January 6, 2026 • 38 mins
CFP Teams + Families Hurt By Transfer Portal: Saban is Winning, Lane Kiffin Villain
College Football Playoff semifinals are here—Oregon football vs Indiana football and Ole Miss football vs Miami football—and George Wrighster breaks down the Nick Saban effect, the transfer portal chaos, and why this CFP Final Four feels different. With the national championship game next, the biggest story might not even be the matchups… it’s the people and the decisions shaping them.
George explains why Nick Saban is still impacting the College Football Playoff more than any coach in history—because the semifinal coaches connect back to his coaching tree in a way college football has never seen. Then he dives into the transfer portal and how it’s hitting teams in real time, including Oregon’s depth getting tested as players leave while the Ducks are still alive in the CFP.
This episode also gets personal: George shares his family’s real transfer portal experience with his son currently in the portal, the stress it puts on families, and why opportunity matters just as much as talent—especially for players who weren’t five-star, headline recruits. From NIL market realities to roster turnover across college football, this is the truth-teller version of what’s really happening behind the scenes.
Plus, George hits the latest Ole Miss news after Lane Kiffin’s move to LSU, why loyalty still matters in college football, why Carson Beck deserves respect, and how the CFP bracket has gone completely off the rails compared to early-season predictions.
Chapters:
00:00 – CFP semifinals: Oregon vs Indiana + Ole Miss vs Miami
02:23 – Nick Saban coaching tree: why Saban still “wins” the CFP
07:08 – Transfer portal chaos + NIL money talk (real numbers)
12:17 – Oregon Ducks depth issues heading into Indiana Hoosiers matchup
14:44 – George’s family transfer portal story (the side fans don’t see)
22:48 – Portal fallout across college football (Auburn, Iowa State, more)
25:50 – Ole Miss news: Trinidad Chambliss + Kiwan Lacy and why “home” matters
28:38 – Ole Miss vs Miami: SEC vs ACC style clash in the CFP
29:34 – Carson Beck talk + Georgia legacy conversation
31:16 – Lane Kiffin to LSU: the drama, the trolling, the consequences
36:11 – George’s early CFP bracket vs what actually happened
37:06 – Oregon national title promise: “I’m acting a complete ass” if they win
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the College Football Show. We got a lot
to talk about today. We are on the cusp of
the national Championship game, but we got to get through
these semifinals. We got the Oregon Ducks facing off against Indiana.
We have Old missing Miami, which is probably the most
unexpected matchup out of that bracket that we could have gotten.
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We got to talk about how Nick Saban is impacting
this college football Playoff more than anybody in the history
of college football. We got to talk about this transfer
portal because chaos is ensuing at Oregon.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
They're having depth problems.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Other teams in the playoff are having issues because players
are hopping into portal. It is getting wild out here
in these streets. I'm gonna talk about my own families
experience with the portal because my son is in the
transfer portal right now. This is stressful for everybody in it.
And this is more from a perspective of you know, yeah,
it's nice when you're Josh Hoover you're hopping into portal,
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or you are Sam Levin hopping into portal, But what
happens to those kids that are in a different situation.
And we're gonna talk about that we also have to
talk about Trinidad Chambliss and Keewan Lacey going back to
well in their situation with old Miss, and so much
more that we have to talk about because we got
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to give Carson back some flowers and everything in between.
You guys, I'm George Reister, former NFL player, college football player,
college football analysts, and truth teller for college football on
one of the fastest growing college football channels here on YouTube.
So make sure that you guys like, subscribe, share, get notifications,
(01:45):
and of course hop in the comments because you know,
I always get to everything that you guys always are
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guys have helped it grow. It is growing immensely faster
then I thought it was going to grow. Knew it
was gonna make it, but you guys, I'm doing it
for you guys than you guys have been awesome. So
(02:05):
let's get into the business of today. So the transfer, well,
actually we're actually gonna start with Nick Saban because Nick
Saban is having an impact on this college football playoff
that nobody has ever had this big of an impact
in college football period, because this dude has gone from
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the side.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
He's gone from the sidelines.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
But we couldn't forget about this dude even if we
wanted to, and not even because he's on college football
game day. It is because the semi finals feature four
of his former assistants. So Nick Saban wins no matter
who wins the national championship. Look at this Saban effect here.
You got Dan Lanning up here, so everybody remembers that
(02:55):
he came from Georgia, but people forget about the fact
is that Dan was a position coach at Sam Houston State.
First time he had his own room, you know, making
some real money after his family sacrifice. And then he
took a GA position, a graduate assistant position to be
on Nick Saban's championship staff in twenty fifteen, and he
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talks about how much he learned there and everything else.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And then on that same very staff, you had.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Oregon's former coach, Miami's current coach, Mario Christobalu and he
was in the middle of a four year run as
Alabama's offensive line coach after he got let go from
his six year stint as Florida International's head coach. So
Nick Saban also, I should call it the Nick Saban
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soup kitchen for coaches because he would rehabilitate everybody then
get him all out. But you just talk, look at
the the amount of development that this man has done
with coaches. We've never seen in anything like this before.
And there is a reason why teams coached by Nick
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Saban have been in this national championship position time and
time again, and his coaches are doing very well. Think
about it, Even if Kirby Smart had beaten Old Miss
Georgia would be in there.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That's a Nick Saban guy.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Even if Lane Kiffen was still coaching Old Miss it
would still be the same result. Nick Saban guy. And
you got Kurt Signetti, who who he gives so much
credit to to Nick Saban. He was the wide receivers
coach his first four seasons during Saban's run in Tuscaloosa,
(04:50):
and that was before he left to Iup and then
went to Elon and James Madison and now Indiana. Think
about this, and uh, those two go way back because
Saban was actually an assistant under Kurt Signetti's dad, Frank Signetti,
at West Virginia in the late seventies.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I mean, and that was like Kurt was even a
freshman quarterback in Morgantown during that time. And then look
at old miss Pete Golding. He was the.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Defensive coordinator who came over from UTSA and then worked
his way up to defensive coordinator and then won a
Natty with the Crimson Tide in twenty twenty. You cannot
argue that Nick Saban is the greatest to ever do it,
because his coaching tree is just further proof that this
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man has transcended college football and his impact is undeniable.
I want you guys to find me another coach. I
mean this is this is.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Like Bill Walsh level coaching, but in college in terms
of the NFL, where everybody came from to Bill wash Street.
Just like that.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It is the anti Bill Belichick in college football, where
where in the NFL Bill Belichick, he hasn't had one
successful coach well coach at has won a Super Bowl,
had a long even had a long run as a
head coach that came from his coaching tree. Nick Saban
is the complete opposite. That means that he's teaching that
he is, that he's not gatekeeping all of his information.
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He's like yo, yeah, yo, I'm gonna give it to
you I'm I'm master, I am since and you you've
had guys who left and he was like, he ain't
quite ready yet, and they still left proved he wasn't
wasn't ready. But now let's look at the transfer portal.
Because the transfer portal giveth and the transfer portal taketh away.
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Now the kids get blamed a lot for this, and
the transfer portal. You guys, make sure that you guys
like subscribe, get notifications and tell a friend about the show.
I see all in the comments. We'll get to your stuff,
all right. So the transfer portal give it and take
it away. So on one hand, it provides a lot
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of opportunities for a lot of kids. If you are
you know a kid that is like Brendan Soresby, he transferred,
ends up at Cincinnati, balls out at Cincinnati, Cincinnati can't
afford him anymore. Now he's on his way to Texas
Tech might be making up to five million dollars. Now,
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some of these numbers that you guys are going to
hear are not correct. And as college football is truth teller,
I have to let you understand how they work. Because
we saw a post, oh Sam levit will be getting
in between five and seven million dollars at Kentucky. No,
you're not getting no five to seven million dollars. It's
not Might there be some incentives that can get him
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two five million dollars potentially, but these quarterbacks are probably
gonna be in the in the high like the high
end quarterbacks are going to be in the high threes,
low fours because the market is gone up a little
bit from from last year. And it's all finding good
if you're those players. If you are you know, a
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big time wide receiver, big time defensive end, you either
get re signed at your own school or you end
up somewhere else. And it's funny because the narrative out
there is that the kids are the problem. Oh, these
kids aren't loyal, they don't want to stick around and
all of this stuff. And there is an element to
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there are kids who are getting bad advice, they don't
want to be patient, they don't want to work. There
is a percentage of those, but a lot of it
comes down to two things. Yes, they're is the money
Because like Brendan Soresby, Cincinnati couldn't afford him and he
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wasn't willing to play below his market rate. It is
just like here on my show, you at your job.
If somebody, if you, let's say you're making sixty thousand
dollars a year at your job, a comparable job at
a good company or even a higher level company, they're
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willing to pay you two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to do the sixty
thousand dollars a year job. And it is in a
place that geographically desirable. They have nice stuff there, food's good,
you know, your your family's happy, air, all that stuff.
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You're probably gonna take that job, right, you probably are.
And that's what the kids are doing. And then you
got to think about it that So, so that's one
portion of the kids. There's economic upward mobility, which we're
all looking for on some level. But then there are
the kids that are getting pushed into the transfer portal
(10:11):
by their teams. Right and I'm gonna give you an
example of that in just a little bit. But all
of this is started by the leadership. The leadership in
college football has been poor because you have guys from
Oregon hopping in the transfer a portal.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Now, look at Oregon's list of transfer portal players, and
you might look at this and be like, oh, man,
that maybe there's a culture problem there. No, there's not
a culture problem. They're getting transfers in as well. They've
already gotten a punter and a kicker in already.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
But look at this.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
You got Austin Novus at backup quarterback who, by all accounts,
the kid is really good and good enough to be
a starter in the FBS. But Tay Moore is expected
to come back next year. So he's like, nah, I'm
gonna pass. I want to I don't want to sit anymore.
I've been here for three years, and yes, I got
a first round pick in front of me, and if
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he goes back back to school, I ain't gonna play again.
So no, Makay Hughes, he transferred in. He's out going
going to Houston. Jayden Lamar, he's good enough to be
a starting FBS running back, But you he's got two
freshmen in Dir Hill and Jordan Davidson who are just
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absolutely fantastic playing in front of him right right now.
Jay Harris, same thing, but he actually maybe unpartally. Kyler
Casper has been at Oregon for a while hasn't. He's
been hurt, hasn't played a whole lot, just just as
Slow played a lot last year, got beat out, got
beat out this year. All of these dudes on this
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list are kids that are going to Houston, Oklahoma, Missouri,
cal They're all gonna go to big time time schools.
Like these aren't kids that haven't panned out. It's just
that when you are on a high end roster sometimes
there's not There's only so many balls on the on
the field, you don't have these opportunities. But think about
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how this is impacting the college football playoffs because you
have Oregon, who is who is playing against Indiana this week.
And I have a great preview on the channel about
this game. So you guys go on and look at it.
After there is the thumbnail, I break down everything, there's
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game footage, everything in between that you need to know
about who will win this game and how it is won.
But Oregon is now they had six scholarship running backs
and three of them are in the portal, which I
just showed you. That leaves three one of them and
Jordan Dayton, Jordan Davidson, there's rumors that he's hurt right now.
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That's two two, and they have five or six dbs
in the portal as well, so their depth is being tested.
Mind you, none of them are starters that are in
the portal, but these are guys who all play and
contribute on some level, whether it's special teams or whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So you got Oregon who's getting thin.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
They can't fade injuries at running back, and they can't
fade injuries at dB right now, cannot So this is
a tricky spot. But you only gotta win two games,
and you really only got to win one and then
you can worry about the next one when it's time
to worry about about that. But the transfer portal is
not playing around and it's impacting the college football playoff.
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And in this Indiana versus Oregon game, I talked about
it on the pre preview, so you got you guys
gotta go check it out. I believe that this game
is going to come down to the Jimmies and the Joe's.
And if two things, the Jimmy's and the Joe's, which
Oregon has the edge there? Oregon has better players than
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Indiana does. Oh overall, right, Like there are more first
round picks on Oregon's roster between freshmen and seniors. Then
there are an in the NFL players, then they're on
Indiana's roster. There's no slight to Indiana's just the it's
just the reality of the situation. But Indiana has coached very.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Very well.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
They have very good players, very good players, and they're older.
Average age I think of their starters is about twenty two,
and they do a lot with confusion. They will confuse you.
If Oregon can diagnose Indiana's blitzes and simulated pressure, they're
going to win this football game. But if not, Indiana
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will win this football game. But you guys can go
check out the rest of the preview there. But I
want to go back to this portal thing for a
second because this in my life, it is impacting me.
The uh the transfer portal this year is impacting me.
I have a son who's playing college football. He signed
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with UC Davis in twenty twenty four. And this is
the side of the portal that you guys don't see
a lot of people talk about. Is my son was
an early in row league. Actually, let let's go back
at a little bit further. He didn't play his first
tackle football game until twenty twenty one because he was
part of the part of USA Baseball. Thought he was
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going to go to college to go play baseball. He
decides that I don't want to play baseball no more.
I'm gonna play football and play basketball. I say, son,
you got to prove. You got a year to prove
that you are what you believe you are, and if not,
you got to go back to go back and go
play baseball. He took to it, busted his ass, did
everything he needed to do. And then you go into
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his So his freshman year was COVID. Next year you're
playing JV and then the next year he slated or
should be the starter on varsity. Tricky stuff happens and
he ends up splitting time and all this and the
way that recruiting has changed now is that you have
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to have, even though I'm a former NFL player in media,
all of this stuff, if you don't have a name
surrounding your yourself in that sport, particularly at the quarterback position,
a little bit of buzz after your freshman year, sophomore year,
you need to be playing a little bit some junior year.
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You have to under adulterating, have to be starting because
the recruiting process goes along so early. And why this
matters is this my son split time junior senior year
starts plays plays really really well. Okay, I'm gonna show
you who who the kid is. Okay, the way you
can kind of under understand, here is his huddle from
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his uh, from his Oh, actually, hold up, that is
the wrong one.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
God, dang it. See see that's not good. All right,
So I'll pull up the the right one right now.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
But he's a kid who is highly athletic. This kid
is a good player. He's a good kid. One Scout
team player of the Year at Davis this last year.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
But the coach had other options.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And part of it is because he got there in
twenty twenty four he ended up having to have surgery.
And then all of a sudden, you are behind the
eight ball a little bit with your situation. And when
you're behind the eight ball with your situation, then all
of a sudden things get tricky for you in college
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football because when you come in hurt, I'm sorry, when
you are hurt, that can get you in a place
where you are too far behind in the yeah, where
where you're where you're too far behind in the situation,
and the coaches like and then also the coach changed
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from who we committed to two of there because his
whole thing was, I want to get a chance to
go to UC Davis good education, but also potentially a
chance to play to play early.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
So I want to.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Show you who this kid is the way you can
understand that this is just not a father's eyes.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
So this is a this is high school kid is
good arm sixty three.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Five, now, all of this stuff, and you're sitting there
as a parent, you're sitting there, you're you're like, oh,
I know that people can see what everybody else sees.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
But he didn't get a chance to practice until this fall.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So now season season ends, has a conversation with with coach.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Coaches like, hey.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yo, I'm not sure if you're going to have a
chance to play here because we want to stagger our quarterbacks.
Other kid is going to stay and all as well, Right,
so I will help you find somewhere else. That's also
a lower you know what. Right, So you're basically on
your own, and a lot of the things that you
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hear from people are especially if this is why being
highly recruited actually does matter, because if you are a
highly recruited kid, You're going to get opportunities to be
from the people who recruited you. When it doesn't work
out somewhere else, they're like, yo, no, Yo, we were
trying to get get this kid. Here's our opportunity to
bring bring them in and see what's what before a
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kid that wasn't super highly recruited because of all the
things I mentioned to you. Then all of a sudden,
you're like, your your options are lower because now you're
sitting there saying, oh, wow, I have a kid who
is talented, but he doesn't have any film right in
college and here is what most players are trying to
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do to sell themselves. Does matter in college football and
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also in the whole situation. Oh man, I hope it.
So I'll go back and say what it is that
I was saying. So I was saying here when I
was watching DFILM. What I was saying is this is
why having a name matters and having been highly recruited,
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because when that does happen, that puts you in a
position where.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
You still have some of that left on you.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
And even Division two schools are like, we're only taking
kids that have film.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Your Division two school.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Like why if you look at the talent, you look
at what's on tape, you can see what's what. So
I say all this to say this, there are tons
of kids who are in the portal who are very talented,
who just need a chance.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
And as a family, this.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Has been quite quite stressful, right because you have a
kid who you know can play, needs an opportunity, and
sometimes those opportunities are harder to find if you haven't
been on the field yet. And sometimes it's not to
your own fault because you've been injured or or you
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were injured and somebody else balls out. So anyways, I
wanted you guys to understand that about how families are
impacted by the transfer portal because it's only a few
of them.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
It is only a few of them who are.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Truly you know, who are the haves in the situations.
And we've we've we've seen it. Even a guy like
Kirk Kirk Kirkstreet, his kid was a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
He's at Michigan nor Yeah, he's at Michigan, like basically
a walk on kid. These are things that that are
happened your my name can't do it for him. His
name can't do form.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It is talent, but it's also opportunity as well, all right,
So let's get back to the business. So there's a
lot of teams who are losing players in the transfer
portal and look at these graphics. So you got Auburn
loses cam Coleman because obviously Auburn fired their head coach.
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They hire Alex Golish. And even when you hire a
new coach, even when you hire a good coach, what
ends up happening. Players end up leaving because they're like,
I don't know him, like like that, I'm not taking
my chance. I'm going to go get my bread because
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worst case scenario is I get I get paid. I'm
gonna go to the NFL eventually, and if not, I
got it, I just hit the lotto anyway. And that's
what's going on at Auburn. I was say, lost forty
one players when Matt Campbell left. Forty one players. You
can't play football like that, and a lot of these
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schools get gutted. You got over four thousand kids in
the portal right now, and they're all looking for the
same thing, opportunity. Some of them are looking for significant
financial things, which they should be because the coaches have
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showed them the way to do it. That's who showed
them how to do it, the coaches, coaches. We just
had a coach in Lane Kiffin leave during the playoff
for a better for the grass is greener and a
chance to win a national championship when he had a
chance to win a national championship after school he was
at Clearly, they're one of the last four teams left.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
So this transfer a portal thing.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
It impacts families a lot more than people think, and
it also impacts those universities because I will state losing
forty one players, that means you got to bring in
forty one players to replace, plus high school players that
you're recruiting. You gotta sell them on your vision and everything.
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This is gonna be a long way back in the
Big twelve. Now, if you're if you have some finances
and you can nil your your way, you can fast
track the process like Indiana or Texas Tech. But you
do have to have that sort of resources to be
able to do that. All right, next thing that I
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want to talk talk about is the transfer portal as
it relates to Old Miss. Old Miss was when Lane
Kiffin left, right there were reports that their quarterback Trinitat
Chamblins if who is applying for another year of eligibility
through Old Miss, though they're helping him out with it,
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so he'll be resigned if he gets that extra year
of eligibility. So Trinidad Chamblis, there was talk of him
hopping into transfer portal and the leading rusher in the SEC,
Kewan Lacey, who just resigned with Old Miss, going down
to LSU. I could not be any more happy with
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these kids re signing with Old Miss because people do
not understand and they completely underestimate the value of home,
the value of having a place that you can go
back to. I'm gonna give you a prime example. With Oregon.
You had Travis Dye and Troy Die. Troyded Travis Dye.
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I'm sorry, Troy Die plays in the NFL right now.
He plays linebacker state at Oregon the whole time, gets
draft to go to the NFL. His brother just like him,
Oregon legend, like a you know, like a player, a
notable player that fans loved and everything else, underdog running
back everything. He decides his last year to go to USC.
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He gets hurt. He's not a USC man. And now
Oregon fans are likenn We're not interested in anything that
has to do with Travis Travis Dye, We're not.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
We're not.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
So his brother is welcome, But Travis is now in
a situation situation where boosters donors alumni and kind of like, ah, whatever, whatever,
If we do help you, it'll be because of your brother.
There is value in that. And Trinidad Chambliss and Keewan
Lacy staying at Old Miss, whether they win the national
championship this year or not, they are going to be
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remembered and loved as the ones who stayed. There's value
in that with the university, particularly lead these big time
football institutions, or even like look look at how Matt
Campbell was exited by Iowa State. He left Iowa State
and they're just crying and they're like, we understand.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Good, we love you, Matt, thank you for everything that
you did.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Because he was one who stayed and it was an
untenable situation that pushed him out the door. So these
things matter, all right. We also have to talk about
this other game because that impacts that, and we have
a great preview on the channel as well for this
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Old Miss Miami game. Old Miss Miami is this is
a total style clash. You have Old Miss who plays
okay defense with fantastic offense, high powered offense. Miami plays
ok offense and fantastic defense. Something has to give. I
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break down the whole game here, and if this game
turns into a track meet, it is going to be
a blowout. If this game is going to be a
rock fight and it's low scoring, it's still going to
be a blowout, but it's not going to be, you know,
like a twenty five point blowout. It'll be a you know,
like a ten point blowout, eight point blowout, nine point
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blowout where you're like, bro, this game wasn't even close
even though the score is close. And that's the way
that Miami plays a lot of football. So you guys
make sure that you guys go on the channel check
that out. Because I am excited. And one of the
people I'm excited about is that we got to give
Carson Beck his flowers. We have to give Carson Beck
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his flowers. And I understand he's a polarizing guy because
he's in year six at his second school, and I
get that he had some rough games under the bright lights,
but the expectations that Georgia were through the roof. Kid
had a front row seat to back to back championships
and then was expected to step in and do the
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same thing. And what was his greatest sin losing Alabama
in twenty twenty three in the SEC Championship or was
it getting hurt in the SEC Championship in twenty four
or acting a little bit different when he got some money,
or was it leaving Georgia a team that was in
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great hands with Gunner Stockton.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
It seems like what could have been is a thing that.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Like that that you thought would have gone well, would
be a relationship between one of the college football's best
fan bases in Georgia and a quarterback that went twenty
four and three?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
How do they hate him? Dude?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Let the SEC and passing yards had a sixty point
Orange Bowl win and then that made everybody think that
the Bulldogs could beat Michigan and well that they could
have taken Michigan in the Natty and twenty three if
they got the opportunity. But if that relationship is gonna
stay icy, There's one thing that Carson Beck has on
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his old team.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
He's two and zero in the.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
College Football Playoff as a starter, and Georgia is zero
and two over the last two years in the College
Football Playoff, and I'm sure it would have been sweet
for either party to land a knockout punch in this
year's semifinals, But thanks to Old Miss beating Georgia, I
guess we'll never know, so y'all can answer it in
the comments. Do y'all think that Carson Beck and Miami
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would have beaten Georgia? That's the big question. Another thing
that we got to talk about today is that man
Lane Kiffin, because Lane Kiffin is just trying to make
everything about him and this is a case of I
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absolutely hate the idea that this man would be leaving
leaving Old Well, that he left Old Miss to go
to LSU. You know how I just talked about being
a legend and where you are. Lane Kiffin was becoming
a legend in Old Miss, and then he decides to
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leave the LSU and then decides to just troll the players,
just leave people alone.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Then this last week report started coming back that he's
gonna recall coaches that they wait, they can't offensive coaches.
Charlie weis to running back coach. All these dudes can't
finish the season out because they got to go recruit.
And I'm calling bs bs because Lane Kiffin, how were
you supposed to coach? If you said you want to
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coach so bad? How were you supposed to coach and
recruit at the same time. So if you need your
coaches back, how were y'all gonna do it in the
first place? Yeah, he got mad after the networks did
not allow him in the booth when he wanted to
go to the Sugar Bowl game.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
He was gonna go with the governor of Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Show everybody, hey, hang wave and try to act like
you love old miss so much. If you love him
so much, it wouldn't have left. And if you're an
old mess fan, I completely understand why you want your
coaches to be working for you while you're gonna have
Lane Kiffins back, amongst anything else. But I'm telling you,
if he does this, just the fact that he was
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thinking about doing it, or even just played like he was,
there is serious karma for that, because you don't get
to do people dirty and then great things happen for you.
And also, but here's the other thing I've learned in life,
consequences do not show up in the way that you
feel like that they should show up. So whatever Lane
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Kiffins karma is going to be, it may not show
up and wins. It may show up in his personal life,
may show up in his health, could show up with
family life, his kids, anything else. But you cannot avoid
the things that you've done.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
You cannot.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Even one of his old players, Xavian Harris, called him
out about wanting to be at the game and talk
on TV. He was like, Kiffin, that's what kiffn tried
to do. He tried to be a damn announcer, trying
to troll. He said, we're gonna troll him. We got
something for him. He was trying to steal our shine.
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That's all he tried to do. That's all he's trying
to do is steal our shine. That is their rallying cry.
That is old missus rallying cry. They got old, They
got their old coach and their crosshairs.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
They're like, we will show you.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And if they beat Miami and end up in the
National Championship, whether they win or they lose, Lane Kiffin
looks goofy.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
He looks goofy and he looks silly.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Because you ran to Old miss to try to win
a national I'm sorry you ran to La You Lang
Kippin ran to LSU to try to win a national championship. When,
as Dan Lanning says, the grass is damn green in Eugene,
the grass was damn green in Oxford the Grand the
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grass was damn green with the land Sharks, and maybe
they would have won it with you. It's a damn shame.
So don't get to blame in the players for this.
This is a coaching and a leadership issue. They showed
you how to do it. So players they see coaches
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display lack of loyalty all the time.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
So if you're a player, how loyal would you be?
How loyal would you be?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Probably not very loyal, right unless somebody shows that loyalty
to you two. But it's been shown that you got
to look out for you. Even though these same coaches
will tell you it is about team, this is about family,
this is about us, This is about you know, die
for self and unity and all this stuff, and then
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they go do their own thing. Just tell you this
is just the reality of it. This is just the
reality of the situation. But the last thing I want
to do is I want to visit this college football
playoff bracket. Oh so this is the college football bracket
that I had incept temper, and Lord have mercy, Lord
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have mercy me.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
This was my bracket.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Now, I did have Oregon as champion, but look at
all the rest of this mess. Only Oklahoma and Miami
and Georgia stood the test of time. Iowa State head
coach gone, Memphis head coach gone, LSU head coach gone,
Penn State head coach gone, You tak head coach gone.
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This was like bad luck to be on this list, apparently.
But I cannot wait to see who wins this national championship.
And I'm telling you guys, as college football's truth teller,
I am going to be one hundred percent honest with
you if the Oregon Ducks win. And granted there have
been some people who've commented on my helmet in the
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back because I played there, but I still come on
here and I tell the truth about the Ducks, about
who they play, even about the stinking Washington Huskies.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
I still do where I.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Had them ranked in my top twenty five pretty much
all year because they deserved it.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I'm gonna tell the truth. But I'm telling y'all right now.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
If we win the national Championship, number one, I will
be in attendance, and number two the the show after
I'm acting the complete ass, just so everybody knows.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
It will be. It will be reckless, it will be fun,
it will be may not be sober, nah now to
be sober. I'm a professional.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
But yeah, you guys, Thank you guys for watching. Like, Share, subscribe,
get notifications, tell a friend, peace out. I will catch
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Let's keep growing.
Welcome to the College Football Show. We got a lot
to talk about today. We are on the cusp of
the national Championship game, but we got to get through
these semifinals. We got the Oregon Ducks facing off against Indiana.
We have Old missing Miami, which is probably the most
unexpected matchup out of that bracket that we could have gotten.
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We got to talk about how Nick Saban is impacting
this college football Playoff more than anybody in the history
of college football. We got to talk about this transfer
portal because chaos is ensuing at Oregon.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
They're having depth problems.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Other teams in the playoff are having issues because players
are hopping into portal. It is getting wild out here
in these streets. I'm gonna talk about my own families
experience with the portal because my son is in the
transfer portal right now. This is stressful for everybody in it.
And this is more from a perspective of you know, yeah,
it's nice when you're Josh Hoover you're hopping into portal,
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or you are Sam Levin hopping into portal, But what
happens to those kids that are in a different situation.
And we're gonna talk about that we also have to
talk about Trinidad Chambliss and Keewan Lacey going back to
well in their situation with old Miss, and so much
more that we have to talk about because we got
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to give Carson back some flowers and everything in between.
You guys, I'm George Reister, former NFL player, college football player,
college football analysts, and truth teller for college football on
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then I thought it was going to grow. Knew it
was gonna make it, but you guys, I'm doing it
for you guys than you guys have been awesome. So
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let's get into the business of today. So the transfer, well,
actually we're actually gonna start with Nick Saban because Nick
Saban is having an impact on this college football playoff
that nobody has ever had this big of an impact
in college football period, because this dude has gone from
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the side.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
He's gone from the sidelines.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
But we couldn't forget about this dude even if we
wanted to, and not even because he's on college football
game day. It is because the semi finals feature four
of his former assistants. So Nick Saban wins no matter
who wins the national championship. Look at this Saban effect here.
You got Dan Lanning up here, so everybody remembers that
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he came from Georgia, but people forget about the fact
is that Dan was a position coach at Sam Houston State.
First time he had his own room, you know, making
some real money after his family sacrifice. And then he
took a GA position, a graduate assistant position to be
on Nick Saban's championship staff in twenty fifteen, and he
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talks about how much he learned there and everything else.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And then on that same very staff, you had.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Oregon's former coach, Miami's current coach, Mario Christobalu and he
was in the middle of a four year run as
Alabama's offensive line coach after he got let go from
his six year stint as Florida International's head coach. So
Nick Saban also, I should call it the Nick Saban
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soup kitchen for coaches because he would rehabilitate everybody then
get him all out. But you just talk, look at
the the amount of development that this man has done
with coaches. We've never seen in anything like this before.
And there is a reason why teams coached by Nick
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Saban have been in this national championship position time and
time again, and his coaches are doing very well. Think
about it, Even if Kirby Smart had beaten Old Miss
Georgia would be in there.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That's a Nick Saban guy.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Even if Lane Kiffen was still coaching Old Miss it
would still be the same result. Nick Saban guy. And
you got Kurt Signetti, who who he gives so much
credit to to Nick Saban. He was the wide receivers
coach his first four seasons during Saban's run in Tuscaloosa,
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and that was before he left to Iup and then
went to Elon and James Madison and now Indiana. Think
about this, and uh, those two go way back because
Saban was actually an assistant under Kurt Signetti's dad, Frank Signetti,
at West Virginia in the late seventies.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I mean, and that was like Kurt was even a
freshman quarterback in Morgantown during that time. And then look
at old miss Pete Golding. He was the.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Defensive coordinator who came over from UTSA and then worked
his way up to defensive coordinator and then won a
Natty with the Crimson Tide in twenty twenty. You cannot
argue that Nick Saban is the greatest to ever do it,
because his coaching tree is just further proof that this
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man has transcended college football and his impact is undeniable.
I want you guys to find me another coach. I
mean this is this is.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Like Bill Walsh level coaching, but in college in terms
of the NFL, where everybody came from to Bill wash Street.
Just like that.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It is the anti Bill Belichick in college football, where
where in the NFL Bill Belichick, he hasn't had one
successful coach well coach at has won a Super Bowl,
had a long even had a long run as a
head coach that came from his coaching tree. Nick Saban
is the complete opposite. That means that he's teaching that
he is, that he's not gatekeeping all of his information.
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He's like yo, yeah, yo, I'm gonna give it to
you I'm I'm master, I am since and you you've
had guys who left and he was like, he ain't
quite ready yet, and they still left proved he wasn't
wasn't ready. But now let's look at the transfer portal.
Because the transfer portal giveth and the transfer portal taketh away.
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Now the kids get blamed a lot for this, and
the transfer portal. You guys, make sure that you guys
like subscribe, get notifications and tell a friend about the show.
I see all in the comments. We'll get to your stuff,
all right. So the transfer portal give it and take
it away. So on one hand, it provides a lot
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of opportunities for a lot of kids. If you are
you know a kid that is like Brendan Soresby, he transferred,
ends up at Cincinnati, balls out at Cincinnati, Cincinnati can't
afford him anymore. Now he's on his way to Texas
Tech might be making up to five million dollars. Now,
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some of these numbers that you guys are going to
hear are not correct. And as college football is truth teller,
I have to let you understand how they work. Because
we saw a post, oh Sam levit will be getting
in between five and seven million dollars at Kentucky. No,
you're not getting no five to seven million dollars. It's
not Might there be some incentives that can get him
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two five million dollars potentially, but these quarterbacks are probably
gonna be in the in the high like the high
end quarterbacks are going to be in the high threes,
low fours because the market is gone up a little
bit from from last year. And it's all finding good
if you're those players. If you are you know, a
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big time wide receiver, big time defensive end, you either
get re signed at your own school or you end
up somewhere else. And it's funny because the narrative out
there is that the kids are the problem. Oh, these
kids aren't loyal, they don't want to stick around and
all of this stuff. And there is an element to
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there are kids who are getting bad advice, they don't
want to be patient, they don't want to work. There
is a percentage of those, but a lot of it
comes down to two things. Yes, they're is the money
Because like Brendan Soresby, Cincinnati couldn't afford him and he
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wasn't willing to play below his market rate. It is
just like here on my show, you at your job.
If somebody, if you, let's say you're making sixty thousand
dollars a year at your job, a comparable job at
a good company or even a higher level company, they're
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willing to pay you two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to do the sixty
thousand dollars a year job. And it is in a
place that geographically desirable. They have nice stuff there, food's good,
you know, your your family's happy, air, all that stuff.
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You're probably gonna take that job, right, you probably are.
And that's what the kids are doing. And then you
got to think about it that So, so that's one
portion of the kids. There's economic upward mobility, which we're
all looking for on some level. But then there are
the kids that are getting pushed into the transfer portal
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by their teams. Right and I'm gonna give you an
example of that in just a little bit. But all
of this is started by the leadership. The leadership in
college football has been poor because you have guys from
Oregon hopping in the transfer a portal.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Now, look at Oregon's list of transfer portal players, and
you might look at this and be like, oh, man,
that maybe there's a culture problem there. No, there's not
a culture problem. They're getting transfers in as well. They've
already gotten a punter and a kicker in already.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
But look at this.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
You got Austin Novus at backup quarterback who, by all accounts,
the kid is really good and good enough to be
a starter in the FBS. But Tay Moore is expected
to come back next year. So he's like, nah, I'm
gonna pass. I want to I don't want to sit anymore.
I've been here for three years, and yes, I got
a first round pick in front of me, and if
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he goes back back to school, I ain't gonna play again.
So no, Makay Hughes, he transferred in. He's out going
going to Houston. Jayden Lamar, he's good enough to be
a starting FBS running back, But you he's got two
freshmen in Dir Hill and Jordan Davidson who are just
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absolutely fantastic playing in front of him right right now.
Jay Harris, same thing, but he actually maybe unpartally. Kyler
Casper has been at Oregon for a while hasn't. He's
been hurt, hasn't played a whole lot, just just as
Slow played a lot last year, got beat out, got
beat out this year. All of these dudes on this
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list are kids that are going to Houston, Oklahoma, Missouri,
cal They're all gonna go to big time time schools.
Like these aren't kids that haven't panned out. It's just
that when you are on a high end roster sometimes
there's not There's only so many balls on the on
the field, you don't have these opportunities. But think about
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how this is impacting the college football playoffs because you
have Oregon, who is who is playing against Indiana this week.
And I have a great preview on the channel about
this game. So you guys go on and look at it.
After there is the thumbnail, I break down everything, there's
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game footage, everything in between that you need to know
about who will win this game and how it is won.
But Oregon is now they had six scholarship running backs
and three of them are in the portal, which I
just showed you. That leaves three one of them and
Jordan Dayton, Jordan Davidson, there's rumors that he's hurt right now.
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That's two two, and they have five or six dbs
in the portal as well, so their depth is being tested.
Mind you, none of them are starters that are in
the portal, but these are guys who all play and
contribute on some level, whether it's special teams or whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So you got Oregon who's getting thin.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
They can't fade injuries at running back, and they can't
fade injuries at dB right now, cannot So this is
a tricky spot. But you only gotta win two games,
and you really only got to win one and then
you can worry about the next one when it's time
to worry about about that. But the transfer portal is
not playing around and it's impacting the college football playoff.
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And in this Indiana versus Oregon game, I talked about
it on the pre preview, so you got you guys
gotta go check it out. I believe that this game
is going to come down to the Jimmies and the Joe's.
And if two things, the Jimmy's and the Joe's, which
Oregon has the edge there? Oregon has better players than
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Indiana does. Oh overall, right, Like there are more first
round picks on Oregon's roster between freshmen and seniors. Then
there are an in the NFL players, then they're on
Indiana's roster. There's no slight to Indiana's just the it's
just the reality of the situation. But Indiana has coached very.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Very well.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
They have very good players, very good players, and they're older.
Average age I think of their starters is about twenty two,
and they do a lot with confusion. They will confuse you.
If Oregon can diagnose Indiana's blitzes and simulated pressure, they're
going to win this football game. But if not, Indiana
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will win this football game. But you guys can go
check out the rest of the preview there. But I
want to go back to this portal thing for a
second because this in my life, it is impacting me.
The uh the transfer portal this year is impacting me.
I have a son who's playing college football. He signed
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with UC Davis in twenty twenty four. And this is
the side of the portal that you guys don't see
a lot of people talk about. Is my son was
an early in row league. Actually, let let's go back
at a little bit further. He didn't play his first
tackle football game until twenty twenty one because he was
part of the part of USA Baseball. Thought he was
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going to go to college to go play baseball. He
decides that I don't want to play baseball no more.
I'm gonna play football and play basketball. I say, son,
you got to prove. You got a year to prove
that you are what you believe you are, and if not,
you got to go back to go back and go
play baseball. He took to it, busted his ass, did
everything he needed to do. And then you go into
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his So his freshman year was COVID. Next year you're
playing JV and then the next year he slated or
should be the starter on varsity. Tricky stuff happens and
he ends up splitting time and all this and the
way that recruiting has changed now is that you have
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to have, even though I'm a former NFL player in media,
all of this stuff, if you don't have a name
surrounding your yourself in that sport, particularly at the quarterback position,
a little bit of buzz after your freshman year, sophomore year,
you need to be playing a little bit some junior year.
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You have to under adulterating, have to be starting because
the recruiting process goes along so early. And why this
matters is this my son split time junior senior year
starts plays plays really really well. Okay, I'm gonna show
you who who the kid is. Okay, the way you
can kind of under understand, here is his huddle from
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his uh, from his Oh, actually, hold up, that is
the wrong one.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
God, dang it. See see that's not good. All right,
So I'll pull up the the right one right now.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
But he's a kid who is highly athletic. This kid
is a good player. He's a good kid. One Scout
team player of the Year at Davis this last year.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
But the coach had other options.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And part of it is because he got there in
twenty twenty four he ended up having to have surgery.
And then all of a sudden, you are behind the
eight ball a little bit with your situation. And when
you're behind the eight ball with your situation, then all
of a sudden things get tricky for you in college
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football because when you come in hurt, I'm sorry, when
you are hurt, that can get you in a place
where you are too far behind in the yeah, where
where you're where you're too far behind in the situation,
and the coaches like and then also the coach changed
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from who we committed to two of there because his
whole thing was, I want to get a chance to
go to UC Davis good education, but also potentially a
chance to play to play early.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
So I want to.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Show you who this kid is the way you can
understand that this is just not a father's eyes.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
So this is a this is high school kid is
good arm sixty three.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Five, now, all of this stuff, and you're sitting there
as a parent, you're sitting there, you're you're like, oh,
I know that people can see what everybody else sees.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
But he didn't get a chance to practice until this fall.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So now season season ends, has a conversation with with coach.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Coaches like, hey.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yo, I'm not sure if you're going to have a
chance to play here because we want to stagger our quarterbacks.
Other kid is going to stay and all as well, Right,
so I will help you find somewhere else. That's also
a lower you know what. Right, So you're basically on
your own, and a lot of the things that you
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hear from people are especially if this is why being
highly recruited actually does matter, because if you are a
highly recruited kid, You're going to get opportunities to be
from the people who recruited you. When it doesn't work
out somewhere else, they're like, yo, no, Yo, we were
trying to get get this kid. Here's our opportunity to
bring bring them in and see what's what before a
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kid that wasn't super highly recruited because of all the
things I mentioned to you. Then all of a sudden,
you're like, your your options are lower because now you're
sitting there saying, oh, wow, I have a kid who
is talented, but he doesn't have any film right in
college and here is what most players are trying to
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do to sell themselves. Does matter in college football and
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also in the whole situation. Oh man, I hope it.
So I'll go back and say what it is that
I was saying. So I was saying here when I
was watching DFILM. What I was saying is this is
why having a name matters and having been highly recruited,
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because when that does happen, that puts you in a
position where.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
You still have some of that left on you.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
And even Division two schools are like, we're only taking
kids that have film.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Your Division two school.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Like why if you look at the talent, you look
at what's on tape, you can see what's what. So
I say all this to say this, there are tons
of kids who are in the portal who are very talented,
who just need a chance.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
And as a family, this.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Has been quite quite stressful, right because you have a
kid who you know can play, needs an opportunity, and
sometimes those opportunities are harder to find if you haven't
been on the field yet. And sometimes it's not to
your own fault because you've been injured or or you
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were injured and somebody else balls out. So anyways, I
wanted you guys to understand that about how families are
impacted by the transfer portal because it's only a few
of them.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
It is only a few of them who are.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Truly you know, who are the haves in the situations.
And we've we've we've seen it. Even a guy like
Kirk Kirk Kirkstreet, his kid was a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
He's at Michigan nor Yeah, he's at Michigan, like basically
a walk on kid. These are things that that are
happened your my name can't do it for him. His
name can't do form.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It is talent, but it's also opportunity as well, all right,
So let's get back to the business. So there's a
lot of teams who are losing players in the transfer
portal and look at these graphics. So you got Auburn
loses cam Coleman because obviously Auburn fired their head coach.
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They hire Alex Golish. And even when you hire a
new coach, even when you hire a good coach, what
ends up happening. Players end up leaving because they're like,
I don't know him, like like that, I'm not taking
my chance. I'm going to go get my bread because
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worst case scenario is I get I get paid. I'm
gonna go to the NFL eventually, and if not, I
got it, I just hit the lotto anyway. And that's
what's going on at Auburn. I was say, lost forty
one players when Matt Campbell left. Forty one players. You
can't play football like that, and a lot of these
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schools get gutted. You got over four thousand kids in
the portal right now, and they're all looking for the
same thing, opportunity. Some of them are looking for significant
financial things, which they should be because the coaches have
(24:33):
showed them the way to do it. That's who showed
them how to do it, the coaches, coaches. We just
had a coach in Lane Kiffin leave during the playoff
for a better for the grass is greener and a
chance to win a national championship when he had a
chance to win a national championship after school he was
at Clearly, they're one of the last four teams left.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
So this transfer a portal thing.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
It impacts families a lot more than people think, and
it also impacts those universities because I will state losing
forty one players, that means you got to bring in
forty one players to replace, plus high school players that
you're recruiting. You gotta sell them on your vision and everything.
(25:19):
This is gonna be a long way back in the
Big twelve. Now, if you're if you have some finances
and you can nil your your way, you can fast
track the process like Indiana or Texas Tech. But you
do have to have that sort of resources to be
able to do that. All right, next thing that I
(25:43):
want to talk talk about is the transfer portal as
it relates to Old Miss. Old Miss was when Lane
Kiffin left, right there were reports that their quarterback Trinitat
Chamblins if who is applying for another year of eligibility
through Old Miss, though they're helping him out with it,
(26:03):
so he'll be resigned if he gets that extra year
of eligibility. So Trinidad Chamblis, there was talk of him
hopping into transfer portal and the leading rusher in the SEC,
Kewan Lacey, who just resigned with Old Miss, going down
to LSU. I could not be any more happy with
(26:24):
these kids re signing with Old Miss because people do
not understand and they completely underestimate the value of home,
the value of having a place that you can go
back to. I'm gonna give you a prime example. With Oregon.
You had Travis Dye and Troy Die. Troyded Travis Dye.
(26:51):
I'm sorry, Troy Die plays in the NFL right now.
He plays linebacker state at Oregon the whole time, gets
draft to go to the NFL. His brother just like him,
Oregon legend, like a you know, like a player, a
notable player that fans loved and everything else, underdog running
back everything. He decides his last year to go to USC.
(27:13):
He gets hurt. He's not a USC man. And now
Oregon fans are likenn We're not interested in anything that
has to do with Travis Travis Dye, We're not.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
We're not.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
So his brother is welcome, But Travis is now in
a situation situation where boosters donors alumni and kind of like, ah, whatever, whatever,
If we do help you, it'll be because of your brother.
There is value in that. And Trinidad Chambliss and Keewan
Lacy staying at Old Miss, whether they win the national
championship this year or not, they are going to be
(27:51):
remembered and loved as the ones who stayed. There's value
in that with the university, particularly lead these big time
football institutions, or even like look look at how Matt
Campbell was exited by Iowa State. He left Iowa State
and they're just crying and they're like, we understand.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Good, we love you, Matt, thank you for everything that
you did.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Because he was one who stayed and it was an
untenable situation that pushed him out the door. So these
things matter, all right. We also have to talk about
this other game because that impacts that, and we have
a great preview on the channel as well for this
(28:36):
Old Miss Miami game. Old Miss Miami is this is
a total style clash. You have Old Miss who plays
okay defense with fantastic offense, high powered offense. Miami plays
ok offense and fantastic defense. Something has to give. I
(29:00):
break down the whole game here, and if this game
turns into a track meet, it is going to be
a blowout. If this game is going to be a
rock fight and it's low scoring, it's still going to
be a blowout, but it's not going to be, you know,
like a twenty five point blowout. It'll be a you know,
like a ten point blowout, eight point blowout, nine point
(29:22):
blowout where you're like, bro, this game wasn't even close
even though the score is close. And that's the way
that Miami plays a lot of football. So you guys
make sure that you guys go on the channel check
that out. Because I am excited. And one of the
people I'm excited about is that we got to give
Carson Beck his flowers. We have to give Carson Beck
(29:45):
his flowers. And I understand he's a polarizing guy because
he's in year six at his second school, and I
get that he had some rough games under the bright lights,
but the expectations that Georgia were through the roof. Kid
had a front row seat to back to back championships
and then was expected to step in and do the
(30:06):
same thing. And what was his greatest sin losing Alabama
in twenty twenty three in the SEC Championship or was
it getting hurt in the SEC Championship in twenty four
or acting a little bit different when he got some money,
or was it leaving Georgia a team that was in
(30:27):
great hands with Gunner Stockton.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
It seems like what could have been is a thing that.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Like that that you thought would have gone well, would
be a relationship between one of the college football's best
fan bases in Georgia and a quarterback that went twenty
four and three?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
How do they hate him? Dude?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Let the SEC and passing yards had a sixty point
Orange Bowl win and then that made everybody think that
the Bulldogs could beat Michigan and well that they could
have taken Michigan in the Natty and twenty three if
they got the opportunity. But if that relationship is gonna
stay icy, There's one thing that Carson Beck has on
(31:13):
his old team.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
He's two and zero in the.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
College Football Playoff as a starter, and Georgia is zero
and two over the last two years in the College
Football Playoff, and I'm sure it would have been sweet
for either party to land a knockout punch in this
year's semifinals, But thanks to Old Miss beating Georgia, I
guess we'll never know, so y'all can answer it in
the comments. Do y'all think that Carson Beck and Miami
(31:38):
would have beaten Georgia? That's the big question. Another thing
that we got to talk about today is that man
Lane Kiffin, because Lane Kiffin is just trying to make
everything about him and this is a case of I
(31:58):
absolutely hate the idea that this man would be leaving
leaving Old Well, that he left Old Miss to go
to LSU. You know how I just talked about being
a legend and where you are. Lane Kiffin was becoming
a legend in Old Miss, and then he decides to
(32:19):
leave the LSU and then decides to just troll the players,
just leave people alone.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Then this last week report started coming back that he's
gonna recall coaches that they wait, they can't offensive coaches.
Charlie weis to running back coach. All these dudes can't
finish the season out because they got to go recruit.
And I'm calling bs bs because Lane Kiffin, how were
you supposed to coach? If you said you want to
(32:47):
coach so bad? How were you supposed to coach and
recruit at the same time. So if you need your
coaches back, how were y'all gonna do it in the
first place? Yeah, he got mad after the networks did
not allow him in the booth when he wanted to
go to the Sugar Bowl game.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
He was gonna go with the governor of Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Show everybody, hey, hang wave and try to act like
you love old miss so much. If you love him
so much, it wouldn't have left. And if you're an
old mess fan, I completely understand why you want your
coaches to be working for you while you're gonna have
Lane Kiffins back, amongst anything else. But I'm telling you,
if he does this, just the fact that he was
(33:31):
thinking about doing it, or even just played like he was,
there is serious karma for that, because you don't get
to do people dirty and then great things happen for you.
And also, but here's the other thing I've learned in life,
consequences do not show up in the way that you
feel like that they should show up. So whatever Lane
(33:52):
Kiffins karma is going to be, it may not show
up and wins. It may show up in his personal life,
may show up in his health, could show up with
family life, his kids, anything else. But you cannot avoid
the things that you've done.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
You cannot.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Even one of his old players, Xavian Harris, called him
out about wanting to be at the game and talk
on TV. He was like, Kiffin, that's what kiffn tried
to do. He tried to be a damn announcer, trying
to troll. He said, we're gonna troll him. We got
something for him. He was trying to steal our shine.
(34:30):
That's all he tried to do. That's all he's trying
to do is steal our shine. That is their rallying cry.
That is old missus rallying cry. They got old, They
got their old coach and their crosshairs.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
They're like, we will show you.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And if they beat Miami and end up in the
National Championship, whether they win or they lose, Lane Kiffin
looks goofy.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
He looks goofy and he looks silly.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Because you ran to Old miss to try to win
a national I'm sorry you ran to La You Lang
Kippin ran to LSU to try to win a national championship. When,
as Dan Lanning says, the grass is damn green in Eugene,
the grass was damn green in Oxford the Grand the
(35:16):
grass was damn green with the land Sharks, and maybe
they would have won it with you. It's a damn shame.
So don't get to blame in the players for this.
This is a coaching and a leadership issue. They showed
you how to do it. So players they see coaches
(35:37):
display lack of loyalty all the time.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
So if you're a player, how loyal would you be?
How loyal would you be?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Probably not very loyal, right unless somebody shows that loyalty
to you two. But it's been shown that you got
to look out for you. Even though these same coaches
will tell you it is about team, this is about family,
this is about us, This is about you know, die
for self and unity and all this stuff, and then
(36:08):
they go do their own thing. Just tell you this
is just the reality of it. This is just the
reality of the situation. But the last thing I want
to do is I want to visit this college football
playoff bracket. Oh so this is the college football bracket
that I had incept temper, and Lord have mercy, Lord
(36:32):
have mercy me.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
This was my bracket.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Now, I did have Oregon as champion, but look at
all the rest of this mess. Only Oklahoma and Miami
and Georgia stood the test of time. Iowa State head
coach gone, Memphis head coach gone, LSU head coach gone,
Penn State head coach gone, You tak head coach gone.
(36:57):
This was like bad luck to be on this list, apparently.
But I cannot wait to see who wins this national championship.
And I'm telling you guys, as college football's truth teller,
I am going to be one hundred percent honest with
you if the Oregon Ducks win. And granted there have
been some people who've commented on my helmet in the
(37:19):
back because I played there, but I still come on
here and I tell the truth about the Ducks, about
who they play, even about the stinking Washington Huskies.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
I still do where I.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Had them ranked in my top twenty five pretty much
all year because they deserved it.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I'm gonna tell the truth. But I'm telling y'all right now.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
If we win the national Championship, number one, I will
be in attendance, and number two the the show after
I'm acting the complete ass, just so everybody knows.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
It will be. It will be reckless, it will be fun,
it will be may not be sober, nah now to
be sober. I'm a professional.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
But yeah, you guys, Thank you guys for watching. Like, Share, subscribe,
get notifications, tell a friend, peace out. I will catch
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