Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - Who Would The ACC Replace FSU & Clemson With? Slept-On Football Teams, Transfer Portal Chaos Soon

Starting point is 00:00:00 Sooner or later, Florida State probably going to find their way out of the ACC. Same can probably be said for Clemson and who knows who else. So how is the ACC going to replace them? 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 of Locked on Keynes. He's Kenton Gibbs of Lockedon Wolfpack. This episode of Locked on ACC is brought to you by Fanduel.

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Starting point is 00:01:34 to expand again, to try to do what they can to carve out a niche among the power to in the Big 12. So I'm taking a look here, Kenton, at an article. This is actually written by our colleague, Kevin Borba, who hosts Locked on Buffalo's The Colorado Show. He also writes for the All-Cardinal Stanford site on Sports Illustrated, and he writes about six schools that he thinks are expansion candidates for the ACC. Before we get into that, Kenton, are there any schools out there who where, you know, obviously we're not talking about taking anybody from the Big 12 or the SEC or the Big 10 schools that are in, you know, nonpower four conferences right now. Are there any that tickle your fancy that you think, hey, the ACC could look at adding these guys? I mean, we're going to get into a few of them coming up here, but I really, I'm looking around at the landscape.

Starting point is 00:02:27 And I'm saying what is the ACC's bit for survival here? And I've said all along that the ACC in the PAC 12 need to merge. Now, why do I say that? Because a numbers game is how you survive. So in terms of who tickles my fans before the ACC in particular, there is no one school that does it. But I do believe that if they are to get multiple schools and multiple big time markets, they're going to come. Yeah, yeah. And so, okay, the ones that Borba lists, and I like most of these as options.

Starting point is 00:03:00 And, you know, and I'm still, I'm still kind of puzzled to this day that Washington State and Oregon State haven't found a home yet. And those are among the first two that he lists. And like, Kenton, I think it's a reminder that a lot of times, like your recent football success and prestige, these obviously aren't like national championship winning programs. But, you know, Washington State and Oregon State, like they've been, they've been somewhat relevant in the college football landscape. and yet they really didn't have any takers, including the ACC. And I think it has a lot to do with the TV markets that they're in. I think it has a lot to do with not being in desirable TV markets, because honestly, if I were ACC commissioner for a day,

Starting point is 00:03:43 I would have just based on football reputation and recent success, I would have added Washington State and Oregon State before I would have added Cal and Stanford. But the difference there lies in the Bay Area, Northern California, TV. markets versus, you know, rural Washington State and Oregon. So I think those could be prime candidates, Kenton. And there's some not quite as high on the radar candidates that people might not think about. I think there's a decent shout out that Borba makes for Memphis. They've had a for the last 10 years, a rising football program, they've had 10 plus wins

Starting point is 00:04:19 and four out of the past 10 seasons, which is certainly respectable. Some good players have come out of Memphis. you know, another one that gets a shout. I can, there's probably some regional bias on my part, but USF, South Florida, they're located in Tampa, which is a big TV market. That football program has had a lot of downs of some recent ups. They had a good year last year. And another one who we think of is, you know, obviously more of a, more of a basketball school

Starting point is 00:04:48 than a football school, Yukon, is another option he puts out there. And then the last of the six options that he puts out. out there as possible expansion targets. And I think you and I both like this one a lot is Tulane. Yeah. And so if first thing first, let's address the elephant in the room. I talked about this when people were saying, well, Florida State can't leave the ACC because remember when the linemen talk first started, this started before the beginning

Starting point is 00:05:15 of last season. So remember, Florida State's most successful season in recent memory going back to what, 10 years ago, but at that time, I guess you would say nine years ago, was eight, nine wins. And so many people were like, oh, Florida State didn't successful enough to want to leave the conference. And I told everybody back then when that was the talk, this has nothing to do with success. I know that y'all like to believe that it's about success. I know it would feel good to believe in the meritocracy. It does not work that way. This works based off of who brings eyeballs. It's money ball.

Starting point is 00:05:55 He keeps on base. That's what it is. It's money ball who gets on base, right? And that's what we're looking at. So, you know, in terms of Washington State and Oregon State, they have had some really good years recently. They really have. Neither school, I would say, has been just a complete stupor

Starting point is 00:06:13 that's bringing down the Pact 12 and anything like that. No, not really. But do they get on base? Do they draw eyeballs? That's the big question. And I think that the answer there is a bit of a resounding no, and you got to live with that. You know, I don't think it's fair to them. I don't think it's fair.

Starting point is 00:06:31 I don't think it's fair. I don't think it's right. I think both of those schools deserve better than what they're getting, you know. But fair is just a place where you eat crappy food that's going to kill you and get on rise that are going to kill you. So, you know, that's my opinion on those two. Now, Memphis, Yukon, Tulane. I like all of them, but like you said, you got to do something with football. They got to do something.

Starting point is 00:06:55 They got to get right. And granted, Yukon is trending on the right path because I remember that game between them and the UMass Minutemen a few years ago was the battle of the defeat it because neither team had a win at that time. But, you know, they're trending in the right direction.

Starting point is 00:07:12 So I do like Memphis and Tulane a lot. I think those are two markets, two really big markets. You get a lot of eyes on the game. You get a lot of eyes on the ACC. Like I said, I'm not impartial. to saying like, hey, if you want to extend the conference and get three of these teams, I'm not super against that because, again, you're not beating the game. You're not beating the Iron Mo.

Starting point is 00:07:35 You're not beating USC or you, but you know what you can do? You can give a volume of games. We got games on Tuesday night. We got games on Wednesday night. We got games on Thursday. Whenever you look up, there's going to be an ACC team playing another ACC team on TV. And that is where you win. Or, you know, like I've always proposed with this merger.

Starting point is 00:07:57 Again, you have that situation where you're just, you're everywhere. Again, McDonald's does not sell, McDonald's doesn't sell more stakes than Sullivan's or state 48, but they're generating more revenue. Think about that. Yeah, that's right. And, you know, thinking about which teams to look at adding, if I'm, you know, in the front office or in the administration of Cal and Stanford, I would be lobbying, please call Oregon State and Washington State. We can have more regional games. I mean, listen, I know that the ACC is really making it easy on the teams from the east,

Starting point is 00:08:36 not to have to travel out to those Western teams too often. But the Western, now, I know they knew what they were getting into when they signed up. Like Cal and Stanford knew, hey, this is last chance saloon for us geographically. This is a catastrophe. This makes no sense. But wouldn't they love it if they could add? Oregon State and Washington State. Not to say that it's like quick bus ride.

Starting point is 00:08:56 I mean, it's, you know, reasonably long plane rides, but it's a lot better than the five and six hour trips they would have to make cross country to go to most of the ACC schools. So I would be lobbying hard for that. And folks, none of this is to say that, you know, that Florida State and Clemson are replaceable. Like these are not like for like replacements. This is just about bringing in more eyes,

Starting point is 00:09:19 trying to replace what you're losing. And not to say you can do. that, but, you know, the ACC is going to need, they're going to need to basically replace the quality with quantity, and they're going to need to stay big if they're going to survive. So that's why we would talk about, you know, replacing these teams. And, you know, speaking of, speaking of ACC schools, I know that I was reading some blogs around the conference, and Virginia Tech seems a little bit slighted by the idea that only one of their games next season is considered to be a quote-unquote ACC game of the week. And Kenton, you and up.

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Starting point is 00:12:31 So Kenton, I'm looking at teams who get selected by this preseason look at the ACC schedule. Some of these are non-conference games as well. Athlospores.com gave out their ACC game week for each week of the 2024 upcoming season. Not surprisingly, Georgia versus Clemson, week one. That's, you know, one of the best games in college football period, let alone in the ACC. NC State Wolfpack versus Tennessee gets the shoutout week two. That game's going to be in Charlotte. So kind of a neutral site, but kind of not so much.

Starting point is 00:13:07 West Virginia at Pitt in number three. That's a big regional rivalry there. NC State at Clemson, week four. So that's NC State second time and Clemson second time there. Virginia Tech at Miami in week five. Clemson at Florida State, week six, which surprisingly is that. the first time Florida State gets on the list. Clemson, I think that's their third time on there.

Starting point is 00:13:31 Georgia Tech at North Carolina, week seven, Miami at Louisville, week eight. That was a fun game last year, 3831, a lot of offense in that one last season. Louisville at Clemson, week nine, Florida State at Notre Dame, week 11. That's good. I didn't even realize that was happening next year. That's a good one. Week 12, Boston College at SMU, week 13, Stanford at Cal, week 13. Stanford at Cal, Week 14, Florida at Florida State.

Starting point is 00:13:59 And so I brought this up, Kenton. I was reading on a Virginia Tech blog that they were a little bit surprised that the Hokies only got one game of the week this coming season. For the most part, I think they nailed those matchups, Kenton. I don't think they're made. Yeah, that's the unfortunate part, right? It's like, I don't know if you were a big fan of versus during the pandemic now. I don't know if you were a big fan, but it was like artists would play their hits

Starting point is 00:14:24 against other artist hits one to one, right? I didn't even remember that. I just remember watching Tiger King and the Michael Jordan documentary. Well, before Sir Rock and Doritos got involved, there was artists from rapping hip-hop and R&B communities playing their best hits against other artists who were like them and everybody's like, oh, who had bigger hits. And winning the versus wasn't just about who had the better hits.

Starting point is 00:14:50 It was about the way in which you organized your hits, right? If somebody had it, a mega hit that you can't beat. You don't put your hit that's your best song ever, but it can't compete with their mega hit up against it. And that's kind of how the schedule shook out for Virginia Tech. Like when I look at this week 11, right, I'm saying to myself, man, Virginia Tech does have a really good matchup,

Starting point is 00:15:15 Clemson Virginia Tech. That just so happens to be the same week as Florida State Nournay. And then, and then I look up at week 12 and I say, oh man this is the week they got a shot boston college at sm u is the game of the week i believe that's virginia tech's body uh it just so happened to work out you plans your songs wrong in the verses brother i listen you and i are both big on virginia tech it just so happened to be it worked out this way and here's the other part hokey fans uh pit panther fans virginia cavalier fans wait for fans, all of you, I want everybody to relax and breathe, and remember, all of these games are

Starting point is 00:16:01 flexed. All of the games pass a certain week are flex. So if your team ends up nine and one in week 11, all of a sudden, intrigue is different. If Riley Leonard don't pan out at Notre Dame, if K. Clubnik keeps not knowing how to figure out which read is the appropriate one, guess what things change things change the next thing you know you can go in with one game of the week and you can leave out this thing with three four of them so you know don't get too all up in a bunch over preseason stuff a single ball ain't been put down yet a single ball ain't been kicked off yet a single whistle in the actual game hasn't been blown yet let's not blow this out of proportion but i will say this is really great for the rodney dangerfield angle if

Starting point is 00:16:52 I'm Virginia Tech, if I'm one of those teams that I feel like I'm being slept on and saying, we get no respect at all. We get none. Nobody believes them. Well, and I'm trying to see, I know a few that do not even get one game of the week. I don't see Duke. I don't see Duke anywhere. I don't see Virginia anywhere. And I don't see Wake Forest anywhere. I'm trying to, Georgia Tech appears just once. And Georgia Tech is another the team that we think is getting slept on a little bit with five and a half, five and a half over under, you know, I think if any people weren't taking notice of how quietly good of a season Haynes King had last year, they're putting some talent around him at the skill position.

Starting point is 00:17:33 So I think, I'm not saying they're going to be ACC champs or anything like that, but I, you know, I think they're going to, they're going to overperform their five and a half win over under. I don't think there's any question about that. So, yeah, I mean, some of these teams have no representation at all. And so listen, I do think a couple of other teams that are getting slept on a little bit, not just strictly based on this list, because they do get one matchup on here. Boston College, you know, I kind of wonder, because I like their quarterback a lot, Thomas Castellanos. I'm just a big fan of his.

Starting point is 00:18:06 And so they get the one matchup that they get is versus SMU. And the explanation for that one is they say the ACC doesn't have a clear number one matchup this week, But a rematch of the Fenway Bowl between SMU and Boston College has some intrigue. By week 12, the Mustang should have a good feel of how they stack up in their first season of ACC play. Also, this November showdown will give new Boston College coach Bill O'Brien plenty of time to develop quarterback Thomas Castellanos. The other matchups that week are Virginia at Notre Dame, Louisville at Stanford, Boston College. That can't be the same week. What are they talking about?

Starting point is 00:18:41 Clemson at Pitt, Wake Forest at North Carolina, some of the other matchups that week. one that I wonder what it's going to look like by week 14. I understand why it's in there because even when one of these teams is way better than the other, it's usually competitive. It was last year. Florida against Florida State. Like Florida, Florida gave them a game last year. Jordan Travis had already been injured by that point, but Florida gave them a game at that

Starting point is 00:19:06 point. But I'm just wondering this year, Kenton, like I expect Florida State to be good, obviously, Florida, I don't know who their head coach is going to be by the end of November because it's not going to be Billy Napier. I'm glad you said it. I want to be, everybody loves saying I love firing a coach, but Billy Napier is going to be on LinkedIn jobs looking for his next job by the time that game rose around. So I'm very intrigued. You know what? You know what, though? And, you know, we don't cover the SEC, but I will say

Starting point is 00:19:36 our guy, our guy Brandon, who does an awesome job on Locked on Gators, and he knows a lot more about Billy Napier's contract situation than you or I ever will because he's in the weeds or what he covers. I have seen him say that the Billy Napier buyout, it would take massive donations. Like it would take real, which maybe they'll get, but it would take real motivation on the part of certain boosters for them to do that buyout, you know, within the next year versus the year after that. So Billy, Billy might be someone who might be able to preserve himself one more year just based on the contract situation. Let me tell you something.

Starting point is 00:20:15 I was told the same thing about Kevin Keats. I was told his buyout is too big. There's no way. And then all of a sudden, right before the ACC tournament kicked up, something happened. They lost four games in a row. And it was like, that's it. Everybody was done. Everybody was like, that's all.

Starting point is 00:20:33 That's it. No more. One of them was an embarrassment to one of our rivals. You can't do. I'm telling you right now. Billy's bio is too big right now. Let them boys go out there and get their heads beat in enough times. Let them get whooped on by the wrong team and look like the lepitated dogs in the wrong moment.

Starting point is 00:20:56 And I'll promise you, the swamp will get real clear. It'll be a lot less murky than what it seems to be right now. So I do agree that that game is, that's why I always say these things are fluid. It's the game of the week as of April 15. Now, Donald, let me ask you this. How many awards have ever been decided on April 15? Have you ever heard of that in football? Any highs with one in April?

Starting point is 00:21:20 If they were given out in April, Miami would probably have quintuple the amount of national championships that we currently have. Okay. And unfortunately, Miami has what? Three? Three? I believe it was it. Joe, put into respect, Kenton. I'm sorry, my fault, OG. My fault. I'm not bad.

Starting point is 00:21:39 But five, five national championships all time. But you see what I'm saying? Like at the end of the day, all the teams who feel like you're not getting the respect, go earn it. Because that's really what this is about. All of the teams that are getting the respect, they've done things in the past who warns them getting this respect. That's what it is. That's what it is. And that's if your team earns that respect, I guarantee you there is not some grand conspiracy.

Starting point is 00:22:04 Although many of us think there is against our teams, I promise you, the ACC and the state that is currently in needs every eyeball. on the screen possible. So they're going to be giving Game of the Week designations to the games that they know people are going to be tuned in and locked them for. So, you know, it's April. It's early. And I do agree that folks are sleeping on Coach Keene Company down there in Atlanta. But up there on Chestnut Hill, if they're sleeping, give me my snuggy, give me my neck

Starting point is 00:22:35 pillow, give me two extra large pillows, one extra firm, one extra soft, not sure how I'm fill on that day, but I need options. I need options for how I want to sleep because I'm knocked the hell out. I love Gostia. Love him. I love him too. So if Boston College isn't going to be a thing, maybe he hops in the portal

Starting point is 00:22:55 and goes to another ACC school because I don't want to lose him from the conference. Hey, listen, you and me both. You and me, but that's a bad man. Again, I don't have any faith in O'Brien, but I've been wrong before. I'm going to be wrong again in the future. Who knows? Maybe this is one of

Starting point is 00:23:11 those times. Maybe they wake me up by this time in about five, six months. Well, coming up next, the transfer portal is opening today. Here's what we know about ACC players who are getting in. Now, this is all going to evolve. So don't talk to us at like seven o'clock tonight and say, how come you didn't talk about this guy, that guy, and the other. It's going to be a lot more in. Here's what we know so far coming up next year on Locked on ACC. You know, maybe when these guys hop into the transfer portal, they could look for their next location at LinkedIn Jobs. I think that could be a welcome update.

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Starting point is 00:25:17 Today 24-7 streaming channel on YouTube or the free Amazon Fire TV channels app. All right. So, Kenton, I've been on record saying it. I think this is going to be both incoming and outgoing for most of your favorite universities, that this is going to be one of the craziest transfer portal periods coming up. Like I know, I can speak from a Miami perspective. I think they're going to look for five or six prioritizing difference makers, not just bodies because they want to maximize Cam Ward's one year.

Starting point is 00:25:49 And I'm expecting Miami, if they're going to bring in a half dozen guys, they're expecting about a dozen guys to go out the other way because they're already six spots over the roster limit right now. So if you do the math, I think my math checks out with that one. And you've already got players hitting the portal, Kenton. I'm looking at my tracker and greedy Vance, who started five games in the Florida State secondary last year, nickelback. He's going to be hitting the transfer portal.

Starting point is 00:26:17 And we know Florida State has a really loaded secondary, so it's dog eat dog. And Greedy Vance is a pretty good player who's going to become available now. I'm seeing Brian Massey, a cornerback from SMU, who's going to be hitting the transfer portal. He declared at some point on Monday Eve. I think a couple of days ago, the second leading receiver from Boston College, Joseph Griffin, Jr., he announced he was going to be hit in the transfer portal when that officially opened. So we're already seeing some outgoing movement from an ACC perspective. It's going to get crazy going in both directions, Kent, and quite frankly, I've got my popcorn ready. I can't wait for all this chaos to unfold.

Starting point is 00:26:59 Yeah, like you said, it's just getting started. It's literally just getting started. there are so many different guys that are, you know, for every team that you hear, man, they've completely bolstered their secondary. Their secondary looks entirely different than it did last year. Well, guess what that means? If everybody from that last secondary they graduate, take a while guess, right? We talked a lot about how NC State's receiving room looks entirely different.

Starting point is 00:27:23 And Julian Gray, one of the most electric retirement in all the nation last year, is in the portal. He's in a portal now. And so, you know, this happens for every. Every team is going to have some two-way traffic here. The question is how much? Donald is obviously describing for Miami, a situation where there's going to be a lot of traffic. There's going to be 18 phase changes in that locker room, according to Donald's prediction here.

Starting point is 00:27:47 And here's the fun thing about that. You get 85 scholarship guys. I believe that's the number, right? 85 or 82 somewhere. 85, yeah. So you get 85, you're going to have a lot of new guys. A lot of new guys who you were familiar with. are about to be no longer, no mas.

Starting point is 00:28:05 They're gone. They're out of here. So, you know, this is the new nature of the beast. And I hate to be that guy, but this is why I advocate for players getting paid and doing all their thing. Because at the end of the day, this is not going to be a smooth like, hey, you know, you know that you can go somewhere better than Miami. I know this can go somewhere better than Miami.

Starting point is 00:28:26 So how about you go somewhere better than Miami? That's not the reality. A lot of these players don't have anywhere better to go. and this is not a shot at Miami, because every school does it, there will be some guys who they know that they won't have this opportunity to play at the Power 5 or Power 4 level again. They may not have the ability to play at the FPS level again, but it's just the way the game works out.

Starting point is 00:28:51 So, you know, this is why I'm all for. Players get paid while you can because you never know when that knock on the door is coming. Hey, man, you can play plenty of places, just not here. Yeah, and I know, like, something I hear internally from college football fan bases is, like, teams that are super active in the portal. And there's a bunch of them who are super active trying to overhaul and upgrade their rosters. Fans will say, like, well, how come we're not just focusing on developing the players we have? It's, it's tough because, like, if you're genuinely, like, forcing out players that are going to end up becoming, you know, all Americans somewhere else, that that's a problem. You shouldn't be doing that.

Starting point is 00:29:30 But on the one hand, you don't always know because, yeah, some teams do kind of force players or nudge players out to replace them. You don't necessarily know, was that his choice to leave? Because sometimes players will decide to go elsewhere. And that's not your coach's fault if a player wants to continue his career somewhere else. Sometimes players don't always develop. And listen, it's not, you know, even if you have a great coaching staff that has a track record of developing players, you don't develop. Sometimes you just get it wrong and a player doesn't turn into who you expect they turn into. And also Kenton, like with the arms race that is today's college football,

Starting point is 00:30:04 if you're a team, and I'm not speaking strictly from Miami now, you could be speaking for teams like Florida State who have that excellent results in the portal the last couple of years. Mike Norvell is like a portal wizard and Lane Kiffin in Ole Miss has done an amazing job with the transfer portal that in the arms race that is today's college football, you can't always afford the patience to say, well, hey, I've got, you know, one of the top quarterbacks or wide receivers in the country is available. But I want to stick and develop my guy who might take another two years before he's at that level.

Starting point is 00:30:36 Like, you don't have that sort of time anymore. Yeah, and that's the big thing about dabble, right? That's the big thing that everybody criticized dabble for is this waiting on players to develop type deal when it's like you have needs that need to be addressed right away, that you can address right away. But instead you're choosing the trust that it'll be settled and done out in a year or two when, like you said, it's more art than science. You can assume, hey, this guy is 6 foot 4, 6 foot 5, 300 pounds. He's got dancers feet. He should be the next big best thing smoking at left tackle in a year or two. He just doesn't like getting physical.

Starting point is 00:31:14 Yeah. What are you going to do? You know, you've invested all this time and energy into them. You've got two options. You can either recruit over them to say, hey, we're going to get a guy who's going to be big and nasty and physical, who may not have a physical attributes or whatever. or we can keep believing in them and hoping and hoping things work out. So, you know, it's a, it's a, the portal is part of the game now.

Starting point is 00:31:38 And it is just like anything else in the game. It's like teams utilizing strength and conditioning back when Nebraska was the only team that was doing it at a super high level. You can choose to say, oh, Nebraska is just a bunch of dorks, and they've got nothing to do up there in Lincoln. And that's why they do it. We don't have to do that down here in Raleigh. We don't have to do that down here in Coral Gables.

Starting point is 00:31:58 You can do that, but then when they're running all over, you don't really complain about it because you've chosen not to utilize a tool that can make you exponentially better. The portal is the same way. Guys are going to leave. You need to bring some guys in. If you choose not to bring guys in, know the position it leaves him. Yep. Well said. And we'll pick it up tomorrow with, I'm sure, plenty of transfer portal chaos since it's going to be open and it's going to be in business.

Starting point is 00:32:27 So he's Kenton Gibbs from Lockdown Wolfpack. I am Alex Dono from Lockdown Cains. Make sure you subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your pods. And we'll talk to you guys again next time on another episode of Lockdown ACC, part of the awesome Lockdown Podcast Network. Your team every day.

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