Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome to the Buckeye with Me podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: Tony Gerdaman here once again with Juck Malletti. Jack, how's
Speaker 1: it going?
Speaker 2: Fantastic?
Speaker 3: As we wrap up here at Big ten Media Days
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, one more show before we hit.
Speaker 2: The road, Are you ready to go home?
Speaker 1: Chris Agnetti asked. He was the last coach to speak
Speaker 1: to the television audience, and speaking to the media at
Speaker 1: the television audience, said hey, you guys all ready to
Speaker 1: go home? Because he knew he knew this was day three.
Speaker 1: Some people just show up for one day, some people
Speaker 1: show up for two days.
Speaker 2: We're here for three. Are you ready to be home? Absolutely? Man,
Speaker 2: I am so ready.
Speaker 3: The just the stimulation of being around this many people
Speaker 3: for three days in a row, with the constant noise
Speaker 3: and everything, it's enough.
Speaker 2: I want to get in the quiet room.
Speaker 1: It is a lot of noise where we are. We're
Speaker 1: Tom and Marcus and I are. We're twenty two stories
Speaker 1: up right, but it feels like we're still street level
Speaker 1: because of the noise of the loud cars and the police,
Speaker 1: and the constant noise is a noise.
Speaker 3: Where I am is the sixth floor on the best
Speaker 3: Western in the side street next to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of action at night.
Speaker 3: We'll say that Chicago, downtown Chicago.
Speaker 2: Fun time, fun time.
Speaker 1: A little bit different than Indianapolis, for sure, and certainly
Speaker 1: well a different kind of different from Las Vegas a
Speaker 1: year ago.
Speaker 2: But you know, this was your first time here.
Speaker 1: This is this is the twentieth anniversary of my first
Speaker 1: time here, and it was the Chicago Media days and
Speaker 1: lots of since then. Kyle Woodingghan was told that coaches
Speaker 1: right now, when they do these offshoot things, they go
Speaker 1: for forty five minutes. Back in the day, it was
Speaker 1: two hours, And I remember having to transcribe two hours
Speaker 1: of Jim Trussell. Oh my gosh, So I mean you
Speaker 1: just watching stuff I got glittering about.
Speaker 3: I got off these I did flutter about. I'll tell you,
Speaker 3: I got a lot of takeaways. I mean, unbelievable experience
Speaker 3: really for someone who's just you know, for starters. When
Speaker 3: you talk about like the media, like all the media
Speaker 3: that you've seen on TV throughout your life as a
Speaker 3: sports fan, to see them all in person, none of
Speaker 3: them near as attractive as they are on TV.
Speaker 2: Okay, that you get an autograph. No, no crash.
Speaker 3: But the funny thing is, like my my instant reaction
Speaker 3: is like, hey, I want to go take a picture
Speaker 3: like seeing you know what I mean? Oh wait, no,
Speaker 3: that's not how you do this here. You're supposed to
Speaker 3: be a professional media guy. But no, that was really interesting.
Speaker 3: But obviously getting these these little forty five minute break
Speaker 3: away from all these coaches and hearing them talk, you know,
Speaker 3: and we don't ever watch press conferences really in depth
Speaker 3: from a whole lot of these rights, A couple that
Speaker 3: really stood out to me obviously seeing Whittingham today was
Speaker 3: of course one that I was waiting on and wanted
Speaker 3: to hear his first long one talking to the national
Speaker 3: media in front of you know, as the Michigan head coach.
Speaker 3: And the one thing that stood out for sure was
Speaker 3: he's not stoke in the flames of the rivalry. Though
Speaker 3: he did call Ohio State Ohio once and that other
Speaker 3: place or was it that other place with.
Speaker 2: It something something the other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so to not say Ohio State, I thought that
Speaker 3: I was wondering what he was going to refer to
Speaker 3: Ohio State as I don't think we haven't answered yet,
Speaker 3: but it's not gonna be Ohio State.
Speaker 1: I think there may be some T shirts now coming
Speaker 1: out like the other state university something of that, something.
Speaker 2: Of that nature. But yeah, that was He seemed to
Speaker 2: be used to.
Speaker 1: The Pac twelve and the Big twelve in terms of
Speaker 1: the media because when he after and he's like this,
Speaker 1: I gotta do this for forty five minutes, he.
Speaker 2: Said, he said, he said over yet it was twenty
Speaker 2: minutes in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like this, No, you're you're gonna be here for
Speaker 1: a little while longer it any stands for about forty
Speaker 1: one or so. Don't to get too into the weeds there,
Speaker 1: but this is a big step up, just like this
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. But it's also a big step up
Speaker 1: going to Michigan. But the good news is he's got
Speaker 1: a bunch of players that are you know.
Speaker 2: Ready to go, as he said, ready made.
Speaker 1: Although when he arrived, were you over there when he said,
Speaker 1: when they got there and they said there the strength
Speaker 1: testing there, they like way like did not pass.
Speaker 3: How interesting was that because this is something to remember
Speaker 3: we talked about when Harbaugh left with that strength coach
Speaker 3: that they had and you know, we're things gonna go
Speaker 3: way down, and apparently it did because Witting him. It
Speaker 3: stood out to him and his staff just how soft
Speaker 3: and weak they were up in arbor. But he said
Speaker 3: they got it addressed. Now. I don't know how they
Speaker 3: could address it so quickly, but he says, you know,
Speaker 3: long lean, long lean athletes, but the strength wasn't there.
Speaker 2: Chocolate milk, right, Bryce Underwick, Tony.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you caught that whole thing. Let
Speaker 3: me tell you man, watching Jeremiah Smith and then Bryce
Speaker 3: the following day, the difference in attitude.
Speaker 2: I mean, both of them look like, you know, generational lathings. Right.
Speaker 2: Just how much time are you over there with Bryce
Speaker 2: the whole time? I asked, Yet Bryce is? I mean,
Speaker 2: but he looks the part.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he is just like like just like watching Jeremiah,
Speaker 3: he is so big, strong, confident, but the answers are
Speaker 3: so different.
Speaker 2: He's so arrogant. I asked him if he regrets anything.
Speaker 3: He said absolutely, like he cut the question off, but no,
Speaker 3: like just like, I mean, he's going to be an
Speaker 3: all time villain in this rivalry if he wins one,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's gonna get heated.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: I mean JJ McCarthy. He he enjoyed the victories and
Speaker 1: Kyle Whitingham was asked about that comment from Price Underwood,
Speaker 1: I'm being the best player to ever come out of
Speaker 1: Michigan and winning had the same question that we all had.
Speaker 1: Is he talking about the state or the school one?
Speaker 1: But also it is not losing much sleep over it. Also,
Speaker 1: you want your quarterbacks to be confident, though you don't
Speaker 1: want to say something that you're going to have to
Speaker 1: then you know, live up to in those kinds of terms,
Speaker 1: and certainly he's going to have to.
Speaker 3: So Bryce was asked to clarify what he means specifically,
Speaker 3: and the guy you know says, did you mean out
Speaker 3: of state of high school in Michigan, just out of
Speaker 3: the state in general, out of the University of Michigan.
Speaker 3: And Bryce's answer was out of the state of Michigan.
Speaker 3: So there really was a clarification. And then he has
Speaker 3: asked to follow up. You know that might have rubbed
Speaker 3: some people the wrong way. Does that bother you?
Speaker 2: No, that doesn't bother me.
Speaker 3: So I mean just confidence bordering on cockey and uh,
Speaker 3: you know it's good for the rivalry.
Speaker 1: I guess, No, it definitely is shifting away from that.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about some news from the Big
Speaker 1: Ten Today. Talk with Director of Officials Bill Corollo. I
Speaker 1: asked him, is Big Ten considering going to allow the
Speaker 1: television product to watch the replay officials and get Mike
Speaker 1: in there, get a camera in there, and he said
Speaker 1: yes on Friday night games in Big ten stadiums, and
Speaker 1: it made I don't think it was just between Big
Speaker 1: Ten teams, but like every Friday night, they will allow
Speaker 1: it and we will see if they like it. They
Speaker 1: probably won't extend it through the season, but he said,
Speaker 1: you know, they could if everybody likes it. It's something
Speaker 1: that the coaches were in favor of. He has no
Speaker 1: problem with it because he's confident in his officials, but
Speaker 1: everybody loves that kind of access. And now we'll get
Speaker 1: to see all of the sixteen angles. The why wasn't
Speaker 1: Kenyata Jackson? You just saw him get dragged down? Are
Speaker 1: they talking about that all that at all? So what
Speaker 1: do you think about finally having that access in the
Speaker 1: Big Ten?
Speaker 2: You know, we just.
Speaker 3: Watched all these Big Ten coaches stand up here on
Speaker 3: this podium and the first thing they all did was
Speaker 3: praise Tony Petitim for being such a visionary and forward
Speaker 3: thinking and it's about time the Big ten hops onto this,
Speaker 3: as we've seen here in the ACC in the Big
Speaker 3: twelve now for a little bit, and it is very interesting,
Speaker 3: you know, like hearing those conversations during that during them
Speaker 3: making the call. I think it just adds a level
Speaker 3: of transparency that you need and it's it's fantastic. So
Speaker 3: I can't wait to see it. I can't wait for
Speaker 3: them to roll it out further. But I think it's
Speaker 3: a great thing for the conference to move forward to that.
Speaker 3: I think everybody should.
Speaker 1: The coaches will also have access to that as well,
Speaker 1: so they'll get that first hand account of what's going on.
Speaker 1: Anybody else that you talk to that or coach that
Speaker 1: would you The crowd around Signetta, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: this has been the largest crowd around an Indiana coach ever.
Speaker 1: We're sitting at a round table here, a little bit bigger.
Speaker 1: My first time being in a Big ten mediy days
Speaker 1: it was Terry Heppner, who was, you know, the late
Speaker 1: great Indiana coach now but there's a table of about
Speaker 1: eight chairs and then it was like three rows deep
Speaker 1: just being enamored with them. But Signetti today had he
Speaker 1: had the biggest crowd today and that includes Kyle Whittingham.
Speaker 1: It was yeah, it was a lot. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: I set up my camera to shoot video and eventually
Speaker 1: somebody stood in front of it. And that's just how
Speaker 1: things go when you're you know, running all over the
Speaker 1: place and people just aren't consider it anymore in the
Speaker 1: big cities.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had. Well, I won't tell that story.
Speaker 3: But when we talk about some people who really stood out,
Speaker 3: Dan Lanning did not. I'll tell you that Dan Lanning
Speaker 3: absolutely did not stand out. But you know, talking to
Speaker 3: like Signetti today, I would love to hear his opinion
Speaker 3: on Bob Chesney because Bob Presney was like sitting just
Speaker 3: I mean just listening to him talk and the confidence
Speaker 3: that he exudes, it's like the it factor that you
Speaker 3: can't describe.
Speaker 2: He's got it.
Speaker 3: He's got it, and it's no surprise that UCLA as
Speaker 3: a top twenty five class. We know that he can coach,
Speaker 3: we know that he has a staff Tony, he's got
Speaker 3: all the recipe that that Signetti had walked in. I mean,
Speaker 3: what Signetti did was the greatest thing ever and tell
Speaker 3: it that we've seen, but you couldn't have done that
Speaker 3: until recently.
Speaker 2: Right, who's to say you can't see something's not.
Speaker 3: That, but something similar at a place like UCLA.
Speaker 2: I think it's possible. Now.
Speaker 1: This is something that Tom and I talked about the
Speaker 1: other day talking about Brett Bielima, because he mentioned he
Speaker 1: was asked about Indiana. Does they give everybody hope? And
Speaker 1: he's like, what Indiana did? Yes, it gives you hope.
Speaker 1: But it's the greatest thing that has ever happened in
Speaker 1: college football. It's like the you know, the biggest thing.
Speaker 1: So can you repeat that? Like nobody should, nobody should
Speaker 1: have to be repeating that, but it shows you what's possible,
Speaker 1: and it certainly fires up fan bases and boosters. And
Speaker 1: when you fall short of that, it's like, why Indiana
Speaker 1: did it?
Speaker 2: Why can't you?
Speaker 1: Well, did we have all of these seniors? Did we
Speaker 1: have all of this talent? Did we bring in the
Speaker 1: number one draft pick in the NFL?
Speaker 2: Oh we didn't.
Speaker 1: Well, then you know, like, these aren't small things, These
Speaker 1: aren't just you know, nil, It takes more than that.
Speaker 1: But it is interesting for you to get a look
Speaker 1: at where you can't get a word into some coaches
Speaker 1: because of the entire crowd. But then you got like
Speaker 1: a Bob Chesney who has maybe like eight or nine
Speaker 1: people around that you can actually talk to a little
Speaker 1: bit with surprise and more. Yeah, and well it's it's UCLA,
Speaker 1: and there's no use there's not gonna be much California
Speaker 1: media here, you know. Uh so there are coaches like
Speaker 1: you can talk to just because there aren't enough people around,
Speaker 1: although at every single table you'll find some Ohio state media,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure you know true.
Speaker 2: I did notice that.
Speaker 3: Also notice that Dan Lanning what cut short?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: He cut out quick? Yeah, yeah, twenty six minutes twenty
Speaker 3: six minutes of his forty five that were allowed to
Speaker 3: have him, and he cut out quick.
Speaker 2: I did want to add that Ryan Day his presence here.
Speaker 2: He knows he's the man.
Speaker 3: He knows he's the that represents the conference. He's the
Speaker 3: top dog, and he carries himself like it, and he
Speaker 3: does a great job in this kind of setting. I mean,
Speaker 3: he looked like the dude it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, and he's he's worked hard to bring football back
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty when when COVID was, when Kevin Warren
Speaker 1: canceled it. So he's he's been a voice in the
Speaker 1: Big ten like once you become a highest head coach,
Speaker 1: you are one of the voices. But he certainly put
Speaker 1: up a fight over the years. And so congrats on
Speaker 1: your first one. But nobody knows where it's going to
Speaker 1: be next year. Well we'll eventually find out. But looking
Speaker 1: forward to that one as well. And now camp starts
Speaker 1: next week, and boy, I hope you get some resks
Speaker 1: because there will be no rest after that after this,
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