December 28, 2024 • 15 mins
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After beating Texas A&M to close out their season, Colin has a LOT of thoughts on the USC Trojans!
He breaks down the bright spots and needs on the roster and explains why the program needs to hire a GM that isn’t one of Lincoln Riley’s “guys”. He identifies positions of need where USC needs to work hard at recruiting, and looks ahead to their 2025 season!
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(00:29):
All right, listen, this is just for Trojan fans. But
here's about twenty minutes my thoughts on the season overall,
because you know, I'm into that recruiting stuff and portal stuff,
and I think it's one of my favorite parts and
volume that I just if I'm in the mood, I
went for an hour walk, got a coffee and thought,
had so many thoughts ruminating in my head, and I thought,
you know, I want to get it out there. So
(00:49):
I'm going to be watching football all day anyway. So
let's talk about Lincoln Riley that time out late in
the game. After the game, he went out and said, listen,
ten minute on the field, you know, pick your poison,
we call the time out. It all worked out. I
did not like them moving away from the running game
at the end of the first half and early in
(01:09):
the third quarter. I think they have found a star
running back in Brian Jackson, who's got a Lendale White feel.
I think they've really found he looks like the most
formidable power back they have had since the Pete Carroll era.
I think you have a star in the freshman Brian
Jackson out of Texas two thirty five, powerful, decisive, hits
(01:30):
the hole moving forward. That's a Sunday player that looks
like a Sunday running back. He's not gonna blow down
the sidelines. He's not a speedback, but he is a
power back and he can find the whole decisively. I
really like him. More on that later. But Lincoln Riley's here.
He's got a long contract. They put three hundred million
into the facilities, the collectives up to eighteen million. They
(01:51):
can buy some of the best players. In my opinion,
the need for this program is a general manager above everything.
The current people in place are allies of Lincoln Riley.
To me, that's not good enough. If you want to
compete with the big boys, you have to go hire
a former NFLGM. You know, there's a lot of people.
You could hire Chris Peterson and just say Chris, you're
(02:13):
the general manager. Run the program. That'd be one of
the first guys I called. I'm not sure he has
any interest. He now works at Fox as a broadcaster.
But that's the number one need of the program. To
get to the big boys, you got to get a
general manager, and the current people in place, to me,
aren't at the level necessary. The second thing I would
talk about is I didn't like all the play calling.
(02:34):
I thought going away from Brian Jackson in the run
game a couple different times wasn't prudent, but it all
worked out. Let's talk about the season that just passed.
You beat eight and four LSU to start, and you
beat eight and four Texas A and M, and you
lost in overtime to a Penn State team that's vying
from the national championship. The Maryland lost was awful, Rutgers Washington,
(02:58):
don't get me wrong, but you went to against the SEC.
I think that's as many wins as Oklahoma had against
the SEC. And again you had Penn State in a
tough spot. Penn State's a better team, clearly so. And
also the schedule last year, the schedule with first year
starter Miller Moss. You opened up LSU and then you're
at Michigan a couple of weeks later next year. The
(03:21):
schedule is about as easy as you can get in
the Big Ten. Missouri State and Georgia Southern to start
a notch below LSU at Purdue, Michigan State at Illinois,
and then idle. You all have two weeks to prepare
for Michigan and their freshman quarterback. That's a lot different
than LSU and a couple of weeks later at the
(03:42):
Big House with Miller Moss. That's a whole different scenario.
So the schedule plays into their favor. Two weeks to
prep for a powerhouse in Michigan. That's good. Quarterback Jaden Mayava.
He's a little too reckless for my taste, but he's
a sophomore and from UNLV to USC, he stepped up
(04:02):
in competition, started late in the year. He's never had
a real off season. With Lincoln Riley, I don't necessarily
think they're going to bring a quarterback in. He's a sophomore.
I mean, you saw from first half to second half
the difference in him last night. I mean, he's got
when he steps into it, he's got an arm. He
(04:23):
looked anxious. He's a player that's I think as good
as his confidence. I thought he was very confident late.
He lacked confidence early when they fell behind. Too many
balls are thrown in harm's way. But again, he's a sophomore.
He's never had an off season program with Lincoln Riley.
They're also bringing in a five star high school kid
from southern California. I'm not sure they're going to go
(04:45):
outside the program. Will he get better? Absolutely? Is he
an elite college quarterback? To me, very debatable, i'd lean know,
but you know, you start looking around at the teams
vying for national championship, not all of them have NFL quarterbacks.
You don't have to have an NFL quarterback the positives
(05:05):
on the roster. Let's go back to Brian Jackson. Six
feet two thirty feels like a Lendale White would be
my comp really really big time player. I mean that
go there. They got backup offensive lineman and he is
finding big holes. Decisive, not a burner, but decisive power back.
Kind of a one step cut guy like Zach Charboney
(05:28):
was at UCLA. Sort of a goes one cut off
to the races. I like him a lot. Jacoby Lane,
mackay Lemonar obviously elite receivers. I think too much is
made of Deuce Robinson and Branch transferring out of the program.
I thought it was too cluttered. Last year Hudson as well,
I thought it was too cluttered. I think I think
that the reality is guys want touches and wide receiver
(05:51):
Nfler College has always been a little higher maintenance positions.
Guys want touches. Jacobe Lane's a Sunday player. He'll come
back as a junior one more year at US. That's
your number one. Lemon is a one, A outstanding. Then
you're gonna have upgrades at tight end. The tight end
position I think will be have more dynamic playmakers next year.
Some of the kids in the program now are bigger, stronger.
(06:14):
Lincoln Riley doesn't use a tight end a ton anyway.
But you know, when I look at what USC brings
back in the skill department, even the quarterback moves pretty well.
I like their foundation. It's also my biggest complaint this
year is they just didn't have enough NFL bodies on
the offense, offensive line and defensive line. They just didn't
(06:35):
have any depth. Next year they bring back Elijah Page.
He'll play he'll be a top two or three left
tackle in the Big Ten. Probably is last year at USC,
hopefully not. Tobias Raymond is certainly I thought last night
he's your right tackle. Been in the program three years,
big hard working kid. Long and then Justin Tuhanu, who
(06:57):
got duty last night as a freshman from Huntington Beach.
I think he's tremendous. I've been telling a couple of
people in the program, I'm like, that's your kid. So
you have three capable starting offensive tackles this year. I
thought it was Page, who was a red shirt freshman.
That's just not good enough in the Big Ten. I
think you could probably bring in a transfer if you
wanted to compete for a job at right tackle. But
(07:18):
you're bringing into excellent, four star offensive tackles who can
red shirt and then play. I really honestly feel good
about the offensive tackle position for the first time in
maybe twelve to fifteen years. Between Page, Raymond, and tu
and new those are NFL bodies. However it plays out
for their careers, I don't know, but I feel really
good about that. The other thing that's been I remember
(07:41):
years ago talking to Urban Meyer about this. I said California,
whatever it is, just does not produce. For a state
of thirty eight million people, it does not produce a
lot of great defensive line bodies. Maybe it's the diet hell,
I don't know, it's the California diet. Who knows. And
we had talked about that. I remember at the time saying,
if I ever went to USC, he goes. You know,
(08:02):
you just got to live in Houston, in Atlanta, and
you know areas of the country that produced three hundred
and twenty five pound defensive linemen. For whatever reasons, California
doesn't produce a ton of those players. You often have
to leave the state, and that's what Lincoln Riley's done.
I think Floyd Bouchard, Miami Beach defensive tackle that will
come in this year as a true freshman, probably won't
(08:23):
play a lot. He'll be rotational. Looks like an SEC
interior defensive lineman. Jakeem Stewart, another from the South Louisiana
looks like an SEC defensive linement. Some of this stuff
is aesthetics. We've just been too small in the trenches.
Two and seventy five pound defensive linemen Jamal Jarrett from
(08:47):
Georgia's coming in as a transfer, big body, Keishawn Silver
from Kentucky, big body. So I just I feel like
the look of the defensive line looks more like you
get at a Michigan or a Clemson or in LSU.
Are they all great players? Probably not, But that has
been my complaint now for several years running. We just
(09:08):
don't have enough left tackle NFL Sunday bodies in the program.
I think now we have three. We don't have enough
NFL bodies in the defensive interior. Now we have three
or four. So and there's a couple of freshmen this
year that played a little bit. They did play in
the Bowl. So I think that's very promising to me
because I think when you move into the Big ten,
(09:29):
the weather's overrated. I mean, let's be honest. College football
games are September, October, November, and you maybe have one
in December, right, you know, if usc made the playoff,
you know they maybe have a cold game on the
road somewhere up north. That's that's fine. Remember your your
last regular season game is gonna usually be potentially with
(09:52):
the UCLA so Homer away. The weather's fine. I think
the weather aspect is overstated. I do think what the
Big Ten is and you've seen this with Oregon. Oregon
has had elite offensive and defensive line recruiting with Dan
Lanning and Mario Cristobal and the transfer portal. They're bigger,
they're bigger and they have more size up front. Oregon's fast,
(10:14):
that's their bread and butter. And USC teams again, plenty
of receivers and corners, safeties, wide outs in southern California.
But the big bodies are what the Big Ten has.
And as college football schedule is now longer, you go
to a twelve team playoff off the regular season, there's
no reason to load up and play an LSU to
(10:35):
start the season. You're just begging for injuries. Would I've
said this, I'd move Notre Dame off the schedule. There's
no reason if I have to play Ohio State, Oregon,
Washington will be better, Michigan Penn State. Why schedule potential losses.
Have a couple of cupcakes early or winnable games. Get
your quarterback, get your young freshman looks, get your offensive
line right. By week three or four or five. When
(10:56):
you have to go to an Illinois you know, don't
be a romantic Let baseball have all the purists get
the Notre Dame game. Look at USC schedule going forward,
plush the twelve team playoff. You're trying to get into
that thing. It's like political races. You can talk about
where you stand on this, shue this issue, and where
(11:17):
you stand on that issue. Get elected, all right. Have
policies that most people can embrace and put their arms around.
The game is get elected not being strident and a
purest and precious on certain issues that can alien and
alienate a large part of your contingency. It's the same
in football schedule to win games. Nick Saban for a decade.
(11:41):
Look at that out of conference schedule. He wasn't going
on the road his last eight nine years at Alabama
if he didn't have to. Why would you do that?
Why would you ever want to go to South Ben
against Marcus Freeman and that roster. It's idiotic. Why do
you want to play LSU Play them in the playoff
if you have to, But just don't outthink the room
soft early schedule, cross your fingers on where you get
(12:01):
your buy and get to the playoff. That's all that matters,
not the romance of playing Notre Dame and the four Horsemen,
get over it. That's not the game. Nick Saban always
understood that, you know, make sure they had their buys
before some of their biggest games, the LSU game and
it was Cupcake City. Any moment he could give, you know,
(12:23):
starters thirty snaps instead of sixty or seventy against Georgia
or Florida or somebody in the SEC. So the schedule's
weaker next year. I'm not sure what they're going to
do at quarterback. I think they're going to go with
the guys they have. They have a start at running back,
two stars at receiver, ample size up front. Some of
it's very very young, but that's okay. I just think
(12:45):
you have to take a deep breath on this stuff.
Lincoln Riley's not going anywhere. I thought that win, to
finish with the winning record mattered. It makes the off
season better. They've already gone to the portal for a
running back needed they needed a back up running back
now that Brian Jackson looks like the starter for a kicker,
two interior defensive linemen and a corner again, I could
(13:09):
see them bringing in maybe a senior offensive tackle, not
a left tackle, but just for rotational purposes, injury purposes.
It's a long shlog of a regular season. I think
they need a linebacker, an active, rangey linebacker somewhere. I
like some of the young freshmen that will now be
sophomore as a red shirt freshman at linebacker. I think
(13:30):
they've recruited it pretty well the last couple of years,
but they probably know need to go get sort of
an upper class linebacker. But this the first year Lincoln
Riley had the program. The first two years it was
very much about the transfer portal, and I am disappointed
with a Southern California recruiting. Not gonna lie about that.
But you know, you start looking around college football, it's
(13:52):
a new world. Ohio State had two huge regular season games.
Oregon Michigan lost both that are in the playoff, and
the Penn State game close. You know, the world's changed.
You're gonna lose games. You can look at USC schedule.
You know you could see a game at Notre Dame
that's going to be really tough. You know Notre Dame.
Riley Leonard's going to the pros. You know, there's rumors
(14:15):
that they they may be in the portal for a
quarterback at the college level that many of you have
seen play for a big program. So I won't give
that away yet, but don't be surprised if a very
very well known college quarterback transfers to Notre Dame wants
the playoffs, and I think they're in a good spot.
I just I got to tell you, Brian Jackson, that
(14:37):
running back, that was a revelation. That's a real thing.
That's a big ten running back. That's not a guy
that's moving around in shifty and you know, five eight
and like one ninety five and can make you miss
in space. No, No, that's six foot two thirty five,
plant the foot, decisive head down four yards become six.
(14:57):
That was a real revelation to me. And the O
line and d talent, the aesthetic, the optics is big,
long Sunday looking bodies. So there you go. That's what
I got this morning. I don't know what that was,
but that's what I got this morning. You know what, Saturdays,
I'm not gonna shower it. I don't think I'm gonna
sit and watch football. I got a little gumbo in
(15:19):
the fridge and I'm gonna dive into that thing. It's
not gonna be the healthiest day for me. Hey, I
can't eat blueberries in Canalo three hundred and sixty five
days a year. May have a shot of bourbon, some gumbo.
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(15:40):
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(00:29):
All right, listen, this is just for Trojan fans. But
here's about twenty minutes my thoughts on the season overall,
because you know, I'm into that recruiting stuff and portal stuff,
and I think it's one of my favorite parts and
volume that I just if I'm in the mood, I
went for an hour walk, got a coffee and thought,
had so many thoughts ruminating in my head, and I thought,
you know, I want to get it out there. So
(00:49):
I'm going to be watching football all day anyway. So
let's talk about Lincoln Riley that time out late in
the game. After the game, he went out and said, listen,
ten minute on the field, you know, pick your poison,
we call the time out. It all worked out. I
did not like them moving away from the running game
at the end of the first half and early in
(01:09):
the third quarter. I think they have found a star
running back in Brian Jackson, who's got a Lendale White feel.
I think they've really found he looks like the most
formidable power back they have had since the Pete Carroll era.
I think you have a star in the freshman Brian
Jackson out of Texas two thirty five, powerful, decisive, hits
(01:30):
the hole moving forward. That's a Sunday player that looks
like a Sunday running back. He's not gonna blow down
the sidelines. He's not a speedback, but he is a
power back and he can find the whole decisively. I
really like him. More on that later. But Lincoln Riley's here.
He's got a long contract. They put three hundred million
into the facilities, the collectives up to eighteen million. They
(01:51):
can buy some of the best players. In my opinion,
the need for this program is a general manager above everything.
The current people in place are allies of Lincoln Riley.
To me, that's not good enough. If you want to
compete with the big boys, you have to go hire
a former NFLGM. You know, there's a lot of people.
You could hire Chris Peterson and just say Chris, you're
(02:13):
the general manager. Run the program. That'd be one of
the first guys I called. I'm not sure he has
any interest. He now works at Fox as a broadcaster.
But that's the number one need of the program. To
get to the big boys, you got to get a
general manager, and the current people in place, to me,
aren't at the level necessary. The second thing I would
talk about is I didn't like all the play calling.
(02:34):
I thought going away from Brian Jackson in the run
game a couple different times wasn't prudent, but it all
worked out. Let's talk about the season that just passed.
You beat eight and four LSU to start, and you
beat eight and four Texas A and M, and you
lost in overtime to a Penn State team that's vying
from the national championship. The Maryland lost was awful, Rutgers Washington,
(02:58):
don't get me wrong, but you went to against the SEC.
I think that's as many wins as Oklahoma had against
the SEC. And again you had Penn State in a
tough spot. Penn State's a better team, clearly so. And
also the schedule last year, the schedule with first year
starter Miller Moss. You opened up LSU and then you're
at Michigan a couple of weeks later next year. The
(03:21):
schedule is about as easy as you can get in
the Big Ten. Missouri State and Georgia Southern to start
a notch below LSU at Purdue, Michigan State at Illinois,
and then idle. You all have two weeks to prepare
for Michigan and their freshman quarterback. That's a lot different
than LSU and a couple of weeks later at the
(03:42):
Big House with Miller Moss. That's a whole different scenario.
So the schedule plays into their favor. Two weeks to
prep for a powerhouse in Michigan. That's good. Quarterback Jaden Mayava.
He's a little too reckless for my taste, but he's
a sophomore and from UNLV to USC, he stepped up
(04:02):
in competition, started late in the year. He's never had
a real off season. With Lincoln Riley, I don't necessarily
think they're going to bring a quarterback in. He's a sophomore.
I mean, you saw from first half to second half
the difference in him last night. I mean, he's got
when he steps into it, he's got an arm. He
(04:23):
looked anxious. He's a player that's I think as good
as his confidence. I thought he was very confident late.
He lacked confidence early when they fell behind. Too many
balls are thrown in harm's way. But again, he's a sophomore.
He's never had an off season program with Lincoln Riley.
They're also bringing in a five star high school kid
from southern California. I'm not sure they're going to go
(04:45):
outside the program. Will he get better? Absolutely? Is he
an elite college quarterback? To me, very debatable, i'd lean know,
but you know, you start looking around at the teams
vying for national championship, not all of them have NFL quarterbacks.
You don't have to have an NFL quarterback the positives
(05:05):
on the roster. Let's go back to Brian Jackson. Six
feet two thirty feels like a Lendale White would be
my comp really really big time player. I mean that
go there. They got backup offensive lineman and he is
finding big holes. Decisive, not a burner, but decisive power back.
Kind of a one step cut guy like Zach Charboney
(05:28):
was at UCLA. Sort of a goes one cut off
to the races. I like him a lot. Jacoby Lane,
mackay Lemonar obviously elite receivers. I think too much is
made of Deuce Robinson and Branch transferring out of the program.
I thought it was too cluttered. Last year Hudson as well,
I thought it was too cluttered. I think I think
that the reality is guys want touches and wide receiver
(05:51):
Nfler College has always been a little higher maintenance positions.
Guys want touches. Jacobe Lane's a Sunday player. He'll come
back as a junior one more year at US. That's
your number one. Lemon is a one, A outstanding. Then
you're gonna have upgrades at tight end. The tight end
position I think will be have more dynamic playmakers next year.
Some of the kids in the program now are bigger, stronger.
(06:14):
Lincoln Riley doesn't use a tight end a ton anyway.
But you know, when I look at what USC brings
back in the skill department, even the quarterback moves pretty well.
I like their foundation. It's also my biggest complaint this
year is they just didn't have enough NFL bodies on
the offense, offensive line and defensive line. They just didn't
(06:35):
have any depth. Next year they bring back Elijah Page.
He'll play he'll be a top two or three left
tackle in the Big Ten. Probably is last year at USC,
hopefully not. Tobias Raymond is certainly I thought last night
he's your right tackle. Been in the program three years,
big hard working kid. Long and then Justin Tuhanu, who
(06:57):
got duty last night as a freshman from Huntington Beach.
I think he's tremendous. I've been telling a couple of
people in the program, I'm like, that's your kid. So
you have three capable starting offensive tackles this year. I
thought it was Page, who was a red shirt freshman.
That's just not good enough in the Big Ten. I
think you could probably bring in a transfer if you
wanted to compete for a job at right tackle. But
(07:18):
you're bringing into excellent, four star offensive tackles who can
red shirt and then play. I really honestly feel good
about the offensive tackle position for the first time in
maybe twelve to fifteen years. Between Page, Raymond, and tu
and new those are NFL bodies. However it plays out
for their careers, I don't know, but I feel really
good about that. The other thing that's been I remember
(07:41):
years ago talking to Urban Meyer about this. I said California,
whatever it is, just does not produce. For a state
of thirty eight million people, it does not produce a
lot of great defensive line bodies. Maybe it's the diet hell,
I don't know, it's the California diet. Who knows. And
we had talked about that. I remember at the time saying,
if I ever went to USC, he goes. You know,
(08:02):
you just got to live in Houston, in Atlanta, and
you know areas of the country that produced three hundred
and twenty five pound defensive linemen. For whatever reasons, California
doesn't produce a ton of those players. You often have
to leave the state, and that's what Lincoln Riley's done.
I think Floyd Bouchard, Miami Beach defensive tackle that will
come in this year as a true freshman, probably won't
(08:23):
play a lot. He'll be rotational. Looks like an SEC
interior defensive lineman. Jakeem Stewart, another from the South Louisiana
looks like an SEC defensive linement. Some of this stuff
is aesthetics. We've just been too small in the trenches.
Two and seventy five pound defensive linemen Jamal Jarrett from
(08:47):
Georgia's coming in as a transfer, big body, Keishawn Silver
from Kentucky, big body. So I just I feel like
the look of the defensive line looks more like you
get at a Michigan or a Clemson or in LSU.
Are they all great players? Probably not, But that has
been my complaint now for several years running. We just
(09:08):
don't have enough left tackle NFL Sunday bodies in the program.
I think now we have three. We don't have enough
NFL bodies in the defensive interior. Now we have three
or four. So and there's a couple of freshmen this
year that played a little bit. They did play in
the Bowl. So I think that's very promising to me
because I think when you move into the Big ten,
(09:29):
the weather's overrated. I mean, let's be honest. College football
games are September, October, November, and you maybe have one
in December, right, you know, if usc made the playoff,
you know they maybe have a cold game on the
road somewhere up north. That's that's fine. Remember your your
last regular season game is gonna usually be potentially with
(09:52):
the UCLA so Homer away. The weather's fine. I think
the weather aspect is overstated. I do think what the
Big Ten is and you've seen this with Oregon. Oregon
has had elite offensive and defensive line recruiting with Dan
Lanning and Mario Cristobal and the transfer portal. They're bigger,
they're bigger and they have more size up front. Oregon's fast,
(10:14):
that's their bread and butter. And USC teams again, plenty
of receivers and corners, safeties, wide outs in southern California.
But the big bodies are what the Big Ten has.
And as college football schedule is now longer, you go
to a twelve team playoff off the regular season, there's
no reason to load up and play an LSU to
(10:35):
start the season. You're just begging for injuries. Would I've
said this, I'd move Notre Dame off the schedule. There's
no reason if I have to play Ohio State, Oregon,
Washington will be better, Michigan Penn State. Why schedule potential losses.
Have a couple of cupcakes early or winnable games. Get
your quarterback, get your young freshman looks, get your offensive
line right. By week three or four or five. When
(10:56):
you have to go to an Illinois you know, don't
be a romantic Let baseball have all the purists get
the Notre Dame game. Look at USC schedule going forward,
plush the twelve team playoff. You're trying to get into
that thing. It's like political races. You can talk about
where you stand on this, shue this issue, and where
(11:17):
you stand on that issue. Get elected, all right. Have
policies that most people can embrace and put their arms around.
The game is get elected not being strident and a
purest and precious on certain issues that can alien and
alienate a large part of your contingency. It's the same
in football schedule to win games. Nick Saban for a decade.
(11:41):
Look at that out of conference schedule. He wasn't going
on the road his last eight nine years at Alabama
if he didn't have to. Why would you do that?
Why would you ever want to go to South Ben
against Marcus Freeman and that roster. It's idiotic. Why do
you want to play LSU Play them in the playoff
if you have to, But just don't outthink the room
soft early schedule, cross your fingers on where you get
(12:01):
your buy and get to the playoff. That's all that matters,
not the romance of playing Notre Dame and the four Horsemen,
get over it. That's not the game. Nick Saban always
understood that, you know, make sure they had their buys
before some of their biggest games, the LSU game and
it was Cupcake City. Any moment he could give, you know,
(12:23):
starters thirty snaps instead of sixty or seventy against Georgia
or Florida or somebody in the SEC. So the schedule's
weaker next year. I'm not sure what they're going to
do at quarterback. I think they're going to go with
the guys they have. They have a start at running back,
two stars at receiver, ample size up front. Some of
it's very very young, but that's okay. I just think
(12:45):
you have to take a deep breath on this stuff.
Lincoln Riley's not going anywhere. I thought that win, to
finish with the winning record mattered. It makes the off
season better. They've already gone to the portal for a
running back needed they needed a back up running back
now that Brian Jackson looks like the starter for a kicker,
two interior defensive linemen and a corner again, I could
(13:09):
see them bringing in maybe a senior offensive tackle, not
a left tackle, but just for rotational purposes, injury purposes.
It's a long shlog of a regular season. I think
they need a linebacker, an active, rangey linebacker somewhere. I
like some of the young freshmen that will now be
sophomore as a red shirt freshman at linebacker. I think
(13:30):
they've recruited it pretty well the last couple of years,
but they probably know need to go get sort of
an upper class linebacker. But this the first year Lincoln
Riley had the program. The first two years it was
very much about the transfer portal, and I am disappointed
with a Southern California recruiting. Not gonna lie about that.
But you know, you start looking around college football, it's
(13:52):
a new world. Ohio State had two huge regular season games.
Oregon Michigan lost both that are in the playoff, and
the Penn State game close. You know, the world's changed.
You're gonna lose games. You can look at USC schedule.
You know you could see a game at Notre Dame
that's going to be really tough. You know Notre Dame.
Riley Leonard's going to the pros. You know, there's rumors
(14:15):
that they they may be in the portal for a
quarterback at the college level that many of you have
seen play for a big program. So I won't give
that away yet, but don't be surprised if a very
very well known college quarterback transfers to Notre Dame wants
the playoffs, and I think they're in a good spot.
I just I got to tell you, Brian Jackson, that
(14:37):
running back, that was a revelation. That's a real thing.
That's a big ten running back. That's not a guy
that's moving around in shifty and you know, five eight
and like one ninety five and can make you miss
in space. No, No, that's six foot two thirty five,
plant the foot, decisive head down four yards become six.
(14:57):
That was a real revelation to me. And the O
line and d talent, the aesthetic, the optics is big,
long Sunday looking bodies. So there you go. That's what
I got this morning. I don't know what that was,
but that's what I got this morning. You know what, Saturdays,
I'm not gonna shower it. I don't think I'm gonna
sit and watch football. I got a little gumbo in
(15:19):
the fridge and I'm gonna dive into that thing. It's
not gonna be the healthiest day for me. Hey, I
can't eat blueberries in Canalo three hundred and sixty five
days a year. May have a shot of bourbon, some gumbo.
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