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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, it's five eighteen. It's the Andy Everage Show
on the tickets. Tomorrow the Pig Skin preview is at
the Alamodome, where the Alomobile has its annual event. I
guess tickets are still available. You can probably go to
alamobol dot com and find out. Fozzy Whitaker will be there.
He works for ESPN, he used to play for Texas. Fozzy,
(00:22):
good afternoon, Ready for a football season to get underway?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Good afternoon, and I am extremely excited for football season
to begin for the rest of the country. We got
a little tidbit, I would say, an appetizer with week
zero last Saturday, and it just went the palette enough
to have me salivating for more this upcoming week.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Jeff Trailer coaches at UTSA, and he's one of these
guys that thinks we should play starting like August fifteenth.
I agree, and have a couple of bye weeks. I mean,
we're bored all summer. Anyway, Let's get this season started
earlier like we did last week, or maybe even a
week earlier.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, I am all in anytime that you can bring
more football, more viewers, more eyeballs to the sport, and
you can make that happen earlier in the year so
that it lasts much longer, so we're not wandering in
the wilderness of what could be with football talk. I'm
all in on that opportunity. So maybe that's a suggestion
(01:22):
depending on, Hey, what happens with expansion in a college
football playoffs, if that may change the calendar or the
storyline of how the seasons traditionally have begun. But anytime
we can get more football, you're going to get a
yes out of me.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Big game coming up on Saturday with Ohio State and Texas.
How do you see this match up for both teams?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I think ultimately, man, these two teams are very similar
in the positions that they're in, losing so much talent
from the NFL Draft a season ago, in a team
that had so many veteran leaders that were a part
of the building process of the foundation of what got
them to the place is that they were in a
year ago playing in the semi finals, and obviously Ohio
(02:04):
State winning a national championship. It's a new identity and
the new kind of face for both of these teams
with new quarterbacks, obviously new signmen, new on the offensive
and the defensive side of the ball, new playmakers that
will have to continuously emerge, and I think a game
of this magnitude is kind of a pick them game
(02:25):
if you go look at the spread and how people
have bet the game and the predictions that have come
down through the game. But at the end of the day,
the team that can control the football and have the
least amount of penalties. With it being Week one, those
pre snap penalties make a huge difference in creating or
(02:45):
stifling momentum, and I think the team that is able
to handle that the best with the least amount of penalties,
and the team that can possess the football and control
it and not turn it over will be the team
that ultimately wins. And it should be a hiding ball
because we get an opportunity to see two top five
programs go head to hit the matchup in Week one.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Pozi Waker joining us on the program. When you played
you lose a game earlier in the year, you really
had to kind of run the table if you were
going to be in the BCS or if you were
going to be in the group of four that got
to the Final four. For football, now it's a little
bit easier to get in if you have a second
or even maybe a third loss going forward, but everybody's
playing each other. I mean, I don't I think the
(03:28):
days of undefeated seasons are kind of over. It's kind
of like an NFL schedule to me, how do you
see that?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah? Absolutely, I think agree with you. I even went
back and listened to coach Sark talk about the time
of where college football is now in the expectation is
obviously win a conference championship and then obviously win a
national championship, but doing so unscathed, it's probably unrealistic having
(03:56):
to go sixteen or possibly even seventeen as depending on
how your schedule lines up. So we saw it last
year with Ohio State with the expansion of the field,
Ohio State finishes fourth in their division, still get an
opportunity or fourth in their conference. I'm sorry to finish
with an opportunity to still play in the college football playoffs.
(04:19):
And you've got to get hot at the right time,
similar to what you see in the NFL. And I
think that's more realistic of what to expect with college
football and the way that the parody relationship between rosters
has now played out so many teams have an opportunity
to build or so quickly and create an opportunity to
(04:40):
have depth as well as experience, and so I think
that also has kind of added to the value of
being able to create that parody and having so many
good games and so many good teams kind of get
down to the end and have a blemish or two
on their record.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Who besides Texas and Ohio State do you see this
year as potential national champion candidates now?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I think I start off with Penn State, who made
it to the semi finals a year ago. Obviously came
up just short against Snorter Dame, but they bring back
quite a few pieces on that semi finals team. Considering
your five star quarterback and Drew Aller, your two running backs,
and Nick and k Tron Allen. I think those two
are probably the best duo of running backs in college
(05:26):
football today, no matter the conference. And then they also
got Dennis Sutton on the defensive side to be able
to bring things together. In the addition of Jim Knowles,
who was obviously the defensive coordinator for Ohio State, he
makes the transition to Happy Valley, and I think that
can't be stated enough about the additions that they were
(05:46):
able to bring in in the offseason as well as
the retention that they have going into this season. So
that's an obvious choice for me in Penn State and
in Clemson. We saw them play against Texas obviously in
the College Football Playoff ACC champion. Again, they restack and
reload at quarterback position. Kve Klubnick probably the best quarterback
(06:11):
in the country in my opinion as far as returning
production and the expectations for this upcoming season. He has
a handful of receivers that are all go getters and
all conference players that I think will be really good.
And then they bring back a good majority of their
defense that created some problems for teams in the ACC
(06:32):
a year ago. So they have a lot of roster
retention that I believe could make for a significant impact
whenever it comes down to trying to win championship football.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
From a player perspective, I would imagine you wish that
you lived in this era where the nil opportunities were there,
but now you see schools like Texas Tech that have
oil money. SMU basically is tested off the playbook from
the eighties, and those are programs that are on the
rise because of the ability to pay the play and
get them to come to their schools. What are your
(07:02):
thoughts on that?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, I love it. Number One. I do wish I
could be playing in an error like this. There's no
telling what type of sponsorships or opportunities would have been
made available for me. But should have, could have, would have? Right,
it doesn't matter at this point in time. But it
goes back to the point that I said a little
bit early earlier about the parody and college football. The
(07:24):
transport portal as well as nil in the way that
they've been constructed over the past couple of years and
how it would look moving forward, gives an opportunity for
each team to play and be a competitor. And I
think we've seen college football for so long it be
kind of defined by two different people or two different schools,
(07:45):
the schools of the haves and the schools of the
have nots. And you just mentioned two programs that typically
were in the have nots category, but now have an
opportunity to kind of level out the playing field. And
I think the more great games and the better parody
within college football that we have, I think it creates
(08:06):
for a tremendous opportunity to continue to elevate the game
as well as keep off fan bases engaged not just
for the beginning of the season or midway through the season,
but all the way to the end of the season,
because you never know how themes shake out and who
may be a surprise in the college football playoffs like
we saw with Indiana, who nobody probably had on their
bingo card, winning the amount of games that they did
(08:29):
and then playing in the college football playoff for the
first time.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Awesome, good stuff, Fozzi, thanks so much for joining us
this afternoon. Look forward to meeting you tomorrow at the
Pigskin preview and save travels to San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Absolutely, man, I'm looking forward to tomorrow. I know some
Rudies Barbecue and ATB Creamy Creations will be on Dick,
so I hope to see you there at the buffet
line very soon.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I'll see you before we start tomorrow about ten thirty
eleven at the Dome. Have a safe trip here, thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That's Fozzy her He is former Longhorn and Michael got
to play a song today that was not Taylor Swift,
so he's now back in his happy place.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, I am. I was just waiting to see if
you were actually going to say anything about it.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You know, I don't care anymore. It's you know, it's
it's just.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Like, deep down inside you care.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, it's just it's just yeah, it is. It's kind
of yeah, that's yeah, I'm not lying there.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I mean, you couldn't go into any more detail besides that,
because you know, obviously with with Fozzy, you know, he
would have been like, hey, what are you.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Talking about about that?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That's his song. So yeah, well, you know, when you're
in Rome, you do what the Romans do, So we'll
do that when Fozzy or any other Longhorn shows up exactly.
Speaking of Travis and Taylor, they're in the news today.
We'll touch on that coming up next. As we continue,
it's the Indie average show on the ticket
All right, it's five eighteen. It's the Andy Everage Show
on the tickets. Tomorrow the Pig Skin preview is at
the Alamodome, where the Alomobile has its annual event. I
guess tickets are still available. You can probably go to
alamobol dot com and find out. Fozzy Whitaker will be there.
He works for ESPN, he used to play for Texas. Fozzy,
(00:22):
good afternoon, Ready for a football season to get underway?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Good afternoon, and I am extremely excited for football season
to begin for the rest of the country. We got
a little tidbit, I would say, an appetizer with week
zero last Saturday, and it just went the palette enough
to have me salivating for more this upcoming week.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Jeff Trailer coaches at UTSA, and he's one of these
guys that thinks we should play starting like August fifteenth.
I agree, and have a couple of bye weeks. I mean,
we're bored all summer. Anyway, Let's get this season started
earlier like we did last week, or maybe even a
week earlier.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, I am all in anytime that you can bring
more football, more viewers, more eyeballs to the sport, and
you can make that happen earlier in the year so
that it lasts much longer, so we're not wandering in
the wilderness of what could be with football talk. I'm
all in on that opportunity. So maybe that's a suggestion
(01:22):
depending on, Hey, what happens with expansion in a college
football playoffs, if that may change the calendar or the
storyline of how the seasons traditionally have begun. But anytime
we can get more football, you're going to get a
yes out of me.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Big game coming up on Saturday with Ohio State and Texas.
How do you see this match up for both teams?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I think ultimately, man, these two teams are very similar
in the positions that they're in, losing so much talent
from the NFL Draft a season ago, in a team
that had so many veteran leaders that were a part
of the building process of the foundation of what got
them to the place is that they were in a
year ago playing in the semi finals, and obviously Ohio
(02:04):
State winning a national championship. It's a new identity and
the new kind of face for both of these teams
with new quarterbacks, obviously new signmen, new on the offensive
and the defensive side of the ball, new playmakers that
will have to continuously emerge, and I think a game
of this magnitude is kind of a pick them game
(02:25):
if you go look at the spread and how people
have bet the game and the predictions that have come
down through the game. But at the end of the day,
the team that can control the football and have the
least amount of penalties. With it being Week one, those
pre snap penalties make a huge difference in creating or
(02:45):
stifling momentum, and I think the team that is able
to handle that the best with the least amount of penalties,
and the team that can possess the football and control
it and not turn it over will be the team
that ultimately wins. And it should be a hiding ball
because we get an opportunity to see two top five
programs go head to hit the matchup in Week one.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Pozi Waker joining us on the program. When you played
you lose a game earlier in the year, you really
had to kind of run the table if you were
going to be in the BCS or if you were
going to be in the group of four that got
to the Final four. For football, now it's a little
bit easier to get in if you have a second
or even maybe a third loss going forward, but everybody's
playing each other. I mean, I don't I think the
(03:28):
days of undefeated seasons are kind of over. It's kind
of like an NFL schedule to me, how do you
see that?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah? Absolutely, I think agree with you. I even went
back and listened to coach Sark talk about the time
of where college football is now in the expectation is
obviously win a conference championship and then obviously win a
national championship, but doing so unscathed, it's probably unrealistic having
(03:56):
to go sixteen or possibly even seventeen as depending on
how your schedule lines up. So we saw it last
year with Ohio State with the expansion of the field,
Ohio State finishes fourth in their division, still get an
opportunity or fourth in their conference. I'm sorry to finish
with an opportunity to still play in the college football playoffs.
(04:19):
And you've got to get hot at the right time,
similar to what you see in the NFL. And I
think that's more realistic of what to expect with college
football and the way that the parody relationship between rosters
has now played out so many teams have an opportunity
to build or so quickly and create an opportunity to
(04:40):
have depth as well as experience, and so I think
that also has kind of added to the value of
being able to create that parody and having so many
good games and so many good teams kind of get
down to the end and have a blemish or two
on their record.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Who besides Texas and Ohio State do you see this
year as potential national champion candidates now?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I think I start off with Penn State, who made
it to the semi finals a year ago. Obviously came
up just short against Snorter Dame, but they bring back
quite a few pieces on that semi finals team. Considering
your five star quarterback and Drew Aller, your two running backs,
and Nick and k Tron Allen. I think those two
are probably the best duo of running backs in college
(05:26):
football today, no matter the conference. And then they also
got Dennis Sutton on the defensive side to be able
to bring things together. In the addition of Jim Knowles,
who was obviously the defensive coordinator for Ohio State, he
makes the transition to Happy Valley, and I think that
can't be stated enough about the additions that they were
(05:46):
able to bring in in the offseason as well as
the retention that they have going into this season. So
that's an obvious choice for me in Penn State and
in Clemson. We saw them play against Texas obviously in
the College Football Playoff ACC champion. Again, they restack and
reload at quarterback position. Kve Klubnick probably the best quarterback
(06:11):
in the country in my opinion as far as returning
production and the expectations for this upcoming season. He has
a handful of receivers that are all go getters and
all conference players that I think will be really good.
And then they bring back a good majority of their
defense that created some problems for teams in the ACC
(06:32):
a year ago. So they have a lot of roster
retention that I believe could make for a significant impact
whenever it comes down to trying to win championship football.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
From a player perspective, I would imagine you wish that
you lived in this era where the nil opportunities were there,
but now you see schools like Texas Tech that have
oil money. SMU basically is tested off the playbook from
the eighties, and those are programs that are on the
rise because of the ability to pay the play and
get them to come to their schools. What are your
(07:02):
thoughts on that?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, I love it. Number One. I do wish I
could be playing in an error like this. There's no
telling what type of sponsorships or opportunities would have been
made available for me. But should have, could have, would have? Right,
it doesn't matter at this point in time. But it
goes back to the point that I said a little
bit early earlier about the parody and college football. The
(07:24):
transport portal as well as nil in the way that
they've been constructed over the past couple of years and
how it would look moving forward, gives an opportunity for
each team to play and be a competitor. And I
think we've seen college football for so long it be
kind of defined by two different people or two different schools,
(07:45):
the schools of the haves and the schools of the
have nots. And you just mentioned two programs that typically
were in the have nots category, but now have an
opportunity to kind of level out the playing field. And
I think the more great games and the better parody
within college football that we have, I think it creates
(08:06):
for a tremendous opportunity to continue to elevate the game
as well as keep off fan bases engaged not just
for the beginning of the season or midway through the season,
but all the way to the end of the season,
because you never know how themes shake out and who
may be a surprise in the college football playoffs like
we saw with Indiana, who nobody probably had on their
bingo card, winning the amount of games that they did
(08:29):
and then playing in the college football playoff for the
first time.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Awesome, good stuff, Fozzi, thanks so much for joining us
this afternoon. Look forward to meeting you tomorrow at the
Pigskin preview and save travels to San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Absolutely, man, I'm looking forward to tomorrow. I know some
Rudies Barbecue and ATB Creamy Creations will be on Dick,
so I hope to see you there at the buffet
line very soon.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I'll see you before we start tomorrow about ten thirty
eleven at the Dome. Have a safe trip here, thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That's Fozzy her He is former Longhorn and Michael got
to play a song today that was not Taylor Swift,
so he's now back in his happy place.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, I am. I was just waiting to see if
you were actually going to say anything about it.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You know, I don't care anymore. It's you know, it's
it's just.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Like, deep down inside you care.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, it's just it's just yeah, it is. It's kind
of yeah, that's yeah, I'm not lying there.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I mean, you couldn't go into any more detail besides that,
because you know, obviously with with Fozzy, you know, he
would have been like, hey, what are you.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Talking about about that?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That's his song. So yeah, well, you know, when you're
in Rome, you do what the Romans do, So we'll
do that when Fozzy or any other Longhorn shows up exactly.
Speaking of Travis and Taylor, they're in the news today.
We'll touch on that coming up next. As we continue,
it's the Indie average show on the ticket
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