It leads the country in PFF in a lot of categories as a passer, although it's limited attempts right 17 18 a game but that's right where you want to be in rich rod's offense right

100 percent um you know that the question coming in and what we talked about the first time was the offensive line because in rich rod's system you know obviously the quarterback run game is big the quick game is big it's hard to set up a quick game if you can't run the ball you can try and supplement a lack of a run game with a quick game but it's really hard to be unpredictable out of certain formations when you cannot run the ball.

But that, I think, has been the strength of this West Virginia team, and the defense has played better than I thought.

And Zach's going to have to feel out what his guys can do.

It's the first time with this group, and you don't know what they can do until you try it.

So the good news is you're trying it and finding what you do best and what you really don't need to do that much while winning.

That's the goal.

Vandy minus the one play, right?

But what do you think? Alabama currently has in Keelan Russell and beyond as their starter for the foreseeable future.

Future star.

He's a star.

He's got all the, and I know Alabama fans have heard this a million times.

He's got all the ability in the world.

God gave him so much talent, but I think the thing that stands out to me again is the poise.

There's a lot of guys that are talented.

But was that a shot at Auburn? And what do you think about Golish in Q1 so far?

understand

why Ole Miss fans feel that way, and they should.

But then on the other side, You know, nothing gets guys closer together, too, than going on the road in a hostile environment.

I loved playing on the road more than at home.

I always did that.

I want you to boo me.

I want you to cuss me.

Right.

I- was this more about UNC or more about TCU's ineptitude?

Well, you know, I, I...

Doug, I wanna give UNC credit i- including the pass rush.

I thought the pass rush was nasty and, and again, they did win the game.

But, uh, TCU to me, uh, uh, I was shocked.

Uh, you bring in Jayden Craig.

Sonny Dykes said all this stuff about Josh Hoover turn- turning the ball over too much.

Like, what do we do with this team here?

Mm-hmm

... gonna come in second.

And listen, the people that are like, "Oh, well, Miami, they never win the ACC, so it's never gonna happen," that's just not true.

I- if that was the case, nothing would ever change.

Indiana would still be terrible.

Alabama would still be bringing in all the good players and monopolizing the sport.

It's changed.

Mm.

Yeah

... of the conference, winning it, making the playoff, you know, pushing Texas to the brink, even without Jordan Tyson.

I, I look around that league and it just feels like there's, you know, r- really just two good-looking girls at the bar.

That's it.

Everybody else just kinda walking around.

They're normal with Texas Tech and BYU.

But, but kinda the bigger picture that you alluded to, I think that's the biggest point, and that's why if you're Brett Yormark in the Big 12...

Mm-hmm.

yeah yeah shameful

yeah i don't know who that guy is but i agree 100 with what he was saying he sounds spot on well my point is my point is and and you know i think it's obvious some some others don't and it was a cumulative top 25 right so we had 11 different people at on three put it together spits out you know you're gonna have okay it's gonna kind of be all over the place but when i look at miami The I look offensively and I know there are some losses at offensive line, but I mean, Jackson Cantwell's that thing Matt Damon saw in the cave on that new Odyssey movie.

I mean, he's he's going to be fine.

I will always trust a Mario Cristobal offensive line like I will always trust Lane Kiffin to develop a quarterback like I will always trust.

Brent Venables to have a really good defense that he puts out there.

It's just one of those things that happens every year.

So they may have lost some guys, but the development's there.

do you worry about that? The physicality of those practices every year or the wear and tear or no? Is it just, well, look,

Shouldn't we have some sort of a balanced algorithm of human element and maybe some sort of objective AI algorithm that determines it so that they're equally weighted?

Can I just tell you what we should do? Can I just say just quickly and I'll make it, I'll make it brief.

This is how we fix it.

All right.

You don't have to be, you know, the guy from the doctor from back to the future to figure this out.

To me, you have the subjective and the objective.

The objective is the formula.

Do you see the Big 12 making any sort of impact in the college football playoff this year? Who's your favorite to win it all?

Yeah

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if that is above average, Alabama has a chance to do something special, not only this year, but moving forward at least one more to two more years with whoever that quarterback might be.

If one of those two things does not work out, and the odds say that one of those two things will not work out, higher odds than both of them not working out or both of them working out, um, I, I, that's why I say the floor I feel like is lower because if one of those is, does not work out, and this is why Ty Simpson was such an anomaly.

Like, and he was older, right? He had bided his time.

What he did with no run game last year, and y'all know this, I know this, they had no run game.

It just don't happen, right? How many times can you rely on that to happen in a row? But I'll go back to what I said.

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Wow.

And you've had some major stuff.

You got three kids too.

That's, uh, that's pretty impressive.

But all right, let's put the first question up.

Here we go.

Is Sam Levitt the most over-hyped quarterback in the country this season? He was obviously good at Arizona State, but coming off that foot injury, it feels like the buzz around him is based on playing for Lane Kiffin at LSU.

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Start with athletic director.

The fighting Craneasiums, or Craneasium Tech as we like to say it.

Athletic director, Greg Byrne.

Stadium, Jordan-Hare.

Head coach, Marcus Freeman.

Defensive coordinator, Will Muschamp.

Offensive coordinator, Charlie Weis Jr. Quarterback, Arch Manning.

And then at the last minute you pick Arch.

Like, who's given you guys the most, let's say, constructive feedback? Which fan bases have been the angriest?

The funny thing is, a lot of the anger we get is not from the team directly.

It's from their rival fans that are like, how could you have them there? Now, we caught some Indiana fans are like, how is Indiana not at least two or three? I've got to see now that the core is gone with Cignetti, how this new group, if that culture is really cemented, and it probably is.

But I'll be honest with you, Clemson fans were pissed that we ranked South Carolina.

And I know some people out there are probably like, why would you rank South Carolina? Well, South Carolina has been an offensive line away from being an 8-9 win team with Lenore Sellers and Nicholas Harbour and some of these other guys.

You feel like eventually they're going to figure it out, and this is really the last go-around for Lenore, who, you know, I haven't seen a guy run from that many guys in a uniform since the last time I watched Cops.

So, like, the offensive line has got to improve.

Talk to me about Mensah and the type of impact you think he can have at the U this year.

Yeah

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but you're born with that gift.

So seeing him live up to his potential, which his potential is top five pick in the NFL draft to me.

And it's not that Auburn has had bad defensive ends.

I mean, you know Faulk was able to move around and do some things.

I, I don't think he played elite, um, at the end of the day.

While you're here

... this singular event way outweighs the popularity of the sport. And I think becau- it's because of that dynamic that I just ar- articulated. What do you guys think?

I, uh, look, I agree with you 100%. Y- you know, I'm from football country. Steve, you know you're from football country. We all are. But to me, March Madness is the greatest post-season sporting event of all time. Now I've always liked college basketball, but football is king until March Madness comes. And I think, you know, to your point, America was the ultimate Cinderella.

Can a couple of those teams... Give our, our audience some examples of what those teams might be to you.

I would say, I would say Clemson. I'd say Clemson right now. Even with his brother, Hunter, getting hurt, I would say Duke, even with the transfers. I know they start two freshmen still with Proctor and two other experienced guards. And I would say Auburn. Um, you look at Denver Jones. I know Tahod Pettiford's a freshman, but Denver Jones, CBM, if he can keep his head on straight, those are probably two to three teams that I would see with those guards going deep into the tournament.

So Jake, explain your feelings on learning that your hopes and dreams have been dashed by the President of the United States.

Well, uh, Ben, first off, thanks for having us even though it's, you know, under these circumstances.

It took a lot of personal reflection when I heard about this, you know, sitting in my house, looking outside, wondering what's next, when you dream so much about being able to take over women's sports as a biological man.

But th- but then it hit me, and I came to the realization that at the end of the day, it's something that had to happen.

But I think the saddest part is that it needed to happen, is that we've gotten to a point in society where somebody, a president with this type of power, had to sign an executive order to keep men out of women's sports.

Even though my dreams are dashed, Ben, and it hurts, I've come to the realization that I think the saddest part is we actually had to do this 'cause this is actually a real thing that exists in society.

So I'm willing to put my dreams on hold.

So Jake, on a scale of rigged to WWE, how rigged is the NBA that this trade happened to allow a 25-year-old superstar coming off a near MVP season to go to the Los Angeles Lakers, who it seems every generation get a generational talent just by coincidence through some sort of wildly unfair trade?