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Speaker 2: Union text line. So for those just now joining us,
Speaker 2: I suppose some news that is worth sharing for those
Speaker 2: of you that may not have seen this news just yet,
Speaker 2: but Jeff Brohm appears to have landed his first addition
Speaker 2: in the transfer portal, and this is somebody that he's
Speaker 2: certainly familiar with A former player.
Speaker 3: Well, well, I don't Yeah, I guess he would have.
Speaker 2: He was at Purdue for three years, so he would
Speaker 2: have played for Jeff at least at least once. But yeah,
Speaker 2: they've landed the first transfer so far, and that is
Speaker 2: a offensive lineman who comes from Purdue. The young man's
Speaker 2: name is Mohammaane Mussa, again a three year starter on
Speaker 2: the O line for Purdue. And then also we now
Speaker 2: know that Jacorey Brooks is going to be declaring for
Speaker 2: the NFL Draft. It was one of those big graphics
Speaker 2: that a lot of these guys put out with a statement,
Speaker 2: and I didn't think he had any eligibility left, which
Speaker 2: doesn't look like he does, but you never know. I
Speaker 2: feel like if guys just I kind of feel like,
Speaker 2: if guys just don't leave college and just hang out
Speaker 2: and see if anybody notices, they might be able to
Speaker 2: get away with it. I mean not really, but like
Speaker 2: I kind of wouldn't be totally shocked if that did happen,
Speaker 2: given the fact that, like the NAA seems to not
Speaker 2: really be enforcing a whole lot, and anytime they do
Speaker 2: try to you know, put their foot down and enforce
Speaker 2: something it doesn't seem to go in their favor. But
Speaker 2: he is going to go to the NFL draft, and
Speaker 2: I suppose by announcing that it's really more than anything,
Speaker 2: a sign that he is not going to play in
Speaker 2: the bowl game. And I don't know that anybody really need,
Speaker 2: like what is the protocol here? What is the expected
Speaker 2: communication to the fans? And maybe we're not entitled to it,
Speaker 2: but you know, Jeff did talk did a He had
Speaker 2: a press conference after the bowl announcement and and said
Speaker 2: he doesn't have a clue who is and who is
Speaker 2: not going to play in the bowl game, which I
Speaker 2: believe him.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I would imagine that they haven't had any real conversations
Speaker 2: about that with the majority of the roster. But there
Speaker 2: are guys that, like, I just don't expect to play
Speaker 2: because you know, I mean, if they want to play, great,
Speaker 2: But if you are moving on and you want to
Speaker 2: play in the NFL, I don't really see this as
Speaker 2: a game for you to benefit, right, I mean I
Speaker 2: guess you could claim, well, if they put out some
Speaker 2: really good film and you know, in this bowl game
Speaker 2: against Washington, that could really improve their draft stock, but
Speaker 2: I don't, I mean maybe, I mean, I guess there's
Speaker 2: a chance that could happen, But I feel like, and
Speaker 2: I you know, I wish guys would always I wish
Speaker 2: it wasn't even in anybody's mind and not play a
Speaker 2: game when your team is in action. But I feel
Speaker 2: like Leonard Fournett when he was at LSU, was kind
Speaker 2: of the first big name to just decide, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna I'm not gonna do that. And I think
Speaker 2: it was against Yeah, it was a Louisville game. They
Speaker 2: played Louisville in that twenty sixteen Bowl game down in Florida.
Speaker 2: So I mean, I now, you know, expect guys not
Speaker 2: to play and don't blame them at all, and that's
Speaker 2: just kind of where we are. So there are a
Speaker 2: handful of guys on this team that have exhausted their eligibility,
Speaker 2: like Quincy Riley and Tyler Shuck, and I think those
Speaker 2: guys have a chance to play in the NFL. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Quincy Riley will be drafted. Tyler Shuck, I'm not sure,
Speaker 2: but I wouldn't be shocked by any means if he
Speaker 2: ends up being able to find an NFL home and
Speaker 2: hang out for a little while there in the league.
Speaker 2: But you know, is there going to be some type
Speaker 2: of at some point, is there going to be some
Speaker 2: announcement that fans and I don't just mean Louisville fans,
Speaker 2: I mean college football fans, Like, is there some kind
Speaker 2: of a protocol to see who in fact is playing
Speaker 2: and who is not playing in the bowl game. I mean,
Speaker 2: maybe it can be an individual thing where the program
Speaker 2: puts out a press release notifying people. It's just, you know,
Speaker 2: it's become such an expectation for guys to sit out
Speaker 2: bowl games, but is it really worthy of like a
Speaker 2: full on press release for certain guys. It's just, you know,
Speaker 2: it's it. I'm happy that that, you know, bowl games
Speaker 2: are still around. I'd rather have them than not. But
Speaker 2: I get the sense that we are collectively college football
Speaker 2: fans really across the country, if you're not somebody that
Speaker 2: is rooting for a team that's in the college football playoff,
Speaker 2: like we think we kind of all are treating these
Speaker 2: things the same way, right, Like, it doesn't like a
Speaker 2: win or a loss in a bowl game is no
Speaker 2: longer viewed as something that really has a big impact
Speaker 2: on how you view your season because of obvious reasons.
Speaker 3: You know, you're not you.
Speaker 2: You know, if you get out, go out there and
Speaker 2: get a big win, and then you know, hell yeah.
Speaker 2: But you also kind of deep down know that you're
Speaker 2: probably not playing an opponent that was at full strength
Speaker 2: because they probably had guys that opted out. And if
Speaker 2: you go out in a bowl game and you don't
Speaker 2: play well and you lose, it's not what you want.
Speaker 2: You're probably not happy about it, but like you probably
Speaker 2: can't even fake the energy to be totally mad at
Speaker 2: your team because you're probably watching guys that didn't play
Speaker 2: a ton of reps this year because you know they're
Speaker 2: now getting opportunities because the other guys chose not to play. So, look,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna watch Louisvill's bowl game against Washington in the
Speaker 2: Sun Bowl, but I as of now have no clue
Speaker 2: who's going to be playing, and you know, we'll have
Speaker 2: to just have to just wait and see. All right,
Speaker 2: So this, Uh, I've been refreshing Twitter throughout the show.
Speaker 2: I tend to do that, you know, every day, just
Speaker 2: because that is where I get most of my information,
Speaker 2: which probably isn't a good thing to tell to share
Speaker 2: with you, guys, because not only are you probably well
Speaker 2: aware of it, but you hear me say it often.
Speaker 2: Like Twitter is become like this platform that you really,
Speaker 2: you know, even if you see something that is legit
Speaker 2: and breaking news. At least for me, I'm kind of
Speaker 2: now programmed to just assume that it's prob that I
Speaker 2: need to just triple check to see if this is real,
Speaker 2: because it's so easy for misinformation to be, you know,
Speaker 2: to be spread on that platform. And there are people
Speaker 2: who are you know, not to say they're super naive,
Speaker 2: but I think you could. You can be someone that
Speaker 2: is not naive and completely get got in a way
Speaker 2: that you didn't used to be able to. So the
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick stuff, well, there was a report earlier from
Speaker 2: somebody that you know is a reputable reporter. I can't
Speaker 2: think of exactly what his name is, but I'll pull
Speaker 2: it up here to see if I can see if
Speaker 2: he's got any updates. But like the Bill Belichick to
Speaker 2: North Carolina, the fact that that's real, like that they're
Speaker 2: literally considered in hiring him and he apparently is very
Speaker 2: interested in the job. I just still can't can't make
Speaker 2: any sense of it. Apparently he wants to show that
Speaker 2: he can be successful as a football coach, not at
Speaker 2: the NFL level, and he wants to show that he
Speaker 2: can succeed without Tom Brady. I mean that that would
Speaker 2: make sense. But when we were talking earlier, was Zach
Speaker 2: Barnett a football scoop. I thought he made a really
Speaker 2: good point, and that was that if he can bring
Speaker 2: over his son to be the defensive coordinator and I'm
Speaker 2: not even sure where he's coaching now. I know his
Speaker 2: son is currently a DC at the college level somewhere,
Speaker 2: but wherever, like, bring him over, and then if Belichick
Speaker 2: decides to move on and go to the NFL after
Speaker 2: a few years or just you know, retire because he's
Speaker 2: in his seventies, then he can hand the job off
Speaker 2: to his son. That's the first scenario that would make
Speaker 2: sense as to why he wants to do this. Anything else, like,
Speaker 2: you know, the whole Brady thing, Like really, that's you
Speaker 2: think people are going to like, I.
Speaker 3: Don't even I don't know what Bill could.
Speaker 2: Do other than going to the NFL and winning multiple
Speaker 2: Super Bowls.
Speaker 3: I don't know what he could do to have people.
Speaker 2: He wasn't benefiting from Brady more than Brady was benefiting
Speaker 2: from him. Now the reality is they both benefited from
Speaker 2: each other. Both are phenomenal, but they split up. Tom
Speaker 2: Brady went to Tampa and won a Super Bowl. Bill
Speaker 2: Belichick fell apart, and the whole I mean, the Patriots
Speaker 2: really have missed I mean, they missed Tom, there's no
Speaker 2: doubt about that. But then, you know, even though it's
Speaker 2: his first year, like, the Patriots are in a terrible
Speaker 2: place right now, and there's talk that they may get
Speaker 2: rid of their coach after just one year if Robert
Speaker 2: Kraft is, you know, is not satisfied with with the
Speaker 2: plan and the vision they have to get this thing
Speaker 2: turned around. So like, I just the whole Brady thing,
Speaker 2: I get it because you know, clearly those two guys
Speaker 2: are very prideful and and and right now there's no
Speaker 2: doubt Brady looks like he was you know, he was
Speaker 2: a bigger factor in their success than Belichick was. But
Speaker 2: I just can't I can't imagine, Yeah, I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: take the job at North Carolina and coaching college football,
Speaker 2: something I've never done before, or at least not in
Speaker 2: the last forty years, and that'll that'll show people it
Speaker 2: wasn't just Tom, you know, I was a factor in it,
Speaker 2: Like it just it just sounds so not real, but
Speaker 2: again it is real, meaning that he's he's he's being
Speaker 2: considered for the job, and there was one report that
Speaker 2: said that it's gonna be him, but that's not been
Speaker 2: confirmed and as of now, it doesn't look like there's
Speaker 2: anything official. So the new world of college athletics when
Speaker 2: it comes to nil and managing your roster and trying
Speaker 2: to make sure guys that you want to keep around
Speaker 2: don't hit the portal, work in the portal to go,
Speaker 2: try to get players to make you better. Like we
Speaker 2: talk about this all the time in between the lines
Speaker 2: when I watch football and basketball, because those are the
Speaker 2: sports when it comes to college athletics that I watch
Speaker 2: more than really anything. I mean, I know we're in
Speaker 2: a new world, but like it's not something that stands
Speaker 2: out when I'm watching. Occasionally I'll see somebody and I'm like, oh, wow,
Speaker 2: I forgot that guy was still around in college. What
Speaker 2: is this is third team in three years? Like those
Speaker 2: are moments when watching that make me realize, wow, this
Speaker 2: is this is a different world. But outside of that,
Speaker 2: like the coverage of it, keeping up with it. It
Speaker 2: is an entirely new world, a new ballgame, and coaches
Speaker 2: have made it quite clear that the job that they
Speaker 2: were hired to do, unless I guess you were hired,
Speaker 2: you know, unless you're like a new head coach, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, Kenny Dillingham at Arizona State, he seems
Speaker 2: to be. Like I mean, first of all, he's one
Speaker 2: of the youngest guys out there in the game. He's
Speaker 2: got Arizona State in the playoff already, Like he's phenomenal,
Speaker 2: he's got all the momentum right now. But he's somebody that,
Speaker 2: like when he became a head coach for the first time,
Speaker 2: we were already in this new world. Everybody else, like
Speaker 2: the job changed when you already had the gig. So
Speaker 2: you know, it is different, and they complain about it
Speaker 2: a lot, and I get it, like it is different.
Speaker 2: I also don't have a lot of sympathy for them, because,
Speaker 2: as I've said many times, you know, these guys, some
Speaker 2: of them are the most are the highest paid employees
Speaker 2: in their state. Right, these coaches that make a ton
Speaker 2: of money, they could be terrible and lose games, they
Speaker 2: still don't have to worry about getting their paychecks because
Speaker 2: that's just how these contracts are put together. So you know,
Speaker 2: it is a new world and there are certain I
Speaker 2: think personality traits if you will, that can really benefit
Speaker 2: you in this new world because you can't just be
Speaker 2: a drill sergeant. You have to manage egos. It's really
Speaker 2: more so than ever about relationships. And I'm just sitting
Speaker 2: here thinking as North Carolina is looking to find a
Speaker 2: new head coach because it didn't work out with me
Speaker 2: Mac Brown for a variety of reasons, but maybe one
Speaker 2: because you know, he's one hundred years old and it's
Speaker 2: hard for him to relate to college kids or high
Speaker 2: school kids these recruiting I have no clue if that's
Speaker 2: really what went wrong with Mac Brown, but clearly he
Speaker 2: was underwhelming. So to know how important all that is
Speaker 2: right now and go hire Bill Belichick who I'm not
Speaker 2: sure anybody Bill Belichick, who is he relatable to? He's
Speaker 2: a football robot. Now he has shown a little bit
Speaker 2: of personality, and actually, no, I lied, I wouldn't call
Speaker 2: it personality. He has shown signs that like he's human,
Speaker 2: I mean, like a laugh or you know the fact
Speaker 2: that he's dating some chick that's twelve years younger than me.
Speaker 2: I mean that's like, that's what makes him seem I
Speaker 2: don't know if that makes him seem human, but you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like he I find it hard
Speaker 2: to believe he'd be the guy that you think can
Speaker 2: really go out there and relate to young people and
Speaker 2: get them motivated to come and play for him. Now,
Speaker 2: he does have a lot of Super Bowl rings. He's
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick, but like, is that enough? I just think
Speaker 2: if I, if I was a fly, I would love
Speaker 2: to be a fly on the wall in these in
Speaker 2: these meeting rooms or whatever.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe it's a zoom call.
Speaker 2: I don't know the people that have say so at
Speaker 2: North Carolina, the people who have influence on this decision
Speaker 2: as far as who is going to be their their
Speaker 2: head coach. I mean I feel like they're like, well,
Speaker 2: how could we not we have a chance to hire
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick? Why in the world would we not do it?
Speaker 2: It's Bill Belichick. But also you're thinking to yourself, like,
Speaker 2: is this maybe the worst possible fit ever? Like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, it hasn't happened yet, it's not official, but
Speaker 2: it's something I refuse, like I refuse to believe is
Speaker 2: real until I see him on the sidelines coaching, or
Speaker 2: I guess, honestly probably see him at the press conference
Speaker 2: being introduced as the new head coach for North Carolina.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see real quick before we get to
Speaker 2: our first break here in the five o'clock hour. This
Speaker 2: this had been rumored to be a real possibility for
Speaker 2: a while and then it actually happened today. And that
Speaker 2: is the number one record in America deciding he wants
Speaker 2: to play his college basketball at BYU. Aj Da Bansta.
Speaker 2: I think I'm saying that correct. Again, he's the number
Speaker 2: one player in America. I don't know if he's got
Speaker 2: the same kind of like hype that you see with
Speaker 2: guys that you saw with guys like Cooper Flagg, because
Speaker 2: that was really kind of next level. But you know,
Speaker 2: he's somebody that could pick anywhere he wants to go
Speaker 2: to school. He chose BYU, and there are some reports
Speaker 2: that he got up to seven million dollars to go
Speaker 2: to BYU, And if that's the case, then you know
Speaker 2: it makes sense. I'm sure there's no other school that
Speaker 2: is willing to pay seven million dollars for one basketball
Speaker 2: player who is clearly good is going to give you
Speaker 2: a nice brand bump because he chose your school, but
Speaker 2: like he's only going to be there one year, I
Speaker 2: would imagine, So, BYU, if they've got that money, then
Speaker 2: you know, good for them now. I also don't know
Speaker 2: if that number is real or not, because I think
Speaker 2: a lot of these numbers you hear about recruits as
Speaker 2: far as what they're getting from nil or I think
Speaker 2: it's exaggerated. But coaches that are pursuing a player of
Speaker 2: this caliber that usually does that usually has a pretty
Speaker 2: good success rate, right the Dukes, the Kentucky's, the I
Speaker 2: guess the arkansass now, and I guess more than anything,
Speaker 2: it's Cali Perry Bill self. I mean, think about all
Speaker 2: the think about the programs who always get really not
Speaker 2: anybody they want, but they don't miss often, right, and
Speaker 2: if they lose a player, it's usually to another one
Speaker 2: of those programs I just mentioned, because you typically see
Speaker 2: the best players in the country go to the same schools,
Speaker 2: not all the time. Certainly this isn't what happened here. BYU,
Speaker 2: I mean they're in the first year of their new
Speaker 2: head coach, which, by the way, he's a guy that
Speaker 2: apparently people think has a bright future. But you know
Speaker 2: this is random, right, so the money makes total sense.
Speaker 2: But if you are somebody like a Bill Self or
Speaker 2: a John Calipari or a John Shire, like, it makes
Speaker 2: sense for you to add a million to that number
Speaker 2: every time it comes up, because they'll make it make
Speaker 2: sense as to why you didn't lose a recruit. You
Speaker 2: just couldn't justify the money and nobody would pay that
Speaker 2: like that that's going to happen. And again, the nil
Speaker 2: world being such a mystery, it gives these coaches the
Speaker 2: opportunity to at times sort of spin it in whatever
Speaker 2: way makes them look less bad. You know. For example,
Speaker 2: like when Mark Mark Stoops lost to Georgia last year
Speaker 2: by a billion, that's when he made the pony up
Speaker 2: comment like, hey, if you guys don't like losing, why
Speaker 2: don't you pony up and give us money? We can
Speaker 2: go get those kind of players. And now clearly that
Speaker 2: backfired on him. Is that's really snowball for him. But
Speaker 2: you know you can you can do that when it
Speaker 2: comes to a big time amount of money coming in
Speaker 2: from a certain school and if you lose them, you
Speaker 2: can say, well what are you gonna do? Maybe maybe
Speaker 2: you don't blame your fans, but you can just say, hey,
Speaker 2: we didn't lose them, we just we couldn't pay that.
Speaker 2: But then there's also some schools like Ryan Day at
Speaker 2: Ohio State. You know he is, he's somebody that there's
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's all out there. They put every
Speaker 2: dime they could round up into building maybe their best
Speaker 2: roster they've ever had at Ohio State. They went out
Speaker 2: and hired Chip Kelly to be the OC. Ryan Day
Speaker 2: makes a ton of money as it is, and they
Speaker 2: don't have a lot to show for it right now.
Speaker 2: That's why I think if they end up losing in
Speaker 2: the first round of this college football playoff, like, I
Speaker 2: don't know how he survives.
Speaker 3: I really don't.
Speaker 2: But anyways, I bring up the big time recruit here
Speaker 2: going to Byu, the number one player in America. I
Speaker 2: think this is one of the few examples to where
Speaker 2: you know, you have a really unexpected, never before seen
Speaker 2: commitment from a kid and it's just because of money. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't want to act like, well, okay, I will.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's say everybody has the same level of money.
Speaker 2: I don't know if Byu is getting this kid over
Speaker 2: other schools. Now, maybe I'm wrong because again the I
Speaker 2: think it's Kevin Young is the coach of BYU. He's
Speaker 2: I think a former assistant coach with the Phoenix Suns.
Speaker 2: Like he's got a lot of connections in the NBA.
Speaker 2: That's where he came from. And you know, maybe he
Speaker 2: does get it in there at BYU. But you know
Speaker 2: there are since since we've been in this new world
Speaker 2: where players can jump around from team to team and
Speaker 2: money clearly is a big factor and why they you know,
Speaker 2: why they decide to go to what school they decide
Speaker 2: to go to. I still don't know if we've seen
Speaker 2: like a big time result where you can say, well,
Speaker 2: here you go, that's what you get when it comes
Speaker 2: to NIL, like what school has landed? Like I know
Speaker 2: Tennessee their young quarterback, like apparently he got an insane
Speaker 2: amount of money, But Tennessee's Tennessee, Like they're not what
Speaker 2: they once were.
Speaker 3: But it's not BYU. When it comes to basketball.
Speaker 2: You know, TCU they made the National Championship Game a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, which still just doesn't seem real.
Speaker 2: But that had nothing to do with NIL, Like that
Speaker 2: was just or the poor I mean, I guess the
Speaker 2: portal did help them, but like that was just random.
Speaker 2: I still think Miami making the Final four with Larrenega,
Speaker 2: which certainly will be his last Final four as Miami
Speaker 2: stinks out loud this year again. But when they made
Speaker 2: the Final four and they went out and bought Nigel
Speaker 2: Pack and I can't think of the young man's name
Speaker 2: who spent a couple of years at Miami and now
Speaker 2: he's a Baylor big guy who started his career at
Speaker 2: Arkansas State. Nor chatte Mere is his name. Like that
Speaker 2: to me is like the only result I can think. Okay, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: they had a big time in il Booster and he
Speaker 2: was I mean, he was the one putting out contracts
Speaker 2: as far as how much money these guys were making,
Speaker 2: putting it all out there for everybody to see. And
Speaker 2: you know, without those two players, it's hard to imagine
Speaker 2: them making a final four. So like they bought a
Speaker 2: duo that got them to a final four. Other than that,
Speaker 2: when it comes to, you know, the ultimate accomplishment in
Speaker 2: college sports, like winning national championships, making runs to the
Speaker 2: final four, making it to the college football Playoff, you know,
Speaker 2: I really don't know if we've seen somebody be able
Speaker 2: to use these new you know, these new ways to
Speaker 2: build your roster with guys being able to leave and
Speaker 2: have free agency and money. Like I don't know if
Speaker 2: we've had a huge payoff just yet for somebody, but again,
Speaker 2: I think the number one player in America choosing to
Speaker 2: go to BYU to play basketball. I think that's that's
Speaker 2: one of the few examples that we have at this point.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, we'll take a we'll come back
Speaker 2: on the other side, and not a whole lot of
Speaker 2: time left here before we wrap it up, but a
Speaker 2: lot I want to get into. We do have an
Speaker 2: opening spread here in this UTEP Louisville game tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: Louisville favored by fourteen and a half points. And also
Speaker 2: when it comes to the to Louisville's roster for next
Speaker 2: year in football, I really do believe that you can
Speaker 2: go out and get really, really good players, and maybe
Speaker 2: you build a roster in the portal that is so
Speaker 2: impressive that everybody's got your preseason top fifteen or something
Speaker 2: like that. I'm not saying that happens, but like it
Speaker 2: could happen. But I still think there's no scenario where
Speaker 2: the biggest win for Louisville this offseason is not getting
Speaker 2: back Isaac Brown and Duke Watson and those guys, as
Speaker 2: you know, had really impressive freshman seasons. But I think
Speaker 2: there's some numbers here that may make you realize they
Speaker 2: were probably even more special than you realize.
Speaker 3: So well, get to all that.
Speaker 2: And on the Kentucky side, I know that they feel
Speaker 2: like flipping their roster in the portal is what's going
Speaker 2: to get them heading.
Speaker 3: In the right direction.
Speaker 2: But man, they're losing everybody, and I know they don't
Speaker 2: believe that all these guys were like a cancer to
Speaker 2: the locker room. So getting rid of talented players that
Speaker 2: other schools are going to want, Yeah, that's how Stoops
Speaker 2: is gonna get it fixed. I mean, I hope you
Speaker 2: can sense the starcass in there right quick break, don't
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Speaker 2: not a quarterback for Louisville just yet. But the quarterback
Speaker 2: that Louisville, I guess more than anything Jeff brom is
Speaker 2: pursuing in the transfer portal is Miller Moss We've talked
Speaker 2: about him here and there over the last couple of
Speaker 2: weeks because he hit the portal, you know, before it
Speaker 2: actually opened up, and it didn't take long for Louislle
Speaker 2: to be one of the schools that was reportedly involved.
Speaker 2: And he is going to be in town for a
Speaker 2: visit and it looks like it will start. It's actually
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's here right now, but the
Speaker 2: visit is expected to start at some point today. Maybe
Speaker 2: he's already here, maybe he's listening. If so, what's up,
Speaker 2: Miller Moss. I didn't have anything prepared to make a
Speaker 2: pitch for you, but hopefully you are enjoying yourself in Louisville.
Speaker 2: And if Jeff Brown thinks that you're good enough to
Speaker 2: be the quarterback here a Louisville, then that's fine by me.
Speaker 2: But he he's going to be visiting until Friday. Uh
Speaker 2: and he also recently visited Early Missouri earlier this week,
Speaker 2: so you know, we'll see if, if, if Jeff can
Speaker 2: get the job done. And I know that he did
Speaker 2: get benched at and this is this is not I mean,
Speaker 2: I wish I had something better here, but I just
Speaker 2: don't want to lie to you like, I understand looking
Speaker 2: at Miller Moss as a guy who couldn't you know,
Speaker 2: he didn't get on the field at USC until he
Speaker 2: played low fl in a bowl game last year. But
Speaker 2: it's because of the guys that were in front of him,
Speaker 2: and there were certain guys that transferred because they knew
Speaker 2: he was up next, he was going to be after
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams. And this year, you know, he got benched,
Speaker 2: and that's never a good sign to go get a
Speaker 2: quarterback who couldn't keep the job for a guy like
Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley, who's also known to be a very, very
Speaker 2: big time offensive mind when it comes to college football.
Speaker 2: But I mean, I trust Jeff bram If he thinks
Speaker 2: the guy is good enough and he's got the goods,
Speaker 2: then then that's fine by me. And last year I
Speaker 2: think fans, understandably so were a little hesitant to I
Speaker 2: don't want to say they were head tant to trust
Speaker 2: Jeff Brohm. But Jack Plumber, you know, he wasn't great,
Speaker 2: He was good enough, But I think Plumber was one
Speaker 2: of the and this is there's no way to say
Speaker 2: this without its sounding mean, but it's just the truth.
Speaker 2: Jack Plumber was probably one of the weak links of
Speaker 2: the team. Now that team also went ten into in
Speaker 2: the regular season. It was pretty damn good. But like
Speaker 2: he wasn't great. Jeff brom won ten games in his
Speaker 2: first year and quarterback play was nowhere near one of
Speaker 2: the strings of the team. That's just not something people expected.
Speaker 2: So for him to go out and get Tyler Shuck,
Speaker 2: a guy who also was a veteran, who had never
Speaker 2: really had a season where he looked great.
Speaker 3: Schuck was mostly due to injury.
Speaker 2: You know, we were just we were forced to trust
Speaker 2: Jeff and we did and sure enough, Tyler Schuck was
Speaker 2: pretty damn good. So, I mean, I trust him more
Speaker 2: so now than I did a year ago after what
Speaker 2: happened with Shuck. And you know, there may be a
Speaker 2: time where he goes through the portal and it doesn't
Speaker 2: work out. But until that happens, I'm going to assume
Speaker 2: that he's he's still got an eye for talent when
Speaker 2: it comes to the quarterback position, and if he can
Speaker 2: get Miller Moss, then you know, I'm I'm I'm looking
Speaker 2: at that as a win. But yes, his visit has
Speaker 2: started and he'll be here until Friday.
Speaker 3: It's a long visit. But hey, that the longer he stays, maybe.
Speaker 2: The more, uh, the more he'll be in love with
Speaker 2: this place and want to and want to stick around
Speaker 2: for you know, however many years he's got loved to
Speaker 2: be eligibility Now. I said this before we went to break.
Speaker 2: No matter what you do in the portal, I'm not
Speaker 2: sure there's going to be anything in the off season
Speaker 2: as far as your roster that would be a bigger
Speaker 2: win for you than retaining and keeping around Duke Quadson
Speaker 2: and Isaac Brown. I've seen nothing that would indicate those
Speaker 2: guys are not going to be here next year. But
Speaker 2: I'm also not afraid to say, like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: anything can happen, anything can change. And you know, there
Speaker 2: were some people in the text line whenever I said
Speaker 2: that a couple of days ago, or maybe it was
Speaker 2: last week, that I'm going to take him at their word.
Speaker 2: But like, you know, I know that in any moment,
Speaker 2: these guys could could just may get an offer that
Speaker 2: they couldn't refuse, or maybe just decide they want to
Speaker 2: be closer to home or.
Speaker 3: Something like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I hope that doesn't happen, but a couple
Speaker 2: of bit on the text line We're like, well, why
Speaker 2: won't you take them up their word?
Speaker 3: Well, I am.
Speaker 2: I just know that like people can change their mind,
Speaker 2: like it happens. So you know, I'm going to assume
Speaker 2: that they're here. But like there's a reason I'm saying,
Speaker 2: no matter what you do, continuing to try to keep
Speaker 2: these guys happy. I mean, you don't want to like
Speaker 2: annoy them and pester them. But if it was me
Speaker 2: and I knew, if I was the head coach and
Speaker 2: I knew how special these two young running backs I had,
Speaker 2: I mean, it would be hard for me not to
Speaker 2: every day say, hey, you good, you need anything, let
Speaker 2: me know, you know, any anything I can do for you,
Speaker 2: anything I can do to make you happier than you
Speaker 2: already are, because I value you. I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 2: that's not how it works, but if it did, it
Speaker 2: wouldn't shock me because that's how good these guys are.
Speaker 2: So keeping Duke Watson and Isaac Brown, you know, if
Speaker 2: that ends up happening, that's huge.
Speaker 3: It's absolutely huge.
Speaker 2: And we all watched those two guys and we watched
Speaker 2: how special they were, especially Isaac. Whenever you know, it
Speaker 2: became clear they were going to rely on him, a
Speaker 2: lot more than.
Speaker 3: Really anybody else.
Speaker 2: But to see Duke Watson then emerge as a guy
Speaker 2: that was also really really effective, I mean, it was
Speaker 2: awesome to see. And Pro Football Focus, I'm sure some
Speaker 2: of you're familiar with that. That's an analytic website that
Speaker 2: grades every single snap of football played at the college level,
Speaker 2: at the NFL level, and Isaac Brown, no surprise, graded
Speaker 2: out as the best true freshman running back in college football.
Speaker 2: In fact, there were only two players that graded out
Speaker 2: better than him, and one of them was a freshman
Speaker 2: at Texas. The other one was a freshman at Minnesota,
Speaker 2: and I believe both of those guys were a lineman,
Speaker 2: I believe, so not a surprise to see that he
Speaker 2: was graded at as the best running back in the country.
Speaker 2: When it comes to just analytics, I mean, the numbers
Speaker 2: tell you that as far in your eyeballs probably would
Speaker 2: tell you that. But like, he was really really effective
Speaker 2: throughout ever, really every not to say he didn't make mistakes,
Speaker 2: but I mean he I mean he was from the jump.
Speaker 2: Was there ever a moment where you saw Isaac Brown
Speaker 2: and thought, uh, oh, like guys got some upside. Maybe
Speaker 2: in a couple of years he'll be good, but right
Speaker 2: now we can't really rely on him because he's a freshman.
Speaker 2: Even when he fumbled against Miami and the end zone,
Speaker 2: it didn't make me think that we shouldn't keep giving
Speaker 2: him the ball repeatedly. And then Duke Watson, this isn't
Speaker 2: I mean, this is another really impressive stat that I
Speaker 2: don't know if people are aware of. He ranks number
Speaker 2: one in the nation in yards per carry at nine.
Speaker 2: So in twelve game regular season, he averaged nine point
Speaker 2: zero two yards per carry, which is number one in
Speaker 2: the country. And again you have to keep in mind
Speaker 2: that is I mean, that's not I mean, he didn't
Speaker 2: get maybe the most mean, he clearly didn't get the
Speaker 2: most carries, even on his own team, But you don't
Speaker 2: qualify for this stat unless you're getting, you know, a
Speaker 2: significant amount of carries. So you know, some will say
Speaker 2: maybe that stat's a little misleading because the average is
Speaker 2: skewed because he didn't get.
Speaker 3: A ton of carries.
Speaker 2: I mean, he didn't, but he also got enough to
Speaker 2: where he still can qualify. And man, these guys are
Speaker 2: are special, really really special.
Speaker 3: And Louisville this year.
Speaker 2: I'm to the point now where I can look back
Speaker 2: at numbers and just think, Okay, we got some good
Speaker 2: momentum here.
Speaker 3: We're heading in the right direction.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: Jeff Brohm entering year three, Maybe this is the Maybe
Speaker 2: this is the really really special season. You know, there
Speaker 2: was a part of me that I thought if I
Speaker 2: would go back and look at how good this team
Speaker 2: was and how much better the record probably should have been,
Speaker 2: that it would have given me, it would give me
Speaker 2: like PTSD make me sad that's not happened. I mean, yes,
Speaker 2: we still should have never lost to Stanford, and you know,
Speaker 2: you had wins that were there for you against really
Speaker 2: good teams, like we all know that. But I think
Speaker 2: more than anything, it just speaks to the momentum that
Speaker 2: you have and they'll learn from it. I mean, Jeff's
Speaker 2: still gonna make mistakes, He's gonna lose games, but I
Speaker 2: bet this was a really valuable year for Jeff Brohm
Speaker 2: as a head coach because there's nobody that is probably
Speaker 2: bothered by these losses more than him. So right now, Louisville,
Speaker 2: they're the the longest active streak of scoring at least
Speaker 2: thirty points in a game. They are second with six
Speaker 2: straight games of doing that, with Notre Dame being at
Speaker 2: number one with eight or let's switch gears really quickly
Speaker 2: to the Kentucky side of things, because they're losing guys
Speaker 2: left and right in the portal. And you know, you
Speaker 2: hear from from Mark Stoops at the end of the season,
Speaker 2: you know, at least towards the end of the season,
Speaker 2: and you got the sense that that's what he wanted,
Speaker 2: right because he wanted to kind of rebuild the roster
Speaker 2: and start over and really kind of do a culture
Speaker 2: reset with the program. But right now they have there's
Speaker 2: only one program in the country that has or one
Speaker 2: power for program in the country that has more guys
Speaker 2: in the portal than Kentucky. Kentucky has nineteen, in Arkansas
Speaker 2: has twenty one. And I mean, I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: pile on I mean, maybe I am, but I just
Speaker 2: don't know how Mark Stoops could.
Speaker 3: Pitch to his fans that.
Speaker 2: The amount of guys they're losing, but more than anything
Speaker 2: of who they're losing is like a good thing for
Speaker 2: the p I mean, you're losing Keyshawn Silver, a former
Speaker 2: five star player.
Speaker 3: We know you're.
Speaker 2: Losing Dane Key and Barrian Brown, talented receivers I mean,
Speaker 2: you're losing Jordan Dingle, a really good tight end. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm just looking through the list here. Some of these
Speaker 2: guys I'm not super familiar with, but Chip train them
Speaker 2: a running back who came in from Ohio State who
Speaker 2: did not play a lot this year because of injury.
Speaker 2: But he's gonna have options to go a lot of places.
Speaker 2: So when you see all these guys leaving going to
Speaker 2: programs that, like, you know, are better than you, I
Speaker 2: just don't know how you're gonna be able to process
Speaker 2: this as we'll be better next year. Your schedule is
Speaker 2: going to be more difficult probably, and you're gonna have
Speaker 2: significantly less talent. And talent doesn't always win. Kentucky learned
Speaker 2: that this year they were a way more talented team
Speaker 2: than the one and seven record. They had an sec play,
Speaker 2: but like, you still have to have some dudes. And
Speaker 2: when you see, you know who they've got coming into
Speaker 2: the portal, doesn't you know maybe they end up being
Speaker 2: perfect fits for Mark Stoops's culture and the style and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But you know, a football fan base that has been
Speaker 2: real loud and obnoxious about their success, and they've exaggerated
Speaker 2: substantially what that success level is. They've been doing that
Speaker 2: for a few years now. Louisville fans have had to
Speaker 2: sit back and listen to it. But I feel like
Speaker 2: they're gonna be real quiet about football for you know,
Speaker 2: at least for the foreseeable future, because I don't really
Speaker 2: know what they can point to that would make them
Speaker 2: think that they're gonna get this thing turned around under
Speaker 2: Mark Stoops, I just don't all right, quick break, we'll
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Speaker 2: Very little time left here before we get out of here.
Speaker 2: But some tough news that really doesn't relate to Louisville
Speaker 2: that much. But Tucker Devrees the West Virginia swingman, the
Speaker 2: guy who came to West Virginia with his father who
Speaker 2: became the head coach, who left Drake he was Was
Speaker 2: it against Louisville or is it the game before he
Speaker 2: played Louisville where I remember him having a really big
Speaker 2: game in the Bahamas, But I don't remember if it
Speaker 2: was against Louisville, was against Gonzaga.
Speaker 3: Either way, he's a really good player.
Speaker 2: He's now out for the indefinite future, meaning like I
Speaker 2: don't know if he's gonna play again this year. And
Speaker 2: if you're wondering, you know, why in the hell do
Speaker 2: we care about that? Well, you know, Louisville has one
Speaker 2: quad one win right now, and it's against West Virginia
Speaker 2: and they need to stay where they are or maybe
Speaker 2: get better for you to feel comfortable that could still
Speaker 2: be a quad one win at the end of the year.
Speaker 2: So not a good sign, but hey, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: West Virginia ends up being competitive and maybe Louisill ends
Speaker 2: up getting some more valuable wins the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: But that is one that I feel like had a
Speaker 2: chance to be a decent win, and without him, I
Speaker 2: don't know anymore, but I do know. We're out of time.
Speaker 2: Apologies for the real short segment here as we wrap
Speaker 2: it up, but we're back at it tomorrow and I
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