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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And Chad Rendel It's the orthosin CMO Edgar Show on
ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Chad Randall, Bearcat Journal dot com.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
The UC football team is scheduled to play UCF on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The UC basketball team men's basketball team.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Picked to finish sixth in the Big twelve preseason media poem.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Chad's here, Hi, Chad.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
How many times since let's say Tuesday afternoon, has someone
asked you if you know about the status of the
UCUCF game?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
A couple hundred at least, how about you?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Maybe not quite that many, but I'll put the number
in the three figures. Let me run this past you
and see if your experience is the same as mine.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
So I have been asked often like have you heard
anything about the game? Do you know what's gonna happen?
And my response has been I really haven't heard anything concrete.
The folks I've talked to down there are waiting to
find out if you know that there are enough emergency
personnel to staff the game, if they have enough people
(01:08):
to serve as vendors. But nobody knows right now, and
we'll find out at some point today. I'm guessing, but
maybe they make a decision tomorrow. I don't know. And
then when I get that answer, the person who has
asked me about the status of the game will then
say definitively either oh, they'll play or they're not going
to play the game, which makes me wonder, why did
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you ask me to begin with?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Correct, I have had basically the same experience. And then
when I last night, I was trying to give my
perspective on what I thought, and then I had people
in the chat for the live show or in my
direct messages telling me that I am from Florida and
you have no clue what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So again, if you're if you're asking me but you
already know what's going to happen, you could save yourself
and myself some time and energy by just just not
asking me if you're going to ignore what I say.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
So now, now, what I learned is because Orlando is inland,
that they just ride it out. Yeah, like those people
don't evacuate. Somebody told me last night, like eighty to
ninety percent of the residence of Orlando wrote it out
because they don't have to worry about storm surge. They
do this all the time. By the time it gets
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to them, it'll be like a category three or a
Category two, And for them that's not much of a
big deal, and it's just a matter of like do
they have power, and what is like the infrastructure, like
how does that look? And if things are not a
complete disaster, then they'll play the game. Yes, that's what
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they think down there.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I tried to explain to somebody that I had talked
with somebody who works in athletics that UCF, and the
answer I got was, well, the campus has been reopened,
We're going to check the stadium. We have to make
sure we could staff the game, and we have to
make sure that the authorities tell us, you know what,
we're better off using our resources elsewhere to people who
need them. And that determination hasn't been made yet. And
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yet it feels like it's frustrating to a lot of
folks when I provide that answer. So I didn't know
if you wanted to double down on that, add some clarity,
or just ignore the topic entirely.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, residents of Orlando fully believe that this game will
go as planned tomorrow Saturday. I, like I said, I
do not I do not know, like I said, I
am guessing we tend to be more freaked out about
this than they are because they do this all the
time where we look at it and we're like, oh
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my god, and they look at it and go, oh Tuesday,
so exactly. You know, like things that we that happen here,
like we get used to, we deal with them. They're
like down there, they deal with hurricanes hurricane season, so
that like they're fully prepared to deal with hurricanes. To
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see the video the other day where the guy opened
his door in his kitchen, they're an alligator in there.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yes I did.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Did you hear what the wife said in that video?
To start the video again, like Steve the alligator when
it gets bad out start kitchen.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
It's all right, So let's talk about the football game itself.
This feels like this feels like a swing game. Yeah,
they get this one on the road. You know, I
think we're gonna start to feel pretty good about them
being able to get to a win total that we're
all going to be satisfied with. Lose this one and
the math gets a little dicey.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah, I mean, if you're four and two going into
a home game, homecoming against a beatable Arizona State team
that is going to be playing at nine o'clock in
the morning on their internal clocks. I think you feel
you feel like, you know, maybe momentum is is siding
with the Bearcats three and three. You know this UCF
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team right now, other than r. J. Harvey and their
run defense is pretty good. Other than those two things,
I don't know what they do well. Their past defense
is dreadful. They get no pass rush. kJ Jefferson looks
I had to laugh. On Tuesday at the press conference,
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Scott Springers said to Jake golday, kJ Jefferson is about
your size, and I wanted to kJ Jefferson looks like
Jake Gold eight eight Corey Kiner. That is not what
that is not what kJ Jefferson looks like. But he
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is not having a good season, that they are not
playing good defense, and they are They're already kind of
falling apart. It feels like they are one more loss
away from who knows, Like we're talking about fire and
Gus mouths on and like losing the team, Like things
are ugly down there. They will be playing with their
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backs against the wall. But all of this week has
been Hurricane Milton down there. So how much have they
really had to practice? How much have these guys been
worried about their families and you know, what's going on
at home and what they have to deal with. How
much did they get to, like, you know, prepare for
the bear cuts. So you have an opportunity here, you
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better take advantage, are you Okay? Yeah? I just had
to clear my throat and I was trying not to
do it like while I was talking, but that's usually
the bad way to do it.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Let me ask you this. So the Texas Tech game
was it sucks to lose. It sucks to lose the
way that they did. I think what made it more
sobering was that during the game, it felt like every
five minutes, if not more frequently, a UC player was
coming out of the game and usually not returning. Scott
Saderfield on Tuesday painted a pretty rosy picture from an
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injury perspective. Did that reflect reality?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
It seems like it. I mean, you know, we're not
going to find out until Saturday, hopefully, but you know,
from all indications, everybody but Cam Rutherford on the defensive
line was at least a limited participant in practice. Some
some were back to full participation. Some had the yellow,
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you know, no contact jersey on, but they were out
there and going through individuals and doing football activity. It
wasn't like, you know, where you get a report from
Paul Dayner and Richard Skinner that's like, Okay, this guy's
on the practice field like jogging like. It didn't feel
like it was a lot of that. It was getting
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guys ready to go. So, I mean, they came out
of that with twenty five guys on the injury report
and Cam Ruttherford's the only one that seems like I
would consider unlikely for Saturday. Aaron Hemler and his staff
need a raise because they put in some serious work
since the Texas Tech game.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, I mean I was waiting.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I was anticipating on Tuesday for him to read a
long list of guys that you know, might not be
available for this game. So it was it was pretty encouraging.
Then let me switch gears. Chadrendell Bearcat Journal dot Com.
We did this segment last week and we went wall
to wall basketball within the hour. The Big twelve preseason
poll is out. The Bearcats pick to finish sixth. That
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feels about right. Do you agree?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, yeah, I think you know, the toss up for
me is them in Texas Tech. I don't think in
good conscience you could put them above Kansas, Houston, Baylor,
Iowa State, and Arizona, Like it feels like those are
the clear top group. But then there's a group of Texas,
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Cincinnati BYU Kansas State that feels like that second group
right behind those top five. And I think Cincinnati is
right there near the top of that group. So I
you know, best case scenario I think was sixth, So
I'm happy with six If they would have been seventh
or eighth, that would not have bothered me either.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, I kind of guess somewhere in the six to
eight range, and so they were on the high side
of that. You and I last week talked a lot
of basketball. The Tyler McKinley news hadn't yet been public,
and he's not going to play this year with a
knee injury.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I'm heartbroken for him.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And I asked you this not on the radio, like
how much of an impact was he going to make
this year? And it felt like he was going to
get a chance to show what he can do. So
walk me through the impact of him not being able
to play this year.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I think where it makes an impact is now you
really only have two centers and going through a thirty
game season. You know, we've seen last year as these
wrenched his back that cost him a couple of games
and it limited him in some others. And if that's
the case, then Arrington Page is your only big man,
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like you know, legitimate big man on the roster, and
you know that's not a great place. Although it's interesting
because this league there's not a lot of fives. A
lot of teams play like you know, what used to
be like an old traditional power forward. Those are the
guys playing the fives in this league. So you know,
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if you have to play Dylan Mitchell at the five
or you have to figure out, like what are we
going to do at that position. It's not like the
old Big East where like you know, Hashim Thabith and
Aaron Gray and you know, a litany of just like
big monstrous dudes are coming down the pike. But it
does hinder your death. And I really thought that Tyler
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was having the type of offseason where he was going
to challenge Arrington Page for that backup center spot. So
that part of it is heartbreaking. The other part that's
more heartbreaking is Tyler is an incredible kid, Like I
don't I don't say this often Gary Clark, Tray Scott
level human being, and it breaks my heart that, you know,
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first practice he has something like this happened, and he
was having such a great offseason and he's just getting
to know him being local, you know, I've seen him
out at events and we've kind of, you know, struck
up a bond over the past couple of years. Through
his recruitment process. I'm really pulling for the kid, and
it was it was heartbreaking to hear.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
So that's kind of where I was going to go next,
because he came to a lot of UC games last
season and after a game just comes up and introduces
himself like bright.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And I I go. I walked away from that.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I think I said to Terry Nelson like that, that's
the kid's in high school, right right.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
That's it, and he's going to be playing for them.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
And I'm like, so I've I've kept that interaction in
mind as i've kind of you know, read about his injury,
and I hate it for him.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I hated for any player, but I hated Yeah, it sucks.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
So hopefully he uh gets uh goes through a normal
recovery process, and we're talking about him taking the floor
for the Bearcats next season. Have you heard anything since
we started talking six minutes ago about the status of
Saturday's game.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
My phone rang once, but I didn't answer it because
I didn't think you would take kindly to that.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I mean, it wouldn't have been great, would have been
counterproductive to what we're trying to do, all right.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I mean, actually, if I tell people who called, I'll
probably take some heat. Well, now I want to know
who the athletic trainer for my daughter daughter's volleyball team.
Oh so I probably need to call him back as
soon as we get off the phone. But I didn't
want to put you on hold. I didn't know how
well that would go. Give me a minute, mo, I'll
be like, would have.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Been kind of weird. Well, hopefully everything's okay, and well
we'll talk next week. Thank you so much. All right,
that's our guy, Chad Brandell Bearkat Journal dot com on
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