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September 19, 2024 13 mins
Mo Egger talks UC with Chad Brendel.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, it's fourteen away from four o'clock. This is
ESPN fifteen thirty. Is Chad. Chad's there? I see Chad
on hold on two different lines, all Chad. When we
call Chad, it's going to voicemail, straight to voicemail. Wow,
well here, you know what, I'll just I'll see if
I'll see if I can call him. I'll try to

(00:26):
use our phone system. I'll see if I could figure
this out. This is live radio. See, if we were
doing like a podcast, we would just stop, we would
not be recording and then we you know, chase down
the person. But you know, we were doing this live.
This is like by the seat of our pants. There's
the thing. I hit dial. I'm on line eight. Hell, hey,

(00:49):
there he is. Hi Chad, Chad, you're on the radio
right now. What's going on?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I'm out? Is my phone not working yet?

Speaker 1 (00:56):
It was going right to voicemail. Liam was trying to
dial you and it wasn't working. But I hit it
here directed now here we are.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Well, I'm glad to be here.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Brendel bearkad Journal dot Com on x at Chad Brendle.
What was the biggest takeaway from the victory over the
Miami RedHawks last.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Week that they won the game, and I don't didn't
have to deal with listening to people complain about them
not winning the game.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
More than anything, MO.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I think as we enter Big twelve play, I feel
a lot more confident about the number of guys that
I I am pretty confident saying our Big twelve level, like.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Higher Big twelve.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Level players, not like, you know, above replacement level. We
like that term these days, right, Brendan Soursby, Joe roy
or Xavier Henderson, Corey Kiner, you know, Luke Candra, Jared Bartlett,
Derek Canteen, like Jordan Young. I think there's a bunch

(02:04):
of guys now. I feel comfortable going into Big twelve
play saying they got a bunch of guys that I
think can compete at a pretty high level in this conference.
I mean they're gonna, you know, win the conference. No,
that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying it's a much
larger number than it felt like a season ago.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
I think they've played well. I'll kind of throw away
bits and pieces of the Townson game, but I think
they've played well essentially for ten out of twelve quarters,
maybe nine and a half out of twelve quarters. So
that's the majority. If what I have seen from the
majority of the time in the first three games is
what I see the majority of the time over the
course of the next nine Big Twelve games, they should

(02:45):
win their fair share, correct.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I think so? I do.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
I somewhat take exception something I heard you say yesterday, Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
That the Big Twelve is down. I think it's right.
I don't.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
I think it's right about where I expected it to be.
I did not expect it to have a team that
you know, was in the top five, necessarily in the
top ten of the college football rankings.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
There's still five, six.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Seven teams at the top of this conference that I
think are pretty good. The bottom is nowhere near as
bad as some of the other leagues that I'm looking at.
Hello Mississippi State, Hello Florida State. Like you know, I
look around, and I think it's right about where I
expected the Big Twelve. I maybe agree with you if

(03:35):
you said Cincinnati's schedule portion of the Big Twelve not great,
and I think that hopefully is a good thing for UC.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, I mean it's maybe not down the league top
to bottom. There's not a team that jumps off the page,
and that doesn't mean there aren't very good teams. That
doesn't mean they aren't very good teams. I could could
make a run in the college football playoff, but I
think specifically when you focus on who u SE does
and doesn't play, like there are two games, I'm not
exactly thrilled with the rest of them. I think they

(04:10):
have a puncher's chance, and some more so than others,
including obviously this Saturday. But I don't know, man, I'm
a little bit more glass half full than I think
a lot of people are who are still, perhaps justifiably so,
stewing over the Pittsburgh game.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, and I get it, like that was you can't
lose that game.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
That was just.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Watching it slip away, was just watching a car parked on.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Like the train tracks and just waiting for the train
to come.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Like once pitt got rolling, it was like, oh no,
this is not And then they get to stop on
the two point commersion and you're like, all right, maybe
they can hang on. Then they get the second two
point conversion stop and you're like, surely they're not gonna
let it. Get the ball back again and score for
the fourth time in a row and then that happened

(05:00):
and you're walking off the field.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
On boy, there's a whole lot that.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Just got flushed down the drains that that was so
positive for most of that game, hopefully. You know, Houston's
not very I mean they're okay, They're not good.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
I think they're getting better.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
I think is a good way to describe where they
are at going into their fourth game under Willie Fritz,
because I think we all agree he's a pretty good coach.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
I don't know what to think of Texas Tech. I
have no clue.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
They've scored a bunch of points in two of three games.
Washington State kind of played keep away from them and
they couldn't score at all. Arizona State We're gonna find
out a lot about this weekend. I think they've been
a surprise, but I don't love them, Like, yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
There's you know, ucf might.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Run for seven hundred yards against two times.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Like honestly, mough. R. J.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Harvey might be one of the top five most fun
players to watch, and that brings my soul a great
deal of pain to say something nice about.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
UC Yeah, they just played Miami and it was a
different type of battle for the victory bell right, Like
everybody leaned into it. It took them losing last year,
I think for a lot of a lot of UC players,
but I think a lot of fans sort of lean
into the rivalry. And you've talked about this a lot.
There's one more scheduled game remaining. I wouldn't mind a

(06:27):
resumption of this that was every few years. It feels
to me like there's a pretty good chance that that
ends up being the case, correct.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
According to my sources, that things are trending in that
direction that I think both sides. You know, I heard
you talk about this yesterday. I appreciate the shout out.
Like they have talked about very specifically, they want to
play FBS opponent sponent, sorry, a group of five school
and a Power five school. And if you're going to

(07:00):
play a group of five school every year, if it's
Miami every three four years, like, okay.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
People get got worked up when I reported that.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
I'm like, what, so you're just dying to see them
play bowling green right in Kent State, Like they're going
to play a group of five school if it's Miami
once every couple of cycles. Okay, it doesn't I just
I don't see a problem with that. I think it's
one of the longest running rivalries in the country. If

(07:32):
you want to keep it alive, I'm good with that.
Everybody complains about college football as we know it is dying.
They're killing off all the things that make college football great.
And then when it's your team that's involved in maybe
keeping one of those traditions alive, well not like that, not.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Us, like we didn't.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
We don't want to say college football, but everybody else
could do their part.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
I had this converse station with somebody and I go, okay, well,
if it's not Miami, which traditional UC rivalry are you
looking to keep alive? There are none? So you could say, well,
you were not going to play football, correct?

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (08:13):
So yeah, yeah, you can't. You can't say one thing
and then say something completely diametrically opposed to it. Are
we going to get a basketball schedule anytime soon, a
full basketball schedule, a Big twelve basketball schedule.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Within the week.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
I think sometimes very This is right in the window
that we got it last year, so I would assume
that it'll be right within you know, by the what's
the The Texas second game was the twenty eighth. I
would think we'll have one by the end of next week.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
If the basketball schedule were to come out over the
next three to four days, would that be the biggest
piece of UC basketball news there is.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
To you? Maybe because I know how much you love
the schedule?

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
I'm going to plan my life, man, I mean either too.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
I just anymore. I just assume I'm either working or
driving toing from something volleyball related.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
That's right. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
Are you coming to the Simon Kitton homecoming parade tonight?

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Mo?

Speaker 1 (09:15):
No, that would be creepy.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, well you can hang out with me. And I'm
not looking forward to it. But I helped build the float.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Okay, Yeah, I stopped going. I stopped going to homecoming
parades when I was in high school.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah, I haven't been to one in a very long time. So, uh,
I'm going to go to the Fishes and Independence and
stand on the hill and uh.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
It's it's hot out there. I'm not looking forward to
this through.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
If you're if you're into the roster, maybe tomorrow there
could be some some.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Really good news.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Uh. Four star point guard key Seawan Pillory is committee
tomorrow at around five o'clock. He is very, very good.
The first time I really got a scouting report on
Keyshawn Tillery was from none other than Kane Broome. Tillery
plays in the same prep school league as Kane coaches

(10:16):
in and he said, this dude is the baddest dude
I've seen in the twenty twenty five class. Every time
we play him, he cooks us for forty and I
think he's the one that kind of started this called
Lesson said, hey, like you need to get after this dude.
He goes to Newhampton. If that sounds familiar, that's the

(10:38):
prep school that Wes Miller went to, so I would.
I think it's safe to assume wes Miller has very
good connections at New Hampton and he was there yesterday
is usually a good sign, though, if you're into reading recruiting,
Tea leaves. Wes Miller visited Keyshaan Tillery at Newhampton Prep

(10:59):
School yesterday and then yesterday evening keischan Tillery set his
commitment date.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Oh okay. Usually a good sign, yeah, all right. Not always.
When the coach.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Leaves the visit and then you immediately begin the work
of announcing your commitment, it bodes well for the school
that was their last. And I don't know if you've
heard this mo. At least they didn't do what wake
Forest did in this recruitment, which was wake Forest was
getting ready to go up this week and see him

(11:34):
to make their final pitch. Wake Forest is one of
the finalists and they sent him an edit. In the
edit had a different point guard in it.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Good work job.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
And my understanding is Keishaan Tillery called the staff at
wake Forest and said, yeah, you know that visit that
you guys were going to come up and see me,
You should probably cancel the flight.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
This is a thing that really happened this week now,
So some interesting discussions being had in the wake Forest
basketball offices over the last couple of days.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Huh, whoever sent that, whatever whatever intern sent that, I'm
guessing his internship might not extend into October.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Incredible, All right, man, thank you as always.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Well that's sir guy Chad. But go see m tonight.
He'll be on the frishes outside Frishes and Independence watching
the Simon Kenton homecoming parade. His daughter goes to Simon Kenton.
It's not just being some weirdo watching a homecoming parade
UH and his website of course, Bearcat Journal dot com.
On x at Chad brendle uc in Houston on Saturday

(12:45):
at noon five point three seven four nine, fifteen thirty
is our phone number eight sixty six seven oh two
three seven seven six. We'll get you in as well
as promised. We'll have the Joe Burrow Press conference for you.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
UH.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
It's a battle of former LSU quarterbacks on Monday. Joe
talks about Jade Daniels and so much more of that
coming up in just a few minutes, plus our guy
Jay Morrison at four twenty and a week three fantasy
football help from our buddy Dan Klaskins from get sportsinfo
dot com that is coming up at four forty five.
Also Brenneman and Jones on baseball. A lot to get

(13:19):
to between now and five o'clock. We are here till six.
It's four o'clock on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station

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