December 12, 2024 • 38 mins
Colin talks to Oregon head coach Dan Lanning about the immediate success they had in their first season in the BIG 10 going undefeated and preparing for the upcoming college football playoff
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
So the Belichick press conference, everybody is seated. They're calling
it Chapel Bill apparently, which I think is outstanding. And
I think, you know, I will tell you if you're
listening on radio or watching on TV, I'm excited. This
is Gooseba stuff. I mean, it's just like Cliff Kingsbury said,
it's hard to believe it until you see it. But
you know, this is not what Belichick wanted. He wanted
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to coach Chicago. He thought Chicago was the best job
and Jacksonville was the second best job. But those jobs
aren't interested. Also, in Jacksonville have Trent Balke running the show,
who battled with Jim Harbaugh in the Bay Area, so
Belichick would not have any say in personnel, not the
level he wanted to. And in Chicago you've got politics
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in that front office. And the oldest ownership group in
the league. It's a little wonky, so that's not ideal.
But Chicago's got the best team. Jacksonville could be the
best opportunity because you have the most fully formed quarterback
in Trevor Lawrence. But I will say the winner in
this is not necessarily Belichick yet. The winner's Mike Rabel
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because Jordan Schultz and I talked about this. Vrabel now
is the number one guy for all these jobs. When
you look at the Jets, and you look at Jacksonville
and you look at Chicago, what are they They are
broken franchises. They're not gonna do it with coordinators getting
their first job. The winner here is Vrabel. He is
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the overwhelming number one choice. I talked to Mike for
fifteen minutes this morning, and you know he's he is listening.
I'll throw this out there. Let me just throw two
wild cards. I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but I mean,
we just watched Bill Bellichake take the Carolina job. Did
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you think that was possible six weeks ago? Did you
think Kevin Durant would play for the Warriors when he
was with Okay, see stuff happens. Two things to think about, Vabel,
because the best job openings Jacksonville, Jets, Roster, Chicago not
great openings. Sit out for another year. Keep your eye
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on Andy Reid's health, keep your eyeing. I know the
Chiefs want Andy there for as long as I'll coach,
but he is getting older and just just there's been,
you know, over the course a couple of years. The
second thing to think about is if Bellett, Let's say
he wins, but he is a sort of a disruptive
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terse nature to him on an athletic campus. And Mike
Lombardi is nothing if not confident and outspoken and terse
and Kurt. I could see Belichick and Lombardi wearing out,
wearing out North Carolina. So I wouldn't be surprised if
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this is fairly successful. But Bill, in a year, don't
think stuff is crazy. In a year, Bill says it
doesn't work for me, I'm out, here's my son, I'm
going back to the NFL. Do not think you think
it's crazy? Did you think Bill would be a candidate
for a college job a month ago? Folks? Sports is crazy?
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You think Sam Darnold was going to be an MVP candidate.
Every time you think something's a hot take, it happens
every time. I mean, if I'd have told you three
years ago, Yeah, the NBA in December will have bright
purple courts, hot red courts. What what do they? Oh,
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you just wait, it's gonna happen. Nobody wants to get
called out, but the trolls on the internet. But if
you start looking, if I said to you, there's gonna
be two or three something wild is gonna happen with Belichick.
It's not gonna be linear. Nothing with Bill now is.
And I said, he actually gets an NFL offer in
one year because he wins ten games, he proves it
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can coach, He gets to the playoff, he wins a
game in the playoff. He's a better version of SMU.
He gets it and wins a game. He is exhausted
by the nonsense of the transfer portal in the NIL which,
by the way, right now it's exhausting college coaches who
are forty four are exhausted by it. And Bill gets
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an offer. So Bill and the brass just sat down.
Right now, it's the North Carolina president talking. Oh boy,
I bet that's riveting. And there's Bill next to him.
Isn't that something.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Dan Lanning, coach of Oregon, is around the corner live
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
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Speaker 1 (05:23):
So Bill Belichick is speaking at Chapel Hill. He is
the new football coach for North Carolina. Mike Lombardi, who
used to work at this network for a brief time,
is now his general manager, which is an increasing role
in college football. Let's just open the mic up and
listen for a minute or two.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
It's a you know, connection with him down the road.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
But excited to be here, excited to be in college football,
Excited for the opportunity to build and develop young student athletes,
young men, and prepare them for their life either in
the NFL or professionally. But the lessons they learn will
be be professional lessons. They'll be pros in all areas.
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And that's what we want to develop as long as
as well as having a winning program, successful program, but
we want to develop good, good people and good kids
and good football players.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
So Steve, thank you, coach, forgive me before we go
to questions. One omission that allow luminaries in the room
right now, but only one of you were inducted in
the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football
Hall of Fame the last six months.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Julius Peppers.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Okay again, please, if you would identify yourself and your
affiliation quickly, Let's let's get through the questions quickly so
we can get to as many people as possible. Hold
your hands right now, because I've got seven assigned already.
We're going to start over here on the right hand side.
Aaron Beard with the AP, I've already done that part.
Go ahead, aerin high coach.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
When you were studying college football in the last and
examining it, you know, so much more has come into
professionalism in the model, whether it's nil, portal revenue sharing
coming up. How many parallels did you see to what
the experience you've had at the pros and do you
envision it sort of being like a mini NFL team
in that regard?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah, thanks, Aaron. I do think there are a lot
of parallels.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
There's certainly some differences, but there are some parallels, and
I think that's the reason for the general structure of
you know, Michael as a general manager. Myself as the
coach and working together collaboratively like we have done, you know,
in a professional organization. So yeah, I do think there's
some parallels. There's differences for sure, but yes, right next
to him. I'm sorry, coach, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
Hey, Bill Brendan Marks from the athletic At what point
in this process did you decide or know that you
wanted to become the next head coach here? Was there
a singular moment when that happened? And can you elaborate
on the investment that North Carolina and your conversations with
the chancellor and Bubba made to make you feel comfortable
taking the role.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Yeah, I mean it was you know, we went through
a process, but it was great. Every step of the
way was great. The sport was tremendous, you know, all
the things that I feel are important to having a
successful program above in and the chancellor Roberts reaffirmed, and
I think they've made you know, they've made a great
commitment to this program.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Obviously a great university. And i'd say, along the.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Way as kind of things got out, if you will,
the amount of support that I got from Carolina grads,
former Carolina football players. You know, people are connected with
this university was really overwhelming. And not that I'm any
social media expert, because I'm not, but there was an
awful lot of you know, positive feedback from my face
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and stuff like that, and it was great.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Front row left here Chip, Chip, Alexander and News Observer
in Raleigh.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I just I'm roughly your age. So I ask you
this respectfully, just at seventy two, why do you want
to keep coaching?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
What's in it for you?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You've proven yourself over and over and your legacy is
why keep coaching?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Well, beat's working. You know, when you love what you do.
And my dad told me this, when you love what
you do, it's not work. It's really it's I love
what I do. I love coaching. I love the interaction
with the players. I love building a team, working with
the assistants, game planning, the game itself, which you know,
there's some good ones, there's some bad ones, but they're
all learning experience and working with you know, young kids
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who with the energy, enthusiasm to want to be good,
to want to be successful. It's you know, it's great
every day to wake up and come into that environment.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Thank you, I have you got Andrew then Michael hey, coach
Andrew Joestario illustrated.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
But a lot of talk's been made.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
About there's Bill Belichick fielding questions in Chapel Hill. His
dad way back when I think it was late thirties.
His dad was briefly there at North Carolina. And college
football is a very fluid sport. One of the guys
that is close to mastering it, and as really, I mean,
we thought Dan Lanning. I covered Oregon for years. He
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had big energy, big recruiting, good resume. He's really hit
it out of the park at Oregon. And it's hard.
This is a very it's like technology. It's a very
fluid sport with boundaries that are changing. And Dan Lanning
at Oregon has crushed it. And he's the only undefeated
college football coach joining us now live three years at Oregon.
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You know I'm watching that Bill Belichick press conference. I
gotta tell you, if you could say, Hey, Bill, here's
one thing about college football, Like what one thing would
you give any coach, legend or young guy one piece
of advice? Dan, Hey, get ready to adapt.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
What it is today might be something different tomorrow. So
you better be ready.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
To play on your toes because it's consistently changing. That's
the one thing that's consistent about college ball right now.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So you've been a DC it in the SEC, you've
been a head coach in the Pac twelve. Now you're
a head coach in the Big Ten. So that your
journey's crazy. You're you're bouncing all over the country. Now,
I think it's an advantage. But this year in the
Big Ten, I thought, because Oregon's got the kind of weather,
you weren't a warm weather team. You play in rain
and Eugene, you can handle the Midwest? Was the Big Ten?
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What you expected? Mostly? Coach?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (11:29):
You know what I expect to beyond great football, And
I do think we got to experience that and some
of the story competitions that exist in this conference, you know,
getting to go some of these great venues.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Yeah, I think, I guess in a lot of ways,
it was what I expected.
Speaker 10 (11:42):
It was a great challenge and a lot of fun
for our team.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
A lot of coaches, Brian Kelly, Lincoln Riley, they got
money in their collective. Yours has worked. You've been able
to sew the fabric of chemistry together. The two things
when I watch Oregon they play hard every snap and
they are fast. You've made the portal work for you,
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and I think it's harder than people think. I mean,
in the NFL you often bring back most of your
roster ten years ago. In college, you know you'd replace
fifteen eighteen guy. How have you done it? What has
been the key to the balance of fresh new faces
but really strong Oregon football culture?
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (12:25):
I think a lot of that credit, you know, lies
within our players and our staff. They've they've created a
standard and I get to work with great people every
single day.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
I think there's a clear cut, you know, balance of
what we really.
Speaker 10 (12:35):
Want, what kind of people we want to bring into
the organization, and then our players that pulled in the
standard of what, you know, what great football looks like,
what being a great teammate looks like.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
And our guys have really attacked that. And you know,
we talk about player led teams.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
I think every coach talks about player let teams, but
we truly have a player let team here and they're
going to make sure the guys around them come to work,
you know, every single day, and that's paid off for us.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
You know. It's funny. I love your intensity. It jumps
through the screen. There was a game this year and
I knew you were good, and I had predicted before
the season that I thought you would beat Ohio State
at home. But the Wisconsin game, you didn't play well
in one and that was the game. I was like, Okay,
they can win a Nattie because Otson's hard to win,
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and I'm like, well, they're gonna beat anybody at Outson.
But that game was interesting because I'm like, boy, they
had their B game. Was there a moment for you
this season where there was something where you were flying
home or driving home after a game and thought, boy,
there's this team may have a little something I didn't
think we had.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
I don't know if I ever really had that moment.
Speaker 10 (13:36):
I think maybe what excites me the most about this
team is we've been able to win in different ways,
you know, and you don't ever want that as your
as a coach, you always want your a game in
every phase. But when we played Boise State early in
the year, we struggled and we won on special teams.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
We had a punt returning, a kickoff return, you know,
to create that win.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
You play Wisconsin, we really won on defense, and you
go last week, you know, playing Penn State in the
Big Ten Championship game, our offense was clicking on all cylinders.
And what's good for us is knowing that you can
win in a variety of ways. But when we put
that all together, I think you're talking about a really
special team. So that's the hope, you know, as we
try to finish this thing off, is to be able
to put all three phases together and have a great run.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You know, it's interesting, Dan, when you have young teams
in the NFL, an older team like a Kansas City Chiefs,
getting a buye is good for the team, but a
lot of times young teams don't give them time off.
They heal faster, get them out there. Would you rather
be playing or are you comfortable saying, hey, Ohio State,
Tennessee you bang around? I mean, I guess it's an
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advantage sitting, but you're already sitting, and I think with
young players in your momentum, are you worried a little
bit about this is quite a layoff for you.
Speaker 10 (14:46):
Yeah, it's on us as a coaching staff. To me,
it's about how you use your time. Right, If you're
just sitting and waiting for the for the next opportunity.
Then you definitely are are not putting yourself in an advantage.
For us, it's all about how we use this time, right,
How can we study ourselves as coaches, How can we
study ourselves as players, utilize the opportunity for recovery, you know,
challenge the parts of the game that we can be
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better at. So for us, we've got a detailed plan
for where we're trying to improve what we want to attack.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
And obviously there's some chaos in college football right now.
Speaker 10 (15:15):
You're dealing with the transfer portal and everything else that
exists right now.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
So we're trying to utilize that time the best.
Speaker 10 (15:20):
And I think that's what will create an advantage for us,
is if we have a great plan for that.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
By the way, I got to ask you about bow Nicks,
so I brought him here. He sat in the couch
for a half hour.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
He was great.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I loved him. He is way feistier I've watched in
the NFL. He'd dog cussing, he getting in Sean Payton's face,
and I'm like, man, he And then I read a
story of the other day that like, you have no
idea how feisty bon Nicks. Is was was that the
bow Nicks at Oregon that he'd get after guys.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
He's always been competitive man.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
He I think he has a competitive spirit that people
don't realize because you know, he's just a great young man,
Like he's a great dude. But when you stepped on
the football field.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
He'd be angry.
Speaker 10 (16:02):
He'd be angry if it didn't go his way, and
you could challenge him every single day in practice. You know,
I was pretty fired up the other day. I got
a bone Nick's Christmas card. That's that's a shout out
to his wife, Izzie.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
You know I was.
Speaker 10 (16:13):
I was fired up to know that they were on
their piece and Ques I don't I don't think the
Landings have sent out a.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Christmas card yet.
Speaker 10 (16:19):
So as good as he's playing, and they got their
whole house in order right now, I think that's a
great example of how they compete.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Well, you've done a remarkable job. Congrats on the win
over Penn State and Oregon is humming. I don't think
the committee got it right. I thought you deserved a
better placement. But you know what, you didn't complain about it.
It's the job. It's the task. Go win games, and
I can't wait to watch you play, and congrats on
all your success.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Appreciate it, Colin, and we're certainly excited about the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Can't wait, cannot wait. Fastest team I've seen in college football, balance,
can win multiple ways, Dan Lanning, coach of the Oregon Ducks,
and beautiful Eugene, Oregon. They are they got California speed man,
they got they defensively, they are not that there's some
holes there, like you know, it's you know, we're not
going to have another Saban dynasty with a portal like.
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Nobody's got depth, nobody's great everywhere. The college model looks
like the NFL model now, is that you have a
collective and you got you don't have a salary cap,
but you have let's say you have eighteen million dollars
to spend. Well, the quarterback's going to gobble up two
or three of that. You're going to get like a
left tackle's gonna gobble up some a couple of wide receivers.
So you do sort of have a cap, like you
got to be very judicious with your money. And so
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nobody's a perfect team, like there are no perfect teams.
I think Ohio State's really good, but they're not great
at quarterback. I think Texas is already good. I think
they should play arch Manning more. But I don't think
they're there as explosive offensively as i'd like. So. Oregon's
off offense, though, I don't see a lot of holes.
They can run, they can spread you out, they can
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run the football. That's the best offense in college football.
There are better defenses, but college like pro. Now you
know Lane Kiffin when he went to Alabama to be
the offensive coordinator of Nick Saban. Remember that it's a
New York Times story on this. It's great. Lane said, coach,
you can't stop me. Watch my offense at practice at Alabama.
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Beat your defense at Alabama, and Nick Saban watched him.
The rule changes now Nick Saban found out Nick Saban
had people scoring forty points on him. So if you're
gonna have a side that's a little weaker than the other,
make it the defense. And Oregon can drop forty five
on anybody on any game. Especially now you give them
prep time, so they're gonna have all sorts of prep
time in Ohio State and Tennessee are excellent teams. What
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if those guys were in a cold weather twenty seventeen battle.
They both the winner comes up dinged up, a little bit,
a little emotionally spent. And here's Oregon sitting there, healthy,
waiting with a clever offensive game plan. I can't wait,
jamact with the news.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Turn on the news. This is the Herdline news.
Speaker 11 (19:02):
Well, the biggest history in sports today is Belichick going
to Chapel Hill. The area is exiting the car this
morning Chapel Bill took to the presser with the media.
I met the ink stained wretches down there in North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And we have a lot of sound calling.
Speaker 11 (19:19):
Here's Bill Belichick talking about taking the job at North Carolina.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
I always wanted a coach in football, coaching college football, and.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
It just never really worked out.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Had some good years in the NFL, so that was okay.
But this is really kind of a dream come true.
I grew up in college football with my dad as
the coach of Navy for fifty years, so as.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
A kill I knew was college football.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah. So I you know, your life takes you in
different routes, and he very early in his career got connected,
you know, with Bill Parcells, and was very quickly one
of the kind of remarkable young assistants. Listen, man, we're
all hoping this works.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I mean, listen, it may not. I am of the
belief it will work.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
The schedule is too weak not to be byable.
Speaker 11 (20:11):
How much do you think he leaned on Nick Saban?
Here him back many years.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Urban Meyer and Nick Saban are friends.
Speaker 11 (20:18):
So all this all this like, oh well, Nick Saban
walked away it was too much.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I don't think Belichick sees it that way. Man, I
just don't. I understand why people would say that.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
But the sport is totally changed, and Belichick has been
able to watch in this year off.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
He's been able to see the landscape.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
None of us think he's gonna fail. I think my
take is it won't be a good long term fit.
It will work.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Year one will be define long term one.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I don't think he'll be there five years.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, at seventy seven years old. I hope he's well.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I think he'll be exhausted. I think, I think. I
think the college experience is ever changing. The NCAA is toothless.
Administrations in college are needy. The athletic department will be offended.
I think you know, I listen, he ideally wanted an
NFL job. This wasn't his first choice. The Seth Wickersham article.
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He wanted the Chicago job. He thinks it's the best job.
It is the best job.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
Well, in my xenvill, we know he doesn't want to
work for guys that he doesn't respect.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
There was that issue in Atlanta. You think he wants
to work.
Speaker 11 (21:23):
For that front office, and they picked the roster for
Bill Belichick. So my guess is sure he would love
to coach the Bears if he had full control and
was able to do his thing. But he's got to
answer to Kevin Warren and pulls. No way, there's no
way he's doing that. And again I'll go back to
this column. What do those guys want.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Nothing?
Speaker 11 (21:43):
What is the guy in Jacksonville who Shultz said cozying
up to the owner? What's that guy done? And now
Belichick would have to go answer to that.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Dude.
Speaker 11 (21:50):
No, that doesn't make sense. This guy should get the
keys to the kingdom. And if you don't want to
do that, fine, go hire some other coach and cycle
through the guy, and you'll be looking again for a
coach in three or four year. And this is a
Jets fan here talking. I've never liked Belichick or the.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Patriots ever, I think he's gonna succeed.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I'm rooting for well or I think you have to
root for him. It's fun. I mean, what if Bill
stays in college for three years, goes ten, eleven, twelve,
and wouldn't it be amazing if he ends up playing
for a national title. Crazier things have happened.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
How's this?
Speaker 11 (22:23):
Do you think he's more likely to get to the
Final four in college football or coach again in the NFL?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Can I think about that?
Speaker 11 (22:35):
Yeah? Sure, well, we gotta see what he gets in
the portal, but a get I think he's only looking
at it. Maybe if he wins the ACC, you're getting
the top four seed unless they change.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Things, right, Listen, I'm just saying that's one win. I
will not be shocked if Belichick has a good first
year and gets an NFL head coaching offer, because you
get seven openings a year, and you think that NFL
offer will be total control the way you have it
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in North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Because he's not inswering to anyone.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I think it will be an offer. For instance, McDermott
fails in the playoffs again, and Josh Allen needs a coach.
Where would you go. I'm just saying it, sean job,
that's not a bad job. You would leave college for
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that immediately. I'm saying, Sean mcdermotts a good coach. A
good coach is not beating Andy Reid and Mahomes. If
McDermott flames out, let's say this year they get, they
get to the conference championship and lose, and they give
him basically one more year. I'm just saying, everybody thinks
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this stuff is crazy.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
No, it's not.
Speaker 11 (23:50):
No, No, literally, anything can happen. You don't know, coaches fail,
rise it's it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Anyways.
Speaker 11 (23:56):
Next up, Colin is the big battle tonight on Thursday
night football Ram Niners.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
It feels like an elimination game.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
I know they're not officially calling it that, but it
certainly feels that way. Matt Stafford has been cooking in
the last four games.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Ten touchdowns, no picks.
Speaker 11 (24:10):
Here's John Lynch talking about what makes Stafford such a
tough opponent.
Speaker 12 (24:15):
Pressure in his face, and that doesn't that doesn't do
the job all the time with a guy like him.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
This dude's a tough guy.
Speaker 12 (24:23):
He can get hit in, knocked down, and he just
keeps coming. And so you know you have to play
four quarters versus Matthew Stafford lead team. I think the
other thing is what I spoke to is the arm
angles that no look passes.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
It's really bold what he does.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
It blows my mind.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, it'll be fun. Isn't good? The Amazon's done well.
It's been a very good Thursday slate. Most of my
memory of Thursday night games has been clunkers, uninspired. We've
had some gems on Thursday Night.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
I'm seeing in the notes here from the producer. Osa
is questionable due to the hip injury. Trent Williams officially
ruled out. And the big news is Drake Greenlaw, the
guy who popped his ACL in the Super Bowl. He's
expected to be activated, it says ACL. I think it
was Achilles, but he's expected to be activated.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
It's a big win.
Speaker 11 (25:15):
If they can get him back against that Kyron Williams
run game, that would be big for the Niners defense.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
You want to put a score out there for tonight's festivities.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Twenty four to twenty three, Oh, who's winning? Twenty seven
twenty three twenty seven twenty three San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So Niners cover the two and a half.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
What do you think?
Speaker 9 (25:38):
Or three?
Speaker 11 (25:38):
It's three right now, Dan, that was going to be
my exact score. I'll go thirty one twenty seven Niners.
I see high school, I see points. Just remember Shanahan
has largely dominated McVeigh. I know McVeigh won the NFC
championship in the game earlier this season.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But final story calls to the NBA.
Speaker 11 (25:56):
Listen, we haven't dug too much into this because I
kind of sort of don't think it's real. But this
Lebron trade stuff will not really go away. Last season,
the Warriors, remember called the Lakers about Lebron to try
to make it happen.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Did not happen.
Speaker 11 (26:12):
Well, now, Brian Winhurst, very credible is reporting the Warriors
are once again monitoring Lebron's trade status and will jump
at the opportunity if he becomes available. The idea of
Lebron and Jeff Curry together is bringing me back to
the Olympics, which were amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Okay, so LEBN throw this out there. Lebron James, for
personal reasons, has taken several days off.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Why has he gone with Savannah personal reasons. He has
been informed in my opinion of a possible trade. I
know why, When is the last time Lebron just said
I'm gonna take a three four day siesta early in
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the season.
Speaker 11 (27:01):
I think it was Miami where he kind of vanished,
remember for eight or ten days?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Why did he do that? Unhappy with what It's interesting? Yes,
but hold.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
He hand picked JJ Reddick for this job.
Speaker 11 (27:14):
I cannot imagine Lebron saying, hey, Reddick's my guy, my
podcasting partner, let's do this time out and then the
Lakers just saying, we're trading you that that deathfield didn't see.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You think the Warriors can win a title? No, you
think the Lakers can win a title?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Who those are not title teams? Come on, give me
a break. So the bottom line is, the Warriors know
how Lebron works with great shooters. So if I'm the
Warriors and I say Lebron's got two years, we'll take Browny,
put him on the bench, and the Lakers go, we
need draft capital, we want to build around Anthony Davis
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will take the Wiggans contract. Now, I think the Lakers
would want like paminga well, coming. But they're not getting that, TJD.
They're not they're not getting that. They give me, give
me a lot. They'd want that. You'd have to surrender
Wiggins contract to make it work.
Speaker 11 (28:04):
Well, I'm not if if come Kaminga has to be
in the deal. He's probably the biggest upside guy on
that day.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
They're not getting them.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
You're not get Lebron, you know, enjoy enjoy them.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
That's probably what they're arguing. But why would Lebron take
this break?
Speaker 11 (28:17):
Give me a I don't have you know, he's coming
up on his fortieth birthday.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
We've seen players like ja It's sorry, James Arden. Remember
Kyrie Irving won a time off for FA.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah, those guys. Those guys are hi.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
That's a great question. Why would Lebron take time off
in December?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I think he and Savannah are talking about the future,
the trade that we're thrown in his ear, what to
do with Brownie? Should they let him go play for
somebody else? I think these are big decisions. Or maybe
he just wants to hang out. Doubt, take a breather.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
He's got to do Christmas shopping. Man, Come on, that's tough.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
J Mack with the news.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Well that's the news.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
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Speaker 1 (29:01):
I mean I did the sports talk radio. It's rumor
mill stuff, but it is interesting. I mean, Lebron's not
a Hey, I'm gonna take a break early in the
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Speaker 1 (29:53):
So Belichick new coach at North Carolina, Mike Lombardi, who
worked briefly at this comedy and kind of a media
guy used to be in Cleveland, got let go there
he and you know, he and Belichick have a very
similar personality, kind of gruff East Coast feeling, you know,
very much into history and tradition, kind of Kurt you know,
(30:13):
very confident, and so Belichick today talk about Mike Lombardy
is his college GM.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
I'm here to to, as Bubba said, teach, develop and
build the program and in the way that I believe
in and so grateful to have Michael, you know, with
me in this process.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Michael and I have worked together for.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Gone on the way back over thirty years, and you
know he has a great knowledge of the general manager
role of, if you will, in this type of position
with terms of you know, scouting two sets of players,
high school players and college portal players, as well as
dealing with some version of it's called salary cap, which
is now you know, part of college football.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
The you know, it's interesting life can go in lots
of directions. If Nick Saban and the team doctor with
the Miami Dolphins would have given the okay for Drew Brees,
nick Saban never goes to Alabama, he wins in the
NFL with Drew Brees. And if Bill Belichick when Drew
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Bledsoe got hurt had they not drafted Tom Brady because
Brady was a six round pick. If somebody else got Brady,
it is very likely Belichick could have been fired. They
were in trouble there. Eric Mangini's told me the story before,
like they were starting if they lost the game day
one against like I think it was the Jets, they
were putting their houses up for sale. It's because Bill
(31:45):
lost four to five years in Cleveland and turned people off.
And in New England. I mean Bill's rough, So I
mean it's amazing what happened. Bill may have likely taken
a college job. I mean, if he'd have been fired
in Cleveland and New England, they wouldn't have gotten a
third offer. He would have gone to college then, and
he could have been Arguably when he was younger, had
(32:06):
great energy. He could have been Saban. And so think
about that. Saban could have been Belichick. Now I'm not
saying he's has that many trophies, but Nick Saban in
that division with dysfunctional Buffalo and New England not having
you know, Tom Brady, what if Saban dominates with Drew
(32:27):
Brees that division the AFC East forever, but the team
doctor for Miami would not give Drew Brees the go.
Drew Goes to New Orleans and Sean Payton and Breese
went there, and so Nick could have been I thought
Nick was going to work in the NFL. Many people
thought he was about ready to turn it around. And
then Belichick, you know, he gets Bledsoe gets hurt, and
Tom's ready to go. Well, they passed on Tom five times,
(32:51):
and you know it's just life. Send you kurbball. So
there is potentially Belichick could have been coaching in college
twenty years ago and Saban would have had a more
dynastic NFL history. So here's Belichick on the young players
he'll be recruiting and coaching and wanting to bring to Carolina.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Excited to be here, excited to be in college football,
Excited for the opportunity to build and develop young student athletes,
young men and prepare them for their life either in
the NFL or professionally. But the lessons they learn will
be be professional lessons. They'll be pros in all areas.
And that's what we want to develop as well as
(33:32):
as well as having a winning program, successful program, but
we want to develop good, good people and good kids
and good football players.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, and also I do think, you know, Bill wants
to get his son on that staff, and I think
that will happen, and then eventually I think Bill would
like to hand it to his son. I'm not a
huge fan of that. Bobby Knight wanted to do that
with Pat Knight. I don't think as But you know,
North Carolina, you know, I was J McK and I
are arguing this week. I see it as like the
(34:01):
twentieth best program in college football eighteen twenty around there.
Jmac thinks it's top twenty five. It's a good academic school.
The ACC is a very weak conference, so it's not
close to the Big ten of the SEC. I'm not
sure it's the Big twelve. So it is a conference
in which if you look at Carolina's schedule with Bill,
it is like it's Clemson and a bunch of stuff.
(34:24):
So they and they're collective now is going to go
from four to twenty million. So I can see Bill
putting his arms around North Carolina. You know, if Bill
could get Michael Jordan to chip in five, six, seven
million dollars to the collective, you know, you know, MJ.
I don't know if MJ's ever been. I don't think
he's a big football booster at Carolina. Could Bill Belichick,
you know, lure Michael Jordan in to give a few bucks. So,
(34:48):
I mean there are a lot of ws there. August thirtieth,
it starts. That is not one of the more rigorous
schedules next year in college football. It is the ACC
is not the SE See yeah that.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I see ten wins. I think you said the win
total in Vegas was what six and a half said.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Which which is like, guys, he's gonna win seven. We
gotta make sure they get to They don't have a quarterback, right,
But I mean, I'll just tell you that the over
under in Vegas is six and a half. As I said,
with the Broncos and the Rams next year, pound me over.
You can buy a quarterback in the portal. Let's go
buy one. Yeah, you don't have to get a great one.
(35:27):
There's yeah. I mean, listen, there's so much good quarterback play.
Now you can go get Will Howard from Kansas State's
good enough quarterback in the ACC to win nine ten days.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
He's actually Ohio State missed.
Speaker 11 (35:37):
I would have gone after Gabriel or camp Ward.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
They look like much better quarterbacks.
Speaker 11 (35:40):
But anyways, have you seen the movie Kingpin with Bill Murray.
It's bull It's about bowling. It's really awesome.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yeah, I think I have.
Speaker 11 (35:47):
Bill Murray's like kind of a bad dude in there,
and he's just like, Oh, I want all this money.
I can buy my way out of anything. And it's
a really funny line. And I look at this and
I'm like, holy cow, they added overnight like fifteen million
to their collect If Bill can buy his.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Way out of North Carolina's irrelevant.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Well they've never really I mean, Mac Brown you had
to spend money on. But Carolina has never had a
funding issue.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Well it's been a basketball school, that's right.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
But it makes the Dean Dome is it is a
highly I mean, Duke has six thousand seats, they have
twenty five. So in terms of profitability, Carolina basketball is
a machine. It's like Kentucky basketball and Carolina print money.
Speaker 11 (36:27):
How much of this do you think Bill is you know,
on the sideline watching football seem Indiana come out of
nowhere to win a billion.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
In Arizona State, Indiana and SMU made the playoff, So
I mean, I'm sure Carolina can make the play.
Speaker 11 (36:39):
They have to be watching that saying, Holy cow, there's
a new way to jump to the front of the bus.
In college football, just hit the poor hard. And I
will say Belichick didn't see him as gruff.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Remember when New England he was very funnier, looked like
he was seven.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Fun You know, here a lot of people think that
Robert Kraft poisoned the water. There was the Dogs commentary.
It was very pro Brady, pro Craft and dismissive of Bill.
So listen, Bill, even when Bill's winning, never had dinner
with Brady, did not get along with Robert Kraft. When
Bill's winning in pro football, he's difficult. So if he's
(37:17):
if he has turbulence in college, is he going to
be fun to be around. I don't know. I think
the personality. All I know is this, I know college
football coaches. It's a bit of a mess. Now it
is a wildly entertaining mess. But the transfer portal and
the NIL, I mean, they are changing. It feels like monthly.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
But some of us thrive in chaos.
Speaker 11 (37:40):
I think you and I are kind of built like
that were well, I think things are chaotic, That's well,
I think I.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Don't I don't think. I don't think I thrive in case.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
You're a procrastinator. I know you are.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I don't. I don't thrive in chaos. That's not true.
I thrive in structure, so I don't. I don't like case.
Speaker 11 (37:54):
You should be able to handle both, Colin, I can't.
I mean, like, breaking news hits and you're on it,
and you've got stories and you've got anasogies.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
It's chaos. That's just breaking news. That's chaos at work,
that's not chaos. I got a good staff. Put my
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So the Belichick press conference, everybody is seated. They're calling
it Chapel Bill apparently, which I think is outstanding. And
I think, you know, I will tell you if you're
listening on radio or watching on TV, I'm excited. This
is Gooseba stuff. I mean, it's just like Cliff Kingsbury said,
it's hard to believe it until you see it. But
you know, this is not what Belichick wanted. He wanted
(00:48):
to coach Chicago. He thought Chicago was the best job
and Jacksonville was the second best job. But those jobs
aren't interested. Also, in Jacksonville have Trent Balke running the show,
who battled with Jim Harbaugh in the Bay Area, so
Belichick would not have any say in personnel, not the
level he wanted to. And in Chicago you've got politics
(01:10):
in that front office. And the oldest ownership group in
the league. It's a little wonky, so that's not ideal.
But Chicago's got the best team. Jacksonville could be the
best opportunity because you have the most fully formed quarterback
in Trevor Lawrence. But I will say the winner in
this is not necessarily Belichick yet. The winner's Mike Rabel
(01:30):
because Jordan Schultz and I talked about this. Vrabel now
is the number one guy for all these jobs. When
you look at the Jets, and you look at Jacksonville
and you look at Chicago, what are they They are
broken franchises. They're not gonna do it with coordinators getting
their first job. The winner here is Vrabel. He is
(01:52):
the overwhelming number one choice. I talked to Mike for
fifteen minutes this morning, and you know he's he is listening.
I'll throw this out there. Let me just throw two
wild cards. I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but I mean,
we just watched Bill Bellichake take the Carolina job. Did
(02:14):
you think that was possible six weeks ago? Did you
think Kevin Durant would play for the Warriors when he
was with Okay, see stuff happens. Two things to think about, Vabel,
because the best job openings Jacksonville, Jets, Roster, Chicago not
great openings. Sit out for another year. Keep your eye
(02:40):
on Andy Reid's health, keep your eyeing. I know the
Chiefs want Andy there for as long as I'll coach,
but he is getting older and just just there's been,
you know, over the course a couple of years. The
second thing to think about is if Bellett, Let's say
he wins, but he is a sort of a disruptive
(03:04):
terse nature to him on an athletic campus. And Mike
Lombardi is nothing if not confident and outspoken and terse
and Kurt. I could see Belichick and Lombardi wearing out,
wearing out North Carolina. So I wouldn't be surprised if
(03:27):
this is fairly successful. But Bill, in a year, don't
think stuff is crazy. In a year, Bill says it
doesn't work for me, I'm out, here's my son, I'm
going back to the NFL. Do not think you think
it's crazy? Did you think Bill would be a candidate
for a college job a month ago? Folks? Sports is crazy?
(03:50):
You think Sam Darnold was going to be an MVP candidate.
Every time you think something's a hot take, it happens
every time. I mean, if I'd have told you three
years ago, Yeah, the NBA in December will have bright
purple courts, hot red courts. What what do they? Oh,
(04:11):
you just wait, it's gonna happen. Nobody wants to get
called out, but the trolls on the internet. But if
you start looking, if I said to you, there's gonna
be two or three something wild is gonna happen with Belichick.
It's not gonna be linear. Nothing with Bill now is.
And I said, he actually gets an NFL offer in
one year because he wins ten games, he proves it
(04:33):
can coach, He gets to the playoff, he wins a
game in the playoff. He's a better version of SMU.
He gets it and wins a game. He is exhausted
by the nonsense of the transfer portal in the NIL which,
by the way, right now it's exhausting college coaches who
are forty four are exhausted by it. And Bill gets
(04:55):
an offer. So Bill and the brass just sat down.
Right now, it's the North Carolina president talking. Oh boy,
I bet that's riveting. And there's Bill next to him.
Isn't that something.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
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Speaker 1 (05:13):
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Speaker 1 (05:23):
So Bill Belichick is speaking at Chapel Hill. He is
the new football coach for North Carolina. Mike Lombardi, who
used to work at this network for a brief time,
is now his general manager, which is an increasing role
in college football. Let's just open the mic up and
listen for a minute or two.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
It's a you know, connection with him down the road.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
But excited to be here, excited to be in college football,
Excited for the opportunity to build and develop young student athletes,
young men, and prepare them for their life either in
the NFL or professionally. But the lessons they learn will
be be professional lessons. They'll be pros in all areas.
(06:04):
And that's what we want to develop as long as
as well as having a winning program, successful program, but
we want to develop good, good people and good kids
and good football players.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
So Steve, thank you, coach, forgive me before we go
to questions. One omission that allow luminaries in the room
right now, but only one of you were inducted in
the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football
Hall of Fame the last six months.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Julius Peppers.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Okay again, please, if you would identify yourself and your
affiliation quickly, Let's let's get through the questions quickly so
we can get to as many people as possible. Hold
your hands right now, because I've got seven assigned already.
We're going to start over here on the right hand side.
Aaron Beard with the AP, I've already done that part.
Go ahead, aerin high coach.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
When you were studying college football in the last and
examining it, you know, so much more has come into
professionalism in the model, whether it's nil, portal revenue sharing
coming up. How many parallels did you see to what
the experience you've had at the pros and do you
envision it sort of being like a mini NFL team
in that regard?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah, thanks, Aaron. I do think there are a lot
of parallels.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
There's certainly some differences, but there are some parallels, and
I think that's the reason for the general structure of
you know, Michael as a general manager. Myself as the
coach and working together collaboratively like we have done, you know,
in a professional organization. So yeah, I do think there's
some parallels. There's differences for sure, but yes, right next
to him. I'm sorry, coach, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
Hey, Bill Brendan Marks from the athletic At what point
in this process did you decide or know that you
wanted to become the next head coach here? Was there
a singular moment when that happened? And can you elaborate
on the investment that North Carolina and your conversations with
the chancellor and Bubba made to make you feel comfortable
taking the role.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Yeah, I mean it was you know, we went through
a process, but it was great. Every step of the
way was great. The sport was tremendous, you know, all
the things that I feel are important to having a
successful program above in and the chancellor Roberts reaffirmed, and
I think they've made you know, they've made a great
commitment to this program.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Obviously a great university. And i'd say, along the.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Way as kind of things got out, if you will,
the amount of support that I got from Carolina grads,
former Carolina football players. You know, people are connected with
this university was really overwhelming. And not that I'm any
social media expert, because I'm not, but there was an
awful lot of you know, positive feedback from my face
(08:45):
and stuff like that, and it was great.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Front row left here Chip, Chip, Alexander and News Observer
in Raleigh.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I just I'm roughly your age. So I ask you
this respectfully, just at seventy two, why do you want
to keep coaching?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
What's in it for you?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You've proven yourself over and over and your legacy is
why keep coaching?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Well, beat's working. You know, when you love what you do.
And my dad told me this, when you love what
you do, it's not work. It's really it's I love
what I do. I love coaching. I love the interaction
with the players. I love building a team, working with
the assistants, game planning, the game itself, which you know,
there's some good ones, there's some bad ones, but they're
all learning experience and working with you know, young kids
(09:30):
who with the energy, enthusiasm to want to be good,
to want to be successful. It's you know, it's great
every day to wake up and come into that environment.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Thank you, I have you got Andrew then Michael hey, coach
Andrew Joestario illustrated.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
But a lot of talk's been made.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
About there's Bill Belichick fielding questions in Chapel Hill. His
dad way back when I think it was late thirties.
His dad was briefly there at North Carolina. And college
football is a very fluid sport. One of the guys
that is close to mastering it, and as really, I mean,
we thought Dan Lanning. I covered Oregon for years. He
(10:08):
had big energy, big recruiting, good resume. He's really hit
it out of the park at Oregon. And it's hard.
This is a very it's like technology. It's a very
fluid sport with boundaries that are changing. And Dan Lanning
at Oregon has crushed it. And he's the only undefeated
college football coach joining us now live three years at Oregon.
(10:31):
You know I'm watching that Bill Belichick press conference. I
gotta tell you, if you could say, Hey, Bill, here's
one thing about college football, Like what one thing would
you give any coach, legend or young guy one piece
of advice? Dan, Hey, get ready to adapt.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
What it is today might be something different tomorrow. So
you better be ready.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
To play on your toes because it's consistently changing. That's
the one thing that's consistent about college ball right now.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So you've been a DC it in the SEC, you've
been a head coach in the Pac twelve. Now you're
a head coach in the Big Ten. So that your
journey's crazy. You're you're bouncing all over the country. Now,
I think it's an advantage. But this year in the
Big Ten, I thought, because Oregon's got the kind of weather,
you weren't a warm weather team. You play in rain
and Eugene, you can handle the Midwest? Was the Big Ten?
(11:24):
What you expected? Mostly? Coach?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (11:29):
You know what I expect to beyond great football, And
I do think we got to experience that and some
of the story competitions that exist in this conference, you know,
getting to go some of these great venues.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Yeah, I think, I guess in a lot of ways,
it was what I expected.
Speaker 10 (11:42):
It was a great challenge and a lot of fun
for our team.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
A lot of coaches, Brian Kelly, Lincoln Riley, they got
money in their collective. Yours has worked. You've been able
to sew the fabric of chemistry together. The two things
when I watch Oregon they play hard every snap and
they are fast. You've made the portal work for you,
(12:06):
and I think it's harder than people think. I mean,
in the NFL you often bring back most of your
roster ten years ago. In college, you know you'd replace
fifteen eighteen guy. How have you done it? What has
been the key to the balance of fresh new faces
but really strong Oregon football culture?
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (12:25):
I think a lot of that credit, you know, lies
within our players and our staff. They've they've created a
standard and I get to work with great people every
single day.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
I think there's a clear cut, you know, balance of
what we really.
Speaker 10 (12:35):
Want, what kind of people we want to bring into
the organization, and then our players that pulled in the
standard of what, you know, what great football looks like,
what being a great teammate looks like.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
And our guys have really attacked that. And you know,
we talk about player led teams.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
I think every coach talks about player let teams, but
we truly have a player let team here and they're
going to make sure the guys around them come to work,
you know, every single day, and that's paid off for us.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
You know. It's funny. I love your intensity. It jumps
through the screen. There was a game this year and
I knew you were good, and I had predicted before
the season that I thought you would beat Ohio State
at home. But the Wisconsin game, you didn't play well
in one and that was the game. I was like, Okay,
they can win a Nattie because Otson's hard to win,
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and I'm like, well, they're gonna beat anybody at Outson.
But that game was interesting because I'm like, boy, they
had their B game. Was there a moment for you
this season where there was something where you were flying
home or driving home after a game and thought, boy,
there's this team may have a little something I didn't
think we had.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
I don't know if I ever really had that moment.
Speaker 10 (13:36):
I think maybe what excites me the most about this
team is we've been able to win in different ways,
you know, and you don't ever want that as your
as a coach, you always want your a game in
every phase. But when we played Boise State early in
the year, we struggled and we won on special teams.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
We had a punt returning, a kickoff return, you know,
to create that win.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
You play Wisconsin, we really won on defense, and you
go last week, you know, playing Penn State in the
Big Ten Championship game, our offense was clicking on all cylinders.
And what's good for us is knowing that you can
win in a variety of ways. But when we put
that all together, I think you're talking about a really
special team. So that's the hope, you know, as we
try to finish this thing off, is to be able
to put all three phases together and have a great run.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You know, it's interesting, Dan, when you have young teams
in the NFL, an older team like a Kansas City Chiefs,
getting a buye is good for the team, but a
lot of times young teams don't give them time off.
They heal faster, get them out there. Would you rather
be playing or are you comfortable saying, hey, Ohio State,
Tennessee you bang around? I mean, I guess it's an
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advantage sitting, but you're already sitting, and I think with
young players in your momentum, are you worried a little
bit about this is quite a layoff for you.
Speaker 10 (14:46):
Yeah, it's on us as a coaching staff. To me,
it's about how you use your time. Right, If you're
just sitting and waiting for the for the next opportunity.
Then you definitely are are not putting yourself in an advantage.
For us, it's all about how we use this time, right,
How can we study ourselves as coaches, How can we
study ourselves as players, utilize the opportunity for recovery, you know,
challenge the parts of the game that we can be
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better at. So for us, we've got a detailed plan
for where we're trying to improve what we want to attack.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
And obviously there's some chaos in college football right now.
Speaker 10 (15:15):
You're dealing with the transfer portal and everything else that
exists right now.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
So we're trying to utilize that time the best.
Speaker 10 (15:20):
And I think that's what will create an advantage for us,
is if we have a great plan for that.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
By the way, I got to ask you about bow Nicks,
so I brought him here. He sat in the couch
for a half hour.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
He was great.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I loved him. He is way feistier I've watched in
the NFL. He'd dog cussing, he getting in Sean Payton's face,
and I'm like, man, he And then I read a
story of the other day that like, you have no
idea how feisty bon Nicks. Is was was that the
bow Nicks at Oregon that he'd get after guys.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
He's always been competitive man.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
He I think he has a competitive spirit that people
don't realize because you know, he's just a great young man,
Like he's a great dude. But when you stepped on
the football field.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
He'd be angry.
Speaker 10 (16:02):
He'd be angry if it didn't go his way, and
you could challenge him every single day in practice. You know,
I was pretty fired up the other day. I got
a bone Nick's Christmas card. That's that's a shout out
to his wife, Izzie.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
You know I was.
Speaker 10 (16:13):
I was fired up to know that they were on
their piece and Ques I don't I don't think the
Landings have sent out a.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Christmas card yet.
Speaker 10 (16:19):
So as good as he's playing, and they got their
whole house in order right now, I think that's a
great example of how they compete.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Well, you've done a remarkable job. Congrats on the win
over Penn State and Oregon is humming. I don't think
the committee got it right. I thought you deserved a
better placement. But you know what, you didn't complain about it.
It's the job. It's the task. Go win games, and
I can't wait to watch you play, and congrats on
all your success.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Appreciate it, Colin, and we're certainly excited about the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Can't wait, cannot wait. Fastest team I've seen in college football, balance,
can win multiple ways, Dan Lanning, coach of the Oregon Ducks,
and beautiful Eugene, Oregon. They are they got California speed man,
they got they defensively, they are not that there's some
holes there, like you know, it's you know, we're not
going to have another Saban dynasty with a portal like.
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Nobody's got depth, nobody's great everywhere. The college model looks
like the NFL model now, is that you have a
collective and you got you don't have a salary cap,
but you have let's say you have eighteen million dollars
to spend. Well, the quarterback's going to gobble up two
or three of that. You're going to get like a
left tackle's gonna gobble up some a couple of wide receivers.
So you do sort of have a cap, like you
got to be very judicious with your money. And so
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nobody's a perfect team, like there are no perfect teams.
I think Ohio State's really good, but they're not great
at quarterback. I think Texas is already good. I think
they should play arch Manning more. But I don't think
they're there as explosive offensively as i'd like. So. Oregon's
off offense, though, I don't see a lot of holes.
They can run, they can spread you out, they can
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run the football. That's the best offense in college football.
There are better defenses, but college like pro. Now you
know Lane Kiffin when he went to Alabama to be
the offensive coordinator of Nick Saban. Remember that it's a
New York Times story on this. It's great. Lane said, coach,
you can't stop me. Watch my offense at practice at Alabama.
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Beat your defense at Alabama, and Nick Saban watched him.
The rule changes now Nick Saban found out Nick Saban
had people scoring forty points on him. So if you're
gonna have a side that's a little weaker than the other,
make it the defense. And Oregon can drop forty five
on anybody on any game. Especially now you give them
prep time, so they're gonna have all sorts of prep
time in Ohio State and Tennessee are excellent teams. What
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if those guys were in a cold weather twenty seventeen battle.
They both the winner comes up dinged up, a little bit,
a little emotionally spent. And here's Oregon sitting there, healthy,
waiting with a clever offensive game plan. I can't wait,
jamact with the news.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Turn on the news. This is the Herdline news.
Speaker 11 (19:02):
Well, the biggest history in sports today is Belichick going
to Chapel Hill. The area is exiting the car this
morning Chapel Bill took to the presser with the media.
I met the ink stained wretches down there in North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And we have a lot of sound calling.
Speaker 11 (19:19):
Here's Bill Belichick talking about taking the job at North Carolina.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
I always wanted a coach in football, coaching college football, and.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
It just never really worked out.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Had some good years in the NFL, so that was okay.
But this is really kind of a dream come true.
I grew up in college football with my dad as
the coach of Navy for fifty years, so as.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
A kill I knew was college football.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah. So I you know, your life takes you in
different routes, and he very early in his career got connected,
you know, with Bill Parcells, and was very quickly one
of the kind of remarkable young assistants. Listen, man, we're
all hoping this works.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I mean, listen, it may not. I am of the
belief it will work.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
The schedule is too weak not to be byable.
Speaker 11 (20:11):
How much do you think he leaned on Nick Saban?
Here him back many years.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Urban Meyer and Nick Saban are friends.
Speaker 11 (20:18):
So all this all this like, oh well, Nick Saban
walked away it was too much.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I don't think Belichick sees it that way. Man, I
just don't. I understand why people would say that.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
But the sport is totally changed, and Belichick has been
able to watch in this year off.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
He's been able to see the landscape.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
None of us think he's gonna fail. I think my
take is it won't be a good long term fit.
It will work.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Year one will be define long term one.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I don't think he'll be there five years.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, at seventy seven years old. I hope he's well.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I think he'll be exhausted. I think, I think. I
think the college experience is ever changing. The NCAA is toothless.
Administrations in college are needy. The athletic department will be offended.
I think you know, I listen, he ideally wanted an
NFL job. This wasn't his first choice. The Seth Wickersham article.
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He wanted the Chicago job. He thinks it's the best job.
It is the best job.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
Well, in my xenvill, we know he doesn't want to
work for guys that he doesn't respect.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
There was that issue in Atlanta. You think he wants
to work.
Speaker 11 (21:23):
For that front office, and they picked the roster for
Bill Belichick. So my guess is sure he would love
to coach the Bears if he had full control and
was able to do his thing. But he's got to
answer to Kevin Warren and pulls. No way, there's no
way he's doing that. And again I'll go back to
this column. What do those guys want.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Nothing?
Speaker 11 (21:43):
What is the guy in Jacksonville who Shultz said cozying
up to the owner? What's that guy done? And now
Belichick would have to go answer to that.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Dude.
Speaker 11 (21:50):
No, that doesn't make sense. This guy should get the
keys to the kingdom. And if you don't want to
do that, fine, go hire some other coach and cycle
through the guy, and you'll be looking again for a
coach in three or four year. And this is a
Jets fan here talking. I've never liked Belichick or the.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Patriots ever, I think he's gonna succeed.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I'm rooting for well or I think you have to
root for him. It's fun. I mean, what if Bill
stays in college for three years, goes ten, eleven, twelve,
and wouldn't it be amazing if he ends up playing
for a national title. Crazier things have happened.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
How's this?
Speaker 11 (22:23):
Do you think he's more likely to get to the
Final four in college football or coach again in the NFL?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Can I think about that?
Speaker 11 (22:35):
Yeah? Sure, well, we gotta see what he gets in
the portal, but a get I think he's only looking
at it. Maybe if he wins the ACC, you're getting
the top four seed unless they change.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Things, right, Listen, I'm just saying that's one win. I
will not be shocked if Belichick has a good first
year and gets an NFL head coaching offer, because you
get seven openings a year, and you think that NFL
offer will be total control the way you have it
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in North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Because he's not inswering to anyone.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I think it will be an offer. For instance, McDermott
fails in the playoffs again, and Josh Allen needs a coach.
Where would you go. I'm just saying it, sean job,
that's not a bad job. You would leave college for
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that immediately. I'm saying, Sean mcdermotts a good coach. A
good coach is not beating Andy Reid and Mahomes. If
McDermott flames out, let's say this year they get, they
get to the conference championship and lose, and they give
him basically one more year. I'm just saying, everybody thinks
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this stuff is crazy.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
No, it's not.
Speaker 11 (23:50):
No, No, literally, anything can happen. You don't know, coaches fail,
rise it's it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Anyways.
Speaker 11 (23:56):
Next up, Colin is the big battle tonight on Thursday
night football Ram Niners.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
It feels like an elimination game.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
I know they're not officially calling it that, but it
certainly feels that way. Matt Stafford has been cooking in
the last four games.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Ten touchdowns, no picks.
Speaker 11 (24:10):
Here's John Lynch talking about what makes Stafford such a
tough opponent.
Speaker 12 (24:15):
Pressure in his face, and that doesn't that doesn't do
the job all the time with a guy like him.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
This dude's a tough guy.
Speaker 12 (24:23):
He can get hit in, knocked down, and he just
keeps coming. And so you know you have to play
four quarters versus Matthew Stafford lead team. I think the
other thing is what I spoke to is the arm
angles that no look passes.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
It's really bold what he does.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
It blows my mind.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, it'll be fun. Isn't good? The Amazon's done well.
It's been a very good Thursday slate. Most of my
memory of Thursday night games has been clunkers, uninspired. We've
had some gems on Thursday Night.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
I'm seeing in the notes here from the producer. Osa
is questionable due to the hip injury. Trent Williams officially
ruled out. And the big news is Drake Greenlaw, the
guy who popped his ACL in the Super Bowl. He's
expected to be activated, it says ACL. I think it
was Achilles, but he's expected to be activated.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
It's a big win.
Speaker 11 (25:15):
If they can get him back against that Kyron Williams
run game, that would be big for the Niners defense.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
You want to put a score out there for tonight's festivities.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Twenty four to twenty three, Oh, who's winning? Twenty seven
twenty three twenty seven twenty three San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So Niners cover the two and a half.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
What do you think?
Speaker 9 (25:38):
Or three?
Speaker 11 (25:38):
It's three right now, Dan, that was going to be
my exact score. I'll go thirty one twenty seven Niners.
I see high school, I see points. Just remember Shanahan
has largely dominated McVeigh. I know McVeigh won the NFC
championship in the game earlier this season.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But final story calls to the NBA.
Speaker 11 (25:56):
Listen, we haven't dug too much into this because I
kind of sort of don't think it's real. But this
Lebron trade stuff will not really go away. Last season,
the Warriors, remember called the Lakers about Lebron to try
to make it happen.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Did not happen.
Speaker 11 (26:12):
Well, now, Brian Winhurst, very credible is reporting the Warriors
are once again monitoring Lebron's trade status and will jump
at the opportunity if he becomes available. The idea of
Lebron and Jeff Curry together is bringing me back to
the Olympics, which were amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Okay, so LEBN throw this out there. Lebron James, for
personal reasons, has taken several days off.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Why has he gone with Savannah personal reasons. He has
been informed in my opinion of a possible trade. I
know why, When is the last time Lebron just said
I'm gonna take a three four day siesta early in
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the season.
Speaker 11 (27:01):
I think it was Miami where he kind of vanished,
remember for eight or ten days?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Why did he do that? Unhappy with what It's interesting? Yes,
but hold.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
He hand picked JJ Reddick for this job.
Speaker 11 (27:14):
I cannot imagine Lebron saying, hey, Reddick's my guy, my
podcasting partner, let's do this time out and then the
Lakers just saying, we're trading you that that deathfield didn't see.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You think the Warriors can win a title? No, you
think the Lakers can win a title?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Who those are not title teams? Come on, give me
a break. So the bottom line is, the Warriors know
how Lebron works with great shooters. So if I'm the
Warriors and I say Lebron's got two years, we'll take Browny,
put him on the bench, and the Lakers go, we
need draft capital, we want to build around Anthony Davis
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will take the Wiggans contract. Now, I think the Lakers
would want like paminga well, coming. But they're not getting that, TJD.
They're not they're not getting that. They give me, give
me a lot. They'd want that. You'd have to surrender
Wiggins contract to make it work.
Speaker 11 (28:04):
Well, I'm not if if come Kaminga has to be
in the deal. He's probably the biggest upside guy on
that day.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
They're not getting them.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
You're not get Lebron, you know, enjoy enjoy them.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
That's probably what they're arguing. But why would Lebron take
this break?
Speaker 11 (28:17):
Give me a I don't have you know, he's coming
up on his fortieth birthday.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
We've seen players like ja It's sorry, James Arden. Remember
Kyrie Irving won a time off for FA.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah, those guys. Those guys are hi.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
That's a great question. Why would Lebron take time off
in December?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I think he and Savannah are talking about the future,
the trade that we're thrown in his ear, what to
do with Brownie? Should they let him go play for
somebody else? I think these are big decisions. Or maybe
he just wants to hang out. Doubt, take a breather.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
He's got to do Christmas shopping. Man, Come on, that's tough.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
J Mack with the news.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Well that's the news.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
And thanks for stopping by Third Line News.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I mean I did the sports talk radio. It's rumor
mill stuff, but it is interesting. I mean, Lebron's not
a Hey, I'm gonna take a break early in the
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Speaker 3 (29:48):
It all fits off tomorrow at eighty stern Line.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
So Belichick new coach at North Carolina, Mike Lombardi, who
worked briefly at this comedy and kind of a media
guy used to be in Cleveland, got let go there
he and you know, he and Belichick have a very
similar personality, kind of gruff East Coast feeling, you know,
very much into history and tradition, kind of Kurt you know,
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very confident, and so Belichick today talk about Mike Lombardy
is his college GM.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
I'm here to to, as Bubba said, teach, develop and
build the program and in the way that I believe
in and so grateful to have Michael, you know, with
me in this process.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Michael and I have worked together for.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Gone on the way back over thirty years, and you
know he has a great knowledge of the general manager
role of, if you will, in this type of position
with terms of you know, scouting two sets of players,
high school players and college portal players, as well as
dealing with some version of it's called salary cap, which
is now you know, part of college football.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
The you know, it's interesting life can go in lots
of directions. If Nick Saban and the team doctor with
the Miami Dolphins would have given the okay for Drew Brees,
nick Saban never goes to Alabama, he wins in the
NFL with Drew Brees. And if Bill Belichick when Drew
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Bledsoe got hurt had they not drafted Tom Brady because
Brady was a six round pick. If somebody else got Brady,
it is very likely Belichick could have been fired. They
were in trouble there. Eric Mangini's told me the story before,
like they were starting if they lost the game day
one against like I think it was the Jets, they
were putting their houses up for sale. It's because Bill
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lost four to five years in Cleveland and turned people off.
And in New England. I mean Bill's rough, So I
mean it's amazing what happened. Bill may have likely taken
a college job. I mean, if he'd have been fired
in Cleveland and New England, they wouldn't have gotten a
third offer. He would have gone to college then, and
he could have been Arguably when he was younger, had
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great energy. He could have been Saban. And so think
about that. Saban could have been Belichick. Now I'm not
saying he's has that many trophies, but Nick Saban in
that division with dysfunctional Buffalo and New England not having
you know, Tom Brady, what if Saban dominates with Drew
(32:27):
Brees that division the AFC East forever, but the team
doctor for Miami would not give Drew Brees the go.
Drew Goes to New Orleans and Sean Payton and Breese
went there, and so Nick could have been I thought
Nick was going to work in the NFL. Many people
thought he was about ready to turn it around. And
then Belichick, you know, he gets Bledsoe gets hurt, and
Tom's ready to go. Well, they passed on Tom five times,
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and you know it's just life. Send you kurbball. So
there is potentially Belichick could have been coaching in college
twenty years ago and Saban would have had a more
dynastic NFL history. So here's Belichick on the young players
he'll be recruiting and coaching and wanting to bring to Carolina.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Excited to be here, excited to be in college football,
Excited for the opportunity to build and develop young student athletes,
young men and prepare them for their life either in
the NFL or professionally. But the lessons they learn will
be be professional lessons. They'll be pros in all areas.
And that's what we want to develop as well as
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as well as having a winning program, successful program, but
we want to develop good, good people and good kids
and good football players.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, and also I do think, you know, Bill wants
to get his son on that staff, and I think
that will happen, and then eventually I think Bill would
like to hand it to his son. I'm not a
huge fan of that. Bobby Knight wanted to do that
with Pat Knight. I don't think as But you know,
North Carolina, you know, I was J McK and I
are arguing this week. I see it as like the
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twentieth best program in college football eighteen twenty around there.
Jmac thinks it's top twenty five. It's a good academic school.
The ACC is a very weak conference, so it's not
close to the Big ten of the SEC. I'm not
sure it's the Big twelve. So it is a conference
in which if you look at Carolina's schedule with Bill,
it is like it's Clemson and a bunch of stuff.
(34:24):
So they and they're collective now is going to go
from four to twenty million. So I can see Bill
putting his arms around North Carolina. You know, if Bill
could get Michael Jordan to chip in five, six, seven
million dollars to the collective, you know, you know, MJ.
I don't know if MJ's ever been. I don't think
he's a big football booster at Carolina. Could Bill Belichick,
you know, lure Michael Jordan in to give a few bucks. So,
(34:48):
I mean there are a lot of ws there. August thirtieth,
it starts. That is not one of the more rigorous
schedules next year in college football. It is the ACC
is not the SE See yeah that.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I see ten wins. I think you said the win
total in Vegas was what six and a half said.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Which which is like, guys, he's gonna win seven. We
gotta make sure they get to They don't have a quarterback, right,
But I mean, I'll just tell you that the over
under in Vegas is six and a half. As I said,
with the Broncos and the Rams next year, pound me over.
You can buy a quarterback in the portal. Let's go
buy one. Yeah, you don't have to get a great one.
(35:27):
There's yeah. I mean, listen, there's so much good quarterback play.
Now you can go get Will Howard from Kansas State's
good enough quarterback in the ACC to win nine ten days.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
He's actually Ohio State missed.
Speaker 11 (35:37):
I would have gone after Gabriel or camp Ward.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
They look like much better quarterbacks.
Speaker 11 (35:40):
But anyways, have you seen the movie Kingpin with Bill Murray.
It's bull It's about bowling. It's really awesome.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yeah, I think I have.
Speaker 11 (35:47):
Bill Murray's like kind of a bad dude in there,
and he's just like, Oh, I want all this money.
I can buy my way out of anything. And it's
a really funny line. And I look at this and
I'm like, holy cow, they added overnight like fifteen million
to their collect If Bill can buy his.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Way out of North Carolina's irrelevant.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Well they've never really I mean, Mac Brown you had
to spend money on. But Carolina has never had a
funding issue.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Well it's been a basketball school, that's right.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
But it makes the Dean Dome is it is a
highly I mean, Duke has six thousand seats, they have
twenty five. So in terms of profitability, Carolina basketball is
a machine. It's like Kentucky basketball and Carolina print money.
Speaker 11 (36:27):
How much of this do you think Bill is you know,
on the sideline watching football seem Indiana come out of
nowhere to win a billion.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
In Arizona State, Indiana and SMU made the playoff, So
I mean, I'm sure Carolina can make the play.
Speaker 11 (36:39):
They have to be watching that saying, Holy cow, there's
a new way to jump to the front of the bus.
In college football, just hit the poor hard. And I
will say Belichick didn't see him as gruff.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Remember when New England he was very funnier, looked like
he was seven.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Fun You know, here a lot of people think that
Robert Kraft poisoned the water. There was the Dogs commentary.
It was very pro Brady, pro Craft and dismissive of Bill.
So listen, Bill, even when Bill's winning, never had dinner
with Brady, did not get along with Robert Kraft. When
Bill's winning in pro football, he's difficult. So if he's
(37:17):
if he has turbulence in college, is he going to
be fun to be around. I don't know. I think
the personality. All I know is this, I know college
football coaches. It's a bit of a mess. Now it
is a wildly entertaining mess. But the transfer portal and
the NIL, I mean, they are changing. It feels like monthly.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
But some of us thrive in chaos.
Speaker 11 (37:40):
I think you and I are kind of built like
that were well, I think things are chaotic, That's well,
I think I.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Don't I don't think. I don't think I thrive in case.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
You're a procrastinator. I know you are.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I don't. I don't thrive in chaos. That's not true.
I thrive in structure, so I don't. I don't like case.
Speaker 11 (37:54):
You should be able to handle both, Colin, I can't.
I mean, like, breaking news hits and you're on it,
and you've got stories and you've got anasogies.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
It's chaos. That's just breaking news. That's chaos at work,
that's not chaos. I got a good staff. Put my
feet up and put a live raycon feet on and
take away the show.
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