Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - NEW NIL Laws In Virginia Will Change The Game, Biggest Storylines For FSU & UL Spring Games

Starting point is 00:00:00 The landscape surrounding name, image and likeness, NIL, is about to change drastically yet again. An ACC country is right at the center of it. You are Locked-on ACC, your daily podcast on the Atlantic Coast Conference. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Shout out to the everydayers for making Locked on ACC your first listen and your first watch each and every day. I am Alex Dono from Locked on Caines. He is Kenton Gibbs, and his future is so bright he's wearing shades. I know you're struggling with an eye infection or something.

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Starting point is 00:00:59 Now free on the app store or Google Play. So Kenton, just yesterday, we were talking about the NCAA, the Division I Council, officially changing their rules to match up with the rules they could no longer enforce, maybe this time around they can enforce them, where they have now made it legal for member institutions, schools, to facilitate NIL deals with third parties, which was, it was already happening, but it was technically not allowed by the NCAA. I think they're about to get forced to change their rules yet again. And this is a significant step towards players becoming employees of universities,

Starting point is 00:01:38 whether people want to accept that or not. So Virginia, they're changing the game right now. And I'm going from a report here based on the new law. Dan Murphy of ESPN wrote it up early this morning. It's been kind of quiet the reception that this has had. I think this is a bigger deal that people are making it out to be that schools in Virginia will now be able to pay directly pay athletes by a name, image, and likeness deals. Because it's no longer third party.

Starting point is 00:02:06 Schools in Virginia can pay athletes directly thanks to a state law signed Thursday morning, marking another significant step in the professionalization of college sports. The new law, which is scheduled to take effect July 1st, is the first in any state to make it illegal for the NCAA to punish the school for compensating athletes for their NIL rights. current NCAA rules prohibit schools from signing NIL deals with their own players. Now, the law could either give Virginia schools a significant recruiting advantage or provide a catalyst for similar changes elsewhere. Here's an important key from this Kent and how they're trying to make these distinctions because I know when people hear this, oh, schools can now sign players to NIL deals. Players are now school employees.

Starting point is 00:02:48 Technically not or at least not yet because the law explicitly states that athletes should not be considered employees of their school. Schools in Virginia are still not allowed to pay athletes for their performance in a sport, but starting this summer, they will be able to use university or athletic department funds to pay athletes for appearing in marketing campaigns. Williams, who is the athletic director at Virginia, said, quote, may be a distinction without a difference, but there is a distinction there. So it's like, we're not saying this is pay for play, but we're not saying it isn't pay for play. And that's the biggest thing to me, right?

Starting point is 00:03:27 And, you know, me and the NCAA are going through a similar thing right now. I have a sensitivity to seeing light. The NCAA is having the sensitivity to seeing the future. They cannot have any ability to have foresight at all because they should have known this was coming. If anything, all the rules that they came up with for the latest proposal for, yeah, you can have your third parties and all this and all that, they should have known. They should have known that this was coming. The same way that they should have known that the transfers with the situation about basically having unlimited transfers now was coming, they should have known that we are marching onward towards the professionalization of college football.

Starting point is 00:04:06 And I want to make one thing clear. You're absolutely right, Donald. This is a massive deal. This is a massive deal towards players becoming being labeled professionals, which they objectively are. But I want to make one thing clear because people are going to look at the 90th domino that failed. It'd say, oh, man, what happened to the game I love? This didn't start with these players. This didn't start with Virginia.

Starting point is 00:04:32 As the old song goes, we didn't start to fire. This came a long time ago when coaches became the highest paid, the highest paid state employees in almost every state. This came with administrators from the NCAA. It was no longer one-file cabinet worth of stuff. All of a sudden, they've got 20 different offices all over the place, and they've got these exorbitant salaries flowing around there. This came when coaches are becoming celebrities and having these commercials and all that. So don't be that person that is here to demonize these players, that's here to say, oh, this generation is all about me and everybody's asking, what can I get?

Starting point is 00:05:12 Because I remember Nick Saban said that about players and said that that's why he was quitting. Well, I simply say this, not just to Nick Saban, but to every coach that shares a similar. sentiment and to every fan that shares a similar sentiment. How would you feel if your job was negotiated with you only via college credits? How would you feel? You show up to work tomorrow and your job says, hey, we're no longer going to pay you despite the fact that you generate millions, if not billions of dollars in revenue. What we will instead do is pay you in grad course credits. Congratulations. You're a free doctor. You would look at them as if they are smoking on substances that we cannot mention on air without losing our clean ring.

Starting point is 00:05:54 So please understand that this is a massive deal, like you're saying, a distinction without difference, and this is moving us towards that singularity, because no other sport can reach this level of pay for each individual player. Basketball can come close, but let's just be honest. Baseball didn't even have full scholarships for all these kids. Some guys are out there hitting 15 dangers a year and on a half scholarship. So that's just what you're looking at in terms of football,

Starting point is 00:06:21 being the king by a mile in terms of revenue. And as we can clearly tell from this ruling out of Virginia, we're moving towards football separating. Yeah, and I like we said about moving towards, because I think we're closer to the beginning than the end here. Like this is not the end of the story where the goalposts keep having to get moved. So what I think are the two next steps that are going to come from this, one of these being a shorter term step and one of these being the eventuality,

Starting point is 00:06:45 and it could be the end game. The short term step for me is the same way the NCAA has had to amend. their transfer rules to allow players basically unlimited transfers as long as they're academically eligible. That's now a thing. The same way the NCAA recently had to say, we now can allow schools to negotiate NIL deals with third parties for players based on this Virginia rule, because all of a sudden, technically, Virginia has a different playing field from every other state. Like, how do you think until they can get their own laws passed? and that's probably going to happen in due time.

Starting point is 00:07:20 But how do you think schools in SEC country are going to feel about this? There's going to be pressure not only on their own state lawmakers, but pressure on the NCAA. And the NCAA, whether they wait for state lawmakers or not, can no longer enforce rules on other states than Virginia and expect to get away with that. So the next step here is the NCAA is going to have to yet again, Division I Council amend their rules to say, yeah, you know what, now we cannot criminalize. or punish schools any longer for, you know, making direct NIL payments to players. I think that's the first next step. And then eventually, I think we're going to reach a step, Kenton. We already see things going on in the Ivy League with unionization.

Starting point is 00:08:04 At some point, this is going to hit Division 1, where eventually, whether it's under the NCAA umbrella or not, probably not, players are going to be employees of their universities. and we're no longer going to pretend it's not pay for play, pay for play is going to be out in the open. Absolutely, absolutely. And I mean, again, it makes sense. It makes sense. There is too much money in this thing for it to not have led here.

Starting point is 00:08:32 You cannot say that, hey, these athletes are not professionals when thousands of people are showing up to watch. What you and your friends do in Lifetime Fitness, that's amateurism. That's amateurism, right? nobody wants to see you all play the 21. That's why you took the score down to 12 because it would last all day long with you all trying to get the 21.

Starting point is 00:08:54 Nobody wants to see that. But you know what people do want to see? They want to see Tofeele. They want to see DJU. They want to see Grayson McCall. They want to see Cam Ward. They want to see Tony Caledria. They want to see Castiano's.

Starting point is 00:09:11 They want to see these guys. It's a difference. It's a difference. whether we want to acknowledge it or not, whether you feel bad about, oh, there's a student loan crisis, and these players are already getting paid and all that. Listen, the world, like I always say, fair is not what exists in the world. Fair is a place where you go to eat food that'll kill you or get on rise. That is just the reality.

Starting point is 00:09:34 These young men are earning and creating a type of revenue stream that the world has rarely ever seen before. And it's time those chickens are coming home to really. roost and these players are demanded their cut-up. You talked about the situation in terms of the Ivy League unionizing. You remember what happened when Northwestern tried it? They got shut down in the courts. Well, the courts seem to be a lot more pro player as of late than pro-NCA, huh? I guarantee you, like you said, this is going to be a situation where the NCAA has to go

Starting point is 00:10:06 back and say, oh, yeah, we were good cop all along. We want you all to get paid. We want you all to, hey, schools, if you want to pay. And I'm going to say one more thing because I know I can talk ad naism like a preacher about this thing if you wanted me to. But in terms of do you think the teams in SEC country and all these other schools in Big Ten country and ACC country are going to feel like they need to make a law about this. If 2024 has taught me anything, I watched the TikTok ban happen at real time.

Starting point is 00:10:35 And that band happened lightning quick. It went from like, hey, we're going to propose this to all of a sudden pass the house and the House of Representatives and Congress or and Senate. All immediately. Let me tell you something. When it comes to Deere-old State, when it comes to Deer-O state,

Starting point is 00:10:56 whatever university, UNC, UVA, Virginia Tech, P, wherever your university is. Nobody. And I mean nobody. We got former college coaches in the city. I am telling you right now, they will be moving quick, fast, and in the biggest.

Starting point is 00:11:13 hurry you've ever seen to my state's got to pass this law we got to pass as long we got to get our players paid because if that discrepancy were to happen if that discrepancy were to happen the schools weren't to adjust i guarantee you tony bennett would look like he'd be in everybody's top 10 coaches within two years what's you want to bet i bet dollars to donuts on it i'm not i'm not going against you on that action that's for sure and speaking of action we have spring football happening around the acc this coming weekend uh we're going to talk a little bit about louisville they take the field tonight. Florida State, they take the field on Saturday 4 p.m. We're going to have our good friend Smitty, aka Brian Smith from Lockdown Seminels,

Starting point is 00:11:52 is going to break down all the important FSU storylines. We'll keep it to the on the field stuff. We'll talk about all the court stuff on future episodes, but who needs to step up in Florida State Spring game? You want to keep it locked right here. Alex Dono from Lockdown Keynes, Kenton Gibbs from Lockdown Wolfpack, right here on this brand new episode of Lockdown ACC. And I already know you're keeping it locked to Monopoly Go.

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Starting point is 00:13:29 joining us here on Lockdown ACC. So Brian, what are the most important position groups you would like to see step up for the Seminoles on Saturday? Well, number one, everybody wants to see DJ Uiungal be consistent, be accurate, not have mental errors and stuff. And I'm sure that the fans want to see some of the backups too. but DJ's the key. You know, Brock Glendell play with Chromehawk will play.

Starting point is 00:13:51 That's great. But DJ's the key. That's the guy they went out and got in the portal. The other groups are a little bit interesting. They lost two big time receivers in Johnny Wilson, Keon Coleman. I have no idea which guy or guys it's going to be. And, oh, we're just going to play a committee? Look, you need a dude on third down that everybody knows they have to scheme against.

Starting point is 00:14:12 Right now, Florida State doesn't have it. After having two of them, that's a really concerning situation. offensive line and running back is loaded with talent. They should be good. Defensive lines pretty good, but they did lose Jared Burs. There is no, and like Kenton and I've talked about, there's no replacing Jared Bersk completely. They do have guys.

Starting point is 00:14:32 They got Marvin Jones Jr. That transferred him from Georgia. He's pushing the pile. I've heard he's really good. They've got guys. I need to see somebody step forward again. I'm not saying there's Jared Bersers is walking out onto the field at Dope Campbell. But they need to have some proof that they got a really good pass

Starting point is 00:14:47 rush. And then the linebacker unit's my biggest concern. They didn't have much depth last year and they got really, really lucky. They just didn't have that significant injury. They're still not that deep. They got DJ Lundy back and they've got a few other guys kind of fitting in. I want to see how they work. The secondary will be lights out. It's going to be tremendous central Cyprus and a bunch of guys. They're about eight guys in that second. I don't care who starts. They're good. And they've got tremendous defensive coaching. So I'm good there. But again, just to reiterate, everybody's going to watch DJ. 90% of the comments of my show are going to center around whether he played well or not.

Starting point is 00:15:23 Is that fair? No. But when you sign up to play quarterback, that's the deal, baby. So let me ask you this, right? Because we all look at the quarterback, but we all know the quarterback is the most dependent position in all of football because you need everybody to do their job, right? So who are the playmakers that DJ is going to be heading off to or passing it to that you're expecting to have a big year? And even just a big game in this spring game to show like, hey, this is going to be a guy that the ACC is going to have to be on the lookout for. Well, there's a couple ways to look at it. But I think it's the transfer portal, which is ironic because we're in the middle of the portal.

Starting point is 00:15:59 Malick Benson and Rodel Williams, both from Alabama. Ironically, Benson's the receiver and Rodel plays running back. Benson's the guy that can fly. DJ's got a hose. He can go along. This is a good match. But they also got some other guys like Darryon Williamson, Kenton, Hikeem Williams, a South Florida kid that I know that Alex is familiar with.

Starting point is 00:16:21 They have guys, but which ones are going to fit with him? I'm curious if he has a favorite guy and then Jekiah Douglas is a sloth. They'll probably get involved, et cetera. One of those guys has to take like a big step forward because I haven't heard anything from every source I've talked to, everything I've read. So that's my concern. Running back, though, Warren Stofi will be the main guy and Rodel will be more of the powerback. They're good there.

Starting point is 00:16:46 I mean, they've got three, four other guys that can play. They're just loaded. I still think the passing game is the key. Offensive line has got plenty of experience. They should be pretty good. You know, you mentioned Brian, Florida State having a loaded secondary. And when you've got a loaded position group, you're not too surprised to see somebody hit the transfer portal.

Starting point is 00:17:03 They're losing greedy Vance Jr. Where would he have been on that depth chart had he stayed? And how much, if at all, will he be missed there? Well, it's interesting because, I mean, he was really good. last year. He was one of their best tacklers. He was one of their best guys just overall in coverage. And he played nickel, which we all know is

Starting point is 00:17:23 a very dynamic position. Run defense, playing against screens, coverage the whole nine yards. But Earl Little Jr., another guy that transferred him from Alabama, came in and beat him out. He was a five-star kid. Sartan coached him at one point.

Starting point is 00:17:38 Back at American Heritage, this is just a really talented guy. And after you've been a starter and you're going in your last year you're trying to get taped to go to the weed, it's the portal. So you're not going to replace him. They've got Kevin Knowles behind him, but they are thinner. And Grady could have played any of the corner spots or at Nickel. He's a really good football player. He'd started probably 90% of the schools. But I mean, Earl Little is just better. He flat beat him out. So it is what it is. And that's why the transfer portal is a little frustrating. But again, it's their deepest position. It's not really in

Starting point is 00:18:11 question. I mean, Ezra Thomas is another guy. I expect him to turn pro after this. next year at the other corner spot. They got plenty of talent in secondary. So going back to the defensive line a little bit, because you talked about Jared Burs, but another guy that happened to have replaced is an all-conference, all-American guy, and Braden Fiske on the interior. What is sort of absolutely,

Starting point is 00:18:30 and you talk about Peyton and you talk about Marvin Wilson, Jr. on the edge, what are we looking at in terms of replacements on the interior of that defense to where you feel like, you know, you know me. Baseball and football got one thing in common. You need to be strong up the middle. That is just a fact of life. What is the replacement plan there that you expect to see come outside?

Starting point is 00:18:51 Well, somebody that Alex is familiar with, Daryl Jackson Jr., he got hosed last year, had to sit out. He's 300 pounds or so, 6'6. He's a kid from right down the road just outside of Tallahassee. He's the most physically gifted. He played in Maryland and Miami now is at Florida State. That kid, you can't teach the girth in the length. He's probably their most gifted guy on the defensive line in general.

Starting point is 00:19:14 everything came together, maybe more than Marvin. Joshua Farmer, another kid that's local. He's had his moments. He needs to take that next step up because he's probably going to start. And those are the two main guys. They're counting on some other players coming up. They got Grady Kelly is a guy from Colorado State that's a solid pickup out of the portal. And then Daniel Lyons, another sophomore, a kid.

Starting point is 00:19:34 He's going to be a redshirt sophomore. It's kind of his time. We'll see if anybody else emerges. But those four, that's a pretty good group. It'll be one of the top two or three interior deelines in the ACC. Florida State head coach Mike Norvel, he's been known as the Portal King. He's rocked the transfer portal since he's been with the Seminels. But he's had to sit on the sidelines here for the first week. So going back to the Ameris Mims violation, Florida State was given, I would call a slap on the wrist. This is not a huge penalty, but they're, you know, technically barred from contacting and taking transfer portal visitors until April 21st. So they're technically sideline for the first week. Do you expect that to have an effect on the transfer portal. And to a side note on that, how many players do you think Florida State needs to bring into the portal this time around? Well, that second part's really important. There's been a lot of

Starting point is 00:20:24 debate on my side about that. I'll hit that momentarily. But I really don't think that with the NCAA openly admitting they're not way trying to punish anybody. I don't think anybody is not cheating in some way, shape, or form at the portal at this point. Like I'll give you a 10 second story on this. I got a buddy of contact me. He said, one of the guys I know plays D-Tackle at a prominent program. Not even a prominent player, though, but he's a detackle. He's 300 pounds, was offered $500,000 to switch schools. He is not a frontline player. He wasn't going to transfer.

Starting point is 00:20:55 He was offered $500,000 for one year. He's got one year eligibility left. So does anybody really think anybody's being clean here? Let's just cut to the chase. The answer is dead. So I don't think it impacts them at all. And especially after the season they had last year, Florida State's not back to the Bowden era,

Starting point is 00:21:12 but it's cool again to go to Florida State. So it's not going to hurt them that much of it all. And they'll end up with two or three guys. And to your second part, I said this on my show the other day, locked on Seminoles. Take it for whatever it's worth. You never, Kenton,

Starting point is 00:21:25 I'll bring this up. You never turn down offensive tackles if you can get a really good one. There are few. There are very few. They still need a number one at receiver. Sounds like Blake Benson's going to be the guy. Ask me after the game at 4 o'clock on Saturday, but I need to see it.

Starting point is 00:21:42 And then, you know, on defense, like if you can just get at D. I don't care which spot. It would be great, but they got to get at least one more guy out of the portal. Just numbers. I don't want to like pit it on anybody, but like there's a lot of pressure

Starting point is 00:21:55 for them to kind of get going. Another guy from Alabama, Sean Murphy, another elite kid, didn't play it all at Alabama for a couple years, but there's rumors that he might be a guy that has a chance to start. What if he doesn't work out? What if there's an injury?

Starting point is 00:22:08 They're very thin there, so they need to get at least one guy at the linebacker spot. So tell me this. Is there a group that you're looking at coming into this spring game that you're like, hey, they may be, they're going to surprise America one way or the other, right? Like either people are too high on this group and you're like, let's hold our horses or a group that you're looking at like, hey,

Starting point is 00:22:28 they've got some dudes in this room and many people nationally are asking questions that you know will be answered in short order. Running back and it's upside. They got a kid that's unique and this is one of those wrist things that's worked out. Jaywin Lucas is a transfer from Indiana. He can fly. He's from Louisiana originally, and that's the connection with Norbel. His staff's always recruited there.

Starting point is 00:22:52 Scat back, slot, you put him in motion, do different things with him, and he's going to be like their third guy. He could start at some schools. They're going to have Rodel. They're going to have Tofeeley, two guys that can carry the load and him, and then they got Cam Davis, one of the best players in the country coming in. And, oh, by the way, Keziah Holmes, is their fifth running back. It depends on what direction you want to go with this.

Starting point is 00:23:12 all those players, despite losing Trey Benson to the NFL draft, Florida State's running back room is loaded. That's a lot to watch for in Florida State's spring game. Huge thank you to Brian Smith, host of Locked on Seminoles. Follow him on X at FB Scout underscore Florida. Brian, thank you so much. Enjoy the spring game. Thank you, sir.

Starting point is 00:23:30 Appreciate it. Now, when we come back, Louisville has got a spring game tonight. It's going to be, of course, some new faces. Some guys you may be expected to see on Friday night, like Penny Boone, will not be in action. So who's got to step up for the Cardinals? Alex Dono and Kenton Gibbs with you on Locked on ACC. You want to keep it locked right here.

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Starting point is 00:26:33 Unijie and also losing Penny Boone, who's probably going to end up in the SEC, Ole Miss and Tennessee get talked about a lot there. So I think one of the first big things I'm going to be looking for, Kenton tonight in Louisville's spring game is, who picks up the slack without Boone in the backfield? And I have been hearing really good feedback, and I'm happy for the young man on former Miami running back, Don Cheney Jr, who transferred out of Miami during the winter window. He's had terrible luck with injuries, but when healthy, he's a complete back, Kenton. He's got some speed, getting some of that back off of knee injuries.

Starting point is 00:27:08 He's also got some power inside, and the kid is a film junkie. So I think that's going to be someone to watch tonight. If I do recall correctly, Chaney was the one carrying the ball against Georgia Tech when that fumble happened. Are my wrong there? You are correct. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:27:24 I'm glad that he's found itself a new home. I'm glad he's found himself a new home because some of the victory order came his way on the back end of that, you know, even though we all saw that he was down and there was a blown call. Yeah, and not to mention he shouldn't have even been in that situation. And that was the biggest part

Starting point is 00:27:41 to where I was just going. And I'm not saying that Cristobald did not catch an appropriate amount of heat for that. I'm just saying there should have been no heat thrown to him because he should have been in that position, period. But I will also say this. That this is the reality that Louisville is facing right now. You have to go out there and put on the show. You have to go out there and show strength, show solidarity,

Starting point is 00:28:05 show that there is, you know, this isn't a situation where there's cracks in the dam and you're just trying to put flexial over it. because, you know, we're going to have Dalton Pence on the show here coming up pretty soon. But the reality is all of the reports coming out around Louisville, although a lot of them are fictitious, let's make no bones about that. There is still the idea that where there is smoke, there is fire. That's just a factual statement. It's a tale as old as time. You know, it's not just about, well, what is actually happening.

Starting point is 00:28:37 the perception can be affected by a guy like Pitygoode transferring out, by a guy like a tackle who's supposed to be a start of transfer out. Things like that affect the perception, whether you want to accept it or not. So Louisville here in this game, they have an opportunity to, again, go out, project strength, project stability, project, hey, we're good, we're fine. Everything is not perfect, but we're good enough. We are not worried about, you know, our coffers aren't empty. We're not sitting up here having a big,

Starting point is 00:29:07 for change to pay the players that we've already agreed to pay, we're in a good position. And again, you know, for all the fans who feel like we hate Luke, Ashton Jolati is one of my favorite players in the entire country. I love me some Ashton Jolati. I love watching them, Rusty Passer, love watching this take. Anytime I turn on the All-22, I got to find out. I got to find out because he is just such an enjoyable young man to watch. I've met him in person at ACC Media Days.

Starting point is 00:29:34 It's an extremely impressive young man. And so I don't want anybody thinking that Donald and I have an agenda, an anti-UL agenda, okay? We would love for the cars to whip the wheels off the Kentucky Wildcats. This is locked on ACC, baby. We're here with you. We hear with you. But we just have to report the facts. If it was NC State, trust me, we'd be talking the same way.

Starting point is 00:29:53 If it was Miami, oh, you best believe we'll be calling Uncle Luke right now. Hey, what's going on? Mr. Campbell, what's happening? We hear some things that are fairly unsavory. I could probably get him on the show. by the way. And that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's why we're going to have Dalton on the show pretty so. And we're going to, you know, reach out to our other Louisville contacts against folks on the show. Because again, this is a big story. This is a very big story.

Starting point is 00:30:16 But Louisville needs to keep the story on the field. They need to show a good performance in tonight's game. Yeah. And of course, we probably could have let off with the quarterback situation. I know our guy, Brian Smith was right to do that with DJ at Florida State because Kenton, I do believe that on paper Now, their new quarterback, Tyler Shuck out of Texas Tech, his season was ended last year with a broken leg. He, I don't think he's gotten through a full season with injury in a few years now, but a lot of experience. And he's great when he's on that field. And on paper, I think it's absolutely an upgrade from Jack Plummer, who I thought held Louisville back last season. In fact, if you look at Jeff Brom's coaching history, Louisville average 236.6.

Starting point is 00:31:04 passing yards per game. That's the lowest in Jeff Brom's tenure as a head coach. Shout out to the Louisville report for providing me with that stat. So, you know, I think that Brom feels like he's got a guy who can take his offense a little further in Tyler Shuck. The question is, can he stay on the field? See, Donald, I'm upset that you mentioned this. And I avoided talking about Tyler Shuck on purpose because I tried to give Louisville some love. I do not believe in Tyler Shuck at all. I don't believe in them. And again, this is coming from a guy whose career was deeply shortened with injuries.

Starting point is 00:31:39 You don't just up and change who you are in that regard overnight. It does not work like that. I would have loved to. Listen, okay, if I could have called Ripple Steelskin and traded in my firstborn or something like that to have healthy tendons, I would have done something. It don't work like that. It don't work like that. You are who you are. And we can all hope for his health.

Starting point is 00:32:02 And again, I hope for all these players to be healthy. I hope that everybody's rolling at their highest clipping capacity. And we get to see the top level of athleticism possibly allowed in the ACC. With that being said, I don't believe in Shuck. I'm not even going to lie to you. Even when he is on the field, I think he's all right. I don't think he's a needle move. I think that he is slightly better than Jack Plummer,

Starting point is 00:32:24 but I would put them in the same tier of quarterback. I'd just say he's slightly ahead in that tier. because to me those two are guys that like to me plumber is on the lower end of win with and like slightly above guys that you have to win in spite of shuck to me at his highest clip is like solidly in the middle of like you can win with him when he's playing his best football so i don't and if he's not playing his best football which we have seen a previous stop he's downright unplayable so i don't believe in shuck but like you said brine is a little bit of a quarterback whisper. Those brown boys do have a reputation that they can, if you give them a sentient Roomba with a good right arm, it might configure out how to throw for

Starting point is 00:33:08 $3,500 with those Brahms. You just drop sentient Roomba on me? Yeah, you get that Roomba a little bit of consciousness, you know, not exactly like it can make art or anything, but you teach you how to make a one, three, you know, drop down to two. Your third is the checkdown.

Starting point is 00:33:26 If he got a right arm, it might be all right. It might be all right. So I believe in Brahm enough to say that they may be able to win with Shuck, but I think there's going to be a few games where they don't have that talent level over other teams. So we're like, you're going to have to win because of Tyler. And I don't think he's that guy. I don't think he can get it done. We'll see what he shows us in the Louisville spring game,

Starting point is 00:33:50 which is 7 o'clock on Friday night. Florida State spring game will be 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. He's Kent and Gibbs from Lockdown Wolfpack. I hope those eyes feel better, man. I could see you were struggling. I hope you feel better. Get some, get some visine or something in there. I'm trying, brother.

Starting point is 00:34:06 I'm trying, man. I got the prescriptions and all that. So we're going to see what we can do. I'm Alex Dono from Lockdown Canes. We'll talk to everybody next time on another episode of Lockdown ACC. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day.

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