September 10, 2025 • 10 mins
It's the campus cornaaa! We talk about the insane amount of money that top tier WR's are receiving now. We also discuss if the CFB 26 game could be the last one for a while. Also discussed is who the most underrated QB in North Carolina is.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
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Speaker 2 (00:48):
All right, so let's talk about it, folks. Let's get
into it.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The world of college football always spinning, so let's talk
about it as time for the campus go on the
war crime Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
How much does it cost the land a top tier
wide receiver in college football?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Folks?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
We know you guys like to talk about some of
these crazy topics like this, and top nil salaries for
college football wide receivers have been revealed, and I think
you know who's at the top of this list, Walker,
but I wanted can you guess to make just how
much Jeremiah Smith of Ohio State is made.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I mean, with him specifically, my guess would be I
would say two point three million.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And you would be too low, sir, because you're talking
about four to five million dollars for Jmias student me.
And then when you go further down the list, Ryan Williams,
it was revealed yesterday that he is making over one
point eight million for the Crimson Tide and the Ohio
State buck Eyes. They've got a little bit of money
left over in there while at for another receiver too,
(01:52):
because Carnell Tate is making one point five million, and
Chambers High School own KC Concepcion over at Texas A
and M he is making a cool.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
One million dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And then you have some other guys who are in
that neighborhood as well, like Eric Singleton and Cam Coleman,
both of the Auburn Tigers, they are making that much
as well. I mean, when you go down the list,
I said before we came back on Chris Baal from
Louisville making six hundred k at the wide receiver position.
Do you feel like at this point, we know what
Frank Brown said. You remember this offseason when Trevor Pena
(02:25):
came in there demanding his salary up. Then he said,
the only player that I'm paying a meal two meal
plus is the little homie from Ohio State, and that
would be Jeremiah Smith. Is one million just too much
to pay for a top tier wide receiver in college football?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
As long as they play like Todd Love, You're the
perfect man answer this question. Yeah, I don't think one
million is enough. I think Jeremiah Smith should be the
going rate for your average wide receiver and you should
allocate all your money to other top tier wide receivers
in all seriousness. Shocker, No, I don't. But as long
as they play like it, Yeah, you have to get
returned on your investment for the one million dollars that
(03:01):
you're spending. What's beautiful about college football? And I'm more
of an NFL guy than I am college football guy,
but what is beautiful about college football is everything wins
right in the NFL, you have to go with some trends,
you have to go with some matchup based issues and
stuff like that. I think if you pay a million
dollars to a wide receiver that just destroys corners. Then
(03:21):
that makes your life a lot easier. Even if you
don't have a great offensive line, you can still win
a lot of games by just having a stud that's
a top two round pick in the NFL that's worth
one million dollars where he just gets open all the time,
or you just throw up fifty to fifty balls. Because
you talk about an average college football corner that isn't
(03:42):
going to the NFL going against an NFL wide receiver
that is making one million dollars in college before he
makes the professional ranks. I mean, your cake. You're getting
one hundred and fifty receiving yards a game. So as
long as you play up to it, I don't think
it's all that bad. Is wide receiver the most important
position in college football? I would say outside of quarterback?
(04:02):
Probably not still, but you're pretty damn important. Like those
guys can cook, So as long as they play up
to that level, No, I don't think it's too much. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I think that if you got the money, man, you
might as well spend it. And we see that these
teams are putting their money where their mouth is and
They're going out there getting top tier talent at the
wide receiver positions. And when you talk about where these
players play, a lot of them are playing for successful program,
So it seems like it is money well spent, all right.
So moving on God's Football twenty six. It came out
(04:31):
yesterday from Front Office Sports. EA College Football first edition
offered athletes six hundred dollars in a copy of the game,
no royalties included. They said, now EA Sports is offering
fifteen hundred and still no royalties, and one team the
group that facilitates the nil deals, not one team talking
about a specific school. It's backing away telling FOS it
(04:53):
is not enough. So I'm guessing they're wanting some money
and maybe some royalties from this. But when I look
at this, I feel like, man, this could end up
ending the college football franchise. Even though they said twenty
seven is in production. But if we start to run
into snap foods like this, this could spell the end
of the game. I don't necessarily think this will be
the last, but they're going to have to figure out
(05:14):
something or it could really halt the process.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I know you have not been a fan of college
football twenty six, I have not.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
That thing's been collecting dust. I was about say, have
you even made the transition? It's been collecting dust. I
tried to start a dynasty, but it's just been collecting
dust man.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
How much of the issue is just gameplay compared to
the first one? Huge? So it's just like a lot
of things in life, it's all about quality and if
the quality is enough to stuff and there's a good
chance that it completely fails. And it looks like that's
what's happening with college football twenty said.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
All right, Coastal Carolina and East Carolina will get it
in this weekend. And so when we talk about this
matchup with these two teams, Coastal Carolina is one and one.
East Carolina is one and one as well, both of
them coming off of victories.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
But Coastal Carolina they struggled.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Man, they only beat Charleston Southern thirteen to ten, and
then East Carolina they trounced Campbell fifty two to six.
And so which team do I trust more going into
this matchup? Yeah, it would definitely be East Carolina. I
thought they had a strong showing against the NC State Wolfpack.
As matter of fact, since halftime of that game. They've
been out scoring opponent sixty six to ten. They're taking
(06:25):
care of the football. Cayden Howser is playing a really
good brand of football. We're gonna get into him in
just one second. But Coastal Carolina, as I said, they
are struggling, and excuse me. They beat Charleston Southern thirteen
to zero.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
MJ.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Morris a god that once looked like he had plenty
of promise.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Far from it.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Thirteen or twenty two, one hundred two yards with three
interceptions on the game. Tad Hudson provided the game's only touchdown.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You know him.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
He played at Huff High School here in the Queens City.
So yeah, man, I think that Coastal is headed in
the wrong direction. They don't have a quarterback. And I
think that East Carolina right now is a team that
looks to be a bowl squad and a team that
could maybe get seven, eight, maybe nine wins.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah. I had high hopes for ECU. It didn't look
great against NC State for a couple of times, but
NC State was a team that seemed to be struggling
out of the gate, and then they figured some stuff
out with CJ. Bailey. I have an infatuation. Yeah, but
John David Baker is a nice offensive mind. Talking with
Jim Zoki about it during team week. That was the
week that you were out, but Jim Zoki joined us
(07:30):
as the voice of the Pirates and he discussed how
if they have a good season, John David Baker is
one of these guys that could parlay this job into
a head coaching job somewhere or being a play caller
at a higher profile university. He worked with a bunch
of bright offensive mines. He was with Kiffen, he was
at USC, he was at Ole Miss. I know you
don't like Lane Kiffin, but still yeah, decent offensive line.
(07:51):
Yeah yeah, yeah, So if he's coaching offense, then maybe
we can give him some credit. But no, I think
he s U's offense is going to be playing very well.
And if you look at what happened last year after
you had the quarterback change, that's when they really started
to come.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, and so you look at Cayden Howser and so
in their game their win versus Campbell, he completed at
least one pass to eleven different players. Eleven different players
against Campbell, the most buying FBS quarterback this season, He's
got seventeen passes of fifteen or more yards, and I
think the big thing, like I said, they are top
twenty nationally in the FBS in turnover margin thet plus
(08:26):
one point five because we know that that was a
huge issue for East Carolina last year. And since he's
taken over for the Pirates, he's guided them to a
six and three record, thirty seven points a game and
over forty three hundred yards of total offense. And so
Cayden Howser is a guy that seems to be trending
upwards and I think that he is the best quarterback
(08:47):
in the state that nobody's talking about right now.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, I was very high on him coming into the season.
And it's my favorite factoid, or at least theory, because
it's not a fact, but it's a I think it
would have proven to be true if Kayden Hauser is
the starting quarterback for ECU at the very beginning of
the season last year. Mike Houston, I think is still
coaching ECU. I think he's that good. And this is
(09:09):
the conversation I want to have because of Kayden Howser.
That's why I'm always skeptical of coaches always making the
right decision on who should be the starter at certain
positions because oftentimes we see the guy that's waiting in
the wings. Once they take over, they are truly better
than the guy that they could not beat out in camp.
That's what happened with Kayden Howser and Mason Garcia. Howser
(09:32):
clearly better than Garcia. What's also interesting is Howser better
than Aiden Childs at Michigan State. I think from what
he did last year this year, we got off to
a good start with Michigan State's quarterback, especially what he
did in that Boston College game, but Howser continues to
put up a bunch of points. I thought we saw
it with NC State Grayson McCall being the starter for
NC State, but CJ. Bailey was better just waiting for
(09:53):
his opportunity. You see it at the QB spot. Man,
It's so important to get your starting QB not only right,
but right right away at the very beginning of the year.
It could just save your job. And I think we're
seeing Cayden Hauser could have saved Mike Houston's job and
he might get John David Baker a different type of job.
Somewhere more high profile.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, we'll talk about this game in balling and falling,
but right now I'll let you know that I think
the East Carolina Pirates will be balling in that one.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
But when we come back.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Folks, which unit would you bet on to be better
in Game number two for the Carolina Panthers, the pass
rush or the run defense?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
On Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ
And just like that, folks, at one o'clock hour begins
here on the Western Walker Show Sports Radio ninety two
seven w f NZ from the chaidlor Volter Studio. CV
Injury Law dot Com. That CV Injury Law dot Com
one call. That's all Carolina's personal injury lawyers. And one
of the injuries that we were talking about in that
meeting that the cynical side of me kind of cracked
(00:36):
up with the dog bikes, Like I was just thinking
of an hour the dog just clamping down on you.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You know what I'm saying. But there's some money if
you can tailor volta though, in addition.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
To a host of other injuries, Like I said, CV
Injury Law dot Com.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
All right, so let's talk about it, folks. Let's get
into it.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The world of college football always spinning, so let's talk
about it as time for the campus go on the
war crime Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
How much does it cost the land a top tier
wide receiver in college football?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Folks?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
We know you guys like to talk about some of
these crazy topics like this, and top nil salaries for
college football wide receivers have been revealed, and I think
you know who's at the top of this list, Walker,
but I wanted can you guess to make just how
much Jeremiah Smith of Ohio State is made.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I mean, with him specifically, my guess would be I
would say two point three million.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And you would be too low, sir, because you're talking
about four to five million dollars for Jmias student me.
And then when you go further down the list, Ryan Williams,
it was revealed yesterday that he is making over one
point eight million for the Crimson Tide and the Ohio
State buck Eyes. They've got a little bit of money
left over in there while at for another receiver too,
(01:52):
because Carnell Tate is making one point five million, and
Chambers High School own KC Concepcion over at Texas A
and M he is making a cool.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
One million dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And then you have some other guys who are in
that neighborhood as well, like Eric Singleton and Cam Coleman,
both of the Auburn Tigers, they are making that much
as well. I mean, when you go down the list,
I said before we came back on Chris Baal from
Louisville making six hundred k at the wide receiver position.
Do you feel like at this point, we know what
Frank Brown said. You remember this offseason when Trevor Pena
(02:25):
came in there demanding his salary up. Then he said,
the only player that I'm paying a meal two meal
plus is the little homie from Ohio State, and that
would be Jeremiah Smith. Is one million just too much
to pay for a top tier wide receiver in college football?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
As long as they play like Todd Love, You're the
perfect man answer this question. Yeah, I don't think one
million is enough. I think Jeremiah Smith should be the
going rate for your average wide receiver and you should
allocate all your money to other top tier wide receivers
in all seriousness. Shocker, No, I don't. But as long
as they play like it, Yeah, you have to get
returned on your investment for the one million dollars that
(03:01):
you're spending. What's beautiful about college football? And I'm more
of an NFL guy than I am college football guy,
but what is beautiful about college football is everything wins
right in the NFL, you have to go with some trends,
you have to go with some matchup based issues and
stuff like that. I think if you pay a million
dollars to a wide receiver that just destroys corners. Then
(03:21):
that makes your life a lot easier. Even if you
don't have a great offensive line, you can still win
a lot of games by just having a stud that's
a top two round pick in the NFL that's worth
one million dollars where he just gets open all the time,
or you just throw up fifty to fifty balls. Because
you talk about an average college football corner that isn't
(03:42):
going to the NFL going against an NFL wide receiver
that is making one million dollars in college before he
makes the professional ranks. I mean, your cake. You're getting
one hundred and fifty receiving yards a game. So as
long as you play up to it, I don't think
it's all that bad. Is wide receiver the most important
position in college football? I would say outside of quarterback?
(04:02):
Probably not still, but you're pretty damn important. Like those
guys can cook, So as long as they play up
to that level, No, I don't think it's too much. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I think that if you got the money, man, you
might as well spend it. And we see that these
teams are putting their money where their mouth is and
They're going out there getting top tier talent at the
wide receiver positions. And when you talk about where these
players play, a lot of them are playing for successful program,
So it seems like it is money well spent, all right.
So moving on God's Football twenty six. It came out
(04:31):
yesterday from Front Office Sports. EA College Football first edition
offered athletes six hundred dollars in a copy of the game,
no royalties included. They said, now EA Sports is offering
fifteen hundred and still no royalties, and one team the
group that facilitates the nil deals, not one team talking
about a specific school. It's backing away telling FOS it
(04:53):
is not enough. So I'm guessing they're wanting some money
and maybe some royalties from this. But when I look
at this, I feel like, man, this could end up
ending the college football franchise. Even though they said twenty
seven is in production. But if we start to run
into snap foods like this, this could spell the end
of the game. I don't necessarily think this will be
the last, but they're going to have to figure out
(05:14):
something or it could really halt the process.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I know you have not been a fan of college
football twenty six, I have not.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
That thing's been collecting dust. I was about say, have
you even made the transition? It's been collecting dust. I
tried to start a dynasty, but it's just been collecting
dust man.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
How much of the issue is just gameplay compared to
the first one? Huge? So it's just like a lot
of things in life, it's all about quality and if
the quality is enough to stuff and there's a good
chance that it completely fails. And it looks like that's
what's happening with college football twenty said.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
All right, Coastal Carolina and East Carolina will get it
in this weekend. And so when we talk about this
matchup with these two teams, Coastal Carolina is one and one.
East Carolina is one and one as well, both of
them coming off of victories.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
But Coastal Carolina they struggled.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Man, they only beat Charleston Southern thirteen to ten, and
then East Carolina they trounced Campbell fifty two to six.
And so which team do I trust more going into
this matchup? Yeah, it would definitely be East Carolina. I
thought they had a strong showing against the NC State Wolfpack.
As matter of fact, since halftime of that game. They've
been out scoring opponent sixty six to ten. They're taking
(06:25):
care of the football. Cayden Howser is playing a really
good brand of football. We're gonna get into him in
just one second. But Coastal Carolina, as I said, they
are struggling, and excuse me. They beat Charleston Southern thirteen
to zero.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
MJ.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Morris a god that once looked like he had plenty
of promise.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Far from it.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Thirteen or twenty two, one hundred two yards with three
interceptions on the game. Tad Hudson provided the game's only touchdown.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You know him.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
He played at Huff High School here in the Queens City.
So yeah, man, I think that Coastal is headed in
the wrong direction. They don't have a quarterback. And I
think that East Carolina right now is a team that
looks to be a bowl squad and a team that
could maybe get seven, eight, maybe nine wins.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah. I had high hopes for ECU. It didn't look
great against NC State for a couple of times, but
NC State was a team that seemed to be struggling
out of the gate, and then they figured some stuff
out with CJ. Bailey. I have an infatuation. Yeah, but
John David Baker is a nice offensive mind. Talking with
Jim Zoki about it during team week. That was the
week that you were out, but Jim Zoki joined us
(07:30):
as the voice of the Pirates and he discussed how
if they have a good season, John David Baker is
one of these guys that could parlay this job into
a head coaching job somewhere or being a play caller
at a higher profile university. He worked with a bunch
of bright offensive mines. He was with Kiffen, he was
at USC, he was at Ole Miss. I know you
don't like Lane Kiffin, but still yeah, decent offensive line.
(07:51):
Yeah yeah, yeah, So if he's coaching offense, then maybe
we can give him some credit. But no, I think
he s U's offense is going to be playing very well.
And if you look at what happened last year after
you had the quarterback change, that's when they really started
to come.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, and so you look at Cayden Howser and so
in their game their win versus Campbell, he completed at
least one pass to eleven different players. Eleven different players
against Campbell, the most buying FBS quarterback this season, He's
got seventeen passes of fifteen or more yards, and I
think the big thing, like I said, they are top
twenty nationally in the FBS in turnover margin thet plus
(08:26):
one point five because we know that that was a
huge issue for East Carolina last year. And since he's
taken over for the Pirates, he's guided them to a
six and three record, thirty seven points a game and
over forty three hundred yards of total offense. And so
Cayden Howser is a guy that seems to be trending
upwards and I think that he is the best quarterback
(08:47):
in the state that nobody's talking about right now.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, I was very high on him coming into the season.
And it's my favorite factoid, or at least theory, because
it's not a fact, but it's a I think it
would have proven to be true if Kayden Hauser is
the starting quarterback for ECU at the very beginning of
the season last year. Mike Houston, I think is still
coaching ECU. I think he's that good. And this is
(09:09):
the conversation I want to have because of Kayden Howser.
That's why I'm always skeptical of coaches always making the
right decision on who should be the starter at certain
positions because oftentimes we see the guy that's waiting in
the wings. Once they take over, they are truly better
than the guy that they could not beat out in camp.
That's what happened with Kayden Howser and Mason Garcia. Howser
(09:32):
clearly better than Garcia. What's also interesting is Howser better
than Aiden Childs at Michigan State. I think from what
he did last year this year, we got off to
a good start with Michigan State's quarterback, especially what he
did in that Boston College game, but Howser continues to
put up a bunch of points. I thought we saw
it with NC State Grayson McCall being the starter for
NC State, but CJ. Bailey was better just waiting for
(09:53):
his opportunity. You see it at the QB spot. Man,
It's so important to get your starting QB not only right,
but right right away at the very beginning of the year.
It could just save your job. And I think we're
seeing Cayden Hauser could have saved Mike Houston's job and
he might get John David Baker a different type of job.
Somewhere more high profile.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, we'll talk about this game in balling and falling,
but right now I'll let you know that I think
the East Carolina Pirates will be balling in that one.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
But when we come back.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Folks, which unit would you bet on to be better
in Game number two for the Carolina Panthers, the pass
rush or the run defense?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
On Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ
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