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Warm Weather Fans Interview with Georgia Southern's Bryson Broadway
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Join the crew as they welcome on Eagles' offensive lineman Bryson Broadway to discuss what it is like to play under Clay Helton, what the Marshall comeback was like and more!
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Introduction and Special Interview Announcement
00:00:18
Speaker
Hey everybody, this is Brian. ah No new episode this week due to the bowl schedule, ah but what we are going to put up on this here feed is our interview that we did with Georgia Southern offensive lineman Bryson Broadway that took place before the New Orleans Bowl. This is an example of some of the exclusive content you can find over on our YouTube page, youtube dot.com slash at warm weather fans.
00:00:46
Speaker
Uh, keep an eye on that feed. We'll be uploading things that are exclusive, like I said, but now onto our interview with Bryson Broadway.
Introducing Bryson Broadway
00:00:56
Speaker
Welcome everybody in to warm weather fans. My name is Zeke Palermo. We're joined as always by Matt Migas and Brian Stone. And for the first time ever, we've got, well, we've had several special guests before, but for the first time, we've got a special guest that plays in the Sunbelt Bryson Broadway. Thank you for being here, man. Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it.
Discussing Heisman Finalists
00:01:16
Speaker
Yeah, so ah Bryson is an all ah Sunbelt offensive lineman at Georgia Southern. He played previously at Georgia State and before that it was was it Eastern Illinois. Yes Sir. So first off, I think a real softball that we were all dying to know. They announced the Heisman finalists today. You saw one of those guys up close early in the year. ah Who's your Heisman pick?
00:01:42
Speaker
Ashton Genji hands down. I mean, that guy is a freak of nature. ah What do you remember about seeing him play? um I mean, just it's just like a looseness. I mean, he was just tough and you know, he just he wanted it. It's like he just his legs just never stopped turning man. He just someone where another he's gonna find the end zone. I mean, credit to that team and credit to him. They played a heck of a game and he's a heck of a ball player. I mean, you sit there and you're like, um man, Ashton Genji had a great game, you know, maybe that's just a great game. And you know
00:02:13
Speaker
He turned around, he's done it again against Oregon. He's done it again against every other team he's played. I mean, he's he's a heck of a ball player. And you know based off what I've heard, I've got to talk to a couple of the guys at Boise State, number 91 in the defensive end. I can't say his name properly, he's a actually Egyptian. Ahmed, I can't say his last name is really hard, but we've played against each other and I got to talk to him. I mean, they just all say he's a stand up guy and he's a good kid and you know really looks out for his his team and especially the big men out front, which is always awesome. so Brian Matt Heisman thoughts.
Heisman Contenders Debate
00:02:44
Speaker
Oh, um. Look, I love Ashton Ginty. You know, like like Bryson said, he's he's just a really great running back and and he's made a lot of things happen this season for Boise State. He's a big reason why they have a first round by in the college football playoff, right? ah But I think it's going to be really hard to deny Travis Hunter.
00:03:07
Speaker
the Heisman Trophy. I mean, you're talking about a guy that's got 14 touchdown receptions on offense and four interceptions on defense. ah He truly does a little bit of everything for Colorado. um And so it's really going to be hard to deny that. But if it's not Travis Hunter, I think it absolutely deserves to be Ashton Ginty.
00:03:32
Speaker
I think Jante deserves it, ah to be quite honest. like i i I almost always look at it like you do the MVP award you know in the NFL or whatever, where it's like, if you took this guy off of this team, where would they be? And if you took Jante, I mean, no offense by to the, I can't remember the backup's name, but he was good too. But he's just not he's he's not quite on that level of Jante. He janty was almost like a one man offense a little bit. So I I know that the part of the Heisman trophy is like narrative and media and like getting that sort of media push and that's where I feel like Travis Hunter is kind of getting pushed by the media and it helps when Dion Sanders is your coach and you know, he gets up there and has a cool sound bite every week. ah But frankly, like
00:04:21
Speaker
I don't think they would be as good without Travis Hunter, but I don't think Boise would be anywhere near the playoff without J.T. So that's that's kind of where I stay with it. I think he fully deserves it, to be totally honest. He's been a monster all year.
00:04:33
Speaker
Yeah, um something we so Matt did not get to join us yesterday for our regular episode where we recapped ah the Sunbelt Conference championship game will save you the the emotional pain, Matt. ah You know, we'll let you prepare your statement. Bryson, how much Sunbelt do you watch and how much of that game Saturday were you tuned into?
Sunbelt Conference Championship Reflection
00:04:56
Speaker
Um, I mean, I watch as much football as I can, you know, we're pretty busy. Our schedule's in the afternoon. So when games are going on, we're, you know, up here, I mean, I'm a fifth year, so I don't really have much class. I'm watching film as much as I can and Tyler from and JC are my roommates. So we're, you know, we're watching a good bit of ball, but, um, you know, you see the same teams play every week sometime. I mean, you have if I'm playing that team next week or in a couple of weeks prior, I'll probably watch them, but I'd rather tune into some other games cause I've already seen them play a thousand times.
00:05:22
Speaker
Um, as far as that championship goes, man, I mean, it was hard to watch. I couldn't really sit there and it's still, I mean, it was heartbreaking because I mean, you know, you look at Louisiana Lafayette, I mean, they have the player of the year and the quarterback and he's hurt. Uh, you know, he's he's a heck of a ball player. I mean, he does what he does. And he.
00:05:38
Speaker
has the accolade because he's a bad gun, good ball player. And you know you look at Marshall and it's like, I'm not saying they don't deserve to be there. I mean, they got some dogs on that team. like Mike Green hands down one of the best defensive linemen I've ever played in my life. um If he is still in the sunbelt next year, it'll be and um it's gonna amaze me. But I mean, we're one, two games away from being 10 and two, 11 and one this year.
00:06:02
Speaker
you know and And and that that's sad. That sucks. you know It's my last year. This is actually the first winning record I've ever had in college. I went 1-6, 1-11, 4-8, 6-7. So this is awesome. you know It's been a blessing. But just knowing that we left something out there on the table was hard. Knowing that we should have been the one you know putting up 31 or however many points they put up against ULL, that should have been us. um I shouldn't have been anybody else but the Georgetown Eagles. And that's what I think that's what hurts. We definitely did control our own destiny in multiple, multiple points during the season. And we somehow just let us through our fingers. I think we underestimated some teams. I think we got overwhelmed and overstimulated and didn't really you know put our foot in the door when we were playing. And then you know if we did, we didn't put it on the gas pedal. We just, we sat there and you know we got complacent and we were humbled and that's what we needed. And you know hopefully being humbled like that you know um strives for us to
00:06:52
Speaker
ah come back and you know beat Sam Houston and and go out with a bang. so So Zeke, can I jump in? I have two questions for Bryson. Number one, I don't know how much you've kept up with the Charles Huff stuff ah over at Marshall and trying to figure out what's going on over there. And Matt actually sat in on the the Zoom for the coaches before the conference championship. And he asked Charles Huff, he said, what what do you think about the rumors about you ending up at Southern Miss? And Charles hough said to him,
00:07:24
Speaker
Any nine-year-old can create a Twitter account and just tweet out whatever BS they want and get go viral. And so I've offered to pay for Matt's ah gas money to get to Hattiesburg for the opening press conference and to sit in the front row and say, hello, ah nine-year-old, why are you here right now? ah you You were at Marshall. You said that doesn't happen. Like, what's the deal? So we're we're yeah kind of working on that.
00:07:50
Speaker
Yes, yesterday yesterday when Southern Miss announced Charles Huff is the head coach. I retweeted the video and I said so much for those nine year olds on Twitter. Yeah, that's insane. That whole situation is insane. I mean, what's such I think is I mean they don't get to go to the ball game. I mean he's not there at the ball game. They got a whole new head coach that doesn't know those players. He doesn't know the system and you know it's just it's sad. I mean it's kind of crazy that money talks. It's kind of crazy that men couldn't put their feelings aside for the greatness of a program and the greatness of a player.
00:08:19
Speaker
ah to win more championships, and that's what Marshall is known for. So, I mean, you know whatever coach Huff is happy, whatever makes him the happiest, if he feels like that's him and Hatties bird versus ah Huntington West Virginia, then you know kudos to that, man. Hats off to him for a great season and hats off to him for being the coach of the year and winning the Sunbelt Championship.
00:08:35
Speaker
But at the same time, I feel like you know those players a little more than just to walk out the door like that. Cuz at the end of the day, just like Coach Allen says all the time, when you're a head football coach, you adopt 120, however many sons. I'm with you 90% of the year more than I'm ever seeing in my family.
Coaching Changes and Team Impact
00:08:51
Speaker
And so for you to just leave and walk out the door like that,
00:08:54
Speaker
It's just that I think and it's just not not how things should be handled. Now granted I was raised differently and I was taught differently and and I don't really know what I would do in this situation. I mean I can kind of give you an idea. I definitely don't think it would be that and you know.
00:09:08
Speaker
and And that's not saying anything wrong or rude. It's just it's real. And kudos Southern Miss. They got a heck of a coach and they're about to see a lot of guys come in that they definitely did not see last year. So you said something Bryson before had Matt had hopped on ah something that the three of us have vehemently disagreed with all year. ah But granted you have a.
00:09:30
Speaker
a better understanding and ah probably better ball knowledge than the three of us combined. ah You said Will Hall was a good coach and you were very complimentary of that program. You've not been as kind. I don't want to say defend yourself there, but ah go into that. Yeah, so Will Hall actually and that whole staff, they were actually at West Georgia and I know Harley Vaughn pretty well. He was a Dawson County alum and he went to West Georgia. Heck of a ball player, heck of an off offensive lineman.
00:09:58
Speaker
um Yeah, well, I think, you know, in the struggles that I had at Georgetown, I look back and I'm like, who really sat down and helped me the most? Who wanted to make me better and on the field and off the field? um And I'll tell you, I tell you really straight up. I mean, there's a couple of reasons I didn't commit. One of them being that every Tuesday I have competition Tuesday and and every, there's 11 people on each side of the ball and that person might not start the next week. There's going to be different every single week. And I didn't really necessarily i like that. I think when you're a starter, you're a starter and you earn that right.
00:10:29
Speaker
And you win that rep, but yeah, we'll haul man. I thought he was a great guy. I mean, you know, some things might have not shut out as a coach. I mean, he's got a bowl in, you know, they're lending tree bowl. He's got a couple of guys in the league right now and a linebacker that was there and and and Frank Gore Jr. Not credit. That's a lot of Frank or dad. But I think all in all, we'll haul is a great guy. He's a down home country man. You know, he's probably going to offer you corn bread and milk when you walk to the door and you know, patch on the back and tell you, hey, I love you son. That's just and I'm praying for you. That's just how he was. and Even on the phone, like I mean, he made it feel like I was a part of the family, FaceTime and him talking to him and it was it was awesome. I have nothing but hi thing ah high praise for that man and and that whole staff, off offensive line coach and off offensive line GA at the time. I think they were really good with my recruiting process. They kept up on me, they wanted nothing but the best for me and you know there was ah there was a handful of coaches that were like that. and
00:11:20
Speaker
So I think that's why I credit him a lot. And that's not surely what happened on the field, but more so off the field. And when you do that kind of stuff, I think you earn my respect. And I think that's how you should earn a lot of people's respect. is ah Because in that day, you're not just a coach. He's not just Coach Hall, he's Will Hall. So eventually, you know you got to look back and be like, this is a great guy. And he has great intention. Now, he might not be winning right now, but I think some things can turn around. And that's why I get upset when people are so quick to say that, hey, we need to fire a coach after for the three seasons. Three seasons, he might have just started developing his recruits, and he might have just started getting him in there.
00:11:49
Speaker
So you're not really getting him enough time to get his whole body in the door. ah Maybe half of it, an arm and a leg. And I don't know. I mean, we can all agree to disagree. You know, everybody's got an opinion and just like y'all do and I have one as well.
00:12:00
Speaker
That's ah I think that's just how I look at it. But yeah, I think all he's a great guy. Sorry, that was really long winded. But look, you you know, speaking about Will Hall, he was the offensive coordinator at UL back in 2016. Before he went on to Tulane and Memphis and then taking the job at Southern Miss, he's a stand up guy. and Look, I think he's a great football coach.
00:12:22
Speaker
Um, but, but I think that there was just a multitude of things that went against him at Southern Miss, uh, to where after a little while, it just didn't work. Um, now could, could it be, you know, some issues with the players? Could it be some issues with his assistant coaches?
00:12:38
Speaker
you know, what whatever it may have been, um it just didn't work out for him at Southern Miss. Bryce and I agree. I don't think that makes him a bad coach. um I think that just just means it was a bad situation. yeah And we've we've seen that happen with coaches all the time, right? um You know, guys go to a school, never really fit. And then a couple of years later, they end up at a school where they they're great at. um You know, click Clay Helton is one of them, right?
00:13:09
Speaker
Um, you know, you talk about a guy that had success early on a USC and the things went downhill pretty quickly. And then he ends up at Georgia Southern and and has had a nice run in States borough. So I think it's one of those things where it was a bad situation, not necessarily a bad coach. Yeah, sir. Yeah. So let's talk ah about coach Helton. Peel, peel back the veil about him. What's he like in the locker room? What's he like at practice? What's he like outside of football?
00:13:36
Speaker
ah Coach Felton is one of the most amazing coaches I've ever had, you know. and Aside from probably you know a couple of coaches in high school coach Kenny shout out to him offensive line coach in high school and coach Duba um Gosh, I mean he's just like he's always got a contagious smile He's not gonna you know, he he wants the best for us. Like I said, we're adopted sons We're not just as players, you know, we're not just kids on the team. We're sons and he treats everybody the same um He's got you know good sayings, you know, he's always upbeat and energy energetic, you know It's a very family oriented and I love that like You see everybody else's family, you see everybody else's kids there, Miss Angela's there, his wife. And that's how it should be. I mean, if you if like if I'm a head coach and if I want you to play for me, I want you to feel like you're a part of a family. You're not just a football player, you're not just a number, you're not a last name on the jersey.
00:14:25
Speaker
You're everything that that jersey represents. You're a number, you're the person on the front of it, the person on the back of it, and you're the person underneath the pads. And that's what he represents when he he represents Georgia Southern and represents us. um you know During practice, I mean, you know if the ah offense isn't clicking, he's an offensive minded guy. He's gonna get upset and he's gonna get mad at you. and We're gonna run some things back to make sure we get it right and get it perfect. But he's gonna come in here and correct you like a real man should. he's not sit there and scream down your throat. He's don't want you to correct it and get it better now. I mean, obviously, if you keep messing up, some things are going to happen and he's going to get upset, obviously. But Coach Hutton wants nothing but the best for us. He cares about us and he loves us. And, you know, one thing he's going to do is go to back for us. No matter what anybody says or does, he will have our back until the end. So.
00:15:07
Speaker
Speaking of coach Hilton, I have a question for you. So the um obviously the Marshall game that you guys played against Marshall this year is one of the craziest games that I've seen in the last decade of watching college football. I mean, a 21 point comeback in the span of five minutes to to beat a team that eventually went on to win the conference is insane.
00:15:28
Speaker
What was it like kind of on the sideline? You know, JC goes out with an injury. You know, Dex is coming in. You have this huge kind of hill to climb to get back into the game, much less take over and win it. What was kind of the atmosphere on the sidelines like and what was it like around the team as you guys were kind of mounting that comeback? Well, the craziest part is I actually went out before JC did, so I didn't get to be a part of when JC went out and Dex went in and you know, but I was right there on the sideline.
00:15:57
Speaker
you know, helping them. But no, I mean, it's just like you get that like you've been there before. You can't act like you're out of the game. I mean, now, granted, if you're down like seven scores and yet you're probably not coming back. But when you sit there and you know you have an electrifying offense like we have in a fast paced offense, you can't ever count yourself out. um And if you and that's the thing about the door show that he goes, if you play, if we play football for 60 minutes, like we know how to play, we're going to win. And that's just what it boiled down to. I mean,
00:16:23
Speaker
Oh, gosh. Coach Helton was just, sorry, I don't know if I broke anything. Coach Helton was just, you know, very energetic. He's, he wants you, he doesn't want you to be negative, you know, and it's like, hit, Coach Helton is like, the saying, it it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile. He wants you to be positive. And that's how it should be. And when you know that your head coach and your leader is positive, the blocks start falling into place like a domino effect, like happiness, it's gonna be happiness, and it's just gonna be happiness all the way down.
00:16:49
Speaker
um And I think when we realized, dang, we can actually do this, I think after the first few stops that defense got, we were like, wow, this is awesome. ah Coming on the sideline like, hey, we're not out of this, we're not out of this. like And I think with Marshall you know not deciding who their quarterback was at the time, I definitely think that hurt them a little bit. And you know credit to them, they found their starter. and and But yeah, I mean, it was very energetic and very upbeat, and he just wanted us to keep fighting because we really, truly weren't at that game, so.
00:17:17
Speaker
Yeah, we were, I mean, not to like, we're we're not saying we know a lot about football, but I mean, we were kind of banging. We were kind of banging the drum all year for, you know, just as a ah neutral observer for Braylon Braxton to get the start for Marshall, you know, because we just felt like Stone Earl quite didn't bring that added dimension that Braxton does, especially with his legs. yeah And, you know, the ability to push the ball kind of vertically was was really what ended up, I think, being the difference for them because you saw the obviously the change like when the quarterbacks
00:17:53
Speaker
flipped. I mean, I'm pretty sure Braxton finished the season eight and no as a starter. So I mean, that, that kind of says everything that you kind of need to know about the quarterback position over there. But yeah, i I thought I was like, if I'm viewing this not as a Georgia Southern fan and as a neutral observer, I'm like, them not putting Braxton back in was like the biggest mistake I think they made that night because 17 of the 23 points came from his drives when he was in the game, and then they they were like he fumbled twice and it was they, you know, it felt like Huff was kind of like. Alright, just put stone Earl in and we'll figure it out and and ended up coming back to bite him. But you know, credit to them they won the conference. So who who am I to say but right here? We ought to say I mean they say here they got it done and they know something that I don't know. So I mean they're sitting there with the conference championship and the championship trophy sitting in Huntington, West Virginia and I'm sitting here. I was at home last weekend so.
00:18:44
Speaker
Bryson, i'm gonna I'm gonna ask you to to stir the pot a little bit and in the Sunbelt Conference. You've played in a lot of places during your your time in the Sunbelt. Which stadium did you have the most fun in? Cool. Like, as well as, like, winning it or just, I like... Just overall experience. What stadium did you enjoy playing at? So, Marshall.
00:19:12
Speaker
Actually, Marshall, so they have Twitter accounts, if you ever get bored and want to look them up. I talk to them all the time. ah and One of them is called like the Potty Tailgate, I think, or something else like that, and then the Section 113. So when I was at Georgia State, I had messed my ankle up. The ULM the week prior, I had to play guard because we had some mixed up on offense line, and I got rolled up on it. I had a high ankle sprint, so I had to play with a big boot um against JMU. And the next week was Marshall.
00:19:40
Speaker
And I was like, I can't move in this thing. And my my and at the time, I weighed 240 pounds at Marshall, or at Georgetown. I was not in an offensive line of shape, but I was fast. I'm quick, I'm quick now. like That's just how I'm an athlete. I'm going to beat you with speed. like If you bull rush me.
00:19:53
Speaker
like Okay, kudos to you, man. You bull rushed me. You don't really have much in your bag. You're not that great of a player if you want to ask. them That's my opinion, I think. um and And so I'm sitting there and my ankle just like one play just didn't move and it's stuck in the ground and I rolled it again. Well, like I was in serious pain and I couldn't, like I could barely walk and then I came back on the field and played it and I just gave it all. I got Owen Porter.
00:20:14
Speaker
credit and went to the guy signed by the Vikings heck of a player. And I think I played a pretty good game against him and a couple other guys. um And they like the whole time the sections right behind us where the offensive line sits on the sideline and for the first those two years when I was at Georgia Southern and Georgia State, they were like on my case, but like they loved me.
00:20:33
Speaker
Like they got somebody to Photoshop a sign that like said that Jesus Christ loves for you to hate Bryce from Broadway. Like when we played. them it was just like Like we keep in touch all the time. Every time I've been to the portal, they've wanted me to come out there. They've been like a recruiting pitch. So that was probably the most fun to be able to come back and just laugh like that.
00:20:48
Speaker
um I mean, I'm trying to think, I mean, I really, App State, both times I've been there, I lost. Miami was a heartbreak my first year. We were up 35 to 14 and a half. They came back and beat us 45 to 42. My least favorite place to play, if you want to ask, is Georgia State home and away. It was awful. So that was pretty bad. That's going to make certain Twitter users very upset. Did you ever, did you ever come to life yet?
00:21:17
Speaker
No, sir, I did not. So the year before I came to Georgia Southern, they actually had went there. Okay. I've heard it's good. I've heard it. I mean, I know with the whole reconstruction thing right now, it's not the best right now. I mean, I think some fans are disappointed with how last week went, which I mean, you know, it's a group of five football guys like we're not and there's bigger games on in that weekend. Like you got to pick and choose your battles. Like it's, it's just, I don't know. It's a lot of stuff, but I mean, that's either here nor there.
00:21:43
Speaker
ah words it felt to ah well We'll definitely touch more on that. um and know Kick that down the road. ah Let's talk about the different levels of football because you played FCS and you played ah FBS. tell it What are the differences there as a player?
00:22:02
Speaker
ah Oh wow, definitely the coaching and the time that's bought into it. Like I'm a big note taker. Like I'm very hard on myself. It's bad, but was crazy is when I was at the FCS level. Like we had spent like we were there at like at EIU our schedule every morning. Like I was. I didn't get vaccinated, so I had to be there at 515 getting vaccinated every morning and we had position meetings after that team and we were there to like 12. Then you go to class and you have a study hall and then you'd have like a four hour meeting to go over 15 places. It was just mind blowing. But anyway, football wise, I think the biggest difference and the biggest like is the speed of the game. um Like my first career start, um I was playing DJ Coleman, Jacksonville State, EIU we were playing in the spring.
00:22:49
Speaker
He went to Missouri and now he's on the Jacksonville Jaguars, heck of a player. I had no technique as a freshman, I had rightfully 18 years old as a freshman in college. And I went to outside zone, reach him on the left and he just stood up.
00:23:06
Speaker
And shocked me like this in the chest and just went like, yeah, yeah, we're here. I'm like, I can't really say what he said. But he he let me know that he was there and he's gonna be there all game. So I think i think that I'm realizing that he was a power five guy. I was like, when I entered the portal, I thought back and I'm like, this is what I'm about to get.
00:23:23
Speaker
So I think the speed of the game and the coaching is a lot different. And now I will say one thing that's the strength and conditioning is a lot different, it's a lot harder. ah What made EIU hard was that it was 12 degrees outside and we had to do everything outside because we had no indoor. But no, the speed of the game, I mean, it doesn't matter if you're playing like you look at Mike Green, okay, and you look at Ole Miss. Mike Green would run all those defensive ends out of the water, crudos to them. But Mike Green is one of the best players I've literally ever seen played against.
00:23:51
Speaker
And so like it's there's really, I mean, it's just the speed of the game, especially like I'm or I'm at because you you're tackle. I mean, I'm going backwards. I'm playing guys that run 4440s. It's insane. So I think that's probably the biggest difference is the speed of the game and the athleticism.
00:24:05
Speaker
Now you you bring up Mike Green. um you know I was standing on the sideline Saturday night for for Louisiana versus Marshall. um So you know I got to see it from from a wider angle, but you you got to see it firsthand. well you know What stands out about the way he plays? What makes him special?
00:24:24
Speaker
uh, his athleticism and his effort. He never stops playing. That's the thing about Mike Green. Like, I mean, I had a good game until I give JC a hard time. Like, I mean, I just shouldn't ever happen. He hit me with one of the nasty, he like hesitated, went to long arm and then he spun back outside and I bid on it. And I was like, this is, and I, the crazy part, I reacted and I still was driving him by and I kind of pushed him to the ground.
00:24:46
Speaker
And J.C. didn't see it. He saw it late and he scrambled out and got like a shoelace tag. I give J.C. crap all the time because he gave up but me a sack and I'm like, J.C., bro break that. But his finesse and his athleticism, man, he just comes back to ball ready to play. Like, you never know what you're going to get from him. And like, I was sitting there watching all week and I was like, I had a plan, you know,
00:25:06
Speaker
If I have an open B gap, I'm going to jump set him and get hands on. Because if I can deter his rush or make him bubble around, his rush is going to, his rush pattern is going to stop. He's going to be totally different. And as soon as I thought I did that, he was coming back inside or he's going to still keep fighting outside and had to run him by it. But yeah, his effort and his athleticism is what makes him great. He's very strong as well. He's a very, very strong player. So. Who's the best, we'll go running back and quarterback that you've ever blocked for?
00:25:33
Speaker
Oh, I mean, the guys I have now, you know, JC's love JC, that's my dog. JC and JY, you know, they're awesome. My boy, Tuck, I love Tuck or Craig. I mean, all the running backs here, like, this is by far, I tell you, this is the most fun I've ever had in college football. all This has been awesome. I but i wouldn't change a thing for the world. You know, I i mean, i hate I love winning, but if we went 0 and 12, I still have fun to have this year. um I think these three that I get to vlog for every day or four, will including JC,
00:26:00
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in the three running backs that we run in. But you know those those four and then Tucker Greg has probably been the most fun I've ever had blocking for Tux, my guy. Tux was just, you know he's all time leading everything in Georgia State. He's a heck of a ball player, heck of a guy. And I mean, he could outlift, I think most of our offensive line when we were there. That's kind of sad to say, but it was a freak, freak of nature. But yeah, definitely those four guys, or five guys, so.
00:26:26
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So we were talking about it a little bit before we went live, but if you could just talking to the viewers, you know, we see the transfer portal from the the fan side of things or the media side of things, but for as a player, what does that look like? You know, entering the portal, getting in contact with coaches. Can you kind of walk us through a little bit of that process? I know it's very time consuming and things like that, but could you kind of take us through it?
00:26:52
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Yeah, it's crazy. Scary. In some senses, some people would say it's like a death wish because you never really know what you're going to go to. It's like a black hole, honestly. It's scary. If you don't have a plan and you don't know somebody that knows somebody, you're pretty much screwed. ah you I mean, if you want to go up and like if you haven't made a name for yourself, going up is going to be hard, I think, because nobody's going to take an opportunity on you. They're going to take the higher guy that's going to come down a level versus another group of five guy, maybe, that's going to shift.
00:27:19
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um It's really, I mean, it's, it's cool because you get to get recruited by me. Like if you have the opportunity, like I was very blessed if each time I got i got a high school, I had one FCS offer and that was Eastern Illinois. And then the next time I had five FCS offers and then Georgia State. And the next time I was talking to power five schools, but nobody wanted to pull the trigger because I was a two-time transfer. And at the time, you know, being a two-time transfer, you had to sit out a year.
00:27:43
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ah And so, like, I'm sitting here like, you know, you're in it and it's just like your phone's constantly ringing nonstop. Like, I remember Andy Kwan from Arkansas State, like, we were sitting there and a great guy. I love him. Tortoises are the legend. Former equal, yeah.
00:27:57
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Yeah, we were on the phone at like 11 45 at night and stayed on there till like one in the morning just having a conversation about everything like life recruiting and like he had high pressure Georgia Southern while trying to recruit me and that was the coolest part but ah it's it's humbling. It's scary. It's fun. It's all the things that you'd imagine it would be um but it's just like every day is slow.
00:28:19
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slow. It doesn't matter if you have 20 calls or you have none. It's slow. Because you never know until somebody offers you. It's the scariest thing in the world. So let's say Eastern Illinois or at Georgia State, you'd entered the portal. ah And, you know, say you hadn't gotten any offers or none that interested you more than where you currently were. we You know, did you have any conversations with the coaches like, Hey, what if, what if I come back?
00:28:43
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Georgia State was a no because of how the situation had happened and I wish it would have never happened that way. I'm very apologetic for what had happened. um Eastern Illinois, I think it was a conversation.
00:28:55
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I mean, I'm not in the most non cocky way. I knew I was the best offensive lineman there. So it's like if you don't take me back then that kind of sucks on my part such for you guys, ah Georgia State. So we actually had a team meeting the season was over. It was the Sunbelt Championship Week and I was up studying. I had a written essay for a history class that I had to do at Georgia State. And I had said it's like 4.30 in the morning.
00:29:18
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And we in the night before our locker room is always unlocked at Georgia State. And so I drove back there to go shower there like I always showered there cuz our utility bill and I shared a bathroom with two other guys. So I was just like, I'm just gonna go shower here. Well, I clean all my stuff out at the locker and I slept through my alarm. I was gonna tell them the next day. Well, they saw that my name today was gone and everything was gone out of my locker. So that was hard to walk into had like nine calls from Miss calls from coach whole different players than coach Elliott.
00:29:44
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um And so I walked and and had to have a conversation with Coach Hol, had to have a conversation with Coach Elliott. It was not not easy. I definitely was not going to be welcomed back there. um You know, I'm thankful for the opportunity they gave me. I'm thankful for them, just difficult circumstances. And I just could not live in Atlanta again. So awful. I hated that place.
00:30:07
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So I have a question for you. you've You're one of the rare people that have been on both sides of the the Georgia state, Georgia Southern rivalry. um I'm very, I have like a pretty non-conventional take on it. ah So just because I think I know too much about, I think we know too much about how the sausage was made regarding how the rivalry came to be. Like, I don't know how familiar you are with it. like It sounded like from what I heard at the time, because I was there when when we moved from FCS to FBS, ah that Klein Line, the old AD sat down with Charlie Cobb and they basically hammered out like an agreement to have this rivalry happen and there was a trophy, but it factored in like
00:30:50
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cheerleading and it was like a point system that that was every sport combined and then whatever team won the point system at the end of the year got the rivalry trophy it was very complicated so i kind of come from a place of like that doesn't there's no real animosity there for me like if you had to sit down and hammer out a contract then it's it's all on paper what is your kind of take on that that rivalry and and kind of what goes into it Uh, I mean, there is no rivalry. It's not a rivalry. They wanted something there that was not, uh, I mean, yes, they've had some good wins and I was there. but to be pa I've never lost an ego and I've never lost a Panther. I'm proud to say that, uh, I don't have a losing record at any place with whatever rivalry it is. I mean, modern day, Hey, the Georgia, her own ball, whatever it is. I mean,
00:31:34
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ah But that trophy actually sits in the academic hall at the stadium at Center Park. It's like all the roads, like the main road from Georgia State all the way down to Georgia State. It's actually a really, I wish that trophy was the trophy that that we had because it's so sick. It's the state of Georgia with all but like the main roads and then you see the logos. It's so cool. um I think that Georgia State was up and coming and they just needed something to you know add some flame and spark to the fans. and you know you know You got another G5 FBS school. So it's like, why not no add the rivalry? Why not do those kind of things? So I mean, I think that was pretty cool that they did that. But I don't think necessarily there's a rivalry there, um like when it comes to that one that you're talking about. Now those are grown bowl and the football side of it. Yeah, I think there definitely is and could be a rivalry there, especially with the record and how it talks. I think Georgia State still leads it right now.
00:32:24
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um So I think that that's something that you know is there, but in my grand scheme of things that I mean, that's my little brother, so. Yeah, it know it always struck me as like, almost like a high school dance. And it's like, when rivalries happen, it's like, everybody has that kind of main rival. And like, obviously Georgia Southern and App State are are, you know, at each other every single year. And it just feels like Georgia State was like, hey, we're over here. Like, we could really use somebody to be, you know, in a rivalry with this is how it always had came off to me. So.
00:32:56
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Yeah, that's what I had at Kennesaw State been FBS at the time. They probably would have done with Kennesaw State. Like I don't know if you ever seen the video when they first played Kennesaw State, but there was literally 20 because their stadium holds like $24,695 or something or $25,000.
00:33:11
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Every sheet was filled. It was insane. dan I think Dan Ellington was still the quarterback then. oh It was insane. I've seen the video of it it' somewhere. um But yeah, that was insane. um So had they been FPS, I think they would have been a more rivalry with them, like the whatever they caught. I don't know what they'd call. But I think they just needed something to get something together, new school and new football program, which I get it. So I'm not gonna announce it here nor there. So yeah.
00:33:37
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Bryce and 12 team playoff starts next
College Football Playoff Insights
00:33:41
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week. The bracket is wild. um I think the committee made the right decision by leaving Alabama out and keeping SMU in. What are your thoughts on that and who wins the Natty? It hurts. I grew up an Alabama fan my whole life. My whole dad's side of the family is from there. My great grandpa was like on the house or the cabinet or sin or something like that. They asked the governor a lot of years. He was just up there. I do think they made the right decision. ah you know i think but and for I mean, i I do. I think that's what sucks. like You look at alabama teams like Alabama and South Carolina and Ole Miss, the teams are left out.
00:34:18
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like one like Why not leave some New York six Bulls for those teams that were just right there on the like the grasp of like make like an 18 playoff, maybe a 16, but 12 is insane. Cause then you get this team, like Francis, nothing against SMU, but if they go in here and get my law by whoever they get my law by, like that's not going to be a good look. So I think if you really like to to get into the top 12, you can clearly have three losses and do that.
00:34:43
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I think you get in that top eight, you have one or few losses, or one to two losses or less. And so it's like, dang, they really are, that's a good ball team. And I'm not, nothing, no discredit to nobody else or asking me anything like that, but that's just my take on it. I don't think they should have went from four all the way to 12. I think, honestly, ah I think I could see Oregon winning at all. I think that's probably the best team out there.
00:35:05
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Now i do I will say if there's an Oregon and Boise State rematch, I think Boise State beats them. Because if you take two special teams touchdowns away, Boise State is undefeated right now and probably top four, top five in the country. Now, let me ask you this. I've seen a lot of people talk about a college football, NIT, similar, so no not a fan? yeah Not a fan of that idea? No, this is my thing. like ah i Okay, for me, like an example, like I've played a lot of football. My body is going through a lot. Like, I mean, I've got stuff that I've got to deal with post football that I've got to get fixed that I've been playing on the past three years. That's stupid.
00:35:45
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You're telling me like, okay, 16 games right now. That's insane. That is insane for me to sit there and take a beating and take a beating and take a beating at the highest level possible. And I'm not even talking about me. You look at those guys that are like Georgia. If you listen to Derek Henry, he talks about how that stuff takes years off your life. That stuff's insane at that level. Like when you could play Ole Miss, when we played South Carolina.
00:36:06
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When I was at Georgia State, like those are some big teams like that I can't imagine. like I mean, I would love to compete at that level, but that's different. So no, I think that's stupid. And and then at this point, we're just pretty much handing out participation trophies. Like no, earn it, work at it, win, play ball games and win, and then then we'll get there.
00:36:26
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don't just give me a like basketball is different. Any shot can fall on any given night. That's why we get paid to go play, you know, you will or not you will have Ole Miss and all that kind of stuff because they're supposed to beat us if you really want the truth. Like that's just how it's supposed to go in the reality of college football. Now granite and upsets and upset and it happens all the time. And I'm not saying they're going to win every single time, but that's why baseball and basketball are different than football. There's different. Yeah, so.
00:36:52
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What is it like as a player? ah Going into games like that against like ah a a p5 team or that you know Your school's getting paid to play and your team's getting paid ultimately to probably lose um Do you guys feel any sort of way good or bad about that? I've heard heard every game the same no moment too big no moment too small every time I walk into like when I have my our pregame warm-ups on and I listened to the same song. I've done it since I was in high school. It's the first song I listened to. It's right above it by Lil Wayne. It's just something I've always done. It's a great song. And then you know I do my warm ups. But ah I think ultimately the coolest part about those games is the fans. I mean, that's it's like none other. I mean, when I was at Georgia State, when I was at EIU and played South Carolina, we didn't cross the fifth yard line. If we did, it was because the the center grabbed the ball and accidentally moved it across, just snapped the ball. ma
00:37:48
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South Carolina when we played in my Georgia State, they sold it out. and We almost beat them. Ole Miss is in the attendance record and it's cool like you know like we don't get to see the fans like our student section like that kind of stuff because we're also kind of distant. Our fans are too on the home side, but you get to see all these frat guys that are in effect and they give you down the road and it's awesome. I love it. I've always loved the fans interaction whether it's for me or against me. I think it's funny because I'm just a goofy outgoing guy, so I'll give it right back and I'll just joke around with you and have fun.
00:38:16
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um but Uh, I mean, the team is definitely like more like a chip on your shoulder. Like you kind of feel disrespected that you chose me to pay me to come play you. No, I want to come beat you. Like that's the coolest part about it. Um, and I think it, you know, you put a chip on your shoulder and you're like, I gotta go to work and knowing that like, these are some of the guys that are probably going to get drafted this year that are really good ballplayers.
00:38:36
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what can I do to stop them and and really lesser their draft stock, honestly and truly. But definitely the women you go from Paulson to 25,000. Okay, our example, you go to Georgia State, and you take the state and that we have nothing against them. And it just, you know, there's a lot of things that play the factor why they don't have a big fan base. But then you go to South Carolina, they sold out 85,000. That's different. That's really different. That's really special. And that was something cool to see when you walk out and you hear sandstorm. And, you know, that's this, it was it was like, another I do want to ask you about ah Georgia State. I'm curious your insight to ah Sean Elliott leaving that team for South Carolina very abruptly. You'd already left. I understand that. But I was curious if you knew anything about that. ah And because as outsiders, that was a very weird and sudden situation. ah Yeah. So Coach Elliott, you know, he was from he was there originally.
00:39:30
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and then left after interim ted coach deal and all that whole stuff happened. He came to be at George State. And from my understanding, which what I know is his family actually stayed in Columbia to live there. So his kids didn't have to move and make new friends, especially in the city of Atlanta. It's not the easiest and his wife had had a job. So I think that was probably the the best and like, you know, the best thing, the best way to go about it is by doing that and leaving his family there. And I'm sure after six years you live in a studio apartment or wherever he lived at, we don't I don't really know where coach lived.
00:39:58
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um That's hard to be away from your family, you know? I mean, you want to take every chance you can to go back and see him. I think at the time it was hard because it put other coaches in a bind. Like a lot of those coaches might be there like lower in division at division schools right now or their high school coaches. And that didn't know discredit to that level of coaching, but that's hard when you're a division one coach making six figures and you have to take that big pick up for your family, all that kind of stuff. So I don't know if the timing was actually the best, but he did what was best for him. And at the end of the day,
00:40:26
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just like y'all three, we've got to do what's best for us. And so, I mean, I think it was not easy on the players, because a lot of the players loved him. I'm not saying that I didn't love him. It was just there was a lot of things that you know I had to deal with at Georgia State. And you know that's either here nor there. I'm not here to share that light of the story. He gave me an opportunity to play at the Group of Five level, and nobody else did. And I owe all the respect in the world to him. Because without that, I wouldn't be here right now, and I wouldn't be sitting at Georgia Southern on a podcast with you guys. So kudos to him, but ah I think,
00:40:55
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I think, you know, the players is just like, I think the players were really hurt because they love that guy and intensity brings when you've seen videos. It was, he was like that all the time and he lifted with everybody. So yeah.
00:41:07
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So staying on Georgia State, I have a i a kind of a follow-up for you. So you talked about going to South Carolina and seeing, you know, 85,000 people cheering in the stands. As players around the team, like, is there any sort of talk ever about like, hey, guys, like we're at Turner Field or, you know, wherever?
00:41:27
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there's like nobody here at these games. like you know Georgia State loves to do that thing where they fluff their attendance numbers and say that we had 15,000, 18,000 people and you look in the stands and you're like, there's maybe 3,000 people here max. Is there ever anything from the player side that's like, what are what what's going on? like What are we doing?
00:41:46
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Yeah, I mean, I've got pictures of me mid game and really good games and nobody's in the background like it's sad. I think they could reconstruct the stadium and make it better for you know, I think you could have something like George has maybe not the top deck. Maybe if you look OK, you look at Southern Illinois Stadium. I think you could tear some of Georgia State stuff down and build them like a little half indoor right there and all that kind of stuff ah because I mean other than 188 they're not going to walk to practice every day.
00:42:14
Speaker
And the Mercedes-Benz isn't always up for grabs. um They need something for kickers and specialists and all that kind of stuff. But also just, you know, if it's raining, we pra would practice at the either at the dome or we'd practice in the locker room. Because I mean, our locker room is huge, but that's not, you're practicing in socks or tennis shoes. It's not the same.
00:42:29
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um And so, I mean, yeah, it sucked when you're coming off the sideline and all you hear is the horn on third down. And like there's no hardly any fans, nobody's really into it. I mean, you can see your family clear as day, like I like having to find my family. So that's the coolest part about passing and playing those big games. ah Like Georgia State it was just, it was just hard, but it was cool. sometimes Sometimes it was cool, sometimes like when we played North Carolina, it was home, i was at home it was cool. Georgia Southern, and yes, there was more Navy and there was our blue, but still cool.
00:43:00
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Yeah, I have to ask, first of all, does Josh Dallas start at Georgia State?
00:43:08
Speaker
I will tell you that through and through. I live with Josh before I lived him here. Josh and David Dallas, you will not find any two men that work harder than they do. And the greatest part about them is, is like this right here. I mean, the the Bible. i They know this thing in and out. Whether you're religious or not, that's still pretty cool. If you wanted to call them on this show right now and quiz them on anything that you know about the Bible, they'll have an answer for you.
00:43:37
Speaker
And that goes to the testament to show to who their families are um and who they are. But when I tell you Josh Dallas and David Dallas work, they work. Their bodies, every morning and every lunch, breakfast, and dinner, breakfast, for lunch, and dinner, it's ground beef or ground lamb, cheese, eggs, avocados, sourdough toast every single day. They have one cheat day and it might be like pizza. um um But um it's just like you sit there and um I mean, he he's just a workaholic. And I don't think that anybody out here can outwork Josh and outplay Josh. Josh, if you give Josh the opportunity, Josh is going to make men miss. He's hard to stop. I mean, it literally happened firsthand at Turner Center Park Stadium. Josh made seven of the defenders look stupid. No offense. Josh Dallas is a freak amongst children, in my opinion. um I mean, I think the better question is was asked is, some of those guys could start down here. and That's the better question to ask, considering we went 8-4 and there are three.
00:44:37
Speaker
Um, you know that sorry, I get a little fired up when especially with my guys I love and I care about in that whole situation that just happened. Um, and I just, I got no respect for some of that stuff up there, but yeah. Uh, we have to ask about Ben Moore as well. I don't know how much I can answer considering, you know, I've got to be cordial and real stuff, but go ahead and ask. I'll answer the best I can.
00:45:01
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Well, I just, I mean, your take on it, you guys had an exchange. It was fairly, it was terse, I suppose would be the best way. It was polite, but very tense, uh, as an outsider. Uh, polite from my sense, he thinks he's polite, but it was not polite. Uh, he sent a little jab just cause I say something doesn't mean it's true. Uh, and I exactly knew what he meant by that, whether he wants to say did or not. Ben's got a job to do and, you know,
00:45:27
Speaker
he's the media, he's got to create a narrative. And that's kind of narrative he wants to create for me. Cool. I'm not really worried about it. ah But more importantly, he's creating a narrative for himself that sucks. And I don't think he really realizes that. um But like, I sat there, and um I went to defend one of my buddies and my players. And that's one of my brothers. And then you take shots at me like that. Like, I mean, cool, good for you. um But I mean, his opinions literally mean nothing to me. He Like when we were there in Georgia State, I mean, he got to talk to some people, not because they want to do it, but because you're sitting here with a microphone like this, they talk to me. um I mean, he's got a job to do, kudos to him. It just pissed me off with some of the stuff they said that I was not allowed to say on Twitter. And I'm trying not to say right now because I dealt with what I dealt with at Georgia State. Nobody can take that away from me. He wasn't there when I was doing what I was dealing with. And for him to write an article at the end of the season saying I struggled. Yeah, I mean,
00:46:26
Speaker
I played next to some pretty good ballplayers, one that's on the Packers right now. They get drafted. And I think I held my own every single game. I missed one game because I was ah blacked out in the middle of a game with Charlotte. I'm on green, can attest to that. The dude had to pick me up, number 85, the tight end. Had to pick me up in Charlotte. Oh, we were playing Charlotte at home um because I blacked out here in the middle of the game. And I was playing most of the game with a concussion. I gave everything I had. That's one thing about me. It's going to take a lot for me to come off the field. And I wasn't coming off the field.
00:46:54
Speaker
um But for you to write an article saying that I struggled, I think that's bullcrap. I think he needs to be humbled sometimes. And I was going to be the one to do it. I have no problem doing that because he's going to keep taking advice. He's going to listen to fans and they're just going to keep telling the same thing over and over and over again. But a guy that's been there and has the facts, I can tell him straight up. um You know, I'm not. I don't know. It just it fires me up. It fired me up when he said that about me and friends reaching out like, I mean,
00:47:24
Speaker
He got to see it front row for himself. Josh Dallas made him look stupid. So I really worried. And I mean, last I remember the trophy sitting in the states for Georgia, not not in Atlanta, Georgia. So it was awesome. Do you guys have anything else for Bryson?
00:47:39
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I've got one last question we can end it on. I have nothing else to do. Alright, so obviously you guys have the bowl game in New Orleans, Sam Houston, Matt's neck of the woods in in New Orleans. ah Has that process begun as far as prepping for that game? You know, what are you guys kind of expecting? Obviously their head coach moved on but I believe I saw something today that the guys for them that are in the portal are expected to play in that game, which is Interesting, but what is kind of the prep process for that game been like so far? Well, we got a couple days off, you know, I got a recoup and not because Sunbelt champion I don't know Really like what the deal is. You don't really know who you're playing against then but
00:48:25
Speaker
I mean, right like right now we're about to start practicing for him. Like tomorrow we have practice. um wait it Excuse me, we had a team meeting today, ah kind of just figuring out who they were. I went in, you know, got to see the depth chart and see all the guys that are in the portal, which is kind of crazy to me. Never really thought you could play and be in the portal. I think that's definitely probably something they might need to nip in the bud, but not talking about this team. In general, I'm saying the whole, said I don't know, there's just a lot of things in the trans portal and all that kind of stuff that needs to be fixed in my eyes, in my opinion.
00:48:54
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um But I mean, they're a great team. They're nine and three for a reason. That head coach did some amazing things. There's a reason he's got an amazing opportunity. And so that defensive coordinator, I think he went to North Texas. ah That's a great team. Kudos to them. They went nine and three, and they just beat a very good Liberty team. um you know ah I mean, I think what to expect is they're they a hard-nosed. They're effort guys. I mean, they have a lot of success at the FCS level. And they're about to start having a lot more success at the FBS level since making this jump. i Well, I don't even, I couldn't, what was, does anybody know their record lap? Did they win a game the year before? They were, they were like five and seven, I believe. like do a while Yeah. Um, no, uh, but like they, they had a quick turnaround. I mean heck of a ball program. I mean, they're good for them. And, uh, I think they're going to be good. You know, we got a lot of prep for them. Uh, and I think we'll be fine. I mean, I think it's going to be a good game. I'm excited. You know, it's sad to go to new Orleans, how you play the state stadium. That's pretty sick. Um, and,
00:49:52
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You know, hopefully finish my career out
Bryson's Football Journey and Gratitude
00:49:53
Speaker
with a bang. Nine wins. Matt's going to be in the rafters like Sting, like the old wrestler just watching you from. matter you go to leave but So I'm actually thinking about making the trip um because it's not super far. It's about an hour and a half.
00:50:09
Speaker
um And look, the Superdome is fun. Don't let the ah the sign when you drive in um scare you. You're gonna you're goingnna see a sign above the tunnel ah that says you're about to hear the screams of 70,000 fans. that that That doesn't pertain to the New World Bowl, obviously. um So so don't let don't let that intimidate you.
00:50:35
Speaker
yeah sorry But not man, just go enjoy it. You guys you guys have earned the opportunity to be there. Go make the best of it. like and And just enjoy the experience, man. No, I definitely will. It's my last one, man. I got ah gotta to go out with a bang. I mean, if you come, you get to see.
00:50:51
Speaker
I get crapped on it for all the time, my my stance. you You can see a crazy stance if you'd like. I get crapped on for standing so tall in my stance, but it is what it is. Hey, if it works, it works. It did work. Well, hey, last time Southern played in the New Orleans Bowl, they blew out Louisiana Tech. So yeah yeah just kidding. Thank you for that. Thank you for that.
00:51:11
Speaker
Bryce and before we let you go, we've asked you a lot of questions. Is there anything you want to talk about anything? You feel real strong about or you know, this is a uses platform ah We've got a hundred folks 120 folks watching right now a couple hundred more will be watching on YouTube after this is posted ah Anything you're really passionate you want to talk about? I mean, you know college football has been good to me. I've had ah had a really good run You know, I wouldn't be where I am without people like you guys ah you know buying into us and caring about us like we're a power five program and power five players. So kudos to you guys and you know all the hard work they all put in because I mean I know this isn't easy and sometimes it's probably it doesn't pay off like it should sometimes and I know y'all don't get the credit you guys serve so I'm gonna give you the credit now so I appreciate you guys give yourself a round of applause at any time you feel need. ah College football has been awesome. It's been
00:52:03
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It's been ah amazing. you know I can't thank God enough for everything that he's done for me. Without my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I definitely wouldn't be here without a question. I wouldn't have my abilities and my health and the talent that I have. um But i mean to anybody that does watch and is playing college football, you know be proud of yourself. Be easy on yourself. Don't be too hard. Enjoy the you enjoy the times because it feels like yesterday I was pulling up to Charleston, Illinois with my family and a black Tahoe ready to go and you know showing up wearing mask everywhere and now I'm, you know, I've got a mullet. I'm sitting here in my, in Statesboro, Georgia and just living my best life and it's about to come to an end and, you know, to enjoy it and make the most of it. I really appreciate you guys having me on. This has been an amazing opportunity. um You know, if y'all have any more questions, I'd love to answer them if you don't, you know.
00:52:54
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But if you don't great whatever i've enjoyed all this this has been actually really I love this i'd love to be on here again. This is cool So we'd love to have you have a standing invite anytime Um, we we really appreciate having guys that play You have such a different perspective than any of us ever have or ever will um, because you know, we we take ourselves as ball knowers on this podcast but it's ah but you you have and only the one the texas state to go twelve a no and make the college are not there who made that
00:53:29
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palermo Are you serious? Dude, I really like what they were cooking in the preseason. He came on this podcast at the beginning of the year and said, Texas State is going undefeated and will be in the college football playoff. And Brian and I laughed at him. We laughed. And then he he was sending us as much propaganda as he could get his hands on. So it was like.
00:53:55
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And on the same side thing he said oh go ahead games go ahead on the same side of that coin, he also told us how overrated Arkansas State was. So I'd love to hear your thoughts on that. Still are. hello good five your question you can ask it or whatever you're goingnna ask and i want to take away from that no I was just saying Zeke in the days after that, you know, we laughed and and stuff, but he was sending us like propaganda from like major, you know, national guys that were like, Brett McMurphy has them as the G5 representative. Like, what do we think about this? And I was like, I i still think it's hilarious. So i they were a good team, but now there was there's too many good G5 teams that are so much better than them.
00:54:37
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that, I mean, I don't know how you overlook UOL. I mean, I know Troy at the beginning of the year had a coaching change, but at the end of the day, they just had to do some about championships. um I mean, and i mean if I said, and I had said always like,
00:54:51
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If it, if it wasn't us, that was going to win the sum, but Marshall's going to win the sum. Marshall's a good team. Like that's, but not tech to say sexy state was going to go 12. that's fine that's a little pain And to say that Arkansas state is overrated. Butch Jones is a hard nose man. Him and Sean Elliott are a lot of like hard nose and they're going to get it done. where do you see well here's he Much like Sean Elliott, they they don't win it.
00:55:13
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They win a bowl a bowl eligible amount of games and that's about it. Yeah, that's i sometimes that's that's cooking to them. i love that some those I mean now now I do have an offensive coordinator that do that went to Arkansas State that knows what it's like to really win there. So I mean, I'm sure he'd disagree with me on that one. But ah yeah, no, I mean, I think.
00:55:33
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I mean, I can't get over the Texas State 12 and 0. Dude, I planted my flag on that. I really, really did. And I remember the week after they lost to Arizona State. And obviously, now we know just how good Arizona State is, right? Yeah. But at that time, it was still kind of early in the season. They were still trying to find themselves whatever. And I can just remember giving Zeke so much help.
00:55:58
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I remember texting him for like three days straight, just being like, you fraud, Texas State, you're a fraud. And the thing for me was I was willing to, you know, Arizona State's a major program. I was willing to kind of give him that leeway. But ironically, when they lost to Sam Houston, that was when I was like, Zeke, now you got an answer for it. Like, we got to we got to get the like brass tacks here. and said he And he conveniently he conveniently couldn't make the episode that week.
00:56:24
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That's true, I could not. I was sick of the dog. Let's kick it around the horn, Matt. Where where ah where can folks find you? ah You can find me on social media, as always, at megas. Matt got some great UL coverage coming up before they head to New Mexico ah to take on TCU in the New Mexico Bowl.
00:56:45
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Yeah, you can find me on X, Twitter, whatever, at watch the stone. Um, you can find the show on X at warm weather fans and on YouTube, youtube dot.com at slash at warm weather fans. Uh, Zeke, you want to throw it to Bryson and then we can close this out. Yeah. Bryson, where can folks find you on socials? Plug anything you want, man. Uh, Instagram, uh,
00:57:08
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Twitter or X sorry and Facebook is usually just Bryson Broadway. It's usually just that's like you see it right now. It's just Bryson Broadway. I got lucky enough. Nobody stole those names on ah Twitter or X Instagram or Facebook. So yeah.
00:57:22
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Yeah, and i'm on twitter as well at zeek palermo z e k e p a l e r m o Uh, this has been a really special and a really fun edition of warm weather fans bryson You seriously seriously are welcome any uh back anytime. and I'm sure we'll yeah, uh, georgia southern news hits We're certainly going to be hitting you up to get your uh, your opinion on it Um, and we appreciate you being here, man. No, I appreciate y'all It's been a real honor and a privilege that I appreciate you guys what y'all do. It's a lot of behind the scenes stuff So like I said, give yourself some credit But credit is definitely due. But I appreciate you guys having me on. And anytime you guys ask, I will i will be here. so Much obliged, man. Thank you all so much for watching on Twitter and YouTube. ah You can find the show on YouTube as Bryan Stead. And anywhere else you find your podcast, this has been another edition of Warm Weather Fans.