and I both think that they're going to
Speaker 2: play this year, all of a sudden, some of these
Speaker 2: conversations are gonna go a little bit different.
Speaker 1: That's where you'll see an adjustment to go with that.
Speaker 1: First off, remember Naggi's only been here so many months.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of refreshing and everything. I'm gonna address
Speaker 1: the video that Naggi had because we talked about it
Speaker 1: on here last show, So I decided to go back
Speaker 1: and watch the actual Triple Option show that that that
Speaker 1: show which is with mark Ingram, rob Stone as well
Speaker 1: as Urban Meyer. A lot of people didn't watch it,
Speaker 1: like watch the entire thing. Now, that quote comes from
Speaker 1: a question that was specifically asked by urban Meyer about value,
Speaker 1: because they were talking about the salary cap and how
Speaker 1: the cap exist and what do you do because you
Speaker 1: can't pay a whole bunch of people on that cap,
Speaker 1: because you got to have space to also pay the
Speaker 1: current players on your roster, especially the good ones. Like
Speaker 1: I mentioned, retention is just an important as acquisition, and
Speaker 1: Naggi talked about that, and that's where it came from.
Speaker 1: It was all from a salary cap conversation about current
Speaker 1: players and getting new players and how do you find value.
Speaker 1: I'll explain that in a second. But from there though, Coop,
Speaker 1: as you just mentioned, you gotta have the money to
Speaker 1: be able to do stuff. This is why I don't
Speaker 1: take any and no shade to any of you here
Speaker 1: in the conversation. I love you all a lot, right,
Speaker 1: I love you all. Don't remind you this real quick, Mike,
Speaker 1: Oh you might thank you so much for the ten bucks.
Speaker 1: We greatly appreciate it. Ten dollars stories. That's champonship. Jay
Speaker 1: is promising this year Oka ten wins. I'm here for
Speaker 1: ten wins as well. It's in my brain. A few
Speaker 1: people have said that, and Green Arrow pointed this out
Speaker 1: that Texas. What's funny is Texas recruiting stategy is coming
Speaker 1: to sound pretty much exactly what Naggie is saying, because
Speaker 1: it is literally the on War Richardson post that Orange
Speaker 1: Bloods did is that Texas said they're not gonna pay
Speaker 1: these high school kids all this money they're gonna do focus.
Speaker 2: On yeahur hours after hours, everybody started blowing up Naggie.
Speaker 1: For his quote exactly. They basically said, hey man, these
Speaker 1: kids asked for ridiculous money. That's why Texas taking them
Speaker 1: are winning people from them. And Robert to kind of
Speaker 1: point out your statement, let me remind you guys this
Speaker 1: You ready, y'all ain't the only fan base feel like
Speaker 1: y'all suck at recruiting. You know who things they suck
Speaker 1: at recruiting. Coupe Texas, Texas things they suck at recruiting.
Speaker 1: Look at this, Texas fans are losing their minds saying
Speaker 1: that they suck at recruiting and they don't understand how
Speaker 1: they went to the playoffs back to back years and
Speaker 1: for some reason, recruits don't want to go to their school. People.
Speaker 1: Explain that to me. Explain to me. Look at these
Speaker 1: message board posts. Man, they are losing their minds about
Speaker 1: the fact that they can't get a recruit to commit
Speaker 1: to them because and they went to the playoffs. They're
Speaker 1: getting outbitted by Baylor guys. This is why I'm pointing
Speaker 1: this out to y'all for this reason. It's not happening
Speaker 1: to just us. This is happening around college football. Smaller
Speaker 1: schools are coming in and throwing the largest amount they
Speaker 1: can because they're trying to get that parody game going.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma's just not gonna play it. We have a different strategy.
Speaker 1: One of our biggest strategies is we're just gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and find not only someone there that's probably potentially
Speaker 1: better fit for us, or at least a comparable fit,
Speaker 1: or we're just gonna go to the portal. Kids are
Speaker 1: gonna bounce after a year at some of these schools
Speaker 1: when they're gonna be like, you know what, We're gonna
Speaker 1: slash your pay because you just didn't produce the way
Speaker 1: we needed you to, so we don't cut you pay,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be like, you know what, We'll circle
Speaker 1: back to you. We ain't gonna pay you what you
Speaker 1: were making before. We'll pay you a fraction of it
Speaker 1: because we actually liked you and we liked your tape.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see a lot of that, a lot of that,
Speaker 1: I promise you that.
Speaker 2: And and Jay, let me let me just ask you
Speaker 2: a rhetorical question.
Speaker 1: Here, fair rhetorical how much Oregon?
Speaker 2: Oregon has some money? Right? Oregon has money? Right? Okay,
Speaker 2: let's see here. You've got Notre Dame who is you know,
Speaker 2: they're number four in the rankings right now. And yes,
Speaker 2: kJ Arsenal, you are right, my buddy. We're talk talk
Speaker 2: a little soccer here half second. But but you've got
Speaker 2: teams like Florida State. They got a lot of money
Speaker 2: out there. Florida Miami in twelve to thirteen. Texas right
Speaker 2: now is at ranked number fifteen. There is a lot
Speaker 2: of money available at Texas ole miss. We've seen them, Hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 2: SMU with all of the money that SMU has and
Speaker 2: all these wins that they've had recently, there are four
Speaker 2: slots ahead of us. So it is we brought it
Speaker 2: up the last the last show is you've got guys
Speaker 2: like with Georgia Tech pulling the big five star offensive
Speaker 2: lineman last year, got the big wide receiver going to Syracuse.
Speaker 2: I can promise you this I taught you know, I
Speaker 2: work nationwide. I have a lot of people that are
Speaker 2: up in New York and there's not a lot of
Speaker 2: ball knowledge or college football excitement up there at all.
Speaker 2: So some of these guys, and it's not I will
Speaker 2: say this, it's now a deal that you have to
Speaker 2: go out and you get yourself an agent. You've got
Speaker 2: to get an agent. You've got to get somebody who's
Speaker 2: going to go out there and have these conversations. A
Speaker 2: lot of these Why is the decisions aren't being made
Speaker 2: by the kids. They're saying, hey, listen, you signed with me, junior,
Speaker 2: and we will take care of everything. You just go
Speaker 2: out and produce and we'll do everything for you. Right,
Speaker 2: You don't see a lot. I mean, there's the here
Speaker 2: and there with a guy like a Felix Ojo who
Speaker 2: is out in the middle of every single conversation socially possible.
Speaker 2: But most of these guys, there's a lot less out there.
Speaker 2: It's not so much about it's not so much about
Speaker 2: I mean, like even look at Deuce Jeralds. Deuce Jeralds
Speaker 2: is filming YouTube videos of him doing campus visits on
Speaker 2: these things, and now he is pretty quiet. So all
Speaker 2: of these guys like David Stone, when during his recruitment,
Speaker 2: always out there, always talking, always kind of you know,
Speaker 2: getting the the what was David Stone was supposed to
Speaker 2: go to what was it? A school up north that
Speaker 2: just absolutely blows I mean, Michigan State, Michigan State thought
Speaker 2: that that he was going to be going up there.
Speaker 2: He rolled up the Miami crowd, he rolled up the
Speaker 2: O U crowd, and he got all these things going on.
Speaker 2: It's not you don't see a lot of that anymore.
Speaker 2: And we follow a lot of these guys quite a bit.
Speaker 2: So what happens is you got schools like Syrakese, you
Speaker 2: got schools like Houston. Now you know today with the
Speaker 2: wide receiver, you got a lot of the schools who say,
Speaker 2: we need to make a big splash here because our
Speaker 2: name has to be mentioned at some point in all
Speaker 2: this stuff to show that we belong in here too,
Speaker 2: because there's still the whole super Conference thing going on too.
Speaker 2: Outside of the NIL piece.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of components that's coming through.
Speaker 1: But The other piece to add to that, truly is
Speaker 1: that a lot of schools, a lot of the bigger schools,
Speaker 1: are getting wise to this. They're like, no, we're not
Speaker 1: we have And this is what Naggie said when he
Speaker 1: was on the Triple Option podcast. He basically as a
Speaker 1: Cliffs knows for you all, is that they asked him
Speaker 1: about value because you've got a salary, you got a revenue,
Speaker 1: you know, redshare cap, but salary cap, and you can't spend.
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to go over what are you doing?
Speaker 1: He's like, you know, yeah, what we do. And this
Speaker 1: is a question that was actually in the comment section,
Speaker 1: So let me answer this for you as well. You're
Speaker 1: asking about I'm not sure who the name was, I'll
Speaker 1: get there in a second, but you're asking about the
Speaker 1: coaches butting heads ah h care Jarson jarsonal eight, Yes,
Speaker 1: wondering if there's headbutting at the top when it comes
Speaker 1: to the recruits and no, Naggie addressed that part and
Speaker 1: this this Pobb came out July beginning of this month,
Speaker 1: and he addressed that he said, no, he listens to
Speaker 1: the coaches. He doesn't force players down their throat, but
Speaker 1: what they did was to simplify things for everybody is
Speaker 1: they created a color coded system as far as value go.
Speaker 1: So basically, instead of the coaches having to sit there
Speaker 1: and watch film and figure out these recruits, we've got
Speaker 1: eight dudes on staff that watch film NonStop, that are
Speaker 1: trained and have experience doing this, and so they do
Speaker 1: that and then they rank them based upon what they think.
Speaker 1: The value upset player truly is if it's a five
Speaker 1: star and they feel like they're five star status. Akaj
Speaker 1: Crill in which we're seeing predictions going for Oklahoma, sounds
Speaker 1: like he's mostly he's a very heavy Oklahoma Lean. We'll
Speaker 1: wait and see, but he's at the top of the
Speaker 1: list of someone they're gonna pay. So so if and
Speaker 1: or when he commits and we give him a bunch
Speaker 1: of money, do not be surprised because he's won. Bo
Speaker 1: Bentley was high on that list, hence why he's committed
Speaker 1: and we paid him. So they did the color coding
Speaker 1: thing with the coaches and so now they understand, Okay,
Speaker 1: do you want to spend that much on to do
Speaker 1: because the other thing, and this is why I keep
Speaker 1: emphasizing this to a lot of people where we're missing
Speaker 1: the force for the trees. You gotta pay your current
Speaker 1: players too. So when Reggie Powers shows out, when Michael
Speaker 1: Bobanowski shows out, when Isaiah Satanna or a coop Josiah
Speaker 1: Martin and Zion Currenty shows out at wide Receiver, guess
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. You gotta pay if you want to
Speaker 1: keep them, because then of course the opportunity to leave
Speaker 1: and go get make more money is there. That's where
Speaker 1: you gotta balance that out. Is a balance I'm not saying,
Speaker 1: and they're not gonna pay. And that's even what even
Speaker 1: with like Jake Rosenberg was jumping in the comments on
Speaker 1: Folks was saying that nag he wasn't saying he's not
Speaker 1: gonna spend on top players, but he's got to figure
Speaker 1: it out because he's got to also retain the current roster.
Speaker 1: It's just like in the NFL. But the big difference,
Speaker 1: and Naggie mentioned this on the show as well, is
Speaker 1: that you only got so many years with these kids.
Speaker 1: So you're balancing three, four years maybe five with some
Speaker 1: kids with bringing in the new ones and balancing that number. Man,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get It's a very interesting setup. It's more
Speaker 1: of a challenge to figure out how because this is new.
Speaker 1: You remember, this is brand new for everybody, and so
Speaker 1: you've got certain schools like a Texas Tech throwing these
Speaker 1: big bags around and it's cool and all, but go
Speaker 1: look the rest of the players they have. They have one,
Speaker 1: two Tier one players, and then they just fill it
Speaker 1: up with everything else and then they figure it out
Speaker 1: and go from there. What they're trying to do is
Speaker 1: drum up attention. If they drum up enough tension to
Speaker 1: their name, guess what happens. Maybe they can get themselves
Speaker 1: some more recruits. The good thing for Oklahoma is we
Speaker 1: already got that. Now, we just got to decide what
Speaker 1: players we want to go deep into. And so if
Speaker 1: this player does populate over the we get a top
Speaker 1: ten or something over the next twenty four hours from somebody,
Speaker 1: y'all gonna have a reason to get excited because it'll
Speaker 1: be a player that is a top one hundred player
Speaker 1: that y'all been hoping for. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 2: And I saw somebody make a comment and it was
Speaker 2: really really an intelligent comment after the Everheart commitment yesterday
Speaker 2: that didn't go the Sooner's way, and he said remind it,
Speaker 2: remind me of yes, remind me again why we're freaking
Speaker 2: out over the two hundred and sixty seventh player in
Speaker 2: the recruiting rankings. And I think that like you got
Speaker 2: to step back because when when you when you hear
Speaker 2: things like we're in the top for this guy, and
Speaker 2: this guy could have been a silent commitment because I
Speaker 2: fully believe that Everhart gave the coaches the nod at
Speaker 2: one point, and so it feels like it when you
Speaker 2: have situations like this, there's a lot of things. I
Speaker 2: don't think Everhart was necessarily an il pece And if
Speaker 2: you guys don't know, his dad recently passed away, he
Speaker 2: played there, and there is there is a component of
Speaker 2: that in that decision. You saw him crying, You saw
Speaker 2: him if you read a lot of the notes on
Speaker 2: like how he what he said about the OU staff,
Speaker 2: like it was almost like he was apologizing to the
Speaker 2: OU staff. And I'm just going to say, if, if,
Speaker 2: if I if we got a guy and he sat
Speaker 2: there on the you know, during his commitment day and
Speaker 2: apologized to hell, let's just say Miami and the Miami
Speaker 2: staff over and over and over again. I don't know
Speaker 2: how comfortable I feel in that scenario, but you understand
Speaker 2: it because of the heartstream portion of it. But I
Speaker 2: go back to this, Jay, is you've got what do
Speaker 2: you say, a healthy twenty million dollar budget, right, a
Speaker 2: healthy twenty million dollar budget for a for a recruiting class,
Speaker 2: and you've got how many players are their own rosters now?
Speaker 2: Two hundred five ten, one hundred and five, one hundred
Speaker 2: and five total players. So you've got to divide all
Speaker 2: that money up and then hope to God that you're
Speaker 2: paying the right people the right amount of money. Because
Speaker 2: you watch in the NFL and a quarterback will have
Speaker 2: twenty three to twenty four percent of cap space. You
Speaker 2: still need five dudes to protect his ass. You still
Speaker 2: need three or four dudes to throw the ball to,
Speaker 2: You need somebody to tote the rock. And that's on offense, right.
Speaker 2: It even got the defense right to add today.
Speaker 1: Like taking consideration that you know, we've got a lot
Speaker 1: of young players right now too, and a lot of
Speaker 1: young players that you really like that we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to you know, we're gonna have to pay. And that's
Speaker 1: where that's where your struggle comes in.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: And it's nothing like I said, I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: we're not and there are some struggles here and there,
Speaker 1: and that that we need to improve some things. That's
Speaker 1: not what We're not just disputing a lot of that,
Speaker 1: but we're trying to add some additional context for you
Speaker 1: guys to understand what you have to do if you're
Speaker 1: gonna survive this game. Because remember, NIL is also going
Speaker 1: to be a component. Now, if the NCAA would stop,
Speaker 1: well not the NCAAA, the College Sports Commission, the CSC,
Speaker 1: if they would stop being stupid and denying in IL deals,
Speaker 1: basically every anything is coming from a collective, they're basically
Speaker 1: denying it, which is dumb because there's there's a great
Speaker 1: argument that a lawyer just made. Then this transitions perfectly
Speaker 1: into you know where things are gonna get very very
Speaker 1: squirrely over the next few months. Basically this here you go, coop.
Speaker 1: This lawyer pointed that out, and I thought it was
Speaker 1: basically genius. The collectives, they have agreed that the collectives
Speaker 1: are allowed to basically help facilitate deals for the players
Speaker 1: when it comes to NIL, which at that point makes
Speaker 1: the collective a legitimate business entity that in turn can
Speaker 1: go into an NIL deal that is a fair market
Speaker 1: value number to help these kids facilitate deals with bigger
Speaker 1: NIL deals down the line. This commission and the accounting
Speaker 1: firm that's a part of this. With this clearing house crap,
Speaker 1: they're basically denying two thousand dollars NIO deals for them
Speaker 1: to do marketing stuff, social media posts and all of
Speaker 1: this stuff, which is basically them drumming up more business
Speaker 1: for themselves or the collectives to be able to help
Speaker 1: facilitate more stuff for players. That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: You're just basically like cutting off your nose to spite
Speaker 1: your face in this situation. This is where things are
Speaker 1: getting ridiculous, and it's gonna become a pain in all
Speaker 1: of our tush trying to figure out how it's gonna work.
Speaker 1: I'm annoyed by it. I'm annoyed by it because all
Speaker 1: it does is slow up the process of doing these
Speaker 1: quote unquote innel deals. That's why you see it. Like
Speaker 1: Texas Tech, they didn't do a nil deal. Their deal
Speaker 1: was a rev share deal. They are going to give
Speaker 1: these players the revenue share cut piece of the pie.
Speaker 1: And if you really think about it, if they're gonna
Speaker 1: allot five percent of it to this player. What does
Speaker 1: that mean for the other players on the roster. They're
Speaker 1: gonna start playing a whole bunch of freshmen. I know
Speaker 1: none of y'all want us to play a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of freshmen. We did that last year. What happened. They
Speaker 1: usually aren't at the physical ability to play at the
Speaker 1: level y'all want them to. Y'all gonna be mad. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: y'all is y'all in the comment session, y'all gonna be mad.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be mad because I understand y'all gonna
Speaker 1: be mad, Like, why are we playing these dudes? We
Speaker 1: need to get some We need to get some veterans
Speaker 1: in there. Well, that's what I'm Oklahoma's doing right now.
Speaker 1: This staff is they like their picks, they like the
Speaker 1: players that they've recruited, and we started to up players
Speaker 1: pay and it looks really good going forward.
Speaker 2: Like it does.
Speaker 1: It looks and feels good. Like every parent I've talked
Speaker 1: to that's been at a practice and have watched it
Speaker 1: and watched film, they're like, oh, this is night and
Speaker 1: day compared to what we saw last year. Last year,
Speaker 1: they were telling me, hey man, I'm worried about this
Speaker 1: and worried about that. We got to see if it
Speaker 1: works out. Okay, cool, now I talk to y'all about it.
Speaker 1: I told y'all our hopes was this, this and this
Speaker 1: working for us, and those things didn't work out for us.
Speaker 1: But now these parents are like, oh no, it's like
Speaker 1: night and day. I watched the film of last year
Speaker 1: what we were supposed to do. Oh, this looks completely different.
Speaker 1: Like they're actually doing the stuff that they were supposed
Speaker 1: to do, and the playbook is dramatically different. Believe your boy.
Speaker 1: Everybody is saying that. Everybody is. The parents are saying ay.
Speaker 1: And the parents that we have are ones that actually
Speaker 1: watch film and actually coach on the side too, they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: believe me when I say this, you are to like
Speaker 1: what you see out of this team. So we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens.
Speaker 2: Though, And I'll cap it off with one other thing
Speaker 2: that Jay is my grandfather, Uh, greatest man I've ever known,
Speaker 2: a person that I absolutely love. One of his biggest
Speaker 2: things is, you know what, if you always tell the truth,
Speaker 2: you never have to remember what you said and what's
Speaker 2: going to happen in all these conversations with all these
Speaker 2: high school recruits. Is all these universities are gonna be
Speaker 2: talking all this mess, all these all these promises, all
Speaker 2: these lofty pieces, and then some of these guys are
Speaker 2: gonna go elsewhere and they're going to see, well, well, damn,
Speaker 2: it didn't happen like they said it was going to happen.
Speaker 2: Who do you think is the first university that they're
Speaker 2: going to think about? Because I know that Josiah Martin
Speaker 2: is one of the guys that we had a conversation with,
Speaker 2: we had a good cup of coffee with, and he
Speaker 2: decided to go elsewhere. He plays a year and then
Speaker 2: he says, come on back to you, and I think
Speaker 2: he's a guy that nobody talks about. Now. Is he
Speaker 2: going to be ceedee lamb? I don't really think so.
Speaker 2: But could he be a guy who catches passes on
Speaker 2: the regular? Could he be a clutch guy? Could he
Speaker 2: be somebody that every single time that he catches a pass,
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, damn, I forgot we had him. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think that that's the type of guy that you're
Speaker 2: gonna want. Is somebody who says, you know what truth
Speaker 2: does mean something to me? And if you have a
Speaker 2: good relationship with these kids, and you just own up
Speaker 2: and be what you say you're going to be, and
Speaker 2: those guys start hitting the transfer portal. You have a
Speaker 2: guy who comes in the star rating. Don't mean a
Speaker 2: damn thing once you hit campus all nothing at all.
Speaker 1: And you know said that too, said that too, just
Speaker 1: you real quick. Somebody just said that recently. Michael Fassousi
Speaker 1: just said that literally in an interview a couple of days.
Speaker 2: Ago, exactly exactly. And so you got a guy like
Speaker 2: Michael Foussi. He has shown up on campus, and what
Speaker 2: has he done. He has pushed, pushed, pushed every single
Speaker 2: offensive line him and that is in the same room
Speaker 2: with him. He has done what he is supposed to
Speaker 2: be doing. And so we've had guys, and I don't
Speaker 2: want to throw dudes under the under the bus. We
Speaker 2: had a very very very borderline five star offensive lineman
Speaker 2: out of the state of Oklahoma here recently come onto
Speaker 2: the team. And we waited one year, we waited, two years,
Speaker 2: we waited three years. Nothing happened. Dude bounced and never
Speaker 2: played a meaningful down, never gave us meaningful stabs. And
Speaker 2: so you're going, you got that's the thing is is.
Speaker 2: Now that you've got the money tied to it, it's
Speaker 2: no longer well he's just a kid, leave him alone.
Speaker 2: He's just a kid. Now you get the money tied
Speaker 2: to it, every single one of us are going to go,
Speaker 2: why are we paying that guy money? Like why? Hold on? Why? Why?
Speaker 2: Why did we give him that much money? How much
Speaker 2: money do we give jack Sonrnle because we all feel
Speaker 2: good about saying it when it's that way, or when
Speaker 2: you got the guys who come out and produce and
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden they're like, hey, hitting the
Speaker 2: transferport autie and hold on, why can we not pay
Speaker 2: him money? I would rather be in a spot to
Speaker 2: where we have money to bump a guy up, then
Speaker 2: go to a spot to where we got to go
Speaker 2: and deplete the depth in order to keep somebody because
Speaker 2: I mean, they're they're threatening to leave because we don't
Speaker 2: have enough money because we gave it to two other
Speaker 2: guys who haven't done anything on the field. So there
Speaker 2: is a long game in play right now. And I
Speaker 2: would rather say, let's do a let's come together on
Speaker 2: an idea based off of measurables, based off of statistical analysis,
Speaker 2: you know, instead of going well, hey, these three sites
Speaker 2: say that he's a four star, so that means he's
Speaker 2: definitely going to be an NFL guy, right, I mean
Speaker 2: you've seen several I mean, I got the list here.
Speaker 2: I keep on bringing up. I just don't throw it
Speaker 2: away right now because there's so many guys that when
Speaker 2: you saw you're like, holy hell, this guy is going
Speaker 2: to be an absolute stud.
Speaker 1: And that's the point here too, exactly. That's the point here,
Speaker 1: Karris Jay. You made this right there. We've got five
Speaker 1: stars now and through show Up's five stars, it's gonna
Speaker 1: take time. This is also the thing I want you
Speaker 1: to remember too, And this is this only reason why
Speaker 1: this keeps getting rehashes for this particular reason, because I
Speaker 1: know that I've learned more and more as I've done
Speaker 1: this over the last since Revnables has been here. This
Speaker 1: is when we've really dubbed deep into the Oklahoma content
Speaker 1: and talking something to point out it is July. I
Speaker 1: don't know if y'all realize this, but a lot of
Speaker 1: the kids that we recruited over the last couple of
Speaker 1: years and they committed around July, their rankings went up
Speaker 1: by the time we got to October. Why because now
Speaker 1: people are paying attention to them. Just put it to
Speaker 1: you this way. I have no beef with the ranking
Speaker 1: system like most do. A lot of people do. I
Speaker 1: know Cooper voiced his distern with his his issue with it.
Speaker 1: I've heard others do it as well, and I totally
Speaker 1: get it. I get it like you should have skepticism
Speaker 1: mainly because it's humans making decisions. I get that computers
Speaker 1: aren't any better because they are taking input from humans,
Speaker 1: so not everybody. That's why you have three different systems,
Speaker 1: well now three, because they're all Everybody has a different
Speaker 1: point of view on why they value certain things. One
Speaker 1: thing I have noticed though, is and this is another
Speaker 1: example that came from that Triple Option podcast mark Ingram.
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all knew this. When mark Ingram
Speaker 1: was a three star prospect, he finished as a four
Speaker 1: star prospect when and he said this on the show
Speaker 1: when Alabama offered him. His status of stars went up
Speaker 1: after Alabama and the commitment, but he was a three
Speaker 1: star initially. He's like, yeah, I was a three star
Speaker 1: coming out because days like mark you were a three
Speaker 1: star from correct when you were in high school? And
Speaker 1: mark Ingram replied back, yeah, I was. And then when
Speaker 1: you know at the off from Alabama and commit there,
Speaker 1: then I moved. That's when I urged my fourth start.
Speaker 1: I say that because a lot of these evaluators too
Speaker 1: it some of these sites. They look at the people
Speaker 1: that's evaluating the talent. If there's a dude that's known
Speaker 1: for putting people into the pros, dudes that's known for
Speaker 1: developing players like I mean, Todd Bates has a reputation,
Speaker 1: hence why so many jobs have come up for him,
Speaker 1: people try to get them. Bill beaton Bow has been
Speaker 1: tried to people try to take him numerous times as well. Heck,
Speaker 1: even to Marco Murray. You've seen so many these coaches
Speaker 1: people try to prime away. Those evaluators respect what they're
Speaker 1: saying too. They're like, oh, okay, you offered them. There's
Speaker 1: the reason why you offer them.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Granted, not all players will move up quickly, because I
Speaker 1: mean you can look at like the Gendro brothers. They've
Speaker 1: got offers from just about all the large gauntlet of schools,
Speaker 1: but they have not moved up in the rankings. S Het.
Speaker 1: But again, it's July, give it some time. He was
Speaker 1: a three star when we offered him. He commits in August,
Speaker 1: he's flying up the charts into four and he becomes
Speaker 1: a five star plus at the end. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: him break out yet because he's been injured, but he
Speaker 1: will at some point. Jackson Arnold was the same. He
Speaker 1: was in the four stars before he committee committed early
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma, and then as he camped more, he flew
Speaker 1: into five star plus. That You'll see that with players
Speaker 1: quite often. Sometimes it's just you gotta wait until the
Speaker 1: evaluators see all these schools want this kid? Why does
Speaker 1: all these schools want this kid? And sometimes they'll they'll
Speaker 1: correct it. Sometimes they like, now, we'll leave it as
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: And I would say that my beef with recruiting system
Speaker 2: is an actual beef. It just it is an imperfect
Speaker 2: system that's built off of you look at a lot
Speaker 2: of the time, you got guys who maybe show out
Speaker 2: as a freshman or sophomore in high school and you
Speaker 2: start going that guy's a future five star guy. He
Speaker 2: is a future five star guy. We all don't like
Speaker 2: the college football has rankings week one because something's always
Speaker 2: tossed by week three.
Speaker 1: Oh god, I hate them so much.
Speaker 2: When you get some of these guys who are projected
Speaker 2: as five stars as a sophomore. And I don't want
Speaker 2: to get crude, but my uncle said, hey, until something drops,
Speaker 2: you ain't a man. And I'm just saying, you get
Speaker 2: to a spots where guys were just massive. My little
Speaker 2: brother not a massive athlete. Not he had trouble with
Speaker 2: education portion of things too, But you know we were
Speaker 2: we were in Bartlesville alum twenty five years boom right,
Speaker 2: But we get our asses kicked day in and day
Speaker 2: out when we come up and play Jinks Broken Arrow,
Speaker 2: you know, Owasso. None of those things change. But as
Speaker 2: a freshman, my little brother came to Jinks for the preseason,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of with the rotation with the three teams.
Speaker 2: Dude had three sacks in about twelve snaps and guess what.
Speaker 2: We got calls and said miss ms Cooper, what do
Speaker 2: you guys? Where are you working now? From schools up
Speaker 2: here in Tulsa want to see and ajkj I one
Speaker 2: hundred percent believe in that one too. But if he
Speaker 2: would have been able to stay in stay out of
Speaker 2: trouble and stay in school like that is a progression
Speaker 2: where he would have probably gotten to his junior year,
Speaker 2: and it would have been a downhill spike too, because
Speaker 2: he didn't care for the game. He was just bigger
Speaker 2: and more athletic than kids his age at that moment.
Speaker 2: And so you get guys who with the recruiting systems
Speaker 2: who are a high five star, you know, going into
Speaker 2: their junior year and by their senior year. What do
Speaker 2: you do as a recruiting system do you drop the
Speaker 2: dude four hundred places and go we were wrong. No,
Speaker 2: you move guys up eventually, and maybe they're some sliding
Speaker 2: but sometimes those are the things that happen too. Guys
Speaker 2: also completely play. And et was the one where I
Speaker 2: was going with this, okj Arsenal, I appreciate man Elijah
Speaker 2: Thomas plays. Yes, yes, yes, limit it is. We had
Speaker 2: to go. We had to go get real beer up
Speaker 2: in Kane. But I'll say this is with Elijah Thomas.
Speaker 2: This is a guy who plays in Chakota, Oklahoma. Right,
Speaker 2: not a lot of people are going to know who
Speaker 2: he was. But if dude played in Duncanville, Hell, the
Speaker 2: guy played at Jenks he is It's different and and
Speaker 2: I hate to bring it over this way. Sometimes dudes
Speaker 2: just get ranked because of weird ass situations. There is
Speaker 2: a fella that's going to be starting for a team
Speaker 2: in our conference this year. Never threw for twenty six
Speaker 2: hundred yards in a single season. His highest season was
Speaker 2: his freshman season, like twenty five hundred yards. Because of
Speaker 2: his name, he was number one recruiting in everything. His
Speaker 2: final year, final game as a as a college as
Speaker 2: a high school player, he went eight for twenty one
Speaker 2: with under one hundred yards passing in two picks. Now,
Speaker 2: can you tell me how in the hell somebody can
Speaker 2: say that is a five star recruit? Can he be
Speaker 2: something different at this point? Sure, but that just shows
Speaker 2: you that sometimes the ranking systems they there's something in
Speaker 2: the mind and once it's there, it's hard to get
Speaker 2: it out because there's a lot of craw fishing that
Speaker 2: needs to happen at that point.
Speaker 1: Courses, Yeah, Jay, you're right, it's weird. Like I said,
Speaker 1: the evaluators have their own biases. If they look at
Speaker 1: and certain things, they traits they go after, and that's
Speaker 1: what they do. Our evaluators are front office staff that
Speaker 1: will be doing the exact same thing, have their biases.
Speaker 1: The staff has their biases and all of that. Let
Speaker 1: them figure out what they're gonna do. And I say
Speaker 1: that because I would like ow to at least give this.
Speaker 1: Can we can we get it through the year? Can
Speaker 1: we get of the season? Can get through the recruit
Speaker 1: because remember, I mean we've got some good players. I
Speaker 1: mean I think Danny odom And what it sounds like
Speaker 1: is Daniel Odum is not going anywhere, Like he's like, no,
Speaker 1: he's locked in with Emmitt Jones and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: we thought that he was only gonna be there for Jadeen.
Speaker 1: They have a great relationship, but he really likes ej
Speaker 1: So you've got him sticking around if you get some war.
Speaker 1: Now let's talk about that. This is probably the segment
Speaker 1: where we need to transition into it. But I want
Speaker 1: to say one thing though, and we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about the players that are left on the board. Trojan
Speaker 1: fight jumps In says, my experience is when a guy
Speaker 1: says we aren't going to get into a bidding war
Speaker 1: for a five star, really means you don't have the money.
Speaker 1: Said five stars, asking for that is always a possibility, yes,
Speaker 1: but that is not always the situation. And I can
Speaker 1: tell you that from knowing people that I've seen five
Speaker 1: stars go to other schools and take less money because
Speaker 1: the school decided that they did not want to take them,
Speaker 1: say nope, you're not a take for us. Five star rate,
Speaker 1: five star rate to guy and they just said, nah,
Speaker 1: you're not a take for us. And in a lot
Speaker 1: of those situations, it's there's other components you look at, like,
Speaker 1: y'all don't want knuckleheads, but granted, you know Trojan and fight,
Speaker 1: no shade to you. But at the same time, y'all
Speaker 1: did take Barr Alexander and he's a pan of youtse
Speaker 1: toush the entire time. So, y'all, you typically don't want
Speaker 1: a pain, but you learn it. Once you get it,
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, I see why this situation turned out
Speaker 1: the way it turned out. You're like, yeah, we shouldn't
Speaker 1: have gotten in a bed with this. You was hoping
Speaker 1: for the best. It didn't work out. It didn't work out.
Speaker 1: We've done it. Oklahoma's other too, a lot of other
Speaker 1: schools have done it. They're like, yeah, it just didn't
Speaker 1: work out the way I thought it's gonna work out, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: So you give it a try, you throw a flyre,
Speaker 1: and you go the way you go and that's just
Speaker 1: what it is. But in some situations you run into
Speaker 1: that where it's not that. It's not always a pay thing.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's say, yeah, we're gonna move on now. I
Speaker 1: do agree in some case it is paid, but coop
Speaker 1: off that dead horse of beating it, because I know
Speaker 1: we've been talking like crazy about and explaining to everybody,
Speaker 1: and it's an explaining, Lucia, you explaining to do. We're
Speaker 1: trying to do less explaining here. But no, we've got
Speaker 1: to talk about what we've got left on the board
Speaker 1: before we truly wrap up, and then we're gonna talk,
Speaker 1: you know, Superman, because I'm wide awake. Told you I
Speaker 1: am wired from no sleep and I'm going to crash
Speaker 1: so hard tonight. Oh my god, I'm sleep so hard tonight,
Speaker 1: like it's gonna be Banana. I don't know, don't wake
Speaker 1: up in the morning's gonna be sleep so hard. But anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, the Jacob Eberhart situation we talked about, that
Speaker 1: was a he's gonna go honor his father where his
Speaker 1: father's number and play at his Alma modum sucks. That
Speaker 1: was the last minute decision. He even basically said it
Speaker 1: in the interview of you know, after weirdly way and
Speaker 1: Getty decided to go the other way. Sucks, hurt, sucks.
Speaker 1: I love Jacob's film. I was high on his film.
Speaker 1: He was one that I really liked. But I'm not
Speaker 1: concerned about the safety room because Brandon Hall is there.
Speaker 1: He has been doing great. We got the Jan Joe brothers,
Speaker 1: and I think we've got a couple others that we're
Speaker 1: gonna look at here. But I think for us right now,
Speaker 1: the big question is because the biggest l's we've taken,
Speaker 1: Zach Turner, just committed to SMU, which is fascinating because
Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna Miami. Miami was gonna pay
Speaker 1: him the most, is what I've been told, and SMU
Speaker 1: somehow swooped didn't won it fascinating Who was at who
Speaker 1: was at Miles the wide receiver that you had interviewed,
Speaker 1: He ended up getting yanked up by the same school
Speaker 1: because of you know, they decided to offer up a
Speaker 1: lot of money to get some of these kids. You know,
Speaker 1: SMU is trying to find a way to bid in
Speaker 1: the Dallas Dickerson situation. Of course, that didn't work out
Speaker 1: like we would have wanted. H ALZR. Miles, that's his name.
Speaker 1: Kid's good. I really like him a lot. And Jaydon
Speaker 1: Pettitt who went to Wisconsin. So question is cool, who
Speaker 1: are you looking at to replace him? Tell you Gross
Speaker 1: Diving Gross. Now, granted, diving Gross is a multi athlete guy.
Speaker 1: He does he is a top what Oh yeah, he's
Speaker 1: top one hundred easily. Lord he's good.
Speaker 2: That boy good.
Speaker 1: We're we're we're in a very this one, I can
Speaker 1: say from confirmed from it's funny. I actually had somebody
Speaker 1: hit me up that covers one of the teams that
Speaker 1: were battling for him with and they were like, hey, man, congrats,
Speaker 1: I've actually heard that. I think I got him. He
Speaker 1: is my word that.
Speaker 2: According to ON three and H again going back to
Speaker 2: the rating systems on the different places, sometimes you're on
Speaker 2: a rivals board and everybody says Rivals hates O you,
Speaker 2: and sometimes you're on the on three board that says
Speaker 2: ON three hates ou. ESPN. I think they've always pretty
Speaker 2: much hated OU. It seems like the only time they
Speaker 2: have somebody rated higher than the other are the guys
Speaker 2: that like, we're not super excited about but.
Speaker 1: They loved him. They love they love that's a rare one,
Speaker 1: but you're right.
Speaker 2: But David Gross is the number six receiver in this class.
Speaker 2: And he is a dude who a lot of people
Speaker 2: are throwing around, you know, some some some really interesting
Speaker 2: names as far as the comps go. And you know,
Speaker 2: so you look in front of him, You've got Booby Feaster,
Speaker 2: who as at one point a lot of people thought
Speaker 2: was potentially the number one receiver in the whole entire class.
Speaker 2: But he is right in front of him, Calvin Russell,
Speaker 2: who is the five star kid who committed to Syracuse
Speaker 2: Chris Henry or Chris Henry Junior at a model day,
Speaker 2: committed to Ohio State, Ohio State getting five star receivers
Speaker 2: just like uh, you know, hot hot, hot weather in July.
Speaker 1: And then like a tradition as old as the game itself,
Speaker 1: and like what they're saying.
Speaker 2: And then you got C. D. Morgan, Uh, and that's
Speaker 2: a dude who is uh that that's one that you
Speaker 2: guys might want to watch out where he's an Alabama
Speaker 2: kid committed to Alabama six four two twenty. And then
Speaker 2: Tristan Keys uh just committed to LSU two. So I mean,
Speaker 2: these guys are all I mean, very very high, highly
Speaker 2: sought after guys. David Gross is a kid who his
Speaker 2: family are OU fans. They've been OU fans for a
Speaker 2: very long time, and again, until things are public, they
Speaker 2: still can change one hundred percent. It's always going to
Speaker 2: be that way. But as of right now, I think
Speaker 2: that's your next commitment coming here, I would not I
Speaker 2: would not be too surprised if it's very very soon.
Speaker 2: He is a dude who is going to going to
Speaker 2: come in here and he is going to compete. He's
Speaker 2: you know, I really really think that he is kind
Speaker 2: of like the Elijah Thomas. That's the that's the receiver
Speaker 2: that does really really well in this system that we're running.
Speaker 2: You don't want the five six and thirty seven pound dude.
Speaker 2: You definitely don't want the is he a tied end
Speaker 2: or is he a wide receiver body type? But that
Speaker 2: six to one round two hundred guys who can move,
Speaker 2: you know, with the ball in their hands prior to injury,
Speaker 2: you know, the last guy that's uh uh that that
Speaker 2: you know we had come in and really just you know,
Speaker 2: really really do a lot from that body type. You know,
Speaker 2: Sterling Shepherd. A lot of people don't remember how good
Speaker 2: Sterling Shepherd is. Most of you guys probably do, but
Speaker 2: a lot of people forget about him because his body
Speaker 2: type was just it was phenomenal. He had. He had
Speaker 2: an absolute, you know, great body control, great ability to
Speaker 2: catch the ball in traffic. You know, he did not
Speaker 2: hear footsteps. Those were things that made him great. And
Speaker 2: and so you know, I'm very excited if you know,
Speaker 2: if people's that pulls the trigger and you know, does
Speaker 2: commit to OU. I think that it's a lockdown situation.
Speaker 2: And you know, I don't want to steal any of the kids,
Speaker 2: any of the kids glory for what he's doing. But
Speaker 2: there is a you know, for the same amount of
Speaker 2: for the Jacob Eberhart situation. You know, OU is a
Speaker 2: very very important thing to his family. And I saw
Speaker 2: a comment that somebody said, you know, these kids are
Speaker 2: all divas. Again, I very much want to let you
Speaker 2: guys know that it is a very hard situation right
Speaker 2: now to be a sixteen, seventeen, eighteen year old kid
Speaker 2: and have the entire family basically coming to help you
Speaker 2: out right, coming to help you out and to the middle, yes,
Speaker 2: because all of a sudden you have a potential before
Speaker 2: you play a snap in college football, to offer a
Speaker 2: wealth that your family has never experienced, and to help
Speaker 2: out people up and down the family, and there's a
Speaker 2: lot of pressure. There is a lot of pressure. We
Speaker 2: saw a situation with that in the transfer portal season
Speaker 2: earlier this year with one of our guys. And so
Speaker 2: family is a very very big, big thing to him.
Speaker 2: His family are big, o you people. You're starting to
Speaker 2: see a couple of the couple of the crystal balls
Speaker 2: dropping for him too. So you know that will when
Speaker 2: we get that. He didn't take a small bag. That's
Speaker 2: not the case. He's not a diva, that's not the case.
Speaker 2: But he voiced his opinion, and his opinion was it
Speaker 2: was going to be helped.
Speaker 1: No, you're right, and we that crystal ball came in.
Speaker 1: Was that yesterday from the Josh mcchustan dropped one. You
Speaker 1: also had the Spiegelman Spegelman Uh, he had just dropped
Speaker 1: an article about the three way battle. And then and
Speaker 1: then Gross mentioned that Houston was in the mix because
Speaker 1: they just got did a Houston visit. And he's like, nah, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna win this one. Ohkame, I got this one.
Speaker 1: So so that's the case, I'm like, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that that's that that out again, I am also in
Speaker 1: the the the mind framed up. I just wait and
Speaker 1: see when it happens.
Speaker 2: Because things happen. Yeah, I think things happen, and it ain't.
Speaker 2: It ain't always the kid's fault. A lot of the time.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of pressure there. And just remember, I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just gonna rewind when I was seventeen
Speaker 2: years old. I was not I did not have years old.
Speaker 2: I was three or four years ago, but I just
Speaker 2: turned twenty.
Speaker 1: But and although you were a baby.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm gonna end it with something, so don't don't
Speaker 2: take the mic right after I finished the sentence. But
Speaker 2: you know, when you're seventeen, like I said, with all
Speaker 2: these these pressures on you and of what can happen,
Speaker 2: and it's hard to say like, hey, listen, man, you
Speaker 2: can really take care of you know, we can take
Speaker 2: care of mom and pops. We can put you on
Speaker 2: the right path, we can take care of your grandparents
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. If you go to Oklahoma and
Speaker 2: then somebody comes and drop says, oh, hey, if you
Speaker 2: take that money, we could all submit your you know,
Speaker 2: your uncle, your aunt. She's been having some issues with
Speaker 2: her health, and you know, they they're their kids. You know,
Speaker 2: they got really bright futures and they just don't have
Speaker 2: the money to do things. A lot of those conversations happen,
Speaker 2: and it's not malicious, it's not nefarious. It's sometimes it's
Speaker 2: just real life. And it's hard for these kids at
Speaker 2: seventeen to go, yeah, but what about when I'm thirty.
Speaker 1: Right, that's always the one. So what happens when I'm
Speaker 1: thirty years old? And it's like, oh, you know about that?
Speaker 1: I'm not really talking about that component of but again,
Speaker 1: that's you know, you're one hundred percent right that they're
Speaker 1: looking at they're missing the force for the trees. I
Speaker 1: make that statement for that specific reason because that's really
Speaker 1: what's happening. A lot of people are missing the force
Speaker 1: for the trees. You're looking at right in front of you,
Speaker 1: not looking at the long term. Some players are starting
Speaker 1: to recognize that others are not. They got pulling up
Speaker 1: at the light button. New to the channel, subscribe rate review,
Speaker 1: give us five I expect. I expect by the end
Speaker 1: of August, you guys will be pleasantly surprised at what
Speaker 1: Oklahoma's doing and you may actually have some smiles on
Speaker 1: your face. And if another five star populates, like I'm
Speaker 1: sensing could happen, if things are tracking properly, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be like, where did this come from? And i'mber, like
Speaker 1: I told you, I just I don't want to take
Speaker 1: away the kids thunder, but I've heard some things anyway.
Speaker 2: There are some things out there. But hey, I just
Speaker 2: want to say, I did mention that I just turned
Speaker 2: twenty last week. But James's birthday tomorrow is your birthday
Speaker 2: and you're doing Lord's work out there sec media day,
Speaker 2: So guys hit up up in the chat say happy
Speaker 2: birthday to Jay. I find it funny. My birthday is
Speaker 2: July seventh, JP over with JP and Trav July eleventh,
Speaker 2: and then you the fourteenth. So if you got a
Speaker 2: July birthday, hop in here too and let us know
Speaker 2: about your birthday. But man, happy birthday and fun story time.
Speaker 2: And then I want to I want to I want
Speaker 2: to disagree with everything that you think about life after that.
Speaker 2: But last year, if you guys were on the watching
Speaker 2: the show last year at this time, who did I
Speaker 2: I had? Man? I can Jake, I can't remember Jake's
Speaker 2: last name. One of the Alabama guys I had him on,
Speaker 2: You were Jack Marling, Jake Marry, Yeah, you were. You
Speaker 2: were gone traveling at that point too. So Jay and
Speaker 2: my wife and my friends all scheme behind my back,
Speaker 2: scheme to get me out and get my irish on
Speaker 2: as soon as the show was over, and they wanted
Speaker 2: it to be a surprise. And if you want to
Speaker 2: surprise me, it don't It don't take much. I am
Speaker 2: a very very narrow focused person, but which is funny
Speaker 2: because I can't stay on track when I'm talking. But
Speaker 2: you know you can, you can. You can surprise me
Speaker 2: pretty easily. So Jay tells me that he forgot to
Speaker 2: renew the podcast uh database, the the streaming service that
Speaker 2: we used, and that we had to cut the show
Speaker 2: off at at an hour exactly, and if we did not,
Speaker 2: it was going to just shut off and it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a bad experience and it could hurt the podcast,
Speaker 2: hurt our everything. And so Jake, with fifty nine minutes
Speaker 2: like twenty six seconds, says, well, I got three things
Speaker 2: to say about that. It was something to that extent,
Speaker 2: and I was panicking, panicking, panicking, panicking. I don't think
Speaker 2: it was the first time that I ever rant it
Speaker 2: by myself, but I was. I was so stressed out,
Speaker 2: and I remember at like forty eight seconds, I was like, hey,
Speaker 2: Jake Man, I love you, Jay actually say, and I
Speaker 2: kind of brought it up. I didn't know what else
Speaker 2: to do. I had no lying, no way out of it,
Speaker 2: no way to polish that turn, and so I was like,
Speaker 2: you know, thanks for tuning in. Make sure you like
Speaker 2: subscribe until next week. I'm out, and I had we
Speaker 2: had a balance. And I still I still think about that,
Speaker 2: and I get like this stress tingles up my spine
Speaker 2: because even though I know it wasn't true, it's still
Speaker 2: it still stressed me out because I did not want
Speaker 2: to bomb the show while you were out. So kudos
Speaker 2: to you for hooking me up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when the cole hit me up about that, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, don't worry, I got something perfect. I
Speaker 1: know Coop's brain well enough to know a very good
Speaker 1: way to stress them smoothly out where he's going to
Speaker 1: get off there in exactly an hour, so just give
Speaker 1: me a minute. And she's like okay, okay, And then
Speaker 1: when it went down, she messages She's like, lol, he
Speaker 1: was freaking out. I was like, I do it.
Speaker 2: I can, man, Man, I I can so bad my flight,
Speaker 2: my flights. I can say it'll take me twenty minutes
Speaker 2: to get to the airport, get a couple of minutes
Speaker 2: to get checked in, and all this stuff. I do
Speaker 2: all of those things and not stress out a single bit.
Speaker 2: And you're gonna be an asteroid coming down a tornado
Speaker 2: in the area. And I'm like, all right, guys, done,
Speaker 2: you don't run, just you know, just get there. We'll
Speaker 2: get there. But man, messing up the podcast.
Speaker 1: So and that's the that's the great appreciation I have
Speaker 1: that you have the love for like that. So Coop,
Speaker 1: thank you. That's fun. That's good stuff. Yeah, thank you
Speaker 1: all for the birthday wishes. Yes, tomorrow your boy turns
Speaker 1: a ripe twenty two years old. So I'm feeling good,
Speaker 1: feeling spry and excited, even though, like I said, I
Speaker 1: am busted and exhausted. The board is big. I need
Speaker 1: to do a full breakdown of all the players available.
Speaker 1: Me and Coop will probably do that very soon. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go through and look. Hopefully something good happens to
Speaker 1: where it makes it even easier to really dive into that.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Uh, let's talk about it.
Speaker 2: Get his spoiler alert.
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert if you have not seen the New Superman movie.
Speaker 1: As you all know, we're both Marvel nerds, we're both
Speaker 1: DC nerds, we're both comic book nerds. That's the things
Speaker 1: that we get into. To the point of Coop gets
Speaker 1: into spats with Gerald mccor on X on a regular
Speaker 1: basis about the movies, like on a regular basis, And
Speaker 1: I see your kind of questions in the comments. We'll
Speaker 1: address those here on in the end real soon. I
Speaker 1: got a few of these questions I see in here,
Speaker 1: like Robert, I see yours around juco players. Believe me,
Speaker 1: they're hunting Juco's. Uh, we're making attempts at some what
Speaker 1: we are making attempts at Juco's, Like we're looking for
Speaker 1: another kend Adobe. I'll put it to you that way.
Speaker 1: Remember kend Adobe was a Juco player, So we are
Speaker 1: looking at that. But we'll talk about that again in
Speaker 1: just second. But Coop was in therd, you know, nerding out.
Speaker 1: He's been nerding out and he's been going off in
Speaker 1: the social media is for like the last day and
Speaker 1: some change because he just did not like the movie.
Speaker 1: So Coop, I'm gonna let you open it up. What
Speaker 1: was your beef with a James Gunn produced Superman.
Speaker 2: Spoiler alert, I will yes spoiler to everybody, So again,
Speaker 2: if you have not seen the movie yet, turn off.
Speaker 2: I'll do my do my best. But I might be
Speaker 2: doing you a favor by by talking to some of
Speaker 2: this stuff. So you know, I'm not gonna lie when
Speaker 2: I hit and I go nerd out to YouTube. I
Speaker 2: typically I think that the conversations that you know, you
Speaker 2: and I have off screen does not allow you know,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't. We don't watch podcasts to get
Speaker 2: to get content because I mean, most of the stuff
Speaker 2: that we know they know the same, same type of things,
Speaker 2: and you know, we're we're not We're not going to
Speaker 2: be breaking news at any point or anything like that.
Speaker 2: So I you know, I I do support Gave and
Speaker 2: Teddy a lot more during the season, just because I
Speaker 2: want to hear schemes. I want to hear breakdowns from
Speaker 2: when it comes, you know, stuff like that. But most
Speaker 2: of the time I watch Marvel stuff, comic book guys. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, Cosmic under You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: emergency awesome, nerd alert, yes, nerd alert right, and not
Speaker 2: even just that, you know, they watched stuff like Stranger Things,
Speaker 2: et cetera. So you know, obviously, when James Gunn did
Speaker 2: Guardians of the Galaxy, I absolutely love Guardians and the Galaxy.
Speaker 2: I thought it was terrific. I think that James Gunn
Speaker 2: did a lot with Guardians of Galaxy that broke the
Speaker 2: paradigm around the superhero movies, kind of making a slapstick
Speaker 2: group of guys, you know people, you know, a freaking
Speaker 2: badass soundtrack. I mean, I would say that if you
Speaker 2: pick movie soundtracks, you can go with you know, Forrest
Speaker 2: Gump is a great movie soundtrack. You know, most of
Speaker 2: the you know, the Guardians movies had terrific soundtrack. I mean,
Speaker 2: I just download them and I just play them on
Speaker 2: fourth of July that I know that everybody is gonna, yeah,
Speaker 2: everybody's gonna dig these songs. And so but a lot
Speaker 2: of the reviews going into it were that the the
Speaker 2: CGI was was tough, not spectacular. That as as more
Speaker 2: and more content came out around it, you had you
Speaker 2: had Superman go John Wick and throw a desk in
Speaker 2: front of a Lex Luthor and scream where's my puppy?
Speaker 2: And all I could think of was, you know, it's
Speaker 2: just an effing dog, you know, with from from from
Speaker 2: you know, multiple people throughout the John Wick series, I
Speaker 2: will say the good the good is I felt myself
Speaker 2: that at the end of the movie, I feel like
Speaker 2: the last fifteen to twenty minutes. Maybe not hate the
Speaker 2: movie in its entirety, but one of my brothers got
Speaker 2: up and left right after the President got dropped by
Speaker 2: hot girl and to go get another beer and just
Speaker 2: didn't come back. My other brother noted off I felt myself,
Speaker 2: and I says, I'll disclaim it with this is when
Speaker 2: I'm watching movie with people, I almost feel like I'm
Speaker 2: entertaining them, even though that you know, my friends and
Speaker 2: I I'm part of the cinema club, so you know,
Speaker 2: it's I stacked those free movie tickets for the big Dogs,
Speaker 2: you know, or for when I'm gonna go see the kids.
Speaker 2: So I feel like that. I feel like the movie
Speaker 2: was so hard, set up so much in such short
Speaker 2: amount of time that it felt like no character got
Speaker 2: the appropriate amount of I don't know the appropriate amount
Speaker 2: of attention that they needed. I thought in Black Adam
Speaker 2: the Justice Society was pretty weak, and I thought this
Speaker 2: one was even worse. I think I think mister Terrific
Speaker 2: might have been one of my favorite characters in the movie.
Speaker 2: But I felt like I was watching Shaft a little
Speaker 2: bit like he kind of felt a little Shafty.
Speaker 1: Can you dig it?
Speaker 2: Like? No, I just I would rather have Doug Shaft.
Speaker 2: But no, I like what David Cordy Sweat did with
Speaker 2: the character. He owned the character, absolutely dominated the character.
Speaker 2: I just think he was shitty writing. And Okay, that's
Speaker 2: that's where all start.
Speaker 1: All right, it's complete opposite. Loved it. I loved it
Speaker 1: because it felt like a comic book movie. Here's the
Speaker 1: thing that I feel like a lot of us have compared.
Speaker 1: And this is kind of, I think one of the
Speaker 1: bigger issues when it comes to a lot of these movies.
Speaker 1: Christopher Nolan has created a world that is not real, realistic.
Speaker 1: Christopher Nolan created the perfect trilogy of a comic book
Speaker 1: that he knew had an ending that he could kill.
Speaker 1: This is to open up a whole universe. And this
Speaker 1: is why I apprehate the way gun with with it
Speaker 1: is because it reminded me of how he did Guardians
Speaker 1: Guardians was able to transcend multiple additional movies to keep
Speaker 1: it going. Plus, this is the one thing that I
Speaker 1: appreciated most about the Superman movies that it's not an
Speaker 1: origin story. So, like I said, spoiler, lord say the
Speaker 1: origin story. He's already been doing this for a while.
Speaker 1: He's existed for a while, he's been being around for
Speaker 1: a while. So now we're not dealing with the situation
Speaker 1: where we've got a dude that we're now learning about
Speaker 1: him first showing up, going through school, going through small Villa,
Speaker 1: and all of that stuff. We ain't dealing with all
Speaker 1: of that. He's he's walking in into action. And that
Speaker 1: is the thing I appreciate the most about the way
Speaker 1: Gun did it. Now, granted it wasn't perfect. I give
Speaker 1: it about a seven and a half or eight out
Speaker 1: of ten. There's things I would have adjusted in it
Speaker 1: or whatnot. When you get to the end of the movie,
Speaker 1: you understand the value of the dog in which I
Speaker 1: think that's gonna actually lead to something bigger and then
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be like, Oh, that's why y'all played it
Speaker 1: this way, Go digress. It felt like a comic book.
Speaker 1: It didn't feel like a Christopher Nolan spinoff. That's how
Speaker 1: I felt about Man of Steel. That's how I felt
Speaker 1: about BBS right justin it felt like Snyder was trying
Speaker 1: too hard to be like Nolan while at the same
Speaker 1: time being like Snyder and full of action. That's where
Speaker 1: I was feeling like, there's too much of a disconnect,
Speaker 1: and it was very dry. This felt like it had
Speaker 1: more personality. But I feel like this film, and this
Speaker 1: is why I gave it a little bit more of grace.
Speaker 1: It's because I feel like this movie, this version this
Speaker 1: Superman is gonna be like how a lot of us
Speaker 1: probably felt about Batman Begins, because I hated Batman Begins
Speaker 1: when I first saw it. Then I watched The Dark Night,
Speaker 1: and then I went back and watch Batman Begins. I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, this is actually pretty well done. This
Speaker 1: is placed very well. I hated Batman Begins when it
Speaker 1: first came out, but that's what it was. It took
Speaker 1: me the next one. So he's playing similar to the
Speaker 1: way Marvel did with his first ten years of building
Speaker 1: building building back reference. Now you see why this played
Speaker 1: this way. You're like, oh, the big picture, so it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a bunch of work. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: bit too like, so I don't expect everybody to like
Speaker 1: it like I did. That's what I saw out of it.
Speaker 1: Now I'm searching for Easter eggs because I know something
Speaker 1: else is gonna pop up in the next movie.
Speaker 2: I would say this, there's too many parallels to really
Speaker 2: really terrible, terrible terrible things, and I'll go in reverse order.
Speaker 2: Then we can answer questions and wrap it up so
Speaker 2: that you guys right, don't have to pay taxes on
Speaker 2: this job.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we got to talk about a dings. It's
Speaker 1: some questions there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, so I think, you know, obviously, I
Speaker 2: like million Acock, who's going to be playing Supergirl. I
Speaker 2: think that when she comes crashing in at the end
Speaker 2: and Crypto starts going crazy, it felt like in the
Speaker 2: movie Boondocks Saints, where Roco's drunk, druggy girlfriend came in
Speaker 2: and from partying, and I saw that parallel. I think
Speaker 2: the Pocket universe. I kept on expecting Jack Black to
Speaker 2: jump up from the Plasma river because it looked Minecraft.
Speaker 2: Tell me, it didn't look very Minecraft. If you saw
Speaker 2: the Kingsman Golden Circle where they put all the people
Speaker 2: infected with the infected drugs into the stadium in little boxes.
Speaker 2: That kind of that's what I felt like in the
Speaker 2: Little Pocket Universe. I felt that it also kind of
Speaker 2: felt like in what was it the second Guardians movie,
Speaker 2: when oh goodness, gracious, his dad has got the little
Speaker 2: platform and they're flying on the world. Egos World, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and Egos World. You know, so he likes the flying platforms.
Speaker 2: But I will say this, Like I said, I think
Speaker 2: there was some geopolitical crap in there that I don't
Speaker 2: know if it really added anything, because you know, there
Speaker 2: was the there was that stuff making the president kind
Speaker 2: of look a little bit like a psycho Albert Einstein, uh,
Speaker 2: you know. And I think that with his with James
Speaker 2: Gunn's history around that, I feel like he could easily
Speaker 2: just maybe punted that one and somebody around him would
Speaker 2: have done it. But here's the one thing that I
Speaker 2: will I will concede. We had Christopher Reeves, we had
Speaker 2: a Superman before that. Christopher Reeves taught everybody what Superman was,
Speaker 2: and then you get stuff with Dean Kine and you know,
Speaker 2: in Lewis and Clark, you've had so many iterations of Superman,
Speaker 2: and to do it again that didn't maybe fit one
Speaker 2: of those past ones. Because Jay, you just said it
Speaker 2: about the Dark Knight. There were people ready to string
Speaker 2: up Snyder, like you know after Batman versus Superman and
Speaker 2: now people want you know, every thing back. Uh. It
Speaker 2: just did not work out for Cavil to continue. That
Speaker 2: was a new universe.
Speaker 1: He was the Superman.
Speaker 2: He was he was. Now I will say this, there
Speaker 2: are now here's where the real nerd stuff happens here,
Speaker 2: right how Gardner, John John Stewart, Those are other iterations
Speaker 2: of green Lantern, but the Guy Gardner iteration of that,
Speaker 2: it's it's spot on. It's absolutely freaking phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Like he is a so disgusting, it is so disgusting.
Speaker 1: The haircut is the Mark Johnson Mark Davis look is
Speaker 1: the Mark Davis look. Just the Mark Davis look just
Speaker 1: gets me redhead, ugly hair. How he needed was like yes,
Speaker 1: it was, oh my god.
Speaker 2: And you know again, I think I think the panther too.
Speaker 2: It is you need You don't need forty five year
Speaker 2: olds to really be the leading charge for this movie.
Speaker 2: You need people like sixteen to twenty eight because this
Speaker 2: is an you know, this is a universe. You're gonna
Speaker 2: have over the next couple dacades and that, and so
Speaker 2: then you saw in the preview of Kitty doing the
Speaker 2: selfies and I didn't realize I was Kitty in the preview,
Speaker 2: but you know, she's doing the selfies, and that kind
Speaker 2: of leads to the rest of the movie as oh,
Speaker 2: that's how you know, right, But I loved the accountant
Speaker 2: to where chicks taking a selfie and they hack into
Speaker 2: her phone and and and you know, get the girl's picture.
Speaker 2: So like I I can respect that. I'm taking my
Speaker 2: kids again here in a couple of days, we're gonna
Speaker 2: go watch it at least, you know, to all kind
Speaker 2: of feel different. I did feel like it. It felt
Speaker 2: like it was like a long form documentary that came
Speaker 2: from the free form channel. But maybe maybe second time
Speaker 2: through it'll be better. But no, I I did. I
Speaker 2: have ripped it, ripped it apart. I can't talk politics
Speaker 2: on any social media due to my job, but I
Speaker 2: can definitely blast blast stuff like that.
Speaker 1: No, no fair point, fair point. But and I get
Speaker 1: your take, Like I said, I don't. I am in
Speaker 1: the mindset of I'm waiting until the next set of
Speaker 1: movies and how he brings them all together before I
Speaker 1: can really lose my mind on it. So that was fun.
Speaker 1: All Right, We'll take a few questions and then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let get him some rest and get it off
Speaker 1: his system. Jonathan asked an interesting one. Yeah, you need
Speaker 1: some rest. I need rest, but you need rest too.
Speaker 1: You had up, You're about going to food coming. How
Speaker 1: much of this is nagging out alocate enough money for
Speaker 1: high school recruits and then picking the highest bidder versus
Speaker 1: recruiting staff not doing a good enough job at attracting talent.
Speaker 1: I think it's more so a staff agreement that some
Speaker 1: of these players aren't worth their asking price. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, like the Eberhart one, I think they
Speaker 1: were willing to pay. That one was a heartstrings pool.
Speaker 1: Can't do much about that. That was a family dynamic.
Speaker 1: That's like it at so can't that literally was last minute.
Speaker 1: You can't do much about that. But in some of
Speaker 1: the other ones, I think it was a they agree
Speaker 1: to something with the player things look good, player comes back, Hey,
Speaker 1: I want to get more because this school's offering that,
Speaker 1: and they're probably like, okay, go to that school. Let
Speaker 1: the school pay you that additional I do think that
Speaker 1: there's a lot of situations where schools are where players
Speaker 1: are using us as a measuring stick of getting more money,
Speaker 1: and sometimes they're taking just a little bit more. But
Speaker 1: then you start learning that some of these kids, some
Speaker 1: people will take a little bit extra and they'll realize, yeah,
Speaker 1: I probably should have just went for the money that
Speaker 1: I was offered before, because this little extra is not
Speaker 1: putting me in a better situation. That's my thought.
Speaker 2: And I'll combo my answer with one that Chuck has
Speaker 2: kind of put in here a dual question. Why do
Speaker 2: some of the content creators get, you know, get pretty
Speaker 2: hyped about dudes when it feels like they're coming here.
Speaker 2: But then listen, there's a lot of stuff that Parker
Speaker 2: Thune knows. There's a lot of stuff that Josh mccut
Speaker 2: uh you know over at two four seven that they know, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, a lot of these guys also get absolutely burned.
Speaker 2: If you know Josh mcchust, he can tell you the
Speaker 2: story about Jacob Phillips where he is sending everybody the
Speaker 2: linebacker wo ended up committed to LSU was in the bag.
Speaker 2: Another guy and I don't even want to bring up
Speaker 2: his name. Just for PTS David Hicks.
Speaker 1: We literally just said not to say like for real,
Speaker 1: like we we GOTTSD.
Speaker 2: We we got the number one defensive line going into
Speaker 2: this year. So I think that my PTSD has been
Speaker 2: over for a while, especially when he hasn't done anything.
Speaker 2: But these guys put their actual physical money. It's not
Speaker 2: just like excitement so they can go hey Texas fans,
Speaker 2: screw you, we got him. Like it is. These guys
Speaker 2: put money into their staff to go do these things
Speaker 2: based off of hey, listen, this is going to happen. Right,
Speaker 2: this is going to happen. And I think that a
Speaker 2: lot of us get really really excited him. I think
Speaker 2: it is a detraction if somebody's like, yeah, well he's
Speaker 2: not that that good. You bring up Algira Miles. I
Speaker 2: still want Aldri Miles here. I absolutely want Algra Miles.
Speaker 2: Because Algra Miles lists his pancakes, not his touchdown catches,
Speaker 2: not his receiving yards.
Speaker 1: That's the thing that got Koop's attention. This dude will
Speaker 1: actually say the pancake.
Speaker 2: He he absolutely one. You know. I think that sometimes
Speaker 2: it just doesn't make great content to be like you
Speaker 2: can't go out and bash the kid. That's just not kosher,
Speaker 2: and anytime that that has happened, where you know, people
Speaker 2: have made mistakes, and believe me, I know that there
Speaker 2: is an instance where Parker, you know, showed his frustration
Speaker 2: and he knows that was a mistake. There's times that
Speaker 2: those things happen and it's just not good. So the
Speaker 2: best way to do it, I think a lot of
Speaker 2: the time is just human nature is just well, we
Speaker 2: can get somebody else to Gabe Brunlow. Dandy another one.
Speaker 2: Marvin Jones junior. Marvin Jones junior was Lincoln Riley being
Speaker 2: here for two or three more weeks from being committed
Speaker 2: to the Sooners at that point and he came back.
Speaker 2: Dandy was another one. So there's a lot of times
Speaker 2: where do you know, guys like those guys ourselves, we
Speaker 2: hear these things and we know what's about to happen,
Speaker 2: and you're excited about it, and then something goes south
Speaker 2: and you want to be able to be like this
Speaker 2: effing sucks. It's just not great content.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, So thanks a bunch for that, Jonathan.
Speaker 1: And the question Robert asked about the junior college t
Speaker 1: you go players, I know that we still have a
Speaker 1: good relationship with some of the Kansas schools. I mean,
Speaker 1: we were looking at Josiah Jefferson and I believe that
Speaker 1: Utah was willing to offer him a lot more in
Speaker 1: comparison to us, and we were just kind of like,
Speaker 1: we got like nine tight ends on roster, we have
Speaker 1: to get rid of somebody. And I think they're actually again,
Speaker 1: I think they're actually really high on Trenday Washington, the
Speaker 1: true freshmen that they're just like, I think we'll stick
Speaker 1: to that one instead of adding another freshman and all
Speaker 1: the others. You can't just they're gonna start cutting people.
Speaker 1: Probably they're gonna start pushing people into the portal or
Speaker 1: forcing some retirements at the end of the season. And
Speaker 1: I'm being honest, at that point you may actually hear
Speaker 1: Josiah Jefferson's name populate back up to just keep your
Speaker 1: eyes open on that. But I do expect them to
Speaker 1: continue to look for another kend Adobe type, right, another
Speaker 1: set of juco players that are really good. That could
Speaker 1: be something. So we haven't abandoned it. It is something
Speaker 1: we're looking at. Mike, what's going on? So the legends
Speaker 1: he asked about a d I'm gonna be honest, with you.
Speaker 1: I don't expect us to hear nothing about ad until
Speaker 1: next year. So based upon the actual presser or whatnot,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get his thirty So since Joe's gonna Joe,
Speaker 1: Ce's gonna get his thirty years, which is in two years,
Speaker 1: I don't think that, Yeah, yeah, I don't expect them
Speaker 1: to actually have anybody picked until the twenty seventh season
Speaker 1: to start the twenty eighth season. That's it.
Speaker 2: And I think that these things can also change a
Speaker 2: lot in the in the meantime, because I think where
Speaker 2: you get excited about getting somebody in here, you know,
Speaker 2: the Sellman name gets thrown around. There's guys in other schools.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people that are riding this new
Speaker 2: wave of everything going on. You kind of need to
Speaker 2: let the wave continue to roll because there's a lot
Speaker 2: of changes that will continue to happen. And I promise
Speaker 2: you this that Joe's he's probably going to have, you know,
Speaker 2: a role with this university as long as he wants to.
Speaker 2: But I do think that there is there's a very
Speaker 2: very real chance that the a D and people who
Speaker 2: manage the football are not the same people, and and
Speaker 2: a lot of that is because this is the bread winner. Right.
Speaker 2: It's if you are you know you work for Jeep Chrysler, Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, the guys running the you know the the Avenger, uh,
Speaker 2: you know for Dodge are not the same people in
Speaker 2: charge of you know, guys making the new Wranglers and
Speaker 2: new Gladiators and stuff like that. There, it's different entities,
Speaker 2: different people. You're gonna you're gonna see stuff like that
Speaker 2: happened where football just is the the above all end
Speaker 2: all when it comes time for the revenue.
Speaker 1: No, that's unpseate it. And that's that's the thing to
Speaker 1: get to keep in consideration English. Good question here, Uh
Speaker 1: some Sooner fans that's trying to sell a and four
Speaker 1: whoill set us back five years into mediocrity?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm gonna be honest with this schedule.
Speaker 1: I think that's why people are trying to sell eight
Speaker 1: and four. But I'm gonna say this, and this is
Speaker 1: gonna be an extremely controversial statement. I don't think our
Speaker 1: schedule is gonna be as hard as people think. It
Speaker 1: looks very hard on paper. I don't think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be in a lot of those games as competitive as
Speaker 1: you think. I just I'm just how I feel about
Speaker 1: it is how I feel about this team going into
Speaker 1: this year based upon all the rumbles I've heard from
Speaker 1: people in practices, this feels like twenty three, but with
Speaker 1: a lot more complimentary football in comparison and multiple leaders. Right,
Speaker 1: you had Stutsman being, you know, second year in the system,
Speaker 1: being the dude that led everything him and Billy, and
Speaker 1: those minutes you lost Stutsman, things kind of got squirrelly
Speaker 1: because people were still trying to figure things out. We're
Speaker 1: not in that situation offense. Of course, everybody's learning the system,
Speaker 1: but it's a lot easier for them in comparison. I
Speaker 1: know Bill beat and bow has got these boys whipped
Speaker 1: in the shape on the line. So to me, A
Speaker 1: and four won't set us back, but we need to
Speaker 1: go ten in two. We need to go ten and two.
Speaker 1: It puts you back on schedule. Let's put it that way,
Speaker 1: because the schedule gets easier going forward.
Speaker 2: And I I would say that there's being and trying
Speaker 2: to keep my head about myself. Right now. We need
Speaker 2: to see the season start, we need to see what
Speaker 2: the other teams look like. But there's not a team
Speaker 2: on our schedule. That is, I mean head and shoulders
Speaker 2: better than so Oklahoma team is going to be from
Speaker 2: the things that we have heard, not only from you know,
Speaker 2: inside folks, players, parents, things like that, this team is
Speaker 2: different and it's not hope, it is you know. I
Speaker 2: think Matier brings so much more to this to this team.
Speaker 2: I think the offensive line, you're not looking for the
Speaker 2: for five that can play. You're you're trying to figure
Speaker 2: out which five is going to be the best, because
Speaker 2: I think that you've got I think that you run
Speaker 2: ten deep on the offensive line and ten deep team,
Speaker 2: ten good, deep good. I think these wide receivers where
Speaker 2: I don't see a ceede lamb out there. I see
Speaker 2: a bunch of guys like in the two thousands when
Speaker 2: you had Mackie Fagan, uh you know, wolf Folk Savage.
Speaker 2: Like when you had those guys, there was solid. Every
Speaker 2: every time that you locked down Josh Norman, every time
Speaker 2: that you locked down one dude, some of the somebody
Speaker 2: else popped open. And that's what's going to happen this year. Plus,
Speaker 2: if anybody is confused about Jometier and what he is
Speaker 2: going to be physically, he's gonna be six one two
Speaker 2: twenty five. He is going to win a truck and
Speaker 2: he is not going to have to kill you.
Speaker 1: I don't want him to be that, but he will.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be running around trying to try to truck folks.
Speaker 1: But y'all gonna be excited about that. Y'all gonna like
Speaker 1: the fact that he's gonna be willing to run and
Speaker 1: be physical all the time. Now, the other thing to
Speaker 1: go with that too is coop and I love that
Speaker 1: you point that out. I want to make sure I
Speaker 1: clarify this too with all the peoples. My people want
Speaker 1: you to hear me on this. You know, we're going
Speaker 1: along a little bit. The numbers are rolling up, so
Speaker 1: I obviously y'all appreciate us interjecting with the little break
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Speaker 1: be required to do everything. Jeo Matier will have moments
Speaker 1: where he's going to try to do everything. But this
Speaker 1: is not the year that I'm going to fully judge
Speaker 1: Jo Matier overall in his his tenure at Oklahoma, because
Speaker 1: if he does go out there and balls out at
Speaker 1: a ridiculous rate to where we're talking potential Heisman conversation,
Speaker 1: listening to the hypotheticals. Lose your mind yet, But if
Speaker 1: we're at that point where you have that conversation, then again,
Speaker 1: of course you're gonna judge it and he's gonna be
Speaker 1: bounced out. You can be like, dude, he produced some
Speaker 1: absurdity here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: See him going. Even though I'm betting on him to
Speaker 1: win the Heisman, I don't see him winning the Heisman.
Speaker 1: I don't mind putting a little dollars on it just
Speaker 1: to say it, mainly because I think that they're going
Speaker 1: to make sure that the defense does. The defense is
Speaker 1: gonna put him in so many good positions that he
Speaker 1: may not be able to do much do as much
Speaker 1: as you would like. Just put it that way. The
Speaker 1: yards may not come as many as often or whatnot,
Speaker 1: because the defense is getting stops or interceptions to turn
Speaker 1: because they're gonna be costing a ton of turnovers. The
Speaker 1: one thing that every school we play against this season
Speaker 1: is gonna do is test our secondary. And if Gentry
Speaker 1: and Eli comes back healthy, with kendlede Be coming back
Speaker 1: healthy and these young boys get out there them safe.
Speaker 1: That safety room does what we expect them to do
Speaker 1: with Robert Spiars, Jennings, Peyton Bowen and then Boganowski Hardy
Speaker 1: as well as Powers. But I'm talking and then you're
Speaker 1: throwing Kenda Daniel, who's gonna mix in it too. People
Speaker 1: are gonna test our secondary more than they're going to
Speaker 1: test the run because they're gonna be afraid to run
Speaker 1: against us. And if the secondary goes out there and
Speaker 1: breaks up pass it on a regular basis, or and
Speaker 1: or light tips passes and gets picks and stuff, guess
Speaker 1: what y'all gonna be like, Oh, dang, our offense is
Speaker 1: not playing on very large yards. It's gonna be half
Speaker 1: the field all the time on a regular basis. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a dang well geometur finished game. One hundred
Speaker 1: fifty yards passing in this game and sixty five yards rushing.
Speaker 1: It's a great It's a really good game. If you
Speaker 1: think of the fact that the starting starting yardage was
Speaker 1: forty yards. I think that this team has the capability
Speaker 1: to do that because they did it last year and
Speaker 1: didn't have an offense. I think the defense is gonna
Speaker 1: look better this year because the offense is gonna do
Speaker 1: enough to keep them off the field when they get
Speaker 1: the ball to them, you're gonna hand the battle of
Speaker 1: Jay and Odd, Xavier Robertson, Taylor Tatum, Javonte Barnes, and
Speaker 1: then Materier's gonna throw and run. It's gonna be such
Speaker 1: a mix that you're gonna be like, Oh, this team
Speaker 1: is not as dependent as we were used to like
Speaker 1: that twenty twenty three team was dependent on Dylan Gabriel.
Speaker 1: It was the DG's show, and I understand a lot
Speaker 1: of y'all just wouldn't as fun now. Granted, if we
Speaker 1: had him last season, we probably win eight games. Dylan
Speaker 1: DG gets you two more wins because he's gonna actually
Speaker 1: throw the ball and move the ball. Even with young receivers,
Speaker 1: he's gonna find ways to get them the ball, or
Speaker 1: he's gonna tuck and run. Right, He's gonna make decisions
Speaker 1: something that's the toughest part. Materi's gonna be similar. The
Speaker 1: question is how effective will he be. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: good enough. It's how effective will he be in putting
Speaker 1: up actual numbers. I don't know that yet. I don't know,
Speaker 1: because I don't know how the what type of positions
Speaker 1: defense is going to put him into where he takes
Speaker 1: his time. Do this if you're a gamer, if you
Speaker 1: decide to pick up college football twenty six, go play
Speaker 1: with Oklahoma. Everyone I've talked to, let's play with Oklahoma
Speaker 1: said this is the this is probably the most fun
Speaker 1: team on the game. And there's a reason why.
Speaker 2: And I'll and I'll also say this too. The reason
Speaker 2: why Kyler and Baker won Heisman's because their defense was
Speaker 2: ass and they had to do it all They had
Speaker 2: long fields all the time. The defense was judged on
Speaker 2: can we just keep him to a field goal attempt?
Speaker 2: Can we you know? Anytime you guys, I mean a
Speaker 2: lot of us don't remember you got you got the
Speaker 2: ball up on the goal line. You knew it was
Speaker 2: a touchdown. We knew it was going to be a touchdown.
Speaker 2: And so that's the one thing I will say this
Speaker 2: is get your get your arguments for Twitter ready, because
Speaker 2: I have a feeling that late November there's gonna be
Speaker 2: a lot of people complaining why jo Matier should be
Speaker 2: higher up than the Heisman ratings. But I don't think that,
Speaker 2: I j I'm with you. I don't think the stats
Speaker 2: are going to be there. There's gonna be a lot
Speaker 2: of people saying, oh, well, look he only went you know,
Speaker 2: fifteen for twenty one for one hundred and eighty five
Speaker 2: yards and three touchdowns. Well, most of the most likely
Speaker 2: he probably also had a rushing touchdown. We probably had
Speaker 2: two other rushing touchdowns in a defensive touchdown. Like it's
Speaker 2: going to be those types of games. Now, we could
Speaker 2: be wrong and it could be him with a lot
Speaker 2: of low key yardage and you know in the forties
Speaker 2: on touchdowns. I promise you this. So if joh Matier
Speaker 2: has thirty eight plus touchdowns, he'll be in New York yep.
Speaker 1: And there's a possibility. Now, granted, if somebody does some
Speaker 1: absurd numbers in the big team or even in the SEC,
Speaker 1: if like Garrett Nusmyerlin north Seles throw ups some just
Speaker 1: dumb numbers, or somebody doesn't in a big twelve, you
Speaker 1: may unfortunately not make that trip. But there's a possibility
Speaker 1: he'll be in set those conversations because you know, all
Speaker 1: all he needs to do is manage the team properly.
Speaker 1: He's gonna take risks. Please believe he's gonna have turnovers.
Speaker 1: Like if there's anything I've said I've personally calculated. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give y'all my final predictions as soon as a
Speaker 1: fall camp starts here in August, but i'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: y'all right now a little preview on that. I expect
Speaker 1: him to have at least twelve interceptions this season. And
Speaker 1: I say twelve because I think he's going to toss
Speaker 1: it into some tight spots and some of those moments
Speaker 1: he's gonna win, and other moments he's gonna lose. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lose my mind on it because he's gonna
Speaker 1: take risk like our other I mean Hawkins as well
Speaker 1: as I mean Hawkins had his game in South Carolina
Speaker 1: and that was a lot of him getting hit. But
Speaker 1: besides that, he wasn't really throwing the ball into like trouble.
Speaker 1: He was making sure they were borderline wide, wide open.
Speaker 1: But that's what happens with true freshman. There's nothing against him.
Speaker 1: It's more of a true freshman thing. You wanna make
Speaker 1: sure it's perfect before you do it. Nah, Materia ain't
Speaker 1: go side arm and fling it and you're gonna be like, no, Yes,
Speaker 1: you're gonna do that a lot. Just just brace yourself
Speaker 1: for that conversation that that's what's gonna happen. But from there,
Speaker 1: the next question comes in, which I think is perfect
Speaker 1: for this to go into it, and this from English
Speaker 1: as well, asking a question about what was the expectation
Speaker 1: would be V the first year. I'm gonna be honest,
Speaker 1: I thought the roster could win eight games. Now when
Speaker 1: I found out his portal strategy taper my expectations down
Speaker 1: to six. I thought six and six. And I say
Speaker 1: that because instead of cleaning up clearing house basically all
Speaker 1: the players, we probably should have cleared house with cleared
Speaker 1: house before the twenty four season. For last season, that's
Speaker 1: when you start to see a lot of those bodies
Speaker 1: shifting and you're like, eh, that's when you probably should
Speaker 1: have been bringing in dues to groom up to prepare
Speaker 1: for twenty four. And I don't see yah. I've heard
Speaker 1: me say this. I've been vocal about this part when
Speaker 1: I've taught to BV. And I'm actually, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna actually ask him this question at media days.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna notate this now to remind myself of asking
Speaker 1: this question how does he feel about the way they
Speaker 1: did things when he first got here in twenty two?
Speaker 1: Does he feel like that prepared him enough for the
Speaker 1: SEC And I say that because I don't think it did.
Speaker 1: I think the problem was is that he was giving
Speaker 1: too much grace in an industry that's too cutthroat for
Speaker 1: you to do that. Like I said, is that a
Speaker 1: bad thing? Because that's actually a very noble thing for
Speaker 1: him to to say, because he said it, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be like coach prom I'm not gonna send everybody
Speaker 1: out and bring in fifty more people than you know.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah. I get it. But Coop, that
Speaker 1: was the thing that got me is that, Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: you probably should have did that. Yep. Probably should be
Speaker 1: cleaned downs on defensive side of the ball and winged
Speaker 1: it from there. But he didn't. He gave grace, He
Speaker 1: let people try to figure it out. It didn't work out,
Speaker 1: then you start to see shifts. That's why I felt
Speaker 1: like the first year was probably not gonna be that great.
Speaker 1: The good thing is is that it proved me right,
Speaker 1: because the second year was a hell of a lot better.
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, again, going into twenty three,
Speaker 2: we saw no real clear path. Gee freakeyat was the
Speaker 2: most exciting thing that we were hearing in the in
Speaker 2: the offseason, right. Jalil Farouk was really the only guy
Speaker 2: that we, you know, had hope around Andrea Anthony, you're
Speaker 2: banking on his eight catches at Michigan and that team.
Speaker 2: That team showed out because they were I mean, they
Speaker 2: were talented. And so I will just say this is
Speaker 2: I think that Brent fennibles this year. He has taken
Speaker 2: over the defense because he wants that to go. He
Speaker 2: wants to at least have that part just done. He
Speaker 2: has given the ability. You know, I think that the
Speaker 2: zach Ally departure, I think with time things will come
Speaker 2: out on that one. But I think that forced him
Speaker 2: just to kind of take over and be in charge
Speaker 2: of that stuff. I think that, you know, he has
Speaker 2: handed the offense over to our buckle. And you know,
Speaker 2: some of the some of the conversations that we've heard
Speaker 2: here since since the departure of Latrelle, and now that
Speaker 2: people are a little bit more willing to have that conversation,
Speaker 2: it sounds like everything that we saw with our eyes
Speaker 2: was exactly true. That it was a mess. It was
Speaker 2: a mess. It wasn't just a mess between him and EJ.
Speaker 2: It wasn't just a mess with him and him and DeMarco.
Speaker 2: It was it was every single coach. There was no uniformity,
Speaker 2: there was no agreement. And yeah, I will say this,
Speaker 2: you have a very very good opportunity at this point
Speaker 2: going forward for this team to come in. You know
Speaker 2: this is so this is kind of my wrap up
Speaker 2: for the w n L. Man I I'm sticking with
Speaker 2: my ten and two pick right now. I really you
Speaker 2: have an easier schedule versus what you had last year.
Speaker 2: It's going to be easier because I think Tennessee drops
Speaker 2: back or miss drops back. South Carolina is South Carolina,
Speaker 2: and I think that there's just going to be a
Speaker 2: tough out no matter what happens. Texas is starting a
Speaker 2: bunch of brand new a bunch of a bunch of
Speaker 2: bunch of newness there. So the schedule is easier. But
Speaker 2: now you have a pulse quarterback and so Jeo Matier
Speaker 2: knows how to make plays. He's like you said, Jay,
Speaker 2: He's not gonna be asked to do everything. But if
Speaker 2: you gave the defense an offensive, you know, hope that
Speaker 2: defense would have been you know, ten even ten times
Speaker 2: better than you know even what and and this this listen,
Speaker 2: you can say whatever you want. You know, I see
Speaker 2: a guy in here. I don't know if if it's
Speaker 2: drugs or if you're just strolling. But the players are
Speaker 2: speaking differently about Jo Matier than they were last year.
Speaker 2: You know, it was don't hurt Jackson's feelings, ensure point
Speaker 2: on like the potential. It's different with Matier. It's it's
Speaker 2: they They now know that there's bullets in the in
Speaker 2: the chamber and it's ready. It's time to go.
Speaker 1: Yep, exactly. So we'll get to that point. It's a
Speaker 1: good time. Love it. Thank y'all for of course pulling
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Speaker 1: give us five. We'll have I'll talk a lot, We'll
Speaker 1: have some content around SEC media days while I'm here.
Speaker 1: We will also, yeah, we'll be back, you know. With
Speaker 1: with that, we'll be live next week. We'll get back
Speaker 1: to the twice a week. Come see closer to the season,
Speaker 1: probably the week before as we preview the actually the
Speaker 1: week of we'll preview the Illinois State game, which is
Speaker 1: gonna be a really weird game. To preview, but you know,
Speaker 1: we'll preview it, we'll talk about who they got, get
Speaker 1: y'all prepared for it, and we'll we'll we'll we'll do
Speaker 1: some more deep diving stuff. Get me and Coop a
Speaker 1: lot of practice around that stuff. So we'll appreciate y'all
Speaker 1: joining us. Yeah, but uh yeah, we'll chop it up
Speaker 1: there too. You have a good evening. Peace out.