December 18, 2025 • 9 mins
Chad discusses UC's upcoming Liberty Bowl matchup against Navy and transfer portal movement among the roster.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:52):
Anyway, we go our number two unfolding from Long Next
Lance pc Allister, Rocky Boyman. We take it till eight tonight.
The West Miller Show will follow it that point. Let's
talk some UC football, squeeze in some basketball as well.
Next up the Liberty Bowl versus Navy in Memphis on Friday,
January second. For more on that and all things U
see athletics is welcome in from Bearcat Journal dot com.
(01:15):
Chad Barndel, how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, I missed the mark. I'm letting my dogs out
by I think thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Oh oh mess ouch.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It was not raining when I walked in, because I
was coming home from filling in from O and I
waited thirty seconds and I went to let them out,
and it's now pouring down rain here and independence talking.
So the dogs took one step outside, turned around, looked
at me and said, no, thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yes, let's start with as much as we've talked about
departures in the portal, let's talk about the news of
significance today, the retention of three offensive linemen who are
going to run it back and good news for the Bearcats.
Detail who's returning and how significant that is.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, it's probably going to be the entire left side
of your line. You're gonna have Joe Cotton, who was
one of the highest ranked transfers in the portal, had
a very good first year at Cincinnati. He's coming back.
Evan Tengestahl, who has in many regards, been named in
(02:25):
All American second third team All American for his first
season as a starter at left guard, and then Taran TiO,
who played right guard this year. My anticipation is that
Tyo will move to center next year. So left guard,
left tackle, and center coming back for next year. That
(02:47):
certainly raises your floor. If you're looking at you, what
is this team? What is the next iteration of Scott
Saderfield football look like? At Cincinnati? Having those three guys back, boy,
you can you can sell a portal quarterback on that
big time. Hey, you're going to be protected. You can
(03:09):
sell running backs in the portal on it. You can
sell running back that you have on your roster that
you'd like to keep. Hey, you know we've got the
line coming back. So it's a big first step in
stabilizing the roster for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Speaking of quarterback, the Bearcats couldn't find a measly four
million dollars apparently to keep bring swersby. So that means,
I guess Lichtenberg and more are the options. Who do
you think starts this bowl game? And then what do
you think happens? Are either of those two guys or
more in the mix for next season?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well, Brady Lichtenberg actually his freshman year at UC was
nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
He's been there a little while.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yes, so this is this is it for Lickti. It's
last his last who rah. I do anticipate that he
will start in the bowl game.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Sam Oz Jones is a red shirt freshman. He will
play at some point in time in Memphis on on
the third or on the second, excuse me, and then
I think he will he'll be around to compete for
the job. They're gonna They've got Brooks Goodman coming in
(04:23):
as a freshman who they really like a lot, but
true freshman, You're gonna have to hit the portal for
one starting level quarterback, and you might have to hit
the portal for potentially a backup guy just to get
that room back up to size, because that's you know,
you need four five quarterbacks in that room, and right
(04:46):
now it's gonna be Sam Oz Jones and a freshman.
So gonna have to uh to bulk up that room
in the portal for sure. And by the way, Rock
four million is a very low ball number on what
Brandon story is going to get. I've heard five north
(05:06):
of five at times.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Wowa a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I realize Navy doesn't exactly sling it around the field.
I think they average fourteen passes a game, but that
the current status of the UC secondary appears rather sparse,
does it not.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I think Hegan is suiting up tomorrow as tasty. It's
going to be ugly, but I'm gonna be there, you know,
at eleven o'clock to watch. Yeah, they're they're gonna be relying,
and honestly, I don't hate it because you're gonna need
a lot of these freshmen and red shirt freshmen to
(05:48):
show growth. And you're gonna at least through these bull practices.
And even though Navy doesn't throw the ball a toime,
they throw it more than a standard triple option team
this year. Usually triple option teams will throw four times, yeah,
in a game, and they throw fourteen. So I mean,
break out the air raid. But you're gonna need to
(06:10):
see what you've got in some of these guys and
to see if you can throw them in there, put
their feet to the fire and see if they can
hold their own. Because you know, if we're at that
point right, a lot of people are worried. We haven't
seen anything from the high school guys. It's a developmental program.
You don't see a lot of freshmen and red shirt
(06:31):
freshmen on the field. But now these guys are getting
into the second third year in the program, You're gonna
need to find out what you got. If the guys
that you know really the only one I think they
really would have liked to keep with Christian Harrison. I'm
sure they would have been okay if Teakwan Sanks would
have stayed around. But I don't think they were going
to overpay at that spot because you already have Antoine
(06:54):
Pete there. So let's find out what we got. Let's
see throw these guys' feet to the fire and see
how they hold up against you know, a Navy team
that's gonna be physical, get down in the box, make
some tackles. Boys.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Gotta ask you a basketball question. Gisel James has clearly
been through a lot. He had a nice moment last night.
I was happy for him last night. He was smiling
last night. What give me a big picture observation of
this situation and what do you make of it?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Is it what I would have done bringing him back
this early from the situation he went through. No, probably not.
Is it what I would have done if I had
a multi million dollar a year job on the line
and had my leading scorer from a year ago at practice,
but not on the floor for games. Yeah. Probably, And
that's not to excuse Wes Miller. That's just reality of
(07:49):
the situation. There's not a whole lot of multimillion dollars
a year jobs out there. If you've got one of them,
I imagine you're you're gonna do whatever you can to
try to keep it. That's where kind of this falls
for me. He thought gizl could help them, and there's
other things. Obviously. You could see his teammates are really
happy to have Jizzle back yesterday, laughing, smiling on the bench,
(08:11):
having a good time, enjoying him coming back and playing well.
The injuries are mounting up. Like, I get some of
the stuff that WEX talked about in the post game,
but for me, let's be honest here, they need wins.
They were six and four yeah, times running out and
there is no next year if they don't get this
thing figured out. So putting Jil James back on the floor,
(08:33):
I get it from a coaching standpoint. Just want to
make sure it ends up being the right thing by
the kid. Yes, and at least the early returns are good,
good like.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Going on a portal, the Bowl game, basketball. You are
all over at Bearcat Journal dot com. Give listeners a
taste of things they will find.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Everything. A tracker who's going in the portal, a tracker
of of who they are potentially looking at coming.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Out of the portal.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
We're tracking coaching changes and staff changes on the football side.
We're tracking who's available and who's not for each individual
basketball game. At this point is there is a lot
going on and the Bearcat Journal team has you covered
for all things Bearcats and what has been as busy
(09:27):
in November and December as I can ever remember. Sands
a coaching change.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
No better time to turn to Bearcat Journal dot com.
And that's why we love having you on.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Thank you, sir, appreciate you guys. You all have a
great Christmas. I don't know what the plan is for
next week, but let me know.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
We will let you know. Thanks sir. There you go,
Chad Brendle
This is the Cincinnati Tax Resolution powered by Tope Sheldon
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Power Equipment Dealer Skyline Chile feeling good. It's Skyline time.
R and L Carriers. Visit RLC dot com and make
(00:21):
R and L Carriers your global transportation provider, your tri
state Chevy Dealers, Chevrolet the number one selling brand in
Cincinnati for the past nine years. Chevrolet Together, Let's drive
Postman Law Injured call eight four four Postman Others Promise,
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(00:43):
Sheldon five one three five one three, t oph On
seven hundred WLW the home of the best Bengals coverage.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Anyway, we go our number two unfolding from Long Next
Lance pc Allister, Rocky Boyman. We take it till eight tonight.
The West Miller Show will follow it that point. Let's
talk some UC football, squeeze in some basketball as well.
Next up the Liberty Bowl versus Navy in Memphis on Friday,
January second. For more on that and all things U
see athletics is welcome in from Bearcat Journal dot com.
(01:15):
Chad Barndel, how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, I missed the mark. I'm letting my dogs out
by I think thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Oh oh mess ouch.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It was not raining when I walked in, because I
was coming home from filling in from O and I
waited thirty seconds and I went to let them out,
and it's now pouring down rain here and independence talking.
So the dogs took one step outside, turned around, looked
at me and said, no, thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yes, let's start with as much as we've talked about
departures in the portal, let's talk about the news of
significance today, the retention of three offensive linemen who are
going to run it back and good news for the Bearcats.
Detail who's returning and how significant that is.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, it's probably going to be the entire left side
of your line. You're gonna have Joe Cotton, who was
one of the highest ranked transfers in the portal, had
a very good first year at Cincinnati. He's coming back.
Evan Tengestahl, who has in many regards, been named in
(02:25):
All American second third team All American for his first
season as a starter at left guard, and then Taran TiO,
who played right guard this year. My anticipation is that
Tyo will move to center next year. So left guard,
left tackle, and center coming back for next year. That
(02:47):
certainly raises your floor. If you're looking at you, what
is this team? What is the next iteration of Scott
Saderfield football look like? At Cincinnati? Having those three guys back, boy,
you can you can sell a portal quarterback on that
big time. Hey, you're going to be protected. You can
(03:09):
sell running backs in the portal on it. You can
sell running back that you have on your roster that
you'd like to keep. Hey, you know we've got the
line coming back. So it's a big first step in
stabilizing the roster for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Speaking of quarterback, the Bearcats couldn't find a measly four
million dollars apparently to keep bring swersby. So that means,
I guess Lichtenberg and more are the options. Who do
you think starts this bowl game? And then what do
you think happens? Are either of those two guys or
more in the mix for next season?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well, Brady Lichtenberg actually his freshman year at UC was
nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
He's been there a little while.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yes, so this is this is it for Lickti. It's
last his last who rah. I do anticipate that he
will start in the bowl game.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Sam Oz Jones is a red shirt freshman. He will
play at some point in time in Memphis on on
the third or on the second, excuse me, and then
I think he will he'll be around to compete for
the job. They're gonna They've got Brooks Goodman coming in
(04:23):
as a freshman who they really like a lot, but
true freshman, You're gonna have to hit the portal for
one starting level quarterback, and you might have to hit
the portal for potentially a backup guy just to get
that room back up to size, because that's you know,
you need four five quarterbacks in that room, and right
(04:46):
now it's gonna be Sam Oz Jones and a freshman.
So gonna have to uh to bulk up that room
in the portal for sure. And by the way, Rock
four million is a very low ball number on what
Brandon story is going to get. I've heard five north
(05:06):
of five at times.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Wowa a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I realize Navy doesn't exactly sling it around the field.
I think they average fourteen passes a game, but that
the current status of the UC secondary appears rather sparse,
does it not.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I think Hegan is suiting up tomorrow as tasty. It's
going to be ugly, but I'm gonna be there, you know,
at eleven o'clock to watch. Yeah, they're they're gonna be relying,
and honestly, I don't hate it because you're gonna need
a lot of these freshmen and red shirt freshmen to
(05:48):
show growth. And you're gonna at least through these bull practices.
And even though Navy doesn't throw the ball a toime,
they throw it more than a standard triple option team
this year. Usually triple option teams will throw four times, yeah,
in a game, and they throw fourteen. So I mean,
break out the air raid. But you're gonna need to
(06:10):
see what you've got in some of these guys and
to see if you can throw them in there, put
their feet to the fire and see if they can
hold their own. Because you know, if we're at that
point right, a lot of people are worried. We haven't
seen anything from the high school guys. It's a developmental program.
You don't see a lot of freshmen and red shirt
(06:31):
freshmen on the field. But now these guys are getting
into the second third year in the program, You're gonna
need to find out what you got. If the guys
that you know really the only one I think they
really would have liked to keep with Christian Harrison. I'm
sure they would have been okay if Teakwan Sanks would
have stayed around. But I don't think they were going
to overpay at that spot because you already have Antoine
(06:54):
Pete there. So let's find out what we got. Let's
see throw these guys' feet to the fire and see
how they hold up against you know, a Navy team
that's gonna be physical, get down in the box, make
some tackles. Boys.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Gotta ask you a basketball question. Gisel James has clearly
been through a lot. He had a nice moment last night.
I was happy for him last night. He was smiling
last night. What give me a big picture observation of
this situation and what do you make of it?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Is it what I would have done bringing him back
this early from the situation he went through. No, probably not.
Is it what I would have done if I had
a multi million dollar a year job on the line
and had my leading scorer from a year ago at practice,
but not on the floor for games. Yeah. Probably, And
that's not to excuse Wes Miller. That's just reality of
(07:49):
the situation. There's not a whole lot of multimillion dollars
a year jobs out there. If you've got one of them,
I imagine you're you're gonna do whatever you can to
try to keep it. That's where kind of this falls
for me. He thought gizl could help them, and there's
other things. Obviously. You could see his teammates are really
happy to have Jizzle back yesterday, laughing, smiling on the bench,
(08:11):
having a good time, enjoying him coming back and playing well.
The injuries are mounting up. Like, I get some of
the stuff that WEX talked about in the post game,
but for me, let's be honest here, they need wins.
They were six and four yeah, times running out and
there is no next year if they don't get this
thing figured out. So putting Jil James back on the floor,
(08:33):
I get it from a coaching standpoint. Just want to
make sure it ends up being the right thing by
the kid. Yes, and at least the early returns are good,
good like.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Going on a portal, the Bowl game, basketball. You are
all over at Bearcat Journal dot com. Give listeners a
taste of things they will find.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Everything. A tracker who's going in the portal, a tracker
of of who they are potentially looking at coming.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Out of the portal.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
We're tracking coaching changes and staff changes on the football side.
We're tracking who's available and who's not for each individual
basketball game. At this point is there is a lot
going on and the Bearcat Journal team has you covered
for all things Bearcats and what has been as busy
(09:27):
in November and December as I can ever remember. Sands
a coaching change.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
No better time to turn to Bearcat Journal dot com.
And that's why we love having you on.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Thank you, sir, appreciate you guys. You all have a
great Christmas. I don't know what the plan is for
next week, but let me know.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
We will let you know. Thanks sir. There you go,
Chad Brendle
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