Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - SICKO MODE: Miami Hurricanes Head Coach Mario Cristobal DESTROYS Complacency Narrative

Episode Date: May 4, 2026

Miami Hurricanes head coach Mario Cristobal rejects complacency, setting a championship tone as his team aims for ACC glory. Alex Donno and Kenton Gibbs break down Cristobal’s uncompromising mindset..., comparing his approach to other national title-winning “sicko” coaches like Nick Saban and Kirby Smart. Can this relentless attitude spark a turnaround for Miami football—and are these intense methods the real formula for sustained success? Shifting to off-field drama, Duke faces a battle over TV rights after striking an Amazon Prime deal, with the Big Ten and Fox demanding their share of the Michigan-Duke broadcast. The hosts examine how legal disputes and streaming deals are reshaping ACC basketball revenue and fan viewing habits. Plus, three ACC quarterbacks—Aaron Philo, Alberto Mendoza, and Ashton Daniels—are spotlighted among college football’s most underrated transfer QBs. Which QB could become this season’s breakout star? Everydayer ClubIf 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! Indeed Listeners of this show get a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to help give your job the premium placement it deserves at http://Indeed.com/podcast RugietGet 15% off your treatment → https://rugiet.com/lockedonnhlRugiet. Performance medicine for men. FanDuel Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now new customers can bet just five dollars and get one-hundred and fifty dollars in bonus bets if your first bet wins. Visit https://FANDUEL.COM to get started — Play Your Game.   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 Don't expect Mario Cristobal to enjoy any modicum of success. He said, we haven't done. You are Locked-on ACCC, your daily podcast on the Atlantic Coast Conference. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. He is Kenton Gibbs from Locked-on Wolfpack. I'm Alex Dono from Locked-on Cain's, and today's episode of Locked-on ACC is brought to you by Fandual. Right now, new customers can't.
Starting point is 00:00:35 bet just $5 and get $150 in bonus bets if your first bet wins. Head to fanduel.com to get started. On this episode, we'll talk about the underrated transfer quarterbacks around America because a couple of those are in the ACC and one of those has left the ACC. How's he going to do in the SEC? You know, we talked last week about Duke cutting a great deal with Amazon Prime for three of their neutral site games, but the Big Ten has said not so fast, my friends. You can't sell the rights to Duke versus Michigan.
Starting point is 00:01:10 How is that going to resolve? But Kenton, let's start with words from Miami head coach Mario Cristobal. Miami, of course, favored to win the ACC and football this coming season. Brett McMurphy from On Three Sports, I guess was trying to get Christobal to comment on whether or not now he sees his team as the hunted with the success. And it wasn't, it was, you know, you didn't actually win anything last year for what it's worth. You didn't win the ACC, you didn't win the ACC, you didn't win the Natty, even though you came pretty close. And so McMurphy, I guess, was trying to bait Mario Cristobal into kind of reflecting on the success from last year. And
Starting point is 00:01:51 Cristobal responded, you know what? We haven't done expletive. The 2026 Miami Hurricanes haven't won. expletive. We haven't done a thing. So Coach Christobal, who Kenton is a Nick Saban disciple, worked for him in many years at Alabama, certainly doesn't want his players, a lot of which weren't even on the team last year, to think that any success they had in 2025 is going to carry over into 2026. God forbid anyone thinks that. You know, Donald, I'm going to, I'm going to tell you all of the recent national championship head coaches. And you, you're going to, You tell me what all of them have in common. In 2019, you got Coach O'Deron at LSU.
Starting point is 00:02:35 In 2020, you've got Nick Sabin with the Crimson Tide. 2021 and 2022. You've got Kirby Smart with the Georgia Bulldogs. 2023. You've got Harbaal with the Michigan Wolverines. 2024. You've got the Buckeyes. And obviously this last year, Kurt Signetti with the Indiana Hoosiers.
Starting point is 00:02:52 What do all of them have in common, Donald? I mean, some of them worked for Sabin. Not all of them, right? Or did all of them at some point work for Sam? All of them are not Saban disciples, but all of them are sickos. All of them are mentally unwelled human beings. They're not the type of guys that you're like, hey, I want to go out with a drink. I want to go out and have a drink with that guy.
Starting point is 00:03:15 I want to go out. I think that'd be a great night. You don't want to have a drink with any of those guys. Because Harbaugh is going to start talking about 62 toss power trap to you and the importance of an offensive playbook having that. Nick Saban is going to tell you about oatmeal cream pies and how everybody is now just out for themselves to make their own money in the college football landscape. And Coach O'Doran, literally, this is a fun fact about Coach O'Geron that I know from somebody who is one of his disciples.
Starting point is 00:03:44 He dips coffee grounds. Oh, my, wow. I'm actually pretty amazed. As a coffee aficionado, that's like another level that I'll probably never reach. You shouldn't reach that level, Dono. You shouldn't reach it. This is like when you told me last week that Brett and Sorsby was live betting balls and strikes and baseball games. I was like, wow, I'll never reach that level.
Starting point is 00:04:09 I'm an encyclopedia of knowledge of levels that Dono should not reach, ladies and gentlemen. But I say all that to say, Mario Cristobal fits the mode. He fits the mold of that sickle. If I'm a Miami fan, everything about this guy is like, I love this. I like this a lot. even creating petty feuds with host of, you know, locked on shows who are very handsome and talented. He probably has a picture of you in the locker room.
Starting point is 00:04:35 Maybe. He need to prove this guy wrong. Maybe, maybe. But I do want to say, that's the type of sicko stuff that I like. That's the type of sickle stuff that like. Some people will say Kirby Smart's a normal person. After they won their second championship, Nolan Smith said, y'all said we were going to be 75.
Starting point is 00:04:52 Georgia was favored to win the SEC, and I believe they started here with the second or third highest odds in all of college football to win the national championship. And yet Kirby convinced his players that people think you're going to lose half of your games in essence.
Starting point is 00:05:12 You can't be logical, rational, and like normal in this, right? Because if you say, well, Ken, I do agree with him. They hadn't won anything. Dono, quick question. if Jay Lucas and Miami would have been the second finishing team in basketball, how many banners would Miami basketball hang because of that?
Starting point is 00:05:32 Oh, man. I'll be probably a couple. Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final 4, at minimum, at minimum, right? But football coaches are just of a different ilk. These are just sick, depraved men. This is the type of stuff that I want to see from my head. coach i don't like no head coaches they're like hey we did a great job last year you know we need to build upon that you know we need to we need to find a way to build up on them i need a sicko that's like
Starting point is 00:06:01 yeah we want to ring last year so what half the guys in the locker room now weren't there last last year these guys ain't won jack squat yeah that that's what i want to hear you know that's what i can't hear and christobar yeah so you know obviously over the last four years i've i've learned what a sicko mario christobal is and you just know like there's certain things you don't ask him in a press Unless you're like looking to kind of get like an aggravated response. But I remember his first year at Miami. And of course the first year Miami didn't have much success at all. But this was a press conference leading up to either Miami versus FAMU or Miami
Starting point is 00:06:39 versus Bethune Cookman. They play one of those two every year. And that's always, you know, the game where, you know, you get four quarterbacks in the game, whatever. And a reporter was not me. But a reporter asked Cristobal, hey, this was leading up to, I think, a FAMU game. You know, is this going to be a great opportunity to get, like, a lot of young players into the game? And Mario looked at that reporter and said, your question is disrespectful to football.
Starting point is 00:07:08 I am not going to answer your question. And, of course, he talked about FAMU as if he was going up against 2017 Clemson. Right. He's wired that way. He does not want any sort of complacency to set in. And he sets that tone. It comes from the top down. And that's what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:07:28 That's the type of thing, right? I remember in watching, speaking of Miami history and Lord, the Catholics versus convicts 30 for 30. And the guy was talking about how Lou Holt's coached. And he said, it didn't matter if we were playing a small D3 school in the middle of nowhere where all their guys were 5, 8, white, and slow. He would tell us on the first day, on Monday, oh, we've got no shot. This team is, you know, we couldn't beat them in a month of Sundays,
Starting point is 00:07:57 and we'll be lucky to get maybe one touchdown or a field goal against him. And by Tuesday, well, if you keep trying and you keep competing, we're getting it. We're making progress. We may be able to do a little something with them. And then by Wednesday, we're the better team. And we're at Notre Dame. damn it, we should do what we need to do here. And then by Thursday,
Starting point is 00:08:18 it's going to be a real tough Saturday for those boys on the other side. And by Friday, we worked up into a lathering. We could beat the 85 bears for crying out loud. That is the claw that championship coaches are cut from. Again, there is the rare exception. Sure, there's the rare exception coach where you're like, he's a normal guy.
Starting point is 00:08:39 But again, all the coaches I just named you who won a national championship, they're all sickos. Even Ryan Day who people think is normal, putting that amount of just for men in your beard is not normal. It's not normal. The idea that you need to look young on a sideline when you've got a $20 million, $30 million, $40 million roster, you're not normal. You need to go sit down on the lady couch and have a discussion with her. So Mario Cristobal is from that long line of sick old coaches, you know, Dick Saban, who he's a
Starting point is 00:09:13 Disciful Love was telling people that they were the Taliban for crying out loud. That's a thing that he actually said. It's a viral meme that pops up every few months with him said, you know, you guys are all Al-Qaeda, man. You're the Taliban. So these are the types of mannerisms that breed championships. That's my only concern about Red Lashley. I don't think you got enough sicko in them to win a thing.
Starting point is 00:09:37 You know, he seems too long. You might be on to something there. We'll see if he's enough of like an offensive genius to make up for the fact that he's not enough of a sicko. That's fair. Red is just one of the guys. Yeah, yeah. I want to go out to have a drink with Red Lashley.
Starting point is 00:09:51 Red Lashley seems like a great guy. He really does. And SMU's been on the precipice every year. Maybe he needs a little bit of sicko. Maybe he needs to start with a weird fascination of milk and wearing cleats everywhere like Harbaugh. Maybe that's what he thinks. You might be on to something there. All right.
Starting point is 00:10:07 So when we come back, last week, we praised Duke for cutting this great deal with Amazon Prime, but one of those games that they sold to Amazon Prime, they are now accused of not actually owning the rights to sell. It's like those title thieves, Kent, you heard of those people that will like sell your house even though they don't own it? Duke is essentially being accused of that. You want to keep it locked right here. We're only getting started on this brand new episode of Locked on ACC. My friends, the NBA playoffs are in full swing. Every possession matters. If you're looking to get even closer to that action, Fanduel has a great offer to get you started.
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Starting point is 00:11:47 And you can find all your favorite shows there, whether it's Locked on ACC, Locked on Wolfpack with Kenton and Grayson, Locked on Cains with me and hundreds of others. Go to Lockedonpodcast.com slash Everydayer and become an Everydayer club member today. Thank you for making Locked on ACC your first listen. All right. So, you know, it's funny, Kenton. I kind of thought maybe the Duke deal with Amazon. like might have ruffled some feathers, but I thought maybe like within the ACC, like,
Starting point is 00:12:21 hey, are you, you know, within our grant of rights, is it okay to be selling your neutral site games, which it is, because if it's a neutral site, you know, the ACC doesn't necessarily have rights to those, but, but the Big Ten is complaining. I'm not sure if they're going to pursue legal action or how far they're going to take this, but the Big Ten, this is per Yahoo Sports Ross Dellinger, who's very informed. The Big Ten, this is per Yahoo! backed by its primary broadcast rights holder Fox has communicated with both the ACC and ESPN about the matter. The Big Ten believes it owns the broadcast rights as a part of a rights holder agreement between the conferences. In a deal that the two networks previously struck, the Big Ten and
Starting point is 00:13:05 ACC rights holders agreed to alternate the broadcast rights of neutral site games between their members played in shared territory such as New York City, where the game. game between Michigan and Duke is going to be. And a message sent to ACC leaders in ESPN on Thursday, Big Ten officials made clear that the Duke Michigan game is its property after the ACC's partner, ESPN, receive the rights to this past season's Duke Michigan game in D.C., another shared territory between the two conferences. So, you know, Kenton, there's a lot of legalese here. You know, you and I are not privy to that deal that was struck.
Starting point is 00:13:44 from where I sit, though. It sounds like the Big Ten, based on those facts, has a legitimate beef here that ESPN had the rights to that neutral site game last year. So that was not their rights to forfeit or sell to Amazon Prime this year. So I wonder how this is going to resolve. I mean, I think the game will probably end up on Amazon,
Starting point is 00:14:05 but maybe they'll have to pay the Big Ten or Fox something to make that broadcast happen. I don't know. Yeah, if this agreement, is as, you know, is per what was reported and what was said here. I mean, that seems pretty cut and dry. But in today's day and age, it's like what is actually cut and dry in the eyes of the law, right? We thought that the granted rights was cut and dry.
Starting point is 00:14:30 No way around it. Hey, you got to pay what you got to pay to get out. All of a sudden, you go to court, and now we got success initiatives. And now we got, you know, this team being paid more than this team just for this reason or that reason or the third. So I'm very intrigued to see how this all plays out. But it is a situation where, like you said, on what is common sense to us, this seems like the Big Ten has a case. The problem is, if the law were based on common sense, lawyers wouldn't be as rich as they are, right? Rohan Law, our good friend of the show here would say, hey, I got a seven-figure firm rolling.
Starting point is 00:15:06 If law was based on, hey, that's common sense. That's what makes sense. That's how that works out. So, you know, I'm very intrigued to see how this works out. But even beyond that, what precedence does this set for the rest of the teams, right? If your team is looking to get some additional revenue outside of what is already going on and not just Amazon, but all of these streaming services become a potential plate landing spot for it, right? Oh, potentially, well, Amazon don't want to pay me, but maybe paramount HBO Max. Maybe I go over there.
Starting point is 00:15:40 Get paid. Oh, well, you know, obviously you can't do Hulu because Hula is a subsidiary of Disney. Disney owns ESPN and all that, but maybe you find a streaming service that's not affiliated. It wants to give you a little bit of money to go out there and say, hey, you know, we really want Miami and Florida basketball, but we don't want it to be on ESPN.
Starting point is 00:16:00 Let's do it on a neutral site, and we split the proceeds down the middle 50-50. How about it? You know, so it's a very interesting precedent that may be set or denied based on this, right? Like it's a very interesting thing for these universities to where if this comes out in a way that Duke receives a favorable judgment in whatever litigation is to come or whatever settlement is to come or whatever the case may be, it's a very interesting thing to see because then it can set a president for it. You know what? Maybe we cut the middleman out.
Starting point is 00:16:30 Maybe Uncle Sam doesn't need a gram out our bag. In this situation, Uncle Sam is the conferences, not actually the U.S. government because they always going to get they cut. But if we're talking about, you know, cutting out a middleman in terms of the conference, this could be pretty interesting to watch. Yeah, very much so. And, you know, when we talked about initially before the Big Ten thing came into play here, when we talked last week about Duke, you know, getting extra revenue for putting these games on Amazon Prime, we got a lot of responses, Kenton, from the people out there, like the sports fans,
Starting point is 00:17:04 the average consumers of these games. And, like, I think the common complaint from people, tends to be that it's just harder to keep track of where all these games are happening, which I understand, because I had kind of characterized last week, like people are complaining because they don't know where to find these games on basic cable. I think, like, you know, the boomers, the boomers are understanding streaming better than I give them credit for, but they're having a hard time accepting the idea that I need to be subscribed to basic cable and like 10 different other things.
Starting point is 00:17:39 if I want to watch all these sporting events. And you know what? I think that's a very valid complaint because, I remember when when streaming services and cord cutting first became a thing, the pervasive thought that a lot of us had was, okay, this is this is going to make, you know, the whole TV viewing thing a lot less expensive. Because the big cable is gouging us, right?
Starting point is 00:18:03 Little did we know that you would have to pay like 1099 for like 12 different services. and you're paying more than you used to pay for basic cable. No, it's come full circle. We're paying more money and it's more complicated. But watch me bring this back to college sports. This is the problem with bringing private equity into things. It's always supposed to make it better. It's always supposed to make it better.
Starting point is 00:18:28 The promise, the allure, oh, we'll foot the bill. It'll be cheaper. It'll be cheaper. Oh, it'll be easier. Oh, those companies that DirecTV, Comcast, they got a monopoly. They're charging it too much. We're going to come in and make it easy. And then what happens, right?
Starting point is 00:18:44 Just like with Uber and Lyft, what did they do? They undermine the taxi cab market. Why is that important? When they undermine the taxi cab market and crush it to where nobody is driving any other ride sharing services outside of them, what then happens? They can say, actually, I think I'm going to drive this price up. Why are we charged you $10 to go to the other side of town? What do we do?
Starting point is 00:19:06 100%. Make it 30. Same thing to Netflix. did. Netflix when it first came out cost how much? What? Five, six bucks? Like five bucks, yeah. Now I have a family plan. It's 30. 30.
Starting point is 00:19:20 Every month. Bing. It's like, well, it's like, and I've got a 4K TV, but I can't afford the 4K Netflix. It's like way to us. I don't know, I can't watch 4K Netflix on my 4K TV because it's so expensive. But that's, but that's my point exactly, right? And that's why I keep trying to warn all these colleges and all of these
Starting point is 00:19:39 conferences and whatnot that are getting in bed with private equity it always sounds good up front it is literally red bird capital that you are getting in bed with yeah and we cannot see hey friends this is just a oh this is innocuous it's nothing you get to keep all the ownership which is going give you money at a very low interest rate might I add everybody will be able to pay it back you want 30 million dollars 40% of your players are leaving your conference in terms of your all conference players they're leaving to go to the big 10 and the SEC you take our money they'll stay and it's free money. It's only 9% interest that's not that bad right don't read the fine print don't read that Just know it's money you get up front right now.
Starting point is 00:20:32 And that play when that bill comes due, you won't think about it if you have a championship. Now will you? This is the nature of private equity. And this game is, you know, the game, this right dispute. Imagine talking about this 10 years ago now, no. Imagine that. Imagine, you know, I'm not as old as you,
Starting point is 00:20:51 but I've been doing sports journalism since before I even graduated from state. Once I was medically retired, I immediately got into the sports. journalism side of things. I could not imagine in 2017 having a conversation of so wait, who owns these gaming rights and it's streaming on Amazon? That would feel like a crazy statement to say. Yeah, it would. And yet here we are with this statement being normalized because again, when the profit incentive gets into every single part of college athletics, it yields some very wonky headlines to say the least. Yeah, it sure does. A little bit less of a of a wonky
Starting point is 00:21:28 headline. There are two current and one former ACC quarterback listed among seven underrated transfer quarterbacks to watch this season. You want to keep it locked. We're not done yet on this brand new episode of Locked on ACC. Make sure for your next listen, you check out Kenton Gibbs and Grayson Boone, who do a great job covering all things NC State on Locked on Wolfpack. Check me out on Locked on Cains covering all things Miami. I'm celebrating Kent in the Italian League Championship for my beloved Inter Milan is where I'm wearing why I'm wearing the black and blue today.
Starting point is 00:22:06 It's not for the Duke Blue Devils. It's for my boyhood soccer club. Now Duke is selling TV rights to games. They don't even own. They put shame to these blue colors. But let's take a look at underrated transfer portal quarterbacks according to CBS sports.
Starting point is 00:22:23 So underrated means you're not going to see like Derry and Mensa and whoever else of the talked about guys, Sam, Levit at LSU. One of those underrated transfers that they put out there, and he's not even officially been named the starter yet, but I think it's trending that way. Aaron Philo, who left the ACC, Georgia Tech to go to the SEC and play at Florida. And Kenton, like, I could actually see, and like he is in a competition, but getting the lion's share of the first team reps there at Florida. and Aaron Philo has the advantage of staying with his offensive coordinator, Buster Faulkner,
Starting point is 00:23:02 who was at Georgia Tech. And like for that reason and knowing he's already a fit for the Faulkner offense, I could actually see Philo doing very well at Florida. And I agree he's probably underrated. As an NC state guy, I know all too well what Faulkner and Philo can do when they link up. Yeah, that's right. We sat there a couple years ago marching on into Atlanta. thinking to ourselves, oh, no Haines King,
Starting point is 00:23:29 we could go down to Magic City before the game, get some of those good wings. That's all we would be there for. But, you know, we thought we were going to have a good old town in Atlanta. And then Fylo happened. The kid has got the goods. He's got the goods. He's shown it.
Starting point is 00:23:45 And it's been a situation where he's obviously had limited snaps playing behind a Haynes King who is said to be like, you know, the guy over there. But ultimately, Aaron Fylo has. shown those flashes. Faulkner has shown that he knows how to utilize Airfilo at his highest clip. It'll be interesting to see, right? You're transitioning to a brand new set of teammates, brand new set of, you know, skill position players and all that as well. But like you said, he's receiving a majority, the lion's share of the first team reps. So what does that mean? That means he gets an entire spring, an entire fall camp of, hey, you're the guy, brother.
Starting point is 00:24:23 This is your offense. You're going to be the one leading us out the tunnel and all that stuff into the swap. So, you know, it's time to bring back the energy that Urban Meyer had many a moon ago just maybe without some of the felonies. But everything else, the wins and whatnot, we'd appreciate it. And his teams would have been the playoffs every year, you know, because again, they had the BCS back then where one game was tough, two games, that's it. You ain't going nowhere near a championship. So there's actually three ACC quarterbacks. I, I undercounted it first. So the man who replaces Philo at Georgia Tech,
Starting point is 00:25:03 Alberto Mendoza coming down from Indiana is one of those. They also name Ashton Daniels at Florida State, who I don't think you or I are big fans of. Actually, Brian Smith from Lockdown Seminoles likes Daniels. He does have a couple really good receivers to throw to, though. I'll give him that. And then the third is Lincoln Keenholz at Louisville, who, you know, of course, he obviously didn't beat out Julian Say in there,
Starting point is 00:25:30 and I think he was also behind another quarterback at Ohio State. So he transferred Louisville. But once upon a time, Ohio State didn't think Joe Burrow was good enough to play there. And that worked out okay for him. So maybe Lincoln Keenholz, who is actually going to be like the first real dual threat quarterback that Jeff Brom has had at Louisville, how that one might work out. But what do you think about him, Ashton Daniels, and Alberto Mendoza? If I had to pick a favorite of the three, it would definitely be Ashton Daniels because he may be in the worst situation.
Starting point is 00:26:01 I wouldn't say that he's primed for success in the way than anybody else is or is not on that list. But I would say that he has shown the most. He's the most experienced by far. By a mile, by a mile. But he's shown the most in terms of him at his best. I have seen a guy that, you know, without an offense or with an offense, where you got one or two other pros on that offense, he's made Bama sweat.
Starting point is 00:26:29 I mean real life sweat. He's done really good things to our college football. And the experience part is definitely a large factor in it. Because while everybody likes to pretend like it's nothing to have valued experience in college football, why do y'all think high school recruiting is nearly dead at a lot of these top schools? Because why would you get a five-star who you know like, oh, in a year or two, he's going to be the guy as opposed to that guy, he may be a
Starting point is 00:26:59 three or four star in the portal, but I know he's going to be productive now, today. I may not have two years to get this thing done. And so, you know, I think that he's my favorite. Now, if I'm talking about who's in the best situation to succeed, Keynes, you can't really argue that.
Starting point is 00:27:18 I mean, we know about Louisville's vaunted defense and how even when you're like, hey, who do they have playing over there? Who are you? They tried out a bunch of no names and still find a way to be one of the better defenses in the conference.
Starting point is 00:27:33 And offensively, if you got Brian after him, he'll figure out something. He'll figure out something. I'm not saying that your office is going to be top five in the nation. They'll be good enough. They'll get you some points. You know, so I think the King hosts
Starting point is 00:27:46 is most prime for success. I think the biggest wild card of the group, Mendoza. Yeah, right. I mean, outside of who is, brother is. I haven't seen a whole lot from. And that's the thing. Not only who his brother is, the situation
Starting point is 00:27:58 that he's in. Who is Georgia Tech bringing back that you could say this is a notable player. This player will help Mendoza's transition, but you're also left in the standpoint of, well, how much do you believe in key? Because I like him a lot.
Starting point is 00:28:15 I believe in him a lot. I believe that he is an excellent coach. I believe that he gets this team ready at a very high clip, especially offensive. but you kind of are still stuck with you know again as an NC state guy learned this the hard way with Tony Gibson a few years ago it doesn't matter what type of wizard you have at some point in time that wizard needs good uh good chemicals to mix in to his potion okay and so you're sitting here saying hey if you're going to be the alchemist we got to get you some good good
Starting point is 00:28:47 ingredients to mix with and I'm a little worried about the ingredients with which key will have the mix and losing your offensive coordinator. I mean, you know, we're going to find out how much was you and how much was him very quickly. Very well said. Make sure you guys check Kenton out at TGIF underscore Kenton on X and also listen to him and Grayson Boone on Lockedon Wolfpack. You can follow me at Alex Dono and check me out on Locked on Cains. It's an honor to be part of this number one sports podcast network, the Lockdown Network,
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