March 4, 2021 • 48 mins
Ty and Dan relive the best and worst decisions by their college football teams (and themselves) over the last year.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the solid verbal hull that for me, I'm
a man, I'm for I've heard so many players say, well,
I want to be happy, you want to be happy
for Dake Edith State is that woof?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Woof?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
And Dan and Ty.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome back to the Cliburbal Boys Girls. My name is
Ty Hilda Brand joining me as always Dan Rubinstein over
there in summery, Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Daniel, sir, how are you good? Burbs of Chicago, Illinois,
Burbs Burbs, North Burbs. I am excited to do this show.
This is a I don't know if it's a Q
and A show as much as it is. We asked
a Q of people on social media and they submitted
a's as it relates to the past year of their
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favorite program and their lives themselves and me personally, Ty,
because that's what you ask. How you if this is
a show about the best and worst decisions, I can
tell you in the short term, I just had a
slice of extremely dense chocolate cake going in great decision
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as we stand right now, very confusing, possibly regretful decision.
So I'm here with you.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
One decision that runs the full gamut is an interesting
perspective that I think we're going to explore a little
bit more as we go through tonight's show. Don't forget
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of traction. Folks were asking some questions out there. Mom
h referred to you just on the sly as Danny Rubentino. Oh,
I like that after seeing what you did with pizza.
So she's very excited and wants to see more of
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your pizza bakes. I don't know if that's something you
can accommodate, if.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Only for her.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Secondly, I've got a big game coming up. I know
I've been playing the old NCAA franchise on there. M M.
I've got a big game coming up against a friend
either Friday or Saturday night. We haven't decided yet, but
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information about when that big matchup is going to occur.
But I'm getting myself mentally prepared to ye, I can't wait.
Were you were struggling last night when during your do
you want me to want to temple you?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
No? I was texting you during the the stream I
was watching. It was a field last night. It was
in a three all. A little before halftime, you threw
an ugly, ugly pick you were you got an explosive
play before halftime. I didn't watch the second half. I
assume you held on. I want an overtime against Temple nice.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
A rock fight in the first half. Second half picked up.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
But anyway, we got a big matchup coming up against
a human opponent in the next couple of days. So again,
that's out at Twitch dot tv slash Solid Verbal on
tonight's show. We promised you we're going to be doing
one Q and a show per month throughout the off season.
Today is that show, and we've got a unique spin
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on it. Dan looking back looking forward, chocolate cake dilemma,
anundrum if you will, decisions decisions is what we are
titling this here content. What what decisions decisions are we.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
So I asked verbalers to let us know what is
the absolute best decision that their favorite team or program
made in the last year. So it could be something
on the field, it could be something as it relates
to hiring a coach, retaining a coach, uniform, all sorts
of things, anything related to your program. And then personally,
(04:21):
so the best decision, the worst decision about your program,
and then personally, what was the best decision. Obviously, these
past three hundred and sixty five days have been largely
very different for all of us. So best and worst
decision you yourself made. That's sort of issued at everybody
listening who responded, and we got some incredible responses, and
(04:43):
I'm prepared to give mine for my team and for
my life. I hope you are as well. I know
you said you had a huge professional reveal. I don't
know what that means, but I'm excited to get into it. Well,
where do we want to start? Do we want to
start with our teams?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
We want to start with our person What makes the
most sense for you?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You mean like, should we start with college football or human? Yeah?
Why are you correct? Oh? College football?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So the best decision that my team made in twenty
twenty was an easy one, and that was joining the ACC.
Notre Dame did so out of necessity. I don't know
what it would have looked like if they hadn't. My
guess is they still would have found a way to
play games, but it wouldn't nearly have been as high
profile as it ended up being. Huge win against Clemson,
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obviously made the ACC Championship, obviously made the playoff game,
so it was, by all accounts a successful season. Did
not end the way many Notre Dame fans and I'm
sure Notre Dame players would have hoped. But I think,
just in terms of what was the best decision they made,
Jack Swarbrick pulling the trigger early joining the ACC, becoming
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that fifteenth team on a one time only basis, In
my book, that's a huge dub. I hope they end
up going in that direction moving forward, whether it's with
the ACC, the Big Ten, some other conference. I've long
been a proponent of Notre Dame joining and ending the
independence when it makes financial league yea, yeah, well Aliga, yeah,
League one, Uber eats whatever works for them, I'm fine with.
(06:16):
But I think it was a huge move, a great
move by Swarbrick, and it was cool to see it.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
If that's really the only glimpse we're going to get
at them in a conference, what's the what was the
worst move of the past year from Notre Dame. I
struggle with the worst move or worst decision? Yeah, well,
you know, I mean you could, you could, you could
split hairs here if you really wanted to.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I'll tell you that I had trouble coming up with
a worst decision, a decision that I thought.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's all relative too. It doesn't mean you have to
come up with a catastrophe, but just in terms of
a very successful year.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yea, yeah, there were no catastrophes. I will say this,
the one decision that I am wondering about, I am
curious about, Like the chocolate cake and the belly state.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Of things, I'm in a strange place is.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
The Tommy Reess decision at to go with Tommy Rees
at offensive coordinator. And I struggle even saying that aloud
because I really like Tommy Reese.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I really like him.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Perhaps I'm biased because we spent so much time talking
about him on the show and Reesis became part of
our content for like four straight years. I really want
him to work out. I do think he's got a
promising future as a head football coach at some point
in time. And I totally get why Notre Dame would
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appoint him to that position. But he's pre damn green
before taking over the Raids, and so not to say
anybody else, Chip Long any other coordinator was gonna get
more blood out of the stone that was Ian Book
at quarterback. But that's not even fair good quarterback.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Sure, but I just.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I need more information before I'm fully comfortable with that
as a good, long lasting, sustainable decision.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Well also, I mean I don't want to get too
in the way. This is well trod territory, if that's
a word. You know, what if Notre Dame upgrades from
Tommy Reese to I don't know what, Phil Longo at
North Carolina, somebody who has been consistently a good coordinator
or something like that with a lot more experience. Isn't
ian book Notre dame offense beyond merely good? I don't know.
(08:35):
I mean it also depends on like Notre Dame didn't
really have killers at receiver, and it just you know,
there was a ceiling for Notre Dame's offense. So I
think that you qualified it. I think you couched it
pretty well.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, and look, the receiver component of this is important.
There were plenty of players with these guys just weren't
getting open. Yeah, and there was no separation. That does
not all fall on the shoulder of ian Book. Ian
Book is not without his own limitations, but within the system,
ian Book was very good. Ianbook won a lot of games.
Ian Book got him to a conference championship game in
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the playoff, so say what you want, but he got
the job done when he had to. I think we're
going to find out more about Reese this coming season,
because you know, whether it's Jack Cohne in the short
term probably will be, whether it's a guy like a
Tyler Buckner.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
New recruit.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
In the long term that remains to be seen. But
he will now have an opportunity to really put his
stamp on the program moving forward with a fresh face
at quarterback, which is where he should really excel being
so he knows the position well from his own time
and Notre Dame. So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Oregon's best decision was to make a defensive adjustment later
on in the season. They were running some very strange
looks which had the defensive line two three yards off
the line of scrimmage to try to confuse and do
all sorts of I don't know, stunting and caveon. Thibodeau
ended up at like middle linebacker in some set and
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then they sort of scrapped that and went back to
what worked and absolutely demolished USC upfront in that very
odd happenstance of a Pac twelve championship game. But that
was a fantastic decision, and of course Andy Avlos rode
a stronger and to the regular season before bowlseason to
the head coaching job at Boise State, so good for him.
(10:20):
That was a very good decision to get back to
what worked for the Oregon defense. You know, the hiring
of Joe moorehead was before three hundred and sixty five
days ago. That was a late January, I believe, so
that doesn't count. But I think in terms of twenty twenty,
that was a fantastic move and I stand by it,
even though the offense didn't really fully work out for Oregon.
I would say the worst thing that Oregon did was
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probably the belief in quarterback probably lasted too long when
it was looking like it was not going to be
Tyler Shuck, rising to the occasion later on in the
season in those games against you know, Oregon State and
Cal and there was just it was tough. It was
a tough watch once it was clear that if he
was to be pressured, it was not going to go
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well for Oregon's offense. So that was probably the worst move.
But all in all, a very positive year for Oregon
football and an abbreviated season to still win the Pac twelve.
So again, it's all a relative complaint. Do you have
a personal best and worst decision you made last year?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And oh Dan, Oh Dan, I think so Okay, the
best decision I made was to take up home projects.
And I've said this before. This isn't going to come
as any surprise to folks who listened to this show,
but I think taking up home projects, anything that gets
you away from a screen, the best has really been rewarding.
(11:43):
So we painted like five yeah, five rooms in this house.
Maybe not five rooms, it felt.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Like five rooms. But you also tried Korean barbecue for
the first time within three hundred and sixty five days ago. Yeah, correct,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
The last time was right before we all went into
quarantine up in New York with you. But no, the
home project's bit painting has been has really been like
more fun than I expected, if only because again there's
no computer screen involved. We also committed to buying a
fence for the solid pup, but because everything is on
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back order and literally the entire world had the exact
same idea, we have yet to receive said fence. So
if we're going chocolate cake, this is the decision that
felt good on the way in, but has felt a
little less good each day since we're still waiting, and furthermore,
since they still have a huge deposit check that I
put down on said fence.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Wow, so hopefully we're gonna get good for you at
some point here.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Worst decision worst decision Dan was buying a new microwave. Okay,
why worst decision was buying a new microwave. We had
the unfortunate circumstance of the microwave that came with the house.
I think it was the original microwave when the house
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was built. That thing went could put around mid April.
First decision in a year, it is, there's more mid
April when could put made an awful sound whenever you
turn the thing on.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
No longer heated any food.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Just so happens that a appliance dealer was offering a
Memorial Day sale shortly thereafter, could get a really good
I think it was a ge brand microwave for a
fraction of the price. They cumming they'd install it. They'd
been here before, so it was a good deal.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Called them up. It fit the space.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
They came out, they tried to install it, and that's
when all hell broke loose, Dan, All hell broke loose
as they popped the old microwave out and put the
new one in. They come to discover that the door
only opens about a quarter of the way. And that's
because my kitchen has an odd can figuration. Most microwaves.
When you've got an above the range microwave like most
(14:05):
people do, or a lot of people do. You don't
have an obstruction blocking the door from opening, But in
the case of our kitchen, there's actually sort of like
a mini wall there.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
This is almost like you're filibustering a college football podcast.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
This is exactly what's happening. The door wouldn't open. It
wouldn't open, and nobody, nobody makes one that will unless
I want to spend like fifteen hundred dollars to get
a microwave that opens top to bottom or bottom of
the top. So you know what's happened, Dan, what's happened
is after trying another microwave, after getting my money back,
(14:45):
after trying poorly to install the old microwave back into
the space, I now have a giant gaping hole where
my microwave used to be. And I haven't had a
microwave for close to a year. First world problem.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, no, this is even first world problems. This is
the only person with the problem. This minute be their
biggest decision. It's a beautiful You can't what would you
do if you could warm food up in a microwave.
I have a toaster, and I have a regular oven,
I have a stove. I have used these things as well,
steamer basket. None of them are.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
As convenient as a microwave. Okay, don't pooh pooh this.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
This is microwave dietribe. I will postpone my best and
worst life decisions until the end of the show. Here's
the teas. They both involve an edible. Oh okay, they
will involve an edible, and one of them at least
involves you. So there's that. Okay, okay, let's go to
some college football answers from fans from across the country.
(15:49):
We've got some really good ones. We're gonna start with Instagram. Actually,
usually we save Instagram for last. We're gonna start with this.
I've got Sam saying Texas fired Tom Herman, hooray, but
also set Bijehan Robinson for Keyante Ingram for way too long.
Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, We've got a bunch of
Michigan people saying the worst decision that Michigan made this
year was not firing Jim Harbaugh. Yeah wow, interesting, Wow, interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's who is there a guy? This is the question
that nobody's been able to answer.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, I get it, there's always a guy. Well, there's
always a guy. I get it. But if not Horbaw,
then who?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And who are you expecting to come into the situation
and make an immediate impact that's going to turn them
into like an eleven win team. Is that guy out there?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Harbaugh still feels like a good coach. He's getting paid
a ton. Maybe he's getting a little long in the
tooth in ann Arbor at this point, and it's not
going to be a long term situation. But I just
until I get an answer, an obvious answer to if
not Harball, then who, it's really hard for me to
take it seriously despite all the frustrations that I think
is associated.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
With him always gonna have. You know, Luke Fickle, Matt Campbell,
there are coaches in the Midwest with a Midwestern footprint
who I'm sure would be happy to take over an
enormous program with enormous resources. But yeah, you're right, and
Luke Fickele, obviously with his Ohio State ties, is it
complicates it. But yeah, there are guys, Tye, there are
guys that are willing to take six and a half
(17:23):
seven million dollars to Candle Premier program.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I can't believe you poop pooed my microwave story. This
has been very traumatic over the last year.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Dan, It's just been a really tough year for a
lot of people. And here you are saying your worst decision.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It wasn't the worst thing that happened in the world
in twenty twenty, I know, but my worst decision was
buying that microwave.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Continue. We had some Georgia fans say, best decision starting,
finally starting JT. Daniels worst waiting to play JT. Daniels. Yeah,
that long? Well was that was that a decision though
to wait to play him?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Or was it?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Was it more a matter of medical clearance? I mean
it could have been out of an abundance of caution, Okay,
And then I don't know, who knows. We've got a
lot of Florida letting Kyle Trask really shine and trusting
him and opening up the playbook and really letting him
do what he does best, which is pick apart defenses.
And the worst obviously throwing a shoe key moment against LSU.
(18:20):
The shoe was terrible. I've got a Notre dame joining
the ACC as the best decision, accepting playoff invitation as
Notre dame in that nice place of like, Hey, we
lost the most respectively of most teams who played Alabama,
I guess outside of Florida. So there's that. Let's see
what else we have we have from Damn Klobacar long
(18:41):
time for baller. The best decision Perdue made was related
to their uniforms. Everything else was the bad decision I
was made. Yeah, I was waiting for.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Some uniform hot takes here. I thought I thought we'd
get more of them. But okay, good.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
He also gave of us. His best life decision was
buying home gym equipment the day things started shutting down,
so we had a squat rack all year. So, in
case you're wondering, Dan Klobokar likely likely has terrific glutes,
great glutes, he just tree trunks his thighs is if
he's been squatting more consistently than most at home this year.
(19:22):
His worst is not buying a nice office chair for
his house. Yeah, that's key, Interesting, it's key. Okay, we
got a lot of JT. Daniels. Best decision for BYU
going with Zach Wilson, letting him shine. I don't know
how much of a choice they had. But the worst
decision playing Coastal within sixty hours Coastal Carolina. M. Yeah, Yeah,
(19:45):
that was you know what, I think that was a
great decision. You just needed to stop them a little
bit more. Yeah, I still think it was a good decision.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
It was good. It was a good decision. Sometimes you
need to think bigger picture. That was a really good
decision for a college football season that needed a little
bit of a boost at that point in time. Everybody
watched that game. Everybody watched that game, and it was
like the best game of the year.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
We had some Ohio State fans talk about a great
decision in bringing in Trey Sermon as a transfer running
back from Oklahoma and really leaning on him when things
got dicey both against Northwestern and Clemson. Certainly, Tray Sermon
more than carried his weight did his part to power
Ohio State forward. And then we got a lot of
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both Sean Wade and to a greater extent, tough Borland
on an Island decision making. I guess Sean Wade was
sort of moved from the inside and playing sort of
nickel corner's safety snaps into being an outside corner, and
that didn't fully go well for Ohio state. But then yeah,
tough Borland, especially highlighted by on An Island against DeVante Smith.
(20:55):
It got dicey tie. I don't know if you remember,
Oh I remember did get dicey with a linebacker on
DeVante Smith.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Let me pose one to you a different situation from
the perspective of the PAC twelve. Is the best decision
firing Larry Scott and then or letting Larry Scott go,
and the worst decision deciding to play a season at all.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
No, I don't think it was a bad decision to
play a season. The PAC twelve was able to play football.
They took a lot of precautions, I think all in all,
I mean, the PAC twolve didn't have a playoff caliber team,
so it's not like they quitted themselves terribly by playing.
The Larry Scott thing is tbd. We got to see,
(21:41):
just like you mentioned with Jim Harbaugh, who do they
bring in? What's the impact? Yeah, what is the reaction?
What does the money look like in the next TV deal?
What does the distribution look like? Because right now, the
PAC twelve before gambled on people being interested in the
PAC twelve and its network getting barriers to help foot
(22:02):
the bill by saying, oh, Direct TV wants to pay
however many cents per whatever, and it worked out financially,
it did not work out financially. And so what does
it look like as the broadcast landscape? And I don't
know how much you want to get into this, but
like I have no idea what broadcast TV slash streaming
(22:24):
is and look like in two years, everybody's sort of
starting their own service and saying you want HBO, Well,
you don't need Comcast, you don't need AT and T.
I go AT and T. I guess owns HBO now,
but you don't need some sort of cable service, just
just grab HBO. And so as that changes, like if
you don't care about PAC twelve, Big twelve or Big
ten football and you just want sec ACC, we got
(22:47):
you just the ESPN app, that's all you need. And
so they're things like that that are going to be fascinating,
with the PAC twelve right now looking like of the
Power five conferences the least attractive from a financial perspective
right now.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I talked about this with Matt Brown, and so let's
let's play a more futuristic version of this same game.
If I told you in three years and we'll get
back to the responses here.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
We got many of them.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
If I told you in three years that the PAC
twelve cut a deal with Google and YouTube, and it's
a different kind of deal. It's not necessarily going to
be standard cable, but they're going to put every game
on YouTube that you can watch and then some of those.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
So any any digital device, any ott any phone, tablet, laptop,
everything on YouTube. PA twelve could be on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
You can watch any PACK twelve game wherever you want
on YouTube, and they will, you know, maybe they'll sell
some of that back to a network.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
If they're say they're going to sell your data, Yeah,
going to do that.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
But three years from now, if you find out that
this is the deal that the PAC twelve cut, knowing
what you know now, is that best to decision?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Worst decision? I don't think it's answerable right now, just
because we don't know what the actual product is. You
could watch PAC twelve games if you wanted to. For
the most part, you couldn't watch maybe ten thirty PM
Eastern Colorado Arizona kickoff without the PAC twelve network. But
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the majority of big middle and not as good games
in terms of quality of matchup, you could watch people
just didn't a lot of the time. So sure it
makes it easier to watch. But if the product isn't
any good and isn't attractive to somebody in Minneapolis or
Nashville or Orlando or something, it doesn't I don't know,
it doesn't mean all that much to me. You still
(24:42):
need the killers at the top of every conference, and
that's what the PAC twelve doesn't have, plural killers. What
else you got here? Pitt not accepting a bull bit
as a best decision. I'm cool with that. Yeah. If
players were just wanting to get home for the holidays
and sick of quarantining and abting by extreme, extremely tight
protocol on campus and they wanted to get home and
(25:03):
spend time with family in a safe way, great with it. Yeah,
it's not it's worst decision. Keeping Sean Watson at coordinator.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't think you can really
fault anyone, be it a player or a team for
the opt out.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
It was just it was a goof year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
We got a bunch of I think like minded Tennessee
fans here who said that the best decision was firing
Jeremy Pruitt. Worst decision was extending.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Jeremy Pruett before the season. It's easy to forget that
they did that before the seat. We have a lot
of people regretful about not working out, so not having
Dan Clobacar glutes that they had the time and or
ability to. But you know, it was it was tough
for all of us to just get up off the couch,
get away from the desk, and as lines blurred for
(25:55):
a lot of us between work and personal time, you know,
it became more and more difficult, especially this past month
or so. Here in Chicago. Worst decision, Yeah, there's more
Jeremy Pruitz scrolling through here. Oh I like this one. Well,
now I lost it. We have not buying bitcoin at
(26:18):
twelve k. I don't understand that per se, But it
looks like a Nebraska fan. So it was a tough
year for him. Best for a Penn State fan. James
Franklin using the transfer portal to add players. Worst James
Franklin completely neglecting to use the transfer portal up until
(26:38):
like two months ago. Oh god, yeah, yeah. We had
some with like not bringing in competition for Sean Clifford
and seeing what they had in Roberson? Is that who
Penn State fans one of the guys they were clamoring for.
I assume in situations like that that it's extremely rare.
(26:59):
Maybe I'm wrong about Robertson. I don't know. I haven't
seen him in live game action. Nobody has, but just
generally speaking, where it's just like, why aren't we seeing
what we have in this backup? The answer is generally
not always, but a good healthy percentage of the time
they're not good in practice, and so it becomes very
(27:21):
difficult to play somebody in a game that you've watched
with your own eyes against a scout team be not good.
I don't know if that's true about Roberson, but that
to me from everything I have heard about various teams
and when people are clamoring for a backup, that's generally
the reason why. Or they're hurt, or they don't know
the playbook like that. Coaches can be overly loyal, for sure,
(27:42):
but there's generally more ink to be spilled about the
reason for that ambivalence. I would say, you can't even
use the red.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Shirt this year, not anymore because of the eligibility.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Well, you also had four games too, so with that
new role. Yeah, and I see that.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
We also have a comment here about making a move
to get Mike yoursitch getting rid of our boy Kirk Sharraka.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Which is a bummer because we were pretty excited about
Kirk Sharaka Shraka.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
But it seems like that was not working. And I
do give James Franklin credit for acknowledging as much and
pulling the trigger on that one, making the move to
get your stitch. Now, I guess it remains to be
seen how successful that's going to be because we still
have big questions at quarterback and you know, I don't
know if your stitch you'll be able to clear those up.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
It's amazing to look at the quarterback transfer portal and
look at the number of quarterbacks who as and this
is not a I'm not going to use this opportunity
to name specific names because it's one of them. As
my resolution indicated, I'm trying to be less mean about
(28:55):
players playing poorly because they're just college kids and there
are a number of is always why a player doesn't
sort of live up to expectations. But it's amazing looking
through the transfer portal and looking at the just the
C minus chairs being reshuffled across the sport at quarterback
and wondering, what does this coach see in this quarterback
(29:19):
that makes them think that they are an answer if
it's at a similar level, if you're going from the
Big twelve to the SEC, if youre going from the
Big ten to the ACC and so forth. I do
always wonder when a quarterback is pretty obviously not a
Power five quarterback and then he just goes to another
Power five program. I always wonder is it just a
(29:41):
numbers thing? Is it just that, Like it's always very
confusing to me. But I guess you got to find
roster spots, and you know, it's all variable every year.
I don't know. Does that ever like strike you when
you look at like twenty four to seven does a
fantastic job with their they have a transfer portal, rundown
page yep. And typically when a quarterback struggles at a
(30:02):
mid level Power five school, really struggles to get better,
improve at all, and then just goes to a similarly
sized program and another conference, do you think it's Is
it the confidence, the unwavering confidence that you're a better
coach and you can get the best out of this
guy in a way that the previous guy couldn't. Do
you think that's what it is like, I don't, I
(30:23):
don't understand. I guess you just kind of fill out
a room sometimes. But it's wild to me seeing some
of these transfers.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Well, this is not a profession that is short on ego.
So I have no doubt that there is that there
is part of it. And we've seen that in professional sports,
journeymen who have bounced around from team to team to team,
you know, especially in the NFL, each coach trying to
get the most out of that player, and in a
lot of cases it doesn't work. In some cases it does.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
But well, to be clear, the NFL are professional players. Sure,
these these are on some level good players. I know,
Like there are guys like Nate Peterman who were just
like nightmares for the Bills and somehow keeps getting backup jobs.
I know there's always gonna be those types of guys.
I think he was one who was pretty bad for
the Bills. Right, He's very bad, extremely bad, very bad
for the Bills. I understand when a power five quarterback
(31:13):
doesn't work out at a major place or a somewhat
major place and they go down to play for a conference,
USA school whatever, Like, okay, cool, maybe that makes more
sense for them. But yeah, like I'm doing my best
not to name names here, ty, I really am, but
I'm not going to be specific. But it is always
wild to me when I see, like, oh, man, this
(31:34):
guy ended up here. What do they think they're getting?
What do they really think? Like, you're just getting an
emergency second half guy if the starter goes down. I guess, so,
I guess that's what it is. I guess it's that
confidence that, Okay, it didn't work out here. Maybe there
were reasons. Maybe it's an injury thing. Maybe he had
(31:54):
a really bad breakup right before the season. His head
wasn't in the game, but now he looks like he's
ready for a fresh start. That's I think the hope.
But man, yeah, year over year, as more guys leave,
it's just wild to see the evaluation when there's so
much tape out there.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
The hope is that these guys blow up and that
they end up contributing as a starter, But there's probably
a depth angle as well, you know, the flip side.
I guess the counter argument having all that tape, is
you kind of do know what you're getting. And sure,
for some coaches, I'll admit it's not like these guys
(32:31):
are transferring because they want to be backups, right, And
I'm sure no coach would admit to that either. But
having more tape on some of these kids does give
you a sense for what you got and if you
need depth, perhaps that's one way to plug the gap.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
It's going to be fascinating with the class of now
what twenty twenty one having not made official visits, A
lot of them made on official visits, and of course
quarterbacks commit earlier on in the cycle, so potentially these
guys have been on a number of campuses and coaches
have been to camps or whatever, have hosted them at
camps and have seen these guys throw. We have seen
quarterback movement in a way that we've never seen, and
(33:11):
just general player transferring in ways that we haven't seen.
Did you see that more and more schools are bringing
in heads of transfer recruiting. Yeah, not just ordinary you know,
high school JC whatever, just like who are we like?
I guess it's ear to the ground talking to high
school coaches seven on seven, coaches like, wow, this guy
(33:32):
just got benched, and you know he's open to a
fresh start somewhere new like that. And I don't even
say any of this in any sort of malicious way,
like it just sort of seems like a reality, a
necessary reality now now.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Well, as Andy Staples said last week on the show,
the emergence of a new transfer rule is sure coinciding
with the nil legislation, which is going to hit in July,
and it probably puts us in a position as college
football fans to see some really weird stuff that maybe
we don't even.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Know about quite yet.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
So his point all along was that the transfer rule
may actually be the bigger deal.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
And to your point.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Here, Director of Transfer Recruiting, my guess is you'll see
more of that.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Yeah, oh, you're absolutely gonna see more. I'm just I
wonder what offenses look like moving forward. It's this very
strange feeling that I have where I'm like, man, I am,
I am pro players finding their best fit. But at
the same time, if you're in a system for two
three years and then you're going to a new school,
you're getting used to a new campus and a new whatever,
a new apartment, like everything is new and you're thrust
(34:44):
into a starting job like it's its own difficulties, Like
for every you know, Jalen Hurts thriving at Oklahoma after
you know, proving himself to be a very good quarterback
at Alabama, but you know there's a younger guy who
has overtaken him Intua. For all of those, it's just
like hoping for the best, going somewhere new and hoping
(35:06):
you pick up an offense, hoping you click with receivers,
Hope you click with an offensive coordinator, Hope personal stuff
doesn't get in the way because you have a girlfriend
back at your first school, and now you're across the
country from your parents and they can't come to see
your games. And that's very stric Like I wonder what
it's like, And maybe that's a show we can do.
What it's like transferring after two, three, four years where
(35:28):
you're starting over from scratch in terms of learning how
to lead a team. More importantly, are.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
You sure that the feeling that you're getting is not
just too much colbrew? Because I know you've been hitting
that pretty hard tie over the last.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Time cold brew. So I got a new grinder. I
got a new grinder, and it's it does a fantastic
job because you want a courser grind with coldbrew because
it sits in it for a long time, so you
don't need to immediately extract everything from the beans. I
don't do colbrew, you know, I know, I know you don't.
It's a lot. It's all the sun in my heart.
I don't like it. So I'm learning here. Yeah. No,
(36:02):
I'm only drinking one cup of cold brew a day.
It just happens to be It happens to be pretty explosive.
So I mean, I also had chocolate cake right before
the show. I just I honestly think, like what Like
Tate Martel is an example where he has an incredible
amount of natural talent, but it hasn't worked out for him.
(36:23):
And what is it like bouncing we had Tate four Cia,
anybody named Tate or any McCaffrey other than Christian. What
is it like to go to a place with a
good amount of hype, have it not work out for
whatever reason, and then be thrust into a almost savior role. Yeah,
thrust hi, I'll say it. No, I don't know. No,
(36:45):
It's fascinating. It's like we think about things in a
very professional sports free agent mindset, And it just feels
so much different when you're nineteen and just trying to
figure out the world rather than you're twenty nine and
you get traded and you're going to be a stretch
for And it's fine, you can pick up a new
NBA offense, if you can hit a three, if you
(37:07):
can guard multiple positions, you're fine. You know you're a pro.
You sign up for this. But I just, you know,
I wonder what are the struggles and challenges that we're
not thinking of if we just look at these players
as quarterbacks or defensive tackles, Because it just it feels
(37:27):
like there's so much more to it. All right, what
else do we got here? We got time for a
couple more, all right, you tell me, you have the
list in front of you. What has popped out to
Michigan State. Best decision making the change from Rocky Lombardi,
who's now in the transfer portal, to Peyton Thorn at quarterback, Right,
that's what we got. A decision.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
We've got Clemson from Will saying the best was giving
Tony Elliott a raise. The worst was not changing the
defensive strategy versus Ohio State in the second half. Not
sure how much that would have affected things, but adjustments
could have helped. With the question mark at the end,
here's an interesting one. Okay, so thank you, will best
and worst decision? Getting really good at using zoom?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Oh interesting, I like that.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
That's a very interesting answer. Will you're good at zoom?
I guess it's hard to be bad at zoom?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Ty, I am on a zoom call. Anytime I'm on
a zoom call, you're also on that call. To put
it that way, So I'm not on that many. You're
on much more because you have a job that requires
that sort of communication across different countries and languages and
Geneva conventions, things like that. Correct, that's right. Are you
(38:46):
good at zoom? Have you gotten better at zoom?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
I mean, I don't think it's a thing that you
get better at, per se, I've gotten more used to it.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
You ever attend a zoom call with a seventy seven
year old tie. You can get better and you can
get worse. That's fair. I'll tell you what I have lately.
I have a little case of the zoom yips lately.
Oh no, I have a little case of zoom yips.
Happened to me again today. What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
I got a new headset, and the headset's got a
different configuration for the mute button. And so now I'm
starting to be the guy who starts talking only to
hear somebody say in my headset, we can't hear it.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
You must be on mute. Hmmm, Ti there, Tie, Tie,
Tie you there. Yeah, God, I'm mute. Tie. That's exactly
what's happening.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
And then, of course, you know, you always have the
go to line like, oh, sorry, sorry, I was on mute.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Sorry, I get a new headset.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Computers acting up, A lot of computer's been acting up
over the last year, but ultimately it's easier er. So
I've been pretty good at avoiding that. I do have
a little case of the yips right now that I'm
trying to work through.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Was there a worse decision than hiring Wow from Ed
Orgeron in terms of coordinators this past year, in terms
of available talent, strength of an opponent's offense or defense.
Wherever you hired, there were some bad decisions, but LSU
(40:18):
doing that, I know they lso improved over the course
of the season somewhat, and they had, you know, a
ton of injury stuff. I think they finished eightieth or
something like that, so below average in terms of defensive
points per drive, below average from where they were, and
considering the talent level, I guess it's all relative. But yeah,
considering the paycheck that he drew, that's a pretty bad
(40:40):
one time.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yeah, that was a That was a lot of money, Dan, Yeah, yeah,
a lot of money for something that didn't really work
out that well.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
No, Kansas not working out under less miles. That was
not this past year Kevin Sumlin hired. I think that
was a great decision to go in a new direction
for Arizona. Yes, I agree. I thought that was a
great decision. I promised, What did I say? I was
going to discuss the best and worst decision was involving
an edible. Yeah, please continue. Okay, if people are still
(41:13):
listening to this very silly, weird show, I'm not super
into pot and I don't know. I'm just not and
that's okay, And if you are, that's cool. I'm not
a big drinker. I'm not super into pot. Never been
a big drug guy. Never be a big drug guy.
Turn here, Okay, go ahead, I'm listening, but I don't
remember when it was, and maybe we can look this up.
(41:34):
I don't remember, though, I think it was last spring
at some point because I was in Brooklyn. This was
definitely in Brooklyn. And my brother said, hey, you ever
have an edible? And I said, maybe once or twice.
Maybe once or twice. But I I'm not as super
(41:54):
into them because they're unpredictable because it's basically how your
body metabolized. The timing of your body metabolizing the edible
is how the payoff occurs. So it's unpredictable. You don't
know if it to take fifteen minutes or forty eight minutes.
And I remember sitting on the couch with Jody. She
fell asleep, solid, baby, long, long asleep. I would never
(42:15):
ever ever do something like that while little man was awake,
let alone. I just never do this. So I popped
it watching some TV. Nothing happened. I'm like, all right, well,
maybe this was just a dud. And then I mean,
Jody's very asleep, and all of a sudden, I start
floating above the couch. I start floating on the couch.
(42:38):
I called my dad and he's like, hey, man, enjoy it.
Have yourself a night. So I'm watching TV. I'm feeling great,
I'm snacking a little bit, and I was like, you
know what I should do? I should call time. I
should call time. Do you remember when this was? I do? I?
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Well, no, I don't remember when it was. I remember
the call. I could probably find when it was.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Yeah, And you guys were just super supportive. You were
just like you were just I remember you has turn
on the Roku screensaver the fish right, hang with some fish.
I just remember that. I thought that was a great
That wasn't the best decision I made all year, but
that was a good decision to call you and Kate
(43:21):
saw chat. Yeah, like ten forty seven pm Eastern. Yeah,
and we were thinking you caught me on the rare Friday.
I say it was a Friday, that might make sense.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Yeah, And I was awake at that hour, which doesn't
happen a whole lot lately. And I seem to remember.
We talked for what felt like a good ten to
fifteen minutes about the Roku screensaver and the fish there are.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
There is a variety of fish there are in very
intense fish at that moment. Mm hmm. Yeah, No, it
was a great call. I just I'm very happy with that.
Not the best. The best decision I made was probably
going with Jody and the solid toddler out to California
when things got bad in Brooklyn last March. And then
the actual best decision was probably coming out to Chicago
(44:06):
to be closer to family during a very difficult time.
I'm very glad we did that. That was the best,
and so now we are here. The worst decision was
when we were out in California. I said to myself, Man,
I had such a good time with that edible calling
Tie in Kate that a few months later I said,
I'm going to pop another edible And I didn't realize
(44:31):
that edibles can be a very differing strength and I
am a weakling Tie and I pop said edible and
it hit me and it was like Ray mau Luga
hit me. It was a feeling that I I called
(44:51):
a couple. I didn't call you. I don't think did
I call you? I think you did call I think
did I call you in May or June or whenever?
That was no, it was actually early Aprils when that
was Yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
I feel like I have a full rolodex of Dan
edible experiences.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
Somewhere in my favor blog. I took precisely two edibles
in the past, let's call it eight years or something.
I got both calls. I think you might have gotten
both calls. And it was the worst decision I could
be making up this milligram dosage. Have we been doing
the show for now thirteen years and this is the
(45:29):
first time we've talked about drugs. Probably probably okay, took
us a minute to warm up, But I believe the
first the Roku fish edible, I believe was a five milligram,
which is not strong by any stretch. It's not the weakest,
(45:50):
but it's not nothing crazy that I can tell. I
think I was given a twenty in early April, and
it was like I was watching myself freak out in bed,
and I remember calling my brother in law. I remember
calling some of Jody's friends. I think my brother gave
(46:11):
me sugar water, because apparently that helps you come down.
It was the clear worst decision I made in twenty
twenty was to just assume all edibles are created equal
as a complete novice and lightweight whoa whoa.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
Okay, well, it's no microwave story, but it will suffice Dan,
I made it up.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
But it was I did make it out. I slept beautifully.
I woke up and it was like that. I heard
the like the Windows ninety five music greet me. It
was magical. So I guess all's well, that ends well.
But yeah, that was the clear worst decision I made,
(46:57):
those phone calls, the Roku screens Screens discussion was that
could have been its own podcast. That was terrific. It
was and maybe this is something we do on Discord
someday we probably should have. But that's okay. Me Tie
seven and a half combined milligrams nineteen ninety eight, Wake
(47:20):
Forest Way, Virginia Tech. Just something absurd, Oh my gosh. Fun. Well, look,
this is fun. We're adults. It's is it legal in Pennsylvania?
I have no idea. You have no idea. You live
in Pennsylvania. It's it's not by scene at the moment
I have known. Okay, yeah, marijuana legal, PA. Illegal for
(47:43):
recreational use, but possession of small amounts have been decriminalized.
Oh so okay, we're good. You're good. Well, fun show,
Daniel very On that note.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
On that note, thank you so much to everybody out
there for writing in for letting us know how your
year went, not for your team, but for you as
a person. I hope you're all doing well here as
we very gradually work our way into spring. It's getting
warmer out there. It's getting warmer out here. Staying light
a little bit longer. Hopefully at some point in the
(48:14):
next year, they're going to install my fence so the
dog can rip around the yard.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
Send us your edible stories, Send us your edible stories. Yeah,
you can apparently go to New Jersey. Tie Phil Murphy
got it done. Okay, so you're good to go on
that front.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Good to go for that guy over there, my good
friend Dan Rubensteed from myself, Tie Hill the brand. We
will talk to you all next week. In the meantime,
stay safe, stay happy, oh, stay healthy, stay warm and
stay solid.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Peace
Welcome to the solid verbal hull that for me, I'm
a man, I'm for I've heard so many players say, well,
I want to be happy, you want to be happy
for Dake Edith State is that woof?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Woof?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
And Dan and Ty.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome back to the Cliburbal Boys Girls. My name is
Ty Hilda Brand joining me as always Dan Rubinstein over
there in summery, Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Daniel, sir, how are you good? Burbs of Chicago, Illinois,
Burbs Burbs, North Burbs. I am excited to do this show.
This is a I don't know if it's a Q
and A show as much as it is. We asked
a Q of people on social media and they submitted
a's as it relates to the past year of their
(00:53):
favorite program and their lives themselves and me personally, Ty,
because that's what you ask. How you if this is
a show about the best and worst decisions, I can
tell you in the short term, I just had a
slice of extremely dense chocolate cake going in great decision
(01:13):
as we stand right now, very confusing, possibly regretful decision.
So I'm here with you.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
One decision that runs the full gamut is an interesting
perspective that I think we're going to explore a little
bit more as we go through tonight's show. Don't forget
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(02:04):
which I must add you did a pizza bake for
the first time on twitch stream. Got a little bit
of traction. Folks were asking some questions out there. Mom
h referred to you just on the sly as Danny Rubentino. Oh,
I like that after seeing what you did with pizza.
So she's very excited and wants to see more of
(02:25):
your pizza bakes. I don't know if that's something you
can accommodate, if.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Only for her.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Secondly, I've got a big game coming up. I know
I've been playing the old NCAA franchise on there. M M.
I've got a big game coming up against a friend
either Friday or Saturday night. We haven't decided yet, but
stay tuned to our social media channels and of course
the Patreon discord server at verbollers dot com for more
(02:51):
information about when that big matchup is going to occur.
But I'm getting myself mentally prepared to ye, I can't wait.
Were you were struggling last night when during your do
you want me to want to temple you?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
No? I was texting you during the the stream I
was watching. It was a field last night. It was
in a three all. A little before halftime, you threw
an ugly, ugly pick you were you got an explosive
play before halftime. I didn't watch the second half. I
assume you held on. I want an overtime against Temple nice.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
A rock fight in the first half. Second half picked up.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
But anyway, we got a big matchup coming up against
a human opponent in the next couple of days. So again,
that's out at Twitch dot tv slash Solid Verbal on
tonight's show. We promised you we're going to be doing
one Q and a show per month throughout the off season.
Today is that show, and we've got a unique spin
(03:44):
on it. Dan looking back looking forward, chocolate cake dilemma,
anundrum if you will, decisions decisions is what we are
titling this here content. What what decisions decisions are we.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
So I asked verbalers to let us know what is
the absolute best decision that their favorite team or program
made in the last year. So it could be something
on the field, it could be something as it relates
to hiring a coach, retaining a coach, uniform, all sorts
of things, anything related to your program. And then personally,
(04:21):
so the best decision, the worst decision about your program,
and then personally, what was the best decision. Obviously, these
past three hundred and sixty five days have been largely
very different for all of us. So best and worst
decision you yourself made. That's sort of issued at everybody
listening who responded, and we got some incredible responses, and
(04:43):
I'm prepared to give mine for my team and for
my life. I hope you are as well. I know
you said you had a huge professional reveal. I don't
know what that means, but I'm excited to get into it. Well,
where do we want to start? Do we want to
start with our teams?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
We want to start with our person What makes the
most sense for you?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You mean like, should we start with college football or human? Yeah?
Why are you correct? Oh? College football?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So the best decision that my team made in twenty
twenty was an easy one, and that was joining the ACC.
Notre Dame did so out of necessity. I don't know
what it would have looked like if they hadn't. My
guess is they still would have found a way to
play games, but it wouldn't nearly have been as high
profile as it ended up being. Huge win against Clemson,
(05:30):
obviously made the ACC Championship, obviously made the playoff game,
so it was, by all accounts a successful season. Did
not end the way many Notre Dame fans and I'm
sure Notre Dame players would have hoped. But I think,
just in terms of what was the best decision they made,
Jack Swarbrick pulling the trigger early joining the ACC, becoming
(05:52):
that fifteenth team on a one time only basis, In
my book, that's a huge dub. I hope they end
up going in that direction moving forward, whether it's with
the ACC, the Big Ten, some other conference. I've long
been a proponent of Notre Dame joining and ending the
independence when it makes financial league yea, yeah, well Aliga, yeah,
League one, Uber eats whatever works for them, I'm fine with.
(06:16):
But I think it was a huge move, a great
move by Swarbrick, and it was cool to see it.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
If that's really the only glimpse we're going to get
at them in a conference, what's the what was the
worst move of the past year from Notre Dame. I
struggle with the worst move or worst decision? Yeah, well,
you know, I mean you could, you could, you could
split hairs here if you really wanted to.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I'll tell you that I had trouble coming up with
a worst decision, a decision that I thought.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's all relative too. It doesn't mean you have to
come up with a catastrophe, but just in terms of
a very successful year.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yea, yeah, there were no catastrophes. I will say this,
the one decision that I am wondering about, I am
curious about, Like the chocolate cake and the belly state.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Of things, I'm in a strange place is.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
The Tommy Reess decision at to go with Tommy Rees
at offensive coordinator. And I struggle even saying that aloud
because I really like Tommy Reese.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I really like him.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Perhaps I'm biased because we spent so much time talking
about him on the show and Reesis became part of
our content for like four straight years. I really want
him to work out. I do think he's got a
promising future as a head football coach at some point
in time. And I totally get why Notre Dame would
(07:41):
appoint him to that position. But he's pre damn green
before taking over the Raids, and so not to say
anybody else, Chip Long any other coordinator was gonna get
more blood out of the stone that was Ian Book
at quarterback. But that's not even fair good quarterback.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Sure, but I just.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I need more information before I'm fully comfortable with that
as a good, long lasting, sustainable decision.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Well also, I mean I don't want to get too
in the way. This is well trod territory, if that's
a word. You know, what if Notre Dame upgrades from
Tommy Reese to I don't know what, Phil Longo at
North Carolina, somebody who has been consistently a good coordinator
or something like that with a lot more experience. Isn't
ian book Notre dame offense beyond merely good? I don't know.
(08:35):
I mean it also depends on like Notre Dame didn't
really have killers at receiver, and it just you know,
there was a ceiling for Notre Dame's offense. So I
think that you qualified it. I think you couched it
pretty well.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, and look, the receiver component of this is important.
There were plenty of players with these guys just weren't
getting open. Yeah, and there was no separation. That does
not all fall on the shoulder of ian Book. Ian
Book is not without his own limitations, but within the system,
ian Book was very good. Ianbook won a lot of games.
Ian Book got him to a conference championship game in
(09:06):
the playoff, so say what you want, but he got
the job done when he had to. I think we're
going to find out more about Reese this coming season,
because you know, whether it's Jack Cohne in the short
term probably will be, whether it's a guy like a
Tyler Buckner.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
New recruit.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
In the long term that remains to be seen. But
he will now have an opportunity to really put his
stamp on the program moving forward with a fresh face
at quarterback, which is where he should really excel being
so he knows the position well from his own time
and Notre Dame. So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Oregon's best decision was to make a defensive adjustment later
on in the season. They were running some very strange
looks which had the defensive line two three yards off
the line of scrimmage to try to confuse and do
all sorts of I don't know, stunting and caveon. Thibodeau
ended up at like middle linebacker in some set and
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then they sort of scrapped that and went back to
what worked and absolutely demolished USC upfront in that very
odd happenstance of a Pac twelve championship game. But that
was a fantastic decision, and of course Andy Avlos rode
a stronger and to the regular season before bowlseason to
the head coaching job at Boise State, so good for him.
(10:20):
That was a very good decision to get back to
what worked for the Oregon defense. You know, the hiring
of Joe moorehead was before three hundred and sixty five
days ago. That was a late January, I believe, so
that doesn't count. But I think in terms of twenty twenty,
that was a fantastic move and I stand by it,
even though the offense didn't really fully work out for Oregon.
I would say the worst thing that Oregon did was
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probably the belief in quarterback probably lasted too long when
it was looking like it was not going to be
Tyler Shuck, rising to the occasion later on in the
season in those games against you know, Oregon State and
Cal and there was just it was tough. It was
a tough watch once it was clear that if he
was to be pressured, it was not going to go
(11:05):
well for Oregon's offense. So that was probably the worst move.
But all in all, a very positive year for Oregon
football and an abbreviated season to still win the Pac twelve.
So again, it's all a relative complaint. Do you have
a personal best and worst decision you made last year?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And oh Dan, Oh Dan, I think so Okay, the
best decision I made was to take up home projects.
And I've said this before. This isn't going to come
as any surprise to folks who listened to this show,
but I think taking up home projects, anything that gets
you away from a screen, the best has really been rewarding.
(11:43):
So we painted like five yeah, five rooms in this house.
Maybe not five rooms, it felt.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Like five rooms. But you also tried Korean barbecue for
the first time within three hundred and sixty five days ago. Yeah, correct,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
The last time was right before we all went into
quarantine up in New York with you. But no, the
home project's bit painting has been has really been like
more fun than I expected, if only because again there's
no computer screen involved. We also committed to buying a
fence for the solid pup, but because everything is on
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back order and literally the entire world had the exact
same idea, we have yet to receive said fence. So
if we're going chocolate cake, this is the decision that
felt good on the way in, but has felt a
little less good each day since we're still waiting, and furthermore,
since they still have a huge deposit check that I
put down on said fence.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Wow, so hopefully we're gonna get good for you at
some point here.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Worst decision worst decision Dan was buying a new microwave. Okay,
why worst decision was buying a new microwave. We had
the unfortunate circumstance of the microwave that came with the house.
I think it was the original microwave when the house
(13:05):
was built. That thing went could put around mid April.
First decision in a year, it is, there's more mid
April when could put made an awful sound whenever you
turn the thing on.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
No longer heated any food.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Just so happens that a appliance dealer was offering a
Memorial Day sale shortly thereafter, could get a really good
I think it was a ge brand microwave for a
fraction of the price. They cumming they'd install it. They'd
been here before, so it was a good deal.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Called them up. It fit the space.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
They came out, they tried to install it, and that's
when all hell broke loose, Dan, All hell broke loose
as they popped the old microwave out and put the
new one in. They come to discover that the door
only opens about a quarter of the way. And that's
because my kitchen has an odd can figuration. Most microwaves.
When you've got an above the range microwave like most
(14:05):
people do, or a lot of people do. You don't
have an obstruction blocking the door from opening, But in
the case of our kitchen, there's actually sort of like
a mini wall there.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
This is almost like you're filibustering a college football podcast.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
This is exactly what's happening. The door wouldn't open. It
wouldn't open, and nobody, nobody makes one that will unless
I want to spend like fifteen hundred dollars to get
a microwave that opens top to bottom or bottom of
the top. So you know what's happened, Dan, what's happened
is after trying another microwave, after getting my money back,
(14:45):
after trying poorly to install the old microwave back into
the space, I now have a giant gaping hole where
my microwave used to be. And I haven't had a
microwave for close to a year. First world problem.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, no, this is even first world problems. This is
the only person with the problem. This minute be their
biggest decision. It's a beautiful You can't what would you
do if you could warm food up in a microwave.
I have a toaster, and I have a regular oven,
I have a stove. I have used these things as well,
steamer basket. None of them are.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
As convenient as a microwave. Okay, don't pooh pooh this.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
This is microwave dietribe. I will postpone my best and
worst life decisions until the end of the show. Here's
the teas. They both involve an edible. Oh okay, they
will involve an edible, and one of them at least
involves you. So there's that. Okay, okay, let's go to
some college football answers from fans from across the country.
(15:49):
We've got some really good ones. We're gonna start with Instagram. Actually,
usually we save Instagram for last. We're gonna start with this.
I've got Sam saying Texas fired Tom Herman, hooray, but
also set Bijehan Robinson for Keyante Ingram for way too long.
Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, We've got a bunch of
Michigan people saying the worst decision that Michigan made this
year was not firing Jim Harbaugh. Yeah wow, interesting, Wow, interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's who is there a guy? This is the question
that nobody's been able to answer.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, I get it, there's always a guy. Well, there's
always a guy. I get it. But if not Horbaw,
then who?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And who are you expecting to come into the situation
and make an immediate impact that's going to turn them
into like an eleven win team. Is that guy out there?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Harbaugh still feels like a good coach. He's getting paid
a ton. Maybe he's getting a little long in the
tooth in ann Arbor at this point, and it's not
going to be a long term situation. But I just
until I get an answer, an obvious answer to if
not Harball, then who, it's really hard for me to
take it seriously despite all the frustrations that I think
is associated.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
With him always gonna have. You know, Luke Fickle, Matt Campbell,
there are coaches in the Midwest with a Midwestern footprint
who I'm sure would be happy to take over an
enormous program with enormous resources. But yeah, you're right, and
Luke Fickele, obviously with his Ohio State ties, is it
complicates it. But yeah, there are guys, Tye, there are
guys that are willing to take six and a half
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seven million dollars to Candle Premier program.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I can't believe you poop pooed my microwave story. This
has been very traumatic over the last year.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Dan, It's just been a really tough year for a
lot of people. And here you are saying your worst decision.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It wasn't the worst thing that happened in the world
in twenty twenty, I know, but my worst decision was
buying that microwave.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Continue. We had some Georgia fans say, best decision starting,
finally starting JT. Daniels worst waiting to play JT. Daniels. Yeah,
that long? Well was that was that a decision though
to wait to play him?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Or was it?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Was it more a matter of medical clearance? I mean
it could have been out of an abundance of caution, Okay,
And then I don't know, who knows. We've got a
lot of Florida letting Kyle Trask really shine and trusting
him and opening up the playbook and really letting him
do what he does best, which is pick apart defenses.
And the worst obviously throwing a shoe key moment against LSU.
(18:20):
The shoe was terrible. I've got a Notre dame joining
the ACC as the best decision, accepting playoff invitation as
Notre dame in that nice place of like, Hey, we
lost the most respectively of most teams who played Alabama,
I guess outside of Florida. So there's that. Let's see
what else we have we have from Damn Klobacar long
(18:41):
time for baller. The best decision Perdue made was related
to their uniforms. Everything else was the bad decision I
was made. Yeah, I was waiting for.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Some uniform hot takes here. I thought I thought we'd
get more of them. But okay, good.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
He also gave of us. His best life decision was
buying home gym equipment the day things started shutting down,
so we had a squat rack all year. So, in
case you're wondering, Dan Klobokar likely likely has terrific glutes,
great glutes, he just tree trunks his thighs is if
he's been squatting more consistently than most at home this year.
(19:22):
His worst is not buying a nice office chair for
his house. Yeah, that's key, Interesting, it's key. Okay, we
got a lot of JT. Daniels. Best decision for BYU
going with Zach Wilson, letting him shine. I don't know
how much of a choice they had. But the worst
decision playing Coastal within sixty hours Coastal Carolina. M. Yeah, Yeah,
(19:45):
that was you know what, I think that was a
great decision. You just needed to stop them a little
bit more. Yeah, I still think it was a good decision.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
It was good. It was a good decision. Sometimes you
need to think bigger picture. That was a really good
decision for a college football season that needed a little
bit of a boost at that point in time. Everybody
watched that game. Everybody watched that game, and it was
like the best game of the year.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
We had some Ohio State fans talk about a great
decision in bringing in Trey Sermon as a transfer running
back from Oklahoma and really leaning on him when things
got dicey both against Northwestern and Clemson. Certainly, Tray Sermon
more than carried his weight did his part to power
Ohio State forward. And then we got a lot of
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both Sean Wade and to a greater extent, tough Borland
on an Island decision making. I guess Sean Wade was
sort of moved from the inside and playing sort of
nickel corner's safety snaps into being an outside corner, and
that didn't fully go well for Ohio state. But then yeah,
tough Borland, especially highlighted by on An Island against DeVante Smith.
(20:55):
It got dicey tie. I don't know if you remember,
Oh I remember did get dicey with a linebacker on
DeVante Smith.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Let me pose one to you a different situation from
the perspective of the PAC twelve. Is the best decision
firing Larry Scott and then or letting Larry Scott go,
and the worst decision deciding to play a season at all.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
No, I don't think it was a bad decision to
play a season. The PAC twelve was able to play football.
They took a lot of precautions, I think all in all,
I mean, the PAC twolve didn't have a playoff caliber team,
so it's not like they quitted themselves terribly by playing.
The Larry Scott thing is tbd. We got to see,
(21:41):
just like you mentioned with Jim Harbaugh, who do they
bring in? What's the impact? Yeah, what is the reaction?
What does the money look like in the next TV deal?
What does the distribution look like? Because right now, the
PAC twelve before gambled on people being interested in the
PAC twelve and its network getting barriers to help foot
(22:02):
the bill by saying, oh, Direct TV wants to pay
however many cents per whatever, and it worked out financially,
it did not work out financially. And so what does
it look like as the broadcast landscape? And I don't
know how much you want to get into this, but
like I have no idea what broadcast TV slash streaming
(22:24):
is and look like in two years, everybody's sort of
starting their own service and saying you want HBO, Well,
you don't need Comcast, you don't need AT and T.
I go AT and T. I guess owns HBO now,
but you don't need some sort of cable service, just
just grab HBO. And so as that changes, like if
you don't care about PAC twelve, Big twelve or Big
ten football and you just want sec ACC, we got
(22:47):
you just the ESPN app, that's all you need. And
so they're things like that that are going to be fascinating,
with the PAC twelve right now looking like of the
Power five conferences the least attractive from a financial perspective
right now.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I talked about this with Matt Brown, and so let's
let's play a more futuristic version of this same game.
If I told you in three years and we'll get
back to the responses here.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
We got many of them.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
If I told you in three years that the PAC
twelve cut a deal with Google and YouTube, and it's
a different kind of deal. It's not necessarily going to
be standard cable, but they're going to put every game
on YouTube that you can watch and then some of those.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
So any any digital device, any ott any phone, tablet, laptop,
everything on YouTube. PA twelve could be on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
You can watch any PACK twelve game wherever you want
on YouTube, and they will, you know, maybe they'll sell
some of that back to a network.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
If they're say they're going to sell your data, Yeah,
going to do that.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
But three years from now, if you find out that
this is the deal that the PAC twelve cut, knowing
what you know now, is that best to decision?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Worst decision? I don't think it's answerable right now, just
because we don't know what the actual product is. You
could watch PAC twelve games if you wanted to. For
the most part, you couldn't watch maybe ten thirty PM
Eastern Colorado Arizona kickoff without the PAC twelve network. But
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the majority of big middle and not as good games
in terms of quality of matchup, you could watch people
just didn't a lot of the time. So sure it
makes it easier to watch. But if the product isn't
any good and isn't attractive to somebody in Minneapolis or
Nashville or Orlando or something, it doesn't I don't know,
it doesn't mean all that much to me. You still
(24:42):
need the killers at the top of every conference, and
that's what the PAC twelve doesn't have, plural killers. What
else you got here? Pitt not accepting a bull bit
as a best decision. I'm cool with that. Yeah. If
players were just wanting to get home for the holidays
and sick of quarantining and abting by extreme, extremely tight
protocol on campus and they wanted to get home and
(25:03):
spend time with family in a safe way, great with it. Yeah,
it's not it's worst decision. Keeping Sean Watson at coordinator.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't think you can really
fault anyone, be it a player or a team for
the opt out.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
It was just it was a goof year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
We got a bunch of I think like minded Tennessee
fans here who said that the best decision was firing
Jeremy Pruitt. Worst decision was extending.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Jeremy Pruett before the season. It's easy to forget that
they did that before the seat. We have a lot
of people regretful about not working out, so not having
Dan Clobacar glutes that they had the time and or
ability to. But you know, it was it was tough
for all of us to just get up off the couch,
get away from the desk, and as lines blurred for
(25:55):
a lot of us between work and personal time, you know,
it became more and more difficult, especially this past month
or so. Here in Chicago. Worst decision, Yeah, there's more
Jeremy Pruitz scrolling through here. Oh I like this one. Well,
now I lost it. We have not buying bitcoin at
(26:18):
twelve k. I don't understand that per se, But it
looks like a Nebraska fan. So it was a tough
year for him. Best for a Penn State fan. James
Franklin using the transfer portal to add players. Worst James
Franklin completely neglecting to use the transfer portal up until
(26:38):
like two months ago. Oh god, yeah, yeah. We had
some with like not bringing in competition for Sean Clifford
and seeing what they had in Roberson? Is that who
Penn State fans one of the guys they were clamoring for.
I assume in situations like that that it's extremely rare.
(26:59):
Maybe I'm wrong about Robertson. I don't know. I haven't
seen him in live game action. Nobody has, but just
generally speaking, where it's just like, why aren't we seeing
what we have in this backup? The answer is generally
not always, but a good healthy percentage of the time
they're not good in practice, and so it becomes very
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difficult to play somebody in a game that you've watched
with your own eyes against a scout team be not good.
I don't know if that's true about Roberson, but that
to me from everything I have heard about various teams
and when people are clamoring for a backup, that's generally
the reason why. Or they're hurt, or they don't know
the playbook like that. Coaches can be overly loyal, for sure,
(27:42):
but there's generally more ink to be spilled about the
reason for that ambivalence. I would say, you can't even
use the red.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Shirt this year, not anymore because of the eligibility.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Well, you also had four games too, so with that
new role. Yeah, and I see that.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
We also have a comment here about making a move
to get Mike yoursitch getting rid of our boy Kirk Sharraka.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Which is a bummer because we were pretty excited about
Kirk Sharaka Shraka.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
But it seems like that was not working. And I
do give James Franklin credit for acknowledging as much and
pulling the trigger on that one, making the move to
get your stitch. Now, I guess it remains to be
seen how successful that's going to be because we still
have big questions at quarterback and you know, I don't
know if your stitch you'll be able to clear those up.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
It's amazing to look at the quarterback transfer portal and
look at the number of quarterbacks who as and this
is not a I'm not going to use this opportunity
to name specific names because it's one of them. As
my resolution indicated, I'm trying to be less mean about
(28:55):
players playing poorly because they're just college kids and there
are a number of is always why a player doesn't
sort of live up to expectations. But it's amazing looking
through the transfer portal and looking at the just the
C minus chairs being reshuffled across the sport at quarterback
and wondering, what does this coach see in this quarterback
(29:19):
that makes them think that they are an answer if
it's at a similar level, if you're going from the
Big twelve to the SEC, if youre going from the
Big ten to the ACC and so forth. I do
always wonder when a quarterback is pretty obviously not a
Power five quarterback and then he just goes to another
Power five program. I always wonder is it just a
(29:41):
numbers thing? Is it just that, Like it's always very
confusing to me. But I guess you got to find
roster spots, and you know, it's all variable every year.
I don't know. Does that ever like strike you when
you look at like twenty four to seven does a
fantastic job with their they have a transfer portal, rundown
page yep. And typically when a quarterback struggles at a
(30:02):
mid level Power five school, really struggles to get better,
improve at all, and then just goes to a similarly
sized program and another conference, do you think it's Is
it the confidence, the unwavering confidence that you're a better
coach and you can get the best out of this
guy in a way that the previous guy couldn't. Do
you think that's what it is like, I don't, I
(30:23):
don't understand. I guess you just kind of fill out
a room sometimes. But it's wild to me seeing some
of these transfers.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Well, this is not a profession that is short on ego.
So I have no doubt that there is that there
is part of it. And we've seen that in professional sports,
journeymen who have bounced around from team to team to team,
you know, especially in the NFL, each coach trying to
get the most out of that player, and in a
lot of cases it doesn't work. In some cases it does.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
But well, to be clear, the NFL are professional players. Sure,
these these are on some level good players. I know,
Like there are guys like Nate Peterman who were just
like nightmares for the Bills and somehow keeps getting backup jobs.
I know there's always gonna be those types of guys.
I think he was one who was pretty bad for
the Bills. Right, He's very bad, extremely bad, very bad
for the Bills. I understand when a power five quarterback
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doesn't work out at a major place or a somewhat
major place and they go down to play for a conference,
USA school whatever, Like, okay, cool, maybe that makes more
sense for them. But yeah, like I'm doing my best
not to name names here, ty, I really am, but
I'm not going to be specific. But it is always
wild to me when I see, like, oh, man, this
(31:34):
guy ended up here. What do they think they're getting?
What do they really think? Like, you're just getting an
emergency second half guy if the starter goes down. I guess, so,
I guess that's what it is. I guess it's that
confidence that, Okay, it didn't work out here. Maybe there
were reasons. Maybe it's an injury thing. Maybe he had
(31:54):
a really bad breakup right before the season. His head
wasn't in the game, but now he looks like he's
ready for a fresh start. That's I think the hope.
But man, yeah, year over year, as more guys leave,
it's just wild to see the evaluation when there's so
much tape out there.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
The hope is that these guys blow up and that
they end up contributing as a starter, But there's probably
a depth angle as well, you know, the flip side.
I guess the counter argument having all that tape, is
you kind of do know what you're getting. And sure,
for some coaches, I'll admit it's not like these guys
(32:31):
are transferring because they want to be backups, right, And
I'm sure no coach would admit to that either. But
having more tape on some of these kids does give
you a sense for what you got and if you
need depth, perhaps that's one way to plug the gap.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
It's going to be fascinating with the class of now
what twenty twenty one having not made official visits, A
lot of them made on official visits, and of course
quarterbacks commit earlier on in the cycle, so potentially these
guys have been on a number of campuses and coaches
have been to camps or whatever, have hosted them at
camps and have seen these guys throw. We have seen
quarterback movement in a way that we've never seen, and
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just general player transferring in ways that we haven't seen.
Did you see that more and more schools are bringing
in heads of transfer recruiting. Yeah, not just ordinary you know,
high school JC whatever, just like who are we like?
I guess it's ear to the ground talking to high
school coaches seven on seven, coaches like, wow, this guy
(33:32):
just got benched, and you know he's open to a
fresh start somewhere new like that. And I don't even
say any of this in any sort of malicious way,
like it just sort of seems like a reality, a
necessary reality now now.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Well, as Andy Staples said last week on the show,
the emergence of a new transfer rule is sure coinciding
with the nil legislation, which is going to hit in July,
and it probably puts us in a position as college
football fans to see some really weird stuff that maybe
we don't even.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Know about quite yet.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
So his point all along was that the transfer rule
may actually be the bigger deal.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
And to your point.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Here, Director of Transfer Recruiting, my guess is you'll see
more of that.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Yeah, oh, you're absolutely gonna see more. I'm just I
wonder what offenses look like moving forward. It's this very
strange feeling that I have where I'm like, man, I am,
I am pro players finding their best fit. But at
the same time, if you're in a system for two
three years and then you're going to a new school,
you're getting used to a new campus and a new whatever,
a new apartment, like everything is new and you're thrust
(34:44):
into a starting job like it's its own difficulties, Like
for every you know, Jalen Hurts thriving at Oklahoma after
you know, proving himself to be a very good quarterback
at Alabama, but you know there's a younger guy who
has overtaken him Intua. For all of those, it's just
like hoping for the best, going somewhere new and hoping
(35:06):
you pick up an offense, hoping you click with receivers,
Hope you click with an offensive coordinator, Hope personal stuff
doesn't get in the way because you have a girlfriend
back at your first school, and now you're across the
country from your parents and they can't come to see
your games. And that's very stric Like I wonder what
it's like, And maybe that's a show we can do.
What it's like transferring after two, three, four years where
(35:28):
you're starting over from scratch in terms of learning how
to lead a team. More importantly, are.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
You sure that the feeling that you're getting is not
just too much colbrew? Because I know you've been hitting
that pretty hard tie over the last.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Time cold brew. So I got a new grinder. I
got a new grinder, and it's it does a fantastic
job because you want a courser grind with coldbrew because
it sits in it for a long time, so you
don't need to immediately extract everything from the beans. I
don't do colbrew, you know, I know, I know you don't.
It's a lot. It's all the sun in my heart.
I don't like it. So I'm learning here. Yeah. No,
(36:02):
I'm only drinking one cup of cold brew a day.
It just happens to be It happens to be pretty explosive.
So I mean, I also had chocolate cake right before
the show. I just I honestly think, like what Like
Tate Martel is an example where he has an incredible
amount of natural talent, but it hasn't worked out for him.
(36:23):
And what is it like bouncing we had Tate four Cia,
anybody named Tate or any McCaffrey other than Christian. What
is it like to go to a place with a
good amount of hype, have it not work out for
whatever reason, and then be thrust into a almost savior role. Yeah,
thrust hi, I'll say it. No, I don't know. No,
(36:45):
It's fascinating. It's like we think about things in a
very professional sports free agent mindset, And it just feels
so much different when you're nineteen and just trying to
figure out the world rather than you're twenty nine and
you get traded and you're going to be a stretch
for And it's fine, you can pick up a new
NBA offense, if you can hit a three, if you
(37:07):
can guard multiple positions, you're fine. You know you're a pro.
You sign up for this. But I just, you know,
I wonder what are the struggles and challenges that we're
not thinking of if we just look at these players
as quarterbacks or defensive tackles, Because it just it feels
(37:27):
like there's so much more to it. All right, what
else do we got here? We got time for a
couple more, all right, you tell me, you have the
list in front of you. What has popped out to
Michigan State. Best decision making the change from Rocky Lombardi,
who's now in the transfer portal, to Peyton Thorn at quarterback, Right,
that's what we got. A decision.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
We've got Clemson from Will saying the best was giving
Tony Elliott a raise. The worst was not changing the
defensive strategy versus Ohio State in the second half. Not
sure how much that would have affected things, but adjustments
could have helped. With the question mark at the end,
here's an interesting one. Okay, so thank you, will best
and worst decision? Getting really good at using zoom?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Oh interesting, I like that.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
That's a very interesting answer. Will you're good at zoom?
I guess it's hard to be bad at zoom?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Ty, I am on a zoom call. Anytime I'm on
a zoom call, you're also on that call. To put
it that way, So I'm not on that many. You're
on much more because you have a job that requires
that sort of communication across different countries and languages and
Geneva conventions, things like that. Correct, that's right. Are you
(38:46):
good at zoom? Have you gotten better at zoom?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
I mean, I don't think it's a thing that you
get better at, per se, I've gotten more used to it.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
You ever attend a zoom call with a seventy seven
year old tie. You can get better and you can
get worse. That's fair. I'll tell you what I have lately.
I have a little case of the zoom yips lately.
Oh no, I have a little case of zoom yips.
Happened to me again today. What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
I got a new headset, and the headset's got a
different configuration for the mute button. And so now I'm
starting to be the guy who starts talking only to
hear somebody say in my headset, we can't hear it.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
You must be on mute. Hmmm, Ti there, Tie, Tie,
Tie you there. Yeah, God, I'm mute. Tie. That's exactly
what's happening.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
And then, of course, you know, you always have the
go to line like, oh, sorry, sorry, I was on mute.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Sorry, I get a new headset.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Computers acting up, A lot of computer's been acting up
over the last year, but ultimately it's easier er. So
I've been pretty good at avoiding that. I do have
a little case of the yips right now that I'm
trying to work through.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Was there a worse decision than hiring Wow from Ed
Orgeron in terms of coordinators this past year, in terms
of available talent, strength of an opponent's offense or defense.
Wherever you hired, there were some bad decisions, but LSU
(40:18):
doing that, I know they lso improved over the course
of the season somewhat, and they had, you know, a
ton of injury stuff. I think they finished eightieth or
something like that, so below average in terms of defensive
points per drive, below average from where they were, and
considering the talent level, I guess it's all relative. But yeah,
considering the paycheck that he drew, that's a pretty bad
(40:40):
one time.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yeah, that was a That was a lot of money, Dan, Yeah, yeah,
a lot of money for something that didn't really work
out that well.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
No, Kansas not working out under less miles. That was
not this past year Kevin Sumlin hired. I think that
was a great decision to go in a new direction
for Arizona. Yes, I agree. I thought that was a
great decision. I promised, What did I say? I was
going to discuss the best and worst decision was involving
an edible. Yeah, please continue. Okay, if people are still
(41:13):
listening to this very silly, weird show, I'm not super
into pot and I don't know. I'm just not and
that's okay, And if you are, that's cool. I'm not
a big drinker. I'm not super into pot. Never been
a big drug guy. Never be a big drug guy.
Turn here, Okay, go ahead, I'm listening, but I don't
remember when it was, and maybe we can look this up.
(41:34):
I don't remember, though, I think it was last spring
at some point because I was in Brooklyn. This was
definitely in Brooklyn. And my brother said, hey, you ever
have an edible? And I said, maybe once or twice.
Maybe once or twice. But I I'm not as super
(41:54):
into them because they're unpredictable because it's basically how your
body metabolized. The timing of your body metabolizing the edible
is how the payoff occurs. So it's unpredictable. You don't
know if it to take fifteen minutes or forty eight minutes.
And I remember sitting on the couch with Jody. She
fell asleep, solid, baby, long, long asleep. I would never
(42:15):
ever ever do something like that while little man was awake,
let alone. I just never do this. So I popped
it watching some TV. Nothing happened. I'm like, all right, well,
maybe this was just a dud. And then I mean,
Jody's very asleep, and all of a sudden, I start
floating above the couch. I start floating on the couch.
(42:38):
I called my dad and he's like, hey, man, enjoy it.
Have yourself a night. So I'm watching TV. I'm feeling great,
I'm snacking a little bit, and I was like, you
know what I should do? I should call time. I
should call time. Do you remember when this was? I do? I?
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Well, no, I don't remember when it was. I remember
the call. I could probably find when it was.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Yeah, And you guys were just super supportive. You were
just like you were just I remember you has turn
on the Roku screensaver the fish right, hang with some fish.
I just remember that. I thought that was a great
That wasn't the best decision I made all year, but
that was a good decision to call you and Kate
(43:21):
saw chat. Yeah, like ten forty seven pm Eastern. Yeah,
and we were thinking you caught me on the rare Friday.
I say it was a Friday, that might make sense.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Yeah, And I was awake at that hour, which doesn't
happen a whole lot lately. And I seem to remember.
We talked for what felt like a good ten to
fifteen minutes about the Roku screensaver and the fish there are.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
There is a variety of fish there are in very
intense fish at that moment. Mm hmm. Yeah, No, it
was a great call. I just I'm very happy with that.
Not the best. The best decision I made was probably
going with Jody and the solid toddler out to California
when things got bad in Brooklyn last March. And then
the actual best decision was probably coming out to Chicago
(44:06):
to be closer to family during a very difficult time.
I'm very glad we did that. That was the best,
and so now we are here. The worst decision was
when we were out in California. I said to myself, Man,
I had such a good time with that edible calling
Tie in Kate that a few months later I said,
I'm going to pop another edible And I didn't realize
(44:31):
that edibles can be a very differing strength and I
am a weakling Tie and I pop said edible and
it hit me and it was like Ray mau Luga
hit me. It was a feeling that I I called
(44:51):
a couple. I didn't call you. I don't think did
I call you? I think you did call I think
did I call you in May or June or whenever?
That was no, it was actually early Aprils when that
was Yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
I feel like I have a full rolodex of Dan
edible experiences.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
Somewhere in my favor blog. I took precisely two edibles
in the past, let's call it eight years or something.
I got both calls. I think you might have gotten
both calls. And it was the worst decision I could
be making up this milligram dosage. Have we been doing
the show for now thirteen years and this is the
(45:29):
first time we've talked about drugs. Probably probably okay, took
us a minute to warm up, But I believe the
first the Roku fish edible, I believe was a five milligram,
which is not strong by any stretch. It's not the weakest,
(45:50):
but it's not nothing crazy that I can tell. I
think I was given a twenty in early April, and
it was like I was watching myself freak out in bed,
and I remember calling my brother in law. I remember
calling some of Jody's friends. I think my brother gave
(46:11):
me sugar water, because apparently that helps you come down.
It was the clear worst decision I made in twenty
twenty was to just assume all edibles are created equal
as a complete novice and lightweight whoa whoa.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
Okay, well, it's no microwave story, but it will suffice Dan,
I made it up.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
But it was I did make it out. I slept beautifully.
I woke up and it was like that. I heard
the like the Windows ninety five music greet me. It
was magical. So I guess all's well, that ends well.
But yeah, that was the clear worst decision I made,
(46:57):
those phone calls, the Roku screens Screens discussion was that
could have been its own podcast. That was terrific. It
was and maybe this is something we do on Discord
someday we probably should have. But that's okay. Me Tie
seven and a half combined milligrams nineteen ninety eight, Wake
(47:20):
Forest Way, Virginia Tech. Just something absurd, Oh my gosh. Fun. Well, look,
this is fun. We're adults. It's is it legal in Pennsylvania?
I have no idea. You have no idea. You live
in Pennsylvania. It's it's not by scene at the moment
I have known. Okay, yeah, marijuana legal, PA. Illegal for
(47:43):
recreational use, but possession of small amounts have been decriminalized.
Oh so okay, we're good. You're good. Well, fun show,
Daniel very On that note.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
On that note, thank you so much to everybody out
there for writing in for letting us know how your
year went, not for your team, but for you as
a person. I hope you're all doing well here as
we very gradually work our way into spring. It's getting
warmer out there. It's getting warmer out here. Staying light
a little bit longer. Hopefully at some point in the
(48:14):
next year, they're going to install my fence so the
dog can rip around the yard.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
Send us your edible stories, Send us your edible stories. Yeah,
you can apparently go to New Jersey. Tie Phil Murphy
got it done. Okay, so you're good to go on
that front.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Good to go for that guy over there, my good
friend Dan Rubensteed from myself, Tie Hill the brand. We
will talk to you all next week. In the meantime,
stay safe, stay happy, oh, stay healthy, stay warm and
stay solid.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Peace
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