December 10, 2025 • 30 mins
In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler talks to Petros Papadakis about College Football Playoff field anger from Notre Dame and UW’s LA Bowl against Boise State coming up, then new Oregon State Head Coach JaMarcus Shephard joins to discuss his new job.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papadekas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now with Petros, Peer's Dave's softy Muller. Alrighty, boys and girls,
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Speaker 4 (00:36):
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Speaker 4 (01:35):
How about your your boys over at Notre Dame throwing
a fit because they didn't make the college football playoffs
as a USC alum. That's got to kind of make
you smile a little bit of their behavior.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Not really, I don't. I don't get that way about rivalries.
Like some people act like a jackass, alienate a whole
bunch of people.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Wow, I understand. Are you insinuating something, brother?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Oh, go okay, But I do understand their frustration because
last year Notre Dame won four games in the College
Football Playoff, and I think it helped the college Football
Playoff in the annual year of having a bunch of games,
and they use their name all season long and their
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reveal show and then flipped them when they hadn't played
a game. So I understand why they're upset, and then
the one bowl game they're supposed to go playing is
like the double circle with the frosting and the pop
Tarts and just the total ESPN. I mean, the only
things could be the Mayo Bowl, right if you dip
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Marcus Freeman and Mayo Dukes, which I heard as a
little kick to it, But so I understand them saying,
look the part about it that bothers me, and I
don't feel bad for Notre Dame though it's probably out
of Amma that doesn't deserve to be in there. But
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when the one thing I do want to point out
is when the playoff did expand, and it's probably going
to expand more very soon. But when the playoff did
expand and everybody was like, well, we're not going to
have the great argument we had about who's number three,
and what about who's going to care who's number thirteen,
it turns out a lot of people care, and making
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the playoff is pretty much that or bust for a
lot of college football programs, including USC and Washington and
our respective towns. That being said, softy, I do find
it really annoying that ESPN owns the ACC, they own
the SEC, they own the playoff, right, and they own
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like ninety five percent of the bowl games, and then
they have all these talking heads arguing about that they
put it on TV. They've created the whole problem. They're
making it up as they go along, and they're sitting
here and telling you while they're pissing in your face
that it's that it's raining stud That part of it
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is is pretty wild, is that the TV companies are
behind this. And we use words like the ACC and
the SEC and the Big ten, but we're really just
talking about Fox and Disney. Yeah, and that's really the
bottom line. And I maybe the Notre Dame athletic director
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has done one too many interviews or press conferences about this,
but Notre Dame feels like they have the biggest puzzo
and the pants of college football. And if they want,
if they don't want to, you know, it's like Dirk Diggler,
if they don't want to, they don't want to perform
that day for ESPN and playing their reindeer games. I
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certainly I can totally understand it because they feel look
and no, her name is going to be independent as
long as somebody's willing to pay them. Big network TV
money to be an independent right, And how long has
that NBC deal been what is it thirty four years? Yeah,
since nineteen ninety one with Notre Dame, right right, right,
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So it feels it feels like they have a pretty
good platform there and that they're going to be able
to do what they want. And the college football Playoffs
is going to expand anyway, so it's not likely that
we'll have this problem again. It is hilarious because it
just speaks to the instability of the sports and how
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wacky it is.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I just can't get over the Dirt Giggler reference.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And you know what I mean. I want to aff
right now.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You know what I'm thinking about.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
It's my big c and I want to have right now.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
If Notre Dame is Dirt Diggler, who's playing the role
of the colonel? Oh, may I see it? That would
Robert rid remember Robert Ridsley.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Probably be NBC.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Okay, NBC wants to see it.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Right, And Boston College is chest rockwell.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Oh god, unbelievable. Remember Phillip Seymour Hoffman in that Yeah,
he was he was fabulous when he tried to come
on to Marky Mark and he guys the car.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
The guy that made that movie. He's got three names.
Paul Thomas Anderson. Is that the guy's name. He's really
close friends with our friend down here that works at KFI,
Tim Conway Junior, really and he put he put Tim
Conway in one of his more recent movies, Licorice Pizza,
which was pretty cool. Just remember, Paul Thomas Anderson, Did
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I get it right?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
There?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
You go, Phillip Seymour Hoffman sitting in his car.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Stupid. Don't do that man.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Well, it's uh, it's really kind of a it's disappointing
because it's supposed to be a wonderful time of the
year for college football and instead it's not right. A
lot of the whole season.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Has been that way, and the whole season when James
Franklin got the whole season got up in.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
But what about these ball games now, because it's not
just Notre Dame. You know new Heiseel Rick new Heiseel,
who does a weekly hit with us courtesy at Taco Time.
He'll be on tomorrow. By the way, he's got a
pretty good idea. I think he was on the Dan
Patrick Show and I don't know, maybe he stole it
from you.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
What was the idea, You got to hire my son
to be the coaching waiting at Wazoo.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Maybe yeah, Well the Cougar has already did that with
Dick and Tony Bennett back in the day. Worked out
pretty good for the Kubes. Went to the Sweet sixteen
with Klay Thompson and then he took off and went
to Virginia. But anyway, new Heidel's idea was, let's let's
play all these ball games because we have all these
like the Chick fil A Kickoff Classic in Atlanta to
start the year. Let's move all the ball games to
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the start of the year week one, week zero, Yeah, right, whatever,
and we just get them all out of the way
there and then the only thing that matters come December
is the playoff.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well yeah, but then you're you're boxing out all the
small schools that like to play.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It's a reward for the previous season.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
That's your attitude.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I would say, if you earn it the previous year,
then you get to go.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
A few of the bulls are good previous year, as
if that means anything.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Now in college, it means a lot for the eight
people when they come out in.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Which is also stupid, Like why do you guys try
to make sense of this stuff? Like a lot of
the bulls will probably end up going away. The championship
games are going to end up going away, and the
playoff is going to expand, and they need more uniformity.
Having a smaller portal or one portal and making the
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SEC play an extra conference game is not enough uniformity.
They need more. And it's the same thing I've been
telling you for years. The TV companies are going to
have to figure out how to get along to stabilize
the sport they need. That's really who's in charge and
governing body Petros. If they need a governing body, well,
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that's another part of the committee is so stupid. And
if you're going to have a committee, you have to
have football people like Mike Riley and Chris Alt and
Ivan Mazell who's on there. That's fine. Those are the
type of people that need to be on the committee.
The second, with all due respect to athletic directors, the
second it becomes a bunch of athletic directors, which it is,
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they're politicians, and politicians have no backbone. They flip with
public sentiment. They always have. That's politics. So when public
sentiment says, hey, how come you put Miami? How come
you put notre name in front of Miami all this
time when they played each other, they're like, oh my god,
you're right. That's there's no backbone there. So there doesn't
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need to be administrators or politicians on this committee. If
there's going to be a committee, there needs to be
football people that have a backbone, that stick to their
story throughout the year unless something dramatic happens. Just get
rid of the reveal show, which is just a big
ESPN mutual session. That's all this is. So much of
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this is just that, Oh god, and yet we are
all forced to argue about it and act like any
of this stuff is legitimate, and act like everybody's not
making it up as they go along.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I think we should podcast the unedited version of this conversation.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I haven't said anything that needs to be edited. People
will listen, they will flock. I haven't said anything that
needs to be edited. You said I can say that.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
You can't say that on the air.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yes you can't. No, you can't can't do it.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Day me talk to my boss man. You know what's
even dumber by the way about all this Notre Dame
talk that we're talking about Petros Petros courtesy is Sweet
James dot com. How about the fact that you Dub's
going to play in a ballgame on Saturday night and
they had six days the fans said, six days to
get ready for a stupid ballgame on Saturday against Boise State.
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We're going down for the La Bawl. It's so Fie
against the Mountain West Champs. I mean, who's gonna go.
Who's gonna go to a game? Travel to a game
when you got six days to get ready?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Come on?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Probably more people then we'll go to the UCLA games
and so far you think, yeah, probably, But it's obviously
not about attendants anymore, which was unfortunate. But it's about
the TV slot and ESPN's inventory. You wanted to say
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something else, didn't you? No, leave me alone? I looked
at Kate's I was like, I can't say that. He
was like, well, you probably should. I was like, dude,
I hate everybody.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I'm with you, man, I get it. I just you know,
when you're when you're a slave to the man, then
you gotta you know whatever. But I don't know. I mean,
they just Husky fans. Just saw the Dogs against UCLA
at the Rose Bowl three weeks ago. I'm saying Husky
fans that live in southern California, right, So maybe a
few folks that. And they got a large fan base
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down there. A lot of schools have a lot of
fans in LA.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But and so the.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Boiss I know, Yeah, they might have more people down
there than we will.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
They have a lot of people down here too, And
that's an interesting football team. They got their quarterback back, imagine. Yeah,
and they're tough upfront on both sides. They really are.
I mean, Boise without the Ashton genty thing, Boise is
still what they are, which is a team built at
the line of scrimmage. So that's not an easy out. Yeah,
the Dogs better be motivated in that one or they're
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going to get beat.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Well, they're given ten and a half, for God's sakes,
I'd take Poise in the points.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Where's the motivation, Well, there's.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I mean, this is not like Notre Dame or you
know another school that would be greatly disappointed to miss
the CFP. They have not been in the CFP for
three weeks. You're saying Washington's not motivated.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I don't know. Every team's different, Every team had its
own personality, Every team reacts to the Bullpack practices differently. Yeah,
really hard to gauge what they're going to come out
and be like. Of course, teams are more veteran laden now,
but the transfer portal opening up and all the uncertainty
and instability doesn't help the bull practice part of it either.
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Plus six days to get ready is not exactly a
plethora of time to wrap your head around Boise, and
they're very, very complex blitz packages under defensive coordinator coach Chinander,
So good luck to everybody involved.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Would you hire Rick new Heisel if you were Wazoo?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I think I'd rather hire a Bob Chesney type.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Okay, like a Jason Ck kind of guy. Yeah, somebody
from Don't you think ek though could get a better
gig than Wazoo if he's leaving New Mexico?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Is he?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I don't know what he eventually does? I think he could. Yeah,
I think Jason Eck has done. If it wasn't for Indiana,
Jason Eck would be the most masterful coaching job in
the country this year.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, so why not new Heisel? At Wazoo.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I'm just kid. I just think we've seen the whole
thing play itself out a few times already, haven't we.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
I mean, I guess it's like I said, I worked
in basketball for Wazoo with Dick and Tony Bennett.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, but Dick and Tony Bennett are not Rick and
Jerry Neuheisel. How do you know that these are total
just because their father and son, it's a totally different sport.
They're two totally different people. Dick and Tony Bennett had
been coaching. I mean, Rix hasn't coached in a long time,
right right, Yeah, Well he wants the gig. Well, good
for him. I hope he gets it when I do it.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Did you hear about this thing with Utah that they
want to partner up with a private equity.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Everybody's looking to find a way to become the next
Texas Tech, find more money and blow everybody out of
the water with cash because you can do it. I mean,
that's the thing that makes the USC problem really egregious
is that you could say, well, one thing people don't
realize about Indiana is they have a lot of money.
And that is true. That is one thing That's why
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they were able to pay Signetti when that Penn State
job opened up and extend him. But that's the one
thing about USC. USC has money, and that's the biggest problem.
They don't have an excuse to be this bad anymore.
And teams that have that much money, when you see
what some have done with the money and bringing the
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right people in and having the right coach and ad
and president and all that. You look at Texas Tech
and their turnaround. Obviously Indiana, you look at a team
like USC or even Washington, you say, hey, let's get
a move on. What are you guys doing. You can
see that these people have the same resources as you
in this modern era and they're having success. What is
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your problem? So that's one of the interesting things about Indiana.
And if you can turn New Mexico around, for God's sakes,
with have to. If you could turn Indian around with
a bunch of players from the Sun Belt and turn
football purgatory New Mexico into something with a bunch of
players from Idaho, what the hell is everybody else doing?
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And I think that's a really good point that can
be made about this modern era.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Well, the Heisman vote is going to be announced on Saturday. Yeah,
do you have a vote, But oh no, you don't. No, No,
I don't. Do you want to think of a loser?
Would you like a vote?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Not at this point.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Okay, who do you think should win? Should it be
the kid from Indiana, the former cal quarterback?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, after he got his head knocked clean off and
then still led them to victory. That was amazing. On
the first player of the game or whatever it was.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I think it was the It was the first drive
for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, I give it to Ferdy Mendoza. Although I did
see a great tweet about Diego Pavia. It said Diego
Pavia is what Axe Body Spray would be as a person,
and it felt curate. I like this mom tworking doing
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the Heisman pose. Oh yeah, the drunk brother being escorted
out of every game. I just hope he's at the
ceremony on Saturday. They're like the new Honey Boo Boo family.
Oh God, it's exciting. I love it.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
All right, Well, good stuff, appreciate this. We'll talk in
a week. Man, Curious to see you back to the wazoo.
Hopeful Rick new Heiseel and old blowhard Kevin Harlan, Am
I gonna see you on Saturday down in La. I'm
coming down Friday night for the game. Yeah yeah, shoot
me a text. You want to meet up?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Okay, see you man.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Sure me a text. I'll see. Let's see what's up shaking.
Are you gonna stay in the South Bay area?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
We're staying in Torrents by the way. Oh my god,
well that's right by where I live.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I'll come over. I landed. I didn't say.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Banging the door. All right, Bud, we're talking a week
Maybe I'll see you this weekend.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Maybe. All right, bring rashaan shehe and some weed.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
All right, Petrust Paparaka is with us. We're gonna break.
Kevin Harlan joins it five. Coming up on ninety three
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Speaker 3 (18:17):
For the first time, I've lost for words my way.
Well I want to say, is this husky niceer?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
We love you, We love you, okay, we appreciate all
that you do for us. Let's got that.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
That was the night of December one, twenty twenty three
in Las Vegas, Nevada. That's a good night, JaMarcus Shepherd,
grinning from ear to ear as the Huskies took down
the mighty Oregon Ducks and found their way to the
College Football Playoff, where they would defeat the Texas Longhorns
before losing eventually in heartbreaking fashion to the Michigan Wolverines.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
And that man, right there.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
That really is only one reason, Dick, why I wanted
JaMarcus Shepherd to get the Oregon State coaching job so
he could come back on the radio show and say hello.
For God's sake, here he is the new coach of
the Oregon State Beavers. My friend, JaMarcus Shephard, coach?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
How are you, softy? How are you doing? Brother? Good?
You so much for having me on today. Truly a
blessing to be on with you today. Man, I can't
tell you how much I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Brother.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Well, it's great to have you back on the show.
I do got to ask you one quick question, though,
Have you signed your contract.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
With the Beavers yet?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
By the way, yes, okay, because the Michigan job, the
Michigan job just came open. Brother, I just want to
make sure. I want to make sure you're locked in
down there in Corvalace. Well, dude, first of all.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I am all right, good.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Good, I love it. Well, congratulations on the gig man.
I know you've been wanting this for a long time obviously,
but tell us why this made sense for you. I mean,
you're coaching wide receivers at Alabama, obviously working with some
of the best talent in America, and you decided to
take the take the leap and move to Corvallis to
be the new coach of the Beavers. Why why did
this opportunity make sense to you?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Well, you know what getting into the coaching profession. For
a lot of other people, it may be because maybe
it was the it's the family business. You know, their
dad maybe you know, pull them in and say hey,
I want you to come coach the position, or some
others get into it because you know it's the xs
and those the scheme. They want to be able to
scheme plays up and have a chance to compete against
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you know, really really elite talent and whatnot. You know,
And I really got into the profession for the opportunity
to really help young men grow in a way that
I was able to grow as a young man because
of the mentors that I had, So coming to Oregon
State University was was ideal.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
H How did I know that was going to happen?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Well, it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Will it is not John Wilder. But get him, get
him back on the fun and we'll get him back
on the year. We got to make sure the cell
phone signal works properly down there in Corvallis. It used
to work in the Pac twelve, the old PAC twelve,
but the new web Pac twelve we don't know. Hey, JaMarcus,
we got to get you a new cell phone deal
with your new contract.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
By the way, all right.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
This is the same one that I have when I
was in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
At all right, finish your.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Job for you. You're go ahead.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You know, as I was saying, you know what having
my goal is just to help young men, you know,
become the best versions of themselves. You know, all all
young people, include myself. You know, we all have a
little bit of brokenness inside of us. And uh, you know,
I just want people to see that you can have
this type of success that you want to have in
your life, regardless of that brokenness that you have. And
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uh Oregon States specifically, you know, having coach over at Washington,
Washington State, know the Pacific Northwest, know that I'm going
to get some rain here and there. To me, it
was you know, going back, something's always keep calling me
back out at Western Kentucky and went to Washington State
and went back to Indiana and then came to Washington
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and went to Alabama, then came back out here to
Oregon State. So something's calling me back and saying I
belong here in the p city of Northwest.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Well, Coach is great to talk to you again, as Dick.
Congratulations you're a high energy guy.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
We know that.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Do you have to be a little more chill when
you're the CEO of a program or can you be
just as energetic, just as crazy as you were when
you're a position coaching coordinator.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Well, you know what, It's funny, you guys always see
me that way in terms of when I'm out on
the field of play and then when I get on
some of these calls. But in my normal life, I'm
pretty calm and cool and collected and approach every obstacle
very methodically and ensure that I am very thoughtful in
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how I do things in my life and my normal
life with my family, with our administration and so on.
But when you hit that grass, I mean, it's either
in you or it's not in the I mean, I
mean that's just how that is. Once you touch that grass,
either it's in you or it's not in you. You know.
I talked to one of my mentors, Jeff Broma day,
he said, could jeffer you or the master at being
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having the most energy? You know? And guess what, you
better have somebody under stop to bring that kind of
energy every day when I'm gonna bring it to Okay,
I'm gonna bring that energy every day to our guys
because energy just tells them to have confidence. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Well, JaMarcus Shepherd's with US former Husky wide receivers coach
who is now the head coach at Oregon State University,
and tell me if I'm wrong, but you're not going
to be calling plays down there?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
No? I will not be calling plays. I have hired
an offensive coordinator and he's gonna call the plays for
this upcoming season. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Mitch Dalen is that his name?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I cannot confirm or deny that, but he should be
being released here shortly.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Okay, can you confirm or deny that Lance Gidry is
going to be your defensive coordinator from Western Kentucky days?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I cannot confirm with you that.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Well done, he's shart man. All right, Well, then let
me ask you what you haven't changed it all? By
the way, let me ask you a question that you
can answer, right, because this is a different deal now
with Oregon State. The PAC twelve is getting rebuilt, a
bunch of new teams are showing up, obviously. But you
gotta have money, man, you gotta have money to pay players.
I mean five years ago we would have been arrested
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talking like that, right, But it's a different day and
age now in college football. So tell me what you
need to do and what you need to get done
down there to compete in the nil era in Corvallis.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Man, You know what, I think, it really starts with relationships.
I mean, this NIO era is still going to be
about relationships. It's going to be relationships with our donors.
You know, you have to have great relationships with them,
and genuine great relationships with them. So that's going to
aid in that process. But I think more importantly having
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great relationships with, you know, the young men across the
country that you're going to be recruiting. And that's what
My whole career has been built on. Relationships with people,
and in some cases not all. I think when you
have a great relationship, you're able to get discounts, you know,
and people want to come play for you because guess what, Hey,
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I want to play for him because he's about the
right things. You know, he is truly about my degree.
He really is truly about, you know, making sure that
I become a great man. Now, I didn't say we're
gonna get him for free, but you'll have a chance
to get some of these guys at discounts. I look
across the country and when I was at my previous place,
guess what, our relationships they wrung true and we even
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were able to access some discounts on guys because we
had great relationships at Alabama. And so I think that's
going to be more important than ever hear in this
new PAC twelve.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Was it difficult coach to convince Oregon State to let
you coach at Alabama through the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
You know what, you know, those conversations weren't difficult. We
we had some uh you know, of course Alabama wanted
me to coach there, and and and and organ stations
wants me to be here, and so you know, we
we've kind of come to some conclusions on all that stuff,
and uh, hopefully we'll finalize all that here shortly.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I got you, well, uh, let's talk about the future
of your team. What is this team gonna look like
next year? How much work do you think really needs
to be done with this roster before you hit the
field in September against Houston.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
You know, I feel like we have some really good
pieces on the roster right now. When I'm going through
the film looking through our our players, especially on the
defensive side of the ball, I feel like we we
we got some guys who really can play at a
high level. It's just you know, some of them were
banged up, you know, had some injuries on the on
the team, and so it prevented them from really show case,
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you know, the ability of the defense. And then on
offensive side of the ball, I think we got some
skill position players that are gonna actually be able to
be really good players. For US. Okay, we got to
really up really the competition on this football team. We
got to push the competition level so everybody in the
building had no one should walk around here think that
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they've completely solidified a starting position at any small team.
Everybody should have a mindset that they want to compete. Okay,
that's their job as players. It is to really go
out there, grind every day a right, refine what we
tell them to refine, and then compete, all right, And
our job is really to teach them, critique them, and
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then we're going to demand that they do it even better.
So we're gonna have a football team that's gonna be
tough because I'm a tough guy and I want to
have our football team tough.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Well, JaMarcus Sheppard with US again, former uwide receivers coach,
now the head coach at Oregon State. So you mentioned
Jeff Brown, you work with Kaitlin de Moore right obviously
at two Mike Leachs for a year at Wazoo in
twenty sixteen. What what did you take from those guys, Like,
I'm I'm really curious what you took from those guys
that you will bring with you to Oregon State this year.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
You know, a lot of how we're gonna run the
program will be based on a lot of things that
I learned from Kaitlin de Boor and just having through
maxims and things that we really carry over and over
and over again and continue to communicate those things to
our players. And when we talk about vision and goals
of the football team, it's really going to be carried
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over from him. But then, you know, coach Coach Brohm
just on a level of toughness to how he coached
you know, he even coached a quarterback tough you know,
And so that piece of it, I'm going to pull
that from from what he did as a as a
coach and bring that here to Oregon State University. And
then when you talk about Mike Leach, he was really
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thoughtful about the things that he did. Now, sometimes a
little bit too thoughtful, you know, because a fleet had
an opinion on everything, But he was thoughtful about how
he was making decisions about how he was going to
make this offense flow and how the defense was going
to flow, and even with the special teams. So just
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being mindful of all of this, so then that way
we can put our guys in the best position to
be successful.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Well, JaMarcus, is great to have you back on the
show man, Best of luck down there. I'm looking at
your future football schedule here. Looks like next year is
pretty much taken care of. But why do you work
on getting the Huskies on the Oregon State non conference
schedule so we can come down there and beat your
hand up?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Hey, softee, don't forget Okay, I don't believe in Freddie
Soft talking to.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Me, Freddie Soft. That's right, love Freddy. Hey, are you
going to bring Are you bringing Freddy Soft to Corvalis?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
We're always trying to get rid of them. Okay, we're
always trying to get rid of Freddie Soft. I love it.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Hey, go be you. Congratulations man, I'm fired up for you.
Best of luck and we'll talk sooner, right, Thanks.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Man, thank you, thank you, Salty you got it.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Man, JaMarcus Sheppard with us on the radio show The
New Coach in Oregon State. I don't know, I'm a
Beaver fan. I'm pretty fired up for this guy. Man,
honestly outside the box, a little bit energetic guy, but
brings a lot of enthusiasm. Man, So good for them.
We're going to break a little text themodials and then
Kevin Harlan going to join at five on ninety three
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Speaker 4 (01:35):
How about your your boys over at Notre Dame throwing
a fit because they didn't make the college football playoffs
as a USC alum. That's got to kind of make
you smile a little bit of their behavior.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Not really, I don't. I don't get that way about rivalries.
Like some people act like a jackass, alienate a whole
bunch of people.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Wow, I understand. Are you insinuating something, brother?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Oh, go okay, But I do understand their frustration because
last year Notre Dame won four games in the College
Football Playoff, and I think it helped the college Football
Playoff in the annual year of having a bunch of games,
and they use their name all season long and their
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reveal show and then flipped them when they hadn't played
a game. So I understand why they're upset, and then
the one bowl game they're supposed to go playing is
like the double circle with the frosting and the pop
Tarts and just the total ESPN. I mean, the only
things could be the Mayo Bowl, right if you dip
(02:43):
Marcus Freeman and Mayo Dukes, which I heard as a
little kick to it, But so I understand them saying,
look the part about it that bothers me, and I
don't feel bad for Notre Dame though it's probably out
of Amma that doesn't deserve to be in there. But
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when the one thing I do want to point out
is when the playoff did expand, and it's probably going
to expand more very soon. But when the playoff did
expand and everybody was like, well, we're not going to
have the great argument we had about who's number three,
and what about who's going to care who's number thirteen,
it turns out a lot of people care, and making
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the playoff is pretty much that or bust for a
lot of college football programs, including USC and Washington and
our respective towns. That being said, softy, I do find
it really annoying that ESPN owns the ACC, they own
the SEC, they own the playoff, right, and they own
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like ninety five percent of the bowl games, and then
they have all these talking heads arguing about that they
put it on TV. They've created the whole problem. They're
making it up as they go along, and they're sitting
here and telling you while they're pissing in your face
that it's that it's raining stud That part of it
(04:13):
is is pretty wild, is that the TV companies are
behind this. And we use words like the ACC and
the SEC and the Big ten, but we're really just
talking about Fox and Disney. Yeah, and that's really the
bottom line. And I maybe the Notre Dame athletic director
(04:34):
has done one too many interviews or press conferences about this,
but Notre Dame feels like they have the biggest puzzo
and the pants of college football. And if they want,
if they don't want to, you know, it's like Dirk Diggler,
if they don't want to, they don't want to perform
that day for ESPN and playing their reindeer games. I
(04:55):
certainly I can totally understand it because they feel look
and no, her name is going to be independent as
long as somebody's willing to pay them. Big network TV
money to be an independent right, And how long has
that NBC deal been what is it thirty four years? Yeah,
since nineteen ninety one with Notre Dame, right right, right,
(05:16):
So it feels it feels like they have a pretty
good platform there and that they're going to be able
to do what they want. And the college football Playoffs
is going to expand anyway, so it's not likely that
we'll have this problem again. It is hilarious because it
just speaks to the instability of the sports and how
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wacky it is.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I just can't get over the Dirt Giggler reference.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And you know what I mean. I want to aff
right now.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You know what I'm thinking about.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
It's my big c and I want to have right now.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
If Notre Dame is Dirt Diggler, who's playing the role
of the colonel? Oh, may I see it? That would
Robert rid remember Robert Ridsley.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Probably be NBC.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Okay, NBC wants to see it.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Right, And Boston College is chest rockwell.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Oh god, unbelievable. Remember Phillip Seymour Hoffman in that Yeah,
he was he was fabulous when he tried to come
on to Marky Mark and he guys the car.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
The guy that made that movie. He's got three names.
Paul Thomas Anderson. Is that the guy's name. He's really
close friends with our friend down here that works at KFI,
Tim Conway Junior, really and he put he put Tim
Conway in one of his more recent movies, Licorice Pizza,
which was pretty cool. Just remember, Paul Thomas Anderson, Did
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I get it right?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
There?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
You go, Phillip Seymour Hoffman sitting in his car.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Stupid. Don't do that man.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Well, it's uh, it's really kind of a it's disappointing
because it's supposed to be a wonderful time of the
year for college football and instead it's not right. A
lot of the whole season.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Has been that way, and the whole season when James
Franklin got the whole season got up in.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
But what about these ball games now, because it's not
just Notre Dame. You know new Heiseel Rick new Heiseel,
who does a weekly hit with us courtesy at Taco Time.
He'll be on tomorrow. By the way, he's got a
pretty good idea. I think he was on the Dan
Patrick Show and I don't know, maybe he stole it
from you.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
What was the idea, You got to hire my son
to be the coaching waiting at Wazoo.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Maybe yeah, Well the Cougar has already did that with
Dick and Tony Bennett back in the day. Worked out
pretty good for the Kubes. Went to the Sweet sixteen
with Klay Thompson and then he took off and went
to Virginia. But anyway, new Heidel's idea was, let's let's
play all these ball games because we have all these
like the Chick fil A Kickoff Classic in Atlanta to
start the year. Let's move all the ball games to
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the start of the year week one, week zero, Yeah, right, whatever,
and we just get them all out of the way
there and then the only thing that matters come December
is the playoff.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well yeah, but then you're you're boxing out all the
small schools that like to play.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It's a reward for the previous season.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
That's your attitude.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I would say, if you earn it the previous year,
then you get to go.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
A few of the bulls are good previous year, as
if that means anything.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Now in college, it means a lot for the eight
people when they come out in.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Which is also stupid, Like why do you guys try
to make sense of this stuff? Like a lot of
the bulls will probably end up going away. The championship
games are going to end up going away, and the
playoff is going to expand, and they need more uniformity.
Having a smaller portal or one portal and making the
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SEC play an extra conference game is not enough uniformity.
They need more. And it's the same thing I've been
telling you for years. The TV companies are going to
have to figure out how to get along to stabilize
the sport they need. That's really who's in charge and
governing body Petros. If they need a governing body, well,
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that's another part of the committee is so stupid. And
if you're going to have a committee, you have to
have football people like Mike Riley and Chris Alt and
Ivan Mazell who's on there. That's fine. Those are the
type of people that need to be on the committee.
The second, with all due respect to athletic directors, the
second it becomes a bunch of athletic directors, which it is,
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they're politicians, and politicians have no backbone. They flip with
public sentiment. They always have. That's politics. So when public
sentiment says, hey, how come you put Miami? How come
you put notre name in front of Miami all this
time when they played each other, they're like, oh my god,
you're right. That's there's no backbone there. So there doesn't
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need to be administrators or politicians on this committee. If
there's going to be a committee, there needs to be
football people that have a backbone, that stick to their
story throughout the year unless something dramatic happens. Just get
rid of the reveal show, which is just a big
ESPN mutual session. That's all this is. So much of
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this is just that, Oh god, and yet we are
all forced to argue about it and act like any
of this stuff is legitimate, and act like everybody's not
making it up as they go along.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I think we should podcast the unedited version of this conversation.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I haven't said anything that needs to be edited. People
will listen, they will flock. I haven't said anything that
needs to be edited. You said I can say that.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
You can't say that on the air.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yes you can't. No, you can't can't do it.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Day me talk to my boss man. You know what's
even dumber by the way about all this Notre Dame
talk that we're talking about Petros Petros courtesy is Sweet
James dot com. How about the fact that you Dub's
going to play in a ballgame on Saturday night and
they had six days the fans said, six days to
get ready for a stupid ballgame on Saturday against Boise State.
(10:59):
We're going down for the La Bawl. It's so Fie
against the Mountain West Champs. I mean, who's gonna go.
Who's gonna go to a game? Travel to a game
when you got six days to get ready?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Come on?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Probably more people then we'll go to the UCLA games
and so far you think, yeah, probably, But it's obviously
not about attendants anymore, which was unfortunate. But it's about
the TV slot and ESPN's inventory. You wanted to say
(11:30):
something else, didn't you? No, leave me alone? I looked
at Kate's I was like, I can't say that. He
was like, well, you probably should. I was like, dude,
I hate everybody.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I'm with you, man, I get it. I just you know,
when you're when you're a slave to the man, then
you gotta you know whatever. But I don't know. I mean,
they just Husky fans. Just saw the Dogs against UCLA
at the Rose Bowl three weeks ago. I'm saying Husky
fans that live in southern California, right, So maybe a
few folks that. And they got a large fan base
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down there. A lot of schools have a lot of
fans in LA.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But and so the.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Boiss I know, Yeah, they might have more people down
there than we will.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
They have a lot of people down here too, And
that's an interesting football team. They got their quarterback back, imagine. Yeah,
and they're tough upfront on both sides. They really are.
I mean, Boise without the Ashton genty thing, Boise is
still what they are, which is a team built at
the line of scrimmage. So that's not an easy out. Yeah,
the Dogs better be motivated in that one or they're
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going to get beat.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Well, they're given ten and a half, for God's sakes,
I'd take Poise in the points.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Where's the motivation, Well, there's.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I mean, this is not like Notre Dame or you
know another school that would be greatly disappointed to miss
the CFP. They have not been in the CFP for
three weeks. You're saying Washington's not motivated.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I don't know. Every team's different, Every team had its
own personality, Every team reacts to the Bullpack practices differently. Yeah,
really hard to gauge what they're going to come out
and be like. Of course, teams are more veteran laden now,
but the transfer portal opening up and all the uncertainty
and instability doesn't help the bull practice part of it either.
(13:12):
Plus six days to get ready is not exactly a
plethora of time to wrap your head around Boise, and
they're very, very complex blitz packages under defensive coordinator coach Chinander,
So good luck to everybody involved.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Would you hire Rick new Heisel if you were Wazoo?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I think I'd rather hire a Bob Chesney type.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Okay, like a Jason Ck kind of guy. Yeah, somebody
from Don't you think ek though could get a better
gig than Wazoo if he's leaving New Mexico?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Is he?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I don't know what he eventually does? I think he could. Yeah,
I think Jason Eck has done. If it wasn't for Indiana,
Jason Eck would be the most masterful coaching job in
the country this year.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, so why not new Heisel? At Wazoo.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I'm just kid. I just think we've seen the whole
thing play itself out a few times already, haven't we.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
I mean, I guess it's like I said, I worked
in basketball for Wazoo with Dick and Tony Bennett.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, but Dick and Tony Bennett are not Rick and
Jerry Neuheisel. How do you know that these are total
just because their father and son, it's a totally different sport.
They're two totally different people. Dick and Tony Bennett had
been coaching. I mean, Rix hasn't coached in a long time,
right right, Yeah, Well he wants the gig. Well, good
for him. I hope he gets it when I do it.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Did you hear about this thing with Utah that they
want to partner up with a private equity.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Everybody's looking to find a way to become the next
Texas Tech, find more money and blow everybody out of
the water with cash because you can do it. I mean,
that's the thing that makes the USC problem really egregious
is that you could say, well, one thing people don't
realize about Indiana is they have a lot of money.
And that is true. That is one thing That's why
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they were able to pay Signetti when that Penn State
job opened up and extend him. But that's the one
thing about USC. USC has money, and that's the biggest problem.
They don't have an excuse to be this bad anymore.
And teams that have that much money, when you see
what some have done with the money and bringing the
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right people in and having the right coach and ad
and president and all that. You look at Texas Tech
and their turnaround. Obviously Indiana, you look at a team
like USC or even Washington, you say, hey, let's get
a move on. What are you guys doing. You can
see that these people have the same resources as you
in this modern era and they're having success. What is
(15:50):
your problem? So that's one of the interesting things about Indiana.
And if you can turn New Mexico around, for God's sakes,
with have to. If you could turn Indian around with
a bunch of players from the Sun Belt and turn
football purgatory New Mexico into something with a bunch of
players from Idaho, what the hell is everybody else doing?
(16:12):
And I think that's a really good point that can
be made about this modern era.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Well, the Heisman vote is going to be announced on Saturday. Yeah,
do you have a vote, But oh no, you don't. No, No,
I don't. Do you want to think of a loser?
Would you like a vote?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Not at this point.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Okay, who do you think should win? Should it be
the kid from Indiana, the former cal quarterback?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, after he got his head knocked clean off and
then still led them to victory. That was amazing. On
the first player of the game or whatever it was.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I think it was the It was the first drive
for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, I give it to Ferdy Mendoza. Although I did
see a great tweet about Diego Pavia. It said Diego
Pavia is what Axe Body Spray would be as a person,
and it felt curate. I like this mom tworking doing
(17:03):
the Heisman pose. Oh yeah, the drunk brother being escorted
out of every game. I just hope he's at the
ceremony on Saturday. They're like the new Honey Boo Boo family.
Oh God, it's exciting. I love it.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
All right, Well, good stuff, appreciate this. We'll talk in
a week. Man, Curious to see you back to the wazoo.
Hopeful Rick new Heiseel and old blowhard Kevin Harlan, Am
I gonna see you on Saturday down in La. I'm
coming down Friday night for the game. Yeah yeah, shoot
me a text. You want to meet up?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Okay, see you man.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Sure me a text. I'll see. Let's see what's up shaking.
Are you gonna stay in the South Bay area?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
We're staying in Torrents by the way. Oh my god,
well that's right by where I live.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I'll come over. I landed. I didn't say.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Banging the door. All right, Bud, we're talking a week
Maybe I'll see you this weekend.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Maybe. All right, bring rashaan shehe and some weed.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
All right, Petrust Paparaka is with us. We're gonna break.
Kevin Harlan joins it five. Coming up on ninety three
to three KJRFM from.
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Speaker 3 (18:17):
For the first time, I've lost for words my way.
Well I want to say, is this husky niceer?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
We love you, We love you, okay, we appreciate all
that you do for us. Let's got that.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
That was the night of December one, twenty twenty three
in Las Vegas, Nevada. That's a good night, JaMarcus Shepherd,
grinning from ear to ear as the Huskies took down
the mighty Oregon Ducks and found their way to the
College Football Playoff, where they would defeat the Texas Longhorns
before losing eventually in heartbreaking fashion to the Michigan Wolverines.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
And that man, right there.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
That really is only one reason, Dick, why I wanted
JaMarcus Shepherd to get the Oregon State coaching job so
he could come back on the radio show and say hello.
For God's sake, here he is the new coach of
the Oregon State Beavers. My friend, JaMarcus Shephard, coach?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
How are you, softy? How are you doing? Brother? Good?
You so much for having me on today. Truly a
blessing to be on with you today. Man, I can't
tell you how much I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Brother.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Well, it's great to have you back on the show.
I do got to ask you one quick question, though,
Have you signed your contract.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
With the Beavers yet?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
By the way, yes, okay, because the Michigan job, the
Michigan job just came open. Brother, I just want to
make sure. I want to make sure you're locked in
down there in Corvalace. Well, dude, first of all.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I am all right, good.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Good, I love it. Well, congratulations on the gig man.
I know you've been wanting this for a long time obviously,
but tell us why this made sense for you. I mean,
you're coaching wide receivers at Alabama, obviously working with some
of the best talent in America, and you decided to
take the take the leap and move to Corvallis to
be the new coach of the Beavers. Why why did
this opportunity make sense to you?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Well, you know what getting into the coaching profession. For
a lot of other people, it may be because maybe
it was the it's the family business. You know, their
dad maybe you know, pull them in and say hey,
I want you to come coach the position, or some
others get into it because you know it's the xs
and those the scheme. They want to be able to
scheme plays up and have a chance to compete against
(20:32):
you know, really really elite talent and whatnot. You know,
And I really got into the profession for the opportunity
to really help young men grow in a way that
I was able to grow as a young man because
of the mentors that I had, So coming to Oregon
State University was was ideal.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
H How did I know that was going to happen?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Well, it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Will it is not John Wilder. But get him, get
him back on the fun and we'll get him back
on the year. We got to make sure the cell
phone signal works properly down there in Corvallis. It used
to work in the Pac twelve, the old PAC twelve,
but the new web Pac twelve we don't know. Hey, JaMarcus,
we got to get you a new cell phone deal
with your new contract.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
By the way, all right.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
This is the same one that I have when I
was in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
At all right, finish your.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Job for you. You're go ahead.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You know, as I was saying, you know what having
my goal is just to help young men, you know,
become the best versions of themselves. You know, all all
young people, include myself. You know, we all have a
little bit of brokenness inside of us. And uh, you know,
I just want people to see that you can have
this type of success that you want to have in
your life, regardless of that brokenness that you have. And
(21:48):
uh Oregon States specifically, you know, having coach over at Washington,
Washington State, know the Pacific Northwest, know that I'm going
to get some rain here and there. To me, it
was you know, going back, something's always keep calling me
back out at Western Kentucky and went to Washington State
and went back to Indiana and then came to Washington
(22:10):
and went to Alabama, then came back out here to
Oregon State. So something's calling me back and saying I
belong here in the p city of Northwest.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Well, Coach is great to talk to you again, as Dick.
Congratulations you're a high energy guy.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
We know that.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Do you have to be a little more chill when
you're the CEO of a program or can you be
just as energetic, just as crazy as you were when
you're a position coaching coordinator.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Well, you know what, It's funny, you guys always see
me that way in terms of when I'm out on
the field of play and then when I get on
some of these calls. But in my normal life, I'm
pretty calm and cool and collected and approach every obstacle
very methodically and ensure that I am very thoughtful in
(22:53):
how I do things in my life and my normal
life with my family, with our administration and so on.
But when you hit that grass, I mean, it's either
in you or it's not in the I mean, I
mean that's just how that is. Once you touch that grass,
either it's in you or it's not in you. You know.
I talked to one of my mentors, Jeff Broma day,
he said, could jeffer you or the master at being
(23:16):
having the most energy? You know? And guess what, you
better have somebody under stop to bring that kind of
energy every day when I'm gonna bring it to Okay,
I'm gonna bring that energy every day to our guys
because energy just tells them to have confidence. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Well, JaMarcus Shepherd's with US former Husky wide receivers coach
who is now the head coach at Oregon State University,
and tell me if I'm wrong, but you're not going
to be calling plays down there?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
No? I will not be calling plays. I have hired
an offensive coordinator and he's gonna call the plays for
this upcoming season. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Mitch Dalen is that his name?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I cannot confirm or deny that, but he should be
being released here shortly.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Okay, can you confirm or deny that Lance Gidry is
going to be your defensive coordinator from Western Kentucky days?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I cannot confirm with you that.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Well done, he's shart man. All right, Well, then let
me ask you what you haven't changed it all? By
the way, let me ask you a question that you
can answer, right, because this is a different deal now
with Oregon State. The PAC twelve is getting rebuilt, a
bunch of new teams are showing up, obviously. But you
gotta have money, man, you gotta have money to pay players.
I mean five years ago we would have been arrested
(24:28):
talking like that, right, But it's a different day and
age now in college football. So tell me what you
need to do and what you need to get done
down there to compete in the nil era in Corvallis.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Man, You know what, I think, it really starts with relationships.
I mean, this NIO era is still going to be
about relationships. It's going to be relationships with our donors.
You know, you have to have great relationships with them,
and genuine great relationships with them. So that's going to
aid in that process. But I think more importantly having
(25:01):
great relationships with, you know, the young men across the
country that you're going to be recruiting. And that's what
My whole career has been built on. Relationships with people,
and in some cases not all. I think when you
have a great relationship, you're able to get discounts, you know,
and people want to come play for you because guess what, Hey,
(25:23):
I want to play for him because he's about the
right things. You know, he is truly about my degree.
He really is truly about, you know, making sure that
I become a great man. Now, I didn't say we're
gonna get him for free, but you'll have a chance
to get some of these guys at discounts. I look
across the country and when I was at my previous place,
guess what, our relationships they wrung true and we even
(25:46):
were able to access some discounts on guys because we
had great relationships at Alabama. And so I think that's
going to be more important than ever hear in this
new PAC twelve.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Was it difficult coach to convince Oregon State to let
you coach at Alabama through the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
You know what, you know, those conversations weren't difficult. We
we had some uh you know, of course Alabama wanted
me to coach there, and and and and organ stations
wants me to be here, and so you know, we
we've kind of come to some conclusions on all that stuff,
and uh, hopefully we'll finalize all that here shortly.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I got you, well, uh, let's talk about the future
of your team. What is this team gonna look like
next year? How much work do you think really needs
to be done with this roster before you hit the
field in September against Houston.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
You know, I feel like we have some really good
pieces on the roster right now. When I'm going through
the film looking through our our players, especially on the
defensive side of the ball, I feel like we we
we got some guys who really can play at a
high level. It's just you know, some of them were
banged up, you know, had some injuries on the on
the team, and so it prevented them from really show case,
(27:00):
you know, the ability of the defense. And then on
offensive side of the ball, I think we got some
skill position players that are gonna actually be able to
be really good players. For US. Okay, we got to
really up really the competition on this football team. We
got to push the competition level so everybody in the
building had no one should walk around here think that
(27:23):
they've completely solidified a starting position at any small team.
Everybody should have a mindset that they want to compete. Okay,
that's their job as players. It is to really go
out there, grind every day a right, refine what we
tell them to refine, and then compete, all right, And
our job is really to teach them, critique them, and
(27:44):
then we're going to demand that they do it even better.
So we're gonna have a football team that's gonna be
tough because I'm a tough guy and I want to
have our football team tough.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Well, JaMarcus Sheppard with US again, former uwide receivers coach,
now the head coach at Oregon State. So you mentioned
Jeff Brown, you work with Kaitlin de Moore right obviously
at two Mike Leachs for a year at Wazoo in
twenty sixteen. What what did you take from those guys, Like,
I'm I'm really curious what you took from those guys
that you will bring with you to Oregon State this year.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
You know, a lot of how we're gonna run the
program will be based on a lot of things that
I learned from Kaitlin de Boor and just having through
maxims and things that we really carry over and over
and over again and continue to communicate those things to
our players. And when we talk about vision and goals
of the football team, it's really going to be carried
(28:36):
over from him. But then, you know, coach Coach Brohm
just on a level of toughness to how he coached
you know, he even coached a quarterback tough you know,
And so that piece of it, I'm going to pull
that from from what he did as a as a
coach and bring that here to Oregon State University. And
then when you talk about Mike Leach, he was really
(28:58):
thoughtful about the things that he did. Now, sometimes a
little bit too thoughtful, you know, because a fleet had
an opinion on everything, But he was thoughtful about how
he was making decisions about how he was going to
make this offense flow and how the defense was going
to flow, and even with the special teams. So just
(29:18):
being mindful of all of this, so then that way
we can put our guys in the best position to
be successful.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Well, JaMarcus, is great to have you back on the
show man, Best of luck down there. I'm looking at
your future football schedule here. Looks like next year is
pretty much taken care of. But why do you work
on getting the Huskies on the Oregon State non conference
schedule so we can come down there and beat your
hand up?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Hey, softee, don't forget Okay, I don't believe in Freddie
Soft talking to.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Me, Freddie Soft. That's right, love Freddy. Hey, are you
going to bring Are you bringing Freddy Soft to Corvalis?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
We're always trying to get rid of them. Okay, we're
always trying to get rid of Freddie Soft. I love it.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Hey, go be you. Congratulations man, I'm fired up for you.
Best of luck and we'll talk sooner, right, Thanks.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Man, thank you, thank you, Salty you got it.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Man, JaMarcus Sheppard with us on the radio show The
New Coach in Oregon State. I don't know, I'm a
Beaver fan. I'm pretty fired up for this guy. Man,
honestly outside the box, a little bit energetic guy, but
brings a lot of enthusiasm. Man, So good for them.
We're going to break a little text themodials and then
Kevin Harlan going to join at five on ninety three
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