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College football insider. He knows a lot about casetate, but
also a lot about the Big Twelve. One of my
favorite guests to have on this show. If he was
only local, maybe I need to ask him about his
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silky smooth, about six foot six foot one.
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Utah Protective Films dot com without further ado, Let's get
out to the ESPN the fan outline and welcome in
the person that writes for open for business. He is
also on casey Sports Network, one of our favorite guests.
Love to have him. I got to ask him now
if he played hoop in high school. We got John
Kertch on the line. John, how we doing brother?
Speaker 3: Hey, I am doing well. So I was cut from
the freshman basketball team at Blue Valley West High School,
but I will point out my class won the state
championship the senior year, my senior year, so it was
at least like it was a good crop. Listen, I
am a five to nine white guy. I'm not super athletic,
but I can shoot. Man. I can shoot the hell
out of the ball. There is you know. I'm a
five nine. I'm a five nine white guy. So if
you need someone to knock down some jumpers, I can
definitely do that. You can ask people who played. I
took people by surprise at the k State Rack back
in the day because they would take one look at
me and think I didn't have much. They give me
space to shoot. Man, I start knocking down trays.
Speaker 1: I always say, if hand down, man down, light the
ass up. That's what my dad would tell me in
my ear. Yeah, Glad, you would fit well right here
in Provo because three yu is a big thing BYU
shoots a lot of threes. So maybe what we needed
to do was just have you out here for a
little bit, you know, play and then move back, because hey,
people shoot threes out here. Man, they all shoot threes.
I can tell you that everybody. No one likes to drive.
Speaker 4: That's all we do.
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm with it, because yeah, I can't drive, but
I will knock some threes down for you. I got you.
Speaker 4: Knock some threes down.
Speaker 1: Speaking of threes, can't, let's start with this, Kansas State
looking to avoid that number three third loss this weekend
in conference play taking on the Red Raiders Texas Tech.
Your early thoughts on this matchup k State. You know
they've knocked the Baron Morgan, the starting quarterback out of
this game before. This is a tough matchup. I think
more for the Ray Raiders than Kansas State in my opinion.
Speaker 3: It's to me, I'm kind of two minds of this.
I think, like situationally, it has all the makings of
a team that should be on upset alert in Texas
Tech because one, you've alluded to it already, you've got
a huge game next week that they're looking ahead to,
potentially the possibility would be out there right that that
could happen, and you know, Reece Davis is already like
teasing maybe College game Day being in Lubbock for that game,
Like it's I mean, there's every reason for Texas Tech
to be like Man next week. That's the one. Kse
State's four and four. But Case State, if you've been
watching and paying attention, they're kind of to me, they're
very similar to twenty twenty four Kansas where terrible start,
really disappointing, but now midway through the year they've found
themselves and they're playing like a team that's much better
than a four and fourteen. You throw in the fact
that it's going to be a juice home atmosphere. I
can tell you the crowd is going to be by
far the best that it's been this year at Bill
Snyder Family Stadium, because nobody's had a game like this
to get foed up about the entire year. They lost
on August twenty third in Ireland and came back, and
by the time they were back, they were playing North
Dakota and Case State barely won that game. Then they're
losing to Army. Then it feels like the season's basically
over there just has not been a home game with
the juice that this one is going to have. So
I think everybody's feeling like it's kind of a second
lease on life in the season where it was like
we thought we weren't going to get a single game
like this this year, so let's take advantage of this.
So it's going to be rocking. And then you throw
on tof of that that, Texas Tech just has not
been able to beat k State at all recently. So
Texas Tech has lost eight straight and twelve of the
last thirteen against KSE State. The only respite in there
was Patrick Mahomes beating KSE State in twenty fifteen. But
Tech the last time they won in Manhattan that game
was Mike Leach versus Ron Prince in two thousand and eight,
if that helps date it for you. So this has
not been a good matchup for Texas Tech. Long way
to say that. Now, the other part of me that
looks at it and says, none of that's going to
help you block Romelo Height and David Bailey off the edge.
None of that matters. And k State's offensive line has
not been a team strength this year at all. I
think they've gotten better, but it's not as strong an
offensive line as what Case State has had, And I
think that's what you worry about is the game wrecking
ability of Texas Tech's defense. Tech has been about as
good against the run as almost anybody in the country too,
and Case State's running game has been very pedestrian without
Dylan Edwards, who frankly I think is probably not going
to play the rest of the year. So you've got
a really average running back room. Outside of that, Case
State may be kind of one dimensional, but they've been
winning while being one dimensional. That's what they have. They
have a downfield passing game and it's really good for
all the crap Avery Johnson has taken in his career
for you know, rival fans calling him glorified running back.
Turned into a guy that his biggest weapons throwing the
ball down the field. He's been great at it and
really killed Kansas with his arm last week. So that's
kind of how it sets up. I feel like, you know,
the actual matchup I don't feel great about, but situational
stuff I feel really good about. So what does that
mean in the end. I think KSE State has a
real shot, but I would still be surprised if it happened.
Speaker 4: John how do.
Speaker 2: You assess Kansas State as a whole, because I feel
like the last two years, Kansas State was supposed to
be the blue blood. When Texas and Oklahoma left, K
State was supposed to be one of the teams that
ran the conference, and Avery Johnson everyone was talking about
him and that I think it was Texas sek when
he had those five rushing touchdowns his freshman year. I
feel like we keep waiting for k State to arrive
and be the big dog in the conference, and clearly
Avery Johnson's good enough. You play a game like last
week where they just kind of dominate Kansas how do
you kind of assess and break down why k State
is not the blue blood, the big dog of the
Big Twelve.
Speaker 3: Yet and you sell like kse State Twitter, I'll be
I'll be honest, though, I mean, look, hey, I get
the point. Like I think K State fans thought they
were headed for that after twenty twenty two when they
won the Big Twelve title, brought Will Howard and a
bunch of talent back in that twenty twenty three season
and twenty three and twenty four they were close, you know,
I mean, they were close to getting back there and
doing it again. Twenty three. You know, they had a
game that'll haunt him. Will Howard probably had a touchdown
in overtime against Texas if he chooses the correct running lane.
They wind up not getting it on fourth and goal
a couple of plays later, lose that game. That was
really the difference in them making it to the Big
twelve champion game or not. And then last year they
start seven to one and they're at Houston, a game
that they should win, and they're up double digits and
all of a sudden, a bad interception really turned the
tide in that game in the second half, and things,
you know, the wheels kind of fell off, and you
could point and say, hey, well a lot of that's
the youth of Averray Johnson last year. But then this year,
I mean, it just feels like this year has been
kind of ill fated from the beginning. I don't think,
you know, if they would have not done the Ireland thing,
they'd be playing Iowa State probably right about now in
the schedule, which they've lost three straight. And that looks
like a game that I mean, Case State looks like
the better team right now, so that could certainly help
your record and the Arizona Army games. Had they just
played with efforts, you know, I mean, they just were
playing like they didn't care at the beginning of the season.
That's a hard one to explain. I don't know exactly
what happened there, but I think it's pretty easy. The
four losses are by a combined thirteen points, I believe,
so it's really easy to go back and reverse engineer
how this season could have been much different. But I mean,
I think you kind of hit on where the fan
frustration's at with Chris Climban, where it's like he's he
had the one breakthrough year with a big twelve championship.
Other than that, you know, the joke around the fan
base is kind of like eight and four, you know,
And in fact, like some people have been saying, hey,
you know, they're going for the reverse climb this year.
To just went out and be eight and four by
the end of the year, that would be really showcasing
how inevitable the eight and four is with climbing. But
that's case, Dave. Fans frustration is can you get over
that hump? And I think some of the criticism about
it would be he's maybe not ruthless enough to do that.
He's stuck with the same staff for a while. There
probably has not been enough turnover on that staff. A
lot of internal hires when somebody does leave, and a
lot of people would tell you, Hey, the difference in
the Big twelve championship year was that Colin clemb became
the offensive coordinator, and credit Chris Climb for making that move.
He did fire one of his longtime friends, Forty Messing
him as the OC, and then hired Colin Climb. But
Colin was already there within the program. That was kind
of a gimmea and we're seeing what he's doing at
Texas A and M with that offense right now. And Colin,
I mean, I can almost guarantee you he's going to
get a power for head coaching job this offseason. So
he was a star that was right in your lap.
And I think people look at it and say, well,
was that the only reason that you had the twenty
twenty two breakthrough year and everything else? You're just going
to be kind of this this decent but not great program.
So I think that's some of the conundrum that you
have there cents. Climent's are really good, dude. I genuinely
think he's a really good human being, and I kind
of think to be a great head head coach in
college football a lot of times you may need more
edge to you than that. I know. Colonie Sataki's another
example that guy that I think is just a great
human being, and he's clearly been really successful with that.
But I don't know if if Climban is cut frowd enough,
you know. I mean, he said this postgame press conference
after Kansas driver drove some fans nuts. He said he
was talking about how tight he is with Lance Lightpold,
and he said, Hey, if I wasn't the head coach
in Case Date, I might root for Lance to win
this game because I know how bad he wants to
win it. The same days did not like that, but
I mean, that's that's kind of how he is. So
I think that maybe a piece of what's going on here.
Speaker 2: I mean that sounds a lot like what Colonie Stocky
had to say about Kyle Whittingham, and I think a
lot of fans felt the same.
Speaker 4: So I don't think it's just the Case State Kansas problem.
Speaker 2: I have done some research though, John and I have
discovered I can pinpoint you the exact problem with KSE State.
It was taking the game. It was taking the game
in Ireland, That's what it was. Because after Florida State
played they went to and ten. After Nebraska played there,
they went four and a. I truly think, however much
money Brett Yormark is offering schools to go over and
play in Ireland, just say no, it's not worth it,
because it seems like the teams who go over and
play in Ireland, man, they just get cursed.
Speaker 3: It's definitely seemingly a thing now, you know, it's we're
getting enough data here where it seems to be. And
KSE State fans, I mean, look, the fan base was
not real happy about that case. State was the team
that gave up a home game. So, you know, Iowa
status turned into debatably the bigger rival of the two
between Kansas, just because it's been you know, much more
competitive series than what's happened with Kansas and the home
schedule this year. Now there's only six home games. You
took away the most marquee game on the schedule. You
keep losing, you know, Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri Nebraska, all
these teams that like meant something on the schedule over
the years that have gone away, So fans are just like,
what now you're going to take this one away from us?
And I think the idea was that they were going
to get like two million dollars out of it, which,
like I understand the athletic departments need all the money
that they can get, but you know, it's really worth
it in the end, and especially like I mentioned, now
that you see how the Iowa State season has broken,
you would feel much better about playing that game right
now than you would have in Week zero where it
was actually at. So I think it could not have
possibly worked out worse to be honest for Case State there,
and Climban has himself to blame Jean Taylor, Case State's
athletic director, assuming that they're not lying about the story
how this happened. They got approached about it, and Jane
figured Climbing would never say yes to do that, but
Climban decided to do it after talking to some people
and thinking it would be a great opportunity for the kids,
and YadA YadA. So is Climbing that pulled the trigger
on doing it, So there you go. I guess back
to my previous statement, maybe the fans would tell you
he should have been more cutthroat in not doing that.
Speaker 4: It's an interesting take. You bring up Iowa State.
Speaker 2: I want to go there because there's still people who say, oh, well,
Byu hasn't played anybody. And while I do think b
why you didn't necessarily get Iowa State's best shot because
I think they're one of the better big teams in
the Big twelve. What was your takeaway from that game
and are you still of the opinion BOU hasn't played anybody,
or do you think that they have earned a spot
as a top ten team in college football?
Speaker 3: No, they've earned it. I mean, look, I've been looking
this week at a lot of the power pools still
really like Utah. Like I think Utah is still a
really good win. And that game, you know, I mean
you saw kind of has an excuse me touchdown there
at the end of the game. There's one play the
ball that Chase Roberts in the end zone. It was
close to being like a seventeen point game, and maybe
people would feel a little bit differently about that too,
had that actually happened. But like Josh Paate I know
his power pull had Utah in the top twenty this week.
Tom Fernelli from CDs Sports at his I mean BYU
fans won't like this, but has actually had Utah in
he ranks the top twelve. He had Utah in the
top twelve and BYU not there because the power rankings
like Utah that much. So first of all, I would
hold that win up and winning your names, I mean
and winning by two scores like yeah, I mean, I'm
gonna say b Yu has earned it by doing that.
That was Iowa State well rested, right coming off of
buy in front of their home crowd. You talk about
situational stuff. That is a spot where, like situationally, everything
is pointing toward Iowa State winning that game, which is
why they were They were a Vegas favorite right and
buy you just they have like an it factor to him, man,
they have an IT factor that is able to go
win games like that and pull pull games out of
the fire. I think is really the bigger point about that,
being able to pull a game out of the fire
where it looks like you're you're down and out, you're
in a lot of trouble. In that first to half,
it looked like BYU was in a ton of trouble,
especially while knowing what they were up against from a
situational standpoint. So no, I don't. I don't lend a
lot of credence towards that. The other thing I would
just say is like, can we give BYU some credit
for having done this for a second straight year? Like,
I mean, they should have some good will built up
as far as just trusting them as a program now
being that they did it last year and then people
doubted after they lost the Kansas game, and it's like, hey,
they finish off in the bowl game and spank Colorado
and win eleven games. Now here they are at eight
to z again, Like at some point you gotta just
trust that, like, hey, this this program just win wins games. Man,
That's that's what they're doing right now. So no, I don't.
I don't subscribe to much of a theory that they
that they haven't played anybody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you mentioned just some some of the rankings out there.
You got Josh Payton and all that. So I wanted
to go here, We've got the College Football Playoff, the
first ranking coming out next Tuesday. Do you think that
they respect BYU. Where do you think they put BYU?
And where do they put most of the big twelve
do you think?
Speaker 3: I mean fault is to never give them much benefit
of the doubt in terms of what they're going to
do for the for the league. You just always assume
the worst, hope for the best, assume the worst. So
you know, let's go look at the I got this
up right. I was gonna say they just peak at
the A people, because I do think that the College
Football Playoffs election Committee is generally not going to deviate
a ton from the A people. So I would guess
that BYU is going to be in the top twelve.
But I mean, it wouldn't shock me if they're eleven
or twelve. It wouldn't shock me if Notre Dame, for instance,
winds up in front of them. As crazy as that is.
With their two losses, Can they crack the top ten?
Speaker 1: Can it be like a number nine? Because I got floor,
I got ceiling, six, floor, thirteen, That's how I have it.
Could you see them anywhere between the seven and nine range.
Speaker 3: I think that's a pretty good and that's a pretty
good ceiling and floor. So I don't know. I just
wouldn't put the ceiling that high. Again, not based on
meritt but based on what I would think that they
will do. No, I would bet that they'll be ten
to eleven or twelve. I would bet strongly, unfortunately, And
I mean, look, I would love to be wrong, and
I hope I'm wrong, and I don't think that Texas
Tech well, I guess you know, we'll see what happens
this weekend. If we assume that Texas Tech wins, I
don't think that Texas Tech's going to be in the
top twelve, you know, if we're talking about like the
rest of the league. So and then at the back end,
it's just kind of a it's kind of a crapshoot
when you get to the back end like Cincinnati. If
they win this weekend, I mean, they should definitely be
like in the top fifteen, but they're not going to
be in the top twelve. I think even if they
go win that game on the road at Utah and
then it's like, you know, Houston will hopefully be ranked.
But that is the type of team that I could
see them leaving out because look, if there is one
team that you want to if you want to criticize
the schedule of a Big Twelve team, it is Houston.
I mean, you go look at Houston's played who they
have played. I don't and a lot of time talking
about that because it's such a cool story, and like
Willie Fritz is just doing what he always does, which
is when and you can only play who's out there
in front of you. But if you do really want
to attack a strength to schedule into Big Twelve, it
is Houston. So it would be harder for me to
whine and complain about that. But up toward the top, no,
I'm not expecting great news for the Big Twelve, to
be quite honest.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know you're not wrong in that. I think
that's honest.
Speaker 1: If for a take, well what the committee has done,
so wouldn't be surprised by that. And that leads to
this question of will the Big Twelve get two teams
in the College Football Playoff?
Speaker 3: I think it's pretty unlikely, although I will say that
Andy Staples, who does a bracketology every week for on three,
he at least had three Big Twelve teams on the graphic.
Now only one was in, and then I think it
was so as BYU was in, and then it was
Cincinnati and Texas Tech both in, like the first four
out I think there was one team in front of
them on that list, So that at least gave me
a little more like optimism, like, hey, at least right
now you know they're getting respect like they're because I
felt like at this time last year is when the
conversation started slanting toward will wait is the Big twelve
even going to get anybody in? Like maybe we'll have
two G five champs here, you know, depending on what
happens with Tulane an Army. And so I'm happy at
least that the conversation seems to be starting there where
you've got a shot. But you know, part of the
problem is just that, again with this league, everybody is
so bunched up, they're so similar, and teams are going
to be playing here down the stretch. I I just
fear that it works out in a way that's that's
really advantageous for the league. And I think that the
second BYU loses a game, if that happens, I think
the second the Texas Tech loses a second game, if
that happens, Cincinnati, I just always feel like they're waiting
to drop them like a rock. I mean, we saw
Texas Tech drop seven spots for losing by four on
the road at Arizona State with a backup quarterback. You know,
I mean it, it's that's the way it goes. So
I would say, no, the odds are definitely likely that
that will not happen. But once again, hope I'm wrong,
and I'm not saying that that's that that's right or
justified it.
Speaker 1: Anyway, the odds are not in forever, not in your
favorite hashtag hunger games.
Speaker 4: A little tongue in cheeker right there, John, I wish
we had more time.
Speaker 1: I'll finish with this question because I do want to
get your thoughts on this expanding to college football playoff
to twenty four teams, yes or no?
Speaker 4: Why or why not?
Speaker 3: So to me, it is kind of conditional here because
I mean, I don't on principle, no, I do not
like extending the playoff. I like a completely meaningful regular season.
I say this, and it makes people mad sometimes, But
if we could go back to even just the BCS,
where you pick two teams and the regular season has
so much meaning where you know, I mean, you just
slip up once that might be it. I think that's
like one of the things that make college football really
really unique, and I just feel like we move, you know,
we're moving further and further from that now. A lot
of that too, is that, you know, we're getting rid
of all these rivalry games with realignment, and there are
a number of things that have contributed to moving away
from just why college football was so unique, but that
I just think that era. You know, I'm nostalgic for
that era where dude, you had to be totally locked
in and dialed in every single regular season game. Okay,
so there's that perspective on it. But if the twenty
fourteen playoff means that we're getting what the Big ten is,
I'm trying to remember us Ellen's term like verbalizing right now,
they're kicking around the idea behind the scenes of a
playoff that would include three or four auto bids for
every single power for conference and everybody would have the
same amount. So, for instance, that could mean you'd have
like a twenty fourteen playoff where the Big twelve gets
four autobids, same number of autobids as the SEC, Big
ten and ACC And if that is the case then,
just from a purely you know, survival standpoint for the
Big Twelve, can I be sitting, Hey, I'd rather not
work out where the Big twelve gets equal playoff access
and they get four teams every year in there. It's
hard for me to go against that just from a
you know, what's good for a Big twelve business standpoint.
So if you're gonna tell me it's twenty four teams
and it winds up being one of those formats which
long way to go on that and they would have
to convince the SEC. And you know, I understand that,
and I get the people kind of recoil when they
hear that and think, oh, that's ridiculous. It would never happen.
Maybe not, but it's at least being out there reported
right now by Ross Dellinger that the Big Ten is
kind of acquiescing to that. I would have a hard
time saying no to that, especially since we're already as
much as I pined for the days as we could
go back to, hey, just two teams play for the
Tyler or whatever, like the toothpastes out of the tube
on that, Like we're just barreling toward adding more and
more teams. They're trying to do it to the basketball
tournament too, right, So all it does seem to have
just an air of an inevitability to it that, you know,
I'm kind of reluctantly like, all right, if you're gonna
give us four bids, let's go, let's go to the
twenty fourteen thing.
Speaker 4: I'm with you as well on principal.
Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't mind sixteen teams, but if you're gonna
go twenty four you're right. The tube is already out
of the two pace and we're already rolling at snowball
into that.
Speaker 3: No doubt.
Speaker 1: You mentioned business, though. What's the best way we can
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Speaker 4: You do it?
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Speaker 3: Hey, I appreciate it. Ro On take care guys.
Speaker 1: That was John kurts Man. Guys, I wish we had
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the show. John is always great. I love having him on.
He's people download his interview a lot. He's up there,
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super in tune, knows exactly what he's talking about. And well,
Kansas State upset Texas Tech this weekend. I don't know
if I like that because I don't think the Red
Raiders will drop too straight.
Speaker 4: But you never know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is the hard part. It's like if they lose,
then there's no way they lose against you know almost
why I'm a little bit overconfident.
Speaker 5: I think they're going to handle Kansas State.
Speaker 4: I don't think. I don't know. I don't know. Twelve
every game, I get it.
Speaker 5: But Case State looked good last but Kansas has an
awful defense.
Speaker 4: It's true.
Speaker 5: Texas Tech does not have that bad of a defense.
Speaker 4: No, they don't.
Speaker 2: It's is also a four and fourteen, so it's not
as though they're just running through everybody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just Kansas State is prone to give up points.
Speaker 4: Guys, they are.
Speaker 5: I think I think Texas questions along the defensive line.
I think Texas Tech wins by ten plus.
Speaker 1: Ten plus, So you got a thirteen plus victory or
at least ten, at least at least ten, you wouldn't
be surprised if they beat him by fourteen ten.
Speaker 5: I think Kansas State could make it a game for
about a half.
Speaker 3: So first, I.
Speaker 5: Think that Texas Tech has a superior coaching staff, and
I think they're better and almost every position on the field.
Speaker 4: Oh, they definitely are.
Speaker 1: Joey McGrath, I think the only position I would maybe
argue to give you a pushback of not I think
Avery Johnson's a very good quest well, Avery Johnson. Put
Avery Johnson in Texas Tech System, I think they can
do the same thing.
Speaker 5: But is Avery Johnson better than Baron Morton? I think
you can make that argument that do a degree that
I think you can. I think you have an argument there.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm not saying he's definitively better, saying
you have an argument.
Speaker 4: Avery Johnson's nice.
Speaker 1: Like I think if you put Avery Johnson in Texas
Tech System, I think.
Speaker 2: He Let me ask you this, if bo doesn't have
a quarterback, they're both in the transfer portal. Who do
you want Baron Morton Avery Johnson? Because to me, I
think the answer of the guy who I want Avery A.
Speaker 4: Johnson? I think Avery Johnson the run, Avery Johnson with
the running, but I don't. I think Baron Morton's underrated.
I really do know. I'm with you.
Speaker 2: That. Yeah, and we're not even talking about like a
Johnson at least three times a season.
Speaker 5: But I think I think that Texas Tech also has
one of the most underrated running backs.
Speaker 4: I agree like Bro Cameron Dicky can play. He's good.
He's good. Brocent behind Jimmark, I think roll up.
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