11-6-25 Roundtable Show with Chad Brendel

Chad reacts to UC Football's big loss on the road against Utah and how the team may react during their bye week.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:21):
his lovely wife Phyllis are here. The way Fran was
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
I am. Mike Gleason is here. Good to see him.
Gregna Politano of Accent is here. So the gang is
all here and we are rocking and rolling. Let's talk
some UC football. Our next guest talks it and uh
writes it and covers it for Bearcat Journal dot com.
Bearcat's coming off a forty five fourteen beat down by Utah.
They have the weekend off before hosting Arizona week from Saturday.

(00:59):
Let's walk come in for bear Cat Journal. Chad Brendle,
How are you.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Good? Just getting ready to uh, you know, spend a
couple hours, uh pulling for the lemoinnes Dolphins and my
favorite new name in college basketball Tennessee Rainwater. Wow ah wow?

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, how about that? So you're not cooking? There's nothing
on the on the on the grill or on the
spit or something. Yeah, where were you You were doing
risk brisket nachos last week? How those turnout?

Speaker 3 (01:33):
I was doing nachos? It turned out amazing?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
They were great to be fair, as are good?

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Sorry, Chad, I had radio today, so I just did
Greek to me on the way home tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Oh there you go?

Speaker 3 (01:47):
All right? All right?

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Okay, So let's go back to Saturday night, forty five
fourteen at Utah on the on the on the shock scale.
How how maybe shockings over over hype. But how surprised
are you by the way it unfolded Saturday night?

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Not very surprised, if we're being honest. I mean, if
you would have told me that they missed a field
goal and they fumbled in the you know, inside the
twenty five yard line in the first quarter. Yep, I
would have told you they probably got beat pretty bad
like that. They played right into Utah's identity, which is
get a lead and then lean on you. And they

(02:30):
played great defense. They run the ball with six seven
offensive linemen like it's old schools smash mouth football. If
you give them the opportunity to get up ten, you're
in big, big trouble. And Cincinnati let him get up
ten quick, and they were in big, big trouble.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
The path ahead is as lopsided as.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
The score was.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
They still are in control of their big twelve deaths
to need to Dallas, are they not?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yes, if they went out, they're in Dallas now. It's
the toughest three game stretch of the season. But the
way things are lined up, they got one loss, Texas
Tech has one loss. BYU doesn't have a loss BYU,
and Texas Tech played this week, so either Texas Tech
has two or all three have won. Cincinnati plays BYU,

(03:25):
that would give BYU hypothetically their second loss if they
beat Texas Tech. So Cincinnati is in the driver's seat
for getting to the conference championship if they can win out.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
All right, So what's gonna be the key to these
three pivotal games coming up. Is there anything I mean,
striking the Bearcats just from my overall team aspect, weren't
able to do last week. What's the key the next
three weeks?

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Well, I mean, I think you'd agree with me. Rockets
pretty simple. They were on a seven game winning streak
because they took care of the football, They moved it
efficiently on offense, and they played great special teams and
the defense while they gave up a lot of yards,
kept teams out of the end zone. They played pretty
mistakes free football. If you can play mistake free football,

(04:18):
you're usually in a pretty good position to win a
football game. So you know, that's the big thing for
them is can they play clean and get back to
that because they were anything but they turned it over,
they had bad penalties, they played poorly on special teams like,
they did things that they have not done all season
that resulted in that loss to Utah. If they get

(04:40):
back to playing clean football, they're going to be in
good shape. If they're sloppy, they can lose all three
of these games because if you look at the metrics
just one for example, they're one spot ahead of Arizona
and sp plus and TCUs within like three spots of
them as well. BYU obviously is ahead of them because

(05:02):
they're undefeated and they're playing really well. So all three
of these games can be trouble. If they don't play well,
they're not talented enough to go out and you know
it's not you see in the American Athletic Conference where
they could go out and they could be a little
sloppy and it didn't matter because they were so much

(05:22):
more talented than everybody else. They were still probably gonna win.
That's not the case in this league. So they've got
to do a little soul searching during the bye and
get back to what got them here. And if they
do that, I feel good about it.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
A couple of former Bearcats reunited now in Indianapolis with
the Colts. With the trade of Sauce Gardner to Indy,
He's reunited with Alec Pierce. Offensive player, defensive player. Obviously.
I love the story that was related this week about
the two and you watch them day in and day out.
Add some context to Sauce and Alec Pierce back in

(05:59):
the day.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
I think my favorite guys, so we had it's the
start of the twenty one Seeds twenty twenty one season,
and we are out at Camphire Ground and Sauce was
obviously at that point, like it was pretty clear he
was all world and Alec was good, but he had
been hurt a little bit, had missed some time throughout

(06:22):
his career, like he was trying to take that jump
as well. And they do something called the opener uh
when Luke Tika was here, which they'd have like a
competition at the start of every practice. And at the
start of the first practice out of Camphire Ground, they
went one on one Alec Pierce against Sauce Gardner and

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des Ritter threw a fade ball into the end zone
that started at like the three yard line, and ap
went up and made a big time play on the
ball right on Sauce. And I think at that point
like Alex kind of stamped himself as I'm gonna be

(07:07):
like this guy is going to make me great. And
every day they'd walk up first play of practice, every day,
they'd line up across from each other, they'd shake hands,
they'd nod heads, and then they just went at it
for two hours every day and it was maybe the
most fun thing I've done covering. You see, was watching

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those two every day, and it's why I love watching
practice like I'm a nerd about that stuff. I love
watching stuff like that where those two guys were just
every day making each other better.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
That's fantastic, really cool love that. I gotta ask you
about hoops. Give me a takeaway or an observation from
the opening night win.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Bobba Miller made me look smart, so I thank him.
I've been saying throughout the off season, and Cincinnati is
too reach their ceiling this year. It has to be
with Bob A. Miller playing like he did on sound
on Monday. Eighteen points, ten rebounds. Can can get the
ball and go off the rim, push tempo, he can

(08:15):
shoot it, he can back down smaller guys and score
over him. He can pass, knows how to play offense.
I can't remember the last time Cincinnati had a guy
like him at six foot eleven seven foot that was
that skilled. And if he can continue where he's at
and continue that that upward trajectory, this can be a

(08:37):
really good team.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
You've got it all covered at Bearcat journal dot com.
Layout what listeners, viewers, followers, readers will.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Find got a lot of great stuff right now. We've
obviously still been going strong through the bye week. We'll
have the aftermath tomorrow night after the UC game. Kegan
nickoson working on a great story on the UC recruiting department.
I think I mentioned this stat to you guys last
week or a week before. They took twenty two transfers

(09:10):
in the transfer portal this cycle for this team. Eighteen
of them are impacting this team. Wow. The hit rate
has been incredible with Jack Griffith and Zach Grant and
that group. So that's coming up soon and all your.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Coverage excellent as always. Thank you for making time, sir.
We'll talk next week.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Appreciate you, gentlemen. Talk soon,