August 27, 2025 • 63 mins
College football Week 1 is here—and George Wrighster & Ralph Amsden are swinging at every headline. This Unafraid Show episode doubles as your all-in college football preview and picks against the spread show, with sharp analysis of Week 0 takeaways and the biggest stories shaping SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC narratives. We open with the viral moment from Dublin: the Avery Johnson family dust-up during K-State’s Ireland trip and what it reveals about pressure, expectations, and fan behavior in the social-media era. Then we dig into the reports of Ohio State telling Barstool’s Dave Portnoy to stay off campus—what “bans” actually mean, free-speech vs institutional control, and whether this becomes bulletin-board material in Columbus. We also hit the Southwest soap opera: Jedd Fisch and family moving back to Tucson (what that signals for Arizona Wildcats culture, recruiting ties, and the post-move reality in Seattle), plus DeShaun Foster vs the L.A. media—is the new UCLA coach smart to restrict practice access in a content-hungry city, or is he risking visibility in the Big Ten?
After the headlines, George and Ralph recap Week 0—execution, tempo, QB play, and what’s real vs noise—before turning the page to this weekend’s best college football games with matchup keys (explosive plays, third-down defense, pass-rush win rate, and turnover margin), coaching edges, and travel/heat/altitude factors that swing results. Finally, George drops five ATS picks for Week 1 with rationale rooted in returning production, line disparity vs power ratings, and situational angles (look-ahead, revenge, neutral-site variance). If you want smart CFB betting insight, unauthorized honesty, and no-fear opinions, this is the show. Be one of us—like, subscribe, turn on notifications, and comment your own Week 1 locks.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
College football is back, and so are the college football apostles.
I'm your boy, George Reister, former NFL player, former college
football player, college football analysts with my man, mister Ralph Amden,
who covers prep sports college sports as well, and we
got to talk today about a lot of things that
have been fight, tech, games, parents, sons, Dave fortnoise, he
(00:26):
banned from Ohio State, Nike versus Adidas, and so much
more from week one of college football.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Ralph, are you ready to go?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Been ready? Longest offseason of all time? Let's get to
the football.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yes, and you guys make sure that you like, subscribe,
get notifications, tell a friend about the show, and most importantly,
be one of us because it's great content coming out
every single week.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And how we going to work.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Today is on Tuesdays, It'll be me and Ralph and
he'll tee up the topics and then we go at it.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Ralph, what do we all have today?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Well? I have a question for you. Uh, you have
a son who is a college football quarterback. Yes, if
you went to one of his games and maybe he
didn't win, is there any possibility that you would fist
fight your other son just to get a little bit
of that stress off.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
No, no, there's a zero percent chance that I'm fist fighting.
No no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm gonna say, yeah,
I'm gonna say it's a zero percent chance.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
A zero percent chance. Okay. Yeah, So what we have
today is Kansas State quarterback Avery Johnson, his dad, and
his brother were rolling around in the wet streets of Dublin.
After Kansas State lost to Ohio State twenty four to
twenty one on Saturday. They issued a statement. A joint
statement of family statement said, we sincerely apologized for our
(01:52):
actions following yesterday's football game in Ireland. Senseless vickering escalated
into an unnecessary fight. We have resolved our differences and
take full responsibility for our actions. We've apologized to our
immediate and extended family, and now extend our apologies to
Kansas State University, It's alumni and fans. What do you
think of that?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh, dude, that is an absolute disaster. Bro.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
That is a disaster for the family, It's a disaster
for everybody involved. There literally are no winners in this situation.
But I'm gonna tell you this, and I've told my
sons this.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Is that I love you.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm your dad and I got your back at all times,
but if you ever crossed certain lines, I will put
you down, son, I will put you down. And I
think that as a dad, sometimes you gotta let the like.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I remember when I was like seventeen years.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Old, big strong and taller than my pops getting ready
to go to Oregon and I was with my boy
TK and my dad. Mind you, my dad never like
we never got into physical altercations or anything, and this
day he was so mad. I don't even remember why
I came in the house. He grabbed me. He teleported
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from the kitchen to in front of me, grabbed me
by my neck, picked me up off the off my feet,
and I remember bawling my fist up like man, I'm
finna whoof on him? And then I looked at my
best friend TK, and he turned his back on me
like he wasn't even finna help me. And mind you,
my pops was a dude who didn't really want to
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mess with too often, and it was a situation where
he he was not going to like back down. So
then I unballed my fists and I just took it,
because at that point in time, there was nothing. There
was nothing, nothing, nothing that I was going to be
able to do to solve the situation. And I believe
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that some point in time, teenage boys they always think
that they can beat up their dad, that they are,
you know, rough and tough, and sometimes as a dad,
you gotta let them, let them know that my dad
strength out rules.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Your kids strength.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And if you're the kid, you can't go so far
to where you can't come come back because if you
do certain things to your dad, there's no coming back
from it.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
None, I none.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
How much do you think Avery Johnson's brother actually contributed
to this joint statement that they.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Released, Probably none, none, because he was the person on
the bottom.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Of the deal.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Dad had that forearm in in his neck. That's what
I'm saying, man Son Son just gotta take the l
and stay humbled and be like, hey, listen, we ain't
gonna let this happen again.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
But it's gonna take a while for the son to
like for his for his ego to get unbruised.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh. Absolutely. My reaction to this was I just looked
to see if we had any Johnson's in my family tree,
because that's about how every single one of my family
gatherings ends.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Are you senterment?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Oh yeah, that's when you know it's time to go home. Yeah,
for sure. On my dad's side, like, uh, he gets
the that side of the family gets all the barbecue holidays,
and so that's how our barbecues end. With somebody rolling
around and then some frustration. But no no joint statements.
No one's issuing in.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So you guys are the statistics that that, uh that
most family gatherings end up in a that that those
are the days that you have the most domestic violence
type incidents.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So you guys are the statistic Yeah, I mean we don't.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
We also don't like you know, we don't discriminate, Like
we'll get down on a Wednesday or a Tuesday if
we have to, But for the most part, it's that
Monday holiday, three day weekend. We like to end it
with a bang. So shut up to Avery Johnson shout
out to his family. You guys are welcome at the
cookout anytime because you'll fit right in. Next tup, we
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have the actual results of the game, and I got
two questions for you. Number one, where you impressed with
Iowa State in that sloppy win in Dublin and number two,
what is Avery Johnson? Is he a quarterback? Because there's
been a lot of discourse about that.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
All right, So I will state first of all, I
was anytime you get a win, it's good, right, And
they were playing to what we believe is a good
football team. And now I think about I think at halftime,
I tweeted, I'm regretting picking Kansas State to win the
(06:45):
Big Twelve, and after the game, I still regret picking
Kansas State to win the Big Twelve. Now, granted they
can have it is the beginning of season. They can
still win the Big Twelve. They still have a lot
of season in front of them. So I'm trying not
to overreact, Ralph, but everything in me wants to overreact.
But I was impressed with Iowa State because Iowa State
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they lined it up and was like, we're checking chin straps.
We are going to make sure that your chin straps
are buckled up tight. We are going to make sure
that you are ready to play real football. They ran
the ball forty six times, Ralph, forty six for only
one hundred and thirty yards. Do you realize the level
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of commitment that that is when you run the football
at that level.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
They got forty five of those rushing yards from Carson
Hansen in that first drive of the fourth quarter, and
maybe they should have been going to him more often,
but they did win. The score is deceptive. They could
have had another touchdown before the end of the game.
They missed a field goal. This might have actually been
a dominant Iowa State win. Even though I think Kansas
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State looked terrible. I thought they just didn't take enough
deep shots. The two times they did it really worked out.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, I thought their defense looked good. I mean because
they did a good job of stopping Iowa State. Granted
the field wasn't perfect. But but here's the thing, this
is why stats are deceptive. Avery Johnson finishes the game
twenty one for thirty for two seventy three and two touchdowns.
If you just look at the stat sheet, how are
you gonna argue with that? And another eight rushes for
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twenty one yards in a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
He looked the most natural on that rushing touchdown. That
to add fuel to the fire, he looked good when
he's running the ball.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
But that's the trouble with stats sometimes, is that now
we're sitting here, wondering and debating about Avery Johnson as
a quarterback. Obviously the kids a quarterback, but two but
a lot of those yards came on that sixty five
yard touchdown to Jeram Bradley and then the what was
(09:02):
it a thirty seven yard touchdown to jas Brown because
those were off of like not trick plays, but they
were double move type type plays to where you know,
like fake pump and then the guys were wide open.
So I get so, on one, on one hand, you're
sitting there like, okay, one hundred of his yards came
(09:24):
from those types of plays and then they had another
big play I think as well, But it's just you're
not looking at it and seeing the type of you know,
progression and reading and everything else that you would like. However,
they are going to have success against other teams because
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they're not going to be able to stop him running
the football and being an athlete and being you know,
doing a lot of RPO stuff, and I think that
that's where he's gonna thrive and they have success.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
So what does he need to do to break the
narrative that he's not quarterback or does he just embrace
it and ball out at the college level. Run the
ball more man.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You can't pay attention and narratives, dude, it's it's what
people want to talk about and the thing that is
that's that's fun for them. So you got to just
let them roll with whatever you want to whatever they
want to roll with, and you just concentrate on being
good at football.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well, the result of this game has has resulted in
already we got controversy even though a few, only a
few teams have played. I want to read you one
of your own tweets. This is from at George Reister
on x the Everything app Am. I the only person
consistently frustrated with ESPN's FPI's clear sec lean. This is
(10:44):
exactly why the SEC wants it included in the College
Football Playoff Committee guidance. Twelve SEC teams ranked in the
top twenty five and Kansas State is ten spots above
Iowa State who beat them.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Can't and I know that results later on in the
season Week ten, Week eleven, Like, if a one win
team beats to an eight win team, then no, the
one win team should not be ranked above the eight
win team. However, when it is the first game of
the season, how can we argue, how can we argue
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Iowa State should be ranked in front of Kansas State
they beat them. However, the ESPN FPI ridiculously says the
other thing. And think about this. Let's go back to
last season, Ralph the fourth and fifth teams in the
season in the FBI at the end of the season,
where Alabama and Old Miss they were in front of
(11:43):
Penn State, Georgia and Oregon. What are we talking about?
And then you had USC at seven and six ranked
in front, ranked in front of Arizona State. Yeah, Arizona State, Michigan,
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Michigan who beat them and beat Ohio State and Alabama?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
What are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
This is so ridiculously flawed that we can't even take
it seriously. However, the College Football Playoff Committee is supposed
to take it seriously.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, I mean, it feels like the FPI does not
feel super scientific. It feels like one person's opinion, like
if we lined Basically, what they're saying is if we
line Kansas State and Iowa State up ten times, Kansas
State's winning seven of them. But that's not what I
saw in that game.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
No.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Also, the result is the result, I mean, would it
have mattered. I wonder if it would have mattered more
if that last touchdown had been allowed and you have
instead of a three point when you have a ten
point win, because I wonder if that's even factored in.
I don't know. It's frustrating. I tend to not pay
too much attention to it. And I think you're doing
the whole Paul Revere thing, going from town to town
(13:04):
shouting that like, we don't want this to matter. If
it's gonna exist, fine, but it shouldn't matter. And I
do agree with you there, yep. So let's move on
to the f PA FBI formula is busted for sure.
Let's move on to something else that seems to be
busted at this current time. Let's talk about Stanford football,
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which found a way to lose to Hawaii in Frank
Reich's coaching interim coaching debut. His interim might last one
week if they're not careful. What did you think of
Stanford dropping a game to Hawaii?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Okay, One, on one hand, it didn't seem plausible or
possible at first, right.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It didn't because we know that that Stanford's down. But
you know what, it wasn't until after that I realized
how bad that it's been now. Mind you, we've been
talking about the fall of intellectual brutality for a while,
but it didn't really feel like as long as it had.
They have not won more than four games since twenty eighteen,
(14:09):
Ralph more than four, and they haven't won more than
three since like twenty twenty one. So this has been
a disaster a disaster. This is not even a serviceable
football program right now. And honestly, I don't even think
that there's anything Frank Wright can well, Frank Wright can
(14:32):
help losing to Hawaii, but he can't help what he
inherited on this roster. This feels like Andrew Luck doing
him a solid because he was out of work and
he quit on him when he was there.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Okay, so obviously Stanford has talent. Anybody who follows the
recruiting rankings, you know that some of the best high
school football players in America are still at Stanford, even
with the guys they lost in the portal, like David
Bailey once there was that turnovert head coach with Troy Taylor.
The one thing you'd figure is these guys aren't going
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to go out there and beat themselves but seventh year
Stanford defensive lineman Clay Patterson decided to do a fifteen
second long TikTok dance that got with a fifteen yard
on sportsmanlike penalty, and then Hawaii scores a touchdown on
the next play to take a fourteen to thirteen lead
into halftime. If it really feels like with that and
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the two Ben goal Brandson interceptions in the fourth quarter,
Stanford beat themselves. What I don't expect is for Stanford
to look stupid out on the field. These supposed to
be the nerds.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yes see.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And and remember when it felt like big gold Branson
didn't get a fair shake at Oregon State. There were
people that thought that, well, he wasn't very good in
this game either, And I do. And it was weird
because I felt better about Hawaii and their future after
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this game, and I felt worse about Stafford because I
looked at their schedule. I was like, where can we
find a win? And why should Notre Dame keep playing them?
That's what I thought, Because they played BYU that should
be a loss. I mean, obviously transitive property don't apply,
but I mean, I guess the only possible win that
(16:32):
I can find because they got Florida State, Miami, pitt,
North Carolina, Cow, Notre Dame, maybe Cow or San Jose State.
Those looked like the only possible wins on the schedule.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
All right, well, let's move on to another team that
you were high on going into the season. I have
a question for you. How worried are you about your
UNLV running rebels after they had to have a little
bit of a second half comeback to beat Idaho State.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Panic meter is at ten. My panic meter is at
ten on UNLV. And I know you're not supposed to overreact,
But how am I not supposed to overreact to you
damn near losing a game to Idaho State.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
That's the issue.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
And it's not like it was a you know where
you had a bunch of turnovers and people were fumbling
all over the place. No, you only lost one fumble
and you didn't throw an interception. So how am I
supposed to look at that? I mean, because if you
fumbled the ball and they picked it up, rand it
in for touchdowns and stuff like that, I can get
(17:40):
behind that. But the issue is they barely won Ralph
and they got four interceptions. They got four interceptions, How
am I by lt Welch.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Shout out to lt Welch. They got four interceptions, but
they also gave up four hundred yards passing. Yes the state.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yes, So if Idaho State can throw for four hundred
yards on you, imagine what let's let's see the rest
of UNLV schedule. Shit, Imagine what Sam Houston State's gonna
do to you. Imagine what UCLA's at. Remember when we
thought that UCLA U n LV was going to possibly
be the competitive game man Nico might be headed to
(18:24):
a hot We might be talking Nico for Heisman after
that game.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Okay, so I do have one question for you, because
the way they came back and won this game is
pretty interesting, especially if UNOV is going to get their
life together and be a factor in the Mountain West
and possibly for a spot in the college football Playoff.
They almost pulled it off last year in the fourth
quarter they tied the game up with a with a
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Calandria touchdown passes, and then Alex Orgy comes in and
wins the game with an eleven yard run. Looks like
we got a two quarter system, which we thought it
might be going into the season. How do you how
do you determine who your quarterback is. When they both
did what was necessary to win the game in the
fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
That was desperation. There was a hell Mary.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
This also shows that Alex Orgy, even with a whole
different head coach, they don't believe that he can throw
the football at any type of competent level, which is
honestly disheartening because the kid's a hell of an athlete.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
He's he should be okay with the position.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Change at this point if we're really being honest, like
this is one of those things that needs to happen
for his career and if he ever wants to play
at the next level, if he just wants to, if
he's fine with this, then listen.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
If he likes it, I love it, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Excited about UNLV still, but this is this was scary.
Ralph thirty one points to Idaho State and throwing for
four hundred yards and then having a quarterback issue. I say,
just start Kaladrian, Just start Kaladria and go from there,
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because you or start Orgy.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
And go from there. Just let it happen, Rock with
one quarterback and that's it.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
So what it feels to me like you're saying is
you can't erase the results of what you saw out
of your mind? Yes, but my question is can we
erase results because your son's teams Davis, they went out
to play Mercer, actually had a pretty good game going.
Then Lightning starts striking in the distance.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
In the fourth quarters, like seven minutes to go.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah, and they decide this game is over, it's not
going to be completed, and it will be as if
it never happened. The stats do not count. What is
your take on UC Davis Mercer ending twenty three seventeen,
But not really because it never actually happened.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yes, it's a no contest. I was like, are we
watching boxing or wrestling? This bout is determined as a
no contest?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Like what?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And I remember I was like, these stats don't count.
Do you realize how upset I would be? Like, imagine
if you are a kid who is up for postseason
awards your STA.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
What about when you went to Mississippi State, when you
were at Oregon and it was your first ever two
touchdown game? What if that game ends in the fourth
quarter and they're like, never mind, George did not score
those two touchdowns?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
What do you know I'm mad.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I would be bro because when your career is over,
those stats matter to you, You care about those stats,
and and just to pretend like they didn't happen, no way,
no way, you might have somebody miss out on being
an All American with tackle, sacks, punk returns, anything, and
(22:06):
that is that's terrible. It It's like kissing. That's worse
than a tie, just saying the ay though the weather
was inclement, we can't finish the game like man.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
That's garbage. Sucks, sucks, sucks.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
So we're gonna we're gonna move on from the games
that did or didn't happen last week, and we got
to talk about something that either is or isn't happening
right now. Apparently, Dave Portnoy and the Barstool pregame Show, Yes,
are not welcome at the Shoe for the opener against Texas.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
No, the Fox pregame show.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Well not just the Fox pregame show, here's the rub.
Barstool has its own pregame show that goes on simultaneously,
allowing for Dave Portnoy to be part of the Barstool
pregame show, which they had set up to be outside
the shoe for the game against Texas and then he
(23:09):
would go in and be part of the Fox pregame show,
the Big New Kickoff. Because Fox and Barstool now have
a partnership. It came out today Front Office Sports reported
that Dave Portnoy is not welcome. So Dave Portnoy pulled
the Barstool pregame show from Columbus. He said it's gonna
be studio based and he loves this. He absolutely loves
(23:34):
this because.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
For him.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
But my question is, because Ohio State's athletic director has
come out and said we did not do this, who
is telling the truth. Who is telling the truth, because
what's the point My old thing is, what's the point
of Barstool pulling their pregame show if it wasn't actually true?
(24:00):
And oh, this was a Fox decision.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
So I'm so being working in the television industry, I
think either one or two things that is happening right here.
Either Fox is saying we don't want competing interests like
between Barstool and here on site right or this is
(24:29):
one marketing play. This is a we're gonna say we
got banned. It's like the the thing that made the
Jordan's so popular is that they got banned.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Yeah. The thing that made people buy more rap albums is.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
The parental advisory sticker.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, and and that oh, you can't buy it at
certain places. And so because remember they are competing against
Game Day on ESPN, and this is something that they
wanted to like they are trying to overtake Gay Day,
like this is a war. This is the only reason
why Portnoy is on there is to compete with.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Man, just compete with Pat McAfee.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
So now we're in a situation where you got Pat
McAfee portnoy, and now Portnoy's got to make some noise
right before. So now people are going to tune in
just to see what he's going to say and if
he's going to make a ruckus about it.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I watched Dave Portnoy's video and he said that they
had to pay a cancelation fee for backing out, but
if your banned, you shouldn't have to pay anything. So
So what this maybe I think happened was people at
Ohio State expressed some misgivings about having a Michigan booster
doing stuff in Columbus, and Dave Portnoy, who is brilliant
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when it comes to marketing himself and his brand said fine,
you don't want us there, then we'll pull out, and
then maybe tell Front Office Sports they didn't want me
there anyway, and then Ohio State is left having to backtrack.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
If Ohio State did this at all, this is the
pettiest thing ever, pettiest thing ever, And I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I love it. I love petty college football. I love it.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Cross out the m's everywhere, cross out the o's everywhere.
That's the level of commitment. And I love people who
are committed.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah, this isn't a bad thing that happened. This is
the most hilarious possible outcome. It's good for everybody involved.
It's got us talking about it. Everybody's gonna be talking
about it. No one got hurt, Like, nothing truly bad happened.
But it is a very interesting wrinkle. And it's possible
that you know, Dave Portnoy and Fox, you know, decided
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to say, hey, we're going to take our ball and
go home. I mean, imagine you're about to get married,
you're contentious with your future mother in law, and you
say something like, man, I don't even know if I
want her here. That doesn't mean that you don't you're
not gonna have her there. I mean, I don't even
know if I want her here. But let's say that
comment gets back to her and she decides not to
show up, and then on your wedding day, that's what
everybody's talking about. So I don't know, that's just me
(27:10):
maybe reading into the situation. But let's move on to
our next topic. Jedfish. Now you interviewed Jedfish, this officer and.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Coach at Washington.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
He's a great coach. He was at like twelve spots
in seventeen years before he got that Arizona gig. Yeah,
correlayed it into taking over for a team that had
just been to the national championship. Now, the longest place
that his wife and kids ever were is Tucson, and
after one year, Jedfish's wife Amber announced that they're going
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to be moving back to Tucson to finish up their school.
And they got an eighth grade and a tenth grade daughter.
This isn't exactly a beloved family in Tucson, by the way,
but their kids probably made friends. And so you have
a coach's wife and kids thousands of miles away, what
is your take on this?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Okay, so initially my initial thought was whoa oh is
there like, are these people getting ready to get a
divorce or is there something because but then once you
recap this again and you're like, you got an eighth
grader and a tenth grader. Eighth grader not necessarily as
big of a deal, but the tenth grader been around
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their friends for a while and all of this stuff
at the.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Same high school.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It's probably tough, and so they the kids may have
been miserable, unhappy. You know, things can happen at schools
two kids, especially if you have a famous family, and
they just might not be acclimating well to the weather,
to anything. And as a parent, you have to do
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the best thing for your family and for your kids.
And this is going to put some stress on their relationship.
That's just the truth. Now, mind you, they can fly
to every game on the week on their private jet
because of course that's probably part of you know, Jetfish's
contract and all of that. But it is going to
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put some stress on their marriage being far away from
each other.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
That's just the truth. So I'm hoping for your things.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Do you think it's going to come up and recruiting.
Do you think that somebody what at USC is gonna
say when you think Jetfish is going to be their
long term His wife and kids don't even live in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You think you want to live in Seattle, bro His
wife and kids don't even want to live in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
It rains all the time. It's terrible, it's garbage.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
It's this one hundred percent ralph that will be said
time and time again. Oh you think he's jet Jeff
hey Man, the man has moved seventeen jobs and this
this this, even though it's not all his fault because
assistant coaches have to move around a lot when head
coaches get fired and everything in between. But I do
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believe that this put in jeopardy his long term future
in Washington, not his short term future. But you know,
three years from now, we could be having a different conversation.
And mind you, I'm the guy who picked Washington to
finish fifth in the Big Ten this year. And if
they do that and then he has another season of that,
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and then I don't know, Arizona Cardinals head coach coaching
job comes open in aass Fish, he probably gonna take
that one.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I got a wild scenario for you. What if Brent
Brennan gets fired.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
At Arizona.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Man, if Britain listened, listen if Brennan gets okay, So
for anybody who doesn't know the history. So when Jed
left and went to Washington, San Jose state's head coach
went down to Arizona, there was issues about money and
this and that.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Now ad that hired Brent Brennan got fire one week later.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yes, so the people are so some of the people
are gone. If Brent Brandon gets fired, and I mean
Arizona can't pay him what he's making at Washington, can
they No?
Speaker 3 (31:17):
But if his wife and kids are there, it's just interesting.
I don't know, Seattle, what.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Do you take like six million dollars to go back
instead of the what.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Ninety eight or nine he's making now to be closer
to his family?
Speaker 2 (31:33):
A man, that's it.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Oh, people are gonna think you're trolling because you're an
Oregon guy. But here's the truth. Like, you've been higher
on Washington than anybody going to this year. You went,
you went out to Seattle, you interviewed Jetfish. I'll say this.
I got a son who is a Washington fan I
got a son who wants to move to Seattle as
soon as he's finished with high school, and people tell
everybody tells him the same thing. I had a really
I had a really good friend who had five kids,
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moved out to Seattle for his dream job, and seasonal
effective disorder started in people's butt out there. They had
to leave. It's it's Seattle reminds me of Cilantro. Some
people are just genetically predisposed to think its on soap,
and for some people it makes street tacos the most
delightful food on earth. So I would say that, like,
I don't think you're rooting against I don't think you're
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rooting for things to fall apart in Seattle was just
a reality. The situation, it's unique. I'm an Arizona State guy.
Herm Edwards did the first couple of years in Temptee
without his family being there with him, and it's an
interesting it's an interesting setup, to say the least. Let's
move on to sunny Los Angeles, California, where you were
based and talk about another head coach that you got
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to sit down with and interview this summer, and all
these interviews are available on Unafraid Show dot Com on
Afraid Show on YouTube. Deshaun Foster. Deshaun Foster has decided
to pick a fight with the LA media, uh, not
letting them film and not letting them interview players. The
pushback from the media is we got to do our
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job and we want to spread the gospel of UCLA.
Deshaun Foster's stance is winning will spread the gospel. If
I was an opposing coach, I'd just be able to
watch practice footage and beat us. So who is right
to Sean Foster or the media?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Both both are right, sod.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Sean Foster is right for being upset that the media
was posting, you know, clips of them at practice that
he didn't feel like they should be posting, right, like
if he felt like that they were showing too much
action or this or that, because you have to be
very very careful about things that you show at practice.
Everybody knows this. If you go at practice that you
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cannot film, especially like team drills and stuff like that,
like individual stuff, nobody cares and so so that's the
big thing. But now, on the other hand, UCLA spent
all off season marketing, right like, trying to get more
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interest in it, and the media does need to Like,
you do need the media because the hotter your program is,
the cooler that you are, the more recruits are going
to want to go there. And so I think it's
a double edged sword because he's trying to get ready
for the season, trying to keep his team focused, feeling pressure,
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you know, wants to do well. He's mad at the
media for doing that, and I think that this was
a calcula from a from a guy that I believe
is doing a really good job. Believe that this was
a mistake to totally box out the media, because you
do want your players, especially if you want Tom, if
you want you know, Quasi Gilmer to be possibly a
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Bolitnikoff guy, you need some press. So it's a combination
of press. But then he also might know his team
and he feels like, yo, we were getting a little
to Hollywood right right now, we gotta stay locked in.
So he could be right if he's taking the temperature
of his team and seeing that they need a media
blackout right now because they feeling theyself too much.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Well, speaking of media versus a coach, we did have
a settlement between Northwestern and Pat Fitzgerald, who was there
for a very long time. His defensive coordinator, David Brown,
took the program over a couple of years ago after
he was fired for not he was fired because there
was hazing in the program. No one is arguing that
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there was not hazing in the program. Not even Pat
Fitzgerald is saying there was not hazing in the program.
What he's saying is I found out when everybody else
found out. I would have loved the opportunity to address this.
I'm as disappointed as anyone that doesn't represent me Northwestern
is forced to come out saying like, we actually never
got anybody to say that Pat Fitzgerald knew. Therefore he
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probably didn't know, or at least we can't prove it.
So you know, we're sorry and we wish him the best.
Not very often it comes out that, you know, the
team is like oops. But at the same time, this
is something that was supposedly so ingrained in the culture
that it was passed down from class to class to
class that they even had these hand signals that players
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would give out when they'd identify a freshman that they
were going to put through the car wash or whatever
make them run around naked or take naked snaps or
weird stuff, like really weird stuff. If my kid was
at that program, I'd have been furious. But the whistleblower happens,
the media kind of piles on Pat Fitzgerald because, as
you said, like, how could you not know, which ultimately
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was why he was fired? How did you not know? Okay, So,
but with him being cleared, will Pat Fitzgerald coach college
football ever again?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
The answer to that is yes, but it'll be weird.
He will coach college football again if he wants to.
He's just got to go through his uh, you know,
his sitout period. He's got to go through his his
his you know, his sportswa washing. He's got to appear
on TV a little bit. Some podcasts talk about leadership,
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talk about how things are changing in the game and
now you have to be ready to adapt. The issue
is this is that he was never built to coach
anywhere else but Nebraska. I'm sorry, butt Northwestern. He's a
Northwestern guy. He loves it. He was there for the grind,
there for the build. He I don't know if he
would have left for other jobs. So he had his
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heart set on that. So until his heart changes and
he can be like, all right, I want to coach
college football, and I'm never gonna coach at Northwestern again,
at least in the next fifteen or twenty years. Once
he can get past that, if he can go somewhere else,
run a good program, and have success. Let's say he
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went to like, I don't know, Oklahoma or Oklahoma State.
Let's say he went to Oklahoma, that's probably a job. Well,
if he would start out as an assistant and then
end up as a head coach, do a good job
for like seven eight years, and then this is ten
years from now. Right, he runs a clean program, everything,
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and Northwestern is down and out. So they go back
to their boy, Pat Fitch Fitzgerald. He's like, I'm gonna
run it. He's a no nonsense candidate this time. No,
I'm controlling everything in the program. Won't let you guys
down again, all that stuff. Then yes, he could possibly
get back to Northwestern. There's a path to that, being
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that the results were the results of this investigation. But
I refuse to believe that this man had no idea.
I do believe that Pat Fitzgerald knew that there was
hazing going on. I don't necessarily believe that he knew
to the extent of what was going on, because coaches
know that there's hazing stuff that goes on, but they
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don't always know the extent of things, and then things
escalate as there's no when there's no supervision over it.
So they were essentially ordering cod reds like a few
good men. And when I was in college and when
I was in the NFL, there was hazing going on.
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There was naked hazing going on at one at one
place I was at, and I'm not giving to get
everybody in trouble, but we did this thing called a
record race. Okay, you are buttonneked with a jockstrap on, well,
I guess you're not buttonneckd then, and we're in a
relay race that is set up cones and there's water
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and everything else, and you have to put a record,
a vinyl record, in your butt cheeks.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
And you run around.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Through the obstacle course and then when you get back
to pass it to the next person, you have to
pass it through your butt cheek to butt cheek.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Did you win?
Speaker 1 (40:04):
I don't remember. I just remember being like, I'll go first.
The way I didn't have to get a used a
youth butt record.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Setting records. All right, amazing, amazing segue. Don't know how
to get out of this one, But I do have
a question for you. I'll rank these on a scale
one of the TI. I'm gonna give you three names,
and you tell me in five years the likelihood that
they will be a college football head coach. Number one.
Pat Fitzgerald.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Oh, in the next five years. Yes, I'll give it
a five. Actually, yeah, yeah, y'all give it a five.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Because he's got to go be an assistant first and
then have some good things happen to him, success and
everything else there.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
So that could not work out. So I'll give it
a five.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Twenty thirteen National champion and all time Golden parachute receiver
Jimbo Fisher.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Oh, that's about a seven and a half.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
But it's just a matter of where he may have
to go to, like Youngstown State or something. But here's
the thing is, I would hire Jimbo Fisher as my
head coach. I'm just not paying him like he wants
to be paid. I'm gonna give it will be an
incentive laden contract every single year, Okay, it will extend
the year. Every single year, and you get raised this
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based upon what happens. Six wins, you get an extra
million dollars, seven wins million dollars, eight wins, million dollars,
all of these things. You can get up to all
the numbers that you want, but you ain't getting that
guaranteed money. That's what you're not doing. You you already
ran off with somebody else seventy six million dollars. Do
you think I'm letting you get unmotivated and uninspired again? No, no, no,
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you gotta work for what you want, buddy, hey.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
And you think maybe he'd agree with that, because the
class of twenty twenty two is supposed to be the
greatest recruiting class of all time, and they got all
that money up front, and look what happened to them.
Some did well, some didn't do anything, And so maybe
he would would agree with that. And my last one
is mister John Gruden, who is probably on the verge
of a nice payout from the National Football League to
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avoid discovery of any kind in his email leaking case
of him getting fired from the Raiders. He has come
to love college football a bit and said he would
be open to coaching in the SEC what are the
odds in the next five years he is a head
coach in college football.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
I'm gonna go with an eight.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
And eight because he oh dude, he has sports washed
himself with these with the interviews, still with the quarterbacks,
and then.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Hey, send me your gear. I'll wear your gear. Let's
pump up your team like that whole jail. He's done it.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Well, he's like the old, you know, crazy uncle that
we all love, got about all the other stuff. And
that's where he is right now. Somebody is going to
hire John group Gart. You can book it. You can
book it, remember it, write it down, take a picture
and now and remember he was like, I'm open to
coaching in the SEC, slow down path.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
We can't hire you in the SEC yet.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Well, I will throw this out there. We are also
open to free gear here at the Unafraid Show and
college football Apostles. Let's get into something that you know
quite a bit about, and that is the shoe company's
relationships with these colleges. We just had Tennessee become the
flagship program for Adidas, and we also had South Carolina
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agree to a ten year deal with Nike. What do
you think the effect will be on these programs because
we know seventeen eighteen year old kids actually make some
of their decisions based on how they're gonna look in
the gear they're gonna wear. Deebo Samuel just did an
interview on Pardon My Take where he said he didn't
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go to Georgia because he didn't like black socks with
black shoes. So, like, this stuff actually fastest.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
People don't believe that this stuff matters. Dude, Tennessee going
to Adidas is going to have some level of impact
on their recruiting in a negative way. South Carolina going
to Nike, it is going to have a positive impact
not only in women's basketball, but in but in football
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as well. It is going like these things are Auburn Auburn.
There were people, There were kids who didn't want to
go to Auburn because they were responsible by right Dale,
and then they went to under Armour, and now they're
back with with with Nike. It is going to be
a They're going to have some recruiting advantages because of that.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
Well, uh, I do you I you know you're a
Nike guy. You make no bones about being a Nike guy.
I'm an Adidas guy.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
I'm a guy.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Listen, listen, this is this is Unafraid show. This is
college football apostles. We like who likes us?
Speaker 2 (45:15):
I have?
Speaker 3 (45:15):
He says on his shirt.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Hey, ordinarily, if you notice that I'm wearing logo, list
I don't have a logo on shirts intentionally because everything
is for sale. Everything just ain't on sale. And and
I am not a free advertisement kind of kind of
person unless it's somebody that I do.
Speaker 3 (45:44):
We just caught you lacking on this particular occasion. All right, Well,
speaking of money in college football, you had said that
the nil go was a good idea, but the execution
of it is really gonna matter to whether or not
it gets sued into oblivion. We have to start all
over again. A lot of these deals are based on
who's hot in the moment. We want somebody to represent
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our company, who did something good right now, who's in
the zeitgeist right now, who people are talking about right now.
But some of these nil go deals are taking weeks
to approve, which means the deal is no longer relevant,
which means it is costing players money. Is this something
that needs to be fixed immediately? Could this be the
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death of nil go if they do not fix it immediately.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Oh, I do believe that there needs to be some
priority with like like that things should be that there
should be a priority level that you submit things like
that there's a deadline by a certain date, and if
what you put in there is not true, then you
get pushed back to the bottom of the pot, back
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back of the pile.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Like if you push immediate.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
And then you say and it's not immediate, it's like
six weeks from now, bro, you go back into the
bottom of the fair pile, you know what I mean. Like,
if this is something where somebody catches lightning in a bottle,
something happens, they should be able to capitalize on that
in that short window. Because sometimes things are very very
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short windows. There should be an expedited process for those
sorts of deals. The way you jump up to it,
it's like if you're going in if you going in
emergency room and you are you know, like you gotta
cut on your finger that probably needs stitches, but it's
not gushing all over the place. Somebody has a cold
(47:39):
that comes in, somebody has you know, and then somebody
is coming in there going in cardiac arrest.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
Even though that they came in twentieth.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
They should be seen first because they are in cardiac arrest,
they're having a heart attack or whatever. They should jump
to the you're having an anaphylactic shot, you jump above
everybody else who's been there for three hours already.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
That's the way that it should work.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
So what's a heart attack? No Jingles? We got Bojangles
money coming through.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
Hey man.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
It just depends like if you get in like a
deal and somebody's like, yo, yo, this person just became
super famous over the last couple of weeks, and you know,
it's Carnival coming through, and we want to do this
with them because we just found out that they are,
you know, of Caribbean heritage and they just won the
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national championship. Okay, cool boom, we gotta get going. So yes,
that's definitely yeah, this is definitely a problem. And granted,
there needs to be stiff enforcement in terms of these deals.
You can't just let people just slide any old thing through,
but there does need to be an expedity process.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
Let's get to this weekend games. First of all, I
would love to know you and I haven't talked about
this off here. What is your setup for when you're
doing a studio show with the CW. Congratulations by the way,
thank you. So what is your set? Is just college
football on all around all day while you're in studio.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
You I don't know.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
Yeah, I don't know yet. I will find out next weekend.
I will find out next weekend. I am juiced, bro,
I cannot tell. I do know that there's a one
hundred foot by twenty football that I'll be standing in
front of.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
Oh, so you're in the home studio this weekend for
the big kickoff weekend. Yes, you're gonna be watching from
your home set up.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Yes, yes, yes, and we're gonna do I'm gonna figure
out how we're gonna do a watch party. We're gonna
have a watch party with some unafraid show fans and it's.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (49:50):
All right, So I I have a question for you,
because there's a lot of good games this weekend. You
already did previews on some of these. One of the
previews got about five hundred people arguing in the comments
on YouTube. Right now, almost forty thousand people have watched this.
Everybody's got something to say. You got to check some
of these game previews out Unafraid show on YouTube. We
had Colorado, Georgia Tech go up just today. The Flora
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Florida State Bama One's interesting because you made an interesting prediction,
and now the Alabama fans are like, we're watching you.
If you're wrong, we're done with you forever. But if
you're right, we respect you. So's there's even one Alabama
fan who said, we have the ability to make or
break your channel, so you better be right about us.
I thought some of those comments are interesting, but I
(50:35):
am curious. What will you be watching? What are the
priority games for this weekend? You give me some of yours,
I'll give you some of mine.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
Oh, priority games for this weekend for me, Oregon, Montana
States at the top.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Of the line. No no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
I'm gonna be watching some big Sky versus Arizona State
as well, So I get it.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
Okay, So I do want to watch on Thursday Boise State,
South Florida because that's an interesting game obviously, Texas, Ohio State, Syracuse, Tennessee, Alabama,
Florida State, LSU, Clemson.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
Old I got my eye on.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Now with that is Numeral Uno on the list, and
then Virginia Tech, South Carolina and Notre Dame Miami.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
Tell the people why LSU Clemson is Numero uno on
your list and not the number one versus number three
team in the country in Texas, Ohio state.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
Because dude, Clemson is a team that I have picked
to win the national championship.
Speaker 3 (51:41):
It is And.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
There are people who like, this is one of the
sec ACC games that is going to be a big
deal and I need to see what happens in this game.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
Need to.
Speaker 3 (51:57):
So you and I had the chance to go to
Clemson to meet with Dabo. You got to go down
the slide. I air bowed a few three pointers in
front of Dabo. It was a good time. But we
left that place and we kind of gave each other
a look. And we've been saying some things publicly, and
people have been accusing us of drinking the kool Aid,
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and I just want to say, yes, yes, I drank
the coolid.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
Yes we drank the cooler because the gallon, because because
the kool Aid is is it's it is, it is
rooted in substance, because there is a thing, and and
particularly for this season, I think that all the stars
have aligned for them. They have obviously great head coach,
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third year quarterback, really good wide receivers. Their old line
is young, but they've been in their program for a while.
Their defensive line might be the best in college football.
Tom Allen's a good defensive coordinator. Things are like it's
one of those things where like everything has come together,
just like Penn State. Everything has come together for Penn
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State for this to be a special season. Now, whether
it happens or not, it's a whole different story.
Speaker 3 (53:15):
And Adon Terrell, he probably could lock down your number
one wide receiver.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
Probably everyone Kelly And this is a huge game for
Brian Kelly on LSU side too, Bro, Like, you can't
deny that this is a make or break game for
him for this season.
Speaker 3 (53:33):
Every person before him in my lifetime or then my
college football memory has a natty at LSU. He's going
into year four. He hasn't won an opening game yet.
This game matters so much. It's gonna be so much
fun one that I've got my eye on that maybe
it might kind of be off the radar a little bit.
And you actually you actually already have have touched on
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this and other videos we've done. Is on Sunday, Virginia
Tech is taking on South Carolina at the Mercedes Benz
Dome in Atlanta. And you know, Virginia Tech is basically
after Frank Biemer every single year that goes by and
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makes Frank Biemer look like one of the greatest coaches
of all time.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
Which we know he is.
Speaker 3 (54:21):
First, Virginia Tech's been struggling, and then South Carolina has
this College Football Playoff hype and a lot of it.
And Virginia Tech they only lost two games last year
by more than ten points, and it was two really
really tough teams like Clemson. So you know, I think
South Carolina probably got to come out and look good
in that game. And then the other one, which you
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touched on, which kicks off our season for Week one
on Thursday, is Boise State was in the College Football Playoff.
Now they got to go out to USF with no
Ashton genty so and then Syracuse Tennessee. I cannot stress
enough how impressed I am with Fran Brown. But NC
State open that season against Tennessee last year and got beat.
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If that game had one more quarter, it might have
been a triple digit win for Tennessee. So for the
ACC to positively be represented against Tennessee. I think is
really really important. But you know, Tennessee's got a lot
of questions to answer too, with joe Yagyar at quarterback
and everything like that. So just a fantastic weekend of football,
which means that it is time to get to your
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five picks that you're standing on business with against the
spread for week one.
Speaker 2 (55:33):
Mm hmm, okay.
Speaker 3 (55:35):
You wanted to intro these games or you want to
take it?
Speaker 2 (55:38):
No, no, go ahead intro for me.
Speaker 3 (55:42):
Okay. So the first game that we're going to talk
about is being played at hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida,
maybe in absolute hellish weather possibly, and this is number
ten Miami hosting number six Noted Dame. The Fighting Irish
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are currently a two and a half point favorite.
Speaker 4 (56:05):
George, I, this one is tough for me because, on
one hand, if this is the weather is super bad,
and this comes down to like a.
Speaker 2 (56:19):
Decision making.
Speaker 1 (56:21):
Mario Christopaul has had some bad clock management situations, and
I do believe in what is going on at Notre Dame.
But they're breaking in a new defensive line, they're breaking
in a new quarterback. Going down there is going to
be tough, particularly with the energy at the beginning of
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the season. I am going to take Miami in this game.
Speaker 3 (56:49):
Okay, So Miami to cover the two and a half
and you might might get the best of both worlds here.
It's possible. Notre Dame wins by one. Yeah, but you're like, oh,
I was right, and I was right, So all right,
let's move on to that second Sunday game that we
already brought up. South Carolina is favored by eight against
Virginia Tech. Is being played at the Mercedes Benz Dome,
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so no weather in Atlanta, not that far from Miami,
but no weather because it's gonna be in a dome.
A lot of heat on South Carolina right now. But
Kyen Drones comes back. His best game of the season
was probably his first game of the year last year.
Does Virginia Tech even have a shot in this game?
South Carolina currently favored by eight points.
Speaker 1 (57:30):
The answer to that is no, South Virginia Tech does
not stand a chance in this game. I believe that
this is gonna end up a wipeout. I'm sorry, I
don't believe in what's going like, I don't trust, excuse not,
I don't believe in it. I don't trust what's going
on at Virginia Tech right now you and partially because
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I got sold on Kyrien drones last year. I got
sold to Bill of Goods and my fault didn't and
it didn't happen. So I am going to trust South Carolina,
even though I don't fully trust South Carolina. They are
a team that will lose a game that they are
not supposed to lose. But their quarterback is a year older.
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Shane Bieber is doing a good job over there. They're
recruiting much better, and so I'm gonna put my faith
in the game Cocks.
Speaker 3 (58:20):
Right now, Andrew guy rissul Fai, year old running back,
it's got cleared. I think I told you he had
the same stats as Jaden Daniels with the seventeen touchdowns
three exceptions. Yes, and yeah, that was my bad, so
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apologies on my end. Let's jump to the next game,
Auburn against Baylor. Baylor is a two and a half
point dog in this game. They got Sawyer robertson coming back.
Auburn has been recruiting like gamebusters. They go and get
a quarterback from Oklahoma. Let they go and get a
quarterback from Stanford. They got a bunch of play callers,
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a bunch of quarterbacks. Who do you like in Auburn,
Blen Baylor.
Speaker 2 (59:08):
Baylor, Baylor.
Speaker 1 (59:09):
I hate having three different play callers, like Auburn is
going to do. Nothing great can come from it, not
quarterback continuity, nothing of it at all. This is headed
for disaster. This is going to start the end of
the Hugh Freeze era. Potentially losing to a Big twelve team,
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but it will help the Big twelve. But mind you,
Hugh Freeze will go win some games in the SEC.
Then it's gonna throw everything off and then you're gonna
be like, well, all these an ACC team beat a
top SEC team, a Big twelve team beat a team
that beat the some SEC teams. And if Ohio State
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beats the SEC, how can you sit up here and
be like, hey, hey, hey, well we should get five
teams in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Well, Big twelve needs this to even possibly get too,
because there's not a lot of good out of conference
and you did a video on this. Not a lot
of good out of conference games this year for the
Big Twelve. Sawyer Robertson against Rayon Strader, the defensive back
at Auburn, gonna be one of the best matchups of
the weekend. Looking forward to that game our next one up.
If I feel like I have a good track record
on quarterbacks this year, the guy that I'm the champion
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of is Brendon Sorosby of Cincinnati, and the guy I've
always told you to sell on is Dylan Rayola. We
have a Nebraska versus Cincinnati game at Arrowhead Stadium where
Nebraska is favored by seven. Your guy, Josh Pate says,
Nebraska's going to the College football Playoff. Is Nebraska going
to cover this seven points against Cincinnati?
Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
We need to drug test Josh Pate. First of all,
Nebraska is not going to the college football Playoff. That
is asini. That is That is craziness. But they will
win this football game. Though this is a Jimmy's and
Joe's game. This is as has more talent at at
most every position. They're just gonna lean on them and
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they're gonna win by ten points probably.
Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
And one thing Matt Rule has been saying publicly that
I find very interesting. He loved last year's team, but
he did not like them, and they had twelve transfers
out of the program before they played in that Bowl Game.
He believes everybody at Nebraska right now is there because
they want to be there. Let's get to your lock
of the week.
Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
Lock it up.
Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
We actually have TCU favored by three going to North
Carolina in Bill Belichick's debut as a head coach. TCU
Drew Dion in his debut as a Power five head coach.
Now they get the greatest of all time in his
debut at the Jordan branded Baby Blue School out there
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in Durham Chapel Hill. Actually, Duke fans are not gonna
like that. North Carolina fans are not gonna like that either.
I live in North Carolina. I should know better. But
TCU is favored by three. Are they going to beat
UNC and cover this spread?
Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Nope, Nope.
Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
UNC is going to take this football game. Bill Belichick
wins his opener. This is a case of there's a
lot of book available on Sunny Dykes and TCU. There
is not a lot available on on North Carolina. But
North Carolina is going to play much better defense than
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they have in the past. Therefore they will be better.
This will be an unexpected game for a lot of people.
UNC wins. Bill Belichick gets his debut win and you guys,
that is college Football Apostles Today. We will be back
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Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
Peace Out
College football is back, and so are the college football apostles.
I'm your boy, George Reister, former NFL player, former college
football player, college football analysts with my man, mister Ralph Amden,
who covers prep sports college sports as well, and we
got to talk today about a lot of things that
have been fight, tech, games, parents, sons, Dave fortnoise, he
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banned from Ohio State, Nike versus Adidas, and so much
more from week one of college football.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Ralph, are you ready to go?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Been ready? Longest offseason of all time? Let's get to
the football.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yes, and you guys make sure that you like, subscribe,
get notifications, tell a friend about the show, and most importantly,
be one of us because it's great content coming out
every single week.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And how we going to work.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Today is on Tuesdays, It'll be me and Ralph and
he'll tee up the topics and then we go at it.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Ralph, what do we all have today?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Well? I have a question for you. Uh, you have
a son who is a college football quarterback. Yes, if
you went to one of his games and maybe he
didn't win, is there any possibility that you would fist
fight your other son just to get a little bit
of that stress off.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
No, no, there's a zero percent chance that I'm fist fighting.
No no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm gonna say, yeah,
I'm gonna say it's a zero percent chance.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
A zero percent chance. Okay. Yeah, So what we have
today is Kansas State quarterback Avery Johnson, his dad, and
his brother were rolling around in the wet streets of Dublin.
After Kansas State lost to Ohio State twenty four to
twenty one on Saturday. They issued a statement. A joint
statement of family statement said, we sincerely apologized for our
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actions following yesterday's football game in Ireland. Senseless vickering escalated
into an unnecessary fight. We have resolved our differences and
take full responsibility for our actions. We've apologized to our
immediate and extended family, and now extend our apologies to
Kansas State University, It's alumni and fans. What do you
think of that?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh, dude, that is an absolute disaster. Bro.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
That is a disaster for the family, It's a disaster
for everybody involved. There literally are no winners in this situation.
But I'm gonna tell you this, and I've told my
sons this.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Is that I love you.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm your dad and I got your back at all times,
but if you ever crossed certain lines, I will put
you down, son, I will put you down. And I
think that as a dad, sometimes you gotta let the like.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I remember when I was like seventeen years.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Old, big strong and taller than my pops getting ready
to go to Oregon and I was with my boy
TK and my dad. Mind you, my dad never like
we never got into physical altercations or anything, and this
day he was so mad. I don't even remember why
I came in the house. He grabbed me. He teleported
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from the kitchen to in front of me, grabbed me
by my neck, picked me up off the off my feet,
and I remember bawling my fist up like man, I'm
finna whoof on him? And then I looked at my
best friend TK, and he turned his back on me
like he wasn't even finna help me. And mind you,
my pops was a dude who didn't really want to
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mess with too often, and it was a situation where
he he was not going to like back down. So
then I unballed my fists and I just took it,
because at that point in time, there was nothing. There
was nothing, nothing, nothing that I was going to be
able to do to solve the situation. And I believe
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that some point in time, teenage boys they always think
that they can beat up their dad, that they are,
you know, rough and tough, and sometimes as a dad,
you gotta let them, let them know that my dad
strength out rules.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Your kids strength.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And if you're the kid, you can't go so far
to where you can't come come back because if you
do certain things to your dad, there's no coming back
from it.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
None, I none.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
How much do you think Avery Johnson's brother actually contributed
to this joint statement that they.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Released, Probably none, none, because he was the person on
the bottom.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Of the deal.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Dad had that forearm in in his neck. That's what
I'm saying, man Son Son just gotta take the l
and stay humbled and be like, hey, listen, we ain't
gonna let this happen again.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
But it's gonna take a while for the son to
like for his for his ego to get unbruised.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh. Absolutely. My reaction to this was I just looked
to see if we had any Johnson's in my family tree,
because that's about how every single one of my family
gatherings ends.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Are you senterment?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Oh yeah, that's when you know it's time to go home. Yeah,
for sure. On my dad's side, like, uh, he gets
the that side of the family gets all the barbecue holidays,
and so that's how our barbecues end. With somebody rolling
around and then some frustration. But no no joint statements.
No one's issuing in.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So you guys are the statistics that that, uh that
most family gatherings end up in a that that those
are the days that you have the most domestic violence
type incidents.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So you guys are the statistic Yeah, I mean we don't.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
We also don't like you know, we don't discriminate, Like
we'll get down on a Wednesday or a Tuesday if
we have to, But for the most part, it's that
Monday holiday, three day weekend. We like to end it
with a bang. So shut up to Avery Johnson shout
out to his family. You guys are welcome at the
cookout anytime because you'll fit right in. Next tup, we
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have the actual results of the game, and I got
two questions for you. Number one, where you impressed with
Iowa State in that sloppy win in Dublin and number two,
what is Avery Johnson? Is he a quarterback? Because there's
been a lot of discourse about that.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
All right, So I will state first of all, I
was anytime you get a win, it's good, right, And
they were playing to what we believe is a good
football team. And now I think about I think at halftime,
I tweeted, I'm regretting picking Kansas State to win the
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Big Twelve, and after the game, I still regret picking
Kansas State to win the Big Twelve. Now, granted they
can have it is the beginning of season. They can
still win the Big Twelve. They still have a lot
of season in front of them. So I'm trying not
to overreact, Ralph, but everything in me wants to overreact.
But I was impressed with Iowa State because Iowa State
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they lined it up and was like, we're checking chin straps.
We are going to make sure that your chin straps
are buckled up tight. We are going to make sure
that you are ready to play real football. They ran
the ball forty six times, Ralph, forty six for only
one hundred and thirty yards. Do you realize the level
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of commitment that that is when you run the football
at that level.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
They got forty five of those rushing yards from Carson
Hansen in that first drive of the fourth quarter, and
maybe they should have been going to him more often,
but they did win. The score is deceptive. They could
have had another touchdown before the end of the game.
They missed a field goal. This might have actually been
a dominant Iowa State win. Even though I think Kansas
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State looked terrible. I thought they just didn't take enough
deep shots. The two times they did it really worked out.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, I thought their defense looked good. I mean because
they did a good job of stopping Iowa State. Granted
the field wasn't perfect. But but here's the thing, this
is why stats are deceptive. Avery Johnson finishes the game
twenty one for thirty for two seventy three and two touchdowns.
If you just look at the stat sheet, how are
you gonna argue with that? And another eight rushes for
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twenty one yards in a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
He looked the most natural on that rushing touchdown. That
to add fuel to the fire, he looked good when
he's running the ball.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
But that's the trouble with stats sometimes, is that now
we're sitting here, wondering and debating about Avery Johnson as
a quarterback. Obviously the kids a quarterback, but two but
a lot of those yards came on that sixty five
yard touchdown to Jeram Bradley and then the what was
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it a thirty seven yard touchdown to jas Brown because
those were off of like not trick plays, but they
were double move type type plays to where you know,
like fake pump and then the guys were wide open.
So I get so, on one, on one hand, you're
sitting there like, okay, one hundred of his yards came
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from those types of plays and then they had another
big play I think as well, But it's just you're
not looking at it and seeing the type of you know,
progression and reading and everything else that you would like. However,
they are going to have success against other teams because
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they're not going to be able to stop him running
the football and being an athlete and being you know,
doing a lot of RPO stuff, and I think that
that's where he's gonna thrive and they have success.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
So what does he need to do to break the
narrative that he's not quarterback or does he just embrace
it and ball out at the college level. Run the
ball more man.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You can't pay attention and narratives, dude, it's it's what
people want to talk about and the thing that is
that's that's fun for them. So you got to just
let them roll with whatever you want to whatever they
want to roll with, and you just concentrate on being
good at football.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well, the result of this game has has resulted in
already we got controversy even though a few, only a
few teams have played. I want to read you one
of your own tweets. This is from at George Reister
on x the Everything app Am. I the only person
consistently frustrated with ESPN's FPI's clear sec lean. This is
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exactly why the SEC wants it included in the College
Football Playoff Committee guidance. Twelve SEC teams ranked in the
top twenty five and Kansas State is ten spots above
Iowa State who beat them.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Can't and I know that results later on in the
season Week ten, Week eleven, Like, if a one win
team beats to an eight win team, then no, the
one win team should not be ranked above the eight
win team. However, when it is the first game of
the season, how can we argue, how can we argue
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Iowa State should be ranked in front of Kansas State
they beat them. However, the ESPN FPI ridiculously says the
other thing. And think about this. Let's go back to
last season, Ralph the fourth and fifth teams in the
season in the FBI at the end of the season,
where Alabama and Old Miss they were in front of
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Penn State, Georgia and Oregon. What are we talking about?
And then you had USC at seven and six ranked
in front, ranked in front of Arizona State. Yeah, Arizona State, Michigan,
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Michigan who beat them and beat Ohio State and Alabama?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
What are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
This is so ridiculously flawed that we can't even take
it seriously. However, the College Football Playoff Committee is supposed
to take it seriously.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, I mean, it feels like the FPI does not
feel super scientific. It feels like one person's opinion, like
if we lined Basically, what they're saying is if we
line Kansas State and Iowa State up ten times, Kansas
State's winning seven of them. But that's not what I
saw in that game.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
No.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Also, the result is the result, I mean, would it
have mattered. I wonder if it would have mattered more
if that last touchdown had been allowed and you have
instead of a three point when you have a ten
point win, because I wonder if that's even factored in.
I don't know. It's frustrating. I tend to not pay
too much attention to it. And I think you're doing
the whole Paul Revere thing, going from town to town
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shouting that like, we don't want this to matter. If
it's gonna exist, fine, but it shouldn't matter. And I
do agree with you there, yep. So let's move on
to the f PA FBI formula is busted for sure.
Let's move on to something else that seems to be
busted at this current time. Let's talk about Stanford football,
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which found a way to lose to Hawaii in Frank
Reich's coaching interim coaching debut. His interim might last one
week if they're not careful. What did you think of
Stanford dropping a game to Hawaii?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Okay, One, on one hand, it didn't seem plausible or
possible at first, right.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It didn't because we know that that Stanford's down. But
you know what, it wasn't until after that I realized
how bad that it's been now. Mind you, we've been
talking about the fall of intellectual brutality for a while,
but it didn't really feel like as long as it had.
They have not won more than four games since twenty eighteen,
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Ralph more than four, and they haven't won more than
three since like twenty twenty one. So this has been
a disaster a disaster. This is not even a serviceable
football program right now. And honestly, I don't even think
that there's anything Frank Wright can well, Frank Wright can
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help losing to Hawaii, but he can't help what he
inherited on this roster. This feels like Andrew Luck doing
him a solid because he was out of work and
he quit on him when he was there.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Okay, so obviously Stanford has talent. Anybody who follows the
recruiting rankings, you know that some of the best high
school football players in America are still at Stanford, even
with the guys they lost in the portal, like David
Bailey once there was that turnovert head coach with Troy Taylor.
The one thing you'd figure is these guys aren't going
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to go out there and beat themselves but seventh year
Stanford defensive lineman Clay Patterson decided to do a fifteen
second long TikTok dance that got with a fifteen yard
on sportsmanlike penalty, and then Hawaii scores a touchdown on
the next play to take a fourteen to thirteen lead
into halftime. If it really feels like with that and
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the two Ben goal Brandson interceptions in the fourth quarter,
Stanford beat themselves. What I don't expect is for Stanford
to look stupid out on the field. These supposed to
be the nerds.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yes see.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And and remember when it felt like big gold Branson
didn't get a fair shake at Oregon State. There were
people that thought that, well, he wasn't very good in
this game either, And I do. And it was weird
because I felt better about Hawaii and their future after
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this game, and I felt worse about Stafford because I
looked at their schedule. I was like, where can we
find a win? And why should Notre Dame keep playing them?
That's what I thought, Because they played BYU that should
be a loss. I mean, obviously transitive property don't apply,
but I mean, I guess the only possible win that
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I can find because they got Florida State, Miami, pitt,
North Carolina, Cow, Notre Dame, maybe Cow or San Jose State.
Those looked like the only possible wins on the schedule.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
All right, well, let's move on to another team that
you were high on going into the season. I have
a question for you. How worried are you about your
UNLV running rebels after they had to have a little
bit of a second half comeback to beat Idaho State.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Panic meter is at ten. My panic meter is at
ten on UNLV. And I know you're not supposed to overreact,
But how am I not supposed to overreact to you
damn near losing a game to Idaho State.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
That's the issue.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
And it's not like it was a you know where
you had a bunch of turnovers and people were fumbling
all over the place. No, you only lost one fumble
and you didn't throw an interception. So how am I
supposed to look at that? I mean, because if you
fumbled the ball and they picked it up, rand it
in for touchdowns and stuff like that, I can get
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behind that. But the issue is they barely won Ralph
and they got four interceptions. They got four interceptions, How
am I by lt Welch.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Shout out to lt Welch. They got four interceptions, but
they also gave up four hundred yards passing. Yes the state.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yes, So if Idaho State can throw for four hundred
yards on you, imagine what let's let's see the rest
of UNLV schedule. Shit, Imagine what Sam Houston State's gonna
do to you. Imagine what UCLA's at. Remember when we
thought that UCLA U n LV was going to possibly
be the competitive game man Nico might be headed to
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a hot We might be talking Nico for Heisman after
that game.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Okay, so I do have one question for you, because
the way they came back and won this game is
pretty interesting, especially if UNOV is going to get their
life together and be a factor in the Mountain West
and possibly for a spot in the college football Playoff.
They almost pulled it off last year in the fourth
quarter they tied the game up with a with a
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Calandria touchdown passes, and then Alex Orgy comes in and
wins the game with an eleven yard run. Looks like
we got a two quarter system, which we thought it
might be going into the season. How do you how
do you determine who your quarterback is. When they both
did what was necessary to win the game in the
fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
That was desperation. There was a hell Mary.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
This also shows that Alex Orgy, even with a whole
different head coach, they don't believe that he can throw
the football at any type of competent level, which is
honestly disheartening because the kid's a hell of an athlete.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
He's he should be okay with the position.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Change at this point if we're really being honest, like
this is one of those things that needs to happen
for his career and if he ever wants to play
at the next level, if he just wants to, if
he's fine with this, then listen.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
If he likes it, I love it, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Excited about UNLV still, but this is this was scary.
Ralph thirty one points to Idaho State and throwing for
four hundred yards and then having a quarterback issue. I say,
just start Kaladrian, Just start Kaladria and go from there,
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because you or start Orgy.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
And go from there. Just let it happen, Rock with
one quarterback and that's it.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
So what it feels to me like you're saying is
you can't erase the results of what you saw out
of your mind? Yes, but my question is can we
erase results because your son's teams Davis, they went out
to play Mercer, actually had a pretty good game going.
Then Lightning starts striking in the distance.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
In the fourth quarters, like seven minutes to go.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah, and they decide this game is over, it's not
going to be completed, and it will be as if
it never happened. The stats do not count. What is
your take on UC Davis Mercer ending twenty three seventeen,
But not really because it never actually happened.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yes, it's a no contest. I was like, are we
watching boxing or wrestling? This bout is determined as a
no contest?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Like what?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And I remember I was like, these stats don't count.
Do you realize how upset I would be? Like, imagine
if you are a kid who is up for postseason
awards your STA.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
What about when you went to Mississippi State, when you
were at Oregon and it was your first ever two
touchdown game? What if that game ends in the fourth
quarter and they're like, never mind, George did not score
those two touchdowns?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
What do you know I'm mad.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I would be bro because when your career is over,
those stats matter to you, You care about those stats,
and and just to pretend like they didn't happen, no way,
no way, you might have somebody miss out on being
an All American with tackle, sacks, punk returns, anything, and
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that is that's terrible. It It's like kissing. That's worse
than a tie, just saying the ay though the weather
was inclement, we can't finish the game like man.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
That's garbage. Sucks, sucks, sucks.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
So we're gonna we're gonna move on from the games
that did or didn't happen last week, and we got
to talk about something that either is or isn't happening
right now. Apparently, Dave Portnoy and the Barstool pregame Show, Yes,
are not welcome at the Shoe for the opener against Texas.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
No, the Fox pregame show.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Well not just the Fox pregame show, here's the rub.
Barstool has its own pregame show that goes on simultaneously,
allowing for Dave Portnoy to be part of the Barstool
pregame show, which they had set up to be outside
the shoe for the game against Texas and then he
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would go in and be part of the Fox pregame show,
the Big New Kickoff. Because Fox and Barstool now have
a partnership. It came out today Front Office Sports reported
that Dave Portnoy is not welcome. So Dave Portnoy pulled
the Barstool pregame show from Columbus. He said it's gonna
be studio based and he loves this. He absolutely loves
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this because.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
For him.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
But my question is, because Ohio State's athletic director has
come out and said we did not do this, who
is telling the truth. Who is telling the truth, because
what's the point My old thing is, what's the point
of Barstool pulling their pregame show if it wasn't actually true?
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And oh, this was a Fox decision.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
So I'm so being working in the television industry, I
think either one or two things that is happening right here.
Either Fox is saying we don't want competing interests like
between Barstool and here on site right or this is
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one marketing play. This is a we're gonna say we
got banned. It's like the the thing that made the
Jordan's so popular is that they got banned.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Yeah. The thing that made people buy more rap albums is.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
The parental advisory sticker.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, and and that oh, you can't buy it at
certain places. And so because remember they are competing against
Game Day on ESPN, and this is something that they
wanted to like they are trying to overtake Gay Day,
like this is a war. This is the only reason
why Portnoy is on there is to compete with.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Man, just compete with Pat McAfee.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
So now we're in a situation where you got Pat
McAfee portnoy, and now Portnoy's got to make some noise
right before. So now people are going to tune in
just to see what he's going to say and if
he's going to make a ruckus about it.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I watched Dave Portnoy's video and he said that they
had to pay a cancelation fee for backing out, but
if your banned, you shouldn't have to pay anything. So
So what this maybe I think happened was people at
Ohio State expressed some misgivings about having a Michigan booster
doing stuff in Columbus, and Dave Portnoy, who is brilliant
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when it comes to marketing himself and his brand said fine,
you don't want us there, then we'll pull out, and
then maybe tell Front Office Sports they didn't want me
there anyway, and then Ohio State is left having to backtrack.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
If Ohio State did this at all, this is the
pettiest thing ever, pettiest thing ever, And I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I love it. I love petty college football. I love it.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Cross out the m's everywhere, cross out the o's everywhere.
That's the level of commitment. And I love people who
are committed.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah, this isn't a bad thing that happened. This is
the most hilarious possible outcome. It's good for everybody involved.
It's got us talking about it. Everybody's gonna be talking
about it. No one got hurt, Like, nothing truly bad happened.
But it is a very interesting wrinkle. And it's possible
that you know, Dave Portnoy and Fox, you know, decided
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to say, hey, we're going to take our ball and
go home. I mean, imagine you're about to get married,
you're contentious with your future mother in law, and you
say something like, man, I don't even know if I
want her here. That doesn't mean that you don't you're
not gonna have her there. I mean, I don't even
know if I want her here. But let's say that
comment gets back to her and she decides not to
show up, and then on your wedding day, that's what
everybody's talking about. So I don't know, that's just me
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maybe reading into the situation. But let's move on to
our next topic. Jedfish. Now you interviewed Jedfish, this officer and.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Coach at Washington.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
He's a great coach. He was at like twelve spots
in seventeen years before he got that Arizona gig. Yeah,
correlayed it into taking over for a team that had
just been to the national championship. Now, the longest place
that his wife and kids ever were is Tucson, and
after one year, Jedfish's wife Amber announced that they're going
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to be moving back to Tucson to finish up their school.
And they got an eighth grade and a tenth grade daughter.
This isn't exactly a beloved family in Tucson, by the way,
but their kids probably made friends. And so you have
a coach's wife and kids thousands of miles away, what
is your take on this?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Okay, so initially my initial thought was whoa oh is
there like, are these people getting ready to get a
divorce or is there something because but then once you
recap this again and you're like, you got an eighth
grader and a tenth grader. Eighth grader not necessarily as
big of a deal, but the tenth grader been around
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their friends for a while and all of this stuff
at the.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Same high school.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It's probably tough, and so they the kids may have
been miserable, unhappy. You know, things can happen at schools
two kids, especially if you have a famous family, and
they just might not be acclimating well to the weather,
to anything. And as a parent, you have to do
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the best thing for your family and for your kids.
And this is going to put some stress on their relationship.
That's just the truth. Now, mind you, they can fly
to every game on the week on their private jet
because of course that's probably part of you know, Jetfish's
contract and all of that. But it is going to
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put some stress on their marriage being far away from
each other.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
That's just the truth. So I'm hoping for your things.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Do you think it's going to come up and recruiting.
Do you think that somebody what at USC is gonna
say when you think Jetfish is going to be their
long term His wife and kids don't even live in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You think you want to live in Seattle, bro His
wife and kids don't even want to live in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
It rains all the time. It's terrible, it's garbage.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
It's this one hundred percent ralph that will be said
time and time again. Oh you think he's jet Jeff
hey Man, the man has moved seventeen jobs and this
this this, even though it's not all his fault because
assistant coaches have to move around a lot when head
coaches get fired and everything in between. But I do
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believe that this put in jeopardy his long term future
in Washington, not his short term future. But you know,
three years from now, we could be having a different conversation.
And mind you, I'm the guy who picked Washington to
finish fifth in the Big Ten this year. And if
they do that and then he has another season of that,
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and then I don't know, Arizona Cardinals head coach coaching
job comes open in aass Fish, he probably gonna take
that one.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I got a wild scenario for you. What if Brent
Brennan gets fired.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
At Arizona.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Man, if Britain listened, listen if Brennan gets okay, So
for anybody who doesn't know the history. So when Jed
left and went to Washington, San Jose state's head coach
went down to Arizona, there was issues about money and
this and that.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Now ad that hired Brent Brennan got fire one week later.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yes, so the people are so some of the people
are gone. If Brent Brandon gets fired, and I mean
Arizona can't pay him what he's making at Washington, can
they No?
Speaker 3 (31:17):
But if his wife and kids are there, it's just interesting.
I don't know, Seattle, what.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Do you take like six million dollars to go back
instead of the what.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Ninety eight or nine he's making now to be closer
to his family?
Speaker 2 (31:33):
A man, that's it.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Oh, people are gonna think you're trolling because you're an
Oregon guy. But here's the truth. Like, you've been higher
on Washington than anybody going to this year. You went,
you went out to Seattle, you interviewed Jetfish. I'll say this.
I got a son who is a Washington fan I
got a son who wants to move to Seattle as
soon as he's finished with high school, and people tell
everybody tells him the same thing. I had a really
I had a really good friend who had five kids,
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moved out to Seattle for his dream job, and seasonal
effective disorder started in people's butt out there. They had
to leave. It's it's Seattle reminds me of Cilantro. Some
people are just genetically predisposed to think its on soap,
and for some people it makes street tacos the most
delightful food on earth. So I would say that, like,
I don't think you're rooting against I don't think you're
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rooting for things to fall apart in Seattle was just
a reality. The situation, it's unique. I'm an Arizona State guy.
Herm Edwards did the first couple of years in Temptee
without his family being there with him, and it's an
interesting it's an interesting setup, to say the least. Let's
move on to sunny Los Angeles, California, where you were
based and talk about another head coach that you got
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to sit down with and interview this summer, and all
these interviews are available on Unafraid Show dot Com on
Afraid Show on YouTube. Deshaun Foster. Deshaun Foster has decided
to pick a fight with the LA media, uh, not
letting them film and not letting them interview players. The
pushback from the media is we got to do our
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job and we want to spread the gospel of UCLA.
Deshaun Foster's stance is winning will spread the gospel. If
I was an opposing coach, I'd just be able to
watch practice footage and beat us. So who is right
to Sean Foster or the media?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Both both are right, sod.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Sean Foster is right for being upset that the media
was posting, you know, clips of them at practice that
he didn't feel like they should be posting, right, like
if he felt like that they were showing too much
action or this or that, because you have to be
very very careful about things that you show at practice.
Everybody knows this. If you go at practice that you
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cannot film, especially like team drills and stuff like that,
like individual stuff, nobody cares and so so that's the
big thing. But now, on the other hand, UCLA spent
all off season marketing, right like, trying to get more
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interest in it, and the media does need to Like,
you do need the media because the hotter your program is,
the cooler that you are, the more recruits are going
to want to go there. And so I think it's
a double edged sword because he's trying to get ready
for the season, trying to keep his team focused, feeling pressure,
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you know, wants to do well. He's mad at the
media for doing that, and I think that this was
a calcula from a from a guy that I believe
is doing a really good job. Believe that this was
a mistake to totally box out the media, because you
do want your players, especially if you want Tom, if
you want you know, Quasi Gilmer to be possibly a
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Bolitnikoff guy, you need some press. So it's a combination
of press. But then he also might know his team
and he feels like, yo, we were getting a little
to Hollywood right right now, we gotta stay locked in.
So he could be right if he's taking the temperature
of his team and seeing that they need a media
blackout right now because they feeling theyself too much.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Well, speaking of media versus a coach, we did have
a settlement between Northwestern and Pat Fitzgerald, who was there
for a very long time. His defensive coordinator, David Brown,
took the program over a couple of years ago after
he was fired for not he was fired because there
was hazing in the program. No one is arguing that
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there was not hazing in the program. Not even Pat
Fitzgerald is saying there was not hazing in the program.
What he's saying is I found out when everybody else
found out. I would have loved the opportunity to address this.
I'm as disappointed as anyone that doesn't represent me Northwestern
is forced to come out saying like, we actually never
got anybody to say that Pat Fitzgerald knew. Therefore he
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probably didn't know, or at least we can't prove it.
So you know, we're sorry and we wish him the best.
Not very often it comes out that, you know, the
team is like oops. But at the same time, this
is something that was supposedly so ingrained in the culture
that it was passed down from class to class to
class that they even had these hand signals that players
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would give out when they'd identify a freshman that they
were going to put through the car wash or whatever
make them run around naked or take naked snaps or
weird stuff, like really weird stuff. If my kid was
at that program, I'd have been furious. But the whistleblower happens,
the media kind of piles on Pat Fitzgerald because, as
you said, like, how could you not know, which ultimately
(36:34):
was why he was fired? How did you not know? Okay, So,
but with him being cleared, will Pat Fitzgerald coach college
football ever again?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
The answer to that is yes, but it'll be weird.
He will coach college football again if he wants to.
He's just got to go through his uh, you know,
his sitout period. He's got to go through his his
his you know, his sportswa washing. He's got to appear
on TV a little bit. Some podcasts talk about leadership,
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talk about how things are changing in the game and
now you have to be ready to adapt. The issue
is this is that he was never built to coach
anywhere else but Nebraska. I'm sorry, butt Northwestern. He's a
Northwestern guy. He loves it. He was there for the grind,
there for the build. He I don't know if he
would have left for other jobs. So he had his
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heart set on that. So until his heart changes and
he can be like, all right, I want to coach
college football, and I'm never gonna coach at Northwestern again,
at least in the next fifteen or twenty years. Once
he can get past that, if he can go somewhere else,
run a good program, and have success. Let's say he
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went to like, I don't know, Oklahoma or Oklahoma State.
Let's say he went to Oklahoma, that's probably a job. Well,
if he would start out as an assistant and then
end up as a head coach, do a good job
for like seven eight years, and then this is ten
years from now. Right, he runs a clean program, everything,
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and Northwestern is down and out. So they go back
to their boy, Pat Fitch Fitzgerald. He's like, I'm gonna
run it. He's a no nonsense candidate this time. No,
I'm controlling everything in the program. Won't let you guys
down again, all that stuff. Then yes, he could possibly
get back to Northwestern. There's a path to that, being
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that the results were the results of this investigation. But
I refuse to believe that this man had no idea.
I do believe that Pat Fitzgerald knew that there was
hazing going on. I don't necessarily believe that he knew
to the extent of what was going on, because coaches
know that there's hazing stuff that goes on, but they
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don't always know the extent of things, and then things
escalate as there's no when there's no supervision over it.
So they were essentially ordering cod reds like a few
good men. And when I was in college and when
I was in the NFL, there was hazing going on.
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There was naked hazing going on at one at one
place I was at, and I'm not giving to get
everybody in trouble, but we did this thing called a
record race. Okay, you are buttonneked with a jockstrap on, well,
I guess you're not buttonneckd then, and we're in a
relay race that is set up cones and there's water
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and everything else, and you have to put a record,
a vinyl record, in your butt cheeks.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
And you run around.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Through the obstacle course and then when you get back
to pass it to the next person, you have to
pass it through your butt cheek to butt cheek.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Did you win?
Speaker 1 (40:04):
I don't remember. I just remember being like, I'll go first.
The way I didn't have to get a used a
youth butt record.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Setting records. All right, amazing, amazing segue. Don't know how
to get out of this one, But I do have
a question for you. I'll rank these on a scale
one of the TI. I'm gonna give you three names,
and you tell me in five years the likelihood that
they will be a college football head coach. Number one.
Pat Fitzgerald.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Oh, in the next five years. Yes, I'll give it
a five. Actually, yeah, yeah, y'all give it a five.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Because he's got to go be an assistant first and
then have some good things happen to him, success and
everything else there.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
So that could not work out. So I'll give it
a five.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Twenty thirteen National champion and all time Golden parachute receiver
Jimbo Fisher.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Oh, that's about a seven and a half.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
But it's just a matter of where he may have
to go to, like Youngstown State or something. But here's
the thing is, I would hire Jimbo Fisher as my
head coach. I'm just not paying him like he wants
to be paid. I'm gonna give it will be an
incentive laden contract every single year, Okay, it will extend
the year. Every single year, and you get raised this
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based upon what happens. Six wins, you get an extra
million dollars, seven wins million dollars, eight wins, million dollars,
all of these things. You can get up to all
the numbers that you want, but you ain't getting that
guaranteed money. That's what you're not doing. You you already
ran off with somebody else seventy six million dollars. Do
you think I'm letting you get unmotivated and uninspired again? No, no, no,
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you gotta work for what you want, buddy, hey.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
And you think maybe he'd agree with that, because the
class of twenty twenty two is supposed to be the
greatest recruiting class of all time, and they got all
that money up front, and look what happened to them.
Some did well, some didn't do anything, And so maybe
he would would agree with that. And my last one
is mister John Gruden, who is probably on the verge
of a nice payout from the National Football League to
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avoid discovery of any kind in his email leaking case
of him getting fired from the Raiders. He has come
to love college football a bit and said he would
be open to coaching in the SEC what are the
odds in the next five years he is a head
coach in college football.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
I'm gonna go with an eight.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
And eight because he oh dude, he has sports washed
himself with these with the interviews, still with the quarterbacks,
and then.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Hey, send me your gear. I'll wear your gear. Let's
pump up your team like that whole jail. He's done it.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Well, he's like the old, you know, crazy uncle that
we all love, got about all the other stuff. And
that's where he is right now. Somebody is going to
hire John group Gart. You can book it. You can
book it, remember it, write it down, take a picture
and now and remember he was like, I'm open to
coaching in the SEC, slow down path.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
We can't hire you in the SEC yet.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Well, I will throw this out there. We are also
open to free gear here at the Unafraid Show and
college football Apostles. Let's get into something that you know
quite a bit about, and that is the shoe company's
relationships with these colleges. We just had Tennessee become the
flagship program for Adidas, and we also had South Carolina
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agree to a ten year deal with Nike. What do
you think the effect will be on these programs because
we know seventeen eighteen year old kids actually make some
of their decisions based on how they're gonna look in
the gear they're gonna wear. Deebo Samuel just did an
interview on Pardon My Take where he said he didn't
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go to Georgia because he didn't like black socks with
black shoes. So, like, this stuff actually fastest.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
People don't believe that this stuff matters. Dude, Tennessee going
to Adidas is going to have some level of impact
on their recruiting in a negative way. South Carolina going
to Nike, it is going to have a positive impact
not only in women's basketball, but in but in football
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as well. It is going like these things are Auburn Auburn.
There were people, There were kids who didn't want to
go to Auburn because they were responsible by right Dale,
and then they went to under Armour, and now they're
back with with with Nike. It is going to be
a They're going to have some recruiting advantages because of that.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
Well, uh, I do you I you know you're a
Nike guy. You make no bones about being a Nike guy.
I'm an Adidas guy.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
I'm a guy.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Listen, listen, this is this is Unafraid show. This is
college football apostles. We like who likes us?
Speaker 2 (45:15):
I have?
Speaker 3 (45:15):
He says on his shirt.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Hey, ordinarily, if you notice that I'm wearing logo, list
I don't have a logo on shirts intentionally because everything
is for sale. Everything just ain't on sale. And and
I am not a free advertisement kind of kind of
person unless it's somebody that I do.
Speaker 3 (45:44):
We just caught you lacking on this particular occasion. All right, Well,
speaking of money in college football, you had said that
the nil go was a good idea, but the execution
of it is really gonna matter to whether or not
it gets sued into oblivion. We have to start all
over again. A lot of these deals are based on
who's hot in the moment. We want somebody to represent
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our company, who did something good right now, who's in
the zeitgeist right now, who people are talking about right now.
But some of these nil go deals are taking weeks
to approve, which means the deal is no longer relevant,
which means it is costing players money. Is this something
that needs to be fixed immediately? Could this be the
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death of nil go if they do not fix it immediately.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Oh, I do believe that there needs to be some
priority with like like that things should be that there
should be a priority level that you submit things like
that there's a deadline by a certain date, and if
what you put in there is not true, then you
get pushed back to the bottom of the pot, back
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back of the pile.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Like if you push immediate.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
And then you say and it's not immediate, it's like
six weeks from now, bro, you go back into the
bottom of the fair pile, you know what I mean. Like,
if this is something where somebody catches lightning in a bottle,
something happens, they should be able to capitalize on that
in that short window. Because sometimes things are very very
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short windows. There should be an expedited process for those
sorts of deals. The way you jump up to it,
it's like if you're going in if you going in
emergency room and you are you know, like you gotta
cut on your finger that probably needs stitches, but it's
not gushing all over the place. Somebody has a cold
(47:39):
that comes in, somebody has you know, and then somebody
is coming in there going in cardiac arrest.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
Even though that they came in twentieth.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
They should be seen first because they are in cardiac arrest,
they're having a heart attack or whatever. They should jump
to the you're having an anaphylactic shot, you jump above
everybody else who's been there for three hours already.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
That's the way that it should work.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
So what's a heart attack? No Jingles? We got Bojangles
money coming through.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
Hey man.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
It just depends like if you get in like a
deal and somebody's like, yo, yo, this person just became
super famous over the last couple of weeks, and you know,
it's Carnival coming through, and we want to do this
with them because we just found out that they are,
you know, of Caribbean heritage and they just won the
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national championship. Okay, cool boom, we gotta get going. So yes,
that's definitely yeah, this is definitely a problem. And granted,
there needs to be stiff enforcement in terms of these deals.
You can't just let people just slide any old thing through,
but there does need to be an expedity process.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
Let's get to this weekend games. First of all, I
would love to know you and I haven't talked about
this off here. What is your setup for when you're
doing a studio show with the CW. Congratulations by the way,
thank you. So what is your set? Is just college
football on all around all day while you're in studio.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
You I don't know.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
Yeah, I don't know yet. I will find out next weekend.
I will find out next weekend. I am juiced, bro,
I cannot tell. I do know that there's a one
hundred foot by twenty football that I'll be standing in
front of.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
Oh, so you're in the home studio this weekend for
the big kickoff weekend. Yes, you're gonna be watching from
your home set up.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Yes, yes, yes, and we're gonna do I'm gonna figure
out how we're gonna do a watch party. We're gonna
have a watch party with some unafraid show fans and it's.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (49:50):
All right, So I I have a question for you,
because there's a lot of good games this weekend. You
already did previews on some of these. One of the
previews got about five hundred people arguing in the comments
on YouTube. Right now, almost forty thousand people have watched this.
Everybody's got something to say. You got to check some
of these game previews out Unafraid show on YouTube. We
had Colorado, Georgia Tech go up just today. The Flora
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Florida State Bama One's interesting because you made an interesting prediction,
and now the Alabama fans are like, we're watching you.
If you're wrong, we're done with you forever. But if
you're right, we respect you. So's there's even one Alabama
fan who said, we have the ability to make or
break your channel, so you better be right about us.
I thought some of those comments are interesting, but I
(50:35):
am curious. What will you be watching? What are the
priority games for this weekend? You give me some of yours,
I'll give you some of mine.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
Oh, priority games for this weekend for me, Oregon, Montana
States at the top.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Of the line. No no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
I'm gonna be watching some big Sky versus Arizona State
as well, So I get it.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
Okay, So I do want to watch on Thursday Boise State,
South Florida because that's an interesting game obviously, Texas, Ohio State, Syracuse, Tennessee, Alabama,
Florida State, LSU, Clemson.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
Old I got my eye on.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Now with that is Numeral Uno on the list, and
then Virginia Tech, South Carolina and Notre Dame Miami.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
Tell the people why LSU Clemson is Numero uno on
your list and not the number one versus number three
team in the country in Texas, Ohio state.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
Because dude, Clemson is a team that I have picked
to win the national championship.
Speaker 3 (51:41):
It is And.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
There are people who like, this is one of the
sec ACC games that is going to be a big
deal and I need to see what happens in this game.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
Need to.
Speaker 3 (51:57):
So you and I had the chance to go to
Clemson to meet with Dabo. You got to go down
the slide. I air bowed a few three pointers in
front of Dabo. It was a good time. But we
left that place and we kind of gave each other
a look. And we've been saying some things publicly, and
people have been accusing us of drinking the kool Aid,
(52:19):
and I just want to say, yes, yes, I drank
the coolid.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
Yes we drank the cooler because the gallon, because because
the kool Aid is is it's it is, it is
rooted in substance, because there is a thing, and and
particularly for this season, I think that all the stars
have aligned for them. They have obviously great head coach,
(52:47):
third year quarterback, really good wide receivers. Their old line
is young, but they've been in their program for a while.
Their defensive line might be the best in college football.
Tom Allen's a good defensive coordinator. Things are like it's
one of those things where like everything has come together,
just like Penn State. Everything has come together for Penn
(53:10):
State for this to be a special season. Now, whether
it happens or not, it's a whole different story.
Speaker 3 (53:15):
And Adon Terrell, he probably could lock down your number
one wide receiver.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
Probably everyone Kelly And this is a huge game for
Brian Kelly on LSU side too, Bro, Like, you can't
deny that this is a make or break game for
him for this season.
Speaker 3 (53:33):
Every person before him in my lifetime or then my
college football memory has a natty at LSU. He's going
into year four. He hasn't won an opening game yet.
This game matters so much. It's gonna be so much
fun one that I've got my eye on that maybe
it might kind of be off the radar a little bit.
And you actually you actually already have have touched on
(53:56):
this and other videos we've done. Is on Sunday, Virginia
Tech is taking on South Carolina at the Mercedes Benz
Dome in Atlanta. And you know, Virginia Tech is basically
after Frank Biemer every single year that goes by and
(54:17):
makes Frank Biemer look like one of the greatest coaches
of all time.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
Which we know he is.
Speaker 3 (54:21):
First, Virginia Tech's been struggling, and then South Carolina has
this College Football Playoff hype and a lot of it.
And Virginia Tech they only lost two games last year
by more than ten points, and it was two really
really tough teams like Clemson. So you know, I think
South Carolina probably got to come out and look good
in that game. And then the other one, which you
(54:41):
touched on, which kicks off our season for Week one
on Thursday, is Boise State was in the College Football Playoff.
Now they got to go out to USF with no
Ashton genty so and then Syracuse Tennessee. I cannot stress
enough how impressed I am with Fran Brown. But NC
State open that season against Tennessee last year and got beat.
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If that game had one more quarter, it might have
been a triple digit win for Tennessee. So for the
ACC to positively be represented against Tennessee. I think is
really really important. But you know, Tennessee's got a lot
of questions to answer too, with joe Yagyar at quarterback
and everything like that. So just a fantastic weekend of football,
which means that it is time to get to your
(55:27):
five picks that you're standing on business with against the
spread for week one.
Speaker 2 (55:33):
Mm hmm, okay.
Speaker 3 (55:35):
You wanted to intro these games or you want to
take it?
Speaker 2 (55:38):
No, no, go ahead intro for me.
Speaker 3 (55:42):
Okay. So the first game that we're going to talk
about is being played at hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida,
maybe in absolute hellish weather possibly, and this is number
ten Miami hosting number six Noted Dame. The Fighting Irish
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are currently a two and a half point favorite.
Speaker 4 (56:05):
George, I, this one is tough for me because, on
one hand, if this is the weather is super bad,
and this comes down to like a.
Speaker 2 (56:19):
Decision making.
Speaker 1 (56:21):
Mario Christopaul has had some bad clock management situations, and
I do believe in what is going on at Notre Dame.
But they're breaking in a new defensive line, they're breaking
in a new quarterback. Going down there is going to
be tough, particularly with the energy at the beginning of
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the season. I am going to take Miami in this game.
Speaker 3 (56:49):
Okay, So Miami to cover the two and a half
and you might might get the best of both worlds here.
It's possible. Notre Dame wins by one. Yeah, but you're like, oh,
I was right, and I was right, So all right,
let's move on to that second Sunday game that we
already brought up. South Carolina is favored by eight against
Virginia Tech. Is being played at the Mercedes Benz Dome,
(57:11):
so no weather in Atlanta, not that far from Miami,
but no weather because it's gonna be in a dome.
A lot of heat on South Carolina right now. But
Kyen Drones comes back. His best game of the season
was probably his first game of the year last year.
Does Virginia Tech even have a shot in this game?
South Carolina currently favored by eight points.
Speaker 1 (57:30):
The answer to that is no, South Virginia Tech does
not stand a chance in this game. I believe that
this is gonna end up a wipeout. I'm sorry, I
don't believe in what's going like, I don't trust, excuse not,
I don't believe in it. I don't trust what's going
on at Virginia Tech right now you and partially because
(57:50):
I got sold on Kyrien drones last year. I got
sold to Bill of Goods and my fault didn't and
it didn't happen. So I am going to trust South Carolina,
even though I don't fully trust South Carolina. They are
a team that will lose a game that they are
not supposed to lose. But their quarterback is a year older.
(58:12):
Shane Bieber is doing a good job over there. They're
recruiting much better, and so I'm gonna put my faith
in the game Cocks.
Speaker 3 (58:20):
Right now, Andrew guy rissul Fai, year old running back,
it's got cleared. I think I told you he had
the same stats as Jaden Daniels with the seventeen touchdowns
three exceptions. Yes, and yeah, that was my bad, so
(58:43):
apologies on my end. Let's jump to the next game,
Auburn against Baylor. Baylor is a two and a half
point dog in this game. They got Sawyer robertson coming back.
Auburn has been recruiting like gamebusters. They go and get
a quarterback from Oklahoma. Let they go and get a
quarterback from Stanford. They got a bunch of play callers,
(59:03):
a bunch of quarterbacks. Who do you like in Auburn,
Blen Baylor.
Speaker 2 (59:08):
Baylor, Baylor.
Speaker 1 (59:09):
I hate having three different play callers, like Auburn is
going to do. Nothing great can come from it, not
quarterback continuity, nothing of it at all. This is headed
for disaster. This is going to start the end of
the Hugh Freeze era. Potentially losing to a Big twelve team,
(59:30):
but it will help the Big twelve. But mind you,
Hugh Freeze will go win some games in the SEC.
Then it's gonna throw everything off and then you're gonna
be like, well, all these an ACC team beat a
top SEC team, a Big twelve team beat a team
that beat the some SEC teams. And if Ohio State
(59:52):
beats the SEC, how can you sit up here and
be like, hey, hey, hey, well we should get five
teams in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Well, Big twelve needs this to even possibly get too,
because there's not a lot of good out of conference
and you did a video on this. Not a lot
of good out of conference games this year for the
Big Twelve. Sawyer Robertson against Rayon Strader, the defensive back
at Auburn, gonna be one of the best matchups of
the weekend. Looking forward to that game our next one up.
If I feel like I have a good track record
on quarterbacks this year, the guy that I'm the champion
(01:00:21):
of is Brendon Sorosby of Cincinnati, and the guy I've
always told you to sell on is Dylan Rayola. We
have a Nebraska versus Cincinnati game at Arrowhead Stadium where
Nebraska is favored by seven. Your guy, Josh Pate says,
Nebraska's going to the College football Playoff. Is Nebraska going
to cover this seven points against Cincinnati?
Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
We need to drug test Josh Pate. First of all,
Nebraska is not going to the college football Playoff. That
is asini. That is That is craziness. But they will
win this football game. Though this is a Jimmy's and
Joe's game. This is as has more talent at at
most every position. They're just gonna lean on them and
(01:01:06):
they're gonna win by ten points probably.
Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
And one thing Matt Rule has been saying publicly that
I find very interesting. He loved last year's team, but
he did not like them, and they had twelve transfers
out of the program before they played in that Bowl Game.
He believes everybody at Nebraska right now is there because
they want to be there. Let's get to your lock
of the week.
Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
Lock it up.
Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
We actually have TCU favored by three going to North
Carolina in Bill Belichick's debut as a head coach. TCU
Drew Dion in his debut as a Power five head coach.
Now they get the greatest of all time in his
debut at the Jordan branded Baby Blue School out there
(01:01:52):
in Durham Chapel Hill. Actually, Duke fans are not gonna
like that. North Carolina fans are not gonna like that either.
I live in North Carolina. I should know better. But
TCU is favored by three. Are they going to beat
UNC and cover this spread?
Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Nope, Nope.
Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
UNC is going to take this football game. Bill Belichick
wins his opener. This is a case of there's a
lot of book available on Sunny Dykes and TCU. There
is not a lot available on on North Carolina. But
North Carolina is going to play much better defense than
(01:02:32):
they have in the past. Therefore they will be better.
This will be an unexpected game for a lot of people.
UNC wins. Bill Belichick gets his debut win and you guys,
that is college Football Apostles Today. We will be back
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