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Speaker 3: That's right. This is Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's
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Speaker 3: And we've got mister Auston Montgomery once again with us
Speaker 3: this afternoon. And I hope you guys are ready to
Speaker 3: have some fun. I mean, that's what we do around here,
Speaker 3: at least that's what we try to do. I do
Speaker 3: worry at times maybe Austin and I are having some
Speaker 3: fun and maybe people can't like pick up on, you know,
Speaker 3: they can't match the vibe. I would hope not, but
Speaker 3: it is certainly possible, right, I mean, it could happen again.
Speaker 3: I would hope not. But we're ready to get this
Speaker 3: thing started and I want to remind you can take
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Speaker 3: dot Com. Been a very busy, busy day. In fact,
Speaker 3: it's been a busy week really since the transfer portal opened.
Speaker 3: It's been hectic. Louisville has landed a handful of commitments,
Speaker 3: and we probably will be getting more commitments here soon.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess it's not a guarantee, but there's
Speaker 3: a lot of visitors that are either here right now
Speaker 3: as we speak, or that have made the trip and
Speaker 3: maybe they're wrapping up their visits. So I guess this
Speaker 3: is just going to be how it is. But it's
Speaker 3: exciting to get new players. It's exciting to have free
Speaker 3: agency within college sports. You know, obviously you're going to
Speaker 3: have some well, I don't know. I was going to
Speaker 3: say that you're going to have some years where maybe
Speaker 3: you are a bigger loser than winter when it comes
Speaker 3: to the portal and free agency. But I really think
Speaker 3: that around here, I think that you know, you may
Speaker 3: lose really really good players like Jamari Johnson, who never
Speaker 3: really showed that he was going to be an elite
Speaker 3: college player, but young guy had a lot of upside,
Speaker 3: big time recruit. He's going to Oregon and that's a bummer.
Speaker 3: But like louisll was in a position to where like,
Speaker 3: that's not something that when you look ahead to the
Speaker 3: next season, you're already thinking, like, man, it's just gonna
Speaker 3: be I mean, it's gonna be tough. We can't replace
Speaker 3: this guy. I mean, and you may not like he
Speaker 3: may be elite, and you realize, man, that guy could
Speaker 3: have really helped us. But when there's countless players in
Speaker 3: the portal, you know, he gives you a chance to
Speaker 3: go and add players from all over the place. Right,
Speaker 3: you could lose guys at a certain position and feel
Speaker 3: pretty good about where you are and say, okay, we
Speaker 3: actually are a little bit thin over here at linebacker.
Speaker 3: So again, I'll try my best to get you guys
Speaker 3: updated as best I can. But it has been it
Speaker 3: has been hectic, no doubt. And we'll mix it up
Speaker 3: through throughout the afternoon here and and I hope you
Speaker 3: guys will stick around. But Austin, I have to once
Speaker 3: again share another experience about just people reminding me that
Speaker 3: they're not in the holiday spirit like me. Okay, you'll
Speaker 3: think I'm making this up. Okay, remember the remember the
Speaker 3: story about Walmart earlier this week with the rude lady
Speaker 3: with the that didn't help me, didn't want to help
Speaker 3: me herself. When it comes to the paint, How could
Speaker 3: I forget them wanting to check my receipts and all
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. So it turns out one of
Speaker 3: those things that I that I purchased on my way
Speaker 3: out a couple of days ago, I needed to take back.
Speaker 3: So this morning I ended up arriving and uh, it
Speaker 3: looked crowded when I got there. You know, we're close
Speaker 3: to Christmas. But I walked right up to the customer
Speaker 3: service area and like there was two people in line.
Speaker 3: It was super quick, super like just you know, I
Speaker 3: was I was expecting there to be a long line
Speaker 3: if everybody like doing either layaway stuff or returning gifts
Speaker 3: before Christmas, and it was. It was smooth. So I'm
Speaker 3: sitting there and there's one lady ahead of me and
Speaker 3: there's a woman to so there's two two people working
Speaker 3: the customer service area. The lady that was in front
Speaker 3: of me, she ends up going to this The first
Speaker 3: first person that said, hey can I help you. And
Speaker 3: then I was kind of waiting for or the the
Speaker 3: other lady to I guess get her ship started. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I mean she was there, but like she
Speaker 3: was getting a register set, and I was waiting for
Speaker 3: her to say, hey, can I help you? So I
Speaker 3: just waiting there, and then she looks to who I
Speaker 3: assume is her supervisor manager boss. I'm not sure, but
Speaker 3: she said, hey, can I get some change? I need twenties,
Speaker 3: tens and fives. So she tells her boss, you know, hey,
Speaker 3: my register's probably a little light. You know, if I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be giving this keep you gotta keep in mind
Speaker 3: if you're if people are returning things and they want
Speaker 3: they want cash, like that's that's when you're probably gonna
Speaker 3: that's probably where you're gonna need cash, maybe more than anywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 3: when it comes to you know, the checkouts and whatnot.
Speaker 3: So I heard her say that, So then I walked
Speaker 3: up and gave her a receipt and she she just mean,
Speaker 3: is it, by the way, I've never I mean, I
Speaker 3: guess I have before, but like I can't remember the
Speaker 3: last time I've ever returned something to a store. Is it?
Speaker 3: Do They usually ask you why you're returning it, because
Speaker 3: they didn't ask me that, and I was expected. I
Speaker 3: was like, for some reason, was thinking like I was
Speaker 3: gonna have to like get approval if it could be
Speaker 3: returned or not. And it was it was something that
Speaker 3: like eighteen bucks, and it was it was nothing, but
Speaker 3: I was expecting them to like ask me why I'm
Speaker 3: returning it, and I was gonna have to be real
Speaker 3: convincing that it is a legitimate return. But I guess, yeah,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. But so it wasn't rude that she
Speaker 3: didn't ask me why, but she just she gave me
Speaker 3: the receipt, or I gave her the receipt. She took
Speaker 3: the item and said she asked me, do you want cash,
Speaker 3: card or gift card? Like meaning she can give me
Speaker 3: cash back, she could refund my debit card, or she
Speaker 3: could give me a gift card. So I said, would
Speaker 3: cash be a problem. And the reason I said that
Speaker 3: is because I just heard her tell her boss that
Speaker 3: she needed more cash. So I thought I was kind
Speaker 3: of being courteous and just saying like, would it be
Speaker 3: you know, I would prefer cash, but you know, would
Speaker 3: that be a problem. Yeah, And she looked at me
Speaker 3: and said, I said cash card or gift cards, so
Speaker 3: why would cash be a problem, and then gave me
Speaker 3: like a little smirk, and I looked at her like
Speaker 3: I don't. I mean, I'm not one to ever have
Speaker 3: any like confrontation, like I mean, wouldn't Like I was,
Speaker 3: I was having to really bite my tongue to not
Speaker 3: call her a name. I mean, I was thinking a
Speaker 3: lot of things upstairs, but I would never I would
Speaker 3: never act upon it. And I just, you know, so
Speaker 3: she gives me the cash back, and I'm not in
Speaker 3: a hurry to like put the cash back in my wallet.
Speaker 3: So finally, as I'm about to walk away, I just
Speaker 3: said the reason that I asked if it was a
Speaker 3: problem to get cash. I heard you say that I
Speaker 3: could have cash, but I know you'd ask for it,
Speaker 3: so I was just that's why I said would it
Speaker 3: be a problem. I could have just said cash, but
Speaker 3: I said would it be a problem? Because I was
Speaker 3: trying because if.
Speaker 2: You you were trying to be nice?
Speaker 3: Yes, and like this was probably like a twenty five,
Speaker 3: twenty six year old woman, and you know, she had
Speaker 3: a smile on her, like a smirk more than a smile,
Speaker 3: But like I gave the lady in the paint department
Speaker 3: a pass on Tuesday. This like that's just a rude
Speaker 3: thing to say. Yeah, like that's just rude.
Speaker 2: I mean, especially when you just overheard her like talking
Speaker 2: about it. That's that. It'd be one thing if you
Speaker 2: were like demanding of it, but like you were understanding
Speaker 2: of the situation, because obviously they just came up and
Speaker 2: asked she needed more money. So it's what's Walmart man?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, I mean, I just it's like
Speaker 3: they're it's like they're messing with me. I mean, I
Speaker 3: and look, we had people mention this here and there
Speaker 3: on the text line, and I did throw this out
Speaker 3: there throughout the conversation about my previous Walmart experience earlier
Speaker 3: this week. But I know that that would probably be
Speaker 3: a really, really really tough job to have during the holidays.
Speaker 3: I would imagine that every you know, for for every
Speaker 3: ten of me that are there for whatever it may be,
Speaker 3: maybe they need somebody to open up the door to
Speaker 3: get paint, maybe they need to return something. I would say,
Speaker 3: for every ten more than half or probably not super
Speaker 3: polite to them, the workers, you know, so like, but
Speaker 3: don't take that out on somebody who's being I mean,
Speaker 3: like again, I don't, as I said the other day,
Speaker 3: like I'm not asking anybody to kiss my rear end
Speaker 3: or you know, because it's Christmas seeing me Christmas carols,
Speaker 3: but like it would be nice, just rude, and I
Speaker 3: mean I've whenever she said that today, I instantly thought
Speaker 3: about me sharing the experience from two days ago on
Speaker 3: the show, and then I just kind of thought to myself,
Speaker 3: like is this is somebody playing a joke on me?
Speaker 3: Like is this is this a thing? And you know
Speaker 3: it wasn't, but I'm I'm gonna try. We're gonna try.
Speaker 3: We're collectively trying myself in Austin to get people in
Speaker 3: the Christmas spirit because what I've experienced at these retail
Speaker 3: places lately and even just I don't know. For some reason,
Speaker 3: it being warm today and sunny doesn't make me feel
Speaker 3: like we're almost at Christmas. But we're there six days away, folks.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: I know. We have a the local fire department where
Speaker 3: we live. They they completely deck out their their fire
Speaker 3: truck with all kinds of lights and oh yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean it's got like a bubble machine coming off of
Speaker 3: it and and it's it's the coolest thing. And they
Speaker 3: they have they have saying that of course is up
Speaker 3: top and he rides through the neighborhoods in our community.
Speaker 3: Last night was the night in our neighborhood, and man,
Speaker 3: the kids were. It was probably where I felt the most,
Speaker 3: you know, excitement about Christmas being a little bit yeah,
Speaker 3: because they were, I mean, like, my kids couldn't contain
Speaker 3: their excitement they saw Santa rolling down the block in
Speaker 3: his fire truck. Oh yeah, with the lights of shining
Speaker 3: everywhere like a light show. You got Christmas music blaring.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I love I always used to love that.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I mean I still do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, It's just different though, right, Like, yeah, Christmas as
Speaker 3: a kid is is a feeling that you know, I
Speaker 3: always say this, Christmas has kind of I've re upped
Speaker 3: with the Christmas spirit here lately just because I have
Speaker 3: kids now and that's awesome, But nothing, there's nothing like
Speaker 3: being a kid at Christmas.
Speaker 2: What was your biggest, uh, your biggest Santa gift? Growing
Speaker 2: up where you were you really felt the magic?
Speaker 4: Is there?
Speaker 2: Is that one Christmas where you're like, all right, Santa,
Speaker 2: you are my guy.
Speaker 3: PlayStation two.
Speaker 2: Uh, well, what that's same original PlayStation? Really yeah, see
Speaker 2: original PlayStation probably like the mid nineties, mid to late nineties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I went from I went from a second
Speaker 3: genesis if you if you're familiar.
Speaker 2: Of course, I never owned one, but I knew to.
Speaker 3: A PS two, so like I had a big gap there.
Speaker 3: I never even asked for one because I just assume,
Speaker 3: like you know, when I was a kid, just because
Speaker 3: my situation with my grandfather, I just assume, like the
Speaker 3: toys that like are are not as like snazzy if
Speaker 3: you will, like those are the those are the toys
Speaker 3: that Sanna gives you because he can't, like he's got
Speaker 3: so much to do. So yeah, I just thought if
Speaker 3: I was gonna get something like that, it would have
Speaker 3: been from my parents. But whenever I saw that Sanna
Speaker 3: got it for me, I mean, it was like, all right,
Speaker 3: big guy, you've really I've done yourself this year.
Speaker 2: I remember sitting on Santa's lap because Sanna came through,
Speaker 2: uh uh, through my elementary school, and I remember specifically
Speaker 2: asking for a PlayStation, and when I woke up that
Speaker 2: morning he was listening. It was right there, and I
Speaker 2: once again, Santa, you are my guy.
Speaker 3: You understood the assignment. Yes he did, so, Shout out
Speaker 3: to Santa.
Speaker 2: That was what's up.
Speaker 3: Shout out to santam All right, Uh, before we get
Speaker 3: to our first break here coming up about five or
Speaker 3: six minutes, we are going to be joined. Well, we're
Speaker 3: not going to be joined before the break, but I
Speaker 3: do want to let you know. Coming up here in
Speaker 3: just a few minutes, we will talk to Zach Barnett
Speaker 3: of Football Scoop and get his thoughts on these matchups
Speaker 3: in the college football Playoff, which will be here tomorrow
Speaker 3: and of course Saturday. And there are some things about
Speaker 3: these matchups that I was that I was unaware of
Speaker 3: that I'm looking forward to asking Zach about. Tennessee apparently
Speaker 3: believes that they will potentially have at fifty to fifty
Speaker 3: at the shoe. I don't think that's possible, but man,
Speaker 3: I don't know. Tennessee is a really really I mean,
Speaker 3: first of all, a huge fan base, they're super passionate.
Speaker 3: They were irrelevant in the big sports. They've never made
Speaker 3: a Final four. They've been kind of irrelevant in football
Speaker 3: and nowhere near what they once were for a long time.
Speaker 3: And I think that kind of let people not realize
Speaker 3: that they actually do have a humongous fan base that
Speaker 3: you know will will be as passionate as anybody. And
Speaker 3: I think them winning in baseball, like you know, not
Speaker 3: that people pay as much attention to the college baseball scene,
Speaker 3: but like the way they showed up in Omahall, like
Speaker 3: I think it was kind of a reminder like, oh
Speaker 3: yeah they have like there's a lot of them and
Speaker 3: they need something to be excited about. And then apparently
Speaker 3: Penn State may not even sell out their game, huh
Speaker 3: really yeah, And there are some legitimate reasons that that
Speaker 3: is a worry for them. But also I mean there's
Speaker 3: other programs that you know, are in the same tier
Speaker 3: that Penn State believes they're in, that are also in
Speaker 3: you know, kind of remote places that are not big cities,
Speaker 3: big destinations. And I mean look at South Bend. I
Speaker 3: mean you think that's not going to sell out. I mean,
Speaker 3: and I know Penn State Notre Dame, like clearly the
Speaker 3: brand of Notre Dame is bigger, But I think it
Speaker 3: would be the ultimate embarrassment if you host a playoff
Speaker 3: game and your and your place is and sold out.
Speaker 3: But it sounds like that's a real crazy Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: a real possibility. So we'll talk to Zach coming up
Speaker 3: here shortly. But before we take the break, I did
Speaker 3: want to let you know. I'm sure by now you
Speaker 3: guys are well aware. I think this news actually broke
Speaker 3: right as we were ending the show, or maybe it
Speaker 3: was actually during the show yesterday and I just didn't
Speaker 3: get a chance to see it. But no surprise at all.
Speaker 3: Pierce Clarkson is going to transfer. He's going to enter
Speaker 3: the portal. And you know, I don't blame him in
Speaker 3: any way, and I was kind of expecting him to
Speaker 3: do this, and and I don't know any I have
Speaker 3: no access to peerce or his family or anything like that,
Speaker 3: but I kind of get the sense that he was
Speaker 3: probably gonna play in the Bowl game and then hit
Speaker 3: the portal because it would be his opportunity to put mean,
Speaker 3: he's never started a game at Louisville, and he hasn't
Speaker 3: played much at all. He's only been here two years.
Speaker 3: It's not like he's been some guy that's been waiting
Speaker 3: for for for a long time. But uh, I would
Speaker 3: imagine that it's so competitive that, like you really don't
Speaker 3: have time to sit around. I mean, there are players
Speaker 3: that that that that I mean, in fact, the quarterback,
Speaker 3: this is an example, the quarter Penn State's backup quarterback
Speaker 3: has hit the portal and is not even going with
Speaker 3: them on to the playoffs. Like he's he's he's already
Speaker 3: done and left the team, which I mean, maybe there's
Speaker 3: more to it than what you know, than what's out there.
Speaker 3: But to me, I don't think he's doing it because
Speaker 3: he's an a hole. I don't think he you know,
Speaker 3: And some people say, regardless, he is an a hole.
Speaker 3: He's leaving his team and they may need him, right
Speaker 3: he may he may be a factor in a team
Speaker 3: that's playing for a national championship if their starter gets hurt,
Speaker 3: but he also has to look out for himself and
Speaker 3: if he weighed like if they keep if they keep winning,
Speaker 3: and he's just there as a security measure, you know,
Speaker 3: never playing unless something happens, and and you know, there
Speaker 3: may be schools that take a quarterback that he he
Speaker 3: would have been a better fit, he would have wanted,
Speaker 3: he wanted to go there. So it's still I think
Speaker 3: it's still very much an uncomfortable thing for people to
Speaker 3: to to to view this the way these college players
Speaker 3: now view it. It's a job. It's it's a chance
Speaker 3: for them to very much improve their situation, improve their livelihood.
Speaker 3: And uh, you know, I I get it, Like if
Speaker 3: I was him, I would be torn. And if I
Speaker 3: was Pierce, I was you know, Pierces is a little
Speaker 3: bit of a different situation because he's you know, he's
Speaker 3: just looking for a new opportunity. But you know, if
Speaker 3: he wanted to play in that Bowl game, but yet
Speaker 3: he had to think like, man, if I wait and
Speaker 3: don't hit the portal until the first of January, like
Speaker 3: that's that's probably gonna put me behind some guys. So
Speaker 3: no surprise. And right now you've got I guess two
Speaker 3: quarterbacks on scholarship that that are going to be available
Speaker 3: in this game. Douce Adams, the freshman who, by the way,
Speaker 3: curious if they give him a run. He's a young guy,
Speaker 3: true freshman. They really like him. He's from Texas, which,
Speaker 3: of course, which is where the bowl game is gonna
Speaker 3: be played, So not sure if it's gonna be him
Speaker 3: or if it's gonna be Harrison Bailey. And Harrison Bailey
Speaker 3: would probably give you a better chance to win, but
Speaker 3: it would really just be a gift to Harrison Bailey
Speaker 3: because he's on his way out like you're not. He's
Speaker 3: I mean me a double check here because you never know.
Speaker 3: Maybe guys have ten years of eligibility. Now I'm not
Speaker 3: quite sure, but look at looking at Bailey, I mean
Speaker 3: he's somebody that is a red shirt senior already. So
Speaker 3: unless he fights for another year, like playing him in
Speaker 3: this game. And look, if you want to do that,
Speaker 3: Jeff Brom, go for it. I don't have any issue
Speaker 3: with it, but I think he'd probably like to see
Speaker 3: what you have in the freshman because you know, maybe
Speaker 3: he's gonna be your maybe he's now gonna be your
Speaker 3: backup if in fact, Miller mos Go's down. So anyways,
Speaker 3: quick break, Zach Barnett gonna join us. Coming up here.
Speaker 3: On the other side, Kentucky landed their quarterback from the portal.
Speaker 3: We'll talk to you a little bit about that. Also,
Speaker 3: something Pat Kelsey said on his Coaches show that I
Speaker 3: was very excited to hear. And there's all kinds of
Speaker 3: other stuff we'll get into today. So let's have some fun.
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Speaker 3: and only mister Zach Barnett, a football scoop who joins
Speaker 3: us to talk some college football. Zach, I'll just jump
Speaker 3: right in here. Do you think there's a real possibility
Speaker 3: that Penn State doesn't sell out their college football playoff game?
Speaker 3: I understand that they're in a little bit of a
Speaker 3: different situation than some of these other programs, But when
Speaker 3: I heard that, and then of course, you know, looked
Speaker 3: into why that would be possible, it almost sounded unbelievable.
Speaker 5: I do think it's possible, and I'll tell you exactly
Speaker 5: why I think it's possible. So I was on the
Speaker 5: radio this morning here in Dallas, and we had Brian
Speaker 5: Jones on who on CBS's pregame show, and he was
Speaker 5: at the Big Ten Championship, and after Penn State lost, he.
Speaker 6: Was talking to Penn State fans who.
Speaker 5: Weren't exactly jazz to play outdoors in twenty degree weather.
Speaker 3: But isn't that kind of like what they do, yes and.
Speaker 5: No, like typically their last gear weekend. Yeah, so this
Speaker 5: is I believe it's Ohio State's first December home game. Ever,
Speaker 5: I assume it would be penn States And uh, I
Speaker 5: mean if I lived in Pennsylvania, I wouldn't be any
Speaker 5: more jazz to sit outside in twenty degree weather than
Speaker 5: I would be living in Texas.
Speaker 4: And you know, students are gone.
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, and.
Speaker 5: You have an enormous stadium that's not particularly close to
Speaker 5: any of the population centers in Pennsylvania and your hometown
Speaker 5: is not that big.
Speaker 6: So it's this isn't in This isn't that shock?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there are certainly some factors. And I
Speaker 3: knew that State College wasn't like, you know, some humongous
Speaker 3: area within the huge state of Pennsylvania, and it really
Speaker 3: I mean, I remember earlier this year Franklin was complaining
Speaker 3: about the adjustment that they've had to make with the
Speaker 3: road trips because when they have to travel and go
Speaker 3: all the way across the country to either USC or
Speaker 3: UCLA or Washington or Oregon, they actually can't go out
Speaker 3: of the same airport that they've always flown out of
Speaker 3: they have to go elsewhere like Harrisburg or something, just
Speaker 3: because they have to take a different plane. So you know,
Speaker 3: they're a big time program, big time brand, have a
Speaker 3: huge fan base. But you know this year, I mean,
Speaker 3: one thing that I hadn't considered is this is the
Speaker 3: later latest game they probably ever had at home. But
Speaker 3: I guess I just I didn't think that would matter
Speaker 3: to people because you know, it's the college football Playoff.
Speaker 3: This is a crazy crazy I mean it's like, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't know, say it's a once in a lifetime thing.
Speaker 3: There are twelve teams there, but being able to host
Speaker 3: a game and to think that the stadium may not
Speaker 3: be full just sounds crazy. But again, there are some
Speaker 3: factors and if they get.
Speaker 5: I don't know what the numbers say, but let's say
Speaker 5: they get ninety three thousand, Like that's not a sellout.
Speaker 4: But it's not like the fans have totally rejected this
Speaker 4: game either.
Speaker 5: I mean NFL playoff games usually sell out with those
Speaker 5: stadiums seats.
Speaker 3: Seventy thousand, Yeah, and they'll have a they'll have a
Speaker 3: home field advantage, no doubt, But I just think the
Speaker 3: optics and knowing that, like hey, in the first ever playoff,
Speaker 3: you had a home game and you could like it'll
Speaker 3: be weaponized against them, and it's really silly stuff that
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. But you know, that's what makes college sports,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of great. We just we go after
Speaker 3: each other and different teams for things that we you know,
Speaker 3: we would defend our team for doing right, Like if
Speaker 3: it happened to us, we'll make excuses and justified and say,
Speaker 3: you know, it's just the haters. But if it's somebody else,
Speaker 3: you know, you point and you laugh. Now another thing
Speaker 3: that would be embarrassing. And I don't know if it'll
Speaker 3: you know, if it's going to be that visible. But
Speaker 3: Knoxville invading or I guess just Tennessee fans in general.
Speaker 3: They're not all from Knoxville, but invading the shoe, I
Speaker 3: mean Ohio State. We all know their circumstance. They don't
Speaker 3: like their coach, and it's just been a year where
Speaker 3: they are still really good, but they lost to Michigan
Speaker 3: in the one year they shouldn't lose to Michigan. And
Speaker 3: they paid probably more than anybody for the roster they have.
Speaker 3: They hired Chip Kelly to call the plays, and yet
Speaker 3: they just they still couldn't beat their rival and you know,
Speaker 3: still didn't win the Big ten. But Tennessee fans act
Speaker 3: like they are really gonna have some big time presence
Speaker 3: in Columbus, and they will, But like, do you think
Speaker 3: we'll be able to like see it on TV? Like
Speaker 3: we're not talking like fifty to fifty, right, Like that's
Speaker 3: not possible, is it?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: No, No, I'm sure it'll be much larger than the
Speaker 5: contingent that Wisconsin brings to Ohio State wherever they go,
Speaker 5: but it'll be nothing like fifty to fifty. The gold
Speaker 5: standard for me visiting fan bases is when Nebraska went
Speaker 5: to Notre Dame in two thousand or two thousand and one,
Speaker 5: and it looked like they had about thirty three to
Speaker 5: forty of Notre Dame stadium. I'm sure, I'm no doubt
Speaker 5: Tennessee will have the the They'll certainly be more Tennessee
Speaker 5: fans in the Horseshoe then there will be SMU fans
Speaker 5: in Beaver Stadium. Look that that's you take that prediction
Speaker 5: to the bank.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And the other thing that's interesting to me about this
Speaker 5: game is, I bet you if you ask anonymously to
Speaker 5: Ohio State players and coaches. They probably would have been
Speaker 5: okay going on the road, because you go on the road,
Speaker 5: you know what to expect when you go to neland Stadium.
Speaker 6: Ohio State is a program that needs to get.
Speaker 5: Away for a little bit if they're If they're down
Speaker 5: ten to three in the second quarter of that game
Speaker 5: and they go three and out, the boom Birds are
Speaker 5: gonna come out and their fans are gonna start sitting
Speaker 5: un there because they're.
Speaker 3: Already looking for something to complain about, because that's just
Speaker 3: how toxic they've been lately. Now I get it, yeah.
Speaker 5: And uh, I mean here in Dallas, we saw this
Speaker 5: past January.
Speaker 6: The Cowboys had a great regular season.
Speaker 5: They were undefeated at home and Green Bay went took
Speaker 5: the ball, came down and scored, and the vibe within
Speaker 5: the stadium immediately changed, and the.
Speaker 4: Players felt it.
Speaker 5: And then the fans got nervous because the players got nervous,
Speaker 5: and the players got nervous because the fans got nervous,
Speaker 5: and they totally melted down and were out of the
Speaker 5: game by by halftime. And I'm certainly not going to
Speaker 5: say that that's what happened, but the the the doom
Speaker 5: spiral effect of a home field disadvantage is real. And
Speaker 5: if it's gonna happen anywhere this weekend, it's gonna be
Speaker 5: at Ohio State.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean it sounds crazy, but I think you're right.
Speaker 3: They have probably a better chance of getting uncomfortable when
Speaker 3: when they're in their own stadium because they're fan you know,
Speaker 3: they don't know what their fans are gonna do. And
Speaker 3: when you're in you're on the road, you know, you
Speaker 3: know you're gonna be out numbered. They're gonna boo if
Speaker 3: their team's playing poorly, they're gonna they're gonna you know,
Speaker 3: they're gonna be against you. But now this a house
Speaker 3: did situation, just from top to bottom is just very
Speaker 3: it seems very unique compared to really any other team
Speaker 3: I can think of. And again maybe it's because the
Speaker 3: playoff is still brand new here, but like Ryan Days
Speaker 3: had a really really good run there, but he just
Speaker 3: hasn't you know, I want to I want to defend
Speaker 3: the guys if like people who criticize him are crazy,
Speaker 3: but I mean I kind of understand why they feel, like, Hey,
Speaker 3: this is Ohio State. This guy's had a lot to
Speaker 3: work with and he's been good, but we we demand excellence,
Speaker 3: and and I think they they're they're right when they
Speaker 3: say at least as if now that they they don't
Speaker 3: really have a whole lot to run with to think
Speaker 3: that he's going to be the guy that gets them
Speaker 3: back to actually winning national championships, which is easier said
Speaker 3: than done, but you know, that's that's the standard that
Speaker 3: they they have for themselves. Now when it comes to
Speaker 3: the teams playing this weekend, is there a team out
Speaker 3: there that you feel like you have no clue like
Speaker 3: what we're going to get? Like you you know, because
Speaker 3: you play twelve games, you know you have an identity.
Speaker 3: These teams had the resumes to get in. I'm not
Speaker 3: I'm not disputing that, but obviously Indiana kind of tough
Speaker 3: to know, Like they seem pretty good, but like how good?
Speaker 3: I think you could say the same thing about Penn State.
Speaker 3: Is there a team that you just maybe maybe maybe
Speaker 3: it's maybe it's one of those two, but I just
Speaker 3: I kind of feel like with those two teams and
Speaker 3: even with even with SMU. I was really impressed with
Speaker 3: SMU all year, but because of how the schedule sets up,
Speaker 3: like I you know, stuff to know exactly how good
Speaker 3: they are.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say SMU because I mean, I still
Speaker 5: think they're better than Clemson and they didn't win the
Speaker 5: a SEC Championship, and that's the way it goes. But
Speaker 5: if SMU and Clemson played again tomorrow, I would I
Speaker 5: would take SMU. Uh So I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 5: SMU goes to Happy Valley and wins the game.
Speaker 4: And I wouldn't be surprised if the moment's too.
Speaker 5: Big for them and if Penn States just a little
Speaker 5: bit bigger, stronger, faster than them and they go out
Speaker 5: and lose either.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's that's a tough, tough and it straps
Speaker 7: out to be a tough environment, a big ask to
Speaker 7: go to Happy Valley for an SMU team and win
Speaker 7: the game. And I also don't really know what to
Speaker 7: expect out of Penn State because they've been kind of
Speaker 7: plotting until they got to the Big Ten Championship and
Speaker 7: they were just popping big runs all over the place.
Speaker 7: They ran from nearly three hundred yards on nine per
Speaker 7: carry against Oregon and a pretty good defense got sliced
Speaker 7: and diced.
Speaker 6: So that leads me to believe that.
Speaker 5: I had no idea what to really expect when this
Speaker 5: game kicks off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's I mean to Indiana. When people mentioned their schedule, it,
Speaker 3: I mean true, they didn't. They ended up playing teams
Speaker 3: that you know, they've actually played. The two teams that
Speaker 3: were in the Yeah, they played they they played Washington
Speaker 3: and Michigan, who were in the National Championship game last year.
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody expected those teams to kind of
Speaker 3: drop off the way that they did. But when they
Speaker 3: were playing those kind of teams, they were hammering them
Speaker 3: like they were beating those type of opponents worse than
Speaker 3: some of the better teams in the Big Ten were doing.
Speaker 3: But with Penn State, like I think at times, I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know, to me, they look like the team
Speaker 3: that I feel like you could you could make the
Speaker 3: case that they might be like really good or maybe
Speaker 3: they just didn't, you know, they didn't slip up the
Speaker 3: way that some other teams did that kept them from
Speaker 3: getting into the to the College Football Playoff. Now, one
Speaker 3: of the games that I'm most excited about is the
Speaker 3: Texas Clemson game. I don't really know if Clemson's going
Speaker 3: to keep it super competitive. A little surprised to see
Speaker 3: the spread being twelve, But then again, Texas has a
Speaker 3: lot to roster. But what I want to ask you
Speaker 3: about Texas is is there any truth that if in fact,
Speaker 3: Quinn Owers does want to come back, and like let's
Speaker 3: say Texas wins it all or maybe they you know,
Speaker 3: they lose in the National Championship Game, would I mean,
Speaker 3: I feel like Texas would probably want to move on
Speaker 3: to the Arch Manning era. But then again, if this
Speaker 3: guy wants to come back and he doesn't want to
Speaker 3: go to the NFL, like that could be one of
Speaker 3: the that could be an all timer. As far as
Speaker 3: a situation that plays out there, you can.
Speaker 6: Quote me on this.
Speaker 5: There is a zero percent chance quin you were, is
Speaker 5: the quarterback for the Texas Longhorns in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: There's a better chance that he's a quarterback for the
Speaker 5: Texas A and a Aggie's that he is for the Longhorns.
Speaker 6: And I mean that's.
Speaker 4: That's just simply resourced allocation.
Speaker 3: Sure it makes sense.
Speaker 6: Quinn.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the eligibility standards are now written in pencil instead
Speaker 5: of ink.
Speaker 6: But Quinn's done after next season.
Speaker 5: If he chooses to return, Arch will have two more
Speaker 5: years to play, potentially even three more years play, So there's.
Speaker 6: No way that you can keep Arch at Bay for
Speaker 6: a third Sure, yeah, he.
Speaker 5: Would leave, and that would be an institutional failure for Texas.
Speaker 5: To have him the crown print of quarterbackings, royal family
Speaker 5: on your campus for two seasons in the league would
Speaker 5: be a total failure.
Speaker 6: There's no chance that they allow that to happen.
Speaker 4: Having said that, I think the talk that.
Speaker 5: Quinn, the talk that Quinn would transfer somewhere else is
Speaker 5: a complete social media BS fabrication. There was belief around
Speaker 5: here that the Rams would have taken him in the
Speaker 5: top twenty if he'd come out last season. Now, don't
Speaker 5: quote me to say that they're absolutely going to draft
Speaker 5: him this time around. But if you quit for everything
Speaker 5: Quinn doesn't do well, his skill set really fits.
Speaker 6: To what the NFL is nowadays.
Speaker 5: Most the vast majority of NFL passes are within ten
Speaker 5: yards of the line of scrimmage, and Quinn's really good
Speaker 5: at that intermediate stuff. So this is a weak quarterback class.
Speaker 5: So it's hard to believe that with the durability.
Speaker 4: I mean, what happens if he comes back and gets
Speaker 4: hurt again.
Speaker 5: What happens if the quarterback class next year is better
Speaker 5: than this year.
Speaker 6: There's just the risk reward.
Speaker 4: Isn't really there, and certainly if they go playing the national.
Speaker 5: Title game, his stock will rise in And so long
Speaker 5: story short, as the moment the clock hit zero on
Speaker 5: Texas the season, whether that be Saturday evening or January twentieth,
Speaker 5: it's arch Mannings team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and with yours, I mean, the only scenario where
Speaker 3: he would want to come back as if he didn't,
Speaker 3: like if won, if his like if he's draft stock
Speaker 3: was like non existent, which is not the case. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm still seeing here he's projected to be a first
Speaker 3: rounder at least the mocker if I'm looking at right now.
Speaker 3: But also like if he really felt like he could
Speaker 3: significantly improve his situation, and I really don't think that
Speaker 3: that would be doable college because I think, you know,
Speaker 3: not to say he's bad, but like, I don't know
Speaker 3: if he's gonna come back, he can come back to
Speaker 3: college and be good again and probably still kind of
Speaker 3: have the same stock, and again the quarterback crop maybe
Speaker 3: even more, maybe even more competitive. So you're right, it's
Speaker 3: probably just something that that ended up getting getting blown
Speaker 3: out of proportion. But you know, with with like another.
Speaker 3: We're at a level now where with college sports, and
Speaker 3: you know, specifically college football right now as the portal
Speaker 3: is active, like nothing surprises me. I mean the Diego
Speaker 3: Diego Pavia ruling to where he can now at least
Speaker 3: get another season, and it's gonna have other guys trying
Speaker 3: to fight the n S Doualea to see if they
Speaker 3: can get another year. Like when you hear somebody's got
Speaker 3: an eight year of eligibility or somebody's getting eight million dollars,
Speaker 3: I mean, I I mean, I don't know what's real
Speaker 3: and what's not, but man, it's it's a circus.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I really hate I I love Diego, I love
Speaker 5: watching him play, but I.
Speaker 6: Hate that he's coming back.
Speaker 5: Like I get, you have a chance to make a
Speaker 5: million dollars, Who among us is going to turn that down? Yeah,
Speaker 5: especially if you're not an NFL quarterback in any way,
Speaker 5: shape or form, like Diego Pavia having said that junior
Speaker 5: college is college football, man, don't don't insult my intelligence.
Speaker 4: It's not NCAA football, but it's college football.
Speaker 5: And you have an opportunity because at some at some
Speaker 5: point in your career somewhat older than you are, right
Speaker 5: out of eligibility and moved on, and now it's your turn.
Speaker 5: I saw a tweet that was since deleted, so I
Speaker 5: hope it's not true, But I saw tweet that Kyle.
Speaker 6: McCord is exploring and returning for another season.
Speaker 4: And he's played.
Speaker 5: He's been in college four years and played at least
Speaker 5: five games in every single WATERFU so I failed to see.
Speaker 4: What grounds he has to return.
Speaker 6: But my opinion clearly means nothing.
Speaker 5: And Kyle McCord, like you have an opportunity because someone
Speaker 5: else moved on. To not do the same when it's
Speaker 5: your turn is selfishness to me, and it's hard for
Speaker 5: me to support that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And look, I can't knock these guys if they
Speaker 3: want to try to, you know, improve their livelihood, make money,
Speaker 3: and you make the most of this situation. But man,
Speaker 3: some of it lately just kind of screen Like all right, dude,
Speaker 3: Like it's like the guy who graduates high school but
Speaker 3: like always hangs out at high school, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, Like it's got that kind of vibe.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean, we all understand what college football is,
Speaker 5: and no one really wants to see these twenty five
Speaker 5: year old guys that aren't good enough to play in
Speaker 5: the NFL.
Speaker 6: Just turn this into a career.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep. I could could not agree more. All right,
Speaker 3: so do you have any before we let you go?
Speaker 3: Do you have any like upset predictions?
Speaker 1: This?
Speaker 3: I mean, the all three of the or all four
Speaker 3: of the favorites are favored by at least a touchdown.
Speaker 3: In fact, two near double digits, one over double digits.
Speaker 3: Do you do you think we'll see any of these
Speaker 3: dogs actually win one of these games?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 6: You know what, I'll go, SMU, why not?
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, that's confidence level on.
Speaker 6: A scale of one to ten ten thousand.
Speaker 3: You heard it here first, Okay, take it to the bank.
Speaker 3: I like it, I mean, and that's the one that
Speaker 3: I want him hoping to see. But also like I
Speaker 3: think I s who's pretty good. As I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 3: it's tough to know just exactly how good they are
Speaker 3: with with the way their schedules shaped up, but with
Speaker 3: Penn State, like you know, I'm not, I wouldn't be
Speaker 3: scared of them if I was SMU. Now, maybe they're
Speaker 3: scared of that cold weather, because you don't you don't
Speaker 3: get that cold in Texas, right, it.
Speaker 4: Does get cold here?
Speaker 6: From time to time, not often. I'm it's like in
Speaker 6: the fifties. Here right now, it's perfect. It's here in
Speaker 6: December and January. It's just as likely to be eighty
Speaker 6: as it is twenty. But we do get cold snapts.
Speaker 4: Time of time.
Speaker 3: Well, I can tell you that if it's if is
Speaker 3: it's sunny there where you are, it's very funny. Oh
Speaker 3: sunny in the fifties. I bet that's like nice hoodie weather.
Speaker 3: That's good. That's good stuff there. I'm envious. And by
Speaker 3: the way, I want to tell you this. You and
Speaker 3: have talked on the radio for a long long time.
Speaker 3: I don't know if ever. I just realized it the
Speaker 3: other day. I've never been to Texas other than the airport.
Speaker 3: Because I was thinking about going to El Paso for
Speaker 3: the Bowl game for Louisville. I don't know if I'm
Speaker 3: going to be able to pull it off. But if
Speaker 3: I end up in your state, which you claim clearly
Speaker 3: it's your state, everybody knows that, I'll reach out and
Speaker 3: see if you can give you some tips and maybe
Speaker 3: turn me into a cowboy.
Speaker 6: El Paso is a fantastic city. If you have the
Speaker 6: opportunity to go, you absolutely sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah you go, and then you know Warrez right there,
Speaker 3: we could make the trip there too and just have ourselves,
Speaker 3: you know, at a great trip. So yeah, good, good stuff.
Speaker 6: You are the man.
Speaker 3: Zach has always appreciate your time. Having Merry Christmas, my man,
Speaker 3: and we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 6: Brother, Thank you, Dick sounds good.
Speaker 3: Take care that is Zach Barnett FootballScoop dot Com always
Speaker 3: appreciated making some time for us. Good stuff. All right,
Speaker 3: let's take a quick time out, will come back. We'll
Speaker 3: talk a little more about the Pierce Clarkson situation, because
Speaker 3: I do feel like, you know, I'm continuing to see
Speaker 3: people really like, uh oh what happened? And I I
Speaker 3: get it because it's still relatively a new world. But
Speaker 3: this one made total sense, and it it's not anybody's fault.
Speaker 3: It's just a kid looking out for his best interest.
Speaker 3: And you know, Jeff Bram, just giving this job to
Speaker 3: Clarkson and not getting a guy in the portal would
Speaker 3: be I mean, it would be insane. And I don't
Speaker 3: say that because I think Pierce isn't good. It's just
Speaker 3: why would you rely on a guy who's never been
Speaker 3: a starter before? If if you can go get a
Speaker 3: guy who's really good that wants to come and play
Speaker 3: for you, right, like, oh, well he didn't play Piercity
Speaker 3: this year. Okay, Tyler Shuck was pretty damn good, wasn't he.
Speaker 3: Like this is just how this is going to be.
Speaker 3: Now it's just different. Quick break, keep it locked right
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Speaker 3: So I will admit something. I didn't get into Christmas
Speaker 3: Vacation the movie until a lot later in my life.
Speaker 2: You serious, Clark.
Speaker 3: So here's what's wild. I watched Vegas Vacation, which was great,
Speaker 3: is a great movie, and I later learned like that
Speaker 3: there's a whole thing of him, you know, And I
Speaker 3: never really you know, I never got into it. And
Speaker 3: I always knew that it was really really popular, and
Speaker 3: I don't mean like I recently watched it. But so
Speaker 3: like when I think of Christmas songs, I never even
Speaker 3: like made the connection that that song was from the
Speaker 3: movie until you know, I don't know, like seven eight
Speaker 3: years ago, and it's it's not like a song I
Speaker 3: think of yeah, play that one, but like it's awesome
Speaker 3: and it reminds me of that movie and that movie
Speaker 3: is amazing, so good stuff there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one of my favorites too. I love it now.
Speaker 2: I also love like in each of the Vacation movies
Speaker 2: there's different family members, like like it's all like they're
Speaker 2: different cast. I mean, there's oh yeah, a different Russ
Speaker 2: and except up Beverly DiAngelo, she stays the same.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the one that I ended up. There's one where
Speaker 3: they're in like Europe. And this one's old. I don't
Speaker 3: remember when it came out, but I think it might
Speaker 3: have been like could it have been before I was born?
Speaker 3: Maybe that sounds off, but I just remember it was.
Speaker 3: It was when Chevy Chase was a lot younger, and
Speaker 3: I remember watching it and seeing some things and thinking
Speaker 3: to myself, I bet I'm not supposed to be watching this,
Speaker 3: and you know I did, and it was it was awesome.
Speaker 3: You know what other movie I watched as a kid
Speaker 3: that was old that I loved, but it also had
Speaker 3: something that as a kid I did enjoy seeing, but
Speaker 3: I wasn't expecting and I was just kind of always
Speaker 3: looking around, like I hope nobody walks in here while
Speaker 3: I'm watching this Revenge of the Nerds. Have you ever
Speaker 3: seen that?
Speaker 2: I have not seen it, dude.
Speaker 3: I mean that probably came out and I mean that
Speaker 3: probably came out in like the early eighties.
Speaker 2: So it's like pretty raunchy or something.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 2: I feel like I know all about it, Like, yeah.
Speaker 6: It's good.
Speaker 3: It's a really good movie. And it was, you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's really funny. It's a classic. But you know
Speaker 3: there's there's breast in it. Oh yeah, so that that
Speaker 3: was something that I wasn't expecting when watching and you know,
Speaker 3: it's something you remember as a kid. I have to
Speaker 3: watch it now, about to check it out?
Speaker 2: You sold me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the only place I know now you can
Speaker 3: actually see that, you know, because I mean, so might
Speaker 3: as well. Might as well get it. Maybe it's on
Speaker 3: Netflix or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: All right, let's let's talk quickly about the Kentucky quarterback commitment.
Speaker 3: So Zach Kelzada is a transfer from incarnate word. Now,
Speaker 3: there is more to the story here than just a
Speaker 3: guy that's coming from a school, but most people have
Speaker 3: never heard of. He started his career texas a and
Speaker 3: m and I don't know if he moved on because
Speaker 3: he was maybe a little bit ahead of everybody at realizing, Look,
Speaker 3: if I want to showcase what I can do, I
Speaker 3: got to go down a level and then come back up,
Speaker 3: because that's going to be the way that that quarterbacks,
Speaker 3: I feel like, get their first opportunity unless you're somebody
Speaker 3: you know named arch Manning. So as I've said, coaches
Speaker 3: who don't have to go young at quarterback and young,
Speaker 3: young and no experience, they're not going to do that.
Speaker 3: And that means that guys wanting to get an opportunity
Speaker 3: to play quarterback in college football need to understand. I mean,
Speaker 3: they're still going to take freshman commitments, but the likelihood
Speaker 3: of those freshmen becoming the full time starter at a
Speaker 3: school when they've never had any experience elsewhere, I just
Speaker 3: feel like that's going to be really really rare moving forward.
Speaker 3: So you know, I'd love to pile on and say
Speaker 3: that you know, this is what Mark Stoops is going
Speaker 3: to do to try to fix this mess.
Speaker 1: Haha.
Speaker 3: This is a guy from Incarnate Word, which doesn't even
Speaker 3: sound like a school. It sounds like a hard class
Speaker 3: at a college that was not a that was a
Speaker 3: really poor attempted humor. But anyways, I think the guy's
Speaker 3: pretty good. Now. I don't know if it's going to translate,
Speaker 3: but I'll put it this way. You got you know,
Speaker 3: you have more here than what you knew you had
Speaker 3: a year ago when you added Brock vandergriff Which, by
Speaker 3: the way, did you see Austin he's retired from football?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I saw that. Wow. I mean one year with
Speaker 2: Mark Stoops Huh yeah. I mean, like I makes you
Speaker 2: rethink your whole life.
Speaker 3: I'm just curious, does he Does he hate it? Does he?
Speaker 3: I mean, because I'm not gonna act like Mark Stoops
Speaker 3: ruined this guy's life, But I mean I see why
Speaker 3: people make that kind of a judgment that man, The
Speaker 3: guy got one year to be a starter and it
Speaker 3: was a Kentucky and nice quitting football, So like, I
Speaker 3: get why that's that's how people view it. But at
Speaker 3: the same point in time, like why not just transfer again?
Speaker 3: Like he's even I mean, he wasn't banged up to
Speaker 3: the point where like he needs to rethink about playing
Speaker 3: because he's got a bunch of concussions. The guy never
Speaker 3: played much at Georgia because he was behind some guys
Speaker 3: gets to Kentucky and like, even if he had a
Speaker 3: bad like this guy has had such little repetition as
Speaker 3: a starting quarterback in college that I feel like his
Speaker 3: confidence can't be rattled that much because he can just
Speaker 3: blame it on Kentucky's offense. Because look at how I mean,
Speaker 3: Mark stoops, that's where that's where offensive you know, fire
Speaker 3: goes to die because you know, he can't keep a coordinator.
Speaker 3: Guys who are on his offensive staff that he doesn't
Speaker 3: like that leave they end up being better elsewhere, like
Speaker 3: Shannon Dawson at Miami. So I mean, I'm very surprised.
Speaker 3: I hope there's nothing serious going on, but that I
Speaker 3: mean again, sometimes guys just do decide to walk away.
Speaker 3: But I feel like everything when it comes to his situation,
Speaker 3: it's really unusual for him to do that. Now, maybe
Speaker 3: he's just done with college because he's finished his degree
Speaker 3: and just doesn't want to but like, this guy could
Speaker 3: go make more. Like believe, no matter how bad he
Speaker 3: was in Kentucky, if he transferred somewhere, he would make
Speaker 3: money and it, I mean, he probably would be taken
Speaker 3: by one of the power for schools to be honest
Speaker 3: with you because again he hadn't played for It wasn't
Speaker 3: like this guy played many many years and showed he
Speaker 3: was he was average. I mean, he played one year
Speaker 3: and showed that he was average, and it was against
Speaker 3: a really good schedule.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just there had been some some some rumblings that
Speaker 3: that would happen, that could happen where he may just
Speaker 3: walk away. But I didn't. I didn't think that would
Speaker 3: actually happen. But here we are, so.
Speaker 2: Maybe the local Goodwill is fully staffed and they didn't
Speaker 2: need his assistants.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, where's he Is he from Georgia? Do
Speaker 3: you know? I would imagine he is, but thanks, So
Speaker 3: I'm not sure he looks like a Georgia guyatn'ty? Yeah,
Speaker 3: so Kauzada he was at A and M and then
Speaker 3: of course transferred and he was the south Land player
Speaker 3: of the Year at Carnate Word and you know he
Speaker 3: put up big numbers. So you know, who knows. Maybe
Speaker 3: the guy isn't very good at all. But I would
Speaker 3: if I'm if I am a if I'm a Kentucky fan,
Speaker 3: which I'm not, I couldn't even I couldn't even say
Speaker 3: it because it just sounds so like no way possible,
Speaker 3: Like I would be. I would be pretty excited because
Speaker 3: who were you gonna get, Like, you know, you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to use a lot of your money and spread
Speaker 3: it out. So if the kid that's going to Oregon
Speaker 3: State or whatever, Washington State, the Malik Murphy QB from Duke,
Speaker 3: like if he is, and if he's, if he wanted
Speaker 3: like three million, I wouldn't have paid that either.
Speaker 2: So you wonder the big question is his mom hot.
Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll have to uh have some intel, haven't.
Speaker 3: I know nothing, But I I just feel pretty good
Speaker 3: about us being able to rate, retain rivalry, bragging rights
Speaker 3: when it comes to the moms. Just just just based
Speaker 3: off of MS. Moss. Just just my just my thoughts.
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