April 12, 2024 • 33 mins
On this episode of The Unafraid Show, George Wrighster gets a stadium tour from Arizona State QB Jaden Rashada, say that anyone looking for relief from the transfer takes sides in the war of words between Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders and the Texas 6A high school football community, and predicts the twelve teams he believes will be in the 2024-25 College Football Playoff, and calls out SEC commissioner Greg Sankey for his soft stance on getting more power conference teams into the NCAA tournament.
In our first segment, George Wrighster talks about what he expects to be an insane spring 2024 transfer portal season starting on April 15th- and while George knows the fans are sick of the portal, he believes that a course correction is coming soon that will stabilize collegiate rosters. What are some of those course corrections? Tune in to find out.
Next up, Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders ignited a debate when he said that he's had to overcome a lot by being a small private school QB in Texas instead of a bigtime 6A conference baller. Most people wouldn't consider a private school education and being the son of Deion Sanders to be adversity, but George Wrighster provides context to explain why Shedeur Sanders is actually correct!
In our interview segment, George Wrighster talks to Jaden Rashada about his eventful path from high school to Arizona State by way of University of Florida, and what it's like to be part of a QB competing for reps in the transfer portal era. Jaden Rashada also gives George Wrighster a tour of Arizona State's facilities, and Mountain America Stadium
And finally, who are the 12 teams that George Wrighster believes will be in this year's college football playoff? Which group of 5 team will be represented, and who does George believe will be the first team out? Plus, Who are George's first four that will receive a bye? All that and more on the Unafraid Show!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This week on the Unaffraid Show, I'm ranking the twelve
teams that are going to make the college football Playoff
and the transfer portal is opening back up, and I
know everybody's getting nervous about it, but fear not, a
market correction is on the way, and we are going
to take a tour of Arizona States facilities with one
(00:22):
of their quarterbacks, Jaden Rashatta Shadors. Anders found a way
to rub some people the wrong way with his comments
about Texas six to eight football, but was he right?
You guys, make sure that you guys like subscribe, get notifications,
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keep bringing you.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Guys dope content. It's time for the show. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's college football spring ball season and I got good
news for you and I got some bad news for you.
I'll give you the bad news first, and we just
rip off the band daid because anybody that was hoping
that twenty twenty four would bring relief from the constant
transfer portal drama, it ain't happen. But the good news
is is that relief is coming. It's not just coming
(01:16):
this year though, because I've been talking to coaches and
players about what's happening this spring, and even I was
a little bit of shocked by the number of coaches
that plan on chasing guys off the roster this spring
so that they can go shopping for guys that they've
heard are going to become available. And they're only hearing
that these players are becoming available because their camps have
(01:39):
made it known through back channels.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I do think that.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Things will eventually stabilize, but this won't be the year
for it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And you're starting to see coaches.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Strategize for the spring portal season based on when their
teams start their spring practice sessions. Let's look at the
calendar here, because the spring transfer window opens on April fifteenth,
twenty twenty four, and it runs through the.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
End of the month.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Now, ten of the outgoing pack twelve schools all finish
their spring practice during the transfer portal window. Cal Oregon State,
and USC all have spring games on April twentieth, and
the next ten days after that are gonna be long
ones for the fan bases, for sure, because most of
the teams finish up their spring toward the end, with Oregon, Arizona, Colorado,
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and UCLA playing their spring games on April twenty seven,
and you might see a lot of change in a
hurry at those schools, whether it is players not playing
in the spring game, hopping in the portal, or them
being connected to players.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Who have already hopped in the portal.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And then you have Washington, who finishes up on May third,
but they'll be in the market to add more players
than they're gonna be at risk of losing. Most of
that already happened when Kylene to board and left for Alabama.
If I'm a player in this current landscape of college football,
I want to know where I stand on the depth
chart before the portal even opens. And Utah's players will
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have that privilege of the entire process because they finish
up their spring season on April thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But that also leaves.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
A lot of time for the youths to have to
resist the back channel recruiting, which, if you believe the
story is coming out of Salt Lake the last few
years about Alabama going after Dalk Kincaid and several schools
pursuing Cam Rising, they've actually done a pretty good job
of retaining guys.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Now, I know you fans.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Don't want to hear about all this stuff. They just
want it to go away. And if that means that
the players lose some of the rights that they've attained
over the last few years, so be it. Just stop it.
But regression isn't the answer. We're in an era where
there's been a lot of change in such a short
period of time time and it has people thinking it
(04:02):
will always be this way. I promise you it won't.
We're in the growing Pains era. College football is transitioning,
and what's waiting on the other side of this change
is far better for the players and will be a
lot more digestible for the fans because market correction will come,
players will crave stability, and administrators will have to wake
(04:25):
up to the fact that just as many kids are
getting chased into the portal by their coaches looking to
upgrade their rosters instead of developed kids. And we'll see
some rule changes protecting roster spots that could come from
the players having some type of employee designation, or through
unionization or through the NC double A actually taking the
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time to implement common sense protections instead of always bending
to the increasing wealthy coaches and administrative fraternity, or through
the NC double A actually taking time to implement common
sense protections instead of always bending to the increasingly wealthy
coaches and administrative fraternities. We're in the nil and portal
(05:12):
pioneer era, and just like the pioneers of the American West,
for every person that braved the elements to stake their
claim and strike it rich, you had hundreds fall along
the way. We all see the statistics of kids getting
stuck in the portal, or players taking a check at
another school only to get beat out.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And not even play.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And that's exactly the type of data that sharpens the
next generation into making smarter and less risk oriented decisions.
You're already starting to see this at the coaching level.
Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell basically told Josh Pate
this week that the trappings of the coaching carousel can't
live up to the prioritization of.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Being rooted in his values, of.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Being present as a family man, and knowing that he's
surrounded by people that have his back.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Over there at Iowa State, players are.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Eventually going to see the benefit of representing one school
and building a network for them to tap into over
the next four decades. Instead of seeing how much money
that they can make in the next four months. Kids
will be much more strategic and much more savvy than
even when I came out, when nobody was really networking
(06:25):
as much or paying attention to their brand or how
to grow their brand at that point in time.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And that's when we will enter the settler error.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
That the pioneers paved the way for, and it is coming,
just not this year.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Let me know in the comments what changes that you'd
like to see implemented at the NCAA level to incentivize
kids and coaches to honor their commitments not to the
school but to each other. Like father, like son, Shador
Sanders has a way of getting people in their feelings,
(07:00):
whether it's his nil deals or his patent, the chardore
watch flex, or the debate on how he keeps his
interception number so low. It always seems like it's something
when it comes to him. And this time, Shador Sanders,
the privileged and favorite son of coach Brian Dion Sanders,
he really stepped in it because he touched the untouchable
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and he threw six a Texas high school football which
is a prize possession in the state of Texas under
the bus to paint his private school education as proof
that he has had to overcome adversity. Now take a
listen to what he said.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I came from a private school, so at the end
of the day, I dealt with a lot of negativity,
a lot of hate, a lot of everything out and
dealt with already year after year. I came from a
small private school. All the other kids was going big
you know, power five, and they went to big six
A Texas six A schools and stuff. I don't see
those same kids around. I don't see them excelling their
programs or whatever. So I always been against the odds,
(08:02):
like in different ways.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Now, what you heard in that video probably reveals a
lot about you. If you played six Saint Texas high
school football, that video might make you cringe. If you
grew up without the resources to even drive past a
private school, that video might make you want to throw
your phone in discuss. But me, I'm a retired NFL
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player with quarterback sons that have attended private schools, and
one of them even had the same three star rating
as sha Door Sanders. I play a game here with
people that I interview on the unaffraid show called reister
or wrong, and I'm here to tell you, and you
might not like hearing this, but your Door Sanders is
reister in this occasion. Shr Door Sanders level of competition
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absolutely factored into his evaluation coming out of high school,
and the fact that Ark Manning played low level competition
in Louisiana never kept him from a five star rating
on Rivals in two four seven. But the justification for
Shador Sanders being a three star pro style quarterback absolutely
had to do with his level of competition. Do you
(09:11):
think that he made that criticism up out of thin air?
Two four seven had him as the eleventh best quarterback
coming out of Texas in twenty twenty one, and nine
of those dudes played above him in the mighty six eight.
Rivals didn't even have Shador Sanders as one of the
top one hundred prospects in the state of Texas, not
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even the nation in twenty twenty one class, but they
did have twelve quarterbacks on that list not named Shador Sanders. No,
a private school education is not an adversity in a vacuum,
and no, Texas six A football is not overrated. But
Shardur Sanders wasn't saying either one of those things. He
(09:54):
was saying that he's had to face doubts because he
didn't come out of that league. And he was absolutely right,
and we have the recruiting rankings to prove it. Now,
did he take it a little too far when he
said that he doesn't see those quarterbacks that were ranked
above him excelling in other programs? Maybe, but maybe not.
(10:14):
Let's take inventory. What are those big time Texas six
eight quarterbacks in the twenty twenty one class up to?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
You have Garrett Nussmar who is still waiting his turn
at LSU Maddox cop He transferred from Houston to Miami
of Ohio and has yet to throw a college pass.
Demontreus Davis, he left Auburn for Alabama State. He has
ten career touchdown passes to seven interceptions. How about Eli
(10:44):
Stowers at Texas A and M now he's a tight
end at New Mexico State. How about Kirn Drones who
transferred from Baylor to Virginia Tech last year and had
a nice season with seventeen touchdown passes. But could you
find even a single Colorado fan that would trade Shadoor
Sanders for Cayron Drones straight up absolutely. Now, Now there
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is a group of twenty twenty one quarterbacks from the
Mighty Texas six eight that are pretty special. You had
Preston Stone who's at SMU, Caden Salter at Liberty, Jalen
Milroe at Alabama, and Quinn.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Ewers at Texas.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But are you gonna look at me with a straight
face and tell me that in twenty twenty four, Shadure
Sanders doesn't belong in the same conversation as those boys
or even above them. And is Shadure Sanders really a
villain for remembering that just three years ago the Professional
Ranking Service has told him that he didn't belong in
(11:44):
that conversation. No, of course you're gonna bring it up now.
If you want to be mad at Shadoor Sanders, go ahead.
Chances are if this quote pissed you off, you were already.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Upset as something that he did or said in the past.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But the truth is this kid continues to overcome a lot,
whether it's the high expectations that come with what his
last name carries or the low expectations that were set
for him based upon his competition at the high school level,
or the fact that people will ignore the contact of
what he says. Justice stay mad at him even though
(12:18):
he's right. Leave your thoughts in the comments about whether
you think he belongs in the same breath as Quinn
Ewers and Jaylen Milroe. Do you think that those teams
would swap for Sanders And if they did have the chance,
why or why not? Remember this is the Unafraid Show,
don't be afraid of the conversation. And I got a
(12:39):
chance to sit down with Arizona State quarterback Jadenri's shot
and he took us on a facility tour of what
the Sun Devil's got going on. And we're on with
Jadeen Riss shot, a quarterback over here at the Arizona
State Sun Devils. Jaye, thanks for coming on, man.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
No problem, Thanks for having me so after your well,
first you you come over here to Arizona State, your legacy, kid,
your your your dad played here.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
What was your experience with Arizona State when you were
growing up?
Speaker 5 (13:14):
My experience with a issue it was it was really
like one of the first colleges I knew. You know,
I grew up always seeing that logo around the house.
And my dad was like locker stool we used to
always play around on and you know, just seeing pictures
and everything. So it was really like it always stuck
with me. And and uh, obviously as I got older,
(13:36):
started learning about colleges. I mean every Saturday we were
watching you know, the A Issue game. And that's why
this place means so much to me.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And over the last you know year two years, you've
been through a lot of adversity, you know, some stuff
that's been out in the media and everything else. How
has that like shaped you as a person.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Well, one, I just you know, feel to the fire.
I feel like that made me more secure as a
person when people try to run with your narrative. But
you know, I know who I am. You know, you know,
the Lord knows who I am, and that that's kind
of what helped me and kept my foundation strong. And
from there I just learned from the rest. So like
(14:21):
when you when you go through something like that, you
just you don't take it as a loss, just more
so what can you learn from that? And I would
just say it made me pretty, you know, more stable,
put kind of a chip on my shoulder, and and
you know, I know the things that I'm living for.
I know the things I play this game for, and
and that's what's most important to me.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And in the day and age where you know, people
are you know, out for clicks, they're out for money,
they're out for everything. You're still here at Arizona State, Like,
how was that off season like? Because I would imagine
four kids who are who are big names, have been
very talented, the phone rings when it's not supposed to
(15:03):
be rigging it and everything else. What what makes you
love it here and want to stay here?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
You know, I don't think a lot of people have
the love for this university that I do. You know,
one I grew up, you know, watching these guys, so
my dad went there. I care a lot, you know,
I'm a big family guy, so that always would mean
a lot to me. And not just that, but I
think it's a pretty healthy culture here and somewhere that
that has a lot of potential. You know, love the
(15:32):
people in this building, you know. You know, I love
the weather. I can't be anywhere it's you know, raining
all day or snowing.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
So when we talked to coach Dillingham and Coach Royal earlier,
they were talking about that you that there's going to
be a competition at the quarterback position, and some people
run from that. What's your mentality going into it?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Just I mean, just me versus me, you know, always,
I'll say that till the day I died, just because
the standard that I hold myself to, and you know,
I'm gonna go in there, I'm gonna get better every day.
And you know, whoever, whoever coach fields is the best
man for the job, will have it.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
So here's something that a guy that I played with
named Kyle Brady and with with the Jaguars. He told
me this because I remember when I was in camp
rookie year. He would cheer for me and be excited
when I did things well. And I remember pulling.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
To one side.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I was like, Kyle, I'm trying to take your job.
I don't understand why you're cheering for me. And he
laughed at me and he said, George, he said, this
is pro pro football, and now Coultor football with the
transfer port and all this stuff is very similar. I
can cheer for you because I like you and I'm
excited for you, but you doing well doesn't have any
(16:58):
impact on my job. I was like, I don't understand.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
He said, Because if you do poorly right and they
don't like what I'm doing either, they'll get rid of
both of us and go get somebody somebody else. So
I know, if I just take care of my business,
I'll be I'll be here and I'll be in the
position that I want to be in. I became more
secure in me and say, yeah, let me just take
care of my business.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Worry about Yeah, it's out of your control, you know,
And any quarterback in that room can call me at
any given moment in the day, and I'll be the
first ones there firm. I truly mean that, you know,
Like it's not I don't take none of this stuff personal.
At the end of the day, it's a coach's decision.
And not only that, not only that, you know, you
(17:42):
should be trying to be the best version of yourself
every day.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
We got to get a look around this facility, man
show it's around.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yeah, I got you tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
It's probably my favorite. You know.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
If that reminds me of of that new that the
writing on this sun was, it reminds me of the
New Thorn movie, the one Uh Loving Thunder. What yeah,
just doesn't bother me that.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
I'm like, Yeah, I'm partial to the color and that's
my game day. Click the ultra booz. Yeah. Things things nice.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Oh y'all got the steam showers with the little stinky water.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Yeah you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, it's a
cold pool. Yo. This is you can't really fully get it.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Like the water one slow in here because it is
nice and frosty.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Getting mad, Yeah, when you're getting ready to get to
go cold up.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
No, let's go food here.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
You know.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
That's great food. Honestly, see the food is pretty good.
Here we go. Who the territorial.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
You've seen the steams starting eighteen ninety nine.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Yeah, it goes on. All the yellows are all wings.
All the blast are their wings, you see. Yeah, now
we got the last couple of years right here. We're
going to pretend like those didn't happen. Yeah, they pretend
like those didn't happen, but they did.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
So we'll make sure next year that thing would be
yellow right there.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
This is dope because I like when they emphasize the
rivalry stuff. When it's like the way because when you
first come come in like you.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
You knew because you're a legacy team. Like you knew
what the Territorial Cup is.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
But when I first got the Oregon I didn't know
about Oregon Washington. I didn't know how big of a
deal deal it was. And yeah, and I knew Oregon
the Civil War.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Game is that is Oregon Washington worse than the Civil Wars?
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Yes? Yeah, yeah, we're right here right here.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
We got our we got our schedule for next year.
Things already up.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
You know, we're in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Now start off week one, got Liomi Mississippi State here
at home. We go down to Texas State, right and
then we got the Big Twelve championship. Oh that's the
game plan right.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
There, Dude. You got all types of snacks.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
And you come here, you got you know, it's just snats.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
You grab the four class or you know, after a workout.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And I was in college, bro, we did have training
table every day. But just being able to grab snacks
when you're coming and going between your lifts and everything,
just because you're putting out so much energy, just being.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Able to eat bro like that. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I do think the crazy part is the three TVs,
is it?
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Yeah, there's a locker room rights like a locker room.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
Yeah, it may not be a good thing, no mission
an odd but you know it's always in our face,
freaking keep my cles down, you know the same.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Mom got your code right here to open it.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Yeah, bear in California, nor Man, see your face again.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
And this is a this is the equipment side with me. Everything,
Come over here through that window right here.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
You not love these guys?
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Go messed with him real quick, Arthur. I need five
pairs of cleats, please see. I was just hyping you
up on video, and that's how.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
You do go.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
I'm done, I'm on it. Why can we come in
and take a tour? Okay?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
The equipment room was always one of my favorite places to.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Hang out at. I love those guys. You know, you
gotta be cooler. Yeah, it's not why you that, you know. Yeah,
I love Arthur anyone I say, probably this one.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
This one, Yeah, that was a dope.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
I like the black one. I liked you. Yeah, I like.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
That, but this one is you know you love you.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
See he knows every dude. He's an Arizona stage. Yeah
he was like that was against Notre Dame. I'll never
forget it. That's where the magic happens.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
My personal favorite part right here now an American stadium
has recently changed.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
She's this way, these.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
People, but we got to get that statue.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
We gotta get at from the statue.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Yeah, it's see it right here.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
You can smell the grass. Yeah, it's man, No, it
never gets older.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Right, this is the end zone where Todd Todd he
caught the ball on the side side of his head
right like right there where you Yes, yes, I did, yeah,
because the Cardinals just player.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Let these people wait. One of the best part of
parts of it is just like being able to see
the rock right out right there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I would take video of everything, like when I like
when when when you come and get off the bus.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
I would drop drop my stuff off in a lot locker.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Room, come straight out do like a film because as
I was like, I don't know how long it's gonna last,
and you want to have some memories of it. And
so that means that's just what whatever I used to do,
just to have it just because you because you don't
get it back once. It's like if you don't capture
the memory in the moment, it's gone.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
So having a memory like that.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
Is no you know, I know, yeah, I love them games,
you know. Yeah, yeah, fires right down there.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Man, this is dope. Well, Jay, appreciate you taking us
on the tour, man, Yeah, appreciate everything. Appreciate you guys
for having me too.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
It was fun too, you know, you know, I like
the question.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
So yeah, so this is theres on the state. People.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
When you get a chance to come check out a game,
make sure you do get excited for the team. They're
doing dope stuff down down here and enjoy, yes, sir.
And up next, we got to talk about the college
football playoffs twelve team playoffs here, So we got to
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rank the top twelve teams that should make the playoff
coming into twenty twenty four. Now, over the last few weeks,
I took you through the power for conferences, the SEC,
the ACC, Big twelve, and Big ten and put all
of the teams in order in terms of who will
have the best run over the next five years, not
over the next year. But that was the long view.
(25:05):
Now we got to get into the short term view.
Here are my top twelve teams heading into the football season,
plus the group of five teams that should make the playoffs.
Now Number one, this one was an easy one. The
Georgia Bulldogs. The last three Georgia Bulldog high school signing
classes have been number three, number two, and number one
(25:27):
ranked in the country. Now, talent is not destiny for everybody.
We see people lose with all sorts of high recruiting rankings.
But if you can give that level of talent to
Kirby Smart, come on now. Plus, you've got Carson Beck
at quarterback coming back. He's out there driving a Lamborghini.
Yours perform, Monte, And that's not the kind of card
(25:49):
that somebody will be playing in the Duke's Mayo Ball.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Just say Number two Oregon Ducks.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
According to two four seven, the Ducks napped thirteen players
in the top two fifty in the country in twenty
twenty three and up that to fifteen in the class of.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I'm comfortable with both Dylan Gabriel and Dante More running
Oregon's offense at quarterback, but that's not even their biggest strength.
I'm telling you right now. Matteo Agalle is the truth.
He might be a better pass rusher than Kavon Thibodeau.
And that's coming out.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Of the building.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
And that dude was a top five bit Number three
the Texas Longhorns. Now last year they were in the
College Football Playoff and they are stepping into the SEC
this year at the perfect time, and talent wise, they're
up there with everybody, maybe except for Georgia. Now Steves
are kissing it. They're head coach is no stranger to
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putting a successful offense on the field against the SEC defenses.
He beat Mama last year, and quinn Ewers should finally
be fully healthy and ready to mount a Heisman finalist run.
But it's actually their running back and Brooks and CJ.
Baxter that will carry this team to a second consecutive College.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Football Playoff appearance.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Number four Ohio State buck guys the best defense in
the country.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
JT.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Toulamallaw Denzel Burke, Lantham Ransom and others all could have left,
but they came back. Then you add Caleb Downs to
that secondary and it all comes down to whether Chip
Kelly can get Ryan Day over the hump and outscore
a rebuilding Michigan.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Team and even the Ducks in Autin.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Now, the Buckeyes will be in the playoff regardless because
they're going to be in the top twelve.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
But will they be in the top four? I think so.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Number five Old Miss Running Rebels, land Sharks, whatever the
hell that they want to be called right now, because
my boldest prediction is that Old Miss will make three
college football Playoff appearances in the next five years. Now,
Lane Kiffen is built for this era. He's got the
number one portal class in the country heading into twenty
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twenty four, Pete Golding is an excellent defensive coordinator, and
Jackson dark might be a Heisman contender in twenty twenty four.
Lane Kiffin is sixteen and six in the SEC in
the last three years against everybody not named Nick Saban,
and now that Saban has moved on, I feel like
there's only one coach standing in lane Kiffin's way, Germy
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Smart Number six.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
The Florida State simminals.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
The ACC might only get one spot this year, and
while I can see it going to Miami, I trust
Mike Norvel to get Florida State there just a little
bit more. Norvell took five players from the portal from
Alabama and nawwed eight SEC transfers in total, but his
most important addition was at quarterback because dj Ui Anglay Le,
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brother of Matteo Anglayle, who I mentioned earlier at Oregon
DJ came from Oregon State and he'll try to pick
up where Jordan Travis left off. Number seven the Penn
State Nitney Lions because James Franklin has stacked three top
fifteen recruiting classes in a row and it's now or
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never for him, and I think that they'll get to
the college football playoffs even if they don't have a
stellar quarterback play. But if Drew Aller actually plays like
the giant he is at six five, two forty, they
might actually win the whole damn thing. Number eight the
Notre Dame Fighting Hours. Riley Leonard has had two different
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foot surgeries since joining the Fighting Hours, so they can't
exactly depend on him to lead them to the Promised Land,
and head coach Marcus Freeman will have this defense playing
lights out, But if Riley Leonard can't stay healthy, Steve
and Jelly will need to put this team on his back.
He looked good in Notre Dame's Bowl win over Oregon State,
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but is he college football playoff good? We'll find out.
Number nine Alabama Crimson tie. Alabama may have lost a lot,
but they didn't lose everything. Quarterback Jalen Milroe and their
new coach Kaitlyn de Boor should have a chance to
have a fun marriage, and I expect the Crimson Tide
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to score a lot of points and be better as
the season goes on. I'm much more worried about twenty
twenty five for them than I am twenty twenty four.
Number ten the Utah youths now the UTA will represent
the Big twelve in the College Football Playoffs, and I
have no doubt about that. But will they be the
only representative from the Big twelve? Because Cam Rising and
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Brant Keathy being healthy is also going to be a
problem for defenses, But adding Dorian Singer from USC by
the way of Arizona might actually be the missing vertical
ingredient that makes this offense impossible to stop. Number eleven
Michigan Wolverines surprise people. Their whole team is about to
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get drafted. Head coach Jim Harball left and they have
a five participant quarterback battle to sort out. But I
still think that Michigan can do enough in twenty twenty
four to eat their way into the College Football playoff Above.
My first team out the LSU Tigers, who really might
put a fight to get in. Here is where I'm
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trusting the Wolverines defense against Big ten competition a lot
more than I'm trusting LSU's ability to improve on their
eighty second ranked scoring defense last year. And they got
to get a new quarterback. So me don't know about
that number twelve.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Now. Do I believe that this team is the twelfth
ranked team in the country.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
No, But the Group of five is going to get
a team in the playoff, and I am going to
go with at number twelve Liberty because when Caden Salter
decided to return to Liberty and got out of the
transfer portal, they became our Group of five pick to
secure the final college football playoff.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Spot in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Last year, Salter was the Conference USA MVP, and now
that SMU is now a part of the ACC, I
don't see any G five teams out there that are
better than the Flames.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
But they'll have to.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Go undefeated again because any single loss with the schedule
as soft as theirs next year is.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Gonna have them on the outside looking in.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
And those are my twelve teams that are gonna make
the College Football playoffs in twenty twenty four. If you
didn't think I got them right, leave a comment or
tell me why I got them all right? Or who
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Speaker 1 (33:01):
Then God depred
This week on the Unaffraid Show, I'm ranking the twelve
teams that are going to make the college football Playoff
and the transfer portal is opening back up, and I
know everybody's getting nervous about it, but fear not, a
market correction is on the way, and we are going
to take a tour of Arizona States facilities with one
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of their quarterbacks, Jaden Rashatta Shadors. Anders found a way
to rub some people the wrong way with his comments
about Texas six to eight football, but was he right?
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
Guys dope content. It's time for the show. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's college football spring ball season and I got good
news for you and I got some bad news for you.
I'll give you the bad news first, and we just
rip off the band daid because anybody that was hoping
that twenty twenty four would bring relief from the constant
transfer portal drama, it ain't happen. But the good news
is is that relief is coming. It's not just coming
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this year though, because I've been talking to coaches and
players about what's happening this spring, and even I was
a little bit of shocked by the number of coaches
that plan on chasing guys off the roster this spring
so that they can go shopping for guys that they've
heard are going to become available. And they're only hearing
that these players are becoming available because their camps have
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made it known through back channels.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I do think that.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Things will eventually stabilize, but this won't be the year
for it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And you're starting to see coaches.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Strategize for the spring portal season based on when their
teams start their spring practice sessions. Let's look at the
calendar here, because the spring transfer window opens on April fifteenth,
twenty twenty four, and it runs through the.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
End of the month.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Now, ten of the outgoing pack twelve schools all finish
their spring practice during the transfer portal window. Cal Oregon State,
and USC all have spring games on April twentieth, and
the next ten days after that are gonna be long
ones for the fan bases, for sure, because most of
the teams finish up their spring toward the end, with Oregon, Arizona, Colorado,
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and UCLA playing their spring games on April twenty seven,
and you might see a lot of change in a
hurry at those schools, whether it is players not playing
in the spring game, hopping in the portal, or them
being connected to players.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Who have already hopped in the portal.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And then you have Washington, who finishes up on May third,
but they'll be in the market to add more players
than they're gonna be at risk of losing. Most of
that already happened when Kylene to board and left for Alabama.
If I'm a player in this current landscape of college football,
I want to know where I stand on the depth
chart before the portal even opens. And Utah's players will
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have that privilege of the entire process because they finish
up their spring season on April thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But that also leaves.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
A lot of time for the youths to have to
resist the back channel recruiting, which, if you believe the
story is coming out of Salt Lake the last few
years about Alabama going after Dalk Kincaid and several schools
pursuing Cam Rising, they've actually done a pretty good job
of retaining guys.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Now, I know you fans.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Don't want to hear about all this stuff. They just
want it to go away. And if that means that
the players lose some of the rights that they've attained
over the last few years, so be it. Just stop it.
But regression isn't the answer. We're in an era where
there's been a lot of change in such a short
period of time time and it has people thinking it
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will always be this way. I promise you it won't.
We're in the growing Pains era. College football is transitioning,
and what's waiting on the other side of this change
is far better for the players and will be a
lot more digestible for the fans because market correction will come,
players will crave stability, and administrators will have to wake
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up to the fact that just as many kids are
getting chased into the portal by their coaches looking to
upgrade their rosters instead of developed kids. And we'll see
some rule changes protecting roster spots that could come from
the players having some type of employee designation, or through
unionization or through the NC double A actually taking the
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time to implement common sense protections instead of always bending
to the increasing wealthy coaches and administrative fraternity, or through
the NC double A actually taking time to implement common
sense protections instead of always bending to the increasingly wealthy
coaches and administrative fraternities. We're in the nil and portal
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pioneer era, and just like the pioneers of the American West,
for every person that braved the elements to stake their
claim and strike it rich, you had hundreds fall along
the way. We all see the statistics of kids getting
stuck in the portal, or players taking a check at
another school only to get beat out.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And not even play.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And that's exactly the type of data that sharpens the
next generation into making smarter and less risk oriented decisions.
You're already starting to see this at the coaching level.
Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell basically told Josh Pate
this week that the trappings of the coaching carousel can't
live up to the prioritization of.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Being rooted in his values, of.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Being present as a family man, and knowing that he's
surrounded by people that have his back.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Over there at Iowa State, players are.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Eventually going to see the benefit of representing one school
and building a network for them to tap into over
the next four decades. Instead of seeing how much money
that they can make in the next four months. Kids
will be much more strategic and much more savvy than
even when I came out, when nobody was really networking
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as much or paying attention to their brand or how
to grow their brand at that point in time.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And that's when we will enter the settler error.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
That the pioneers paved the way for, and it is coming,
just not this year.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Let me know in the comments what changes that you'd
like to see implemented at the NCAA level to incentivize
kids and coaches to honor their commitments not to the
school but to each other. Like father, like son, Shador
Sanders has a way of getting people in their feelings,
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whether it's his nil deals or his patent, the chardore
watch flex, or the debate on how he keeps his
interception number so low. It always seems like it's something
when it comes to him. And this time, Shador Sanders,
the privileged and favorite son of coach Brian Dion Sanders,
he really stepped in it because he touched the untouchable
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and he threw six a Texas high school football which
is a prize possession in the state of Texas under
the bus to paint his private school education as proof
that he has had to overcome adversity. Now take a
listen to what he said.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I came from a private school, so at the end
of the day, I dealt with a lot of negativity,
a lot of hate, a lot of everything out and
dealt with already year after year. I came from a
small private school. All the other kids was going big
you know, power five, and they went to big six
A Texas six A schools and stuff. I don't see
those same kids around. I don't see them excelling their
programs or whatever. So I always been against the odds,
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like in different ways.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Now, what you heard in that video probably reveals a
lot about you. If you played six Saint Texas high
school football, that video might make you cringe. If you
grew up without the resources to even drive past a
private school, that video might make you want to throw
your phone in discuss. But me, I'm a retired NFL
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player with quarterback sons that have attended private schools, and
one of them even had the same three star rating
as sha Door Sanders. I play a game here with
people that I interview on the unaffraid show called reister
or wrong, and I'm here to tell you, and you
might not like hearing this, but your Door Sanders is
reister in this occasion. Shr Door Sanders level of competition
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absolutely factored into his evaluation coming out of high school,
and the fact that Ark Manning played low level competition
in Louisiana never kept him from a five star rating
on Rivals in two four seven. But the justification for
Shador Sanders being a three star pro style quarterback absolutely
had to do with his level of competition. Do you
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think that he made that criticism up out of thin air?
Two four seven had him as the eleventh best quarterback
coming out of Texas in twenty twenty one, and nine
of those dudes played above him in the mighty six eight.
Rivals didn't even have Shador Sanders as one of the
top one hundred prospects in the state of Texas, not
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even the nation in twenty twenty one class, but they
did have twelve quarterbacks on that list not named Shador Sanders. No,
a private school education is not an adversity in a vacuum,
and no, Texas six A football is not overrated. But
Shardur Sanders wasn't saying either one of those things. He
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was saying that he's had to face doubts because he
didn't come out of that league. And he was absolutely right,
and we have the recruiting rankings to prove it. Now,
did he take it a little too far when he
said that he doesn't see those quarterbacks that were ranked
above him excelling in other programs? Maybe, but maybe not.
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Let's take inventory. What are those big time Texas six
eight quarterbacks in the twenty twenty one class up to?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
You have Garrett Nussmar who is still waiting his turn
at LSU Maddox cop He transferred from Houston to Miami
of Ohio and has yet to throw a college pass.
Demontreus Davis, he left Auburn for Alabama State. He has
ten career touchdown passes to seven interceptions. How about Eli
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Stowers at Texas A and M now he's a tight
end at New Mexico State. How about Kirn Drones who
transferred from Baylor to Virginia Tech last year and had
a nice season with seventeen touchdown passes. But could you
find even a single Colorado fan that would trade Shadoor
Sanders for Cayron Drones straight up absolutely. Now, Now there
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is a group of twenty twenty one quarterbacks from the
Mighty Texas six eight that are pretty special. You had
Preston Stone who's at SMU, Caden Salter at Liberty, Jalen
Milroe at Alabama, and Quinn.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Ewers at Texas.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But are you gonna look at me with a straight
face and tell me that in twenty twenty four, Shadure
Sanders doesn't belong in the same conversation as those boys
or even above them. And is Shadure Sanders really a
villain for remembering that just three years ago the Professional
Ranking Service has told him that he didn't belong in
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that conversation. No, of course you're gonna bring it up now.
If you want to be mad at Shadoor Sanders, go ahead.
Chances are if this quote pissed you off, you were already.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Upset as something that he did or said in the past.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But the truth is this kid continues to overcome a lot,
whether it's the high expectations that come with what his
last name carries or the low expectations that were set
for him based upon his competition at the high school level,
or the fact that people will ignore the contact of
what he says. Justice stay mad at him even though
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he's right. Leave your thoughts in the comments about whether
you think he belongs in the same breath as Quinn
Ewers and Jaylen Milroe. Do you think that those teams
would swap for Sanders And if they did have the chance,
why or why not? Remember this is the Unafraid Show,
don't be afraid of the conversation. And I got a
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chance to sit down with Arizona State quarterback Jadenri's shot
and he took us on a facility tour of what
the Sun Devil's got going on. And we're on with
Jadeen Riss shot, a quarterback over here at the Arizona
State Sun Devils. Jaye, thanks for coming on, man.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
No problem, Thanks for having me so after your well,
first you you come over here to Arizona State, your legacy, kid,
your your your dad played here.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
What was your experience with Arizona State when you were
growing up?
Speaker 5 (13:14):
My experience with a issue it was it was really
like one of the first colleges I knew. You know,
I grew up always seeing that logo around the house.
And my dad was like locker stool we used to
always play around on and you know, just seeing pictures
and everything. So it was really like it always stuck
with me. And and uh, obviously as I got older,
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started learning about colleges. I mean every Saturday we were
watching you know, the A Issue game. And that's why
this place means so much to me.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And over the last you know year two years, you've
been through a lot of adversity, you know, some stuff
that's been out in the media and everything else. How
has that like shaped you as a person.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Well, one, I just you know, feel to the fire.
I feel like that made me more secure as a
person when people try to run with your narrative. But
you know, I know who I am. You know, you know,
the Lord knows who I am, and that that's kind
of what helped me and kept my foundation strong. And
from there I just learned from the rest. So like
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when you when you go through something like that, you
just you don't take it as a loss, just more
so what can you learn from that? And I would
just say it made me pretty, you know, more stable,
put kind of a chip on my shoulder, and and
you know, I know the things that I'm living for.
I know the things I play this game for, and
and that's what's most important to me.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And in the day and age where you know, people
are you know, out for clicks, they're out for money,
they're out for everything. You're still here at Arizona State, Like,
how was that off season like? Because I would imagine
four kids who are who are big names, have been
very talented, the phone rings when it's not supposed to
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be rigging it and everything else. What what makes you
love it here and want to stay here?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
You know, I don't think a lot of people have
the love for this university that I do. You know,
one I grew up, you know, watching these guys, so
my dad went there. I care a lot, you know,
I'm a big family guy, so that always would mean
a lot to me. And not just that, but I
think it's a pretty healthy culture here and somewhere that
that has a lot of potential. You know, love the
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people in this building, you know. You know, I love
the weather. I can't be anywhere it's you know, raining
all day or snowing.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
So when we talked to coach Dillingham and Coach Royal earlier,
they were talking about that you that there's going to
be a competition at the quarterback position, and some people
run from that. What's your mentality going into it?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Just I mean, just me versus me, you know, always,
I'll say that till the day I died, just because
the standard that I hold myself to, and you know,
I'm gonna go in there, I'm gonna get better every day.
And you know, whoever, whoever coach fields is the best
man for the job, will have it.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
So here's something that a guy that I played with
named Kyle Brady and with with the Jaguars. He told
me this because I remember when I was in camp
rookie year. He would cheer for me and be excited
when I did things well. And I remember pulling.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
To one side.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I was like, Kyle, I'm trying to take your job.
I don't understand why you're cheering for me. And he
laughed at me and he said, George, he said, this
is pro pro football, and now Coultor football with the
transfer port and all this stuff is very similar. I
can cheer for you because I like you and I'm
excited for you, but you doing well doesn't have any
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impact on my job. I was like, I don't understand.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
He said, Because if you do poorly right and they
don't like what I'm doing either, they'll get rid of
both of us and go get somebody somebody else. So
I know, if I just take care of my business,
I'll be I'll be here and I'll be in the
position that I want to be in. I became more
secure in me and say, yeah, let me just take
care of my business.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Worry about Yeah, it's out of your control, you know,
And any quarterback in that room can call me at
any given moment in the day, and I'll be the
first ones there firm. I truly mean that, you know,
Like it's not I don't take none of this stuff personal.
At the end of the day, it's a coach's decision.
And not only that, not only that, you know, you
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should be trying to be the best version of yourself
every day.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
We got to get a look around this facility, man
show it's around.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yeah, I got you tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
It's probably my favorite. You know.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
If that reminds me of of that new that the
writing on this sun was, it reminds me of the
New Thorn movie, the one Uh Loving Thunder. What yeah,
just doesn't bother me that.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
I'm like, Yeah, I'm partial to the color and that's
my game day. Click the ultra booz. Yeah. Things things nice.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Oh y'all got the steam showers with the little stinky water.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Yeah you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, it's a
cold pool. Yo. This is you can't really fully get it.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Like the water one slow in here because it is
nice and frosty.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Getting mad, Yeah, when you're getting ready to get to
go cold up.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
No, let's go food here.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
You know.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
That's great food. Honestly, see the food is pretty good.
Here we go. Who the territorial.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
You've seen the steams starting eighteen ninety nine.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Yeah, it goes on. All the yellows are all wings.
All the blast are their wings, you see. Yeah, now
we got the last couple of years right here. We're
going to pretend like those didn't happen. Yeah, they pretend
like those didn't happen, but they did.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
So we'll make sure next year that thing would be
yellow right there.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
This is dope because I like when they emphasize the
rivalry stuff. When it's like the way because when you
first come come in like you.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
You knew because you're a legacy team. Like you knew
what the Territorial Cup is.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
But when I first got the Oregon I didn't know
about Oregon Washington. I didn't know how big of a
deal deal it was. And yeah, and I knew Oregon
the Civil War.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Game is that is Oregon Washington worse than the Civil Wars?
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Yes? Yeah, yeah, we're right here right here.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
We got our we got our schedule for next year.
Things already up.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
You know, we're in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Now start off week one, got Liomi Mississippi State here
at home. We go down to Texas State, right and
then we got the Big Twelve championship. Oh that's the
game plan right.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
There, Dude. You got all types of snacks.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
And you come here, you got you know, it's just snats.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
You grab the four class or you know, after a workout.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And I was in college, bro, we did have training
table every day. But just being able to grab snacks
when you're coming and going between your lifts and everything,
just because you're putting out so much energy, just being.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Able to eat bro like that. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I do think the crazy part is the three TVs,
is it?
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Yeah, there's a locker room rights like a locker room.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
Yeah, it may not be a good thing, no mission
an odd but you know it's always in our face,
freaking keep my cles down, you know the same.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Mom got your code right here to open it.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Yeah, bear in California, nor Man, see your face again.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
And this is a this is the equipment side with me. Everything,
Come over here through that window right here.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
You not love these guys?
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Go messed with him real quick, Arthur. I need five
pairs of cleats, please see. I was just hyping you
up on video, and that's how.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
You do go.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
I'm done, I'm on it. Why can we come in
and take a tour? Okay?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
The equipment room was always one of my favorite places to.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Hang out at. I love those guys. You know, you
gotta be cooler. Yeah, it's not why you that, you know. Yeah,
I love Arthur anyone I say, probably this one.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
This one, Yeah, that was a dope.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
I like the black one. I liked you. Yeah, I like.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
That, but this one is you know you love you.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
See he knows every dude. He's an Arizona stage. Yeah
he was like that was against Notre Dame. I'll never
forget it. That's where the magic happens.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
My personal favorite part right here now an American stadium
has recently changed.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
She's this way, these.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
People, but we got to get that statue.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
We gotta get at from the statue.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Yeah, it's see it right here.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
You can smell the grass. Yeah, it's man, No, it
never gets older.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Right, this is the end zone where Todd Todd he
caught the ball on the side side of his head
right like right there where you Yes, yes, I did, yeah,
because the Cardinals just player.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Let these people wait. One of the best part of
parts of it is just like being able to see
the rock right out right there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I would take video of everything, like when I like
when when when you come and get off the bus.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
I would drop drop my stuff off in a lot locker.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Room, come straight out do like a film because as
I was like, I don't know how long it's gonna last,
and you want to have some memories of it. And
so that means that's just what whatever I used to do,
just to have it just because you because you don't
get it back once. It's like if you don't capture
the memory in the moment, it's gone.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
So having a memory like that.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
Is no you know, I know, yeah, I love them games,
you know. Yeah, yeah, fires right down there.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Man, this is dope. Well, Jay, appreciate you taking us
on the tour, man, Yeah, appreciate everything. Appreciate you guys
for having me too.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
It was fun too, you know, you know, I like
the question.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
So yeah, so this is theres on the state. People.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
When you get a chance to come check out a game,
make sure you do get excited for the team. They're
doing dope stuff down down here and enjoy, yes, sir.
And up next, we got to talk about the college
football playoffs twelve team playoffs here, So we got to
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rank the top twelve teams that should make the playoff
coming into twenty twenty four. Now, over the last few weeks,
I took you through the power for conferences, the SEC,
the ACC, Big twelve, and Big ten and put all
of the teams in order in terms of who will
have the best run over the next five years, not
over the next year. But that was the long view.
(25:05):
Now we got to get into the short term view.
Here are my top twelve teams heading into the football season,
plus the group of five teams that should make the playoffs.
Now Number one, this one was an easy one. The
Georgia Bulldogs. The last three Georgia Bulldog high school signing
classes have been number three, number two, and number one
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ranked in the country. Now, talent is not destiny for everybody.
We see people lose with all sorts of high recruiting rankings.
But if you can give that level of talent to
Kirby Smart, come on now. Plus, you've got Carson Beck
at quarterback coming back. He's out there driving a Lamborghini.
Yours perform, Monte, And that's not the kind of card
(25:49):
that somebody will be playing in the Duke's Mayo Ball.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Just say Number two Oregon Ducks.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
According to two four seven, the Ducks napped thirteen players
in the top two fifty in the country in twenty
twenty three and up that to fifteen in the class of.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I'm comfortable with both Dylan Gabriel and Dante More running
Oregon's offense at quarterback, but that's not even their biggest strength.
I'm telling you right now. Matteo Agalle is the truth.
He might be a better pass rusher than Kavon Thibodeau.
And that's coming out.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Of the building.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
And that dude was a top five bit Number three
the Texas Longhorns. Now last year they were in the
College Football Playoff and they are stepping into the SEC
this year at the perfect time, and talent wise, they're
up there with everybody, maybe except for Georgia. Now Steves
are kissing it. They're head coach is no stranger to
(26:45):
putting a successful offense on the field against the SEC defenses.
He beat Mama last year, and quinn Ewers should finally
be fully healthy and ready to mount a Heisman finalist run.
But it's actually their running back and Brooks and CJ.
Baxter that will carry this team to a second consecutive College.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Football Playoff appearance.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Number four Ohio State buck guys the best defense in
the country.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
JT.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Toulamallaw Denzel Burke, Lantham Ransom and others all could have left,
but they came back. Then you add Caleb Downs to
that secondary and it all comes down to whether Chip
Kelly can get Ryan Day over the hump and outscore
a rebuilding Michigan.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Team and even the Ducks in Autin.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Now, the Buckeyes will be in the playoff regardless because
they're going to be in the top twelve.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
But will they be in the top four? I think so.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Number five Old Miss Running Rebels, land Sharks, whatever the
hell that they want to be called right now, because
my boldest prediction is that Old Miss will make three
college football Playoff appearances in the next five years. Now,
Lane Kiffen is built for this era. He's got the
number one portal class in the country heading into twenty
(28:02):
twenty four, Pete Golding is an excellent defensive coordinator, and
Jackson dark might be a Heisman contender in twenty twenty four.
Lane Kiffin is sixteen and six in the SEC in
the last three years against everybody not named Nick Saban,
and now that Saban has moved on, I feel like
there's only one coach standing in lane Kiffin's way, Germy
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Smart Number six.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
The Florida State simminals.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
The ACC might only get one spot this year, and
while I can see it going to Miami, I trust
Mike Norvel to get Florida State there just a little
bit more. Norvell took five players from the portal from
Alabama and nawwed eight SEC transfers in total, but his
most important addition was at quarterback because dj Ui Anglay Le,
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brother of Matteo Anglayle, who I mentioned earlier at Oregon
DJ came from Oregon State and he'll try to pick
up where Jordan Travis left off. Number seven the Penn
State Nitney Lions because James Franklin has stacked three top
fifteen recruiting classes in a row and it's now or
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never for him, and I think that they'll get to
the college football playoffs even if they don't have a
stellar quarterback play. But if Drew Aller actually plays like
the giant he is at six five, two forty, they
might actually win the whole damn thing. Number eight the
Notre Dame Fighting Hours. Riley Leonard has had two different
(29:34):
foot surgeries since joining the Fighting Hours, so they can't
exactly depend on him to lead them to the Promised Land,
and head coach Marcus Freeman will have this defense playing
lights out, But if Riley Leonard can't stay healthy, Steve
and Jelly will need to put this team on his back.
He looked good in Notre Dame's Bowl win over Oregon State,
(29:54):
but is he college football playoff good? We'll find out.
Number nine Alabama Crimson tie. Alabama may have lost a lot,
but they didn't lose everything. Quarterback Jalen Milroe and their
new coach Kaitlyn de Boor should have a chance to
have a fun marriage, and I expect the Crimson Tide
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to score a lot of points and be better as
the season goes on. I'm much more worried about twenty
twenty five for them than I am twenty twenty four.
Number ten the Utah youths now the UTA will represent
the Big twelve in the College Football Playoffs, and I
have no doubt about that. But will they be the
only representative from the Big twelve? Because Cam Rising and
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Brant Keathy being healthy is also going to be a
problem for defenses, But adding Dorian Singer from USC by
the way of Arizona might actually be the missing vertical
ingredient that makes this offense impossible to stop. Number eleven
Michigan Wolverines surprise people. Their whole team is about to
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get drafted. Head coach Jim Harball left and they have
a five participant quarterback battle to sort out. But I
still think that Michigan can do enough in twenty twenty
four to eat their way into the College Football playoff Above.
My first team out the LSU Tigers, who really might
put a fight to get in. Here is where I'm
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trusting the Wolverines defense against Big ten competition a lot
more than I'm trusting LSU's ability to improve on their
eighty second ranked scoring defense last year. And they got
to get a new quarterback. So me don't know about
that number twelve.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Now. Do I believe that this team is the twelfth
ranked team in the country.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
No, But the Group of five is going to get
a team in the playoff, and I am going to
go with at number twelve Liberty because when Caden Salter
decided to return to Liberty and got out of the
transfer portal, they became our Group of five pick to
secure the final college football playoff.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Spot in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Last year, Salter was the Conference USA MVP, and now
that SMU is now a part of the ACC, I
don't see any G five teams out there that are
better than the Flames.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
But they'll have to.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Go undefeated again because any single loss with the schedule
as soft as theirs next year is.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Gonna have them on the outside looking in.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
And those are my twelve teams that are gonna make
the College Football playoffs in twenty twenty four. If you
didn't think I got them right, leave a comment or
tell me why I got them all right? Or who
could crash the party? Here on the Unafraid Job. And
that's the Unafraid Show. Make sure that you guys like, subscribe,
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