Nate Davis

Return by Anton Campbell.

And there's a look at Nate Davis, Ball State's 19-year-old gunslinger.

He's got 14 of the school record 23 touchdown passes thrown this season.

His passing efficiency is 12th in the nation, and he's just a freshman.

But we've got a personal foul, the first play of the game.

Talk about toughness.

Nate Davis took a blowing shot to the head.

Wow, that's going to

I just want to have...

One quick six-minute conversation, Max, conversation about what our impressions are of a Ball State team with almost 60 new players, a 5'10", 250-pound man at quarterback.

What are your guys' impressions of the Cardinals? Gil, let's start with you as a resident Mac guy.

Yeah, I don't think they're going to be great.

This is a yearly thing for the Mac.

So it's really hard to tell.

It is kind of hard to know that quarterback can run.

The one that everybody's making fun of unjustly online.

Maybe not all of them, but I imagine some would be willing to come in.

And Corey Roberson being a defensive-minded coach, what do they do on the offensive side of the ball? Well, Nate Davis announced he wasn't coming back to San Diego.

Nate Davis lives in Albuquerque full-time when it's not indoor football season.

It makes a ton of sense for Nate Davis to become the quarterback for the Chupacabras, maybe even quarterback slash offensive coordinator, so that eventually when he's done playing, he steps right into the coaching role there.

It makes a ton of sense to me, Roberson being a defensive guy, Nate Davis being the offensive guy, suddenly the new mexico chupacabras have some like you have an idea of what their identity is going to be before they even step on the field and that's that's super exciting because like i said that was something they were severely lacking throughout the entire first year their entire first inaugural season so exciting times in new mexico very excited to see things get announced and to see things kind of grow and transform throughout the off season and If all this comes to fruition, as it's expected to do, suddenly the Western Conference is an absolute battle every single week, where Northern Arizona had life at the end of the year.

Tucson turned things around mid-year.

Corey Roberson coming over to New Mexico and potentially Nate Davis.

Suddenly they're feisty.

I mean, they've had some, like I said, if you see there, they've had some good years, obviously.

The Nate Davis team with Brady Hoke and then Stan Parrish actually was capitalizing on Brady Hoke's team with that 2008 run.

But we're looking at a graph right now.

If you listen to this on audio from 2010 to 2025.

I love their whole history.

Shit, I've been watching them since the 90s, right? And I love their program.

But Part of what's great is they find these diamonds in the rough, whether it's Blaine Bishop or Bernie Parmalee or Nate Davis or Carson Steele.

But Keldrick Luster might take the cake here.