October 2, 2025 • 15 mins
Rick Neuheisel of CBS Sports joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to talk about the Huskies loss to Ohio State, what they showed in the game, Maryland coming up ahead, Big Ten coaching complaining about travel, UCLA, and Oregon’s win over Penn State.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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We'll get Rick Newheidel's Taco Time pick of the week
in a matter of minutes. And I think this man
is massively overdue for a win. I would just throw
the mortgage, the bar, mitzvah fund everything on whatever pick
Rick new Heidel gives you in about thirteen minutes from now.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We drop one with USC in Illinois a week ago.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
But I am confident that this is the week's right
we get a big fat W.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
So stay tuned for that.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Coach new Hiel win with us now on the radio program, Rick,
how are you man?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I am fine, but I hate this the doldrums. I'm
in with my picks. One in five is not good enough.
We've got to turn this thing around, all right, worry
about it?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
You can't have a comeback unless you're starting to look at.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
What's the song say? Don't call it a comeback? That's right, right,
that's right, don't call it a comeback.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Hey, we got we got a lot of stuff to
talk about, man. But before we get to all that, uh,
let's talk about Jerry. Let's talk about the brand new
play caller for the uc LA Bruins.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And you know him.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Very very well. God, remember Jerry running around? He must
have been like what two or three years old when
you were here taking you never the rose ball and
I was calling plays at your alma mater.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
He is?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
He was seven when we came to Seattle, and uh, yeah,
he's got a chance here. Now this is literally being
thrown into the lions. Then the Nitney Lions come to down.
They're a twenty five point underdog. And he got the
job after they already had practice on Tuesday. So what
can be done in that amount of time.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
We'll wait and see. But he's excited.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
This is his all modern this is always what he
wanted to do. So fingers crossed that it goes well.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
No question about it, and they'll probably be a lot
of Penn State fans as their Worldhouse state fans.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
In our state.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
And I was talking to Petros yesterday and he was saying,
UCLA really needs to have it on campus facility. Is
that something that is even remotely possible in the near future?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
You know, it's an interesting question. In nineteen in the sixties,
they wanted to have it, and the students voted it down.
And then in the nineteen eighty when I was a
sophomore on campus, the students voted yes, but the chancellor
at the time decided that since he had just continued
a couple of majors, some of his friends in academias
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that if you've built a new stadium on campus and
you've gotten rid of some academic major, you can forget
getting another opportunity anywhere else, And so he turned it down.
So there are some complications with the neighbors and so forth,
but nothing happens if you don't try. And I totally
agree with the sentiments that we have to try to
get a stadium closer to camp.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I mean, it's just kind of an obvious thing now
at this point. Right back in the day, we had
the debate. Now there doesn't seem to be any debate.
And Rick, I gotta be honest with you, man. Look,
I don't want to spend the entire segment talking about UCLA.
For as much as you love the Bruins, we got
bigger fish to fry here in Seattle. But I just
I'm I'm I'm fearful. I'm fearful, fearful for your alma mater.
I think of all the teams and the Big ten
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right now, especially the ones that moved into the conference,
I'm most concerned about your team the most.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I don't think there's any question they've got lousy leadership.
And you know, listen, I'm not trying to point fingers
at anybody.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Firing football coaches.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
It that's your answer. You've got to look inside yourself
and say, look, what are we doing wrong? Where it's
an underfinanced operation. When Deanton Lynn is your defensive coordinator
and he takes your team from eightieth to elevenation defensively,
and USC twelve miles away in the same conference can
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pay him a million dollars more than you can. There's
a problem. There's an absolute problem. You were just telling
your fan base we don't want to compete, and that's
exactly what happened.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Rick.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
There are two separate headlines in the same paper on
the same day about the same game. One said, you
dub whiffs against Ohio State. The other one said, you
dub proves they belong against Ohio State. Which side of
the which side of the ledger do you fall on?
After that game that you watched so closely from the
CBS studio.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Oh I think you dub proved that they belong. There
are a few players short of the depth that Ohio
State does. It's what I thought would be the problem
on the defensive front. And I give Ryan Day, the
head coach of OHAS stated a lot of credit. You know,
most guys who come in get head coaching jobs. As
a offensive coordinator want to have flamboyant offenses. He saw
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what he thought was a very flamboyant offense with Washington,
and so Matt Patricia took away Demond Williams legs and
he said, all play complimentary football on offense by running
the ball and extinguishing the clock. Washington only had fifty
three plays in that game.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I mean you take when you.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Have fifty three plays that in the old days used
to be half of a game. Now that was the
entirety of the game. And it was a great job
of extinguishing the Washington offense in Demand's legs. But Washington
a couple of recruits away in that defensive front. I
think will prove that they're very, very close.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah. Well, people keep asking, like, you know, how do
you feel off that game? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Ask me after Maryland, Ask me after they play Rutgers,
Ask me after they played Michigan. I mean, right, if
they come out and struggle against those teams, then you
can go back and say the first three games of
the year, we're kind of a mirage because they played nobody.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
But this Maryland football team.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
That we're gonna see Saturday, Rick, I don't think they've
played anybody either. I mean, they got what Towson State,
Wisconsin's not very good NIU for God's sake. So what
is this four and old Maryland football team in Malak,
Washington all about.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Well, it's a great question, and I think this will
be there by far their sternest test. But I'm gonna
tell you right now, regardless of the outcome of the game,
you're gonna look at Malik Washington and feel like he's
going to be a star. He's got that rare slag
to him that it looks like it's easy now or
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is he gonna make some freshman mistakes? Washington fans hope so.
But the bottom line is he like kind of like
Cam Word when he got into that Miami uniform, just
look like he belonged. This guy's pretty darn good, and
so dogs better be wary.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
He's eighteen and he's six five two thirty.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, well, right on, and he walks around like he
knows it.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Wow, I want to talk about our quarterback, who's awesome,
but not six five two thirty Damon Williams. I thought
was really neutered running the football on Saturday. Was that
more of the U Dubs doing and his doing or
more of what Matt Patricia was doing on the other
side of the ball.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
No, it was clearly Matt Patricia's plan. They did what
we call caging him rather than trying to sack him
and getting up the field in your brush lanes. They
basically kept him in the pocket. It's like the old
movie The Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, when Robert
Redford couldn't hit anything, and then he asked, can I move?
And all of a sudden he could hit everything right. Uh.
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Demon Williams was brilliant from the pocket teen of twenty
two for the game, but there was no place to
take off and run, and that was what Ohio State
and Matt Patricia were most concerned about because that opens
up so many other huge plays. They thought they could
keep most of the stuff in front of them. They
played it, as I mentioned, a complimentary game and kept
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them having to go the long field. Was it was
going to be hard to do that too many times
against the Ohio State defense without Williams's legs, and that
was a I think Patricia has come to the college
ranks as well as any NFL guy that I can
recall and acclimated quickly.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I mean, that's like we said, if the offense can
get it together, we can go back and say, well,
they played the best defense in the country. That's They're
going to do that to a lot of teams. So
I'm really curious to see how they bounced back. But
Rick new Heisel with us courtesy of Taco Time, and Rick,
you know, John Wilner wrote a story about this, about
the inequities and the Big Ten schedules, And I mean,
first of all, Washington's got games, this is one of
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them where the opponent is coming off a bye.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Michigan's got two for example.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
How much of this is a big fat finger welcome
to the Big Ten from the rest of the conference
to a team like Washington, honestly behind the scenes. And
then number two, I'm getting kind of tired of hearing
Lincoln Riley and Mick Cronin from the basketball side bitch
about this stuff. I'm kind of happy that Jed's not
complaining about it. How much would you be complaining about
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this publicly if you were still coaching in this league.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Well, as you point out, when you complain publicly, it
comes off as whining, right, But this is the kind
of stuff that needed to be discussed by athletic directors
to the conference office before these schedules ever see.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
The light of day.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I mean, how many times are you going to ask
us to play at nine o'clock on our body time?
Just like you're asking somebody who's traveling from the East
coast to come out and play a night game on
the West coast. I mean, if you're going to we
understand that there's going to be times when that may happen,
but it can't happen more than once. Just like you
can't play a team that's coming off a bye if
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you haven't more than once. Those are things that can
be put into the computer before you spit out a schedule.
I mean Alabama and Georgia played last week. They both
had a buy and to think that one of those
teams would not have a BUYE before they played each
other would have been heresy in the SEC. So there
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is a bias and it's got to get fixed. It's
just early in their time in the Big Ten, and
you know how much clout they have is probably still
subject to debate.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
What did the Penn State Oregon game outcome tell you
about both teams?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
That Oregon's for real, which I suspected. And I think
that Drew Aller is got a ways to go before
he's going to be the guy that can take Penn
State to a championship. I really like the kid interviewed
him in Las Vegas at the Big Ten Meeting Days.
Charming young man, but he's got to make more plays.
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And Andy Kotolniki kind of gave him a chance to
make more plays in the second half with his legs,
which I thought was a good move and it kind
of gave him some confidence. There was a good touchdown
pass that second half. But you can't throw that pick
at the end of the game if you're going to
be the championship quarterback. And right now, that's one of
the reasons James is four and twenty one against top
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ten opponents.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Right well, And that was what I was going to
ask you, because he's also one hundred and four and
forty three at Penn State in eleven years, when he's
got four New Year Six Bowl wins in the last
seven seasons. But a lot of Penn State fans want
him fired because of that four and twenty one.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Should he be fired?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
No, I mean you've gone to that many New Year's
Day games. You're doing something right, namely recruiting. They've got
to find a way to figure out what they do
best when the chips are on the line. They've got
Singleton and Allen, two really good backs, both thousand yard backs.
They should lean on them and maybe not put so
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much pressure on al Or. But they're still a really
good team and I think they'll make the College Football
Playoff if they finished ten and two. They're big challenge
being that game in Columbus.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
This private equity deal that came out yesterday that would
guarantee each Big Ten school a nine figure upfront payout.
Does this if this happens, does it expedite the march
to a super conference because I imagine the SEC would
try to follow suit, and then those two conferences are
just that much further ahead than everybody else.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I actually think it keeps intact because if they take
it individually, you got to imagine the secs and the
same kind of throws. But it would allow for Brett
Yormack and Jim Phillips to do it the same. Maybe
not to the tune of nine figures for each school,
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but if I keep saying the two of them should merge,
but it does keep the idea of that. You know
that the Big Ten floated because you're because Patiti has
kept it himself very mum on what he wants for
the College Football Playoff, other than he wants automatic qualifiers,
but that idea of twenty four teams in the college
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football Playoff was something that he floated. I think that's
tied to this as a way to pay back the
private money that would be coming in. It's intriguing, but
I think it keeps college football looking pretty much like
it looked, and I'm excited for that.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
All right, well let's get to it.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
You're talking Time Pick of the week, trying to get
off the schneid here big time. We've lost four in
a row on the air. We are one at five
and I'm gonna totally mix this up right now. Man,
I'm gonna go with the number six. You know what
the number six is. That's the Veggie soft Taco. I've
literally never had a Veggie Soft.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
You can't.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
You can't do that. I refused the year ago.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
No, no, no, desperate times, call for desperate measures. I'm
getting the number six, Reggie Soft Taco. Who do you
like for your Talk of Time pick of the week.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Let's go as felt as you are, SAFTI. I don't
think you need the veggie I understand it takes good
and it's all got all sorts of stuff, stuff going on.
All right, listen, we're changing things up. I'm gonna I'm
gonna take pitt This week, pitt is hosting Boston College. Yes,
Pat Nardoozy's a buddy of mine. A year ago when
Kyle McCord and the high flying Syracuse Orange came in
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as one of the top throwing teams in the ACC,
he picked them off five times. Right now, Boston College
is last in the ACC running the football. Their quarterback,
this lonergen kid is a really good player, but they're
throwing it all over the yard. Our Doozy's gonna have
a plan. I'm taking Pitt. I'll give the six and
a half. Take the Panthers at home.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Let's go rock and roll. We're on it baby, all right, man,
great stuff. Enjoy the weekend and we're talking a week coach,
appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
See you boys, take care of all right.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Rick new heislites Pittsburgh minus the six and a half
against Boston College this Saturday for his Taco tip pic
of the Week.
Your home for college football Saturdays is live with CBS
sports analyst Rick new Heisel, powered by Taco Time. Hungry
at Taco Time. It's easy to create exactly what you're craving,
and we wouldn't have it any other way. How do
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Taco Time Northwest Taco Time Time for something different now
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with Rick new Heisel, here's Softy and Dick.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
All right, big thanks for our friends at Taco Time.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
To find the nearest Taco Time restaurant near you, jump
on the web at Taco Time at w dot com.
We'll get Rick Newheidel's Taco Time pick of the week
in a matter of minutes. And I think this man
is massively overdue for a win. I would just throw
the mortgage, the bar, mitzvah fund everything on whatever pick
Rick new Heidel gives you in about thirteen minutes from now.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We drop one with USC in Illinois a week ago.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
But I am confident that this is the week's right
we get a big fat W.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
So stay tuned for that.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Coach new Hiel win with us now on the radio program, Rick,
how are you man?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I am fine, but I hate this the doldrums. I'm
in with my picks. One in five is not good enough.
We've got to turn this thing around, all right, worry
about it?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
You can't have a comeback unless you're starting to look at.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
What's the song say? Don't call it a comeback? That's right, right,
that's right, don't call it a comeback.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Hey, we got we got a lot of stuff to
talk about, man. But before we get to all that, uh,
let's talk about Jerry. Let's talk about the brand new
play caller for the uc LA Bruins.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And you know him.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Very very well. God, remember Jerry running around? He must
have been like what two or three years old when
you were here taking you never the rose ball and
I was calling plays at your alma mater.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
He is?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
He was seven when we came to Seattle, and uh, yeah,
he's got a chance here. Now this is literally being
thrown into the lions. Then the Nitney Lions come to down.
They're a twenty five point underdog. And he got the
job after they already had practice on Tuesday. So what
can be done in that amount of time.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
We'll wait and see. But he's excited.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
This is his all modern this is always what he
wanted to do. So fingers crossed that it goes well.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
No question about it, and they'll probably be a lot
of Penn State fans as their Worldhouse state fans.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
In our state.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
And I was talking to Petros yesterday and he was saying,
UCLA really needs to have it on campus facility. Is
that something that is even remotely possible in the near future?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
You know, it's an interesting question. In nineteen in the sixties,
they wanted to have it, and the students voted it down.
And then in the nineteen eighty when I was a
sophomore on campus, the students voted yes, but the chancellor
at the time decided that since he had just continued
a couple of majors, some of his friends in academias
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that if you've built a new stadium on campus and
you've gotten rid of some academic major, you can forget
getting another opportunity anywhere else, And so he turned it down.
So there are some complications with the neighbors and so forth,
but nothing happens if you don't try. And I totally
agree with the sentiments that we have to try to
get a stadium closer to camp.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I mean, it's just kind of an obvious thing now
at this point. Right back in the day, we had
the debate. Now there doesn't seem to be any debate.
And Rick, I gotta be honest with you, man. Look,
I don't want to spend the entire segment talking about UCLA.
For as much as you love the Bruins, we got
bigger fish to fry here in Seattle. But I just
I'm I'm I'm fearful. I'm fearful, fearful for your alma mater.
I think of all the teams and the Big ten
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right now, especially the ones that moved into the conference,
I'm most concerned about your team the most.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I don't think there's any question they've got lousy leadership.
And you know, listen, I'm not trying to point fingers
at anybody.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Firing football coaches.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
It that's your answer. You've got to look inside yourself
and say, look, what are we doing wrong? Where it's
an underfinanced operation. When Deanton Lynn is your defensive coordinator
and he takes your team from eightieth to elevenation defensively,
and USC twelve miles away in the same conference can
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pay him a million dollars more than you can. There's
a problem. There's an absolute problem. You were just telling
your fan base we don't want to compete, and that's
exactly what happened.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Rick.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
There are two separate headlines in the same paper on
the same day about the same game. One said, you
dub whiffs against Ohio State. The other one said, you
dub proves they belong against Ohio State. Which side of
the which side of the ledger do you fall on?
After that game that you watched so closely from the
CBS studio.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Oh I think you dub proved that they belong. There
are a few players short of the depth that Ohio
State does. It's what I thought would be the problem
on the defensive front. And I give Ryan Day, the
head coach of OHAS stated a lot of credit. You know,
most guys who come in get head coaching jobs. As
a offensive coordinator want to have flamboyant offenses. He saw
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what he thought was a very flamboyant offense with Washington,
and so Matt Patricia took away Demond Williams legs and
he said, all play complimentary football on offense by running
the ball and extinguishing the clock. Washington only had fifty
three plays in that game.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I mean you take when you.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Have fifty three plays that in the old days used
to be half of a game. Now that was the
entirety of the game. And it was a great job
of extinguishing the Washington offense in Demand's legs. But Washington
a couple of recruits away in that defensive front. I
think will prove that they're very, very close.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah. Well, people keep asking, like, you know, how do
you feel off that game? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Ask me after Maryland, Ask me after they play Rutgers,
Ask me after they played Michigan. I mean, right, if
they come out and struggle against those teams, then you
can go back and say the first three games of
the year, we're kind of a mirage because they played nobody.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
But this Maryland football team.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
That we're gonna see Saturday, Rick, I don't think they've
played anybody either. I mean, they got what Towson State,
Wisconsin's not very good NIU for God's sake. So what
is this four and old Maryland football team in Malak,
Washington all about.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Well, it's a great question, and I think this will
be there by far their sternest test. But I'm gonna
tell you right now, regardless of the outcome of the game,
you're gonna look at Malik Washington and feel like he's
going to be a star. He's got that rare slag
to him that it looks like it's easy now or
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is he gonna make some freshman mistakes? Washington fans hope so.
But the bottom line is he like kind of like
Cam Word when he got into that Miami uniform, just
look like he belonged. This guy's pretty darn good, and
so dogs better be wary.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
He's eighteen and he's six five two thirty.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, well, right on, and he walks around like he
knows it.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Wow, I want to talk about our quarterback, who's awesome,
but not six five two thirty Damon Williams. I thought
was really neutered running the football on Saturday. Was that
more of the U Dubs doing and his doing or
more of what Matt Patricia was doing on the other
side of the ball.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
No, it was clearly Matt Patricia's plan. They did what
we call caging him rather than trying to sack him
and getting up the field in your brush lanes. They
basically kept him in the pocket. It's like the old
movie The Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, when Robert
Redford couldn't hit anything, and then he asked, can I move?
And all of a sudden he could hit everything right. Uh.
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Demon Williams was brilliant from the pocket teen of twenty
two for the game, but there was no place to
take off and run, and that was what Ohio State
and Matt Patricia were most concerned about because that opens
up so many other huge plays. They thought they could
keep most of the stuff in front of them. They
played it, as I mentioned, a complimentary game and kept
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them having to go the long field. Was it was
going to be hard to do that too many times
against the Ohio State defense without Williams's legs, and that
was a I think Patricia has come to the college
ranks as well as any NFL guy that I can
recall and acclimated quickly.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I mean, that's like we said, if the offense can
get it together, we can go back and say, well,
they played the best defense in the country. That's They're
going to do that to a lot of teams. So
I'm really curious to see how they bounced back. But
Rick new Heisel with us courtesy of Taco Time, and Rick,
you know, John Wilner wrote a story about this, about
the inequities and the Big Ten schedules, And I mean,
first of all, Washington's got games, this is one of
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them where the opponent is coming off a bye.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Michigan's got two for example.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
How much of this is a big fat finger welcome
to the Big Ten from the rest of the conference
to a team like Washington, honestly behind the scenes. And
then number two, I'm getting kind of tired of hearing
Lincoln Riley and Mick Cronin from the basketball side bitch
about this stuff. I'm kind of happy that Jed's not
complaining about it. How much would you be complaining about
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this publicly if you were still coaching in this league.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Well, as you point out, when you complain publicly, it
comes off as whining, right, But this is the kind
of stuff that needed to be discussed by athletic directors
to the conference office before these schedules ever see.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
The light of day.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I mean, how many times are you going to ask
us to play at nine o'clock on our body time?
Just like you're asking somebody who's traveling from the East
coast to come out and play a night game on
the West coast. I mean, if you're going to we
understand that there's going to be times when that may happen,
but it can't happen more than once. Just like you
can't play a team that's coming off a bye if
(10:05):
you haven't more than once. Those are things that can
be put into the computer before you spit out a schedule.
I mean Alabama and Georgia played last week. They both
had a buy and to think that one of those
teams would not have a BUYE before they played each
other would have been heresy in the SEC. So there
(10:26):
is a bias and it's got to get fixed. It's
just early in their time in the Big Ten, and
you know how much clout they have is probably still
subject to debate.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
What did the Penn State Oregon game outcome tell you
about both teams?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
That Oregon's for real, which I suspected. And I think
that Drew Aller is got a ways to go before
he's going to be the guy that can take Penn
State to a championship. I really like the kid interviewed
him in Las Vegas at the Big Ten Meeting Days.
Charming young man, but he's got to make more plays.
(11:05):
And Andy Kotolniki kind of gave him a chance to
make more plays in the second half with his legs,
which I thought was a good move and it kind
of gave him some confidence. There was a good touchdown
pass that second half. But you can't throw that pick
at the end of the game if you're going to
be the championship quarterback. And right now, that's one of
the reasons James is four and twenty one against top
(11:26):
ten opponents.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Right well, And that was what I was going to
ask you, because he's also one hundred and four and
forty three at Penn State in eleven years, when he's
got four New Year Six Bowl wins in the last
seven seasons. But a lot of Penn State fans want
him fired because of that four and twenty one.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Should he be fired?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
No, I mean you've gone to that many New Year's
Day games. You're doing something right, namely recruiting. They've got
to find a way to figure out what they do
best when the chips are on the line. They've got
Singleton and Allen, two really good backs, both thousand yard backs.
They should lean on them and maybe not put so
(12:06):
much pressure on al Or. But they're still a really
good team and I think they'll make the College Football
Playoff if they finished ten and two. They're big challenge
being that game in Columbus.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
This private equity deal that came out yesterday that would
guarantee each Big Ten school a nine figure upfront payout.
Does this if this happens, does it expedite the march
to a super conference because I imagine the SEC would
try to follow suit, and then those two conferences are
just that much further ahead than everybody else.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I actually think it keeps intact because if they take
it individually, you got to imagine the secs and the
same kind of throws. But it would allow for Brett
Yormack and Jim Phillips to do it the same. Maybe
not to the tune of nine figures for each school,
(12:56):
but if I keep saying the two of them should merge,
but it does keep the idea of that. You know
that the Big Ten floated because you're because Patiti has
kept it himself very mum on what he wants for
the College Football Playoff, other than he wants automatic qualifiers,
but that idea of twenty four teams in the college
(13:18):
football Playoff was something that he floated. I think that's
tied to this as a way to pay back the
private money that would be coming in. It's intriguing, but
I think it keeps college football looking pretty much like
it looked, and I'm excited for that.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
All right, well let's get to it.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
You're talking Time Pick of the week, trying to get
off the schneid here big time. We've lost four in
a row on the air. We are one at five
and I'm gonna totally mix this up right now. Man,
I'm gonna go with the number six. You know what
the number six is. That's the Veggie soft Taco. I've
literally never had a Veggie Soft.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
You can't.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
You can't do that. I refused the year ago.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
No, no, no, desperate times, call for desperate measures. I'm
getting the number six, Reggie Soft Taco. Who do you
like for your Talk of Time pick of the week.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Let's go as felt as you are, SAFTI. I don't
think you need the veggie I understand it takes good
and it's all got all sorts of stuff, stuff going on.
All right, listen, we're changing things up. I'm gonna I'm
gonna take pitt This week, pitt is hosting Boston College. Yes,
Pat Nardoozy's a buddy of mine. A year ago when
Kyle McCord and the high flying Syracuse Orange came in
(14:26):
as one of the top throwing teams in the ACC,
he picked them off five times. Right now, Boston College
is last in the ACC running the football. Their quarterback,
this lonergen kid is a really good player, but they're
throwing it all over the yard. Our Doozy's gonna have
a plan. I'm taking Pitt. I'll give the six and
a half. Take the Panthers at home.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Let's go rock and roll. We're on it baby, all right, man,
great stuff. Enjoy the weekend and we're talking a week coach,
appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
See you boys, take care of all right.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Rick new heislites Pittsburgh minus the six and a half
against Boston College this Saturday for his Taco tip pic
of the Week.
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