September 26, 2025 • 7 mins
Chad Brendel of Bearcat Journal joined us to talk UC football and basketball.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They got to win this game on Saturday, Chad, Like,
if this thing's ever gonna take off, you gotta win
games like this. Sorry, go beat the Jayhawks and open
up Big twelve play with a win.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, I mean, well, they have to win one of
these first two, Like you can't go into you know
that uc F Oklahoma stretch oh to two and need
those games to get even. So you gotta win one
of these two. Iowa State, I think is a good
deal better than Kansas. So in terms of matchups, yeah,
(00:31):
Kansas is the more likely of the two games that
you're gonna win. I think Kansas is pretty good, but
they're not a juggernaut by any stretch. It was, you know,
one of those things that it felt a lot like
Nebraska in doing the prep this week for Kansas, where
I you know, I was impressed by Kansas early in
the season the Missou game. You know, they started hot
(00:54):
and then basically got blown out over the last two
and a half quarters. And then West Virginia. The numbers
don't look great, but they dominated the game, and I
think part of that is just West Virginia's offense is dreadful.
Kansas is good, but they don't blow you away. Like
their rushing game is a struggling. Their number one back
(01:14):
is hurt, he's listed as questionable. Jalen Daniels is good.
It's his you know, thirty seventh year in college. He's
going to be a problem. But yeah, other team is
gonna have good players, Like, you've got to go in
there and figure out a way to get over the
hump and get this thing moving in the right direction
(01:36):
because I'm tired of doing the whole like, well, technically
season's not over yet. Well, technically they still got a chance, Like, no,
get out in front of it. Win early, yes, and
then you know, let it, let it happen late. But
it's it's frustrating. It's frustrating, and they need to win.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Guy, Yeah they have it's it's it's so simple, guys.
Start winning football games, man, Go win one on Saturday.
Go prove that what happened against Nebraska in terms of
the inability to throw downfield was an outlier. And don't
show me more of the same. Make me feel like
this is gonna work. And the best way to do
that is to go on the road and get a
(02:15):
win in a game where you're getting points is basketball
doing the same thing at media day where there's no
preseason poll.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I don't know. In basketball, it doesn't matter as much,
like you know, it's it's kind of irrelevant. Football proved
that they were right, yeah, because Kansas State would have
been one or two in that preseason pole and they
have tanked, and Arizona State would have been one or
two in that preseason poll, and they look like they're
probably kind of middle of the pack. So they were
(02:44):
right in football, But it carries too much weight in football.
In basketball, it's a long, long, long season, and those
things tend to iron themselves out. So but I'm trying
to remember last year. I think it's a coaches poll basketball,
it's a media poll. In football.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Where should I'm going to look that up on the
fly here, But where should you see if they do
a pole and if they don't an imaginary poll, where
should you see be slotted?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I mean, here's the This is the part that U
See fans probably aren't going to like. But there's probably
at least six teams that start the season ahead of
them in the conference Houston, Texas Tech, Arizona, Kansas, Iowa State,
(03:38):
and BYU seventh or eight somewhere in there. Now, I
should still get you in the tournament pretty comfortably. But
again that already tells you from the jump your wiggle
room's going to be a little bit smaller than maybe
people want to believe, because if you're finishing seventh or
eighth in the conference, you might not be on the bubble,
(03:59):
but you're you're going to be bubble adjacent. Right. But
the thing is, well, much like in football, but they
have Houston twice. That's the only team in that top
six that I mentioned that they played twice, West Virginia twice.
They got UCF place. You got to go three and
one in that stretch, and then you've got to find
a way to win a game or two against those
(04:21):
teams that are slotted above you. And they just haven't
done it in their two years in this league with
enough frequency. And what three times maybe they beat b
YU at e YU the first year, they beat b
YU at home, last year, they beat Baylor last year.
I can't think of any other like teams that were
supposed to be ahead of them that they've beaten. So
(04:45):
you got to show you could get a couple of
games off, you know, you know, I'm not expecting them
to go win, you know, go four and two in
those games or whatever, five and three, but like you've
got to win some of them, and they haven't been
able to do that enough.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
For context, they were picked six last year, and it
is a poll of the sixteen. Yeah. So, uh, the
non league schedule, because I when the schedule came out
last year, I had no issue with it. They were
going on the road three times, They played a Dayton,
you know, as close to a high major as I
(05:20):
guess you could get on a neutral floor. They had
the Xavier game. I don't know that that schedule prepared
them for Big twelve play well this year's.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I mean sure, I mean you do. I think I
think Georgia Tak's going to be decent. I think are
Georgia is going to be decent. Sorry, I think Clemson's
going to be decent. So those should give you a test.
Louisville should be really really good. Dayton I don't. I
(05:51):
have no idea, no idea about that.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Neither does anybody with the program.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And I think Xavier is going to be rough, but
winning at sentas you know, it's been their Krystonite so
they could put you know, like the Newport High School.
They could put the Scott High School team in Xavier
jerseys and they give Cincinnati a game at the Centop Center.
Like it just feels like that, right, So, you know
(06:18):
the Louisville game, you're gonna get a marquee high, high
profile opponent. I think, like I said, Georgia and Clemson
are going to be fine tests. You get five high
quality games and if you're looking at it, they're looking
at like twenty a little twenty or so Quad one,
quad two games out of your thirty one. I mean,
(06:40):
the schedule is going to be fine. And I don't
think it was the schedule that didn't have them ready
for Big twelve play. I think it was the roster. Yeah,
it wasn't good enough for Big twelve play. I mean
that it would be different if, like they were bumpy
at the beginning of the year then they got hot
at the end of the season. I could buy into
that a little bit more. But they were inconsistent throughout
the entirety of Big twelve play last year. And I
(07:03):
think that's more the roster was poorly constructed in terms
of too many pieces that were kind of the same
or had the same you know, pluses and the same minuses,
and that doomed him. I think a lot more than
the schedule.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Saturday at noon, Chad will be at the Holy Grail
hosting a Bearcat Journal watch party Cincinnati versus Kansas. It
will be fun as it is talking with you every week.
Thank you as always, thanks to Game Out Talk, you
to
They got to win this game on Saturday, Chad, Like,
if this thing's ever gonna take off, you gotta win
games like this. Sorry, go beat the Jayhawks and open
up Big twelve play with a win.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, I mean, well, they have to win one of
these first two, Like you can't go into you know
that uc F Oklahoma stretch oh to two and need
those games to get even. So you gotta win one
of these two. Iowa State, I think is a good
deal better than Kansas. So in terms of matchups, yeah,
(00:31):
Kansas is the more likely of the two games that
you're gonna win. I think Kansas is pretty good, but
they're not a juggernaut by any stretch. It was, you know,
one of those things that it felt a lot like
Nebraska in doing the prep this week for Kansas, where
I you know, I was impressed by Kansas early in
the season the Missou game. You know, they started hot
(00:54):
and then basically got blown out over the last two
and a half quarters. And then West Virginia. The numbers
don't look great, but they dominated the game, and I
think part of that is just West Virginia's offense is dreadful.
Kansas is good, but they don't blow you away. Like
their rushing game is a struggling. Their number one back
(01:14):
is hurt, he's listed as questionable. Jalen Daniels is good.
It's his you know, thirty seventh year in college. He's
going to be a problem. But yeah, other team is
gonna have good players, Like, you've got to go in
there and figure out a way to get over the
hump and get this thing moving in the right direction
(01:36):
because I'm tired of doing the whole like, well, technically
season's not over yet. Well, technically they still got a chance, Like, no,
get out in front of it. Win early, yes, and
then you know, let it, let it happen late. But
it's it's frustrating. It's frustrating, and they need to win.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Guy, Yeah they have it's it's it's so simple, guys.
Start winning football games, man, Go win one on Saturday.
Go prove that what happened against Nebraska in terms of
the inability to throw downfield was an outlier. And don't
show me more of the same. Make me feel like
this is gonna work. And the best way to do
that is to go on the road and get a
(02:15):
win in a game where you're getting points is basketball
doing the same thing at media day where there's no
preseason poll.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I don't know. In basketball, it doesn't matter as much,
like you know, it's it's kind of irrelevant. Football proved
that they were right, yeah, because Kansas State would have
been one or two in that preseason pole and they
have tanked, and Arizona State would have been one or
two in that preseason poll, and they look like they're
probably kind of middle of the pack. So they were
(02:44):
right in football, But it carries too much weight in football.
In basketball, it's a long, long, long season, and those
things tend to iron themselves out. So but I'm trying
to remember last year. I think it's a coaches poll basketball,
it's a media poll. In football.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Where should I'm going to look that up on the
fly here, But where should you see if they do
a pole and if they don't an imaginary poll, where
should you see be slotted?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I mean, here's the This is the part that U
See fans probably aren't going to like. But there's probably
at least six teams that start the season ahead of
them in the conference Houston, Texas Tech, Arizona, Kansas, Iowa State,
(03:38):
and BYU seventh or eight somewhere in there. Now, I
should still get you in the tournament pretty comfortably. But
again that already tells you from the jump your wiggle
room's going to be a little bit smaller than maybe
people want to believe, because if you're finishing seventh or
eighth in the conference, you might not be on the bubble,
(03:59):
but you're you're going to be bubble adjacent. Right. But
the thing is, well, much like in football, but they
have Houston twice. That's the only team in that top
six that I mentioned that they played twice, West Virginia twice.
They got UCF place. You got to go three and
one in that stretch, and then you've got to find
a way to win a game or two against those
(04:21):
teams that are slotted above you. And they just haven't
done it in their two years in this league with
enough frequency. And what three times maybe they beat b
YU at e YU the first year, they beat b
YU at home, last year, they beat Baylor last year.
I can't think of any other like teams that were
supposed to be ahead of them that they've beaten. So
(04:45):
you got to show you could get a couple of
games off, you know, you know, I'm not expecting them
to go win, you know, go four and two in
those games or whatever, five and three, but like you've
got to win some of them, and they haven't been
able to do that enough.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
For context, they were picked six last year, and it
is a poll of the sixteen. Yeah. So, uh, the
non league schedule, because I when the schedule came out
last year, I had no issue with it. They were
going on the road three times, They played a Dayton,
you know, as close to a high major as I
(05:20):
guess you could get on a neutral floor. They had
the Xavier game. I don't know that that schedule prepared
them for Big twelve play well this year's.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I mean sure, I mean you do. I think I
think Georgia Tak's going to be decent. I think are
Georgia is going to be decent. Sorry, I think Clemson's
going to be decent. So those should give you a test.
Louisville should be really really good. Dayton I don't. I
(05:51):
have no idea, no idea about that.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Neither does anybody with the program.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And I think Xavier is going to be rough, but
winning at sentas you know, it's been their Krystonite so
they could put you know, like the Newport High School.
They could put the Scott High School team in Xavier
jerseys and they give Cincinnati a game at the Centop Center.
Like it just feels like that, right, So, you know
(06:18):
the Louisville game, you're gonna get a marquee high, high
profile opponent. I think, like I said, Georgia and Clemson
are going to be fine tests. You get five high
quality games and if you're looking at it, they're looking
at like twenty a little twenty or so Quad one,
quad two games out of your thirty one. I mean,
(06:40):
the schedule is going to be fine. And I don't
think it was the schedule that didn't have them ready
for Big twelve play. I think it was the roster. Yeah,
it wasn't good enough for Big twelve play. I mean
that it would be different if, like they were bumpy
at the beginning of the year then they got hot
at the end of the season. I could buy into
that a little bit more. But they were inconsistent throughout
the entirety of Big twelve play last year. And I
(07:03):
think that's more the roster was poorly constructed in terms
of too many pieces that were kind of the same
or had the same you know, pluses and the same minuses,
and that doomed him. I think a lot more than
the schedule.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Saturday at noon, Chad will be at the Holy Grail
hosting a Bearcat Journal watch party Cincinnati versus Kansas. It
will be fun as it is talking with you every week.
Thank you as always, thanks to Game Out Talk, you
to
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