Shutdown Fullcast - 40 FOR 40: The 2025 Myrtle Beach Bowl

Episode Date: December 18, 2025

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Welcome. Welcome to the Myrtle Beach Bowl between Kennesaw State and Western Michigan, which is, of course, quite possibly, FBS is only postseason game between conference champions, depending on how the playoff breaks down. Kennesaw State, my alma mater. This is our first bowl game. a fact for mainly for you Ryan um so jerry mac our first year head coach uh everyone knows the good job he did turning a two and ten and ten and three team and then somehow not being hired away by memphis thank you memphis because he's from memphis do you know the name of our uh coordinators i have no idea i'm very excited to find out that would be offensive coordinator

mitch militello what as well as defensive coordinator mark madioli We are the most Italian team in all of college football. The Italian Stallions. Oh, man, ruckers and shambles, right? Italian? Also, Jerry Mac, that could be Italian, right? Like, somehow, like, sounds, you know, that could be the name of a restaurant or something. Maybe, I don't know.

You know what it is. It's kind of, like, 85% Italian by itself. It's not Italian. It is a good gangster. Hey, Jerry Mac. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's he do? he he smack the knife you know away it's your mac he's so what i'm saying is if you spell

italy but put owl in place of a l yeah i think that works also we play at a stadium named after a bank which sounds like some kind of a racket and it's fifth third bank which sounds like we're playing some kind of a shell game on you you also have a special teams coordinator named kyle blocker and while that's not italian it's also another gangster name a match It's excellent nominative determinants. These are all great L.A. Noir names. On the other side of the ball, we have Western Michigan Mac champion. In an especially middle-heavy year for the Mac,

they were the one team that emerged in the regular season and obviously the conference title game. Good job by them. Fortunately, they are not the KSU. So that therefore they will and must be eradicated. Again, no offense to them. Myrtle Beach Stadium, we were there just a few weeks ago for Coast Carolina versus the scoundrels of

Marshall on that day they were scandals. Phenomenal stadium. Incredible W.W.E. great theatrics all around. I don't know how they'll translate to an 11 a.m. weekday game. Wait, wait.

What if that's probably a good hour for the Cruiser Club to be out there. That shit'll wake you the fuck up. If they give it the full theatrics that they gave for a coastal home game, if they hit you with that at 11 a.m. local, you're ready to face the Friday. Oh!