October 9, 2025 • 31 mins
College Football Week 7 is shaking things up! Who are the true contenders and pretenders in the playoff race? Plus, major transfer portal changes and rumors about Bill Belichick leaving North Carolina?! We break it all down on this week’s Fitz Take Podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's good, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome back into another
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College football season is fully in swing. I believe this
is week seven of the college football season. Here in
Cajun Country. The Raging Cages are two and three want
to know something of play. Uh, they're in Rocky Top.
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I believe you guys are four and one right now
with the only loss being to Georgia.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So things things are looking pretty good right now. Man.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We're gonna talk about contenders and pretenders here in college football.
We're gonna talk about how things are changing with the
transfer portal, and then close things out with the biggest
topic right now in college football, Bill Belichick potentially buying
out of his way of being the head coach at
North Carolina. That's that's gonna be exciting. So we're gonna
give our thoughts on that. But before we hop into it,
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how you feeling, man?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Feeling good man? First cut cut?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
But now I'm feeling feeling good. I'm feeling good man.
It's a great, great night. I know, football season about
to kick football game.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Is about to kick off.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I think I read something today where it said is
ninety straight days of football.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, recording is right now.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I think it's Missouri State and somebody playing right now.
I think it's on ESPN. They're supposed to be playing.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
So yeah, I'm excited about that. Man.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
You know, we got a joy wise here because once
it's over where things get born.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You know, never know when you're in the good old
days today. You never know.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
With that being said, guys, there are some good old
days in front of a lot of teams in college football,
and then there are some not good days that are
happening for some teams over the weekend. Last weekend, we
saw a couple of upsets of ranked teams which then
knocked them out of the AP Top twenty five. Florida
upset Texas there in the Swamp, and then Ucla, a
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very bad UCLA team came up with a victory over
Penn State, giving them their second loss and knocking them
out of the top twenty five. But the latest AP
pole in the top twenty five has Ohio State at one,
followed by Miami, Oregon, Ole, miss Texas, A and m Oklahoma, Indiana, Alabama,
Texas Tech, Georgia, LSU those Rocky top member of Tennessee,
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Georgia Tech, Missouri, Michigan, Notre Dame, Illinois, by U, Virginia, Vanderbilt,
Arizona State, Iowa State, Memphis, South Florida, and Florida State.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So a ton of teams that made some movements in
the pole.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I think the biggest movements that we've seen comes in
those teen areas like Missouri, Michigan, Notre Dame, some of
those teams moving up in those different spots, but a
lot just from what we've seen in these first few
weeks of the college football season. Who are some contenders
that you're seeing and who are pretenders that are in
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college football right now?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Man? With football some good football being played, I want
to say my top contenders of it all is Ohio State, Miami, Oregon,
Texas A, and Texas Tech. And right now, I still
got Georgia. Other than that, I think I think those
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those teams, those teams right there, to me, are the
real deal thing Georgia could do. I think all these
teams are really really good. I think, you know, I
know they Georgia lost to Alabama.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
But to me, Alabama still has to prove themselves. To me,
was that was a close one. I thought Georgia led
get slipped away. We'll see Alabama get some tests going
on these next couple of weeks. My mind will probably
change on those outcomes of those ball games. But you know,
I still got Georgia over them, even though they lost
to the Crimson Tide, but gotta tip your hat off
to Oregon. Oregon looked really good even though they beat
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They beat Penn State. That was their biggest win thus far.
Ohiles State. You know, they beat Texas to open up
the season. I know right now, Texas isn't the best
team in the world that thought they would be, but
they beat Texas out there, and then you know, they
had some some monkey wins. I think they got a big,
big schedule coming up with Penn State on their schedule,
I think, and I want to see how that rolls
out with them. But for for for uh, Miami, now
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that's my shocker. Miami is my shocker only for the
simple fact that Miami. I had him as a top
ten team, but I didn't think they'll be as dominant
as they are right now. They go out and beat
Nor the Dame that was really really good in my eyes,
and No. Dame got two losses to some really good teams,
but they beat or the Dame. Then they go beat
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Florida State, which that game, the score seemed like it
was closer than what it was, but it really wasn't.
And then they didn't fall into that track game against you.
You University of South Florida, who was one of at
that time, was on a tier. So again, I think
I think Miami is a shocker because they're handling business
pretty pretty well in the ACC and you just think that, oh, whatever, whatever,
But I think I think that team is really good.
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Now the team that's a pretender, No, no, y'all going
to think I'm trolling, it's Texas. I look, look, I
said this last year. I'm not a fan of Steve
Steve Sharkisian. I know that you you Texas fans, you
Longhorn babies, you'd say that he got you, he got
you this, he got you at whatever whatever. He turned
around and had a winning season where the program wasn't winning,
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you know, in that missed between him before he got there.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Now he's winning. I get.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
But same times, you gotta remember, I think Texas has
one of the best rosters in all.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Of college football and all of college football.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
And just said it again, And I think that it
starts at the head, the head position, at the head coach.
I think that right now you have to replace Steve
Sharkisian if you want to be where Vince Vince Young and.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Coach Mac took you to.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I think that if you get rid of Steve Sharkisian,
I think you can see that promise sling again.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
If you're just content with winning and winning a couple
of games here and here and keep people hook. But
if you if you don't, if you want to go
and be a contender again, then I think that you
should really getting getting Steve.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Sharkisian out of there. I know you'all gonna kill me
in the comments. I'm not trolling. This is how I
really feel. And you heard where he said I'm at.
I mean Rocky Top, Knoxville, if you really want to
know where I'm looking. So at the end of the day,
that's exactly how I feel. Texas have to come here
next year. So I hope to see all y'all fans.
If you really want to get into it, I can
see you. But the end of the day, I think
that that's one of my pretended teams in the University
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of Texas.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Man You said a mouth full there, and I mean,
obviously Archie Manon hasn't been playing his best football. Has
what has a lot of people not believing in Texas
and what they you know.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Could be moving forward.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
When I'm looking at some teams, you know, across college football,
I have to say that I agree with you about Miami.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You know, they have one of the best strengths of
schedules up front.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Right now, and then you know they've played difficult football games.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You know, they're basically the state.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Champions with wins over USF who's still playing good football obviously,
a Florida team that's not ranked but picked up a
win over Texas last week, and they also beat Florida State,
who's ranked in the top twenty five right now. And
like I said, Notre Dame early on. You know, Carson
Beck is kind of just not racking the lampbou right now.
He is doing what he needs to do, getting the
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football to his playmakers like CJ. Daniels, Malachai Tony, which
I know LSU fans are probably sick looking at the
way CJ. Daniels is being utilized in that offense correctly
and how it couldn't be done there.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
So I know that they're super mad about that.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
But you know, they've done a very impressive job and
what they've been able to do being a really good
football team. And I'm also looking at Oklahoma top ten
defense and wins over Auburn and Michigan. John Mattier before
he hurt his hand was playing like a Heisman hopeful.
Right now he is listed as questionable for their Red
River rivalry against Texas, and if he continues to play well,
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and if they continue to play good defense in comparison
to what they were doing last year, if they keep
doing really good, I can see them being in the
conversation there making a late run in the playoffs. So
those are my two contenders right now. There are several
others that I could point to, like an Oregon like
in Ohio State that have good defenses, Oregon with Dante
more what he's doing there as a Heisman hopeful as well,
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But I just want to narrow it down to those
two because if you put all these like, everybody can't
be the champ.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
So now those are my two main teams that I'm
really looking at that if they continue on the path
that they're on, then they are true contenders.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
When we talk about pretenders, the first one that I'm
looking at is kind of like the more obvious one,
which is Indiana, Like they're ranked really high, but their
only big wins against Illinois, and they still got to
go and beat Oregon. They still got to go and
play Penn State, who's not ranked right now. But there's
no telling how things are gonna shake out on the
back half of the season, and if they can't get
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those two wins, they might not even be in the
top twenty five at all.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
They might not be ranked, you know, so their.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Resume just doesn't speak enough for them to be in
the position that they're in. I know, Kurt Signetti has
done a great job, you know, coming from James Madison
taking the job over there at Indiana and putting them
in the playoff picture and in the conversation, but if
you're talking about contending for a championship, they're not the
guys that you're, you know, really looking to right now.
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And then the second one that I'm gonna say is
probably a shocker to some, but to me, I think
it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And that's LSU right now. The defense is phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
The defense gets a ton of pressure on quarterbacks, they
force turnovers, they force five against Florida. But right now,
the offense is not playing complimentary football. Yes, you play
to win the game. Like Brian Kelly said, shouting his
head off to Michael Cabbo with shout outs to him
for asking a question to be able to go in
there back and forth. But they're not playing complimentary football,
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gered Nesmeyer. That situation is completely weird with is he heard,
is he not heard? The torso not the torso, the knee,
the hand, all of those different things like that. There's
so many things that are questions around there, and there's
so many questions around the offensive line and if they're
able to pick up stuts and blitzes and being able
to open holes for the running backs to be able
to make plays and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's just a mess over there right now.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
And when you have just one side of the football
playing well, that's great, and that's one huge part of
a championship team is having a great defense, championship defense,
but you also need to run. Do you also need
an offense that can be complimentary. There's no way that
you beat Florida by just ten points after picking DJ
Lagway off five times. That doesn't happen. There's no way
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you don't blow them out in that game. So if
LSU continues on this path very similarly. They've got a
big one coming up against South Carolina this weekend. But
if they continue down this path, man, they are not
going to be in contention for any college football national championship.
I hate to say it, especially because I've covered this
team closely for the past few years, but it is
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what it is. If they are able to flip the
switch and if they get the run game going, or
if you know, Garrettnsmyer is able to be patient and
not take shots downfield when he's getting eight men in coverage,
if he's able to then conduct you down the field
to make the defense ads and they change the tune
of it, so be it. But based on the path
that they're going down right now, that they're one of
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the pretenders right now. So I've got Miami and Oklahoma
as contenders and then LSU and Indiana in the pretender's spot.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
So who do you have on a bubble like? Who?
Who's What's a surprise team that could sneak in there
that you think.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I'm gonna say Texas tech man, and I know that
you know they're ranked very high right now, but they
are a team that is extremely explosive with what they do,
especially offensively. Barry Morton shout outs to him. Terrence Carter
shout outs to him, a former love of the show.
You know, they've been explosive on offense, and they've been
in a lot of games that you know, it might
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not be the big name opponents that you're used to seeing,
but they're hovering around in that sweet spot right now,
where as long as you stay in the mixing, you
can continue to win games, like obviously they picked up
a win over Houston last week when Houston was undefeated,
but remaining on their schedule right now, all they have
left and ranked games is Arizona State and BYU, So
there is a clear path for them that if they
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continue to put up the numbers that they're putting up,
like they've scored thirty points or more in every game
that they've played in. If they continue to stay on
that type of path, they have a clear shot at
winning the Big Twelve and getting their automatic bid in
the playoffs. And if you keep clicking at the right time,
that's that's the most important thing.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Clicking at the right time.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Who's one of your bubble teams Missouri Baby, Yeah, they're
good too, hey.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
And it was already. I know you well, but that boy.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Runs very pissed off, and he is. He's doing what
he needs to do. He's in a great position here
in that conference. Missouri is really good too.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I like it, But go ahead.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I think I think Missouri. I mean, I mean, don't
get me wrong.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yes, yes, yes, I live in Tennessee, and I think
Marxville's I think the University of Tennessee has a good
chance to make it.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
But listen to me if Missouri. Listen, Missouri got left well,
which I'm going to just do break.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
They have Obama, Vanderbilt, Oklahoma in Texas A and now
I think probably.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Three of those games are winnable.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I think Alabama's winnable, I think Oklahoma's winnable, and they.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Vanderbilt. When you talk about AM, I think that's as
soon as it is it is. But I think when
you can run the ball, when you could run the ball,
you could beat anybody. You don't matter, it, don't matter
who it is.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
As long as you can put as long as you
get some control of that clock and take care of
business on the ground, you could be anybody. So if
they could prove that they're the real deal, like that.
I think they could make a deep run. I'm not
sure how far.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
The deep running the playoffs, not going to say like
they want to go to the.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Not champions or not, but I think they could make
at least go to the second round of a deep
run and probably upset the team in the first round.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
So again, man, I got Missouri. Missouri is not a
bad squad.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I think people are overlooking them because of where they're
at in the conference, in their recent years, of what
they have been in the SEC. They're not a team
that you should just be like, oh, we got them next.
They're tough, They're a tough team to play, man, They're
a tough team to play.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, Man, Michael Dosimo here and Lafayett said that about him,
said that he believes that that's the playoff team that
they faced whenever they played him. So the season is
going to continue to wind and go down.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I think everybody has about seven to eight more games
on their slate, so anything can happen over these next
few weeks, man, And we'll be keeping an eye on
it to see who truly becomes a true contender and
who falls off the wagon as a pretender. The transfer
portal is making a bit of a change recently. They
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came out with some changes to it as the NCAA
Division I Administrative Committee past dates for the one time
only college football portal that happened on Tuesdays, so there
is no longer a spring transfer portal. Players on college
football team college football playoff teams can still enter five
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days after their last game, and then grand transfers cannot.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Enter the portal until January seconds.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So the new portal window it's going to get cleared
through today as we're recording this episode on Wednesday. The
new portal window will be January second to January sixteenth,
So that's a fifteen day period versus what it was,
I think a thirty day period beforehand. Elijah, for you, like,
how does this change the landscape of the transfer portal, Like,
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it's it's been crazy because you got guys.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
In the fall, in the spring and back and forth.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Now you have one time where teams are able to
finish their season with their roster and then go into
the transfer portal.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
What are your thoughts on it.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I think it's a good thing personally because I feel
like now that you get back to playing spring games,
again without nobody plucking from nobody roster because they saw
how well they played in the spring game. But I
also think that it gives more time for these guys
to get activated. Me for a situation like how we
are here within in Knoxville with Joey Aglar.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
He came in the springtime.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
He didn't have a spring game, he didn't have anything,
He had just the fault camp to prepare with this team.
And now he's out there and starting. So at least
it give him time to see see how they look
in the spring. But also it also cut that short
time of going out there and and were just waiting
him here and for thirty days of where they're gonna go.
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Then they just reopen again because somebody's unhappy. No, no, no,
you make up. You stay there.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
You you you We didn't. We didn't tell you where
to go. Nobody pulled your hand and told you where
to go. You decided to enter the portal, You decided
to go to that squad, so you have to stay
at that squad. I don't want to hear nothing else
about that.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
So I think this is an opportunity for for kids
to compete again for starting roles instead of just want
to just team hot because they didn't get you know,
they just acting like a small bread man, I think personally.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
With this being said, another thing being said though, with
the window being shorter, offseason starts really early because at
the end of the day, for teams are still.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Competing, I know the season would be ending around that
time where it opens or playoffs really will just be
starting when the time it opens.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
You gotta you know what I'm saying, You have to
hold off and wait until what his team does and
the competing flies.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
So I can't wait to see how this how this
plays out, because the teams that's in the National Championship,
they're gonna get the short end of the stick. But
at the same time, I think it's gonna be a
competitive thing again where guys are man have to compete
in spots and kids are gonna have to think about
where they're going and where they can get out to
you to play the next season.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, for me, I think that as as limited as
this makes it as one portal, you're still gonna have
poaching going on. You're still gonna have somebody that calls
somebody's old position coach from high school and tells them, hey, man,
I know you're playing for UH in the college football
playoffs right now, but if you get in the portal,
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we got a quarter of a million for you, we
got half a million.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Whatever, Come on over here, guys are still gonna hit
the portal.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
What that entails as far as like keeping rosters intact
after you win a national championship, after you make a
deep playoff run, and things like that, it makes it
very interesting. And it's also about constructing roster building because say,
for instance, you know, I'm a school and I need
a starting safety and there's a kid from app State
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in the portal right now, and I need to go
ahead and build this roster out. I might need to
go and get the kid from app State, even though
the starting safety for Tennessee or the backup for Tennessee
might hit the portal, you know, after they get eliminated
in the first or second round or whatever.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
But it's about the timing of it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
So you know, that's why you have those general managers
put in the place, crunching those numbers, figuring out roster
construction how they can make things work out for their team,
you know, And this is ultimately a business That's what
it all boils down to. This is the new wave
of college football. It's a business now, so you have
to treat it as treated as such. I think that
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players are are still going to have their opportunities, but
they're gonna have to be a lot more wise about it, because,
like you said, somebody like Joey Aguilar goes in, you know,
in the spring window.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
You gotta go in.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You gotta get on campus, you right in the middle
of winter workouts, and you gotta win the team over.
You gotta get in there and rally with those guys immediately.
You got to learn to playbook. You gotta compete for
the starting spot. Otherwise you just gonna get in there
and you're gonna be in the same situation that you
were in in the previous spot. So it's that's still
what it's all about, the players picking the right situations
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and not just solely being focused on the bag. Like
that's a big part of it, bro Because you know,
I was talking with some media guys about this, you know,
we were, you know, waiting for press conference.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Like some of the numbers that these players are being flashed, Man,
you have to go with it. It's like what do
you want me to do? Like, I'm a starting tight
end at a you know, a group of four, uh,
you know, a group.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Of five team, and I get offered an opportunity Like
look at a mode hardy running back for ULM one
some Belt freshman of the year, rushes for over a
thousand yards. He gets the opportunity now to go to Missouri.
They probably broke him off pretty decently, and now he's
starting running back over there. He's in contention for the
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dog Walker, I'm sure, and he's on a team that
has that's, as we've mentioned, is a bubble team, if
not a college football playoff team. Like in those situations, man,
you got to give the nine to the kid that
that is. That is a better situation to put himself in,
and who knows what that could do for him in
his future. He plays another year of college football, he's
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going to be draft eligible. He could go and be
a first or you know, early second round pick, set
his family off for generational wealth. Bro, that's you can't
knock kid, you know what I'm saying. So that's that's
that's that's how it's going to look.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Man. The transfer portal is going to be one window now,
and that's all what.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It entails for teams. So we'll see how everyone deals
with that, how teams will work to construct their rosters
to make things all work out, and this ever evolving
sport that is college football. Now, guys, we're going to
round out the show with a topic that is ever
so fluent, as we're talking about Bill Belichick and the
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North Carolina tar Hills. This article from NBC Sports points
to Belichick how he coached the Patriots for twenty four
seasons and he may.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Not finish one. At the college level.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
It sounds as if there is a non zero chance
he doesn't finish the current week. Andrew Jones at twenty
four seven sports dot Com reports that a potential exit
strategy discussion is occurring as of this morning as we're
recording this episode in North Carolina, and while it doesn't
mean Belichick will be fired, preliminary conversations about the possibility
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have occurred. The goal reportedly would be to eliminate or
minimize Belichick's buyout. The fast rolling snowball seems to be
related to accounts of potential rule violations.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
This week, reports emerged that.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
An assistant coach was suspended for providing extra benefits to
players families and that players were selling free tickets that
they had received.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
For those games. So it's a lot of hot water
going over there.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Uh in in in out of Tennessee. Man uh in
North Carolina. But the Tar Hills, Elijah like, was this
what we expected from the Bill Belichick era where we're
expecting it to end so soon? What do you think
about Bill Belichick potentially leaving from the Tarios.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I wasn't expecting it. I was expected to be one,
it done. I wasn't expecting it to be what five games,
six games.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
In the season what I mean? But you gotta think
about it was trouble since he got there. His underage girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I'm sorry, his girlfriend that's you know, that's really young.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
For him, almost the age, you know what I'm saying. Uh,
she's not under age guys in one player, but his
girlfriend that I don't even care about the book. Uh,
everything that was going on with North Carolina, you know,
the hype that was around it, the way that he
took the way he was trying to build a program.
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But nothing wrong with it, but we didn't care about it.
He wouldn't go get a quarterback from South Alabama. He
didn't look good. TCU came and stopped the mud hole
in him. It just didn't It just didn't fit. But
even when before he signed, and I think we talked
about this in the summer, it didn't seem like he
fits in college football and we said that from the jump,
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Bill Belichick does not fit in college football and the
same way how Nick Saban didn't fit in the pros.
So it happens. Okay, So I think Bill BELLI I
think him ending his term is something that we thought
would happened after the year was over. But for to
come to fruition right now, it's crazy. But the thing
about it, I personally think after this, it'll be hard
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for Bill Belichick to get coaching job, no.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Matter what level there is one.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I feel like you leaving a team like this high
and dry, that don't look good no matter where you
want to go. I don't care if you want to
be the next tap coach of Torledo. We don't want that,
like we don't We're not going to.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Leave the facility and leave these players high and dry
like that. Number two.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Take this, how y'all want well? Howeverever Bill Belichick went.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
It was allegations. When he was with the Patriots, there
was allegations. He's with North Carolina, there's allegations. If you
want that man on your head coaching staff, expect allegations
because that man would never ever.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Lead stuff going on everywhere. It's just putting it out there.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And if the spotlight is on you so much, how
much is it getting it out there?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
But I get what you're saying, but I'm.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Just gonna say then, wrapping it up with Bill Belichick,
I just really think that I don't like to move
at all that he's trying to leave, but that that
does not show.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
That he's a good leader. He's a great leader.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
That shows that right now he's pisspoored or what he's
wanted to do. It shows that his heart was never
into college football. His heart was just to be on
the sideline, put a headset on. If he didn't want
the job in the first place, you should have never
took it.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Bill.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
That's the only thing I gotta really say about it.
I don't know you as a person, I don't know
you as a man. I'm pretty sure you have great morals.
And I was joking a little bit but if you
didn't want if you didn't want to be there, you
should have never signed on that in line because that
is going to hindle you from actually getting a job.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, man, I think that there was nothing else that
Bill Belichick could have done to, you know, further his legacy.
The man is a six time Super Bowl champion with
the New England Patriots. You know, out of the twenty
four seasons that he was there, you know, he's in
a super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
What is that one out of every four seasons?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Essentially, when you when you look at the math, college
football was just a different challenge.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
It was a scratch that he needed to itch in
getting back into coaching.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
And you know, you can't be great about every you
can't be great at everything, and that's okay. I think
that he was doing a pretty good job with TV.
He kind of found his niche there with inside the
NFL with OHO and RC and Chris Long with what
they were doing over there on the c W. I
think he had kind of found a spot to work
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in and I think that's ultimately what he kind of
has to do.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Somebody that I think about also, that's kind of that
that situation is like a John Gruden or Rex Ryan,
like find your space in the media, work it as
best you can. You know, you still have the opportunity
to watch film and all that stuff like that. But brother,
you what is he like seventy six or something like that. Man,
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kick your feet up, get you achieved, Go be with
your girlfriend. Bro, like this this is what it's all about.
Like but you know, in a lot of it too,
because it brought so much of a spotlight to himself,
the attention that he's now part of. I don't think
that that goes into what he normally likes. The butler
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chick ain't never been nobody to just run to the spotlight.
So it doesn't even match what he's doing. Like they
were supposed to have a documentary with Hulu and it
got scrapped. Like don't don't try to be a part
of something and do something that you know is not
normally your nature.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I think also this opens up a door for his
son to get the head coaching job.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You know, it was you know rumored earlier that he
had a stipulation in his contract that he would become
the head coach if he left, But that is not true.
As I looked it up. According to the athletic department,
that is not true. But he is on the staff
as the defensive coordinator. So if I Bill Belichick is
I'm going out the door. Okay, Yeah, y'all gonna give
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me this buy out and I'm gonna leave, or I'm
a buy out of this contract or whatever. But I'm
definitely gonna throw a little alley oop to my son.
I'm definitely gonna say put him on, giving him an
opportunity if he gets it, you know, I mean, that's
a huge endorsement because you're talking about one of the
greatest coaches to ever you know, walk across the sidelines
giving him an endorsement.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Obviously it's his father as his son, but who knows.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I think that Steve Belichick will get that shot and
potentially be the head coach of the North Carolina tar
Hills and then from there if the Belichick experience doesn't work,
don't never hire another Belichick.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
That's all I say. You know, But Bill, go sit
on the beach somewhere, man, kick your feet up. Just
just relax, bro, You've earned it.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Twenty four years coaching with the Patriots, numerous others before that.
You've won six Super Bowls. Your legacy is cemented. Bro,
you're in the Hall of Fame. Like it's okay, It's okay.
So that's our take about that. Ladies and gentlemen, you
tell us what you think. It's Bill Belichick leaving. Is
it a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Are
you indifferent about it? How do you feel about it?
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Let us know down in the comments with the guys.
That's going to wrap up another episode of the fits
Take podcast. I believe this is episode number fifty eight
for us. So we are continuing to climb.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
We've been doing this for well over a year now,
so we've in the groove of things. We're gonna, you know,
work to get back on track and being consistent with
our episodes. I know we fell off a little bit
as football season got busy for us, but we're working through. Man.
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College football season is fully in swing. I believe this
is week seven of the college football season. Here in
Cajun Country. The Raging Cages are two and three want
to know something of play. Uh, they're in Rocky Top.
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I believe you guys are four and one right now
with the only loss being to Georgia.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So things things are looking pretty good right now. Man.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We're gonna talk about contenders and pretenders here in college football.
We're gonna talk about how things are changing with the
transfer portal, and then close things out with the biggest
topic right now in college football, Bill Belichick potentially buying
out of his way of being the head coach at
North Carolina. That's that's gonna be exciting. So we're gonna
give our thoughts on that. But before we hop into it,
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how you feeling, man?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Feeling good man? First cut cut?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
But now I'm feeling feeling good. I'm feeling good man.
It's a great, great night. I know, football season about
to kick football game.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Is about to kick off.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I think I read something today where it said is
ninety straight days of football.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, recording is right now.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I think it's Missouri State and somebody playing right now.
I think it's on ESPN. They're supposed to be playing.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
So yeah, I'm excited about that. Man.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
You know, we got a joy wise here because once
it's over where things get born.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You know, never know when you're in the good old
days today. You never know.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
With that being said, guys, there are some good old
days in front of a lot of teams in college football,
and then there are some not good days that are
happening for some teams over the weekend. Last weekend, we
saw a couple of upsets of ranked teams which then
knocked them out of the AP Top twenty five. Florida
upset Texas there in the Swamp, and then Ucla, a
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very bad UCLA team came up with a victory over
Penn State, giving them their second loss and knocking them
out of the top twenty five. But the latest AP
pole in the top twenty five has Ohio State at one,
followed by Miami, Oregon, Ole, miss Texas, A and m Oklahoma, Indiana, Alabama,
Texas Tech, Georgia, LSU those Rocky top member of Tennessee,
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Georgia Tech, Missouri, Michigan, Notre Dame, Illinois, by U, Virginia, Vanderbilt,
Arizona State, Iowa State, Memphis, South Florida, and Florida State.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So a ton of teams that made some movements in
the pole.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I think the biggest movements that we've seen comes in
those teen areas like Missouri, Michigan, Notre Dame, some of
those teams moving up in those different spots, but a
lot just from what we've seen in these first few
weeks of the college football season. Who are some contenders
that you're seeing and who are pretenders that are in
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college football right now?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Man? With football some good football being played, I want
to say my top contenders of it all is Ohio State, Miami, Oregon,
Texas A, and Texas Tech. And right now, I still
got Georgia. Other than that, I think I think those
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those teams, those teams right there, to me, are the
real deal thing Georgia could do. I think all these
teams are really really good. I think, you know, I
know they Georgia lost to Alabama.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
But to me, Alabama still has to prove themselves. To me,
was that was a close one. I thought Georgia led
get slipped away. We'll see Alabama get some tests going
on these next couple of weeks. My mind will probably
change on those outcomes of those ball games. But you know,
I still got Georgia over them, even though they lost
to the Crimson Tide, but gotta tip your hat off
to Oregon. Oregon looked really good even though they beat
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They beat Penn State. That was their biggest win thus far.
Ohiles State. You know, they beat Texas to open up
the season. I know right now, Texas isn't the best
team in the world that thought they would be, but
they beat Texas out there, and then you know, they
had some some monkey wins. I think they got a big,
big schedule coming up with Penn State on their schedule,
I think, and I want to see how that rolls
out with them. But for for for uh, Miami, now
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that's my shocker. Miami is my shocker only for the
simple fact that Miami. I had him as a top
ten team, but I didn't think they'll be as dominant
as they are right now. They go out and beat
Nor the Dame that was really really good in my eyes,
and No. Dame got two losses to some really good teams,
but they beat or the Dame. Then they go beat
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Florida State, which that game, the score seemed like it
was closer than what it was, but it really wasn't.
And then they didn't fall into that track game against you.
You University of South Florida, who was one of at
that time, was on a tier. So again, I think
I think Miami is a shocker because they're handling business
pretty pretty well in the ACC and you just think that, oh, whatever, whatever,
But I think I think that team is really good.
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Now the team that's a pretender, No, no, y'all going
to think I'm trolling, it's Texas. I look, look, I
said this last year. I'm not a fan of Steve
Steve Sharkisian. I know that you you Texas fans, you
Longhorn babies, you'd say that he got you, he got
you this, he got you at whatever whatever. He turned
around and had a winning season where the program wasn't winning,
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you know, in that missed between him before he got there.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Now he's winning. I get.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
But same times, you gotta remember, I think Texas has
one of the best rosters in all.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Of college football and all of college football.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
And just said it again, And I think that it
starts at the head, the head position, at the head coach.
I think that right now you have to replace Steve
Sharkisian if you want to be where Vince Vince Young and.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Coach Mac took you to.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I think that if you get rid of Steve Sharkisian,
I think you can see that promise sling again.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
If you're just content with winning and winning a couple
of games here and here and keep people hook. But
if you if you don't, if you want to go
and be a contender again, then I think that you
should really getting getting Steve.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Sharkisian out of there. I know you'all gonna kill me
in the comments. I'm not trolling. This is how I
really feel. And you heard where he said I'm at.
I mean Rocky Top, Knoxville, if you really want to
know where I'm looking. So at the end of the day,
that's exactly how I feel. Texas have to come here
next year. So I hope to see all y'all fans.
If you really want to get into it, I can
see you. But the end of the day, I think
that that's one of my pretended teams in the University
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of Texas.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Man You said a mouth full there, and I mean,
obviously Archie Manon hasn't been playing his best football. Has
what has a lot of people not believing in Texas
and what they you know.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Could be moving forward.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
When I'm looking at some teams, you know, across college football,
I have to say that I agree with you about Miami.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You know, they have one of the best strengths of
schedules up front.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Right now, and then you know they've played difficult football games.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You know, they're basically the state.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Champions with wins over USF who's still playing good football obviously,
a Florida team that's not ranked but picked up a
win over Texas last week, and they also beat Florida State,
who's ranked in the top twenty five right now. And
like I said, Notre Dame early on. You know, Carson
Beck is kind of just not racking the lampbou right now.
He is doing what he needs to do, getting the
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football to his playmakers like CJ. Daniels, Malachai Tony, which
I know LSU fans are probably sick looking at the
way CJ. Daniels is being utilized in that offense correctly
and how it couldn't be done there.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
So I know that they're super mad about that.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
But you know, they've done a very impressive job and
what they've been able to do being a really good
football team. And I'm also looking at Oklahoma top ten
defense and wins over Auburn and Michigan. John Mattier before
he hurt his hand was playing like a Heisman hopeful.
Right now he is listed as questionable for their Red
River rivalry against Texas, and if he continues to play well,
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and if they continue to play good defense in comparison
to what they were doing last year, if they keep
doing really good, I can see them being in the
conversation there making a late run in the playoffs. So
those are my two contenders right now. There are several
others that I could point to, like an Oregon like
in Ohio State that have good defenses, Oregon with Dante
more what he's doing there as a Heisman hopeful as well,
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But I just want to narrow it down to those
two because if you put all these like, everybody can't
be the champ.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
So now those are my two main teams that I'm
really looking at that if they continue on the path
that they're on, then they are true contenders.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
When we talk about pretenders, the first one that I'm
looking at is kind of like the more obvious one,
which is Indiana, Like they're ranked really high, but their
only big wins against Illinois, and they still got to
go and beat Oregon. They still got to go and
play Penn State, who's not ranked right now. But there's
no telling how things are gonna shake out on the
back half of the season, and if they can't get
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those two wins, they might not even be in the
top twenty five at all.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
They might not be ranked, you know, so their.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Resume just doesn't speak enough for them to be in
the position that they're in. I know, Kurt Signetti has
done a great job, you know, coming from James Madison
taking the job over there at Indiana and putting them
in the playoff picture and in the conversation, but if
you're talking about contending for a championship, they're not the
guys that you're, you know, really looking to right now.
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And then the second one that I'm gonna say is
probably a shocker to some, but to me, I think
it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And that's LSU right now. The defense is phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
The defense gets a ton of pressure on quarterbacks, they
force turnovers, they force five against Florida. But right now,
the offense is not playing complimentary football. Yes, you play
to win the game. Like Brian Kelly said, shouting his
head off to Michael Cabbo with shout outs to him
for asking a question to be able to go in
there back and forth. But they're not playing complimentary football,
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gered Nesmeyer. That situation is completely weird with is he heard,
is he not heard? The torso not the torso, the knee,
the hand, all of those different things like that. There's
so many things that are questions around there, and there's
so many questions around the offensive line and if they're
able to pick up stuts and blitzes and being able
to open holes for the running backs to be able
to make plays and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's just a mess over there right now.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
And when you have just one side of the football
playing well, that's great, and that's one huge part of
a championship team is having a great defense, championship defense,
but you also need to run. Do you also need
an offense that can be complimentary. There's no way that
you beat Florida by just ten points after picking DJ
Lagway off five times. That doesn't happen. There's no way
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you don't blow them out in that game. So if
LSU continues on this path very similarly. They've got a
big one coming up against South Carolina this weekend. But
if they continue down this path, man, they are not
going to be in contention for any college football national championship.
I hate to say it, especially because I've covered this
team closely for the past few years, but it is
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what it is. If they are able to flip the
switch and if they get the run game going, or
if you know, Garrettnsmyer is able to be patient and
not take shots downfield when he's getting eight men in coverage,
if he's able to then conduct you down the field
to make the defense ads and they change the tune
of it, so be it. But based on the path
that they're going down right now, that they're one of
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the pretenders right now. So I've got Miami and Oklahoma
as contenders and then LSU and Indiana in the pretender's spot.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
So who do you have on a bubble like? Who?
Who's What's a surprise team that could sneak in there
that you think.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I'm gonna say Texas tech man, and I know that
you know they're ranked very high right now, but they
are a team that is extremely explosive with what they do,
especially offensively. Barry Morton shout outs to him. Terrence Carter
shout outs to him, a former love of the show.
You know, they've been explosive on offense, and they've been
in a lot of games that you know, it might
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not be the big name opponents that you're used to seeing,
but they're hovering around in that sweet spot right now,
where as long as you stay in the mixing, you
can continue to win games, like obviously they picked up
a win over Houston last week when Houston was undefeated,
but remaining on their schedule right now, all they have
left and ranked games is Arizona State and BYU, So
there is a clear path for them that if they
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continue to put up the numbers that they're putting up,
like they've scored thirty points or more in every game
that they've played in. If they continue to stay on
that type of path, they have a clear shot at
winning the Big Twelve and getting their automatic bid in
the playoffs. And if you keep clicking at the right time,
that's that's the most important thing.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Clicking at the right time.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Who's one of your bubble teams Missouri Baby, Yeah, they're
good too, hey.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
And it was already. I know you well, but that boy.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Runs very pissed off, and he is. He's doing what
he needs to do. He's in a great position here
in that conference. Missouri is really good too.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I like it, But go ahead.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I think I think Missouri. I mean, I mean, don't
get me wrong.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yes, yes, yes, I live in Tennessee, and I think
Marxville's I think the University of Tennessee has a good
chance to make it.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
But listen to me if Missouri. Listen, Missouri got left well,
which I'm going to just do break.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
They have Obama, Vanderbilt, Oklahoma in Texas A and now
I think probably.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Three of those games are winnable.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I think Alabama's winnable, I think Oklahoma's winnable, and they.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Vanderbilt. When you talk about AM, I think that's as
soon as it is it is. But I think when
you can run the ball, when you could run the ball,
you could beat anybody. You don't matter, it, don't matter
who it is.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
As long as you can put as long as you
get some control of that clock and take care of
business on the ground, you could be anybody. So if
they could prove that they're the real deal, like that.
I think they could make a deep run. I'm not
sure how far.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
The deep running the playoffs, not going to say like
they want to go to the.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Not champions or not, but I think they could make
at least go to the second round of a deep
run and probably upset the team in the first round.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
So again, man, I got Missouri. Missouri is not a
bad squad.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I think people are overlooking them because of where they're
at in the conference, in their recent years, of what
they have been in the SEC. They're not a team
that you should just be like, oh, we got them next.
They're tough, They're a tough team to play, man, They're
a tough team to play.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, Man, Michael Dosimo here and Lafayett said that about him,
said that he believes that that's the playoff team that
they faced whenever they played him. So the season is
going to continue to wind and go down.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I think everybody has about seven to eight more games
on their slate, so anything can happen over these next
few weeks, man, And we'll be keeping an eye on
it to see who truly becomes a true contender and
who falls off the wagon as a pretender. The transfer
portal is making a bit of a change recently. They
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came out with some changes to it as the NCAA
Division I Administrative Committee past dates for the one time
only college football portal that happened on Tuesdays, so there
is no longer a spring transfer portal. Players on college
football team college football playoff teams can still enter five
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days after their last game, and then grand transfers cannot.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Enter the portal until January seconds.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So the new portal window it's going to get cleared
through today as we're recording this episode on Wednesday. The
new portal window will be January second to January sixteenth,
So that's a fifteen day period versus what it was,
I think a thirty day period beforehand. Elijah, for you, like,
how does this change the landscape of the transfer portal, Like,
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it's it's been crazy because you got guys.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
In the fall, in the spring and back and forth.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Now you have one time where teams are able to
finish their season with their roster and then go into
the transfer portal.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
What are your thoughts on it.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I think it's a good thing personally because I feel
like now that you get back to playing spring games,
again without nobody plucking from nobody roster because they saw
how well they played in the spring game. But I
also think that it gives more time for these guys
to get activated. Me for a situation like how we
are here within in Knoxville with Joey Aglar.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
He came in the springtime.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
He didn't have a spring game, he didn't have anything,
He had just the fault camp to prepare with this team.
And now he's out there and starting. So at least
it give him time to see see how they look
in the spring. But also it also cut that short
time of going out there and and were just waiting
him here and for thirty days of where they're gonna go.
(17:17):
Then they just reopen again because somebody's unhappy. No, no, no,
you make up. You stay there.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
You you you We didn't. We didn't tell you where
to go. Nobody pulled your hand and told you where
to go. You decided to enter the portal, You decided
to go to that squad, so you have to stay
at that squad. I don't want to hear nothing else
about that.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
So I think this is an opportunity for for kids
to compete again for starting roles instead of just want
to just team hot because they didn't get you know,
they just acting like a small bread man, I think personally.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
With this being said, another thing being said though, with
the window being shorter, offseason starts really early because at
the end of the day, for teams are still.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Competing, I know the season would be ending around that
time where it opens or playoffs really will just be
starting when the time it opens.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
You gotta you know what I'm saying, You have to
hold off and wait until what his team does and
the competing flies.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
So I can't wait to see how this how this
plays out, because the teams that's in the National Championship,
they're gonna get the short end of the stick. But
at the same time, I think it's gonna be a
competitive thing again where guys are man have to compete
in spots and kids are gonna have to think about
where they're going and where they can get out to
you to play the next season.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, for me, I think that as as limited as
this makes it as one portal, you're still gonna have
poaching going on. You're still gonna have somebody that calls
somebody's old position coach from high school and tells them, hey, man,
I know you're playing for UH in the college football
playoffs right now, but if you get in the portal,
(18:53):
we got a quarter of a million for you, we
got half a million.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Whatever, Come on over here, guys are still gonna hit
the portal.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
What that entails as far as like keeping rosters intact
after you win a national championship, after you make a
deep playoff run, and things like that, it makes it
very interesting. And it's also about constructing roster building because say,
for instance, you know, I'm a school and I need
a starting safety and there's a kid from app State
(19:24):
in the portal right now, and I need to go
ahead and build this roster out. I might need to
go and get the kid from app State, even though
the starting safety for Tennessee or the backup for Tennessee
might hit the portal, you know, after they get eliminated
in the first or second round or whatever.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
But it's about the timing of it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
So you know, that's why you have those general managers
put in the place, crunching those numbers, figuring out roster
construction how they can make things work out for their team,
you know, And this is ultimately a business That's what
it all boils down to. This is the new wave
of college football. It's a business now, so you have
to treat it as treated as such. I think that
(20:05):
players are are still going to have their opportunities, but
they're gonna have to be a lot more wise about it, because,
like you said, somebody like Joey Aguilar goes in, you know,
in the spring window.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
You gotta go in.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You gotta get on campus, you right in the middle
of winter workouts, and you gotta win the team over.
You gotta get in there and rally with those guys immediately.
You got to learn to playbook. You gotta compete for
the starting spot. Otherwise you just gonna get in there
and you're gonna be in the same situation that you
were in in the previous spot. So it's that's still
what it's all about, the players picking the right situations
(20:40):
and not just solely being focused on the bag. Like
that's a big part of it, bro Because you know,
I was talking with some media guys about this, you know,
we were, you know, waiting for press conference.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Like some of the numbers that these players are being flashed, Man,
you have to go with it. It's like what do
you want me to do? Like, I'm a starting tight
end at a you know, a group of four, uh,
you know, a group.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Of five team, and I get offered an opportunity Like
look at a mode hardy running back for ULM one
some Belt freshman of the year, rushes for over a
thousand yards. He gets the opportunity now to go to Missouri.
They probably broke him off pretty decently, and now he's
starting running back over there. He's in contention for the
(21:25):
dog Walker, I'm sure, and he's on a team that
has that's, as we've mentioned, is a bubble team, if
not a college football playoff team. Like in those situations, man,
you got to give the nine to the kid that
that is. That is a better situation to put himself in,
and who knows what that could do for him in
his future. He plays another year of college football, he's
(21:46):
going to be draft eligible. He could go and be
a first or you know, early second round pick, set
his family off for generational wealth. Bro, that's you can't
knock kid, you know what I'm saying. So that's that's
that's that's how it's going to look.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Man. The transfer portal is going to be one window now,
and that's all what.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It entails for teams. So we'll see how everyone deals
with that, how teams will work to construct their rosters
to make things all work out, and this ever evolving
sport that is college football. Now, guys, we're going to
round out the show with a topic that is ever
so fluent, as we're talking about Bill Belichick and the
(22:26):
North Carolina tar Hills. This article from NBC Sports points
to Belichick how he coached the Patriots for twenty four
seasons and he may.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Not finish one. At the college level.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
It sounds as if there is a non zero chance
he doesn't finish the current week. Andrew Jones at twenty
four seven sports dot Com reports that a potential exit
strategy discussion is occurring as of this morning as we're
recording this episode in North Carolina, and while it doesn't
mean Belichick will be fired, preliminary conversations about the possibility
(23:02):
have occurred. The goal reportedly would be to eliminate or
minimize Belichick's buyout. The fast rolling snowball seems to be
related to accounts of potential rule violations.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
This week, reports emerged that.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
An assistant coach was suspended for providing extra benefits to
players families and that players were selling free tickets that
they had received.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
For those games. So it's a lot of hot water
going over there.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Uh in in in out of Tennessee. Man uh in
North Carolina. But the Tar Hills, Elijah like, was this
what we expected from the Bill Belichick era where we're
expecting it to end so soon? What do you think
about Bill Belichick potentially leaving from the Tarios.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I wasn't expecting it. I was expected to be one,
it done. I wasn't expecting it to be what five games,
six games.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
In the season what I mean? But you gotta think
about it was trouble since he got there. His underage girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I'm sorry, his girlfriend that's you know, that's really young.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
For him, almost the age, you know what I'm saying. Uh,
she's not under age guys in one player, but his
girlfriend that I don't even care about the book. Uh,
everything that was going on with North Carolina, you know,
the hype that was around it, the way that he
took the way he was trying to build a program.
(24:30):
But nothing wrong with it, but we didn't care about it.
He wouldn't go get a quarterback from South Alabama. He
didn't look good. TCU came and stopped the mud hole
in him. It just didn't It just didn't fit. But
even when before he signed, and I think we talked
about this in the summer, it didn't seem like he
fits in college football and we said that from the jump,
(24:53):
Bill Belichick does not fit in college football and the
same way how Nick Saban didn't fit in the pros.
So it happens. Okay, So I think Bill BELLI I
think him ending his term is something that we thought
would happened after the year was over. But for to
come to fruition right now, it's crazy. But the thing
about it, I personally think after this, it'll be hard
(25:14):
for Bill Belichick to get coaching job, no.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Matter what level there is one.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I feel like you leaving a team like this high
and dry, that don't look good no matter where you
want to go. I don't care if you want to
be the next tap coach of Torledo. We don't want that,
like we don't We're not going to.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Leave the facility and leave these players high and dry
like that. Number two.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Take this, how y'all want well? Howeverever Bill Belichick went.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
It was allegations. When he was with the Patriots, there
was allegations. He's with North Carolina, there's allegations. If you
want that man on your head coaching staff, expect allegations
because that man would never ever.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Lead stuff going on everywhere. It's just putting it out there.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And if the spotlight is on you so much, how
much is it getting it out there?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
But I get what you're saying, but I'm.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Just gonna say then, wrapping it up with Bill Belichick,
I just really think that I don't like to move
at all that he's trying to leave, but that that
does not show.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
That he's a good leader. He's a great leader.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
That shows that right now he's pisspoored or what he's
wanted to do. It shows that his heart was never
into college football. His heart was just to be on
the sideline, put a headset on. If he didn't want
the job in the first place, you should have never
took it.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Bill.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
That's the only thing I gotta really say about it.
I don't know you as a person, I don't know
you as a man. I'm pretty sure you have great morals.
And I was joking a little bit but if you
didn't want if you didn't want to be there, you
should have never signed on that in line because that
is going to hindle you from actually getting a job.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, man, I think that there was nothing else that
Bill Belichick could have done to, you know, further his legacy.
The man is a six time Super Bowl champion with
the New England Patriots. You know, out of the twenty
four seasons that he was there, you know, he's in
a super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
What is that one out of every four seasons?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Essentially, when you when you look at the math, college
football was just a different challenge.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
It was a scratch that he needed to itch in
getting back into coaching.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
And you know, you can't be great about every you
can't be great at everything, and that's okay. I think
that he was doing a pretty good job with TV.
He kind of found his niche there with inside the
NFL with OHO and RC and Chris Long with what
they were doing over there on the c W. I
think he had kind of found a spot to work
(27:36):
in and I think that's ultimately what he kind of
has to do.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Somebody that I think about also, that's kind of that
that situation is like a John Gruden or Rex Ryan,
like find your space in the media, work it as
best you can. You know, you still have the opportunity
to watch film and all that stuff like that. But brother,
you what is he like seventy six or something like that. Man,
(28:00):
kick your feet up, get you achieved, Go be with
your girlfriend. Bro, like this this is what it's all about.
Like but you know, in a lot of it too,
because it brought so much of a spotlight to himself,
the attention that he's now part of. I don't think
that that goes into what he normally likes. The butler
(28:21):
chick ain't never been nobody to just run to the spotlight.
So it doesn't even match what he's doing. Like they
were supposed to have a documentary with Hulu and it
got scrapped. Like don't don't try to be a part
of something and do something that you know is not
normally your nature.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I think also this opens up a door for his
son to get the head coaching job.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You know, it was you know rumored earlier that he
had a stipulation in his contract that he would become
the head coach if he left, But that is not true.
As I looked it up. According to the athletic department,
that is not true. But he is on the staff
as the defensive coordinator. So if I Bill Belichick is
I'm going out the door. Okay, Yeah, y'all gonna give
(29:03):
me this buy out and I'm gonna leave, or I'm
a buy out of this contract or whatever. But I'm
definitely gonna throw a little alley oop to my son.
I'm definitely gonna say put him on, giving him an
opportunity if he gets it, you know, I mean, that's
a huge endorsement because you're talking about one of the
greatest coaches to ever you know, walk across the sidelines
giving him an endorsement.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Obviously it's his father as his son, but who knows.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I think that Steve Belichick will get that shot and
potentially be the head coach of the North Carolina tar
Hills and then from there if the Belichick experience doesn't work,
don't never hire another Belichick.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
That's all I say. You know, But Bill, go sit
on the beach somewhere, man, kick your feet up. Just
just relax, bro, You've earned it.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Twenty four years coaching with the Patriots, numerous others before that.
You've won six Super Bowls. Your legacy is cemented. Bro,
you're in the Hall of Fame. Like it's okay, It's okay.
So that's our take about that. Ladies and gentlemen, you
tell us what you think. It's Bill Belichick leaving. Is
it a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Are
you indifferent about it? How do you feel about it?
(30:10):
Let us know down in the comments with the guys.
That's going to wrap up another episode of the fits
Take podcast. I believe this is episode number fifty eight
for us. So we are continuing to climb.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
We've been doing this for well over a year now,
so we've in the groove of things. We're gonna, you know,
work to get back on track and being consistent with
our episodes. I know we fell off a little bit
as football season got busy for us, but we're working through. Man.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
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