Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - SHOCKER: Miami Hurricanes DOMINATE ACC But Virginia Cavaliers Deliver UNREAL Turnaround?

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

Miami Hurricanes capture the ACC spotlight with a national championship game run, but Virginia Cavaliers steal headlines as the best turnaround story—jumping from a hot seat to 11 wins under coach T...ony Elliott. Can Miami build on its stunning success next season, and is Virginia’s revival a sign of lasting change in the ATLANTIC Coast Conference?Alex Donno and Kenton Gibbs break down the wildest ACC football storylines—debating Florida State Seminoles’ angry fan base after back-to-back disappointing seasons, Clemson Tigers' untapped potential, and Duke Blue Devils’ truly bizarre campaign featuring conference glory, quarterback lawsuits, and off-season chaos. Plus, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets fall short of their promise, Wake Forest Demon Deacons fly under the radar with a quiet nine-win season, and Boston College Eagles hit rock bottom. Who’s the most slept-on program, and which team faces the brightest—or bleakest—future?Everydayer Club  If you never miss an episode, it’s time to make it official. Join the Locked On Everydayer Club and get ad-free audio, access to our members-only Discord, and more — all built for our most loyal fans. Click here to learn more and join your team’s community: https://lockedonpodcasts.com/everydayerclub   Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!GametimeToday's episode is brought to you by Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONfor $20 off your first purchase. Terms and conditions apply.MazdaLike our players, we’re driven by the details. Because highlights make the reel. What it takes to get there makes it count.There’s more to a Mazda. Because there’s more to you.Turbo TaxFor a limited time, you can have your taxes done by a local TurboTax expert for just $150 — all in, if a TurboTax expert didn’t file for you last year. Just file by February 28. Take taxes off your plate and get back to your life. Visit https://TurboTax.com/local to book your appointment today.  Rocket MoneyLet Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster. Join at http://RocketMoney.com/LOCKEDONFanDuelIf you’re a new customer, bet just $5 and get $200 in Bonus Bets if you win. Make it count — because after the Super Bowl, the season is over. Last call for football on FanDuel, an Official Sportsbook Partner of Super Bowl Sixty. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 While Miami had the best season in football in the ACC, they didn't have the best story. You are Locked on ACC, your daily podcast on the Atlantic Coast Conference. Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. Happy Friday and shout out to the everydayers. Thank you so much for making Locked on ACC your first listen. We're available free wherever you get your podcast. We're free on YouTube. We're part of the number one Locked on podcast network, your team,
Starting point is 00:00:36 every day. He is Kenton Gibbs, former NC State defensive linemen and co-host of Lockdown Wolfpack. I am Alex Dono, host of Lockdowne Canes, and today's episode is brought to you by Fanduel. It's the last call for football on Fanduel. If you're a new customer, just bet $5 and get $200 in bonus bets if you win. On this loaded episode, coming off the 25 football season, which fan base is the angriest? I think there are two possible answers there. We will debate. the most bizarre season in the ACC, and let's talk best and worst. I mean, Kenton, obviously, I may be a little biased being the Miami guy, but we can agree Miami with their run to the national championship game,
Starting point is 00:01:21 despite not winning the conference, which in itself is a little bizarre, Miami had the best season. Oh, yeah, I don't think anybody can make an argument of, in terms of just purely where you ended your season, who was close, who was better, who was in the same? stratosphere. Nobody. Miami was our only playoff team. With Miami being our only playoff team, we can't imagine a world or we can't lie about
Starting point is 00:01:44 a world where, oh, I've had a better season, I've had a better season against the expectations. Sure, against expectations, absolutely. But how can you call the national runner-up anything other than the crown jewel of the conference? Yeah, I think for Miami, the question now will be, can they sustain and even build on the success of last season?
Starting point is 00:02:03 and they, of course, biggest storyline of the last couple weeks. They've added Daryan Mensa from Duke and his top receiver, Cooper Barcate. You know, Miami does lose playmakers like Rubin Bain and Akeem Mesidor, specifically off their defensive line, but they're trying to reload, a really good-looking roster again for next year. We'll certainly talk more about Miami, but Kenton, since best team was pretty obvious. I don't know if people will feel like this is a little bit off the reservation, off the map, but I think if you follow the
Starting point is 00:02:35 ACC, you're probably going to agree with me on this one. The best story in ACC football for 2025 were the Virginia Cavaliers. I mean, you think about Kenton, where Tony Elliott had taken this team in his previous
Starting point is 00:02:51 three seasons. Three and seven in a shortened 2020 season when they had a tragedy there. The season was shortened for them. But three and nine in 2023, five and seven, in 2024. Tony Elliott enters the 2025 season
Starting point is 00:03:07 on one of the two hottest seats in the conference in terms of a coach who was about to get fired. And then Virginia goes on, Kenton, to win 11 freaking games. Biggest improvement in program history to go to five wins from
Starting point is 00:03:23 11 wins. And suddenly Tony Elliott, his seat goes from scorching hot to ice cold. I know Virginia ultimately didn't quite win the conference, or get into the playoff. But I would say the way Virginia was able to improve their fortunes. And oftentimes when a coach enters the season on the hot seat,
Starting point is 00:03:41 it doesn't usually end well. But it ended very well for Tony Elliott. Dono, you just brought up one of the most interesting things I've ever heard. This team won as many games last year as they did in Tony Elliott's first three years combined. Man. Three wins, two wins, five wins. 11. And they won 11 last year.
Starting point is 00:04:03 That is spectacular. That is spectacular. You cannot, you know, while we talk about Miami being the best team and while their playoff run did seem somewhat magical at times, there is nothing like a team that everybody have written off. Everybody had said, hey, this is done. And here's the thing, even if, let's say for kicks and giggles, Mike Norville finds that old magic back next year.
Starting point is 00:04:30 Yeah. And he gets that Florida State team. to 11, 12, 13 wins. It wouldn't hit the same because, number one, is Florida State. That's generally the expectation for you to be in that ballpark anyway. And number two, Norville has already proven he can do that at the FBS level. He's proven he can do that at the ACC level prior to this.
Starting point is 00:04:52 Everybody's looking at Tony Elliott like, hmm, looks like it's back to coordinator for you, buddy. Looks like the big leagues were just too big for you. You should have taken a job at a G5 school and gotten your, lab legs before you jumped up to the power four and then you jumped up to one of the worst power four programs in terms of Virginia football. And so now you see what you're seeing there. You know, I don't know what world you would say anything other than this is flatly spectacular from UVA.
Starting point is 00:05:22 Yeah, no, 1,000 percent. I mean, for UVA to go 11 and 3, including a Gator Bowl win, but to even be, you know, 10 and 2 regular season, it's a remarkable turnaround by Tony Elliott and company. And I want to also give out superlatives, Kenton, on this episode for categories like most disappointing, most bizarre of a season. I think there's multiple nominees there. Most predictable season. Most slept on.
Starting point is 00:05:54 Most unreached potential. Actually, okay, so let's go to most unreached potential. Kenton. It's crazy because seven, eight weeks into the season, it looked like it was going to be impossible for Georgia Tech not to be in the ACC championship game. I mean, Georgia Tech, they ended up losing four out of their final five games, including the bowl game, three out of their final four regular season. Like, it was really feeling like Georgia Tech. I know like their highest moment was, you know, an upset win against Clemson when we still thought Clemson was a juggernaut, but that was still a huge win for Georgia Tech. And it's like they can't possibly screw this up and they found a way to
Starting point is 00:06:34 screw it up. So I would say that's like the most unreached potential just given how they started the season versus how they ended it. It reminded me a little bit of Pittsburgh the year before when they won what their first seven games and then they lost their last six. It wasn't quite that bad of a drop off for Georgia Tech. But it was a noticeable precipitous drop for them. Oh, absolutely. It was. Sorry, my camera is on the Fritz for whatever reason. You got a mind of its own. I'm doing my best to keep this thing straight.
Starting point is 00:07:02 But, you know, when you look at Georgia Tech, they had such a interesting season because you could say during the season, well, yeah, their biggest win was a win over a Clemson team that wasn't that good. But if you look back at it and talk about, well, wait a minute, what happened during this season? Like what actually happened in terms of knowing what we know at the back end, what was actually your best win? a convincing win over the ACC champions in Duke also happened.
Starting point is 00:07:33 That also happened. And somehow, coming down the stretch, you lose to NC State allowing 48 points. You squeak by in Chestnut Hill, allowing 34 points. Then you lose to pit by double digits. Then you lose to Georgia as well in a tightly contested game. And then the Pop-Tarts Bowl, we all know how that went down. What happened, man? How did the wheels fall off so quickly?
Starting point is 00:08:02 So quickly. They couldn't stop the run, I think was it. And it only got worse throughout the year, I think was the biggest factor. Yeah, it's just a really, really disappointing into that season, especially where they were ranked. You're ranked firmly in playoff territory. You're there if you continue what you're doing before NC State. And then all of a sudden, they just, you know, could not stop a running nose.
Starting point is 00:08:25 to save their lives. And so all of a sudden, you see what you see, I would say that this team did have a ton of untapped potential, although I will say there was a team that they may have gotten another superlative that I would argue belongs here. Oh, well, why don't we get to that when we come back? Because I also want to get to who had the most bizarre season because there are multiple nominees.
Starting point is 00:08:51 But in terms of who had the most disappointing season, there can only be one. You want to keep it locked right here. We're only getting started on this brand new locked on ECC. It's the last call for football on Fandul. We have one final Sunday, one last kickoff, the final chance to get in on the action before the NFL season officially comes to a close.
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Starting point is 00:10:12 You get exclusive ad-free versions of our episodes, Discord access, special newsletters. You want to check it out. Join the Everydayer Club, Locked onacC.com, or click the link in the show notes below. All right, so Kenton, finish your thought there after the Georgia Tech note on who else you've gotten that category. Yeah. So in terms of who I have as a wildly
Starting point is 00:10:37 disappointing team, I mean, and not reaching their potential, we all would agree, Clemson was the most disappointing, but I think they also had the most untapped potential. You look at what their players are doing down at the Senior Bowl. They're saying that Parker Jr. is darn near unblockable.
Starting point is 00:10:55 And during the season, he was very blockable, very much so blockable. Okay. And you sat there, and you said to yourself, well, man, what's the problem, right? One week is the defense. Then next week is to offense and all this and all that. But you were supposed to have one of the best wide receiver rooms in the nation,
Starting point is 00:11:13 and they were half of ACC first team last year. So to say that that team did not have a lot of untapped potential, you can't tell me, even if you say you lack depth, you lack all this, you can't tell me that it makes sense that you and Troy. are in a knock down dragout bar fight in your crib. You are in Death Valley and you're in a knockout, dragout with Troy, that has nothing to do with them. Because your top-end guys should be able to take care of that,
Starting point is 00:11:47 dispatch of that game, and hey, they put up a good fight, you know, they came, they played a good quarter or two, we're Clemson there, Troy, we leave it right there. That did not happen. So ultimately, I'm looking at them and I'm saying, what's actually going on here? Who actually is this team and what they do? But we can all agree the team that was supposed to be,
Starting point is 00:12:08 if you would have told me at the beginning of the year, there will be a 16 and 0 undefeated champ from the power four. Who will it be? I would put all my money on Clemson. Not on Indiana. And yet it happened. And it was Indiana and not Clemson. If you would have told me Clemson is going in their season
Starting point is 00:12:24 in an epic matchup with Penn State, I would say, oh, wow, both of those teams are going to have fantastic seasons. LOLJK, they're playing for hot dogs at the Fenway Bowl. That's what's going on there. You know, it's just a very disappointing season. And they take the cake for most disappointing. And I went back and looked this up, Kenton. You and I were both in Charlotte for the ACC media conference last year.
Starting point is 00:12:48 So, you know, we were among 183 media members who voted on categories, including preseason ACC favorite. Like who's going to win the conference? And out of those 183 votes, Clemson was picked by 167 of the 183 voters. Oh,
Starting point is 00:13:12 they didn't sniff a conference victory. I mean, a conference championship, I should say this year. They barely sniffed the conference victory. They got a little whiff of a couple of those, but it wasn't often. And so,
Starting point is 00:13:24 don't know, I would simply say this, right? You're looking at a team that was expected to be 16 and old that barely got into a bowl game by the hairs on their chinny, chin, chin. And so you would say this team was disappointing. They did not reach their potential. Honestly, it's still a modern marvel of how that didn't happen because they didn't have a ton of catastrophic injuries all throughout the season. It wasn't like it was like, oh, man, there goes Wood. Oh, man, there goes Clubnik.
Starting point is 00:13:52 Oh, man, there goes Parker. Oh, man, Terrell's out too now. And that was what it was. Well, those guys, for the most part, were healthy for more of the year than not. Yes, there were some injuries to the wide receiver room here and there. Guys were in and out of wide receiver, I'm sure. But no other position group had major injuries all year. And they just, you just scratch your head.
Starting point is 00:14:09 Like, so why didn't it work out? Yeah, that's the trillion-dollar question. And it's one that Davos-Sweeney is going to try to answer. So, all right, Kenson, I think that there needs to be a debate here on who had the most bizarre season. throw you three nominees and why, and you tell me if I'm leaving anybody out. So one nominee for most bizarre season, the Syracuse Orange, right? I mean, they looked really good to start the year, and a lot of it had to do with Steve Angelly, really looking phenomenal at quarterback. Like, their offense looked like nobody could stop them. The defense was shaky all year,
Starting point is 00:14:49 but the offense could score on anybody. Steve Angelly, less than halfway through the season, in a game against Clemson, ruptures his Achilles, he's out for the year. And not only did Syracuse not have a viable backup, they started for multiple games at quarterback, a young man on a lacrosse scholarship, Joe Filarty. He was a walk-on to the football team, a true freshman lacrosse player,
Starting point is 00:15:16 and it was even worse than you thought it was. Like, however bad you think a lacrosse player would play a quarterback, it was worse than that. that was bizarre. So Syracuse is one nominee. Oh, let me give you the others and then you can help me settle this, right? North Carolina, that's a nominee. And a lot of it was not the fault of their players. You know, they didn't have a very good year. But the whole circus that came with Belichick, right? The bizarre way Bill handled the media, the relationship with Jordan Hudson, who I've heard, I can never tell what's fake and what's real anymore. I saw something about them breaking up. But I was that. satire. I don't even know. I don't know what's satire and what's real anymore, but they were together during the season, and it was tabloid fodder. So North Carolina is up there. And then Kent, I would also submit to you Duke, even before, now the off season has been a freaking roller coaster. But even before the off season, this team could not have been worse in non-conference play, but they were really good in conference, so good in conference that despite five overall. all losses. They play for and win the ACC championship only to become, you know, first time in the 12-team era, you know, a conference champion from the power for who doesn't get selected for the college
Starting point is 00:16:37 football playoff. And then you add in everything that comes with Dary and Mensa and Cooper Barcate leaving right before the transfer portal opened and Mensa getting sued and landing at a conference rival in Miami. And those teams are going to play each other for Miami's homecoming. next year. So Duke is right up there as well. Duke has to be number one. And let me tell you why. Syracuse was one catastrophic injury away from being terrible. And that's just what it was. Yeah. Bill Belichick at UNC was something that I predicted from the moment they hired him.
Starting point is 00:17:11 You did. They're going to be bad. They're not going to be good. I don't know why y'all think that that's going to work out. But I knew it wasn't even before all the Jordan Hudson things. But when you think of bizarre, when you think of something that you look at the same, you look at the schedule and you just left said, huh, so that really happened, huh? What if I told you, Dono, and this is an actual fact here, what if I told you that the ACC champion would lose to Tulane? Would you believe it? No, especially not after taking Tulane stud quarterback off of Tulane and putting him
Starting point is 00:17:49 onto your team. I would not have predicted that. You jumped ahead of me, but it's all right. Sorry. I was going to say, what would you do if I told you that that team that lost also took the quarterback? But I got another one for you, Dono. Yeah. What would you do if I told you that the same team that went on to win the conference, not only lost the Tulane, but had their doors blown off by a middle of the road big 10 team in Illinois?
Starting point is 00:18:14 Yeah. You believe me. No. And yet, the oddity, this is how bizarre was for Duke. UNC and Syracuse, they earned them being bad. They earned their bizarreness. Duke was so bizarre. They got some help from an obscure tiebreak rule that we've never thought we'd see off
Starting point is 00:18:36 a 17 different way tie break where it's like, oh, it doesn't even matter who you beat. It's just about who you played. The oddity had to happen in such a strange way. And again, I give Duke all their credit because when they were asked to line it up, they whooped the wheels off Virginia and I know beating somebody in overtime they whooping the wheels off them, but you get the point. They won the game.
Starting point is 00:18:56 I got you, yeah. They won the game. And therefore, they're ACCC champs. But just a strange year. And then you get into the off season and you lose your quarterback on the last possible day of the portal, then you sue the quarterback,
Starting point is 00:19:10 then it settles before, but it still settles after when the last day to enroll was. It just, huh. Yeah. I don't know. I don't understand Duke's season because this is the most,
Starting point is 00:19:25 it feels like this is a moment where if you were to promise Duke fans, you're going to win an ACC championship. They would have been geeked up and excited and had a certain thing in mind for their season. But if you would have showed them the end of the season and said, this is it, I think a lot of them, a lot of Duke football fans would say, really? That's how it plays out?
Starting point is 00:19:45 Oh, my Lord, this is terrible. you know so so duke duke then you're right they win the award for most bizarre season right they beat out syracuse and north carolina kenton i want to give a special award to the wake forest demon deacons and that's the award of most slept on right i mean there's a good chance that nine out of 10 people on average who are listening to this right now probably had no idea that wake forest won nine games this past year. Like it, it was the quietest nine win season in the country, which I guess is part of the problem that Wake Forest doesn't get more attention and they're not a very watched football team. But it's like, I mean, Kenton, if I told nine out of ten people on the street,
Starting point is 00:20:31 if I lied to them and said that Boston College, who went two in ten this year won more games than Wake Forest, probably most people would believe me with that lie. But it wasn't even close to true like wake forest win seven more games the boston college they win four more games than florida state right they win more games than clemson this year like that that team was very slept on and they at least deserve to be mentioned yeah yeah it's when i look at what wake forest was and what dicker did in year one right you talk about who his quarterback was and a lot of things jackson hosier right now is telling us how syracuse's nil is broke and that's the problem What's your think way forward sitting on?
Starting point is 00:21:12 The helmets might be gold crawling. You think they're sitting on the mound of gold up there in Winston-Salem? No. No. And yet, Dickard in year one, in year one, had that thing worked out with Robbie Ashford at quarterback. Now, for those of you who don't know, Robbie Ashford was benched every other place he was at. And that's the quarterback that you took.
Starting point is 00:21:40 to nine wins. Hell of a job by Dickard. Hell of a job by that team. I mean, this was a massive big-time deal by it. Yeah, huge. And like for the same reason, I feel like Wake Forest should be celebrated, even though like a lot of people just don't care about Wake Forest football. I wish more people realized how bad Boston College was this year. It's like they go two and ten with a former NFL head coach as their head coach. And it's like a tree falling in the woods.
Starting point is 00:22:08 Like, I mean, that deserves. to be talked about more. And notice our very good friend, AJ Black, we love what you do on lockdown Boston College, but I'm sorry. Your football team is really bad this year. What did the Grinch say? Stink. Stunk.
Starting point is 00:22:25 That's what Boston College did this year. They were terrible from start to finish. You know, and for Bill O'Brien, they go after reporters talking about, you're always coming in here with negatives talk. Well, what the hell is positive at 2 and 10? Give us something positive, please. What good can I say, Dono?
Starting point is 00:22:43 What good can I say? Oh, the kufilth fish is great up here, apparently. The clam chowder must be great after team. I will say I feel that they wasted a year of Dylan Lonergan's life because that young man can sling it. Like that quarterback, he's got talent and he can put up numbers. Here's the thing. I don't just think that they wasted a year of Dylan Lonergan's life.
Starting point is 00:23:05 Anybody that's serious about football success, their life was wasted, their time was wasted. because Bill O'Brien is not a good head coach. He has shown us time and time again who he is. And yet still, he fails forward again and again and again. And Nick Saban's gone now. So there's nobody that after he gets fired is going to give him that rehab treatment that Sabin used to give all his former assistants. That's right.
Starting point is 00:23:35 Oh, you drink a little bit too much at your old job. Come on over to the Sabin rehab. We'll get you right. Oh, you can't win a game to save your life? Come on over to the saving rehab clinic. You don't know when to call a timeout? I've got just a thing for you. The next saving rehab clinic.
Starting point is 00:23:51 Come on down to Tuscaloosa. You stay there for two years and then you get the top of your dreams somewhere else. That don't exist no more. I'm predicting Bill O'Brien within the next three to four years will never be a head coach in football again because he's not good at the job. And we keep having to pretend like he, is during the season him and belichick were so bad you and me were talking about piracres and we said
Starting point is 00:24:15 it doesn't matter which bill you put it to bottom just put either one either or you're good so you know embarrassing by boston college this year well all right coming up next um in the award for the angriest fan base i feel like there's one that takes the cake there should be multiple but but there's one that i feel has the right to be extremely angry you want to keep it locked right here we're not done yet on this brand new episode of Lockdown ACC. Folks, this is Mazda's moving the game forward. For those who show there's more to the score
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Starting point is 00:25:48 There's more to a Mazda because there's more to you. Thank you for making Lockdown ACC your first listen. If your next listen, check out our other shows. Kent and Gibbs and Grayson Boone do an awesome job talking all things NC State on Locked on Wolfpack. I talk all things Miami on Locked on Cains. All right, Kenton, so angry is fan base. You know, based on the last couple weeks, you'd like to put Duke in the conversation, but it can only be Florida State.
Starting point is 00:26:21 And rightfully so, listen, I, you know, I'm going to, I'm going to extend the olive branch here just for a couple of minutes. Because as you can imagine, Kent, and Florida State fans and I don't often get along. And it's understandable, right? They, they hate me because of the program I represent. I hate a lot of them because the program they represent. But there is no denying the history. There is no denying the pedigree of that program. and there is no denying the standard that the fans in Tallahassee still have for their team.
Starting point is 00:26:51 Unfortunately, that standard does not seem to be shared right now by their administration, including their athletic director, Michael Alford, because unfortunately that program has been stuck in quicksand. They don't seem to be in a very good financial situation, which is why they can't afford to fire Mike Norvell right now. And then you can't blame their boosters for not wanting to invest in the roster, when Norville is still the head coach. So it's a huge issue there for that program,
Starting point is 00:27:18 Kenton, to have only won seven games in the past two seasons, a two and ten and a five and seven. That does not meet the standard. And I completely understand and respect just the fury that Florida state fans have for their situation right now because honestly, they deserve better. They're one of the few teams in all of college football that have multiple,
Starting point is 00:27:43 national championships. More importantly, all of their national championships came within your lifetime, Donald. 1993 up through 2013. This is fairly recent success to now seeing what we're seeing now. If you go beyond this, they should have had a shot at a national championship a couple years ago. But Jordan Travis Legg and the committee being the terrible committee that they were that year, kept them out. But they never recovered. At what point, do you bounce back. Life is not fair all the time. There are things that happen that are not good. They're not right. They're not just. I could point out a billion injustices in the world that happened. I can point out 20 that happened to me in my lifetime right now. But you know what I
Starting point is 00:28:30 didn't do when those injustices happened? When those things that I objectively had worked hard and earned something, it was taken from me, you know what I did? I got knocked down. I licked my wounds. I got up and we go forward. We go forward. Florida State had been in suspended animation ever since then. They moved the muscle. They moved forward. They climbed upwards.
Starting point is 00:28:53 They've just been stuck at the bottom of the mountain since they got knocked down there by a terrible committee decision. And I acknowledge the decision was terrible. It was. Not denying that. Not denying that. But this is to get up. Stand up. Fight back.
Starting point is 00:29:09 Be Florida State. Be the garden and gold. Make people fear the spear. Because right now you've got a coach that nobody wants. You're getting players out of portal. A couple of them are decent. But for the most part, nobody wants those guys either. And so, you know, I look at Florida State's fan base,
Starting point is 00:29:30 and I say nobody has the right to have higher expectations and nobody has failed to meet them as repetitively as Florida State has over these past couple years. Yeah, well said. I want to give out one final award just because we can. The award for the chillest, raddest fan base of them all goes to the Calgarhythm. Calgaryth, baby. Calgaryth. I had to shout you guys out because you're so great. We love the memes. And you know, you guys had a fun season this past year with JKS at the helm. I'm glad he's staying. I glad you guys made your coaching change because, you know, I also. I also think, and obviously Cal doesn't have the sort of standards that Florida State fans have. Of course. But I also think Cal, you know, deserve something different after the very long failure of the Justin Wilcox experiment.
Starting point is 00:30:22 So you guys are chill and I'm glad you're getting what you deserve in a good way. Nobody has a better fan base in terms of like just being cool guys. Like if I could pick Wolfpack Nation, of course, cool guys, gals and them's and they's, just the coolest over there, Cal. Okay. They're just awesome. they bring great vibes to the party. Their memes are sophisticated. They make you think a little bit.
Starting point is 00:30:45 It means challenge you a little bit. It's like watching Fraser. Exactly. Exactly. It's such that, listen, CalGarhythm, we are glad that you're here. Okay. I don't care what anybody says about,
Starting point is 00:30:58 oh, a cow doesn't belong. Keep bringing the vibes. It's like when you got to bring that one friend on the trip and everybody's like, oh, I'm not sure if they should be here. And then they get on the ox and the vibes. just instantly raised. Y'all go to the gas station and they get all these great snacks. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:31:16 Hey, we got to make sure this guy's here next time. Kyle, you're that guy. We got to make sure you're here next time, brother. Yeah, one million percent. Huge thank you. Shout out to the everydayers. Make sure you check out the Everydayer Club, locked on accc.
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