Week 14 Rookie Draft + College Football Coaching Carousel
All right, Buck. We’ve got uh some great news to announce here to everybody. And that is not that Rhett is not here. That’s not the great news. The great news is the reason that Rhett is not here. So, uh him and his wife Ka welcomed a beautiful baby girl, Cody Lee Klein Schmidt. Um she was born 1:38 a.m. on the 1st. So great birthday December 1st. Um 6 pounds 12 ounces, 19 and a half inches long. I love that stuff. Sent beautiful picture. Um so baby’s healthy, mom’s healthy. Um and so happy for Red. He’s got a couple boys. So now he adds a girl to the mix. And uh that is also um it it’s going to hurt him a little bit, Buck, because he’s crushing us right now in the rookie in the rookie draft in the rookie fantasy league that we’re playing. He’s going to have to take a little hiatus and rely on Gavin here. Oh, well, see, I thought under the rules the the paternity rules that like he does paternity leave like he doesn’t get a chance to do anything like he’s out. Like I know he also gets saved. Like I thought I thought we put a zero on the test. I thought we put a zero on the test until he comes back. Yeah, that would have been nice. That would have helped us catch up because right now he’s at 62 points. I’m at 49. Buck, you’re at 45. I mean, we This is getting out of control here. It’s not good. Um, coming off last week, he had Judkins who got him some first place points at the running back position. He had Higgins, got him some first place points at the receiver position, and then he got a second place, uh, point there with Lovelin at the tight end spot. So, um, he had seven points last week. Uh, you had four. I only had one. Uh, so it is unfortunately it’s tightening up between me and you, but we’re nowhere near where we need to be in terms of catching rep. And, uh, as we sit today here, he has the second pick. You are first. I am third. We have no Carolina. So, no Tedo at McMillan. No New England. Um, so the hottest, you know, running back in Henderson. He’s not in the mix. No Giants, no San Francisco. So, those are the teams on the buy. And you have the first overall pick. First overall pick. Here we go. Oh, I’ve been doing this for so long that I can’t I can’t do it. So, I need a running back. My guy Henderson is out. Like Ashton Genty doesn’t give me anything, but gosh. Um, let’s go with Let’s go with Ashton Genty because I don’t have Whoa. First pick. All right. All right, Gavin, you’re up here for uh for Rhett. Who do you want to go? Throw it in the chat. He’s going to go Judkins facing the Titans. That was going to be my pick. That’s kick. That’s a kick to the That’s hard hard to run against a Titan. Hard to run against the Titans team, though. Yeah. So, we got two running backs, so I don’t need to worry about the running backs. I can go to my tight ends uh and my receivers. So, uh let’s go for my tight end pick. I’m actually going to go Loveland. Oh, see I see I couldn’t go I was trying not to go Tyler Warren against the Jags. I felt like that’s Yeah. See, now you’re gonna you might have to. But I’m going to go with Loveland at tight end. And then receiver-wise, uh I’m going to go with Bua. M. So now Gavin is uh Gavin’s back up for Rhett. He’s going to go Higgins. So he’s going back to the well there. Um so I’m I’m going to go Warren. Then I need rookie wide receiver. Receiver. Who you want to put in? And rookie receiver. I mean I guess yeah, I can try that. I’ll try Luther Burden. Let’s do that. You go Luther Burden. Yeah, we try that. All right. So you go Luther Burden and then Gab’s gonna go Gadston. for the tight end spot there. And then I’m gonna finish things up and I’m gonna go RJ Harvey against the Fighting Las Vegas Raiders. Feel great about that pick. Uh I mean, this is your week, man. Every week. Every week. You know, Rhett’s just going to complain if we somehow get back into this thing. Oh, you know, it’s because of me. I couldn’t be there. That’s why you guys caught up to me. So, I ended up with Lovelin, Ibuka, and Harvey. Rhett ended up with Judkins, Higgins, and Gadston. And Buck, you ended up with Genty, Warren, and Burton. So, there’s our uh there’s our rookie draft here. We’ll see how this thing goes. See if we can close this thing down a little bit. Um Buck, we got to get to some college coaching stuff. And uh as we do that, I want to tell you I was talking to a uh a power forehead coach the other day on the phone and uh I said, “What part of the like what’s your least favorite part of this gig right now with how this whole thing is set up?” And he goes, “Oh, I’ll rank it for you.” I go, “What’s that?” He goes, “My least favorite is retention. is having to retain your own players and those conversations and the guys, you know, not happy with their money and I got, you know, you’ve got agents calling you and saying, “We’ve already got X, Y, and Z lined up for him other places, so you match it to release.” Said, “That’s my least favorite part of the job right now is actually roster retention.” He said, “Second least favorite part is is the NIL, just in terms of going out and doing that yourself, going out and getting players from other other spots, like that free agency aspect of it.” He said, “Ironically, the easiest part of this job right now is high school recruiting.” So, that’s the easy part. That used to be what all these coaches would complain about was, “Oh man, if I could just be in the NFL, I wouldn’t have to recruit.” Now, like, shoot, recruiting high school kids is the easiest part of my job. Yeah, DJ, I do wonder when is when the worm is going to turn, right? Like I think there’s this instant fascination early with like the portal and all that other stuff. But I do wonder sometimes if you’re taking on other people’s problems and if you’re not taking on people’s problems, but if you’re not getting that part of it, it’s okay, I get them, they have success with me, how do I keep them, how do I continue to sustain what I want to have in a program uh when it’s so transient, so many people coming in and out and doing all that other stuff just makes it very very difficult. No doubt, man. Um, it’s just a it’s a whole new ball game. But I I want to get into some of these uh these coaching moves and get your thoughts on them, how you think they fit. Start first of all with the Lane Keifin thing. I mean, I sorry, I’m not going to lend my name to the outrage one way or the other. There’s people that hate Lane Keifin through this process. There’s people that think, you know, Lane Kein’s a saint. Uh, I don’t I don’t really have a hot take on it either way. it’d be tough for me to leave a team that was going into the playoff, but he is the way the calendar works, this is kind of the option that you have and um he felt like he’s got a better chance to win a national championship there. I think that’s been proven, although I think that college football is just different now. I don’t know that that standard holds the same. I would say that my definition of pressure is the uh cost is the cost per win I think is pressure. You know, in other words, you you pay you get paid that much money. The expectations are very high um at that school. And now it’s you’re not going to be uh you’re not going to be celebrated for winning 10 games in Baton Rouge. That’s not what they care about. They they need a little bit more than that. Yeah, they need a little more of that. And so it’s a little um walk on faith or a leap of faith for LSU to see if L can get there because he doesn’t have any tangible proof of being able to do it. He doesn’t have it on his board. doesn’t mean that he can’t do it cuz he’s a hell of a recruiter. Does a really good job offensively getting him up and going, but yeah, the pressure and the expectations there are crazy and he has to do it. I do understand why people are outraged because man, this is the best season that Old Miss has had and all of the noise around it over the last couple weeks could have derailed their opportunity to go and they still may get punished for him leaving when it comes to the seating and those things, but it is what it is. Pete Golden to take over, he’ll have to figure out a way to do it with um a skeleton staff, particularly on offense. But that’s what it is and you have to figure it out. I think the frustrating part when it comes to Lane and going to LSU is okay, like if you love like the new opportunity, great. You say you love Old Miss, at least give them the best chance to go. So if you go, can you leave the offensive staff there for a little bit so they can do it? I think that is probably the the thing is they won’t be the same team that they were when we see them in the postseason if they make the post I assume they going to make the playoff but they won’t be the same team. Yeah. I also think the way that schedule went they dodge some bullets in terms of the SEC this year and I didn’t expect that Kein they were going to make some deep run in the college football playoff. I mean like it’s the perfect storm but you never know. I mean it it is the perfect storm though. It was the perfect storm for them. I’m at a high school game. This is a couple weeks ago and uh it was still it was Thanksgiving so you had all the all the high school kids or the college kids come home you know so I’m at this high school game and my daughter who’s graduated a couple years ago I see her friend who was there you know watching some of her younger friends play in this this football game and she comes over she goes Mr. Jeremiah go, “Yeah.” She goes, “Are we going to keep our coach?” She goes to Old Miss. I was like, “Man, this poor I said, I don’t I’m I’m afraid I got some bad news on that front. I don’t think you are. We’ll see what happens, but unless something changes, I think he’s going to go to LSU.” Um, but I’m like, “Hey, just be grateful. You got you guys got to the playoff. You’re I think she was a freshman this year. Like, you you got to go to the college football playoff. And if they get a home game and if they get a home game, it’s gonna be bananas.” Yeah. The other thing I was thinking of with that move, you know, there’s always been this debate and USC’s had some great receivers and this goes back to Lane’s time there when he was coaching receivers, but the debate has always been, oh, is it Ohio State or LSU? Like, what’s been the the the premier receiver factory? Well, Lane’s had great receivers when he was at USC, when he was at Alabama, elite elite receivers. He’s had really good receivers at Old Miss during his time there. And now he gets to go to LSU where there’s primo primo kids coming out of Louisiana, Florida every year. Like they are going to have it’s going to go back to what they had when they had Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, all these like they are going to have a factory of elite elite wide outs with him at LSU. I mean, yeah. I mean, you just have um so many guys that come through there. You talk about anywhere from Od Beckham Jr., Jarvis Landry to the new school, Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, and others. U Brian Thomas Jr., Malik Neighbors, like they’ve always had those guys, but Lane is proven to showcase, highlight wide receivers. He likes to throw the ball all over the yard. It’s going to be exactly what LSU wants. And it’ll be funny because right now Ohio State is wide receiver in in my estimation in terms of like the amount of guys that are coming out there and playing in the league. But it makes for a great conversation. It’s going to be interesting to see who he ends up getting down there. not only the guys straight from high school, but the transfer kids that come in there that want to get showcased. I know Michigan’s won a national championship in the last, you know, 10 years with uh without elite elite wide receiver play, but that to me is one of the things about college football that people don’t talk about. Those elite Alabama teams had big-time receivers. Georgia had big-time receivers. And if you throw Brock Bowers in there as well, like big- time passing game weapons. Ohio State on their run, awesome, awesome wide receivers. Like that’s a big component of of trying to win a national championship. Obviously the LSU with Burrow and those guys I just mentioned with Jess Jefferson, Jamar Chase, all those guys. Like that’s an important position to be able to recruit and find big time talent. Yeah. Because you got to be able to have explosive plays. The explosive plays matter. Way back in the day when we used to have Brian Billet come on and he would talk about the explosive play quotient and how the explosive plays are directly correlated to the amount of points that you score. The receivers can deliver them. They can give those game flipping play, field flipping plays where 20 40 yard passes and they can do it in a variety of ways. Whether they run past you or they catch the screens and move up and down the field. Uh you have to have at least one and preferably two when you’re playing two and three wide receivers all the time. You need to have some game changers on the court. All right, Buck, I want to uh give you a couple of these hires and uh and just tell me which one you like the most or what what you’re excited about. Here we get John Srell u he goes to Florida from Tlane. Um, you get Alex Golish from South Florida, he goes to Auburn, you get uh, so those are the two and then the other one is is someone in terms of stepping up a level. Bob Chzn goes from JMU. Uh, he goes to UCLA. Those some interesting ones of guys who’ve been successful coaches and they’re they’re going up a rung on the ladder here. I’m excited to see what those guys look like. Yeah, it’s interesting. Uh, first, man, it’s two that stand out. It’s hard to separate. Um, I love Alex Gooish going from youth South Florida to Auburn. And the reason why is because like having followed him, like being offensive coordinator at Tennessee, like high-powered offenses, going tempo, uh, what he did at South Florida in terms of getting them not only to be like a dynamic offense, but their toughness and physicality. Seeing the presser, seeing the first meeting that he had at Auburn, process driven toughness, we’re all about it. like I was buying in and I believe at Auburn you absolutely have the ability to be able to get it. It’s just whether they be patient enough to see him flip it and get it done. John Summerall is a great coach. Having watched two lane, having been down there, having seen how he’s able to get it done, he is a close friend evident, I didn’t know this, of Liam Cohen. Um, and so that connectivity that they have, but as he says, and I think this works in Florida, he wants to be like Bob Stoops was to Steve Spurer. I want to be a defensive-minded guy who has an explosive offense that lights up scoreboards. Florida is about winning, but you got to win with style. And so, I think both of those hires match where they’re going. And I think that’s really, really, really important. Yeah. I’ll say too with uh John Saw and our friend Dave Cowwell who’s going to be the GM their retention roster retention es like they’ve got receiver backs they’ve got they’ve got a lot of really really talented young skilled players. We’ll see what they decide and what DJ Lagway decides um if there’s uh better for everybody if he moves on or better if they try and give him a fresh voice and see if they can get him to uh kind of play and perform up to what his recruiting status was as as one of the top players in the country. So I’ll be interested to keep an eye on that one. Um, the UCLA one to me is fascinating. I don’t know that that was a very attractive job to a lot of people, but Bob Chzn, who’s just continued, I think he was Holy Cross, then James Madison, as a young guy, and that’s been a uh obviously with Kurt Signetti. JMU has been a place that’s uh been a little bit of a launching pad as of late. Yeah, launching pad. This dude is good, man. He’s a really good coach. Uh really excited about what uh he has opportunity to do at UCLA. And I think UCLA is a program that has to think differently than some of these other programs. They don’t have all the resources, all the things that are afforded to some of the other teams. And so, you have to have someone who has an underdogs mentality, but doesn’t use that as an excuse. His dynamic offense will be attractive and appealing to recruits that want to go to UCLA. What he’s been able to do his entire time, he’s used to doing what we talk about more with less. I think that’ll work. And that’s a big thing. I look, these coaching hires are funny because one, there’s so many of them. Like I like I I didn’t think the carousel would spin like it’s spinning, but we’re talking about Will Stein going to Kentucky, offensive mind, who is from Kentucky, played at Louisville, both parents went to Kentucky. So, it’s almost like a homecoming for him. That is interesting to me. And then the one that hasn’t been settled, but the conversation is going Penn State and Satake from BYU. Yeah. Is that really going to happen? I love I think Colani’s a great coach. as we’re recording this, this might already be done, but it it’s not a fit that came to mind immediately, but a guyy’s a darn good coach. Darn good coach. Now, stylistically, it fits because I think what you would get is like that that old state uh feel. What I can’t believe is going to happen is that BYU is going to let one of their own leave. And what has happened in the 11th hour a lot I one I didn’t know that there were a bunch of millionaires and billionaires associated with BYU ever have you ever stayed at Marriott Marriott before but evidently they’ve come out the droves to make sure like hold on we may have a little more money spent so it may not be a done deal but that was the biggest surprise in terms of the rumor mill that was heating up and I was like oh that is a big one. Yeah, like Gavin put in the chat the crumble cookies founder. He’s doing his business and I sold a lot of cookies. By the way, first time I ever had a crumble cookie. I didn’t know that. I just heard about these things and I was getting my uh I was getting some tires and so like a discount tire or something. There was I saw a crumble cookie. I’ve heard of this. Everybody’s talking about this place. So I went over there and ate. So I get home and uh my wife goes like, “Oh, you know how was I’m like you know I went over to Crumble Cookie while I was getting some tires.” So oh, what’ you think? them all. I don’t I actually kind of made me sick. Like I don’t I don’t feel so good. She go I don’t understand. Like did you just Where’s the rest of the cookie or whatever? I go what do you mean the rest? Those are for like four people. Those are like a I’m like I thought that was just She’s like 4,000 calories you just ate with that thing. I’m like no wonder I feel so sick. That thing was huge. It’s like a cookie cake. Not one person is supposed to crush that thing. Apparently that’s I think that was a one and done for me on the crumble cookie. And it’s a great cookie. I overdid it. I just overdid it. I’m trying to figure I think I’ve only had it one time. Um I try to do a good I think you’re supposed to cut it up like a pie and take like a little sliver, but I I never I never would be able to like I never would be able tough call. Tough decision, but the man’s trying to put his money where his mouth is here. He sold a lot of cookies and he wants to uh keep that BYU football program humming. How about this? Is there a better fit of all these coaches in schools than than what Michigan State did with Pat Fitzgerald? Oh man, you talk about throwing it back. Um, the one thing that Michigan State has always been is they’ve always kind of been the junkyard dog of the Big 10. Like when Mark Antonio was there, like that that was what they did. Like they were they they they took the fight to people. They had a little feistiness about him. Uh, Pat Fitzgerald is definitely going to bring that back. Now, it’s funny seeing him at a school that’s different than his alma mater, but I think he understands the conference, the recruiting footprint, and he certainly knows what works well up there. I can’t wait to see what he gets an opportunity to, I’ll say, make amends for an ugly ending at Northwestern. This would be uh I they would never do this, but just from a like a marketing standpoint where we live in this era where getting any type of attention is kind of good for your program. Um Pat would never do this, but this would be my idea. I would present to him. I would say, “Okay, we’re going to do a little social media clip where we’re going to buy um how many teams in the Big 10 now? Like 18, something like that. A million. A million of them.” Yeah. So, I’d say if there’s 18 teams in the Big 10, we’re going to buy 17 ice bath like tubs and we’re going to we’re going to show like the video. We’re going to have all these 17 things lined up and we’re going to do the address labels, one to each of the teams inside the Big 10 that say, “Hey, we’re not saying we’re going to beat you, but you’re going to need to you’re gonna need some extra ice tubs after you get done playing this version of Michigan State Spartans.” Oh, because they’re going all the way back. They’re going all the way back to what they were when they were at their best. You always knew what kind of game it was. Having I went to the Big 10 Championship game. I think it was Kurt Cousins versus Russell Wilson. And man, it was a blood bath. I mean, it was an absolute fist fight in a phone booth between those teams. And when Michigan State, when Sparty, as they say, is built like that, that’s when Sparty’s at its best. They are always at their best when they’re kind of feisty and honory and that stuff. And I know Pat Fitzgerald is definitely going to bring that back. You know, Kein would have done something like that. Like if if Kein would have been like at a Michigan State. Have you seen him? Have you seen him trolling already? Like Oh, he’s already trolling. What’s he doing now? Oh my god. The date of the game when LSU goes to miss with a little popcorn emoji. Wow. I mean, some people run from the smoke, some people run to the smoke. He is definitely running to the smoke. God’s not even cold yet, man. Good night. He is. And I’m sitting here like, “Wait a minute. I thought we had the evolution. We were doing hot yoga. Nope. Still just as feisty. Geez. Uh, one more. Uh, I want to hit you on here. Actually, you know, Ryan Silverfield going from Memphis to Arkansas is interesting. But Tvita Pritchard, a guy that we scouted, you know, going that was that the he was the architect of one of the biggest upsets in NCAA history when they beat SC. But, uh, uh, Andrew Luck came in after him. Same quarterback room and took over for him. and now he ends up hiring him as Andrew Lux kind of running the the program up there at Stanford. He brings in a former quarterback to to run things up there. So, it definitely feels like a little bit of an ode to that uh that very successful era of Stanford football. Uh I fully expect them to get back to what was very very successful for them during that day. Now, no one can replicate and be exactly what Jim Harbaugh was, but they have seen the blueprint and they do know what works and you have two people that know what works and that alignment is everything like the vision that Andrew Luck and Tvita will have because they’ve seen what works. And so, I think we’ll get back to old school football in Stanford. They have to be the outlier in college football in terms of if everyone is zigging, they need to zag, they need to put multiple guys on the field, they were tight in you for a minute. I think they get back to that. like there are some ways that they can create advantages even though their recruiting pool is limited. To me, it’s still a very attractive school. It’s still very attractive for certain people. I think you have to understand what it is. They have to kind of fish in the same pond that Notre Dame and Rice and Vanderbilt, they have to fish in given the academic challenges and rigors of the university. Yeah. I’m anxious to see as these guys get all settled in, we’ve got signing day is upon us. Um the transfer port will be opening up here shortly and and kind of see all this different movement that takes place and a lot of these guys who stepped up a level. I’m curious how many of them do the signetti thing and take some you know some guys from their previous team into their new stop and see if they can’t kind of jumpst start you know installing your culture and what you want from a uh you know from a football standpoint. That is hu that was a huge advantage for him you know even though if they were good not great players but just having guys who would be your you know another uh you know a mouthpiece for the mission so to speak in all these different position rooms I think that’s pretty important I think it’s really important because they also I mean look they’re they’re your best advocates they can tell you hey guys if we do this it works like I’ve seen it been a part of it I know what it is and from a coaching staff standpoint having people in the room that already know some of the x’s and o’s uh to be able to jump in it it does jump started when you get to spring practice and all that other stuff. Um, yeah, it look man, it’s going to be a crazy time because the portal I mean the portal’s open, people are jumping in, signing data is on Wednesday. Like it’s just a lot lot going on. You quickly have to rebuild and retool and I think the change is this is the only time the portal is open, right? Like this is going to be the only this is the only Yeah. For a while I think it shuts down then I don’t know when it opens up back again. Who know I think it opens up again after the spring maybe some Yeah. but this I mean this would be a big one. So you see a lot of movement and that stuff and it coincides with signing day. So it’s crazy. By the way, signing day, Buck, what was your uh did you did you commit on sign day or were you committed and signed up locked up before that? You know, it’s so so long ago I committed like on the spot in the middle of senior year. I had already committed. Had to keep it quiet. That was one thing that coach Brown wanted cuz we brought in four wide receivers that class. I was the first to commit. He was like, “Hey, can you sh Yeah. He wanted to get these other guys in.” Yeah. So I did. I played I played along. Yeah, it was a good teammate. Yeah. So, no, that was fun. Well, San Date is always great, man. So, it’s going to be great no matter what the level. Everyone who has an opportunity to play beyond high school, it’s a great opportunity. They should they should take advantage of and have fun. It’s been never been harder, too, you know, because of the transfer portal. Never been harder for these high school kids to get uh spots or earn as many spots anymore with all No, not not as many spots and and so they should not feel bad. Whatever level you end up in, that’s that’s a blessing. Just being able to play beyond high school is a dream. It should be a dream come true for so many. go make the most of that opportunity. Um, all right, Buck, anything else you want to add before we get out of here? No, man. Let’s have fun. Let’s keep doing it. All right, man. Uh, that’ll do it for us. Appreciate you guys. See you next time right here on Move the Sticks.
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