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Power Two Podcast: Are we sure Clemson can win a National Championship?
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In this episode, the hosts discuss various topics in the sports world, including the potential for WNBA Sundays, the NBA's crackdown on ticket sales, Trump's executive order affecting college sports, Florida State's tumultuous recent history, Clemson's return to prominence, and the implications of Bill Belichick's move to UNC. The conversation is lively and filled with insights on the current state of sports and the challenges teams face. In this conversation, the hosts discuss the future of Clemson and their potential dominance in the ACC, the impact of top transfers on teams like Louisville and Miami, and the emergence of Georgia Tech as a contender. They also explore dark horse teams such as SMU, Pittsburgh, and Duke, while analyzing critical matchups and playoff predictions for the upcoming season. The discussion wraps up with personal reflections and commentary on the state of college football.
Chapters
00:00 WNBA Sundays: A New Tradition
02:43 NFL Ticket Fines: A Controversial Crackdown
05:41 Trump's Executive Order: Impact on College Sports
10:43 Globalizing Football: College Games in Germany
13:40 ACC Preview: Florida State's Rollercoaster Journey
32:43 Florida State's Journey: From Historic to Rebuilding
35:37 Controversial Relationships in College Football
41:43 Bill Belichick's Challenges at North Carolina
49:37 Clemson's Path to Dominance: Reality Check
58:44 Navigating Tough Schedules: The Road Ahead
59:40 Clemson's Future and Expectations
01:00:35 Top Transfers and Their Impact
01:09:36 Contenders in the ACC
01:23:43 Dark Horse Contenders
01:26:32 Eli Holdstein Fan Club and Team Performance
01:28:23 Duke's Rising Potential in the ACC
01:30:20 Critical Matchups in the ACC
01:32:34 Playoff Predictions and Contenders
01:35:38 The ACC's Competitive Landscape
01:37:43 Two Minute Report: Celebrity Relationships and Commentary
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Transcript
WNBA Sunday's Excitement
00:00:07
Speaker
What's good, everybody? Welcome in to another episode of Defensive Sports Network's Power 2 podcast. As always, I'm your host, Jordan. I'm here with my co-host, DJ.
00:00:20
Speaker
Hey. How are you living today? You know, i am alive. There are five WNBA games today, so I will be living my best life as soon as I get off of here with you.
WNBA Branding Strategy
00:00:31
Speaker
As you should, as you always do, you know ah because there seems to be five WNBA games every Sunday. yeah ah you know We should just call it WNBA Sundays at this point.
00:00:43
Speaker
You know, we should just, what really should happen. I feel like this would great marketing tactic. that They should pick me is during football season is NFL Sundays during WNBA season is WNBA Sundays. And you just give me WNBA games all day.
00:00:57
Speaker
I feel like we could tailgate is in the middle of summer. Makes sense to me. You know, I, I see the vision. I do think they would need to stop playing all the games at the same time.
00:01:11
Speaker
There's also that, well, that, and I, I was saying that with the assumption that the games would be at different times, which I know is very hard for the WNBA to grasp.
Scheduling Challenges in WNBA
00:01:20
Speaker
Yeah. But yeah, yeah. You know, like a 12 o'clock, but actually today the schedule actually makes sense because the games are, I think two hours part, which is, Ooh, love that for us.
00:01:29
Speaker
Um, I think the games are actually two hours-ish apart today. Yeah, it's 12 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 3, 5, 6.
00:01:40
Speaker
So, we're getting there. Yeah, we love that. We absolutely do love that. And hopefully, you know, they ah continue that. Because it would be nice to watch the games, right? And not need seven screens.
00:01:55
Speaker
i Like March Madness. Yeah. most I mean, a lot of times i have two screens just in general because I'm that type of person. And I still couldn't watch all of the games at once with my two screens.
00:02:07
Speaker
Because they're all at once. You can't really you can't play five games at once. It's more of the story. Yeah. But anyways, it's a WNBA Sunday, so it's always a good day.
Injuries Impacting WNBA Games
00:02:17
Speaker
Now, the Fever and the Sky play today, which is Kaitlin Clark versus Angel. Yay, they are torturing us with this five separate times this season. This is the third time, I believe.
00:02:26
Speaker
Half of the Chicago Sky roster is injured. I'm pretty sure the game needs to be canceled at this point. Kaitlin is not playing. Angel is not playing. but Most of Chicago is not playing. i don't even know who's playing today. Like, I don't know how many, I don't know how many hardship contract people are go to be out there today, but um
00:02:43
Speaker
that'll be interesting. Yeah. And I'm sure we'll hear a lot about it as we do every time they play, because there's always, it always seems like there's something something. mean, at least we know guaranteed for today, it won't be something between Angel and Caitlin because they will be in sweats.
00:03:02
Speaker
but So there's that. Well, there may be a fine. levied in that game. And speaking of fines, why are you making that face? If they get into a fight, they're going to get fined.
00:03:16
Speaker
Oh, I was like, well, i thought you meant like it was already like coming up. was like, who's about to get fined? Okay, sorry. ahead. See, you're ruining my transition. Sorry, go
NFL Ticket Resale Controversy
00:03:23
Speaker
ahead. I'm sorry. Speaking of fines, as I try to transition,
00:03:30
Speaker
um the NBA is fining a hundred plus players for selling Super Bowl tickets above face value. the nfl is fine oh somebody's finding somebody that's all i can find that is that is the point so one was one entity is finding some form of players somewhere is all we can say for sure why did you send a reddit link because that Because Google is stupid. That is what happened with that. So that is the wrong link. I just saw it too. I was like, why is it Reddit? What the hell? See, this is why.
00:04:05
Speaker
Okay, no. Okay, so I sent you the real link. My bad. So basically what happened was, don't know why it pulled, because when you, so when you attach a link to something in a Google Doc, Google will search what you're trying to attach a link to on its own.
00:04:19
Speaker
And I didn't realize that ah Just now, I'm just going to get this right now. because my Google ain't never a Google. I know you'd be listening. You got a getting smart. that I do not know. Don't do that. The AI version of Google. I'm not sure, but whatever. So anyways, the NFL is finding a hundred more than a hundred players and approximately two dozen team employees for selling their Superbowl tickets for above face value.
00:04:42
Speaker
Um, The NFL spokesperson said that the players would be fined one and a half times the amount of the face value of the tickets that they sold. The team employees would be fined double the amount of the team of the tickets face value. I think that's insane because the players made more than the team ah employees do. But anyway, um and the memo was sent to the top team executives, presidents and lawyers and everybody is called. They basically called it a widespread violation of the league's policy.
00:05:08
Speaker
um And so at this point, the league policy prohibits league or team employees, including players from selling game tickets for above face value or more than the prices originally paid. And the rule is part of the CBA with the NFLPA.
00:05:21
Speaker
And so the players are allowed to purchase two tickets ah to the Super Bowl at face value. um that is That is okay. But when they resell, that's when it becomes a problem. And I think now the people who are affected will just not be able to get tickets. They would have to buy them.
00:05:37
Speaker
um through like the regular channels basically. So yeah, I think that's interesting because like my, my, my thought with that is, is this a new rule or are they just cracking down on it?
00:05:52
Speaker
Cause when I see a hundred people doing it, it seems like either no one knew or they've always been doing this and nobody cared. Like a hundred people just don't break the same rule.
00:06:02
Speaker
You know what I mean? Like, especially for like the first time, like the Super Bowl has been going on forever. And in like 2024, technically 2025, because it's in February, a hundred players are like, you know what I should do?
00:06:15
Speaker
I should just break this rule randomly. And all of us should all do it. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's interesting, but I mean, it's just a little fine. Don't nobody care about that. It is. if And mind you, but well, what I will say is Superbowl ticket, I think the average price of a Superbowl ticket is like $3,000 or something like that.
00:06:31
Speaker
So yes, it's a little fine, but like to, I think there's, it's just so interesting how the leagues are like trying to keep the players out of the commerce that,
00:06:46
Speaker
occurs like with around the sport if that makes sense. So that's interesting because to your point I think that players have probably been doing this but it looks like they conducted a larger scale investigation this time around and that's how they came to finding over 100 players and team employees because they actually like looked into it.
00:07:02
Speaker
So Yeah. Mess, child. Just a mess. I do think the the biggest issue, like, the thing to focus on is that they were so they were selling it to resellers. like Yes. Like, what people were doing with shoes and things like that.
00:07:14
Speaker
Yes. And that negatively hurts fans. Like, I think it's like a... it's not don't even some think it's so much like, oh, the players did something bad as much as it's, like... And I hate to do this because I very rarely disagree with the NFL or any of the big sports. But players selling tickets that they get for cheap or free and then giving them to someone who's going to double the price for a fan who's probably going to pay their life savings to go to that game is crazy. It's part of work. That does directly hurt fans. So in this one instance, it's like, man, maybe the league was right.
00:07:50
Speaker
In this one instance. And Lord, I do not expect to say that often. The NFL not good at giving out punishments. Actually, the NFL does not give out punishments. So, therefore, love that for them. They will crack down on ticket sales. They won't crack down on domestic abuse. But they will crack down on ticket sales.
Trump's Executive Order on College Sports
00:08:06
Speaker
So, speaking of domestic abusers, Donald Trump signed an executive order recently. Talk about a segue. Signed an executive order recently because he believes that he is the...
00:08:19
Speaker
Lord and savior of college sports. um And for some reason, he doesn't seem to understand that the presidency is not just a series of writing a bunch of executive orders. So since he understand that he has written an executive order titled saving college sports um on Thursday, it was issued and he basically is wanting to implement a lot more regulation around NCAA, NIL, all of the things that are affecting college sports at this Present time so it is calling for a few different things basically It's calling for the prohibition of third parties from engaging in direct pay-per-play payments to athletes um That's deemed improper. So kind of like the concept of wanting to tamper down on the collectives and the boosters that are signing deals to pay the players directly and
00:09:12
Speaker
It says that players should only earn fair market value for a legitimate service to a third party, such as a brand endorsement, um and that would potentially impose a cap on their earnings. um Protections for scholarships on on non-revenue earning sports, which is something we discussed when we talked about the house settlement and how that could negatively affect not only women's sports, but just like certain Olympic sports that just don't bring in the same amount of revenue and they could potentially be axed.
00:09:36
Speaker
in favor of sports that do generate a lot of revenue. So this is kind of saying like there needs to be protection on those scholarships. A clarification with the National Labor Relations Board on what the actual employee status of the athletes will be.
00:09:48
Speaker
um This is encouraging that they would not be considered um employees. um But so they want it to be codified so that way so Because once you have the players qualify as employees, then that means that they could be starting to collectively bargain with schools and all of that.
00:10:05
Speaker
It's going to get too far into the whole professional element of things. um And then, of course, some extra protection for the NCAA, which the NCAA has been begging for for a long time because they keep getting sued. So. that has been written it has been submitted um he thinks he's a king so i think he thinks it is already implemented but that is not how that works um nothing is happening currently but it is coinciding with an act that is already being pushed through congress called the score act um that should be debated here in september when they come back from trying too hard to protect trump for being a pedophile so we will see what happens with that
00:10:43
Speaker
That was a lot, but that is what's going on. I mean, ultimately, it's just one of those things where it's like it is news. So it is something to talk about and to sort of highlight. But at the same time, as with most things and the federal government and college football and NCAA as a whole, there's probably not going to be anything that comes out of it um I do think eventually before Trump is out of office, there will be some sort of legislation that comes down yeah because they are essentially begging for it and it needs to. Well, and in the hopes that he does eventually become out of office, the um if Democrats win anything,
00:11:28
Speaker
This is not going to happen because Dems don't care about this. This is not entirely sure what they care about. play on This is non-issue. Ultimately, it's really just not a major thing for the federal government.
00:11:42
Speaker
Republicans care about this for whatever reason. Democrats don't. And so there're really trying like there was a lot of um hope for whatever reason when trump and the republicans won because college football thought that they would be able to pull this off um the the score act is non non-bipartisan uh and so like again because republicans care about it and and others don't so if it does happen it's largely just going to be on a republican ticket
00:12:16
Speaker
And we'll see. But also the only way anything is going to happen is if Trump and or the Republican Congress push it through because the Democrats are not going to do it. don't care.
00:12:29
Speaker
Because, you know, there's certain other issues like, I don't know, increased levels of, you know, mentally ill people in the street um and the grocery prices and war.
00:12:39
Speaker
There's just other things to be worried about. But. What else? We'll see. I know that the bigger like headline has been that, you know, it's like, oh, he wants to cap their earnings. He wants to cap their earnings. He wants to cap their earnings. It's kind of like the the headline that they're running with with on it. And honestly, hot take, I'm not opposed to that. like I'm not opposed to saying like there's a ceiling for what you can earn as a college athlete because I just feel like they are there's levels to everything.
00:13:09
Speaker
You know, and I've never been up fan of the idea that like you as a college athlete could potentially make just as much as somebody who does this professionally. So I'm not too opposed to that idea, but also like I don't think that federal regulation is needed for that.
00:13:23
Speaker
But, you know, well, it's it is it is definitely. ah I know that's only when it will happen.
00:13:34
Speaker
I'll put it like that, but I'm saying like the government could be worried about something else.
00:13:40
Speaker
No, yeah, it is. I mean, it's definitely 100%. What is it called?
00:13:45
Speaker
what is it called
00:13:47
Speaker
it's In my opinion, it's necessary, right? I just don't, like, because I don't think the NCAA and individual colleges are going to agree to any sort of cap. So it would, for it to happen, it would need to come from but um the government.
00:14:10
Speaker
But in the same instance, it's not necessary in that. Why do we need that? That's one thing. So it's just kind of whatever. It is what it is. It is what of it is.
00:14:21
Speaker
but you'll see what happens. Probably nothing. But it did happen on Thursday. so Yeah, probably nothing. um Speaking of last our last piece of news, ah Michigan and Western Michigan are set to play in Germany
International College Football Games
00:14:35
Speaker
in 2026. Come on, Germany!
00:14:37
Speaker
Uh, the NCAA, the NFL has for years been playing games overseas and they've been expanding where they're playing games overseas. Um, you know, they were just recently in Mexico city for the first time. They already play in Germany. They do a whole lot.
00:14:51
Speaker
Um, in the UK and they're trying to like add certain places. Currently, from my understanding, the ah college football only plays in Ireland and there will be another game in Ireland um this year.
00:15:05
Speaker
But ah Michigan and Western Michigan are set to play the first ever college football game in Germany. and 2026 if you also are from michigan or sort of care about this this is one of those like older rivalries before like the schools like really really separated and who was who because it's in the state so um it's also sort of uh like bringing back a miniature rivalry um so that's interesting i mean i'm always for spreading the game um
00:15:39
Speaker
I mean, I'm also for ah most importantly, in my opinion, as I say all the time when we talk about ah like bowl games and things like that, I'm for players being able to travel and using football as a means to travel.
00:15:56
Speaker
And there are going to be X number of players on both of those teams who don't have a passport and who have never left the country. And by going to college, their school is then going to pay for their passport and take them overseas.
00:16:08
Speaker
And I think that's cool. Like those are the kind of things that I think sometimes we forget oh because there's so much going on the support that we forget the sort of cool little stories that affect players on a personal level and not just who's going to win a national championship.
00:16:25
Speaker
For sure. And ah speaking of football going to Germany, um for the first time. The first NFL game for ah Germany is the Berlin game for the Falcons versus your Indianapolis c Colts. And that will be happening on November 11th. I mean, November 9th this year.
00:16:42
Speaker
so Oh, it's the first? Yes, it's the first NFL regular season game in Berlin, Germany will be happening this fall. I did know they were going to Germany. I didn't realize it was the first. So Germany, back-to-back years. back to like And it does make sense, I guess, that and NFL gets there, they make some inroads, and then they stand in the third. Boom.
00:16:58
Speaker
Now college football's in Germany. I wonder if it's going to be like the Ireland thing, which as of recently has been a yearly thing. from I know we someone has played in Ireland for at least the last three years. I can't.
00:17:10
Speaker
I remember if it's been longer than that, but it's it's like a becoming a tradition of sorts. oh um And so I do wonder if Germany is going to become that as well.
00:17:20
Speaker
Not entirely sure, of course, but ah i think that's interesting. It's really cool. I'm a big fan of of of globalizing um any sport. Oh, apparently the first game that was played in Ireland, college football game, was November 19th, 1988, when College played.
00:17:38
Speaker
when boston college played army ah interesting so well i definitely i definitely don't think that uh but it obviously hasn't been nearly since then but right i definitely don't think that uh
00:17:54
Speaker
What is it? What am I trying to say? um ah definitely don't think it's like they played games consistently. so No, it has not. Yeah. So I think the last three or so years, it's when it's been like in week zero, there has been a consistent game. And that seems to be something that is going to continue.
00:18:13
Speaker
Yes, that it is slated for at least through 2027. We have Georgia Tech, Florida State last year, this year Iowa State versus Kansas State, and then in 2027 it'll be Pittsburgh and Wisconsin.
00:18:26
Speaker
So shout out to Globalizing the Game. Ooh, say that again? Pittsburgh and what year is that? Pittsburgh, 2027. Ah, that was, that's, that's going to be a game. That's going be a good time. That's going to fun.
00:18:38
Speaker
They will play in the, it's called the Aerolingus College Football Classic. got And yeah it will be their 2027 season opener. Who is 2026 did you say? It didn't say. So hold on, let me see. TCU and... TCU and... my gosh, it's a TCU article, so hold on, it's gonna take them a second to say who they're playing.
00:19:02
Speaker
North Carolina. TCU and North Carolina will play in the Aerolingus College of World Classic in 2026. Interesting. ilandn So, shout out to Ireland. Yeah. I do think that, um i thought the is specifically the Ireland thing, too, I like that it's just sort of like, they just like pick games, right? Like, why is TCU playing North Carolina? You know what I'm saying? like it's It's like Wisconsin-Pittsburgh. It's not so much like... It's not as...
00:19:31
Speaker
rigid yeah yeah which is nice which is nice because obviously in the sport there is a lot of things that do become rigid so but to move on to what i'm sorry here i did lie that was it that's the first nfo game in berlin it is not the first nfo game in germany okay and that makes sense um So yeah, we're here.
ACC Football Season Preview
00:19:54
Speaker
As you already know, football season is around the corner. As you already know. Saturdays. Crazy. For Saturdays. As already that means that we are in preview season.
00:20:05
Speaker
Last week we did our Big 12 previews. If you didn't listen, you should listen. was a good time. We surprisingly agreed, and we do agree on this one as well, which is not good.
00:20:18
Speaker
So hopefully moving forward, we don't continue to agree on who we think is going to win the conference. We don't agree on who's going to win the conference. Yeah, we do. No, we don't. You just wrote it, and I haven't wrote anything else. But we don't agree who's going to win the conference.
00:20:32
Speaker
If you look at the other thing, I put somebody else to win. So we will get there when we get there. Hold on. Hold on. Okay, he now has to look for proof, but we are tracking like... No, no, no. Yes, yes. Yes, yes. Hold on.
00:20:47
Speaker
That is not what you said. Hold on.
00:20:52
Speaker
Yes. but Literally, yes. Oh, okay. If you look at it, I was like, I didn't pick the same winner. i picked the same... matt Well, no, we didn't pick the same matchup, so we will be disagreeing at some point in the show. Well, good, because last week we picked the same winner, and that's that's not always the best thing. We picked the same winner, but we did not pick the same opponents.
00:21:11
Speaker
Well, yeah, but that doesn't matter. I'm just saying we we came to a ah mutual conclusion that I still think is delusional, but it'll be fun to figure out. Yeah, yeah. But, I mean, to the point of last week, we we picked a surprise winner for the Big 12. We So we're going to be on a limb, right? So you should check it out. But today, we're not talking about the Big 12. No more Big 12. Get them out of there.
00:21:31
Speaker
Today, we're talking about the ACC, which is unfortunately not nearly as fun of a league to talk about as the Big 12. Not as much parody. We are still going to talk about the ACC, of course.
00:21:43
Speaker
ah We are doing the Power 4 previews. ah Included in this is slightly Notre Dame, although they're not in the ACC technically. Any conference, yeah.
00:21:57
Speaker
Yeah. But, you know. We'll talk Notre Dame. and still It's still important to sort of talk about them, and they are most, you know, most recognizable, I guess that's the wrong word, but most like recognizable with the nottoria ACC because they play X number of games. Oh, they're most with more synonymous.
00:22:18
Speaker
Thank you. Yes. Yes. Even though they're not in a conference, I understand they're not in the conference. They're never going to be in a conference. But yeah, yeah, yeah. TV deals. Yeah, ah yeah yeah, yeah. We don't give a crap.
00:22:30
Speaker
We don't care. but So emerging storylines as, as for those of you because every episode could be someone's first episode. The way we do these previews, we ask a series of questions.
00:22:40
Speaker
um We, we give emerging storylines. We look at the top transfers because transfer portals everywhere. We look at contenders. We give our dark horse contenders. We look at a couple of critical matchups.
00:22:52
Speaker
And then because, p Playoff is king, unfortunately. We do look at and try to guess the number of playoff participants. This is all going to culminate in our show that happens right before the season starts, which is our playoff preview show.
00:23:09
Speaker
um Because I believe and in podcasting that if you're going to put it on tape, you have to stick to it. I'm not hating on anyone who doesn't, but I do listen to a lot of podcasts where they say things and then it's time to make their picks and they change.
00:23:23
Speaker
And sure, today is July and August. My opinion could change, but I already put it on tape, so I got to stick to it. So whoever we pick in this, whoever we say is going to make it in our playoff show, we didn't put that all together ah because consistency is king.
00:23:37
Speaker
And that is ah one of the trademarks of our shows, at least, I like to say. So emerging storylines for the ACC. The first, maybe not the biggest, but the first one that we want to talk about is simply Florida State.
00:23:54
Speaker
um If you all remember, sorry if you all remember, two years ago, Florida State was twelve and know had all of these transfers, had all of this good stuff going on, great wide receivers.
00:24:12
Speaker
ah They were the talk of the town. And then ah their quarterback gets injured and they lose. quarterback gets injured and we're still in a 14 playoff, of course.
00:24:25
Speaker
And they do not get picked as an undefeated team. They do not get picked. They do not make the 14 playoff. They then go to a bowl game and get destroyed because half their team quits.
00:24:37
Speaker
And then the very next year, which would have been last year, the very next year, which would have been last year, they were 13-0 and they won the conference championship, by the way. That is important to say.
00:24:47
Speaker
They were 13-0, ACC champion, did not get into the 14 playoff, and then last year happens and they only win two games. So the question, and this happens for multiple reasons, right?
00:25:01
Speaker
um Some of it, like they even say this a little bit, some of it is like the carryover of not making the playoff, just like that it was a emotional yeah sort of kind of thing.
00:25:13
Speaker
But then the other part, as we talked about last week with the Big 12, is that sometimes you can live and die by the transfer portal. And it doesn't always work. 2023 FSU, the transfer portal was great for them. 2024 FSU, they tried to do the same thing and it did not work, including the fact that they got DJ Uyunglele from the transfer portal to play quarterback and he was booty cheeks.
00:25:37
Speaker
And so a mix of not hitting in the transfer portal, the emotional sort of withdrawals or whatever of not making the playoffs, players leaving, going to the league, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:25:49
Speaker
They had one of the worst years Ever. And they are the first team to have fallen from such high highs to those specific lows. Because as you know, with any stat, right, you can make anything, anything.
00:26:01
Speaker
um Anything is a record these days. Yes. But...
00:26:07
Speaker
In 2023, they had 11 defenders that were transfers reach ACC recognition, and they sent 10 guys to the NFL. ah Last year, they had offensive line injuries.
00:26:19
Speaker
They had lack of leadership, which is something that I always talk about because this is still college. I do believe leadership matters no matter what, but also specifically, in my opinion, in college, right? Like, um...
00:26:32
Speaker
That's why I think you can't go too, too transfer heavy because you do need someone to establish like culture and leadership and things like that. They were lacking leadership. Um, there was just a lot going on. The school was suing a ACC, all this. Oh my gosh, this mess. So yeah, they, they went two games.
00:26:49
Speaker
And so with that, then going into this year, um, can they bounce back? They have a double coordinator switch, right? They, um, They, who did they hire? Where is this at?
00:27:00
Speaker
They hired Gus Malzahn from UCF. They did the thing that Ohio State did with Chip Kelly. They hired a sitting head coach. um So they hired him to be, to run the offense. And then on defense, they hired Nebraska's Tony White, who is one of the best defensive coordinators in the country.
00:27:18
Speaker
ah Nebraska's had a really good defense. They didn't have a great offense, but um they hired a really good ah defense defense coordinator. And Gus Malzahn has always been sort of known for his offenses.
00:27:30
Speaker
And so new coordinators, they did go back to the transfer portal because they didn't have a choice, right? um When you have one of the worst teams, you do need to find talent. ah Yes, yes. One of the places that they go in the transfer portal is they go from to Boston College and they take Thomas Castellano, quarterback from BC, to be their quarterback, who was supposedly an ideal fit for Gus Malzahn's system.
00:28:00
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um And so, yeah, it's a storyline, right? You go 13-0 2-10. It's something. two and ten double coordinator switch. You go back to the transfer portal.
00:28:12
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You had this coach that everyone was like raving and saying, like maybe is like people were saying should have got the Alabama job. And then you crash.
00:28:24
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And burn. Yes. So like fiery flames. It was, it was bad. I, I, I distinctly just remember like when we had our first preview, I think that was one of the, one of the first things I said was,
00:28:38
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I don't watch college football. I don't follow college football. But one thing I do remember is the anger that I felt when FSU did not make the playoffs. I thought that was such a miscarriage of the college football system.
00:28:50
Speaker
I could not believe it. I think I came into a like justice for Florida State. This is crazy. um I don't think any of us could have predicted. um such a fall from grace but um and i know obviously it sucks because you you have this transfer portal heavy team they have all the success majority of them get drafted then everything kind of goes left obviously because of the whole not making the playoffs thing there's all this drama so then more people are transferring because don't want to be a part of this so then that obviously causes a recruiting issue as well so it's like you can't really recruit from the high school ranks because if i'm a local high schooler in florida and i know what's going on girl ain't going for it
00:29:27
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Listen. I'm going somewhere else. I'm taking my chances in Miami. I'm taking my chances in a UCF. I'm taking my chances. Like, if I wanted to stay in Florida as a local high school prospect, like, I'm not going Florida State. Yeah. and and And then with that, you also have to say Miami had one of their best seasons in a while. People think that Florida's going to come up. so Yes. Florida Gators are doing better. Yeah. So it's like Florida State's just not the top choice if I'm a high school prospect either. So then you have to almost, like,
00:29:56
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add on to it by going back to the transfer portal and continuing to roll the dice. um So yeah, and then of course anytime a team, no matter how much production they they bring back, anytime you have a double coordinator switch, that's always like, what's going happen there? So the only direction to go is up though.
00:30:17
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Yeah. that's That's the only direction they can go I do think it's interesting, like, in a lot of preseason rankings that they're ranked higher than SMU. As far as, like, but potential success, I think that's odd.
00:30:29
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um Because, like, where are we getting that from? But... Well, we can tell you. We can tell you. But the one thing to are they back that you should consider is Their schedule is the easiest.
00:30:44
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We are screech-sharing, people. We're screech-sharing. Do you understand? We are living in the future. This is real podcasting right now. We are living in the future. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Their schedule is not the easiest. First of all, they start off with Alabama, which, yeah. yeah That is cruel and unusual punishment. that That's a game.
00:31:03
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And then they play Miami, who, listen, we're going to talk about Miami, but should still be better than them. And then they also had to play Clemson, who is better than them.
00:31:14
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And then they also had to play Florida. So, like, there are yeah definitely games in between, right? So, like, they should have a good year. But I don't... When we talk about back, right...
00:31:27
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I don't see them winning more than seven or eight games. It's got to be seven. Just off of their schedule, especially because they then have to beat all the teams that are sort of equal to them, right? They have to beat Pitt, who I think is going to be a decent team.
00:31:42
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They, you know, maybe you say they do get it easy, right? Maybe you say they get it easy by having Virginia Tech, Virginia, and Wake Forest, who all are sort of going through some problems right now.
00:31:52
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um But essentially, for them to even... Essentially for them to sort of even hope to be in the playoff um con conversation, they have to beat one of Alabama, Miami, Florida, or Clemson. And really, really, they need to beat two of them. Because get into the to get into the playoff conversation, you need to have 10 wins.
00:32:20
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Right? Like, there were yeah X number of SEC teams who didn't get in. So, at this exact point, 9-3 not getting you in. So, they need to be 10-2, which means they need to beat two of Alabama, Miami, Clemson, and Florida, while also then beating everyone else. Let it be everybody else. so So, with that being said, Florida, have a good time. We're going talk about y'all next year. We'll see y'all next year. Yes.
00:32:44
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The question is, are they going to be better? If the question are they going to be better? You have to be better than 2 and 10. You have to be. But is it are they going to be back in the national title conversation? No.
00:32:55
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That answer is no. <unk>tfully Respectfully, respectfully, if you're a Florida State fan. No. And that's okay. Like, it's that is okay. you there is There is something that happened that is historic. That's what we were saying all season last year. Like, what's going on with Florida State? It's historic. The 30 for 30 will feed families. Like, it really will. So, it's it's one of those things where it's like, it's cool because you did see the the short-term success of heavy transfer portal um building, but then you also see the... the the fallout Now, I also think that the situation is a very specific to Florida State situation with the whole suing the ACC thing and and all of that. Like, I think that ah um compounded on um onto the situation.
00:33:39
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oh so There's, there's a very specific things that are going on with Florida state. That is also just a case study for Florida state. But, um, yeah, the schedule is really not, not ideal. any face not i So that's kind of the part that sucks. Cause like, it's hard to still say it like with confidence, like where they're to end up because,
00:34:01
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they come straight off of this two intensities and 10 season then they they have to go into a season opener against Bama. Yeah, but I mean, but listen, after going two and 10, eight and four would would definitely show some progress.
00:34:13
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Eight and four, no, yeah. Honestly, if you win more than five games, I'm i'm proud of you. yeah Like you win more than five games. I don't think they're going to be happy with more than five. Well, I'm not a Florida State fan, so.
00:34:25
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Yeah, yeah. Like, I'm saying I'm proud of you from a strictly sports. You got to get seven. Yes. Well, I'm saying I'm proud of you for the sense of like bouncing back. Yeah.
00:34:36
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You got to get seven. And I really want to say eight because you can't lose to both Miami and Florida. Like you can't lose to the, right, right, right, right. But you can't, you can't, but they will ah no shame, but that's okay. Again, to the to the original point, like it is okay. You went to intend the season before. So true.
00:34:55
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Realistically, when you win more than two games, you are already in a better position. Now, granted college football is dramatic. And so it's like, all of that things on, you know? It's not even so much that it's dramatic as much as it's just like, they're not gonna base it off last year because they viewed last year something that should have never happened. It was an outlier. So immediately the goal isn't necessarily 13-0, but it needs to be close to that.
00:35:18
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yeah yeah So like a normal team, if you go from two to six, you're happy. But for them, they're not gonna be happy because they're still gonna see it as we went from thirteen and zero to six and six.
00:35:29
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And so then it's two years of them being bad. And then you start to have other conversations. But everybody will be fine. Take a deep breath. Everybody will be fine. Our next emerging storyline. Oh, God. I hate this story so much. I hate this story so much. And I was like, when we were preparing for the episode, I'm like, I know we're going to have to talk about this.
00:35:49
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And I still am not as I still am. So I'm just off it. Like, I'm just off the situation. But what we're talking about is obviously Bill Belichick down at University of North Carolina. No.
00:36:00
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No. we're talking about the fact that they let pedophiles in college football. That's why I'm off it. um He to get off her. He needs to get off that lady.
00:36:11
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But okay, so. That girl. Child, but then there's also all this other stuff about like how she's like in charge of all of his financial decisions and how she's the benefactor of all these things. And i'm
Bill Belichick's Controversial Relationship
00:36:22
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like, is this a black widow? Like what is going on?
00:36:24
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Listen, you know. if you play Sims, if you're a Simmer, you'll know that there's such thing. Lord. Stay with me. You'll know that there is a such thing as a legacy-style gameplay called The Black Widow.
00:36:36
Speaker
And basically, you pick a female character. Usually, a lot of people pick a character named Bella Goth because she's married to this really, really old man. It's it's Sims lore, but she's married to this really, really old man named Mortimer. And it's, like, known that she married him for money.
00:36:48
Speaker
And you take her or any other character and you just like go marry all the rich Sims and then kill them and take all their money. It is a very, very big gameplay style in the, in the Sims. So I'm like, is she a black widow? Like what's going on? Because that girl, she don't seem like she done.
00:37:02
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It doesn't, it's not giving like she's out here trying to be like a rich wagon, wear her fur coats. Like she's getting the paperwork on this. So that's what's throwing me. She's definitely not dumb because they, we, they shared too much of her life already.
00:37:14
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And they're already talking about how, like he, like she's been using his money to like buy real estate property. Yes. And her name and business proposals. So like, so like She's not even like it's hard to even say like she's a black widow because she could break up with him tomorrow and be rich for the rest of her life. And be rich. Because like she used him to get her own money and not just kind of sort of living off of his money.
00:37:38
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And the thing is, we just spent two or three minutes talking about that when we should be talking about football. But how can you talk about football when one of the greatest coaches of all time is dating a child? I can't do this.
00:37:49
Speaker
That's why was like, bro, I don't know if I'm going to be able to just talk about football. too young for his She's too young for everybody on the field. but she know she's not. She's little bit older.
00:37:59
Speaker
She's a little bit older. But that's what I'm saying. she's the same age. She's the age. That's what saying. Like, she should be dating in that pool. Not the man who's the head coach of the team. like like And I'm still stuck on and when they did that interview and they asked them how they met. And they were like, no, cut the cameras. We don't want to talk about how we met.
00:38:17
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Um, it's giving grooming. It's giving that you've been around this entire time and now y'all are allowed to be together. Like that's what it's giving. But anyways, child, again, this is why I didn't want talk about this long line because I knew we were going to go somewhere else with this.
00:38:31
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Talking strictly football. Well, hold on. I do just have one last thing to say. Okay, go ahead. Steven Belichick, who is who is who is the defensive coordinator, so we're weaving it in. Nepotism is, yep. Who is the defensive coordinator, is 38 years old.
00:38:47
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He is. She's too young for him. Correct. Because she's like 22, 23. Correct.
00:38:54
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So they're too young for the son, who's not his oldest kid, by the way. He's one of his youngest kids. Bill Belichick is 80 million years old. Actually, how old man? 70? We can find out. Let's find out. How old is Bill Belichick?
00:39:08
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Bill Belichick is 73 years old, which is crazy. He's past retirement age. um 73 years old, that lady is, like we said, 50 years his junior, and everybody, it's just so interesting, the thought processes about this particular relationship, because it's one of the first times that I've seen, in my opinion, that there actually be a split opinion on who's the victim.
00:39:31
Speaker
because there's half of the half of the population believes that bill Belichick is the victim with the way that she's managing their money and their businesses and all of that. And then the other half of the population thinks that she's the victim because obviously she's so much younger than him.
00:39:43
Speaker
So it's just, it's odd. And honestly, I hate that for UNC. I hate that for UNC because i don't, this, no, because this was, this was going on. when um But what one I'm saying is I hate it for UNC just simply because that's the PR of this is always going to overshadow anything that y'all have that happens that PR, which you knew you, you knew that that was happening when you signed that three year deal and made him one of the highest paid college football coaches. You knew that that was coming with it, but I'm just saying it sucks for like those who just really want UNC to succeed because all of this PR has always been an overshadowed that. That's all saying.
00:40:18
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And you know, but they knew that cause they signed him for a three year deal three years. I don't know how many millions it all is 50 million, something like that. He's him and Dion, they right there would be in the highest paid coaches in college.
00:40:33
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Close. Ah, boy. What? He just does this. What? He just does it. Oh, well, yeah. He just does it. This is the first time he's done this. no, no. no Because, um...
00:40:48
Speaker
oh I don't know when they met, but his first wife was 25 years younger than him. Yeah, that's what I was like. it doesn't I knew that. that's i'm like I didn't know that. yes I didn't know she was 25, but I knew she was younger. It just came up on his little thing because it had his birthday and and it had his thing.
00:41:04
Speaker
And I was like, wow, his first wife died when this girl was only five years old. And then I saw her birthday and then I saw his birthday and I said, there's a gap there.
00:41:15
Speaker
Yes. He was 25 years. Okay. Okay. This is football. sorry. Men who do this, do this for real. Like Leonardo DiCaprio. Anytime his girlfriend turns 26, he is out of there. Like there are men who just do this. Okay. And I think there's something right now going viral with Drea, the girl who's with, I think it's Amon Thompson. God.
00:41:35
Speaker
um Who he is the same age? No, not Eamon. Who is it? i don't remember but I don't remember, but it's not Eamon. It's one of the Jalens. Jalen. Jalen. It is a Jalen. One of the Jalens. Child, do you know how many Jalens are on the NBA? A lot. And all them are half black. That's why I said one of. I don't know which one. Interracial couples love den. A Jaden, a Braden, a Jalen, everything. A Kaden. Bro. Jalen. Half of the NBA is named Jalen.
00:42:03
Speaker
Look, listen. Half of the NBA is named Jalen. The other half is named Caden. And then the other half is named, I don't know. It's just too much. Anyways, the point I'm getting at is. I think the Bradens play football and not basketball. But they're there. You're right. The Bradens do play football. The Bradens do play football. The Bradens do play football.
00:42:18
Speaker
Yeah. But so so the question never the question is, its can Bill Belichick win at North Carolina? No. simple answer no. No. i would just like I would just like to remind everyone, because we seem to forget this, he wasn't good his last couple of years with the Patriots. With the Patriots.
00:42:35
Speaker
Like, I understand that he's one of the best coaches of all time. I do get that. He is that, of course. Sure. But he's 73. So, like, it's it's just Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach of all time. He's in his seventy s And he was saying he was struggling with this new era and relating to the players.
00:42:51
Speaker
And he had one of his worst seasons, which was like winning nine games, by the way. Which was still right. But that was bad for him. Worst for Bama standards. You know what saying? And he was like, done, cut, I'm done. Right.
00:43:02
Speaker
So i make this so much this person who has been in the NFL, which we always talk about the fact that NFL and college do not always translate. Nope. Who's been in the NFL his entire life. Hasn't been in college. Ever.
00:43:14
Speaker
Not as a head coach. Not as a head coach. Well, yeah, not as a head coach. Yeah. has been in college for a while. a very very very, very, very, very long time. Has never been a head coach in college. He's 73. And then also wasn't great.
00:43:26
Speaker
then and then And then on top, it's just like, it's just hard to believe that they're going to be good. And then on top of that, though, it's not just, are they going to be good? You do have to sort of look at the fact, like, who's going to be on their team?
00:43:41
Speaker
Right? And they did they did get some transfers and they did sort of do some things. But, like, North Carolina hasn't been good the last couple of years. They weren't good when they had a first-round running back and a first-round quarterback. Like, this team had Drake May and Omari and Hampton who are ah are going to be great in the league and weren't good. They don't have that now. So, it's just – I think it's – It's just a mess. It's just a mess, it feels like. That's what i'm just like – I don't, I am not a fan and I've never been a fan of legacy hiring, legacy paying, all of that. I've never been a fan of that. Like, okay, you were really good at some point. So therefore you need to be hailed forever and ever as like this great, amazing coach or player. Cause like, even like with the LA Clippers, not to bring basketball into it, but just,
00:44:30
Speaker
but somebody go look up the LA Clippers roster. I'm pretty sure the average age is 35. I'm not even kidding. Because they keep so they're signing guys who are just great in name alone, but if you're paying attention to how they've been playing for the last couple years, it's not giving that.
00:44:46
Speaker
James Harden, Bradley Beal, Kawhi Leonard, and damn CP3, respectfully, are they all even going to be healthy by the time the season starts? No, they're never healthy. Respectfully, but because of their names, because CP3, because Kawhi Leonard, because of the things that they have done in their careers, it warrants paying them this amount of money and and having all this hype when it's like, bro, like, are we all watching the same thing? So that's how I feel about Bill Belichick. Like those last couple of years and in but NFL when he no longer had one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever pick up a football anymore to me was exposing kind of What was really potentially going on not say that Bill Belichick wasn't a good coach But to me to take to go from the NFL, which i feel like is
00:45:31
Speaker
a tough environment to be in, to go down to college football in the era that we are in, where the players are going to be paid, they're going to be, there's less humility, there's less of all of that. It's going to you know what i'm saying? Especially in UNC, that's a huge brand.
00:45:45
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Like, you could potentially be trading, like, one evil for another evil. And you're 73. Like, do you really want to deal with, I don't know. I just feel like it's already too much other stuff going on.
00:45:56
Speaker
He has to keep making money for his child. I mean, his girlfriend, I mean, his, whatever. His concubine, whatever she is to him. And honestly, like, no shade to, well, all shade to everybody involved. shade everybody involved. But, like, i we don't I don't know that lady, so, like, whatever.
00:46:10
Speaker
but Child. He just said, he said that this will be a professional program with training, nutrition, coaching techniques. They all say that. That will transfer to the NFL. And I just don't believe that.
00:46:21
Speaker
Well, and the thing is, they all say that. That's not how it works. Yeah. Like even at Ohio like ohio State, Alabama, programs. They pump out the most NFL. And it's still not an NFL program readiness program. yeah it's not. No, it's not.
00:46:35
Speaker
And just because you coached NFL for 472 dog years doesn't mean that you're going to all of come over here and that. And you can't be in the NFL program when they got to go to class. Go to class. And you can't fine them when they do things wrong. Literally talking about fines, the fining podcast.
00:46:52
Speaker
Someone was talking about how like in the NFL, they fine you for farting. Shut up, do they? Yes. Well, not I mean, not everyone. Like the rules are set by your coach and things like that. But like there are certain organizations that fine you for farting.
00:47:07
Speaker
Like 50 bucks if you fart during team meeting.
00:47:11
Speaker
Like, yeah, so like, that's yeah that man song you can't do that. That we have fine y'all to make y'all stop being flatulent. That's crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. I think, and I do think also to just to to analyze the situation a little bit more away from Bill Belichick, I also do think just like the state that UNC is currently in.
00:47:31
Speaker
Meaning?
00:47:33
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Meaning they lost their seventh, seven best offensive players and nine defensive starters. That's where I was going. That's where I was going. So you don't even come into a team that's kind of at least already a little bit ready and you're just making tweaks, but you are coming into a rebuild. Get out of my face. And the last thing on that, their projected starting quarterback broke his leg.
00:47:56
Speaker
And so they're not exactly sure when he'll be healthy. So you only got a quarterback, you don't have 16 of your best players, and you're 480 years old, so you also just have to, like, make it down to the field.
00:48:10
Speaker
Yeah. I can't. I'm not taking this serious. I'm sorry, USC. I'm not taking it all serious at all. What's the schedule? Let me see. Yeah, so the only thing is, and i was I wasn't going to pull the schedule up on this one, but since you mentioned that we can, because I wanted to move off of, you know, pedophilia, but on the only positive in this is that they do have an easy schedule. I still think they're going to be a bad team, so I don't think they're going to win all of these games.
00:48:38
Speaker
TCU is a loss, in my opinion, because we said we think TCU is going to be good. Clemson is a loss, again, in my opinion, because we said we think Clemson is going to be good. Well, y'all think that. Duke, no, Clemson is going to be good, unfortunately. I know, i know, I'm just a hand. I think, and I will say this because we're going to move on to this. Clemson is not a national title contender. And we need to be serious about that. But they are going to be a good team.
00:48:59
Speaker
that's fine. And then Duke is good. So I think that's three, in my opinion, I would give them three guaranteed losses there. Yeah. The rest of these games, they could take. Cal, Virginia, Stanford. Like, please. I don't think they do, but they could.
00:49:13
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Basically, in the preview that we sort of go over, the guy said they do get a favorable schedule draw with seven of the ACC's bottom ten teams and four of the bottom five.
00:49:24
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They only play eight games in the ACC. so So seven of their eight games is in the the bottom ten where ten worst teams. You're playing around in the mud with the pigs. so Like, what's...
00:49:37
Speaker
they do they are They do get a little bit of a benefit there, but I i don't see this being more than eight wins, and everyone's going to praise him for it, but if he's still... Hold on. I'm going to cheat.
00:49:50
Speaker
I want to cheat. I just want to look at something. Not want to cheat, child. Lord.
00:49:58
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're probably going to praise him a lot if they do that. And then next year they have a hard schedule and they're going to go five and seven. so They're going to be like, oh God, what happened? Yeah, don't, if they do go eight and four, don't praise them for that because they are soon going to be back down in the dredges. So, boom.
00:50:17
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Our last storyline. Which last emerging storyline. is Clemson's return to dominance. Clemson won the ACC last year.
00:50:29
Speaker
Barely. Look, barely. They needed a lot of help. They needed... needed Miami to lose to even qualify. Wait, wait, wait. Can we say it again? like i do what I would like to say it again as we near the season.
00:50:44
Speaker
Mario Cristobal's a loser. Yes. So they needed Mark. Now here's the thing. They needed Mario Cristobal to do what he does, which is lose. And he then therefore did that, but they only got into the ACC championship game because Miami lost two games in the last like three weeks.
00:51:02
Speaker
And then. randoms. Unfortunately. To randoms. Unfortunately. oh Well, i called the Syracuse one like five weeks in advance. We did. we we both were like, Syracuse is going to be the one he loses.
00:51:15
Speaker
Yeah, which is hilarious because they were up 21-0. They won't! I loved it. Every second of it. Oh, God. What a time. Okay. Georgia Tech was a surprise to me. I was like, y'all didn't get y'all's lives together. Yeah, but like Georgia Tech has been on the ups.
00:51:31
Speaker
Yeah, they don't suck. They don't suck. But they're not team looking at and you're like, oh my God, be afraid. You know what I mean? Anyways, go ahead, sir. Yeah. Yeah. Clemson needed somebody to be a loser because they couldn't win their way into the championship. And now everybody all of a sudden is re-sipping on the Clemson juice.
00:51:47
Speaker
I don't get it I don't understand. i don't see how we go from you barely made it into the ACC championship, you barely won said ACC championship, and then you barely got your bid into the playoff. And somehow that turns into they're going to it all next year. Like, what are we talking about?
00:52:02
Speaker
I can tell you how it happened. I just disagree. The very simple answer is that, because everyone does this, and I think that this is mildly overrated, um a lot of their players are coming back.
00:52:15
Speaker
So the argument is fair the argument that people are having is that they were a young team last year. Yeah. And then they get a lot of people back. And then for the first time ever, they basically hit the transfer portal only for like one or two players, but they're also sort of betting on that.
00:52:33
Speaker
So basically, ah the best, and I'm just going to read this word for word because I like the way that he put it and there's no point in making up new things. The best part Almost everyone is back in 2025.
00:52:45
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They boast the number one highest amount of returning production, upgraded at defensive coordinator, and Sweeney even embraced the transfer portal this time. So they're betting on Tom Allen, who is the upgraded defensive coordinator.
00:52:57
Speaker
They're betting on Cade Klebnik, the quarterback, being a third-year starter. they're They're betting on... They do have some ah good ah players on um defense, especially on their defensive line, which is what they've known for for a while.
00:53:14
Speaker
um And then they also are returning... ah all three of their wide receivers, which is nice.
00:53:26
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So Antonio Williams had 75 catches, 900 yards, 904 yards, and 11 touchdowns. And then they had two freshmen who combined for 85 catches, 1,359 yards, and scores.
00:53:40
Speaker
so essentially they're bringing back twenty 22, 2300 yards, 160 catches, and 21 touchdowns, roughly.
00:53:53
Speaker
Quick math, may not be exact, you'll get over it. So that is part of it. They're bringing back their quarterback, they're bringing back their trio of wide receivers, and they're bringing back a lot of their ah defensive line, right?
00:54:10
Speaker
And they had five starters receive all ACC recognition, and they're bringing back four of them. So you look at that, you see good team. The problem that I have is I don't see, like, I think this easily makes them the best team in the ACC.
00:54:27
Speaker
What I don't see is how this team then contends with Ohio State, Texas, Notre Dame, Texas.
Clemson's National Title Contention
00:54:34
Speaker
that That's where, like, I get the hype, but I still think that they're under that.
00:54:39
Speaker
And I think we saw that by the fact that no shade to SMU, but SMU wasn't supposed to be there. And if SMU wasn't, like, starstruck in the first half, they would have beat Clemson. would have won the game. And then this same team goes to play Texas and gets smacked up.
00:55:00
Speaker
Whooped. Spent. Mallywhopped. Dog, belt drag. So it's just like, I do understand some of the second year jump. I do get that. That is important for players, of course.
00:55:14
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So I think they're going to be the best team in the ACC. But i personally don't see them as a legitimate national title contender, even with this, personally. I don't care.
00:55:30
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no Not that I don't care. I care. Like, I have but enough i have enough wherewithal to understand facts and how all those things, like, can come together into this wonderful marriage of, like, oh, my gosh, this is the Clemson's year again. Like, I get it. I see it. I understand it.
00:55:45
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At the end of the day, you almost lost to a first-time ACC team. So...
00:55:54
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I don't know. But like, I i mean, at the end of the day, you don't ever count Clemson out. So I'm not sitting here saying like, oh my they're going to suck. Like, no, you don't you don't ever count Clemson out as Clemson. It is Dabo Swede. Like, duh, that'd be crazy. I just feel like given what happened last year, like I am not, I am not getting on the train with you people. I'm not doing it.
00:56:10
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ah and and And it is because I am a homer when it comes to SMU. Like I was, I'm always rooting for SMU. Now, if you watched us last year, you know that I was very, very careful about where I thought SMU really was because even I was surprised with how successful we turned out to be last season because you would have asked me at the beginning last season we were going to do, I'm telling you 6-6. I'm saying 6-6, that's hopefully maybe 5-7. I would have never been able to tell you we were to make it to the playoffs, let alone make it to the ACC championship game and damn it, I would not have been able to predict that.
00:56:47
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So with that being said though, Clemson being the blue blood program that it is being that close to losing just makes me, it makes me not want to drink the Kool-Aid. Like, I'm sorry.
00:56:58
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ahre Like, I, okay. Yeah. mostly And to your point, like, yeah, probably they will be one of the better teams, if not the best team in the ACC. But the moment that you step outside of the ACC, I don't see them really actually giving Texas a run for their money. i don't see them even giving LSU a run for their money. Even like, I don't, I don't see it happening. We're going to see that week one.
00:57:20
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So that is, that is the one thing with them, right? Is that they do also have a hard schedule. So I guess I would say if they get out of this schedule, Sure, maybe. Like, they have they have a chance to convince me because of their schedule. They have a chance to change my mind.
00:57:39
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I don't think they get out of their schedule anything less than 10-2. Yeah. yeah So, if you believe the national pundits the preseason rankings... and the preseason rankings LSU is supposed to be a national title contender.
00:57:54
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Oh, well. South Carolina is supposed to be ah ah a playoff team. Let's say that. I don't think people are calling them really a national title contender. So that's two of their out-of-conference games because South Carolina is a rivalry that they play every year.
00:58:08
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They then play four of the top six teams in the ACC, being Georgia Tech and Florida State, but I don't have them there, but in the preview, that's sort of where they're at.
00:58:21
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Florida the State, Louisville, and Duke. They then play, who is not in this, again, where we sort of start some of our previews, but in in the they there are various opinions on this team.
00:58:35
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They then also play SMU. who is going to want revenge, and depending on where you sit, may or may not be good. We'll touch on SMU briefly. ah SMU is in a tough spot where they're losing so, so much, but they also are returning their very good quarterback. and So much to gain. We'll sort of see with that.
00:58:55
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But ultimately, they have a tough schedule. And so this could be one of those things where like they are a good team and they just can't survive their schedule, which does happen, right? Yeah. yeah there There's another team that we're going to talk about as a contender that has maybe like the easiest schedule I've seen in ah in a while.
00:59:15
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um This is a legitimately tough schedule. and And then because of that, they also they also have the out-of-conference games where they could go They could win seven games, right? Let's just call it seven games in the ah ACC and still be nine and three yeah because they lose to LSU and South Carolina, right?
00:59:37
Speaker
So i just don't see national title contender. Well, that wouldn't. I know. Well, no no, that would be the three. That that would be the third one. Because I didn't say who they lost to in that in the in the ACC.
00:59:50
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So, but because of that, they could also very well be eight and four. So, yeah I don't see national title contender, but I do, I am still predicting that they'll be the best team because ultimately they, you know,
01:00:04
Speaker
They could go undefeated in the ACC. They could only lose one game in the ACC, still get there, but again, be 9-3, 8-4 because of who they play in the non-con. So ah those things matter, but that is a storyline. Everyone's just sort of expecting them to return to dominance. Everyone's saying that they have a Heisman caliber quarterback and all of these things, and Dabo hit the transfer portal and blase blase, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So we'll sort of see with that.
01:00:33
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I'll see y'all October 18th. Anyway, moving on. Listen, top transfers, quick list. One of these is on here, but I entirely disagree, but I wanted you to use it as, I'm disagreeing with the premise, even though I put them on here, but I wanted to use this as a way to sort of talk about certain players, certain teams.
01:00:56
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So Miller Moss, quarterback, Louisville. Miller Moss was at USC. was not amazing, but also wasn't as bad as it as it as you think when you consider the fact that he got benched.
01:01:09
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He was a first-year starter, and in his first nine games, he threw for 2,555 yards, 18 touchdowns, nine interceptions, and a 64% completion percentage.
01:01:20
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That's solid for a first-year starter. I was like, wait, what? Through nine games. Through nine games, that that's not. So they they bench him. You could argue that they played better without him, whatever. He transfers.
01:01:32
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But he's going to Jeff Brom, who is one of the best quarterback developers in the country. I know we like to talk about Lincoln Riley. I know we like to talk about Ryan Day. I think Ryan Day's is earned. I think Lincoln Riley is middle of the pack.
01:01:45
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We also, but like. You hate Lincoln Riley. Yeah. and it's like And everyone's going to listen to this and be like, but he has all the Heismans and he has all the number one picks. But most of them are transfers. He got them when they were already good.
01:01:59
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He doesn't know how to develop talent. He knows how to work with what's already what already exists, which is very different. point and to that point And to that point, did Caleb Williams get better in college, yes or no? The answer no.
01:02:13
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but The answer's no. It's okay. Don't think about it. The answer's no. He was good as a sophomore. He was good as a junior. But he wasn't that much better as a junior than he was as a freshman because he didn't get developed. He was just a good player.
01:02:29
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Yeah. Which is then why he went to the league and struggled, as expected. Is he going to get better in the league? Who knows? Who knows? Because Charles does get up. The situation that he has in is so good. Hey, hey man, say man. Because that's Chicago, right? What can I say? Yes.
01:02:44
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Hey man, say man. I don't know what tell you That's ghetto mess going up there in the Windy City. That's not Chicago. But, guess is the Windy City. Oh, okay. But, Jeff Brom... is a good quarterback developer, just underrated, because he coached at Purdue, and he coachs he's now coached at Louisville, no one thinks about it.
01:03:02
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So he could have a very good year. but I mean, he got Tyler Shuck drafted, and there's a good chance that Tyler Shuck is going to be the starting quarterback of the New Orleans Saints as a rookie.
01:03:13
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L-O-M. and Because who else do they have? They have Jameis and Winston, don't they? No. Jameis Winston. Is that how you say his name? Jameis? It's Jameis. They don't have Jameis? I don't pay attention to the Saints.
01:03:26
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We're not doing this for Little Saints. This is not an NFL podcast. I'm so sorry, everybody. This not an NFL podcast. Definitely not the Saints, dog. What are we talking about? don't have a problem with the Saints. sorry. I don't have a problem with Saints. don't think they have Jameis.
01:03:40
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Oh, no. he's in He's in New York. Sorry. Yeah, i thought so. I thought so. I'm just sure I saw something about him being in New Orleans. mean, it doesn't matter, okay? Drew Brees is gone. That's what matters. but So Louisville louisville is going to be one of those teams that could shock and meet Clemson or even beat Clemson and make be one of the teams that Clemson is not there.
01:04:00
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And it's going to be on the back of if Jeff Braum can um do it again with Miller Moss, especially because they have...
01:04:12
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a running back who they have two good running backs who are both freshmen. One of them rushed for 1100 yards and the other one rushed for 600 yards at 8.9 yards per carry.
01:04:25
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So like they have talent. They're pretty solid team. If they can do it again with Miller Moss. So he's one of the big ah transfers. Carson Beck is the other one. This is the one that I disagree with.
01:04:37
Speaker
I think he's assed. Okay, but here's the thing. It is a huge deal though. Yes. To go from Georgia to Miami. that's right That's a huge deal. Regardless of how you feel about Carson Beck, because I agree.
01:04:49
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I'm not, I am not high on him. I am not like, oh my God, Carson Beck. I don't care actually. oh I don't care. Cause realistically the idea of putting Carson Beck and Mario Cristobal together, that's actually be fun to watch.
01:05:01
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Sorry. That's gonna be fun to watch because Carson Beck is so good at fuck this shit up. You heard it here first. 8-4, 7-5. Because think about how many games they would have lost if it wasn't for... For the heroics of Cam Ward. Like...
01:05:19
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Like, and and and to be fair, to be fair, can put them in some of them situations. It was his fault that they got there, but he got them out of it. Carson is also going to put them in situations. Carson will just put them there.
01:05:31
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just leave. And then be like, are we done? Can I get a gatorade? He's going to put them there and put the car in park and be like, damn, how did we get to the edge of the cliff? We're down by 21? Whose fault is I mean, I don't know. I threw six picks, but whose fault is that? Like...
01:05:47
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Yeah, on top the fact that he's coming off of an injury, don't even know how that's going to We even know. I'm sorry. I know that this is not like, to me, it's a big deal because it's going to be comical, and that that's just my fucked up mind.
01:06:01
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like but It's going to be comical to watch. Carson Beck with Mario Cristobal's coaching. Like that, I'm sorry. I'm buying a front row seat to that every single day. I'm sorry.
01:06:14
Speaker
That's about to be it something. watching every Miami game just because of that. Hey, listen. It's going to be a good time because I was i will be watching never a fan of Georgia because of Carson.
01:06:25
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So yeah I was happy to see Carson leave Georgia because I do want to see Georgia reestablish their identity outside of him just being so good. Not bad, but like bad for Georgia. he had He had a year back. He had a year left, and Georgia told him to get in that car. Please, it's okay.
01:06:42
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how Miami is warmer. There's beaches. Georgia was don't have to stay here. It's okay. He went down there with his girlfriend. you know but i don't know nothing about his personal life. but His girlfriend's a basketball player. Oh. Okay, good. Okay.
01:06:59
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the two white twins you do know them oh yes cavender yes yes yeah yeah that yes yes he's dating one of them oh aren't they the ones that cause issues with boosters and yes they are the ones yeah something like that so i think it was like before nil though i don't know the names and whatever i think he's dating the one that stayed in miami because one of them left and then didn't think she had time left and then got like another year or something like that and then went back to miami and they're to play together for their final season i think he's with the one who didn't leave miami what her name is i don't know because i don't know either but he's dating one of the twins basketball players okay well cute anyways it's it's a big transfer just simply because i think it's going to be interesting to see how many ah it's just interesting to see a player transfer from one large brand to another right one quote unquote championship contender to another.
01:07:54
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So that's it. Because usually you obviously see a lot more transfers of transferring up, right? So to go from Georgia to Miami, that's a choice. Like, yeah that truly is a choice. So it will be it'll be interesting.
01:08:07
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Yep. The next one, also Miami, Mohamed Toure. Had to put him on here. yeah There's probably always going to be a linebacker on this list because you're messing with me. Because i is you're obsessed with linebackers.
Dream of Analyzing Linebackers
01:08:17
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yeah I am.
01:08:18
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Truly. I saw um something about linebackers. When you were talking about there's, like, the magazine or or the the the person who, like, does all the breakdowns of, like, quarterback stuff. Mm-hmm. I saw something similar to that on linebackers and I was like, I want a majority of those buckets.
01:08:31
Speaker
No! That's my dream that I'm never going to do. i don't know if it's fully the same thing. I do have to go back and look and see what it is. But yeah In my head, I'm going to create one of those, but I do not have the time to do that.
01:08:45
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should. You honestly should. The next one, Deuce Robinson, wide receiver slash tight end. He is a 6'6 supposed phenom who also did not work at USC, but he is now going to be at Florida State.
01:09:00
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So if Florida State is going to bounce back, having a 6'6 player who's also really fast helps. That could do some things for you. So that one's interesting.
01:09:12
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And then the last one is Makai Gabor. Gabor. Is it Gabor?
01:09:19
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i' I'm not even going to say very clear with that man's name. I've heard it. I can't remember. Makai G from Nebraska, he's ah he's a good linebacker slash pass rusher, and he's going to be UNC.
01:09:33
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ah And they're going to need some defensive help. so They need a lot of help over UNC. They need mental help as well. They're going to dump to they' need to go to therapy. True. But anyways.
01:09:44
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um Contenders.
ACC Contenders and Team Developments
01:09:48
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Oh, let's talk about these contenders. So two and a half of them we've already talked about. So we won't spend time on them.
01:09:55
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The contenders as sort of I see it are Clemson, Miami, Louisville and Georgia Tech. I, again, i can't put Florida State there. I don't believe that. I'm not. I've also seen their quarterback play.
01:10:11
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um So I just can't Based on what I've seen with mine own eyes. I can't. I can't. I can't do it. We've talked about Clemson.
01:10:24
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We've sort of talked about Miami, but I guess we can give a little bit more into Miami, right? We can give a little something, something. Basically, Miami lost everyone.
01:10:36
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They lost their quarterback. He was the number one pick. They lost their running back. They lost all six of their top pass catchers. Um, of course, as everyone, this is not breaking news.
01:10:49
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They brought in people in the transfer portal. They brought in Thomas, uh, Castellanos. They brought it wide receiver. One being from LSU. Um, they have been doing well, uh, in, in high school recruiting.
01:11:04
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This is going but so essentially from Miami though, their thing is going to be like development, which I'm sorry. but Mario Cristobal doesn't do. Developing people?
01:11:15
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He just doesn't. He does it. he does it. He does it. And you can be like, how do you know? Oregon. ah Mario Cristobal has always been a good recruiter. And then look at how good Oregon was the singular second he left.
01:11:28
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He left and Oregon was a national title contender with his players. Those were his players. He can spot talent. weren't Dan Lanning's players. They're now Dan Lanning's players, but they weren't Dan Lanning's players. And they were instantly better because he doesn't develop. He can spot talent.
01:11:47
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He can spell talent. He in recruiting. He is. He's great. I have to give him that. do have to give him that. He's great in recruiting. He doesn't need to coach people. He was killing it at Oregon. He's been killing it at Miami.
01:12:02
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So for Miami to be good this year, essentially, they have to – ah rely on high school talent, which you should. This is a pro high school recruiting. This is a pro. These players are at the age that if he could develop them, they would be good.
01:12:16
Speaker
Second and third year wide receivers. You don't want to live and die in the transfer portal. I just don't know if going good because he hasn't developed anybody except offensive linemen because he was a former offensive lineman. Oh, was he?
01:12:28
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didn't know that. Going to the offensive line, they are going to have a good offensive line. Last year, they were number three in O-line run push. They were number 33 in pass protection.
01:12:39
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And they're bringing back four of their starters, including Francis Muaga, who is going to be probably a first-round pick or or at least really high. And then they also brought in TCU's starting center. So the offensive line is going to be good.
01:12:54
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that is ah That is a big plus. he's He always has a good offensive line. I will give him that. Outside of that, though, I don't know. On defense, they did get a new defensive coordinator because their defense was horrible.
01:13:05
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They hired Corey Heatherman from Minnesota. Hate that. Minnesota, which we'll talk about in the Big Ten, Minnesota has lost three defensive coordinators in back-to-back-to-back years because they always have a good defense, but they can't pay them to stay.
01:13:23
Speaker
That's ah sounds like a personal problem little nugget for the Big Ten show. Cut a check. Cut the checks. Their defense is bad. So they they they signed five.
01:13:37
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One, two, three, four, five. transfers just in the defensive back just corners just corners and safeties they they sign five of them um they lose they return one of their better uh defensive ends and then they got mohammed ture who's a fucking stud like straight up straight down he's a hundred if he stays healthy 100 tackles guaranteed just book it yeah 100 tackles so their defense may be decent
01:14:09
Speaker
But at the it's still the Carson Beck of it all and the needing to develop running backs and wide receivers. That's sort of tough for me. But I do think that with some of the returners and, you know, we don't know how the transfer portal thing works, especially in the secondary. But I do think that is a place where you can sort of do transfers a little bit easier than other places. that is yeah Yeah. You do. You do need some continuity and some and some communication and things like that. But I don't think it's as tough as like offensive line and some other places.
01:14:39
Speaker
So it's like they get better as they play together. that situation. Yeah, um we'll see Miami is always a liability because of who their head coaches and that's just kind of really the long and short of it like they could have the best team in America and they are still going to be continued. It's still a big contingent upon the fact that Mario Cristobal makes so decisions that make sense. Yeah.
01:15:00
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So we'll just have to see about um Miami, but I'm not counting them out as far as you know, they we very well could be sitting here in 10, 11 weeks talking about Miami being headed to the ACC championship. So, um,
01:15:14
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To the other contender that we did not discuss as much. Louisville, we mentioned them briefly, um but I will say Louisville, Louisville, we talked about Miller Moss, we talked about their running backs, which is huge for them.
01:15:27
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ah That is very important. That is going to matter. um They...
01:15:36
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do not They lost one of their best wide receivers, but they're keeping one of them. So I think that they're going to be good on offense. The biggest question that Louisville is going to have is their offensive line.
01:15:49
Speaker
So they lost three starters. But they're bringing back four players who played 100 plus snaps. So it's not an experience.
01:16:02
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like they're Like they're bringing back some starters and some backups. okay So it's not entirely, like they are bringing players who were there last year in practice and know the whole thing. But they weren't all starters. They just play together a whole lot. Yeah.
01:16:14
Speaker
Yeah. Yes. um But they did... the And the thing that's stopping me from actually picking them to win is going to be their defense. They've lost their entire secondary.
01:16:26
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Oh, Jesus.
01:16:29
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But... They have all three of their linebackers, which does help. So i don't I don't know what their defense is going to be truly. Their defense wasn't amazing last year. it was sort of middle of the pack.
01:16:44
Speaker
I think if it's middle of the pack again, which what they can do on offense, especially because they're going to be very, very good. um running and throwing the ball. I mean, Jeff Brom always has great offenses, so they're definitely a contender. and They're just a hard one for me because it sort of depends on their defense, and they're losing a lot on defense.
01:17:05
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The last contender is Georgia Tech, and it is so interesting to have Georgia Tech be a contender now. A contender, I know. Because, like, they are legitimately, like, good now under their head coach. It's Georgia Tech. Like, it's, I mean...
01:17:23
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they're they're They're getting better. They've had quite a jump, yes. Yeah, I do think that they continue to get better. um You can see that in their recruiting.
01:17:33
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But I think the most important thing for Georgia Tech is they're bringing back their starting quarterback. This starting quarterback, Haynes King. He completed 73% of his passes, only threw two picks, and added 587 yards and 11 rushing scores. he ah Until he got injured, and that is the one thing with him because he does run a lot, that you do need him to be healthy.
01:17:59
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until he got injured they were like on an upset bit of beating georgia they have a great running back who has rushed for tooth and jamal haynes who has rushed for a thousand yards and back-to-back years and as long as he stays healthy is going to do that again they brought in a productive transfer who had 1100 yards and 12 touchdowns
01:18:19
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um and then they get a tight end back last year. um who They get a tight end back who was good in 2023 and was injured last year, so their offense should be good.
01:18:32
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They are losing three offensive linemen, but this is another program where the head coach was an offensive lineman, and he always has a good offensive line, so I'm willing to just give him that.
01:18:45
Speaker
yeah Like, I'm sort of willing to say, like, may not be the best in the conference, but I'm not going to give you a bad offensive line when you don't ever have a bad offensive line. Yeah. I think that's fair. um On defense, they ah they have a new defensive coordinator, ah Blake Gideon. Don't know anything about him.
01:19:08
Speaker
That is a little scary. to have a sort of new and sort of unknown defensive coordinator. yeah But also like new could also be good.
01:19:18
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Like, yeah you know, that could also be like you have, he has no, nothing to live up to. So he can just kind of go out there and do the thing, you know? But the thing that I think makes this one of the better things is you could argue that they have the best quarterback running back duo and Haynes King and Jamal and jemal Haynes.
01:19:40
Speaker
They love Haynes. I was like. team should be sponsored by Haynes. Haynes. Haynes. Don't need to get in there. It is not spelled the same way as Haynes the brand, but their names are spelled the same. h a y n s H-A-Y-N-E-S. Haynes King Jamal Haynes. Haynes and Haynes.
01:19:58
Speaker
They somebody get sponsored that way because her name on the soccer team. What the heck? What brand was it that sponsored her because of her name? I can't remember, but she had the same name as, like, a store, basically So they have arguably the best running back quarterback duo.
01:20:13
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They're number two in returning production. They're secondary as veteran. They did lose some people in the ah in a defensive and linebacker area, but they hit the portal with that. And...
01:20:24
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and I told you that we would get to this and I am not a liar. I said that we are going to get to a team who is a contender opposite of Clemson, but has a very easy schedule.
01:20:41
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And that team is Georgia georgia Tech. thatly They could sleep for the first six weeks and be good. Well, I mean, they play Clemson. Not the first six, but they but you know what I'm saying. Five of the six weeks. like they They could go to bed. They could they could just put the backers out there. No, I'm just kidding.
01:20:59
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Let me not disrespect Colorado like that. They draw one of the top six teams in the ACC. that's Clemson. That being Clemson. And that's week three, which means they can bounce back from that.
01:21:10
Speaker
They get Colorado, which they should win. Gardner-Webb. Now, wait. Now, why should they win Colorado? They're going to be Colorado. I'm sorry. They're going to be Colorado. Wow, you such a hater. You are so much a hater. They are. They are. They're going to be Colorado. You're hater.
01:21:21
Speaker
yeah And I don't think it's going to necessarily be close. You're hater. Gardner-Webb is a scrub. can't wait for that day. Temple is a scrub. And then they get Virginia Tech bad. Duke is going to be pretty Wake Forest bad. It's going be a fight. Yeah.
01:21:33
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It's going to be a game, but they should be able to win that game. Syracuse is going to be bad. NC State is going to be bad. Boston College, I'm higher on than some, but they shouldn't lose that game. And then they should be able to beat Pitt.
01:21:45
Speaker
This team legitimately could be 10-2. Until Georgia. They could lose the Clemson and Georgia and be 10-2. And be in the championship. That would make them 7-1. 7 out 8. in the ACC. And they'd be in the conference championship game. And they're in the conference championship game...
01:22:05
Speaker
and if they're ten in two and the conference championship game Even if they lose, I think they still... So this is the hard part because sneak peek, I have two teams getting in from the ACC.
01:22:18
Speaker
If they're 10-2 and they lose to Clemson in the ACC championship game and become 10-3 and they have two losses to Clemson... That's going to be a tough one. I don't think they're going to make it in at that point.
01:22:31
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Yeah, it's going to be tough. You're going to hear a lot of SEC schedule things to put someone in over them, but there's still a chance that they get in or whatever. But like this team could easily be 10-2 and in the ACC championship game off this schedule alone.
01:22:47
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And this is not a team, in my opinion, that consistently beats itself just because of their style of play. So I do sort of expect them to sort of live up to it.
01:22:58
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If they had Clemson schedule, I wouldn't be as high, but I do think they're going to be a good team and they play essentially all scrubs. but Not all scrubs job.
01:23:09
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I mean,
01:23:12
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What do you say? They took Georgia to how many overtimes last year? Six? lot. A lot. a I ain't mad at it. like i I'm not, I'm not, and I'm not saying they can't beat Clemson.
01:23:27
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I'm just saying they could lose to Clemson and Georgia and be 10 and two because they realistically. That'll be their higher level competition. yeah Yeah. They probably, and we don't do a lot of betting. i don't like betting, but they realistically should be favored in all of their other games, except those two.
01:23:43
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Yeah. So we'll see. We'll see. Well, I, I, uh, because child they come a long way. That's all I can say. i attack myself From a mighty long way, but we will see onto dark horse contenders who we've discussed.
01:24:10
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go ahead.
01:24:12
Speaker
Are you still with us?
01:24:15
Speaker
It doesn't feel like we're still with us.
01:24:24
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I can hear you moving around.
01:24:30
Speaker
Who's even playing today? Rachel Bannam, Keander, Rebecca Allian, Elizabeth Williams, and Camila Cardoso. How we ever started those five people together before? it Sorry. no No. The Chicago Sky and the Indiana Fever are currently...
01:24:42
Speaker
tipping off. Okay. And I will save my thoughts for my two minute report because have thoughts. Yeah. Um, but child anyways, uh, anyway, back to what we were saying, the dark horse continues. Oh, you said something about our pace.
01:25:00
Speaker
I just, I was just saying our pace is super slow. So we got to speed it up, dark horse contenders, SMU, Pittsburgh, Duke. I'm going to shut up. SMU. Don't leave me here all the time.
01:25:18
Speaker
Yeah, that's what i' saying. Let's say let's let's make this shit a little bit quicker. But our Dark Horse contenders, we talked about SMU already. um there We also have Pitt and Duke as Dark Horse contenders.
01:25:30
Speaker
Real quick rundown on those two teams because realistically, I think Pitt is that's going to show it pi is goingnna show itself as a contender fairly like quickly, if that makes sense. like I feel like Pitt is going to be...
01:25:48
Speaker
It'll be quick if we see if they're part of the conversation or not, in my opinion. I have one quick thing to say on Pitt. As the leader of the Eli Holstein fan club, Pitt went 7-1 in games that Holstein started and finished.
01:26:05
Speaker
He was knocked out of two, and he did not play in the other three because he injured, and was a young quarterback. and he was a he was a young quarterback
01:26:22
Speaker
ah
01:26:32
Speaker
I lost you. Okay. So you are the, you are the president of the Eli Holstein fan club and what happened with it? Yeah. I don't, I hope this is Lord. Let's we're to have to speed through this. Cause I think my internet is starting to act weird.
01:26:47
Speaker
yeah Um, they went seven and one. and games that he played and finished. He got knocked out of two and didn't play in three because he of injuries.
01:27:00
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And he's a young quarterback. I think that he's very good. They are losing some people, but they're also bringing back their do-everything running back. ah And they have the best linebackers in the conference.
01:27:14
Speaker
um their schedule is not the best, but like they're bringing back linebacker Kyle Lewis. He had 15 and a half tackles for loss, seven sacks, four interceptions, in a hundreded and 101 tackles.
01:27:28
Speaker
They're bringing back Rasheem Biles and Braylon Lovelace. um Those two had both had pick sixes when they beat Syracuse. um And they also... But the problem with them...
01:27:44
Speaker
is they have a tough schedule. So they play four of the best five teams in the ACC plus Notre Dame. So they're I think that they're going to be a team that is good, but it's just sort of, they're going to be like a very like, if they like they're going be a happy 8-4. Like if they get to 8-4, it's like good season. But I still think they're a dark horse because if they upset any of them, that's 9-3, 10-whatever, you know what mean?
01:28:15
Speaker
And ultimately, like whether they're in the playoff or not, the only thing that matters is your ACC record on if they can be a dark horse contender for the ACC conference. For it, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Duke as an ACC Dark Horse
01:28:25
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So hey
01:28:28
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Duke, I think Duke is on this list for two reasons. One, they got Darian Mensah, who is a stud quarterback. And any team that gets a good quarterback should be in any sort of list. Any conversation. Yeah. Also, I think that all their defensive line is going to, their defense is going to be really good.
01:28:50
Speaker
They bring back three defensive starters. Um, They bring back their first AP All-American player and corner Chandler Rivers.
01:29:01
Speaker
um They do lose linebackers, but ultimately, um and then they also get a favorable schedule draw. So you add in the fact that they're bringing back a lot of their good defensive players.
01:29:16
Speaker
They upgraded significantly at quarterback um with Darian Mensah. They are going to have some worries that they need to sort of figure out on the offensive line. And this is one of those things where I'm like, i don't know if this always matters.
01:29:30
Speaker
They're bringing back four starters, but the offensive line was bad last year. So like, so they could just be bad again. Like, I think some people are more optimistic than me where they're like, they're going to get better. And maybe they do.
01:29:42
Speaker
But if they don't, they're just bringing back a bad offensive line. The same guys. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we'll see. Because... Like I said, I think that our contingents that we discussed are probably like truly like the main characters in this situation. But you always want to at least like acknowledge that there could be other players that are players, the teams that are coming through the ranks. But I personally think that like our main, the Clemson, Miami, Louisville, Georgia Tech, like those are the ones that are going to get in there. I mean, SMU, I'm always going to root for SMU, but like.
01:30:13
Speaker
The circumstances is always, it is a little concerning because like really one of the only things that we have going for us is that we have Kevin and now Kevin will be able to start from the beginning of the season, which a lot of people don't realize he did not keep was not our main guy at first.
01:30:27
Speaker
And also we have, um, why can't I can't have the his name. He's our R.J. Maryland, our our tight end, who is freaking insane. But we pretty much lost everybody else. So we're just going to see how that goes. Yeah. um Critical matchups. So we have a few critical matchups. Obviously, Clemson and Georgia Tech, for what we discussed already, with them both being ACC championship contenders.
01:30:51
Speaker
Kind of the same concept with Clemson versus SMU as well, with it being obviously the ACC championship rematch. Miami versus Louisville. um I'm not entirely sure actually why this is a critical matchup. Am I stupid? Did I miss something?
01:31:03
Speaker
Oh, I guess it's because they're both contenders. Yeah, but well, because Miami is expected by a lot of people to be the number two. Louisville should be a contender, and they're really going to test Miami's defense.
01:31:14
Speaker
And the ACC, I think, I mean, last year, right, Miami didn't make it because they lost two critical games. This could be one of those games that that they lose it too early, it just knocks them out the race entirely.
01:31:27
Speaker
Period. And then obviously we have Florida state and Miami, um, which
01:31:37
Speaker
my brain is shutting down little bit of an SMU. So those are the critical matchups. I was like, my brain is like fully like girl. Okay. Those are the critical matchups. We will discuss obviously as those come up, like, you know, when we tell you what, what set your screens to when we get further into the season,
01:31:55
Speaker
um Number of playoff participants, something that we already kind of previewed. Both of us um are of the belief, especially because of how last year went, that the ACC does have the potential to have two participants in the playoffs.
01:32:09
Speaker
But we disagree on who those participants are. So... For me, I personally, and I'm a homer and I say this all the time. So I personally do believe that we are going to get a rematch of last year's ACC championship and SMU is going so amazing and Clemson is going so amazing that we got to do all this all over again.
01:32:26
Speaker
And then no matter what, both of them are making it to the playoffs. Now, maybe that's just for my own personal brand and agenda, but yes. And the the result would be different. Like SMU would win.
01:32:39
Speaker
So i
01:32:43
Speaker
struggle with that one i think smu is going to be better than people think but i do think that smu schedule is tough we are at a disadvantage and so like first of all like they play doing the the whole texas thing they play both baylor and tcu and both of those teams are teams that are expected to be good this year and then on top of that they also play clemson and miami and so it's like they just don't There's not a lot of losses, and I think it could be a thing where, like, if they lose games out of conference but still do good in conference, it then puts the ACC sort of like we said um with, I can't think of which team, maybe with Georgia Tech, where it's like if they lose these games, they could still get into the championship game, but then if they lose the championship game, now they have three losses, and it's like, do they get in there?
01:33:35
Speaker
And like, I could see that sort of being a thing where even if they do good, they could lose, like, let's say they beat Miami, lose to Clemson. They only have one ACC loss that gets them in there, but then they lose to one of- Then they lose Clemson or Miami again.
01:33:50
Speaker
Oh, that gives them two losses in the regular season. And then if they lose that game again, now they're 10 and three. We just repeat the story of what I can. I literally, we just said it. like and mr Georgia Tech.
01:34:01
Speaker
Yeah. Georgia Tech. Now they're 10 and three and who knows? So. We better not lose none of these out-of-conference games. swear, if we lose Missouri State, I'm never watching a basketball game. It would be Baylor TCU. Yeah, that's what I was like. I think I picked TCU to get to the Big 12 championship game.
01:34:21
Speaker
You did, yeah. And they're at TCU. So, like, that's, you know, that could be a tough game.
SMU's Challenging Schedule
01:34:26
Speaker
We've won at TCU before. We ain't scared of y'all. You know, horned frogs, just a little blitz, skirting out the eyes, nonsense, whatever y'all got going on. We don't care.
01:34:33
Speaker
Yeah. We do not care. so we don't We don't care. And we haven't played Baylor in a while, so that'll be interesting. I don't think we've played Baylor since I was in undergrad, like, my freshman year. So, Yeah. And baylor Baylor should be good this year.
01:34:46
Speaker
So like like you said, we agree on the playoff participant number of playoff participants being two. Mine is Clemson and Georgia Tech. I think Clemson and Georgia Tech play in the conference championship game. I unfortunately think that Clemson wins the conference championship game, but I do still think that Georgia Tech gets in the playoff, which is a massive, massive upgrade i then also unfortunately feel like georgia tech gets blown the fuck out in the first round depending on where they fall because i do think like just to be honest we like to be honest on this show i think that they get there because their schedule was easy it's cake and not that they're a bad team but their schedule is pretty easy yeah
01:35:28
Speaker
So, boom. I have Clemson. You have SMU. you both have ah to um We both have two player participants. Any final thoughts on the ACC?
01:35:44
Speaker
ACC is fun conference. That's all I can say. It's it's the it's obviously not as mercurial as the Big 12, but it's gonna be fun because we stand to get some good football um yeah out of a lot of these teams like it's not gonna be like weird dogfights where it's like both y'all are ass but somebody still has to win sort of situations like we're actually gonna get some good we will get we're gonna get some of those we're gonna get some of those in all of the conferences but i'm saying it won't be like that like in mass yeah so because you're gonna get that even at the sec in the big 10 absolutely yeah like they don't like to admit that you get that in the sec but you do you do get that though like let's be for real those at the bottom of the sec like please anyway but
01:36:25
Speaker
What I'm saying is, like, I do genuinely feel like SMU Miami is going to be a good game. Like, yeah you know what I'm saying? Like, even Pitt versus Louisville, like, that's going to be a good game. I don't think they play each other. But you know what i'm saying? Like, those are going to be, like, actually good games. So.
01:36:39
Speaker
Yeah. And like, because this is a conference preview, we sort of like stayed on some things, but Pitt does play Louisville. Oh, they do. Okay. i was like that's like, there's also some like good out of conference games, right?
01:36:51
Speaker
Like we get Pitt, West Virginia. We get, yeah um, we get, uh, Clemson LSU. We, uh, we have SMU versus Baylor and TCU. That's going to be much fun. All three teams should be good.
01:37:04
Speaker
Um, um, Yeah. Like I just, I do think that there's a, not only of course, there's going to be Clemson, South Carolina. I think South Carolina beat Clemson last year. So they're going wanting some revenge.
01:37:14
Speaker
Of course, the Georgia, Georgia tech is always going to be fun. I think that's the last last year. yeah It's the last week this season, but I'm very excited about that. Like, yeah so we have some good, I think the ACC is going to produce some of those like instant classic sort of vibes this year. So that's going to be exciting to watch.
01:37:32
Speaker
Um, whether SME does well or not, like I'm genuinely like, okay, like and'spi ah it's a parody at the top. So yeah. um yeah And that's the preview.
01:37:44
Speaker
So as we as we end the show, as you already know, we end the show all the time with our last two minute report. This is our time where we get to talk about anything we want to. Sometimes it's sports related. Sometimes it's not sports related.
01:37:56
Speaker
I'm going to go first this time because yours sports related. yes yes Mine is semi sports related. Mine might be more negative than yours, though, but I haven't seen what he said because I do not listen to that man speak. i You haven't seen what he said. I knew I wasn't sure I was going to make this my two minute report. So I didn't.
01:38:14
Speaker
um I just never listen to anything he says. Yeah, I will never know what he said unless I directly. Someone said, oh, this man said this because anytime he opens his mouth, it is nonsense. Yeah. So, so, so for those of you who prescribe Megan Thee Stallion is dating Clay Thompson very openly.
01:38:32
Speaker
They both seem to be very happy. Very cute. Slim Thug, who, if you don't know, cause some of you may not know is a 45 year old houston rapper from Houston who could, and who was arguably a legend and is slowly going to keep losing that status. If he keeps opening his mouth.
01:38:50
Speaker
Stop talking. ah And supposedly, Slim Thug, by his own admission, tried to get with Megan Thee Stallion, who 15 years younger than him. Because Slim Thug would try to get with a chicken sandwich.
01:39:03
Speaker
And Megan Thee Stallion said no. And so then Slim Thug goes on a rant in his car. And it was just such the yeah it was such a stupid rant because he contradicted himself at the same time.
01:39:16
Speaker
It was very much like, i like where don't be don't be mad when someone says no, even though I'm mad that she says no. Don't be mad. Just look at where that no gets gets them You could have been fucking with a nigga that would have had you in and out of Rose Royces, this, that, the third.
01:39:33
Speaker
But then he says, I don't even, I know what type of girl that I want. And I don't even want a girl like that. Cause I don't want a girl. What, what do you buy a woman who buys you a $300,000 watch? Which this him saying, don't got the money to compete with that.
01:39:47
Speaker
sin if you listen this is him saying um got the money to compete with that I can get you a cute little Rolls Royce, but I can't come back from you buying me a $300,000 watch.
01:39:58
Speaker
So I need a girl who makes less money than me because I can't come back from that. And basically it was just him being bitter talking about, look at where that gets you. it In this case, it gets you Klay Thompson.
01:40:09
Speaker
And I i just wanted to bring this A four-time NBA champion. I just wanted to bring this up because i just i just have a question. Does Slim Thug think he has more money than Klay Thompson?
01:40:20
Speaker
Well, here's the thing. Slim Thug actually does have a lot of money. i I will give him that. But does he think he has more money than Thompson? He owns all his music. Realistically, we would actually... I'm not even trying to be funny.
01:40:31
Speaker
That man, he owns all his music. He has a lot of real estate. he has I don't know liquid-wise, but worth-wise, he's got a lot of money. Slim Thug is worth a lot. Okay, but do you know how much money Klay Thompson has made just in his NBA career? Oh, I know. I'm just saying, like...
01:40:48
Speaker
Slim Thug also is a very, very rich man. No, no, no. That's fine. said, dudes does he think he has more money than Klay Thompson? I don't know. Because I can tell you for an absolute fact he does not.
01:41:01
Speaker
I don't know. That's what I'm saying. I truly don't know. I can tell you he doesn't. Klay Thompson has made $282 million dollars so far in his career just playing basketball, none of his sponsorships. He's in the middle of a three-year $50 million dollars contract.
01:41:17
Speaker
And then when that contract ends, he's only going to be 35. So he could sign another one. And again, that does not include Nike. That does not include the golfing stuff that he does. Yes, the man is rich they're both rich.
01:41:28
Speaker
They're both rich, but they're not the same level of rich. yeah But also Megan is filthy rich as well. We're talking about all these people rich. I understand. I don't think you're listening to my point. um My point is he started, I think it helps because you didn't watch the video.
01:41:42
Speaker
He starts the video talking about, I could have had you in Rolls Royces. Like she was dating a man who can't just go buy her a Rolls Royce. Like she does not have the money to buy that man $300,000 watch.
01:41:55
Speaker
So to to do this thing like, oh, I'm a better choice because I got money when he does not have Klay Thompson money and Megan Stallion has her own money is just a crazy choice. That's what I'm getting at.
01:42:06
Speaker
I'm not saying that Slim Thug is broke. I'm saying Slim Thug does not have $282 million dollars plus. Slim Thug takes it personally anytime a woman wants somebody other than him, which is why I do not listen to him speak because he genuinely believes that he should have open access to any woman that he wants, and he has never been able to conceptualize that a woman could have the audacity to not want him back. He's been had this problem, because he's spoken about other women and other dating situations, and then he even came on one of my favorite podcasts, and it claimed that he was trying to date one of the women on the podcast,
01:42:44
Speaker
and he was mad about her rejecting him, and so the whole show, he kept asking her, why wouldn't you date me? Why wouldn't you date me? Why don't you want to be with me? He's one of those men who is so, ridiculous takes it ridiculously personally when a woman doesn't want him, and then that's the first thing he wants to do, is talk about his money. That's I'm like, boy, bye. Like, i don't, Slim Thug is a career hater. He always has been, and I feel like now, in his old age, he's mad because he feels like he should have already been settled by now, and he's not, and so,
01:43:14
Speaker
He takes the opportunities to attack other people because he's upset with his own life. Like, I don't know. No, probably he doesn't have as much money as Clay Thompson, but the man is rich too. So it's like, realistically, you can have any woman you want. You're just mad because you didn't get that one.
01:43:27
Speaker
Get over yourself. And then you have the nerve to try to flex your money to a nigga that got more money than To a nigga that's also rich. Like, what are we talking about? Like, and also like, it's just kind of annoying because it's like, and regardless of how rich Clay is or how rich Slim is, Meg is also rich.
01:43:44
Speaker
Rich! So I'm just kind of like, it kind of doesn't even matter. Yeah, and even Meg don't have Clay Thompson money. ah Right, even Meg, not liquidly, but yeah, why I'm just like, because, I mean, Meg has a lot of, Meg has a lot deals and things like that too, but like, yes, obviously, Clay has been paying basketball playing basketball for a very, very long time and has made a lot of money just off of that, obviously.
01:44:03
Speaker
Megan is just kind of like, she's been rich only what, for the last like couple of years, but the point I'm getting at is like, she's obviously dating this person also out of pure choice, not necessarily out of what types of funds that that person could or could not provide because she herself is rich.
01:44:20
Speaker
Which is why. To the point where she will buy the person who she's dating a $300,000 watch. you over here talk about something. I could have had you in Rose Royces. She's put herself in Rose Royces. What are you talking about? And that's what I thought was funny. And that's why, that's why i didn't even bring up Megan in this because she doesn't need to be in this because she's an adult, a grown ass woman who made the choices she wanted to.
01:44:38
Speaker
And she is happy and seems to be in love with that man. Very happy. But to sit in your car as a grown ass man and try to play big bank, little bank with someone who one has more money than you two is age appropriate for that girl.
01:44:52
Speaker
Also age appropriate. And too, ain't worried about you. And then to like, try to make it seem like you aren't bitter. And to be like, I, he literally said, i don't even like people who buy new stuff.
01:45:05
Speaker
I like acts of service. And that's why I know you say he got money and I do believe he got money, but he was given real broke energy because to look at that and be like, what do you buy a girl who buys you a $300,000 watch? Clay doesn't have to ask that question.
01:45:20
Speaker
Well, the problem with some thug also is that some thug has a very like antiquated view on life. Like he believes that women are property. He wants that woman. He wants that girl in the kitchen. And if you got money and can buy a watch, then you offended him. He believes that women are property and purchasable assets.
01:45:36
Speaker
That is how he sees women. So it is hard for him to conceptualize what you would buy a woman who buys things like that, because he would never even want to be in the same room as a woman who has that much money. Cause he will call her masculine. He will call her dominant. He would do all of these other things.
01:45:49
Speaker
Texas men, they're so annoying. so So that's the other problem with Slim Thug is that Slim Thug, and also I don't believe that Slim Thug actually tried to date Meg Thee Stallion. I believe he's letting her DMs and she did not answer, and now he on the internet talking about something he tried to date her.
01:46:02
Speaker
So realistically, because I'm like, it it never gave that Meg would try to, now mind you, we don't know these people. But I'm just saying, like, But also, just stop telling yourself.
01:46:13
Speaker
Stop being bitter. And leave him alone. But he's been doing that. Listen, this is the last thing I want say about this. This is to Stug, but this to everybody. If you are thinking, let me go in my car and make a video, stop it. Please don't.
01:46:28
Speaker
Because almost every single video that gets made in the car don't need to be made. If you are thinking, let me sit in my car and talk about this thing, just don't. Just don't. And leave that girl alone. Leave her man alone and just be mad that you can't, that she didn't buy you two hundred a $300,000 watch. Because honestly, the amount of men in general who have had something to say about Clay Thompson and Megan Thee Stallion dating, like, did y'all think y'all had a chance? Because there's just no way.
01:46:53
Speaker
There's just no way. Like, when it first came out, everybody was like, it's not going to last. The type of man that I am, if I met Megan Thee Stallion, I could pull her. We don't love her. We don't know her.
01:47:04
Speaker
We don't know her. We don't know him. We do not know these people. We don't know how long they've been dating. We don't know how long they've been talking. We don't know what the things that they that have brought them together. We have no idea. All we see is what they share. So it's like that's annoying too of all these men almost like it like feeling personally attacked that Meg has. that But they've been doing that about a bunch of the women. They've doing about Teyana Taylor, Cardi B. make the stallion a lot of women who did you the reaction when taylor rooks got married bro a lot of like when when super super attractive yes super super attractive women are snatched up off the streets and men react in a way as if they got snatched from them personally sir you don't even make as much as her dogs
01:47:46
Speaker
Please. And not only do they react personally as someone like they could get that person, they also react negatively because they hate to see dark skinned women be loved.
01:47:57
Speaker
Being loved. They hate to see black women be loved, period. But specifically dark skinned women. Yeah, darker women. Like Coco Jones, Bangla, you know what? And I love it for all of them. I love it for all of them. I think love is beautiful. i don't understand how you could be a hater on somebody being in love. like And i don't even I'm not even trying to like be all like,
01:48:15
Speaker
like you know love and peace and harmony and things but to me it's so interesting just the things that people choose to hate on because it's like there's so much worse things going on you're taking time out of your day to say weird shit about somebody else's relationship like these people aren't happy they're in love leave them alone yeah like it's a it costs zero dollars the problem is it costs zero dollars to be nice but it also costs zero dollars to hate and this is how we've gotten to the point that we've gotten to because if hating actually costs y'all something we might get somewhere like it's yeah it's weird the people are in love they're happy let them be in love and be happy like get off the internet and go find somebody shut up shut up don't find somebody to buy a rose rose for i'm saying all right the last thing gotta say the last thing gotta say about this this is your third last thing you're well you keep saying things which makes me want to say other things this is my last last last thing right one
01:49:04
Speaker
You're 45. Put down the phone. And two, if you're, and I said this to my wife, and I want to be careful about how this is heard. It would have been crazy and inappropriate to do.
01:49:18
Speaker
But to do the I'm better than blank thing would have worked more when there were rumors that she was dating Tory Lanez. As slim thug who has money and whatever, you could then you could do that rant of I tried to get with Megan and she didn't want me, but look at what happened, which is a crazy thing to do because you should never that. is insane too. That is also insane. but To do that when she is dating someone who is rich, who is handsome, who is at the top of his sport, who is well-known, like all of these good things to then be like, I'm better than him.
01:49:53
Speaker
Shut up. What are you talking about? Shut up. And you might be, but like, shut up anyways. Shut up. I doubt it. It's just weird. No, and that's the thing is like, you have come on the internet and and showed yourself to be a clown for free. That's crazy.
01:50:08
Speaker
That's crazy. I didn't need to know that about you, Slim Thug. I don't care. i don't care. She's not dating you now. You're single. Actually, from what I understand, what he said on the podcast, he's been dealing with the same woman for like nine years.
01:50:19
Speaker
So you already have somebody. Why are you getting on the internet talking about? See, that's the thing. You're making yourself look weird because you already spoke about this some months ago that you have a person who you have been with for a while who is your person. Why are you talking about Megan Thee Stallion and why can't get your child anyways? Okay, we've been doing this for almost two hours.
01:50:38
Speaker
My only thought process, my only thing for the last two minute warning, my last two minute report is, I don't know if this is how their contracts are structured. I will look into this because I am tired of Rebecca Lobo and Ryan Rucco calling Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky Games.
01:50:55
Speaker
I don't know if they did that on purpose to torture us all because the games themselves are already tortured. But to listen to Rebecca Lobo continuously lay down her credibility that she has had for all these years behind Caitlin Clark. It is truly hard to watch.
01:51:14
Speaker
And then Ryan allows the clownery, which is why i don't like them together. Because when Rebecca was doing um ah ah broadcast with another broadcaster whose name just escaped me and she's talking about making America great and the broadcaster literally responded in complete silence because you need to recognize the stupid thing that you just said.
01:51:32
Speaker
Then we have people who are actually holding her accountable. Ryan will hold Rebecca accountable for the dumb shit that she says. And I'm tired of them. I'm tired of the both of them. I don't know if it's just they have to do every ESPN primetime game and it doesn't matter. I don't know because, of course, a lot of the ESPN and primetime games are going to be games that feature Caitlin Clark because the WNBA hates itself.
01:51:50
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But, like, I just, I can't take it anymore. Because I know they're probably also going to do the playoffs and the um the finals. And I just, I can't, I can't take it anymore.
01:52:01
Speaker
I can't take it anymore. I cannot take Rebecca and Ryan and anymore. Because they also do college. it So they do like the March Madness stuff like that. They do the bigger game. i can't take it anymore. That's all.
01:52:14
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01:52:32
Speaker
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01:52:47
Speaker
You have someone in your life who's addicted to football and also listens to podcasts. Share the podcast. Stop being selfish.
01:52:58
Speaker
That's all. Stop being selfish. that's so That's it. That's all. Fuck with the kids. We shall see you next time.
01:53:09
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Bye.