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Wes
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David Pollock
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David Pollock
Welcome everybody in to Seaball. Get ball. Man, it is a great time to be a college football fan. There are. There are shots being fired from all over the country at all different programs. You know me, I am Petty. I am here for it. I'm David Pollock. My man Wes will be here in a second to jump on the keys with us. But there's just so much going on across the country and some of the headlines, man, that we'll be talking about game day going to LSU and Clemson. Last year we saw it at Death Valley. This year we see it at Death Valley. I said, whoever won the game last year is the true Death Valley. So LSU winning that game against Clemson, their Death Valley. So we're going to the real Death Valley in LSU week one. That's where college game day will be. We already know where college game day will be week one and three. So it's a pretty good start. If you're getting excited about the season, you want to wake up on Saturday morning with college football. September 19th, they'll be at Ole Miss for LSU. Ole Miss, 100% that that is happening. More news and notes. Lane Kiffin obviously apologizing for the, for the, to the people of Mississippi, the beautiful people of Mississippi, the people of Mississippi that are just getting. Just strays shot at them from all over the country. You know, you had dabo already talking about tampering it and laying it out for you on a platter, right? Like giving you all of that, what Ole Miss did. And then, you know, we're going to get to Sark's quote in a minute about it. And then Lane, obviously has taken plenty of shots, Adam. But apologizing to Mississippi people, he said his comments were regarding recruiting black families from outside of Mississippi. They were not calculated to take a shot, Wes. It was not meant to take a shot. It was meant to inform people about it, but not take a shot.
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Wes
He said that. He said that it was a long interview, and I'm sure you know Vanity Fair doesn't interview college football coaches very often, so they took every opportunity they had to ask him every single thing they could. And who knows, I don't know what kinds of questions led to that answer, but he said it was a reality that coaches have known about for a long time. But obviously, given the timing of his departure from LSU and everything going into that, I can. I can see how people from Mississippi wouldn't like that.
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David Pollock
Wes, what the hell is Vanity Fair? What is that? I don't know. I'm not. I'm being serious. Like, what the H A I L is Vanity Fair? What do they do?
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Wes
It's a magazine. And does anyone buy magazines anymore? It's like a. An online publication now, officially, but I think it's like a fashion. A fashion magazine?
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David Pollock
Well, I guess, if.
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Wes
So, Lane Kiffin, known for his fashion. I guess so.
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David Pollock
I got Vanity Fair. I looked it up. Entertainment, politics, fashion news. Okay, so if you're Elaine Kiffin and you're going on an interview like this, I would imagine there's not going to be a lot of football questions. Fair. Like, so they're going to. I know I'm going to get things from all over the place. I don't know, man. Like, Lane. Lane is awesome. I love Lane. I love the pettiness of Lane. Lane knows what he's doing. He's not stupid. Most of the time, like, he's pretty calculated on what he says, but everything he says now is going to be scrutinized. He's. Think about the fan bases that Lane Kiffin is pissed off now. Like, it's not small fan bases. Like, these are big fan bases. Like when he went back to Tennessee, he went back to Knoxville. Like, it was not warm. If he ever has anything to do with usc, like the Raiders.
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Wes
Fair to say, though, that he. He at least left USC on good terms or at least better.
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David Pollock
Tarmac on an airplane.
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Wes
That was Tennessee.
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David Pollock
Oh, yeah. No, that was USC when he got fired on an airplane, wasn't it?
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Wes
I don't see that. This is the thing about his career. It's hard.
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David Pollock
He left after one Year and then went to usc and then usc. He got fired on the tarmac because he had some issues. The Raiders. The Raiders. Davis. Al Davis put a slide up on a projector. He put it up on a projector. Like, old school clear projector. Like you. The paper down. And like, this is all the things that Lane Kiffin sucked at. That's what he said. Basically. He literally went through and talked about how he shouldn't have hired him. And then you leave Ole Miss. The way he's got a flair for leaving something and it's going to burn like it's.
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Wes
The bridges are gone. The bridges are definitely gone.
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David Pollock
But it's going to be entertaining.
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Wes
Couple other headlines just to buzz through here, updating y' all on things that have happened. Things are actually happening in college football. Ahmad Hardy is out of the hospital, and according to Coach Drink, he will try to play football this year for Mizzou. So that's good to hear.
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David Pollock
Great news, Iowa.
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Wes
This is interesting to me. Iowa's hiring Tom Moore. He was an offensive coordinator for Peyton Manning with the Colts. He's going to be a senior consultant and senior in big, bold Sharpie. He's 87 years old. He played quarterback at Iowa in the late 1950s.
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David Pollock
Yeah, if.
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Wes
If you're an Iowa fan, offense has been the. The Bugaboo. Right. I'm not taking a shot at Coach Moore here. How excited are you on a scale of 1 to 10 to be hiring a senior assistant that's 87 years old?
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David Pollock
I mean, listen, let's go, like, let's get weird. I always got to find something in the passing game, right? No, I. All seriousness, I think Iowa fans would have been really jacked up about this, you know, 30 or 40 years ago. I mean, 20, 20 years ago. But here's what I'll say. He's not running the day to day. He's not going to have to have all this energy to do all these things. If you've worked with Tom Brady and Peyton Manning and Terry Bradshaw and you've coached as long as you have, he's forgotten more football than 99.9% of the people on the planet. So he might be a little bit older. That's a place that's special to his heart. Obviously, playing there, being a graduate assistant there in the early 60s as well. Famous for being the levels concept, like, really making reads easy. But, you know, levels meaning, like having a one, a two, and a three behind it. Like, it's kind of exactly what it sounds like, I think, to people like Having those attacking the intermediate, the, the, the deep and the short at the same time kind of a deal. Um, but put stresses on defense. But. So I would love to say that this is going to be a huge thing. Here's the thing. It doesn't hurt like getting a guy like that, that doesn't have a lot of responsibility. They can come in and try to help at a place he loves. Good for Iowa fans. They brought in Rodriguez last year from Wake Forest to, to get them a little bit better and they were better. Now, you know, Tom Moore just hopefully it continues to grow and develop.
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Wes
Yep. This is purely a football hire. This is not a. Come in and understand the ins and outs of College football in 2026. Because a lot's changed obviously. And then the last thing here, Florida State and Georgia, the, the collateral damage from the game changing so much. Getting rid of their home and home series. They're going to try to get a neutral site game on the books according to Florida State's ad. Mike Alford, Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, Nashville, New Orleans, Orlando or Tampa. Potential sites for that. Who. Really exciting stuff, huh?
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David Pollock
Is Atlanta neutral? I mean, I, I don't, I don't. I never. I'm always interested when one's, you know, 50 minutes away. Is that neutral? But I, I understand.
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Wes
Listen, you know, I know FSU doesn't want to go, go back to Miami.
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David Pollock
That did not work out well.
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Wes
Wait, no.
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David Pollock
Yep, Georgia just scored again. But that was, that was a beat down. That was not pretty. But here, this, this allows both schools to keep their home games. So they basically keep them intact while, while generating huge revenue from, from neutral sites. Like you get, you get high ticket prices, you get the neutral fans, you get the ball like atmosphere. So basically. And you get to have your, your cake and eat it too. Because now you'll also get a home game with. Which is, which is good for schools like you just don't. You don't miss out on money. So that's why you. Absolutely. That's why you do it. All right, next. I know everybody had this on their bingo card when we were going to talk about today and the things we were going to talk about. Basket weaving, that was going to be a part of it. Like that was going to be the headline that everybody looked to. It's amazing. You know, again, Ole Miss at the center of action. Again, Sark saying, at Texas we will only take 50% of players academics credited hours. So basically they're only going to take half of your. This is why guys aren't graduating by the way, because you're only taking half of the hours that they have when they transfer. So that's an important point. So if you're a semester from graduating, you got to go all the way back from to 50%, you know, half being halfway home, which sucks. Anybody who knows that about, you know, going to college, if you want to play a degree at Texas, obviously that makes it harder, but at Ole Miss, they can take care of you. They got you because all you have to do is take basket weaving and, and you can get an Ole Miss degree. So Sark, not mincing words, was it?
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Wes
You know, usually when you hear that, it's, it's underwater basket weaving.
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David Pollock
Weaving, Yeah, I think that's. Listen, this has been a joke. Like when I was in school, basically, by the way, I took these classes. Like, these are. I Support this message 100 million percent. You take the classes to be eligible. I. I'm okay.
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Wes
All right, so, so when you did go to class, what was the easiest class? You were just like, man, I can't believe they got me into this one.
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David Pollock
First of all, at Georgia, I think I took like 20 electives in three and a half years. I took elective balloon.
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Wes
That's disgusting.
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David Pollock
It's disgusting. Correct. So I haven't graduated. Still, Wes, I think dance. Dance was fantastic. Dance dance was awesome. Like you, you couldn't screw up dance. All you had to do was be there, which I would argue you could screw that up. Hey, you think it's interesting. Why do you think Sark would say this? Did you. Do you know any of the backstory of this? Because I think this is pretty interesting that people will actually, like, why would Sark say that?
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Wes
And you know, I, I didn't know about the 50% rule. And when I read what he said, you know, I guess a lot of these guys, these high profile transfer guys, like, they probably don't care about their graduation track at that moment at all, you know, at all. It's cool to see, like James Cook came back and got his degree at Georgia. You know, that was cool. But while they're in school, they don't care. Right? So setting back, their, their track probably doesn't matter, but I, I would love to hear more about, you know, Texas's policies about that and, and some of those realities for these guys.
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David Pollock
Well, I mean, the reality is when you transfer schools more than once, your graduation rate plummets. And when you, when you, when you transfer once it plummets, when you transfer again, it's non existent, like 90% of people do not graduate. So this transfers. Everyone's talk about the kids going to making money. I get it. They're going to go make money. There is a cost when you transfer and you don't get all your credits, you're not going to graduate and it makes it harder to graduate. So I think the interesting thing about this is during Archmain's recruiting process is why I think this is being brought up. And Sark is saying this because Golding is, is a guy that. Now if you're talking about Pete Golding who was at Alabama, he was the D.C. he took a shot at Sarko back in the day when they were battling for, for Arch Manning. So why would Sark say something about Golding and company and say something about Ole Miss? Because the quote that is out there, actually the zoom call with Arch and his family and his high school coach, Nelson Stewart. So this is reading it. Golding, who called Sark a close friend, said something along the lines of, I love Sark, he's my best friend. I hope he can stay sober. So obviously that wasn't an accident. You say the amount of stuff you guys, the guy just telling you guys what you hear in recruiting about the amount of stuff that people will throw shade in other directions. It's incredible. Like I'm now a recruit, a dad of a recruit. Now you hear it like at smaller schools you would never imagine like everybody is throwing shade and ways to do it is interesting. But if you don't, if you don't think this had something to do with Sark saying what he said, I would disagree. Strongly, strongly. Little bit of an ax, but, but you gotta, you gotta like the way my man Summerall handled it though. Just retweeting it about the, the comment that was made and then grateful to coach at a top 10 public university that also offers advanced basket weaving. He did say advanced, by the way. So you've heard underwater. Now you've got advanced. Summerall Clear supporter. Summer all played linebacker like he's a C ball, get ball pass guest recently. Like he supports basket weaving. I would support basket weaving. I might have taken basket weaving. Yes, please. That's what you're supposed to do. Take some of the easy courses. All right. We're going to get to the Big Ten, dudes. We, we got the last six dudes in the Big Ten. These are guys again. Actually, Wes, you're going to like this because I cheated, but that's okay.
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Wes
What'd you do?
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David Pollock
I did it. I had to add one person that people should know, but I don't think they do. That's why I did it. If I asked somebody to name a Rutgers wide receiver, I don't think they could do it. So he's a stud. He's a first round pick. Like this dude is unfreaking believable. I guess I got to start with him now. I mean, I'll allow that.
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Wes
Yep.
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David Pollock
Okay, so KJ Duff. This dude is an absolute freak show. Back to back thousand yard seasons. Not great quarterback play. Not an offense that sets the world on fire by any stretch of the imagination. He had 241. I think it gets Purdue, but he's from Long island, which is cool. Other schools recruited him, but he was recruited heavily as a tight end and because of the big body. 6, 6, 2, 25. So people told him he was a tight end. Tight end. Now he wanted to be a receiver and not surprisingly. How about the catches that he continually makes? He led the nation with 22 contested catches a year ago. He picked up a first down or scored on 50 or 50 of his 60 catches. And he caught that ball right there. If you're watching right now, he caught that ball. Like I'm not sure how you catch that ball. I saw that live. It was absolutely filled. Filthy, Unbelievable dirty catch. Scored six of his seven touchdowns in the red zone. That one handed catch was absolutely incredible. But like, listen, I know he was one of three players in the Big Ten with over a thousand with Makai Lemon and Jeremiah Smith, but nobody talks about KJ Duff. This dude will be a first round pick. I'll be interested to see what he runs. But he just, he dunks on people. Consistently makes highlights. When you play Rutgers, even if it doesn't have a great quarterback play, that guy's going to get jump ball after jump ball. He makes first downs, he makes touchdowns. He's a fricking baller. I, I just wanted to talk about them. So I broke the rule, but it's my show. So that's what's a good thing. When it's your show, you can break the rules and you can do that. Indiana, obviously. Mendoza's gone. Couple of running backs that were so pivotal and so good from a year ago. With him being black gone, who's going to be the next guy to tote the rock? Here's what's awesome about Indiana's offense. It ain't going nowhere. It's going to be downhill. It's going to be one cut. It's going to be physical. Like you know exactly who they are what they want to be and what's what is important to them. So I think Kobe Martin is just the next guy.
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David Pollock
And last year as a freshman he was really, really good man. I mean he had 500 plus yards over six and a half a carry, six TDs. Yes, 100%. It was in garbage time but he is relentless. Downhill feet keep moving high missed tackle, force tackle rate. Like the dude is going to be a baller. He's built for the Big ten, built for Big ten weather. Indiana kid, which I think is really, really cool. One of the first guys in that class to sign with with coach a couple years ago. So if you don't know him, Kobe Martin will be a guy that listen, obviously Hoover's been playing QB for a while for tcu. Nick Marsh at receiver, who's going to be a freak show. He's been on the scene for a couple years. So I did actually follow the rules on that one. Speaking of following the rules, didn't follow the rules on this one. Penn State. Why didn't I follow the rules? Penn State, every guy is new, right? The whole roster is new. So who's going to break out? So immediately when I said Penn State, I was like, option one is Quentin Martin Jr. Okay, running back. He ran for over 103 in the, in the bowl game, right? He was, he was a top 10 national recruit. They're running back you like that would make sense. But Carson Hansen comes from Iowa State and, and then James Peoples comes from Ohio State. So I was like, I don't think he's going to get enough play. And Then I went to Kobe Howard, who had explosive numbers a year ago, and I say explosive numbers. He was a freshman. He had seven catches, but he averaged almost 20 a catch, like from Florida. Speedster. Real. Really speedster. Real good speedster. And then I settled in on my guy. I'm going with Chase Sowell. Okay. Transfer from Iowa State. He's played with Rocco Beck. I think that's really, really important. He was a Big 12 newcomer. He had honors about that a couple years ago. But the reason I went with him is the size. Really, really big size. Good contested catches, downfield threat. There's a lot of wide receivers in that room, but there's only one guy to me that is going to be the number one guy. And I think him with Beck, I think it's going to be. I think that'll be the most pungent punch. How about that? I think that that'll be the one that we're looking at. So kind of cheated, but I did give you one guy. West. While we're. While we're doing this, I'm going to. I'm going to hold Michigan's till the end because I want to know how to say the first guy's name. The name. His first. First name. Going to let you. Let you jump all over that. All right. If you. Illinois. Illinois has done a really good job. Belam is a stud. He's an unbelievable coach. He's an unbelievable. He. He has a great eye to see talent and. And I think Belama's superpower is building relationships. Like, if you ever spend time with Belema, you like him. It's impossible not to like him no matter what school he's for. So he gets guys to stay like Yakis a year ago to stay in the transfer portal, and Matthew Bailey is the next guy. They got to stay. So much experience. Some people that watch football and not just the top teams will know him. We'll see him big hitter, big physical safety. There's number seven right there on your screen. Six foot two, 225 plays in the box. You could play linebacker. Absolutely. You see the shoulder brace? He got hurt a year ago, so that was. But he's all over the field, tackles everything in sight, makes a bunch of plays. The dude could have played just about anywhere in the country. He. He was a guy highly sought after. Not surprising, Belema, because he's a stud and he's got great relationships and he's. And he says the right things and does the right things. I'm not surprised he was able to keep Him. So Matthew Bailey will be a guy. When you play against Illinois, you'll be like, who was that bad mother? Shut your mouth. All right, got another one now. Kind of cheated on this one as well. When I read about Minnesota and when I've heard from people at Minnesota, when I read about them, I got an answer. I got a different answer than when I talked to them directly. So when I read about him in the spring, I heard about Noah Jennings and wide receiver transfer from Cincinnati. He's number 13, 6ft, 185 pounds. Like, big play guy, deep threat guy had two catches in the scrim spring game for 84 yards. They said, you know, he also had a trick play throw. He was a co. Offensive mvp and coach Fleck raved about him. He's smooth, he's got great hands, he's confident. We're glad we got him, basically. And Drake Lindsay, who plays quarterback, he said Noah's a freak. He said he's a freak athlete. Absolute freak athlete. I think the speed is something that we haven't necessarily had here in my time, so. And he's basically talking like, obviously, Noah Jennings can be that difference maker. When I talk to the school, though, I wanted to give you another name. Jalen Smith. If you watched Minnesota last year, first of all, one thing is you love about Minnesota receivers. No block, no rock. Like their culture is elite. Their culture. They don't, they don't put guys in there that are sizzle guys like, you better be a. You better be a boy dog, you better be a worker, you better be blue collar. PJ Fleck is one of the best culture developers in the country. And if you saw the bowl game last year, he had two tuddies. Jalen Smith. One was the game winner. Both were contested catches, both were tough. The game winner was in overtime. But he's, he's going to block, he's going to do all those things to make all those plays. Excellent at going and getting it high, pointing one hands, diving catches. But, you know, he had the, obviously the heroics in the bowl game. So we're going to go with Jalen Smith. But we have heard a lot of good things about Noah Jennings. All right, so I think we got five out of six. Wes, you want to come on and just say this guy for me? You want me to give it a whirl? Like I'll just, just want me to just try to hammer away or you want to do it? Michigan. The Michigan Wolverines.
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Wes
I put, I put his name in there.
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David Pollock
I know. CE Moa Okay, Celici Moa. That's easy. Like, I mean, my goodness. Cecimoa. Like how do you not know how to say celicimoa? How do you mess that one up? By the way, how you spell it? S, A L, E, S, I and then M O, A. So Celici Moa. I. I mean it's that simple. I don't know how you screw that up. But true freshman was going to Utah from Utah. He was a four star kid. Some had him as the number one athlete, period, you know, in the recruiting class last year. But he's been turning heads in spring. I don't.
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Wes
He.
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David Pollock
Obviously he's not going to be the number one guy. Marsh was a breakout guy. We can't pick Marsh. But Moa, I mean he's got some juice. He's not real tall. He obviously isn't big. But if you look at, I saw, I saw a quote from cornerback Jair Hill, his teammate. He said, I played with Roman Wilson. He reminds me of him. He said, I'm not. I wasn't just comparing it to him or anything like that. Like he's nice. He said he's real nice. So think about this offense with Michigan, you need a guy opposite Marsh. You need a gadget guy. Those guys are really, really fun that you can put in motion. Use Underwood's legs too. I think Moa is going to be that guy. I think he'll be a freak show that will make big time splash plays throughout the season. Wesley, we wrapped up the SEC and Big Ten dudes. So where do we want to go next? We want to go Big 12 or ACC. Which, which one? I'm gonna let you pick next.
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Wes
Hmm. Let's go. Let's go acc. Okay.
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David Pollock
We'll go ACC next, but this is
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Wes
something, you know, the ACC these days you still cover coast to coast. So coast to coast guys from all over the country, which is.
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David Pollock
Which is still. It still takes some getting used to sometimes. Still you still does. It still catches you off guard sometimes. All right, so one thing we wanted to do here on this channel, we wanted to bring you tape. Okay. We wanted to show you breaking down, why somebody's great, what they're doing great. And we're going to do this for Dylan Stewart and Master Maker and we're going to go Sam Levitt, we're going to go all these guys and you can follow the whole breakdowns on X. David Pollock, 47. All these players are going to come this offseason, but we're going to give you a Little taste of it. We started with Arch Manning and what made him great last year and what he struggled with and how he takes a leap next year. Play one of the season, man. Like, watch this versus Ohio State. He's got time. It's a play. It's a play action. Basically the first play of the game, and you see he rolls out and this dude, there's a guy in the flat, wide open, and there's a guy running a corner route wide open, and he is wide open, and Arch rushes. He wants to get to it so fast. And now situational football. Arch is so good at this. You look at this next clip. He is so good with the mesh and see, mesh. I'm reading the end, man on the line of scrimmage. Okay, that end. Look at him. He's coming off the line. That end is responsible for the run game. So he pulls it. Now he sees the nickel, the slot, guys blitzing. And as he blitzes, he sees he's going to throw that screen. Look at him go up field a little bit. Like that guy goes up field. Arch doesn't break stride. Immediately squares his shoulder, tucks the football down. And then look at this. Nobody closes the gap. Look at that. Just extends it over 21 miles an hour on the GPS, takes off and calls game. All right, I hope you like that. We're going to give you more and more of that, man. Like, that's. That's the fun stuff, Wes. There's nothing better than watching these guys and breaking down their footwork and their releases and how they see it and what everybody's going to think about them and how they progressed and what you're going to project them, you know, doing moving forward. That's. That's so much fun. So I appreciate you getting that video up, brother.
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Wes
How much did you miss that stuff?
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David Pollock
I. That's. That was my favorite thing we did at espn. That was my favorite thing. Like to be able to watch the tape and be like. And then you talk to a guy and like, hey, man, this is what I'm focusing on. I'll never forget Bryce or Bryce QB from Bama. Bryce Young, high draft pick. I'll never forget. I'm like, dude, he plays like he's in the Matrix. And I'm like, how can we develop Neo? Yes. And I'm like, how do we develop some kind of matrix? And I remember the tape we did and we had, like, the Matrix coming down and, like, watching him, like, kind of fly through the Matrix and stuff. But it's just. I Don't think people understand. Like, there's so much that goes into watching, evaluating, and you can see it on the tape if you watch. You just keep watching, keep watching, keep watching. You'll see these little things that stack up and these little habits that stack up and all things that are just so much dagum fun.
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Wes
So when you're breaking down film at North Oconee, are you going back into your. Your game day film breakdown with the guys and you're just like getting fired up to show them what they did in the last game?
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David Pollock
I'll never forget when we start. When I started at North, I was talking to our defensive coordinator. I'm like, hey, man, like, we don't have a lot of stuff in. I was like, how are we going to combat X, Y and Z? He was like, you realize you play like 30 snaps on a Friday night. Like, that's all. He was like, you don't do all that. And I was like, oh, but yeah, like, just. You want to find. To me, the. My favorite clips are finding the effort clips. Like, how do you find the effort clips and the. The great technique clips that you show them. Like, hey, this is why this works, man. Like, if you will do this consistently, the pro. The problem is, Wes, it is hard to get these kids to watch tape. They won't do it. Like, we can see their huddle and we can see how many hours or minutes or seconds they spend, you know, watching their tape. And we'll literally put a list together and be like, hey, man, you have not logged in one time.
- [29:33]
Wes
You mean, like, you haven't watched it? You mean the. The generation of kids that have a 15 second attention span, have a hard time watching an hour game film? That's crazy. Yeah, I think that's awesome. And look, we would love to have all of that here on YouTube. We just got to figure out how to do it without getting the channel shut down. So if we can figure that out and have a lot more film breakdowns on here, we'll. We'll get it on. But that was awesome. All right, let's get to podium Kings. We will start with the Commander in Chief and the national champion Indiana Hoosiers
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David Pollock
in 2023, shortly after joining Indiana Kurt. Who's Kurt? Kurt Signetti. Where is Kirstignetti? Right here. Huh? Oh, come here. Come here. Kurt Signetti.
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Wes
Who's Kurt? He needed to Google him.
- [30:29]
David Pollock
I like what you did there, Wesley.
- [30:31]
Wes
Like, hey, had you not seen that yet?
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Wes
You reacted to that as if you hadn't seen it yet I had seen it.
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David Pollock
It kind of creeps me out when I watch it. I don't. It just. You know what it does? It just shows me, furthermore, like, that, that. That. That politics don't need to be governing sports. Like, he doesn't know who Kirk Signetti is. And that's okay. He's not spanning right beside him, but he was also right beside him, and that. That part was.
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Wes
Kurt?
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David Pollock
Kurt, where are you? It was a. It was a Biden moment.
- [30:58]
Wes
Coach didn't look like he. He liked that very much. All right, next up, I think you're going to like this. This is a little bit of family goals crossover here, but Scotty Scheffler talking about parents coaching youth sports and how his parents handled him growing up. And look, dude, when you've done what he's done as a pro athlete, maybe this approach works.
- [31:23]
David Pollock
You know, my mom always did one thing that was interesting was she never asked me what I shot. She said, if you. If. If. If you want me to know what you shot, you'll tell me. I don't have to ask you what you shot.
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Wes
Pretty cool.
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David Pollock
That's really cool. Yeah, he's. He's figured something out. If you haven't watched Scotty Scheffler. Like, he's got the perspective, and that's why he's dangerous as crap. Like, he just plays. I don't think he worries about a lot of different things. He's got a strong faith. Talks about his faith a lot. Like, it's. It's hard not to like the guy. It really is. He's been a little cantankerous with the media, but I'm okay with that, too. Like, when you ask dumb questions, sometimes you deserve to be sniped at a little bit and be a little snippy. But I'm not surprised that he had great perspective from his parents. Not surprised at all.
- [32:10]
Wes
All right. UNC graduates did not get to see a great football season in year one of the Bill Belichick Jordan Hudson experiment, but they did get a pretty cool commencement speaker and Eric Church and. And this was awesome. You were made uniquely, wonderfully, distinctly. There's a sound only you can make. A voice that has never existed before you and will never exist again. A contribution only you can bring. A way of seeing that belongs to only you. The world does not need another cover song. It needs an original. How about that for a line? You do a lot of public speaking.
- [32:55]
David Pollock
That.
- [32:55]
Wes
That was. That was just the start of it. And your. Your whole. The whole video is on your ex if people want to watch it. But it was. I thought it was pretty cool. And he get. And then he gets to play a whole song for them, which I think is kind of like a cop out. If you're a commencement speaker, you know, you don't have to prepare a whole speech. But he made his words count.
- [33:17]
David Pollock
Yeah, made his words count. I like that. And it sounds very similar to the Bible, by the way. Your fear is wonderfully made. You're made on purpose, for a purpose. Like, you're. Whoever you are, however you were made. Like you were made for something that you can accomplish that no one else can. Like, that's got to be an awesome feeling. So don't look in the mirror and say, I don't like this, because you were made like that for a reason. So go get whatever that looks like. Great job, Eric Church. Maybe we'll get him on the show, too. That'd be kind of cool to get him on the show after that.
- [33:45]
Wes
Yeah, we need to get Eric Church on and got, you know, Bobby Cox passed since we. Since we were last on here.
- [33:53]
David Pollock
Yeah.
- [33:53]
Wes
And so tough week for the Braves. Braves fans with Ted Turner and Bobby Cox. We need to get Frenchie on here, man. I bet he has some really cool Bobby Cox stories.
- [34:05]
David Pollock
Let's do it. We'll do it. All right, dudes. Appreciate y', all, like always. We'll be back next week. Maybe we'll grab Frenchie. C ball. Get ball. Like, rate, subscribe, do all those things, please. It helps our show. We hate to have to have talk about it, but. But we appreciate it when you do it. And we'll continue to grow. We'll continue to come here. And this. This sport continues to give. And we'll have off season stuff to talk about because it always delivers. We'll see y' all later. Peace.
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