September 5, 2024 • 70 mins
On this week's episode of the College Football Apostles, George Wrighster and Ralph Amsden review the action and major storylines from week 1 in college football.
Does Sherrone Moore have an unsigned contract with Michigan?Why did TMZ drop a two-year-old story about Miller Moss farting on his roommates pillow?Did Billy Napier go too far calling out Online Gator fan trolls?Does DJ Uiagalelei's father need to stay offline for a while?
Plus, the guys go over last week's picks, and talk about this week's top games- including Texas' first ever trip to An Arbor, the Cy-Hawk rivalry, and Colorado visiting Nebraska.
Finally, why is Ralph mad about the gestures made in the LSU loss to USC, and the Texas A&M loss to Notre Dame.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm George Reister, He's Ralph Amsen, and this is the
College Football Apostles, presented by the Unaffraid Show. We got
a lot to talk about today, the top twenty five
playoff predictions, Sharon Moore is playing well, coaching without a contract,
Miller Moss parts and a pillow and that became national news.
(00:23):
But why though, and the five best games of the
week that you should not be missing, and of course
our picks against the spread. We got contest going and
everything else, and Billy Napier, Oh, he goes full Lebron
James and tells everybody to go back to their miserable
lives and get out of the basement and everything else.
(00:45):
And Brian Kelly gets angry after the USC game. So
we got a lot to talk about it. We thank
you guys for joining us here. You guys make sure
that you guys go on UNA Fraid Show. We got
so much content every single day, We got shorts, long
forms talking about the acc SEC college football playoff and
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breaking down everything in between. But we will start today though,
Ralph with Sharon Moore. So a message came out, well,
a report came out that Sharon Moore is operating at
Michigan without a formal contract. And this made me laugh.
(01:26):
This made me laugh because I don't think people really
understand and know how many coaches are operating and coaching
without formal contracts right now.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, I don't fully understand. I would assume that the
defending national champion would want to have their coach of
the future under contract. Does that mean that either one
of these parties can walk away?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
No, No, that's not. What that means is that there
is something signed, most likely, right, because what typically happens, well,
number one.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, somebody out that he was signed. They tweeted out
a picture said pen to paper with Yes, I cover
high school recruiting. I know the stuff the kids sign
on signing day. They're e signing right, Like, I know
that all those signatures are fake, but that that picture
confuses me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, but the pen to paper was most likely like
ninety nine percent of the time when those things happened,
they are signing something. It's called an m OU memorandum
of understanding. It is essentially the term sheet and the
deal and it's like pending. Nothing weird happening, so he
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knows how much money he's going to make how much
the university is committed to pay him, his assistance and
everything in between. So they're being paid right right now.
And and this happens every time a con a new
coach signs his new contract, like Dan Lanning his final
contract didn't get a PREW for months after that. And
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that's typical because they agree on all the terms and
then you got to get the lawyers involved. And that's
where the lawyers are saying, Okay, well what if this
happens on a Tuesday with the full moon and you
know all types of clauses, buyouts, everything else. So they
work out the small minutia because the majority of things
are already agreed upon. Let's go back to Arizona with
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Jedfish because remember everybody was like, oh, the deal's done
and all that. They're just working out the details. And
the same thing with Kaylin de Boor at Washington, they
were like, oh, hold salty and all them all the details,
the details. Well, no, they hadn't signed a memorandom of understanding.
In Washington's case, Kaylen de Boor wouldn't sign it, and
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in Arizona's case, they wouldn't let Jedfish sign it. So
so that's how it works. And part of the and
part of the report it said that there have been
some things that have held it up. Yeah, Connor stallions
and the recruiting violations have held it up because remember,
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Michigan wanted to protect itself against Jim Harbaugh and the
allegations and all sorts of things when they were trying
to re sign him. So they're doing the same thing
with Sharon Moore. That's what's holding this thing up because
if you know, he was named head coaching what the
end of January, beginning of February sometime around there. Okay,
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So that my question is.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
What, if anything could Sharon Moore loose? Could he loose? It? Does?
Is his buyout not set in stone or like that?
What's the difference?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It's a little bit see see. But the thing is,
if they can fire like this, this is where the
gray area is. Is that this is why they try
to get it done as quickly as possible because maybe
he could be firedired for cause. And part of it is,
so let's say Michigan comes out and loses three or
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four games this year, all that cause might get real sketchy,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, I mean, it is arguable that a lot of
coaches could be fired for cause. Herm Edwards certainly could
have been fired for cause, but they chose his former
agent chose to pay him a four point four million
dollar buyout instead. You've seen other coaches get fired for cause,
turn around and sue for the for the full amount.
(05:36):
That's pretty common. Isn't that what's going on at Michigan
State right now?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yes, that's exactly what's going on at Michigan State. And
it'll probably be he won't get the full contract, they
won't have to pay the whole thing, and he won't
get nothing. It'll be somewhere in between. So that's the
Charon Moore situation at Michigan and the best thing that
he can do to help himself win football games. That
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is the best thing that he can do because if
he starts, because look at look at what happened at
Michigan State. Had he been twelve and oh last year
or the well the prior year, had they had another
good season and gone to the playoff or won to
Big ten, do you think they would have fired him
or you think they would have just suspended right football
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five and seven.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
They felt like they were trending in the wrong direction,
and it very much seemed like they were looking for
any reason to get rid of him, and he gave
them one. He certainly gave them one.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
He gave them a big old reason, all right.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
There was We don't know how big the reason was.
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Or it could have been an enormous reason. You never know.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I don't know. I don't know, do you know?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I have no idea and I don't mean okay, all right,
oh wow, Ralph. And if anybody knows, Ralphis is kind
of the what is the because squeamish implies like like
blood and stuff like that. So what is the goodie
Trues version of like a big a blushing during sex jokes.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Prude or repressed or catholic?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I don't know, all right, all right, the next thing up,
So USC beat LSU and on Monday and no sorry,
on Sunday. That was a big deal, you know what
I mean, like u USC fans fist pumping. We did it.
We're back. Everything is good. We're so happy. Yes, And
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I was like, slow down, people, slow the hell down,
because you beat a name brand and we don't really
know yet how big of a victory. That that is
because LSU's defense was horrendous last year. It was almost
as bad as USC's. And we know that when you
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make a tremendous jump on defense, even with what de'anton
lynn did at UCLA, it still is not like a
top five or top ten defense. It just goes from
being number one twenty one to like thirty one, twenty
one to like twenty eight. So I mean, and that's
a ridiculous jump, and or one twenty one to like
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forty that's insane when you have a lot of the
same players. So we have no idea how good LSU
really is, and we don't and but we know that
USC is better than LSU at this point and point
in time. That's what we know. So I want USC
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fans to enjoy the win and all of that. But
there is one hilarious point about this entire wind though, Ralph,
you know what that is.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
What is that Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Riley tried to get this game canceled because the schedule
was too hard. He tried to get the game canceled.
And now he out here peacock and like, ah see, look, hey, hey, hey,
we knew, we knew, we were ready for this. This
is what this team is built for. This is usc
Troshan football. Bro. You didn't even want to play the game.
(09:31):
You've been talking about canceling the Notre Dame series to
make an easier schedule to make the playoff. So no, Lincoln, No,
just just take this win and accept it because you
tried to get this game canceled. Yeah, man, this is it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You know what reminds me of is like go into
your spouse's work party, Like after six days of complaining
about having to go to your spouse's work party, and
on the drive home you look at your spouse like
that was fun, and like.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Oh really, that that was fun. I had to I
had to poke your eyeballs out to get you here,
but it was fun. Okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh man, he's he's a character, he really is.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, all right. So next thing up, Miller Moss. There
was a story that came out in Miller Moss on TMZ, right,
it was on TMZ and then it made actually more
noise locally here in LA than it probably did nationally
because the La Times picked up a story about Miller
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Moss over two and a half years ago. The resolution
happened two and a half years ago. He had a
dispute with a roommate and he allegedly farted in his
roommate's pillow. And that and that made TMZ Yes, yep,
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and that made TMZ.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Okay. So I have two questions. How does USC not
have anything to trade to Harvey Levin to keep a
very dumb story like that from going public? Like how
could USC let this happen because you know they trade information?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yes, yes, they could have.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
They could have given TMZ anything. He could have given
TMZ a sit down with Lincoln Riley.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
This is a non issue. I'm not trading anything for this.
It actually makes Lincoln ryle, It actually makes Miller Moss
look like a normal college kid who hasn't farted on
a pillow? Well, but like who has not known somebody
who's farted on a pillow? Who hit? I mean, it's
it's not like he put eye drops in somebody's drinking.
(11:46):
They ended up in the hospital. It's a it's a
pillow fart like rhythm rhythm, Relax. There was no investigation needed.
What what are you gonna do a DNA smell test
to see? Now that's it. Now, that's rotten egg there
that didn't that he doesn't eat eggs that didn't come
up out of that didn't come up out of Miller Man.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I I there's there's like roommate disputes all the time.
It would it would be a little confusing to me
if USC was rooming athletes with non athletes, So it
could have been like a teammate or something. The university
having to get involved in this because that was like
moving some of his shirts and that, you.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Know, like that he kind of bullying the kid, probably
a non athlete, damn big because I mean, unless I mean,
I just can't imagine. I mean, I guess that another
athlete that he farted on his pillow, like another football player, right,
how would that have normally been adjudicated in most amongst
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most football players?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Now, you got to eat this pillow, yes.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yes, you gotta. You gotta eat these hands, or you
gotta eat this pillow or IM gonna break some of
your shit. I mean, it's just that, like, it's not
gonna end up with like a you farted on my pillow. Now,
it's gonna probably end up with.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
A toothbrush that tastes funny.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yep. Exactly. Okay, cool, Oh you farted on my pillow?
All right, cool, cool, no problem.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Okay. So here's my second question. Do you think that
it's a coincidence that the publisher for the UCLA rival site,
Edward Lewis, is a sports editor at TMZ.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Now, No, I don't. I do not. I think that
they've been sitting on this story and he was like.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
A wating on that story, like Miller mass sitting on
his roommate's pillow.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
But at the end of the day, it's a non story.
Nobody cares. It made less news than I mean. I
I skimmed through the story and I was like, oh, okay,
who cares, Like I wouldn't care if he? I mean,
if he, I would have cared probably more in terms
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of I would have read and dug more deeply had
he used his roommate's pillow as tissue than a fart.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
It felt very much like like, oh wow, the things
nineteen year olds to do every day made the news.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Like, okay, if Mike, if Micah farted on Jet's pillow
and came in and was like dad, Dad, Michael farted
on my pillow, how would you react to that?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I would say, like, you you know how to do laundry.
I wouldn't even Yes, that's the point.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
This is how much of a non story that at
this sage you'd be like, wait, wait, wait, wait wait.
You came in while I'm recording this to tell me this, man.
If you don't get your ass up out of here,
man and figure it out yourself, just just do not
nobody end up in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, nobody. Don't ask, and don't bother your mom.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Exactly, because we're not trying to talk about this all
damn night, all right, Billy Napier, Oh, he never got
into it with his fans, Ralph, he never got into
it with his fans. They got drunk, they got held
underwater and drowned by Miami. And remember we put together
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the coaches under the most pressure list on Unafraid Joe. Yes,
that pressure list is looking real big time because there's
some inside stuff that I knowed that's going on in Colorado.
So I'm gonna tell you right now. It depends on
what happens after this game. I may be able to
share the story. But Dion's feeling the pressure. Just know
that Dion is feeling the pressure in Colorado. Do you
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do you think that, uh, Joey McGuire at Texas Tech
is feeling the press. In mind, Deon's not getting fired.
Joey McGuire's not getting fired. I mean they they would
have been extremely upset. He would have actually gotten on
the hot seat had they lost to Abilene Christian. But
he's just on the pressure list. Do you do you
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think that that now Texas A and M fan, I
mean Texas Tech fans are like, damn, George, you were
you were right. There's a little bit of pressure there,
especially now.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Hey, if they're not telling you you're right, at least
they're not talking back at all. I noticed. I noticed
they all got on you when you put them on
that list, but when you asked how they felt about it.
Now there are some crickets I'd love that. Actually exactly,
your issue has always been their issue. They scored, they
give up points. That's dangerous. And you want Joey McGuire's
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team to look different than Cliff Kingsbury's team, that's of
course what you want. You want progress and it still
looks like more of the same. And to have one
of your old quarterbacks do it to you, uh. In
Maverick mc iver, you know, for Abilene Christian. Shout out
to Keith Patterson. By the way, I got Ablin Christian
looking good. But yeah, no, that that type of stuff
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has to end eventually. It has to.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
And can I talk about when I was recording that
video of the games, how many times I had to
say Maverick mcgiver. It took me. It was probably like
the tongue twister. I might as well have been saying
selly shell seashells by the sea short like. It was
the most tongue twister thing that I've come across in
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quite some time.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
It always kills me that you can say fu mafala
like without even blinking. But it's like, but Miller Moss,
You're like, uh.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
But Billy Napier dude, he got into it with his fans.
He said to the effect of, man, you guys shouldn't
be paying attention to what a guy in his to
his team, what a guy in his basement in Central
Florida has to say. And I was like, Oh, don't
do that, Billy, Oh don't be the guy that gets
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so mad at his fans that then he liked that
the same people that have to back you Now you're
like double burden nim when they have a right to
be upset. But the best part of this whole thing, though,
was Matthew Berry's tweet and who retweeted it. Who is
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that retweeted it? Dam On Florida's last coach. He went
to three straight New Year six games and then year
four he got fired.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
That'd have been the Dan Mullen of ESPN.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Hey, he didn't give no fs, no f's. He was like, oh,
that's a great tweet because I bet you Matthew Berry
sent it to him because they work together.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
You know the worst part about Dan Mullen like retweeting
that was because I mean, there's been some petty like
RG three out here holding the grudge against Paul Finebaum,
which cools.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
But to actually stood up for RG three, which is
the craziest thing when he got fired by ESPN. So
Ralph is Billy napier like because he's clearly feeling that pressure.
Is he right for saying this or is he because
his criticism is majorly high? Because I'm like, bro, you
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you got to keep the little bit of people that
are in your corner left. You have to keep them
there and he needed that Miami game to like to
turn his hot seat to like a Okay, hey, he's
actually got stuff moving in the right direction. But I
do believe he pulled out. He pulled out his possible
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get out of jail free card. Like you know, when
people out in out in the world, when they get
in big time trouble or they say something or do something,
there's only a couple ways out there is to cite
mental health issues, like serious mental health issues, drug issues, right,
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like like drug or any type of addiction. Right, So
mental health or addiction, those are the ways that you
can kind of get out of jail free and be
like yo, I'm man, and man, I've I've had a
crack addiction, for you know, I've been snorting snorting coke,
or I have a sex addiction, or I have mental
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health like those are your get out of jail free cards. Well,
like you get you get to pull that out in
life one time and come back from it. His get
out of jail free card might be DJ Lagway. If
he said this was going to happen, I told you,
I told you, And now DJ Lagway is starting. Granted,
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Grand Merch is in the concussion protocol. But we saw
this happen last year with uh over at Arizona.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, and Jade and De Laura.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, we want to make sure that Jade de Laura
is one hundred percent healthy, not not ninety five, not
good enough to play, not ninety eight, but one hundred healthy.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
And no one kept telling the trainer to squeeze his
ankle real hard to ask him if he feels any pressure.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Exactly, bro, exactly.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So how are you asking you a question? You asked
me a question? Was Billy Nape you're right for for
calling out the fans complaining about Florida online and he
was telling his players not to pay attention to them,
which is smart. Yeah, because some people out there pay
too much attention. Shout out to Big Dave.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Oh Man, I get mc dave, though, I G yeah,
we'll talk, we'll tell, we'll get we'll get into that.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
But no, I would say this. Telling your players that
you don't need to listen to people tweeting from their
basements made sense ten fifteen years ago, But in this economy,
people who can afford basements, those are your potential nil donors.
So you you kind of need to listen to the
people who have multi story homes in twenty twenty four,
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he look, he's frustrated. So getting coaches at mom's that's
mom's basement. But getting getting coaches to talk right after
a loss, I never take anything they say seriously. I
didn't take well, we'll get to talk about it later
in the show. I didn't take that seriously either. But
you know, getting coaches to talk right after a loss
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is always a recipe for absolute disaster. I don't think
billion people are looking for reasons to be mad at
billion Apier right now. The result is plenty of reason enough.
They were down thirty eight ten at one point, cam
Ward was making them look like kindergarteners and then insulting
the SEC right after the game, saying PAC twelve crowds were,
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you know, harder to deal with than the people in Gainesville.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yes, all right, So so now on to that thing
that you just mentioned, and and that's Brian Kelly. So
Brian Kelly got upset after the USC game and was like,
we keep dealing with the same thing. And when I
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first saw the clip, I was like, oh, this is
fake outrage. But then when I went back and watched
the whole thing, I was like, Okay, he's genuinely upset.
So there were two parts to it. Number One, I
actually appreciate it that Brian Kelly didn't just blame his players,
that he was like this, this is my fault. This
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is my fault. Okay. So I can deal with a
coach taking responsibility and blame for when his coach does
not perform at the level that he should, right, and
it is important that we see that part of it.
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The other part of it is like it felt like
he was like, we're just keep dealing with the same
thing and they're not listening in and if it like
like it felt like a Maya kopa, like, well, I'll
just take the blame for it as opposed to him
actually because he said it but didn't wasn't genuine though.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
That's the way I talk to my kids because I
like that. I'll be like, hey, wear shoes when you
go outside, because they'll step on a nail to go
through their foot and our insurance premiums go up or
something like that. So every single day I'm like, wear
shoes when you go outside, Wear shoes when you go outside.
By the end of the week, I'm like, take your foot,
take the thing designed for your foot, put your foot
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inside it, lace it up. Because I must not be
saying it right. It must be my fault. It must
be something with my mouth shape, a problem with my worth.
It's got to be me, because I've told you six
days in a row to put shoes on before you
go outside, So it must be on me, Like that
is mental illness on my part, and probably and I
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you know, I actually I think Brian Kelly's an awesome coach.
I think that his team's always look better at the
end of the season than they do in the beginning.
But this is LSU. You don't get. You're not afforded
the luxury of actually like coaching a team from being
one thing to another team. You just got to be good.
And when you're dealing with this amount of money, people
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expect your quarterbacks to be good right away. People expect
your coaches to be good right away. So I understand
the pressure that he's under. But yeah, no, I recognize
that type of talk from Brian Kelly, Like, no, it's
definitely my fault because if you're not getting it, and
that's actually true, like as a teacher, as an educator,
or as a coach. You have to find a way
to get through your players. So does he mean it?
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I don't know, is it true yet? Yeah, it ultimately
comes down to him.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, absolutely, all right, next thing up about being overprotective,
So DJ Dad Big Dave. I wasn't sure whether that
was the old clip that just circulated again or was
this a new one, because I think it was.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
There's quite a few well that he's on every California
high school spaces he's on.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
He gets on the got two kids, one at Oregon
and then his son has obviously had a very you know,
he's been at Clemson, he's been at Oregon State now
is that Florida State? So you know, and he went
to Saint John Bosco like they're a big deal around here.
So they were on spaces. Somebody was criticizing his son
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and he wasn't. He didn't jump bad initially. It was
when somebody called his son sorry essentially and was like
he needs to move the tight end. We didn't want it,
sorry ass and all of that, and he went he
went full like gang bang on him. He was like, hey, yo, homie,
you wouldn't say that to my face, Like dude. It
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went it went pretty that's how that's how street stuff
gets started.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And I'm about to ask you, I'm about to ask
you the most ignorant question of all time. But I
grew up on the West Coast, so I'm used to it.
But people are experiencing Big Dave for the first time
out here in the Southeast where I live now on
the West Coast. It feels like Samonan's get a pass
for using certain words. Oh yes, yes, yes, I don't
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think you get in the South correct anywhere?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Really correct? Correct? Yeah, yeah, the USO's it's a little
it's a little different.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And uh, because then who's gonna stop Big Dave?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
This is this is a fair point. This is a
fair point. And here and Big Dave and his security
company and the people that works with bodyguarded for Snoop
and all the big West Coast rappers for a very
long time. The question is is did he go too far?
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Because or did the people go too far? Because I
do think that in what is going on with DJ
over at Florida State and what happened at Clemson is
did has DJ been playing well this season? The answer
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is no, is his team helping him out when he
is playing well. No, his team is not stopping to run.
They're getting pushed around. When he hits people in the numbers,
they dropped the ball when they're wide open. He misses
like it's a it's a disaster, right, and it's not
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all his fault. But the expectations with being a five
star stick with you. Just like if you're a five star,
you're gonna get more opportunities than the three star is
going to get. Like if, like Malachi Nelson can transfer
from Boise State after this season and there's gonna be
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a bunch of people who want him, It's just that, like,
there's going to be teams that want him, and they
might and they're gonna be FBS teams that want him.
There's gonna be FCS teams that want him. So playing
Division one college football somewhere next year, regardless whether he's
starting or not, somewhere else besides Boise State if he
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chose to leave.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
What mar what marriage is she on?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Uh? She just finished with number three?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I think Yeah, there's big I can fix her in
energy exists in college football.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Oh, there are plenty of people that will sign up
for the Kim Kardashian experience.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
But that's just it. Like the whole thing about being
a college coach is you believe that you can develop
better than somebody else. You believe that you can coach
somebody else better than somebody else.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Like you.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
You have to believe those things. There's that meme that
goes around. It's like a It's like a record player
and the sign on it says broken but could be
fun to fix. That's how people look at a lot
of these four and four and five stars that go
somewhere and don't play right away. You know. I root
for a team that collected like fifty new players last
year in Arizona State, Like they're they're on that list
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of like, hey, well we'll take your Texas four star
d line, and we got three of them right now,
you know, like we'll we'll, we'll give it our best
shot because I think I can coach them up. I
think I can communicate with them better, you know I.
And so yeah, definitely, there there will always be those
opportunities for people who had a lot of hype coming
out of high school. But what comes along along with
that is people calling you a failure ten months into
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your journey, or people calling you a failure because your
d line can't get any penetration. But you're a quarterback.
So I don't think things have been fair for DJ.
But if Big Dave's mad, now, he's gonna stay mad
because these they are meming that kid to death right
now on the internet.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah, and that's the thing. And Okay, so here's the
thing I've learned about being a number one professional athlete.
Now granted it was before social media, well or at
least social media being big, right, So that's number one.
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I've learned something from that. I've learned of being the
high school or the quarterback of the data of a
quarterback at a big time high school. I have learned
seeing other people's families all sorts of stuff, is that
you have to know when it's time to turn it off, right,
(32:07):
Because Big Dave doesn't want to be seen as a
guy who's running away from it, right, because he's in
these streets, like in terms of in the high school
football streets, like he's big time in the community. He
has other kids that are coming up that you know
that not are only his own kids, but he's got
nephews playing in college stuff like that, So he doesn't
(32:28):
want to be seeming like a person like, oh, things
didn't go well, so I'm not gonna show up to
the spaces that I'm always on and all that stuff.
But sometimes you got to know when it's time to
check out for a minute. And it doesn't mean that
you're running away from it. You just know that this
ain't gonna be positive right now, and nothing that you're
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going to say is going to And if people know
that this bothers you, if they can hide behind their
burner account or this or that, they will do it.
So you have to know. So you either have to
be prepared and be okay with whatever is said up
to a certain certain point, and you can correct people.
(33:10):
But once people know that they can press your buttons,
they're gonna press your button. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
I have two things on that. Some people believe wholeheartedly
that the only impact they can make on this earth
is a negative one. But they don't want to be
thought of as somebody who doesn't make an impact, right,
so they will troll and and you'll you're gonna be
the victim of that troll.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
And the other thing.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
The other thing, and this is directly to Big Dave.
When you say out loud you wouldn't say that to
my face. You gotta believe that yourself, because it is true. Yeah,
it is absolutely true. People are very very different in
person than they are online. So you don't have to
say it as like a challenge to that person's manhood
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because there's no risk for them to come back and say, yeah,
I would in that moment. You just got to know
they would never say this to your face. You are
talking to pond scum. You are talking to people who
have not accomplished will not accomplish anything. They're on a
burner on Twitter talking about college football because they don't
have any better options for what to do with their time.
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And hey, we love people on burners talking college football.
You can control up. But when it's questioning your you know,
when somebody is on there talking about your son, that's
got to be really, really tough for a father to
deal with. But you gotta believe that that they wouldn't
say it you like it is true?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yes, yes, because I know that like the things that
I can hear and accept versus what Damon's mom and
my wife can accept are two different things. The one
of them things is not like the other. And listen,
you just got to understand what's what's true and not true?
All right, we got a lot of big time games
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up this week and Unafraid shows Week two. Pole is
out top twenty five and here it is is Ralph,
we got the top twenty five graphic. And guess what
else we got. We have the playoff graphic as well,
the updated playoff graphic. So we have updated playoff graphic
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and we have the top twenty five. So and remember,
the top twenty five is ranked upon the three most
important criteria, uh, quality, wins, schedule played, and dominance. Those
are the three three things. So, Ralph, when you see
this list, what do you say, well, conduct penalty? It's oh, well, I.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Say nothing because I can't see it on my end. Uh.
So you're gonna have to Okay, the way our recording
is set up, I don't have the ability to see it.
So you're gonna have to tell me. Uh, tell me
who you have where and what you want me to
react to. Okay, So, UH moved ore again from number
two to ten. In Notre Dame goes to two, penn
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State goes to three, Miami goes to four, and USC
goes to five. Okay, I actually have it pulled up
on the Unafraid Show community tab. Make sure you're subscribed
to on Affraid show dot com for daily content. I'm
looking at this first of all, I love your criteria.
It is it is different. And I see Georgia Tech
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up there at twenty. I see Michigan at sixteen. I
think that's something that would give a lot of people pause.
This is the defending champion, and people root for the laundry,
they root for the brand.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
But you're talking about stuff they got they don't. They're
starting to walk on that quarterback. They had like twelve
draft picks. This is not the same team as last year.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I heard Tom Fournelli make a point and I want
to get your reaction to it that everybody's talking about
how Michigan is going to struggle because they have a
new quarterback. But everybody criticized me Chigan last year because
they didn't make use of their quarterback. Does it matter
who their quarterback is at this.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Point, yes, because the difference is is that last year
they were able to just lean on everybody, and granted
this defense still looks really, really good, they were able
to lean on everybody, and I think that after last week,
I was like, oh wow, JJ McCarthy might have been
better than I thought he was, even though they did
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let him throw at times. It feels like more now
that they were holding JJ McCarthy back than them protecting
JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, and I mean, I gotta go with the so well,
I think what might be interesting to some people is
looking at Oregon at ten after a ten point win
over not great competition, and then looking at Utah at
eleven after beating the hell out of not great competition, and.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
So and remember, so it is that's a fair question.
Is I have always gave you the three most important
criteria quality, wins, schedule played in dominance. Now the preseason rankings,
which I do not take into account or try not
to take into account when we are putting it into
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our model for the is that the preseason rankings is
about recruiting, returning roster and coaching, and then we throw
that away and then we see what we got and
other rankings like the AP pole and other people's polls
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they project out. They're like, this is a good team.
We know it's a good team. Yes they haven't beaten
anybody yet, but you know, so that's why Ohio State
fell to six. Their dominance was high, but all the
other teams in front of them played a better schedule,
and once Ohio State puts a good win down, they'll
probably move up.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
And if we're being honest about Oregon too, they're there's
a there's a team that there's a team last week
that won by a million. I watched their game and
I thought they looked like garbage, which was Mississippi Mississippi State. Yeah,
there's another team, Oregon that went forty one to forty nine.
Yeah that was yard no turnovers, lost four sacks.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
And but the basketball is that the dominance is that
Oregon's box score didn't match. It was efficient yards. They
ran the ball okay, even though it wasn't great. They
ran the ball okay, and their defense stopped the run.
They were really good against the pass aside from trick play.
So it's like their dominance was still there even though
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the score didn't necessarily reflect it. Like at no point
in time where you, aside from looking at the score,
where you like, oh, they could lose, like you, you
never felt that watching the game that that that Idaho
had a chance to win.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Can I ask you, I I think Bruce Feldman said,
it was almost the biggest upset in college football history.
How do you feel about that? Like, would it have
been the biggest upset in college football history?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
In my mind? Sure, right, because it would have mattered
to me. But I think that that is that that
shows how much that that feels like a badge of honor.
If you can be part of one of the biggest
upsets in college football history of almost that means how
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highly people think about you and your program. Because if
Appalachian State had beaten Georgia right now, or Alabama instead
of Michigan when Michigan was down some then like, yeah,
it just means that if people are attaching that sort
(40:53):
of moniker to a win or a near win, then
that means that that means that your program is thought
about in the way you want it to be thought about.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
True, very true.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
All right, So we got to get onto the five
games this week that must be talked about that are
must see TV you cannot miss. And the first one
is and you guys, there's a video on this on
Unafraid Show. Make sure you guys go check it out.
There is the Picks against the Spread or on Unafraid Show.
(41:28):
You don't want to miss those as well. But Texas Michigan,
Ralph Texas Michigan. Texas Michigan minus seven and a half.
It's in the Big House. This number grew from six
and a half, I think, to seven and a half.
How are you feeling about this?
Speaker 2 (41:49):
All I can think about is Quinn, you were was
going into Tuscaloosa last year and not even breaking a sweat.
That's all I can think about. Is like everybody thinks
that the Big House is going to be the thing
that rather because really, when it comes down to it,
the Texas quarterback room is. You know this game is
going to create stars, but you want stars to come in.
(42:10):
You want people to be able to hype. And the
truth is the only thing you can really hype right
now is that Texas quarterback room.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
And so.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
I look at the way Keny Quinn ears played to Alabama.
I look at the way that he played in last
year's Big twelve championship. I think he's a gamer. I
really do. I like Texas. I like Texas to cover.
I don't I don't know much about this Michigan team.
(42:40):
We're gonna learn, We're certainly gonna learn. But I really
wonder if they have the ability to slow down this
Texas offense.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
M And that's see, I do believe that they can
slow down Texas's offense compare to what Colorado State was
able to do, where they were less than a speed bump. Right,
because Michigan's defense is going to be significantly tougher. So
are they gonna slow him down yet?
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Right?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
My biggest question is ken Michigan scored enough points to win? Yeah?
Who race is down to a halt?
Speaker 2 (43:21):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (43:21):
How many points? Is they a halt? Like twenty four?
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (43:27):
I mean, Donovan Michigan scored twenty four points? Is the question?
Twenty five points is the question.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
It's a great question. And I Donovan Edwards looked good
against Washington last year, and he looked good as a sophomore.
But he's gonna have to be a star he and
I don't know if he is that we'll find out,
we will see.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
See. Here's the thing about running backs is that now, granted,
if you watch the film, when you find out he
missed holes and stuff like that or cuts, then that's
or didn't break tackles. That's a whole different story. But
running backs, you can put Barry Sanders back there with
no blocking, it doesn't matter. That's why running back is
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so devalued is that they're more dependent on another position
than anybody else. Because a quarterback, a free runner can
come and he can juke the free like one free
runner and then still throw a dime. And yes, quarterbacks
are subjected to the office line blocking and all of
that stuff, but no more position than running back because
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if you get hit when when the ball is handed off,
or you can't even make a juke or anything like,
there's nothing you can do. So I'm withholding the Donovan
Edwards criticism until I see him be bad. You see
what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
So before we get to making this pick, what was
our record for last week?
Speaker 2 (45:02):
I went four and one. We were opposite on four picks.
You went two and three. The two you you went
with Florida and you went with West Virginia against Penn State.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Okay, so how did that go two and three if
you went four and one, if we had four opposite picks.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Let's see here. So the games were you I already
talicked this up and now you're you're you're now you're
gonna make me do an audit while we're live.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
Yes, yes, I'm I am, I am. We are auditing
this live. Okay.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
So you had Florida. I had Miami yep. Okay, uh gosh,
what were other the the other games we picked you had,
I'm gonna have to pull I'm back on Unafraid subscribe
to Unafraid show dot com. I'm back up reading the
reading the description on that video right now. It's going
to take me a minute to pull it up. I
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was not prepared if I did ten minutes of preparation.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Oh okay, okay, I got it.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
I got them.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
So we had Clemson Georgia, which you got right. I
did not, yep, Penn State, West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
I got that.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
When you did not Miami Florida.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
That was good for me, bad for you.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Notre Dame, Texas A, and m We were both on
Notre Dame and LSU USC. You took LSU yep and
who and you took USC.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
I did yes?
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Oh, okay, okay, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
I passed the audit. Take that irs.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
All right. So I am taking Texas minus seven and
a half in the Big House rundom boys out of
the random boys out the big House, and so much
so that they're going to try to fight Texas in
that single tunnel.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Will I will join you on that Texas minus seven
and a half?
Speaker 1 (47:16):
All right? Next game up. This is one of the lowest,
if not the lowest over under of the entire week,
and that is Iowa Iowa State. Iowa was favored by
three and a half. I think the over unders thirty
three and a half, which if we were betting unders Iowa,
(47:38):
I wouldn't be nailing them unders. Boy, So everything in
me feels like I should take Iowa here, right, Okay,
But it's that hook that's bothering me, because Iowa wins
by one point two points, three points, and this is
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a rivalry game, and I know that Iowa State wants
to get a victory at some point in point in time.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
Yeah, Matt Campbell won and six in the Syhawk game,
but we.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
Still don't know about I was passing offense yet, because
Kate McNamara looked okay last game, what he threw for
like two forty or somewhere around around there. I was
gonna play better. Iowa State's gonna play better defense. Give
me Iowa State plus three.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
And a half. Okay, I'm I'm gonna join you. And
here's why not a good idea now that I'm thinking
about it, But that has nothing to do with you.
But I am a person who will walk up to
a roulette table in Vegas and if I see Black
has hit six straight times, I'll start betting Red.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
Oh God, because that's not how it works, I know.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
But it has to turn at some point, right, it
has to. And yeah, I'm gonna be for twenty years,
I know, but that's just who I am. I gotta
be true to myself. I'm gonna bet on Red. I'm
gonna bet on Matt Campbell. You pointed something out in
your video and on a Fraid show that there is
a really weird scenario where both these teams could make
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the college football playoffs. It is very possible. I was
schedule is I think if they lose to Iowa State
they kind of lose their chance. Yeah, but but Iowa State,
if if they lose this game, they could win out
and they could make it.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
Yep, win to Big twelve. You are right, this is
not a Big twelve coms.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
This is the first time since Brock Purty left that,
I've looked at Iowa State's offense and thought to myself,
it's being run the way that Matt Campbell wants it
to be run. So I'm I'm gonna even though I
was defense. Oh my god, those boys can play. I'm
going to the Iowa State and the under ten ten
to seven Iowa State.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
Oh my god. All right, Cal Auburn Cal is favorite.
Oh Auburn's favored by thirteen and a half points. This
game is in, This game is at Auburn. Cal travels well,
they may or may not be withouts. Yes, they may
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or may not be without their star running back Jayden Ott.
I feel like that if I knew the answer to
that question, if Jayden Ott was gonna play or not,
that that would change my pick because he's the most
dynamic player on that team. And if they can't run
the football, they got no chance to win, no chance
to win. And Auburn's quarterback situation, they are what's his
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last name, Payne Pine?
Speaker 2 (50:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (50:46):
No, yes, yes, yes, Peyton Thorn. I mixed him up
with Drew Pine for some reason. So Peyton Thorn all
Auburn's hopes and dreams this year are on Peyton Thorn's showers,
and this is a game they have to win and
all and the and last year this was a much
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closer game than people would have would have thought. And yeah, yeah,
I am going to take the thirteen and a half
points and.
Speaker 2 (51:23):
Col okay shout out to Stam Jackson, the fourth. He's
been making news this week. He's he was the starting
quarterback in the game against Auburn last year for Cow.
Now he's a wide receiver at Auburn, and he caught
a touchdown this last week. He wants to win real bad. Historically,
I don't think it's gonna happen. Cal Cal schedules like
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crazy at a conference. CAL schedule is the way you
wish SEC teams would schedule at a conference. And Justin
Wilcox is five and three in these games, and the
last three have all been lost as but they've all
been by less than one score, including last year to Auburn.
In fact, combined, they're less than the spread thirteen points.
This spreads thirteen and a half. I don't know if
Cal wins this game, but the idea of Cal losing
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by more than two touchdowns, will Cox really prepares this team.
Well for out of conference games, it would be going
against everything in Justin Wilcox's history for Auburn to get
this blowout. So I'm with you. This is the same
Justin Wilcox that's beat Ole Miss twice. This is the
same Justin Wilcox that beat BYU on the road, same
Justin Wilcox that beat North Carolina twice. He's great and
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out of conference, I'm rolling with cal Yep.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
I totally agree. Next game up n C State Tennessee.
This game is in Charlotte at Bank of America Stadium.
I think this is a ten point game, Ralph, that
the line is ten points, but we.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
Made our picks when it was at seven and a
half for Tennessee. So we'll ride with that one because
you already got your picks in videos already out. So
we'll take the seven and a half.
Speaker 1 (52:57):
Oh, this is easy work. Seven and a half and
for tenant Tennessee, and I'm gonna take the balls. I
love Nico e Amalava. I think that I put him
on the Heisman list here on Unafradho so go check
out that video as my dark horse candidate. And people
(53:19):
are like, why did you put him on there, and
after one week they were like, I said, why you
put him on there?
Speaker 2 (53:26):
Yeah, I'm gonna join you. My biggest issue with NC
State is they went out and got a quarterback who
likes to move around and yeah, he was a four
year starter at for yeah, Grayson McCall Coastal Carolina, yep,
and he ran the who's Liberty's coaches name? He ran
his offense and almost perfected it. It was fantastic. Having
(53:49):
been a walk on, he's had one of the most
awesome college careers you can imagine. And you figure, like, oh,
NC State, they went and got this quarterback. That means
they're gonna start throwing wrong has always thrown, and they've always.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
Thrown too much.
Speaker 2 (54:02):
Always they've they averaged like thirty six thirty seven a
game over Dave Dorn's tenure, which is a surprise to
a lot of people. So now you have Grayson McCall
chilling throwing ten twelve more times a game than he
ever has before against this Tennessee pass rush. I don't
love it. I think Tennessee travels well, that's a short
trip from Knoxville to Charlotte, just over the Appalachians. Give
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me Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (54:25):
Yep. Now, how about if you're just betting it now
and it's ten, do you still love it at ten?
Speaker 2 (54:31):
No? I think ten is a ten is probably about
where I see like thirty to twenty. So I'm that
seven and a half. That's a nice I think that's
exactly where you want it.
Speaker 1 (54:42):
I'll take it at ten too, take it at ten too.
But for the purposes of this bet, it's seven and
a half. All right, we got Nebraska Colorado. Nebraska's favored
by seven points. This feels like an overreaction line to
last week. Ralph Ay and you are eating crow on? Well, actually,
(55:06):
are you eating crow yet?
Speaker 2 (55:08):
On?
Speaker 1 (55:08):
Dylan Ryol because his numbers looked exactly like they did
in high school.
Speaker 2 (55:13):
Yeah, he had that one rush for negative six yards
and then he threw a couple of bombs. No, he's
got a soft schedule. I think he's set up for success.
I do not think this game is going to go
well for Nebraska.
Speaker 1 (55:28):
However, Oh, I thought you were on the Nebraska train.
No way, man, it is something. It is something burning,
and it's got nothing to do with Dion. And everybody
knows that. If anybody watches on a Frase show. They
know that I have that I'm critical of some things
that Dion's doing. This This Nebraska feels like fool's goal
(55:53):
right now. This feels like a sucker bet to me.
Sucker bet, give me Colorado plus seven, because I don't
think that Nebraska, even if Nebraska is you know, takes
a lead or something, this doesn't feel like a team
that's good enough on defense to just keep Colorado from scoring.
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And I don't think that they're experienced enough on offense
with Dylan Rayola that they're going to be able to
just put the game on his shoulders and he make
no mistakes.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
What did North Dakota State do to Colorado last week?
What did Cam Miller do? He ran all over them? Correct,
he ran all over them. Dylan Roola going to run
all over Colorado. No, no, So you're talking about a
freshman quarterback in his second start having to win the
game with his arm. That's an unfair expectation of anybody,
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including DJ Lagway who's about to start for Florida. So yeah,
at least he's got a layup of a game. Though, Right,
I'll take Colorado. I'll take Colorado.
Speaker 1 (56:58):
Money line, Hey, Dion I told you. Remember, we've talked
about this in the offseason. This is one of the
most anticipated games for me of the year because this
is two teams. This game is gonna send you in
two different directions. This is either gonna propel Colorado to
a bowl game. This is gonna be the game that
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determines whether they make a bowl game or not. This
one right here, that's it. They lose this game, They're
not going to a bowl game. They win this game.
Speaker 2 (57:33):
Maybe they were three to oh last year before going
one and eight the rest of the way, so maybe
maybe because you know, they might be a little thin,
but I'm but.
Speaker 1 (57:46):
They do appear to be a little bit better against
the run. Yes, not not the quarterback run, but that's
not gonna matter with Dylan Ryola. But they do appear
better against the run. So the one thing about as
from just running all over them, they got a shot.
Speaker 2 (58:04):
And road energy doesn't seem to bother call it. Now,
do I think a Colorado player maybe does something stupid
and Lincoln, if I had a million dollars, I would
borrow another million to put it all on. That app absolutely,
But like I don't think it's gonna affect their play
on the field.
Speaker 1 (58:23):
Okay, over under a number of fifteen yard penalties on Colorado.
One thousand fifteen yard penalties, Okay, and it's all gonna happen, right,
I'm gonna set the over at one and a half
fifteen yard penalties for Colorado, and I.
Speaker 2 (58:42):
Will I will say there will be five of them. Damn,
Islo is gonna get two by himself. This is gonna
be a physical game. It's just gonna be Yeah, I
don't know. I cannot wait. It's gonna be so fun.
Speaker 1 (58:57):
Yep, me either. All right. And the games that we
tell you guys to stay away from Georgia Tech Syracuse
because Georgia Tech's highly volatile. We don't know who Syracuse
really is yet, so that's a game we would stay
far away from. Don't think that you know Georgia Tech
quite yet because this may bite you in the buns, Buddy,
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bite you in the buns.
Speaker 2 (59:20):
Yeah. Georgia Tech has not had to play quarterback that
can throw, but they do average six yards of carry
and Syracuse gave up like six and a half yards
of cary last week, so you could see Georgia Tech.
Just go back to the Georgia tech of old and
run away with it, or Kyle McCord could show that
Ohio State made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (59:38):
Yep, all right. There were a couple other games that
we're not gonna cover as much, but I'm gonna read
them off to you. If there's anything that you want
to comment about it, let me let me know. Baylor
Utah in Rice Echo Stadium, Cam Rising is there. Yeah,
I'm excited about that one. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Yeah. Utah won this game at Baylor last year with
none of their weapons, and Utah is really looking forward
to paying back the favor of that rude welcome that
got in Waco for being upset about possibly having to
go to the Big Twelve. So I expect Utah fans
to be on there. I expect them to act like
Utah fans, and I expect that to be one of
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the most hostile environments in all of college football.
Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
There's another game rauph that I feel like a coach
is going on the ejecto seat if he loses this game,
and that is Sam Pittman in Arkansas plus eight against
Oklahoma State. If Sam Pittman does not win this game,
he is on a vaulk. He's on Mount Saint Helen's
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of a seat.
Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Will they promote Petrino to replace him?
Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
Yes? Oh oh yes, yes they might actually do that, Yes, yes,
if they get their wars knocked off this this game,
Sam Pittman might be gone and Patrino might be back
there in a neck break soon.
Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
I don't want to hear anybody talk about character ever again.
If that happens, that'd be.
Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
The most really second chance society Ralph.
Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
I guess, I guess. I mean, I do you think
that Miramax is gonna hire Harvey Weinstein back?
Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
No, he's.
Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
No, I think he got let out.
Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Oh god, all right, No, that would probably be a
really bad idea.
Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Well, so would promoting Patrino.
Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
All right. The last game I want to mention is
does Oregon break their losing streak against Boise State because
they are over in the history and they're nineteen and
a half point favorites.
Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Yeah, yeah, that that's That's one of those just real
weird statistics, kind of like how Texas and Michigan have
only played once. It's just it's just or ASU has
never beat an SEC team in their history. It's just like,
you know, one of those really really weird things. That
I think will come to an end.
Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
Oregon's favored by nineteen and a half points. George Will
will they cover the spread? I have two words to
say about this game, and then we will drop it.
Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
And those aren't they better?
Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
Yeah? They better? That's they better?
Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
I want to I would laugh if Oregon went fifteen
to o this year and won every game by like
one score twelve, Yeah, just to cause you art problems.
Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
Oh my god, dude, we don't have time for that.
I mean I would still be happy at fifteen and oh,
but I'd be like Brud, this is stressful, dude. On
a side note, my kid has a game on Saturday four.
Why did they say that he needs to be there
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at one o'clock and it's one hundred and some degrees outside.
Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
I don't try to teach him about hydration.
Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
What do you think of some of these kickoff temperatures?
So like I saw in Death Valley there was a
low of ninety eight over the next couple of days,
ASU is going to be like one ten when Mississippi
State comes to town. It's did do you think? Do
you think this type of stuff matters? Do you think
the the weather stuff at the beginning of the season
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matters as much as like at the end of the
year if you have to go to Minnesota or something
like that. Do you think teams get affected by the
extreme temperatures. Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
Yes, yes, because it's hot as fish grease, or it's
cold as fish, or it's cold as a or as
cold as a witch's titties. Either way, Mike, my question.
Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Has always been because I think you can prepare for
the cold, you can be a cold weather team, you
can adapt your style to it. But doesn't the heat
just hurt the team that practices in it every day?
Isn't it bad for them.
Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
To just always be No, it is more, dude, because
heat is so overwhelming at times it can cause you
to cramp. It is like so it just lays on you.
It's like a blanket. I rather play in the cold
than the hot. Then, like the extreme cold than extreme hot,
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because extreme cold you can sit on the warming benches
when you're not in but and be reasonable in the
In the heat, there it ain't enough fans or shades
to fix it. So that's why, all right, the final
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thing that we want to talk about before we get
out of here on the unafraid show college football is
Ralph is a is being a get off my lawn
guy right now. And this is the thing that caused it.
So there have been some incidences in college football where
some people have been aggressive, if you will, and in
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terms of their celebrations, and Ralph has not liked it.
And here is it happened in the LSU game where uh,
there was a like a shotgun blast if you if
you will, like a close close range that resulted in
a fifteen yard penalty and then there was a bunch
of pumps after a tackle for loss conduct penalty. And
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that's a good call. That is a good call. And
for college football players around the country, we get emotion.
It's all. If you're going to have fun with your players,
do whatever you want to do. But when you do
something like that, when you get so Brian Kelly called
that a point, Ralph is that is that a point?
Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
Well in a way, in in a way, I don't
think he was pointing at a friend, as Brian Kelly said,
they was. It was like a shotgun blast celebration. It
wasn't even a celebration, was it.
Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
That doesn't feel like, yeah, what what it was?
Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
It was I mean sort it was a taunt.
Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
Yeah, I think I would get fired over this as
his coach. Why because I don't know if you could
talk to people the way that I would, right, I'd
be like, hey, I need you to look at me.
You're an actual idiot. I'm not sure we could trust
you with sharp objects. I'm not sure we could trust
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you with dull objects. You are a literal moron, and
you're here representing a collegiate institution. I think we might
have to saran wrap or arms to your body until
you show you could be trusted. This is one of
the dumbest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
I am going to I could get fired over the
ass chewing. You're gonna get on this one. I could
get But there is a chance, now, granted we're trying
to win the game. There is a chance, like if
I actually saw it, right, not bigger because sometimes people
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get personal powers and the coach never sees it until
after the game, Like fully, what happened. So let's say
I did not see what happened, then the ass chewing
is gonna happen in the team meeting room, which is
in private, and then in the team meeting room, and
it's gonna be well understood that that ain't gonna gonna happen.
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But actually, I just can't see if I were a
coach a player on my team doing that, because we're
gonna be buttoned up in general, like we're not getting
fifteen yard penalties. The first person that gets a penalty
like that'll be the last person that gets a penalty
like like that. That's one of them. Nah, not a
a went was because you do stuff like that at
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practice sometimes too, and that shit's getting nipped in the
butt immediately.
Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Yeah, And I don't have a problem And people will
be like, well, it's about the entertainment they're consuming work.
I don't have a problem with it when it's make belief.
I don't have a problem with it when it's entertainment.
But like I'll say to this kid, the same thing
i'd say to Jason Whitlock, you're not omar. This isn't
like you can't compare the wire to your real life.
Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
See, you're upset with it for a whole different reason,
and I'm upset with it. I'm upset with it because
I'm like, you hurt the damn.
Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
Team, right, and You're like if you're gonna hurt the
if you're gonna hurt the team, make it a late hit.
Make it something that the other team is gonna feel,
not something that just brings attention to the fact that
your brain cells aren't firing correctly. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
But the Texas A and M one, that's a funny
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one to me because you're lou you know, it was
still early, it was tight game or whatever. You have
the tackle for a loss, and then I thought, what
is it? Shamar Turner, same dude that punched an SMU
player in the junk and got thrown under the game
last year. He poses for the camera to make sure
everyone's looking at him, then gets up and does the
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on one knee three pumps, which, according to Key and Peel,
that is a penalty. Three pumps. Can't do three. But
like that one too, is just like, hey, man, you've
been here for a long time, You've done some really
dumb stuff. You're a senior. Now we're trying to compete
for a championship. You're getting paid. Dude, are you going
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to be able to function in society beyond Texas A
and M.
Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. And
uh oh, good point. And you guys, that is the
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I'm George Reister, He's Ralph Amsen, and this is the
College Football Apostles, presented by the Unaffraid Show. We got
a lot to talk about today, the top twenty five
playoff predictions, Sharon Moore is playing well, coaching without a contract,
Miller Moss parts and a pillow and that became national news.
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But why though, and the five best games of the
week that you should not be missing, and of course
our picks against the spread. We got contest going and
everything else, and Billy Napier, Oh, he goes full Lebron
James and tells everybody to go back to their miserable
lives and get out of the basement and everything else.
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And Brian Kelly gets angry after the USC game. So
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forms talking about the acc SEC college football playoff and
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breaking down everything in between. But we will start today though,
Ralph with Sharon Moore. So a message came out, well,
a report came out that Sharon Moore is operating at
Michigan without a formal contract. And this made me laugh.
(01:26):
This made me laugh because I don't think people really
understand and know how many coaches are operating and coaching
without formal contracts right now.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, I don't fully understand. I would assume that the
defending national champion would want to have their coach of
the future under contract. Does that mean that either one
of these parties can walk away?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
No, No, that's not. What that means is that there
is something signed, most likely, right, because what typically happens, well,
number one.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, somebody out that he was signed. They tweeted out
a picture said pen to paper with Yes, I cover
high school recruiting. I know the stuff the kids sign
on signing day. They're e signing right, Like, I know
that all those signatures are fake, but that that picture
confuses me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, but the pen to paper was most likely like
ninety nine percent of the time when those things happened,
they are signing something. It's called an m OU memorandum
of understanding. It is essentially the term sheet and the
deal and it's like pending. Nothing weird happening, so he
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knows how much money he's going to make how much
the university is committed to pay him, his assistance and
everything in between. So they're being paid right right now.
And and this happens every time a con a new
coach signs his new contract, like Dan Lanning his final
contract didn't get a PREW for months after that. And
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that's typical because they agree on all the terms and
then you got to get the lawyers involved. And that's
where the lawyers are saying, Okay, well what if this
happens on a Tuesday with the full moon and you
know all types of clauses, buyouts, everything else. So they
work out the small minutia because the majority of things
are already agreed upon. Let's go back to Arizona with
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Jedfish because remember everybody was like, oh, the deal's done
and all that. They're just working out the details. And
the same thing with Kaylin de Boor at Washington, they
were like, oh, hold salty and all them all the details,
the details. Well, no, they hadn't signed a memorandom of understanding.
In Washington's case, Kaylen de Boor wouldn't sign it, and
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in Arizona's case, they wouldn't let Jedfish sign it. So
so that's how it works. And part of the and
part of the report it said that there have been
some things that have held it up. Yeah, Connor stallions
and the recruiting violations have held it up because remember,
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Michigan wanted to protect itself against Jim Harbaugh and the
allegations and all sorts of things when they were trying
to re sign him. So they're doing the same thing
with Sharon Moore. That's what's holding this thing up because
if you know, he was named head coaching what the
end of January, beginning of February sometime around there. Okay,
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So that my question is.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
What, if anything could Sharon Moore loose? Could he loose? It? Does?
Is his buyout not set in stone or like that?
What's the difference?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It's a little bit see see. But the thing is,
if they can fire like this, this is where the
gray area is. Is that this is why they try
to get it done as quickly as possible because maybe
he could be firedired for cause. And part of it is,
so let's say Michigan comes out and loses three or
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four games this year, all that cause might get real sketchy,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, I mean, it is arguable that a lot of
coaches could be fired for cause. Herm Edwards certainly could
have been fired for cause, but they chose his former
agent chose to pay him a four point four million
dollar buyout instead. You've seen other coaches get fired for cause,
turn around and sue for the for the full amount.
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That's pretty common. Isn't that what's going on at Michigan
State right now?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yes, that's exactly what's going on at Michigan State. And
it'll probably be he won't get the full contract, they
won't have to pay the whole thing, and he won't
get nothing. It'll be somewhere in between. So that's the
Charon Moore situation at Michigan and the best thing that
he can do to help himself win football games. That
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is the best thing that he can do because if
he starts, because look at look at what happened at
Michigan State. Had he been twelve and oh last year
or the well the prior year, had they had another
good season and gone to the playoff or won to
Big ten, do you think they would have fired him
or you think they would have just suspended right football
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five and seven.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
They felt like they were trending in the wrong direction,
and it very much seemed like they were looking for
any reason to get rid of him, and he gave
them one. He certainly gave them one.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
He gave them a big old reason, all right.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
There was We don't know how big the reason was.
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Or it could have been an enormous reason. You never know.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I don't know. I don't know, do you know?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I have no idea and I don't mean okay, all right,
oh wow, Ralph. And if anybody knows, Ralphis is kind
of the what is the because squeamish implies like like
blood and stuff like that. So what is the goodie
Trues version of like a big a blushing during sex jokes.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Prude or repressed or catholic?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I don't know, all right, all right, the next thing up,
So USC beat LSU and on Monday and no sorry,
on Sunday. That was a big deal, you know what
I mean, like u USC fans fist pumping. We did it.
We're back. Everything is good. We're so happy. Yes, And
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I was like, slow down, people, slow the hell down,
because you beat a name brand and we don't really
know yet how big of a victory. That that is
because LSU's defense was horrendous last year. It was almost
as bad as USC's. And we know that when you
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make a tremendous jump on defense, even with what de'anton
lynn did at UCLA, it still is not like a
top five or top ten defense. It just goes from
being number one twenty one to like thirty one, twenty
one to like twenty eight. So I mean, and that's
a ridiculous jump, and or one twenty one to like
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forty that's insane when you have a lot of the
same players. So we have no idea how good LSU
really is, and we don't and but we know that
USC is better than LSU at this point and point
in time. That's what we know. So I want USC
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fans to enjoy the win and all of that. But
there is one hilarious point about this entire wind though, Ralph,
you know what that is.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
What is that Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Riley tried to get this game canceled because the schedule
was too hard. He tried to get the game canceled.
And now he out here peacock and like, ah see, look, hey, hey, hey,
we knew, we knew, we were ready for this. This
is what this team is built for. This is usc
Troshan football. Bro. You didn't even want to play the game.
(09:31):
You've been talking about canceling the Notre Dame series to
make an easier schedule to make the playoff. So no, Lincoln, No,
just just take this win and accept it because you
tried to get this game canceled. Yeah, man, this is it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You know what reminds me of is like go into
your spouse's work party, Like after six days of complaining
about having to go to your spouse's work party, and
on the drive home you look at your spouse like
that was fun, and like.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Oh really, that that was fun. I had to I
had to poke your eyeballs out to get you here,
but it was fun. Okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh man, he's he's a character, he really is.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, all right. So next thing up, Miller Moss. There
was a story that came out in Miller Moss on TMZ, right,
it was on TMZ and then it made actually more
noise locally here in LA than it probably did nationally
because the La Times picked up a story about Miller
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Moss over two and a half years ago. The resolution
happened two and a half years ago. He had a
dispute with a roommate and he allegedly farted in his
roommate's pillow. And that and that made TMZ Yes, yep,
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and that made TMZ.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Okay. So I have two questions. How does USC not
have anything to trade to Harvey Levin to keep a
very dumb story like that from going public? Like how
could USC let this happen because you know they trade information?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yes, yes, they could have.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
They could have given TMZ anything. He could have given
TMZ a sit down with Lincoln Riley.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
This is a non issue. I'm not trading anything for this.
It actually makes Lincoln ryle, It actually makes Miller Moss
look like a normal college kid who hasn't farted on
a pillow? Well, but like who has not known somebody
who's farted on a pillow? Who hit? I mean, it's
it's not like he put eye drops in somebody's drinking.
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They ended up in the hospital. It's a it's a
pillow fart like rhythm rhythm, Relax. There was no investigation needed.
What what are you gonna do a DNA smell test
to see? Now that's it. Now, that's rotten egg there
that didn't that he doesn't eat eggs that didn't come
up out of that didn't come up out of Miller Man.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I I there's there's like roommate disputes all the time.
It would it would be a little confusing to me
if USC was rooming athletes with non athletes, So it
could have been like a teammate or something. The university
having to get involved in this because that was like
moving some of his shirts and that, you.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Know, like that he kind of bullying the kid, probably
a non athlete, damn big because I mean, unless I mean,
I just can't imagine. I mean, I guess that another
athlete that he farted on his pillow, like another football player, right,
how would that have normally been adjudicated in most amongst
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most football players?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Now, you got to eat this pillow, yes.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yes, you gotta. You gotta eat these hands, or you
gotta eat this pillow or IM gonna break some of
your shit. I mean, it's just that, like, it's not
gonna end up with like a you farted on my pillow. Now,
it's gonna probably end up with.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
A toothbrush that tastes funny.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yep. Exactly. Okay, cool, Oh you farted on my pillow?
All right, cool, cool, no problem.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Okay. So here's my second question. Do you think that
it's a coincidence that the publisher for the UCLA rival site,
Edward Lewis, is a sports editor at TMZ.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Now, No, I don't. I do not. I think that
they've been sitting on this story and he was like.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
A wating on that story, like Miller mass sitting on
his roommate's pillow.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
But at the end of the day, it's a non story.
Nobody cares. It made less news than I mean. I
I skimmed through the story and I was like, oh, okay,
who cares, Like I wouldn't care if he? I mean,
if he, I would have cared probably more in terms
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of I would have read and dug more deeply had
he used his roommate's pillow as tissue than a fart.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
It felt very much like like, oh wow, the things
nineteen year olds to do every day made the news.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Like, okay, if Mike, if Micah farted on Jet's pillow
and came in and was like dad, Dad, Michael farted
on my pillow, how would you react to that?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I would say, like, you you know how to do laundry.
I wouldn't even Yes, that's the point.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
This is how much of a non story that at
this sage you'd be like, wait, wait, wait, wait wait.
You came in while I'm recording this to tell me this, man.
If you don't get your ass up out of here,
man and figure it out yourself, just just do not
nobody end up in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, nobody. Don't ask, and don't bother your mom.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Exactly, because we're not trying to talk about this all
damn night, all right, Billy Napier, Oh, he never got
into it with his fans, Ralph, he never got into
it with his fans. They got drunk, they got held
underwater and drowned by Miami. And remember we put together
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the coaches under the most pressure list on Unafraid Joe. Yes,
that pressure list is looking real big time because there's
some inside stuff that I knowed that's going on in Colorado.
So I'm gonna tell you right now. It depends on
what happens after this game. I may be able to
share the story. But Dion's feeling the pressure. Just know
that Dion is feeling the pressure in Colorado. Do you
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do you think that, uh, Joey McGuire at Texas Tech
is feeling the press. In mind, Deon's not getting fired.
Joey McGuire's not getting fired. I mean they they would
have been extremely upset. He would have actually gotten on
the hot seat had they lost to Abilene Christian. But
he's just on the pressure list. Do you do you
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think that that now Texas A and M fan, I
mean Texas Tech fans are like, damn, George, you were
you were right. There's a little bit of pressure there,
especially now.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Hey, if they're not telling you you're right, at least
they're not talking back at all. I noticed. I noticed
they all got on you when you put them on
that list, but when you asked how they felt about it.
Now there are some crickets I'd love that. Actually exactly,
your issue has always been their issue. They scored, they
give up points. That's dangerous. And you want Joey McGuire's
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team to look different than Cliff Kingsbury's team, that's of
course what you want. You want progress and it still
looks like more of the same. And to have one
of your old quarterbacks do it to you, uh. In
Maverick mc iver, you know, for Abilene Christian. Shout out
to Keith Patterson. By the way, I got Ablin Christian
looking good. But yeah, no, that that type of stuff
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has to end eventually. It has to.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
And can I talk about when I was recording that
video of the games, how many times I had to
say Maverick mcgiver. It took me. It was probably like
the tongue twister. I might as well have been saying
selly shell seashells by the sea short like. It was
the most tongue twister thing that I've come across in
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quite some time.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
It always kills me that you can say fu mafala
like without even blinking. But it's like, but Miller Moss,
You're like, uh.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
But Billy Napier dude, he got into it with his fans.
He said to the effect of, man, you guys shouldn't
be paying attention to what a guy in his to
his team, what a guy in his basement in Central
Florida has to say. And I was like, Oh, don't
do that, Billy, Oh don't be the guy that gets
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so mad at his fans that then he liked that
the same people that have to back you Now you're
like double burden nim when they have a right to
be upset. But the best part of this whole thing, though,
was Matthew Berry's tweet and who retweeted it. Who is
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that retweeted it? Dam On Florida's last coach. He went
to three straight New Year six games and then year
four he got fired.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
That'd have been the Dan Mullen of ESPN.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Hey, he didn't give no fs, no f's. He was like, oh,
that's a great tweet because I bet you Matthew Berry
sent it to him because they work together.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
You know the worst part about Dan Mullen like retweeting
that was because I mean, there's been some petty like
RG three out here holding the grudge against Paul Finebaum,
which cools.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
But to actually stood up for RG three, which is
the craziest thing when he got fired by ESPN. So
Ralph is Billy napier like because he's clearly feeling that pressure.
Is he right for saying this or is he because
his criticism is majorly high? Because I'm like, bro, you
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you got to keep the little bit of people that
are in your corner left. You have to keep them
there and he needed that Miami game to like to
turn his hot seat to like a Okay, hey, he's
actually got stuff moving in the right direction. But I
do believe he pulled out. He pulled out his possible
(19:47):
get out of jail free card. Like you know, when
people out in out in the world, when they get
in big time trouble or they say something or do something,
there's only a couple ways out there is to cite
mental health issues, like serious mental health issues, drug issues, right,
(20:09):
like like drug or any type of addiction. Right, So
mental health or addiction, those are the ways that you
can kind of get out of jail free and be
like yo, I'm man, and man, I've I've had a
crack addiction, for you know, I've been snorting snorting coke,
or I have a sex addiction, or I have mental
(20:30):
health like those are your get out of jail free cards. Well,
like you get you get to pull that out in
life one time and come back from it. His get
out of jail free card might be DJ Lagway. If
he said this was going to happen, I told you,
I told you, And now DJ Lagway is starting. Granted,
(20:53):
Grand Merch is in the concussion protocol. But we saw
this happen last year with uh over at Arizona.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, and Jade and De Laura.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, we want to make sure that Jade de Laura
is one hundred percent healthy, not not ninety five, not
good enough to play, not ninety eight, but one hundred healthy.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
And no one kept telling the trainer to squeeze his
ankle real hard to ask him if he feels any pressure.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Exactly, bro, exactly.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So how are you asking you a question? You asked
me a question? Was Billy Nape you're right for for
calling out the fans complaining about Florida online and he
was telling his players not to pay attention to them,
which is smart. Yeah, because some people out there pay
too much attention. Shout out to Big Dave.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Oh Man, I get mc dave, though, I G yeah,
we'll talk, we'll tell, we'll get we'll get into that.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
But no, I would say this. Telling your players that
you don't need to listen to people tweeting from their
basements made sense ten fifteen years ago, But in this economy,
people who can afford basements, those are your potential nil donors.
So you you kind of need to listen to the
people who have multi story homes in twenty twenty four,
(22:25):
he look, he's frustrated. So getting coaches at mom's that's
mom's basement. But getting getting coaches to talk right after
a loss, I never take anything they say seriously. I
didn't take well, we'll get to talk about it later
in the show. I didn't take that seriously either. But
you know, getting coaches to talk right after a loss
(22:46):
is always a recipe for absolute disaster. I don't think
billion people are looking for reasons to be mad at
billion Apier right now. The result is plenty of reason enough.
They were down thirty eight ten at one point, cam
Ward was making them look like kindergarteners and then insulting
the SEC right after the game, saying PAC twelve crowds were,
(23:08):
you know, harder to deal with than the people in Gainesville.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yes, all right, So so now on to that thing
that you just mentioned, and and that's Brian Kelly. So
Brian Kelly got upset after the USC game and was like,
we keep dealing with the same thing. And when I
(23:35):
first saw the clip, I was like, oh, this is
fake outrage. But then when I went back and watched
the whole thing, I was like, Okay, he's genuinely upset.
So there were two parts to it. Number One, I
actually appreciate it that Brian Kelly didn't just blame his players,
that he was like this, this is my fault. This
(23:55):
is my fault. Okay. So I can deal with a
coach taking responsibility and blame for when his coach does
not perform at the level that he should, right, and
it is important that we see that part of it.
(24:18):
The other part of it is like it felt like
he was like, we're just keep dealing with the same
thing and they're not listening in and if it like
like it felt like a Maya kopa, like, well, I'll
just take the blame for it as opposed to him
actually because he said it but didn't wasn't genuine though.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
That's the way I talk to my kids because I
like that. I'll be like, hey, wear shoes when you
go outside, because they'll step on a nail to go
through their foot and our insurance premiums go up or
something like that. So every single day I'm like, wear
shoes when you go outside, Wear shoes when you go outside.
By the end of the week, I'm like, take your foot,
take the thing designed for your foot, put your foot
(24:59):
inside it, lace it up. Because I must not be
saying it right. It must be my fault. It must
be something with my mouth shape, a problem with my worth.
It's got to be me, because I've told you six
days in a row to put shoes on before you
go outside, So it must be on me, Like that
is mental illness on my part, and probably and I
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you know, I actually I think Brian Kelly's an awesome coach.
I think that his team's always look better at the
end of the season than they do in the beginning.
But this is LSU. You don't get. You're not afforded
the luxury of actually like coaching a team from being
one thing to another team. You just got to be good.
And when you're dealing with this amount of money, people
(25:42):
expect your quarterbacks to be good right away. People expect
your coaches to be good right away. So I understand
the pressure that he's under. But yeah, no, I recognize
that type of talk from Brian Kelly, Like, no, it's
definitely my fault because if you're not getting it, and
that's actually true, like as a teacher, as an educator,
or as a coach. You have to find a way
to get through your players. So does he mean it?
(26:04):
I don't know, is it true yet? Yeah, it ultimately
comes down to him.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, absolutely, all right, next thing up about being overprotective,
So DJ Dad Big Dave. I wasn't sure whether that
was the old clip that just circulated again or was
this a new one, because I think it was.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
There's quite a few well that he's on every California
high school spaces he's on.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
He gets on the got two kids, one at Oregon
and then his son has obviously had a very you know,
he's been at Clemson, he's been at Oregon State now
is that Florida State? So you know, and he went
to Saint John Bosco like they're a big deal around here.
So they were on spaces. Somebody was criticizing his son
(26:53):
and he wasn't. He didn't jump bad initially. It was
when somebody called his son sorry essentially and was like
he needs to move the tight end. We didn't want it,
sorry ass and all of that, and he went he
went full like gang bang on him. He was like, hey, yo, homie,
you wouldn't say that to my face, Like dude. It
(27:14):
went it went pretty that's how that's how street stuff
gets started.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And I'm about to ask you, I'm about to ask
you the most ignorant question of all time. But I
grew up on the West Coast, so I'm used to it.
But people are experiencing Big Dave for the first time
out here in the Southeast where I live now on
the West Coast. It feels like Samonan's get a pass
for using certain words. Oh yes, yes, yes, I don't
(27:43):
think you get in the South correct anywhere?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Really correct? Correct? Yeah, yeah, the USO's it's a little
it's a little different.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And uh, because then who's gonna stop Big Dave?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
This is this is a fair point. This is a
fair point. And here and Big Dave and his security
company and the people that works with bodyguarded for Snoop
and all the big West Coast rappers for a very
long time. The question is is did he go too far?
(28:21):
Because or did the people go too far? Because I
do think that in what is going on with DJ
over at Florida State and what happened at Clemson is
did has DJ been playing well this season? The answer
(28:42):
is no, is his team helping him out when he
is playing well. No, his team is not stopping to run.
They're getting pushed around. When he hits people in the numbers,
they dropped the ball when they're wide open. He misses
like it's a it's a disaster, right, and it's not
(29:03):
all his fault. But the expectations with being a five
star stick with you. Just like if you're a five star,
you're gonna get more opportunities than the three star is
going to get. Like if, like Malachi Nelson can transfer
from Boise State after this season and there's gonna be
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a bunch of people who want him, It's just that, like,
there's going to be teams that want him, and they
might and they're gonna be FBS teams that want him.
There's gonna be FCS teams that want him. So playing
Division one college football somewhere next year, regardless whether he's
starting or not, somewhere else besides Boise State if he
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chose to leave.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
What mar what marriage is she on?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Uh? She just finished with number three?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I think Yeah, there's big I can fix her in
energy exists in college football.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Oh, there are plenty of people that will sign up
for the Kim Kardashian experience.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
But that's just it. Like the whole thing about being
a college coach is you believe that you can develop
better than somebody else. You believe that you can coach
somebody else better than somebody else.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Like you.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
You have to believe those things. There's that meme that
goes around. It's like a It's like a record player
and the sign on it says broken but could be
fun to fix. That's how people look at a lot
of these four and four and five stars that go
somewhere and don't play right away. You know. I root
for a team that collected like fifty new players last
year in Arizona State, Like they're they're on that list
(30:41):
of like, hey, well we'll take your Texas four star
d line, and we got three of them right now,
you know, like we'll we'll, we'll give it our best
shot because I think I can coach them up. I
think I can communicate with them better, you know I.
And so yeah, definitely, there there will always be those
opportunities for people who had a lot of hype coming
out of high school. But what comes along along with
that is people calling you a failure ten months into
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your journey, or people calling you a failure because your
d line can't get any penetration. But you're a quarterback.
So I don't think things have been fair for DJ.
But if Big Dave's mad, now, he's gonna stay mad
because these they are meming that kid to death right
now on the internet.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah, and that's the thing. And Okay, so here's the
thing I've learned about being a number one professional athlete.
Now granted it was before social media, well or at
least social media being big, right, So that's number one.
(31:45):
I've learned something from that. I've learned of being the
high school or the quarterback of the data of a
quarterback at a big time high school. I have learned
seeing other people's families all sorts of stuff, is that
you have to know when it's time to turn it off, right,
(32:07):
Because Big Dave doesn't want to be seen as a
guy who's running away from it, right, because he's in
these streets, like in terms of in the high school
football streets, like he's big time in the community. He
has other kids that are coming up that you know
that not are only his own kids, but he's got
nephews playing in college stuff like that, So he doesn't
(32:28):
want to be seeming like a person like, oh, things
didn't go well, so I'm not gonna show up to
the spaces that I'm always on and all that stuff.
But sometimes you got to know when it's time to
check out for a minute. And it doesn't mean that
you're running away from it. You just know that this
ain't gonna be positive right now, and nothing that you're
(32:49):
going to say is going to And if people know
that this bothers you, if they can hide behind their
burner account or this or that, they will do it.
So you have to know. So you either have to
be prepared and be okay with whatever is said up
to a certain certain point, and you can correct people.
(33:10):
But once people know that they can press your buttons,
they're gonna press your button. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
I have two things on that. Some people believe wholeheartedly
that the only impact they can make on this earth
is a negative one. But they don't want to be
thought of as somebody who doesn't make an impact, right,
so they will troll and and you'll you're gonna be
the victim of that troll.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
And the other thing.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
The other thing, and this is directly to Big Dave.
When you say out loud you wouldn't say that to
my face. You gotta believe that yourself, because it is true. Yeah,
it is absolutely true. People are very very different in
person than they are online. So you don't have to
say it as like a challenge to that person's manhood
(33:50):
because there's no risk for them to come back and say, yeah,
I would in that moment. You just got to know
they would never say this to your face. You are
talking to pond scum. You are talking to people who
have not accomplished will not accomplish anything. They're on a
burner on Twitter talking about college football because they don't
have any better options for what to do with their time.
(34:11):
And hey, we love people on burners talking college football.
You can control up. But when it's questioning your you know,
when somebody is on there talking about your son, that's
got to be really, really tough for a father to
deal with. But you gotta believe that that they wouldn't
say it you like it is true?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yes, yes, because I know that like the things that
I can hear and accept versus what Damon's mom and
my wife can accept are two different things. The one
of them things is not like the other. And listen,
you just got to understand what's what's true and not true?
All right, we got a lot of big time games
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up this week and Unafraid shows Week two. Pole is
out top twenty five and here it is is Ralph,
we got the top twenty five graphic. And guess what
else we got. We have the playoff graphic as well,
the updated playoff graphic. So we have updated playoff graphic
(35:13):
and we have the top twenty five. So and remember,
the top twenty five is ranked upon the three most
important criteria, uh, quality, wins, schedule played, and dominance. Those
are the three three things. So, Ralph, when you see
this list, what do you say, well, conduct penalty? It's oh, well, I.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Say nothing because I can't see it on my end. Uh.
So you're gonna have to Okay, the way our recording
is set up, I don't have the ability to see it.
So you're gonna have to tell me. Uh, tell me
who you have where and what you want me to
react to. Okay, So, UH moved ore again from number
two to ten. In Notre Dame goes to two, penn
(36:03):
State goes to three, Miami goes to four, and USC
goes to five. Okay, I actually have it pulled up
on the Unafraid Show community tab. Make sure you're subscribed
to on Affraid show dot com for daily content. I'm
looking at this first of all, I love your criteria.
It is it is different. And I see Georgia Tech
(36:25):
up there at twenty. I see Michigan at sixteen. I
think that's something that would give a lot of people pause.
This is the defending champion, and people root for the laundry,
they root for the brand.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
But you're talking about stuff they got they don't. They're
starting to walk on that quarterback. They had like twelve
draft picks. This is not the same team as last year.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I heard Tom Fournelli make a point and I want
to get your reaction to it that everybody's talking about
how Michigan is going to struggle because they have a
new quarterback. But everybody criticized me Chigan last year because
they didn't make use of their quarterback. Does it matter
who their quarterback is at this.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Point, yes, because the difference is is that last year
they were able to just lean on everybody, and granted
this defense still looks really, really good, they were able
to lean on everybody, and I think that after last week,
I was like, oh wow, JJ McCarthy might have been
better than I thought he was, even though they did
(37:27):
let him throw at times. It feels like more now
that they were holding JJ McCarthy back than them protecting
JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, and I mean, I gotta go with the so well,
I think what might be interesting to some people is
looking at Oregon at ten after a ten point win
over not great competition, and then looking at Utah at
eleven after beating the hell out of not great competition, and.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
So and remember, so it is that's a fair question.
Is I have always gave you the three most important
criteria quality, wins, schedule played in dominance. Now the preseason rankings,
which I do not take into account or try not
to take into account when we are putting it into
(38:15):
our model for the is that the preseason rankings is
about recruiting, returning roster and coaching, and then we throw
that away and then we see what we got and
other rankings like the AP pole and other people's polls
(38:36):
they project out. They're like, this is a good team.
We know it's a good team. Yes they haven't beaten
anybody yet, but you know, so that's why Ohio State
fell to six. Their dominance was high, but all the
other teams in front of them played a better schedule,
and once Ohio State puts a good win down, they'll
probably move up.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
And if we're being honest about Oregon too, they're there's
a there's a team that there's a team last week
that won by a million. I watched their game and
I thought they looked like garbage, which was Mississippi Mississippi State. Yeah,
there's another team, Oregon that went forty one to forty nine.
Yeah that was yard no turnovers, lost four sacks.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
And but the basketball is that the dominance is that
Oregon's box score didn't match. It was efficient yards. They
ran the ball okay, even though it wasn't great. They
ran the ball okay, and their defense stopped the run.
They were really good against the pass aside from trick play.
So it's like their dominance was still there even though
(39:43):
the score didn't necessarily reflect it. Like at no point
in time where you, aside from looking at the score,
where you like, oh, they could lose, like you, you
never felt that watching the game that that that Idaho
had a chance to win.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Can I ask you, I I think Bruce Feldman said,
it was almost the biggest upset in college football history.
How do you feel about that? Like, would it have
been the biggest upset in college football history?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
In my mind? Sure, right, because it would have mattered
to me. But I think that that is that that
shows how much that that feels like a badge of honor.
If you can be part of one of the biggest
upsets in college football history of almost that means how
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highly people think about you and your program. Because if
Appalachian State had beaten Georgia right now, or Alabama instead
of Michigan when Michigan was down some then like, yeah,
it just means that if people are attaching that sort
(40:53):
of moniker to a win or a near win, then
that means that that means that your program is thought
about in the way you want it to be thought about.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
True, very true.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
All right, So we got to get onto the five
games this week that must be talked about that are
must see TV you cannot miss. And the first one
is and you guys, there's a video on this on
Unafraid Show. Make sure you guys go check it out.
There is the Picks against the Spread or on Unafraid Show.
(41:28):
You don't want to miss those as well. But Texas Michigan,
Ralph Texas Michigan. Texas Michigan minus seven and a half.
It's in the Big House. This number grew from six
and a half, I think, to seven and a half.
How are you feeling about this?
Speaker 2 (41:49):
All I can think about is Quinn, you were was
going into Tuscaloosa last year and not even breaking a sweat.
That's all I can think about. Is like everybody thinks
that the Big House is going to be the thing
that rather because really, when it comes down to it,
the Texas quarterback room is. You know this game is
going to create stars, but you want stars to come in.
(42:10):
You want people to be able to hype. And the
truth is the only thing you can really hype right
now is that Texas quarterback room.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
And so.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
I look at the way Keny Quinn ears played to Alabama.
I look at the way that he played in last
year's Big twelve championship. I think he's a gamer. I
really do. I like Texas. I like Texas to cover.
I don't I don't know much about this Michigan team.
(42:40):
We're gonna learn, We're certainly gonna learn. But I really
wonder if they have the ability to slow down this
Texas offense.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
M And that's see, I do believe that they can
slow down Texas's offense compare to what Colorado State was
able to do, where they were less than a speed bump. Right,
because Michigan's defense is going to be significantly tougher. So
are they gonna slow him down yet?
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Right?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
My biggest question is ken Michigan scored enough points to win? Yeah?
Who race is down to a halt?
Speaker 2 (43:21):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (43:21):
How many points? Is they a halt? Like twenty four?
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (43:27):
I mean, Donovan Michigan scored twenty four points? Is the question?
Twenty five points is the question.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
It's a great question. And I Donovan Edwards looked good
against Washington last year, and he looked good as a sophomore.
But he's gonna have to be a star he and
I don't know if he is that we'll find out,
we will see.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
See. Here's the thing about running backs is that now, granted,
if you watch the film, when you find out he
missed holes and stuff like that or cuts, then that's
or didn't break tackles. That's a whole different story. But
running backs, you can put Barry Sanders back there with
no blocking, it doesn't matter. That's why running back is
(44:09):
so devalued is that they're more dependent on another position
than anybody else. Because a quarterback, a free runner can
come and he can juke the free like one free
runner and then still throw a dime. And yes, quarterbacks
are subjected to the office line blocking and all of
that stuff, but no more position than running back because
(44:33):
if you get hit when when the ball is handed off,
or you can't even make a juke or anything like,
there's nothing you can do. So I'm withholding the Donovan
Edwards criticism until I see him be bad. You see
what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
So before we get to making this pick, what was
our record for last week?
Speaker 2 (45:02):
I went four and one. We were opposite on four picks.
You went two and three. The two you you went
with Florida and you went with West Virginia against Penn State.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Okay, so how did that go two and three if
you went four and one, if we had four opposite picks.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Let's see here. So the games were you I already
talicked this up and now you're you're you're now you're
gonna make me do an audit while we're live.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
Yes, yes, I'm I am, I am. We are auditing
this live. Okay.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
So you had Florida. I had Miami yep. Okay, uh gosh,
what were other the the other games we picked you had,
I'm gonna have to pull I'm back on Unafraid subscribe
to Unafraid show dot com. I'm back up reading the
reading the description on that video right now. It's going
to take me a minute to pull it up. I
(46:04):
was not prepared if I did ten minutes of preparation.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Oh okay, okay, I got it.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
I got them.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
So we had Clemson Georgia, which you got right. I
did not, yep, Penn State, West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
I got that.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
When you did not Miami Florida.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
That was good for me, bad for you.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Notre Dame, Texas A, and m We were both on
Notre Dame and LSU USC. You took LSU yep and
who and you took USC.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
I did yes?
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Oh, okay, okay, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
I passed the audit. Take that irs.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
All right. So I am taking Texas minus seven and
a half in the Big House rundom boys out of
the random boys out the big House, and so much
so that they're going to try to fight Texas in
that single tunnel.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Will I will join you on that Texas minus seven
and a half?
Speaker 1 (47:16):
All right? Next game up. This is one of the lowest,
if not the lowest over under of the entire week,
and that is Iowa Iowa State. Iowa was favored by
three and a half. I think the over unders thirty
three and a half, which if we were betting unders Iowa,
(47:38):
I wouldn't be nailing them unders. Boy, So everything in
me feels like I should take Iowa here, right, Okay,
But it's that hook that's bothering me, because Iowa wins
by one point two points, three points, and this is
(47:58):
a rivalry game, and I know that Iowa State wants
to get a victory at some point in point in time.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
Yeah, Matt Campbell won and six in the Syhawk game,
but we.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
Still don't know about I was passing offense yet, because
Kate McNamara looked okay last game, what he threw for
like two forty or somewhere around around there. I was
gonna play better. Iowa State's gonna play better defense. Give
me Iowa State plus three.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
And a half. Okay, I'm I'm gonna join you. And
here's why not a good idea now that I'm thinking
about it, But that has nothing to do with you.
But I am a person who will walk up to
a roulette table in Vegas and if I see Black
has hit six straight times, I'll start betting Red.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
Oh God, because that's not how it works, I know.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
But it has to turn at some point, right, it
has to. And yeah, I'm gonna be for twenty years,
I know, but that's just who I am. I gotta
be true to myself. I'm gonna bet on Red. I'm
gonna bet on Matt Campbell. You pointed something out in
your video and on a Fraid show that there is
a really weird scenario where both these teams could make
(49:14):
the college football playoffs. It is very possible. I was
schedule is I think if they lose to Iowa State
they kind of lose their chance. Yeah, but but Iowa State,
if if they lose this game, they could win out
and they could make it.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
Yep, win to Big twelve. You are right, this is
not a Big twelve coms.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
This is the first time since Brock Purty left that,
I've looked at Iowa State's offense and thought to myself,
it's being run the way that Matt Campbell wants it
to be run. So I'm I'm gonna even though I
was defense. Oh my god, those boys can play. I'm
going to the Iowa State and the under ten ten
to seven Iowa State.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
Oh my god. All right, Cal Auburn Cal is favorite.
Oh Auburn's favored by thirteen and a half points. This
game is in, This game is at Auburn. Cal travels well,
they may or may not be withouts. Yes, they may
(50:17):
or may not be without their star running back Jayden Ott.
I feel like that if I knew the answer to
that question, if Jayden Ott was gonna play or not,
that that would change my pick because he's the most
dynamic player on that team. And if they can't run
the football, they got no chance to win, no chance
to win. And Auburn's quarterback situation, they are what's his
(50:44):
last name, Payne Pine?
Speaker 2 (50:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (50:46):
No, yes, yes, yes, Peyton Thorn. I mixed him up
with Drew Pine for some reason. So Peyton Thorn all
Auburn's hopes and dreams this year are on Peyton Thorn's showers,
and this is a game they have to win and
all and the and last year this was a much
(51:08):
closer game than people would have would have thought. And yeah, yeah,
I am going to take the thirteen and a half
points and.
Speaker 2 (51:23):
Col okay shout out to Stam Jackson, the fourth. He's
been making news this week. He's he was the starting
quarterback in the game against Auburn last year for Cow.
Now he's a wide receiver at Auburn, and he caught
a touchdown this last week. He wants to win real bad. Historically,
I don't think it's gonna happen. Cal Cal schedules like
(51:45):
crazy at a conference. CAL schedule is the way you
wish SEC teams would schedule at a conference. And Justin
Wilcox is five and three in these games, and the
last three have all been lost as but they've all
been by less than one score, including last year to Auburn.
In fact, combined, they're less than the spread thirteen points.
This spreads thirteen and a half. I don't know if
Cal wins this game, but the idea of Cal losing
(52:06):
by more than two touchdowns, will Cox really prepares this team.
Well for out of conference games, it would be going
against everything in Justin Wilcox's history for Auburn to get
this blowout. So I'm with you. This is the same
Justin Wilcox that's beat Ole Miss twice. This is the
same Justin Wilcox that beat BYU on the road, same
Justin Wilcox that beat North Carolina twice. He's great and
(52:29):
out of conference, I'm rolling with cal Yep.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
I totally agree. Next game up n C State Tennessee.
This game is in Charlotte at Bank of America Stadium.
I think this is a ten point game, Ralph, that
the line is ten points, but we.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
Made our picks when it was at seven and a
half for Tennessee. So we'll ride with that one because
you already got your picks in videos already out. So
we'll take the seven and a half.
Speaker 1 (52:57):
Oh, this is easy work. Seven and a half and
for tenant Tennessee, and I'm gonna take the balls. I
love Nico e Amalava. I think that I put him
on the Heisman list here on Unafradho so go check
out that video as my dark horse candidate. And people
(53:19):
are like, why did you put him on there, and
after one week they were like, I said, why you
put him on there?
Speaker 2 (53:26):
Yeah, I'm gonna join you. My biggest issue with NC
State is they went out and got a quarterback who
likes to move around and yeah, he was a four
year starter at for yeah, Grayson McCall Coastal Carolina, yep,
and he ran the who's Liberty's coaches name? He ran
his offense and almost perfected it. It was fantastic. Having
(53:49):
been a walk on, he's had one of the most
awesome college careers you can imagine. And you figure, like, oh,
NC State, they went and got this quarterback. That means
they're gonna start throwing wrong has always thrown, and they've always.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
Thrown too much.
Speaker 2 (54:02):
Always they've they averaged like thirty six thirty seven a
game over Dave Dorn's tenure, which is a surprise to
a lot of people. So now you have Grayson McCall
chilling throwing ten twelve more times a game than he
ever has before against this Tennessee pass rush. I don't
love it. I think Tennessee travels well, that's a short
trip from Knoxville to Charlotte, just over the Appalachians. Give
(54:24):
me Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (54:25):
Yep. Now, how about if you're just betting it now
and it's ten, do you still love it at ten?
Speaker 2 (54:31):
No? I think ten is a ten is probably about
where I see like thirty to twenty. So I'm that
seven and a half. That's a nice I think that's
exactly where you want it.
Speaker 1 (54:42):
I'll take it at ten too, take it at ten too.
But for the purposes of this bet, it's seven and
a half. All right, we got Nebraska Colorado. Nebraska's favored
by seven points. This feels like an overreaction line to
last week. Ralph Ay and you are eating crow on? Well, actually,
(55:06):
are you eating crow yet?
Speaker 2 (55:08):
On?
Speaker 1 (55:08):
Dylan Ryol because his numbers looked exactly like they did
in high school.
Speaker 2 (55:13):
Yeah, he had that one rush for negative six yards
and then he threw a couple of bombs. No, he's
got a soft schedule. I think he's set up for success.
I do not think this game is going to go
well for Nebraska.
Speaker 1 (55:28):
However, Oh, I thought you were on the Nebraska train.
No way, man, it is something. It is something burning,
and it's got nothing to do with Dion. And everybody
knows that. If anybody watches on a Frase show. They
know that I have that I'm critical of some things
that Dion's doing. This This Nebraska feels like fool's goal
(55:53):
right now. This feels like a sucker bet to me.
Sucker bet, give me Colorado plus seven, because I don't
think that Nebraska, even if Nebraska is you know, takes
a lead or something, this doesn't feel like a team
that's good enough on defense to just keep Colorado from scoring.
(56:14):
And I don't think that they're experienced enough on offense
with Dylan Rayola that they're going to be able to
just put the game on his shoulders and he make
no mistakes.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
What did North Dakota State do to Colorado last week?
What did Cam Miller do? He ran all over them? Correct,
he ran all over them. Dylan Roola going to run
all over Colorado. No, no, So you're talking about a
freshman quarterback in his second start having to win the
game with his arm. That's an unfair expectation of anybody,
(56:47):
including DJ Lagway who's about to start for Florida. So yeah,
at least he's got a layup of a game. Though, Right,
I'll take Colorado. I'll take Colorado.
Speaker 1 (56:58):
Money line, Hey, Dion I told you. Remember, we've talked
about this in the offseason. This is one of the
most anticipated games for me of the year because this
is two teams. This game is gonna send you in
two different directions. This is either gonna propel Colorado to
a bowl game. This is gonna be the game that
(57:20):
determines whether they make a bowl game or not. This
one right here, that's it. They lose this game, They're
not going to a bowl game. They win this game.
Speaker 2 (57:33):
Maybe they were three to oh last year before going
one and eight the rest of the way, so maybe
maybe because you know, they might be a little thin,
but I'm but.
Speaker 1 (57:46):
They do appear to be a little bit better against
the run. Yes, not not the quarterback run, but that's
not gonna matter with Dylan Ryola. But they do appear
better against the run. So the one thing about as
from just running all over them, they got a shot.
Speaker 2 (58:04):
And road energy doesn't seem to bother call it. Now,
do I think a Colorado player maybe does something stupid
and Lincoln, if I had a million dollars, I would
borrow another million to put it all on. That app absolutely,
But like I don't think it's gonna affect their play
on the field.
Speaker 1 (58:23):
Okay, over under a number of fifteen yard penalties on Colorado.
One thousand fifteen yard penalties, Okay, and it's all gonna happen, right,
I'm gonna set the over at one and a half
fifteen yard penalties for Colorado, and I.
Speaker 2 (58:42):
Will I will say there will be five of them. Damn,
Islo is gonna get two by himself. This is gonna
be a physical game. It's just gonna be Yeah, I
don't know. I cannot wait. It's gonna be so fun.
Speaker 1 (58:57):
Yep, me either. All right. And the games that we
tell you guys to stay away from Georgia Tech Syracuse
because Georgia Tech's highly volatile. We don't know who Syracuse
really is yet, so that's a game we would stay
far away from. Don't think that you know Georgia Tech
quite yet because this may bite you in the buns, Buddy,
(59:19):
bite you in the buns.
Speaker 2 (59:20):
Yeah. Georgia Tech has not had to play quarterback that
can throw, but they do average six yards of carry
and Syracuse gave up like six and a half yards
of cary last week, so you could see Georgia Tech.
Just go back to the Georgia tech of old and
run away with it, or Kyle McCord could show that
Ohio State made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (59:38):
Yep, all right. There were a couple other games that
we're not gonna cover as much, but I'm gonna read
them off to you. If there's anything that you want
to comment about it, let me let me know. Baylor
Utah in Rice Echo Stadium, Cam Rising is there. Yeah,
I'm excited about that one. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Yeah. Utah won this game at Baylor last year with
none of their weapons, and Utah is really looking forward
to paying back the favor of that rude welcome that
got in Waco for being upset about possibly having to
go to the Big Twelve. So I expect Utah fans
to be on there. I expect them to act like
Utah fans, and I expect that to be one of
(01:00:20):
the most hostile environments in all of college football.
Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
There's another game rauph that I feel like a coach
is going on the ejecto seat if he loses this game,
and that is Sam Pittman in Arkansas plus eight against
Oklahoma State. If Sam Pittman does not win this game,
he is on a vaulk. He's on Mount Saint Helen's
(01:00:46):
of a seat.
Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Will they promote Petrino to replace him?
Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
Yes? Oh oh yes, yes they might actually do that, Yes, yes,
if they get their wars knocked off this this game,
Sam Pittman might be gone and Patrino might be back
there in a neck break soon.
Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
I don't want to hear anybody talk about character ever again.
If that happens, that'd be.
Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
The most really second chance society Ralph.
Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
I guess, I guess. I mean, I do you think
that Miramax is gonna hire Harvey Weinstein back?
Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
No, he's.
Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
No, I think he got let out.
Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Oh god, all right, No, that would probably be a
really bad idea.
Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Well, so would promoting Patrino.
Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
All right. The last game I want to mention is
does Oregon break their losing streak against Boise State because
they are over in the history and they're nineteen and
a half point favorites.
Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Yeah, yeah, that that's That's one of those just real
weird statistics, kind of like how Texas and Michigan have
only played once. It's just it's just or ASU has
never beat an SEC team in their history. It's just like,
you know, one of those really really weird things. That
I think will come to an end.
Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
Oregon's favored by nineteen and a half points. George Will
will they cover the spread? I have two words to
say about this game, and then we will drop it.
Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
And those aren't they better?
Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
Yeah? They better? That's they better?
Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
I want to I would laugh if Oregon went fifteen
to o this year and won every game by like
one score twelve, Yeah, just to cause you art problems.
Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
Oh my god, dude, we don't have time for that.
I mean I would still be happy at fifteen and oh,
but I'd be like Brud, this is stressful, dude. On
a side note, my kid has a game on Saturday four.
Why did they say that he needs to be there
(01:03:10):
at one o'clock and it's one hundred and some degrees outside.
Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
I don't try to teach him about hydration.
Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
What do you think of some of these kickoff temperatures?
So like I saw in Death Valley there was a
low of ninety eight over the next couple of days,
ASU is going to be like one ten when Mississippi
State comes to town. It's did do you think? Do
you think this type of stuff matters? Do you think
the the weather stuff at the beginning of the season
(01:03:43):
matters as much as like at the end of the
year if you have to go to Minnesota or something
like that. Do you think teams get affected by the
extreme temperatures. Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
Yes, yes, because it's hot as fish grease, or it's
cold as fish, or it's cold as a or as
cold as a witch's titties. Either way, Mike, my question.
Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Has always been because I think you can prepare for
the cold, you can be a cold weather team, you
can adapt your style to it. But doesn't the heat
just hurt the team that practices in it every day?
Isn't it bad for them.
Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
To just always be No, it is more, dude, because
heat is so overwhelming at times it can cause you
to cramp. It is like so it just lays on you.
It's like a blanket. I rather play in the cold
than the hot. Then, like the extreme cold than extreme hot,
(01:04:33):
because extreme cold you can sit on the warming benches
when you're not in but and be reasonable in the
In the heat, there it ain't enough fans or shades
to fix it. So that's why, all right, the final
(01:04:55):
thing that we want to talk about before we get
out of here on the unafraid show college football is
Ralph is a is being a get off my lawn
guy right now. And this is the thing that caused it.
So there have been some incidences in college football where
some people have been aggressive, if you will, and in
(01:05:19):
terms of their celebrations, and Ralph has not liked it.
And here is it happened in the LSU game where uh,
there was a like a shotgun blast if you if
you will, like a close close range that resulted in
a fifteen yard penalty and then there was a bunch
of pumps after a tackle for loss conduct penalty. And
(01:05:45):
that's a good call. That is a good call. And
for college football players around the country, we get emotion.
It's all. If you're going to have fun with your players,
do whatever you want to do. But when you do
something like that, when you get so Brian Kelly called
that a point, Ralph is that is that a point?
Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
Well in a way, in in a way, I don't
think he was pointing at a friend, as Brian Kelly said,
they was. It was like a shotgun blast celebration. It
wasn't even a celebration, was it.
Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
That doesn't feel like, yeah, what what it was?
Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
It was I mean sort it was a taunt.
Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
Yeah, I think I would get fired over this as
his coach. Why because I don't know if you could
talk to people the way that I would, right, I'd
be like, hey, I need you to look at me.
You're an actual idiot. I'm not sure we could trust
you with sharp objects. I'm not sure we could trust
(01:06:48):
you with dull objects. You are a literal moron, and
you're here representing a collegiate institution. I think we might
have to saran wrap or arms to your body until
you show you could be trusted. This is one of
the dumbest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
I am going to I could get fired over the
ass chewing. You're gonna get on this one. I could
get But there is a chance, now, granted we're trying
to win the game. There is a chance, like if
I actually saw it, right, not bigger because sometimes people
(01:07:28):
get personal powers and the coach never sees it until
after the game, Like fully, what happened. So let's say
I did not see what happened, then the ass chewing
is gonna happen in the team meeting room, which is
in private, and then in the team meeting room, and
it's gonna be well understood that that ain't gonna gonna happen.
(01:07:50):
But actually, I just can't see if I were a
coach a player on my team doing that, because we're
gonna be buttoned up in general, like we're not getting
fifteen yard penalties. The first person that gets a penalty
like that'll be the last person that gets a penalty
like like that. That's one of them. Nah, not a
a went was because you do stuff like that at
(01:08:10):
practice sometimes too, and that shit's getting nipped in the
butt immediately.
Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Yeah, And I don't have a problem And people will
be like, well, it's about the entertainment they're consuming work.
I don't have a problem with it when it's make belief.
I don't have a problem with it when it's entertainment.
But like I'll say to this kid, the same thing
i'd say to Jason Whitlock, you're not omar. This isn't
like you can't compare the wire to your real life.
Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
See, you're upset with it for a whole different reason,
and I'm upset with it. I'm upset with it because
I'm like, you hurt the damn.
Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
Team, right, and You're like if you're gonna hurt the
if you're gonna hurt the team, make it a late hit.
Make it something that the other team is gonna feel,
not something that just brings attention to the fact that
your brain cells aren't firing correctly. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
But the Texas A and M one, that's a funny
(01:09:04):
one to me because you're lou you know, it was
still early, it was tight game or whatever. You have
the tackle for a loss, and then I thought, what
is it? Shamar Turner, same dude that punched an SMU
player in the junk and got thrown under the game
last year. He poses for the camera to make sure
everyone's looking at him, then gets up and does the
(01:09:24):
on one knee three pumps, which, according to Key and Peel,
that is a penalty. Three pumps. Can't do three. But
like that one too, is just like, hey, man, you've
been here for a long time, You've done some really
dumb stuff. You're a senior. Now we're trying to compete
for a championship. You're getting paid. Dude, are you going
(01:09:46):
to be able to function in society beyond Texas A
and M.
Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. And
uh oh, good point. And you guys, that is the
PAC twelve. You did it again. That is the football
apostles presented by the UNA phrase show peace out. Catch
you guys next week.
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