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Episode Date: May 28, 2026

Texas Tech softball ignites controversy as Jason Williams gets ejected for flipping off Florida Gators fans during a heated Super Regional. Can the Red Raiders’ postseason run fuel Big 12 pride against SEC rivals? The Big 12 Squad breaks down the latest Big 12 action, spotlighting Texas Tech’s gritty softball win and the electric response from Williams after Florida’s classless tactics. The crew previews the NCAA baseball regionals—analyzing Oklahoma State’s power lineup, West Virginia’s postseason outlook, and Houston’s coaching search. Plus, CBS Sports’ post-spring football power rankings deliver surprises: BYU leaps Texas Tech, while Houston rises and West Virginia claims college football’s most underrated recruiting class. Are the Big 12’s new contenders ready to shake up the conference pecking order? Don’t miss bold takes, player analysis, and a candid, fan-driven look at the Big 12’s hottest storylines. 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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Know her feelings and thin skin aloud. Squad up, you're part of the Big 12 Squad. Happy Thursday, everybody. Welcome to the Dose Grande Squad. I'm Drake Toll from America's number one Big 12 podcast, Locked on Big 12. Parker Ainsworth of Locked on Couged all things Houston. Cody Stoball locked on Oklahoma State. And look, we're recording this on Memorial Day.

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We're going to go around the Big 12 here and give some love to the entire conference. Even Cody's wearing Kansas shirt because he lost a bet. If you hit subscribe, we get to keep our jobs. We're going to start with Big 12 softball, big 12 baseball, namely this Texas tech story. And Jason Williams, who now hates, like notable Florida man, Jason Williams, who hates Florida. He was always an odd as a Florida man. I mean, like, in some ways, I guess he is like the Florida man. But like he's very much from West Virginia and all that in his background.

And like just having to play at UF, which is a weird, weird deal. He feels more Big 12. He feels more Big 12. I'm glad we got him. In a trashy but kind way. And like a yeah, and like a kindly trashy way. Great shot for her.

And we'll start with that. Then we'll get into, I think a couple segments of for those football fiends out there. CBS just dropped its post-spring power rankings in the Big 12. And BYU, you jump Texas tech for the top spot. We'll talk about that a bit. But where's Houston?

Where's Oklahoma State? I think both those schools are too low. And we'll also talk about the bottom feeders of the Big 12. a lot of football on this program. You're going to get a whole lot of Big 12. If you hit subscribe, we get to keep our jobs. Can't say it as many of them. Jason Williams, his daughter,

transferred from Florida to Texas Tech and Super Regional in Gainesville. They're thrown at her head five times. We're just gunning at the beaming this girl for no, because we hate you and your dad, you left us. To completely classless from Tim Walton, the head Florida, the head coach of Florida, who's like a notably classless softball coach.

And then Jason Williams kicked out of a game, standing up, hilarious, like dudes with middle fingers. We're talking some wild stuff going down to Gainesville this week. And I think the SEC just means more heartbreak. It just means more tears. Just means more complaining. Once again, the SEC cannot handle the Big 12 winning. The epitome of sore losers is definitely what the SEC has turned into.

I thought it was absolutely wonderful. And here's the best part, Drake. When they weren't throwing at her, the ball was leaving the yard. She had multiple multi-run home runs that took the lead at least twice in game one and also in game three. So not only was there a lot of unnecessary beef and animosity and the refusal to shake hands afterwards, but she stepped up and performed. That was the biggest problem that they had. If she just struck out or whatever, they'd all have been fine.

but the problem was she was hitting essentially what ended up being game winners. And that's the karma, poetic justice behind all of this. We love seeing the Big 12 get dubs over the SEC, especially when the SEC shows their true flavor, and they act like we expect them to do. It's UF, it's like FU. Am I right, fella? Right, right? Right. Right. There you go. There you go.

I love that the big defense out of Florida fans with some video. I saw you all see the video at this point, but where like the Texas tech fans are walking over the crowd like taunting them back whatever and there may be some colorful language but clearly at the start of the video the florida fans are legitimately flipping the bird what they think was going to happen it's just not you can't do that um we'll bring on mat in your paul i'm sure in a second because i am most ecstatic about winning jason williams and divorce uh because he is very big tall mr paul jason williams is back in the big 12 love it I love it, obviously, is somebody who, I mean, Jason Williams is from DuPont, West Virginia.

So obviously, if you've never seen the highlight tapes of he and Randy Moss back in the day at DuPont High School, it's incredible. It really is. They were both probably should have been four or five, four and five star guys. Randy should have been definitely basketball as well as football. Jason Williams, for sure, close. But yeah, they were great to watch, obviously. so I have an affinity for them. You know, and listen, man, I wasn't surprised when I looked on Twitter yesterday

and saw that he was being kicked out of the game and everything else that went on. And then he led the celebration afterwards. That's just Jason Williams, man. The one thing about Jason Williams is he's not fake. He is who he is. Right. He does not put on. That's just what it is.

And his wife, I guess, is also Florida alum. And I thought it was interesting that he very much, was like giving the pump up pep talk post game to the red raiders and stuff like he is all in on yeah but guys if if they wouldn't have thrown at his daughter five flipping times yeah correct correct none of that happens that's that's the crazy part like they're pointing fingers about how oh look at classless texas like it's kind of funny that people call us the truck stop white trash conference and then the SEC does this i don't know every every other turn that they can and nobody that's an eye about it. Everyone still points

that the Big 12 is the problem. It's amazing. It's gas lighting. There you go. Well, they say, nah, what is it? All publicities, decent publicity. Texas Tech for the last two years, but they stay in the headlines. It's not always great, but Dagnappet, they stay in the headlines, so

shout out to Tech. Well, and the criticisms are like, they have a bunch of transfer. I'm like, okay, if you looked around, everyone's got a bunch of transfers, or like the deal, is there some, like, you know, she transferred in from Florida or whatever, and it's like, yeah, but the exit from Florida looked as bad on Florida's behalf that did on Mia Williams' behalf.

Like, like, it's really, it really is eye open to see what kind of defenses SEC countries trying to put on to this one, because it's, it's pretty indefensible. There's not a whole lot to do,

anyway, it's just not for them to say. Well, and I saw a graphic earlier. I mean, I didn't dive deep into it, but the graphic I saw earlier had that Florida's the fourth or fifth most NIL spent budget in college softball.

And they, I don't know, couldn't get a win. I didn't see Texas Tech on there, right? I'm not saying the Texas Tech hasn't spent a ton on softball, but that graphic that I saw earlier, tech was not in the top five of NIL softball spending. I know OU was number one. I do recall that.

That's not a surprise. Right. The deal of Tech is that the World Series. Yeah, they didn't miss the World Series. It's an SEC where it means more. And no, I think that the deal with the tech is that Nisory Kennedy is making a ton of money. I don't know how much the rest of the roster is actually making, right? That's the thing that's the real question is how much did Maya Williams make for herself yesterday?

Well, that's what I'm saying. It's not like Florida. It's not like Florida couldn't afford it to have kept her, right? They easily could have from the financial figures that are being put out. So again, why they have so much animosity, it's kind of wild to me. I didn't know that this existed coming into it. Because as Parker mentioned, in the transfer portal, we all have a bunch of portal people. It's just the way that it is. And at the end of the day, you know, it's not like Texas Tech probably offered outland. more money than Florida because Florida has the fourth or fifth most NIL spent roster in the country. It's just, it's crazy that they were holding that little of animosity. Let's keep it on the diamond here. Go to go to baseball. Got them out in your pole now. West Virginia, Morgan Town, the place to be this weekend, Oklahoma State. What can the Cowboys? Where's the cowboy update here? Where's the, where's the barometer? And Houston is not new coach. This is the Tose Grande Squad. Today's show is brought to you by Indeoeman. Indeed, sponsor jobs. Indeed, sponsor jobs is exactly where I go, and I need to make a hire.

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on his head for all houston baseball segment uh if you love antics like that i want ad free locked on shows every day go to locked on coogs dot supercast dot com locked on west virginia dot supercass dot com. You get the gist for our everydayers for ad-free locked-on shows. Parker Rainesworth, will the sun ever shine again? And yeah, okay, hold on. I'll preface this. Sark said it. He can beat any team in the Big 12 with his twos and threes.

You go recruit the twos and threes out of Houston area high school baseball. You can beat anybody in the country, yet Houston sucks. So I will say that by the time this comes out on Thursday, I think we'll have an answer. And you have an inkling of who that answer will be. Again, we're recording Monday. Yeah, we're recording Monday, and I keep hearing Will Davis, who's the head coach at Lamar, knows the Athleteator at Nunez for when he was an assistant coach at LSU, and he was on the administrative side of LSU, too.

So there's some connections there. He's at a pretty good run at Lamar, knows the area, knows to do a lot with a little. The other guy as an alumni named Sean Allen, who's the pitching coach at USC, but he's been at Texas and some other big-time programs as an assistant coach. So his first head coaching gig would be at Yovay, I think the big thing there is it's like you keep it in the family because Sean Allen played under Noble, which was the guy before wedding, who wedding actually also played for. So you kind of keep it in the same lineage or you kind of go completely different and bring someone new in, a little bit of new blood. I don't hate either one.

Again, folks will know who it is by the time this comes out on Thursday. But I've heard from credible people both names. So I actually don't know I sit here on Monday, which are those that will be. but those the two I keep hearing over and over. That's all we need for Houston baseball. See you, Parker. Thank you. Mountaineer, Paul, you are the story here, though.

Morgantown, West Virginia, Baseball America. Give me the barometer on West Virginia fans this week with the tournament ensuing. Tough regional. Obviously, we definitely got a tough regional. Binghamton is a game. We'll probably win, obviously, although Cody reminds me that they knocked off them up and Steeley a couple years ago. But certainly this is a team that, you know, if you're talking about Binginton, they've got a coach that's been there forever that's been successful for a really long time.

But we, you know, smart money would obviously be on West Virginia. Bingenton's team ERA is over six. Their pitchers probably not going to stand up to a Big 12 lineup. And I think West Virginia should win that game series. And, you know, and hopefully do it easily. The real question for West Virginia is, do you waste a. a starting spot for Max Yale against Vinghamton? Or do you go with another guy?

Because obviously, Wake Forest or UK is the real question for us. I think you save Yale and you pitch him against whoever wins between Wake Forest and UK. That's going to be the tail, I think. And when you look at those two teams, those are really good teams in both. Wake Forest won almost 40 games. They've got one of the best short stops in the country. And Maric Houston really love what they do.

They've got a ton of power arms. in as well. They're a team that does it with pitching a defense. UK, more of an offensive base team. But at the end of the day, I mean, all these teams have players that can beat you. You look at the center fielder for Binghamton and Matt Bolton.

They're a really good team, but it's about West Virginia, as you've mentioned. Gavin Kelly is soaring, obviously, and at this point in time, it's more than one person projecting him possibly to be the number one overall pick next year, certainly a top 10 pick. So he is the start.

He is the thing that we need him to be a star this weekend. We need Max Yale to be an ace this weekend. And at the end of the day, I think those are the two guys you look to from a West Virginia perspective as carry us, please, because we really don't want to have to get into it too deep. Sean Smith has been on a tear. Obviously, he was seven for seven coming in to the last game

over his last two games. We're excited about the way he's trending. And it's just a tough lineup for West Virginia. So I think Bingham's going to struggle versus West Virginia. We shouldn't have to pitch our best guy again in that game. And then we'll wait and see what happens between Wake and UK, but probably one of the two or three tougher regionals, unfortunately. And then if we get through that, it's UCLA and that's going to be really tough. With respect to everyone else who hosts locked on shows NBA to college, I don't know if anyone's

devoted enough to read that much about Binghamton baseball. Mountaineer Paul's boat racing, you guys. Like if you want a show or he knows everything about everything sports and takes it Seriously, you're looking at, like, deadpan face. Like, seriously, the dude just works that hard. I think the tough draw, but being in Morgantown is awesome for West Virginia. What that does for the community is going to be great. Cody, Oklahoma State. I don't hate the draw, obviously, because you get two mid-majors that are kind of random mid-majors.

USC upstate is in there. And Alabama baseball, they kind of had that choke factor the last few years if you followed in the SEC. I just don't, I don't, I think this could have got a lot. or selection-wise where OK states going. Yeah, if you would have picked any of the ballparks that would favor Oklahoma State's lineup in the SEC, it's definitely this one.

Their left field is 11 foot shorter than Obrate Stadium. Center field's 12 foot shorter. Right field is five foot shorter. Oh, baby. And this is a team that has almost 140 home runs on the season. We may not be good at a lot of things, but we are good about getting the ball up out of the ballpark. So I do think that strategically, I appreciate whoever put Oklahoma State in the Alabama

Regional because out of every host site, they did give us the most beneficial ballpark for our particular ball club. Are they a better team? Well, yes. Do they have a better pitching staff? Yes. But they did put us in the right ballpark and we're offensively a good enough team that if we get some surprise, performances on the bump, this is a regional we could definitely come out of. I like our chances better than KU. Putting KU with Missouri State and Arkansas, that is a crime against the Big 12. Didn't Derek say Arkansas has knocked them out a bunch of times?

Yes. Yes. Yeah, it's consistent now, yeah. Well, and Paul, like, dude, if I was you guys, yeah, I would save Maxiel for Wake Forest. I wouldn't worry about Kentucky. Kentucky's a fraud. Kentucky only won two SEC series the entire flipping season.

The only reason they're in the tournament is because they played in the SEC. Yeah. I mean, you come in with 31 wins. So it's, you know, not a great resume, but you never know in the SEC. You really don't. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but also to that, to lend it to that, you don't know in tournament baseball. I mean, now, like, you're going to, Coastal Carolina winning the, the World Series 11 years ago, 10 years ago. Like, there's so many things.

Yeah. Murray State making it to the college World Series. Fresno State. Yeah. Yeah. So, like, we could talk about Merch or getting absolutely robbed, too. Yeah. That was bad.

They had a great 28 RPI. 28. They didn't make the tournament. 40 plus regular season wins. That's pretty sad. 40 plus regular season wins and you don't get in. But five Sunbelt teams got in. No disrespect to the Sunbelt.

I do know that they are a very good baseball conference. But five Sunbelt teams get in and a 40 plus win Mercer Ball Club that has several power four Ws doesn't get in. That's kind of wild. Oh, and we haven't talked about Arizona State getting a three seed. I think that they have a really, really, really good chance to take down Nebraska, which would actually be Big 12 retribution because realistically, KU should have got the 13 seed.

Nebraska should have got the 15 seed because it didn't play out that way. I think Arizona State might go up there and cause some problems. And Harrison is probably the best player in their regional, you know? Yes, for sure. Easily. Yeah, yeah. Let's do, let's coming up, this, the CBS Sports, Spring, Paul, give you a chance to Google it.

The CBS Sports, Big 12 post-spring. football power rankings just lost its number one team. This is the Dos A Grande Squad. It is the locked on Big 12 squad and CBS Sports with its power rankings have just dropped. Let's react to this first before we go through the rest of how they stacked up with this 16 team ranking. BYU has jumped Texas Tech for number one. Thoughts? I think it's fair.

I mean, they barely, you know, were a team that got screwed out of the C. FB this previous season. You could make the argument two years in a row. Did they get beat up by Texas Tech? Yes. Do they have something to prove for sure? But, you know, this is a quarterback driven lead that we talk about all the time. And I just, I like Will Hammond. And there are reports out there that he might be ready for the beginning of the season. But if he's not, you just cannot take away the fact that Brennan Sorsby and Wilhammon are not quite the same level. So when you're talking about the Noah Fafitas of the world and the Devin Damper's and the Connor Weigmans and the Drew Mestamakers, I do see that Texas Tech takes a little bit of a step

backwards, and BYU is the rifle team to step in there. Now, and to be fair, there's parity. Things can happen. We have no idea of a la Jake Brett's left is bounced. BYU Johnson in the middle of the pack of the Big 12, and then they have a better quarterback statistically sitting behind him who's 17 years old. Some crazy things can't happen, but on paper, going into next season, Texas Tech is significantly worse without Soresby.

I just, here's my, here's what I think is. a very funny line from this power ranking. It says, the Red Raiders had the worst offseason of any big 12 team after losing quarterback Brendan Sorsby. What about the other big 12 team that lost quarterback Brendan Sorsby in this same audience? It's not about what that's. Oh, that's funny. I think the crazier thing you said that there was that BYU played a 17-year-old because those guys usually show up like 22.

So that's a whole separate. Is Arizona State punished for losing Sam Levitt as harshly? No, I mean, Arizona State middle of the back. And Jordan Tyson, too. And Jordan Tyson was pretty valuable. See, I'm so glad you brought that. I'm glad you mentioned that, Paul, right? I think you could be able to make the argument that Oklahoma State should be above cutter,

Bowley. So, I mean, I don't love Oklahoma State at 8th and there's a 7. If we're saying worst off season, has anyone looked at Iowa State? Has anyone seen of the football team still there? Like, is the locker room full? They lost every starter. They've moved it to Pennsylvania, I heard. The whole operation moved for a little bit cooler weather.

Brutal. But yeah, in this ranking, Houston at three, Arizona four, Utah 5, TCU at 6, Arizona State 7, Oklahoma State 8. That's the top half. Let's say this. I think after BYU, Texas Tech, and Houston, there's a pretty extreme drop-off unless you're in my book. I think Oklahoma states in the conversation for top three or four team in the Big 12, given what they brought in Indiana style. But if you, again, just on paper, last year's success,

it's those three, Texas Tech, BYU, Houston, and then anybody else could beat anybody else. And I genuinely wouldn't be that shocked. That's very fair, very fair. West Virginia is not 15th. I promise you, you're not going to be 15th. You know, like Josh Pate did a show on this. And I thought, you know, he's generally not favorable to Big 12 teams,

but in this case to West Virginia he was. He went down to sat with Rich Rodriguez. And if you just look at West Virginia on paper, you would say, yeah, they brought in 45, 50 guys last year, and they brought in 54, 50 guys this year. It's going to be the same thing over again until you look at the quality of player. It's so much higher.

We had the greatest recruiting class in the history of our program this year. You know, like top 20 high school football recruiting class, and that's not including the bulk that it was. was because it was a large class, just the top 20 guys. There's multiple four-star guys in there, I think seven, somewhere in that range. And then obviously the portal class is also top 20. And so when you look at it from that perspective, the quality of player West Virginia brought in much better. And there's no way that they win four games again with that level of player. It's going to depend on a lot, obviously, but we think that we have a, we're going to have a really

good offensive line. Five million sunk into that as well as obviously. Cam Cook coming back in who led the nation in rushing last year who completely gets disrespected all the time. I was about to say, Cam Cook might be the most underappreciated portal guy in the Big 12 that nobody talks about at all.

Almost 2,000 yards last year. I want to preface some positives of West Virginia because they don't want to sound too much. I agree with you. I don't think they're going to be 15th. I think they're better than UCF Baylor. A handful of because at least, I think that's very, I think they're better than where a year ago. Damn, man. They can be better than TCU this year.

I wouldn't be shocked by that. I have the trip to Morgantown for Houston Circus, one of the games that worries me the most. That's a hard place to play. And I think that those are all true things. I think, though, Paul, what you're looking at here is, like, actually how good the conference had a, as a whole, had a pretty impressive offseason.

Houston also had the best recruiting class in school history and a top ranked bit, depending on which one you're looking at, XYZ ranked portal class. I think multiple schools had that. And so relative to the conference, I think that's actually kind of padding the whole conference on the back. It's like, hey, everyone did this. Oklahoma State, too. Everyone had a good offseason.

And that's why West Virginia is getting down. Now, I don't think that someone has to lose, right? I feel like, though, that, like, I don't think West Virginia is as low as their rank. That's very, like, valid criticism. I just think that when you talk about it's one of the best schools and that's like, yeah, lots of schools are saying that this offseason because it was that good across. league. Yeah, that's a great point. I do think that's a great point. I think with West Virginia, specifically the way I look at it is where we got better the most is the offensive line, obviously. We had two returners and then two guys coming from Jacksonville State that know the

offense already with the running back that ran behind them for almost 2,000 yards. So I think where we're going to make the most hay is in that running game. Obviously, if Mike Hawkins Jr. turns out to be a dude like they're saying, that's where I think West Virginia becomes dangerous. Anytime you give Rich Rod a trigger guy, that's a lead on the ground. And Hawkins is a four, three guy. That's where I'll be interested to see if West Virginia can be better at. Because if we can run it this year, I really do think that we'll win a lot more games than some other teams that can also run it because it's just what, it's the way West Virginia

wins under Rich Rod. This is how they've been good. But certainly we have questions like a lot of teams too. So I just think that we continually get undervalue just because of the last seven, eight years, right? I mean, it's been a rough seven or eight years. And until we finally prove it one year, it's not going to change. And people are continuing, it's like, you know, we're not at Kansas's level,

but it's that kind of people are sour on us. That's just what it is. To the same, the inverse of the same point, I guess. By the way, CBS has West Virginia below Kansas, which is crazy. I think Arizona State at seven is also. also like I understand that Dillingham's still there and like I'm sure they spend a lot of money in guys that I have not. But like cutter Bowley replaces Sam Levitt. Seven's fair.

Seven's fair. Arizona State's got a good infrastructure. I, I, I'd like them there. I wouldn't have them any higher though. I'm not that high on Arizona State. I think I kind of like given Avery Johnson and Conn Klein together at Kansas State more though. I agree. I just, I don't believe in T.

you like that. I don't believe in Utah like that. I think Arizona's going to see a regression. That's the kind of that's the pot of the big 12 that I'm not completely sold on you. Like we've seen Fafita win the Alamo Bowl against Oklahoma. We've seen Fafita miss a bowl game. You know, I, I, we've seen a, a, I think. Brennan won back a lot of favor last year. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And Houston beat them. I will say, I thought Fafita was fantastic. He played great game. I do want to ask because Drake, you even said, Right, the top three, maybe a little bit too low. Maybe should Houston have taken a little bit of an uptick with Brendan Sources being out, Parker?

So I've been saying for a while now that I think that people, Houston returns both coordinators, their head coach, and the starting quarterback, and a handful of, like, the leading receiver and all of the team that won 10 games last year. Like, there just aren't many teams in America that can say all of those things at the same time. BYU can't. Be why you can't. Right. And like, I think that that's frankly, I don't mean to say that they're going to win 11 for sure. What are the lines of scrimmage for Houston, though? What's that? What's that looking like? Per PFF, they got better at all five spots. They brought in a PFF All-American.

They got better. They're better. I'd argue at every position except for a tight end. And that's because they had a legitimate pro there a year ago in Tanner Cozel. Like I think that, yes, if you're going to call them third right now, that's fine. They'll play tech third week of the season with who knows at quarterback. That's kind of the story of fuses all season. It's like the first tough game out that gates read the team. We don't know who's taking snaps for them. But I think that that's kind of the deal.

And like, look, could they get got at Salt Lake against Utah or against West Virginia on the road because they're both tough places to play? Utah lost its head coach in like three or four all Big 12, possibly all American caliber players. Yeah, I just more like me that's a tough place to play. He's going to go on the road. He was undefeated on the road last year but had a pretty friendly road schedule, right? And so I think that the deal is like they have three tough roadies this year.

And I am including Westry, when I say that, I know that I get flacked because I think people think I hate Paul. But I actually like Paul a lot. I just, I think that that's a tough road game for Houston this year. I know I'm not worried about T.C. or Baylor. So are these people that think you hate me. I don't think you have any at all. I just thought we had like a rivalry. Put it to rest.

Like to me, it's a competitive thing. Like it's nothing personal at all. I just like ribbon on you. you like ribbon on me? That's really as far as it goes. With the Brendan Sorsby, Will Hammond scenario, y'all should be 5 and O going into K State before y'all play us. Well, I did a whole show. I'm sure Christian I talked a couple times where we kind of landed on by end of the show,

like both of our seasons could very well be spinning on how that Houston, Kansas State game goes. And at the time, Sorosby was still playing, but I was like, hey, two losses for Houston at that point could be catastrophic. Yeah. But also Kansas State's going to be kind of looking like, can they be the Kansas State of two or three years ago? So, you know, I think that's probably fair.

Guys, Avery Johnson and Marcel Reed do have a lot of commonality. And so when I look at that Texas A&M offense, resurgents-wise under Colin Klein, that is the one thing that does make me a little afraid about K State is a great point. They're carving copies of each other and they have very comfortable, you know. I would say Avery's more talented overall than Marcel Reuss. I think Avery's probably got a better capability to layer the ball in between. all three layers than Marcel. That's interesting. One last thing, too.

I think Jason Beck's probably one of the biggest losses nobody talks about. Nobody talks about it. Great way to end it. That's why I think Utah has a regression. That dampier, yes, but you lost your leading wide receiver. He didn't, not into the portal, he just left. He ran an eligibility.

And so many guys to Michigan. Did John Paul Bailey go to Michigan? Well, the whole office lines. I say it too. I said John Paul Davey as well. One of the popes. One of the popes. The whole offensive lines

the NFL now, too. I think that's like... They were so good on the O line last. Utah's usually... They're usually good there, but that it's tough to replace. All right, that's Mountaineer, Paul, locked on West Virginia, Cody Stilvall, blocked on Oklahoma State and Parker Ainsworth of Locked on Cougesworth of Locked on Coox.

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