Rece Davis tells Bret what the offseason is like for the College Gameday crew, how they keep things fresh each season, the excitement about opening up the season in Dublin and more.
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It's time for another edition of the Brett Boom podcast ever read you almost with the blows you lose and me down three times too So I know what you're talking about your host and LB all-star Brett A lot of line is you will become a successful Major League hitter by hitting pictures mistakes as he sits down with his sports entertainment friends from around the world You are not gonna be a successful major league hitter if you hit pictures This isn't just any former jocks podcast to change the outcome You got to change the income you got to change what goes in and that changes to what goes out often duplicated But never replicated just like his back flip. Okay. Now the party starts the responsibility starts now now in its fourth year This is the one and only Brett Boone podcast Welcome to the Brett Boone podcast. I'm your host Brett Boone today. I'm joined by another friend of the show And you know when he comes on football Here's host of college game day ladies and gentlemen welcome back the podcast Reese Davis, we thank you Jordan me today. Oh, he's a pleasure to be with you. Good to see you All right, big trip coming from going to dumb moves. It was course old birthday a couple days ago now You're going to 16th of this month And I want to talk about okay I want to see what it's like for for Reese Davis. You've been doing this a long time Very popular show college game day Is it like is it like it at okay? I play a full season some some year play well enough when we get to go to the post Season some years we go home You know at the end of September usually at that point I Love my teammates to death, but I will drink training When the sneeze it ends when the when the football season ends I know you go on to do some hoops and then get a little time off before the college the college season kicks up again Do you guys stay in touch do you talk or is it hey? We'll see you next year guys No, we stay in touch I mean it varies depending on the you know the individual relationship and it also kind of goes Right and fits and starts and you probably know this from teammates - I mean there might be some week where you know I talked to her be three times and then there might be you know three four weeks where I don't talk or text with him at all You know just because he's got stuff going on I've got stuff going on but I would say that for the most part we all stay in some degree of contact You know will will shoot each other messages, you know, I'll keep up with McAfee and you know You know if I see something funny, which you often do not every time or I'll be texting him all the time Do you see something you really like on the show? You know, he hit him and let him know maybe if you haven't heard from Herbie in three weeks Maybe you bust his chops and asking, you know if he's still breathing or whatever But yeah, we stay we stay in in some level of contact that tends to ramp up a little bit more as the summer goes on Then you do hoops that you got a little downtime And I know for me once again, I'm gonna put everything relative to to my program and what I did So I get into the you know the offseason for me. I might have a hunting trip I might have a trip with the family And then it's getting close to spring training for you We're getting close to the college football season again When do you start ramping up and kind of going okay? It's about time we get going again. Well, I started early this year I started in late May early June putting together and it's just a it's a primer basically of Every team in the power conferences teams that I think will be good out of the group of five You know certainly included Washington State and Oregon State this year So I think I've got you know 85 90 teams in this spreadsheet that I do and I I'll track I'll track coaching changes their quarterback situation. Who's portaled in who's portaled out guys? They're counting on some pertinent stats I used to go through and like copy the stats, but now we've got this great program At ESPN that you can break down stats every every way imaginable and I learned the hyperlink So I just hyperlink the stats at the top of this spreadsheet And it sort of gets me ready for camp and so that I would my goal every year is to have that done before Before practice starts for the teams in the fall so you can update it You can start following along and you don't feel like you're doing this thing to have a functional knowledge of a wide array of teams now obviously Teams that you need to know inside out of the teams that are at the top and you do that But you also want to be prepared if say for instance Indiana that's a little bit of a scratch when I'm saying that because I've got buddies on the coaching staff there If Indiana turns out to be really good you want to have a functional knowledge of them So you're not starting from scratch but to sit here and say that you're diving into Indiana and the summer the same way that you would a live State is probably not based in reality, and it's also not really productive because You're not going to spend as much time on them unless they're good and once they become good Then obviously you want to be prepared to do that Right and said it right at the last minute going wow. I didn't expect that now. I got it now I got a yeah, I got a scramble Yeah, you want to say who's got a base. Yeah, you don't want to say you want to say who's playing quarterback you know for you know Arizona State or whatever you want to you want to you know have a good functional knowledge of Everybody and then obviously teams that are at the top and their teams as the season goes on in contention You'll know them on a much deeper level Well, I'll tell you this year Reese I Didn't do my due diligence on the Chicago White Sox and you know what it paid off With the with this show and obviously with all the success it's had there's there's big expectations and and my You know I think about that all the time does it is there do you feel the pressure? And you're do you've done so many how did how does Reese Davis go about keeping it fresh? That's a that's a great question and a great way to put it because keeping it fresh It's what is what really has been a hallmark of this show really throughout its entire run If you go back and look at the early shows and I'm not even talking about when it started in the late 80s When they were still in studio, but from the time it went on the road for the first time in 93 to what we do now and The incremental changes that have come along with it Fresh is the right word. So you always want to be true to your base. You want to do the things that we do which is celebrate Illuminate the pageantry the tradition the things that make college football special But you also want to do things that will open up the avenues for younger fans new fans people who might not remember You know the 1984 Boston College, Miami game or people who you know might not remember you know micro Z or Sam Bam Cunningham or something you want you want to be able to still touch that to show people why It's interesting to show people why you love it to show people why it's important But you want to find you want to find new ways to do things so you always Try to find different ways to present the information. I think one of the things that we've done over the last couple of years is give more access and try to make sure that we Get more players on and fewer coaches not not because we're trying to diminish the coaches But if you go through a show and you've heard from six coaches and no players Then that's probably you know, it's probably not the best way to go about it. The college is a little bit different than professional sports although College football is largely a professional enterprise now But there are still coaches who are really hesitant about letting their quarterback do a quick interview When he gets off the bus some will Most won't so sometimes we are limited by that, you know, you might think well I would restate this on Brett Boone's podcast say they wanted to have players and they had all coaches Probably not from lack of asking, you know A lot of times the players or players would be willing to do it coaches are a little more hesitant They're afraid it'll you know get guys out of their routine or whatever But the one I point to was I think it was two years ago and Michael mayor was at Notre Dame They Notre Dame was gracious enough to allow him to you know, he had his phone had the Airpods on as he walked the field in his suit when they arrived We were able to talk to him live before they played Navy I don't think it hurt his performance, you know, it wasn't a long interview was probably, you know three minutes two to three minutes, but those little things I think give flavor and access and You know, it sort of shows how the how the show has evolved and it'll take on another chapter this year And we bring saving and we're certainly going to highlight nix ability to To explain football at a very high level yet make it very Understandable for people who who might well be knowledgeable fans of the game But there as you well know from from baseball and everything else you can be a knowledgeable fan and there are still really deep intricacies of the sport that you kind of have to live it if you if you have a day job If you have a day job and a family no matter how much baseball you watch You probably don't understand everything about it and the same is is true for football. I think Yeah, you know that the thing that's interesting to me and the farther I get away from being a player And especially in the modern era I see a lot of in-game activity with coaches players When I was a player it goes days where they say hey Boonie Can we mickey up for a couple innings that to me was like man? This is really cramping my style I'm here to work seven o'clock that national anthem goes off It's all business for me, and I don't have time for this entertainment But the farther I get away from the game and now I look at it from a different perspective I'm not the player in the grind I See I see what they're going after and I think it's a real positive I think if I could transform back in the to a player right now I think I'd be much more welcome to to the in-game because that's what fans want to see and that's how you grow the game So when you talk about having that coach walk on to the field and you don't think it affected his I think it's nothing but a positive given the fans an inside look letting them behind the curtain It does nothing, but do great things for the game and and I thought you know I see managers now and the baseball arena seventh inning of a playoff game and hey skip What do you think about you know? I mean we're on pins and needles and they're doing this, but I understand and I think wow This is great It's not really something he wants to do right now. It's in the middle of a big time, but in the big picture I I think it opens it up to so many more viewers because that's what viewers want everybody's on their couch yelling at the TV whether it's football basketball baseball But to let them in a little bit really I see that the upside is is so much greater than no We're business as usual which in my generation it kind of was I mean you asked you you were asked to put a mic on and it really disrupted your day But but that's because that wasn't the norm that I think now I think it's great when they do these things and I know how Inconvenient they may be, but if you look at the big picture Not only college football NFL College basketball major league baseball man the fans love it And you could you really feel like you give them an opportunity to be in the dugout with you? It and you know, I think the generation now Brett I think they are so accustomed for better or worse the putting everything out there You know and and they are sharing what they think on a regular basis They're you know, they're very comfortable in front of cameras and you know and being recorded or being on live streams Or whatever it may be so I think this generation used it a little bit differently than ours did You know whether it was you know me covering it early on or when when you were playing So I totally get that because it was I also think it's a little bit. It was You know what probably even 10 years ago It was more of an undertaking To put on that microphone and one of the things and there weren't many good things that came out of the whole You know a lot down situation from a TV standpoint one thing that we did learn is that We can we can go with less than pristine technical quality audio and video We did we did a number of During the pandemic year and 2020 when they played we did a number of coaches on You know setups like like I'm on right now on my laptop or on their cell phones And I remember one with Davos Sweeney particularly the feed was terrible But he was good and you could hear him and there you know There were some good moments in it and one of the things that occurred to me immediately after that watching the show back It's like prior to this. There's no way our technical people would have let this on television We said this quality is not good enough. We're not gonna do this and I think That type of that people accept it now is not people aren't bothered by it You know I think prior to that people were like what's wrong with the feed? Why does the picture not look great? And now there's so much video out there just at people's fingertips On their phone that they aren't as they aren't as bothered by it. They prefer the access over the pristine look Yeah, and I mean you're just I mean they love that both they love that both, but it but if given right I still take the access right yeah, and I think it the you know in this day and age for it for a sport To to kind of poo poo it and not give full access I mean today's modern day consumer is gonna go wait a minute. You're not gonna give us access We get access to everything. All right. We'll move on scroll for the casual fan Obviously the the big-time fan doesn't matter what you do They're gonna be sitting on their couch on on a Saturday or a Sunday afternoon But the casual fan will keep scrolling they'll find something that intrigues them and you know so I I think Going forward I think this is the way to go and I'm as old school as they come but I've found myself to be opening up to the the new ways of the world in the modern-day athlete and I Look at it from you know, we never like change But I'm seeing change and I'm actually embracing some of the change that they can wow it's I Have a little bit more of an open mind now and I'm willing to accept things and and see if it works I think it's not gonna work and then all of a sudden I'm pleasantly surprised to go wow I didn't want that see that change, but it was pretty cool Take your business further with a smart and flexible American Express business gold card It offers flexible spending capacity that adapts to your business You can also earn up to three hundred and ninety-five dollars in annual statement credits on eligible purchases at select business merchants That's the powerful backing of American Express Terms apply learn more at American Express comm slash business gold card Yeah Yeah, you have to you know continually do that in our business I think you make a great point about the casual fan and the hardcore fan and one of the things that we strive to do is I talk without producers and we start planning a big picture for the season in the show and then individually each week is You never want to alienate your dedicated hardcore audience Yet, you also appreciate and take advantage of the fact that they will give you some latitude I mean you don't need to explain things to fans as if they were kindergartners and had never seen a snap but at the same time if you can do something that might appeal to a more casual viewer and You know something that might be more in the human interest realm now a great story is a great story when you know Green Day has a rich history and legacy of telling these Remarkable stories that occur away from the field. That's not even really what I'm talking about But if you you have something maybe a hobby something that's a little bit eccentric or off beat about a player and you showcase that Even the people who really want to know what percentage of the time USC is going to blitz now with that land It's defensive coordinator, you know, they will forgive you for that and they will take that in stride The casual fan that you would like to expand your audience to if you're just talking about blitz packages and blitz pickups and and third down offense You know you don't have a chance to bring them into the fold and then hopefully engage them on those hardcore topics later So it's a that's something we strive to do each week is find a balance I can't remember we had a we had a really good show at Appalachian State a few years ago We felt I was really a good show, but as we as I went back and looked through it again I said, you know, I think we had one too many You know off beat weird things, you know, they were they were all right, right? Yeah, they were individually they were all worthy of being on the show. They were all well done. They're all good Big picture maybe one too many so you're constantly evaluating that and trying to find the right balance Yeah, it's amazing when you would you know, and maybe everybody maybe they do understand what you're talking about, but I get it it's subtle And maybe everybody doesn't pick it up But you who do this all the time you pick it up right away like yep We went over the limit and it was too much of probably 90% of the audience doesn't think it was too much But I know for the when I When you give individual ratings that that made me deduct a few points because man I just went over it. I know exactly what you're talking about and it is a balance beam Isn't it because you have to consider the hardcore viewer the real knowledgeable fan But you have to also consider that casual fan that when you get too technical you lose them. It's kind of like Okay, I don't know what he's talking about. Let me turn the page here Whereas that hardcore fans engaged in it really is loving those intricacies. So you're right. It's a balance beam act. It's tough and You know, you got to walk it, but it's the longer you do it. You become good at it and and you've definitely Definitely found a way to make it work Reese go into Dublin. We open the show with that Little different going overseas. Are there more challenges for the crew? For everybody involved in just a normal college college game day when you're going to you know You're going to know today. Is there a difference going to double them. What more goes into it? I Think logistically in terms of just getting the things that we need there. Obviously, there are some challenges But because the footprint of the set is going to be a little bit smaller just my necessity because it's you know Across the ocean and it's a one-time preseason deal and a smaller space We'll have basically one stage setup bait on a typical week. We'll have three You know, we'll have the you know the demo area. You'll have the you know, the octagon area will have a big screen area And then have the main set so You know that might have been forward. Sometimes those are a couple of those I mentioned are different names from the same thing, but Here it'll be one one set, but I think logistically it'll be It'll be easier to execute the show once everything's in place for the technical people if that may if that makes sense, you know Getting the things in place will be the more the more difficult thing. They're already there already on it There've been site surveys dating back to the spring So they're a well oiled machine and figuring out how to how to do it, but you know I think that just logistically getting everybody over there some of the guys have other commitments And you know, I'm going a week early, so I spent two or three days there with my with my wife and daughter sort of exploring the area I've never been there before so we'll get to do that other guys are having to kind of come in you know Because they have some other responsibilities. I think Kirk has an NFL preseason game on Thursday night before Dublin So he's gonna be in a tight turnaround situation, but it's you know I think that all in all the show will come off well, but getting there, you know It's something but when you undertake something like this that we were supposed to do in 2020 actually that was when this the origin and this idea came about we were going there for the Notre Dame Navy game and Back then there has been so much planning that it got into it that we were able to build on some of that planning and You know update it and different things in terms of logistics and and how to get from point A to point B and all of that And we're talking about keeping it fresh this kind of has a built-in keep it fresh because it's something you don't normally do So just being there is gonna be Stuff to talk about that you that you you won't have to think about. Oh, how do I how do I keep it fresh this week? It's already built in all-star closer Kenley Janssen. 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