Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - ACC SQUAD - Which ACC Schools are the Most DANGEROUS in 2025?

Episode Date: July 10, 2025

ACC football's landscape is shifting. Will Clemson Tigers maintain their dominance, or can Miami Hurricanes or SMU Mustangs challenge for the top spot?Host Jackson Holzer and guests Isaac Shade and Grayson Singleton break down ESPN's 2025 ACC Football Preview, highlighting key matchups and potential Heisman candidates. The trio debates sleeper teams, with Duke Blue Devils emerging as a dark horse under new coach Manny Diaz. Georgia Tech's Haynes King takes center stage as they discuss his underrated status and Heisman odds. Plus, get the inside scoop on red-hot recruiting battles reshaping ACC powerhouses.Tune in for expert analysis on Carson Beck's injury impact, FanDuel betting insights, and Syracuse's historic recruiting class that could change the conference's future. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Clemson's now to be the favorite in the ACC, right? You're talking ball with the ACC squad, sponsored by game time. From Florida State to North Carolina, from Syracuse to Miami, and from NC State to California, it's the local experts of the Locked-on Podcast Network, bringing you scoops, breakdowns, and the most comprehensive preview of the upcoming ACC weekend. Hang on, it could get loud, it could get heated,

and it will definitely. be fun. Squad up, you're part of the ACC Squad. Hello, everyone. This is the locked on ACC squad. I'm Jackson Holeser, the host of Locked on Syracuse. We're joined by Isaac Shea, the host of Locked on Tar Heels. And we got a new face. Yeah. The ACC squad, that's right. Grayson Singleton, the new host of a locked on SMU. And folks, we saw the comments last season. Okay. Where's the S&CQ? SMU representation. Well, guess what?

Now we got locked on SMU here on the podcast. And on today's show of Locked on ACCC Squad recruiting battles and wins over the past few weeks over the past few days. We're each going to share what's gone right and what's necessarily gone wrong in our football recruiting so far. But we're going to start this podcast talking about ESPN's 2025 ACCC college football. preview and they have the Clemson Tigers as the favorite to win the conference this upcoming season. Who's buying the first round here? Should Clemson be the favorite in the ACC?

I mean, it's funny, Jackson. We get that right as we bring in Mr. SMU, Grayson Singleton here. And I think that's probably the conversation right now. These were the two schools that represented us in the CFP last year. So it makes sense, especially with, you know, just continuity there. with a lot of roster stuff that these are the teams probably at the top of the table for us. I think if Donno was here back from his Italian eight year long trip, Grayson, by the way, one of our locked on ACC hosts who hosts Locked on Miami, has been gone on a six-week trip to Italy. We're not jealous at all of him.

But for just life and awesome. He is Italian, right, Jackson? I think, and I've heard the food in Italy is not. very good. So I'm definitely not jealous at all. Like Italian pizza. I can't argue with that. Italian pasta. It ain't all that. It's kind of terrible. Anyway, if Donno was here with us, I think he'd be him and and Han a little bit about Miami, maybe not being at the top. I was kind of laughing. There was that, have y'all seen that sporting news article that's resurfaced? It was actually from May where they ranked like the ACC quarterbacks. And Carson Beck was like,

I think third on that list. Here, Miami is third on this ESPN list. As well, well. And so I think that might be where the point of contention is. I got no problems, though, uh, with, wait, am I looking at it correctly? Nope, Miami is second, not SMU. I was looking back at the 2024 table. So I got no problems with Clemson being at the top. I think Clemson, Miami and SMU in some order probably makes the most sense to me. Clemson, Miami and SMU at the top three. And I think they will finish the top three. But here's the, here's the thing about this. I do think Miami in some way is being. underrated a little bit. And my biggest belief in that is because I think Carson Beck still

has really good college football left to play. Like there was a reason that we thought he could be the number one quarterback off of the board in last year's draft. Obviously, that ended up being Cam Ward, who he replaces at Miami. But if you had to ask me right now, Clemson and SMU are at the top of that list because they're the two with quarterback play caller continuity coming back from last year. You look at everybody else, there's some sort of change at the top of those sorts of programs that could be competing for the top of the ACC. So if you talk about roster continuity and especially continuity with head coach, play caller and quarterback, those are the top two right there, Clemson at SMU. And that ultimately could be what leads them to having a rematch in the ACC

championship game. Not to mention, they play each other in the middle of the year. Jackson, what you got? That's definitely going to be a good game. So I think Clemson is definitely the favorite. They were really good last season. They definitely turned it on down the stretch, made the college football playoff, won the ACCC championship over SMU a year ago. And K. Klubnick is due, I think, for a Heisman caliber season. I would not be surprised if he wins the Heisman trophy this upcoming year. I'd like SMU right now at number two. Because I think they're a lot more predictable. I think they're just going to be really good. I don't know to the extent beyond that.

Like, are they going to make a college football playoff team again? But as Grayson mentioned, they had that continuity, a quarterback again. They got the same coach and everything like that. So it's all good at SMU. I look at Miami, and I think they really are this boom or bust team in 2025. Carson Beck. I actually am a big Carson Beck fan because I think it's a similar effect to what happened last year. I'm going to bring it to Syracuse for a moment with Kyle McCord,

how he's coming over from Iowa State. Everyone thinks he's not very good because he's coming from Ohio State. And, you know, he's transferring to Syracuse. And you look at his numbers and he's actually really good, but he's not what Ohio State was used to. Carson Beck, projected number one pick, all these high expectations, right? He didn't have a bad year. He just did not live up to the expectation of a potential number one pick in the NFL draft. And that doesn't make it bad. It just means, okay, maybe he's not the best quarterback in the country, but he's still damn good. The problem is he's hurt. I have no idea how he's going to be off elbow surgery. The guy literally got Tommy John.

So I could sit here and say, hey, Miami should it be a top team in the ACC this upcoming season. Miami's going to win 10 or 11 games in the regular season. They might win the ACC. They might be really damn good. They saw the defense, all that. And you could also sit here and tell me six months from now that Miami just had a disaster year. They were basically like Florida State because Carson Beck's elbow fell off. they don't have a they don't have they don't have he doesn't have an arm so i don't know i mean can you talk to me about miami like two weeks into the football season and then we can have a conversation about them because they are really really i don't know it's just boomer bust to me with miami and again

now i'm going to get all the hurricane fans in the comment section below he thinks they're going to be florida state no i just want to see how carson be health is going to be this upcoming year who are your sleepers though in the acc go ahead i think Definitely the Cardinal Stanford. No, I'm just kidding. Like, I, I in no way want to be any level of homeristic here, but I'm going to be. And I know you're going to, Jackson, your head drop tells me everything.

This is really solely based on schedule and the hope that Bill Belichick will do what Bill Belichick does. It's funny because right now, who knows who care. Speaking of quarterback conversations, who knows who Carolina's quarterback's going to be. But hear me as I read this schedule to you. Non-con, four games straight to start, TCU, Charlotte, Richmond, UCF, fine, whatever. They start off ACC play hosting Clemson. Then after that, Cal, Virginia, Syracuse, on Halloween, Jackson, we're going to get spooky

you together for that one. Stanford, Wake, Duke, NC State. That's it. There's no Miami on that schedule. There's no SMU. There's no Louisville. There's no FSU. None of that. And so so much of that for me is based on feeling like this level of coaching staff can take that schedule. And if you're not eight and four, nine and three at the worst, or at eight and four at worst, excuse me, then I feel like you've severely missed the mark. And if you can do that, I think that is sleepery status enough. So it's not based on like, I think Carolina is going to be loaded or shock a lot of people with how good they are. It's just that schedule lines up to if you don't have a great record, you've done something horribly wrong.

My initial thought was North Carolina too. And the reason being is because, A, they did pretty well in the transfer portal with Bill Belichick on board. And number two, Bill, you can say a lot of things about Bill. right now. You can say a lot of things about Bill's personal life right now. But the one thing that is always uniform with Bill Belichick is that there's always continuity and stability in his room. So it's not as if North Carolina is going to have this variance of we're going to be really, really, really good and we're going to be really, really bad. That's not genuinely, generally emblematic of a Bill Belichick team. The team I'm looking at, though, is Louisville. And there's a lot

of confidence in Louisville because and it's reflected in recruiting right now. Louisville's been in battles with guys for four guys that they generally would not have been. So a lot of people are looking at that program and saying, okay, there might be something here. The problem with Louisville, though, is that schedule, particularly on the back end, is wild. So you have to go to Miami on October the 17th. But then your final four games of conference play is at Virginia Tech. And and then home for Cal, then you're home again, but that's Clemson, and then you travel to Dallas to take on SMU. That is a rough way to end your conference slate,

and then they end the regular season against Kentucky. So Louisville, I think, is the team that on paper could be a sleeper, but if you look at that schedule, for them to be a sleeper, that is an arduous task. So you guys both said North Carolina and also Louisville, Grayson, I'm going to go Duke. Mensa. I'm going, yeah, Daria Menzel, they spent a lot of money for him.

Big money for him. He better be good with all the money that they paid him. But you know what? Check out Duke's schedule. Just check it out. Because it doesn't look that hard on paper. I look at Duke and I say, if Mensa is what he's being paid to be, then this Duke team could win 9, 10 games relatively easily.

Who are there at Tulane? That's going to be fun when they go to Tulane. Yeah. Because they have obviously meant that. That's going to be a fun one. I'm sure he's going to be well received. NC State at Syracuse, at Cal, Georgia Tech at home. Okay, they do have to go to Clemson.

Yep. That's the toughest game. That's the toughest game. By far. I look at their schedule when I say I could easily see Duke winning 9, 10 games. Yeah. I mean, it's a similar argument to what I made for Carolina easily. Yeah.

So I think a lot of it sometimes comes down. And Duke, by the way, by ESPN is projected 4.4 conference wins, which I know you can't get 0.4, but that's just how they do their models. So they're basically saying between four and five, I disagree. I think they're going to get six. I'm looking up the Fandul over under right now as you talk on Duke. Because there's conference schedule is NC State at Syracuse at Cal, Georgia Tech, at Clemson, Virginia, at North Carolina, Wake Forest, I think their ceiling is seven and one in the conference, and at worst, they'll be four and four.

Fandwell has them over under six and a half total. The whole year. The whole year, that's not just a C. play. That's total. That feels low to me, boys. That feels really. That's a, you know, Fan duel bet $5, you know, get $150 and bonus bets.

You might want to put it on Duke to go over six and a half wins football, not Duke basketball, No. I'll tell you this. Look, if they're giving you six and a half Duke wins in basketball, you should take that over as well. Oh, no, no, no. You can if you can adjust the odds,

but they might be so astronomical. I don't know if it might be like you have to bet a billion dollars to get one dollar. Yeah. I'll tell you this about Duke, though. If they win that game against Illinois in week two, I think that tells us a ton about the Duke team that you're dealing with this year.

Yeah, I agree with you on that. I think, dude. And that's at Wallace Wade, right? That's at home? Yes. Yes. They're at home. Their only game I look at it and say that they legitimately,

I give them, I guess you got to give them a 1% because I'm never going to say 0% with a power conference matchup is you got to go to Clemson. That's right. That's it. Every other game, you at minimum have a puncher's chance to win it and at maximum you are going to win it.

So that's why I think that Duke is my sleeper in the ACC. See, if you tell me six months from now, they're in the conference championship game, would not be surprised one bit. But coming up, we've got to go to the next thing. And maybe we can come back to this in a second. But talk about quarterback continuity. We got to have a Haynes King discussion as part of this when we come back around at something. Sure.

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lock that Duke wins at least six and a half games. This upcoming. coming season, you might want to take the over on that. And hey, if you're new to Fandu, it's the perfect time to sign up because new customers can bet just $5. And if it wins, you get $150 in bonus bets. Open the Fandul app today or visit Fandle.com to get started. This is the locked on ACC SWAT. SWAT. I'm Jackson Hulzer, the host of Lockdown, Syracuse. We're joined by Isaac Shade, host of Lockdown Tar Heels and Grayson Singleton, the new host of Lockdown SMU on the previous segment. We talked about how Clemson's the favorite in the ACC and some of the dark horses within the conference.

But Isaac, I'll guess I'll start off with you. What is it about Haynes King that you want to talk about here? Just like, he's a guy that, A, has continuity. I know Georgia Tech hasn't been great since they would just ground people, even then calling them great isn't is a reach, but hasn't been strong since they would ground people into the ground in the Paul Johnson era every now and again throw it up to Megatron or something. But like Haynes King, I feel like, has established himself as the type of quarterback that even on a non-great team can put the offense on his shoulder and win a couple games.

That sporting news article I referenced earlier, they had him second quarterback in the ACC behind only clubning. And so I bet like that alone at some point has to be enough to say like, Can Georgia Tech come out and win some games? And I'm saying that not looking at their football schedule. So, you know, like that's obviously a factor as it's been with all these conversations we've had. But there we go. So in regards to Haynes, first of all, on ESPN, they are projected exactly four wins in the conference this upcoming season.

And it's giving them a, I want to take a look at it right now, Georgia Tech a 75.5% chance at winning at least six. which is a bowl game. Fanduel has them higher than Duke, over under seven and a half. The problem with Georgia Tech, it's not necessarily about Haynes King, but it's again about their schedule. This was their issue a year ago and Matt,

they got Clemson, albeit at home at this season, but they still got to play Clemson. And they got Georgia. They got Georgia. They got to play Georgia. I mean, that again is a home game. And they almost beat Georgia.

last year, but you got to play Georgia and you got to play Clemson. Now, granted, that Georgia game does not count towards the agency. That's exactly right. But you got Clemson on the schedule. How much more, if you don't win that game, how much more margin for error does a team like Georgia Tech really have? And you got to go to Duke to NC State, right? Like what kind of leap to C.J. Bailey take this year? I think that's a factor in this as well.

Obviously, if the state boys were on here. If our other Grayson was gracing us with his presence, then I'm sure he and KG would be having some conversation about that for sure. Is Haynes King possibly the most disrespected quarterback in college football? I don't think so. I mean, he's got to be in the conversation, though. But here's the thing. And I think our conversation in the first segment may have proved that point because

Haynes King, he took very good care of the football. last year. Only two picks completed 73% of his passes against Georgia. He threw for 303 and two touchdowns. So he's, he's balling against the marquee opponents. But for some reason, there's just something clunky about either him or something clunky about the way Georgia Tech goes about offense that doesn't lend to it being in any way spectacular. And I think that's why we leap over Haynes King when we talk about these discussions in the ACC because there's nothing about about what he does or Georgia Tech does. That's spectacular, even though they nearly beat Georgia

and outside of that game had a really good year last year. I need to go look at Fandau right now and try to find the Heisman odds, but I'm pretty sure when I was doing a preview a long time ago about quarterbacks that Syracuse was facing, because that's one of the podcasts I did. I think back in January. I got it for you. You got it?

Yep. What is it? Just go down through the list? Yeah, where is he? Oh, specifically Haynes King? Yeah. All right, Manning, Manning, best odds. Nussmeier, Kluvenik, Klovenk, Kloch,

not surprised. Jeremiah Smith, Drew Allers, Julian Sagan, Lagway, Materer, Sellers, Moore, 11, and Carr, Beck. Ooh, I'm going to a long way, boys, and I'm not, okay, there he is, finally. He's plus 6,500. I don't think those are disrespectful odds, but if you're telling me that, I wouldn't put Carson Beck ahead of him after elbow surgery. I just can't. That's fair. I do think, talk about this, though. A lot of a lot of the

Heisman voting comes down to moments, right? You know, who has your, the cliche. Your Heisman moment. Right. Who is more capable of generating moments? Because I feel like Carson Beck, part of his reputation has to do with he's been in so many big games and has performed in some of those big games. Whereas, again, Haynes King, they've been in one big game against. that game against Georgia last year and perform pretty well. But there's just no moments to speak like when you when you think of Haynes King, what do you really think of? I think he's I think he's really good.

I just sometimes you're left with wanting a little bit more when you watch him. Exactly. Because you see so much talent. He's got the arm. He's a bulldozer. He runs over you. And then it just doesn't always translate. I can't necessarily explain it.

But I'm not trying to disrespect the guy. I think he's really good. I think he could legitimately be an all-ACC quarterback this upcoming year. But the reason why with Georgia Tech is, again, you've got to play Clemson and you've got to play Georgia. I don't know. Are they going to be Colorado in week one? You know, you got to go on the road.

West Coast Dane? So maybe Georgia Texas sleeper because we're clearly sleeping on them a little bit, but I don't know. Hang on. Let's have a time zone conversation here, Jackson Holder. Colorado is most definitely in mountain time. Oh, that's mountain time, homie. Okay. But it's not, okay.

I'm not letting you get away with such disrespect. It's not California. Time time zone. You're traveling to the western part of the United States. I'm not a geography major, but I do know that that is the western part of the United States. Really? You're not a geography major. Isn't that the weird thing about the ACC, though? Because isn't the ACC like the only conference right now where you're having teams literally go cross country for conference play? Like, look at the cow. No, no, no, big 10. You're working in that.

Oh, Big 10. Yes. No, you're right. So there's two. There's a big 10 in the ACC. But does that not play to the disadvantage of somebody at some point in the season where you're traveling. from one coast to the other. Oh, I have never been able to figure out why team struggle in that. Like, I've never been able to figure it out. Because everyone always mentions it as a topic like, I got to go to a different time zone or whatever. It's huge travel. And I'm like, I don't get it.

You got airplanes. You got, you got doctors. You got everything on site to where it shouldn't be a problem for you. And yet it becomes a problem. I don't get it. But it's a problem. Because it happens. Casual makers typically try to do stuff to help you with it.

Well, yeah, they try to schedule it back to back. So you stay out wherever you're, I know in basketball, that's what they did when if you had to play last year. If you had to play Cal and Stanford last year, they put them on the same week. So you just stayed out in California at all the time. And it would be like a big deal. Like Miami and Florida State would go together and then just flip-flop the way the Pack 12 used to do travel partners. But I mean, yeah, it, I think it's definitely like. This is basketball, but Mick Cronin and UCLA's basketball coach talked about that a lot last year,

how weary they got of all that travel back and forth. Anyway, Haynes King, 31st best Heisman odds. There you go. I don't think it's disrespectful at all to put him at 31. How much higher should you, I think you should be above Beck, but other than that, how much higher should he really be? That's a good question. And I think what we would have to do to ultimately answer Grayson's question is to look at other quarterbacks with either, longer Heisman odds or maybe, you know, with less fanfare about them around the country

as regard to their capability or skill set and to determine it that way. I agree. But even if you look at the top, you're not going to, obviously, you would probably bet on Arch Manning to win the Heisman over Paints King. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

Right. Right. How many, at what point do you get to the list and say, okay, that's where Haynes King might be able to be. Let me consider, consider Julian Sayan, for example. And I know a lot of college football at this point in time in the calendar. It's a lot to do with projection, right? But what have we seen from Julian saying quite yet?

I mean, it is purely a potential thing. But if you're telling me, who would I rather bet on to win a Heisman? I'm taking Sayin every day. I mean, I trust that Ohio State knows what they're doing, that they know he's one of the top quarterbacks in the country. I trust Ohio State that they think this kid is good. He's probably going to be pretty good. And the thing with saying too, which elevates him with those odds,

is because he's going to have more opportunities for those Heisman moments too. Right. 100%. So at the end of the day, I would guess that on that list, you can probably at least come up with 20 that you can say definitively, you would take over Haynes King in a Heisman race in the preseason. and then outside of that, you could start debating. But again, I don't think it's disrespectful to say Haynes-King, 31st in Heisman odds.

I mean, think about it, 25 teams get ranked in the top 25. Wait, is that how that works? That's it. Top 25 is 25 teams. So if you're 31, that's not that far off. That's ORV. That's ORV territory. It's not that far off.

I don't think it's disrespectful to put it. It would be fun sometime to do that experience. like going through this list and saying Haynes King or, you know, Jaden Maliava or whatever, or Nico Maliava, things like that, right? And I mean, that's just a coin flip. Right, exactly. But to go through the list and actually do it that way. Fair enough.

But I think next we should maybe talk about some of our recruiting battles that we've had at each school. So let's do that on the locked on ACC squad. This is the locked on ACC squad. I'm Jackson Hulzer, the host of Locked on Syracuse, joined by Isaac Shea, the host of Lockton, Tar Heels, and Grayson Singleton, the new host of a locked on SMU. And hey, since you've made it already this far on the podcast, and you can just do us all a favor, hit that like button, hit that subscribe button.

It helps all our channels, bro, to reach all of our fan bases. Now, we've talked a lot about ACC football preview, Haynes King, Clemson being a favorite, what's going on with Miami, who are the sleepers? he also got a lot of recruiting battles going on here in here in July. Syracuse just had a big one, but we'll get to that in just a moment here. You guys can just share maybe one or two of your big recruiting battles and maybe one or two of your big recruiting wins. Let's have at it because these schools, incidentally, very, very interesting in recruiting. Yeah, Grayson, you want to go ahead?

Well, SMU seeing its biggest recruiting cycle pretty much ever. I mean, you'd probably have to go back to the 80s, but like pre-death penalty to really get to get a recruiting cycle that would even come close to matching this one. So right now they've got not, they've got eight four stars committed. They're on the precipice of getting a commitment from four-star wide receiver, Zachary Turner, who's going to play tight-in for them. He would be their ninth four-star. Prior to this year, you have to go back to 2022 the last time that SMU signed a four-star. And that was tight-end, R.J. Maryland, who also was a wide-end, receiver in high school. And then before that, you have to go to 2021 where they signed one four-star

quarterback Preston Stone. So the fact that they're on the precipice of having nine committed is absolutely wild for SMU. And it kind of goes to show that that program is on one of the steepest dissents right now in college football. But the one you're keeping an eye on now, especially after they get a commitment from Drew Evers, the four-star interior offensive linemen from Flower Mountain, Texas, who chose them over Oklahoma and Ohio State. You're really looking at Zach Turner now because he will pick between SMU, Oklahoma, and Miami in the coming days. For Carolina, it's crazy.

They have 30, boys, 30 commits in the 20-26 class right now, which is easily the most in the ACC. There are no five stars, anything like that, but they do have four four-star commits, which is south obviously of Miami, south of Clemson, the south of Florida State, south of the best of you, even Syracuse.

I think you guys have like five or six, Jackson, if I remember correctly. It depends, yeah, but yep, go on. You know, I mean, it's very Billichekian, right, to cast a wide net, see who's man enough to stick it out, survival of the fittest and all that. The highest ranked recruit,

Carolina actually just got, gosh, about a week ago now at this point, maybe a little bit less than, and that's Red Chapman, who committed last Thursday to Carolina. He's the highest rated player for them in this class that went up against Florida State in that battle. He's a 6-4-195-pound kid, good hands, great route tree kind of stuff comes out of Alabama. Interestingly, his brother had committed to Carolina about a week before and another D-back out of their same school in Alabama had also committed to Carolina.

So that's the biggest. And then I would also say Travis Burgess, a high-level quarterback, four-star that committed to Carolina over like basically Auburn, just to shove it in Zach Blackerby's eyeballs. And so we'll take that. He's had some really nice stuff at Elite 11 recently. And so that's probably the two biggest notable wins in recent time. Well, for Syracuse, they are on pace to have their best recruiting class since 2003 at minimum. If you go back and look at class rankings, they really started on 24-7 sports in 2003.

And Syracuse has never even had a top 30 class. Wow. After getting five-star Calvin Russell, which is their first five-star since 2001, you got to go back to Johnny Morant. Fram Brown's definitely doing wonders. They are now bordering a top 20 class in the nation. Again, unheard of for Syracuse football over the past two plus decades. The guy to keep an eye on now who can maybe solidify their class as being top 20 is current. four-star commit defensive back to Darius Hughes at Florida State. The interesting thing about to Darius Hughes is that, yes, he's committed to Florida State, but he did take an official visit to Syracuse at the end of June. And as Brian Smith likes to say on the Lockdown Portal podcast, if you get someone on campus for an official visit,

you got a shot to actually land a kid. There's definitely mutual interest there. So they got him on campus for an official visit. On top of that, he was at Calvin Russell's commitment, party when he decided to commit to Syracuse and they are also teammates at Miami Northwestern High School. Take that information for what you will. But if I'm a Florida state man, I'm looking at the Darius Hughes right now and I'm saying, are we sure we're going to be able to hang on to him? And if you're Syracuse, I think you've got to do everything in your power. They might already

be doing this, but do everything in your power to try to flip him because if Syracuse flips him, they are going to have a top 20 recruiting class in the nation when all is said and done. So this is a program in my opinion. I get I'm a Syracuse host. I'm a Syracuse fan, but they are definitely on the rise in the ACC. Any last folks? Or excuse me. Any last thoughts?

We are the last folks here. That is an accurate. This is the last supper, as you say. No, I mean, I think the thoughts are it's July. were literally weeks away from camp, and I don't know about you, boys. I am salivating. Let's get this going.

I think there's so many fascinating things about this season. Grayson, you can go. I mean, you look at North Carolina, SMU, and Syracuse, all looking like they're going to have potentially a top 20 recruiting class. Who would have thought? The boys, the NIL era is here,

and it has turned everything on its head. And I think the funny point, part is that after Calvin Russell committed, there was a lot of people on certain fan bases that were saying, oh, it's the money, it's the money, it's the Syracuse money. And I'm like, where did this money come from? Have you looked at Syracuse recruiting in recent years? You know, forget football from a bit like basketball. They can't get anyone in basketball up until maybe this year would need George, but I don't know. Maybe they just found new money. I don't I'll take it. I'll take it. There's no salary cap with NIL.

But folks, this has been the locked on ACC squad. I'm Jackson, also the host of Locked on Syracuse. Isaac Shade, host of Lockedon Tar Heels. Grayson Singleton, new host of Locked on SMU. And since you made it this far in the podcast, hey, when you're done, you can check us out in all our channels, Locked on Syracuse, locked on Tar Heels and Locked on SMU. And we'll be back next week with another episode of Locked on ACC squad.