Kirk Herbstreit
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, we've been talking about this for so long, you know, how nutty this is and how – It's easy to blame the players. I think it's easy to look at it like, how selfish are these guys? But I think if you put yourself in their shoes, I think the calendar and the way it's set up is difficult.
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I don't know Bo's case because I know Preston Stone and there's some other guys that have entered the portal, but they're staying with their team and into the playoff, like at SMU, getting ready. I don't know why he felt the need to be able to enter the portal but then leave. Maybe you guys can help me with that. I don't understand that aspect of his specific story on why he's leaving the team.
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I guess maybe he felt he had to go visit these schools to be able to really get a good handle on where he wanted to go. I have no idea. I know it's a little bit of a revolving door, especially at that position when it comes to the portal.
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and you know some of these guys are trying to kind of be re-recruited like they're high school seniors again to try to figure out where where's the best fit for them so maybe he felt Before someone else takes the spot that he wants, he needs to go visit while his team's playing in these playoff games. He needs to go visit these schools. It's the only thing I can think of of why he left the team.
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Here's the one thing I guess I would say, because this whole thing has gone from like when I played, players had zero rights for the majority of college football. The players have had you have no rights. You just do what you're told. And, you know, it's like you're in the Marines. Yes, sir. May I have another kind of thing?
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And then we got to 2020 and COVID and everything kind of changed and realignment. And then we've kind of gotten into this world now where players are able to leave whenever they want to leave. We have NIL, obviously, that is a huge part of this. But if you even follow the NFL model, the players have restrictions. You can't be on the Bears and just say, oh, to hell with this season.
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I'm going to the Lions. You have a contract. You have to follow the contract. The NFL has very stringent rules. This is what we do as a team. This is what you're allowed to do. This is what the players can do. So this whole idea of the players in college just doing whatever the hell they want to do isn't the right thing. Like my kids, I had four sons.
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If my kids at 12 years old said, dad, I'm taking the car. See, I'm going to a party. At 12, I'd be like, What are you talking about? You can't do that. The world we live in today in college football, it's kind of like, screw you, take the keys. And the coach is kind of like, well, okay, he's going to take the keys. What am I supposed to do? You have zero power.
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And, you know, it's cool to be that player and have fun, but it's not cool for you in the long term for your growth and where you're trying to go as a human. It might be fun for that three- and five-year window, But as far as like, what is great about this sport is what the hard shit you got to go through the shit you think is annoying. And why do I have to go through it?
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It molds you and changes you into becoming a better person down the road, whether it's as an employee or as a husband or a father, whatever it is, you got to go through some tough shit. You can't just like, this isn't fun anymore. I'm not playing. I'm out. Like, it just can't be that way. If you want to do that. I feel like coaches who leave. They get a new job.
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They should have to finish the thing out before they go to their new job. Players, you should have to finish this thing out until you go to your new job. I think these players at this point, they need to sign contracts. I think we need a CBA. form some kind of players union. I think we need to somehow create that. The other thing is we're very it's almost like silo. Greg Sankey is in an SEC silo.
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You know, the Big Ten's in a silo. We need to somehow create more of a national view of the sport. We're still governing the sport in the 80s. And the sport is in 2024. It's more of a national sport. So we need a national view on how we govern the sport. So we somehow need to get that national view to partner with the players union, create a CBA. where you're held accountable.
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Okay, we're going to agree on NIL. Here are the rules we're going to agree on for NIL. Both sides agree. Here's the deal with portal, transfer portal. Both sides agree. And whatever they ultimately come up with, it's a contract and we sign and then we obey the contract on both sides. I think that's where it's gotten. How we get there, I have no idea.
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But players just kind of coming and going and zero accountability to their team That's not healthy at all, and it really takes away from what this sport is about, which is the team trying to win games. That's what this is all about.
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It's supposed to be a big thing in April. I think something's going down in April. Hopefully by next year there's a new – A new set of circumstances. Hopefully that'll be the case.
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Yeah, I've kind of stayed out of that world a little bit. I haven't seen a whole lot of reaction intentionally just because I know 80% of the people are thrilled. 20% are going to be jackasses. So I just decided it's one thing to take shots at me. But if you take a shot at my kid and you want to get in a fight, it's not hard for me to want to do that. So I just try to ignore that.
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that stuff the best that I can and just kind of stay focused on the positive. What an opportunity for him. You know, this is a kid that grew up a lifelong Ohio State fan of all my kids. Like he's the guy that cried when they lose games. Like he's an Ohio State junkie. Ohio State did not really pursue him to the point of offering him a scholarship.
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And they were close to, they're like, listen, man, this new rule, that's the big thing with this new world that you talked about. Right now, you can have 85 on scholarship, but 125 are in the program. Well, the new world that you're referring to, this rev share, football is going to be affected. It's going to go down to 105. So you can only have 105 guys on your team.
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Now, you can put 105 on scholarship, but a lot of these guys are not. They're just kind of in a wait-and-see approach. So guys like my son, Chase, who was kind of like that last, fighting for those last couple spots for a scholarship or potentially a PWO, which would be a preferred walk-on. He's kind of in that area where he's fighting.
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Most of those guys, big schools like Michigan, Ohio State, and Notre Dame, the schools that he was looking at the most, they're almost, hey, why don't you go to the MAAC? We're going to bring in this portal guy who we know a little bit more about. And they're really not into developing young players and investing and hoping that they become a great player. So Che got a huge opportunity to do this.
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Jerome Moore and his staff believe that I think they've seen his competitive spirit, his fire and what he did on the field this year to give him this opportunity. And You know, it's very different for our family because our family behind the scenes is scarlet and gray our whole lives.
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You know, Big Cat, it'd be like you having a son that he's Wisconsin born and bred, brainwashed, and all of a sudden he goes to Michigan.
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You know, it is quite a thrill. Obviously, we're beyond ecstatic for him. I went to senior day for my other son who had a heart situation. He was part of... the senior class of the Ohio State players. So it was a family-only event this past Sunday. And I went in there really nervous to wonder how the Ohio State coaches, because none of them texted me, hey, congratulations on Chase.
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I didn't hear anything from anybody. So I was a little bit, should I go? Should I not go? And I went because I needed to be there for my other son. It was a very cool event, by the way. Each position coach would have his guys come up, say something about each guy. And then that guy had to grab the mic and speak in front of all of his teammates and
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close to the media and the fans and uh it was very emotional to watch some of these guys Trevion Henderson Emeka buka like like they've been through some stuff you know not only lost it to Michigan but just personal stuff so it was very heartfelt uh day to be there to watch that but uh you know I talked to Chip Kelly afterwards talked to Ryan Day afterwards nobody said anything it was like
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Yeah, I was like, okay. I'll see you next week, Tennessee. Looking forward to it. I'll call you this week. It was just kind of like business mode. That's good by me.
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Well, again, just going back to that senior day, just behind closed doors, just with the players, it was interesting to be there. Because if you go by the outside world, the feeling of Ohio State fans, they're very dejected by the Michigan game. And nobody's seen really Ohio State since the fight at the end of the game. Um, and everyone just kind of left the stadium.
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I think that day I wasn't there, but just talking to my son and a lot of friends who went to that game, like, holy shit, what just happened? How did this happen again? Kind of, kind of feeling. And now, you know, Michigan's, uh, they're going to play in a bowl game and Ohio state's going to a I think there's the fodder that's out there on social media. Screw Ryan Day. Screw, you know, the worst.
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I've heard people say everything. I hope they lose the first game and he's fired. I mean, just bizarre set of circumstances for a team that's, as you said, is one of the most talented, is in the playoff hosting a playoff game. And you've got that kind of noise by a fraction of your of your fan base. So I think the reality is what matters most is the players seem to be super engaged.
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They kept talking about this isn't good. Almost every guy up there that talks said, man, this isn't goodbye. You know, we got four more to go. You know, it was just it was I don't know how many times I heard we have four more games to go. And I think they truly in their minds are buying into that kind of like March madness. When you get ready to make a run, you know, you got to win a few weekends.
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I think their focus is on trying to beat Tennessee and go to the Rose bowl and take on Oregon and down the line. And, and, And I think they believe that kind of like if you go back to the team with C.J. Stroud when they lost to Michigan again, and then they had to play Georgia, and everybody wondered how would they play against Georgia. And it was like a different team when they played Georgia.
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If you remember, they played super aggressively. Stroud played out of his mind, scrambling around, making plays, really outplayed Georgia. And to Georgia's credit, Georgia ended up making the plays at the end of the game to win it. The vibe of the players – Reminds me of that. At the end of the day, though, guys, are they good enough?
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We can talk all day about Jeremiah Smith and all the receivers and all that, but the offensive line, if you really watch the Michigan game, when they lost the center from Alabama, Seth McLaughlin, when he went down with that Achilles injury, I think that offensive line is a serious question mark going up against Tennessee's strength, which is their defensive front.
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So how will that battle go I think will be a big factor because it was in the Michigan game, and they're not obviously getting – Any of those pieces back on that offensive line. So that to me will be the big thing. And then just the crowd, the energy in that stadium. I've heard Tennessee's going to buy 30,000 tickets. I don't know if that's true, but just the vibe inside that stadium.
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If things are going great, it'll be obvious, it'll be bold. If Will Howard throws a pick, how will the crowd react? If the poor field goal kicker who missed two against Michigan happens to miss a kick, how will the crowd react?
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If Tennessee gets a sack and a score, a fumble and a score, how will the crowd... I'm just wondering what the energy, what you would think would be a night game at the shoe, massive opportunity, home field advantage. You would think that would be the case, but if things go sideways... I'm just wondering how the environment inside the stadium will go.
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I don't know, man. I... I guess I'm hearing those same things. I don't know what it's going to, you know, I heard when Tennessee runs out of the field, it'll be like a neutral site feel like Tennessee will have their own entrance that they would have that they've chosen with their song and their music and their energy running onto the field, which I think is really, really bizarre.
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Like when you go to South Bend on Friday night. and Indiana comes onto the field, you know, it's not like the normal, just the visiting team, boo, they kind of run onto the field. And then the lights go down in the home field. I don't know how they're going to do it. I'm reading the same things you're reading.
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But that could be an interesting aspect, not just in Columbus, but all these playoff games. This is, again, uncharted waters. We have no idea really how it's going to go until we see it. You know, with Notre Dame on Friday night – And Indiana, you know, is Indiana going to have their normal allotment of tickets? Is it just going to be a small little fraction of Hoosiers fans inside there?
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Are they going to get online and scoop up as many tickets as they can and and try to, you know, have a big showing because it's such an easy drive to go from Bloomington up to South Bend? I have no idea. But, yeah, I'll have a lot more answers coming.
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on the, on the back end of this, but I cannot wait to see home playoff games and how it'll impact, like you say, the game ops, uh, which obviously is a huge advantage for the home team, you know, in normal set set of circumstances.
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Yeah. Yeah. Let me, again, I, at the risk of getting in trouble, um, I think there are schools that do an incredible job with their game ops. Like you go into the SEC, I think the home crowd and the people who run those stadiums, they look at themselves as our job
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is to be a distraction to the enemy and to do everything we can to the line where we can't play music while the quarterbacks you know saying the signals and barking out the cadence but we're going to walk right up to the line with the band we're going to put microphones into the band the music we're going to go right to the line we're we're we're going to maybe get a letter from the sec commissioner that we can't do that that's our goal every yeah home
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And in the Big Ten, I think there's a few stadiums that do that. But I just feel you guys tell me I feel like the Big Ten is a little more traditional.
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More of the band has as much to do with the game they experience as the team. So they're a little bit in a tough spot between like in the SEC, they hire a DJ. I mean, you go to a break in the SEC and it's like the party's just beginning for the fans during TV timeouts. I mean, it is bonkers at LSU or Alabama or Georgia or Tennessee. It's insane during the TV timeout.
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And at Ohio State, it's insane. you know, okay, let's go to break. We'll be back after this. And then it's ladies and gentlemen, if you can pay attention to the North end, the 1973 fencing team. Let's all have a, let's get on our feet and show them some appreciation for the 1973 co big 10 champs. And it's like,
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It always tricks me. Yeah.
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yeah i agree i agree it's like if you go to an nhl game i i you know i'll go to these nhl games i'm so blown away by the game ops and what they do because it's it's a different 1997 to now like your job to keep people off their phone and engaged in what's happening that's a challenge man it's just a different world that we live in a lot of people's attention span isn't the same and it's easy to like get to a
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TV timeout, take a seat, look on your phone, check out what's going on. And all of a sudden it's like, oh, the game's back on. And they try to take that away by keeping you engaged. And I really – when I see it and I see fans engaged during breaks, I just – I pay homage to that, man. Because it's not an easy thing to do in 2024.
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Let's start Friday night. I think Riley Leonard, I don't know if I trust him yet. I don't know how many times he's really been challenged. Right. So I don't know. It's not that I don't trust him. It's just we don't know. Right. And can Indiana put him in a place where they get him in those third-down situations where he's got to make plays with his arm, not just his legs, with his arm?
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I'm excited to see that. And Rourke, I've been blown away by that kid. Their whole story – I was early, kind of like, it's Indiana. It's a cute story. And then I just kind of kept watching him and thought, and I stood next to Rourke in the Ohio State game. I was like, damn, that's an impressive looking dude. This guy's, I don't know what he's listed. He looks like he's 6'5 to me.
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Big, impressive guy. And I just think that kid is, plays with a serious amount of confidence for a guy that's in his first year. I think of all of them, that might be a guy that stands out to me. I don't know how much you've watched Tennessee, but Tennessee with Josh Heupel, we go back to Hendon Hooker or Milton. What do you think of?
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You think of 50-yard bombs, just taking shots in that offense because that's who they've been. This year, total opposite Tennessee team. They play to their strengths. Let's play defense. Let's run our all SEC running back, Dylan Sampson. And let's take care of the quarterback. Let's spoon feed him, ease him in, not make him feel like he has to win it. where our quarterbacks in the past did.
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So it's been a very different style of approach as a head coach. Is that good enough to win in this environment? I think he'll call his game – based on how his defense is playing against Will Howard and Ohio State. If they're forcing Ohio State to punt, he's going to play the way he has most of this year. Very conservative, hand it off, throw when you have to kind of approach.
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If Ohio State's scoring, then you'll see Nico, who's more than capable. You know his recruiting story. Yeah. Yeah, he's a freak, but he's a freshman. So they've just been very, very careful with him. So I would say Will Howard. I know he's made some mistakes. He's cost his team in some big games. I just think because of the experience, I think there's a little bit more trust there.
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But do you trust the offensive line? I don't think you can because of the injuries. Um, the Clemson Texas game again, man, it's, it's just been this.
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Kevin Jennings at SMU. Yeah. He's a kid that, again, I don't know how many people listening to this or watching this that watched SMU football this year. But they started with Preston Stone, who's a little bit more traditional. And now they've got a version of a dual threat guy that they spread you out. You got to try to cover everybody. And then this guy's back there running around.
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and has the ability to take off and run, has the ability to keep it alive and throw. He would be an interesting matchup for the Penn State defense. My big concern for SMU in that game is, like you would think, the line of scrimmage on both sides. I mean, Penn State, I thought, pushed Oregon around pretty well in the Big Ten championship game at the line of scrimmage. So how will SMU do it?
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And I looked this morning at the forecast. All three games in Columbus, South Bend, and State College, no snow. But you're talking about in the 20s, 20 degrees. Not that it favors – and a lot of people are like, that favors Ohio State and Notre Dame and – I guess we'll see if it does. A lot of Ohio State's rosters from Georgia, North Carolina, Florida.
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So I don't know how it necessarily favors these teams in the North. I guess I guess we'll see. It's been a big, big conversation point. You know, when the playoff first started, it's like teams from the north are like, it's about time those teams from the south come up here and deal with the cold weather.
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Well, now you get your chance, you know, in two of those games and we'll see if it becomes a factor or not. But Ben, that's a great question on who do you use? Yeah. Because I don't know if it's just been too inconsistent with most of these guys all year to really know who is that guy you can trust.
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I know they're playing. How about that? Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. Have they talked publicly since that game about what's going on?
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Man, again, go back to that eight overtime Friday night game with Georgia and Georgia Tech and think about what happened to Georgia's defense. I know it's a different set of circumstances, but Georgia Tech ran a lot of zone read and power read and gave the quarterback an opportunity to utilize his legs or his arm, depending on how the defense of Georgia reacted.
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And they had so much success in that game that the next game was going to be against Texas. And I just thought that Sark, much like he did against Texas A&M, he would just have a little package in the red zone or short yardage. to go to Arch and, as you say, pull that lever.
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I thought fresh off that Georgia Tech game, he saw something he might be able to attack using Arch's ability to attack the edges, but he didn't do it. And it doesn't mean he's putting Arch away. I just think for whatever reason, only Sark knows, he's one of the great offensive minds in the game, but whatever reason, he stuck with Quinn throughout almost every snap of that game.
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And it makes you wonder, you know, in their next matchup against Clemson and down the road, how much arch will be a factor because that dude, I know everybody wants to compare him to his uncles, but he's probably more like his grandfather than he is his uncles as far as, and he's much bigger and stronger. Look at this guy. You know, it's one thing you look at him on TV.
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I think you go on the pregame and you... You look at these guys in person, some of these guys just look so different than what your perception of them is. And Arch is one of those guys. I mean, his legs, I don't know if he lives under a squat rack. That dude is put together. He's not just a tall, slippery boy. He's quick. He is a powerful dude who can spin it.
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You talk about an excitement of where you want to see Texas next year with Arch having an entire offseason to build his game. But he's nothing like Peyton. He's nothing like Eli. He's really nothing like his grandfather, who was a really athletic guy.
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He's his own guy, and he's got the size that they all have, but his strength and his athletic ability, who knows what Sark will do in the offseason to build the offense around him. Who knows if Arch will get an opportunity here in these next potential four games that Texas might be playing. I hope we see more of him. He's fun.
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This dude. This dude's going to do. Now, I don't know if they're going to protect him from himself next year. But if he plays the way he wants to play, he's going to be running around people, over people. You know, if you're a safety coming up there to tackle that guy, it's like tackling a tight end. You know, I mean, that's basically who's athletic. So, yeah, we'll see. We'll see.
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I think it's a game-to-game approach for Sark and how they use Arch and if they do. And not to mention, imagine a fan base. It reminds me of Tebow in 06 when he was a true freshman. And Chris Leak was the quarterback. But every time there'd be short yardage or red zone, the crowd at the Swamp would go crazy just with the idea that 15 might come jogging onto the field. And he would.
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And they were like begging Urban to bring him out. And it became almost... It's Chris Leak who's quarterbacking 90% of the game, but it almost became like... the fans were just completely consumed with Tim Tebow, even though he's just doing short yardage. And that kind of reminds me a little bit of Texas.
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This is Quinn Ewer's team, but there's such anticipation and so much excitement about Arch Manning taking over. And I wonder if that impacts Sark inside the locker room on protecting Quinn and protecting kind of that feeding into that energy by not putting Sark arch out there as much as maybe you might think.
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Sark's a whatever-it-takes-to-win kind of guy, but I also think he's mindful of the makeup of his team, and Quinn Ewers is his quarterback. And I know that's impacted Quinn a little bit psychologically, just, hey, I'm the guy, and yet they kind of are rooting for the other guy. So I think it's a little bit tricky on how they manage that at this point in 2024.
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I would say IU. I'd probably say IU would be – what's the Tennessee spread? I believe that's a touchdown. Yeah, I think – I'm not picking either one of those teams, but you could make a pretty strong case if you're a Tennessee fan or you're going to bet on Tennessee until you see the Ohio State offensive line more productive –
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against a talented front, there's no reason to think that both those games, the underdogs should have a shot to be competitive and maybe pull off an upset.
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You imagine? They get 3,500 fans. What's Ohio Stadium these days? Over 100,000, right? Yeah. You get basically 3% of the stadium is going to be in orange. Yeah. You believe they maybe get 30,000 people in there? No way. It'd be a testament to the fan base, yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah, I think it is. And it's a scarlet out, right? So they're going to do the whole stadium if they follow the direction of what the Ohio State's requesting. So it would be all scarlet and then bright, bright orange. So you're right.
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Wear your uniform. Yeah, yeah.
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I would say it's part of that. Just put yourself as an 18-year-old recruit and knock on the door and it's Bill Belichick at the door or on the phone. Honey, Coach Belichick's on the phone. I mean, just imagine the power of that, right? But I'm telling you guys, Bill Belichick, he's one of those guys that if he ended up coaching high school football in Annapolis, I would not have been surprised.
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He's not caught up in all the bullshit, all the noise that we all get caught up in. He is just an old school football coach. And I really think that his dad... had a major impact on his decisions and what he does.
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I think there's part of him that's probably always been pulling at him to be on a college campus because of his time at Annapolis with his dad and before that in places like North Carolina. And I really think as much as you guys are saying, hey, don't worry about the education. We're going to go build this roster and we're going to go win a championship.
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I think he's going to think about how I do both. I know his reputation as NFL and building a roster and winning Super Bowls, but I think there's part of him that I think is actually going to enjoy getting kids to buy into the demands of academics because of his background. I don't think it's going to be, hey, you didn't go to class, screw it. We're getting ready to win this game.
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I just don't think that's him. I think he's going to – the reason it took two weeks, we kept hearing – Wait, they interviewed him? How do you interview Bill Belichick? It's one of those, if he says, yeah, I'm interested, it's like, you take it. But remember, it went for a while. So I'm sure he sat there and just gathered so much intel.
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Not only, I need this for NIL, I need this for private plane, like whatever it is he needed. But I think he wanted to learn like the ramifications and the guidelines of like, what are we doing here? What's this world? So when he did step to the podium, it was almost like in his mind, like, okay, I can answer any question. I've studied this and analyze this job and what it takes so much.
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that I know I'm ready to go and I'm ready to take it. And I think you guys are going to be surprised by what he builds. I don't think it's just going to be about, sure, he's going to try to win the national championship. That's obvious. And if you look at their schedule, They're in the playoff next year. I mean, there's a very strong chance at North Carolina.
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I think their one game that makes you scratch their head in your head is Clemson. Other than that, they might be favored in every game they play. So get used to him getting teams to knocking on the door at ACC championship and into the playoff. But I do think he's going to do the academic side. That's just me. Maybe I'm wrong just from the time I've spent with him.
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I think he wants to make that a priority as well, which I applaud him if he can pull it off.
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I love that. I used to do the Eckridge Challenge and We would throw it from 25 yards, I think, 20 or 25 yards. And the target was just about the size of a basketball. I mean, it was hard. And you would throw that thing. It was almost like trying to make a shot from half court. I'm with you that, you know, everybody, it's almost like pop a shot. They're just firing that thing away.
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It doesn't take any ability at all. Right. So I think you're on to something. I think you move it back at least another 10 yards. Yeah. That would take away the chess pass. And let me get down on the field next time I'm in a game. I'll get to the bottom of this. I'll find out what's up. Because it is embarrassing. It is.
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Yeah, I like that. I'll bring that up. I don't know the Dr. Pepper folks, but if I'm at a game and I'm down in the field, I'm going to make that a point to go over there and try to get to the bottom of that. Again, I'll report back on that as well.
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I'm boycotting the game unless you get this shit fixed. That's where we are right now.
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We've had a ridiculous year in a positive standpoint. Our games have been awesome. The ratings are off the charts. And on paper, that looked like a really, really good game. And it just wasn't. It was brutal. We got through it. Uh, but yeah, I'm, I'm looking forward to this Thursday and then, and then I got to put soldier field and finish it all. Yeah.