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(best one ever) Blitz Month 2024: Jimmy Goheen (aka ksu_FAN)
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He is the man who has single-handedly changed the way all of us watch football and basketball. It is a man who is an artist and a statistician. He is one of the kindest souls I know, one of the smartest people I know, and his kids absolutely hate it when I gas him up during his intros, live from Manhattan Brewing Company. He is always superhuman, whether you need him to be or not. It is Jimmy Gohim, Jimmy, welcome back to Blitz Month, welcome back to the podcast. It's always good to be back, and Blitz Month episodes are always fun. I've listened to all of them so far. It's been good to see just all the perspectives that guys have. You have had some great guests and I'm honored to be in the group and being able to speak a little bit on my part of what this season is going to look like. Yeah, it's always fun to get you on. You're on all the time, but I believe you're also, and I guess I could have saved this for the end. I believe the KSO Sunday show is returning here in the next couple weeks, maybe even this weekend. We talked about it this week probably. So maybe by the time folks are listening to this, they will be able to hear you once again on the KSO YouTube page, always doing fun stuff over there. You and I were talking about it before we walked in here, absolutely gorgeous weather, although I think by the time this releases, they'll heat up a little bit. How fun has it been to almost kind of feel like fall right here in August, especially as everyone's ramping up for football season. Yeah, it does get you into the football mindset, feeling as fifties at night and seventies during the day, and the kind of weather we want to have, of course, it's Kansas, so we're going to have that warm stretch again before we know it, but it's nice to have a little respite here before the school gets started and right at the end of the summer. Well, and then also we'll probably have one day that touches the nineties in October and then also snow in the same month. So we've both been in Kansas long enough to know what happens. I'm actually wearing one of my favorite get-ups, a crew neck sweatshirt from Charlie Hustle. We'll talk about it later in shorts. That is like my favorite go-to. So waking up today, taking Chauncey on a walk, it was 58 in my neighborhood. Oh, it was amazing. Yeah, that's a good stuff to be part of. I just got back from the mountains of Colorado with my son camping last week and this feels like it did out there, so it's kind of fun that Kansas has that kind of weather going on. So before we get into everything, it is preview season. I take in so much content. I know you love it as well. Before we get into our preview of K-State, what are some things that you love to digest and take in during the pre-season? Of course, like KSO does a lot of great stuff. You're helping to do every game preview, the pre-season game preview for all those. So obviously over there and Go Power Cat, Kelsey Robinat, everyone does so much great stuff covering. But what is stuff outside of that K-State realm you like to digest during this pre-season ramp-up? Yeah, I like to get into, in July, I like to get into all the pre-season rankings, metrics that are out there. Kelly Ford, Bill Conley's SP+ and then the Athlon always has a good one, ESPN, FBI, College Football News. Reading College Football News and Athlon's previews are always good as well. So there's a lot of stuff out there and I like to kind of put that all together and make my own averages with their rankings, see what's going on. And then now that we're in these new Big 12 with 16 teams and you only play each other nine times, it's fun to look at schedules and I think we're going to talk about schedules a lot in this preview. But breaking down schedules in the unbalanced schedule era really is something that informs what you think the season could be, maybe who could be a surprise team, who could be a team that struggles because they have a tougher schedule and when you play and where you play, the best opponents is really something you've got to look at and that's something I've dived into a lot in the last couple of weeks. That's like one of those words, like everyone knows how bad I am with grammar and pronouncing stuff. I'm awful. I'm glad you dove into that. Before we get into our conversation, we're recording live from Manhattan Brewing Company. They had been rocking with us as sponsors for going on three years now. I actually think it might have been Blitz Month 2022 is when they began sponsoring this show and they've been rocking with us literally ever since. It is the best brewery in the state of Kansas and absolutely delicious beers. I'm drinking the Razz townie, which is their raspberry townie. I think you're drinking the very first beer I ever had here, the lemon says on. It is the spot to be. They also always have great events I'm looking at right now. They just had an eighties night that alley beers on the Friday, all sorts of great stuff. Make sure you're following them on social media so you know exactly what is going on. Of course, every time you come in, get a couple of crawlers, get a couple four packs as well as a pint or two every time you come to Manhattan Brewing Company and also no free ads, but Missy's right by my house in Shawnee. I was bugging them saying, "Hey, we need Manhattan Brewing Company in here." They have tasty, wabash ale and the original townie with the official tailgate beer of Bosco's boys. Jimmy, I think I've recorded a handful of episodes here. I think all but like one or two have been with you, so it's almost like our spot. I know it's tougher once a school year gets going. We do a lot of stuff via Zoom, but I always appreciate kind of our early and late summer episodes right here in Manhattan Brewing Company. Yeah, it's fun to be here and record and good atmosphere, a good beer and they do a great job promoting your show as well and I appreciate that and it's good to be in a brewery. I think we did a couple in Kansas City back in the day, so it's always fun to record on a location and not just over Zoom. Yeah, it is the roots of Bosco's boys. We used to frequent spots in Kansas City quite a bit, but it's always a lot of fun. Let's get into the preview and last year, and honestly it is poor podcasting by me because I think our number one downloaded episode for the entire sport season, the 23-24 sport season was your big 12 football preview that I think we recorded in July last year. I didn't replicate that and that is my fault because I mean, I cost myself probably five, six, ten hundred thousand downloads, I don't know how many thousand, but it was a big part of why we had a record set in July last year. But one thing I wanted to ask you because you look at all of it, where do you break out the tiers when it comes to big 12 contending? I know in my head, I'm a lot of vibes, I try to look at some stats, I try to look on production coaches, but I'm just a vibes guy and I think a lot of folks have the same top two or three, but maybe a sleeper, I'm a UCF guy, but how would you break out all the tiers when you look at the conference from conference contenders, maybe even down to just, hey, these teams are going to suck. Yeah, it's a good question. I do a lot of this based on just looking at the preseason metrics and rankings. The top tier, I think, I would put five teams in, maybe four, but probably five. Utah-K State, Oklahoma State are probably the three that get the most publicity and those are the three highest ranked by average, all ranked inside the top 21 on average when you look at the rankings, I mentioned before, Arizona is in that group, they're just behind those, average ranking of 23, and actually, KU is close at an average ranking of number 26 in the country when you look at those rankings. The only one with the top 10 ranking is Utah with number nine ranking in the college football news, but they're also ranked as high as 27 in the FBI, so there's a lot of variance, they've got the most variance of the top four, KU's range from number 17 in the FBI, the highest ranked, the big 12 team, actually, in the FBI, which is interesting. Wait, so FBI, is that one of ESPN's? That's ESPN's own, not Connolly's, not Connolly's. So I, and again, I don't think they'll ever release their formula, but when I saw that, I remember when it went live and KU fans going absolutely nuts over that, and again, I'm not going to rain on KU's parade, because I think they can have a good team and they have a schedule that maybe we'll talk about later, but it's nutty to see them up there. That's why, you know, I'll make my jokes about Lance Leipold, you know, he has the personality of, you know, an American cheese slice, but he, I mean, he turned them around pretty damn quick. He did, but the interesting thing is ESPN's other ranking, which is Bill Connolly's SP plus has him at 37. So there's a 20 spot variance between ESPN's two rankings for KU. And again, I, and I know we're kind of getting away from what I asked about, but I know so many folks are going to be caught up in the playoff, and I think I've talked with you about my thoughts about the playoff. I don't give a shit about the playoff, but I think the fact that there are some wild variances with any given team, as well as, hey, you don't have any top five team. I'm imagining you don't have anyone outside of the top 70. I don't know who the worst is, but it's a conference full of parody, and you truly don't know what you're going to get with any team. No, it's absolutely true, and that, that is what's going to make this a crazy season, I think. 10 of the teams are in the top 40 on average. That's not. So a quarter of the top 40, and that gives me kind of my, my second tier would be TCU, Iowa State, West Virginia, UCF, and Texas Tech, all will rank between number 36 and number 39 on average. So really a clustered group, any of those teams could probably step up and contend for the top tier. I don't know if they will. We'll talk about schedules. I think one of them probably has the best chance of those groups, and it's not UCF in my mind, but I'll talk about that more later, and then we have kind of our last tier, starting with Colorado with an average rank of 51, but they have the most variance of any team as well, because they have a high rank of number 36 in the FBI, and a low rank, the number 69 in the SP plus, so that's a 33 spot between their two highest and lowest rankings. Baylor is pretty consistently in the 50s, their rank average rank is number 57. Since that in BYU, both in the 60s, and then Arizona State and Houston just outside the top 70s, 71 and 74 on average. So that last tier, I don't know if any of those teams have a chance to really step up. You know, maybe I would give the best nod to Baylor, just because we have seen around a coach well, but you know, we talked last year about Baylor's fraudulent and it proved to be true. So we'll see what happens with them, and then Colorado, I don't know. Dion Sanders press conference yesterday was a train wreck, and I'm not sure what's going on with that. That would have been Friday the 9th as folks are listening this, and here's the thing, if people have not listened to that press conference, you have Dion picking a fight out of seemingly nowhere with someone who rides for the Denver Post, refusing to answer question from a local CBS affiliate, because he didn't like something that was written on national CBS Sports, then someone trying to get him to do an Aflak ad from the podium. Yeah, it's a fever dream, dude, and it was crazy, and then you know, you've had the article this summer about how crazy their program is at the moment, so I'm not, that's a thing that could end up being a train wreck in a hurry if they're not careful. One thing I will ask about those bottom, because I think you have a sleeper from that second group, it's not my sleeper to maybe make it to Arlington, but when you look at that group, whether it has to do with their scheduling, whether it has to do with, you know, the coaching, would it be a randa to maybe get back to a bowl game, and I do want to call back to something, you called them frauds when we met, but I convinced myself right before a kick off that they might be spicy. So if anyone needed any proof of like one of us being, you know, good about this, and the other one is truly just vibes, everyone has their answer. So if you had to pick one, who's going to go bowling from that group? If I had to pick one, I mentioned Baylor, I think they would have a shot. The other one would be BYU, just because four of their toughest five games are at home. And that could give them an advantage, but I just don't know, I think the roster just isn't where it needs to be to compete in the Big 12 right now. I will be interested, because Kalani Satake is like the number two name for me of guys who I think could possibly get fired. I think, I think Iran is a goner. I think they're spending all this NIL money, and they're getting everything ready for Jeff trailer to come in from UTSA, but Kalani Satake is that second one, unless things really just hit the fan in Colorado, that I'm kind of looking at like, okay, could they be making a change? I just don't know, I'm fine with BYU being in the conference, and I think they have the ability to be spicy in basketball, but I just don't know if they're ever going to be a contender in the Big 12 for football. Yeah, it's going to be tough for them. I do think they have a unique base that helps them a bit, and I do think the Pac-12 schools coming in might help them because they give them a regional base that might help with recruiting, but now it's hard to even compare recruiting. A little bit more in football, maybe old recruiting ties still apply, but with the portal and transfers and NIL, I don't know that it makes the same differences it used to when we used to talk about recruiting, so it'll be interesting to see how they shake out in this league. I mean, they are a couple years removed from what, you know, a top 20 team, 10 win seasons, but I don't know if they can replicate that. Yeah, and again, they were able to feast off of really bad Pac-12 themes and an independent scheduling. I'm still glad they're here, I just think they can be a perennial like 7-5 type thing. I just don't ever see them popping up to being a 10-12 team, but let's move on because one of the biggest breakdowns we did for this, for the full episode last year, it's really just the precursor to your predictions this year, was the schedule breakdown, and this is something that has really, I mean, it dominated a couple weeks of quote-unquote "big 12" Twitter, quote-unquote "K-State" Twitter, and I think it's part of the reason why I've been hammering home the entire offseason, that I think K-State needs to capitalize on this. So we'll start however you want to. When you look at the schedules, how do they break out, who really has some easy draws, who has some bad draws, or I should just leave it open-ended because I'm sure you have a lot of great stuff, and I'm just now keeping the boneheads from hearing your greatness. So how did you digest the unbalanced schedule this year? So we talked about the tears earlier, I used that to divide up the entire league and put together a chart, and then I looked at three of the metrics do how a team compares points-wise to an average FBS team. That's Kelly Ford, that's SP+ from Bill Connolly, and that's also ESPN's FBI. So when you look at their raw number, it might be eight, and that means you're eight points better than the average FBS team. So I averaged all of those into one pool, and K-State ends up the top team in the Big 12 using all three together at 13.1 points better than the average team. The worst team on their schedule? No, average FBS team, and then Houston is minus 3.1, so that's the worst team in the league. He's already gone. That will be the interesting case of the former Tulane coach. Is he going to be able to make it in a bigger league? That's true. That's true, and I will not say anything bad about Willie Fritz ever again, who did get his coaching career started less than a mile from the place I lived, so shout out to Willie Fritz. So anyway, I looked at that and then I just did a simple plus 3 for a home game with that number and minus 3 for a road game with that number, and looked at who's favored and by how much and on average, by how much. K-State is actually favored in every game this season on their schedule using the average metrics, and in every Big 12 game, of course. The closest games being road games with West Virginia and Iowa State, actually, since they get their top tier games against Oklahoma State and KU at home, plus the non-conference game with Arizona, is at home, so. I would say K-State is the most favorable with two tier 1 games and then five tier 3 games. KU has five tier 3 games as well, and they only have one tier 1 game, but that's on the road at K-State. So I think that puts K-State a little bit ahead of them. Then you have Utah and Oklahoma State, both with two tier 1 games, but they split home and road in those tier 1 games. So is UCF tier 1, then is that, no, no. So UCF would be tier 2 for me. What's Utah's tier 1 game, because I know they're going to still water to open up the conference. And then they have a home game against Arizona. Oh, okay. Okay, Arizona. So you got them, Oklahoma State, K-State on the road, Utah at home, and then Arizona only has one, and that's a road game at Utah. So that will be, you know, you have a lot of games there that are going to help decide this race, and it might come down to Oklahoma State's last year winning the big 12 largely came down to their three toughest games being at home. They played Texas, or they played Oklahoma at home. They played us at home, and they played KU at home, and they didn't have to play Texas. So that really was the deciding factor. And then the big 12 making up tiebreaker rule changes on the fly to why they were in Arlington and not K-State. Something that I wish one of the big J-journos would have asked at big 12 media days, like, hey, have you guys, like, figured out, like, can we get a comprehensive, like, statement of what the tiebreakers are, and give us some scenarios in which it would play out. And it's not just the big 12. I think that this year, and I've said this a couple times, I think it's going to be the big 12, it's everyone now that we've gotten away from divisions. And don't take this as a, don't take this as an endorsement for divisions. I don't want divisions. I think this is the best way to put together a fun conference, but I think having ambiguity with tiebreakers is rough. And I'll tell you this, this is how I would do it. If you play head to head, that's the tiebreaker. If there are multiple teams in a tiebreaker, don't mess with any of it unless everyone's, unless there's been the round robin, which is how it was interpreted, by the way, that's how it was interpreted. But if there's not a pure round robin tiebreaker, then it should go to strength of schedule. That is how it should be done. And now how they determine strength of schedule, like whatever, I don't care. But as long as you state that, that is the way it should be, in my dumb person opinion, although none of it mattered because we lost Iowa State. But I'm firm in saying, if we could, if we win that game, we're going to Arlington. I think we come away with that. Yeah, I think that would have made a major difference in the attitudes of some of the guys, especially on the defensive side of the ball. You mean like they're not going to get turbo boosters and just completely sell out your entire team and. No, I think you have a good point there on how to do a tiebreaker in an unbalanced world of schedules. And really everybody now has unbalanced schedules. The Big Ten and the SEC did the same thing. So you are going to see some hairy things shake out this season. I think as these big leagues with unbalanced schedules continue to use these kind of crazy tiebreaker rules. And I think you're right. A lot of those tiebreaker rules were had a built in kind of a assumption of round robin. And then they tried to apply that to non round robin schedules. So it is going to be interesting to see what happens. Back to the schedules, if you look at just our top tier, k-states favored by five plus points in seven games and seven or more in five games. So that's a pretty good shake for the schedule. Now Utah's favored by six or more and six of their games. So they've got a pretty favorable shaking out. Are they technically an underdog with Oklahoma State then? Yes. So that's the big difference between on a spreadsheet, k-state of Utah's schedule. Yes. But it's a minus 1.4 average spread. So it's a toss up game. I think actually the books have Utah currently, at least the last time I looked at some of the game of the year stuff, I think they actually had Utah as a one point favorite. So it's like, okay, numbers say 1.1 way, bookies say one point another, but it's very minimal. Yeah. And Oklahoma State is favored in seven to their nine, basically a toss up versus TCU, and basically a toss up versus UCF. And they're around six point favorites in five of their games. KU has a five plus point spread in six of their games. Their only major underdog game is at k-state and they have a very close line versus West Virginia, Arizona, their dog versus Utah, basically a close toss up versus TCU and UCF. And then around six plus in six of their games. So that's kind of how that top tier shakes out. I think k-state would probably have the most favorable schedule, then maybe Utah, then maybe KU, and then Oklahoma State and Arizona would be kind of close. And I understand some of the folks, and even Kelly Ford said this, part of being one of the better teams in the conference, you don't have to play yourself. So that's obviously going to lend itself to having a quote unquote easier schedule. But it is a little surprising that one of these teams don't happen to have a gauntlet of like three of the four, four of the five top teams, and it just kind of worked out like that. I would wonder, and again, it's going to, you know, rosters change so much year to year. I do wonder like if next year, if some team is going to be way more snake-able, like I know K-state has to go to Utah next year, to KU next year, I think, to Oklahoma State as well. Or maybe that's the season we have off of Oklahoma State, but it's going to be a lot tougher next year. So through the lens of K-state, and again, once games start playing strength of schedule, preseason strength of schedule doesn't matter as much. I think a lot of the metrics had Baylor having a tougher, or West Virginia having a tougher strength of schedule last year than it ended up being for them. But does that change how you view this season for K-state when you look at having on paper pre-season the easiest schedule in the conference? Yeah, I think that's a major factor in that K-state's got to take advantage of having arguably their three toughest opponents in Manhattan. They're tier two games both on the road, but at West Virginia, at Iowa State are winnable games and then you get to play five of the six worst teams in the league on paper. Three of those are on the road, but really those are the games you want to be your road games, as teams you should beat. So I think that does play into what we should expect from K-state this season. When you get a schedule like this in this league, you never know how it's going to shake out the next two or three seasons, so you've got to take advantage of it when you got it. Plus, K-state's got enough talent to do it. You get that combination, you've got to take advantage because those moments don't happen very often. On the flip side, we talked about the contenders having relatively easy schedules. Who, when you put it all together, ended up having some of the toughest schedules? Who's going to be providing a bunch of those wins to the upper end of the conference? That's where BYU, Colorado, and Arizona State all play all five of the top tier teams. And Arizona State has to play three of those on the road. Colorado's split is three home, two road, and then like I said BYU's split is four home, one road, so that would say, you know, Arizona State probably has by far the toughest schedule in the league, and then in the middle tier, TCU and West Virginia both play four of the top five, and they both have a two and two split, two home and two road. So that's where when you start looking at the middle tier teams, Iowa State and TCU both are favored by three or more and five of their games, so pretty good looking schedules. But then Iowa State's a three-point or more dog in four of their games, so that's where Iowa State maybe has a tougher schedule with tougher road games. Three of their toughest four opponents are on the road, so that's a factor for them. TCU, they get two of their tier one games at home. That's where I think TCU could be that team because they're both their middle tier games are at home, and then, you know, they have three games against the tier three. They've got a good shot to be five and two, and then two toss-up games against tier one teams at home. I think gives them the best shot to be a seven and two team from that middle tier group. So TCU would be that team for you, the outside of that K-State, KU, Arizona, Utah, Oklahoma State group. So outside of that top five, it's TCU for you that could be that spoiler making Utah Arlington. Yeah, I would probably rate my spoiler group as TCU is the top one, and then I would go for UCF. They've got a lot of close lines. Four games, they're predicted to win by six or more, but they're dogs in their other five, so, but a couple of those are at home. They're two toughest games at home. That will be a factor for them. And then West Virginia, they have that four games against the top tier, but two of them at our home, and then they have two home games against the middle tier as well. So that, I think that helps them out. So I think that gives them the best chance. Iowa State, I think Iowa State's kind of the kind of schedule you don't want with three of your top four games on the road, so it'll be interesting to see how that shakes out. And then Texas Tech, four of their toughest five games are on the road, so that's why I put those two lower than the other three. Well, and Iowa State's defense, if they're having a good season, that Gameverse KU and Arrowhead could have some neutral-site vibes. I will say that's one of K State's buys or idle weeks. I forget who hates the -- it's Philip Slavin of the 10/12 network. He hates the term bi-week, it's idle week. I don't really know why. I'll ask him the next time. But K State has an idle week that week, and I think it might be the week after K State plays KU. So if K State's undefeated, and if that's like, say, a night game and there's no other college football, you know, games on that really interest me, I might link up with my brother, go watch, you know, KU, Iowa State in Arrowhead, because I think those are two teams that I think probably have a higher opinion of themselves than I personally do. And that is going to be a game that either could salvage one of their seasons or ruin it for the other. I think one fan base is going to be devastated coming out of that one. Yeah, I think you're right. That's -- that could be a key game for either one of mine, and your point about counting that as a neutral site game really is true. I think that's only going to be the case if Iowa State's like having a good season. Yeah, no, that's true. If they already have two or three losses at that point, I don't think -- I don't think it's going to be some sea of red. Now, in a hypothetical world where they're undefeated and say, KU suffered their second or third loss with K State the week before, I think you could see more Iowa State fans than KU fans about one. Yeah, that's true. That's very true. All right. Anything else on the schedules that we haven't touched on that you want to make sure the boneheads are aware of? I'm not -- not really. Again, this is where I've mentioned Baylor earlier. Their three toughest games are all at home, so that's why, you know, I -- I think they've got the most favorable probably of the lower tier teams, them or BYU with BYU playing for their toughest five games at home. So if those teams, either one of those teams can take advantage of that. That's a possibility. Like I said, Colorado has three of their five tier one games at home as well, so -- but, you know, someone's got to lose. I mean, that's when you look at these games, someone's got to lose, and as I break out, like average records, just going by spreads, at six of the teams in the league finish seven or two or better, and then six of the teams in the league finish two or seven or worse. So that will be crazy if it shakes out that way. Yeah, and typically there's someone who plays above and below -- typically most teams either play above or below their preseason expectations. So it would be wild if it played out like that. Yeah, I would guess it doesn't, but could you imagine -- would you say five teams that seven and two or better? Six. Six. Holy shit, dude. Could you imagine? Could you imagine? It would be crazy. I mean, yeah, it won't, but man, could you imagine? That would be absolutely wild. All right, and it is the reason for the season. It is time to get Jimmy's blitz month predictions, but before we do, giving a shout out to our other friend, Charlie Hessel, I'm currently wearing the greater than 12 mascot crew neck. It is absolutely the best. It is comfortable. It is stylish, and it shows off the conference pride. Now, you guys have heard me talk about how I hate when people wear gear from another team if you're going to a game. If I go to that aforementioned KUI estate game in Arrowhead, this is the crew neck I'm wearing. I will not be obnoxious, and I won't be an asshole to either fan base. I'll wear this one, and maybe a black Nike hat, which will make Iowa State fans think I'm cheering for them. I won't be. I'll just be cheering for absolute chaos. Something that isn't chaotic is the countdown to kick off here at Charlie Hessel. Look. I was just talking about this with Jimmy off air. I gave him a little preview. I had to be a word picture because they don't trust me. They know how excited I am for their new K-State launches that will be coming before the season kicks off. We're getting a new jacket. We're getting a new hoodie. We're getting two new T-shirts, one of which is my favorite design they've put out since they've been sponsoring the podcast. It's not only officially licensed K-State stuff. It's not officially licensed, big 12 stuff. It's not just throwback big eight stuff. They have Casey Baseball collection, the Crown Town collection, which I've been wearing all across the town in Kansas City. Pre-season kicking off as I'm talking about this. Felix, Andy, DK, Zama, their King Felix shirt secretly on sale right now, so go check it out before it's all sold out. So I have all that stuff. It doesn't matter what's going on, I'm rocking Charlie Hustle and look, I've been wearing crewnecks in August because of this weather and I'm going to until it gets back to 90, which is probably going to be later this week. Charlie Hustle Vintage Made Fresh, I love them, support them because they support us and be on the lookout. A week of kick off will be our next T-shirt giveaway, Charlie Hustle Vintage Made Fresh. I love them. All right, Jimmy. One of the Blitz Month questions, what's your all-time favorite Charlie Hustle, no, I'm just kidding. There's too much for you to pick. It's true. Great stuff. It's awesome. And again, I need to be a good friend and gift you some stuff from the Crown Town collection because they got some great Bobby Witt stuff. They have the boys are playing some ball shirts. I have a hey, hey, hey, shirt, it is awesome stuff from Charlie Hustle. All right. Let's get to the Blitz Month predictions and again, look, I've been shocked how many people have been like, oh, I'm not going to take the easy way out. I will have a follow up no matter how you answer this question. But open ended, next year, it's probably not going to be open ended next year. This is why I'm shocked so many people are not taking the easy way out because next year, you don't get to, probably knock on wood. But who is going to be the offensive MVP? Okay, Scott. I told you, I listened to every one of the Blitz Month episode so far. And this is, I'm with you. This is my most frustrating answer to listen to them like, guys, the answer is Avery Johnson. Quit overthinking this question. Well, here's the thing. I understand other people want to be like, oh, I want to talk about DJ the Bluejay. Get it? I want to talk about Garrett Oakley. I want to talk about Keegan Johnson, I want to talk about all these different guys. Folks, I say it. I preface it. Hey, no matter what your answer is, there's going to be a follow up. I will allow you to talk about someone else. Like, look, I make notes of everything everyone predicts. Like when I published the book, the Bosco's Boys Book, I have all the Blitz Month predictions. There's a lot of people who for 2024 didn't pick Avery Johnson for the offensive MVP. Yeah. And to me, it's number one, don't overthink it. Number two, I think we still have to acknowledge that Avery has played and started a quarterback one game and played really well and played really well as a running quarterback in one game last year and was the game where we probably had our biggest hero moment, Will Howard. But he is the key to the team. The quarterback, number one, I think the quarterback needs to be your best player if you want the team to really elevate to the level you want it to be. Number two, the talent and the abilities are definitely there. But now we have to see it for a 12 game or 13 game or 14 game or 15 game season. So we need to see it on the field on a consistent basis on a week-to-week basis. And to me, he's going to raise the level of the team. And if he plays the way we all think he's capable of, then K-State is going to be the team we think K-State is going to be. And I think it just is that simple. Like, if he's not the offensive MVP, I think K-State fans are going to be disappointed in what we have in 2024. So first on Avery, here at Bosco's Boys, we always love to show love to podcast shows content that we also love. So over on the Casey Sports Network, I don't know if it's on their podcast page or just their YouTube page. So I think it's in the same spot you can find the three mob. But Ryan Wallace from Go Power Cat started a recruiting podcast with them, and I'm blanking on who his contemporary is, who used to cover KU, now he's full-time with KCSN. But they have, they've done a great job talking to all the local commits. They talked about KU, K-State and Missouri, but they had Hoover from the Spinet Academy in Kansas City, who was Avery's quarterback coach through middle school and high school, because I believe Avery was coming out to Kansas City on a semi-regular basis in the summer, and even in season, I believe, to get coached up at the Spinet Academy. And the words he had for Avery Johnson, the praise, because guys who have come through there, Drew Locke, Graham Ernst, Skyler Thompson, Montel Cozart, all sorts of, and there's even more, like all sorts of Power Five guys, multiple NFL guys, have trained with Hoover at the Spinet Academy. And he said that he thinks Avery Johnson might've been the best one to ever come through there. So he has that level of talent. Now I'll ask you this, because you're way smarter than me. I want you to tell me if I'm being a dumb, dumb idiot, or maybe not a dumb idiot and you don't agree, or maybe you agree. My nerves with this offense, with Avery Johnson, and I've said it multiple times, they keep talking about letting him spin it, letting him throw it, pass first, quarterback, all this stuff. I still think, even right now, with all the talk about his arm, his legs are still the most dangerous weapon we have on this team. Do you have any concern about them under-utilizing it, or do you want to tell me Scott chilled the F out? Only say the F word once all year, so do you want to tell me to chill the F out and just trust the process? I would say, my inclination would be to chill out a little bit, because I do think, I think there will be quarterback runs still in the system. I think it will be not as much. I hope, and honestly I hope it's not as much. I don't want to get him banged up, but I think there's two things you can scheme. Number one, you can scheme it when you know you're going to have a home run type play based on how the defense is aligned, as long as you block it correctly, and we saw that several times last year when he broke long runs, and when he gets in the secondary, he's going to be gone, like he's that fast, and then the second one is near the goal line, which K-State has always done under Colin Klein, so it'll be interesting to see how that evolves with Matt Wells and Colin Riley calling the shots, but I think there will be some. Matt Wells had quarterback run in some of his run package at both Utah State and Texas Tech as well, so I don't think it's completely going away for sure, but I do think it will be a little bit more, and I think we saw it a little bit last year with Will Howard as well, picking the right spots on when to run the quarterback, and a little bit different, because Will Howard was a little bit more of a bruiser and a bigger type body that you could run a little bit more inside, and then he got serious about his weight, which took him true. That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true. It took him leaving to actually care about his body and getting ready for the season. So I do think we'll see some quarterback run, but I do think it's going to be...I think we saw it a little bit in the bowl game where there weren't a lot of design runs called, but Avery put it down a few times and ran, and then he did a lot of flushing the pocket and running to the sideline and waiting and waiting, and then multiple times he threw it away. Those are times he probably could have ran upfield and he didn't. And I hope that is what changes because, again, I'm definitely not wanting him to get hurt, but I do hope that when it's not, "Hey, we literally don't have a backup because NCAA rules are pretty ambiguous. We don't know if we can put Jacob Knuth out there or not." I'm hoping they say, "Hey, man, instead of throwing that away, if you can pick up four or five yards and then step out of bounds, do that. You don't have to take a hit." I'm not saying, "Hey, I want him taking 17 hits again." I'm just hoping that we see that. Since you told me to calm down, I probably won't because I know my personality, but every time I do say, "Hey, I'm worried about us not running the quarterback enough, I'll at least have your voice in the back of my head telling me to chill the F out." All right, I'll let you say anything else about Avery and then transition into talking about any other offensive player you'd like to because, like I said, I was going to give everyone opportunities to talk about two people. I'm officially on Avery saying anything else you want about him and then one other offensive player. My other one would be my guy DJ. I think he's a key player one day before the podcast ends and in the podcast Farewell Tour, which is either going to be this spring or the spring of 26, I haven't decided yet. Well, I guess not this spring. This spring's already over. Spring of 25 or Spring of 26 will have the Farewell Tour, Bosca's voice. There's a DJ get in story in kind of his recruitment that I'm going to have you want to talk about because there's some funny stuff that happened revolving around that and it's, I think it might be one of the more fun things to talk about at the end of the podcast. End of the podcast live. Yeah. Gotcha, but can tell you DJ, you know, showed a lot of skills over 1200 yard rushing and caught the ball quite a bit last year. He really showed that he's a diverse runner. I think we've seen that in his career, even his first year playing a lot with Deuce Vaughn. So he's a key just because, you know, kind of Riley's a run guy and I think climbing is a run guy. They want to run the ball, but that dynamic duo of him and Avery Johnson and then you throw in Dillon Edwards in the backfield and you have lots of, and they're even saying good things about Joe Jackson and the James White as well. So there's some options there, but I do think DJ having a good season is probably the second key to this offensive season just to bring that balance in the offense and to open up things in the passing game. Yep, absolutely love DJ. And again, I'll wait for the farewell tour to bring up that specific story that I'm referencing. I am having dreams of all this Joe Jackson hive or Joe Jack as they like to call them. I'm having envisions of that diamond formation coming back with those three guys instead of like one of the tight ends back there or something like have three viable guys back there. That could be a lot of fun. And shout out to DJ again, I think he might go down. I think 10 years from now, I think he might be the answer for the most underrated wildcat of all time. So can't wait to see how his junior season, maybe his last season goes. I'm already having envisions of him playing for the Chiefs. So not any sooner than he wants to go to the NFL. He wants to keep playing in college play as long as you want because I care more about the case state than anything else, shout out to DJ. I love you. All right, let's go to defense. I've said it every time there. I legitimately think I can make the case for nine different guys, maybe even 10 if I try hard enough. I do have a top three. I'll be interested if my top three, if it's one of your guy or if it is your guy and you only get one. I'm not going to let you talk about multiple people. I'm kidding. You can do it everyone. But who's going to be your defensive MVP? Yeah, it's a great question. I went back and forth on multiple guys, like you said. It's hard to pick. But I just think the leadership and the abilities of Austin Moore are pretty key in the middle of this defense. Co-leader last year in tackles was 63 tied with Marcus Eagle. But also led the team in tackles for loss with 12 and a half, like that's something I think people forget. Significant number. He didn't get a lot of sacks, but he made a lot of plays in the backfield. I just look back at his last two seasons, 150 total tackles and 22 and a half tackles for loss, plus some pass breakups, a couple of force fumbles and a pick. So, Austin Moore does a lot of things in the middle of his defense and it's not just because he's steady, but he can also go make plays. I think having that key got to lead the middle of your defense, plus he's going to be the guy on the headset with Klanderman in this year. So, did they say that? Because I was going to bring that up because in the NFL, it's almost always the Mike linebacker. But I was going to bring this up as you were talking. I was going to say, "Hey, I don't know if they've said anything, but I think it should be Austin Moore who keeps the green dot, which would mean he would have to stay out there in obvious passing situations because that's a whole strategic thing that I'm not. I mean, I listen to so much Sports Talk and podcast. That is something Seren Petro, and I think he's the best sports talk host in Kansas City as much as I love my guys at the drive. You know, CDOT and Rob Brenton both have come on the show, but he talks so much about who wears the green dot and how that affects your free agency strategy in the NFL, and it's almost always the Mike linebacker. So, I was going to say, "Hey, I think it should be Austin Moore, even if he isn't the inside linebacker," which does completely change how you may do stuff in passing situations in different packages. He's going to have to play 80-90 snaps of game, man. He's the green dot. Yeah, and I think so, and I think that's probably -- he's capable of doing that because I think he can be in all the packages, so I think that makes him even more of a key and probably the defensive MVP in my mind. All right, let's go to newcomer of the year. This can be true freshmen, or I think so far it's always been transfers, which I think it should be. I'm not sure if there's going to be a true freshman who makes a massive impact, although I said that last year, and then we had Romaine and, oh, I'm Blinking on Coaches Kid, Safety, Blinking on his name? Oh. Fabris. Fabris. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry, Jack. How did you last year, and I blanked on your name for a second. All right, but who's going to be your newcomer of the year? I'm going to go with Jordan Riley. I know a lot of the guys said that as well, but I think he's -- number one, you have the history of K-State and transfer secondary players being stars. So I think there's a knack for Clanderman and Klein making that -- or Kleinman making that happen, so -- and then number two, he's really good. The last two seasons at Ball State, 167 tackles, 20 passes broken up, six tackles for loss. So he's a playmaker on his own right, and then he was even mentioned by Kleinman as being a vocal leader already in the fall camp. So I think he's got all the makings to be the guy that's going to be the biggest impact newcomer, not only on the defense, but maybe on the whole team, and that's with some pretty good offensive guys coming in, too. Yes, no. I think that there's a lot of good candidates. He's been a popular one. Again, I won't make my official one for two, three weeks still, but he's on my short list, and maybe the guy I could go with if I was doing my predictions today versus right before the season starts. Let's go to breakout player, redshirt freshmen included in this. That was a question that was asked of me, but who's going to be your breakout player, someone who's on the team last year, or multiple years, and they're going to make their first big impact this season? To me, I've got to go with Garrett Oakley just because, you know, I heard some of your discussion about, you know, Ben Sennett, and there was, you know, and I've heard the discussion, some of it was Ben Sennett and Bill Howard were good buddies, so that probably didn't hurt that relationship, but I also think it's a key part of the offense, and I think it still will be with Riley and Wells. I know at Utah State, Wells had a tight end, be one of his top three receivers, three or four different seasons, so tight ends are important parts, not as much at Texas Tech, and I think that's probably more because he didn't have the guys on the roster at Texas Tech, but he had one pretty good one, but Oakley had 11 catches, 154 yards and two scores last year, I think we're going to see that increase a lot. I wouldn't be surprised to see more like 25 to 30 catches and 300 or 400 yards from him in multiple scores, and on this topic, I haven't heard this talked about because it'll be interesting to see. One thing that stuck out to me from the press conference is they talked about CFS playing on the outside, being strictly an outside player, and I thought about it and went back and looked at all Matt Wells' coaching staffs, and he's always been an outside receiver coach guy and an inside receiver slash tight end coach guy, which is not how we have him labeled right now, but it'll be interesting to see if we break it down that way because Colin Klein, you could have receivers in the slot or on the outside anywhere, we saw it. We saw it all over the place, and it'll be anxious to see if one of the steps that they take with Wells, and we've talked, and even Connor Riley talked about, the passing system is going to be a lot different, and I'm assuming this is going to be part of it, where we have outside receivers and inside receivers slash tight ends, and we won't see quite the diversity maybe in alignment and formations with our receivers, but we see there's more than one ways to do things, and this is another way to make it work, and I think Wells will have some good insight on that. Well, I'm glad you brought that up because I think, so I'm going to have, I think I'm going to have this drop on Tuesday, and I think that I'm going to have a Monday show, which is how I've been doing Blitzman, so I'll probably talk about this on yesterday's episode that I'm going to be recording tomorrow, it's some time travel, but if anyone doesn't listen to that one, something that Connor Riley hinted on my episode with him, and straight up said when we weren't recording, and I try not to reference stuff with coaches players when we had them on, when I'm not recording with him, but he brought it up in his press conference saying that Connor Riley, or saying that Matt Wells is bringing a lot of stuff to the passing game, and revamping it, and I go back to episodes that you and I have recorded on multiple occasions, something you've said is you hope that that's what Matt Wells brings is taking his passing concepts that he uses at Utah State, Texas Tech, and learned at Oklahoma, and when I heard that quote, and I think it was on the case day online YouTube page of Connor Riley's press conference, I immediately thought of you, so I'm pumped to see what the passing game evolves into this season. Yeah, and I say that, we have to be careful because, you know, we've had top 15 offenses the last two seasons at K-State under using the old system, so like I hear a lot of people talk about stuff like this, and they kind of trash Colin Klein, or they trash certain parts of the offense, and I'm like, be careful what you wish for, because we've had some pretty good offenses, top 25, top 30, the last three seasons, even when we go back to Michigan, I heard you have the debate about mess with Connor, I think, and I think that's what has me encouraged, at least on the efficiency, I don't think, I don't think, I think if you cherry pick some stuff, I think we're going to be able to be like, point to this and be like, look, see where a better offense is here, I don't know if we'll be there for some of the efficiency, or some of the advanced analytics folks, but if you have a more efficient passing game, or a more explosive passing game, because look, I don't think we're that efficient passing the ball, and we definitely were not that explosive last year, we were not, and it was just like, hey, we're just really good at executing drives, and once we got to the red zone, we were awesome, so I agree with you, but if you can have that more explosive, or more efficient passing offense, I at least think that all of us dumb brains will think it's a better offense, yes, yeah, back to Garrett Oakley, the one thing I will be curious is if they use him like, if they keep the aspect of using a Swiss army knife type player like Vincent it was, he could play tight, he lined up a tight end, he lined up at H back, he lined up full back, he lined up a wide receiver, a lot, so that's going to be the one thing I'm going to be curious to watch is if we do that, or if we just have a special full back that we use in two back sets, so that's going to be curious, but either way I think Garrett Oakley is going to be a really good player next year. I don't think he'll be used as a full back, so we won't be able to cherry pick a easy first team all big 12 award, like we did for him and we did for Nick Lenner's, but I think he has a potential to be a better peer receiver, and I'll quickly transition to the next question so folks don't dwell on that too long just in case I'm super wrong. My favorite question, I ask it every year, what's the pendulum game? Great question, it's just an amazing question for us, it's a tough one, it's a tough one, I think a couple other guys said it, I think it's at West Virginia, if now you could go back, there's earlier games that are definitely going to be pendulum and keys, Oklahoma State at home be won, but I think West Virginia could be one of our toughest three games of the year, we've only, we lost, we won last time there in 2022, but we lost three straight before that at West Virginia, I think West Virginia is a team that could be battling for that top half, we did talk about earlier, I think their schedule makes it tougher for them, but they could be one of those middle tier teams that could try to break into that top five, and Brown has a solid team, he's got a lot of guys back, they had a really good offense last year, they've got most of their players back on that offense, so I think that's going to be a key game if you win that game, then you get KU at home, and then you have three of the worst five teams in the league, the remaining of your schedule before you go to Iowa State, so that's a key game to kind of really put yourself in position to play for Arlington if you win at West Virginia. I've said it a couple spots, I don't think West Virginia is going to be a player to get to Arlington, but I might, I think they might be the kingmaker, I think how they play might decide who gets to Arlington, so spoiler alert, that is going to be my pendulum game when I do do my predictions, all right, let's get to it, what is your case state regular season record, so the 12 games that we already know are scheduled, give me your number, you know this is tough, but I have 12 and I have, they're not all out yet, but I've done previews for every game for KSO, and I think the first three are out or so, maybe four by now, but I, doing each preview, I could not find a loss, I picked us to win every game, I think there are possibilities of close games, you know my, my biggest probably concern, and you, both of your guests have talked about it is probably the last one, going on the road to Iowa State. I just hope we're already, I hope in a scenario where it's 11 and now, because I say it every time, there, I've found ways for us to go eight in one and miss Arlington, I really, really, really hope that we just have it clenched, yes I want 12 and now, but if, if they beat us, costing us a perfect regular season, and in some weird tiebreaker rule we miss out on Arlington, I don't know what I do with myself, I don't know what I do, that might end the podcast. But I, but I do think the schedule lays out to be a 12 and 18, you know, and you know a lot of people talk about, climbing has a bad game, or a case they just had a bad game, you know, everybody has a bad game, a lot of times you just win them, but, but also some of those games that people reference, end up being like, okay, that sucked in the moment, but like, okay, we should have beat Tulane, yeah, but they end up beating a USC team that is full strength. Yes, they did. We lost to Missouri, ends up winning the Cotton Bowl. What are some of those other WTFs like, maybe, maybe was, that was a good team, I mean, we're calling, we're, and again, I get it, I would say the biggest one was probably West Virginia's first year. Yes. And then, then again, like people are trying to be like, Oh, Arkansas say COVID year doesn't count. No, no, West Virginia that first year, I mean, that's, that was the one, that was the one, but I, and again, I'm not saying we should have lost to Tulane, and we sure as hell should have been a Boston Missouri, like, they aren't that bad, no, no, they're back on it, not that bad. I mean, hell, I was state his second year, no, I guess 30 years, so 2021, that like might be a second worst loss. And that was a seven and five state. Yeah. For sure. All right. So you have us going 12 to know you're on the record, who are we playing in Arlington? I'm going to go with Utah. I think Utah wins that game at Oklahoma State, which is kind of their pendulum game, I think. And I think it's going to be K state and Utah and 12 and O teams I, I, I would say Utah might be, they could be 12 and I mean, that's Brett, your marks dream right there. Yeah. Obviously, again, not a playoff guy, famously, I am not a playoff guy. That at least would make things very interesting. And that would tell us a lot about how the committee is going to act. If you have two 12 and O teams in the regular season, one of them wins and gets the auto buy. The other one maybe has a couple top 25 wins, maybe, how does the committee really leave out a 12 and O regular season team back to back years first in a 14 and then in a six or 12 team, I don't care as long as K state's winning the big 12 champions. Yeah. So do we, you have us winning the big 12 champions? I do have us winning the big 12 champions. Okay. And I don't care. Yeah. Then I don't care what happens to Utah. I absolutely love it. This is just an interesting fact. Utah is the other team in the league along with Baylor playing a non-conference big 12 game this year. Fun fact, I think I asked up when I had my BYU behind enemy lines episode and gas lit the BYU guess into thinking their game with Baylor was an on con because I screwed that up. So hand up, I like to admit when I make my own mistakes, I like to take accountability. I'm pretty sure I tried to gas light my BYU guess who's adamant that wasn't an on game that it was. And I think, I think I did convince him that so I feel really bad about that. I feel really bad. That's pretty good. All right. And then the final question shout out to Drew Galloway who gave me inspiration for this one is long as I've been doing this podcast as long as Grant and I've borne out Bosca's boys, there's been one unexpected out of left field coaching opening that has shook college football to its core. What is that job going to be this year? Yeah. This is a good question. I did try to think outside the box, unlike the Avery Johnson question, which no one should be thinking outside the box. I went with Michigan. And here's my thing. Number one, and I think you've talked about it with some of the other guests. I don't think they're going to have a great season. And I think there's going to be more stuff coming from the escape, the stuff that they've been doing. And John Harbaugh's already, I mean, Harbaugh got hit for something that was not. I know. That's what I mean. There's there's been stuff going on there, so I think I think of enough more stuff comes out and they go like eight and four, Michigan may be looking for an excuse to get rid of them and then find, I don't know because I at the time I thought it was kind of a weird hire that they kept him because I thought they could have kind of gone out and did more like Washington did and hire a sitting P5 coach. I actually, so I was kind of not really taking it back because it sounded like because the John, the Harbaugh stuff is like, he's going to the NFL no matter what, like everyone, it was the worst kept secret and everyone's like, oh, it's going to be strong more, it's going to be strong more. And I had a tough time accepting that, but I kind of landed on your thing as well. It's like, there's four active investigations. Yeah. Are they maybe just looking for a scapegoat to like have a sacrificial lamb? And again, I think he's a Kansas City native, so I'm not rooting against it. No, I hope he does well, but I agree. I just think there's a lot of stuff going on there. Yeah, I'm right. That's a good one. That's a good one. And we're back to having an original answer we've had, I think a couple people have said Ohio State at this point, or if folks are keeping track at home, one of the future people are going to also say Ohio State, so that one's going to be referenced. So that would be a fun one. Jimmy, I mean, that's bullet's month. Absolutely. I mean, I can never thank you enough for coming on. This has been the most fun one, and I think part of it's here, great sponsor Manhattan Brewing Company, also rocking a Charlie Hussle crew next sweatshirt. Please support those who support this podcast. But I think it's, I just really enjoyed chatting with you. So tell the boneheads anything you would like, and then we'll call it a day and get a little late lunch here in Manhattan before we go our separate ways. Number one, I always say this, enjoy the season, because as we talked about, really everyone talked about this should be a good one for K-State, and you never know how often those are going to come. Don't take them for granted. Enjoy it, and have fun doing it, and then just enjoy being a wildcat. Have fun with your fellow K-Staters, going to games, pre-game, doing the things you do. Thank you, Scott, for having me on again. I always enjoy being on with you, and talking wildcats, and it should be a fun season. And hopefully, we have a big 12 championship to celebrate this year. That'd be a lot of fun. I sure hope so. It would be awesome. And here's the thing with the new 16 team. I hope it's a big eight original, and by big eight original, I mean us or Oklahoma State, because I don't want Dion. I definitely don't want that Campbell, and I would stay in Allen and my mom. Well, it's really my mom. I know Allen doesn't listen. I don't want it to be KU, because there's too many people who are unsufferable online. So while I'd be happy for you two and my aunt Julie individually, there are too many that make it so I will not include you. So I hope it's us, or Oklahoma State, even though Mike Gundy loves to drink and drive. It's going to be a fun season though. So that's all we have. Again, it's going to be a five-episode week. Again, I'm working on, like look, all summer long, I've been working on like a handful of guests to make a super special Friday show. I'm hoping it happens finally this Friday. Otherwise, you'll just get a bonus Blitzman one, or maybe I'm just going to step in and give you guys all my unhinged ideas to save college football, but we're going to have five episodes. I think this is going to drop on Tuesday. Mason Voth from Case Online, I think that's happening on Thursday. That one's already been recorded, so I feel okay saying that. So we'll get Mason on the show, but yeah, it's going to be another five-episode week. A Shoutout to Manhattan Brewing Company, where we recorded this, they've been sponsoring us for going on three years. Charlie Hustle doing the same thing, sponsoring us. Going on three years, absolutely love them, absolutely love Jimmy, absolutely love Chauncey, the best dog in the world. Hopefully he didn't tear up my house while he was gone, but he's grown out of that. 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