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Like I'm over, I guess this is me being cynical. I know that's going to shock you. But I'm just, I'm so over the nitpicking of little things that we see in a five period practice. And I'm not saying we as in like you and me or Brian or anybody else, but like we as a media and I say, yeah, like, Oh, I saw him, was he limping or, you know, oh, he made a great catch. He's going to be a Balitnikov award winner. You know what? Like the extrapolations from the little bit that we get to see is just, it's fatiguing to me. That that's what I want to say. Yeah. I mean, so my question was more excited and more concerned about this. No, I'm just I'm talking through it to myself, you remind myself what I'm supposed to be answering. So you didn't answer it at all. No, that's all right. It's like, it's okay, everybody goes, you know, goes down their own path. I, you know, I have more concern today than I had a week ago because of the things that have happened. And specifically the Charles Jagasau thing, you know, so like I have more concern, but I still have a lot of excitement slash optimism about what could be coming for this season. So like my concern has not overtaken my excitement or optimism. Still feel really good. Now, you know, like to your point, I, you know, it's like, this is what, you know, like at least it's, it's, it's like we've got these, you know, little viewing windows and all that stuff. But when you think about it, what happens, you know, what's the cycle of the season once we actually get into the season? We have Saturday, we watch a game on Saturday, right? And then we spend the next seven days reacting and overreacting everything that we just saw on Saturday. And that continues. And then we do the whole thing all over again the next week. It's like, we know we're like, we're like, what would we be mice, you know, like what's the short term, you know, what like our, we're fish, I guess, we're myopic, right? We're like, like that's all we can think about on a week to week basis. So like I at least, I was thinking about this today, like I don't want to see the injuries, the injuries suck. I don't want anybody, of course, to get hurt, obviously, and I think everybody thinks that. But like in terms of camp itself, I love having the content because now it's like we're going over there. This is true. We at least get to see a little bit and we get to talk to these coaches and players and stuff like that. And it, you know, it gives us, you know, when we're, when we're doing shows here, so like I'm, I'm perfectly fine with camp right now. Actually, I'm sitting back and I'm basking and I'm, and I'm enjoying the heck out of it. That's hilarious. I love it. That's fantastic. Yeah. That's great. Okay. So speaking of getting to talk to coaches and players, here's what Irish off or a defensive line coach Al Washington had to say the other day about boob a car, treori, and Josh Burnham. I'm ready to roll that band it off because he can go, he's special, he's a really good player. And I said the same thing about doing a boob a car, it's a, he's a, you know, last year I think it was like a part physical one, you know, now he's filled out, his body looks different. And just year two, man, like you just more aware and he's playing faster as a result of it. So he's still working. He's still not where he wants to be at the end, but yeah, we'll continue to invest in him. Yeah, Josh Burnham is, he is having a hell of a, like a camp and off season, his body's transformed. Like he's almost, you know, he's almost closer to 260. He's, he's, he's special. So there, so there's El Washington, he was in that little raps, you know, cause yeah. First thing he said about boob a car is he's ready to roll and he said, rip that band-aid off. And then he kind of got a little bit louder as he went along. But so there, there you go talking about both of those guys, Treyori and Burnham. So which of them is going to have the bigger season fence? This is tough. I think we said, I said it earlier that I'm worried the hype on boob a car is a little bit too high. At this point, I mean, he's got a, he's got all the physical attributes, right? I mean, he's, he, he fits the mold. I just, I'm so high on Josh Burnham right now. I mean, what I think I said in another show, I want to move him over to Viper. And get him on the, you know, make him a starter. Yeah. That's how I feel about Josh Burnham. They're not going to do that, by the way, it was asked. They're not going to do that, but I think he's going to make some serious noise. So I'm, I'm putting, I'm hedging my bets and I'm going to be going with Josh Burnham on this one. Yeah, I'm going with Burnham as well because I still, there's something there for Jordan Botelho and I think the Botelho is still going to see his own share of, of reps. And I think that he is going to produce to whatever extent, you know, the question for him is going to be, is he going to prove that he deserves to be out there? Probably what? At least 60 or 70% of the time as opposed to whatever Trey Ori can give you. And then, you know, like if he, if he shows that he can't, then I think boob a car and maybe two way Alomaka as well, get more opportunities, you know, because I should say that the, you know, I mean, you just heard Al Washington say that, that he's pretty high on Trey Ori, but I, like, I really am pretty excited about what Josh Burnham and can bring to this whole thing. And, and, you know, hopefully we see him build on what he did last year and really continue to push RJ open as well. And I think if Burnham does what we think that he can do, you're not going to have to go to the transfer portal next year, it's going to be Bryce Young and Burnham potentially over on that side next year and you're, you're feeling really good about both, both, you know, 2025 and beyond and you feel really good about 2024 with the group they've got over there as it is. So I'm going Burnham is my pick as well. I'm excited to see this kid play for sure. We were talking about the receivers and Texas Chris slipped this in. He said, I thought they already said they've revised the six man rotation to eight. Now I don't know where you've seen or heard that I, I want to say Mike Denbrock when he was talking about it, he was still saying six last week. We haven't been able to, we haven't talked to Mike Brown yet. I believe that comes at some point potentially next week is when we'll get to talk to, to Mike Brown and Mike Brown is the one who said in the spring that it was going to be a six man rotation. I haven't heard eight. So yeah, I'm not sure, I'm not sure where you saw or heard that. Yeah. I mean, that might just be coming from press people that are hoping that it's eight, you know what I mean? But it hasn't come from a coach yet. So I will, in this regard, I will wait on the coach to, and I will trust the coach on this one. Prize picks is America's number one daily fantasy sports app with over five million active members. Prize picks is the easiest and most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports. Unlike other apps on prize picks, it's just you against the numbers. All you do is pick more or less on two to six players stat projections and watch the winnings roll in baby. Get in on the daily action with your friends and become part of the prize picks community today. 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And listeners of this show will get a $75 sponsor job credit to get your jobs more visibility at indeed.com/bluewire. Just go to indeed.com/bluewire right now and support our show by saying that you heard about Indeed on this podcast. That's indeed.com/bluewire, terms and conditions apply. If you need to hire, you need Indeed. All right, so here's an interesting comment, Vince, from defensive coordinator Al Golden. He was asked about the comment that Marcus Freeman made at the start of training camp, that Golden's defense coming into camp basically had a 500 level, you know, like if you're talking to like college, 500 level knowledge of the defense, yeah, that's right, like basically graduate level. So here's what Al Golden said to that. Yeah, I mean, I appreciate, you know, the commentary. I just think, you know, at the end of the day, like we work really hard at it, you know, we work hard at it. The players work hard at it. The staff works hard out. There's a lot that goes into it, you know, there's tips every day, there's cut ups, there's a summer development program, there's individual programs, so, you know, really, really working really hard in April, working really hard in May and June, working on the weekends, getting it situated so that you can give that information to the players and most importantly that you have enough leaders and a high standard so that they accept the information to make it their own. That, because you could give them, I could send them videos to all in blue, but you know, if we don't have guys that are accepting it, executing it, making it their own, bringing it from their head to their heart, then, you know, then it's just that I'm just fighting with Twitter then, right? I'm just fighting with YouTube and that's not what we're here to do. We're here to win games and we're just blessed to have a bunch of guys that, man, like coach me, coach, coach me, just coach me, you know, push me and that's what we attract, you know, and that's what's awesome about coaching that Notre Dame and we have a lot of guys that want to be the best that they can be, you know, irrespective of, you know, whatever part of your life you're talking about. Now, you can go whatever direction you want with this because he said a lot there. I mean, basically saying we work at it. Yeah. What jumped out at me, both listening to it live, standing there when he said it and listening to it again a few times, you're fighting with Twitter and you're fighting with YouTube. I mean, like, is out golden, like, is out golden on Twitter, you know, like looking when people are saying, is he on, you know, I think he's, I think he's watching our show. That's what I think. I think he's watching us on YouTube. That's what he's fighting against, apparently. But no, he's got a nasty case of insomnia, so he just decided that is he saying he's fighting against that or that the like he's he's fighting against the players watching that kind of stuff. Maybe. I don't know. That was an interesting comment. I'm not really sure where it was interesting how he just sort of drifted into that. It kind of came out of the blue, you know, that you know, yeah, a hundred percent did. I, you know, overall, I think it's all, I mean, he appreciated what Marcus Freeman said, but at the same time, he's like, look, we just work really hard at it and we get what we deserve. I kind of dig that, you know what I mean? And I love the fact that he's saying how hard they work and he's in the lab all the time trying to make it so that it's easy to digest for these kids, you know what I mean? And because it probably is very complicated. It's an NFL style defense. And so it is very, I mean, only the best teachers are able to give really intricate, hard concepts and make it easy to understand. And that's what he's attempting to do. And I appreciate that. I think that's fantastic. Yeah. And I mean, you know, he said that from day one, one of the things that he likes about being at Notre Dame, it's one of the first things I think the like the first spring that he was here, what struck him right away was the intelligence level of the guys that he was dealing with. I think that by and large, like just from a pure intelligence level and what these guys are able to absorb, yeah, probably even more than a lot of the guys that he worked with in the NFL. And I'm not, you know, like trying to take shots at him, but like there is a different academic standard at Notre Dame, right? And when you're balancing, we talk about it all the time, whether it's four for 40 or, you know, whatever it happens to be, you know, that's one of the things that is, that is stood out to Al Golden right away since being here. And, you know, like he said, it doesn't just happen overnight. I think that that's the biggest thing. They work hard at it. Yep. All the time. And it shows. I mean, it absolutely shows. So they're all bought in, which is awesome. Yeah. So I got another comment. This one's from Marcus Freeman. He talked about the impending 105 men roster limit that's going to be coming to college football. So here's what he said. I asked him about it at his, at his opening press conference last week. Here's the response asked like, what, what's the potential impact of this thing for you? Yeah, that's something that we've, um, have been planning for and having discussions for, you know, in the NCAA sets, the roster limit will make sure we adjust accordingly. You know, I've always had this, this, this response to questions that, you know, when people ask my, my opinion on these things, like it really doesn't matter. Rather, I like 105 or I like 120, they passed a ruling and said it's going to be 105. Okay. How do we come up with a plan to make sure this group, this 105 guys in the future are ready to roll and can really reach his full potential. And so, um, we have a great plan, right, that we've been preparing for for months, that if this was going to be the, the case, we know exactly the way we want to structure our roster. So a great plan plan in place, apparently, no details on the plan, you know, but, but the roster is going to go to 105. So what impact do you think it's going to have this? This one is, to be honest with you, it's really hard. I know. It's, it's really hard because, and maybe that's why Marcus gets the answer that, right? Because nobody really knows yet. Because they carry a lot more players than that right now. You know what I mean? And they carry about like 120, I think, ish players, right? And so I mean, I haven't gone and counted the roster, but it's about that. I actually did before I asked that question. Oh, thank you. That in the question, it was, it's right around a, it was either 120 or 121. Okay. So there, so, so 15 guys are going to get cut, like you're no longer going to be a part of the program, that, that's a tough pill to swallow for me, to be perfectly honest with you. I don't know why they have to mess with the way things are going because you're messing with kids livelihoods at this point or you're messing with their college careers. And I personally have an issue with that now. You've got the guys that are 86 through 105 that are now going to be on a full ride scholarship, which is awesome for them, but at the same time, not having some of those numbers are going to affect the way that you practice. And there's going to be the naysayers out there that talk about, oh, you don't need all those walk-ons and they don't serve a purpose and it doesn't matter. They're not going to help you win a championship. Oh, contrary, yes, they do help you win a championship because of the way they allow you to practice, right? You can take some reps off some other guys that you don't need to put on them so that they're more fresh for those games. And in a 16 or 17 game season, that's more important than ever. And you're extending the season, but you're shortening the roster. That makes no sense to me. Right. Makes no sense to me. Exactly. You know, at the end of the day, are those 15 kids that you're cutting from your roster going to going to be on the field when you're winning that championship? No, of course not, but there are still important to the way you get to that point. And I think it's, I don't like it. Now, I don't know how they're going to go about it. I know that not even all the schools are going to go up to 105 scholarships. Some conferences, I think, are going to come to the tableau that a conference coach at the group of five level told me that the conference is going to vote as to how many scholarships each school is actually going to be able to give away. And so that's going to be interesting too, because like I said, and we talked about this in the last show, the haves and the have nots within a conference, whether you're talking the power for or even the group of five is immense. Some guys, some schools can't afford to give away 105 scholarships, you know? And so that's going to be so, you know, they're still going to have a walk on program and how does that affect, you know, how many guys you have in each room, you know, from a parent of a recruit. It's like, okay, you know what the first thing that's going to get cut specialist. So you know, what does that look like as far as, you know, specialists going, you're probably going to have two of each. They have two kickers, two punters, two long snappers, and that's probably because you got to have somebody in reserve and of course, you know, in case of injuries and stuff like that. But yeah, or, you know, that or most kickers and punters do both in high school and they end up being one or the other once they get to college. But I think that you, I think you definitely have to make sure when you're given a guy a scholarship that he has at least some level of expertise and experience doing both because a punter is going to have to become a reserve kicker and vice versa because you're not going to have a lot of extra scholarships to get out. And that's where those combo guys come into effect, right? My kid's a combo guy. I feel like that might help his chances of getting on a roster someplace. But where, what is that roster going to be? Is it going to be a group of five like he was trying for before all of this came down or are we now dropping down a level or two to make sure he gets on a roster someplace like that it's, it's kind of wild. And I think it's going to be different at all levels and I'm interested to see how different schools kind of tackle this 105. And like what you were talking about initially, I think that once you get into November and then hopefully December, but like once you get later in the season and you do have injuries and even if they're not serious injuries, you've got bumps and bruises and you can talk about what do you really need 120 guys, you know, because you're already, you know, like essentially if you're looking at a 3D depth chart, then that's 66 total players right there, you know, 11, you know, 11 first-string offense, 11 second-string offense, 11 third team, you own the same on 8th offense, obviously, then you throw your specialist in and stuff like that and then you're over 70, maybe pushing 75 or so and that leaves 10 other guys just to what is now the 85-man limit and now you're cutting 15 to 20 guys off the top and okay, so everybody's getting scholarships. But you know, again, like once you start dealing with injuries, what's your scout team going to look like in November, right, and you're trying to give your offense a good look at what the opponent is going to be because, you know, let's be honest because that's part of the reason you agree to become a walk-on, right, and why a team takes you as a walk-on because they don't have to invest in scholarship exactly, you got to feed you and do some of that kind of stuff but, you know, it's Rudy, that's right, you're expendable, you know. And that's the word, I mean, and that's the truth. You're less expendable once they're giving you whatever scholarship limit or amount because now you're going to have to have full right scholarship guys running scout and that is not really-- Full or at least partial. At least partial. Yeah, and that's not really the position that you want to be in, to be perfectly honest with you because expendability is a real thing, you know what I mean, and you want the best look that you can possibly get but, you know, we've talked about this before, Notre Dame's walk-on program is really, really good. I mean, there's guys that are walked on at Notre Dame that are scholarship level players elsewhere in the 85-man world, right, and there's guys that have left scholarship opportunities like the Tefelsti kid who's running back left a scholarship opportunity at a max school to walk on at Notre Dame, like their walk-on program is legit, you know. Those kind of kids are probably going to get a scholarship now. It's the other, you know, it's the latter hat, like, okay, for example, and I know I tend to talk about kickers that they have five kickers on the roster right now and they're not going to have five kickers on the roster next year and they're going to have, you know, they're going to have that tough talk, like, sorry, you know, you're not going to be honest. But you also can't take a flyer on a guy and see, you know, you can't take a flyer and say, you know, hey, if it works out, you know, maybe you end up with a scholarship, any of that kind of stuff. You've got to invest something in them, whether it's, it's at least some kind of partial right away. And like, Bubs is asking if it'll affect how many scholarship teams can give out for recruiting class. They haven't announced anything yet. I have to think, yeah, that it will because now everyone's on scholarship. So the scholarship limit is going to have to come up to some extent. What exactly that number is we don't know yet, though. Is there a limit on how many scholarships they're allowed to give out per recruiting class though? I didn't know that there was a limit. Yes. Maximum. Is there a maximum? There is. And I know they raised it recently. I'm not exactly sure what that, you know, again, like you and I, yeah, I'm not. But I guess we'll see. Yeah. And Josh has a good question. He says, this is going to, is this going to affect the academies? They usually have about 160 players in the roster. It affects them because they're only allowed to have 105. Like that's how it affects you. You can't have more part of it as well. Yeah. Now they don't give out athletic scholarships because everybody in the school is on scholarship. Right. I mean, you know, so they don't give out athletic scholarships, but a roster, but you still have a roster limit. Everybody limits. A roster limit. Yeah. If you're FBS, you can only have 105. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. And that's now there. There is some gray area though. They're still like with the academies because each of the service academies also has a prep school. That is true. And a lot of, you know, what they'll do a lot of times is right after high school, they'll send them to like the Air Force prep school or the Naval prep school, whichever is a year and of corresponding, they'll stay there for a year and those prep schools have teams as well. So like they can get some, both academic and athletic experience there, but that helps them, helps them decide potentially who's going to be on that roster. They also have at the service academies, they also have a thing called sprint football. Have you heard of that before? I haven't. I haven't. It is 11 man football like normal, but every single person is under like 170 pounds. Wow. Or whatever. I forget what the number is. And so they have a whole team because I believe at the service academies, you're required to play some sort of sport, no matter what. And so a way to kind of make that happen is they have sprint football. And the service academies are one of the first ones to actually have a sprint football team. I know army and navy have one. I'm on their website right now. CSFL. And I forget exactly what the weight is. But it's like 168 pounds. I want to say, and I don't know where I'm, if I'm able to find that on, you know, right away, but I've never heard of that. That's the first time I'm sorry, 178 pounds. That's him. Everybody has to be 178 pounds and have a minimum of 5% body fat to be eligible to play. So there you go. So they could potentially stash some guys over there. Be feeders asking if they got, if Notre Dame got rid of dorm football after COVID. I don't know if it was after COVID. I think it was a few years ago, but they did get rid of it. Essentially the numbers were going down. Yeah. I think it's kind of a casualty of, you know, like the right, the continued rise of soccer in America, just fewer people, you know, playing tackle football and wanting to play tackle football. I think they were having a heart. They were. They were having a hard time fielding teams. And I believe like the flag football thing has, you know, continued to grow over there. So this episode is brought to you by our good friends at NFL Sunday ticket on YouTube TV. I'm sure by now you've all gotten back into your Sunday routines, but they could be even better with NFL Sunday ticket and YouTube TV. You get the most live NFL games all in one place, every game, every Sunday, and you can even watch up to four different games at once with multi view, one of my favorite inventions of this decade. It's exactly what you need to catch all the action. Make your Sundays more magical and also YouTube TV is great. I got it this year. It's awesome. Sign up now at youtube.com/bs device and content restrictions apply local and national games on YouTube TV and if I'll send a ticket for out of market games excludes digital only games. Fill in the blank. It's blank that former Michigan and current LA Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh said this when asked about his involvement in the Michigan sign stealing scandal, quote. Never lie. Never cheat. Never steal. I was raised with a lesson. Oh my God. I've raised my family on that lesson. I've preached that lesson to the teams that I've coached. No one's perfect. If you stumble, you apologize and you make it right. Today, I do not apologize. I did not participate, was not aware, nor complicit in those said allegations. End quote, Jim Harbaugh. Allarious. Like, did you have literally been caught with your hand in the cookie jar with crumbs on your mouth and you're like, I didn't do anything. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm one of the most honest people on the planet. Uh huh. If you caught, like if you caught, apologize, say you're sorry. And you know what? It doesn't even hurt you to say you're sorry because there's nothing they can do to you because you're going to be a professional coach for the rest of your career. Then you're going to retire. You're never going to coach in college again. They can't touch you. This is like double jeopardy, basically. They can't touch you. So just apologize for it and move on and at the end of the day, nobody cares, nobody. You'll be beloved in Michigan forever because you brought him a national championship. It doesn't matter what you do or what you say, now you just sound like a buffoon. Yeah. Everybody knows you did it, but it's like typical Jim Harbaugh stuff. Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't say Michigan. What's Michigan? Like, what was that? You know what I mean? The night he was even at Michigan, you know, like total Jim Harbaugh gas lighter, you know, like, there's just, have you ever truly been able to trust anything Jim Harbaugh says? It doesn't seem like it. Like, you definitely can't trust anything that he says, you know, when it, when it comes to this, all that, you know, they've, they've obviously given him plausible deniability and he's, he's falling behind it. Even though that NCAA investigation found that he was, you know, involved in this and you'll see as charged, lied, obstructed, guilty, just admit it, man. Just admit it. Like, I did what I had to do to get a national championship. That one right there. Jay Slay saying, does that restriction affect all sports or just football? I, I'm guessing you're talking about roster limits. Every sport is going to have, they've all increased. Oh, yeah. Like, yeah, most of the others have increased. Football has gone down for, well, yeah, roster limit wise, I guess, I guess football has technically increased. Yeah. It's just that, yeah, like baseball has gone from 11.7 scholarships to now they're going to be able to give like 34 something like an entire roster, shocker, right? You know, now, I don't know if that means that's the roster limit now because obviously baseball teams carried more than that in the first place. Yeah. So if those are limits now or if that's how many scholarships, you know, I don't know the answer to that because I just don't follow it that close, but I know a lot of their roster or a lot of their scholarships went up, which is a good thing for those sports, by the way. That's a good thing. Exactly. Fill in the blank. It's our fill in the blank, Baylor coaches wearing shirts at practice to say we pay players is blank. I mean, they're leaning into it, aren't they? I mean, like saying the quiet part out loud, you know, man, I just hate what collegiate sports specifically football has come to like that's, that's what it is. And the sad part is they're doing nothing wrong. They're doing nothing wrong because they're allowed to pay players. You know, I mean, I just, I mean, honestly, I feel like Baylor was probably paying players before well, you were allowed to actually pay players just based on, you know, all the shady stuff that's gone down there over the years fair enough, but fair enough. But I do give credit to the equipment guy or whoever came up with that shirt. I mean, what the heck? Why not? Well, they're also selling the shirts and they're putting the proceeds into their NIL fund. Oh, there you go. I mean, that's genius. Am I? Yeah. I love it. I don't like it. I don't like it. Like the direction that we're going. They're embracing it, man, like they're okay. To a high degree and it's just pretty, you know, again, it's pretty shocking when you see coaches walking around at practice with we pay players. Yeah. And a, at a power five school. That's where we are today, like it or not, trying to see if there's, oh, there was one more comment. Andre through the city says as much as I would love to be settled quarterback recruiting, I think whomever Notre Dame has, I think Notre Dame has an excellent quarterback room and Notre Dame will be okay. This is obviously, you know, reference, what's going on with this night. And yeah, look, you want to stack every position as much as you possibly can. You're always going to go after the best guys. It's not always going to work out obviously. I think in this specific scenario, you know, you've got Riley Leonard for this year, you've got CJ Carr for the next two years at minimum because he can't leave until he's a, you know, after his junior year, if he sticks around, then he goes for a third year. If he doesn't stick around, I think it's a natural handoff to Noah Grubbs. If he's as good as we think he is, now he's going into his junior year. So I think there's still a lot to figure out there, in my opinion, people are very high on them. Okay. Cool. I think Notre Dame recruiting at the quarterback position is in fine shape. This sucks. If he ends up going someplace else, that sucks. It's terrible. It's not what you want, but I think Notre Dame will be fine. I do too, because assuming you're going to get at least two years out of CJ Carr, that's a good thing. That's going to be great. It's going to be a great thing. Yep. And then like you said, Noah Grubbs, you're going to have a gap. You know, you would still like to have every, like you said, every recruiting cycle you would like to have one of these guys, it's, you know, again, this goes back to kind of ties into what we were just talking about. It's the age that we're in, and there are big bags of money floating around out there. You know, Noah Grubbs would be, he would take over as a true sophomore, which is when CJ Carr would potentially take over when he's a true sophomore. So I mean, I think the timing of it works out, and you know, but in Archer, I think, said it perfectly. He goes, you never want to miss out on the lead quarterback, but as long as you get one every other cycle, you'll be okay. He's right. All right. And I'm cool with that. But the biggest impact to me, like short term, is next year. What happens next year, if CJ Carr goes to the top of the depth chart, like we think he is going to, are both, you know, are both of those other guys going to stay? Are they both going to transfer? Because like that's why, because like if Deuce was here, even if one or both left, you've got your number two quarterback as young and inexperienced as he is, he's still very talented. So you would have your backup quarterback with Deuce. But you know, again, like if CJ Carr leapfrogs both of these other guys, there's a very good chance that both of them are leaving, at least by the end of next spring. And then that, you know, that like you do have REZAC potentially, you're going to have to give REZAC a scholarship. And he was, you know, like in terms of he was the Nebraska player of the year, he's a walk on right now. But again, you know, kind of what we were talking about Vince, you know, once that roster limit changes, that's a guy you've got to give a scholarship to now. But like, so at the very least, he's kind of an emergency guy, but again, like is that a real true depth number two guy? So that's where I think the Deuce thing could have the most immediate impact is just what happens within that room for next year and who the number two guy is of CJ Carr's number one. Yeah. Well, I get that. You know, everybody's like, you know, Deuce Knight is a game changer. Deuce Knight is still a project. I want to be very clear on that. Deuce Knight is not a guy that you want starting day one when he walks in the door. If he goes to Auburn or if he goes to Ole Miss, that's probably what they're going to do to him. And I don't think that's the best for him. I don't think that's the best for him. Notre Dame was on him early and they were recruiting him as a project. He's not a ready made starter. No, not now, but he's also just, you know, just based on everything that we've seen over the course of the summer and back into the spring. The guy has made a lot of progress. He's made a ton of progress. Scritterback skills just within the last several months. He's still not a walk in the door day when the freshmen start. No, but I think that's why it was perfect to have him behind a car for that. Exactly. I totally agree with that. My fear for him specifically is that if he goes to Auburn, which is what everybody's saying is going to happen, they are going to expect him to be a day one starter. And I don't think that's good for him and his development. I don't think it's going to end well. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Okay. That's what I'm saying. I think the fit was perfect at Notre Dame because he would have been able to sit for a little bit and learn. Right. Now, if you look at the new Champions Lounge, Brian Drusko posted some new Intel up there. I don't know if it was this morning. I think it was this morning. It was about 10 30, but there's some pretty good stuff up there right now on that very subject. So check it out. Become a Champions Lounge subscriber and go to the new Champions Lounge where you get all that good juicy information. That's also where you can submit your questions for tomorrow's. We in we out show coming back. We've been off. We haven't had a we in we out. I guess we did it last Monday. So we in we out is coming back tomorrow. Well, I check the thread. There are already some good questions in there for tomorrow's show. So jump over there. Get yours in. Of course. We'll answer. Beautiful. Vince. Again, happy anniversary. Pass it along to your bride. Chris, you do the same. You do the same. Miss Stacy. And I hope you enjoy the rest of your day celebrating your union. Is that what it's called? All right. Sure. Why not? All right. Everybody else. Thanks for being here tonight. As always hit the like button before you leave. We do appreciate it. And we will talk to you tomorrow on Aviation Force. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] (beep)
