August 29, 2025 • 14 mins
Diving into the excitement of College Football's Week 0 Big Noon Kickoffs and breaking down key matchups to be on the lookout for, having covered all aspects of CFB, none other than Matt Moscona joins ahead of tomorrow's College Game Day & noon kickoffs. Sharing a few things to be mindful of going into this season, Matt also shares insight on the LSU Tigers and what expectations they have rolling into their season opener against the Clemson Tigers tomorrow evening.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, Gordy, let it wash over you. Hear it, feel it,
and just know that this time tomorrow we're getting ready
for college football as we're talking at right now here
on the Shawn Salisbury Show, Sports Talk seven ninety, Chris
Gordy in for sean triple, Emmanuel Elmore, Dan Matthews, hanging
out with you. Astro's four three winners yesterday over the Rockies.
(00:24):
They're gonna get the Angels in for a four game
series and the Horn is gonna take on Ohio State tomorrow.
You get that right here, Sports Talk seven ninety starting
at ten am. And then the team that we're gonna
be talking about right now with this guy, Matt Moscona
ESPN one O four to five in Baton Rouge, LSU
taking on Clemson over on KPRC nine at fifty. That's
(00:44):
gonna start at five point thirty. As he is the
afternoon host on ESPN one O four to five. They
are in Baton Rouge. Matt Moscona is joining us and
scone appreciate it, buddy. All Right, I'm gonna give you
the good scenario. In the doomsday scenario, LSU wins tomorrow night.
What is the reaction to Brian Kelly if they lose
(01:05):
Tomorrow night, same deal.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well they lose, I guess it'll probably depend on what
his reaction is in the postgame press conference. Is he's
slamming tables again. I mean that certainly went viral a
year ago. If they win, I think the national awareness
of LSU starts to shift to Okay, they're a legitimate
national championship contender if they're able to go on the
(01:30):
road at Clemson, which returns more production than any team
in college football we all know is a playoff team
a year ago. If LSU goes and wins this game,
they put the nation on alert that they are a
national championship contender. And you know, after tomorrow, guys, I
think they'll be favored in every game they play except
the road game at Alabama, and who knows what that
(01:51):
may look like by the time you get to November.
But LSU's a really talented team. I think they got
enough talent to beat anybody on their schedule this year.
The question is how quickly can it assimilate? And obviously,
for Brian Kelly and the staff, they're hoping it's it's
tomorrow night in Clemson.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It's gonna help me out here with this story.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
You know, we we know.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
LSU went and spent a ton out in the transfer portal,
and one of the big pieces they got was from
a guy right here in our backyard here in Houston,
a safety named aj Halsey, who had a really nice
season four the Koogs last year. He comes over to LSU.
We've heard nothing but great things about him all off season.
Yet last night a story pops up that reminds us
of that December first game of last year when U
(02:35):
of H lost at BYU. In the final minutes, BYU
scores a you know, another touchdown late, AJ Halsey gets
into a spat, throws some punches, gets ejected. Nobody's thought
twice about that place since it happened. Yet yesterday the
NCAA steps in and goes, oh yeah, because of that,
he suspended for the first half of the game against
Clemson on Saturday. I think it's absolutely bonkers that this
(02:58):
hasn't come up been talked about, that LSU's coaches, I guess,
didn't seem to know about it, but also seems a
little bit busheley that it seems like Clemson's the one
that alerted the NCAA about this forty eight hours before kickoff.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, the other piece that we know, so I think
there's two pieces of this, like where two things can
be true at the same time. One is that look
at the NCAA rule book. The rule is the rule.
AJ Halsey should be suspended for the first half. I
mean the rule is black and white. He was ejected
for fighting that carries a half one half suspension. If
it happened in the second half of the game, which
(03:32):
it did, like he should be suspended.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
That's black and white. There is no argument.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
The other part of this that's also true is the
fact that this came out LSU was first alerted the
Wednesday before the game from something that happened in December,
eight months ago, nine months ago, is patently absurd.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
What we've learned.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Is that the NCAA wrote a formal letter to Houston
back in December notifying them of the suspension. Well, obviously A. J.
Halsey transferred out of Houston. Apparently the NCAA did not
then in turn alert LSU. The report from Pete Famil
also suggested that Houston did not alert AJ Halsey. So
(04:24):
I don't know that it is their responsibility. I'm not
pointing fingers, it's I think the what I would have
probably liked to have seen done was the NCAA alert
LSU when AJ Halsey transferred to LSU.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
That clearly didn't happen. We over at Louisiana Sports done.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That did reach an LSU spokesperson who did confirm before
Brian Kelly's press conference that Wednesday was the first LSU
was aware of it, Wednesday was the first the SEC
was aware of it, and that it was in fact
Clemson who alerted the NCAA of the issue, which tells
me somebody at Houston probably knew someone at Clumbs and
(05:00):
you said, hey, y'all may want to be aware of this,
And I guess Clemson sat on it until game week,
which I agree is bush league. Again, there's no there's
no argument about Halsey sitting out. The problem is how
this thing and this thing played out. And guys, this
probably the next question, but this is really significant. I mean,
(05:21):
you all saw him last year of h his first
team all Big twelve, he led the conference interceptions and
LSU was atrocious in safety last year, literally is the
worst safety playoffs scene since I've covered LSU for two decades,
and he's awesome. I mean, he is a fantastic football
player who was going to start and probably not come
off the field. So the fact that they're going to
miss him for a half in that environment against that
(05:42):
offense is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Again, he's Matt mscon a ESPN one oh four to
five talking some LSU Tigers with us here on the
Shawn Salisbury Show Sports Talk seven to ninety. That secondary itself,
I mean, that seems like it's been something that has
been a little bit of a weak spot for LSU
over the last few years, and it doesn't seem like
that should be the case. But just both safety corner,
how do they feel about that group this year?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Well, Dan, I know where we started.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
We were talking about LSU, you know, doing work in
the portal, and they went and addressed the secondary in
the portal. They added Halsea, but they also added to
Marcus Cooley at safety from NC State, so they got
two of the top safeties in the portal.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Both those guys are expected to start.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And they also got Monster Delaine from Virginia Tech who
was a multi year starter at Virginia Tech and is
a very good players. He's an NFL body, so they've
upgraded both spots. Also, a you know name of people
follow recruiting, they'll know his DJ Pikett. He's a five,
so he was the number one corner in the country
for this this most recent cycle. He's out out of
Florida and he wears number three. He's a legit six five.
(06:41):
It's it's pretty incredible to see a six foot five corner,
but he is. He is impressive. He's like a tarantula
out there. So there, you know, it's interesting that LSU
had built this reputation as DBU, which was earned for
so many years. And everybody knows the names from Tyrone, Matthew,
Patrick Peters and Derek Stanley Tredavious.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Why everybody knows all the.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Names, but really, since Brian Kelly had got here when
he did not retain Corey Raymond, who was kind of
the architect of DBU, it E wrote it, I mean,
there's just no other way around it. Two years ago,
in twenty twenty three, the Jane Daniels year, they it
was literally the.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Worst defense in the history of LSU football.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
So they're they're rebuilding it through both recruiting and the portals,
so they get some young talent they've recruited, but really
for this year, supplementing in the portal the way they
did is going to make them dramatically better while expected
to make them dramatically better while some of that young
talent grows and develops. But they're going to be better.
But then again, Dan, it's not hard to be better
(07:37):
when two years ago you were literally the worst defense
in the history of the program.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I want to bring in the two big games tomorrow.
Obviously we get Texas at Ohio status the early game.
We get LSU at Clemson in the later game. We
heard just a week ago the College Football Playoff Committee
announced that a new metric that they'll be using. They
will account for strength of schedule. How much that weighs
into it, we'll find out. But I bring that up
(08:03):
simply because these are four top ten teams all playing
each other, and you know, the headlines on Monday out
of a loss will be, oh my god, you know,
they're season's over whatever, But we all know, you know,
there's a whole season to go from here. I mean,
is there a world where both Texas and LSU lose
on Saturday, yet still are both playoff teams.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I think both teams do lose on Saturday, and I
think both teams go seven and one on the conference
and playing Atlanta for the SEC championship game, and both
teams do make the college football playoffs. So I think
that happens now. As far as the strength of schedule component, brother, like,
I could not give a rip about the college football
playoff telling us they're throwing the strength of schedule metric
(08:48):
in there. I don't care what metric they throw out.
We hear so much garbage from this, this legion of
goons that gather in this hotel ballroom in suburban Dallas,
and they're shit. These people like it doesn't matter what
you let them consider. Ultimately, their decision is their decision,
and they don't even have to explain it. There are
(09:10):
no guidelines that direct what they do. They will do
whatever they want to do, and they usually find the
path of least resistance. Like last year when Indiana got
in at eleven and one, and you had three SEC
teams that were sitting there at nine and three played
tougher schedules and all are on the outside looking in,
because it's easier just to say, oh, eleven and one team.
I know you played one ranked team and got your
(09:31):
ass kicked by them, but we're gonna put you in
because you're eleven and one and.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Then they went and got there behinds kicked by Notre Dame.
I w listen, I don't care about the committee. I
want them to go away forever.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
It's the most nonsensical, stupidest thing that college football could do,
and in a sport filled with nonsensical stupidity over its
one hundred and thirty year existence, we love college football
in spite of itself. We will be so much better
when we get to a point where there is a
power ratings system, call it like the BCS was or whatever,
where every team goes into the season knowing exactly what
(10:06):
they have to do to satisfy the metrics to get
into the postseason and let it fall where it may.
We need to incentivize teams for playing games like this,
not penalize them. And I know that's what the strength
to schedule metrics supposed to do. But believe you me,
when we get to December and those goons are meeting
in that hotel, ballroom. They're going to side with the
(10:27):
teams that have the fewer losses, regardless of strength to schedule.
It's just how it's going to be because it's easier
to do that than try to figure out, what do
you do with nine and three South Carolina that you
think is better but they got but they lost to
nine and three Bama who lost to six and six Vanderbilt. Like,
it's just it's easier to go ed, just go with
(10:47):
the eleven and one team. It's what they're gonna do
this year because the committee is a it's a fundamental
absurdity to let a group of people arbitrarily try to
just sit there and decide who they think are the
best twelve teams in the country.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Gordy, it sounds like you and Scone our kindred spirits
on that topic right there, because that's exactly what Gordy said.
A little bit earlier, Scone Matt moscon at ESPN one
four to five in Baton Rouge, joining us a couple
more minutes talking to LSU Clemson and just LSU in
general this season. I know that Garrettnsmeyer would be somebody
I'd want to ask about, but I got to go
with the lines, both offensive and defensive. The offensive last
(11:21):
year had a lot of hype to it didn't necessarily
live up to it. Defensive line this year maybe even
a little bit of anexperience, but it sounds like there's
more hype for that group.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, Dan, I wouldn't even say an experience. I would
say it's just lack of experience playing together. I mean,
that's one of the areas. They went in the portal,
both at tackle and at end and just loaded up.
I mean the Jack Pieburn came in from Florida. He's
a fourth year guy. Jamari Butler came in from Nebraska.
He's a sixth year guy. Patrick Payton's got forty career
(11:53):
TFLs came in from Florida State. He's a fifth year guy.
You know, they get Jacobe and Gillery back off injuries,
sixth year player, they do. They got tons of depth
and talent and experience. It's just that a lot of
these guys are transferred, so they haven't played together. That's
the challenge with this LSU team. I don't think many
(12:14):
people know really understand what LSU did in the portal.
They had the number one portal class by a country
mile and Brian Kelly disclosed it went spend eighteen million
bucks on the portal class. So it should be really talented, right,
I mean, you're gonna take that investment, you should be good.
They've got the talent. It's I keep comping it to
(12:35):
what Ohio State and Ole Miss did a year ago.
They went and signed the top portal classes. They had
a ton of talent. It's just how quickly can you
get all of that talent to play well together? Like
by the time we get to mid October November, LSU
could be a boulder rolling downhill that nobody wants to
be in the way of. It's just what does the
(12:55):
first six weeks of the season look like and are
are there? Do they avoid the land mines to get
to the point where they're playing well enough to make
a playoff Berth That's gonna be the really interesting.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Thing with this team.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
But yes, the defensive line they invested heavily there and
should be really good.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Real quick final one from me and Garrett Nesmeyer. He
was my heisman pick yesterday and we made our predictions
for the season with Sean here. How far off or
how far on am I about him? This season.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, look, he threw.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
This is the thing people forget, like Garrett Musmeyer through
for four thousand yards. He's the leading returning passer in
college football. He's the only returning four thousand yard passer
and last year was his first year starting. If you
just assume an improvement, however gradual, you expect him to
throw for four thousand yards and thirty touchdowns. So, Dan,
I think all the stats will be there for him
to be in New York and all that. I mean,
(13:47):
it should be. It's just the question is the team's success.
I mean, he's a he Arch Sellers, Drew Aller, Kay Club, Mickman.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
They're right there at the top of the Heisman odds.
So it's not a bad pick. Arts will have the
excuse me, Nuts will have the stats.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's really just a matter of will the team's success
be there that will allow him to win the award.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Here you go, Matt Moscone, ESPN one O four to five.
Join us here on the Shawn Salisbury Show scone. You're
the best, buddy. We'll catch up with you again here
sometime down the road.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Okay, guys, appreciate y'all. See soon.
Ah, Gordy, let it wash over you. Hear it, feel it,
and just know that this time tomorrow we're getting ready
for college football as we're talking at right now here
on the Shawn Salisbury Show, Sports Talk seven ninety, Chris
Gordy in for sean triple, Emmanuel Elmore, Dan Matthews, hanging
out with you. Astro's four three winners yesterday over the Rockies.
(00:24):
They're gonna get the Angels in for a four game
series and the Horn is gonna take on Ohio State tomorrow.
You get that right here, Sports Talk seven ninety starting
at ten am. And then the team that we're gonna
be talking about right now with this guy, Matt Moscona
ESPN one O four to five in Baton Rouge, LSU
taking on Clemson over on KPRC nine at fifty. That's
(00:44):
gonna start at five point thirty. As he is the
afternoon host on ESPN one O four to five. They
are in Baton Rouge. Matt Moscona is joining us and
scone appreciate it, buddy. All Right, I'm gonna give you
the good scenario. In the doomsday scenario, LSU wins tomorrow night.
What is the reaction to Brian Kelly if they lose
(01:05):
Tomorrow night, same deal.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well they lose, I guess it'll probably depend on what
his reaction is in the postgame press conference. Is he's
slamming tables again. I mean that certainly went viral a
year ago. If they win, I think the national awareness
of LSU starts to shift to Okay, they're a legitimate
national championship contender if they're able to go on the
(01:30):
road at Clemson, which returns more production than any team
in college football we all know is a playoff team
a year ago. If LSU goes and wins this game,
they put the nation on alert that they are a
national championship contender. And you know, after tomorrow, guys, I
think they'll be favored in every game they play except
the road game at Alabama, and who knows what that
(01:51):
may look like by the time you get to November.
But LSU's a really talented team. I think they got
enough talent to beat anybody on their schedule this year.
The question is how quickly can it assimilate? And obviously,
for Brian Kelly and the staff, they're hoping it's it's
tomorrow night in Clemson.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It's gonna help me out here with this story.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
You know, we we know.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
LSU went and spent a ton out in the transfer portal,
and one of the big pieces they got was from
a guy right here in our backyard here in Houston,
a safety named aj Halsey, who had a really nice
season four the Koogs last year. He comes over to LSU.
We've heard nothing but great things about him all off season.
Yet last night a story pops up that reminds us
of that December first game of last year when U
(02:35):
of H lost at BYU. In the final minutes, BYU
scores a you know, another touchdown late, AJ Halsey gets
into a spat, throws some punches, gets ejected. Nobody's thought
twice about that place since it happened. Yet yesterday the
NCAA steps in and goes, oh yeah, because of that,
he suspended for the first half of the game against
Clemson on Saturday. I think it's absolutely bonkers that this
(02:58):
hasn't come up been talked about, that LSU's coaches, I guess,
didn't seem to know about it, but also seems a
little bit busheley that it seems like Clemson's the one
that alerted the NCAA about this forty eight hours before kickoff.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, the other piece that we know, so I think
there's two pieces of this, like where two things can
be true at the same time. One is that look
at the NCAA rule book. The rule is the rule.
AJ Halsey should be suspended for the first half. I
mean the rule is black and white. He was ejected
for fighting that carries a half one half suspension. If
it happened in the second half of the game, which
(03:32):
it did, like he should be suspended.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
That's black and white. There is no argument.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
The other part of this that's also true is the
fact that this came out LSU was first alerted the
Wednesday before the game from something that happened in December,
eight months ago, nine months ago, is patently absurd.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
What we've learned.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Is that the NCAA wrote a formal letter to Houston
back in December notifying them of the suspension. Well, obviously A. J.
Halsey transferred out of Houston. Apparently the NCAA did not
then in turn alert LSU. The report from Pete Famil
also suggested that Houston did not alert AJ Halsey. So
(04:24):
I don't know that it is their responsibility. I'm not
pointing fingers, it's I think the what I would have
probably liked to have seen done was the NCAA alert
LSU when AJ Halsey transferred to LSU.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
That clearly didn't happen. We over at Louisiana Sports done.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That did reach an LSU spokesperson who did confirm before
Brian Kelly's press conference that Wednesday was the first LSU
was aware of it, Wednesday was the first the SEC
was aware of it, and that it was in fact
Clemson who alerted the NCAA of the issue, which tells
me somebody at Houston probably knew someone at Clumbs and
(05:00):
you said, hey, y'all may want to be aware of this,
And I guess Clemson sat on it until game week,
which I agree is bush league. Again, there's no there's
no argument about Halsey sitting out. The problem is how
this thing and this thing played out. And guys, this
probably the next question, but this is really significant. I mean,
(05:21):
you all saw him last year of h his first
team all Big twelve, he led the conference interceptions and
LSU was atrocious in safety last year, literally is the
worst safety playoffs scene since I've covered LSU for two decades,
and he's awesome. I mean, he is a fantastic football
player who was going to start and probably not come
off the field. So the fact that they're going to
miss him for a half in that environment against that
(05:42):
offense is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Again, he's Matt mscon a ESPN one oh four to
five talking some LSU Tigers with us here on the
Shawn Salisbury Show Sports Talk seven to ninety. That secondary itself,
I mean, that seems like it's been something that has
been a little bit of a weak spot for LSU
over the last few years, and it doesn't seem like
that should be the case. But just both safety corner,
how do they feel about that group this year?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Well, Dan, I know where we started.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
We were talking about LSU, you know, doing work in
the portal, and they went and addressed the secondary in
the portal. They added Halsea, but they also added to
Marcus Cooley at safety from NC State, so they got
two of the top safeties in the portal.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Both those guys are expected to start.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And they also got Monster Delaine from Virginia Tech who
was a multi year starter at Virginia Tech and is
a very good players. He's an NFL body, so they've
upgraded both spots. Also, a you know name of people
follow recruiting, they'll know his DJ Pikett. He's a five,
so he was the number one corner in the country
for this this most recent cycle. He's out out of
Florida and he wears number three. He's a legit six five.
(06:41):
It's it's pretty incredible to see a six foot five corner,
but he is. He is impressive. He's like a tarantula
out there. So there, you know, it's interesting that LSU
had built this reputation as DBU, which was earned for
so many years. And everybody knows the names from Tyrone, Matthew,
Patrick Peters and Derek Stanley Tredavious.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Why everybody knows all the.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Names, but really, since Brian Kelly had got here when
he did not retain Corey Raymond, who was kind of
the architect of DBU, it E wrote it, I mean,
there's just no other way around it. Two years ago,
in twenty twenty three, the Jane Daniels year, they it
was literally the.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Worst defense in the history of LSU football.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
So they're they're rebuilding it through both recruiting and the portals,
so they get some young talent they've recruited, but really
for this year, supplementing in the portal the way they
did is going to make them dramatically better while expected
to make them dramatically better while some of that young
talent grows and develops. But they're going to be better.
But then again, Dan, it's not hard to be better
(07:37):
when two years ago you were literally the worst defense
in the history of the program.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I want to bring in the two big games tomorrow.
Obviously we get Texas at Ohio status the early game.
We get LSU at Clemson in the later game. We
heard just a week ago the College Football Playoff Committee
announced that a new metric that they'll be using. They
will account for strength of schedule. How much that weighs
into it, we'll find out. But I bring that up
(08:03):
simply because these are four top ten teams all playing
each other, and you know, the headlines on Monday out
of a loss will be, oh my god, you know,
they're season's over whatever, But we all know, you know,
there's a whole season to go from here. I mean,
is there a world where both Texas and LSU lose
on Saturday, yet still are both playoff teams.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I think both teams do lose on Saturday, and I
think both teams go seven and one on the conference
and playing Atlanta for the SEC championship game, and both
teams do make the college football playoffs. So I think
that happens now. As far as the strength of schedule component, brother, like,
I could not give a rip about the college football
playoff telling us they're throwing the strength of schedule metric
(08:48):
in there. I don't care what metric they throw out.
We hear so much garbage from this, this legion of
goons that gather in this hotel ballroom in suburban Dallas,
and they're shit. These people like it doesn't matter what
you let them consider. Ultimately, their decision is their decision,
and they don't even have to explain it. There are
(09:10):
no guidelines that direct what they do. They will do
whatever they want to do, and they usually find the
path of least resistance. Like last year when Indiana got
in at eleven and one, and you had three SEC
teams that were sitting there at nine and three played
tougher schedules and all are on the outside looking in,
because it's easier just to say, oh, eleven and one team.
I know you played one ranked team and got your
(09:31):
ass kicked by them, but we're gonna put you in
because you're eleven and one and.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Then they went and got there behinds kicked by Notre Dame.
I w listen, I don't care about the committee. I
want them to go away forever.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
It's the most nonsensical, stupidest thing that college football could do,
and in a sport filled with nonsensical stupidity over its
one hundred and thirty year existence, we love college football
in spite of itself. We will be so much better
when we get to a point where there is a
power ratings system, call it like the BCS was or whatever,
where every team goes into the season knowing exactly what
(10:06):
they have to do to satisfy the metrics to get
into the postseason and let it fall where it may.
We need to incentivize teams for playing games like this,
not penalize them. And I know that's what the strength
to schedule metrics supposed to do. But believe you me,
when we get to December and those goons are meeting
in that hotel, ballroom. They're going to side with the
(10:27):
teams that have the fewer losses, regardless of strength to schedule.
It's just how it's going to be because it's easier
to do that than try to figure out, what do
you do with nine and three South Carolina that you
think is better but they got but they lost to
nine and three Bama who lost to six and six Vanderbilt. Like,
it's just it's easier to go ed, just go with
(10:47):
the eleven and one team. It's what they're gonna do
this year because the committee is a it's a fundamental
absurdity to let a group of people arbitrarily try to
just sit there and decide who they think are the
best twelve teams in the country.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Gordy, it sounds like you and Scone our kindred spirits
on that topic right there, because that's exactly what Gordy said.
A little bit earlier, Scone Matt moscon at ESPN one
four to five in Baton Rouge, joining us a couple
more minutes talking to LSU Clemson and just LSU in
general this season. I know that Garrettnsmeyer would be somebody
I'd want to ask about, but I got to go
with the lines, both offensive and defensive. The offensive last
(11:21):
year had a lot of hype to it didn't necessarily
live up to it. Defensive line this year maybe even
a little bit of anexperience, but it sounds like there's
more hype for that group.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, Dan, I wouldn't even say an experience. I would
say it's just lack of experience playing together. I mean,
that's one of the areas. They went in the portal,
both at tackle and at end and just loaded up.
I mean the Jack Pieburn came in from Florida. He's
a fourth year guy. Jamari Butler came in from Nebraska.
He's a sixth year guy. Patrick Payton's got forty career
(11:53):
TFLs came in from Florida State. He's a fifth year guy.
You know, they get Jacobe and Gillery back off injuries,
sixth year player, they do. They got tons of depth
and talent and experience. It's just that a lot of
these guys are transferred, so they haven't played together. That's
the challenge with this LSU team. I don't think many
(12:14):
people know really understand what LSU did in the portal.
They had the number one portal class by a country
mile and Brian Kelly disclosed it went spend eighteen million
bucks on the portal class. So it should be really talented, right,
I mean, you're gonna take that investment, you should be good.
They've got the talent. It's I keep comping it to
(12:35):
what Ohio State and Ole Miss did a year ago.
They went and signed the top portal classes. They had
a ton of talent. It's just how quickly can you
get all of that talent to play well together? Like
by the time we get to mid October November, LSU
could be a boulder rolling downhill that nobody wants to
be in the way of. It's just what does the
(12:55):
first six weeks of the season look like and are
are there? Do they avoid the land mines to get
to the point where they're playing well enough to make
a playoff Berth That's gonna be the really interesting.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Thing with this team.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
But yes, the defensive line they invested heavily there and
should be really good.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Real quick final one from me and Garrett Nesmeyer. He
was my heisman pick yesterday and we made our predictions
for the season with Sean here. How far off or
how far on am I about him? This season.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, look, he threw.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
This is the thing people forget, like Garrett Musmeyer through
for four thousand yards. He's the leading returning passer in
college football. He's the only returning four thousand yard passer
and last year was his first year starting. If you
just assume an improvement, however gradual, you expect him to
throw for four thousand yards and thirty touchdowns. So, Dan,
I think all the stats will be there for him
to be in New York and all that. I mean,
(13:47):
it should be. It's just the question is the team's success.
I mean, he's a he Arch Sellers, Drew Aller, Kay Club, Mickman.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
They're right there at the top of the Heisman odds.
So it's not a bad pick. Arts will have the
excuse me, Nuts will have the stats.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's really just a matter of will the team's success
be there that will allow him to win the award.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Here you go, Matt Moscone, ESPN one O four to five.
Join us here on the Shawn Salisbury Show scone. You're
the best, buddy. We'll catch up with you again here
sometime down the road.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Okay, guys, appreciate y'all. See soon.
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