Bussin' With The Boys - Mario Cristobal On The CFP Title Loss, Building His Culture + Is The U Officially Back? | Bussin'

Episode Date: April 21, 2026

In this episode of Bussin’ With The Boys, Taylor Lewan and Will Compton travel to Miami, Florida! Mario Cristobal sits down with The Boys to discuss last year’s wins, next year's expectations and where the Hurricanes have seen improvement in the offseason. In the intro, Will Compton and Taylor Lewan preview the NFL Draft, They call Delanie Walker “The QB Guru” to get his take on Ty Simpson’s draft stock. Afterward, The Boys give their Clean Takes (thank you, Kevin’s Natural Foods) and say Jacob Rodriguez is the STEAL of the 2026 NFL Draft.  Mario Cristobal pulled up and gave a masterclass. We got into how Miami really operates with defensive and offensive meetings, what it means to conduct elite practices, and why recruits need to see it live. He told the full Penei Sewell recruiting story and broke down how he identifies guys with the right DNA, mindset over hype. He didn’t duck anything either, from NIL and the idea that ball is still ball, to bouncing back after tough losses and the mentality inside the program when it matters most. We also hit on building Miami the right way, locking down South Florida, finding coaches that actually fit, and why he feels like he owes the program. There are gems all over this one. From the Carson Beck transfer conversation to two freshman OL already making noise, plus his longtime relationship with his OL coach going back to high school. You get Taylor Lewan stories including some wild recruiting antics, a breakdown of Reuben Bain versus Lewan, and why the short arms narrative is nonsense. He also drops his one non negotiable, early is on time, talks Cuban coffee habits, hiring philosophy, and why you will never hear him say The U is back. Stay for the roast too, Coach held his own.   Timestamp Chapters:   00:00:00 Open 00:02:09 Draft Week 00:05:16 First WR Off The Board 00:07:32 Calling Delanie Walker 00:11:19 Kyle Forgeard Flaking On The Bet 00:19:19 Mother's Day Merch Drop 00:21:41 Taylor's 10-Year Anniversary 00:23:18 Zachariah Branch Arrest 00:32:33 Moneyline Matthews Withdrawals 00:34:42 Notre Dame Vlog Recap 00:37:27 Miami Practice Is INSANE 00:44:16 Jackson Cantwell Is Elite 00:47:10 Matthew McCoy & O-Line Love 00:52:29 Jacob Rodriguez Draft Stock 00:57:04 Ripping Packs w/ Taylor 01:04:33 AJ Brown To The Patriots? 01:07:37 Portnoy vs FanDuel 01:12:08 Big Ten vs SEC 01:17:06 High Dive At Miami 01:22:00 Will Gets Got By Bussin’ Social Team 01:25:00 Spring Tour Recap 01:28:04 Shane Gillis VS. The Boys 01:31:59 Tier Talk 01:44:55 Mario Cristobal Interview Begins 01:48:53 Building The Culture 01:51:37 Recruiting At Miami 01:54:00 NIL Era Coaching 01:56:36 Education At Miami  01:58:08 Mike Sullivan Connection 02:02:03 Season Run & Bouncing Back 02:06:27 ACC Championship & Playoff Selection 02:10:50 Football Calendar 02:15:42 Freshman OL Scouting Report 02:20:52 Carson Beck Portal Story 02:22:34 Kirby Smart Talk 02:24:20 Keeping South Florida Talent 02:26:52 Year One & Building The Staff 02:34:08 This Year vs Last Year 02:36:15 Is The U Back? 02:37:55 Fan Questions 02:43:00 Ruben Bain One-On-One Breakdown 02:47:05 Bud Light Question See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah, keep the dream alive. That never stopped being teammates. That's it. And in the draft this week, we got undrafted, we got drafted. We got the combination of everything to where this is. locker room talk. The locker room never closed on this show. We keep the locker room open on Bustin with the boys. We're going to dive into some draft stuff, maybe some draft stories. We're going to talk about Mario Cristobo and what we got what we did this past week, last week,

at the University of Miami. What else are we going to be touching on boys? What do we're hitting callbacks from the boys from the last episode that took place with Marcus Freeman and C.J. Carr and also hit a little tear talk because every single week the boys put out a little tweet. Little tweets he said, hey, use hashtag tier talk with the question below to get featured on the show. So if you're a Miami fan looking for a community, I'm saying, oh, damn, the lockroom's still alive? I can be in it. I can hang with the boys. You can leave a comment here to be featured on the callbacks or when the tier talk comes out, you can just leave a little comment.

And just like that, boys, there's no entry fee. All right? There's no dress code here. No, sir. It's just community. Lockroom, vibes and love. Sherman, you have a question? Quick addition to what you are talking about.

New iteration I've been seeing on tier talk. people are now commenting on previous episodes with the hashtag. Are you kidding me right now? That's the way to do it. We love that. We love that. It's evolving.

And don't sleep on Spotify. Spotify's got a comment section. Spotify's got a comment section. And we go to those every week. The boys are locked in on some Spotify comments. But great work getting the hashtag to your talk in our busts with the boys episodes. Also, Miami fans.

We did the same thing. We're building community like Taylor was saying. Now in the community, if you enter the community, just know that last week we had Notre Dame week. So now we got Catholics, now we got convicts all together. All together. Being for the boys.

Right. But if you don't like being called convict, that's, listen, that wasn't us. It's all good fun. We like to have fun on the show. Yeah, you don't like hearing convict. It's just part of the fun. We like to have fun on buss and with the boys. Because we know what, week seven, week nine?

Eight. Eight. I'm hoping. We're hoping two undefeated teams. Facing off, South Bend, Indiana. It has to take place. And you know what? God, God, let us?

happen we'll be there I didn't say that correctly but we'll fucking be there my brain wasn't working something about gone I knew we're gonna be there like is in Notre name okay but we'll we'll be there hey and the Shane episode that one's dropping next week right I'm laughing because when he was busting our balls like he's like you guys got a backlog as me as you can before we just start our brains are failing buddy the CTE thing I like to fight it I like to get away from it the minute I lose a little bit of sleep that's where I really see and start to keep it over it starts to get over They got both teams undefeated.

They're going to go. Got to go to battle? Got a willing? Did it come out of it? Do you get us? Two coaches. Dude, uh, two teams. Two teams.

11 on each side. They're going to go. We're going to play. Hopefully we're there as well. We're in helmets, shoulder pads. Just keep going. All right. Two different uniforms.

All right. Dude, should we talk about the, I mean, Fandle Futures? The draft is this week. We will be in Pittsburgh this week for the draft. flying out Wednesday evening for all of this to go down. I know we saw a little about first wide receiver taken. Do you want to count the three and see who we think it's going to be?

Number one receiver taken. Yeah. Throw up the options. Okay, okay, okay. So I'm thinking, Tate's going to be your best option. He's going to be in the minuses. Oh boy from A&M? Oh, boy from A&M.

Uh, no, no. Concepcion. Probably not. Yeah, but he wrote the letter. He's nice, though. Yeah, yeah. He is nice. He is nice.

Jordan Tyson from ASU. He's a monster. He's been a media darling this week too. He's been getting lots of love. That's where people start to creep. This week is the best week because this is when all the house of cards type of game strategy.

People are going to start lying. Maybe they're not going to take Fernando Mendoza, even though they said they're going to take Fernando Mendoza. Type of shit's going to come out. Oh, they're taking for Nana Mendoza. No doubt. But this is where everyone starts to, well, are they though?

Is the question mark? Ty Simpson's been coming up in a lot of conversations. Are they going to make some sudden surprise at the end? But Fandall's telling us there's an over under on Ty Simpson, whether he's going to go before the 28th pick or 28 and a half is where the line is at. So 28 and earlier or 29 and after. And the over that beyond 28 is at minus 150. So there should be no surprises.

There's going to be no surprise with him going over for Nathamendos. When I think about draft predictions, I think about one man and the genius that came out of him and it's Delaney Walker and you're a bet with him last year. Shadur Sanders said he wouldn't make it to the top three rounds. I sat there while you were making the bed thinking, Will's got this thing locked. Locked. Locked.

Locked. I don't have my phone. I don't have my phone. You don't actually have to it. No, but Delaney is a QB whisperer. He kind of is, dude. He called Mac Jones. He called Shadr Sanders.

He was like on the money. What do you say, fifth round? Yeah. He called fifth round. That was insane. The Mac Jones take was nuts. That was a one-off Mac Jones. Jones conversation. Yeah, that's my dog. He's going to crush it this year. He's going to get an opportunity and he's going to kill it. It's like, all right. Guess you're not a big Brock Purdy fan. All of a sudden, bang. He takes place and there was conversations. People trying to rubble some feathers down to the 49ers facility.

My boy, what up? First ring Mitch, Mitch called. He said you're going to answer on the first ring. Delaney, we're sitting here on busting with the boys and we're trying to figure out where you think Ty Simpson is going to go. or how soon he's going to get drafted. Right now the line on Fandul, the over-under is a 28-and-a-half pick. 28-and-half. So is you going to go... Alabama quarterback. Alabama quarterback. People are saying maybe the Raiders get him over Mendoza.

Not a lot of people, but there's a few out there. Dan Orlowski says Ty Simpson's the better player, the better option, or the better quarterback. I could just be putting words in his mouth right there. Yeah. I mean, God, that's going to be tough for me to say. I don't know if he's going to go over Mendoza. You got Ty Simpson going in the first round or the second round. That's a better question.

I got him going in the second round. Okay. Okay, you guys heard it from Delaney Walker. Oh, why? You know he don't know. He just got a feeling. Yeah, he does. He woke up.

Delane, are you laying in bed right now? Just off of what, I mean, he started late. He was a beast, though. Don't get me wrong. He was a beast. I just don't think he going to go in the second round. That's good, though. That's a good, that's a good round than going for him.

Yeah, that is, second round is a good round. It's a good round. Better than the third. Yeah. It's better than the third. Yeah, I'm just saying, you know, I didn't say he was going to drop. You know, I'll give you if he was going to drop. He'd good.

All right. So there you go. Fanduil minus 150, take the over on 20 and a half on picks. Minus 150? Yes, sir. All right, Delaney. We miss you. We love you.

We appreciate you. You are the best. Your Supercross vlog was unbelievable. I see you, boys. All right, bro. That's D. That's D. That's D.

First ring, he's going to answer his phone. Whenever I called him for Supercross, it's like, hey, what up? What are you doing? He's just ready, dude. Delaney is that type of friend. He's ready to answer the call. He's the who's car we taking guy. Yeah.

At all times. At all times. He's the best kind of friend you can possibly have. You got to have that guy in the, chamber that being said I think he's wrong I think Ty Simpson goes in the first round and we did talk about it before we started about the Cardinals they have the third overall pick but they also have the 34th pick love the idea I don't know who brought up this is not my original thought but the idea of the Cardinals jumping in to the first

round yeah to snipe him similar to Jackson Dart last year Jackson DART last year and I believe this was Lamar Jackson as well correct you get that fifth year option if you get the first round right you need the fifth you up you want to get the fifth year option Yeah, but the Ravens then the Ravens traded into the second round or the first round again with the Chiefs. It's hard for me to believe that not that only one quarterback is going to go in the first round, knowing how teams operate. Whether they trade up, they take guys too early, like people argue about J.J. McCarthy, the Vikings a couple years ago.

But every year I feel like there's a surprise in the first round of a quarterback being taken higher than what they're projected to go. It's just such a premium. Supplying demand issues. And knowing how old Danny O. Dan Roloski talks about Ty Simpson. It seems like this kid's a dude. Yeah. There's a lot of things about Danio right now that I respect a lot about Danio. There's things I'm not respecting about Danio. Like bets. Like bets not being for Danio. A lot of people having a tough look for Betts right now. It's not your only bet. It's not my only bet. We'll get into that. We'll get into that. That helps us kick off callbacks from last week's episode. Again, last week we had on Marcus Freeman and CJ Carr. Awesome Notre Dame vlog that's out there right now. Check that out. The Miami vlog of us going to the Miami Hurricanes facility that dropped last night on our YouTube channel.

But this kicks off the betting for some callbacks here. We got one here from Mike Hawk underscore 6969. This is on the YouTube channel. Mike Hawk. Hell yeah. I see what happened. You guys are having fun. What's crazy is I didn't even know what you guys were laughing about in the pre-production

meeting. Really? Yeah. 747 over the head right there for a second. It's not a burden of mind. It's just a guy having fun on the internet. Yeah. Like Mike Hawk.

Like, is it the 69? Like, are we in middle school? Yeah. Better. We're in high school. Go ahead. All right, here we go, Mike Koch. Can we get an update on Taylor's bet with Kyle from milk?

Did bro flake on the puck bet? Did bro flake on the puck bet? Yeah, I just say one thing about Kyle. I like Kyle. I think Kyle's a good guy. Seems like a good business man. Seems like a dude that really is kind of figured out the leash, the niche, the lane of YouTube and production and doing all the things.

Yeah. That being said, I think he flaked on the bet. I think he flaked on the bet Have you had any calms with him? Yeah Since the video, since the hockey game Since USA took down Canada How many, let's look up how many days it's been

Since the Olympic gold medalist Men's hockey game took place I texted Kyle in March As hey buddy Things are kind of settled now Let's get you on let's get you on the list Come on busting with the boys That's part of your betty has two things

One is to go to Washington DC Our nation's capital With a USA hockey uniform on with a sign. This is Matt's words. Great job by Matt. I don't know puck. USA hockey is the best.

That was one of the deliverables he had for our bet. And Bust with the boys is number one. And Bust with the boys is number one. Correct. It's been 57 days right now since February 22nd, which is when the goal took off. He had, is it 90 days? Yeah, I think it was 90 days.

So we could be getting over our skis a little bit right now, right? 63 days away. 33 days away. Excuse me. He's got a month. He's got a month and just a sprinkle of change to get it done. I text him in March. I'm like, hey, we got to get you on the books.

Let's get it going. When's a good time for you? He's like, April's going to be great for me. That's when there's a good time. He's like, cool, I'll hit you in April. April comes, send him a little text. Hey, do you want, how do you want this to work? Do you want me to put you in touch with my people,

aka Jeremy Clump? And then you can put him, you know, all the things. Get some middleman in there. No response. And since then, it's been, it's been bone dry. And I know there's been a lot of back and forth with other guys in his world and all that. There's like some fighting. I don't care to get into that world.

I don't care to get into spec world. All you have is your word at the end. Oh, who you are as a man, right? Yeah. It's your word. That's number one. If you don't have that,

what do you have? And he told you April would be the best month. Awesome. I'll follow up in April. You followed up in April. Didn't respond. Right. It's been crickets ever since.

Crickets ever since. No. I don't know how to digest that. Maybe you guys could help me, right? Go ahead, Sherman. You got something. A beautiful parlay you could throw his way. Hey, our Independence Day is July 4th.

that fits in those 33 days that you have remaining, let's just do it on Independence Day. Give them a date out there. It doesn't. That is not fit. That is not fit in the 33 days. That's two months away. That's 60 days away.

So that prank that I just pulled on you guys, everybody passed. Oh, nice. Especially Mitch. Especially Mitch. He was like, dude. He's a mathematician. Yeah.

Mitch has always been the smart one of the crew. He's like pulling the joke here. Yeah. And I was. I love that. So about digest. about digesting. How do we, what do we think about this?

This is more, this is a community conversation right here. Doesn't have to be just me and Will. I just gave you guys the facts of what's taking place. I'd like to know where your guys' heads are at. Is there a what if he doesn't? I mean, there was literally a contract sent over per his legal team, saying if the contract is not fulfilled, then it's a lifetime of ridicule from the other individual.

So we might be a little ahead of it, but maybe there's a little kicking the ass we need. So, I mean, Matt, you were a part of this whole entire process. There's a microphone right there. I made the contract and I was talking to his team and they were in on it and no words, my email, you. So I think we need to call them out on the internet. I think this is what a place we're on right now.

I mean, that's exactly what we're doing. Or maybe you get physical. I don't, you know, who are you, bro, if you don't hold up. Yeah. The standard is the standard. Yeah. Just go ahead and pin him down. Like the next time I see him, I pull him around.

You can come on or what? Give him a call. I don't have my phone. That's why you ordered the coffees. If I have to come back here. Do you want me to go grab my phone real quick? Yeah. Yeah, I'll grab my phone real quick.

Yeah. All right. Willie, hold it down. Taylor just gives them a little visit. You know, maybe they're in Vegas. And he sees him. Hey, if I have to come back here and you don't fulfill this bet or you saying I'm not a man. If I don't, if you're not a man of your word, what the fuck's it say about me?

And if I have to come back here a second time, both these hands are going to go around your neck. And we're going to watch your soul leave your body. And he goes, Red Rocks, and then Michael Chandler comes out. Let's get him. Yeah, UFC fighters. Just pull some Sopranos. You got to go Sopranos, you know what I mean? Or go boxer, streaming, like streamer boxing match.

We just get, we get Taylor so, you know, worked up. Like, bro, what kind of man are you if you don't, you're just going to let him slide? Yeah. I know how I'd handle it. Put your hands on them? No, we're kind of, just some inside ball talk. Inside ball talk. Like we're going to have to, you know, what if we get in this situation

where we're going to have to get Taylor going? Like, hey, Taylor, what does it say about you, man? Like, we know how we'd handle the whole situation, but if you're going to be a bitch, like, just bully me into beating up Kyle. Just seeing red. Yeah. All right.

Taylor's incuss. Why'd you do that, bro? We weren't saying that. We were playing. First ring's gone by. He's not a delaney. He's looking at your name right now and he's nervous because he hasn't responded to you. Call me, boys.

I'm fucked. Boys, what are we going to do? What do I say? I don't know. I told him we do it, but I don't know what to do now. Steinie, what would you do? Let's rip a dark ski. He doesn't answer leak his number.

Oh, no. Let's get all of our fans in his phone. Oh, no. That sounds like the number got shut down. Can't even leave a boy. Can't even leave a voicemail. Listen, let's get the vibes back up. This is a check-in here from Chad Jones, 0-1.

Taylor, you're wearing a white t-shirt. Oh, this is just okay. Moving on. Let's get out of there. Hey, so, hold on. We're not going to address the fact that he didn't answer that. I think he was officially ducking. Oh, he's ducking.

He is ducking. The audience knows that Calvin' Knuck is ducking. He's a coward. But here we go from Chad Jones. Taylor, you're wearing a white guy. white t-shirt. Taylor, you good? Yeah, man, everything's good.

Everything's good. I went to, literally, two weeks ago, went to Dick's sporting goods with my kids and Wynn is officially in the fit phase. She's in the, oh, I mess with this fit. Dad, how about this fit? She's got a little Campanaro in her the way she's talking about fits. Put a hat on, dad, this completes the fit. They had all the different colors on and all that stuff. She had a

shirt she loved with a cat and American flag, and it said a mare cat. And she thought that was the coolest thing in the world. I was just fired up. There was an American flag involved. little nudge to her mom like, hey, L for you. Yeah. So in that process, I told them, I see you guys wearing a bunch of colors all the time. I'm going to get more into it.

Now I haven't worn a whole lot of color. It's white, but I'm working my, I'm working. You're in your, you're in your discomfort right now. I'm in the discomfort range right now. I'm growing as an individual,

getting away from the all black categories, and I'm just diving in. Thanks. Thank you. You're looking good. You're looking good. Thanks, guys. All right.

Hell yeah. Kind of locker room we have here. We have a positive locker room taking place right now. Hey, on the merchandise. Go ahead. What you got? We got our Mother's Day drop out. Toss that boy down this way.

Toss that boy down this way. Yacht. Mother's Day drop fellas for the men out there watching because we know this is 98% men that are watching this podcast and consuming. Mother's Day is a month out. Don't wait. Don't wait. Did we drop these a little early?

Were we a little quick on the trigger? I think we're all a little quick on the trigger sometimes. You know what I'm saying. In more ways than one, absolutely. One thing we're not quick on the trigger. on is merch though. Yes. Yes. We get in the middle of spooked over and it's like, hey, you had to order your spooked over merch. Every male's brain, trigger, trigger, trigger. Yeah. Mother's Day is coming up. How do I take care of my mom? How do I take care of my wife?

I got to do that. I got to add it to the list. But you continue to drive. You don't actually add it to a list. You forget because a lot of things happen and we're idiots and we forget shit. Yeah. This is a reminder right now to go right now, BWTB.com and shop for your mom, shop for your wife. Whatever it is. We got Milk Team 6 gear. We got four of the moms gear. Love this one, by the way. For the mom's a little flower coloring going on. Who drew that? I think...

Rood drew that. Rood drew that. Rood drew that. Pause the podcast. Go order. Pause the podcast. Great, Mitch. Pause the podcast and go order

for your mom or your wife right now. Listen, can I just say one thing? I know we're on the merch stuff and the Mother's Day stuff. Two weeks in a row. Mitch calls he's been on a heater. Two weeks in a row, Mitch Carlese's been on a heater. Pause the podcast.

Go get it done. on BWTV.com. I'm a mess with this though. I'm a big fan of this. They saw them in sweatshirt and sweatpants. A matching set. Oh, they got matching sets. I see that there's also like a cropped hoodie.

Shooks like to wear cropped hoodies. Toot bags. Wine glasses. Coffee mugs. Are you joking? Not shitting you, bro. Bro. If I could get tailing with that belly

starting to pop out a little bit with our third child, I just told her, I was like, when you start to get to the point at summertime, I need you in crop tops more. I want you showing off that. rock the crocktop when she's in the third trimester absolutely just have that thing bellowing out yeah yeah yeah how do you look fantastic what you're talking about you're just supporting what you do which is making kids dude and hearing you talk about your wife right now just again we're recording this on monday 420

it is taylor and tailon's 10 year anniversary 10 years 10 years of marriage 10 years of love 10 years of knowing each other yeah for you to remember it's beautiful dude it was it just came to me right You're sitting there talking. I'm like, man, I feel like something's in the air. My instinct just came out. And that's such a guy thing, too. Like you file things away a little bit. You do it like a birthday or a special, you know,

a special date takes place. You don't want to say it. You want people to remember it for you to bring that up on the bus. Buddy. Buddy. It's huge. It's honor to hear you say that, man. Thanks, man.

Anyway, bwtb.tb.com. I've been a minute for 10 years, boys. When you're watching this, it'll be 10 years in one day. How sick. 10 years is sick. Hey, hey. Have some fun. A matter of a matter of a matter.

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You know what I'm saying? You can use both tonight. You can save one, just do one and then save one for the other. Put the kids down and walk over. Honey, I'm not feeling it was, well, I got the coupon. But you can say, sweetheart, great for you to bring up. I get it, the shockwave is shut down, but I got to put a bow on a coupon right here. that doesn't involve the shockwave.

Can you feel me on it? Put a bow on it. Like, hey, sweetheart. Right. You can choose one. It's a little, it's a clip where you like, pick your destination.

Yeah, yeah. Put a bow on it. Yeah. I'm with the audience. I know. I'm just, for the audience. Put a bow on it.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, I'm with you. I'm with it. Her family watches this show. There's some Georgia fans out there. You got to make sure they're keeping up with them. Yeah. Yeah.

Did you see the, you. That was crazy. I'm sorry, I apologize. Bro, Kyle Ducky, don't need to beat Kyle's ass? What you're going to beat Kyle's ass now? Fuck, dude, I knew Steve was writing about something, man. Did you see the...

Joe, we're joking. We're joking on the show. We have fun on the show. It's the locker room. It's a locker room. Never closed. Right. Did you guys see the viral stuff going around,

Zachariah Branch getting arrested at, what was there a bike? There was a bike festival going on in Georgia. He was back for the spring game. He gets arrested. It's what? 12, 20 minutes past midnight. Yeah. Gets arrested for something so stupid.

So dumb. Did you see her you caught up? Yeah, I'm caught up on the situation. Police officer, sir, can you do me favor? Move. He like has a little bit of an attitude, smirks. No, no, no, move. He smirked, took a step back, moved.

And then cops like, oh, okay. Eventually just gets arrested. He's resisting. Right. Yeah. We're having fun on the show. Hey, we're having foot on the show. Yeah, we're having fun on the show.

Stupid? Dumb. Stupid by the cop. Yes. Let's take you get the cop first. Assuming what is out there. there is known that it was this small, this little, it was all about, hey, can you get out of the way?

Everybody's packed on these sidewalks. So you can imagine that there's just chaos going on at all times. Sir, can you step over here? Very small thing to get upset and arrest somebody over here. Because the bomb was like $39. Like, what do we do? Are you just wanting to flash the badge and show that I got power in this situation?

Yeah. Because we don't want that. We don't want that to take place. Okay, that being said, that's dumb. Now let's go Zachari Branch. Equally dumb. But you're a week away from your dreams coming true be an NFL football player people talking about you being a day two pick maybe you might

sneak into the one who knows what's gonna happen we all know that we saw you at the s tch championship you're an absolute dog during that game give us some flexing for the can say some shorter individual awesome story with this family too like with this brother playing with this brother coming from USC set a record at georgia for most receptions in one year like the guy is an absolute study's gonna have himself a hell of a career but if you're sitting there and a cop wants to body bag you a little bit with his ego let him have the ego right right Ryan holiday ego is the enemy go and stand off to the side by yeah you guys It's heard my bad. Is he in the wrong? The cop of the wrong? No question. But also we'll be doing

dumb shit for. And you just know, bro, like you get told this stuff all the time. Like when we were players in college, even in the NFL, like at all times when they're talking about going out, being safe, being responsible, all that stuff. It's like they're always just telling you like cops are just looking for a reason. Like, hey, you got a name. They know. They know who Zachariah Branch is. Like you know, hey, cops probably think I can make a name for myself right here. Again, assuming that what's out there on the report is exactly what happened, told him to step back. He gave me a smirk. Basically, I got upset.

I gave him a lawful order. He didn't follow the law. So in those legalities, I can arrest him. This is pulling somebody over going five miles over the speed limit. But you know you have more of a target on you because people were pissed. Georgia fans are like Zachariah Branch fans, people that are defending Zachariah Branch. I get because the arrest is stupid. It shouldn't even happen.

The cops should not be going that far. Again, $39 bond on bailout getting out. just, I agree, that shit is dumb. But on Zachariah Branch's side, if I'm sitting here thinking about everything Taylor is saying, like, bro, what are you doing out that late? I get that you are in town and you want to be at the spring game and you want to probably enjoy it's like, yeah, you're this close to the draft, your name is hot, you're out there with the boys, you guys are having fun, whatever you're doing. I don't care about that. But you just have to know as a player, bro, You've got to be overly protective about what's going on

because you've worked your entire life to become an NFL prospect, to be draft eligible. Now you're in a spot, bro. You've balled this entire year. You transferred, you played with your brother. You balled. You're in a spot to where you're projected. Second round.

Your projection is probably not going to get hurt. Enough GMs and people that are diving into this before the draft. It's a nothing burger. I'm assuming it's a nothing burger. But if something else happens, it's like we should have seen it coming. But is that being?

out even worth questions being raised. Like even if they get to the bottom of it, nothing hurts. Like, bro, say you were going to be drafted, say you get drafted 55th overall, but a team sitting at 51 was going to pick you and somebody just didn't get enough context or they just made a decision of like, why is he out this late? This goes into our character, whatever it is, to where you could have been 51 and now you're at 55. Like, that's thousands of dollars. Right. Like, none of that is even worth risking. Like, your boys that know, hey, you know, I'm going to get in early tonight, yada, yada. We got the draft coming up next weekend. Like we'll get back on the other side, boys. Like I need to be,

it basically needs to be low profile, high focus at this moment time. Because the last four months has been nothing but an interview for this draft process. And the ultimate goal, the ultimate dream is happening. Biggest moment of your life is happening this week at the NFL draft. Why put any of it in jeopardy over like, I'm just relaxed. I'm just going to enjoy myself for a little bit. I saw that he wasn't drinking. Like he was doing all the things right, right? He just happened to piss a cop off because he just stepped back and went to the right a little bit. But even then, bro, you know the saying nothing good happens after midnight. Like, why even be in that situation?

Exactly. Not in a way that where I'm like, I'm anti-Zechariah branch. I'm like, no, I feel like whether people believe it or not, I'm thinking I'm pro the player. Like, if I'm sitting there in a room with you and I'm one of your boys, it's like, why even go out tonight? Bro, you're about to get, you're about to be a top 15, top 20 pick next week, bro. And you're like, hey, Will, should we go out, blah, blah, blah, blah. If you're even saying that. But we're sitting there having a conversation like, bro, why even risk that shit?

Right, because nothing good can happen. Like you, and the stage is set, right? Spring game takes place. You're back at school. After training, you did the combine. Every guy feels this way when they're in the draft process. Like, I'm the man. I'm the man.

Like, I've done it. Like, I'm kind of like, let me go out and kind of like show myself up. Let me a couple honeys out there. Let me get an IG post up. Yeah, you know, see what's going on. We post up a little bit. But you got to, that's where you have to, one, protect your own legacy and understand that everybody around you is not there to protect you as well.

Guys also want to show you if I'm with Z. Zachari branch. Look at a word boys. He's going to be a draft pick, probably a pro bowl player at some point. Like all the things, they don't have that opportunity. You have that opportunity. So when your boys are like, let's go do X, Y, and Z, if there's even a little bit of a risk, just walk away from it.

And it makes you seem uncool in the moment, but long term, it pays off dividends. Because the NFL, like we both know, now they were washed up football players, eventually you're asked gets kicked out one way or another. So these guys that you're around, I'm sure most of them are great. but just you've got to really figure out who's who and who really has your best interest involved. And at the end of the day, it's like you have to make the best decision for yourself.

Yeah. Because, I mean, I have a bunch of examples of things I could have done better when I was playing. And if I could go back and like, man, I would have not gone out and gone crazy my first couple years in the league

and all those things. But now that you're sitting there and you're 34 years old with two kids, it's so clear, like, dude, just take care of your house first. Yeah. Yeah. Put your oxygen mask on first

before helping anybody else out. Because all you have too is your reputation. Right. Say, again, he does nothing. wrong. All of it comes out. This is like he pissed the cop off, cops thinking, oh, that's Zacharii Branch. Hey, listen, you're not the one with the power in this situation. I need you to get your ass back. He gives a smirk. He gets mad. He gets arrested. Well, let's just say, you did absolutely nothing wrong. But the fact that there's questions that come out that the headline is Zachariah Branch gets arrested. That happens first and more context comes out. But even if you're on the straight narrow, all it takes is for one other

slip up for people to say, oh, oh, he was like that guy that got arrested back in Georgia. Then they've lost all context. All the guys. Oh, he got arrested or he got into a dust up a second time. Maybe he was, maybe there was things going on with that cop back in Georgia that we don't know about. Right. Because again, when you're building up your reputation, what is the quote with Warren Buffett? It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five seconds to ruin it.

You just reset. You just reset back to that foundation of people that know nothing about this other than seeing Zachariah Branch gets arrested. They don't dive into the report. They don't dive into the context. They don't dive into anything to know that you weren't in. issue whatsoever. The next time something could come about, because again, you don't know how everything works. You can't control what people do with you. You have another bad situation that comes

up. People that don't know, they're just going to relate it back to the first one. They're going to fall back on the domino effect. It'll be like, this happened, that happened, bad guy. Yeah. Bad character. And listen, Georgia, I don't know what the years was, how many years it's been, but certain many years have gone by, there's been 30 arrest and 31 draft picks. And to that point, too, when we talk about reputation, again, you did, again, Zachry Branch, nothing wrong. You're tied to that reputation of Georgia.

Right. So if there's been 31 arrests, you know, their last 30 draft picks, whatever that stat was, like immediately people are going to think, oh, Georgia. Yep, of course, it's a Georgia kid. Of course he's going to get arrested.

Without wanting to understand anything. That's why it's like, dude, protect your bag. You were so goddamn close, bro. So talented too. He's going to be a beast in the slot in the NFL. And again, this is going to be a beast, to ultimately be a nothing burger, he'll still get drafted.

People are going to, oh, dude, you get a risk? Like, all that stuff is going to happen, all because it's like, for what, man? Why even allow? Why even allow some sort of narrative to take place about you? Because you want to go hang in a bike festival or you want to go hang with the fellas? Like, dog, just, fuck the fellas. Low profile, high focus. Yeah.

I love it. Zachari Branch, handled. You brought back up the draft. Do we want to talk about Fandu at all? We can. First where I receive a ticket. We got a couple more little callbacks, right? Let's hit that.

Let's hit that. Let's hit that. You want me to hit Crazy Man 64-35? What is it? Crazy Man 64-3-3-5? Oh. Thank you for commenting on our YouTube channel during the episode. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Anyone else helping, anyone else having Money Line Matthew's withdrawals. I am. Dude, I think about Clay multiple times a week. Yeah. Absolutely. Sometimes you just want to pick up the phone and call.

Yeah. See what the boy's up to. For whatever reason, I just don't do it and I get mad the next time I think about, like, man, I said I was going to call them up there. And now it's been multiple weeks that have taken place. What we need is just a selfie video of MoneyLoney Matthews, the next UFC event. This is my parlay.

Because the people are, we're on life support. We need something of Moneyline Matthews coming out. Should we call them? Should we call them? Miami Hurricane fans, we have a show called the locker room that we do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. During football season where Clay Matthews, Delaney Walker, we all do a show together, talk about all of our bets

for the upcoming weekend in the NFL. Moneyline Matthews is a thing. So again, just for all the new listeners out there, all the new audience members. And if you want to know Pete Moneyline Matthews, go to like week six to ten. Don't go past 10. Don't even worry about what happens after past 10. Six to 10 is where you want Moneyline Matthews because the kid was on a absolute heater for a while.

He had an aura about him. He did. Delaney does vlog. Somebody commented it said, we need a Clay Can series. A Clay Can series. I love some Clay, bro. Who doesn't love Clay? What's he doing for the draft this week?

He's probably going to. Clay Matthews did text me. recently he just sent me a screenshot of him reaching out to a Facebook marketplace someone selling a casket he just said yeah how heavy is this casket and can you give me the rough dimensions he had to add the note using this for a prop as well already thinking about the locker room for next year this was during last year he was going through his old things he found it he tried to order a casket during the he's a sicko bro he's a sicko the world the world needs it we got one from steve pilgrim nine six six two the willie willie willie

Willie had to have been comical. I wasn't there. It seemed like when I watched it back on the Notre Dame blog. Getting carried by the boys. Yeah. Would have loved more buy-in. Would have loved more buy-in. I get, we're trying to have a Rudy moment.

I was fully bought into having a Rudy moment. The old lineman, they were kind of like shit. We'll carry a Willie. Because we caught the punts. And by the way, defense carrying you. They're just carrying you at their chest. But I wanted some buying. Yeah, you wanted a little more.

We just won the game. Yeah. And then switch from Rudy to Willie. it's just me by myself saying that I'm trying to pat the boys and get the Willie Chan going with me. It didn't help. Didn't help that you blow out a guy's L5S1. That was on me.

That was a tough look. That was on me. I honestly, I was so excited. I ended up jumping and I know better. And the guy was, he was all low back to pick you up. Yeah. He was all over. Like if that would happen to me, number one, I'd be dead.

I'd be in the hospital right now. Paralyzed from the waist down. But with your last breath, you probably swing on them. Yeah. Been like, are you fucking kidding me, bro? And then be, yeah. Yeah. And you're gone.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But yes. It was a fun time. Go check out the Notre Dame blog and again the Miami vlog that dropped last night. Miami vlog job and Miami fans,

if you want to get watched a little film on your team that you're playing against week eight, week nine? Somewhere in that. Something like that. September. November.

That's, you're going to want to see that. You don't want to take a peek ski at that boy right there. We got Mike Hawk. We got Josh Lawless, 1991, shout of 1991,

the year I was born. Freeman has brought a tenacity and swagger. Notre Dame has needed for decades. I hope he sticks around and wins that. A statue will be built and he will be a living ND legend. I hope he states in Notre Dame forever. Yeah.

I mean, where's he going to go to the NFL? Could go to the NFL. Yeah. And there's another one too. Like, he was a Buckeye. Ohio State doesn't need a coach right now. But if in any version down the road, Ohio State gets in a sticky situation,

Ryan Day moves on, the slot at Ohio State now becomes available. In my brain don't know this whatsoever. I'm just assuming, I'm thinking, Marcus Freeman's 100% going to think about it. He's going to want to go there for sure.

And it's like, that's allegedly, that's our own impressions. But you saw when I asked him about the tattoo situation, very quick to defend his voice. Yeah. Very quick to defend the Ohio State University.

He bartered a couple things. You know, he was, listen, all good. Time has passed. That due limitations is over. You keep that hairline like that twice a week? Crazy move.

You bartered a couple things in Ohio State. Yeah, especially with those rent checks. You're not getting two haircuts a week. I want him to go back to start building the neck up, get the thicker neck going and shave the head again. Bald Freeman is the Freeman that I want. Bald Freeman is a scary-looking individual. This Freeman, handsome.

He's doing photo shoots, the whole thing. Looks younger now. Looks younger than he did in his high school profile pick on rivals. Yeah. But yeah, he won, uh, maybe we did that tough guy back. We need back. He's pretty right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Miami fans love that. Yeah. Hey, listen, Miami fans, again, you check out. that vlog that dropped last night, the intensity that goes on in this practice, this kill or be killed mentality, this culture that they instill in Miami, it was a feeling of you're back in the 90s, getting a behind the scenes look at practice because there wasn't cameras, there wasn't social media, there wasn't all these things, there was no NIL world, it was just how in the hell are we going to be the apex predator of college football? And that is how these guys work when

they have all the pads on. Yeah, the psychological warfare takes place. The minute They stepped in the field. I'll just speak for the office line. They're doing drills. So they're warm before they even go to the warm up. Once the warm up takes place, you got a hundred people that aren't even practicing and loud music taking place. You got Irv out there just on the microphone, going crazy on the boys.

It seems like you're being forged in fire at every single moment. Yeah. Where they were sprinting from drill to drill taking place, what, an hour and a half practice, two hour practice? Yeah. And they did not rest one time. It truly felt like old school, nine on seven football taking place. the whole entire time.

Getting coached hard. Yes. I do feel like in the state of Florida coaching, you do gotta be harder on these. Yeah. Why's that? They grow up differently in Florida. Go ahead.

Expand. So like Levante, he grew up and he went to the high school Miami Northwestern where there's more, you're more like in the streets in Miami where these dudes grow up. So all they know is being coached hard. If you're not getting in their ass

and creating these boundings, of like, here's what we do on the field, here's how we go off the field. If you're not in their ass at all times, they can deviate from the course. But I just feel like youth football in Florida is coached way differently. To where we would watch a practice, say we had sons.

We'd be watching a youth practice. If we watch youth practices in Florida, we'd be like, oh shit, this is a, I don't know if we want our kids getting coached this way mentality. You know what I mean? I'm with you on that. I'm gonna just pass these out real quick. And again, even in high school, like I watched, when I was in high school, I watched this documentary called The Year of the Bull, where in the documentary, they're covering like this four or five star athlete at Miami Northwestern is one of the best high school football high schools like in America.

Yeah. And the way that they had these boys in the shower, like yelling at them, throwing hands at them. They're fighting at practice. Like it's just a different culture down in Florida. So then when you get to whether it's Florida, Miami, Florida State, like they, the, you. The kids that come from Florida, they're coached a certain way, and you can't let the foot off the gas. When we were in Texas Tech, and we were talking to, I was talking to one of those strength coaches that played at Bama, and he was in Florida with Coach Napier. And he had all the greatest things in the world to say about Napier.

But even him, he was like, there's a way you have to coach these guys when you're down in that area. And even though Napier is all time, he loved Napier. He's like, he just, everybody that was operating over the University of Florida, they lost the point. pulse on that to where the players ended up kind of not like doing whatever they wanted. But the discipline and the way you have to get after these dudes, it just wasn't there. And then you're playing catch up when you, he's like, all you have to do is get behind in one recruiting class or two. And then you're playing ketchup the whole time.

The culture's not instilled there. And that's the vibe I was getting at Miami watching the practice go on. But we had a bunch of guys from Florida and Michigan when I went there. And there's a bunch of dudes from a spot called Pahoki, Florida. And everything I could gather from the town of Pahokee, Florida, was low income area, tough life to live, and their football program was everything you explained to the point where their conditioning was

they would take rabbits and they would put them in this like round-pinned area. And their conditioning for that day was like, catch the rabbit. And you couldn't leave until you caught the rabbit. Yeah. That's where DeNard's from Deerfield. Different, different spot, but there was like,

I don't know, I was getting in hell with that fucking sticker, dude. But Odom's, Tate Odom, Brandon Hawthorne, a handful of guys that I play with, but they would talk in a way that you don't understand where you're kind of smiling and nodding the whole time

and so you can kind of figure out the lingo a little bit. And once you did figure out the lingo, it's them telling you about like, oh, this shit we're doing in college when we're all dying, like this shit's easy compared to where we came from. Yeah, this is nothing to us. And think about Levante talking about

his experience at Fort Scott, the Jucco route where all the boys are there and they're like fighting, like, hey, you got to run five miles to this lake. Now that you get to the lake, one-on-one, you guys got to basically fight and wrestle whoever wins gets a ride back.

Kill or be killing. And you're saying it too, like in those environments, the meal ticket out is through sports. It's through athletics. So it's just a different intensity that goes on. Yeah.

And it was definitely on display. And that's what I was basically trying to say about Miami. Right. About coaching in Florida. All that being said, what you got to? The area you're talking about

has produced over 60 NFL players. Yeah, bro. That's what I mean. Bro. It's fucking different. Pahoki, Florida. I've never been. Couldn't pick it out on a map.

if you show me the state of Florida. I could not tell you where it is. But it is, like all those guys that I play with, built different, hardworking, disciplined cats who are just willing to die on the football field because they're how they're brought up. Florida is just a different fucking state. We have the conversation all the time,

like best football state, all that. Florida is clearly always in it. I always argue for Arizona, but Florida really might be it. They got speed, grit, athleticism, everything you could possibly ask for. It's just molding these guys into what they need to be. And that's what Christopher was doing at Miami.

because it is and guys we just kept saying to each other killer be killed yeah like walking by each other because you would go you would split off somewhere else I would go somewhere

but anytime we passed it was like a killer be kill like you just knew that was the mantra taking place yeah in that building the mentality is you either get out of what's going on

at home because there's no turning back right like you don't want to go back to or have to end up back at home yeah like they just have like it's like back against the wall mentality

it's like clump clump's talking about his five-year-old flag football team. I bet the flag football teams in Florida. Clump would probably go there with Jay-J and stay in there and be like, hey, we might try out for this football team. They watch practice take place and clump would probably like, Jesus Christ, like this is a...

Yeah, yeah. And that's all those kids know, you know what I mean? You come from the privilege, you come from the areas, the suburbs, stuff like that. You go out in some of these street or these other areas, the low-income areas. It's like, it's a different world, bro. Right, right.

Lotto, yes. And monsters come out of it. Monsters. Check out the below. Check out the block. Because it's awesome. And dude, Jackson Cantwell. I mean, I've never seen a freshman offensive lineman

go through one-on-one period and win every single one. Never seen that in my entire life. Might have been a great day for him. Might have been a regular day for him. But my God, when I saw that, I was like, oh, this kid's got every single piece. There's a reason why I DM this kid to go to Michigan

over and over and over again. I see the reasons now the right here. Yeah, yeah. Because he's got it, dude. And the way his computer works, he operates. He seems like a good soul too. Yeah.

I'm like Missouri boy. Down here in Miami, he's like he had, a different. It's different. I'm like, oh, I'm with you. Yeah. It's different up here.

And then he's from Nixon, Missouri. Yeah. And for him to say the quote, the only thing to come out of Nixon is, uh, cigarettes, beer, Jason Bourne and himself, but like any guy that would be like, I'm,

one of the only things to come out of here is like kind of like an arrogant thing to say you would think the way he says you're like, fuck yeah, dude. He's just such an innocent, he's just got an attitude about it. Just a worker, man. Bro, pull up the right tackle to 78. Because this cat,

he came up to me, the beginning of practice, right as they're like, go from the warm up to the drills. He goes through, he was playing right tackle. They're doing like their inside zone steps. He finishes holding the dummy. He comes with me.

Legit grabs me by a collar and he's like, anything you have for me today. Tell me anything. And it was just like, I need to learn. Hey, and chasing the ball? Yeah.

Hey, how fun. How many reps did you get to chasing the ball? I was in a chase of the ball guy. I know. You're telling you, you're like, hey, I'm beating Crystal Ball's ass. And then I'm like, okay, let's get a little competent. Hey, coach Crystal Ball, Taylor's saying he's

rocking you right now. You know, what's crazy is as bad as my eyes are, my ears have gotten stronger. I heard you told Craig Cole about that. So the next one I'm thinking, I'm running. So I go down on that one or whatever, and I see him. And I saw the yard light he turned off at, I hit myself an extra yard. Yeah.

Christopher did not beat me in a sprint all day. I'll say that. But the juice that even comes into Coach Cristobal challenging all the coaches, make sure you're chasing the ball. So chasing the ball means a rep goes on. And when the plays dead, whether somebody thuds up or a plays over or a drop ball, whatever, whenever there's a stalemate in the plays over, all the coaches and everybody's chasing, the ball, running in the mix, juicing up their boys, coaching their guys hard.

Yeah. Massive fan of the defensive coordinator. Is it Heatherman? He just sounded a massive extension. Did he? Well deserved. You can tell, bro. Any meeting room I sat in, you can just,

they're talking about situational football, you know, down and distance, hey, third down period, red zone period. They're in such situational teaching right now as far as their installs go in spring ball to where a lot of teams are a lot of things that you see is they're just installing from the start, how to line up on defense,

how to do these things. You're not necessarily in the weeds of situational awareness. The fact that he's up front in the defensive room talking about situational awareness and the entire room of players is sitting there coaching loud what they need to be doing like for the guy next to him. It's not a coach-led thing. He frames the situation going on. They're going through motions, but all the players are speaking up loudly.

They're talking loud. They're just getting right to where I'm like, yo, Miami's going to be nice this year. Yeah. Yeah, especially you see two years ago with Cam Ward. And that was the biggest Achilles heel for them. was the defense then they had the turnaround they did this past year it's just awesome to see let me just give this kid a shout real quick real quick Matthew McCoy this cat dude the from the minute we step in the field grabs my call and he's like anything you can tell me I need the help the great thing

is he's got a great office a line coach I need you to look him up his name because I'm just I'm terrible with that CTE but this coach he's like his stature is he's a smaller stature coach me and jp we go sit in the old line room and he's going over the install that they have it's breaking down their gap scheme, where the tight ends lined up, inside zone, and some of their mid zone, outside zone stuff. While he's talking halfway through the whole entire meeting, he takes a break. He doesn't bring me up, but he introduces me to the rest of the room, tells me, listen, we're going to teach these guys anything you've played, you've had the success.

Fuck what we think. Anything you can tell these guys, you're not stepping on anybody's toes. So, like, already gives me the past, like go in, do your thing, help these guys any way you possibly can. And while he's putting in the install for all these guys, guys he's also looking at me multiple times and like hey taylor just so you know we put this number in front of that that means how many tight ends where the tight ends are going to be to the point where i go out to practice and on a very loose on a very loose standpoint i understand now

what we're doing today so when they're calling the plays in that period where we're chasing the ball and all that i he's like they're telling me the number and i'm like okay so that's duo this way and he's like yes absolutely tight ends laying up on that side so now i'm over during a break between that period in two minute where i'm talking the tight ends about how they line up and everything like that because a couple guys kind of figured out that I knew what the install was in the numbers

because the numbers are so predicated on where the tie is like it was awesome how inclusive they were while also being as violent and tough on those guys Alex Mirabal am I saying that correctly this guy is incredible

a dude that I swear to head coach yeah I swear to God this guy is 5-7 but his attitude and his energy the guys in the room their eyes are massive they respect him so much. It's really cool to see

because you see these gargantuan men dudes that are towering over me and they're looking at him like feed us information coach. Yeah, bro. It's really cool. It's the quote of it's not the size of the dog and the fights, the size of the fight and the dog. This guy. And he comes up to us afterwards too like appreciating us for the Cam Jergins.

He's like anytime you guys have an alignment on, I send it to all my guys. I send it to all my players. Hey, listen to this. Right. Because he's like, I listen to you guys all the time like just when I'm out on a jog. And I'm like, yo, let's fucking go. Dude, pull the assistant online coach. Because he and I, he didn't break character until about halfway through practice

and we're looking at the sheet. This is probably around the chase drill because we're both chasing. He's like, I gotta tell you, man, I've been watching your guys a show forever. But he was awesome, dude. We gotta get his name because he was so great. The O-Line coach and Chris Ball

were high school teammates, by the way. Dude, yeah, they've been here forever. It's awesome. Chris Ball, obviously, you guys are going to listen to the interview, but he talks about it in the interview how they've known each other for what, 40 years? Forever. And they would just talk about,

if they were ever coaches. Weren't they the best men in each other's weddings too? Mirabal was. Oh, and then Chris Ball was the best man in Mirabal's wedding, but Chris Ball was like, I couldn't, I had to have my brother because he would have killed me. I was that for CT, that was a good callback,

but sometimes I could give myself a little, all right, you still got it. We had fun with Coach Crystal Ball too in the interview. Did you tell some questions, right? Hey, this is a dumb man. This is not us. Yeah.

It's the internet asking. Yeah. Letting the fans ask question is such a loophole for us to ask the dumbest shit in the world. Especially when the question comes from Taylor-Lewan, 77. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Sometimes you've got to get a couple, man. But yeah, we don't, I mean, we can look up the coach.

I do want to give them some flowers before. They're a middle linebacker, too. Yeah. By the way, look at him too. This, this dude. Yeah. From the waist down, you're just like, my God. Even the waist up, bro.

Yeah. The shelf he's got sitting on his shoulders. See, I only saw him with shoulder pads on. So I didn't get to see the trap. The traps in a T-shirt set the tone for me. Yeah. With mid-skill guys. And just the boulders you got right here to where the teeth, you know, you know what the look I'm talking about. Yeah, I know, hey, we all want it. Yeah. We all want it. He didn't seem like a guy. I felt his back whenever I dapped him up.

He doesn't know it, but I was getting a nice little. If you can get that, yeah, you can get that backstrap. Yeah. Before the spine, you dab somebody up. You feel that. It's like, we got somebody here. We got somebody here. I understand now why coaches kind of grab you so much. I remember like going like on recruiting visits. I can't see that far. Climb. I'm just saying, sorry. Yeah. Yeah, that's him, that's him.

All right. Danny Hajar. Danny Hajar, shout out Danny, dude. He was awesome. Like, essentially my host, if I was the recruit. Like, he was just taking me around everywhere during practice. He was so great. But, yeah, dude, coach is grabbing you.

Do you remember, like, going on visits? And coach you're like, hey, you all right? Good to see you, man. You're like, why the fuck these nice are handy? Both your shoulders. Yeah. I get it now, though. I understand it.

Because I see a couple now. I'm like, all right. When I was, we were at Texas Tech, that right tackle I start putting my hands on you can see he was he was already on I'm gonna start taking the I'm gonna start diving into my instincts I'm gonna dab him up and then I'm gonna go down just start feeling the quads yeah like how you doing well no one loves quads more than this man right here love some good gloves some quads but yeah dude shout out Danny Hajar speaking of quads good uh Texas tech linebacker nope Rodriguez Rodriguez Jacob Rodriguez

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Drink Oli-pop. Let's talk about the NFL draft. I saw an interesting thing where it's like, talking about Jacob Rodriguez will be the second linebacker taken. He's more of a day two guy taking place. Then you watch the film and you start to realize, oh, he doesn't really have any flaws in his game. My question, when I'm watching the clip,

I can't remember who it was. It might have been DJ. breaking down him. It's like, why would Jacob Rodriguez be a day two guy? And the second linebacker taken when he had the stat line he did, he was,

was he a finalist for the Heisman? Or was he, he was like a fifth or six? He was in the conversation towards the end, like, is he going to get the invite to go get the Heisman? You watch that kid's film. From a leadership standpoint,

you see when he's got the green dot on, everyone, their eyes just go straight to him. Instinctual, he finds the ball. He has great hands catching. It was a quarterback in high school, correct? Yep. Quarterback in high school. I mean, I'll let you kind of break this kid down a little bit more.

But I thought impressive, great mustache has left so much of a legacy when we pull up to Texas Tech, the three linebackers who look the exact same, same height, same stat line and weight and everything. They've all got mustaches. And that's not a coincidence because Jacob Rodriguez was just there just a minute ago. Yeah, I think he's in a great spot if he's going to go in the second round. Because again, then he won't have that fifth option. Fifth year option tied to him. He'll get the free agency sooner.

Because for him, even when we're at Texas Tech, they talk about how smart he is and how much he plays from the neck up. because all the things on film like yeah he's the he was the heisman he was in the heism whether he was finalist semi-finalist but he has high ball production and defense like scouts everybody loves when you have high ball production so he's somebody who's around the ball at all times he's obviously going to fill the stat sheet with tackles you know assisted tackles all that stuff but guy who makes a play behind the line of scrimmage guy who makes plays when he's got a chance an opportunity at an interception getting your fist on balls creating force fumbles he has a high ball production so that's that's where to me it's like dude

If he goes in the second round, honestly, good for him. Right. Because he's not going to have that fifth-year option tied to him because he's going to be a stud in the league. If you're not in that top 15 range where the money is as big as it is, now you should be thinking to yourself, how do I get in that early second?

Yeah. Because the only reason is that fifth-year option you've already brought up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you're not tied to anything. You can be faster. Clean take. Clean take.

Oh, Sherm. Sherm wrote this down. Sherman, go ahead and say, you have the clean take. Dude, I hate to do this. Go ahead. I hate to interrupt. Like Kevin's Natural Foods, Clean Take.

he's the steal of the draft. Wow. Clean take. In my opinion. In your opinion. You don't have to take it or leave it. Michael Trigg also. Just got a, I got a floor.

Yeah, two steals. Steels. A clean take, you'd rather be drafted early second than from that 20 to 32 slot. Clean take. I like that. I like that.

Shout up Kevin's natural food. Shout up Kevin's natural food. And Kevin from Notre Dame. Yeah. Kevin from Notre Dame. Hey, Kevin's rule. Kevin's rule. Kevin's rip.

Dude, and that's it, that's a sneaky clean take. Because a lot of football players, they want to get picked for that 20 to 32 so they can say I was a first round draft pick. But truly, bro, from a longevity standpoint, really a more money standpoint, you got to get in that 33 range now. Because it's about getting to that second contract. The guys that get drafted 33 to 40 steals the draft. Steals for themselves.

That might be a Kevin's natural food clean. You like that? 33 to 40 You're living easy You're living good brother Did you see there's a quotes going around about Is it Riley Leonard talking about How much less?

Pull this card last night Ripin Packs by the way pulled his card Go ahead Riley Leonard How's the ripping Pax thing going? Last night I think was incredible With courtyard.io Shout out Jared Beaman I want to give him actually a round of applause

The way he came in Spamming People tuning in Tell them what happens So every Sunday night 7 p.m. Central Time We go live on my Instagram I rip Pax

We do Pokemon in the beginning We get some football cards And then just last night for the first time We've used courtyard.io It's an app that you can actually It's like thrill shopping Randomly pulling slaps So I brought three different fans in

And I gave them three $500 rips And in that exact moment Once they picked the card they wanted I sent it off to them Some guy hit a Dan Marino Kaboom card Which is I think it was a $500 pack The card was valued at $845 when he pulled it

But Beeman comes in Start spamming the chat I know he hits the group chat Because all of a sudden, all the boys are in a group chat, all of a sudden spam and everything. So we had a good group of boys in there, man. And so when people hit this courtyard I-O, they just tap the screen, it'll like spin or whatever. And then the pack opens up and it shows them the card that they get. Exactly.

So you can do like anywhere from $10 cards, like $5,000 cards. And if you're like, oh, I need a new watch. But I don't know what I want to get. They have $5,000 rips and $10,000 rips for that where you can just get certain kind of cards. Then when the cards come out where the watch comes out, you can do three things. You can sell it back immediately for like a certain like 90% of the value of whatever you pulled and then go rip again. You can put it in this vault and send it to a buddy or you can actually have it sent to you and to your house. So the minute that damn marino card got pulled it was a $500 pack?

It was a $500 pack. The card was worth over $800. And you take that damn marino card and you send it directly to that guy to where he can either keep it in the vault or get it shipped to him directly? Took my username, Taylor 117 and sent it to him right then and there. And it says transaction complete. So it goes to him. Now he has the card. And he just get in mint condition. Mint condition.

How sick is that? That's awesome. Yeah, because rip-imp packs is awesome, but raw cards don't hold the same amount of value as a card that's been graded. So a card that's graded, you have to pay for that process to go in. It's like 20 business days or whatever it is. Then it comes back to you. It could be this, could be that. So ripping slabs, unbelievable.

And this new Chrome Tops thing, by the way, is so much fun. You know what we got to do. What we got to do. You know what we got to do. I know what we got to do. Imagine. Yeah. Yes.

Is an audience member out there? You're the audience. You're the audience. That's the reason why Rip and Packs really started. It was just figuring out a way to get it to the people. Because we talked about doing a lot of different ways to give away. There's one clear path of monetary value to give it away to fans. A lot of red tape.

A lot of red tape for us to go down. So this is a nice little way for us to give back to the fans in a big way. Especially people got like a team and the Miami Dolphins fan. They get a Dan Marino. What's he said? Caboom. Caboom. a damarino kaboom that gets boom yeah dude posted it like yeah i'll actually i'll actually

show you the card right now because i have you said they do Rolexes buddy you can just rip a watch you can rip a watch but there's a there's a there's a just up here hey we're gonna rip an audience member watch boom all right who wants the watch you literally can do that with papers and everything it's nuts let me show you this card this card's actually sick because the the the Pokemon cards my kids and i are into but these football cards are sick that's a card you pull it's just a holographic Dan Marino, Caboom. Caboom. Caboom.

Caboom, baby. A 2021 absolute. Power players. Power players. Those power player cards look sick. And Tops was at the draft last year in Green Bay. Hopefully they're in Pittsburgh because they were handing out a ton of cards to you guys last year. So if you're a collectibles fan, you love Ripin Packs.

You mostly do what NFL college Pokemon? Literally, so with collector, what I can do is I can rip any, if you like baseball, I can rip baseball. If you like hockey, I can rip up anything you want. You'll just bring a fan in and they'll tell you. I'll be like, yeah, what do you want me to rip for you? This is the year of the audience. It's not about me.

If it's me, I'm ripping a Pokemon card. But what do you want to rip? Got you. Yeah. So anybody tapped in. If you're a collectibles fan, go to Taylor's stream every Sunday night, 7 p.m. Central time. That is correct, sir. If you get pulled up, share a screen, you get to pick the collectible you want to rip.

Right, right. And tell Taylor Rolex. We're doing $500 back We're doing $500 I'll get you a fossil Let's go We got a $500 with this Hey we're ripping a dinosaur

You'll love this You'll love this The Caleb guy I brought him on Instagram live Both of his kids are sitting right there And his he had a boy and a girl Shout out him having the American dream And I was like

What do you want to rip? He looks at his son He's like what do you want to rip? He's like football So his son is getting that card Oh that is awesome Yeah had a Bears fan Best Cardy pool

Was a Packers Bart Star card That's a great card I think it was like $600 in value. He's going to have it. He can go sell it if he wants. Go sell it what you want, you know? And yes, thank you, Sherm. promo code.

If you're new to courtyard, you can use no bad days 15 for 15% off your first rip. Nice pull, Sherm. The card seems so cool until they give you that trade in. You're like, man, I can just rip it up. Bro, that's a thing, too. That's what I did. I like this card. I want this card.

Forget the card. Let me try to get something nice. Exactly. Let me go shopping on Mother's Day. Actually, don't do that. BWTB.com. That's what you want to do. But I'm fascinated with this courtyard thing.

It's kind of genius. Like, what can't you rip? That's what Cortner needs to figure out. Like, let's get some real estate in there. We got 10,000 acres in Arkansas. You can rip that right now. $60,000 rip. See what you can get.

We're a real estate. I swear there's nothing they can't do. Like, why can't you do cars, cars or bags or hats, whatever you want? Real estate's so funny. Real estate would be hilarious. They have it, they haven't broken down into regions. And it's just land. the region.

Exactly. You just get a nice pot of land in Chile. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. We're ripping cliff sides of Greece today. Yeah. We're at beachfront properties here on Courtyard.

So you're telling me all I got to do is sign up for Courtyard. I can give you guys this property that I'm selling and I'll just get a commission fee when somebody rips the back. All right, yeah. It's fucking genius, dude. We just unlocked them. Yeah. Coriard. Yeah.

Coriard needs to, they need to sit. with us. No bad ideas in a brainstorm. Real estate might be the move. Commercial buildings. Hey, why did you get this? Coriard? Just got some premium spot in New York City. It's ours now. We have this. Just start ripping

services. Like, say you need a plumber and you're just ripping out, okay, look, my budget's 50 and you just rip a pack to get a better value plumber. Oh shit, this plumbers was 75. Who come to the house right now? Oh, fuck, this one's $10. Yeah. This guy sucks. This one's not good. Yeah, sell them back.

get another ripping. What can't courtyard do is the question? Truly. Fans were all about to do, dude. They should do for the NFL draft. You start ripping players. Yeah.

That's how the NFL draft should do. We're taking... Yeah. Oh, shit. We got Fernandez. Hell yeah, dude. Trade them back. We don't want that one.

We have a quarterback. For the 10th pick, the Cowboys are going to opt to use courtyard I. Oh, I've got a second round draft for Jackson guy. Should the Eagles do that for AJ Brown who are going to trade them to? Oh, the AJ Brown.

Hey, Diana Rucino was right. Diana, hey. Diane Rucino, hey, Clean day. Diana Rizizan's got out a crazy turnaround in the last seven days. Yes, bro. Would you save a family in a car?

Dude, I saw that like six times before I was like, okay, is it real? I didn't know if shit was like, I saw it. I'm like, I'm not going to comment on this. But I'm going to watch from afar. My brain was going to the PR team

and does anybody watch the TV show The Boys? Oh, yeah. When you put that in the group chat, I thought, I was like, this has got to be funny for somebody. Yeah, I saw Derek chime in with a laugh. I'm like, all right, I'll see who. Because anybody who's watching the boys right now, phenomenal show, by the way. But it's, listen, great show.

Go check it out. Okay, but you get what about the head of the scene? That's who's operating her PR team. Got you. Okay. That's who's operating her PR team. All right. Yeah.

That's the joke. Let's go save kids. Yeah. Like, that'll get you at any hot water you can possibly get in. We're going to have somebody flip their vehicle. You're going to be right there on the scene. to dive in, up top, pull the old man out. Pull him out.

Yeah. She has a machete. She cuts the seatbelt, no problem. They hired it. She's just completely prepared for everything. Actors on the curb. It goes, oh shit, is that Diana Rusini? Yeah.

She looks over. There's a camera perfectly. She winks into the camera. It's Diana Rossini. Makeup's perfect. Yeah. But, hey, A.J. Brown of the Patriots. It's not official, but it seems likely that it's going to happen.

Here's what I do. Here's what throws me off. June 1st. And I know there's like contractual things. take place the newly year starts march 14 but all these things a lot of things between april 20th this is where we are now shut up my anniversary and june 1st a lot of shit can go down yeah especially with that gm for the eagles man he's a gangster yeah he's probably behind closed doors manipulating some stuff just head in a swivel patriots fans heading a swivel yeah yeah i'd love to see a j brown

be a patriot i would love it too i think that's exactly what they need think if you're the patriot Go ahead. What happened last week? You're like, all right, now we got to get out some A.J. Brown talk to come to the Patriots. I mean, that's the... Or is that how you... On the Eagle side, let's get this, float this out there for something optically. I just... I'm always fascinated with the game inside the game that goes out.

Because there is always a game in the game. Like any sort of news thing that takes place after something does happen, everything is strategic. Yeah. Everything is strategic. Why would somebody talk about a trade happening in June 1st in April? And then tag the word likely. Like shout out Shafti breaking that news. Yeah.

He's for the boys. Yeah. But who's Shifty talking to to release that headline? Right. I don't know. He won't tell us either. He would. Call you.

I think Shephty. I think Shephty's always been good about like anytime I had a question about behind closed doors, he always text me. I think there's an understanding. Like I'm not going to step on your toes. I just want the education of what's really happening. Yeah. Because Shepty, he's in the weeds, man. He'd break it down.

at a breakfast club. Yeah. That's chefty. He's great about that. But don't talk or I'll show up at your door. Right. Because you know he's got connections in that way. He's got connections.

I love it. What else happened in the news? So for those you don't know, Miami fans, we used to be with Barstool. Shout out Barstool. Great company. Gave us some wings, made our wings a little bigger so we could fly. But something took place this past weekend between Will Compton and Dave Portnoy. Where Dave, I didn't watch the fly.

video. I saw there was a spat going on. I looked at it. I got back from Vegas with my kids. I'm like, I'm too tired to even invest in what's going on here. But see what happened? He was throwing shaded at the number one America's number one sportsbook. And look, brilliant, brilliant marketing on their side. They're trying to, they're trying to show that they have free insurance for players in the first half on injury. Like the NBA playoffs is a big prop betting. NBA is a big prop betting game. Yeah. For the NBA and for these sports books. So when I saw Dave kind of doing, in a breaking news and he says, FanDuel is charging people for insurance.

And he's like, blu-d-l-l-l-l-breaking, breaking, saying, D-K does it for free. I had to dive into what was going on. And I'm thinking, okay, they're marketing it as free first-half insurance for if a player gets hurt in the first half, you will get free insurance like your bet will get paid back. But you go into Fanduil because Fanduil offers,

it's called Bet Protection Plus. And what Bet Protection Plus is, is say you have a problem, I bet say Jeremy Clump's going to get over 10 points in this NBA playoff game. Hell yeah, Clump. And you hit the toggle on opt into bet protection plus. They charge a 3% insurance fee, but it covers you for the entirety of the game. So whether Jeremy Clump gets hurt in the first minute or the last minute, you are protected across the board.

So I'm thinking of it. I'm seeing Dave do his thing on fandling saying draft kings or America, blah, blah, why you shouldn't be charged on insurance. I'm thinking this isn't about what costs less. This is about exposure. No matter what, if you opt. into free for the first half. Like, that's not protection. Right.

It's exposure sold at a discount. Like, it's all about consequence. So if you're taking, say you do a $100 bet on Jeremy Clump to have over 20 points in this NBA playoff game. Your points just went up. Yeah. You're protected throughout the entire game. So if he, again, if he gets hurt in the fourth quarter, you're going to get your

straight bet paid back to you within 24 hours. Or if Jeremy Clump's part of a four-leg parlay, if he gets injured and you opted in a bet protection plus, it won't count towards the parlay. But you're covered throughout the entire game, not covered in the first half. Right. So that's where I was going back. I see Dave do his video. He's like, alert, alert, alert.

I just found a fun moment to like, I'm going to mock Dave's video. And I'm going to tell people about the opportunity that you have the Fandul, how Fandle does it compared to everybody else. Because it's not just first half. Like, this is the entirety of the game. And because it's not Dave's fault. He's never been an athlete in his entire life. He's never understood the grueling being on a court or on a field and how soft-ish injuries take place. So it's not Dave's fault

that he has no idea how the human body works. We've seen him walk around. Clearly, my boy's melting away a little bit. But most injuries, he's getting it stuff, he's got good physique. He's got a great for a guy

who eats pizza every single day. He's got phenomenal physique. It's hard to beat that physique and eat pizza every single day. However, if you are an athlete, most soft-ish injuries take place in the second half of things because that's when your body's broken down

down a little bit. Electrolites are depleted. You're less hydrated, all the things. People get a little more sloppy, a little more tired. You're out of that zone two cardio. You're now in the zone three or four, so you're breathing a little bit heavier. Injuries happen more at the end of games

or in the second half of games than anyone else. Big pressure moments are higher in the second half, the intensity of the game like you were just talking about and the fatigue that you have on your muscles. Like more, injuries are more likely to occur in the second half. All that being said, I don't blame Dave. He doesn't know what he doesn't know, right?

And for that, Fandual, whether it's 3%, but you're getting full coverage. Like, if I'm, if I'm going to have insurance, I love full coverage, right? Not a sometimes coverage because it's a little bit cheaper. Am I understand that? It's like pulling up to those loan chops. Like, hey, we got free cash loans. You're free.

They market it as free, free, free. No, you want, if you're going to bet smart, you're going to bet responsible. You want coverage to mitigate the risk throughout all of your exposure. Fandle offers entire game protection. So if you're, again, Jeremy Klump, $100 bet, you opt in on bet protection plus an extra $3 to protect me if he happens to get hurt I want my money back at any point in the game. Any point in the game. Because you got these Fugazis out there

being like, oh, first half free, first have free, first have free. No, no, no, no, no, no. You need to mitigate your risk. You want to be smart here. Nothing's free. Nothing's free. Nothing's free. Bumper to bumper protection. Bumper to bumper protection throughout all 60 minutes. Even overtime. If overtime comes in. Gotta love that, dude. Gotta love that.

While we're on Fandul, they did just add a new little draft tab for the conference. Total number of big. 10 players drafted over under 11 and a half the SEC is only listed at over under 8 and a half big 10 SEC I yeah listen the Bay 10 SEC situation is it's already Jack right the change of the guard is taking place it's taken place is that fair to say that's a past 10th besides Matt I'm the only SEC stand guy here so no you're not club is a Florida Gators fan yeah hey oh wait wait your order that's a crazy shot I'm Beaman's a Georgia Bulldogs fan

No I can sure Yeah demons a Bulldog fan The same way that my Look I'm not gonna go into this battle right here This is an uphill battle pushing the rock for me You guys recency bias yes are doing well It's all cyclical though It's gonna come back and that's all right

In big words he's throwing me off It's a cycle Cyclical is good Cyclical is good is that just mean cycle I think so Somebody does just say cycle Because that that's the correct way It's cyclical.

Ciclical. I'm going to add that to my bag. You want to give a little confidence. He says he's walking to a little bit bigger. Just say, hey, just, Jack, objectively, yeah. The best conference is the SEC. Is the Big Ten right now.

And it's, it's right now. All the facts are happening. We're looking at draft picks. We see where the numbers are at. We look at the last three national championships where those are at. Not just one team, three different teams. So, yeah, just right now the Big Ten is the best. That's what makes football so great.

The SEC is the best regional conference. The Big Ten is the best national conference right now. That's a great, hey. There's a thousand ways to skin a cat. You guys are going to, you're getting there. Look, I'm an SEC guy. You're never going to hear me say the Big Ten is elite. Two, compared them to the SEC, because I love the South.

So I'm not going to follow. How about this? How much do you love the South? A lot. More than most. Prove it. How about this? Is there only one conference that can be elite?

No, I don't think so. I think multiple conferences can be elite? So can you say right now that the Big Ten is an elite conference, knowing that the SEC is also an elite conference? Objectively, yeah, they are, but I'm not saying they're more elite than others. Okay. All right.

That's fair. Another question. We made progress there. Yeah. Do you think, what do you think the ceiling for the Tennessee Balls is this year? It's a big year. Josh Hyple could be one of those where if we don't get over eight wins, his name is on the hot seat 100%.

I think that's a big mistake for times. I mean, I agree. I love Hypole, but we also, we're going through a quarterback change right now. So we got G. Mack, who's most likely going to be the starter, but then we also have Faison Brandon, who is going to be elite, but you can't start Faison Branden at the beginning of the year. Solely because the Tennessee Vols, our fandom is chaotic. It's crazy.

It's stressful. If you get this new kid going in here and he makes a mistake up front, our fan base is going to flip on them. They're going to lose confidence. You already have a guy who's had a couple experiences playing in the SEC. Let him make a few mistakes if he will. And then if that happens where you need to make a switch, you still have Faison Branden in the backseat, put them up there.

Let them get some game time experience. We'll see. But I am, we're getting that point of the year where, man, that fall is creeping up. And I am fired up. Sheffey, baby, and I were having this conversation last week. It's like, when the Super Bowl has, happens. I'll speak for myself. I'm ready for a small break. I'm a little footballed out. We do it every single day. You're looking into stuff. You're doing the ESPN. We're doing the

gambling shows. We're doing the breakdowns. Everything's where it's like, this has been an absolute grind getting through the fall. I could use myself one or two weeks just to kind of decompress, get the batteries back to neutral before we start going on the long run yet again. I'm officially in that mode right now or it's like, we'd love some ballback. We'd love some ballback right now Michigan's spring game took place this past Saturday and it's just like it's just nice to see the winged helmet out on the field. Yeah. Nice to see a

packed stadium, Washington, a spring game and the Kyle Whittingham saga starting. I enjoy that. Now I'm just like, buddy, we get into June, I'm going to be itching. Yeah, I'm having withdrawals. I'm having people are having Moneyline Matthews withdrawals. I'm having football withdrawals. Yeah. Because we've had a couple months. I'm wearing a white shirt for

God's sakes. We've had a couple months now and now it's like we just did the spring tour and it kind of gets the juice is just going for some excitement, some football. And you know what pisses me off about the spring tour is, I swear I would do 10 of those. I think it's so, I'm bummed we did just three. It was awesome.

Every experience was incredible. But, you know, it's just, it's so hard to be going to these schools and how we've kind of put ourselves in a position to be like these guys are essentially recruiting and they're showing us the best, the best. We had a damn high dive at Miami. Beautiful, we erased the swim team. Like the experiences we get, I would love to just keep going.

The women's swim team was yelling at me. We don't got all day. He was all scared to jet. Boy was out there. Legs were shaking a little bit up there. To the point Taylor came back up and was giving me the one, two, three, like, hey, you can do this, bro. Because there's no going back down. Like, that ladder getting up there, I'm in my head like, okay, I don't want to jump,

but I'm definitely not going back down because it's even scarier to climb the ladder back down. And you really, boy, you can't be a pitch. Like, you got up here. You're holding a GoPro. Right. Like going up the ladder that high dive was the scariest part for me. It's like bro, because you kind of get in, you did it. Narrow.

My shoulders, I couldn't really get in. Like do I go outside? Do I go inside? What is it? You get on that last ladder, man. And you just think if the worst possible scenario happens, it's over for me. Right. It's over.

All just for this bit. It was worth it for this. And then you're up too high. Like, yeah, you can't go back down. No, chance. Because the, you know, the ladder's wet, narrow. Like, it's just so narrow. Why is everything around a pool?

got to be so hard. You know? Have you ever noticed that? Like shit's just a little more rough around a pool. Yeah. With the pads and shit? Where's y'all's floaties? Exactly.

But yeah, dude, watching you jump off, that was awesome. Yeah, I was up there for what, four minutes? I had to be. There's a hang on, well, I'll be up there and I'm thinking, I'm not going anywhere soon right now.

I just wanted to kind of go again because I knew like we had a finite amount of time. Yeah. I just, I think that's so fun. For some marketing for the vlog, JP would be remiss if we did not mention Will's screen going into the water. Oh, he had a scream.

It is worth a rewind at least three times. I know. I showed it to Will. He was giggled. I mean, that was a visceral scream. After I went up Will and he jumped, we're both in the water again. We're kind of sitting there holding on to the side. And Will just goes, I was waiting for it to get fun on the way down.

It just wasn't. I'm thinking, hey, that's got to be such a weird feeling to be like, oh, I'll enjoy this once I'm in the air. Yeah, like the entire time of being in the air, you did not have fun. And you know, like you lose your stomach, but at some point, the stomach will kind of come back and you'll enjoy the last half falling down and it just never really happened. Right. Yeah, it never really happened. There's rumors that, Will, you're retired from jumping off.

The 10 meter dive, I might be retired. However, I would still consider, don't you think I'd still consider skydiving? You would consider skydiving? I consider, because it's so far, like, there's something about like you can feel the ground closer to you even though you're still up high. Like I'm just not, I am afraid of heights. Not roller coasters, but just free falling heights. Right.

I know we're free falling out of a plane, but again, it's so low. So you got another guy strapped to your back. And it's like, it's just nothing but air all around you. I can't see the concrete. I can't think about slipping off the ladder and I'm dead no matter what. Right. I have time to where, again, I'll lose my stomach. And at some point it'll be fun as we're just kind of free falling.

Then a guy's going to pull the shoot for me. I'm sure I'll get scared us. I'm getting closer to the ground. But I feel like I would, I don't even know if that logic makes sense. But that's kind of what's in my head. It doesn't. Because you're what, 5,000 feet in the air? Something crazy.

And it's like, my thought goes to, whenever I'm like jumping off like a high dive or you do it when you're a kid at the lake, you're a cliff jumping or whatever, to me the biggest fear was like, is the water deep enough? And if the water is deep enough, I feel like I'm going to get through whatever's going to happen. Unless something goes crazy bad. Can I get out far enough from the rocks? Right. Yeah, there's that.

There's all those things. But in my brain, it's like, is it deep enough? Because being a tall boy, that's always scary. And once the answer is yes, it's like, all right, we're going to go. The free-falling thing, out of a plane, yeah, you got a guy on the back who's done whatever, a hunter jumps, he's got a little patch on a shoulder that tells you he's really good at his job. But you're still hoping that the string and whatever the parachute is made out of holds up for you. For, to me, it's the free fall part.

That's fair. It's cling-take. The free fall part is not the scary part. It's the, and you're like floating down now. Yeah. And you have like another 3,000 feet or whatever it is to like just kind of float down to the bottom. And it's like, is this shit going to hold? Yeah, you might have just scared me out.

You might have scared me out of doing skydiving now. You definitely, we don't want the Virginia Tech guy. No, we don't want him. And he's safe, correct? We know he's healthy. He's fine. That's a tough L. And you knew he was in a bad shape.

You see that flag. The wind on that flag is nuts. That boy was just stationary for a little bit. He wasn't going nowhere. Virginia Tech, New Year, knew us. Parachute guy, Lanes on the scoreboard. You know James Franklin's just watching that like,

God damn it. And then the social media guy's like, Coach, don't worry, this is great content. Yeah. Great exposure for the program. And he just takes himself these fucking social media guys now. What does everything have to be content? Everything's got to be content.

Bus with the boys guys were out there on it. All the boys. Not on the fucking the Oklahoma one that I fell for. I, I'm not going to go into that. I love that. That was my funniest troll of the weekend. And I knew that Oklahoma fans were going to lose their

minds and we got context noted on Twitter and I'm like my job's done. Jack knew what he was doing. I see Oklahoma and I just thought it was their spring game. They're all tripping over each other in the smoke. I forgot that it happened when they were in the big 12. Yeah. So I'm like, oh, tough look. Did Texas do this? Everybody's like, oh, no, Will, you got God. I love the hate comments. It's like, you guys are just doing this because they were mean to you during the playoff game and stuff. Those ones were good. I thought about that. I do feel some double way every time I see the Oklahoma logo. Maybe it did come from that.

I didn't post about it, but when I saw it, I was like, you know, I just kind of kept going. People want you to feel dumb that you got God, and I'm thinking, yeah, I ended up saying like I fell for a double reverse. Yeah. Like sometimes you get God, flea flicker. Oh my God, it's a run. Oh shit.

Now they're tossing it back and it's a pass. April 1st. I'm on a plane to Lubbock, Texas from Arizona, and I see that Autoraj is doing a reboot. I'm like, my life's complete. They faked you out. And then you go up in the air and you're just sitting there being like, what a great day.

Autarages is coming back and you land. you finally get serviced and it's like, oh, I got got. Yeah. It happens. Yeah, it's going to happen. You're going to take a false step. Sometimes you get got by somebody else and sometimes you get got by your own team. And that's what happened in Michigan State today doing this dumb-ass dizzy bat thing.

What are we doing? I don't know. So is this real? Could be ahead of the game. Could be ahead of the game. Let's get really dizzy and go play ball, boys. That's just... That's hard.

My question is with dizzy bats and this is kind of off topic for Michigan State. But when you're doing a dizzy bat, do you not feel like the bat should be planted in the ground? Because every time you see a dizzy bat, busy bat, people are just spinning, holding a dizzy bat to their forehead. You should be spinning around the bat. Right. If a dizzy bat is not stationary, it's just a wolf-o bat. That's all it is.

Maybe they're just having fun. Making out fun, but like, let's do it correctly. Right? Devil's in the details. Yeah, devil's in the details. And I hate Michigan State. Love Ryan Fitzpatrick. Yeah. Love him.

Fitzgerald. Pat Fitzgerald. Jesus Christ, dude. I do that every. fucking time. Ryan, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Pat Fitzgerald.

Yeah, all of it. Hey, Michigan State. Love Ryan Fitzpatrick. Yeah. I was trying to figure out the Ryan Fitzpatrick connection. I'm like, I'm thinking of myself,

bro. I did that to Ryan Fitzpatrick. I was talking to him and I said some, I think he was talking about Larry Fitzgerald and I said his name. He's like, I'm,

I'm Ryan Fitzpatrick. I was like, let's move on. Onward. And Max Bolo. What about Max Bolo? He's the D.C. at Michigan State.

Is he? I love me some X for him. Yeah, he was a stud. He was a stud. Who's the OC for Michigan State? He was at Alabama. I was going to say earlier, too, you were talking about the spring tour.

I feel like we are idiots, but kind of genius how it fell, how it fell together. Because now we go to the draft this week. So that's like all of our content next week is going to be about us experiencing the draft. The spring tour is kind of behind us now. Fair enough.

Fair enough. I'm just sad it's behind us. Love the draft. Yeah, no doubt. The way every team, Texas Tech, Notre Dame and Miami treated us when we were there, shout out everybody's staff. It was so much fun. It was awesome. And Texas Tech truly set the tone, man. Set the tone. And then, but Notre Dame and Miami, they had an opportunity to watch that and try to outdo them. Coach Passachia called me.

He facetined me the other day being like, when you guys are going to come to Clemson. I'm like, we tried to come to Clemson. We tried to come to Clemson. He's like, who said, no, I was like, I don't think it's not, it wasn't a no thing. It was schedule just didn't line up correctly. Right. But Passach's like, you guys need to get out here. I'm like, trust me, I want the world to see a Rich Basatio speech in a special teams meeting. Yeah. I was like, we would love to come to Clemson. He's like, do you guys do anything for training camp? I was like, we might, who knows? We can be fun. Yeah, we can. Yeah. We're available. The problem with training camp is things are just a little more. It's tighter. Like,

spring ball is like OTAs in a lot of ways where people are having fun, we're growing, but there's not that sense of urgency to be like, we got to be like lesson, boys, we plan a month. No doubt. We've got to be ready to go. NFL could be different from college because no matter what in college, like you're always playing the game of recruiting and content along with the football being played. NFL teams, they're into content and everything else, but they're not having to go out there and recruit and show people inside looks and whatever, everything that goes on inside a training camp. Whereas colleges, you might be more open to it because no matter what, you're trying to show what goes on at your program to get guys there all the time. Yeah,

the Clemson thing would be awesome for obviously Bessaccia, but having JP have to make a vlog out of Clemson would be. I think internally just a great. deal for us. They can go down the slide. Clemson would be fun too because JP's the blog guy. He's got to do it. Clemson would be fun too because I feel like drawn a blank on the head coach right now. Davo. Davo Sweeney.

I feel like he's in kind of a pressure situation going into this year with the whole adapting to NIL. You want to fire me, fire me. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. And I think even non-clemson fans are like you don't want to fire him. Yeah. Think of where you were before him. It's

fascinating to kind of observe like Jack was talking about hypo if he has a bad year, the pressure, the stakes, the N I, the money that goes in, like people want speed. Like, there's just, patients get smaller and smaller, I feel like every year, especially for college now because you see programs like in Indiana. We'll see what happens with Virginia Tech this year to where you can just flip the script going into the next year. If you have the right staff in, you build it the right way.

But it's all the building the right way has to take place now in the offseason because you're not going to get a leash of a coach being there for a long time if you don't show some type of progress. Yeah, Signetti really ruined it for a lot of schools. Could you also imagine a video of Willie C racing dabo down the hill into the stadium? I mean, we need that. I fall down, tumble down the rest of the road. I don't know how guys will fall down all the time on that damn hill.

Oh, bro. Well, every time I watch, I'm like, ah, knees. Yeah. Every single time. This weekend, I went to Vegas. My family flew out Wednesday. I went out Friday. Great weekend.

It's not about my weekend. Shane Gillis had a show at Bridgestone, arena he was on that that podcast will come out next week he only had a show at bridgestone because he was coming on buss with the boys right so how can I get a schedule yeah he wanted to do two for one spash I'm doing buss with boys let's do a bridgestone arena exactly a lot of things happen under that Shane Gillis podcast we can break down next week on the intro but I see here Shane Gillis Green Room featuring buss one busing boys what took what did you go what was the story I did not go

okay that was going to be my first question didn't make it Pizza Friday Pizza Friday Pizza Friday bedtime by the time I would have went I would have probably gotten there the time Shane went on stage because you know the day before when we were hanging out he's like I love for you to show up at eight because then you can hang you can kind of bust balls you can hang out for a little bit right so knowing that I was just going to watch Shane perform and not get to see him really because once he would have been done I would have got back home to get the sleepy time in you know yeah you got to get the disciplines routines all of that I saw this morning you're walking on the treadmill yeah yeah yeah Willie Willie C's doing this yeah pop a team fit like

we are that's fall body yeah yeah yes like it's I've had a couple conversations with myself and they weren't pretty. Like they weren't. So I had to kind of get after myself. Hey, and I love that for you. Because I don't want to say anything, you know,

but I'm happy you're having those conversations. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Those conversations have been had. Green Room. What happened?

What took place? Beeman? I was not there. Oh, or anything. Okay, so nobody was at the show. Shout out to Shane and great.

I think it's Grace, right? Yeah, grace. Setting the boys up. It was so much fun. We had our own little like, the boys green room,

basically. The show was amazing. Shane crushed. Truly incredible performance and then we all just kind of hung out and had fun and talked a little ball Shane I feel like it was a good time it was just it was vibes great vibes so I happen hang with the young guy yeah yeah so what has it on the clump was living dude clump was living clump was in there what's on this list is chef's not on here but uh on on for the dad

chef did make a comment that he's been kind of bodying me lately which he has been whenever I try to pick on him chef's been crushing me he's been crushing me he takes the high road almost makes me feel bad sometimes when I try to try to troll him so I found a little opportunity Shane Gillis and I body is probably a little bit of an overkill but Shane just started getting on chef about Tennessee versus Notre Dame type things and chef was in a blender as Shane just wouldn't let him talk was fit it was it was incredible and it was great and I walked away and I was like hey couldn't take the high road there chef it felt good Shane Shane's just he's great Shane did most of the word.

Yeah, I was just behind Chang. Yeah. Yeah. I was just backing him up. He was your sword. What? He was your sword. How was he swinging the sword against Tennessee?

Basically just calling Chef an SEC Homer that he only cares about the SEC. He's like, you celebrate Auburn wins, I'm sure. Just like, just really, and Chef was getting. No, it's Tennessee only. He's like, Notre Dame's got an easy schedule. They're going through. They were in like 2013 Notre Dame arguing their schedule with each other. It was great.

Imagine Sweet Chef just walking. like he's getting to go backstage high profile and his boss hires the number one shit talker of all time to go sick his ass on his shot and Jeff's having to stand there going toe to toe to with Shane Gillis I wish I had been there to see it. Jeff did great though he was hilarious it was it was so fun just one of those times hanging out and I was going to give you a shout out I will but Matt Malone there's something about him as he's speaking he just commands the room he was he was uh he was a he was was a character that night.

That's a really nice compliment. Bro, it was, like, he was just holding court. We're all just sitting like Matt's telling stories and I just kind of like zoomed out. I'm like, look at this young cat. And all these people around just holding court talking. The young bull. It was awesome.

Learning. Let's go. Hey, I love that, Maddie. That's a fantastic compliment. I appreciate that. Got a little uncomfortable, aren't you? I got a compliment, yeah. You got a compliment.

I appreciate it, but also. Well, that's good. So I guess this note for Shane Gillis screen room was, it went well. Boy said fun. Boys have fun. Boys that fun. I love it, dude.

Should we get to some tear talk? Let's do some tier talk. Let's do some tear talk. Let's do some tear talk. A little bit of tear talk. Kyle Riley 9-2-2-0 says hashtag tier talk, spring tour gear giveaways. Question mark, question mark. He brings up a good point.

Yeah. When we got home at the end of last week, like the amount of bags I just had sitting on my couch from Texas tag, Notre Dame and Miami. Like, it's so much gear. Right. To where what? We just, we package some of these teams. I will say some of the guys that don't travel would like some of that stuff as well. Oh, okay.

You're the audience. You're the boys. You're the back of the bus. You're the back of the bus. Coup had said, like, I just want somebody to bring me a shirt just once. I don't even care where it is. I just want a singular shirt from somewhere that's a shirt. Okay.

It's a good note for next year's teams because they all just started coffee in Texas Tech. The bags laid out, everyone's names written out. That was awesome. It became the norm for everywhere we went. They just wanted to all do the same kind of thing for everyone. Okay, so do we want to address giving fan stuff first or giving guys in the back of the bus? Or both. Do we want to address it?

Here's my thought. Like, I agree with everything you said. There's so much gear when I look at a lot of it, like the perfect Michigan, Notre Dame. Like, there is a rivalry in that, like, am I going to wear a lot of this Notre Dame gear? The answer is probably not. Actually, almost wore the shoes today because those shoes do kind of go hot. I will wear the shoes. But when I look at it's like, this was a gift.

And in the words of Vince Vaughn, the painting was a gift, Todd, I would taking it with me. Like, I will. I don't see, I don't see from like a moral standpoint being like, thank you for the stuff. Let me give this away to people now. Let me say, hey, comment, retweet, make sure you're following. I'm going to give away this Notre Dame duffel bag. Right. And it's like, I'm going to keep the ones that I want.

Exactly. I think of Kevin. I think of Kevin. Yeah. I think of Kevin. And Kevin's like, wow, I really like let these guys have all the stuff. They did press me really hard for the jersey and I have got to give them the jersey

But it's like now I've given you stuff And you're gonna go on the internet And give away our stuff that we gave you Fair point. That's a clean take Like presents man You get one It might not be the present you exactly want But it's still a give someone thought about you enough

To give you something like you should take pride In having those things Clean take great question by Kyle Riley there We talked about it before A couple of us were like cleaning out Like our old merch section and we just have a fat table a whole bunch of just random stuff

brings up a point again of having maybe a bus and garage show. Clean take. Clean take. Clean take. I know there's a lot of logistics and shit that goes into that. I feel like a year like Texas Tech, Notre Dame, Miami. I need a new spring year to take place before I even think about like, oh, do I want to give some of this Miami stuff

with this Notre Dame stuff for Tech Tech? The gift is so fresh. And I feel like like Joey McGuire. Clean tape. He's on the internet. quite a bit. He's gonna see me being like, who wants his Texas, that Jersey, garage sale, he'd be like, oh, what are we doing?

Oh, well, I think Mitch is talking about the old, old stuff. Yeah, but I'd spark my brain into keeping this same subject line. All of the old stuff that we have, and then maybe next year, if you're no longer won any of the stuff that you got from some of the schools you went to, do it again. Not no longer want, but re-up. Yes. Yeah, not yet. Kevin shoot us a bag.

Yeah. I can see Kevin. The Freeman line. Yeah. We're gonna need that. line. We need the Freeman line. Now that this has been said out loud, Kevin would probably hear this and go, oh, you know what? Next time, I'm going to have a giveaway for their fans' little bag so they can do. Because Kevin scouts. He self-scouts. He self-scouts. He self-cows. He did text me and thank you guys for the shout-out on the last night.

Yeah. We were in the group chat as well. Group chat was up. Yeah. Next day I'm taking my morning too and I got the shoes on. I'm just like love the shoes. Yeah. Like we're hanging with Kevin. He's all time. Dude, Kevin's all. Kevin needs to come to the bus and hang out. He's making a trip. to Nashville. He will be... Kevin's got an open invite to always come to the bus. He's going to come in here and be like, what the fuck?

He's going to see our setup? We can't wait to hit the group chat after we film this and just be like, hey, we talked about you a lot again. I almost don't want to hit him up because I just want to see how much he really is in the weeds or bus

with the boys now. Fair. Yeah. And see if we get a text tomorrow. Right. Yeah. That's a good one. Yeah.

That's a good one. What we need to, what we should be thinking about is not giving away the stuff we got. It's how do we give back to the schools we went to. That's a clean take right there. That's a clean take.

How do we get Bustin' With the Boys merch to these locker rooms for these guys? Fun box, put it on all their locker, their locker or something for them to display. They have something that's in the, like, Texas Tech. How do we do a deal with Texas Tech to give them bustling with the boys? Licensing deal. Notre Dame, how do we do it with them? Miami. And Compe, I know you, you're probably already on it.

I'm on it. He's already on it. With all three of them? On it. That would be sick. That's a great idea. That's a cute. You know what's not a great idea?

It's a clean take. It's a clean tank. A jersey they can play. Hey, shout out. Hang on. We are getting away from this audience member that's like, hey, spring tour giveaways for the audience.

We should also think of like how we give, how do we do something, whether it's a box or something that we could feature or send to a fan. Yeah. I know that. It's like a curated bustle with the boys box. The perfect platform might be ripping at 7 p.m. on Sundays. Uh-oh. Yes.

Perfect platform might be for that. That is the area where we give away. We have options. Options. How do we integrate? all the bussing with the boys and give it to the fans, whether before the dads, the locker room, busing, ripping with the boys, whatever.

What about inside the bus? What about inside the bus? There's sickle fans for inside the bus. Sickle fans inside the bus. Just like a used sock that's signed by all the boys in the back of the bus. I'm sure somebody would love that. There you go.

I agree. To your talk here from a D2 College Football Spotlight, D2FB Spotlight on X. Hey, at underscore Wilcompton, what is your connection to NSU Wolves underscore football? Hashtag D2 football, hashtag tier talk. Great question. My connection is just the boys. Was it you?

Yeah, I think they reached out to me. Was that correct, sure? This is a long time. This is like six months ago, so my brain's not fully going to register how this all happened. But this D2 football team, they were doing some dope, like, reveals on their uniforms and all that. and they had two gritty high effort guys do a dear Maria count me in remake with the shoe and the whole thing.

And I like posted on my story, but like, this is badass. Say you shouted it out. I shout it out. They DM me and are like, we would love for you guys to do a giveaway for us. Maybe you remake the video. We're releasing these black helmets,

these black uniforms. My first thought was, I love the idea. I'm not going to make this happen. Send it to Sherm. Sherm gets it done. We make that video for them. but I think we're wolves fans for life.

Yeah, that's our connection to the wolves. Jake Leary is, uh, yeah, yeah. Oh, hey, Matt. Hey, Northern State. Wow. I don't know who's hotter right now, Matt or Mitch. They're both on two heaters taking place right now. The Northern State Wolves.

The Northern State Wolves. Dogs. We got here. Christopher Doss. Uh, at CT Doss. At Bustin with the boys. If you had to visit three group of five schools during the spring tour, where would you go?

Hashty Tearhot. to your talk, perhaps, at coastal football. Very male. Coasty, coastal football would be fun. JMU, I think, is a no-brainer. I think J-MU is a no-brainer. Tulane, North Texas? Tulane, North Texas.

That's kind of my bag of G-5 schools. Yeah, you want to go to the ones that have earned the spot in college football playoffs. They've earned their spots in the college football talk. Let me sit in the judgment zone of I've said all these things with the G-5 schools. Go ahead and tear me down. Yeah, let's talk with the head coach and say, hey, you guys should have your own G-G-5 playoffs. Yeah. Coach to you.

Yeah. Army, Navy? Army Navy? Yes. Dude. Support our truth. SDSU? Yeah.

Stupid move, not even saying Army and Navy. To be stupid move, double stupid move, I didn't know that they were G5 schools. Fair. Clean take. I was with that clean take. I'm thinking this is not, these guys are perennial powerhouses.

I love the idea of a small table, two microphones and a round table of chairs, and I just say something nasty about G5 schools and the first one to run up gets to bait me on it. Kind of an original thought. Yeah, Jubilee style. Yeah. Kind of an original thought of content we could do.

I just stand on, you guys just aren't good enough. Army and Navy, I just, you got to have speeches from the strength coaches. A hundred percent. Addressing the room. You have people at Army. I've been telling you all. Shout out Dave. All right.

Great question there by Christopher Doss. C.T. Doss on X. We got another one here from Dan Jenkins, our final one before we get into Mario Cristobal. Tolerance on locker room beers. Hashtag to your talk. What does he mean there? Like, what's our tolerance level? Like if we drank like a rack?

Or the amount of beers. Just like, hey, can beers be in the locker room? I think the answer to both questions is the same and it's tolerance is high. Yeah. Let it happen. But if we're given inside, he's like, hey, what is the tolerance of beers like in the locker room?

You don't really see beers in the locker. Unless the seasons ended. Like we're going for trash back day, final meeting day, you'll have some beers, you'll have the butt lights, you'll have all that stuff kind of sitting around to where boys are kind of just kicking back and hang.

The time you're going to find beers around a football team is going to be away games coming home from the game. Yep. That's where you see it on the airplane. Guys get it. Now I know there was a little bit of a scuff up with the Titans a few years ago in a situation with the beers where the NFL really cracked down on it. But before that, beers were always on there.

Yeah. Darren Bates was telling the story. You had some vitamins on the plane as well. Coming back from London. Absolutely. And so tolerance. That's where those things take place. I think it was high.

Now actually the answer is I think it's a little lower now of beers being allowed in the facility. Boys are down to crack a cold one. Yeah. A couple of beers. Also, locker room beers might be a top five beer. The boys are down the crack. Is that a clean take? That's a clean take.

That's also a quote graphic. Okay, there's two separate conversations, but you like that take. Like your take, like their take as well. I didn't hear their taking. Cracking cold ones. The boys like cracking cold ones with the boys. Yeah. Double clean take.

Double. Simultaneously. And what Dan is learning is this is what happens when you get beers in the locker with the boys. You get busts with the boys. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Taking place right now.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you're. get your podcast. Get into Mario Cristobal. Yeah. Coach Heather seems like a brilliant psychopath is kind of the words I've gotten to in the best way possible. Like I was sitting in the defensive room and then the backers room. But sitting in the defensive room, the intensity overall around this entire place, it's

very intense. Like I know like walking in and coming around, there's like that healthy, intimidating factor of like these guys, it feels like killer be killed. and the intensity with the coaches. And in a way to where Coach Hetherman, he's commanding the entire room, they're going over stuff defensively. You hear the entire room,

everybody kind of communicating and talking out loud where sometimes you'll sit in rooms and players will be a little hesitant because maybe they're unsure or maybe they're not confident where coaches are trying to get them to speak up. But from the jump,

it's like first row, second row, third row, like guys are communicating the whole time. And then even in the linebacker room, when again he's got this bravado about him of intensity. And then guys might not be doing something right to where in my mind I'm thinking how man coach might be about to get in his

ass for not paying attention or not saying the right thing but then he gets to a level of like teaching the guys and like having a conversation with them on why they do x y and z versus harping on maybe a false step or maybe that i'm sure those things come but i don't know i was fascinated by his approach and just kind of the command he had of everybody and it felt like very much like a player led ran room if that makes sense that's kind of my observation well it was it was important to have you guys sit in in those rooms, respectively, our defensive coordinator and our offensive wine coach, because like the other guys, you saw Jason out there as well, we really feel they are elite teachers as well as elite human beings. And their progressions are legitimately

challenging, but when you, the more you get them down, the confidence that comes with that, you witness a meeting that all that talking loudly with confidence permeates the room. And it changes the mentality. It allows guys to play fast. and free so his entire goal as it is for our entire program is to earn the right to cut it the blank loose you know what i mean yeah when the lights are on or whenever the ball's placed on the tea and you got to earn that and we we feel that there's there's been so many greats that have come through here and have done it on green tree practice field we have to earn that right every day so you know a lot of coaches a lot of other programs they preach like avoid distractions avoid like chaos like let's just keep

Let's be solely focused on this goal right here. We've been to a handful of places and like walking into the meeting rooms, you see how intentional everybody is, how the coach is talking about steps and fundamentals where you see the teaching process happen. And then you walk out to practice. There's a bunch of people on the sidelines. I don't know if it's parents, it's recruits, five star, but there's a lot to look at in a lot of ways.

A lot of alumni. Then music starts. Coach Irv, he has, he's on the microphone going off on guys. People are screaming and yelling everywhere. Then you guys are sprinting right to individual drill where guys are getting their ass shoots. And I mean this in a massive compliment to where it's like it's very old school. But like I can't imagine being a freshman like a Jackson Can'twell walking into this for the first time. I'm sure this is like his eighth practice or seven practice from Missouri.

Yeah. From Missouri. I think he said there's four things that came out of there. Cigarettes, beer Jason Borton himself. Jason, one. Nicks of Missouri by the way. Yeah, Nixon, Missouri. Oh, he gave us the spiel.

He had the whole elevator pitch with us on Nixon, Missouri. But like, it's, there's a level of having distractions intentionally so that when the chaos is taking place on the big stage, everyone is like in a calm state. Because it's, it feels erratic a little bit. The first 10 minutes, it's like, kind of feel like, oh, I'm like crazy stimulation. We're like, we got to get out of the way. Yeah, we're out of the way. Like, you feel like, because you're not used to it. But then you start to see like, oh, these office alignment, they're unfazed by how they're being talked to.

They're unfazed about the work ethic that they're putting in. they're running, they know exactly where to go next drill, next drill. How long did it take you to instill this old school, intentional, like, this is the process we're going to go about in the springtime? Well, I think we're still in the process of establishing that. And, you know, I've been lucky to have played for some really good coaches all the way dating back to high school, who I still think is the best coach I ever had, Dennis Lavel. And then working for coach Sabin, playing for coach Johnson, coach Erickson, working for Greg

Sheano. These guys are all, they're elite teachers. And along the way, the thing that's stuck most was the best thing that you can do as a football coach is to conduct elite practices. Conduct elite practices. In other words, if it happens in a game, it deserves a drill, whether it be in the form of indie, whether it be in the form of two on two, five on four, seven on seven. And that has to carry over to elite meetings and elite walkthroughs, right? And in a world where, right, this has become the day and age of the portal and older teams having a lot of success, we'd like to think that we could take spring ball and have these guys gain a year of maturity by the way that we practice.

By presenting these intense, high-paced, challenging, adverse situation practices that really test them. And we're going to take them to the edge. We are. But to the edge in terms to, we want to get to a breakthrough as opposed to. to a breakdown. We don't like guys, you know, we want to push them right there, see what that threshold is. We won't find a way to break through. And the response has been awesome. Everybody we recruit, we bring to practice. They have to watch us practice. And if they are all about it, if they love the way we practice, they want to be part of it, then it works. And, you know,

for the most part, guys have. And sometimes, you know, it's not for everybody. And we don't judge and we're not offended. We just, we just believe in this blueprint and we're going to stick with But have you been in a situation with a recruit? Maybe as a four or five star type guy, you're fired up on him. You bring him to practice and hits you with like a, you guys go pretty hard, huh? You can just tell. He's like, oh, this kid might not be about the things we're about to where you truly pulled back. Has that ever happened to you?

Yeah, it's happened once or twice, you know, where there was maybe too much attention to the phone or, you know, for example, we meet relatively early. Not so early now in spring, but. and same guy was late, wasn't really into the meeting. I mean, come on, man. I mean, I know you're assessing the University of Miami. We're also assessing you. Right. It's an interview, a two-way interview.

So, but for the most part, we've been very fortunate, very far to have targeted some high, like, high mentality, high achieving mindset type of guys that they love it. They're all into it. And they know that, now, we have one goal, make them as good as they could possibly be. And there's no kind and cuddly way to get there. Yeah. We got a role. How do you identify a recruit that is like this high level mentality? Like I'm sure there's like a philosophy or maybe some core things like you and the staff like look for.

But what are some onion, the layers you try and peel back on the onion of figuring out if this is a high level mentality guy? Is there a question? Is there something that you're like throughout the process? Yeah, there's questions, but it's more putting our eyes on them. I mean, we go and we watch every ounce of tape that we can hear, and then we go and watch every ounce of practice, workouts, you name it. We go see it. And there used to be a time we could get guys in camp, right?

I remember Penae Soule. We had Penae Soule at Oregon. I thought it was the ultimate recruiting process. It was like a car wash. They had all the different schools waiting in line to work with the prospects. Man, I'm watching this guy go from stop to stop to stop. And they're just kissing his butt. And I'm looking over at Coach Murabaw and Alex.

And like, when he gets here, we are going to, to grind his butt, man. We are going to work bump doubles, double unders, right, rip and reach and all that kind of stuff. And he comes over and we are trying to wear him out. And he's just launching human beings all over the place. And we always think back to it's like, that's what, that's the DNA that we're looking for. And it's hard to find. It's not for everybody. And again, we don't judge along the way. And you also have to project. There's some guys that haven't been exposed to that. So there are, there is a little bit of a, you know, a risk factor and a gamble. you know, rolling the dice on a guy that you think can,

but just hasn't been exposed to it. And, you know, you certainly do your best by it. How do you try and figure out the DNA off the field or outside of the tape that you do see, like whether it's like going to high schools, like if recruits out there like listening to this right now, knowing, how do you judge these boys? Yeah, knowing that they're also getting interviewed.

Like how do you figure out that DNA you think you see on film, like wherever they live? Film doesn't lie, man, you know? And who are they hanging out with? And at the end of the day, do you really love football? Do you love football? Are you the kind of guy that understands the importance?

I mean, look at this place. It's a private school with a $100,000 a year education. I mean, your diploma here is going to take you even farther than your NFL career. So guys that absolutely cannot live without football, but that understand the importance of a high-level diploma, an elite diploma like the University of Miami and can be a good decision maker on and off the field, right? Choices and decisions, brother.

That's what it comes down to, you know? Has there ever been a point in your coaching career? like pre-NIL era to now post-NIL era where you see these kids are just at the flash of a hat, they're like, yeah, I don't like the way I'm being treated, I'm going to get out of here. Their feelings get hurt,

so they end up just leaving. Did you ever kind of compromise like in the beginning about, listen, I know these guys are a little different right now. This is a new group of kids that are growing up where they're getting pat on the ass quite a bit and they're getting a lot of money and things all about dollars and how much you're going to pay me?

Was there ever a point where you're like, I want this five-star guy, but it seems like I need to like coddle him a little bit more. You know, maybe we've been lucky. It's just, we believe in this. If you have to change the way that you coach and treat people because you're afraid of the portal or NIL, you shouldn't have been in coaching to begin with. You know, you were doing things in a manner that wasn't for the principles and standards that football was originally, you know, intended for.

We believe in that. We have not ever changed the way we coached. We believe we treat people the right way. and we do everything possible, provide them with the resources, the teaching, everything, to make them the absolute best that they can be. And we're truth tellers, you know, and people that want to get better, they want a truth teller.

And we haven't come across that where, you know, there's an issue of that, or at least I don't know, maybe they left. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was part of it, but there's no, you know, Tom Brady said it, right? Or I'm sorry, Bill Belichick, I think it was too, Tom Brady, no sacred cows, right? Like, can you imagine if that existed knowing what comes with this?

Because like, people making money, I'm all about it as long as they're responsible, know what to do with it, don't flash it, put it all over the place. I mean, ball is still ball. And when we come here, I don't, coach and player, I don't care what you make. You're making what you're either earned, what you settled for, negotiated. I don't care. But when we're in here, I don't want to hear Jack about money. Yeah.

we're going to do the Miami hurricane way and things that have been done here for a long, long time. And so so far it's worked for us really well and we just got to make sure we keep getting the right kind of people that believe in that. Knowing that there's like a high amount of money involved,

knowing that you're playing at a university, like the University of Miami, you get to wear the you on the side of your helmet. Like knowing it's got like this. Everybody wants to go to the NFL. How do you help them prioritize how important education is, like holding the standard

holding the line with academics to keep it just as important as what they came here for in the first place, which is playing football. No doubt. The internship programs that we provide here are off the charts. I'm like, man, where were there when I was coming out? I didn't have this chance, you know? So in every field from real estate to business, finance, retail, sports management, broadcasting, you know, they have opportunities that are just unbelievable, like true career path, not just a job opportunity. And so along the way, the amount of opportunities, guest speakers, network opportunities, hands-on internships, hands-on like service trips. And we're going to American Samoa this year. We went to Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Spain, and what else have? We gone

all over the place. Like, we expose these guys to real deal stuff. So we're, you know, like growth is growth is a two-way street too now, right? You got to want to grow and then you've got to got to push yourself to experiencing. So we're just kind of relentless. And this is, I guess the best way to describe it, this is a very vocational kind of thing for us. Like, we love this. You know, I know, we're kind of boring to the outside world

because we grind and we work and whatnot. But I love it, man. I mean, this is, who else would have given me a chance? I'm a local high school kid, you know, nobody with, you know, two parents that never really got to speak English until they learned it. They spoke like Scarface if you ever saw that movie. Okay, man, you understand.

not what I was saying, man? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And by the grace of God got us with a great high school coach, man, and Jimmy Johnson went and got us. Dude, so we're super grateful, man. We just work and want to do right by people. Did I get, I heard a rumor that was your roommate,

Mike Sullivan? Mike Sullivan was my brother's roommate. Your brother's roommate. His brother's roommate. Okay, got you. Vote those guys. Solely, Mike Sullivan was my assistant offensive line coach of the Titans.

There we go for the whole time I was there. Great dude. Truly the guy. Dude, he's a legend. He's a legend. And he's got a, short fuse too a short fuse on him because he's happy go lucky jovial type of guy when you're in the meetings but there's been once a year he would just go off on me in a crazy way to the end we got

he's like yeah you stop fucking around like that you know great player you great player and a fantastic coach too like I came in the league and like didn't use my hands at all and he like preached it over and oh he would grab me make me work at it and my two hand punches became like the strongest was part of my game because of him. So, Sully was, he was awesome. You stay in touch with him? Oh yeah.

Talks him all the time. He always comes over to my house and steals my honey. Is that right? Yeah. I got a room of us. Remember when he came to the beer Olympics? Yeah.

We had, the other roommate who ended up being in the NFL for a long time. That's awesome. Cool. How do you, go ahead. It's just, there's very rare,

like very unique schools. Like LSU's a unique one. Miami's a unique one. There's a handful where it's just like, it's not just, you can't just be a good coach. and you have to also like fit the culture and be a guy that's from here

how easy of a fit was it for you to come in here understand the landscape of everything and then bring guys in whether it's from the Midwest the Northeast the West Coast and have them like like hey you're going to come here it's going to be more different than anything else you've ever seen because Miami's its own it's its own little country down here

yeah I mean you you saw it man we become in every size shape color ethnicity language hairstyle I mean we are we're like the mixed salad bowl man And I mean, Miami has got everything. And honestly, growing up here was the absolute best. Nothing. I can't even imagine growing up anywhere else.

And that was the day and age of Miami Vice, you know, Sonny Crockett, Ricardo Tubbs, right? And like this brotherhood, because I used to sprint over here every day or grab a ride, ride my bike, to watch those monsters practice. So I'll talk about the Jerome Browns, you know, the Danny Stubbs, Alonzo Highsmiths, a Benny Blades. and Michael Irwin, these monsters. So I was dying to be a hurricane.

Like dying. I was going to be a hurricane or die at one of the other. And so like getting that, it's a life changer. And it's an experience that, I mean, it's why I really came back. I mean, it wasn't because I was born here. It was because I was part of that brotherhood. And it's like here you could be you, you know. As long as your mindset is about nothing is going to get in the way of one and no.

And I'm talking about school, football, life, good choices and decisions, treatment of people. As long as you're of that mindset, you fit here. And I love that about Miami. Miami is like as diverse, as energetic. Like, I wish you guys could spend time in town to see what this season has done for this community. Like, it's insanely like lit up, like just galvanize and energized. And it's because down here it's about the canes, man, you know? And I live and die by the orange and green now, brother.

You know, like, and I love seeing, we're going to have 450 to 500 alumni here next Friday for the alumni reunion. It'll probably be a scrimmage out here in the damn indoor, you know? Yeah, yeah. You can imagine when those boys get together, what it's like, right? So it's, what is it like? It is, oh, man, I don't know.

It's, you know what? Just the meant, I don't, just do whatever I can be me as to, or what I've learned from the guys I've coached. under and go lights out relentless every single day demanded of myself first and foremost so that the coaches could also demand that of themselves what was it like seeing the community come to life last year when you guys are making your run especially it's like when i'm 13 years old and 83 watched the black and white tv you know Miami being Nebraska in the city

you know the pots and pans come out you know on A street right people go bananas no it was you know and then there's you know the positive anger side we fell short there at the end had an opportunity and we didn't finish now monster progress it's great but legitimate like you know i said it before like positive anger man that energy just you give it a direction it burns clean you set your goals and you go and that's where the program is right now from a mentality standpoint you know let's just go let's just go get better and go how do you you clearly start the season with a big win against netherdame it's like you watch that last two minute of that game with CJ Carr running for his life.

And those two D-Ns just absolutely wreaking havoc. And it's like, oh, Miami, clear front-runner, they're coming out of ACC and all of our minds. SMU happens and Louisville happens. How are you addressing the team to get everybody back on track? Because, I mean, clearly, like you guys had more talent,

you were a better team than both of those teams. They just won that day. And to keep everybody on the right track to be like, you know, our destiny is still right in front of this type of mindset. Well, I do think this, nowadays, everybody has good players. And if you're not at your best, you're going to get your ass beat.

You are. And then there's a side of me that says, you know, everybody is saying you should not have lost. You shouldn't. Well, we did. And we beat these other teams. We weren't supposed to be. So maybe you guys got it wrong when you voted these other teams at a certain level.

You know what I mean? Yeah. So, but it was the simplicity of us getting together. It was the best meeting ever, man, after SMU, because that's the lowest point ever. And it was face-to-face eye to eye. of us in here. And it was like tight. No, it was just like walking, you know, walk, that was a field rush and you're walking back to a locker room and your every step is like, what the you're going to say?

What are you going to say, you know, knowing that's a long-ass ride home knowing that the moment they get back, their phones are going to be obliterated with all kinds of negativity, right? Everyone taking shots at them. So we found a way to, you know, gather up and get back here and we, you know, the next day we got in here and it was like, look, we have awesome people. And we have really hard work in people that have a really high care factor, but we ain't getting the result we want, and we're losing in the margins. And we need to understand and realize who the hell we really are. And we had put together five games worth of cut-ups of, you know, the football tape.

Just cut the lights, no music, no presentation, just cut it. And sat here in silence and watched about 15 minutes of just silence and watching, and watching, and watching. and flick the lights back on and we made a decision just one day at a time, man, our absolute best. I'm going to be your biggest advocate. You're going to be mine. I'm your biggest fan. I am your family.

We're going to be each other's family. And we're going to cut out everybody else. No one else matters and nothing else matters. And we're going to do that every day. And if you see my butt getting down, you're going to get me up and the vice versa. And it was a collective effort. And the thing I'm most proud of is to be a member of this organization. the way all the men and women of this organization on a daily basis said, let's go.

And the practices were awesome. And it ended up spilling over to game day. And I could tell like after that NC stay game, I'm like, okay, we're about to get rolling here and now, by the grace of God it did. Yeah. What was being the five games of cutoffs? Is it you with the clicker going through everything? No, we made it concise enough so it doesn't have any dead time. You know what I mean?

but it was a simplicity of, you know, we had the splash plays like the Bain and Mesedore sacks, but also some of the unbelievable blocks by wide receivers just laying out so Mark Fletcher could split a defense, you know, the offensive line, taking those piles and running them 15, 20 yards, you know? Just watching not the score, but how we play the game. And we took a lot of pride in building a physical, tough team. And we practiced in that manner.

We lost our edge for a couple games in the margins. Because if you watch the tape, we did play physical, but not to the level, not to the extent of what had made us, you know, get off to that great start. How, where'd you watch that ACC championship game? Where did I watch it? Yeah. That's a good question.

Because that's it, right? Like, you're watching that game. And who were the two? Was it Duke in Virginia. Duke in Virginia? ACC Championship. ACC Championship. And it was essentially like Duke wins that game.

Duke is in or is it vice Was it flip Virginia wins there You wanted like A lot of like in that if I can go back to that Time it was like with Miami getting in Everybody arguing about the head to head Notre Dame Miami It was with championship week coming up

You wanted to see blowouts In the SEC championship in Big 12 And you needed Duke to just upset Virginia Right Because Duke was what seven and five Yeah I think there were seven and five they played a hell of a game and won it but i never i never saw it that way i'm going to be honest with you and the reason being is in 2004 we lost at syracuse in the last game and there were a bunch

of 10 and two teams and a nine and three team i felt like that was a legitimate court case like let's all present the facts it could go one way or the other but i felt this year with a head-to-head and with other common opponents i thought that that had to matter most and i did in a respectful full manner, but I thought it was a matter of presenting the information, regardless of who won that ACC championship game, a game that going forward, the tiebreakers are fixed, but the answers to a five-and-six-way tie-breaker was, you know, a little bit different, you know, any other conferences tie-breakers we would have been playing in that game. But there are no excuses. The two teams that played deserve to play because that was the format. And Duke won and credit to them for winning.

And, you know, either way, selection Sunday, when that thing came out, that was quite a moment now. A big moment. How was it? Rocked college football. Yeah. What was the feeling when the brackets, like, is the AP and then the college football bracket comes out. And it's like, you guys aren't on it. And Notre Dame is on it.

And for the longest time, like, you guys are just kind of put down. And then it gets to this, like, this head of the ACC championship. You need the SEC blowouts. The mistake was having. The mistake is just having it public. Having them too low or having Notre Dame. too high to where the conversation kept going to where it had to matter about this. When it's like both these teams are awesome teams because Duke winning gets into two G5 teams.

But there obviously there needs to be fixes in the system. But that mistake was like having such a separation. And it was probably did the college football playoff come out the week after the second loss you guys have? Like I'm just assuming all the subjective opinion that goes into why you guys are so separated. Because they're making a level of an assumption like, oh, they lost their news, T-Cs are probably going to lose again.

I had the same conversation with Notre Dame yesterday. It's like they beat you head to head. How is it not? It should have been the way the result was what the answer should have been, other than the G5s. You don't have to comments on that. I think the G5 should completely be out of it. But to have Notre Dame so ahead of you guys and then realizing they're making the mistake

over and over again, you're seeing that at first you have to be a little at like uneasy about like how are we in this position? The only thing I always felt good about, it always said best and most deserve. You know, and if they played out the facts and the criteria was taken into account, like it said, that it was going to work out in our favor, as long as we kept winning at a high level. As long as we kept dominating opponents. And those final, you know, whatever it was, four games, I think we were on the road for almost seven straight weeks, were, you know, we played our best football, like legitimate dominant football. And Carson Beck was playing out of his mind. So we felt really, really good about it.

And I think it showed, you know, during the playoffs that we deserve. I was going to say how you guys clearly made all that irrelevant when you guys made it to the championship. Yeah, it's just, it's an imperfect process. I don't think anyone's trying to, you know, screw over anybody. But, you know, in this particular case, yeah, I felt strongly that we deserve to be in there. And our players deserve that opportunity. If you guys didn't make the playoff, would you have done in the bowl game? We always, was this one of these trick questions or something like that? It's, you know, we don't, we've always played in the bowl games, whatever bowl game that we've gone to.

So we would have played in the bowl game. and that's our process. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I don't think that anyone should ever, we don't judge anybody, so I don't think anyone should ever judge us one way or the other, but yeah,

we would play in the bowl game because that's what you're supposed to do. Thoughts on the current, like, football calendar. Everybody's got a lot of strong opinions on how the football calendar needs to, we need to make adjustments with the football calendar. So that way it's not to where you guys,

now the National Championship game this next year, is what a week later than it was this past, year I like football man I'd play year-round you know but I know we can't do that we just got to start earlier so we get a little bit earlier so the portal makes sense and then we get on the road I'm not in favor of all this like junior recruiting like in January I think that's brutal you know I mean I can't even get in a home in January yeah well you got have contacts at the school you know they're still not a senior they're going to be senior as a following that's a total and it's been now in effect for two years a couple or three years but like I can't even get in a home now that used to be like

the thing right the head coach it goes into the home, you finish it off, you get to meet the family, see what it from, like you can't even do that now. So, and then the teams, the further you play into it, the more of a disadvantage you're at as well. So it's almost like NFLish, right? The more you win, the lower you pick,

the lower you draft. Yeah. It kind of plays in a sideways kind of way into that format. But the calendar's got to change because right now it's pretty messy. Yeah, I don't know why we don't do a way. I know why. It's the money, but like conference championship games,

just do it like they do in the NFL. It's like you have your tiebreakers, but the best record. You guys are ACC champs now. Okay, congratulations. You get a bi-week going into this game. And then right after a win, conference championships would be, that would be your bi-week. And then you're in the playoffs all through December where your national championships taking place.

That first week of January, portal opens up right after the national championship. Coach, I don't know if you're listening, but we got to figure it out. Yeah. I mean, was that kind of nice? Handed it right over, man, right? I mean, hey. Do you get this right here? Yeah.

Make sure you guys ought to copy right. Did you hear any flaws? there. Man. Nobody watches the show. You can say whatever you want. No, you guys are, it's well thought out.

It's just, this is what I know. Look, excuse me, is that every year we change the calendar, we're not really thinking it through, so then we end up changing something else the next year. It's been a relentless, like,

just nonstop adaptation year after year. So that sounds like it has a chance, you know? You like it? I do like it. What was the, was it paid? But you brought this up to me

that's somebody about bowl games because that's where the money is, right? These bowl games, the NCAA, they make a lot there. So that's why there's that big space. Coach McGuire. Coach McGuire. A couple weeks or last week was talking about having,

was it bowl weekend, the first week of the season? Everybody's got a bunch of the ideas. Clemson and Georgia, they'll play in Atlanta. These teams like play at neutral sites. So you just have, you have your Gator Bowl or whatever that bowl is now.

You have those games done at week one, neutral. I have them go play there everybody makes their money and now we're in the season you don't like that tell me why no it's a I mean

it's like a preseason format yeah that was dumb why would next year's team play what the last year's team earned you know yeah I don't know I can't buy that one right now okay fair enough

but we like the other thing pretty good I'll have to see it on paper I gotta see it I'll write it down for you yeah I have bad penmanship he reserves the right to change his mind oh linemen usually have

you know pretty good perspective of the way things the way life should Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. I agree. Would you love to put your pause on on this specimen over here as a young recruit? This guy, look, I can have you by, what time is it now? 1240. By 3.30, I can have you a fake ID. Wong Luis Ramirez, 18 year old senior from a local high school, brother. We could start this thing all over. Get it gone. One heck of an NIL deal.

All right. You know, you get to with Coach Ir to do a little functional strength assessment. You make All the tires, you know, so have your tread on. Tires are not great, I'll be honest. There's one tire that's not doing too well. Get a year out of it. But hey, I'll get you, I'll get you a damn good year. And I don't want to gain weight. I sound like we're on Matt right now.

Let me just put a tight end, an eligible number on, and I'll be your blocking tight end. And I swear to God. Those are the creatures we try to recruit now. I mean, that's exactly what you're on up front now. Hell yeah. Powerful athletic dudes that can flat out. You got some big boys.

Got some big boys. Some big talented boys. And you know what? They all can run. For the most part, They all can run. One guy's getting a little bit better, getting his weight under control,

but for the most part, they can get after it. And you saw coach Mirabal. I mean, that guy is, he's a creature coach, you know? You've, yeah,

you've used the word relentless. His coaching style is clearly relentless. On those guys 24-70, they just, he owns the room when he walks in. You see the stature, his heart's 10 times bigger than the stature, because the guy's respect and love him a lot.

You got a kid, a freshman kid from Ohio that placed in wrestling. You got the number one. State champion. You got the number one. one overall prospect and a guy that's starting with at the ones with you right now. What are you seeing from those two individuals from a freshman standpoint? Just fearless, you know, and their sponges.

Like they are like, they're not exactly an all assembly required type of toy. They require some, but they're instant fixes. You know, they can coming back to the huddle, they're kind of, they're to the point out where they realize, all right, you know, I understepped that, or I didn't open my hips enough, or I didn't get my hat across, or, you know, I didn't get my fist to the sternum. Like they are speaking the language. Like every great culture has their own language, right? Like every great position group, like they speak a certain language.

They're speaking the language. It's just rolling out of their mouths and they are applying it. Now, you know, we've got to get them to bend at the knees more and get their heels in the ground for more balance and power. But those guys, they get it. And you talk to them today. You know, how they want to get more confident with their hands, right? But they're, you know, day one or day three, third down, you know,

was a nightmare for them, right? not understanding their set lines, the twist and the suns that come with it. And now today you saw a good amount of progress in their game. So it's awesome to be around those guys. They're going to be great players. I'll say this. I don't think I've ever seen a one-on-one series so lopsided where the offensive line had a hell have a hell of a day.

It was awesome to see. And then Jackson, clearly he comes in as the number one overall recruit, but his hands, he understands the angles of a set and how they should be. His hands, there's a couple things you can clean up, but they're in the right place at the end of the end result of the play. He knows where he's at as opposed to where the quarterback's at in the pocket. He understands when games are coming.

Seems like when you guys that did that like crazy exotic blitz period. You guys have all these calls and he can hear kind of what's taking place and you can see him process it in real time. It's a little bit slower because it's like, you know, he's only had so many reps. But I walked to the camera multiple times

and was like, hey, his kid's got all the tools in the world. I mean, they really do. A couple of those squads. You're competent on them boys. Surprising me. Surprise them, yeah. They're squattie guards.

You don't sleep on the squawk boys. Can't sleep. Yeah. I hope y'all are enjoying the Miami interview, but real quick, this isn't about us. Nah. It's about the you. You got a long day and no time to cook? You actually want something that tastes good?

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All about the Kevin's natural foods. Again, anything you can note up that you see would be good to, you know, pick your brain on some of that stuff. Because, you know, those guys, as you know, playing with that kind of length, there's a, you know, an acclamation period, so to speak. Where they, you know, understanding the timing and the power that comes to some of those edge rushers. I mean, Jackson's baptism of fire was going against Bain and Mesedore during the bull time. Yeah, it's wild. What a way to be baptized. He's like, man, where's Nixa? Let me go home. Yeah, yeah. But, and from day one, he just, he attacked it. And he's, he's always, always trying to get better, man. He's always asking questions. He's always investing extra time. And he's learning

that, you know what? All that, he's becoming functionally strong, you know, and learning how to finish his play. So, yeah, sky's the limit for those two guys. And, you know, we have a couple other guys that are banged up right now. I wish you could have seen them that are massive human beings. I mean, these guys are 87 inch wingspan, one of them. I mean, it's insane. And they're both at 340, 3.30 and they can flat out roll. So I think we're getting, you know, more and more talented as a years go on and looking forward to our guys, hopefully getting drafted, you know, in a great place here in the next couple. Yeah. You've got to be so proud knowing you got old lineman like you do. Like getting four guys potentially drafted. Talking about the

room you guys are talking about right now, like as an old line guy. You got to be fired the hell up. Coach Mirbaugh and I went to high school together, man. 40 years. We'd known each other for 40 years. Really? I was a freshman. He's like, hey man, I need a ride home.

I'm like, who the hell are you? He's like, I'm your teammates. So can I get a ride? I'm like, sure. 40 years later, man, here we are. You know, he's one of a kind. He's a brother. You know, I was a best man at his wedding.

My brother had to be the best of mine or he'd fight me. Did you give a hell of a speech? Did I? I was online related. I mean, you know, it was- Yeah. Some about trench warfare. You guys are now in the trenches together.

OCD, man. Keep those deuses, right. Keep them tight. Well, I mean, we talked about it if, like, you know, we were like manic. Like, we'd watch 86 Fiesta Bowl, Penn State, Miami over and over again. Because one of those games where they finally had like close-up shots of combo blocks, man blocks. But anyways, we always swore that if we ever had a chance to coach who would create like trench heaven, you know, O-line, P-line, just massive human beings, train them in a way that, never make a cookie-cutter. Make it in a way where those.

bodies are developing differently. The structure of practice, you know, catered to their development because we felt that part of the game was being, you know, kind of ignored a little bit. And so that's what we're trying to do here at Miami make it, you know, Trench City, man, you know, where the Trenches come to develop at a high level. Sweetheart, if he loves you the way he coaches, you guys are going to be married forever. Exactly. In the transfer portal this past year, you got Carson Beck.

Very unique storyline with him. it seemed like he was kind of, they kicked him out of Georgia. It was the big question mark was, is Georgia the issue, is Carson Beck the issue for Georgia? He comes in here. He has a successful season. What did you see in him? And how did you get this things out of him that your counterpart from Alabama couldn't get?

Yeah, you know, I saw, I saw 23 film and a dude that was just lighting it up at the highest level. I think he was probably the best quarterback in the country in 23. And then 24, I felt that they were watching tape, that they were different systematically. I thought his O line had lost a lot, so he was getting peppered now. He was getting hit from all over the place. And the receivers led the country in drops at year. So it was like the perfect storm of not good stuff. That led to him just getting battered and bruised.

And, you know, I trust certain people in the industry and the people that we spoke to. You know, they had nothing but unbelievable things to say about him. And then talking to him and getting in that mind as best we could, we're like, we provide this guy with the right line and we do what we do which is it's a typical blend here you know we have the power run game but we also have you know the air raid concepts

tied in a play action play and our screen game is really good and like this guy could launch the ball all over the place he could get us in the right run game he could make the right jacks out he'll kill it here in Miami and so it went well with our conversations and next you know Carson Bex's a hurricane how's the relationship with coach smart

obviously there's some some virality of your guys' clips going around from you both kind of roasting each other. I never expected to be in a roast. I went there totally to hand an award, Hamalachi, Tony, and they informed me, hey, this is kind of a, so I don't like those kind of things. I'm not liking. I'll tell you what, you did well.

I mean, I had no choice. You don't like them, but you're afraid at them. But you thought on your feet you did well. You should have seen the rest of the clips. Ooh, they were good. They were better. But I just, you know, I don't, I don't like that kind of stuff. I really don't.

I'm not in a, like, talking smack and all that other stuff. But we all worked together way back at Alabama. It was quite the room, you know, very competitive. We all learned a lot from Coach Saving. And we all busted our butts for Coach because we felt he, again, gave us a great opportunity. And, you know, I wanted to more exciting answer, man. I don't have it.

I don't like anybody, you know what I mean? You just want to coach ball. Yeah, it's all he wants to do. He wants to coach a little bit of ball. I want to coach a little bit of ball. And do right by our dudes, man. Like he, this is like their last pit stop. You know how it is.

You've done it, right? A good, like a really, really good coach and mentor, right? You remember the bad ones. I remember the ones that I couldn't stand. Yeah. Like, dude, you're done coaching me. I will do whatever you ask. I respect you.

I was born to be raised to be a respectful young man, but like you're no longer affecting me. That's how I viewed the bad coaches in that. Man, we have an opportunity to absolutely change, you know. And not by being a softier, catering to moods and emotions. That's not it. That doesn't do anybody any favors, you know, unless you're being a true teller and confronting and demanding someone's best, you know, you're failing these guys. And, you know, I don't know.

It's just awesome, man. It's awesome to be able to get to do this, especially with these creatures. These guys are awesome. How do you keep these creatures in South Florida? Like, so much talent comes out of this area. And with the new NIL world, a lot of these guys, you know, these Northwest schools and Northeast schools, they kind of, they have money to give these guys and be, hey, come on up here. Come, come be fast up here. How do you, how do you sell them being fast down here? I think we had to first and foremost rebuild Miami. Because I think when we arrived here, it's heartbreaking. I mean, I'm watching from across the country. And for 20 plus years, man, 20 plus years. I got to play here with these. You met one of them, you know, at Vilma. I was a GA one. Vilma was here. Miami was starting to come back.

Oh, absolute, just monster. And I played here on two national championship teams, lost the third one. The worst we finished was like third in the country. And that's what I always knew Miami as. And then so when you start coaching, you got to go away. You know, you got to cut your teeth. But watching from far away for 20 plus years,

like, like infuriating, you know, to the point where that's it. like I've had enough if this you know if this is real that Miami's providing this opportunity for us we're going to get our teeth kicked in early because that roster needs a complete overhaul and the coach needs a complete overhaul but we're going to do this you know and man that was the most difficult professional year of my life at 22 that first year here and we had given up a team that we had just built into a perennial conference champion you know with some monsters

coming. But it was all for the right reasons. It was all for the right reasons. And you know what? We're now attracting the right type of player. I have no idea if I answered your question. I kind of went off on a tangent there. But it's just all these things always led back to this place and how we do things. And we want to get the best players locally. We do. And we're doing a much better job of that. You know, the Malachi, Tony's, and Mark Fletcher's, Ruben Baines. I mean, we're littered with these guys. But we're all right. also a national brand and we're going to build this team the best way that we possibly can you know so there's not a ton of large human beings in the state of florida but the ones that are here are awesome

so we go to nixom missouri right yeah we go across to las Vegas to california i mean we've had guys here from portland i mean we've we've gone all over the country and it's good because this city is made up from people from all over um what made that first year so challenging everything like like the vibe you get today and for people watching like definitely check out the vlog but relentless has been such a word that's been used but the relentlessness that is all over this building the intensity just the vibe of we want to be the best team in the country and we are going to work to get there it's business demeanor guys are having fun as well but it's very everything is very intense and intentional but thank you

Obviously, that takes time to build. So when you're establishing this standard, like in year one, what were some of the most challenging parts that made it the hardest year of your professional career? Not having the right people. How do you identify those? Because obviously it's like the kids get it, right? But it doesn't just come from you to the kids. It's the guys on your staff, like those lateral moves of getting guys that,

hey you're the one that's you're the ones that's going to be impacting them every day. How hard is it to like find those guys to know like this is a guy I have to have on my staff versus probably past experiences where you you look back and you're like okay I can see where I went wrong here or maybe it was a certain question I look for now when I talk to coaches to come in. But how do you identify those guys that are going to essentially bleed into the kids what you bleed into them. Yeah, they have to understand this is a lot of times a 24-7 job. I mean, it is. This is not for people that want to check out early and go on vacation and just, you know, you can't just put down the phone and say, okay, I'm done with work for the day when you leave the office. Like,

you're, you're dealing with somebody else's son times 120, right? Yeah. So that's the thing. And, you know, upon arrival, like, when we played here, we had an unbelievable culture. And upon return the roster was a complete you know and I want to say in a way because I don't like to sound like I'm disrespecting those that came before if you wore this you whether it was a good year or bad year you're hurricane so forever hurricane and I respect that but it certainly Miami for 20 years was floundering you know minus one or two seasons and it needed a complete overhaul and it starts with the people in the building and it's not just player it's not it's easy to point at players that's not it it's staff you know you have to make moves and bring in people that are all about the

university of Miami first and then everything else after that and that's hard because some of the you know some of the biggest obstacles are inside the building you know it's just as important to eliminate and move on as it is to acquire I'm a big fan of that so you know addition by subtraction and you know that sometimes hurts feelings and you know there's misconceptions and misperceptions and out there on how that thing works, but this isn't about tweeting how cool you are and it's not about, you know, like, hey, I, you know, I know what I'm saying?

Like, I can't have any bullshit when it comes to this stuff, man. You've got to be a real one. And am I allowed to say that? You're absolutely, yeah, yeah, we'll say it with you. I'll say bullshit right now. And guys, the reason I say that and I get about it is because, like, this is like a real deal way of life. Like, man, that's the reason we coach is because we had like

real deal mentors that, like, changed our lives and if you're getting hired to come here to Miami that's that's it there's no two ways about it there's no faking it there's no like there's no misunderstandings right that's the way we're going to roll and and that's what we needed and that attracts the right type of players players and players you remember you guys you could see right through the BS of a coach that wasn't all in right you could tell man the details of a practice of the guys snapping the ball the wrong way. If he's reading the script or he's off by one on a consistent

basis, if you can't tell you the consistent alignment that you got to, I mean, so anyways, I went off again on a tangent. You know what I'm saying? Real ones. You got to have real ones, man. And Miami means the world to me and all the guys that I played with. And really, I'm back

here because I feel that I owe Miami. So we're just rolling with guys in a very rigorous interview process, bringing in people that we feel that could change things. One of the latest ones you know, Fabian Upshaw with the Broncos and Mike Vidi, who's a war hero, you know? I mean, these are

like real deal guys that could really have an impact, so sorry for the lengthy answer. Listen, we love lengthy answers. You can tell it all means something. Right. Because a lot of coaches, they don't have the affiliation of being here before growing up in the same area, but for you to like love it as much as you do, I'm sure that comes

across to every single home you walk into when it comes to the mother and father being like, oh, you're to take care of my kid for the next three to five years. So that means a lot. Amen, brother. Amen. When you're, when you're, um, getting juiced up. Yeah.

Is there, I was going to ask about the last season compared to this season. Did you want to ask something? I was just going to ask too, like ID and, uh, like coaches or people that you bring in the hire. Do you have like a go-to question? Do you have like something that's like, you know you're going to ask it no matter what to help either cut through the bullshit or anything? Something that's like if I was a coach, I'm coming out here.

I'm going to shadow you for three months because I want to be a next head coach and we're sitting in there one day and I finally break down the barriers. Maybe we tear up together. And I'm just like, coach, I'm taking all my notes. Do you have a question that you ask

when I go off on my own journey that I should keep with me that helps me identify the real from the bullshit? Well, I mean, you put these guys on the board. You make them stand up and demonstrate whether it be blocking, running a route. You make them do what they do as well so see if they can actually like hold

a room if their presence is one that can captivate the audience and have a command of that audience as well. And then you start throwing your stuff after to kind of test their capacity, their aptitude to see, okay, can this guy handle the concepts and teach it to the players and whatnot? And then you want to see them around people, right? And then you make a gazillion phone calls. You got to get, you got to find someone you trust that really knows this person to get a valid one. And then, but the questions, man, yeah, we go, we go pretty deep. We go at it. I'm not going to say those on here. But you got to find out if they're willing to do the things that come with this job.

And I think sometimes it's misunderstood. All these guys are in there until two in the morning every night. No, it's not that, you know, all the time. It's, we do put in some hours, but it's everything is geared towards helping people, you know, whether it be winning the game, whether it be making sure they do the right thing. Sometimes you've got to hammer them, right, when they're not exactly doing what they're supposed to do. And it's only because if you help them, monitor them, that action or behavior, you know what?

They're going to be better by it. And having the guts as a coach to be able to confront and demand the right things of your players if they're not doing it because it's going to make them better. And they're going to be a better teammate. And we're lucky. We don't have a lot of that. And the guys here fall in line because the older guys, they do a great job with the locker room.

So, but I think that's really important. I think that was the biggest hurdle upon arriving. I don't think there was much interest. and doing things a certain way. Conflict before cooperation. When you're evaluating how close you were last year, you're in the national championship game at home. He fell a little bit short.

Now you're in spring ball the following year with a lot of turnover. You have four different offensive linemen now. You have a new quarterback. You lost your two big-time defensive ends. How are you evaluate, what do you see your team at now compared to this time last year?

From a ceiling standpoint, from a buy-in standpoint, in the effort standpoint, are guys getting it? Yeah. Do you see it all coming together? You know, buy in effort, attempt to do the right things. Great. I mean, exactly what we would expect.

And not picking up where we left off, but advancing as to where we left off before. Last year is different. You have the spring portal. So your team really changes in the summertime. This year you have what you have and you're going forward. So you have more players. We have, I think, 40 new players right now.

We didn't have that last. January, February, you know. So we feel strongly about our team, but I also feel strongly about shutting our mouths and working really hard and understanding we have a long ways to go that everybody has really good players. And I think we have to stay along that mindset. There's a, you know, and told the team, the hardest thing in the world is handling success and everyone's been telling you how, what a great run, you know, a really super job here. And it's like, brother, get these people, get all that toxicity, just away from you. that's doing us no good.

We got a long ways to go. We have to get so much better in so many different areas. And we're investing the world and our time into it. So that's got to be the focus. And we really can't stray from that. Don't talk about, oh, when we go back to the, go back to what? We got to go back to work.

We got practice. We got a big scrimmage coming up, you know? And after that, when we get to August, it's going to be about one and oh, one game at a time, one day at a time. So I think that, I think we're achieving that better than we have in the past. So, but I'll leave it at that. Shut our mouths, a lot of work to do and go get better.

It's like a lineman would say, right? All to say that you is back, right? Never, ever, ever say that again. Never. That is, man, that was all that for years, for years, for years. I think it too, like, I mean, you get this. For me personally, like I remember NCAA, like, one of the first iterations of it on console, like on PlayStation.

It was Florida State Miami, the shine that comes off of the helmet, Ken Dorsey, the streak that was going on. The feeling that you had as a kid watching the you were understanding the University of Miami, and you're right for the 20 years that it doesn't happen. And the excitement that is came like to my young self-remembering Miami and knowing that you guys are in the picture again, it's like that feeling gets re-ignited for the you being back. the documentaries, the stuff to where people love to say, obviously, the U is back and everything.

I know you hate it. I get why you like, let's stay away from it. You know, we say the U is here. We are here right now and we are. And the best part is the alumni. They're all about going forward too. They don't talk about back anymore. And they come, they all come and speak. And they're awesome. Like our, the best part about being here, you don't really need many guest speakers. You've got all these unbelievable alumni or former NFL greats that are living in the city, you know. So you have just tons of unbelievable speakers that have a great message. So and we keep it, we like keeping it tight.

You know, we're, man, we're as simple as it gets. There's no like hocus, pocus, like Hong Kong, Phui, like craziness. We're like legitimate like nuts and bolts, meat and potatoes, the right stuff and just doing it face to face eye to eye and getting after it. And we, we just want to get better. That's all we're focused on. I love that. I love that.

Should we have some fun? Little fan questions? Yeah. These are from the internet. This is from the internet. from us. So if you hear a question, you do not like, understand that it does not come from us.

This comes from canes.hs.hq. They have blue check, by the way, too. I think they paid for that. I don't know what that means. We'll get you on Twitter. We'll get you on there. Who is Mario's? They should say coach.

Who is coach's favorite team to be? FSU or Notre Dame. Everybody. Want to know against everybody. But which one? If you had to pick one. Which one gives you a smirk? There's no picking.

answers are going to suck just so you know. It's not being typical. If you want, we can have fun doing just one word. I love 1 and 0. Nothing is more important than being 1 in 0. There'll be no. There'll be zero bulletin board material coming out of this. I love that.

Zero. Blink once if it's Florida State. No. Twice if it's under. Hey, coach, we can change us up and we can ask you these questions. You just give us one word answers. We're not going to do that. I just one word answers.

I'm going to go against the grain on this here, brother. Whatever you want, any smoothie downstairs, food that you want gear but questions I just they're gonna be really boring answers because that's but you should program that you know people are wired or certain way I'm wired yeah no I love that and you made a statement there about we can have any equipment we want do you mean that I did I said that on camera too you said it on camera so that's law now all the exclusive gear we need hold on hold on I'm trying to get somewhere with us can we have a jersey depends what number 77 oh oh are they

we can make that happen. Yeah, we'll make that happen. Shake on it. With the ID and the freshman status all over again, right? All right, man. Here we go. We got a freshman signing. We'll announce.

Coach, what about 51, 5-1? You asked John Wilma? I'll tell John I won't even like this. They won't. We'll get it done. It'll be paying homage to him. We'll get it done. Hey, we're having fun.

We're having fun right now. Now, does that buy me out of these questions? No. But hey, you got to know these aren't ours. Okay. These are not our questions. I know this. This is an old school guy.

Yep. We haven't broken down. We've broken through with him. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't know. Coach underscore Billings.

What's one non-negotiable standard in your program that every player has to meet, no matter their talent level? As a coach, how do you teach accountability and discipline to the players in a way that actually sticks beyond football? Early's on time, brother. Early's on time.

Absolutely no excuses. None. Zero. Early's on time. time and that's it. We don't have a huge book of rules and policies, you know. Respect people, give your absolute best effort earlys on time. Respect, respect, respect. How do we feel about jewelry in the locker room? Oh, they're fine. Yeah. When we go out to the field of play, we don't put on jewelry just because either you lose it, you get cut on it or whatnot. But no issues.

Shirt tails, totally fine. When you go on the field, shirts tucked in. Shirt's tucked in. Got to have the shirt tucked in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They come out during practice, you know it but we we always start off all right he might like this one let me see that one second page top this one comes from uh j at danny co 42222 ask coach christoball how much cuban coffee he has a day and take a shot of cuban coffee on air with coach christabal boys that'd be awesome you know if we had it i don't think we we won't have it here but uh a fair amount you know it's uh it's rocket fuel it's i make my own in the morning and then one of the coaches makes it in the afternoon but probably throughout the course today, probably four.

Okay. Four cups of coffee? But yeah, they're tiny, like, little shots. Gotcha. You haven't had any? You didn't have some last night at the restaurant or wherever you guys went? I believe something might be set up in store for us after the interview. That's what I've heard.

Yeah, he'll make it. You'll love it. You'll be wired for weeks. Hey, honestly, I need that. It's been a long couple of days. Here's one from Chuck, who betcha. You betcha. You betcha.

You betcha. Chuck, you betcha. Did you feel like Luke Skywalker? Are you a Star Wars guy? No, not at all. This one's going to fall on deaf ears. Go ahead. Yeah.

Swing through it, kid. Did you feel like Luke Skywalker blowing up the Death Star when you beat Ohio State on New Year's Eve? Hashtag Ask Mario. I really doesn't... Are you an Avengers guy? No.

He's a football guy, man. You're a Jurassic Park guy, right? I mean, for reference... Are you understand it for... Old school wrestling, you know, the days of dusty roads, you know, macho man, Randy Savage. That's probably more analogous to, you know,

some of these things. There we go. Under the Giant, you know. Did you feel like Cole Cogan dropping the leg drop on Andre the Giant when you beat Ohio State on New Year's Eve? I felt like we had been working really hard to become a really good team

and we were the better team that night. That's a great, that's a great answer. That's a great answer. No bulletin board to you. Can I tell you something? I loved it. We got a sign over there. I'm not going to answer.

Here's one right there. I was going to do this one right here. Okay. From Jake Campbell. Yeah, you go ahead. Jake Campbell says, I don't like this one either.

Taylor 1 has to go one-on-one with Ruben Bain right now at 34 with no knees. How does it go? Can you cut lock? Buddy. No. I'm actually, it was like the worst cup locker in the world. Is that right?

Yeah. Man, you know, Rubens, have you watched this film? How would you pass that him? I'm curious. Rubin, the first thing I would do is take away his bull rush.

So I would, the first third down where I had a slide, I would jump set him favoring the outside so when he went inside my guard clean him up so now he's thinking about that. You're assuming the guards coming with you. Well, if I have a slide side. I'm talking about clean.

We have four down front. We got a guy on the, we got a shade and a five and he's the five. This is your chest match. This is my chest match. But now we're taking the linebacker walking him over to demand the sort side goes to the other side. Okay.

Then I'm going to make him beat me laterally, not vertically. Okay. So I would jump set him immediately. And then the next set, I would do a 45 degree angle and I would make him, him go inside so I can wash him down to the back of somebody because he'll trip I can

give him a dump now it's mental warfare taking place I would say this I would say that we would have to somehow with the use of AI bring your prime self versus Ruben right now and see what that looks like right now today Ruben Bain all day brother just he's got a lot of power how are you how are you coaching a tackle to approach I think that was that's a great strategy right there you You have to be aggressive, you know, because if he gets his second and third step in the ground, watch out. Like his, his power, like his numbers in the weight room, if you had the metrics that are insane. Like the way he comes out of his hips. And I don't know, have you seen him like without a shirt.

He looks like something. I'd love to. Yeah. I don't know about you. Like he's like the physical nature of a. Yeah, he's a. Yeah. Like Moe, the backer number one.

He's a buddy. Those guys have really built themselves into it. Those are mature, like physical, like stout dudes, man. Him and Mesidor, they just explode through people. If you watch them, a lot of the stuff was discombobulating people where they couldn't get their bearings about them after the initial collision. So they couldn't refit a hand or that inside foot gave way opened up. So great stuff.

It's great stuff talking technique and strategy when going against defensive. That's important. We do that a bunch with our guys one-on-one. I'm going to make a statement so that you don't have to answer the question. I just want to know if you agree with me or not. I think it's bullshit that people are knocking Rubin Bain on the length of his arms and that violence is violence and you can have shorter arms or longer arms, but at the end of the day you still have to stop it.

Yeah, whoever is trying to, I think maybe people create narratives to try to jockey their way in a position to draft them. Yeah. Because we've been open practices to the NFL all year, every single year. And everybody that comes in says that's the baddest son of a gun, they've seen him and Mesidor. That they're the two best edges out there because not only do they do that, in the passing game, they absolutely knock people back in the run game and set edges like nobody else.

So all the feedback and all the conversations I've had with the higher-ups from the NFL, think that these two guys are the absolute best. And they've proven it against the best offensive lines. The photo of him at Pro Day with his like nose essentially grazing the turf, that level of bend, it's terrifying. Yeah. You know, in practice when he'd get in that boo, like he just wants to kill you. Yeah.

Trying to block him was like insanely hard. But then you have Francis Minot on the other side, who was another Jurassic Park one, right? Yeah. And those two guys was like, man, just incredible physicality, great technique and level of competitiveness because they would always seek each other out. There's not a day that went by

that they didn't seek each other out for one-on-ones. They never avoided each other. It was awesome. And so they've set a great standard for those young guys. I love that. We have one final question. It's our Bud Light question. You know how people would do anything for an ice cold Bud Light.

What would Coach Cristobal do anything for? Can't say family. Can't say family. Can't say family. Can't say family. Can't say family. Can't say family? No, no, religion, politics, family.

Out. We're at the dinner table. We're at the dinner table. It makes it simple. Yeah. Want to know. Oh. Nothing gets in the way of one and no, brother.

I love it. nothing because you are kind of just boring that's what you want but you know what it's uh i hope you enjoyed your time here at miami i hope you got a feel for the people um you know what we're working and striving to do and i know any time you guys are back this way man come on down you know we this is how we practice and then the training sessions in the summer are epic as well because it gets really human outside that's like that's our bonus that's our advantage you know we get to train and that crazy humidity all summer and it helps us get better and better and you know what you got a lot of good people here man but they'd be coach mirabal and then they'd love to coach hetherman he'd love to get

with you and you know talk some ball and chop it up some but know that you guys you got a got a home down here in miami coach it has been it's been awesome and all the people the staff or the way everybody's treated us a plus first class it's been unbelievable very excited that we got to come here we're honored to have you guys here and really appreciate you guys taking the time to be with us down here appreciate you coach thank you for everything you got your journey Jersey's coming too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Must be 21 plus and present in select states.

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