Andy & Ari On3 - Transfer Portal QB UPDATE | Where do Sam Leavitt, DJ Lagway, & Byrum Brown go?

Episode Date: December 24, 2025

As Christmas Day is hours away, which teams in College Football will receive a TOP transfer QB this holiday season? It's a Megaboard Christmas Eve episode and Andy & Ari dive in to where top portal quarterbacks like Sam Leavitt, DJ Lagway, Rocco Becht, and Byrum Brown could land. Where will these quarterbacks go? What does your favorite team need to do at quarterback? (0:00) On Today's Episode(0:59) Presenting Sponsor(3:17) Intro: Ari goes Skiing(6:02) Transfer Portal QBs: Byrum Brown(11:30) Sam Leavitt(14:44) Josh Hoover(16:50) DJ Lagway(19:36) Rocco Becht(22:33) GameTime(23:33) Michigan Coaching Search Update(25:46) Could Glenn Schumann land at Michigan?(31:23) OmahaSteaks.com(32:24) South Carolina's retainment of top talent(35:55) Thanks for watching! Merry Christmas! After Andy & Ari dissect the portal quarterback situation, the fellas head up to Ann Arbor to get the latest on the coaching search for the Wolverines. After Louisville's win in the Boca Raton Bowl on Tuesday, head coach Jeff Brohm addressed his name being involved in the mix for the opening. Where do the Wolverines turn to next? Ari seems to think the answer lies in Athens, Georgia. To close, Andy & Ari celebrate some good holiday news for the South Carolina Gamecocks. Although Shane Beamer's squad struggled this past season, the Gamecocks are expected to retain their top players in QB LaNorris Sellers and EDGE Dylan Stewart. Thanks for watching! Have a Merry Christmas! Go to https://OmahaSteaks.com and use code ANDYANDARI at checkout for an extra $35 off. Minimum purchase mayapply. See site for details. A big thanks to our advertiser, Omaha Steaks! This show is also brought to you by Gametime! Take the guesswork out of buying college football tickets with Gametime.Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code STAPLES for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Swipe. Tap. Ticket. Go. Download the Gametime app today! Visit Gametime.co. Our show is also presented by BetMGM! If you haven’t signed up for BetMGM yet, use bonus code CFB and you will get up to a $1500 First Bet Offer on your first wager with BetMGM! Here’s how it works: 1. Download the BetMGM app and sign-up using bonus code CFB.2. Deposit at least $10 and place your first wager on any game.3. You will receive up to $1500 in bonus bets if your bet loses! Just make sureyou use bonus code CFB when you sign up! Make this college football season one for the history books. Make it legendary. See BetMGM.com for Terms. 21+ only. US promotional offers not available in New York, Nevada, Ontario, or Puerto Rico. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER (Available in the US). Call 877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY). Call 1-800-NEXT-STEP (AZ), 1-800-327-5050 (MA), 1-800-BETS-OFF (IA), 1-800-981-0023 (PR). First Bet Offer for new customers only. Subject to eligibility requirements. Rewards are non-withdrawable bonus bets that expire in 7 days. In partnership with Kansas Crossing Casino and Hotel. Join On3 today and get one full year of access to The Athletic included! https://www.on3.com/subscribe/C Watch our show on YouTube! https://youtu.be/4EuYpGS3p9w Hosts: Andy Staples, Ari WassermanProducer: River Bailey Interested in partnering with the show? Email [e-mail] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On today's episode, where are some of the quarterbacks that are headed to the transfer portal heading afterward? Yeah, it's weird because the timing's all different, and they haven't actually gone to the portal yet. But guess what? They're already working on picking their new schools. We'll talk about Sam Levitt, Byram Brown, Rocco Beck, DJ Lagway. Where are those guys headed potentially for 2026? Plus, Jeff Brom wins his bowl game, gets asked about the Michigan job, talks about it, but not really. Where is the Michigan coaching search as it stands on Wednesday?

Plus, Dylan Stewart headed back to South Carolina for one more year, and that one is a big one. South Carolina got its two best players back. Maybe there's a bounce back year coming in 2026. We'll talk about it all on Andy and Ari on 3, presented by bed MGM. We are proud to be sponsored by BedMGM. All the lines and totals we use on the show come from the folks at BedMGM.

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the Christmas remix of the Andy and Ari theme producer River on the ones and twos Ari, it's Christmas Eve. You're about to go skiing for the first time ever? Ever.

Yeah. You have snowboarded before this. This is not this is not like when I tried skiing for the first time ever a few years ago and it just ended with me rolling down a mountain. How many adults go skiing at my age? with the only goal for the day being don't get hurt.

I'd say it's a healthy percentage of the people on the mountain. Yeah, that's good. That sounds like a fun activity. Andy, I had one of those little Debbie Christmas tree treats. And you know I'm not a sweet tooth guy. My God, those are good. You are a raccoon. Yeah.

Really, really excited to get into the show today. and ho ho ho I wanted to wish everybody a Merry Christmas Eve and I hope everyone's getting into celebration mode I'm getting into present wrapping mode as soon as we finish this thing because that is a I tend to procrastinate in terms of wrapping presents

I'm not a great present rapper and so that is my next step The most already thing you've ever heard You hire people to wrap your presents? Yeah Yeah Of course you do tors you do it's kind of a rip off you do but you know part of this season is the aesthetics

and if you wrap it and it looks like you just like put it into a trash bag like it doesn't like hit hard you got to i mean if you wrap it yeah i mean i guess if the years you've gone on yeah somebody told me once that your time is money right like so am i going to sit down at home for four hours and try to make them look nice or just pay somebody $12 to do it like and it make it look perfect you know like I don't know good to use the money to me it's probably it's probably a sign that I'm not allowed to wrap the presents for the kids that my wife's like no no I don't need your help it's cool yeah and I'm sure you put them under the tree do you do it in the morning or do you do it like no they're under the tree now yeah so like there's

an aesthetic to it so if your presence kind of look like the messed up version of everyone else is it kind of ruins the aesthetic of the house. That's just my wife talking. That is. I can hear your wife through your voice. All right. It is a megaboard Wednesday.

We are going to take a tour through the various message boards of the On Three network. Some very juicy topics today. And one, I pick as a representative topic because there are multiple message boards that are popping off talking about quarterbacks because there are a bunch of quarterbacks because there are a bunch of quarterbacks that are headed to the transfer portal. We don't know where all of them are going, but I'm going to start with a thread from Auburn Sports. Jeffrey Lee, who's one of the recruiting editors at Auburn Sports, posted this. And it was when our guy Hayes Fawcett posted that Byron Brown from USF was going to be transferring.

And Jeffrey posted the Byron Brown tweet that the Hayes Fawcett tweet that Byron Brown was expected to enter the portal. And Big Moke, A.U, wonder where he's going. This one feels pretty easy, right? He played for Alex Kulish. Yeah. At the beginning of the show, when you're like, we're going to tell you where everybody's going.

I'm like, well, I know where at least one of them's going. You know, I think that, you know, that probably made Alex Kowlish like a 10% better higher knowing that wherever he went, he'd be able to bring a quarterback now the question with this kid is um where do you think he is from a passing perspective and like could this be a repeat of some of the trauma that auburn has gone through from a passing situation because we know he's a gifted runner and we know he's an electric player you we watched enough usf this year to know that this guy can make your jaw drop but do you think that he is proficient enough in the passing game especially

if they're lucky enough to bring back some of those receivers that they have on their roster to actually have a good passing attack in the SEC. That is something that the Auburn fans I've noticed as they've watched clips and if you go further down in the thread, that's a common refrain is how is he going to throw the ball here?

Now here's where I will point out that he's not, if he winds up at Auburn, he's not playing for a coach he didn't play for before. He's not going to be playing for a coach, for a coach who's going to be trying to make him something he's not, Alice Skulles knows exactly what Byron Brown is. And so he will run an offense that will maximize

what he does well and minimize what he does not do well, which I think you did that at USF pretty effectively. So, you know, I think what you're about to say is, but this is an upgrade in competition. That's true. It's also an upgrade in teammates. So I think this should work fairly well.

And we've seen evidence of this in other situations where quarterbacks have gone with their coordinator, with their head coach, and just fit seamlessly in. Has a 6'4-235-pound quarterback that's very athletic and can run people over ever to work there? It had, well, I mean, Cam Newton was bigger, but yeah, that has worked there. How big was Cam Newton? Was he 6'6? I believe he's listed at 6'5. He's at least 6.5, and I don't know what the listed weight was, when he was in college, I think the listed weight was something like 2.45,

but I remember walking behind him at the SEC championship game, and he was legit the size of a 4-3 NFL defensive end. Like, he looked like he was probably 265, 27. You know, Andy, last summer when you came to Dallas, oh, no, you didn't come to Dallas. I was doing shows from the 7-on-7 tournament. Yes, over time. He was there, overtime.

And Cam Newton was there, and that was the first time I've ever seen Cam Newton in person. and it was the probably the most large but ripped athletic human being I've ever stood next to outside of LeBron James. Right.

I once covered a Cleveland Cavaliers preseason game in Columbus for the plane dealer. And I interviewed LeBron after the game. This was 10 years. And I remember thinking this is a, this is not a person. And like Cam Newton game. An alien, yeah. This is

Yeah, yeah. Somebody was created in a lab to be a great athlete, yeah. And I know that we can kind of like abuse the term alien a lot. And like we did last year when we were around like Dylan Stewart, who we're probably going to talk about in the show, we are right? Cam Newton is just, it's a different type because he's so massive, but he's also like slender but buff. Like I don't know how to describe it.

Yeah, his legs are like his like calf muscles like the size of my thigh. And it's like athletic. yeah and it's and remember he isn't when you saw him he hadn't played in the NFL in a few years so yeah it's not like he was he was coming out of an NFL weight room ready to go that's just he he's unbelievable and he also was offended that they didn't call the Colts didn't call him and they called rivers so he still thinks he can he probably can I'm never going to doubt Cam Newton ever he can't wear the hat while he's playing though he's got to wear a helmet uh yeah But Byron Brown, I do think having a coach who understands what you do makes that process a little bit easier.

So let's talk about some of these other guys because Sam Levitt's the one that I'm really interested in. Remember our friend Clark Brooks, the stat cat came on with us and he was talking about how much he loves Sam Levitt, how Sam Levitt throws downfield more than most other quarterbacks at the college level, how he's more accurate downfield than most of the quarterbacks to the college level. I'm excited to see where he ends up. I think whoever gets him is going to be really lucky. R. Pete Nacos had a story that came out on Tuesday about where some of these guys might wind up. The three schools getting the most chatter for Sam Levitt.

You ready? Yeah. Indiana, Oregon, and LSU. All make great sense. I think he would be successful at all of them. And all of them are going to be in, you know, I thought Miami also would be in there. He strongly like a Miami.

Miami has been mentioned, yes, but I don't know. Miami's going to probably go get somebody. But Indiana is going to need somebody to replace Fernando Mendoza. Fernando Mendoza may be the number one pick in the draft. Oregon doesn't need anybody unless Dante Morg goes pro, which at this point may happen because there's not a lot. in the quarterback class in the draft. Is Dante Moore's pro

destination going to be, not destination, decision going to be decided by how he performs in the playoff, you think? I don't know that that is necessarily the deciding factor. I think, I think it probably depends more on what feedback you get from NFL scouts and

what they say, because if they say you're going to be top 10, you probably should go. If they say there's a chance you could fall to the third round, you should probably stay. yeah i mean i just think that like just the fact that indiana's name or team name is in that is like so astounding to me because it's like you're starting to see staying power last year when indiana was good you know i thought it was a really cool story i thought kirt signetti did an

incredible job and i knew that they wouldn't be a bottom feeder anymore but if you would have told me that they would be number one beat ohio state the Big Ten championship the following year and look like one of the two or three favorites to win the national title. And then before those games kickoff, we're sitting on this podcast on Christmas Eve talking about how the best most valuable asset in the portal is considering them amongst two other teams. Like that is unbelievable. Like my brain has not even come close to being wrapped around what is happening there. Yeah. And it's like what are we two years away from Indiana like remember at the beginning of the year when we did two early top 25s Andy like I left

them off my top 25 entirely me too that's how wrong I was yeah it was like oh it was a one year thing no it's not a one year thing this is going to this is going to stay and in fact good players are going to flock there and look they had a transfer quarterback just win the heisman so of course now Sam Levitt's not the only quarterback that that has been connected to Indiana and I don't know if this is a case of Indiana's trying to figure out who they want or if it's a case of these quarterbacks trying to figure out where they're going. But Josh Hoover, who's leaving TCU, has also been connected to Indiana. And remember, Josh Hoover was the one who got recruited pretty heavily last year.

We talked to Sonny Dykes at Big 12 Media Days, and he said that Hoover had quite a bit of interest. Tennessee was one that, Sonny didn't tell us that, but we had heard that Tennessee was very interested in Josh Hoover when they lost Nika. So that's another possibility for Indiana. Because remember, the other school we mentioned for Sam Levitt is LSU. And Lane Kiffin does need a quarterback. If you go to the LSU message boards, they're also wondering, is Trinidad Shambliss going to get a waiver to play next year?

And if he does, would he play at Ole Miss? Or would he come to LSU and play for Lane again? So that's all up in the air. And that I think is probably going to be decided. it here in the next few weeks. Yeah, you want to talk about media bonanza. You know, everybody, like, Lane Kiffin's going to be the number one story

in the sport next year. Who he gets as quarterback is going to magnify that. And if it's Sam Levitt, that would be something. Yeah. Very interested in the Josh Hoover move. I was kind of surprised to see that

because last year, with the leverage that he had, if he was willing to leave, he could have made a ton of money. Not that he didn't at DCU last year, but if he would have been, like, all right, Tennessee, make me an offer, I can't refuse. Tennessee probably would have made him an offer.

He can't refuse, right? Right. But very good quarterback on somebody, I think you could step in at a major program and play well from the jump. So, DJ Lagway, leaving Florida, we heard LSU in Miami initially, but it sounds like the biggest chatter is Baylor, which obviously Baylor was involved in his recruitment the first time around, Never gave up. Baylor was still trying to recruit him down to the last day, even though he was going to go to Florida.

His dad played at Baylor. So there's a connection there already. But that would be an interesting one because we've seen Jake Spravadol come in and make quarterbacks better and make it, you know, create an offense that's easier for quarterbacks to play in. And DJ needs to make better decisions with the ball. He needs to be more accurate. But there's a way to. help with that from a play calling standpoint that i don't know that billy napier was helping with so i'm interested to see where he goes because i there it's it's interesting because dj lagway has the thing that tantalizes coaches the most and the thing that strikes fear into their hearts the most you turn on the film you'll see some wow throws but you're like the lSU game last year you see five interceptions and a guy who just kept throwing the ball into trouble and so on one hand he's the guy you're like, I can fix that. I can turn him into. On the other hand, it's this guy might

get me fired. And so how do you reconcile those two things? Yeah. I mean, you basically just talked about every temptation of man. This feels so good, but it could kill me. Like, isn't that I was watching Landman the other day. And I don't know if you're caught up yet, but it's just I am well anything but Billy Bob was smoking a cigarette and somebody was telling him those things are going to kill you one day and he goes well it's a good tradeoff for how much enjoyment they've brought me yeah and that's that's DJ Lagway right there in a nutshell DJ Lagway will will wow you and kill you all intermittently so on a serious note though I do think that there is a second gear there maybe you put them in a different offense you

put them in a place where quarterbacks have thrived in the past. You put them in a league that doesn't have Dylan Stewart running after you every week. And, you know, you can have a pretty good season. So, like, my, you know, I think that we both have acknowledged that our expectations for him in the off season were wrong. Oh, yeah. I'm not, I'm not going to give up, though, on him being a very good college player or potentially a top, top draft pick.

So, yeah, no, he is not a lost cause. somebody needs to try to cultivate the kind of talent that you can't find in a lot of places in terms of arm so I am fascinated to see where he winds up

there may be more schools that pop in because again those skills are absolutely tantalizing so we'll have to see where he winds up but one more we'll book in this with another one that we think we know where they're going Rocco Beck leaving Iowa State.

I wonder where he might be headed, Ari. Hmm. Hmm. Where is head coach and offensive coordinator now? Is it cold? Well, it's cold in Iowa, too. It is kind of cold in Iowa. It's not like it's cold in State College, Pennsylvania, though.

It's pretty much the same. State College gets really, really cold, dude, and it's like in the mountains. I don't think it's the same. I was cold, too. Ames Eye was very cold. But, yes, he's cold. probably headed to state college that would make the most sense and i think i've got pepperly rolled out there though they don't have those in iowa they

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I didn't get the gauble and I'm sorry, but like they didn't put mashed potatoes on it and it really ruined my day and possibly my year. That's terrible. That's terrible. All right, we got a Michigan message board post. You'll never guess what that's about. But first, I got to talk about game time. Would you like to attend any of the games in the college football playoff quarterfinals?

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He said, I don't speak on other jobs, but I'm happy with this one and happy about the victory. Now, that is probably a wise. policy to have especially if you've already done this once Jeff Brom went from Purdue to Louisville before I don't know that this means Jeff Brom's the guy

it sounds like they want to talk to a few people still and they've got some time but Jeff Brom wins maybe the search starts to get a little momentum or maybe there's a couple more guys they're talking to

yeah but it doesn't it felt like there was a chance maybe be yesterday that this could get wrapped up pretty soon. And now it feels like this could take a lot longer daywise. I know we know that by their bowl game, I think was a good target that you set out for them to have somebody in place. But yeah, the Michigan job is going to be interesting because if it's not Jeff Brab, then who is it?

Right, right. And we've talked about Jed Fish. We've talked about Eli Drinkwitz. We talked about a lot of different people. But these are also people we talked to, Clark Lee from Vanderbilt. These are also people we talked about with other jobs that were open, Penn State, Florida, LSU. Like, I don't know that one, some of these guys were moving. I don't know that Michigan is interested.

One name that hasn't popped up, and I'd like to toss it out there with U.R.E, because this was a coordinator that we thought would be ready to move into a head coaching job this year. Glenn Schumann from Georgia, the defense coordinator of Georgia. I'm so happy you brought that up. Why hasn't he been in the conversation at all? Like, is there a reason? He's been in the conversation. He's been interviewed by schools.

Okay. They just haven't hired him. And I think what you've seen is almost an obsession with hiring sitting head coaches. Who's the only school that hired a coordinator? Kentucky. Kentucky hired Will Stein, who is the, the, an offensive coordinator, but that's it. Normally, it would have been multiple coordinators would have either gotten these jobs or had serious, been finalists for these jobs.

I'm going to tell you that. But people are absolutely obsessed with a sitting head coach. If I were Michigan, I would hire Schumann over all the other ones. Period. Period. I would, I, I, I, why is that? I feel like if you're Michigan, you want to go get the guy that reshapes how you do things. And it's not that Jetfish wouldn't or that Jeff Brom wouldn't. But, you know, Jeff Brom has been a head coach long enough to kind of get an idea that you're going to be very good. Jedfish has been coach, a head coach, not quite as long as Jeff Brom, but has had really good success so far. But like if I were Michigan, what would you want to do as we rewrite

the DNA of who they are and what they've been? As Biff Pogie said, you know, it's been a malfunctioning program for five years. Don't you want to go get the younger coordinator from Georgia who recruits his ass off and has been around big builds and has his defense playing like this at the right time and like try to build your program around maybe some of that like that successful somebody who's been exposed to that success at that level at that place because Georgia is whose Michigan is going to be competing against and wants to be competing against for the foreseeable future. They want to be different.

They want to clean up their act. Don't get somebody that that has been exposed to that and can build a culture that would mirror the programs you're trying to beat into the future. Well, and Glenn Schumann, his history is interesting. So, like, Lanning had a bunch of different influences. Lannin had worked for Todd Graham. He'd worked for Mike Norvell. Then he worked for Kirby Smart.

Schumann has worked for Nick Saban and Kirby Smart. He was essentially created in the Nick Saban lab. And you don't know, like, there is a risk involved. Obviously, I think that, like, the floor for Brahmin fish is probably higher, right? But the ceiling, if this works, I think is much higher. And given the fact that you're not in the position really to be involved in the coaching carousel at the onset and involved at the highest level to be able to get everybody that

you want, again, not that Brahm and Fish would be bad hires, but I think the timing of this too makes sense. So, you know, I've been attracted to Schumann as a candidate. You can go play check tape from the beginning of the coaching care. or so. I brought up his name every show. And like, given the situation that they're in, I think that this makes a lot of sense. So, but I don't even know if he's going to be involved in this.

Yeah, and at this point, that's what we are trying to get some names out there and suggest the ones that we think make logical sense. That's where I wrote that column the other day with some sitting head coaches who I think would be very interesting candidates. Jason Eck at New Mexico would be one. I said Manny Diaz at Duke. I said Kyle Whittingham would make an intriguing candidate because you know he can kick ass as a head coach.

The question is who he'd bring because obviously a lot of the staff that he's leaving behind at Utah is staying at Utah because Morgan Scali is taking over. So this is an interesting situation for Michigan and I don't know, I don't know what they're going to do. It's a tough one. Yeah, I don't know, maybe I'm just like too in love with the Dan Lannning progression,

you know, being a coordinator at Georgia, going to a place, getting his ass kicked in his first game at Georgia, and then like never looking like that again. I think that that is something that I would take a swing at. But yeah, I'm excited to see how this plays out, but it looks like it might not play out until after Christmas. Well, you know, you don't want to make an impulse.

It's like, do you want to go to the store on Christmas Eve? and buy presents sounds like that's what you did I don't buy presents on Christmas Eve I'm gonna wrap them oh okay I thought the reason why you were wrapping late is because you bought late no no no no they've been sitting in my closet

for for weeks oh okay no no no then your children know what they got one knows what they have because the very large package sat on the doorstep for about four hours before I could get it okay yeah but they definitely went into your room and looked uh probably i mean look they're sneaky

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And it is a happy one. It is a merry, merry Christmas in Columbia, South Carolina. This one from Gamecock Central, the title of the thread, Dylan Stewart kept his word. And it's great because it actually contains a clip of a high school interview with Dylan Stewart where someone asked him, hey, are you going to South Carolina just to enter the transfer portal later? And he's like, no, I'm there. I'm a GameCock for life.

And this was him going into South Carolina. And look, you and I have seen Dylan Stewart play in person, are you? he's a guy that everybody in the country would want, he's coming back to South Carolina next year. So just to take role on this, they're going to keep sellers, and they're going to keep Dylan Stewart. Yes, correct.

Sounds like a pretty good start at a, I'd say so. At a mulligan. This year didn't go well for them. But if you're keeping your two best players, and you hit some people in the portal, you have a real chance to be good again next year. Maybe we won't spend all.

off-season saying how they're going to the playoff, like we did this past year. Maybe it's better for South Carolina to catch people not seeing them coming. I'm also probably not going to spend the off-season saying Shane Beamer's on the hot seat. Now, we may talk about that a little bit, but I think the fact that these two guys coming back, like, if you lose those two, then there's a chance that it does all fall apart. Bringing them back suggests that, yes, this can turn around. And I think that's all you really need is that glimmer of hope,

new offensive coordinator, Kendall Bryles, we'll see what happens. But it also is an illustration. There's no, like, program rot. Right, right. It's not like, I got to get away from these guys. Yeah, and you can say what you want. Because, like, yes, they are getting paid to stay. Trust me, they would have gotten paid a lot anywhere else, too.

Yeah. Yeah, and something tells me that Dylan Stewart's not going to have to worry about a lot of money or money issues for the rest of his life. So that's a first round pick, right? No doubt about it. Yes, that's a go to the combine, probably doesn't even have to do any drills. And they're like, yep, yeah, we want you. Yeah. You see that picture that River always, like every single time we talk about Dylan Stewart, River puts the same picture up.

And I think it's great. That one. Okay. I'll take them. Yeah, exactly. we need an end rush with the one we want right there i don't care what position he plays look at his arms that's a human no that like he's kind of the theme to this show is is people who like are just built different Andy I think that was his true freshman year I think I think we've been using

I believe you're right which means he wasn't fully developed yet It's wild. It's wild times, dude. And here I am. Congratulations, Gamecox. Merry Christmas to you. We're happy for you. We love that you got Dylan Stewart back.

We love that you got Lenore Sellers back. And I think it's going to, this gives you a chance to have a potentially fun year. This could have been a very different offseason for you if you lost those two guys. But getting them back is a huge deal. And so, Merry Christmas. And Merry Christmas to everybody else. Now, we do have a show on Thursday. I get that you may be busy.

with the family but we also know you got the weekend coming up you may still want to talk a little college football and remember we do have the update for marshall the texas a and m fan we're going to do it's it's all dear andy dear rie show on christmas day we have an update from marshall the texas an mnm fan about the trip to the girlfriend's house for christmas dinner on saturday while texasanan was playing miami you got to come at you got to listen to that show you got to watch that show just to find out happened to marshal that will be your christmas present from us we'll talk to you tomorrow