Mario Cristobal On The CFP Title Loss, Building His Culture + Is The U Officially Back? | Bussin'

Summary

Bussin’ With The Boys – Episode 377 Summary

Episode Title:
Mario Cristobal On The CFP Title Loss, Building His Culture + Is The U Officially Back?

Release Date:
April 21, 2026

Host(s):
Will Compton & Taylor Lewan
Featured Guest:
Mario Cristobal (Head Coach, Miami Hurricanes)

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1. Episode Overview

This episode of Bussin’ With The Boys brings on University of Miami head coach Mario Cristobal for a rare inside look at the Hurricanes’ culture, the fallout from their College Football Playoff (CFP) title loss, the realities of building an elite program in today’s transfer portal/NIL era, and the relentless pursuit to bring “The U” all the way back. Will and Taylor, with trademark locker room banter, also cover NFL Draft projections, college football’s wild off-season landscape, and a behind-the-scenes look at their recent tour of major college football programs.

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2. Key Discussion Points & Insights

A. Setting the Scene: Miami’s Culture & Practice Environment

• High-Intensity, Fast-Paced Practices

  • Will and Taylor give their impressions from Miami’s practices—music blaring, alumni, recruits, and the relentless, “killer be killed” mentality among players and coaches.
    • “This is a feeling of, you’re back in the 90s… getting a behind-the-scenes look at practice… no NIL, no social media, just ‘how are we gonna be the apex predator.’” —Will Compton (40:03)
    • “It feels erratic at first… crazy stimulating… but these offensive linemen are unfazed. They know exactly where to go. Old school.” —Taylor Lewan (114:01)

• Building a Program of Elite Practices

  • Cristobal shares his coaching blueprint: “If it happens in a game, it deserves a drill… Elite meetings, elite walkthroughs… challenging, adverse situation practices that test.” (123:36)
  • Every recruit must watch a Miami practice—it’s a test of their mentality and fit for the program.
    • “It’s not for everybody. If you have to change your coaching for NIL or the portal, you shouldn’t have been coaching in the first place.” —Mario Cristobal (120:03)

B. Talent Evaluation & the Recruiting Process

• Identifying “DNA” Players

  • Will asks how Cristobal identifies the right mentality: “Do you really love football? Who are you hanging out with? Who are you without it? Film doesn’t lie. At the end of the day—choices and decisions, brother.” (118:55)

• The Honesty Policy

  • Cristobal: “We’re truth-tellers. And people who want to get better want a truth-teller. We haven’t ever changed the way we coach.” (121:38)

• Handling the Portal/NIL Era

  • Candid comments about not coddling just to keep stars:
    • “If you’re afraid of kids leaving for the portal or NIL, you shouldn’t be coaching. Ball is still ball.” —Mario Cristobal (120:03)

C. 2025 Season Reflection—Responding to Setbacks

• Talking Through Title Loss & the Comeback

  • Cristobal details the aftermath of the SMU loss and the team’s response to adversity:
    • “We have awesome people and hardworking people but weren’t getting the results… We watched five cut-up games together… Decided: just one day at a time, I’ll be your biggest advocate and you’ll be mine.” (129:02)

• Dealing with CFP Snub & Selection System Flaws

  • Thoughts on the CFP and how Miami was handled:
    • “[On the Notre Dame ranking]… With head-to-head and common opponents, it should’ve been us. As long as we kept dominating, it would work out.” (135:02)

D. On The Field: Player Development & The Trench Mentality

• Building A (Literal) Trench Culture

  • Cristobal and offensive line coach Mirabal are longtime friends, obsessed with “trench heaven”:
    • “We always swore that if we could coach, we’d create O-line, D-line heaven—massive, athletic, violent.” —Cristobal (146:20)

• Freshmen Standing Out

  • Shout-outs for Jackson Cantwell and his immediate impact in spring:
    • “Never seen a freshman dominate one-on-ones like this in my life. All the tools, great attitude.” —Taylor (143:07)

E. Off the Field: Education & Life Beyond Football

• Academic Commitment & Internships

  • “Your diploma here will take you further than your NFL career… We expose these guys to real-life experiences from internship programs to service trips.” (122:04)

• Community Buy-In

  • “Down here, it’s about the Canes. I live and die by orange and green. 450–500 alumni here next Friday…” (125:09)

F. Locker Room Talk & Fan Engagement

• Unfiltered Locker Room Vibes

  • The show’s heart remains “community, vibes, and love”—interacting with fan callbacks, debating NIL, jersey giveaways, and telling stories about bet payoffs (or the lack thereof).

• Miami’s Fanbase & the “Is the U Back?” Debate

  • “Never, ever, ever say that again. The only focus is 1–0 every day.” –Cristobal on “Is the U back?” memes (161:44)
  • Will and Taylor openly reminisce on Miami’s heyday and the cultural cache of “The U.”

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3. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

Practice & Culture

• “Every great culture has its own language. Our freshmen are speaking the language now.”
  — Mario Cristobal (141:11)

• “Positive anger, man—give it a direction, it burns clean.”
  — Mario Cristobal, on rallying the team post-defeat (127:30)

• “I had to be a Hurricane, or die, one or the other.”
  — Mario Cristobal on growing up in Miami (125:09)

On Recruiting

• “If you have to change the way you coach because of the portal or NIL, you shouldn’t have been coaching to begin with.”
  — Mario Cristobal (120:03)

Draft & Roster Building

• “If you’re not in that top 15 in the draft, you should be thinking about early round two—get to your second contract faster.”
  — Taylor Lewan (58:20)

Locker Room Banter

• “We are building community—now we got Catholics (Notre Dame) and convicts (Miami) all together being for the boys.”
  — Will Compton (06:23)

• “All you have is your word at the end… It’s number one. If you don’t have that, what do you have?”
  — Taylor Lewan, on bet payouts and character (16:11)

CFP/ACC Postmortem

• “It’s an imperfect process. I don’t think anyone’s trying to screw over anybody… but I felt strongly that we deserved to be in there.”
  — Cristobal on the CFP selection (135:40)

• “If you’re not at your best, you’re going to get your ass beat.”
  — Cristobal on upsets (128:41)

The Trench City Vision

• “If we ever had a chance to coach together, we’d create Trench Heaven... that’s what we’re trying to do here at Miami.”
  — Mario Cristobal (146:20)

Fan Questions & Humor

• “Early is on time, brother. No excuses. None. Zero.”
  — Cristobal’s “non-negotiable” standard (165:52)

• “You can have jewelry in the locker room, but not on the field. Shirts tucked in for practice.”
  — Cristobal “old school,” but practical (166:20)

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4. Timestamps for Key Segments

• Miami's Locker Room Culture: 40:03–41:07
• Cristobal on Practice & Recruiting Mentality: 111:45–116:05
• Cutups, Team Reset after Loss: 129:02
• CFP Selection Controversy: 134:01–135:50
• Building 'Trench Heaven'/O-Line Talk: 141:11–146:20
• On Keeping Top Florida Talent Home: 149:48–152:16
• Hiring the Right Coaches—Staff Culture: 153:01–156:44
• 'Is The U Back?' Discussion: 161:43–162:35
• Fan Q&A / Locker Room Standards: 165:40–166:09

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5. Format & Tone

• Language/Tone:
  Warm, candid, and relentlessly honest; playful locker-room humor balanced with a reverent, almost militant approach to coaching and football culture.

• Energy:
  High-tempo, fast-moving conversation—especially when digging into Miami’s practice culture and during the candid interview segments with Coach Cristobal.

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6. Conclusion

This episode brings listeners a rare, no-bull look inside the modern Miami Hurricanes—one rooted in old-school values, “killer be killed” accountability, and a burning commitment to team, toughness, and truth. Cristobal debunks the “U Is Back” meme, fixes his focus on one day at a time, and reaffirms how championship cultures are forged: “Elite practices, real teaching, and the right people in the room.” For college football fans, it’s a vivid reminder of what makes “The U” such an enduring and magnetic brand.

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For Miami fans or newcomers:
Check out the companion Miami vlog for more behind-the-scenes footage and the full flavor of the new Hurricanes era.

Big Hugs. Tiny Kisses.

Transcript

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[Mario Cristobal]

All right, we're good. Busing with the boys, hanging with the fellas. Betting on a game. No woman's gonna tell us what to do.

[Taylor Lewan]

And I've been over here

[Mario Cristobal]

just drinking

[Taylor Lewan]

beer and making that noise, baby. I'm hanging with the fellas.

[Mario Cristobal]

Busting with the boys, bro.

[Will Compton]

Welcome to Busting with the boys. Episode 377 Respect the Sevens. Respect the Sevens. As always, we are presented by the number one sports book in America, the fanduel Sportsbook. Ladies and gentlemen, we are inching closer and closer to the 2026 NFL Draft. And you already know we're going to get into it. But if you think you know how the night's going to play out, you've seen the cards, you've had the visions, you've peered into the crystal ball and you know that your big board is the big board. Fanduel is here to help you cash in. Fanduel's got a ton. Sorry little.

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[Taylor Lewan]

up guys that never dream alive, that

[Will Compton]

never stop being teammates.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's it.

[Will Compton]

And in the draft this week, we got undrafted, we got drafted, we got the combination of everything to where this is locker room talk. The locker room never closed on this show. We keep the locker room open, busting with the boys. We're going to dive into some draft stuff, maybe some draft stories. We're going to talk about Mario crystal ball and what we got, what we did this past week, last week it at the University of Miami. What else are we going to be touching?

[Taylor Lewan]

We're d. We're hitting callbacks from the boys from the last episode that took place with Marcus Freeman and C.J. carr. And also hit a little tear talk because every single week, the boys put out a little tweet. Little tweets. He said, hey, use hashtag tear talk with the question below to get featured on the show. So if you're a Miami fan looking for a community, understand. Oh, damn. The locker room still live. I can be in it.

[Will Compton]

I can hang with the boys.

[Taylor Lewan]

You can leave a comment here to be featured on the callbacks or when the tear talk comes out, you can just leave a little comment. And just like that, boys, there's no entry fee, all right? There's no. There's no dress code here.

[Will Compton]

No.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's just community, locker room vibes and love. Sherman, you have a question.

[Will Compton]

Quick addition to what you are talking about. New iteration I've been seeing on tear talk, people are now commenting on previous

[Taylor Lewan]

episodes with the hashtag, are you kidding me right now?

[Will Compton]

That's the way to do it. Because we're scanning them all.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's evolving.

[Will Compton]

And don't sleep on Spotify. Spotify's got a comment section. Spotify's got a comment section. And we go to those every week. The boys are locked in on some Spotify comments. But great work getting the hashtag tear talk in our bus with the boys episodes. Also, Miami fans, we did the same thing. We're building community. Like Taylor was saying now in the community, if you enter the community, just know that last week we had Notre Dame week. So now we got Catholics. Now we got convicts all together. All together being for the boys.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right? But if you don't like being called convict, that's. Listen, that wasn't us.

[Will Compton]

It's all good fun.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's all good fun.

[Will Compton]

We like to have fun.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, you only hear in convict. Like, it's just part of the fun.

[Will Compton]

We like to have fun on busing with.

[Taylor Lewan]

Because we know what week seven. Week nine.

[Will Compton]

Eight.

[Taylor Lewan]

Eight.

[Will Compton]

I'm hoping. We're hoping.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Two undefeated teams hope facing off South Bend, Indiana.

[Taylor Lewan]

It has to take place south. And. And you know what? God gotta let us happen. We'll be there. I didn't say that correctly. Something about God. I knew we're there. Right? Because he's in another name. Okay. But we'll. We'll be there.

[Will Compton]

Hey, and the Shane episode, that one's dropping next week, right? I'm laughing because when he was busting our balls, like, he's like, you guys got a backlog. As many as you can. Before we just start.

[Taylor Lewan]

Our brains are failing, buddy. The CTE thing, I like to fight it. I like to get away from it. The minute I lose a little bit of sleep, that's where I really see it. And start to keep peeking over. Starts to get over a little bit.

[Will Compton]

They got both teams undefeated. You're going to go battle.

[Taylor Lewan]

Come get us, dude.

[Will Compton]

Two coaches, dude. Two teams.

[Taylor Lewan]

Two teams, 11 on each side. They're going to go. We're going to play. Hopefully we're there as well.

[Will Compton]

Wearing helmets, shoulder pads.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's right.

[Will Compton]

Let's just keep going. All right, that's enough.

[Taylor Lewan]

Two different uniforms. All right, dude. Should we talk about the. I mean, fandel futures? The draft is this week. We will be in Pittsburgh this week for the draft. We're flying out Wednesday evening for all of this to go down. I know we saw a little about first wide receiver taken. Do you want to count to three and see who we think it's going to be?

[Will Compton]

Number one receiver taken.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Throw up the options.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay, okay. Okay.

[Will Compton]

So I'm thinking today your best.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Tate's going to be your best option. He's going to be in the minuses.

[Will Compton]

Old boy from A and M. Old

[Taylor Lewan]

boy from A and M. No. No conception. Probably not.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, but he's. He wrote the letter.

[Taylor Lewan]

He's nice.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, he's the best.

[Taylor Lewan]

Jordan Tyson from asu. He's a monster.

[Will Compton]

He's been a media darling this week, too. He's been getting lots of love.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's where people start to creep. This. This week is the best week because this is when all the. The house of cards type of game strategy people are gonna start lying. Maybe they're not going to take Fernando Mendoza. Even though they said they're gonna take Fernando Mendoza type of shit's gonna come out.

[Will Compton]

Oh, they're taking Fernando.

[Taylor Lewan]

They're table Fernando, no doubt. But this is where everyone starts to. Well, are they though? Is the question mark just where Ty

[Will Compton]

Simpson has been coming up in a lot of conversations. Are they going to make some sudden surprise at the end? But fanduel is telling us there's an over under on Ty Simpson, whether he's going to go before the 28th pick or 28 and a half is where the line is at. So 28 and earlier or 29 and after. And the over that beyond 28 is at minus 150. So there should be no surprises. There's going to be no surprise him going over Fernando Mendoza.

[Taylor Lewan]

When I think about draft predictions, I think about one man and the genius that came out of him. And it's Delaney Walker. And your bet with him last year, Shedeur. Sanders said he wouldn't make it to the top three rounds. I sat there while you were making the bed thinking will's got this thing locked. Locked. I don't have my phone. I don't have my phones actually have no.

[Will Compton]

But Delaney is a QB whisperer.

[Taylor Lewan]

He kind of is. Dude.

[Will Compton]

He called Mac Jones, he called Sanders Sanders. He was like on the money. What do you say? Fifth round.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, he called fifth round.

[Will Compton]

He was on. That was insane. Jones take was nuts.

[Taylor Lewan]

And that was. That was a one off Mac Jones conversation. Yeah, that's my dog. He's gonna crush it this year. He's gonna get opportunity and he's gonna kill it. It's like, all right, guess you're not a big Brock Purdy fan. All of a sudden, bang, he takes place and there was conversations, people trying to raise ruffle some feathers down to the 49ers facility, my boy.

[Mario Cristobal]

What up?

[Will Compton]

First ring, Mitch. Mitch called. He said you were going to answer on the first ring. Delaney. We're sitting here on busting with the boys and we're trying to figure out where you think Ty Simpson is going to go or how soon he's going to get drafted. Right now the line on FanDuel, the over under is 28 and a half pick. 28 and a half. So is he going to go Alabama quarterback? Alabama quarterback? People are saying maybe the Raiders get him over Mendoza. Not a lot of people, but there's a few out there. Dan Orlovsky says Ty Simpson's the better player, the better option or the better quarterback. I could just be putting words in his mouth right there. Yeah, I mean God, that's.

[Mario Cristobal]

That's going to be tough for me to say.

[Taylor Lewan]

I don't know if he gonna go over Mendoza.

[Will Compton]

You got Ty Simpson going in the first round or the second round?

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a better question. I got him going in the second round.

[Will Compton]

Okay. Okay. You guys heard it from.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, why?

[Will Compton]

You know, he don't know. He just got a feeling.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, he does. He woke up, he's like, he. Dylan, are you laying in bed right

[Will Compton]

now just off of what?

[Taylor Lewan]

I mean, he started late.

[Will Compton]

He.

[Taylor Lewan]

He was a beast though.

[Mario Cristobal]

Don't get me wrong. He was a beast. I just don't think, I think he

[Taylor Lewan]

gonna go the second round. That's good though. That's a good. That's a good.

[Mario Cristobal]

That's a good round to go in for him.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that is Second round's a good round.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's a good round. It's better than the third.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Way better than the fourth.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. I'm just saying, you know, I ain't say.

[Taylor Lewan]

I didn't say he was gonna drop,

[Will Compton]

you know, I. I give you if

[Taylor Lewan]

he was gonna drop.

[Mario Cristobal]

Be good.

[Will Compton]

All right, so There you go. FanDuel. Minus 150. Take the over on 28 and a half on picks.

[Taylor Lewan]

Minus 150.

[Will Compton]

Yes, sir. All right, Delaney, we miss you. We love you, we appreciate you. You are the best. Your Supercross vlog was unbelievable.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'll see you, boy, Soon.

[Mario Cristobal]

All right, bro.

[Will Compton]

That's D right there. That was D. Walk right there.

[Mario Cristobal]

First ring, he's going to answer his phone. Whenever I called him for super cost,

[Taylor Lewan]

it's like, hey, what up?

[Mario Cristobal]

What are you doing?

[Taylor Lewan]

He's just ready, dude. Delaney is a that type of friend. He's ready to answer the call. He's the whose car we taking Guy. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

At all times.

[Taylor Lewan]

At all times, he's the best kind of friend you could possibly have. You got to have that guy in the chamber. That being said, I think he's wrong. I think Ty Simpson goes in the first round. And we did talk about it before, we talked about the Cardinals. They have the third overall pick, but they also have the 34th pick. Love the idea. I don't know who brought this is not my original thought, but the idea of the Cardinals jumping in to the first round.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

To snipe him.

[Will Compton]

Similar to Jackson Dart last year.

[Taylor Lewan]

Jackson Dart last year. And I believe this was Lamar Jackson as well. Correct.

[Will Compton]

Get that fifth year option.

[Taylor Lewan]

If you get the first round pick. Right. You get the fifth year. You want to get the fifth year option, right? Yeah. But the Ravens didn't. The Ravens traded into the second round or the first round again with the Chiefs.

[Will Compton]

It's hard for me to believe that not that only one quarterback is going to go in the first round, knowing how teams operate, whether they trade up, they take guys too early. Like, people argue about J.J. mcCarthy, the Vikings a couple years ago, but every year I feel like there's a surprise in the first round of a quarterback being taken higher than what they're projected to go.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's just such a premium, supply and demand.

[Will Compton]

And knowing how old Daniel, Dan Orlofsky talks about Ty Simpson, it seems like this kid's a dude.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. There's a lot of things about Danio right now that I respect a lot about Danielle. There's things I'm not respecting about Daniel. Like Bets like bets not being fulfilled. Tough, tough look for Danielle. A lot of people having a tough look with bets right now. It's not my only bet. We'll get into that. We'll get into that.

[Will Compton]

That helps us kick off callbacks from last week's episode. Again, last week we had on Marcus Freeman and CJ Carr. Awesome Notre Dame vlog that's out there right now. Check that out. The Miami vlog of us going to the Miami Hurricanes facility that dropped last night on our YouTube channel. But this kicks off the betting for some callbacks here. We got one here from Mike Hawk. 6969. This is on the YouTube channel. Mike Hawk.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hell yeah.

[Will Compton]

I see what happened.

[Taylor Lewan]

You guys are having fun.

[Will Compton]

What's crazy is I didn't even know what you guys were laughing about in the pre production meeting.

[Taylor Lewan]

Really? Yeah. 747 over the head right there for

[Will Compton]

a second when Sher's like, it's not a burner of mine. It's just a guy having fun on the Internet.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Like Mike Hawk. Like, sounds like, is it the 69? Like, are we in middle school?

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah, better.

[Taylor Lewan]

We're in high school. Go ahead.

[Will Compton]

Here we go. My cock. Can we get an update on Taylor's bet with Kyle from Nelk? Did bro flake on the puck Bet? Did bro flake on the pug?

[Mario Cristobal]

Man.

[Taylor Lewan]

Can I just say one thing about Kyle? I like Kyle. I think I was a good guy. Seems like a good businessman. Seems like a dude that really has kind of figured out the lead, the. The leash, the niche, the lane of YouTube and production and doing all the things.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

That being said, I think he flaked on the bet. I think he flaked on the bet.

[Will Compton]

Have you had any comms with him?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Since the video, since the hockey game. Since USA took down Canada.

[Taylor Lewan]

How many. Let's look up how many days it's been since the. The Olympic gold medalist men's hockey game took place. I texted Kyle in March. I said, hey, buddy, things have kind of settled now. Let's get you on. Let's get you on the list. Come on. Busting with the boys. That's part of your. Betty has two things. One, he has to go to Washington D.C. our nation's capital, with a USA Hockey uniform on, with a sign. This is Matt's words. Great job by Matt. I don't know. Puck. USA Hockey is the best. That was one of the deliverables he

[Will Compton]

had for busting with the boys is

[Taylor Lewan]

number one and busting the boys is number one. Correct. It's been 57 days right now since February 22nd, which is when the. The gold took off. He had. Is it 90 days? Yeah, 90 days. So. So we could just. We. We could be getting over our skis a little bit right now, right? 63 days away. 33 days away. Excuse me. He's got a month. He's got a month. He's got a month and a. Just a sprinkle of change to get it done. I text him in March. I'm like, hey, we got to get you on the books. Let's get it going. When's a good time for you? He's like, april's going to be great for me. That's when there's a good time. I was like, cool, I'll hit you in April. April comes. Send him a little text. Hey, do you want. How do you want this to work? Do you want me to put you in touch with my people, AKA Jeremy Klump, and then you can put him, you know, all the things.

[Will Compton]

Get some middleman in there.

[Taylor Lewan]

No response. And since then, it's been. It's been bone dry. And I know there's been a lot of. So back and forth with other guys in his world and all that. There's, like, some so fighting. I don't care to get into that world. I don't care to get in the spouse.

[Will Compton]

All you have is your word at the end.

[Taylor Lewan]

All you have who you are as a man. Right? Yeah. It's your word that's number one. If you don't have that, what do you have?

[Will Compton]

And he told you April would be the best. Best month. Awesome. I'll follow up in April. You followed up in April, didn't respond right. It's been crickets ever since.

[Taylor Lewan]

Crickets ever since. No, I don't know how to digest that. Maybe you guys could help me. Right? Go ahead, Sherman. You got something, A beautiful parlay you

[Will Compton]

could throw his way. Hey, our Independence Day is July 4th. That fits in those 33 days that you have remaining.

[Taylor Lewan]

Let's just do it on Independence Day. Give him a date out there.

[Will Compton]

Does it?

[Taylor Lewan]

It doesn't. That is not fit. That is not fit in the 33 days.

[Will Compton]

That's two months away.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's 60 days away.

[Will Compton]

So that prank that I just pulled

[Taylor Lewan]

on you guys, everybody passed. Oh, nice.

[Will Compton]

Especially Mitch.

[Taylor Lewan]

Especially Mitch.

[Will Compton]

He was like, dude, he's a mathematician.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Mitch has always been the smart one, like, pulling the joke here. Yeah. And I was. I love that. So about digesting. About digesting, how do We. What do we think about this? This is more. This is a community conversation right here. Doesn't have to be just me and Will. I just gave you guys the facts of what's taking place. I like to know where your guys heads are at.

[Mario Cristobal]

Is there a.

[Will Compton]

What if he doesn't?

[Taylor Lewan]

I mean, there was literally a contract sent over per his legal team, saying if the contract is not fulfilled, then it's a lifetime of ridicule from the other individual. So we might be a little ahead of it, but maybe there's a little kick in the ass we need. So, I mean, Matt, you. You were a part of this whole entire process. There's a microphone right there.

[Will Compton]

I made the contract and I was talking to his team and they were in on it. And no words. My email, you. So I think we need to call

[Taylor Lewan]

him out on the Internet. I think this is. What a place we're on right now. I think that's exactly what we're doing.

[Will Compton]

Or maybe you get physical.

[Taylor Lewan]

I don't even.

[Will Compton]

Who are you, bro? If you don't hold up. Yeah, the standard is the standard.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, just go and pin him down. Like next time I see him, I pull him around. You can come on or what?

[Will Compton]

Give him a call.

[Taylor Lewan]

I don't want my phone. That's why you ordered the coffees.

[Will Compton]

If I have to come back, do

[Taylor Lewan]

you want me to go grab my phone real quick? Yeah, yeah, I'll grab my phone real quick.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

All right.

[Will Compton]

Willie, hold it down. Taylor just gives him a little visit. You know, maybe they're in Vegas and he sees him. Hey, if I have to come back here and you don't fulfill this bet, or you saying I'm not a man if I don't. If you're not a man of your word, what the fuck's it say about me? And if I have to come back here a second time, both these hands are going to go around your neck and we're going to watch your soul leave your body. And he goes, red rocks.

[Mario Cristobal]

Then Michael Chandler comes out.

[Will Compton]

Let's get him. UFC fighters just pull some Sopranos. You got to go Sopranos, you know what I mean? Or go boxer streaming, like streamer, boxing match. We just get. We get Taylor so, you know, worked up, like, bro, what kind of man

[Taylor Lewan]

are you if you don't?

[Will Compton]

You just gonna let him slide? I know how I'd handle it. No, we're kind of just some inside ball talk. Inside ball, inside ball talk. Like, we're gonna have to, you know, what if we get in A situation where we're gonna have to get Taylor going and like, hey, Taylor, what does this say about you, man? Like, like, we know how we'd handle the whole situation, but if you're going to be a.

[Taylor Lewan]

Like, just bully me into beating up Kyle.

[Will Compton]

Just seeing red.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. All right.

[Will Compton]

Taylor's in cuss. Why'd you do that, bro? We weren't saying that we were playing.

[Taylor Lewan]

First ring's gone by. It's not Delaney.

[Will Compton]

He's looking at your name right now, and he's nervous because he hasn't. He hasn't responded to you. What does this say about you? If he doesn't answer. Ls call me boys. I'm boys.

[Taylor Lewan]

What are we gonna do?

[Will Compton]

What do I say?

[Taylor Lewan]

I don't know. I told him we're not. I told him we do it, but I don't know what to do now.

[Will Compton]

Steiny, what would you do? I'd probably do it.

[Taylor Lewan]

Let's rip a dark ski.

[Mario Cristobal]

Probably just do it.

[Taylor Lewan]

If he doesn't answer, leak his number. Oh, no.

[Will Compton]

Let's get all of our fans in his phone.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, that sounds like the number got shut down.

[Will Compton]

Can't even leave it, boy.

[Taylor Lewan]

You can't even leave a voicemail.

[Will Compton]

Listen, let's get the vibes back up. This is a check in here from Chad Jones01. Taylor, you're wearing a white T shirt.

[Taylor Lewan]

Well, this is just. Okay,

[Will Compton]

moving on. Let's just get out of there.

[Taylor Lewan]

He said, oh, we're just. We're not going to address the fact that he didn't answer that. I think he was officially ducking.

[Will Compton]

Oh, he's ducking. I think the audience knows that. The audience is ducking. He's a coward. But here we go from Chad Jones. Taylor, you're wearing a white T shirt. Taylor, you good?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, man. Everything's good. Everything's good. I went to literally two weeks ago, went to Dick's Sporting Goods with my kids, and Wynn is officially in the fit phase. She's in the. Oh, I mess with this fit, dad, how about this fit? She's got a little campanero in her. The way she's talking about fits. Put a hat on, dad. This completes the fit. They had all the different colors on and all stuff. She had a. A shirt she loved with a cat and American flag, and it said America. And she thought that was the coolest thing in the world. I was just fired up. There's American flag involved. Little nudge to her mom, like, hey, L for you.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, usa.

[Taylor Lewan]

So in that process, I told Him. I see you guys wearing a bunch of colors all the time. I'm gonna get more into it now. I haven't worn a whole lot of color. It's white. But I'm working my. I'm working.

[Will Compton]

That's you. You're in your own. You're in your discomfort, right?

[Taylor Lewan]

I mean, I'm in the discomfort range right now. I'm growing as an individual. Get away from the all but black categories, and I'm just diving in. Thanks. You're looking good.

[Will Compton]

I told you that.

[Taylor Lewan]

You're looking good. Thanks, guys. All right. Hell, yeah. Got a locker room. We have here. We have a positive locker room taking place right now.

[Will Compton]

Hey, on. On. On the merchandise.

[Taylor Lewan]

Go ahead. What you got?

[Will Compton]

Oh, we got our Mother's Day.

[Taylor Lewan]

Come on. Toss that boy down this way. Toss that boy down this way. Yach.

[Will Compton]

Mother's Day drop, fellas. For the men out there watching, because we know this is 98% men that are watching this podcast and consuming Mother's Day is a month out. Don't wait.

[Taylor Lewan]

Don't wait.

[Will Compton]

Did we drop these a little early? Were we a little quick on the trigger? I think we're all a little quick on the trigger sometimes. You know what I'm saying?

[Taylor Lewan]

More ways than one. Absolutely. One thing we're not quick on the trigger on is merch, though.

[Will Compton]

Yes.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yes. We get in the middle of Spooktober and it's like, hey, you gotta order

[Will Compton]

your Spooktober merch every male's brain. Trigger, trigger, trigger.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Mother's Day is coming up. How do I take care of my mom? How do I take care of my wife? I gotta do that. I gotta add it to the list. But you continue to drive. You don't actually add it to a list. You forget, because a lot of things happen and we're idiots and we forget. Yeah. This is a reminder right now to go right now bwtb.com and shop for your mom, shop for your wife, whatever it is. We got Milk Team six gear. We got four of the mom's gear.

[Taylor Lewan]

Love this one, by the way.

[Will Compton]

For the mom's. A little. Little. Little flower coloring going on here, I think. R drew that.

[Taylor Lewan]

R drew that.

[Will Compton]

R drew that.

[Mario Cristobal]

Pause the podcast. Go order.

[Will Compton]

Pause the podcast. Great, Mitch. Pause the podcast and go order for your mom or your wife right now.

[Taylor Lewan]

I. Listen, can I just say one thing? I know we're on the merch stuff and the Mother's Day stuff two weeks in a row, Mitch. Carlos has been on a heater two weeks in A row. Mitch, Carlos. He's been on a heater. Pause the podcast. Go get it done. BWTB.com I mess with this though. Oh, yeah, I'm. I'm a big fan of this.

[Will Compton]

They come in sweatshirt and sweatpants.

[Taylor Lewan]

A matching set. Oh, they got matching sets.

[Will Compton]

I see that. There's also like a cropped hoodie. Chicks like to wear cropped hoodies. Tote bags, wine glasses, coffee mugs.

[Taylor Lewan]

Are you joking?

[Will Compton]

Not you, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

Bro. If I could get Taylor with that belly starting to pop out a little bit with our third child. I just told her. I was like, when you start to get to the point, it's summertime, I need you in crop tops more. I want you showing off that she

[Will Compton]

should rock the crock top when she's in the third trimester abs.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's what I'm saying. Absolutely. Just have that thing bellowing out.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

How do I look? You look fantastic. What are you talking about? You're just supporting what you do. What is Making kids, dude.

[Will Compton]

And hearing you talk about your wife right now, just. Again, we're recording this on Monday, 4:20. It is Taylor and Taylor's 10 year anniversary.

[Taylor Lewan]

10 years.

[Will Compton]

10 years of marriage, 10 years of love.

[Taylor Lewan]

10 years of knowing each other.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

For you to remember.

[Will Compton]

It's beautiful, dude. I. It was. It just came to me. You're sitting there talking. I'm like, man, I feel like something's in the air. My instinct just came.

[Taylor Lewan]

And that's such a guy thing too. Like you file things away a little bit and you know, like it's a birthday or a special, you know, a special date takes place. You don't want to say it. You want people to remember. And for you to bring that up on the bus. Buddy, Buddy.

[Will Compton]

It's huge. It's honored to hear you say that, man.

[Taylor Lewan]

Thanks, man.

[Will Compton]

Anyway.

[Taylor Lewan]

BWTB.com I've been married for 10 years. Boys, let's go. When you're watching this, it'll be 10 years in one day. How sick? 10 years is sick. Hey, hey.

[Will Compton]

Have some fun tonight, man. I'll have some fun. Matter of fact, from for the dads to you, Shockwave coupon. These are fun coupons. Shockwave.

[Taylor Lewan]

Got it.

[Will Compton]

Put a bow on it.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's very sweet. Very sweet. Take Old Tail and Six Flags tonight.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, Use both tonight.

[Taylor Lewan]

You can save one.

[Will Compton]

Just do one and then save one for the other.

[Taylor Lewan]

But if she put the kids down, I walk over. Honey, I'm not feeling good. Well, I got the coupon, but you

[Will Compton]

can say you can't, sweetheart. Great for you to bring up. I get it. The shockwave is shut down, but I got to put a bow on a coupon right here that doesn't involve the shock wave.

[Taylor Lewan]

Can you feel me? I'm. Put a bow on it.

[Will Compton]

Put a bow on it.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Like, hey, sweetheart.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right? You can choose one. Is that little. It's a clip where you, like, pick your. Pick your destination.

[Will Compton]

Put a bow on it.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Trust me, I knew.

[Will Compton]

Just for the audience.

[Taylor Lewan]

Put a bow on it. Yeah. Okay. I'm with you. I'm with you. Her family watches this show.

[Will Compton]

There's some Georgia fans out there you got to make sure they're keeping up with.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Did you see the.

[Mario Cristobal]

Dude,

[Taylor Lewan]

that was crazy.

[Will Compton]

I'm sorry. I apologize.

[Taylor Lewan]

Do I need to be. Beat Kyle's ass. Beat Kyle's ass now. Yeah, dude, I knew Steve was writing about something, man.

[Will Compton]

Did you see the.

[Taylor Lewan]

Joe Weird kid. We're joking.

[Will Compton]

We're joking on the show.

[Taylor Lewan]

Having fun on the show. It's the locker room to lock.

[Will Compton]

Never closed.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Will Compton]

To joke. Did you guys see the. The viral stuff going around? Zachariah Branch getting arrested at. What? Was there a bike. There was a bike festival going on in Georgia. He was back for the spring game. Gets arrested. It's what, 12, 20, 20 minutes past midnight?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yep.

[Will Compton]

Gets arrested for something so stupid.

[Taylor Lewan]

So dumb.

[Will Compton]

Did you see it? Are you caught up?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I'm caught up on the situation. Police officer, sir, can you do me a favor and move? He, like, has a little bit of an attitude, smirks. No. No move.

[Will Compton]

He smirked, took a step back, moved, and then cops like, okay, eventually just gets resisting.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right? Yeah, we're having fun on the show.

[Will Compton]

We're having fun on the show.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, we're having fun the show. Stupid. Stupid by the cop.

[Will Compton]

Yes.

[Taylor Lewan]

Let's take. Let's see the cop first.

[Will Compton]

Assuming what is out there is that it's known that it was that small. This little. It was all about, hey, can you get out of the way? Everybody's packed on these sidewalks, so you can imagine that there's just chaos going on at all times. Sir, can you step over here? Very small thing to get upset and arrest somebody over.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

Because the bomb was, like, $39. Like, what do we do? Are you just wanting to flash the badge and show that I got Mr. Touchdown right here?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, because we don't want that. We don't want that to take place. Okay. That being said, that's dumb. Now let's go. Zachariah Branch. Equally dumb Buddy, you're a week away from your dreams coming true of being an NFL football player. People talking about you being a day two pick. Maybe you might sneak into the one. Who knows what's going to happen. We all know that. We saw you at the SEC championship. You were an absolute dog during that game.

[Will Compton]

Gave us some flexing for the can. Shorter individual story with his family, too. Like with his brother, playing with his brother coming from usc, set a record

[Taylor Lewan]

at Georgia from most receptions in one year. Like, the guy is an absolute stud. He's going to have himself a hell of a career. But if you're sitting there and a cop wants to body bag you a little bit with his ego, let him have the ego, right, Ryan Holiday. Ego is the enemy. Go and stand off to the side. But, yeah, you got it, sir. My bad. Is he in the wrong? The cop of the wrong? No question. But also, what are we doing dumb for?

[Will Compton]

And you just know, bro, like, you get told this stuff all the time. Like when we were players in college, even in the NFL, like at all times when they're talking about going out, being safe, being responsible, all that stuff, it's like they're always just telling you, like, cops are just looking for a reason. Like, hey, you got a name? They. They know. They know who Zachariah Branch is, right? Like, you know, hey, cops, right? Think I can make a name for myself right here. Again, assuming that without what's out there on the report is exactly what happened. Told him to step back. He gave me a smirk. Basically, I got upset. I gave him a lawful order. He didn't follow the law. So in those battle legalities, I can arrest him.

[Taylor Lewan]

This is pulling somebody over, going five miles over the speed limit.

[Will Compton]

But you know, you have more of a target on you because people were pissed. Georgia fan or like Zachariah Branch fans, people that are defending Zachariah Branch, I get because the arrest is stupid. It shouldn't even happen. The cops should not be going that far again, $39 bond on bailout, getting out. But just, I agree that shit is dumb. But on Zachariah Branch's side, if I'm sitting here thinking about everything Taylor is saying, like, bro, what are you doing out that late? I get that you are in town and you want to be at the spring game and you want to probably enjoy. It's like, yeah, you're this close to the draft, your name is hot, you're out there with the boys, you guys are having fun. Whatever you're doing, I don't care about that. But you just have to know as a player, bro, you've got to be overly protective about what's going on. Because you've worked your entire life to become an NFL prospect to be draft eligible. Now you're in a spot, bro. You. You balled this entire year. You transferred, you played with your brother, you balled. You're in a spot to where you're projected second round. Your projection is probably not going to get hurt enough. GMs and people that are diving into this before the draft, it's a. It's a nothing burger. I'm assuming it's enough.

[Taylor Lewan]

But if something else happens, it's like, we should have seen it coming.

[Will Compton]

But is that being out even worth questions being raised? Like, even if they get to the bottom of it, nothing hurts. Like, bro, say you're going to be drafted. Say you get drafted 55th overall, but a team sitting at 51 was going to pick you. And somebody just didn't get enough context or they just made a decision of like, why is he out this late? This goes into our character, whatever it is, to where you could have been 51 and now you're at 55. Like, that's thousands of dollars, right? Like, none of that is even worth risking. Like, your boys that know, hey, you know, I'm going to get in early tonight, yada, yada. We got the draft coming up next weekend. Like, we'll get back on the other side, boys. Like, I need to be. It basically needs to be low profile, high focus at this moment in time. Because the last four months has been nothing but an interview for this draft process. And the ultimate goal, the ultimate dream is happening. Biggest moment of your life is happening this week at the NFL draft. Why put any of it in jeopardy? Over, like, I'm just relax. I'm just going to enjoy myself for a little bit. I saw that he wasn't drinking. Like, he was doing all the things right. Right. He just happened to piss a cop off because he just stepped back and went to the right a little bit. But even then, bro, you know the saying, nothing good happens after midnight. Like, why even be in that situation?

[Taylor Lewan]

Exactly.

[Will Compton]

Not in a way that where I'm like, I'm anti Zachariah Branch. I'm like, no. I feel like whether people believe it or not, I'm thinking I'm pro the player. Like, if I'm sitting there in a room with you and I'm one of your boys, it's like, why even go out tonight, bro? You're about to get you're about to be a top 15, top 20 pick next week, bro. And you're like, hey, Will, should we go out? Blah, blah, blah, blah, if you're even saying that. But we're sitting there having a conversation like, bro, why even risk that?

[Taylor Lewan]

Right? Because nothing, nothing good can happen like you. And the stage is set, right? Spring game takes place. You're back at school after training, you did the combine. Every guy feels this way when they're in the draft process. I'm the man. I'm the man. Like, I've done it. Like, I'm kind of like, let me go out and kind of like show myself up with maybe a couple honeys out there.

[Will Compton]

Let me get an ig. Post up.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, you know, post up a little bit. Yeah, but you gotta, that's where you have to, one, protect your own legacy and understand that everybody around you is not there to protect you as well. Guys also want to show you, if I'm with Zachariah Branch, look at me, we're boys. He's going to be a draft pick, probably a pro bowl player at some point. Like all the things, they don't have that opportunity, you have that opportunity. So when your boys are like, let's go do X, Y and Z, if there's even a little bit of a risk, just walk away from it. And it does. It makes you seem uncool in the moment. But long term, it play, it pays off dividends. Because the NFL, like, we both know now that we're washed up football players, eventually your ass gets kicked out. One way or the other, one way or another. So these guys that you're around, I'm sure most of them are great, but just you gotta really figure out who's who and who really has your best interest involved. And at the end of the day, it's like you have to make the best decision for yourself.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Because, I mean, I have a bunch of examples of things I could have done better when I was playing and I, if I could go back and be like, man, I would have, you know, not gone out and gone crazy my first couple years in the league and all those things. But now that you're sitting there and you're 34 years old with two kids, like, it's so clear, like, dude, just take care of your house first. Yeah, yeah, put your oxygen mask on first before helping anybody else.

[Will Compton]

Because all you have too is your reputation. Like, say again? He does nothing wrong. All of it comes out. This is like, he pissed the cop off. Cops thinking oh, that's Zachariah Branch. Hey, listen, you're not the one with the power in this situation. I need you to get your ass back. He gives a smirk, he gets mad, he gets arrested. But let's just say you did absolutely nothing wrong. But the fact that there's questions that come out, that the headline is Zachariah Branch gets arrested, that happens first and more context comes out. But even if you're on the straight narrow, all it takes is for one other slip up for people to say, oh, oh, he was like that guy that got arrested back in Georgia. Then they lost all context. All the guys, oh, he got arrested or he got into a dust up a second time. Maybe he was. Maybe there was things going on with that cop back in Georgia that we don't know about.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right?

[Will Compton]

Because again, when you're building up your reputation, what is the quote with Warren Buffett? It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five seconds to ruin it. You just reset. You just reset back to that foundation of people that know nothing about this other than seeing Zachariah Branch gets arrested. They don't dive into the report, they don't dive into the context, they don't dive into anything to know that you aren't an issue whatsoever the next time something could come about. Because again, you don't know how everything works. You can't control what people do with you. You have another bad situation that comes up, people that don't know, they're just going to relate it back to the first one.

[Taylor Lewan]

They're going to fall back on the domino effect to be like, this happened, that happened. Bad guy. Yeah. Bad character. And listen, Georgia, I don't know what the years was, how many years it's been, but so many years have gone by. There's been 30 arrests and 31 draft picks.

[Will Compton]

And to that point, too, when we talk about reputation, again, you did again, Zach Rye Branch, nothing wrong. You're tied to that reputation of Georgia.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Will Compton]

So if there's been 31 arrests, you know, their last 30 draft picks, whatever that stat was like, immediately people are going to think, oh, Georgia, Yep. Of course it's a Georgia kid. Right? Of course he's going to get arrested without wanting to understand anything. So it's like, dude, protect your bag. You are so goddamn close, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

So talented, too.

[Will Compton]

Exactly. He's going to be a beast in the slot in the NFL. And again, this is going to ultimately be a nothing burger. He'll still get drafted. People are going to, oh, didn't he get arrested like all that stuff is going to happen all because it's like, for what, man?

[Taylor Lewan]

Why even. Why even allow some sort of narrative to take place about you?

[Will Compton]

Because you want to go hang in a bike festival or you want to go hang with the fellas? Like dog. Just low profile, high focus.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. I love it. Zachariah Branch handled. You brought back up the draft. Do we want to talk about FanDuel at all?

[Will Compton]

We can. We gotta. We got a. A couple more little callbacks right here.

[Taylor Lewan]

Let's hit that. Let's hit that.

[Will Compton]

You want me to hit Crazy Man 64335.

[Mario Cristobal]

Or this would be Crazy Man 64.

[Will Compton]

Thank you for commenting on our YouTube channel during the episode.

[Taylor Lewan]

Crazy Man 64335. Anyone else helping? Anyone else having Moneyline Matthews withdrawals?

[Will Compton]

I am. I. Dude, I think about Clay multiple times a week.

[Taylor Lewan]

Week. Yeah, Absolutely. Sometimes you just want to pick up the phone and call. Yeah. See what the boy's up to.

[Will Compton]

For whatever reason, I just don't do it. And I. I get mad the next time I think about, like, man, I said I was going to call my.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And now what's the up? We've taken place. What we need is just a selfie video of Moneyline Matthews. The next UFC event. This is my parlay because the people are. We're on life support. We need some. Something of Moneyline Matthews coming out. Should we call him?

[Will Compton]

Just go.

[Taylor Lewan]

Should we call him?

[Will Compton]

Miami Hurricane fans, we have a show called the Locker Room that we do.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

During football season, where Clay Matthews, Delaney Walker, we all do a show together, talk about all of our. All of our bets for the upcoming weekend in the NFL. Moneyline Matthews is a thing. So, again, just for all the new listeners out there, all the new audience members, and if you want to know, peak.

[Taylor Lewan]

Moneyline Matthews, go to, like, week six to 10. Don't go past 10. Don't. Don't even worry about what happens after past 10. Six to 10 is where you want Moneyline Matthews because the kid was on a absolute heater for a while.

[Will Compton]

He had an aura about him.

[Taylor Lewan]

He did.

[Mario Cristobal]

Delaney does vlog. Somebody commented, said, we need a Clay can series.

[Taylor Lewan]

A Clay can series.

[Will Compton]

I love some Clay, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

Who doesn't love.

[Will Compton]

What's he doing for the draft this week?

[Taylor Lewan]

Like, guys, he's probably gonna.

[Will Compton]

Clay Matthews did text me recently. He just sent me a screenshot of him reaching out to a Facebook marketplace. Someone selling a casket. He just said, yeah, how heavy is this casket? And can you give me the rough dimensions? He had to add the note. Using this for a prop as well.

[Taylor Lewan]

Just already thinking about the locker room for next year.

[Will Compton]

No, this was during last year. He was going through his old things. He found it. He tried to order a casket during the last. He's a sicko, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

He's a sicko. The world. The world needs it. We got one from Steve Pilgrim. 9662. The Willie Willy. Willie had to have been comical. I wasn't there. It seemed like when I watched it back on the Notre Dame vlog, getting

[Will Compton]

carried by the boys.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Like, would have loved more buy in.

[Will Compton]

Would have loved more buy in. I get. We're trying to have our Rudy moment. I was fully bought into having a Rudy moment. The old lineman, they were kind of like, we'll carry a Willie because we caught the punts. And by the way, defense carrying you. They're just carrying you at their chest. But I wanted some buy in.

[Taylor Lewan]

Like, yeah, you wanted.

[Will Compton]

We just won the game.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And then switch from Rudy to Willie. It's just me by myself saying, I'm trying to pat the boys.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Hey, get the Willie chant going with me.

[Taylor Lewan]

It didn't help. Didn't help that you blew out a guy's L5S1. That was a tough look.

[Will Compton]

That was on me. I. I honestly, I was so excited. I ended up jumping. And I know better. And the guy was jumping.

[Taylor Lewan]

He was all low back to pick you up.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

He was all like, if that would

[Will Compton]

happen to me, I'd. Number one, I'd be dead. I'd be in the hospital right now, paralyzed from the waist.

[Taylor Lewan]

But with your last breath, you probably swing on him.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Been like, are you kidding me?

[Taylor Lewan]

And then. Yeah, you're gone. Yeah. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But, yes, it was a fun time. Go check out the Notre Dame vlog. And again, the Miami vlog, they dropped last night.

[Taylor Lewan]

Miami vlogs and Miami fans, if you want to get watched a little film on your team that you're planning against week eight, week nine, somewhere in there, something like that. Seven through nine.

[Will Compton]

November.

[Taylor Lewan]

November. That's. You're gonna want to see that. You're gonna want to take a peek. Ski at that boy right there. We got Mike Hawk. We got Josh Lawless. 1991. Shout out. 1991, the year I was born. Freeman has brought a tenacity and swagger Notre Dame has needed for decades. I hope he sticks around and wins that. Natty. A statue will be built, and he will be a living ND legend.

[Will Compton]

I hope he stays in Notre Dame forever.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. I mean, where's he going to go?

[Will Compton]

The NFL could go to the NFL.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And there's another one, too, like he was a Buckeye. Ohio State doesn't need a coach right now. But if in any version down the road, Ohio State gets in a sticky situation or Ryan Day moves on, you can tell. Slot at Ohio State now becomes available. In my brain, don't know this whatsoever. I'm just assuming. I'm thinking Marcus Freeman's 100% going to think about it.

[Taylor Lewan]

He's gonna want to go there for sure. And it's like, that's allegedly. That's our own impressions. But you saw when I asked him about the tattoo situation, Very quick to defend his voice.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Very quick to defend the Ohio State University.

[Will Compton]

He bartered a couple things.

[Taylor Lewan]

You know, he was. Listen, all good time has passed. Statue limitations is over.

[Will Compton]

You keep that hairline like that.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Twice a week.

[Taylor Lewan]

Crazy.

[Will Compton]

You bartered a couple days. Yeah. State.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Especially with those rent checks. You're not getting two haircuts a week.

[Will Compton]

I wanted to go back to start building the neck up, get the thicker neck going and shave the head again. Bald Freeman is the Freeman that I want.

[Taylor Lewan]

Bald Freeman is a scary looking individual, this Freeman. Handsome. He's doing the photo shoots, the whole thing.

[Will Compton]

Looks younger now.

[Taylor Lewan]

Looks younger than he did in his high school profile pick on rivals.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

But yeah, he won. Maybe we need that tough guy back. We need him back. He's pretty right now.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Miami fans loved that. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Listen, Miami fans again, you check out that vlog that dropped last night. The intensity that goes on in this practice, this kill or be killed mentality, this culture that they instill at Miami. It was a feeling of, you're back in the 90s, getting a behind the scenes look at practice because there wasn't cameras, there wasn't social media, there wasn't all these things. There was no nil world. It was just, how in the hell are we going to be the apex predator? And that is how these guys work when they have all the pads on.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. The psychological warfare that takes place the minute they stepped in the field. I'll just speak for the office line. They're doing drills so they're. They're warm before they even go to the warm up. Once the warm up takes place, you got 100 people that aren't even practicing and loud music taking place. You got Irv out there just on the microphone going crazy on the boys. It seems like you're being forged in fire at every single moment.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Where they are sprinting from drill to drill team place, what, an hour and a half practice to our practice.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

And they did not rest one time. It truly felt like old school, 9 on 7 football taking place the whole entire.

[Will Compton]

Getting coached hard.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

I do feel like in the, in the. The state of Florida, coaching, you do got to be harder on these.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yes.

[Taylor Lewan]

Why is that?

[Will Compton]

They grow up differently in Florida.

[Taylor Lewan]

Go ahead, expand.

[Will Compton]

So like Levante, he grew up and he went to the high school, Miami, Northwestern, where there's more. You're more like in the streets in Miami, where these dudes grow up. So all they know is being coached hard. If you're not. If you're not getting in their ass and creating these boundaries of like, here's what we do on the field, here's how we go off the field. If you're not in their ass at all times, they can, they can deviate from the course. But I just feel like youth football in Florida is coached way differently to where we would watch a practice. Say we had a say we are say we had sons. We'd be watching a youth practice.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

If we watch youth practices in Florida, we'd be like, oh, this is a. I don't know if we want our kids getting coached this way mentality.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. You know what I mean? I'm with you on that. I'm just pass these out real quick

[Will Compton]

because you think you. And again, even in high school, like I watch. When I was in high school, I watched this documentary called the Year of the Bull, where in the documentary they're covering like this four or five star athlete at Miami. Northwestern is one of the best high school football, high schools, like in America. And the way that they had these boys in the shower, like, yelling at them, throwing hands at him, they're fighting at practice. Like it's just a different culture down in Florida. So then when you get to whether it's Florida, Miami, Florida State, like they, the. The kids that come from Florida, they're. They're coached a certain way and you can't let the foot off the gas. When we were in Texas Tech and we were talking to. I was talking to one of those strength coaches that played at Bama and he was in Florida with coach Napier and he had all the greatest things in the world to say about Napier, but even him, he was like, there's a way you have to coach these guys when you're down in that area. Even. Even though Napier is all time, he loved Napier. He's like, he just the. Everybody that was operating over the University of Florida. They lost the pulse on that to where the players ended up kind of not like doing whatever they wanted.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Will Compton]

But the discipline and the way you have to get after these dudes, it just wasn't there. And then you're playing catch up when you all you. He's like, all you have to do is get behind in one recruiting class or two, and then you're playing catch up the whole time. The culture's not instilled there. That's the vibe I was getting at Miami watching the practice go on.

[Taylor Lewan]

But we had a bunch of guys from Florida at Michigan when I went there, and they. There's a bunch of dudes from a spot called Pahokee, Florida. And everything I could gather from the. The town of Pohokie, Florida was low income area, tough life to live. And their football program was everything you explained to the point where their conditioning was. They would take rabbits and they would put them in this like, round penned area. And their conditioning for that day was like, catch the rabbit. And you couldn't leave until you caught the rabbit. Yeah, no, Denard's from Deerfield. Different. Different spot. But there was like. I know I was. I was getting in hell with that sticker dude. But Odoms, Tay, Odom, Brandon Hawthorne, handful of guys that I play with, bro, they would. They would talk in a way that you don't understand, where you're kind of smiling and nodding the whole time until you can kind of figure out the lingo a little bit. And once you did figure out the lingo, it's them telling you about like, oh, this we're doing in college when you're. We're all dying. Like, this shit's easy compared to where we came from.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

This is nothing to us.

[Will Compton]

I think about Levante talking about his experience at Fort Scott. The juco route.

[Taylor Lewan]

Crazy.

[Will Compton]

All the boys are there and they're like, fight. Like, hey, you got to run five miles to this lake. Now that you get to the lake, one on one, you guys got to basically fight and wrestle. Whoever wins gets a ride back.

[Taylor Lewan]

Killer be killed.

[Will Compton]

And you're saying it too, like in those, in those environments, it's the meal ticket out is through sports, is through athletics. So it's just a different intensity that goes on.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. And it was definitely on display.

[Will Compton]

And that's what I was basically trying to say about Miami.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. About coaching.

[Taylor Lewan]

All that being said, what you got club. The area you're talking about has produced

[Will Compton]

over 60 NFL players.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, bro, that's what I mean, bro. It's Pohoki. Florida. I've never been, couldn't pick it out on a map. If you showed me a whole the state of Florida, I couldn't not tell you where it is. But it is like all those guys that I play with, built different hard working, disciplined cats who are just willing to die on the football field because they're how they're brought up. Florida is just a different state. We have the conversation all the time, like best football state, all that. Florida is clearly always in it. I always argue for Arizona, but Florida really might be it. They got speed, grit, athleticism, everything you could possibly ask for. And it's just molding these guys into what they need to be. And that's what Crystal ball is doing at Miami. Because it is.

[Will Compton]

And guys, we just kept saying to

[Taylor Lewan]

each other, killer be killed.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Like literally walking by each other because you would go, you would split off somewhere else. I would go somewhere. But anytime we pass it was like a, like a killer be killer. You just knew that was the mantra taking place.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. In that building the mentality is you either get out of what's going on at home because there's there, there's no turning back.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Will Compton]

Like you don't want to go back to or have to end up back at home.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Like they just have like it's like back against the wall mentality. It's like clump, like clumps. Talking about his five year old flag football team. I bet the flag football teams in Florida club would probably go there with JJ and stand there and be like hey, we might try out for this football team. They watch practice take place and clump would probably be like Jesus Christ. Like this is a. Yeah. And that's all those kids know. You know what I mean? You come from the privilege. Do you come from the areas, the suburbs, stuff like that. You go out in some of these street, these other areas, the low income areas. It's like it's a different world, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right, right. Lotto. Yes.

[Will Compton]

And monsters come out of it.

[Taylor Lewan]

Monsters.

[Will Compton]

Check out the vlog, man.

[Taylor Lewan]

Check out the vlog. Cuz it dude, it's awesome. And dude, Jackson Cantwell. I mean I've never seen a freshman offensive lineman go through one on one period and win every single one. Never seen that in my entire life. Might have been a great day for him. Might have been a regular day for him. But my God, when I saw that I was like, oh, this kid's got every single piece. There's a Reason why I DM this kid to go to Michigan over and over and over again. I see the reasons now. They're right here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because he's got it, dude. And the way his. His computer works, dude, he operates.

[Will Compton]

He seems like a good soul, too. Yeah, I'm like, Missouri boy down here in Miami. He's like, yeah, it's a different. Oh, my go. I'm with you.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, it's different up here. And then we. He's from Nixon, Missouri. Yeah. And for him to say the quote, only thing to come out of Nixon is cigarettes, beer, Jason Bourne and himself. But like, any guy that would be like, I'm one of the only things come out of here is like kind of like an arrogant thing to say. You would think the way he says, you're like, yeah, dude. He's got an attitude about it.

[Will Compton]

Just a worker, man.

[Taylor Lewan]

Bro. Pull up the right tackle to 78. Because this cat, he came up to me the beginning of practice, right as they're like, go from the warm up to the drills he goes through. He was playing right tackle. They're doing like their inside zone steps. He finishes holding the dummy, comes with me legit, grabs me by the collar, and he's like, anything you have for me today? Tell me anything, anything. And it was just like, I need to learn.

[Will Compton]

Hey, chasing the ball.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Hey, how fun.

[Will Compton]

How many reps did you get at chasing the ball, guy? You're telling you, you're like, hey, I'm beating Crystal Ball's ass. And then I'm like, okay, let's get a little competition. Coach Crystal Ball Taylor's saying, he's rocking you.

[Taylor Lewan]

And you know what's crazy is as bad as my eyes are, my ears have gotten stronger. I heard you told Chris about that. So the next one I'm thinking, I'm running. So I go down on that, that one, whatever. And I see him and I saw the. With a yard line he turned off at. I hit myself an extra yard.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Crystal ball did not beat me in a sprint all day. I'll say that.

[Will Compton]

But the juice that even comes into Coach Crystal Ball challenging all the coaches, make sure you're chasing the ball. So chasing the ball means a rep goes on. And when the play's dead, whether somebody thuds up or plays over or drop ball, whatever, whenever there's a stalemate in the plays over all the coaches and everybody's chasing the ball, running in the mix, juicing up their boys, coaching their guys hard. Massive fan of the defensive coordinator. Is it Heatherman, he just found a massive extension. Did he? Well deserved. You can tell, bro. Any meeting room I sat in, you can just. They're talking about situational football. You know, down in distance. Hey, third down period, red zone, period. They're in such situational teaching right now as far as their installs go in spring ball to where a lot of teams are. A lot of things that you see is they're just installing from the start how to line up on defense, how to do these things. You're not necessarily in the weeds of situational awareness. The fact that he's up front in the defensive room talking about situational awareness and the entire room of players is sitting there coaching loud what they need to be doing. Like, for the guy next to him. It's not a coach led thing. He frames the situation going on. They're going through motions, but all the players are speaking up loudly, they're talking loud. They're just getting right to where I'm like, yo, Miami's going to be nice this year.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah. Especially, you see two years ago with Cam Ward, and that was the biggest Achilles heel for them was the defense. Then they had the turnaround they did this past year. It's just awesome to see. Let me just give this kid a shot real quick. Real quick. Matthew McCoy, this cat dude, from the minute we stepped in the field, grabs my caller and he's like, anything you can tell me, I need the help. The great thing is he's got a great offensive line coach. I need you to look him up, his name, because I'm just, I'm terrible at that cte. But this coach, he's like, his stature is. He's a smaller stature coach. Me and jp, we go sit in the old line room and he's going over the install that they have. It's breaking down their gap scheme where the tight ends lined up inside zone and some of their mid zone, outside zone stuff. While he's talking, halfway through the whole entire meeting, he takes a break. He doesn't bring me up, but he introduces me to the rest of the room, tells me, listen, we're going to teach these guys anything you've played, you've had the success, what we think, anything you can tell these guys you're not stepping on anybody's toe. So it already gives me the pass, like, go in, do your thing, help these guys any way you possibly can. And while he's putting in the install for all these guys, he's also looking at me multiple times and be like, hey, Taylor, Just so you know, we put this number in front of that. That means how many tight ends. Where the tight end is going to be to the point where I go out to practice and on a very loose. On a very loose standpoint, I understand now what we're doing today. So when they're calling the plays in that period where we're chasing the ball and all that, I. He's like, they're telling me the number. And I'm like, okay, so that's duo this way. And he's like, yes, absolutely. Titans laying up on that side. So now I'm over during a break between that period and two minute where I'm talking the tight ends about how they line up and everything like that. Because a couple guys kind of figured out that I knew what the install was in the numbers because the numbers are so predicated on where the Titans live. It was awesome how inclusive they were while also being as violent and tough on those guys. Tough on those guys. Alex Mirabal, am I saying that correctly? This guy is incredible. A dude that assistant head coach. Yeah. I swear to God, this guy's 5 7. But his, his attitude and his energy, the guys in the room, their eyes are massive. They're looking, they, they respect him so much. It's really cool to see because you see these gargantuan men, dudes that are towering over me, and they're looking at him like, like, feed us information.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

Which is really cool.

[Will Compton]

It's the quote of. It's not the size of the dog in the fights. The size of the fight in the dog. This guy.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And he comes up to us afterwards too, like, appreciating us for the cam Jurgens. He's like, anytime you guys have an alignment on, I send it to all my guys.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I send it to all my players. Hey, listen to this, right? Because he's like, I listen to you guys all the time, like just when I'm out on a jog. And I'm like, yo, let's go, dude.

[Taylor Lewan]

Get pull up the assistant online coach because he was, he, he and I, he didn't break character until about halfway through practice. And he's. We're looking at the sheet and this is probably around the chase, chase drill because we're both chasing. He's like, I gotta tell you, man, I've been watching your guys's show forever, but he was awesome, dude. I, I, I, I. We got to get his name because he was so great.

[Will Compton]

The O line coach and Crystal Ball were high school teammates by the way.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, Forever. It's awesome.

[Will Compton]

Crystal. Obviously you guys are going to listen to the interview, but he talks about in the interview how they've known each other for what, 40 years?

[Taylor Lewan]

Forever. And they would just talk about if they were ever coaches. Weren't they the best men in each other's weddings, too? Mirrorball was. Oh, and then Chris was the best man in Mirrorball's wedding, but Crispball was like, I couldn't. I had my brother because he would have killed me. Me. How's that for cte? That's a good call back. But sometimes I give myself a little. All right, you still got it.

[Will Compton]

We had fun with coach Crystal Ball, too. In the interview. Did you tell some questions? Right. Hey, this is dumb.

[Taylor Lewan]

This is not us. Yeah, this is not us.

[Will Compton]

It's the Internet asking.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Letting the fans ask question is such a. A loophole for us to ask the dumbest in the world.

[Mario Cristobal]

Especially when the question comes from Taylor lan 77.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Sometimes you got to get a couple, man. But yeah, we don't. I mean, we can look up the. The coach. I do want to give him some flyers.

[Will Compton]

They're a middle linebacker, too.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. By the way.

[Will Compton]

But this. This dude, you look.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, from the waist down, you're just

[Will Compton]

like, my God, even the waist up, bro. Yeah. The shelf he's got sitting on his shoulders.

[Taylor Lewan]

You see, I only saw him with shoulder pads on, so I didn't get. I didn't get to see the trap. The traps and a T shirt set the tone for me.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

With. With mid skill guys, boulders.

[Will Compton]

You got right here to where the T. You know. You know what the look I'm talking about.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I know. Hey, we all want want it. Yeah, we all want it. He didn't seem like I felt his

[Will Compton]

back whenever I dapped him up. He doesn't know. But I was getting a nice little.

[Taylor Lewan]

If you can get that. Yeah, you can get that back strap like that before the spine. You dab somebody up. You feel that? It's like, all right, we got somebody here. We got somebody here. I understand now why coaches kind of grab you so much. I remember like, going, like, on recruiting visits. I can't see that far clock. I don't know if this him.

[Will Compton]

Sorry.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah, that's him.

[Will Compton]

That's him.

[Taylor Lewan]

All right.

[Will Compton]

Danny Hajar.

[Taylor Lewan]

Danny Hajar. Shout out Danny. Dude, he was awesome. Like, like, essentially my host. If I was the recruit. Like, he was just taking me around everywhere during practice. He was so great. But, yeah, dude, coaches grabbing. You do you remember, like, going on visits and coach would be like, hey, you all right? Good to see you, man. You're like, why the.

[Will Compton]

Are these guys both your shoulders? Yeah, I get it now, though.

[Taylor Lewan]

I understand it because I see a couple now. I'm like, all right. When I was. We were at Texas Tech, that right tackle, I started putting my hands on him a little bit. You can see he was. He was already on.

[Will Compton]

I'm gonna start taking the. I'm gonna start diving into my instinct. I'm gonna dab him up and then I'm gonna go down and just start feeling the quads. Yeah, like, how you doing?

[Taylor Lewan]

No one loves quads. No one loves quads more than this man right here. Love some quads, but yeah, dude, shout out. Danny Hajar.

[Will Compton]

Speaking of quads, go ahead. Texas Tech linebacker Seth Roberts. Nope.

[Taylor Lewan]

Rodriguez.

[Will Compton]

Rodriguez. Jacob Rodriguez. I wonder where he's going to go in the draft. Should we start talking some draft dude?

[Taylor Lewan]

Been trying to.

[Will Compton]

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[Taylor Lewan]

I saw an interesting thing where it's like talking about Jacob Rodriguez will be the second linebacker taken. He's more of a day two guy taking place. Then you watch the film and you start to realize, oh, he doesn't really have any flaws in his game. My question when I'm watching the clip, I can't remember who it was. Might have been D.J. breaking down him. It's like, why would Jacob Rodriguez be a day two guy and the second linebacker taken when he had the stat line? He did. He was. Was he a finalist for the Heisman or was he. He was like a fifth or sixth. He was in the conversation towards the end. Like, is he gonna get the invite to go get the Heisman? You watch that kid's film from a leadership standpoint, you see when he's got the green dot on everyone, their eyes just go straight to him. Instinctual. He finds the ball. He has great hands catching. It was a quarterback in high school, correct?

[Will Compton]

Yep.

[Taylor Lewan]

Quarterback in high school. I mean, I'll let you kind of break this kid down a little bit more, but I thought, impressive. Great mustache has left so much of a legacy. When we pull up the Texas Tech, the three linebackers who look the exact same, same height, same stat line and weight and everything, they've all got mustaches. And that's not a coincidence because Jacob Rodriguez was just there just a minute ago.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I think he's, I think he's in a great spot if he's going to go in the second round because again, then he won't have that fifth option, fifth year option tied to him. He'll get the free agency sooner. Because for him, even when we're at Texas Tech, they talk about how smart he is and how much he plays from the neck up. Because all the things on film, like, yeah, he was a Heisman. He was in the Heisman, whether it was finalist, semifinalists. But he has high ball production and defense, like scouts. Everybody loves when you have high ball production. So he's somebody who's around the ball at all times. He's obviously going to fill the stat sheet with tackles, you know, assisted tackles, all that stuff. A guy who makes a play behind the line of square scrimmage, guy who makes plays when he's got a chance, an opportunity at an interception, getting your fist on balls, creating force, fumbles. He has a high ball production. So that's, that's where to me it's like, dude, if he goes in the second round, honestly, good for him, right? Because he's not going to have that fifth year option tied to him because he's going to be a stud in the league.

[Taylor Lewan]

If you can get, if you're not in that top 15 range where that money. Money is as big as it is now, you should be thinking to yourself, how do I get in that early second. Yeah, because the, the only reason is that fifth year option you've already brought up.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Because you're not tied to any anything. You can be faster. Clean take. Clean take. Oh, Sherm. Sher wrote this down.

[Will Compton]

Sherm, go.

[Taylor Lewan]

Clean take.

[Will Compton]

Dude, I hate to do this.

[Taylor Lewan]

I interrupt.

[Will Compton]

But Kevin's Natural Foods clean take.

[Taylor Lewan]

He's the steel of the draft. Wow. Clean, clean cake. In my opinion, in your opinion that

[Will Compton]

you don't have to take it or leave it.

[Taylor Lewan]

Michael Trigg also just got a. I got. Okay, yeah, two. Yeah. Two steals.

[Will Compton]

Steals, clean take. You'd rather be drafted early second than from the that 20 to 32 slot.

[Taylor Lewan]

Clean take. I like that.

[Will Compton]

I like Kevin's natural food.

[Taylor Lewan]

Kevin's natural food.

[Will Compton]

And Kevin from Notre Dame.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, Kevin's rule, dude. Kevin's rip, dude. And that's. That is. That's a sneaky clean take. Because a lot of football players, they want to get picked for that 10, 20 to 32 so they can say I was a first round draft pick. But truly, bro, from a longevity standpoint, more. Really a more money standpoint point, you got to get in that 33 range.

[Will Compton]

Now it's about getting to that second contract.

[Taylor Lewan]

The guys that get drafted 33 to 40 steals at the draft steals for themselves. That might be a Kevin's natural food clean. You like that 33 to 40. You're living easy. You're living good, brother.

[Will Compton]

Did you see there's a quotes going around about. Is it Riley Leonard talking about how

[Taylor Lewan]

much card last night. Ripping packs, by the way, Pull this card. Go ahead.

[Will Compton]

Riley Leonard.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

How's the ripping packs thing going?

[Taylor Lewan]

Body last night I think was incredible with Courtyard IO, shout out Jared Beeman. I want to give him actually a round of applause. The way he came in.

[Will Compton]

People tuning in, tell them what happened. Tell them what happened.

[Taylor Lewan]

So every Sunday night, 7pm Central Time, we go live on my Instagram. I rip packs, we do Pokemon in the beginning, we get some football cards. And then just last night, for the first time, We've used Courtyard IO. It's an app that you can actually. It's like thrill shopping, randomly pulling slaps. So I brought three different fans in and I gave them three $500 rips. And in that exact moment, once I they picked the card they wanted, I sent it off to them. Some guy hit a Dan Marino kaboom card which is, I think it was a $500 pack. The card was valued at $845 when he pulled it. But beaming comes in, starts spamming the chat. I know that because all of a sudden all the boys are in a group chat all of a sudden spamming everything. So we had, we had a good, good group of boys in there.

[Will Compton]

And so when people hit this Courtyard IO, they just tap the screen. It'll like, like spin or whatever, and then the pack opens up and it show.

[Taylor Lewan]

Exactly. So you can do, like, anywhere from $10 cards, like $5,000 cards. And if you're like, I need a new watch, but I don't know what I want to get, they have $5,000 rips and $10,000 rips for that, where you can just get certain. Certain kind of cards. Then when the car with the cards come out or the watch comes out, you can do three things. You can sell it back immediately for, like, a certain, like, 90% of the value of whatever you pulled and then go rip again. You can put it in this vault and send it to a buddy, or you can actually have it sent to you into your house.

[Will Compton]

So the minute that damn Marino card got pulled, it. It was a $500 pack.

[Taylor Lewan]

It was a $500 pack. The card was worth over 800.

[Will Compton]

And you take that damn Marino card and you send it directly to that guy to where he can either keep it in the vault or get it shipped to him directly.

[Taylor Lewan]

Took my username, Taylor177, and sent it to him right then and there. And it says, transaction complete. So it goes to him. Now he has the card.

[Will Compton]

He just get in mint condition.

[Taylor Lewan]

Mint condition. How sick is that?

[Will Compton]

That's awesome.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Because ripping packs, rip impact is awesome. But raw cards don't hold the same amount of value as a car that's been graded. So a card that's graded, you have to pay for that process to go in. It's like 20 business days or whatever it is. Then it comes back to you. It could be this, could be that. So ripping slabs. Unbelievable. And this new chrome tops thing, by the way, is so much fun.

[Will Compton]

You know what we got to do, what we gotta do, you know we gotta do.

[Taylor Lewan]

I know what we gotta do.

[Will Compton]

Imagine.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Yes.

[Will Compton]

It's an audience member out there.

[Taylor Lewan]

You're the audience.

[Will Compton]

You're the audience.

[Taylor Lewan]

You're the audience. That's the reason why ripping packs really started, was just figuring out a way to get it to the people. Because we thought about. We talked about doing a lot of different ways to give away. There's one clear path from a monetary value to give it away to fans. A lot of red tape. A lot of red tape for us to go down. So this is a nice little way for us to give back to the fans in a big way.

[Will Compton]

Especially. People got, like, a team, and they. The Miami Dolphins fan, they get a Dan Marino. What's he said? Kaboom.

[Taylor Lewan]

Kaboom. A Damn.

[Will Compton]

Marino kaboom. That gets Boom.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, dude posted it like. Yeah, actually auction in the car right now, cuz I have.

[Will Compton]

You said they do Rolexes, buddy. You can just rip a watch.

[Taylor Lewan]

You can rip a watch, but there, there's, there's a.

[Will Compton]

Just up here. Hey, we're going to rip an audience member watch. Boom. All right, who wants the watch with papers and everything?

[Taylor Lewan]

It's nuts. Let me show you this card. This card's actually sick cuz the, the Pokemon cards my kids and I are into. But these football cards are sick. That's a cardi p. It's just a

[Will Compton]

holographic Dan Marino Kaboom. Kaboom, baby. A 2021 absolute downtowns power players.

[Taylor Lewan]

Power players.

[Will Compton]

Those power player cards look sick and tops. Was at the draft last year in Green Bay. Yeah, hopefully they're, they're in Pittsburgh because they were handing out a ton of

[Taylor Lewan]

cards to you guys last year.

[Will Compton]

So if you're a collectibles fan, you love ribbon packs, you mostly do what, NFL, college, Pokemon, literally.

[Taylor Lewan]

So with collector, what I can do is I can whip any. If you like baseball, I can rip baseball. If you like hockey, I can rip anything you want.

[Will Compton]

You'll just bring a fan in and they'll tell you.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'll be like, yeah, what do you want me to rip for you? This is the year of the audience, not about me. If it's me, I'm ripping a Pokemon card. But what do you want to rip?

[Will Compton]

Got you.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So anybody tapped in? If you're a collectibles fan, go to Taylor Stream every Sunday night, 7pm Central Time.

[Taylor Lewan]

That is correct, sir.

[Will Compton]

That is, if you get pulled up share screen. You get to pick the collectible. You want to tell Taylor Rolex, yeah,

[Taylor Lewan]

we're doing 500 packs. Okay, we're doing 500.

[Will Compton]

I'll get you a fossil. Let's go. We got a 500.

[Taylor Lewan]

You'll love this. You'll love this. The that Caleb guy I pulled, I brought him on Instagram live. Both of his kids are sitting right there. And as he had a boy and a girl shout out him having the American dream and I was like, what do you want to rip? He looks into his son, he's like, what do you want to. He's like football. So his son is getting that card.

[Will Compton]

Oh, that is awesome.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, Had a Bears fan. Best cardi pulled was a Packers BART star card. That's day. It's a great card. I think it was like 600 in value. He's gonna have it. He can go sell it if he wants. Go sell it. Rip what you want, you know, and, yes, thank you. Sure. Promo code. If you're new to Courtyard, you can use no bad days. 15 for 15 off your first rip. Nice pull, Sher.

[Will Compton]

The card seems so cool. Until they give you that trade in. You're like, man, I could just rip it, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's the thing too.

[Will Compton]

It's like, that's what I did.

[Taylor Lewan]

I like this card.

[Will Compton]

I want to forget the car. Let me try to get something nice.

[Taylor Lewan]

Exactly, Exactly.

[Will Compton]

Let me go shopping on mother's Day. Actually, don't do that. BWTV.com. that's where you.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's. That's what you want to do it. But I'm fascinated with this courtyard thing. It's kind of genius. Like, what can't you rip? That's what Corner needs to figure out. Like, let's get some real estate in there. We got 10,000 acres in Arkansas.

[Will Compton]

You can rip that right now.

[Taylor Lewan]

$60,000 rip. See what you can get.

[Will Compton]

We're ripping Tennessee.

[Taylor Lewan]

I swear, there's nothing they can't do. Like, why can't you do cards, cars, or bags or hats, whatever.

[Will Compton]

Real estate's so shootings. Real estate would be hilarious. They have it. They have it. They have it broken down into regions, and it's just land in the region.

[Taylor Lewan]

Exactly.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

You just get a nice plot of land in Chile.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. We're ripping cliffsides in Greece today.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. We're in beachfront properties here on Courtyard.

[Will Compton]

So you're telling me all I gotta do is sign up for Courtyard. I can give you guys this property that I'm selling, and I'll just get a commission fee when somebody rips the.

[Taylor Lewan]

All right.

[Will Compton]

Yeah,

[Taylor Lewan]

we just unlocked it. Yeah, yeah. Courtyard needs to. They need to sit in with us. No bad ideas. In a brainstorm, real estate might be the move. Commercial buildings just. What? Hey, why'd you get this? Courtyard just got some premium spot in New York City is ours now. We have this.

[Will Compton]

Just start ripping services. Like, say you need a plumber, and you're just ripping out. Okay, look, my budget's 50, and you just rip a pack to get a better value. Plumber.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, this plumbers was 75.

[Will Compton]

He'll come to the house right now. Like, oh, this one's $10.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, sell them back.

[Will Compton]

Get another ripping.

[Taylor Lewan]

What can't Courtyard do? Is the question truly fans were all about to do.

[Will Compton]

Dude, they should do it for the NFL draft. You start ripping players.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, that's how the NFL draft Should do. We're taking. Yeah. Oh, we got Fernand Mendoza. Hell yeah, dude. Trade it back. Trade them. We don't want that. We have a quarterback for the 10th pick.

[Will Compton]

The Cowboys are going to opt to use courtyard IO. Oh, I've got a second round draft for Jackson guy.

[Taylor Lewan]

Should the Eagles do that for A.J. brown, who they're going to trade him to?

[Will Compton]

Ooh, the A.J. brown hate. Diana Rossini was right.

[Taylor Lewan]

Diana. Hey, Diana. Hey, Clean dank. Diana Rossini's kind of had a crazy turnaround in the last seven days.

[Will Compton]

Yes. Bro. Would she save a family?

[Taylor Lewan]

And I. I saw. Dude, I saw that like six times before. I was like, okay, is it real? I didn't know if was like, I saw it. I'm like, I'm not gonna comment on this, but I'm gonna watch from afar.

[Will Compton]

My brain was going to the PR team and. Does anybody watch the TV show the Boys? Oh, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

When you put that in the group chat, I thought I was like, this has got to be funny for somebody.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. I saw Derek chime in with a laugh. I'm like, all right, let's see who. Because anybody who's watching the Boys right now. Phenomenal show, by the way. But it's it. Listen, great show. Go check it out.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay. But. Yeah. What about the city?

[Will Compton]

That's who's operating her pr.

[Taylor Lewan]

Got you. Okay.

[Will Compton]

That's who's operating her pr all right.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

That's the joke.

[Taylor Lewan]

Let's go save kids. Yeah, like that'll get you out of any hot water you could possibly get in.

[Will Compton]

We're gonna have somebody flip their vehicle. You're gonna. You're gonna be right there on the scene. You're gonna dive in up top, pull the old man out.

[Taylor Lewan]

Pull him out. Yeah. She has machete. She cuts the seatbelt. No problem.

[Will Compton]

They hired it.

[Taylor Lewan]

She's just completely prepared for everything.

[Will Compton]

The actors on the curb, it goes, oh, is that Diana Rossini?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. She looks over. There's a camera privilege. She winks into the camera. It's Diana Rossini. Makeup's perfect. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But, hey, A.J. brown of the Patriots. It's not official.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Will Compton]

But it seems likely that it's going to happen.

[Taylor Lewan]

Here's where I do. Here's what throws me off. June 1st. And I know there's, like, contractual things that take place. The newly year starts March 14, but all these things, a lot of things between April 20. This is where we are now. Shut up. My anniversary and June 1st, a lot of can go down.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Especially with that GM for the Eagles, man. He's a gangster.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, he's.

[Taylor Lewan]

He's probably behind closed doors manipulating some stuff. Just head. Heading a swivel. Patriots fans head in a swivel.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Yeah. I'd love to see A.J. brown be a Patriot.

[Taylor Lewan]

I would love it, too. I think that's exactly what they need.

[Will Compton]

You think? If you're the Patriots, go ahead. What happened last week, you're like, all right, now we got to get out some AJ Brown talk to come to the Patriots.

[Taylor Lewan]

I mean, that's.

[Will Compton]

Or is that how you on the Eagle side? Let's get this. Float this out there for something optically. I just. I'm always fascinated with the game inside

[Taylor Lewan]

the game, because there is always a game in the game. Like any sort of news thing that takes place after something does happen. Everything's strategic. Yeah, everything is strategic. Why would somebody talk about a trade happening in June 1st in April, and

[Will Compton]

then tag the word likely?

[Taylor Lewan]

Likely.

[Will Compton]

Like, shout out Shefty. Breaking that news.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. For the boys.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Yeah. But who's Shefty talking to to release that headline, Right?

[Taylor Lewan]

I don't know.

[Will Compton]

He won't tell us either.

[Taylor Lewan]

He would. I think Chef, I think Shifty's always been good about. Like, anytime I had a question about behind closed doors, he always texts me. I think there's an understanding. Like, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna step on your toes. I just want the education of what's really happening.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Because Chef, he's in the weeds, man.

[Will Compton]

He'd break it down at a breakfast club.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, that Chef, he's great about that.

[Will Compton]

But don't talk or I'll show up at your door.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right. Because, you know, he's got connections in that way. Yeah, he's got connections. I love it. What else happened in the news? So for those who don't know, Miami fans, we used to be with Barstool. Shout out Barstool. Great company. Gave us some wings, made our wings a little bigger so we could fly. But something took place this past weekend between Will Compton and Dave Portnoy. Where Dave. I didn't watch the full video. I saw there was a spat going on. I looked at it. I got back from Vegas with my kids. I'm like, I'm too tired to even invest in what's going on here. But see, You wanna. What happened? He was throwing shade at the number one. America's number one sports team.

[Will Compton]

And look, brilliant. Brilliant marketing on their side. They're trying to. They're trying to show that they have free insurance for Players in the first half on injury like NF or the NBA playoff is a big prop betting. NBA is a big prop betting game.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

For the NBA and for these sports books. So when I saw Dave kind of doing a breaking news and he says FanDuel is charging people for insurance and he's like breaking, breaking, saying DK does it for free. I had to dive into what was going on. And I'm thinking, okay, they're marketing it as free first half insurance for if a player gets hurt in the first half, you will get free insurance. Like your bet will get paid back. But you go into FanDuel because FanDuel offers. It's called BET Protection Plus. And what BET Protection plus is, is say you have a problem. Say Jeremy Klump's going to get over 10 points in this NBA playoff.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hell yeah.

[Will Compton]

And you hit the toggle on, opt into bet protection plus. They charge a 3%. They charge a 3% insurance fee, but it covers you for the entirety of the game. So whether Jeremy Klump gets hurt in the first minute or the last minute, you are protected across the board. So I'm thinking of it, I'm seeing Dave do his thing on Fanduel saying DraftKings or America, blah, blah. You shouldn't be charged on insurance. I'm thinking this isn't about what costs less. This is about exposure. No matter what, if you opt into free for the first half, like that's not, that's not protection.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Will Compton]

It's exposure sold at a discount. Like it's all about consequence. So if you're taking, say you do a hundred dollar bet on Jeremy Klump to have over 20 points in this NBA playoff, points just went up. Yeah. You're protected throughout the entire game. So if he again, if he gets hurt in the fourth quarter, you're going to get your straight bet paid back to you within 24 hours. Or if Jeremy Klump's part of a four leg parlay, if he gets injured and you opted in a bet protection plus, it won't count towards the parlay. Yeah, but you're covered throughout the entire game. Not covered in the first half.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Will Compton]

So that's where I was going back. I see Dave do his video. He's like alert, alert, alert. I just found a fun moment to like. I'm going to mock Dave's video and I'm going to tell people about the opportunity that you have. The fanduel, how fanduel does it compared to everybody else. Because it's not just, it's not just first half. Like, this is the entirety of the game.

[Taylor Lewan]

And because there's not Dave's fault. He's never been an athlete in his entire life. He's never understood the grueling being on a court or on a field and how soft tish injuries take place. So it's not Dave's fault that he has no idea how the human body works. We've seen him walk around. Clearly my boy's melting away a little bit. But most injuries,

[Will Compton]

he's got good physique.

[Taylor Lewan]

He's got a great fur guy who eats pizza every single day. He's got a phenomenal physique. It's hard to beat that physique. Pizza every single day. However, if you are an athlete, most soft tissue injuries take place in the second half of things because that's when your body's broken down a little bit. Electrostarts, electrolytes are depleted, you're less hydrated. All the things, people get a little more sloppy, a little more tired. You're out of that zone two cardio. You're now in the zone three or four. So you're breathing a little bit heavier. Injuries happen more at the end of games or in the second half of games than anyone else.

[Will Compton]

Pressure moments are higher in the second half. The intensity of the game, like you were just talking about in the first, fatigue that you have on your muscles, like more injuries are more likely to occur in the second half.

[Taylor Lewan]

All that being said, I don't blame Dave. He doesn't know what he doesn't know, right? And for that, FanDuel, whether it's 3%, but you're getting full coverage. Like if I'm, if I'm gonna have insurance, I love full coverage, right? Not as sometimes coverage because it's a little bit cheaper.

[Will Compton]

It's like pulling up to those, to those loan shops, like, hey, we got free cash loans. You're free. They market as free, free, free. No, you want. If you're going to bet smart, you're going to bet responsible. You want coverage to mitigate the risk throughout all of your exposure. FanDuel offers entire game protection. So if you're again Jeremy Clump 100 bet, you opt in on protection plus an extra $3 to protect me if he happens to get hurt. I want my money back at any point in the game.

[Taylor Lewan]

Any point in the game.

[Will Compton]

Because you got these fugazi's out there being like, oh, first half free, first half free, first half free. No, no, no, no, no, no. You need to mitigate Your risk. You want to be smart here, right? Nothing's free.

[Taylor Lewan]

Nothing's free. Bumper to bumper protection.

[Will Compton]

Bumper to bumper protection throughout all 60 minutes, even overtime, if overtime.

[Taylor Lewan]

Gotta love that, dude. Gotta love that.

[Will Compton]

While we're on FanDuel, they did just add a new little draft tab for the conference. Total number of Big Ten players drafted over under 11 and a half. The SEC is only listed at over under eight and a half. Big Ten SEC.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, listen, the Bay 10 SEC situation is. It's already. Jack, right?

[Will Compton]

The change of the guard is taking place.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's taking place.

[Will Compton]

Is that fair to say?

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a past tense. Besides, Matt, I'm the only SEC stand guy here, so.

[Will Compton]

No, you're not. Club is a Florida Gators fan.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Crazy shot.

[Taylor Lewan]

Demons of Georgia Bulldogs fan. No. Okay, sure. Yeah. Demons a Bulldog fan. Okay. The same way that my. Look, look, I. I'm not gonna go into this battle right here. I. This is an uphill battle. Pushing the rock for me, you guys. Recency bias. Yes. Are doing well. It's all cyclical, though. It's gonna come back, and that's all right. Using big words. He's throwing me off. It's a cycle.

[Will Compton]

Cyclical is good.

[Taylor Lewan]

Cyclical is good. Does that just mean cycle?

[Will Compton]

I think so.

[Taylor Lewan]

Why didn't you say cycle? Because that. That's the correct way. It's cyclical. Cyclical, yes. You want to give. You want to give it. I want to give a little confidence. He's walking. He's walking into a little bit. Just say, hey. Just Jack, objectively.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

The best conference is. The sec, is the Big Ten right now. And it's. It's right now, all the facts. All the facts are happening. We're looking at draft picks. We see where the numbers are at. We look at the last three national championships where those are at. Not just one team. Three different teams. So, yeah, just right now, the Big Ten is the best. That's what makes.

[Will Compton]

How about this? The SEC is the best regional conference. The Big Ten is the best national conference right now.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a great. Hey, there's a thousand ways to skin a cat. You guys are gonna. You're getting there. Look, I'm an SEC guy. You're never gonna hear me say the Big Ten is elite. I. Y' all two comparative to the sec. Because I love the south, so I'm. I'm not gonna fall. How much do you love the South? A lot more than most.

[Will Compton]

Prove it. How about this? Is there only one team or one conference that can be Elite?

[Taylor Lewan]

No, I don't think so. I think multiple conferences can be elite.

[Will Compton]

So could you. Can you say right now that the Big Ten is an elite conference knowing that the SEC is also.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, they are, but I'm not saying they're more elite than. Than others.

[Will Compton]

Okay.

[Taylor Lewan]

All right, that's fair. Another question.

[Will Compton]

We made progress there.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Do you think. What do you think the ceiling for the Tennessee balls is this year? Year. It's a big year. Josh Hypo could be one of those where if we don't get over eight wins, his name is on the hot seat 100. I think that's a big mistake for times.

[Will Compton]

I mean, I agree.

[Taylor Lewan]

I love Hypo, but we also. We're going through a quarterback change right now. So it's. We got gmac, who's most likely gonna be the starter, but then we also have Faison Brandon, who is going to be elite. But you can't start Fazon Brandon at the beginning of the year solely because the Tennessee Vols. Our fandom is chaotic. It's crazy. It's stressful. If you get this new kid going in here and he makes a mistake up front, our fan base is going to flip on him. They're going to lose confidence. You already have a guy who's had a couple experiences playing in the sec. Let him make a few mistakes if he will, and then if that happens, we need to make a switch. You still have Fazon Brandon in the back seat. Put him up there, let him get some game time experience. We'll see. But I am. We're getting that point of the year where, man, that fall is creeping up. Creeping. I am fired up. Sheffy Baby and I were having this conversation last week. It's like when the super bowl happens, I'll speak for myself. I'm ready for a small break. I'm a little footballed out. We do it every single day. You're looking into stuff. You're doing the espn, we're doing the gambling shows. Ruin the breakdowns. Everything to where it's like. This has been an absolute grind getting through the fall. I could use myself one or two weeks just to kind of decompress, get the batteries back to neutral before we start going on the long run yet again. I'm officially in that mode right now where it's like, would love some ball back. Yeah, would love some ball back right now. Michigan's spring game took place this past. This past Saturday. And it's just like, it's just nice to see the Winged helmet out on the Field.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Nice to see a packed stadium washing a spring game, and the Kyle Whittingham saga starting. I enjoy that. Now I'm just like, buddy, we get into June, I'm going to be itching.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'm having withdrawals. I'm having. I'm having people having Moneyline Matthews withdrawals. I'm having football withdrawals.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Because we've had a couple months.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'm wearing a white shirt, for God's sakes.

[Will Compton]

We've had a couple months now, and now it's like, we just did the spring tour, and it kind of gets the juices. Just going for some excitement, some football.

[Taylor Lewan]

And you know what pisses me off about the spring tour is, I swear, I would do 10 of those. I think it's so. I'm bummed we did just three. It was awesome. Every experience was incredible, but, you know, did we. It's just. It's so hard to beat going to these schools and how we've kind of put ourselves in a position to be like, these guys are essentially recruiting, and they're showing us the best. The best. We hit a. We had a damn high dive at Miami. Beautiful. We erased the swim team, like, to be like, the experiences we get. I would love to just keep. Keep going.

[Will Compton]

The women's swim team was yelling at me, we don't got all day. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Boy was out there. Legs were shaking a little bit to

[Will Compton]

the point Taylor came back up and was giving me the 1, 2, 3. Like, hey, you can do this, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, cuz.

[Will Compton]

There's no going back down. Like, that ladder. Getting up there, I'm in my head like, okay, I don't want to jump, but I'm definitely not going back down because it's even scarier to climb the ladder back down. And you, Willy boy, you can't be a. Like, you got up here. You're holding the GoPro, right?

[Taylor Lewan]

They're going. Going up the ladder. That high dive was the scariest part for me. It's like, bro, because you kind of get in, j. You did it. Like, my shoulders. I couldn't really get in. Like, do I go outside? Do I go inside? What? Get on that last ladder, man.

[Will Compton]

And you just think, if the worst

[Taylor Lewan]

possible scenario happens, it's over for me. It's over all. All just for this bit. It was worth it for this exact. And then you're up too high. Like, yeah, you can't go back down.

[Will Compton]

No chance, cuz, you know, the ladder's wet, narrow. Like, it's just.

[Taylor Lewan]

Why is everything Around a pool got to be so hard, you know? Have you ever noticed that, like, shit's just a little more rough around a pool? Yeah. Pads and where's your girls? Floaties.

[Will Compton]

Exactly. But yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Dude, watching you jump off, that was awesome.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. I was up there for what, four minutes?

[Taylor Lewan]

I had to be.

[Will Compton]

There's a. Hang on. Well, I'll be up there. And I'm thinking, I'm not going anywhere soon.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right now I just wanted to kind of go again because I knew, like, we had a finite amount of time. Yeah, I just. I think that's so fun.

[Will Compton]

For some marketing for the vlog, JP would be remiss if we did not mention Will's scream going into the water. Oh, yeah, it is worth a rewind at least three times. I know. I showed it to Will. He was giggling. Dude, we get in the water screen.

[Taylor Lewan]

After I went up Will and he jumped. We both were both in the water again. We're kind of sitting there holding onto the side and Will just goes, I. I was waiting for it to get fun on the way down. It just wasn't. I'm thinking, hey, that's got to be such a weird feeling to be like, oh, I'll enjoy this once I'm in the air.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Like the entire time of being in the air, you did not have fun.

[Will Compton]

You know, like, you lose your stomach, but at some point the stomach will kind of come back and you'll enjoy the last half falling down. And it just never really happened, right? Yeah, it never really happened. There's rumors that Will, you're retired from jumping off the 10 meter dive. I might be retired. However, I would still consider. Don't you think I'd still consider skydiving.

[Taylor Lewan]

You would consider skydiving?

[Will Compton]

I could because it's so far. Like, there's something about. Like you can feel the ground closer to you even though you're still up high. Like, I'm just not.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'm.

[Will Compton]

I am afraid of heights. Not roller coasters, but just free falling heights.

[Mario Cristobal]

Right.

[Will Compton]

I know we're free falling out of a plane, but again, it's so low. So you got another guy strapped to your back and it's like, it's just nothing but air all around you. I can't see the concrete. I can't think about slipping off the ladder and I'm dead no matter what.

[Mario Cristobal]

Right.

[Will Compton]

I have time to where again, I'll lose my stomach. And at some point it'll be fun as we're just kind of free falling. Then a guy's Gonna pull the chute for me. I'm sure I'll get scared. As I'm getting closer to the ground, I feel like I would. I don't even know if that logic makes sense.

[Taylor Lewan]

It doesn't because you're what, 5,000ft in the air, Something crazy. And it's like my thought goes to. Whenever I'm like jumping off, like a high dive or you do it when you're a kid at the lake, you're cliff jumping or whatever. To me, the biggest fear was like, is the water deep enough? And if the water is deep enough, I feel like I'm gonna get through whatever's gonna happen. Unless something goes crazy.

[Will Compton]

Can I get out far enough from the rocks?

[Taylor Lewan]

Right. Yeah, there's that. There's all those things. But in my brain, it's like. Like, is it deep enough? Because being a tall boy, that's always scary. And once the answer is yes, it's like, all right, we're going to go the free falling thing out of a plane. Yeah. You got a guy on the back who's done whatever a hundred jumps. He's got a little patch on his shoulder that tells you he's really good at his job. But you're still hoping that the string and whatever the parachute is made out of holds up for you. For to me that it's the free fall.

[Will Compton]

That's fair. It's clean.

[Taylor Lewan]

Take the free fall. Fart is not the scary part. It's the. And you're like floating down now. Yeah. And you have like another 3, 000ft or whatever it is to like, just kind of float down to the bottom. And it's like, is this gonna hold? Yeah.

[Will Compton]

You might have just scared me out. You might have scared me out of doing skydiving. Now. I. You definitely. We don't want the Virginia Tech guy.

[Taylor Lewan]

No, we don't want him. He's safe. Correct. We know he's healthy. He's fine. That's a tough L. And you knew he was in a bad, bad shape. You see that flag? The wind on that flag is nuts. He was. That boy was just stationary for a little bit. He wasn't going nowhere.

[Will Compton]

Virginia Tech, New year, new US Parachute guy lands on the scoreboard.

[Taylor Lewan]

You know, James Franklin just watching that, like, God damn it.

[Will Compton]

And then the social media guys, like, coach, don't worry. This is great content.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Great exposure.

[Taylor Lewan]

These social media guys.

[Will Compton]

Why does everything have to be content?

[Taylor Lewan]

Everything's got to be content. Plus what the boys guys were out there on it.

[Will Compton]

Not. Not on The. The Oklahoma one that I fell for,

[Taylor Lewan]

I. I'm not gonna go stroll of the weekend. And I knew that Oklahoma fans were going to lose their minds.

[Will Compton]

And it.

[Taylor Lewan]

We got context noted on Twitter, and I'm like, my job's done.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, Jack knew what he was doing. I see Oklahoma, I just thought it was their spring, and they're all tripping over each other in the smoke. I forgot that it happened when they were in the Big 12. Yeah. So I'm like, oh, tough look. Did Texas do this? Everybody's like, oh, no, Will. You got got. I love the comments. It's like, you guys are just doing this because they were mean to you during the playoff game and stuff.

[Taylor Lewan]

Those ones were good.

[Will Compton]

I thought about that.

[Taylor Lewan]

I do feel some type of way every time I see the Oklahoma logo.

[Will Compton]

Maybe it did come from that.

[Taylor Lewan]

I. I didn't post about it, but when I saw it, I was like, you know, I just kind of kept going.

[Will Compton]

People want you to feel dumb that you got got. And I'm thinking, yeah, I ended up saying, like, I fell for a double reverse.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Like, sometimes you get. God, flea flicker. Oh, my God, it's a run. Oh, now they're tossing it back into pass.

[Taylor Lewan]

April 1st, I'm on a plane to Lubbock, Texas, from Arizona, and I see that Entourage is doing a reboot. I'm like, my life's complete.

[Will Compton]

They faked you out.

[Taylor Lewan]

Then you go up in the air, and you're just sitting there being like, what a great day. Entourage is coming back, and you land. You finally get service, and it's like, oh, I got got. Yeah, it happens.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, it's gonna happen. You're gonna take a false step.

[Taylor Lewan]

Sometimes you get got by somebody else, and sometimes you get got by your own team. And that's what happened in Michigan State today, doing this dumbass dizzy bat thing. What are we doing? I don't know.

[Will Compton]

So is this real?

[Taylor Lewan]

Could be ahead of the game. Could be ahead of the game. Let's get really dizzy and go play ball, boys. That's just.

[Will Compton]

That's hard.

[Taylor Lewan]

My question is with dizzy bats, and this is kind of off topic for Michigan State, but when you're doing a dizzy bat, do you not feel like the bat should be planted in the ground? Because every time you see a dizzy bat, people are just spinning. Right. Holding a dizzy bat to their forehead. You should be spinning around the bat. Right. If you. If the dizzy bat is not stationary, it's just a wiffle bat.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yep.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's all it is.

[Will Compton]

And they're just having fun.

[Taylor Lewan]

They can have fun, but, like, let's. Let's do it correctly, right? Devil's in the details.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, Devil's in the details.

[Taylor Lewan]

And I hate Michigan State. Love Ryan Fitzpatrick.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Love him. Fitzgerald.

[Will Compton]

Pat Fitzgerald.

[Taylor Lewan]

Jesus Christ. I do that every time. Fitzpatrick. Pat Fitzgerald. Yeah, all of it, dude.

[Will Compton]

Michigan State. Love Ryan Fitzpatrick.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. I was trying to figure out the Ryan Fitzpatrick connection. I'm like, I'm thinking to myself, bro, I did that to Ryan Fitzpatrick. Said what? I was talking to him and I said something. I think I was talking about Larry Fitzgerald, and I said his name. He's like, I'm. I'm Ryan Fitzpatrick. I was like, let's move on. Onward, onward. Anyway, and Max, dude, what about Max below?

[Will Compton]

He's the D.C. at Michigan. State.

[Taylor Lewan]

Is he?

[Will Compton]

I love me some. Yeah, he's a stud. He's a stud.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Who's the OC for Michigan State? He was at Alabama.

[Will Compton]

I was going to say earlier, too, you were talking about the spring tour. I feel like we are idiots, but it kind of genius how it fell. How it fell together. Because now we go to the draft this week, so that's like, all of our content next week is going to be about us experiencing the draft. The spring tour is kind of behind us now.

[Taylor Lewan]

Fair enough. Fair enough. I'm just sad it's behind us. Love.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

The way.

[Will Compton]

The way every team, Texas Tech, Notre Dame, Miami treated us when we were there. Shout out, everybody. Staff. It was so much fun.

[Taylor Lewan]

It was awesome. And Texas Tech truly set the tone, man. Set the tone. And then. But Notre Dame and Miami, they had an opportunity to watch that and try to outdo him.

[Will Compton]

Coach Versace called me. He FaceTimed me the other day, being like, when you guys gonna come to Clemson? I'm like, we tried to come to Clemson. We tried to come to Clinton. He's like, who said no? I was like, I don't think. It's not. It wasn't a no thing. It was. Schedule just didn't line up correctly.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Will Compton]

But Versace is like, you guys need to get out of here. I'm like, trust me. I want the world to see a Rich Bisaccia speech in a special teams meeting.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I was like, we would love to come to Clemson. He's like, do you guys do anything for training camp? I was like, we might. Who knows?

[Taylor Lewan]

We can.

[Will Compton]

It'd be fun. Yeah, we can. Yeah, we're available.

[Taylor Lewan]

The problem with training camp is things are just a little more. It's tighter. Like spring balls like OTAs in a lot of ways where people are having fun, we're growing, but there's not that sense of urgency to be like, we got to be like, listen, boys, we plan a month.

[Will Compton]

No doubt.

[Taylor Lewan]

You got to be ready to go.

[Will Compton]

NFL could be different from college because no matter what in college, like, you're always playing the game of recruiting true and content along with the football being played. NFL teams, they don't, they, they're into content, everything else, but they're not having to go out there and recruit and show people inside looks of whatever, everything that goes on inside a training camp.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Whereas colleges, you might be more open to it because no matter what, you're trying to show what goes on at your program to get guys there all the time.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. The Clemson thing would be awesome for obviously Versace, but having JP have to make a vlog out of Clemson would be, I think internally just a great deal.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, they can go down the slide.

[Taylor Lewan]

Clemson would be fun too, because JP's the vlog guy.

[Will Compton]

Clemson would be fun too, because I feel like drawing a blank on the, the head coach right now. I feel like he's in kind of a pressure situation going into this year with the whole adapting to nil.

[Taylor Lewan]

You want to fire me, fire me. Said I do. Yeah. Yeah, go ahead. And I think even non Clemson fans are like, you don't want to fire him.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Think of where you were before him.

[Will Compton]

It's, it's fascinating to kind of observe like Jack was talking about hypo if he has a bad year, the pressure, the stakes, the nil, the money that goes in, like people want speed, like there's just patience gets smaller and smaller. I feel like every year, especially for college now, because you see programs like in Indiana, we'll see what happens with Virginia Tech this year to where you can just flip the script going into the next year if you have the right staff and you build it the right way. But it's all the building the right way has to take place now in the off season because you're not going to get a leash of a coach being there for a long time if you don't show some type of progress.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Yeah. Signetti really ruined it for a lot of schools.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Could you also imagine a video of Willie C. Racing dabo down the hill into the stadium?

[Will Compton]

I mean, low back slips, I fall down, tumble down the rest.

[Taylor Lewan]

I don't know how guys don't fall down all the time on that damn hill.

[Will Compton]

Oh, bro.

[Taylor Lewan]

Well, every time I watch, I'm like knees.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Every single time. This weekend I went to Vegas. My family flew out Wednesday. I. I went out Friday. Great weekend. It's not about my weekend. Shane Gillis had a show at Bridgestone Arena. He was on that. That. That podcast will come out next week.

[Will Compton]

He only had a show at Bridgestone because he was coming on bus with the boys.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right. So how can we saw his schedule. Yeah. He wanted to do a 2 for

[Will Compton]

1 spot doing bus with boys. Let's do bridge.

[Taylor Lewan]

Don't exactly. A lot of things happen during that Shane Gillis podcast. We can break down next week on the intro, but I see here Shane Gillis green room featuring bus. Bus and boys. What took. Did you go?

[Will Compton]

What was the story? I did not go.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay. That was gonna be my first question. Didn't make it. Pizza Friday.

[Will Compton]

Pizza Friday. Pizza Friday. Bedtime. By the time I would have went, I would have probably gotten there the time Shane went on stage. Because, you know, the day before when we were hanging out, he's like, I'd love for you to show up at 8 because then you can hang. You can kind of bust balls. You can hang out for a little bit. So knowing that I was just going to watch Shane perform and not get to see him, really. Because once he would have been done, I would have got back home to get the sleepy time in. Yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

You got to get the Z disciplines routines. All I saw this morning, you're walking on the treadmill.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Really?

[Taylor Lewan]

Willie sees doing this.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Papa team fit. Like we are that treading.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yes. Like it's. I've had a couple conversations with myself and they weren't pretty. Like, they weren't. So I had to kind of get after myself.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, and I love that for you because I don't want to say anything. You know, you're having those conversations. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

Those conversations have been had.

[Taylor Lewan]

Green room. What happened? What took place? Beeman.

[Will Compton]

I was not there or anything.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay. So nobody was at the show.

[Will Compton]

Shout out to Shane and. Great. I think it's Grace, right? Yeah. Grace. Setting the boys up. It was so much fun. We had our own little, like the boys green room. Basically. The show was amazing. Shane crushed. Truly incredible performance. And then we all just kind of hung out and had fun and talked a little ball. Shane.

[Taylor Lewan]

I feel like it was a good time.

[Will Compton]

It was just.

[Taylor Lewan]

It was vibes.

[Will Compton]

Great vibes.

[Mario Cristobal]

So what happened?

[Will Compton]

Hang with the young guy. Yeah, yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

So what happened? So why is it on? The clump was living. Dude. Clump was living.

[Will Compton]

Clump was Living clump was in there.

[Taylor Lewan]

What's on this?

[Will Compton]

Chef's not on here, but on. On for the dad. Chef did make a comment that he's been kind of bodying me lately, which he has been. Whenever I try to pick on him, Chef's been crushing me. He takes the high road. Almost makes me feel bad sometimes when I try to. Try to troll him. So I found a little opportunity. Shane Gillis and I bodied is probably a little bit of an overkill, but Shane just started getting on chef about Tennessee vs. Notre Dame type things. And Chef was in a blender as Shane just wouldn't let him talk. Was. It was. It was incredible, and it was great. And I walked away, and I was like, hey. Couldn't take the high road there, Chef.

[Taylor Lewan]

It was. It felt good.

[Will Compton]

Shane. Shane's just. He's great.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I was just behind Shanghai.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

I was just backing him up.

[Taylor Lewan]

He was your sword.

[Mario Cristobal]

What?

[Taylor Lewan]

He was your sword.

[Will Compton]

How was he swinging the sword against Tennessee? Basically just calling Chef an SEC homer that he only cares about the sec. He's like, you celebrate Auburn wins, I'm sure. Just like. Just really? And Chef was getting. No, it's Tennessee only. He's like, notre Dame's got an easy schedule they're going through. They were in, like. Like 2013 Notre Dame arguing their schedule with each other. It was. It was great. Imagine, sweet Chef just walking. Like he's getting to go backstage, high profile, and his boss hires the number one talker of all time to go sick his ass. And Chef's having to stand there going toe to toe with Shane Gillis. I wish I had been there to see it. Jeff did great, though. He was hilarious. It was so fun. Just one of those times hanging out. And I was gonna give you a shout out. I will. But Matt Malone, there's something about him. As he's speaking, he just commands the room. He was. He was. He was a character that night.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a really nice compliment, bro.

[Will Compton]

It was like he was just holding court. We're all just sitting. Like, Matt's telling stories, and I just kind of, like, zoomed out. I'm like, look at this young cat. And all these people around just holding

[Taylor Lewan]

court, talking the young bull. It was awesome learning. Let's go. Hey. I love that, Maddie. That's a fantastic comp, and I appreciate that. Got a little uncomfortable, aren't you? Like, I got a compliment. Yeah, you got a compliment. I appreciate it. But also. Well, that's good. So I guess this note for Shane Gillis green room was. It went well, boys.

[Will Compton]

Had fun.

[Taylor Lewan]

I love it, dude. Should we get to some tear talk?

[Will Compton]

Let's do some tear talk. Get in tomorrow.

[Taylor Lewan]

Crystal ball, a little bit of tear talk. Kyle O'Reilly, 9220 says hashtag tear talk. Spring tour gear gift giveaways, question mark. Question mark.

[Will Compton]

He brings up a good point.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

When we got home at the end of last week, like, the amount of bags I just had sitting on my couch from Texas Tech, Notre Dame, and Miami, like, it's so much gear.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right?

[Will Compton]

To where what we just. We package some of these teams, and

[Mario Cristobal]

I will say some of the guys that don't travel would like some of that stuff as well.

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, okay.

[Will Compton]

Oh, okay. You're the audience. You're the boys.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. You're.

[Will Compton]

You're the back of the bus.

[Taylor Lewan]

The back of the bus Coup has

[Mario Cristobal]

said, like, I just want somebody to bring me home a shirt just once.

[Will Compton]

I don't even care where it is.

[Mario Cristobal]

I just want a singular shirt from

[Taylor Lewan]

somewhere that we go for sure.

[Will Compton]

Okay. All right, note for next year's teams, because they all just started coffee in Texas Tech. The bags laid out, everyone's names written

[Taylor Lewan]

down, became the norm for everywhere we went. They just wanted to all do the same kind of thing for everyone. Okay, so do we want to address giving fan stuff first or giving guys in the back of the bus or buck or both? Do we want to address it? Here's my thought. Like, I agree with everything you said. There's so much gear. When I look at a lot of it, like, the perfect Michigan Notre Dame, like, there is a rivalry in that. Like, am I going to wear a lot of this Notre Dame gear? The answer is probably not. I actually almost wore the shoes today because those shoes do kind of go hard.

[Will Compton]

Shoes go hard.

[Taylor Lewan]

I will wear the shoes. But when I look at. It's like, this was a gift. And the words of Vince Vaughn, the painting was a gift. Todd, I'll be taking it with me. Like, I will. I don't see. I don't see from, like, a moral standpoint, being like, thank you for the stuff. Let me give this away to people.

[Will Compton]

Now let me say, hey, comment, retweet. Make sure you're following. I'm gonna give away this Notre Dame duffel bag.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Will Compton]

Gear in it.

[Taylor Lewan]

And it's like, I'm gonna keep the

[Will Compton]

ones that I want, but.

[Taylor Lewan]

Exactly. I think I think of Kevin. I think of Kevin. Yeah, I think of Kevin. And Kevin's like, wow, I really, like, let these guys have all this stuff. They did press me really hard for the jersey, and I have. I got to give them the jersey. But it's like, now I've given you stuff, and you're gonna go on the Internet and give away our stuff that we gave you.

[Will Compton]

Fair point.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a clean, clean, clean take like presents, man. You get one, it might not be the present you exactly want, but it's still a gift. Someone thought about you enough to give you something like, you should take pride in having those things.

[Will Compton]

Clean take. Great question by Kyle Riley there.

[Mario Cristobal]

We talked about it before.

[Will Compton]

We.

[Mario Cristobal]

A couple of us were like, cleaning out, like, our old merch section, and we just have a fat table. Table of a whole bunch of just random stuff. Brings up a point again of having maybe a bus and garage sale.

[Taylor Lewan]

Clean take, clean take, clean take.

[Mario Cristobal]

A lot of logistics and shit that

[Taylor Lewan]

goes into that, but I feel like a year, like. Like Texas Tech, Notre Dame, Miami. I need a year. I need a new spring year to take place before I even think about, like, oh, do I want to give some of this Miami stuff with this Notre Dame stuff for Texas Tech. Like, it's. The gift is so fresh, and I feel like. Like Joey Maguire clean. He's on the Internet quite a bit. He's gonna see me being like, who wants this Texas Tech jersey? Garage sale? I'd be like, oh, what are we doing?

[Will Compton]

Oh, well, I think Mitch is talking about the old, old stuff.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. That sparked my brain into keeping the same subject line.

[Mario Cristobal]

All of the old stuff that we have. And then maybe next year, if you're no longer want any of the stuff that you got from some of the schools you went to, do it again.

[Will Compton]

Not no longer want, but re up.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yes.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Kevin, shoot us a bag.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I can see Kevin.

[Will Compton]

The Freeman line.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, we need the Freeman line.

[Will Compton]

Now that this has been said out loud, Kevin would probably hear this and go, oh, you know what? Next time I'm gonna have a giveaway for their fans. Little bag so they can do. Because Kevin scouts. He self scouts.

[Taylor Lewan]

He sells.

[Will Compton]

He did. He did text me and thank you

[Taylor Lewan]

guys for the shout out on the last. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Group chat was up.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Next day, I'm taking my morning too, and I got the shoes on of them. Just like, love the shoes.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Like, we're hanging with Kevin.

[Taylor Lewan]

He's all time, dude. Kevin's all Kevin needs to come to the bus.

[Will Compton]

He's making a trip to Nashville. He will be here.

[Taylor Lewan]

Kevin's got an open invite to always come to the bus.

[Will Compton]

Let's go.

[Taylor Lewan]

He's gonna come in here and be like, what the. He's gonna see our setup.

[Will Compton]

We can't wait to hit the group chat after we film this and just be like, hey, we talked about you a lot again.

[Taylor Lewan]

I. I almost don't want to hit him up because I just want to see how much he really is in the weeds or bus with the boys now.

[Will Compton]

Fair.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, fair.

[Will Compton]

And see if we get a text tomorrow, right?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, that's a good one.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

What we need to. What we should be thinking about is not giving away the stuff we got. It's how do we give back to the schools we went to? That's the. That's a clean take right there.

[Will Compton]

That's a clean take.

[Taylor Lewan]

How do we get busting with the boys Merch to these locker rooms for these guys? Fun box. Put it on all their locker. Their locker or something for them to display. They have something that's in the. Like, Texas Tech. How do we do a deal with Texas Tech to give them bus with the licensing deal? Notre Dame. How do we do it with them?

[Will Compton]

I know you. You're probably already on it. I'm on it. He's already on it with all three of them on it. That. That would be sick. That's a great idea.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a. You know what's not a great idea? It's a clean take.

[Will Compton]

It's a clean jersey.

[Mario Cristobal]

They can play.

[Will Compton]

Hey, shout out.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hang on.

[Will Compton]

We are getting away from this audience member that's like, hey, Spring tour giveaways for the audience. We should also think of, like, how you. We give. How do we do something, Whether it's a box or something that we could feature or send to a fan.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I know.

[Will Compton]

That's like a curated bus with the boys box.

[Taylor Lewan]

The perfect platform might be ripping at 7pm on Sundays. Yeah, perfect platform might be for that. That is the area where we give away. We have options.

[Will Compton]

Options.

[Taylor Lewan]

How do we integrate all of busting with the boys and give it to the fans? Whether it be for the dads, the locker room, busing, ripping with the boys, whatever.

[Mario Cristobal]

We're about inside the bus.

[Taylor Lewan]

What about inside the bus?

[Will Compton]

There's sickle fans for inside the bus.

[Taylor Lewan]

Inside the bus.

[Will Compton]

So there's just a. Like a used sock that's signed by all the boys in the back of the bus. Yeah, I'm sure somebody would love that. There you go.

[Taylor Lewan]

There you go.

[Will Compton]

I agree. Thank you. Talk here from D2 College Football Spotlight. D2FB Spotlight on X. Hey, at underscore Will Compton, what is your connection to NSU Wolves underscore Football. Hashtag D2 Football. Hashtag Tier Talk. Great question. My connection is just the boys. Was it you?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I think they reached out to me. Was that correct? Sure. This is a long time. This is. This is like six months ago. So my brain's not fully gonna register how this all happened, but this D2 football team, they were doing some dope, like, reveals on their uniforms and all that. And they had two gritty, high effort guys do a dear Maria, count me in remake with the shoe and the whole thing. And I like, posted on my story, but, like, this is badass. I shout it out. They DM me and are like, we would love for you guys to do a giveaway for us. Maybe you remake the video. We're releasing these black helmets, these black uniforms. My first thought was, I love the idea. I'm not gonna make this happen. Send it to Sherm. Sherm gets it done. We make that video for them. But I think we're Wolves fans for life.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's our connection to the wolves. Jake Leary. Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Oh, look. Hey, Matt.

[Will Compton]

Northern State.

[Taylor Lewan]

Wow, man. I don't know who's hotter right now, Matt or Mitch. They're both on two heaters taking place right now.

[Will Compton]

The Northern State Wolves.

[Taylor Lewan]

The Northern State Wolves. Dogs we got here. Christopher Doss at ct. Doss at busting with the boys. If you had to visit three group of five schools during the spring tour, where would you go? Hashtag tierhawk tear talk. Perhaps at Coastal football.

[Will Compton]

Dirty Myrtle Coasty. Coastal Football would be fun. JMU I think, is a no brainer.

[Taylor Lewan]

I think JMU is a no brainer.

[Will Compton]

Tulane, North Texas.

[Taylor Lewan]

Tulane, North Texas. I kind of. That's kind of my bag of G5 schools.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. You want to go to the. You want to go to the ones that have earned the spot in college football playoffs. Earn their spots in the college football.

[Taylor Lewan]

Let me sit in the judgment zone of. I've said all these things with the G5 schools. Go and tear me down.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Let's talk with the head coach and say, hey, you guys should have your own G5 playoffs. Yeah, coach to you.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Army. Army. Navy.

[Taylor Lewan]

Army. Navy. Yes.

[Will Compton]

Dude.

[Taylor Lewan]

Support our true sdsu.

[Will Compton]

Stupid move. Not even saying army to be stupid move.

[Taylor Lewan]

Double stupid move. I didn't know that they were G5 schools.

[Will Compton]

Fair, clean take. Yeah, I was with that clean take. I'm thinking this is not. These guys are perennial powerhouses.

[Taylor Lewan]

I. I love the idea of a small table. Two microfiber and a round table of chairs. And I just say something nasty about G5 schools, and the first one to run up gets to debate me on it. Kind of an original thought.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Jubilee style.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Kind of an original thought of content we could do. And I just stand on. You guys just aren't good enough.

[Will Compton]

Army and Navy. I just. You got to have speeches from the strength coaches addressing the room, people at Army.

[Mario Cristobal]

I've been telling y'. All.

[Will Compton]

All right, great question there by Christopher Doss. CT Doss on X. We got another one here from Dan Jenkins. Our final one before we get into Mario Crystal ball. Tolerance on locker room beers. Hashtag tear talk. What does he mean there? Like, what's our tolerance level? Like, if we drank, like, a rack

[Taylor Lewan]

or the amount of beers?

[Will Compton]

Just like, hey, can beers be in the locker room?

[Taylor Lewan]

I think the answer to both questions is the same. And it's tolerance is high. Yeah, let it happen.

[Will Compton]

But if. If we're given inside, he's like, hey, what is the tolerance of beers? Like, in the locker? You don't really see beers unless the season's ended. Like, we going for trash bag day, final meeting day. You'll have some beers. You'll have the bud lights. You'll have all that stuff kind of sitting around to where boys are kind of just kicking back and hanging the time.

[Taylor Lewan]

You're gonna find beers around. A football team is going to be away games. Coming home from the game.

[Will Compton]

Yep.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's where you see it on the airplane. Guys get it. Now. I know there was a little bit of a. A scuff up with the Titans a few years ago in a situation with the beers where the NFL really cracked down on it. But before that, beers were always on there.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Darren Bates was telling the story. He had some vitamins on the plane as well. Back from London.

[Taylor Lewan]

Absolutely.

[Will Compton]

And so that's where those things take place.

[Taylor Lewan]

I think it was high now. Actually, the answer is, I think it's a little lower now of beers being allowed in the facility.

[Will Compton]

Boys are down to crack. A cold one.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. A couple of beers. Also locker room beers might be a top five beer.

[Will Compton]

The boys are down the crack boys. That's a clean tank. That's a clean. That's also a cool grass graphic.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay. There's two separate conversations, but you like that take.

[Will Compton]

Like your take, like their take as well.

[Taylor Lewan]

I didn't hear their cracking cold ones.

[Mario Cristobal]

The boys like cracking cold ones with the boys.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Double clean, take double clean, double simultaneously.

[Will Compton]

And what Dan is learning is this is what Happens when you get beers in locker room with the boys. You get busting with the boys.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Taking place right now.

[Will Compton]

Hey, good, good troll. Intro, intro. Intro.

[Taylor Lewan]

Good throw indeed. All right, dude. Should we get mild Crystal ball?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. With the why mother why, the might, why the Miami Hurricane fans came to the show.

[Taylor Lewan]

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[Will Compton]

Get into Mario Cristobal yeah, Coach Heather seems like a brilliant psychopath is kind of the words I've gotten to in, in the best way possible. Like I was sitting in the, the defensive room and then the backers room, but sitting in the defensive room. The intensity overall around this entire place, it's very intense. Like I know like walking in and coming around. There's like a that healthy intimidating factor of like these guys. It's, it feels like kill or be killed in the intensity with the coaches and in a way to where coach Heatherman, he's commanding the entire room. They're going over stuff defensively. You hear the entire room, everybody kind of communicating and talking out loud where sometimes you'll sit in rooms and guys players will be a little hesitant because maybe they're unsure or maybe they're not confident where coaches are trying to get him to speak up. But from the jump it's like first row, second row, third row. Like guys are communicating the whole time and then even in the linebacker room when again he's got this bravado about him of intensity and then guys might not be doing something right to where in my mind I'm thinking oh man, coach might be about to get in his ass for not paying attention or not saying the right thing. But then he gets to a level of like teaching the guys and like having a conversation with them on why they do X, Y and Z versus harping on maybe a false step or maybe. I'm sure those things come but I don't know. I was fascinated by his approach and just kind of the command he had of everybody. And it felt like very much like a player led ran room if that makes sense. That's kind of my observation.

[Mario Cristobal]

Well, it was. It was important to have you guys sit in. In those rooms, respectively, our defensive coordinator and our offensive line coach, because, like, the other guys, you saw Jason out there as well, we really feel they're. They are elite teachers as well as elite human beings, and their progressions are legitimately challenging. But when you. The more you get them down, the confidence that comes with that, you know, it. You witness a meeting, that all that talking loudly with confidence permeates the room and it changes the mentality. It allows guys to play fast and free. So his entire goal, as it is for our entire program, is to earn the right to cut it the blank loose. You know what I mean?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

When the lights are on or whenever the ball's placed on the tee and. And you got to earn that. And we. We feel that there's. There's been so many greats that have come through here and have done it on green tree practice field. We have to earn that right every day.

[Taylor Lewan]

So, you know, a lot of coaches, a lot of other programs, they preach, like, avoid distractions, avoid, like, chaos. Like, let's just keep. Let's be solely focused on this goal right here. We've been to a handful of places and, like, walking into the meeting rooms, you see how intentional everybody is, how the coaches talk about steps and fundamentals, where you see. See the teaching process happen. And then you walk out to practice, there's a bunch of people on the sidelines. I don't know if it's. It's parents, it's recruits, five star, but there's a lot to look at in a lot of ways, a lot of alumni. Then music starts. Coach Irv, he has. He's on the. The microphone going off on guys. People are screaming and yelling everywhere. Then you guys are sprinting right to individual drill where guys are getting their ass cheered. And I mean this in a massive compliment to where it's like, it's very old school, but, like, I can't imagine being a freshman like a Jackson Cantwell walking to this for the first time. I'm sure this is like, his eighth practice or.

[Will Compton]

From Missouri.

[Taylor Lewan]

From Missouri, yeah. Right. Bfe, Missouri, I think he said. There's four things that came out of there. Cigarettes, beer. Jason Bourne himself. Jason Bourne.

[Mario Cristobal]

Nixon, Missouri, by the way.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, Nixon, Missouri. Oh, he gave us the spiel. He had the whole elevator pitch with us on Nixon, Missouri. But, like, it's. There's a level of having distractions intentionally so that when the chaos is taking place on the big stage, Everyone is like in a, in a calm state because it's, it feels erratic a little bit. The first 10 minutes, it's like kind of feel like, oh, I'm like crazy stimulating.

[Will Compton]

We're like, we got to get out of the way.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, we're out of the way. Like you, you feel like, because you're not used to it, but then you start to see like, oh, these offensive linemen, they're unfazed by how they're being talked to. They're unfazed about the, the work ethic that they're putting in. They're running. They know exactly where to go. Next drill. Next drill. How long did it take you to instill this old school intentional, like this is the process we're going to go about in the springtime.

[Mario Cristobal]

Well, I think we're still in the process of establishing that. And you know, I've been, I've been lucky to have played for some really good coaches all the way dating back to high school, who I still think is the best coach I ever had. Dennis Lavelle and, and then working for Coach Saban, playing for Coach Johnson, Coach Erickson, working for Greg Shiano. These guys are all, they're, they're elite teachers. And along the way, the thing that stuck most was the best thing that you can do as a football coach is to conduct elite practices. Conduct elite practices. In other words, if it happens in a game, it deserves a drill. Whether it be in the form of indie, whether it be in the form of 2 on 2, 5 on 4, 7 on 7. And that has to carry over to elite meetings and elite walkthroughs, right? And in a world where, right, this has become the day and age of the portal and older teams having a lot of success, we'd like to think that we could take spring ball and have these guys gain a year of maturity. By the way that we practice by presenting these intense, high paced, challenging, adverse situation practices that really test them. And we're going to take them to the edge. We are, but to the edge in terms to, we want to get to a breakthrough as opposed to a breakdown. We don't let guys, you know, we, we want to push them right there, see what that threshold is. We'll find a way to break through. And the response has been awesome. Everybody we recruit, we bring to practice, they have to watch us practice. And if they are all about it, if they, they love the way we practice, they want to be part of it, then it works. And you know, for, for the most part, guys have and sometimes, you know, it's not for everybody. And, and we don't judge and we're not offended. We just, we just believe in this blueprint and we're going to stick with it.

[Taylor Lewan]

Have you been in a situation with a recruit? Maybe as a four or five star type guy, you're fired up on them. You bring him into practice and hits

[Mario Cristobal]

you with like a.

[Taylor Lewan]

You guys go pretty hard, huh? You can just tell he's like, oh, this kid might not be about the things we're about to. Where you truly pulled back. Has that ever happened to you?

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah, it's happened once or twice, you know, where there was maybe too much attention to the phone or you know, for example, we meet relatively early. Not so early now in spring, but. And same guy was late, wasn't really into the meeting. I mean, come on, man. I mean, I know you're assessing the University of Miami. We're also assessing you. Right, right. It's an interview, a two way interview. So. But for the most part, we've been very fortunate, very fortunate to have targeted some high, like high mentality, high achieving mindset type of guys that, that they love it, they're all into it and they know that, man, we have one goal. Make them as good as they could possibly be. And, and there's no kind and cuddly way to get there. Right. Yeah, we got a roll. So.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

How do you identify a recruit that is like this high level mentality? Like I'm sure there's like a philosophy or maybe some core things like you and the staff like look for, but what are some onion, the, the layers you try and peel back on the onion of figuring out if this is a high level mentality guy.

[Mario Cristobal]

I.

[Will Compton]

Is there a question, is there, is there something that you're like throughout the process?

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah, there's questions, but it's more putting our eyes on them. I mean we go and we watch every ounce of tape that we can here and then we go and watch every ounce of practice workouts. You name it, we go see it. And you know, there used to be a time we could get guys in camp. Right. I remember Penny Seoul. We had Penny Seoul.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

At Oregon. I thought it was, that was the ultimate recruiting process. It's was like a car wash. It had all the different, different schools waiting in line to work with the prospects. Man, I'm watching this guy go from stop to stop to stop and they're just kissing his butt. And I'm looking over at coach Merle Ball, at Alex and like when he gets here, we are going to grind his butt, man. We are going to work bump, doubles, double unders, right rip and reach and all that kind of stuff. And he comes over and we are trying to wear him out and he's just launching human beings all over the place. And we always think back to, it's like, like that's what, that's the DNA that, that we're looking for. And it's hard to find. It's not for everybody. And again, we don't judge along the way. And you also have to project. There's some guys that haven't been exposed to that. So there are, there is a little bit of a, you know, risk factor and a gamble, you know, rolling the dice on a guy that you think can but just hasn't been exposed to it. And you know, you certainly do your best by it.

[Will Compton]

How do you try and figure out the DNA off the field or outside of the tape that you do see? Like whether it's like going to high schools, like if recruits out there, like listening to this right now, knowing how

[Taylor Lewan]

do you know these boys? Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Knowing that they're also getting interviewed, like, how do you figure out that DNA you think you see on film, like wherever they live?

[Mario Cristobal]

Film doesn't lie, man. You know, and who are they hanging out with? And at the end of the day, do you really love football? Do you love football? Do you. Are you the kind of guy that understands the importance. I mean, look at this place. It's a private school with $100,000 a year education. I mean, your diploma here is going to take you even farther than your NFL career. So guys that absolutely cannot live without football, but that understand the importance of a high level diploma, an elite diploma like the University of Miami and can be a good decision maker on and off the field. Right? Choices and decisions, brother. That's what it comes down to.

[Taylor Lewan]

You know, has there ever been a point in your coaching career, like pre nil era to now post nil era, where you see these kids are just at the, at the flash of a hat. They're like, yeah, I'm not, I don't like the way I'm being treated. I'm gonna get out of here. Their feelings get hurt so they end up just leaving. Did you ever kind of compromise like in the beginning about, listen, I know these guys are a little different right now. This is, this is a new group of, of kids that are growing up where they're getting pat on the ass quite a bit. They're getting a lot of money and all about dollars and how much you're gonna pay me. Was there ever a point where you're like, I want this five star guy, but it seems like I need to, like, coddle him a little bit more.

[Mario Cristobal]

You know, we've maybe we've been lucky. It's just we believe in this. If you have to change the way that you coach and treat people because you're afraid of the portal or nil, you shouldn't have been in coaching to begin with. You know, you were doing things in a manner that wasn't for the principles and standards that football was originally, you know, intended for. We believe in that. We have not ever changed the way we coach. We believe we treat people the right way and we do everything possible, provide them with the resources, the teaching, everything to make them the absolute best that they can be. And we're truth tellers, you know, and people that want to get better, they want. They want a truth teller. And we haven't come across that where, you know, there's an issue of that sore, at least. I don't know, maybe they left. That was part of it. But there's no, you know, Tom Brady said it, right? Or I'm sorry, Bill Belichick. I think it was two Tom Brady. No sacred cows. Right. Like, can you imagine if that existed, knowing what comes with this? Because like, like, I'm people making money, I'm all about it. As long as they're responsible, know what to do with it, don't flash it, put all over the place that. I mean, ball is still ball. And when we come here, I don't coach hand player. I don't care what you make. You're making what you're either earned, what you settled for, negotiated, I don't care. But when we're in here, I want. Come on here, Jack, about money. Yeah, we're gonna do the Miami Hurricane way and things that have been done here for a long, long time. And so so far, it's worked for us really well. And we just got to make sure we keep getting the right kind of people that believe in that.

[Will Compton]

Knowing that there's like a high amount of money involved. Knowing that you're playing at a university like the University of Miami, you get to wear the U on the side of your helmet. Like, knowing it, it's got like this. Everybody wants to go to the NFL. How do you help them prioritize how important education is? Like, holding the standard, holding the line with academics to keep it just as important as what they came here for in the first place, which is playing football, no doubt.

[Mario Cristobal]

The internship programs that we provide here are off the charts. You know, I'm like, man, where were they when I was coming out this chance? You know? So in every field from real estate to business, finance, retail, sports management, broadcasting, you know, they have opportunities that are just unbelievable. Like true career path, not just a job opportunity. And so along the way, the amount of opportunities, guest speakers, network opportunities, hands on internships, hands on like service trips. I mean, we're going to American Samoa this year. We went to Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Spain. World said we've gone all over the place. Like we expose these guys to real deal stuff. So we're, you know, like growth is. Growth is a two way street too now, right? You got to want to grow and then you got to push yourself to experiencing. So we're just kind of relentless and. And this is, I guess the best way to describe it. This is a very vocational kind of thing for us. Like, we love this, you know, I know, you know, we're kind of boring the outside world because we grind and we work and what whatnot, but I love it, man. I mean, this is, this is. Who else would have given me a chance? I'm a local high school kid, you know, nobody with, you know, two parents that never really got to speak English till they learned it. They spoke like Scarface if you ever saw that movie. Okay, man, you understand what I'm saying, man? You know, and by. By the grace of God got us with a great high school coach, man. And Jimmy Johnson went and got us and dude, so we're super grateful, man. We just work and want to do right by people.

[Taylor Lewan]

Did I get. I heard a rumor that was your roommate, Mike Sullivan.

[Mario Cristobal]

Mike Sullivan was my brother's roommate.

[Taylor Lewan]

Your brother's.

[Mario Cristobal]

Russell, Maryland.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay, gotcha. Both those guys, solely. Mike Sullivan was my assistant offensive line coach of the Titans.

[Mario Cristobal]

There we go.

[Taylor Lewan]

For the whole time I was there.

[Mario Cristobal]

Great dude.

[Will Compton]

Truly the guy. Legend. He's a legend.

[Taylor Lewan]

And he's got a short fuse too. A short fuse on him because he's happy. Go lucky, jovial type of guy when you're in the meetings. But there's been once a year he would just go off on me in a crazy way to the end. Like, we good. He's like, y, yeah, you're good. You stop around like that, you know, Great player. You great player. And a fantastic coach too. Like I came in the league and like didn't use my hands at all. And he like preached it over and Over. He would grab me, make me work at it. And my two hand punches became, like, the strongest part of my game because of him. So solely was. He was awesome.

[Mario Cristobal]

You stay in touch with him?

[Taylor Lewan]

Oh, yeah. Talk to him all the time. He always comes over my house and steals my honey.

[Mario Cristobal]

Is that right?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Remember when he came to the Beer Olympics?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, we had.

[Mario Cristobal]

The other one is Rob Chudzinski. He was the other roommate who ended up being, you know, in the NFL for a long time.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's awesome.

[Mario Cristobal]

Cool.

[Will Compton]

How do you. Go ahead.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's just there's very rare, like, very unique schools, like LSU's unique one, Miami's unique one. There's. There's a handful where it's just like. It's not just. You can't just be a good coach. You have to also, like, fit the culture and be a guy that's from here. How easy of a fit was it for you to come in here, understand the land, landscape of everything, and then bring guys in, whether it's from the Midwest, the Northeast, the west coast, and have them, like, feel like, hey, you're gonna come here. It's gonna be more different than anything else you've ever seen, because Miami is its own. It's its own little country down here.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah, I mean, you. You saw it, man. We. We come in every size, shape, color, ethnicity, language, hairstyle. I mean, we are. We're like the MC Salad bowl, man. I mean, Miami is. Has got everything. And honestly, growing up here was absolutely the best. Nothing. I. I can't even imagine growing up anywhere else. And that was a day and age of Miami Vice, you know, Sonny Crockett, Ricardo Tubbs. Right. And like, this brotherhood, because I used to sprint over here every day or grab a. Grab a ride, ride my bike to watch those monsters practice on top. About the Jerome Browns, you know, the Danny Stubbs, Alonzo Highsmiths of Benny Blades and Michael Irvin. These monsters. So I was dying to be a hurricane. Like, dying. I had to be. I was going to be a hurricane or die, one or the other. And so, like, getting that, it was. It's a life changer. And it's an experience that, I mean, it's why I really came back. I mean, it wasn't because I was born here. It was because I was part of that brotherhood. And it's like, here you could be you. You know, as long as your mindset is about, nothing is going to get in the way of one. And, oh, and I'm talking about school, football, life, good choices, and decisions, treatment of people. As long as you're of that mindset, you fit here. And I love that about Miami. Miami is, like, as diverse, as energetic. Like, I wish you guys could spend time in town to see how what this season has done for this community, like, it's insanely, like, lit up, like, just galvanized and energized. And. And. And it's. Because down here, it's about. It's about the canes, man. You know, And I live and die by the orange and green now, brother. You know, like, and I love seeing. We're gonna have 450 to 500 alumni here next Friday for the alumni reunion. Probably be a scrimmage out here in the damn indoor, you know?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

You can imagine when those boys get together, what it's like, right? So it's. What is it like? It is, man. I don't know. It's. You know, what? Just. The mint. I don't just do whatever I can. Be me as to. Or what I've learned from the guys I've coached under and go lights out, relentless every single day. Demanded of myself first and foremost, so that the coaches could also demand that of themselves.

[Will Compton]

What was it like seeing the community come to life last year when you guys were making your run?

[Mario Cristobal]

It's like when I'm 13 years old in 83, watch the black and white team TV, you know, Miami be in Nebraska, in this city, you know, the pots. The pots and pans come out, you know, on a street, right? People go bananas. No, it was, you know, and then there's, you know, the. The positive anger side. We fell short there at the end, had an opportunity, and we didn't finish. Now, monster progress. It's great, but legitimate, like, you know, I said it before, like, positive anger, man, that energy, just. You give it a direction, it burns clean. You set your goals and you go. And that's where the program is right now from a mentality standpoint. You know, let's just go. Let's just go get better and go.

[Taylor Lewan]

How do you. You clearly start the season with a big win against Notre Dame. It's like, you watch that last two minute of that game with C.J. carr running for his life, and those two DNS just absolutely wreaking havoc. And it's like, oh, Miami clear front runner. They're coming out of the ACC in all of our minds. SMU happens. Happens, and Louisville happens. How are you addressing the team to get everybody back on track? Because, I mean, clearly, like, you guys had more talent. You're a better team and than both of those team, they just, they won that day. And to keep everybody on the right track to be like, you know, our destiny's still right in front of us type of mindset.

[Mario Cristobal]

Well, I do think this. Nowadays everybody has good players and if you're not at your best, you're gonna get your ass beat. You are. And then there's a side of me that says, you know, everybody's saying you, you shouldn't, should not have lost. You shouldn't. Well, we did. And we beat these other teams we weren't supposed to be so. Well, maybe you guys got it wrong when you voted these other teams at a certain level. You know what I mean?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

So. But it was the simplicity of us getting together. It was the best meeting ever, man, after smu because that's the lowest point ever. And it was face to face, eye to eye, all of us in here. It was like. No, it was just like walking, you know, walk. That was a field rush. And you're walking back to locker room and you're every step is like, what the you gonna say? What are you gonna say? You know, knowing that's a long ass ride home. Knowing that the moment they get back, their phones are going to be obliterated with all kinds of negativity. Right. Everyone taking shots at them. So we found a way to, you know, gather up and get back here. And we, you know, the next day we got in here and it was like, look, we have awesome people and we have really hard, hardworking people that have a really high care factor. But we ain't getting the result we want and we're losing in the margins and we need to understand and realize who the hell we really are. And we had put together five games worth of cutups of, you know, the football tape, just cut the lights, no music, no presentation, just cut it and sat here in silence and watched about 15 minutes of just silence. Silence and watching and watching and watching and flick the lights back on. And we made a decision. Just one day at a time, man. Our absolute best. I'm gonna be your biggest advocate. You're gonna be mine. I'm your biggest fan. I am your family. We're going to be each other's family. And we're going to cut out everybody else. No one else matters and nothing else matters. And we're going to do that every day. And if you see my butt getting down, you're going to get me up. And the vice versa. And it was a collective effort. And the thing I'M most proud of is to be a member of this organization. And the way all the men and women of this organization on a daily basis said, let's go. And it would. The practices were awesome. And it ended up spilling over to game day and, and I could tell, like after that NC State game, I'm like, okay, we're about to get rolling here. And they'll. By the grace of God, it did.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

What was being the five games of cutoffs? Is it you with the clicker going through everything?

[Mario Cristobal]

No, we made it concise enough so it doesn't have any dead time. You know what I mean? But it was a simplicity of, you know, we had the splash plays like the Bane and Mezador sacks, but also some of the unbelievable blocks by wide receivers just laying out so Mark Fletcher could split a defense. You know, the offensive line taking those piles and running them 15, 20 yards. You know, just watching not, not the score, but how we play the game. And we took a lot of pride in building a physical, tough team. And we practice in that manner. We lost our edge for a couple games in the margins because if you watch the tape, we did play physical, but not to the level, not to the extent of what had made us, you know, get off to that great start.

[Taylor Lewan]

How. Where'd you watch the ACC championship game?

[Mario Cristobal]

Where did I watch it?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, that's a good question because that's, that's it, right? Like you're watching that game. And who were the two? Was it Duke and Duke in Virginia? Virginia, ACC championship, ACC championship. And it was essentially like Duke wins that game. Duke is in. Or is it vice? Was it flip? Virginia wins there. You.

[Will Compton]

You wanted like a lot of like in that. If I can go back to that time, it was like with Miami getting in, everybody arguing about the head to head, Notre Dame, Miami. It was. With championship week coming up, you wanted to see blowouts in the SEC championship in Big 12, and you needed Duke to just upset Virginia. Right, Because Duke was what, 7 and 5?

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah, I think they were 7 and 5. They played a hell of a game and won it. But I never, I never saw it that way. I'm going to be honest with you. And, and the reason being is in 2024, we lost at Syracuse in the last game and there were a bunch of 10 and two teams and a nine and three team. I felt like that was a legitimate court case. Like, let's all present the facts. It could go one way or the other. But I felt this year with a head to head and with other common opponents. I thought that that had to matter most and I did in a respectful manner. But I thought it was a matter of presenting the information irregardless of who won that ACC championship game. A game that going forward the tiebreakers are fixed, but the answers to a five and six way tiebreaker was, you know, a little bit different. You know, any other conferences tiebreakers, we would have been playing in that game. But there are no excuses. The two teams that played deserve to play because that was the format and Duke won in credit to them for winning and no either way, Selection Sunday, when that thing came out, that was quite a moment. Now.

[Will Compton]

Big.

[Taylor Lewan]

A big moment. College football. Yeah. What was the feeling when the brackets like as the AP and then the college football bracket comes out and it's like you guys aren't on it and no. And Notre Dame is on it and for the longest time like you guys are just kind of put down and then it gets to this like this head of the ACC championship. You need the SEC blow.

[Will Compton]

The mistake was having the mistake is just having it having them too low or having Notre Dame too high to where the conversation kept going to where it had to matter about this. When it's like both these teams are awesome teams because Duke winning gets into two G5 teams. But they're obviously there needs to be fixes in the system because. But that mistake was like having such a separation and it was probably. Did the College Football Playoff come out the week after the. The second loss. You guys have like I'm just assuming the subjective opinion that goes into why you guys are so separated because they're

[Taylor Lewan]

making a level of an assumption like oh, they lost to those two things. They're probably going to lose again. I had the same conversation with, with Notre Dame yesterday. It's like they beat you head to head. How does it not. It should have been the way the result was what the answer should have been other than the G5s, that is. You don't have to comment on that. I think the G5 should completely be out of it. But to have Notre Dame so ahead of you guys and then they're more realizing they're making the mistake over and over again. You're seeing that at first you have to be a little at like uneasy about like how are we in this position?

[Mario Cristobal]

The only thing I always felt good about it always said best and most deserving, you know, and if they played out the facts and the criteria was taken into account, like it said that it was going to work out in Our favor. As long as we kept winning at a high level, as long as we kept dominating opponents and those final, you know, whatever. It was four games. I think we were on the road for almost seven straight weeks. Were, you know, we played. We played our best football, like legitimate dominant football. And Carson Beck was playing out of his mind. So we felt really, really good about it. And I think it showed, you know, during the playoffs that we deserve.

[Will Compton]

I was gonna say you guys clearly.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Made all of that irrelevant when you guys made it to the championship.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah. It's just. It's an imperfect process. I don't think anyone's trying to, you know, screw over anybody, but, you know, in this particular case, yeah, I felt strongly that we deserve to be in there and our players deserve that opportunity.

[Taylor Lewan]

If you guys didn't make the playoff, would you have done the bowl game?

[Mario Cristobal]

We always was just one of these trick questions or something like that. It's, you know, we don't. We've always played in the bowl games, whatever bowl game that we've gone to. So we would have played in the bowl game. And that's our process.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

And I don't think that anyone should ever. We don't judge anybody. So I don't think anybody, anyone should ever judge us one way or the other. But yeah, we would play in the bowl game because that's what you're supposed to do.

[Will Compton]

Thoughts on the current, like, football calendar? Everybody's got a lot of strong opinions on how the football calendar needs to. We need to make adjustments with the football calendar so that way it's not to where you guys now. The national championship game this next year is what, a week later than it was this past year.

[Mario Cristobal]

I like football, man. I'd play year round, you know, but I know we can't do that. We just got to start earlier so we could end a little bit earlier so the portal makes sense and then we could get on the road. I'm not in favor of all this, like junior recruiting, like in January. I think that's brutal, you know, I mean, I can't even get recruiting in January. Yeah, you got to have contacts at the school. You know, they're still not a senior. They're going to be seniors of following you. That's a total. And it's been now in effect for two years, couple or three years, but like, I can't even get in home now. That used to be like, like the thing, right. The head coach goes into the home, you finish it off, you get to meet the family See where they're from. Like, you can't even do that now. So. And then the teams. The further you play into it, the more of a disadvantage you're at as well. So it's almost like NFL is right. The more you win, the lower you pick, the lower you draft. Yeah, it kind of plays in a sideways kind of way into that format. But the calendar's got to change because right now it's. It's pretty messy.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. I don't know why we don't do way. I know why. It's the money. But like conference championship games, just do it like they do in the NFL where it's like you have your tiebreakers, but the best record. You guys are ACC champs now. Okay. Congratulations. You get a buy a week going into this game. And then right after win conference championships would be. That would be your bye week. And then you're in the playoffs all through December where your national championship's taking place that first week of January. Portal opens up right after the national championship.

[Will Compton]

Coach, I don't know if you're listening, but we got to figure it out.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I mean, that was that kind

[Mario Cristobal]

of nice right over, man, right? I mean. Hey, did you get this right here?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

All right, make sure you guys ought to copyright.

[Taylor Lewan]

Did you hear any flaws there, man, nobody watches the show. You can say whatever you want.

[Mario Cristobal]

No, you. You guys are. It's well thought out. It's just. This is what I know. Look, excuse me. Is that every year we change the calendar without really thinking it through, so then we end up changing something else the next year. It's been a relentless, like just non stop adaptation year after year. So that sounds like it has a chance, you know?

[Taylor Lewan]

You like it?

[Mario Cristobal]

I do like it.

[Taylor Lewan]

What was the. Was it pate? But you brought this up to me as somebody brought bowl games. Because that's where the money is, right? These bowl games, ncaa, they make a lot there. So that's why there's a space.

[Will Compton]

Coach McGuire. Coach McGuire or last week was talking about. Talking about having. Was it bowl weekend. The first. Yeah, first. Everybody's got a bunch of the ideas.

[Taylor Lewan]

Clemson and Georgia, they'll play in Atlanta. These teams like play at neutral sites. So you just have. You have your Gator bowl or whatever that. That Bulls. Now you have those. Those games done week one, neutral, have them go play there. Everybody makes their money and now we're in a season. You don't like that? Tell me why.

[Mario Cristobal]

No, it's a. I mean it's like a. Feels like a preseason Format that. Yeah, that was dumb play what the last year's team earned, you know.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I don't know.

[Mario Cristobal]

I can't buy that one right now.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay, fair enough. But we like the other thing pretty good.

[Mario Cristobal]

I don't have to see it on paper. I gotta see it.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'll write it down for you. Yeah, I got bad pens, the right

[Will Compton]

to change his mind.

[Mario Cristobal]

O linemen usually have, you know, pretty good perspective of the way things, the way life should be. So, you know, thank you.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, I agree.

[Mario Cristobal]

For life, buddy.

[Taylor Lewan]

Go.

[Will Compton]

Wouldn't you love to put your paws on, on this specimen over here as a young recruit?

[Mario Cristobal]

This guy. Look, I can have you by. What time is it now? 1240. By 3:30 I can have you a fake ID. Juan Luis Ramirez, 18 year old senior from a local high school. Brother, we could start this thing all

[Taylor Lewan]

over, get it going.

[Mario Cristobal]

One heck of an nil deal.

[Taylor Lewan]

All right.

[Mario Cristobal]

You know, you get you with Coach Irv to do a little functional strength assessment. You make sure all the tires, you know, so have their tread on.

[Taylor Lewan]

Tires are not great. I'll be honest, there's one tire that's not doing too well.

[Will Compton]

Get a year out of it.

[Taylor Lewan]

But hey, I'll get you, I'll get you a damn good year. And I don't want to gain weight. I kind of like where I'm at right now. Let me just put a tight end eligible number on and I'll be your blocking tight end. And I swear to God those are

[Mario Cristobal]

the creatures we try to recruit now. I mean that's, that's exactly what you want up front now, you know. Yeah, powerful athletic dudes that can flat out.

[Will Compton]

You got some big boys, got some

[Mario Cristobal]

big boys getting some big talented boys. And you know what? They all can run for the most part. They all can run. One guy's getting a little bit better, getting his weight under control, but for the most part they can get after it. And you saw Coach Mirror Ball, I mean that guy is, he's a creature coach.

[Taylor Lewan]

You know, you've. Yeah, you use the word relentless. His coaching style is clearly relentless. On those guys 24 7, they, they just. He owns the room. When he walks in, you see the stature, his heart's 10 times bigger than the stature because the guys respect and love him a lot. You got, got a kid, a freshman kid from Ohio that placed in wrestling. You got the number one champion, you had the number one overall prospect and a guy that's starting with at the ones with you right now. What are you seeing from those Two individuals from a freshman standpoint, just fearless,

[Mario Cristobal]

you know, and they're sponges. Like, they are. Like they're not exactly a no assembly required type of toy. They require some, but they're instant fixes. You know, they can coming back to the huddle. They're kind of, they're to the point now where they realize, all right, you know, I, I understepped that or I didn't open my hips enough, or I didn't get my hat across or, you know, I didn't get my fist to the sternum. Like they are speaking the language. Like every great culture has their own language, right? Like every great position group, like they speak a certain language. They're speaking the language. It's just rolling out of their mouths and they are applying it now. You know, we got to get them to bend at the knees more and get their heels in the ground for more balance, power. But those guys, they. They get it. And you talk to them today, you know how they want to get more confident with their hands, right? But they're, you know, day one or day three, third down, you know, was a nightmare for them, right? Not understanding their set lines. The twist and the sunset come with it. And now today you saw a good amount of progress in their game. So it's awesome to be around those guys. They're going to be great players.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'll say this, I don't think I've ever seen a one on one series so lopsided where the offensive line had a hell. Had a hell of a day. It was, it was awesome to see. And then Jackson, clearly, he comes in as the number one overall recruit, but his hands, his. He understands the angles of his set and how they should be. His hands. There's a couple things you can clean up, but they're in the right place. At the end of the end result of the play, he knows where he's at as opposed. Opposed to where the quarterback's at in the pocket. He understands when games are coming. Seems like when you guys that did that, that like crazy exotic blitz, period, you guys have all these, all these calls and he can hear kind of what's taking place and you can see him process it in real time. It's a little bit slower because it's like, you know, he's only had so many reps, but I walked to the camera multiple times and was like, hey, this kid's got all the tools in the world. I mean, they, they really do. And a couple of those squatty guards, you were competent on them. Them Boys surprisingly surprised them squatty guards. You don't sleep on the squad voice.

[Will Compton]

Can't sleep.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I hope you all are enjoying the Miami interview. But real quick, this isn't about us.

[Taylor Lewan]

Nah, it's about the eel.

[Will Compton]

You got a long day and no time to cook.

[Taylor Lewan]

You actually want something that tastes good.

[Will Compton]

You want that clean eating feeling without the work.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's Kevin's high protein clean ingredients ready to go.

[Will Compton]

Kevin's Natural Foods has been fueling us all spring tour. And it's loaded with protein.

[Taylor Lewan]

No, no, no, no, no. We said it wasn't about us. It's all about the.

[Will Compton]

You all about the Kevin's Natural Foods.

[Mario Cristobal]

Again, anything you can note up that you see, it'd be good to, you know, to pick your brain on some of that stuff because you know, those guys as, you know, playing with that kind of length, there's a, you know, an acclimation period, so to speak, where they. Understanding the, the timing and the power that comes with some of those edge rushers. I mean, Jackson's baptism of fire was going against Bane and Mesador during the bull time.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, it's wild.

[Will Compton]

You know, what a way to be baptized.

[Mario Cristobal]

He's like, man, where's Nixa? Let me go home. But. And from day one, he just, he attacked it and he's. He's always, always trying to get better, man. He's always asking questions. He's always investing extra time and he's learning that, you know what all that. He's becoming functionally strong, you know, and learning how to finish his play. So, yeah, sky's the limit for those two guys. And you know, we have a couple other guys that are banged up right now. I wish you could have seen them that are massive human beings. I mean, These guys are 87 inch wingspan. One of them. I mean, it's insane. And 340, 330, and they can flat out roll. So I think we're getting, you know, more and more talented as the years go on and, and looking forward to our guys hopefully getting drafted, you know, in a great place here. The next couple.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, you've got to be so proud knowing you got old linemen like you do, like getting four guys potentially drafted. You're talking about the room you guys are talking about right now, like as an old line guy, like, you gotta be.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah, trenches. Coach Mirbau and I went to high school together, man. 40 years. We've known each other for 40 years.

[Taylor Lewan]

Really.

[Mario Cristobal]

I was a freshman. He's like, hey, man, I need a ride home. I'm like, who the hell are you? He's like, I'm sure. Teammates. Oh, can I get a ride? I'm like, sure. 40 years later, man, here we are. You know, he's one of a kind. He's a brother. You know, I was the best man at his wedding. My brother had to be the best of mine or he did.

[Will Compton]

You give a hell of a speech.

[Mario Cristobal]

Did I? I was O line related. I mean, you know, it was.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Something about trench warfare. You guys are now in the trenches together.

[Mario Cristobal]

Ocd.

[Taylor Lewan]

Keep those deuces right. Keep them tight.

[Mario Cristobal]

I mean, we, we talked about it if like, you know, we were like, like manic. Like we'd watch 86 Fiesta Bowl, Penn State, Miami, over and over again. Because one of those games where they finally had like close up shots of combo blocks, man, blocks. But anyways, we always swore that if we ever had a chance to coach, we would create like trench heaven, you know, O line, D line. Just massive human beings train them in a way that never make a cookie cutter. Make it in a way where those bodies are developing differently. The structure of practice, you know, catered to their development because we felt that part of the game was being, you know, kind of ignored a little bit. And so that's what we're trying to do here at Miami, make it, you know, trench city, man. You know, where the trend just come to develop at a high level.

[Will Compton]

Sweetheart, if he loves you the way he coaches, you guys are gonna be married forever. Exactly.

[Taylor Lewan]

In the, in the transfer portal this past year, you got Carson Beck. Very unique storyline with him. It seemed like he was kind of. They, they kicked him out of Georgia. It was the big question mark was, is Georgia the issue? Is Carson back? The issue for Georgia, Georgia. He comes in here, he has a successful season. What did you see in him and how did you get these things out of him that your counterpart from Alabama couldn't get?

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah, you know, I saw, I saw 23 film and a dude that was just lighting it up at the highest level, thinking he was probably the best quarterback in the country in 23 and then 24. I felt that they were watching tape, that they were different systematically. I thought his O line had lost a lot. So he was getting peppered now. He was getting hit from all over the place. And the receivers led the, you know, the country in drops that year. So it was like the perfect storm of not good stuff. Yeah, that led to him just getting battered and bruised and, you know, I, I trust certain people in the industry and the the people that we spoke to, you know, they had nothing but unbelievable things to say about him. And then talking to him and getting in that mind as best we could, we're like, we provide this guy with the right line and we do what we do, which is, it's a typical end here. You know, we have the power run game, but we also have, you know, the air raid concepts tied in a play action play. And our screen game is really good. And we're like, this guy could launch the ball all over the place. He could get us in the right run game. He could make the right checks at it. He'll kill it here in Miami. And so it went well with our conversations. And next, you know, Carson Beck's a hurricane.

[Will Compton]

How's the relationship with coach Smart? Obviously there are some, some, some virality of your guys's clips going around from you both kind of roasting each other.

[Mario Cristobal]

I never expected to be in a roast. I went there totally to hand an award to Malachi Tony, and they informed me, hey, this is kind of a. So I don't like those kind of things. I'm not liking.

[Will Compton]

I'll tell you what you did well,

[Mario Cristobal]

I mean, I had no choice.

[Taylor Lewan]

You don't like him, but you're great at picking.

[Will Compton]

But you thought I had a choice. You did well, you should have seen

[Mario Cristobal]

the rest of the clips. Oh, they were good. They were better. But I just, you know, I don't, I don't like that kind of. I really don't. I don't. I'm not in a, like, talking smack and all that other stuff. But we all worked together way back at Alabama was quite the room, you know, very competitive. We all learned a lot from Coach Saban and we all busted our butts for Coach, you know, because we felt he again, gave us a great opportunity and, you know, I know wanted a more exciting answer. Man, I don't have. I don't like anybody. You know what I mean?

[Will Compton]

So you just want to coach ball.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, that's all he wants to do. He wants to coach a little bit of ball.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah, I coach a little bit of ball and, and do right. Do right by our dudes, man. Like, he, this is like their last pit stop. You know how it is. You've. You've done it, right? A good, like a really, really good coach and mentor. Right? You remember the bad ones. I remember the ones that I couldn't stand.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

Like, dude, you're.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'm.

[Mario Cristobal]

You're done coaching me. I will do whatever you ask. I respect Respect you. I was born to be raised to be a respectful young man. But, like, you're no longer affecting me. That's how I viewed the bad coaches and that, man, we have an opportunity to absolutely change, you know, and not by being a softie or catering to moods and emotions. That's not it. That's not. That doesn't do anybody any favors. You know, if. Unless you're being a true teller and confronting and demanding someone's best, you know, you're failing these guys and, you know, I don't know. It's just awesome, man. It's awesome to be able to get to do this, especially with these creatures. These guys are awesome.

[Taylor Lewan]

How do you. How do you keep these creatures in South Florida? Like, there's so much talent comes out of this area, and with the new nil world, a lot of these guys, you know, these North. These Midwest schools, the North Northeast schools, they kind of. They have money.

[Mario Cristobal]

They do.

[Taylor Lewan]

To give these guys and be like, hey, come on up here. Come, come. Be fast up here.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

How do you. How do you sell? Well, them being fast down here, I

[Mario Cristobal]

think we had to first and foremost, rebuild Miami, because I think when we arrived here, like, it's heartbreaking. I mean, I'm watching from across the country, and for 20 plus years, man, 20 plus years, I got to play here with these. You met one of them, you know, at Vilma. I was a GA when Vilma was here, was starting to come back. Oh, absolute. Just monster. And I played here on two national championship teams, lost the third one. The worst we finished was, like, third in the country. And that's what I always knew Miami as. And then. So when you start coaching, you got to go away, you know, you got to cut your teeth and. But watching from far away for 20 plus years, like, absolutely, like, infuriating, you know, to the point where that's it. Like, I've had enough. If this, you know, this is real, that Miami's providing this opportunity for us, we're going to get our teeth kicked in early because that roster needs a complete overhaul and the culture needs a complete overhaul. But we're going to do this, you know, and, man, that was the most difficult professional year of my life at 22, that first year here, and we had given up a team that we had just built into a perennial conference champion, you know, with some monsters coming, and. But it was all for the right reasons. It was all for the right reasons. And you know what? It's. We're now attracting the right type of player And I have no idea if I answered your question. I kind of went off on a tangent there. But it's just all these things always led back to. To this place and how we do things. And we want to get the best players locally. We do, and we're doing a much better job of that. You know, the Malachi Tonys and Mark Fletchers, Reuben Baines. I mean, we're littered with these guys. But we're also a national brand, and we're going to build this team in the best way that we possibly can. Can, you know, so there's not a ton of large human beings in the state of Florida, but the ones that are here are awesome. So we go to Nixon, Missouri, right?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

We go across to Las Vegas, to California. I mean, we've had guys here from Portland. I mean, we've. We've gone all over the country. And it's good because this city is made up from people from all over.

[Will Compton]

What made that first year so challenging?

[Mario Cristobal]

Everything like.

[Will Compton]

Like the. The vibe you get today. And for people watching, like, definitely. Check out the vlog. But relentless has been such a word that's been used. But the relentlessness that is all over this building the intensity, just the vibe of, we want to be the best team in the country and we are going to work to get there. And it's business demeanor. Guys are having fun as well, but it's very. Everything is very intense and intentional.

[Mario Cristobal]

But thank you.

[Will Compton]

Obviously, that takes time to build. So when you're establishing this standard, like in year one, what were some of the most challenging parts that made it the hardest year of your professional career?

[Mario Cristobal]

Not. Not having the right people.

[Will Compton]

How do you identify those? Because obviously it's like the kids get it right, but it doesn't just come from you to the kids. It's you. It's the guys on your staff. Like, those lateral moves of getting guys that, hey, you're the one that's. You're the ones that's going to be impacting them every day. How hard is it to, like, find those guys? To know, like, this is a guy I have to have on my staff versus probably past experiences where you. You look back and you're like, okay, I can see where I went wrong here. Or maybe it was a certain question I look for now when I talk to coaches to come in. But how do you identify those guys that are going to essentially bleed. Bleed into the kids? What? You bleed into them?

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah. They have to understand this is a lot of times a 247 job. I mean, it is. This is not for people that want to check out early and go on vacation. Just, you know, you can't just put down the phone and say, okay, I'm done with work for the day. When you leave the office, like, you're. You're dealing with somebody else's son times 120, right?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

So that's. That's the thing. And, you know, upon arrival, like, when we played here, we had an unbelievable culture, and upon return, the roster was a complete. You know, I want to say, in a way, because I don't like to sound like I'm disrespecting those that came before. If you wore this shoe, whether it was a good year or bad year, you're a Hurricane, So forever hurricane, and I respect that. But it certainly. Miami, for 20 years was floundering, you know, minus one or two seasons, and it needed a complete overhaul. And it starts with the people in the building. And it's not just player. It's not. It's easy to point at players. That's not it. It's staff. You know, you have to make moves and bring in people that are all about the University of Miami first and then everything else after that. And that's hard because some of the, you know, some of the biggest obstacles are inside the building. You know, it's just as important to eliminate and move on as it is to acquire. I'm a big fan of that. So, you know, addition by subtraction and, you know, that sometimes hurts feelings, and, you know, there's misconceptions and misperceptions out there on how that thing works, but this is. This ain't about tweeting how cool you are, and it's not about, you know, like, hey, I. You know. You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, I can't have any. When it comes to this stuff, man, you got to be a real one. And. And am I allowed to say that you're.

[Taylor Lewan]

Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. With you, I'll say. Right?

[Mario Cristobal]

Look, and, guys, the reason I say that and I get about it is because, like, this is, like, a real deal way of life. Like, man, that's the reason we coach is because we had, like, real deal mentors that, like, changed our lives. And if you're getting hired to come here to Miami, that's. That's it. There's no two ways about it. There's no faking it. There's no, like, there's no misunderstandings. Right? That's the way we're gonna roll. And. And that's what we needed. And that attracted. Attracts the right type of players. Players and players. You remember, you guys, you could see right through the BS of a coach that wasn't all in, right? You could tell, man, the details of a practice. If a guy's snapping the ball the wrong way, if he's reading the script or he's off by one, like, on a consistent basis, if he can't tell you the. The consistent alignment that you gotta. I mean. So anyways, I went off again on a tangent. You know what I'm saying? Real ones. You gotta have real ones, man. And. And Miami. Miami means the world to me and all the guys that I played with. And really, I'm back here because I feel that I owe Miami. So we're just rolling with guys in a very rigorous interview process, bringing in people that we feel that could change things. One of the latest ones, you know, Fabian Upshaw with the Broncos, and Mike Reedy, who's a war hero, you know, I mean, these are, like, real deal guys that could really have an impact. Impact. So sorry for the lengthy answer.

[Taylor Lewan]

Listen, we love lengthy answers.

[Will Compton]

You can tell it all means something, right?

[Taylor Lewan]

Because a lot of coaches, they don't have the affiliation of being here before growing up in the same area. But for you to, like, love it as much as you do, I'm sure that comes across to every single home you walk into. When it comes to the. The mother and father being like, are you gonna take care of my kid for the next three to five years?

[Mario Cristobal]

Right.

[Taylor Lewan]

So that. That means a lot.

[Mario Cristobal]

Amen, brother. Amen.

[Will Compton]

Oh, go ahead.

[Taylor Lewan]

When you.

[Will Compton]

When you're getting juiced up.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah. Is there. So I was gonna ask about the last season compared to this season. Did you want to ask something?

[Will Compton]

I was just gonna. I was gonna ask, too. Like, ID and like, coaches or people that you bring in to hire. Do you have, like, a go to question? Do you have, like, something that's like, you know you're gonna ask it no matter what, to help, either tell or anything? Something that's like, if. If I was a coach, I'm coming out here, I'm gonna. I'm gonna shadow you for three months because I want to be a next head coach. And we're sitting in there one day and I finally break down the barriers. Maybe we tear up together, and then I'm just like, coach, if I'm taking all my notes, do you have a question that you ask when I go off on my own journey that I should keep with me? That helps me Identify the real. From the.

[Mario Cristobal]

Well, I mean you, you, you put these guys on the board, you make them stand up and demonstrate, you know, whether it be blocking, running a route. You make them, you make them do what they do as well. So see if they can, can actually like hold a room, if their presence is one that can captivate the audience and have a command of that audience as well. And then you start throwing your stuff out there to kind of test their, their capacity, their aptitude to see, okay, can this guy handle new concepts and teach it to the players and whatnot. And then you want to see them around people, right? And then you make a gazillion phone calls. You got to get, you got to find someone you trust that really knows this person to, to get a valid one. And then, but the questions, man, yeah, we go, we go pretty deep. We go at it. Yeah, I'm not gonna say those on here, but, but you got to find out if they're willing to do the things that, that come with this job. And I think sometimes it's misunderstood. Oh, these guys are in there till two in the morning every night. No, it's not that, you know, all the time. It's, it's, we do put in some hours, but it's, everything is geared towards helping people, you know, whether it be winning the game, whether it be making sure they do the right thing. Sometimes you got to hammer them right when they're not exactly doing what they're supposed to do. And it's only because if you help them modify that action or behavior, you know what, they're going to be better by it and, and having the guts as, as a coach to be able to confront and demand the right things of your players if they're not doing it because it's going to make them better and they're going to be a better teammate and we're lucky we don't have a lot of that. And the guys here fall in line because the older guys, they do a great job with the locker room. So. But I think that's really important. I think that was the biggest hurdle upon arriving. I don't think there was much interest in doing things a certain way.

[Taylor Lewan]

Conflict before cooperation. When you're evaluating, like how close you were last year, like you're in the national championship game at home, you fell a little bit short. Now you're in spring ball the following year with a lot of turnover. You have four different offensive linemen. Now you have a new quarterback. You lost your two big time defensive ends. How are you evaluating. Where do you see your team at now compared to this time last year? From a ceiling standpoint, from a buy in standpoint, an effort standpoint. Do our guys getting it?

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

Do you see it all coming together?

[Mario Cristobal]

I, you know, buy in effort, attempt to do the right things. Great. I mean, exactly what we would expect and not picking up where we left off, but advancing as to where we left off before. Before. Last year is different. You have the. The spring portal. So your team really changes in the summertime. This year you have what you have and you're going forward. So you have more players. We have I think 40 new players right now. We didn't have that last January, February, you know. So we feel strongly about our team, but I also feel strongly about shutting our mouths and working really hard and understanding we have a long ways to go that everybody has really good practice players and I think we have to stay along that mindset. There's a, you know, and told the team that the hardest thing in the world is handling success. And everyone's been telling you how, what a great run, you know, a really super job here. And it's like, brother, get these people, get all that toxicity just away from you. That's doing us no good. We got a long ways to go. We got. We have to get so much better in so many different areas and we're investing the world and our time into it. So that's got to be the focus and. And we really can't stray from that. Don't talk about, oh, when we go back to the. Go back to what? We got to go back to work. We got practice, we got a big scrimmage coming up, you know, and after that, when we get to August, it's going to be about 1 0, one game at a time, one day at a time. So I think that. I think we're achieving that better than we have in the past. So. But I'll leave it at that. Shut our mouths, a lot of work to do and go get better. Just like a lineman would say. Right.

[Will Compton]

All to say that you is back.

[Mario Cristobal]

Right. Never, ever, ever say that again. Never. That is, man, that was all that for years. For years, for years.

[Will Compton]

But I think it too, like, I mean you get this for me personally, like, I remember NCW like one of the first iterations of it on console, like on PlayStation. It was Florida State, Miami. The shine that comes off of the helmet, Ken Dorsey, the streak that was going on. The feeling that you had as a kid watching the. You are understanding the University of Miami. And you're right for the 20 years that it doesn't happen in the excitement that is came like to my young self remembering Miami and knowing that you guys are in the picture again. It's like that feeling. Feeling gets re. Reignited for the you being back, the documentaries, the stuff to where people love to say. Obviously the you is back. And I know you hate it. I get why you like we say

[Mario Cristobal]

that you is here. You know, we say my. We say, Mike, we are here right now and we are. And the best part is the alumni, they're all about going forward too. They don't talk about back anymore. And they come. They all come and speak and they're awesome. Like our. The best part about being here, you don't really need many guest speakers. You've got all these unbelievable alumni or former NFL greats that are living in the city, you know, so you have just tons of unbelievable speakers that have a great message. So. And. And we keep it. We like keeping it tight. You know, we're man, we're as simple as it gets. There's no like hocus pocus like Hong Kong fui, like craziness. We're like legitimate like nuts and bolts, meat and potatoes, the right stuff and just doing it face to face, eye to eye and getting after it. And we, we just want to get better. That's all we're focused on.

[Taylor Lewan]

I love that. I love it.

[Mario Cristobal]

Should we have some.

[Taylor Lewan]

Should we have some fun little fan questions?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. These are from the Internet.

[Taylor Lewan]

This is from the Internet from us. These are. So if you hear a question you do not like, understand that.

[Mario Cristobal]

I don't like that one.

[Taylor Lewan]

This comes from Keynes hq. They have blue check by the way too. I think they paid for that.

[Mario Cristobal]

I don't know what that means.

[Taylor Lewan]

I mean. Yeah, don't worry, we'll get you. We'll get you out there.

[Mario Cristobal]

There.

[Taylor Lewan]

Who is Mario's? They should. They should say Coach. Who is coach's favorite team to be? FSU or Notre Dame?

[Mario Cristobal]

Everybody want to know against everybody.

[Will Compton]

But what which one.

[Taylor Lewan]

If you had to pick which one gives you a. There's no pick something about them.

[Mario Cristobal]

My answers are going to suck. Just so you know. Boring.

[Taylor Lewan]

We can keep it if you want. We can have fun doing just one.

[Mario Cristobal]

I love one zero. Nothing is more important than being one and zero. There'll be no. There'll be zero bulletin board material material coming out of this. Zero.

[Will Compton]

Blink once. If it's Florida State, blink twice.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, Coach, do you want to. We can change us up and we can ask you these questions. You just give us one word answers.

[Mario Cristobal]

We're not going to do that.

[Taylor Lewan]

I just wanted.

[Will Compton]

I'm.

[Mario Cristobal]

I'm going to go against the grain on this here, brother. Whatever you want. Any smoothie downstairs, a food that you want gear. But questions, I just. They're going to be really boring answers. That's. But you said we program that, you know, people are wired to survive.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's why I'm wired. Yes. No, I love that. And you. You made a statement there about we can have any equipment we want. Do you mean that?

[Mario Cristobal]

I did. I said that on camera.

[Taylor Lewan]

You said it on camera. So that's law now.

[Mario Cristobal]

Okay?

[Will Compton]

All the exclusive gear we need.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hold on, hold on. I'm trying to get somewhere with us. Can we have a jersey?

[Mario Cristobal]

Depends what number.

[Taylor Lewan]

77.

[Mario Cristobal]

I think we can make that happen. Yeah, we'll make that happen. Shake on it with the ID and the freshman status all over again, right? All right, man. Here we go. Freshman sign will announce.

[Will Compton]

Coach. What about 51? 51.

[Mario Cristobal]

Ask John. Vilma.

[Will Compton]

I'll tell John. I won't even like.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's.

[Will Compton]

They won't.

[Mario Cristobal]

We'll get it done.

[Will Compton]

It'll be paying homage to him.

[Mario Cristobal]

We'll get it done.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, we're having fun. We're having fun right now.

[Mario Cristobal]

Does that buy me out of these questions?

[Will Compton]

No.

[Taylor Lewan]

No. But hey, you got to know these aren't ours, okay? These are not our questions.

[Will Compton]

I know. This. This an old school guy.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yep.

[Will Compton]

We haven't broken down. We've broken through with him, right?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

Coach underscore Billings. What's one non negotiable standard in your program that every player has to meet, no matter their talent level? As a coach, how do you teach accountability and discipline to the players in a way that actually sticks beyond football?

[Mario Cristobal]

Early's on time, brother. Early. No excuses. None. Zero earlies on time. And that's it. We don't have a huge book of rules and policies, you know. Respect, people. Give your absolute best effort. Early's on time. Respect. Respect, Respect.

[Taylor Lewan]

How do we feel about jewelry in the locker room?

[Mario Cristobal]

Oh, they're fine.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

We go out to the field of play. We don't put on jewelry just because either you lose it, you get cut on it or whatnot, but no issues.

[Taylor Lewan]

Shirt tails. Totally fine.

[Mario Cristobal]

Go on the field. Shirts tucked in.

[Taylor Lewan]

Shirts tucked in. Gotta have this. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

They come out during practice. You know it. But we. We always start off all right.

[Will Compton]

He might like this one. Let me see that one second. Page Top pages.

[Taylor Lewan]

This one comes from Jay at dannyco422. Ask Coach Cristobal how much Cuban coffee he has a day and take a shot of Cuban coffee on air with Coach Crystal Ball.

[Mario Cristobal]

Boys, that'd be awesome. You know, if we had it. I don't think we don't have it here, but a fair amount, you know, it's. It's rocket fuel.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's.

[Mario Cristobal]

I make my own in the morning, and then one of the coaches makes it in the afternoon here. But probably throughout the course today, probably four.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

Four cups of coffee.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah, there's. They're tiny, like little shots. You haven't had any. You didn't have some last night at the restaurant or wherever you guys went?

[Will Compton]

I believe it. Something might be set up in store for us after the interview. That's what I've heard.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah, he'll make it. You'll love it. You'll be wired for. For weeks.

[Taylor Lewan]

Hey, honestly, I need that.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah.

[Taylor Lewan]

It's been a long couple of days.

[Will Compton]

Here's one from Chuck. U betcha. You betcha. You betcha, Chuck. You betcha. Did you feel like Luke Skywalker? Are you a Star wars guy?

[Mario Cristobal]

No, not at all.

[Taylor Lewan]

This one's gonna fall on deaf ears. Go ahead, swing through it, kid.

[Will Compton]

Did you feel like Luke Skywalker blowing up the Death Star when you beat Ohio State on New Year's Eve? Hashtag ask Mario.

[Mario Cristobal]

I really doesn't.

[Will Compton]

Are you an Avengers guy?

[Taylor Lewan]

No, he's a football guy.

[Will Compton]

You're a Jurassic park guy, right?

[Mario Cristobal]

I mean, for reference, are you understand it for old school wrestling, you know, the. The days of Dusty Rhodes, you know, Macho man, Randy Savage. That's probably more analogous to, you know, some of these things.

[Will Compton]

There we go.

[Mario Cristobal]

The Giant.

[Will Compton]

You know, did you feel like Hulk Hogan dropping the leg drop on Andre the Giant when you beat Ohio State on New Year's Eve?

[Mario Cristobal]

I felt like we had been working really hard to become a really good team, and we were the better team that night.

[Will Compton]

That's a great. That's a great answer.

[Taylor Lewan]

That's a great. That's a great answer. No bulletin board material. Can I tell you something? I loved it. We got a sign over there. I'm not going to answer it.

[Will Compton]

Here's one right there.

[Taylor Lewan]

I was going to do this one right here. Okay. From Jake. Jake Campbell. Jake Campbell says, I don't like this one either. Taylor. One has to go one on one with Reuben Bain right now at 34 with no knees. How does it go?

[Mario Cristobal]

Can you cut block, buddy?

[Taylor Lewan]

No, I'M actually was like the worst cup blocker in the world.

[Mario Cristobal]

Is that right? Yeah, man. You know, Reuben's. Have you watched this film? How would you pass at him? I'm curious.

[Taylor Lewan]

Reuben? The first thing I would do is take away his bull rush. So I would. The first third down where I had a slide, I would jump set him favoring the outside so when he went inside, my guard could clean him up. So now he's thinking about that.

[Mario Cristobal]

Assuming the guard's coming with you. You're not.

[Taylor Lewan]

Well, if I have a slide side, I'm talking about clean. We have four down front. We got a guy on. We got a shade and a five, and he's the five.

[Will Compton]

This is your chess match?

[Taylor Lewan]

This is my chess match.

[Mario Cristobal]

Now we're taking the linebacker, walking him over to demand the short side goes to the other side.

[Taylor Lewan]

Okay.

[Mario Cristobal]

Just one on one.

[Taylor Lewan]

Then I'm going to make him beat me laterally, not vertically.

[Mario Cristobal]

Okay.

[Taylor Lewan]

So I would. I would jump set him immediately. And then the next set I would do a 45 degree angle and I would make him go inside so I can wash him down in the back of somebody because he'll trip and I can give him a dump. Now it's mental warfare taking place.

[Mario Cristobal]

I would say this. I would say that we would have to somehow, with the use of AI. Bring your prime self versus Reuben right now and see what that looks like right now, today. Reuben Bain all day. Brother.

[Taylor Lewan]

Brother.

[Mario Cristobal]

Guess he's got a lot of power.

[Will Compton]

How are you. How are you coaching a tackle to approach?

[Mario Cristobal]

I think that was. That's a great strategy right there. You have to. You have to be aggressive, you know, because if he gets his second and third step in the ground, watch out, like his. His power, like his numbers in the weight room. If you had a. The metrics that are insane, like the way he comes out of his hips. And I don't. Have you seen him, like, without a shirt? He looks like something.

[Will Compton]

I'd love to.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I. I don't know about you.

[Mario Cristobal]

Like, he's.

[Will Compton]

He's like the physical nature of a.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah, he's of a man. He's.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, like Mo the backer number one. He's a buddy.

[Mario Cristobal]

Those guys have really built themselves into. Those are mature, like, physical, like stout dudes, man. Him and Mezador, they just explode through people if you watch them. A lot of the stuff was discombobulating people where they couldn't get their bearings about after the initial collision, so they couldn't refit a hand or that inside foot Gave way. Opened up. So great stuff. It's great stuff. Talking technique and strategy when going against defensive line. It's important we do that a bunch with our guys, one on one.

[Taylor Lewan]

I'm gonna. I'm gonna make a statement so that you don't have to answer the question. I just want to know if you agree with me or not. I think it's that people are knocking Reuben Bane on the length of his arms and that violence is violence. And you can have shorter arms or longer arms, but at the end of the day, you still have to stop it.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah. Whoever is trying to. I think maybe people create narratives to try to jockey their way in a position to draft him.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

Because we've been open practices to the NFL all year, every single year. And everybody that comes in says that's the baddest son of a gun they've seen him in Mezador. That they're the two best edges out there. Because not only do they do that in the passing game, they absolutely knock people back in the run game and set edges like nobody else. So all the feedback and all the conversations I've had with. With the. The higher ups from the NFL think that these two guys are the absolute best. And they've proven it against the best offensive lines.

[Taylor Lewan]

The photo of him at pro day with his, like, nose essentially grazing the turf. That level of bend. It's terrifying.

[Mario Cristobal]

Yeah. Him, you know, in practice when he'd get in that mood, like he just wants to kill you.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

Trying to block him was, like, insanely hard. But then you have Francis Mo on the other side, who's another Jurassic park one, Right?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

And those two guy was like, man, just incredible physicality, great technique and level of competitiveness because they would always seek each other out. There's not a day that went by that they didn't seek each other out for one on ones. They never avoided each other. It was awesome. And so they've set a great standard for those young guys.

[Will Compton]

I love them. We have one final question. It's our Bud Light question. You know how people would do anything for an ice cold Bud Light? What would Coach Crystal Ball do anything for?

[Taylor Lewan]

Can't say family.

[Mario Cristobal]

Can't say family.

[Taylor Lewan]

Can't say family.

[Mario Cristobal]

Can't say family. Church? Anything like that?

[Will Compton]

No, no, no.

[Taylor Lewan]

Religion, Politics. Family. Out. We're at the dinner table. We're at the dinner table.

[Mario Cristobal]

Simple.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

One.

[Taylor Lewan]

Right.

[Mario Cristobal]

Nothing gets in the way of want to know. Brother.

[Will Compton]

I love it because you are kind of just boring.

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah.

[Mario Cristobal]

That's what you want but you know what? It's, I hope you enjoyed your time here at Miami. I hope you got a feel for the people, you know, what we're working and striving to do. And I know anytime you guys are back this way, man, come on down. You know, we, this is how we practice. And then the, the training sessions in the summer are epic as well because it gets really humid outside. That's like, that's our bonus. That's our advantage. You know, we get to train in that crazy humidity all summer and it helps us get better and better. And you know, you got a lot of good people here, man, but they'd be Coach Mirball and then they'd, he'd love to Coach Heatherman. He'd love to get with you and, you know, talk some ball and chop it up some. But know that you guys, you know, got a, got a home down here in Miami.

[Will Compton]

Coach, it has been, it's been awesome. And all the people, the staff, the way everybody's treated us, A plus first class. It's been unbelievable. Very excited that we got to come here.

[Mario Cristobal]

We're honored to have you guys here and really appreciate you guys taking the time to be with us down here. Thank you.

[Taylor Lewan]

Appreciate you, coach. Thank you for everything.

[Mario Cristobal]

You got your jerseys coming, too?

[Taylor Lewan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Will Compton]

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[Taylor Lewan]

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[Will Compton]

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[Mario Cristobal]

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[Will Compton]

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[Mario Cristobal]

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[Taylor Lewan]

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[Will Compton]

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[Taylor Lewan]

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[Will Compton]

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[Taylor Lewan]

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[Will Compton]

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[Taylor Lewan]

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