October 9, 2025 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Bearcats.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (00:04):
You know, if you have listened to this radio station
all day, it's it's been like forty eight minutes since
you heard Chad Brendle, and I don't want to deprive
you anymore. Bearcat Journal dot Com hosting since he three
to sixty tomorrow at noon and joining us now for
his weekly segment on the Bearcats.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hi, Chad, I'm a walk kind of sea light.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
In a while.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
How you been, Dan, I'm hanging in there, hanging in there,
just driving home from work.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
You know, good, good, Well, it's nice. It's nice to
have you. The Bearcat football team is four and one.
They host UCF as big favorites on Saturday. They're coming
off back to back conference wins. This team is playing well.
What has been the most surprising thing about their performance
so far.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
How well the offensive line has played in both phases
of the game. I expected this to be a pretty
good offensive line. But you lost your left tackle to
the NFL. You lost both starting guards to NFL training camps.
Like for a school like Cincinnati, that generally spells disaster
(01:16):
for a year or two until they replenish. You know
that group of offensive linemen and man I mean, you
got to go back a while for me to remember
feeling this good about an offensive line in both pass
blocking and run blocking, and it just feels like they're
setting the tone. I mean, look, there were some holes
(01:38):
that they opened up against Iowa State that I think
Austin Elmore could have ran through for touchdowns. Oh yeah,
and they've given up one sack all year. Like they
are killing it in the running game, and Brendan Soorsby
more often than not has had a ton of time
(02:00):
to stand back there and pick up our defenses. Everybody
looks at how explosive the offense has been. I think
the biggest reason is that offensive line has been really
good at both run and as quat.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So they're four and one, and I don't even love
to make the comparisons to last year when they were
five and two and totally fell apart. But if there's
if there's one or two things that should worry Bearcat
fans at this stage in the season, what are.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
They You're in the Big twelve, So I mean outside
of Oklahoma State, like I you see the Middle Florida
Institute of Hospitality is talented. They just they're not a
complete team, but they do enough things well that if
(02:45):
you're not on top of your game, just like Kansas
last Saturday. Hey, Kansas is probably a good deal better
than the Middle Florida Institute of Hospitality. And it was
still a twenty seven to twenty game with Central Florida
at the goal line. You can't really tied the Middle
Florida Institute of Hospitality. It takes a lot. I'm gonna
(03:07):
have to workshop that m f I Florida. Yeah, Central
Florida was at the one yard line four times and
couldn't score to tie that game. So if Cincinnati doesn't
play well, this can be a close game into the
(03:27):
fourth quarter. And if it's a close game into the
fourth quarter, you're opening yourself up just things happening. So
they need to go out, I think, and take control
of this game. Because the one thing about Central Florida
it's not a passing team. So if you get up
to you know, fourteen to seventeen points on them, they're
(03:49):
in trouble because they're not going to be able to
just drop back and throw the ball around. If you
let this game to hang within ten points, it concerns
me because they get after the passer. They've got a
good even to line, and Miles Montgomery's a really good
running back, and that can cause problems if you don't
if you're sleepwalking, if you're thinking, we beat Kansas at Kansas,
(04:12):
we beat Iowa State, like we're good, we got this.
How many times have we seen that comeback and fight
somebody in the rear end?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Is the Big twelve wide open enough and is this
team good enough for them to be a legitimate factor
in the conference race?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yes? Yes, I think. Well there is one problem I
think this year, and that is I think Texas Tech
is substantially superior to everyone else in the league. So
that means there's really only one spot that everybody's fighting for,
and I think Cincinnati, Arizona State, Iowa State, BYU Utah, like,
(04:53):
There's maybe even Baylor, maybe even TCU, Like there is
a large number of teams that there's gonna be some
separation that happens as we go through. But still you're
probably talking about three, four, five teams that are gonna
be in contention for that spot against Texas Tech right
(05:14):
down to the wire. But I do think with the
way the schedule sets up, you've got these two years.
If you can take care of these two, you get
the four to zero in the league. The back half
is tough, but I don't see any of those games
that I don't think are are winnable, or at least
you know you can go three and two. If you
(05:35):
go three and two, then you're seven and two in
the conference, and you're in the conversation to be in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I listen to your conversation, excuse me, your conversation with
Wes Miller. Today I heard a coach who sounds confident
but sort of not even sort of kind of understands
the mandate this year.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I think he definitely does, like you gotta win last year.
The thing is, I think people gets so caught up
in the moment. There had been significant progress from year
one to year two to year three, and I think
everybody expected that to continue, me included, you, included, and
it didn't. And it was a disappointment. There was a
(06:16):
significant disappointment. But it's not like this thing has been
backsliding for a while. It is correctable, but it has
to be corrected this year. And I think a lot
of that comes down to the philosophy of roster building,
because I think Wes kind of was in an old
(06:37):
school mentality of just go get the most talent and
figure it out. Right, there's many good players as you can,
and it'll work itself out eventually. It didn't. And I
think this roster is much more fundamentally constructed to be
good than the one last year was. So we'll see
(07:00):
how that plays out. But I like them makeup of
this team a lot better. The other thing though, that
I've been able to see a lot tougher, like this
should be a team that plays really hard. And there's
nothing that drove all of us more insane last year
than watching a team that didn't play hard. It's not
that we didn't think they played hard, didn't play hard hard.
(07:22):
They didn't play hard. Time and time again, we're looking
at each other going, this isn't Cincinnati basketball. I don't
want to watch.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
This in thirty five years. Last year was the first
time that I have repeatedly questioned effort. And if I'm
doing that this year, then I'm gonna throw more than
pens on the floor.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Are you are you gonna throw Terry?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Throw Terry? I might pick Terry up and heave them
onto the floor. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see how that
works out for me. All right, man, thank you as always,
We'll be listening tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
All right, thanks, well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
That's our guy, Chad Brendall, Bearcad Turnold. Come you see
basketball plays an exhibition game in two weeks, two weeks
from tomorrow against Michigan on the road in ann Arbor.
That is no, not true, it's next week. I should
know it's ann Arbor first next week and then Arkansas
in the twenty fourth. These are the things I should
commit to memory before I open my big Now I'm
(08:15):
almost certain that's the case next week. See Now, what
I'm gonna have to do is go on the internet
and make sure I have that career. We've had a
lot going on here. They play exhibition games against Michigan
and against Arkansas. The Arkansas games on twenty fourth. Michigan
(08:35):
game is yeah, next Friday.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Good job, mo.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Cople the way from four o'clock? Which reds picture? Will
they trade next
The Bearcats.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (00:04):
You know, if you have listened to this radio station
all day, it's it's been like forty eight minutes since
you heard Chad Brendle, and I don't want to deprive
you anymore. Bearcat Journal dot Com hosting since he three
to sixty tomorrow at noon and joining us now for
his weekly segment on the Bearcats.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hi, Chad, I'm a walk kind of sea light.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
In a while.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
How you been, Dan, I'm hanging in there, hanging in there,
just driving home from work.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
You know, good, good, Well, it's nice. It's nice to
have you. The Bearcat football team is four and one.
They host UCF as big favorites on Saturday. They're coming
off back to back conference wins. This team is playing well.
What has been the most surprising thing about their performance
so far.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
How well the offensive line has played in both phases
of the game. I expected this to be a pretty
good offensive line. But you lost your left tackle to
the NFL. You lost both starting guards to NFL training camps.
Like for a school like Cincinnati, that generally spells disaster
(01:16):
for a year or two until they replenish. You know
that group of offensive linemen and man I mean, you
got to go back a while for me to remember
feeling this good about an offensive line in both pass
blocking and run blocking, and it just feels like they're
setting the tone. I mean, look, there were some holes
(01:38):
that they opened up against Iowa State that I think
Austin Elmore could have ran through for touchdowns. Oh yeah,
and they've given up one sack all year. Like they
are killing it in the running game, and Brendan Soorsby
more often than not has had a ton of time
(02:00):
to stand back there and pick up our defenses. Everybody
looks at how explosive the offense has been. I think
the biggest reason is that offensive line has been really
good at both run and as quat.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So they're four and one, and I don't even love
to make the comparisons to last year when they were
five and two and totally fell apart. But if there's
if there's one or two things that should worry Bearcat
fans at this stage in the season, what are.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
They You're in the Big twelve, So I mean outside
of Oklahoma State, like I you see the Middle Florida
Institute of Hospitality is talented. They just they're not a
complete team, but they do enough things well that if
(02:45):
you're not on top of your game, just like Kansas
last Saturday. Hey, Kansas is probably a good deal better
than the Middle Florida Institute of Hospitality. And it was
still a twenty seven to twenty game with Central Florida
at the goal line. You can't really tied the Middle
Florida Institute of Hospitality. It takes a lot. I'm gonna
(03:07):
have to workshop that m f I Florida. Yeah, Central
Florida was at the one yard line four times and
couldn't score to tie that game. So if Cincinnati doesn't
play well, this can be a close game into the
(03:27):
fourth quarter. And if it's a close game into the
fourth quarter, you're opening yourself up just things happening. So
they need to go out, I think, and take control
of this game. Because the one thing about Central Florida
it's not a passing team. So if you get up
to you know, fourteen to seventeen points on them, they're
(03:49):
in trouble because they're not going to be able to
just drop back and throw the ball around. If you
let this game to hang within ten points, it concerns
me because they get after the passer. They've got a
good even to line, and Miles Montgomery's a really good
running back, and that can cause problems if you don't
if you're sleepwalking, if you're thinking, we beat Kansas at Kansas,
(04:12):
we beat Iowa State, like we're good, we got this.
How many times have we seen that comeback and fight
somebody in the rear end?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Is the Big twelve wide open enough and is this
team good enough for them to be a legitimate factor
in the conference race?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yes? Yes, I think. Well there is one problem I
think this year, and that is I think Texas Tech
is substantially superior to everyone else in the league. So
that means there's really only one spot that everybody's fighting for,
and I think Cincinnati, Arizona State, Iowa State, BYU Utah, like,
(04:53):
There's maybe even Baylor, maybe even TCU, Like there is
a large number of teams that there's gonna be some
separation that happens as we go through. But still you're
probably talking about three, four, five teams that are gonna
be in contention for that spot against Texas Tech right
(05:14):
down to the wire. But I do think with the
way the schedule sets up, you've got these two years.
If you can take care of these two, you get
the four to zero in the league. The back half
is tough, but I don't see any of those games
that I don't think are are winnable, or at least
you know you can go three and two. If you
(05:35):
go three and two, then you're seven and two in
the conference, and you're in the conversation to be in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I listen to your conversation, excuse me, your conversation with
Wes Miller. Today I heard a coach who sounds confident
but sort of not even sort of kind of understands
the mandate this year.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I think he definitely does, like you gotta win last year.
The thing is, I think people gets so caught up
in the moment. There had been significant progress from year
one to year two to year three, and I think
everybody expected that to continue, me included, you, included, and
it didn't. And it was a disappointment. There was a
(06:16):
significant disappointment. But it's not like this thing has been
backsliding for a while. It is correctable, but it has
to be corrected this year. And I think a lot
of that comes down to the philosophy of roster building,
because I think Wes kind of was in an old
(06:37):
school mentality of just go get the most talent and
figure it out. Right, there's many good players as you can,
and it'll work itself out eventually. It didn't. And I
think this roster is much more fundamentally constructed to be
good than the one last year was. So we'll see
(07:00):
how that plays out. But I like them makeup of
this team a lot better. The other thing though, that
I've been able to see a lot tougher, like this
should be a team that plays really hard. And there's
nothing that drove all of us more insane last year
than watching a team that didn't play hard. It's not
that we didn't think they played hard, didn't play hard hard.
(07:22):
They didn't play hard. Time and time again, we're looking
at each other going, this isn't Cincinnati basketball. I don't
want to watch.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
This in thirty five years. Last year was the first
time that I have repeatedly questioned effort. And if I'm
doing that this year, then I'm gonna throw more than
pens on the floor.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Are you are you gonna throw Terry?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Throw Terry? I might pick Terry up and heave them
onto the floor. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see how that
works out for me. All right, man, thank you as always,
We'll be listening tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
All right, thanks, well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
That's our guy, Chad Brendall, Bearcad Turnold. Come you see
basketball plays an exhibition game in two weeks, two weeks
from tomorrow against Michigan on the road in ann Arbor.
That is no, not true, it's next week. I should
know it's ann Arbor first next week and then Arkansas
in the twenty fourth. These are the things I should
commit to memory before I open my big Now I'm
(08:15):
almost certain that's the case next week. See Now, what
I'm gonna have to do is go on the internet
and make sure I have that career. We've had a
lot going on here. They play exhibition games against Michigan
and against Arkansas. The Arkansas games on twenty fourth. Michigan
(08:35):
game is yeah, next Friday.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Good job, mo.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Cople the way from four o'clock? Which reds picture? Will
they trade next
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