October 15, 2025 • 35 mins
Number, Word and Song of the Day. CBS Sports College Football Analyst Rick Neuheisel. Flip Top Story on the USC-Notre Dame game and a possible end of the rivalry.
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All right, So we we'll talk to Ricky new in
the very next segment, but that's not before something very important, Matt.
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And when I saw this, I knew what I had
to do.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
His words, The word of the day.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Today's word of the day is food. Glorious food. As
the Dodgers returned to Los Angeles following wins in Game
one and two of the NLCS, the hospitality food team
behind Dodger Stadium is rolling out multiple new menu items
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ahead of Thursday's Game three for fans to enjoy at
the ballpark.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Matt, I would say, the torta.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I'm very glad you asked what am I most proud of? Matt.
Of all the things that we have to offer here
at Dodger Stadium, let me ask you again, Yeah, what
are you most proud of?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I would say the torta.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Torta millanesa is the first item. Oh, look at that
crispy breaded beef cup cutlet piled high on soft teleta
bread with smashed black beans, creamy mao, fresh lettuce, tomato
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queso frasco.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
End I'm a cutton.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The Torta milanesa will be served in right field at
the Plaza at the Hornitos Kntina. That's Reserve level Section
seventeen Hornitos at the Hornitos and Reserve Section level seventeen
at the La Takaria. So that is the Torta Lemonade. Yes,
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thank you, that is the Torta Milanesa. The next is
the chicken yaqui soba noodles yachi soba for the way
tender grilled chicken springy yaqui soba noodles stir fried in
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a savory suite yaqui soba sauce, finished with a sprinkle
of scallions. That is at the field level section eight
at Delicious Hospitality. And finally, Matt the third new item
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available at Dodger Stadium for the NLCS Spicy rice cakes
Chewy mochi rice cakes smothered in a spicy sauce, topped
with toasted sesame seeds, and we'll get some of those
scallions from the yaki soba and throw those into Those
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are also available at field level section eight at Delicious Hospitality.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I can visualize a torta, I can visualize a bowl
of noodles. I don't know what a rice like. When
I think rice cakes. I think, you know, like what
the chicks would eat in high school and we were there,
you know that a tend like they weren't eating food
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Oh yeah, no, these said don't look like I don't
think they're crunchy, right, you know, it's like it's like
the onigiri.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
That's not unpronounced, it's not.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
No, Well, you're the expert. I can't.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
I can't remember how well I remember.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I remember, all right, it is number of the day.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Well, I too have an instrumental accompaniment, Pierre p I. Uh.
You know, you get the the aggreg the the aggregate
in your Instagram or the news feed. They know what
you like and what you're into. And today the Apple
News curated for my interest. And I can't say I'm
proud of this showing up, but I guess I do
a kind of dig into the food news. We do
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some Holland holiday commentary, so maybe that's that's why. Yeah,
I think, you know, we talk about the Halloween decorations
or the Chris decord.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I love that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I'm tired of the stupid walking twenty foot attack on.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Te see what I mean, skeleton right, that's what I
so we do this, so it's not a surprise. I
guess that this story showed up came from Food and
Wine and the headline read, start buying your Advent Calendar's
asap Oh I.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Heard about this, that these are getting. Yeah, I did.
I did hear about that.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Everybody wants so you see you got it as well.
Everybody was a.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
While back, and there's like one that's really popular and
expense Ewel.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Well here's what we got now.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I will say I've got three kids that are now
all grown up, but the Advent calendar when they were
kids was a big deal. The chocolate, you know, maybe
it was C's or otherwise. I think we had a
sour gummy Advent Calendar one year. Their favorite, and my
favorite as well, was the Lego Advent Calendar, a little
Lego build every single day. I was not prepared for
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what Food and Wine had for me. Adult were these
thirteen And there are the obvious ones. The Blokes Walker's
Shortbread Advent Calendar, piece of short bed every day, that's
thirty two bucks.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Also for the.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Wankers, yarn Brew Tea, a different tea per day, fifty bucks.
Oliver's and Company has something for the cook you get
like a jam an olive oil as salt, a vinegar,
cooking crap kind of stuff. Williams Sonoma has a Peter
Rabbit inspired truffle.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Oh that's my favorite. I love James Cordon so much.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
And then you got the as you mentioned piece. Stupid expensive.
We're super rich. Check out this holiday season log.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, that's center of our kitchen. There's like a waiting
list to get to some of these bissingers.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Has a treat per day in a Palace of Versailles
themed box for two hundred and twenty five dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Let them eat.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Take some spot called vosges Hot. Vos jess Hot has
a box with twenty four drawer polls. When you open it,
it plays music. It has lights. Three hundred and seventy
five dollars. Nice. But here's the podium p We start
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with the famous preserves Boone Maman. I do love PB
and J And if I can get a mini jar
of bone Maman preserves per day for just fifty five bucks,
I'm feeling pretty good about that. Silver in Good Taste
dot com one hundred and thirty two bucks. It sells
out every year. Twenty four mini bottles of wine France, Chili, Argentina,
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Australia and California, Reds Whites, Rosees and how about this.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Top of the pops, so like.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
A little bottle.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, they're like little bottles. Flavier Airs are Flavia Flavir
Airlines sells out every year. They say, this is the
one you really want to jump on. It's pricey. But
if you like boo o, if you appreciate great whiskey,
you get a pop per day, twenty four of them,
Bourbon Rise, Scotch, Japanese whiskey, fifty millilter vials, meaning you
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get two shots, one for you and you're a partner
or a friend, or maybe two for you. You get two
glasses a year. Subscription to their membership sells that every year.
The reviews are great and hey bit, sorry, I'm having
another glass of whiskey. But you know it's an advent calendar.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I got no choice. So that's f L A V
I ar if you want to get on that one.
But those are the advent calendars that were being pushed
and we're being told we'll sell out.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
All right, Katie, you got the song of the day.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
This is the song of the day.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Yeah, A song of the day is LA Divine by
Cold War Kids?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Did you mention the Cold War kids? Because Tim Kates
brought up the Cold War?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
You'll never know.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I see you there, Katie, keeping that string going.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
I like it all right.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
You're not supposed to be all mysterious like Ronnie.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You mean that's top me.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So I'll say I was taling. I learned everything from Ronnie.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
It's not what I read go to New Orleans when
I read.
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We are thrilled to have this guest on. It is
Rick new Heiseel. Yes he loves this song. Rick new
Heisel from the great CBS Sports, but we know him
as a Rose bul winning quarterback, a fabulous coordinator, a
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great head coach Colorado Washington, UCLA, an NFL coordinator, and
now we're having fun watching Jerry coordinate this UCLA offense
as they've taken off like a balloon after the coordinators
and head coach were Jennison. It's just an amazing story.
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And joining us now is an old friend of the
show and a great ambassador of college football everywhere and
a very talented man, the great Rick Neuheisel on your
So Cal Toyota Dealer's Celebrity Hotline, Rick, welcome him to
the show, Coach, and congratulations, it's been such a fun
few weeks.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
How are you doing.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
I'm doing great, and it looks like you boys are
doing great too. Congratulations on keeping the show rolling. And yeah,
it's been a couple of fun weeks. No question for
UCLA and a big shout out too, Yeah, a big
shout out to Tim Skipper forgetting this thing turned around
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and hopefully it can keep rolling at the Rose Bowl
this Saturday.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You know that. How did he flip the script so quickly?
I mean, no one saw the Penn State win coming.
And it was such a great, very very organic moment,
which is hard to create, you know, on network television
with you watching and the whole thing. How did he
do that?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Well? It was incredible. First of all, I think it
was Tuesday night. I get a text from Bruce Feldman
box right, and it says, is Jerry calling plays And
I'm looking at my watch and it's probably five o'clock
on the West coast, and I said, I didn't answer
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the text. I just reached out and called Jerry and
he answered the phone and said I just found out
three minutes ago. So that's how fast Feldman had it.
And I said, are you ready? He goes, We're going
to find out. I mean, so it happened really quickly.
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We had a couple of conversations about, you know, the
kiss method, keep it simple, stupid, right, and make sure
that the players know exactly what they're going to be
expected to do. Obviously, there's not a lot of time
to put anything new in. You just have to be
prepared for the eventualities that happen over the course of
the game. And the key is to look organized to
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make sure those kids know that this is about them
and not about you, and all of that's worked beautifully.
Kevin Coyle's done a great job on defense. That guy
was literally coaching at Syracuse as an analyst like eighteen
days ago. That's incredible. And yet this is where they
are and they got players believing, and you know, it's
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incredible what happens when players believe. And it's been fun
to watch from my vantage point here in New York.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Well, the new Heisel family is no stranger to quarterback
and so how you know, just to drill down, I
guess into the details, what did you see? What was
different about what Jerry and what Skipper had Nico doing.
We know how talented he is, but I mean five
passing touchdowns in those two games against Penn State and
Michigan State. He only had four prior to that, and
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then he runs for three against Penn State. He'd only
had one prior to that. What were they doing differently
that unlocked you know, this incredible talent.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
I'm not sure that it's the difference is I think
there's some nuance, right. I think in the Running Game,
for sure, there's some nuance. And Jerry learned a great
deal from Chick Kelly in the Running Game, so they're
going back to some of those principles in the front
knows both have churned out over two hundred yards rushing,
which then is a huge boon to a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Right.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
But what's cool about this situation is that Jerry started
his career at coaching quarterbacks, so he's most comfortable coach
in that position. He then coached the wide receivers, and
in coaching the wise receivers, he's the one who's recruited
these kids. Flores and Gilmour, those kids were his recruits,
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so he knows them personally and knows what their strengths
and weaknesses are. And now he's before the move, he
was coaching the tight ends, so he knows all of
those guys personally, so he's got a lot of buy
in just from a personal standpoint having known all the
different pieces of this, and I think that helps him
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in He's obviously got a good relationship with the rest
of the assistants. And what I like is that all
these guys are free agents. Like the players. Now, everybody's
a free agent, so no one's really focusing on what
happens after the season. Everybody's just hope focusing on Hey,
let's make this as good as it possibly can be
each and every week and count on each other to
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do the same. And if we'll do that, we give
ourselves a great chance to have a not only shock
the world, but have a blast doing it.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
What do you think Maryland uclall be?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Like?
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Maryland's pretty good, Maryland's really good. They got this kid,
Malik Washington, who's a freshman quarterback but looks like he
should be maybe a second year NFL guy. He's a
big old rascal and has had a great beginning to
his career. They had a twenty to nothing lead on Washington,
we know Washington's really good, and ended up losing that
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lead and losing the game. The same was true against
Nebraska last week. So this is a team that can
play with anybody, and it's going to take another Yeoman
effort if the Bruins are going to stay in this
game and hopefully give themselves a chance to win it
in the fourth quarter. But now belief is part of
the equation and that always makes for a great competition.
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Hopefully Bruin fans will get out to the Rose Bowl
and get behind.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Him, and no doubt would love to see more students
out there. And certainly there's excitement. What they missed when
they skipped out on the Penn State game. Hopefully they
won't miss out with Maryland. They get nebrask at home,
Washington at home. Still, what is like, what do you
think success looks like for the remainder of this season
for the Bruins.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Well, I think you're take and you're trying to get
a bunch of one and oh seasons. Right, that's very
coaching cliche. You know, the dreamer in me says if
they get to a bowl game, this is going to
be monumental. I think somebody said that their schedule the
rest of the way is considered the hardest in the country.
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I mean, they have Ohio State, they have in Indiana.
Both of those teams are in the top three in
the country right now. They have sc who just absolutely
look beautiful against Michigan. They've got Washington who is five
and one and just beat Michigan, or excuse me, he's
playing Michigan this week. But this is really kind of
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rare error. So I think we just worry about Maryland
right now and see if we can't shock the world
once again.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Rick new Heiseel always great perspective. And you know, when
a coach gets fired these days, usually they get millions
of dollars to go away. The assistance part in the families,
and I know you've lived that is the tough part
about it. And we're seeing more and more coaches get
fired earlier and earlier. Is that my theory a little
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bit is because it's a twelve team playoff and if
you don't make the playoffs, if you're not going to
make the playoffs, that makes it harder. Why is it
happening so frequently? Is it because of guys like Signetti
doing the impossible something no one thought was possible, turning
something like Indiana football around with one transfer parle class
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and one off season. What do we look at?
Speaker 6 (20:16):
I think I think that's partially it. You know, the
expectations and people getting things done quickly. Heck, my old
assistant Clark Lee's doing a whale of a job at Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt favored over Vanderbilt favored over LSU this weekend. So
that's a remarkable turnaround in Nashville. I think what's happening
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Petros is that we are relying because of this house
settlement and the inclusion of twenty more million dollars in
your line item on your budget, that there is just
so much more lean on your boosters. You're asking so
much more help raising money to pay players and to
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get kids interested in coming. I mean, the need for
improved facilities hasn't stopped, it hasn't waned, So everybody's looking
for more money. Nobody really wants to start, you know,
laying people off in the departments, so they're looking for more,
which means you're going to get more pseudo owners, more
people that are going to have influence as to how
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this program is run. And when those people start making
phone calls and saying, hey, look, I'm done with this
unless we make a change, you have to listen. And
I think that's probably exactly what happened at Penn Stay
here recently.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
What do you think Rick new heisl with us. You
see him on CBS.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It's always awesome when he joins us and can lend
so much insight to what's happening in college football?
Speaker 5 (21:44):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I mean, Ohio State's still number one, But you know
it was Alabama, it was Oregon, it was Clemson, it
was all Georgia, all at the top, and they obviously
can still win the national championship. But now you look
up there and there's Indiana after going to the Eugene,
there's Texas A and M winning it and Notre Dame
all miss is sick and zero.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Is the parody? Better? Is it? Non conference? Is it
who you've played up to this point?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Like?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
What do you chalk up what this top ten looks
like versus what maybe we thought it was going to
look like at the start of the season.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Well, college football is always going to be about scheduling.
You're you're got to have enough in there to challenge
and to prove authenticate if you will, your team, But
you don't you want it spaced out in such a
way that you've got an opportunity to be at your
best in each of those big games there are you know,
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schedules are not created equal. The other thing that you
know happens is we have a ranking system, which has
always been fun. We always talk about who's the top
twenty five to start a season, and the changeover on
rosters in today's day and age with the transfer portal
and kids, you know, looking to get better deals that
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those rocks. And I should say this because it sounds
like we're making the players seem the coaches are as
guilty as anybody for moving people along because they're looking
at their rosters and saying, this guy's not productive. I'm
going to try to tell him I'm changing positions with him,
and that way he'll go someplace else. So they're clear
in the decks as much as anybody. And so you've
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got a complete new roster each and every year. To
the old days when I was coaching, you know, i'd
be looking three four years down the road trying to
make sure I had enough offensive lineman and you know,
putting the roster together and counting on people to develop
in stutch. Today, if that guy doesn't develop like you
want him to, you move him out and go get
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somebody who's already you know, twenty one, twenty two years old.
That's a heck of a lot easier to put a
roster together. But when we as the media start wondering
about these teams, we start making assumptions based on brands
rather than what actually they've got on the team, and
so we can be wildly wrong, as we have been
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again this year.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
The gat Rick New heisll come on, coaches, don't run
people off. That never happens. One of the great guys.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Unfortunately today's age, it's happening.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Always great perspective and always very interesting conversation. And it's
been a wild ride watching the Bruins, and it's certainly
fun watching Jerry call the plays, and what Tim Skipper's
doing is pretty pretty great. Congratulations Rick on everything, and
have a great rest of the season, and hopefully we'll
be able to check in again before the holidays hit us.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Let's keep this thing rolling, boys, really appreciate the phone call.
You guys, have a blast and go Bruins.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
All right, Ricky New just for you tell you, Matt,
it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough to keep
it going.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Yeah, Maryland, Ohio, State, Nebraska, Washington, Indiana.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I like all those. I like all those. I mean,
Maryland's gonna be tough, but I think they'll walk right
over that Ohio State.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Team, no doubt overrated.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I'll talk a little more college football team across town
as they say at USC Notre Dame week In the
very next.
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Heisl talking UCLA and all of college football in that
last segment, Ucla Maryland this weekend. But we have Dodgers
Brewers tomorrow and Friday, and the Petro Some Money. She'll
be out there for both tomorrow and early one. We're
doing twelve to two for pitch just after three pm
as Tyler glassnow gets the start, tries to put the
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Dodgers up three zero and get that ticket ready to
be punched to the World Series for the second consecutive year.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
David Vasse will join us in the next hour, and
then we'll get to the Clipper pregame, which come.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
On, Clipper pregame, Come on, Clipper pregame. It's here, Clip
Seasons here, But.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Matt, like it is here in the odd years back
in beautiful South Bend or the even years in Los Angeles.
October fifteenth is a big day in LA sports history.
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Sc Notre Dame Week is always the greatest week, and
because of Lincoln Riley's smug attitude, usc A Notre Dame
have not committed beyond this year. I'm not happy about it, Matt.
You know I'm not.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
It's very strange to think that's it's just so stupid.
Possibility makes me sick, makes me sick.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Almost everybody alive knows where they were on the ninth
of October fifteenth, nineteen eighty eight. And if you weren't alive,
your parents have told you where they were that night.
That is the night Kurt Gibson limp to home plate,
homered off Dennis Eckersley and the Dodgers beat the A's
to win Game one of the World Series. Long time
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that we covered the Dodgers Matt where that was the
last World Series memory that Dodger fans had, hence the
Engelbert Humperdink and the Quando Quonda Kwonda. But that Dodger
game is not the game I want to bring up today.
Do you remember where you were October fifteenth.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Two thousand and five, And that's a great.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
The October fifteenth, two thousand and five, of course, is
the day of the miraculous USC comeback win over Notre Dame,
the game that is more commonly referred to as the
Bush Push game, and now it's taken on a whole
life of its own with the Tush Push Philadelphia Eagle
saka of now. But as we all know us he
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was trailing thirty one to twenty eight with three seconds left,
Reggie Bush pushed Matt Lionert into the end zone on
a quarterback sneak, and the defending champions and number one
ranked Trojans survived thirty four to thirty one. It was
USC's twenty eighth straight win. You could believe that Pete
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Carroll was the prince of the city. His chin was
welcome at everybody's dinner table, his beach cruising ways and
Manhattan Beach were deeply celebrated. Matt Lionert was the two
thousand four Heisman Trophy winner. Reggie Bush was about to
become the two thousand and five Heisman winner. But that
two thousand and five winning South Bend needed a lot
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of things to go right on the final drive to
make the Bush push possible and break our friend Brady
Quinn's heart. With one forty five left to play us,
he faced third and twenty on its own fifteen and
eleven yard pass play to Reggie Bush, who was a
great guy, by the way.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Matt Well still to this day set up there.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Back then, driving that Caprice Classic with that fancy stereo
system in it.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Great guy today, pece.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Is eleven yard pass play set up the memorable sixty
yard liner to Dwayne Jarrett play that got him down
to the thirteen yard line for the record in two
thousand and five. As you know, Matt pushing a ball
carrier forward was illegal in college football, but blatant and
rarely ever called.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
They were just ahead of their time.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
While the runner could not be pushed, pulled, or lifted
by a teammate, it just wasn't called, particularly in short
yarning situations. Something that I knew a little something about
in my playing days. The NCAA later changed the rule
making it legal to push, but it's still illegal to
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grasp or pull a runner forward, but people rarely call
that too. Twenty years ago, usc was LA's team, and
they still could be if they were good consistently like
they were back then. There were no rams, no chargers
in town. Surely most of us know where we were
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when we watched that game.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Matt, Where were you were you calling a game?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I'm got to tell you.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
I think I was just on my couch, if I remember,
right in the right place to be, Matt. Yeah, Laker
season had it start, it hadn't started yet. That was
my first year doing.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
The last salamatos with a town, right, Kates.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
I think I was doing bruin talk somewhere. I think
I got a call you were, Yeah, WELLAXI that was
on your call. I was on the polouse my Fox
game that night. And remember two thousand and five was
a great year for UCLA. Kates, twelfth ranc UCLA at
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Washington State.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
I knew it.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I knew it.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
UCLA also played a wild game on October fifteenth, two
thousand and five. The Bruins trailed twenty one to nothing
that night in the second quarter. They were still down
thirty one to twenty one to begin the fourth quarter,
but Drewles, the quarterback, got the Bruins to ot and
(31:53):
then UCLA won it on a Maurice Jones Drew touchdown
run forty four to forty one. Now a lot of
things have changed in twenty years. Met Pete Carroll left
the USC job after the two thousand and nine season,
just months before the NCAA sanctions smacked Heritage Hall. After
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a successful run with the Seahawks. Pete Carroll is the
NFL coach in Las Vegas. Things have changed slightly. UCLA
and USC are in the Big Ten. They no longer
travel to the police. I was watching the final drive
with Dan Guerrero in the press box at Martin Stadium
(32:41):
and remember having to just ditch it and go to
call our game. And somewhere in like halfway through the
first quarter, somebody got in my ear and told me
what happened. But the real problem is this Saturday's game
might be the last time USC plays in South Bend. Oh,
(33:04):
come on, well, they might not be playing in South
bend anymore. The future of the Notre Dame and USC
rivalry is well. The fact that it's in question is
a ridiculous and terrible development, and it makes me sick.
Over the last several months, I've criticized Lincoln Riley's mumbled
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message about his vision of the rivalry. Who cares. I'm
sure Link has felt the heat from the subpar twenty
three and twenty four seasons, and that's how both cupcakes
Missouri State and Georgia Southern landed on this year's schedule.
The bar is high at USC, and the Notre Dame
game is part of the job. The annual game is
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not only part of the football program's identity, it's part
of both schools' identities. The former players on both side
all wanted to continue in perpetuity. The fans and alumni
never want the USC Notre Dame game to end, and
of course the national media loves it as well. We
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all know the rivalry began in nineteen twenty six. If
not for missing three years during World War Two and
missing the twenty twenty game during the pandemic, this year's
game would be game number one hundred in the series.
Hopefully in twenty forty five. We'll be asking where did
you watch that crazy twenty twenty five USC Notre Dame game.
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There's literally a century worth of tradition and lore wrapped
up in the rivalry. Lincoln. Yes, the team has improved
this year. You can have your cupcase, but stop affing
with the Notre Dame game. Stop it. We'll have more
of a college football message on Friday during the short
(34:59):
show from Dottig your stadium. We'll be back taken USC
Notre Dame at Notre Dame.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Trojan's getting eight and a half.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
I'm gonna have to think about it.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
All right.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
We'll be right back with another hour of great sports Talk.
Don't you put that kind of pressure on him.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
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I thought he was going to be positive in the
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rolled a tani up like a spicy tune. I was positive,
it was chopped him up like the black dollon.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
About starting pictures going the distance, and then I just
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What do they remember, Matt? I built that bridge with
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bridge builder? No, No, they don't with my own two hands.
All right, So we we'll talk to Ricky new in
the very next segment, but that's not before something very important, Matt.
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And when I saw this, I knew what I had
to do.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
His words, The word of the day.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Today's word of the day is food. Glorious food. As
the Dodgers returned to Los Angeles following wins in Game
one and two of the NLCS, the hospitality food team
behind Dodger Stadium is rolling out multiple new menu items
(03:18):
ahead of Thursday's Game three for fans to enjoy at
the ballpark.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Matt, I would say, the torta.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I'm very glad you asked what am I most proud of? Matt.
Of all the things that we have to offer here
at Dodger Stadium, let me ask you again, Yeah, what
are you most proud of?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I would say the torta.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Torta millanesa is the first item. Oh, look at that
crispy breaded beef cup cutlet piled high on soft teleta
bread with smashed black beans, creamy mao, fresh lettuce, tomato
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queso frasco.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
End I'm a cutton.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The Torta milanesa will be served in right field at
the Plaza at the Hornitos Kntina. That's Reserve level Section
seventeen Hornitos at the Hornitos and Reserve Section level seventeen
at the La Takaria. So that is the Torta Lemonade. Yes,
(04:32):
thank you, that is the Torta Milanesa. The next is
the chicken yaqui soba noodles yachi soba for the way
tender grilled chicken springy yaqui soba noodles stir fried in
(04:54):
a savory suite yaqui soba sauce, finished with a sprinkle
of scallions. That is at the field level section eight
at Delicious Hospitality. And finally, Matt the third new item
(05:16):
available at Dodger Stadium for the NLCS Spicy rice cakes
Chewy mochi rice cakes smothered in a spicy sauce, topped
with toasted sesame seeds, and we'll get some of those
scallions from the yaki soba and throw those into Those
(05:40):
are also available at field level section eight at Delicious Hospitality.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I can visualize a torta, I can visualize a bowl
of noodles. I don't know what a rice like. When
I think rice cakes. I think, you know, like what
the chicks would eat in high school and we were there,
you know that a tend like they weren't eating food
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Oh yeah, no, these said don't look like I don't
think they're crunchy, right, you know, it's like it's like
the onigiri.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
That's not unpronounced, it's not.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
No, Well, you're the expert. I can't.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
I can't remember how well I remember.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I remember, all right, it is number of the day.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Well, I too have an instrumental accompaniment, Pierre p I. Uh.
You know, you get the the aggreg the the aggregate
in your Instagram or the news feed. They know what
you like and what you're into. And today the Apple
News curated for my interest. And I can't say I'm
proud of this showing up, but I guess I do
a kind of dig into the food news. We do
(06:51):
some Holland holiday commentary, so maybe that's that's why. Yeah,
I think, you know, we talk about the Halloween decorations
or the Chris decord.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I love that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I'm tired of the stupid walking twenty foot attack on.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Te see what I mean, skeleton right, that's what I
so we do this, so it's not a surprise. I
guess that this story showed up came from Food and
Wine and the headline read, start buying your Advent Calendar's
asap Oh I.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Heard about this, that these are getting. Yeah, I did.
I did hear about that.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Everybody wants so you see you got it as well.
Everybody was a.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
While back, and there's like one that's really popular and
expense Ewel.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Well here's what we got now.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I will say I've got three kids that are now
all grown up, but the Advent calendar when they were
kids was a big deal. The chocolate, you know, maybe
it was C's or otherwise. I think we had a
sour gummy Advent Calendar one year. Their favorite, and my
favorite as well, was the Lego Advent Calendar, a little
Lego build every single day. I was not prepared for
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what Food and Wine had for me. Adult were these
thirteen And there are the obvious ones. The Blokes Walker's
Shortbread Advent Calendar, piece of short bed every day, that's
thirty two bucks.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Also for the.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Wankers, yarn Brew Tea, a different tea per day, fifty bucks.
Oliver's and Company has something for the cook you get
like a jam an olive oil as salt, a vinegar,
cooking crap kind of stuff. Williams Sonoma has a Peter
Rabbit inspired truffle.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Oh that's my favorite. I love James Cordon so much.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
And then you got the as you mentioned piece. Stupid expensive.
We're super rich. Check out this holiday season log.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, that's center of our kitchen. There's like a waiting
list to get to some of these bissingers.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Has a treat per day in a Palace of Versailles
themed box for two hundred and twenty five dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Let them eat.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Take some spot called vosges Hot. Vos jess Hot has
a box with twenty four drawer polls. When you open it,
it plays music. It has lights. Three hundred and seventy
five dollars. Nice. But here's the podium p We start
(09:17):
with the famous preserves Boone Maman. I do love PB
and J And if I can get a mini jar
of bone Maman preserves per day for just fifty five bucks,
I'm feeling pretty good about that. Silver in Good Taste
dot com one hundred and thirty two bucks. It sells
out every year. Twenty four mini bottles of wine France, Chili, Argentina,
(09:40):
Australia and California, Reds Whites, Rosees and how about this.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Top of the pops, so like.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
A little bottle.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, they're like little bottles. Flavier Airs are Flavia Flavir
Airlines sells out every year. They say, this is the
one you really want to jump on. It's pricey. But
if you like boo o, if you appreciate great whiskey,
you get a pop per day, twenty four of them,
Bourbon Rise, Scotch, Japanese whiskey, fifty millilter vials, meaning you
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get two shots, one for you and you're a partner
or a friend, or maybe two for you. You get two
glasses a year. Subscription to their membership sells that every year.
The reviews are great and hey bit, sorry, I'm having
another glass of whiskey. But you know it's an advent calendar.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I got no choice. So that's f L A V
I ar if you want to get on that one.
But those are the advent calendars that were being pushed
and we're being told we'll sell out.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
All right, Katie, you got the song of the day.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
This is the song of the day.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Yeah, A song of the day is LA Divine by
Cold War Kids?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Did you mention the Cold War kids? Because Tim Kates
brought up the Cold War?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
You'll never know.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I see you there, Katie, keeping that string going.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
I like it all right.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
You're not supposed to be all mysterious like Ronnie.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You mean that's top me.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So I'll say I was taling. I learned everything from Ronnie.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
It's not what I read go to New Orleans when
I read.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
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of the NLCS first pitch just after three. We'll be
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Friday game four back to that five o'clock starts. So
we will be out at Dodger Stadium from two until
four thirty. Actually it'll be a five thirty PM first pitch.
Shohale Tiny will be on the mound tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
It is class now.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
We are thrilled to have this guest on. It is
Rick new Heiseel. Yes he loves this song. Rick new
Heisel from the great CBS Sports, but we know him
as a Rose bul winning quarterback, a fabulous coordinator, a
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great head coach Colorado Washington, UCLA, an NFL coordinator, and
now we're having fun watching Jerry coordinate this UCLA offense
as they've taken off like a balloon after the coordinators
and head coach were Jennison. It's just an amazing story.
(12:45):
And joining us now is an old friend of the
show and a great ambassador of college football everywhere and
a very talented man, the great Rick Neuheisel on your
So Cal Toyota Dealer's Celebrity Hotline, Rick, welcome him to
the show, Coach, and congratulations, it's been such a fun
few weeks.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
How are you doing.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
I'm doing great, and it looks like you boys are
doing great too. Congratulations on keeping the show rolling. And yeah,
it's been a couple of fun weeks. No question for
UCLA and a big shout out too, Yeah, a big
shout out to Tim Skipper forgetting this thing turned around
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and hopefully it can keep rolling at the Rose Bowl
this Saturday.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You know that. How did he flip the script so quickly?
I mean, no one saw the Penn State win coming.
And it was such a great, very very organic moment,
which is hard to create, you know, on network television
with you watching and the whole thing. How did he
do that?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Well? It was incredible. First of all, I think it
was Tuesday night. I get a text from Bruce Feldman
box right, and it says, is Jerry calling plays And
I'm looking at my watch and it's probably five o'clock
on the West coast, and I said, I didn't answer
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the text. I just reached out and called Jerry and
he answered the phone and said I just found out
three minutes ago. So that's how fast Feldman had it.
And I said, are you ready? He goes, We're going
to find out. I mean, so it happened really quickly.
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We had a couple of conversations about, you know, the
kiss method, keep it simple, stupid, right, and make sure
that the players know exactly what they're going to be
expected to do. Obviously, there's not a lot of time
to put anything new in. You just have to be
prepared for the eventualities that happen over the course of
the game. And the key is to look organized to
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make sure those kids know that this is about them
and not about you, and all of that's worked beautifully.
Kevin Coyle's done a great job on defense. That guy
was literally coaching at Syracuse as an analyst like eighteen
days ago. That's incredible. And yet this is where they
are and they got players believing, and you know, it's
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incredible what happens when players believe. And it's been fun
to watch from my vantage point here in New York.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Well, the new Heisel family is no stranger to quarterback
and so how you know, just to drill down, I
guess into the details, what did you see? What was
different about what Jerry and what Skipper had Nico doing.
We know how talented he is, but I mean five
passing touchdowns in those two games against Penn State and
Michigan State. He only had four prior to that, and
(15:45):
then he runs for three against Penn State. He'd only
had one prior to that. What were they doing differently
that unlocked you know, this incredible talent.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
I'm not sure that it's the difference is I think
there's some nuance, right. I think in the Running Game,
for sure, there's some nuance. And Jerry learned a great
deal from Chick Kelly in the Running Game, so they're
going back to some of those principles in the front
knows both have churned out over two hundred yards rushing,
which then is a huge boon to a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Right.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
But what's cool about this situation is that Jerry started
his career at coaching quarterbacks, so he's most comfortable coach
in that position. He then coached the wide receivers, and
in coaching the wise receivers, he's the one who's recruited
these kids. Flores and Gilmour, those kids were his recruits,
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so he knows them personally and knows what their strengths
and weaknesses are. And now he's before the move, he
was coaching the tight ends, so he knows all of
those guys personally, so he's got a lot of buy
in just from a personal standpoint having known all the
different pieces of this, and I think that helps him
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in He's obviously got a good relationship with the rest
of the assistants. And what I like is that all
these guys are free agents. Like the players. Now, everybody's
a free agent, so no one's really focusing on what
happens after the season. Everybody's just hope focusing on Hey,
let's make this as good as it possibly can be
each and every week and count on each other to
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do the same. And if we'll do that, we give
ourselves a great chance to have a not only shock
the world, but have a blast doing it.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
What do you think Maryland uclall be?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Like?
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Maryland's pretty good, Maryland's really good. They got this kid,
Malik Washington, who's a freshman quarterback but looks like he
should be maybe a second year NFL guy. He's a
big old rascal and has had a great beginning to
his career. They had a twenty to nothing lead on Washington,
we know Washington's really good, and ended up losing that
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lead and losing the game. The same was true against
Nebraska last week. So this is a team that can
play with anybody, and it's going to take another Yeoman
effort if the Bruins are going to stay in this
game and hopefully give themselves a chance to win it
in the fourth quarter. But now belief is part of
the equation and that always makes for a great competition.
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Hopefully Bruin fans will get out to the Rose Bowl
and get behind.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Him, and no doubt would love to see more students
out there. And certainly there's excitement. What they missed when
they skipped out on the Penn State game. Hopefully they
won't miss out with Maryland. They get nebrask at home,
Washington at home. Still, what is like, what do you
think success looks like for the remainder of this season
for the Bruins.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Well, I think you're take and you're trying to get
a bunch of one and oh seasons. Right, that's very
coaching cliche. You know, the dreamer in me says if
they get to a bowl game, this is going to
be monumental. I think somebody said that their schedule the
rest of the way is considered the hardest in the country.
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I mean, they have Ohio State, they have in Indiana.
Both of those teams are in the top three in
the country right now. They have sc who just absolutely
look beautiful against Michigan. They've got Washington who is five
and one and just beat Michigan, or excuse me, he's
playing Michigan this week. But this is really kind of
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rare error. So I think we just worry about Maryland
right now and see if we can't shock the world
once again.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Rick new Heiseel always great perspective. And you know, when
a coach gets fired these days, usually they get millions
of dollars to go away. The assistance part in the families,
and I know you've lived that is the tough part
about it. And we're seeing more and more coaches get
fired earlier and earlier. Is that my theory a little
(19:51):
bit is because it's a twelve team playoff and if
you don't make the playoffs, if you're not going to
make the playoffs, that makes it harder. Why is it
happening so frequently? Is it because of guys like Signetti
doing the impossible something no one thought was possible, turning
something like Indiana football around with one transfer parle class
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and one off season. What do we look at?
Speaker 6 (20:16):
I think I think that's partially it. You know, the
expectations and people getting things done quickly. Heck, my old
assistant Clark Lee's doing a whale of a job at Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt favored over Vanderbilt favored over LSU this weekend. So
that's a remarkable turnaround in Nashville. I think what's happening
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Petros is that we are relying because of this house
settlement and the inclusion of twenty more million dollars in
your line item on your budget, that there is just
so much more lean on your boosters. You're asking so
much more help raising money to pay players and to
(21:00):
get kids interested in coming. I mean, the need for
improved facilities hasn't stopped, it hasn't waned, So everybody's looking
for more money. Nobody really wants to start, you know,
laying people off in the departments, so they're looking for more,
which means you're going to get more pseudo owners, more
people that are going to have influence as to how
(21:20):
this program is run. And when those people start making
phone calls and saying, hey, look, I'm done with this
unless we make a change, you have to listen. And
I think that's probably exactly what happened at Penn Stay
here recently.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
What do you think Rick new heisl with us. You
see him on CBS.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It's always awesome when he joins us and can lend
so much insight to what's happening in college football?
Speaker 5 (21:44):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I mean, Ohio State's still number one, But you know
it was Alabama, it was Oregon, it was Clemson, it
was all Georgia, all at the top, and they obviously
can still win the national championship. But now you look
up there and there's Indiana after going to the Eugene,
there's Texas A and M winning it and Notre Dame
all miss is sick and zero.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Is the parody? Better? Is it? Non conference? Is it
who you've played up to this point?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Like?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
What do you chalk up what this top ten looks
like versus what maybe we thought it was going to
look like at the start of the season.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Well, college football is always going to be about scheduling.
You're you're got to have enough in there to challenge
and to prove authenticate if you will, your team, But
you don't you want it spaced out in such a
way that you've got an opportunity to be at your
best in each of those big games there are you know,
(22:33):
schedules are not created equal. The other thing that you
know happens is we have a ranking system, which has
always been fun. We always talk about who's the top
twenty five to start a season, and the changeover on
rosters in today's day and age with the transfer portal
and kids, you know, looking to get better deals that
(22:55):
those rocks. And I should say this because it sounds
like we're making the players seem the coaches are as
guilty as anybody for moving people along because they're looking
at their rosters and saying, this guy's not productive. I'm
going to try to tell him I'm changing positions with him,
and that way he'll go someplace else. So they're clear
in the decks as much as anybody. And so you've
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got a complete new roster each and every year. To
the old days when I was coaching, you know, i'd
be looking three four years down the road trying to
make sure I had enough offensive lineman and you know,
putting the roster together and counting on people to develop
in stutch. Today, if that guy doesn't develop like you
want him to, you move him out and go get
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somebody who's already you know, twenty one, twenty two years old.
That's a heck of a lot easier to put a
roster together. But when we as the media start wondering
about these teams, we start making assumptions based on brands
rather than what actually they've got on the team, and
so we can be wildly wrong, as we have been
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again this year.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
The gat Rick New heisll come on, coaches, don't run
people off. That never happens. One of the great guys.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Unfortunately today's age, it's happening.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Always great perspective and always very interesting conversation. And it's
been a wild ride watching the Bruins, and it's certainly
fun watching Jerry call the plays, and what Tim Skipper's
doing is pretty pretty great. Congratulations Rick on everything, and
have a great rest of the season, and hopefully we'll
be able to check in again before the holidays hit us.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Let's keep this thing rolling, boys, really appreciate the phone call.
You guys, have a blast and go Bruins.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
All right, Ricky New just for you tell you, Matt,
it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough to keep
it going.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Yeah, Maryland, Ohio, State, Nebraska, Washington, Indiana.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I like all those. I like all those. I mean,
Maryland's gonna be tough, but I think they'll walk right
over that Ohio State.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Team, no doubt overrated.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I'll talk a little more college football team across town
as they say at USC Notre Dame week In the
very next.
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doing twelve to two for pitch just after three pm
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Dodgers up three zero and get that ticket ready to
be punched to the World Series for the second consecutive year.
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David Vasse will join us in the next hour, and
then we'll get to the Clipper pregame, which come.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
On, Clipper pregame, Come on, Clipper pregame. It's here, Clip
Seasons here, But.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Matt, like it is here in the odd years back
in beautiful South Bend or the even years in Los Angeles.
October fifteenth is a big day in LA sports history.
(26:46):
Sc Notre Dame Week is always the greatest week, and
because of Lincoln Riley's smug attitude, usc A Notre Dame
have not committed beyond this year. I'm not happy about it, Matt.
You know I'm not.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
It's very strange to think that's it's just so stupid.
Possibility makes me sick, makes me sick.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Almost everybody alive knows where they were on the ninth
of October fifteenth, nineteen eighty eight. And if you weren't alive,
your parents have told you where they were that night.
That is the night Kurt Gibson limp to home plate,
homered off Dennis Eckersley and the Dodgers beat the A's
to win Game one of the World Series. Long time
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that we covered the Dodgers Matt where that was the
last World Series memory that Dodger fans had, hence the
Engelbert Humperdink and the Quando Quonda Kwonda. But that Dodger
game is not the game I want to bring up today.
Do you remember where you were October fifteenth.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Two thousand and five, And that's a great.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
The October fifteenth, two thousand and five, of course, is
the day of the miraculous USC comeback win over Notre Dame,
the game that is more commonly referred to as the
Bush Push game, and now it's taken on a whole
life of its own with the Tush Push Philadelphia Eagle
saka of now. But as we all know us he
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was trailing thirty one to twenty eight with three seconds left,
Reggie Bush pushed Matt Lionert into the end zone on
a quarterback sneak, and the defending champions and number one
ranked Trojans survived thirty four to thirty one. It was
USC's twenty eighth straight win. You could believe that Pete
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Carroll was the prince of the city. His chin was
welcome at everybody's dinner table, his beach cruising ways and
Manhattan Beach were deeply celebrated. Matt Lionert was the two
thousand four Heisman Trophy winner. Reggie Bush was about to
become the two thousand and five Heisman winner. But that
two thousand and five winning South Bend needed a lot
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of things to go right on the final drive to
make the Bush push possible and break our friend Brady
Quinn's heart. With one forty five left to play us,
he faced third and twenty on its own fifteen and
eleven yard pass play to Reggie Bush, who was a
great guy, by the way.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Matt Well still to this day set up there.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Back then, driving that Caprice Classic with that fancy stereo
system in it.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Great guy today, pece.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Is eleven yard pass play set up the memorable sixty
yard liner to Dwayne Jarrett play that got him down
to the thirteen yard line for the record in two
thousand and five. As you know, Matt pushing a ball
carrier forward was illegal in college football, but blatant and
rarely ever called.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
They were just ahead of their time.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
While the runner could not be pushed, pulled, or lifted
by a teammate, it just wasn't called, particularly in short
yarning situations. Something that I knew a little something about
in my playing days. The NCAA later changed the rule
making it legal to push, but it's still illegal to
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grasp or pull a runner forward, but people rarely call
that too. Twenty years ago, usc was LA's team, and
they still could be if they were good consistently like
they were back then. There were no rams, no chargers
in town. Surely most of us know where we were
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when we watched that game.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Matt, Where were you were you calling a game?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I'm got to tell you.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
I think I was just on my couch, if I remember,
right in the right place to be, Matt. Yeah, Laker
season had it start, it hadn't started yet. That was
my first year doing.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
The last salamatos with a town, right, Kates.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
I think I was doing bruin talk somewhere. I think
I got a call you were, Yeah, WELLAXI that was
on your call. I was on the polouse my Fox
game that night. And remember two thousand and five was
a great year for UCLA. Kates, twelfth ranc UCLA at
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Washington State.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
I knew it.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I knew it.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
UCLA also played a wild game on October fifteenth, two
thousand and five. The Bruins trailed twenty one to nothing
that night in the second quarter. They were still down
thirty one to twenty one to begin the fourth quarter,
but Drewles, the quarterback, got the Bruins to ot and
(31:53):
then UCLA won it on a Maurice Jones Drew touchdown
run forty four to forty one. Now a lot of
things have changed in twenty years. Met Pete Carroll left
the USC job after the two thousand and nine season,
just months before the NCAA sanctions smacked Heritage Hall. After
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a successful run with the Seahawks. Pete Carroll is the
NFL coach in Las Vegas. Things have changed slightly. UCLA
and USC are in the Big Ten. They no longer
travel to the police. I was watching the final drive
with Dan Guerrero in the press box at Martin Stadium
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and remember having to just ditch it and go to
call our game. And somewhere in like halfway through the
first quarter, somebody got in my ear and told me
what happened. But the real problem is this Saturday's game
might be the last time USC plays in South Bend. Oh,
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come on, well, they might not be playing in South
bend anymore. The future of the Notre Dame and USC
rivalry is well. The fact that it's in question is
a ridiculous and terrible development, and it makes me sick.
Over the last several months, I've criticized Lincoln Riley's mumbled
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message about his vision of the rivalry. Who cares. I'm
sure Link has felt the heat from the subpar twenty
three and twenty four seasons, and that's how both cupcakes
Missouri State and Georgia Southern landed on this year's schedule.
The bar is high at USC, and the Notre Dame
game is part of the job. The annual game is
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not only part of the football program's identity, it's part
of both schools' identities. The former players on both side
all wanted to continue in perpetuity. The fans and alumni
never want the USC Notre Dame game to end, and
of course the national media loves it as well. We
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all know the rivalry began in nineteen twenty six. If
not for missing three years during World War Two and
missing the twenty twenty game during the pandemic, this year's
game would be game number one hundred in the series.
Hopefully in twenty forty five. We'll be asking where did
you watch that crazy twenty twenty five USC Notre Dame game.
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There's literally a century worth of tradition and lore wrapped
up in the rivalry. Lincoln. Yes, the team has improved
this year. You can have your cupcase, but stop affing
with the Notre Dame game. Stop it. We'll have more
of a college football message on Friday during the short
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show from Dottig your stadium. We'll be back taken USC
Notre Dame at Notre Dame.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Trojan's getting eight and a half.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
I'm gonna have to think about it.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
All right.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
We'll be right back with another hour of great sports Talk.
Don't you put that kind of pressure on him.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
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