Shutdown Fullcast - Shutdown Fullcast 4.17.0

Episode Date: May 25, 2016

The non-preview preview editions of the Shutdown Fullcast continue into...well, into some dark territory. Let's be honest and just say that we talk about Pitt and Rutgers NO WAIT WE COME BACK WE TALK ABOUT OTHER SHIT WE PROMISE--- Things like: --Hey did you remember that Mark Richt is the head coach at Miami, and he gets to work with Brad Kaaya, and that could be really cool since they're both pretty good at their complimentary jobs? And that Miami plays Appalachian State this year? In Boone, North Carolina? --More talk about Pitt football than anyone's had since 2007 when the greatest thing ever happened to Pitt which was just ruining a rival's best shot at a national title which is a negative positive but we are talking about Pitt so they'll take it --Two minutes of Rutgers talk that no one wants to hear so just skip it --We realize that Wisconsin, after years of missing the swinging hammer of a rotating schedule, takes a full-force shot to the face this year by basically playing every real good team in the Big Ten in one season --Stanford! The team with the best and coldest player in the nation, even if you don't know who is handing the ball off to him this year. (Probably someone named Keller Chryst, but you could have guessed that or some other name like that.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the shutdown forecast. I am Spencer Hall, editor of Every Day Should Be Saturday, and Editorial Director SB Nation. Joining me, live from Kennesaw, Georgia. We're introducing from south to north here, moving northward, about 20 miles north of me. Jason Kirk. How are you doing? There's people yelling at me from the driveway. Hang on, just a sec. What did you say about the trash? Oh, y'all put a lot of extra trash in the cans. I got to take all three cans out. Got it.

Okay. They're not coming in the next 10 minutes. You can wait. No, it's tomorrow morning. Yeah, the trash can wait. Speaking of trash that can't wait. Brooklyn, New York, in the house. The town that killed breakfast.

The town that killed breakfast. You can't hurt me. You can't hurt me today. I got no feeling. My only feelings are hard work and not crying in public. It's not eating until noon. This is my man. This is my man voice because this is the man ball episode.

We're going to run it 18 times. Then we're going to run it 18 more. We do have a preview episode loaded with Mansom football. Mansom football playing low margins and ensuring that every game is somehow some variation of that classic football score 2417. That's what we're working with today. Ryan, you join us from Brooklyn, part of the city that killed breakfast. Passings for craps. Passings for craps.

And I only take craps. Atlantic City's a beautiful town. It's on the comeback. Go Rutgers. We are previewing Rutgers. There are a couple teams that we're doing. I would like to state this. You do actually believe that breakfast is a necessary meal, correct?

All food is irrelevant. It's about getting out there and getting the job done. Just give me a paste. Give me those things from that train movie, made out of roaches and human excrement. From that train movie. Oh, that movie fucking sucks. But it does have a, it does, it keeps its pad level low. It just keeps his head plowing forward.

That's right. I'm talking about the last 10 minutes of speed. Man, nothing, nothing makes Jason Kirk matter than sci-fi that you find objectionable. Like, Snowpiercer made you mad. Uh, let's see. What, what was that? Um, I, I, I like interstellar, but it's fucking horrible. Prometheus, Prometheus made you as angry. Prometheus made you as angry, like, I thought somebody had slapped your child.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I would like my money back, but it's never going to happen. Yeah, bad sci-fi angers you to an extent I've never seen another human being. Speaking of, speaking of bad sci-fi, we, we're going to talk about Pitt football. Oh, Pitt. Hail to Pitt What was last time you remember like Oh man That Pitt team there

I mean they did have Larry Fitzgerald And they did ruin West Virginia's best chance At playing for a national championship They did have Larry Fitzgerald I mean I don't know what to tell you Didn't even finish this sentence When's the last time you were like Pitt that's a

Like when's the last time you noticed Pitt And Ryan said Larry Fitzger You know what? I respect that Pitt chooses to go by a name that is also a word for depths that might be associated with hell or some sort of trap for a tiger or something. A mass grave, you might call it. They're just like, this is Pitt, you know what to expect. No sunlight here.

I'm Patner-R-Doozy. It sounds like Pitt. The news came out that Pitt star player, James, Connor has beaten cancer, which is great and good news. Regardless of your view of the aesthetics of pit football, that's just good news. I thought you were going to say regardless of your views of cancer, and I was very afraid where that was going. I don't know. Maybe somebody likes it's the internet.

Somebody out there is like, actually, cancer's a... Somebody out there is all kind of, has a cancer thing. Actually, cancer's good. I mean, people voted to say the truth. That's true. We got Pat and Ordezia. My point was that we called it Pittsburgh Panthers star James Conner

and a Pitt fan got mad because we didn't say Pitt. Don't ever say the name of our channel. Call it a pit. Pit. Welcome to the pit. The pit. You ever been to Pitt? I will say this. On the list of cities I've never been to in the United States,

Pittsburgh is up there in terms of cities I haven't been to, it's not up there in terms of cities I haven't been to and I'm really itching to go. I know it's like a cheap thing to be like, ah, Pittsburgh, it was industrial and now it's not. No, I just can't go to Pittsburgh because I will laugh the entire time at people's accents because it is one of those places where people actually say gerbs and worse.

I am a little, I am a little disappointed that when they filmed the Batman movies in Pittsburgh that he didn't have that? You mean the accent? Yin's step away from her. Oh, like if he'd done that through all three movies. Yeah. Like, you're doing the

I'm gonna wash the city clean. Yins are wearing hockey pads. I just never explained why God's insane. Go penguins. Go stillers. Go stilers. Wow, that guy looks like Bruce Wayne, but his voice is totally different. Is that Ben Rothelisberger?

That would be the best if the Batman movies were just Rafflesberger crashing into things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Do you mean Bain Rathlisberger? Yeah, I mean, they made a movie about how Heinz word is fast, so. Yeah. That whole scene where the field falls in, I was like, if Rathlisberger's out there,

that won't even dent him. And you know, you know what that detonation caused? A pit. Welcome to Pitt. Hail to Pitt. Yeah, this is not a team that, I mean, they went eight and five last year, but if you asked me what Pitt did next.

a year i'd say they went eight and five yeah eight and five uh yeah eight and five lost to every ranked team that they played and uh eight in the eight of their games last year one score games boy pit is really living on the edge which they is about right an extremely excellent elite championship quality iowa team to the buzzer uh as everyone agrees iowa was a phenomenal team last year i think i think i've made up made up to uh to iowa pit football is your friend who is waits until the very last possible minute to go to the hospital like they haven't died and they haven't lost an appendage yet but they could have like you could have taken care of that earlier no they're they're they're hemorrhaging coaches but i'm on a blood

cleanse just so you know by the way okay you're you're you're leading running back um has it's great he's he's been declared you know clear of hodgkins lymphoma that's awesome um that's not what you want to hear in terms of let's rely on him at running back so you know that's that's not that that sucks it sucks for jay it's great that he's great that he is completely cancer free i wouldn't expect um anything close to full speed at all right like that would that's just not happening so they need somebody to run which is super important because that's kind of a big part of their offense um they uh they need a lot on defense oh man they need some they need some defense which it's pat neruduzi he's a great defensive coordinator good defensive mind

I sort of think they'll kind of make that work, but there's not a lot you can point to and go, hmm, that guy. Oh, and do you know who their quarterback is? No, honestly, no. No? They just had a quarterback transfer, I think. It is? To Arkansas State, because he wanted to play on a campus stadium.

So, do you remember Nathan Peterman? Yeah, oh, boy, that is the name I've not heard a long time. He was great in that one movie. Yeah. the bird cage he was part of that Florida Tennessee game where like four quarterbacks played and all of them died didn't he transfer I feel like he transferred back to Tennessee and then left again I'm not quite sure on that he's the he's the quantum leap of quarterbacks oh boy oh pit oh pit so yeah this is not this feels like they went eight and five last year it would really not surprise me you want the cliche cliche time. I would not surprise me if their record did not reflect the actual improvement and depth of the roster this year.

I like that because that can mean whatever you want it to mean. They also, by the way, if you want to hear their road schedule, who, dog. Oh yeah, it's a beaut. It's a beaut. Hit them with it. Hit them with it. Okay. First two games at home. Then on

September 17th, they go to Stillwater, Stillwater, Oklahoma. Play Oklahoma State on the road. That ain't good. Then the next week, the very next week they go to North Carolina then a couple weeks of home then they go to Virginia and then they get back to back road games

at Miami and at Clemson at Clemson so yeah it's not the best schedule it's going to be rough this feels like like us I'm going to call six and six but you glossed right over that second home game I did I left it for somebody else

oh look here comes Ryan Nanny to pick up what I just dropped on the ground What is it, Ryan? Pitt, their second game in the season, hosts Penn State, in which we might get to see on the same field, Penn State's soon-to-be-last coach and Penn State's soon-to-be-next-coach. I thought you were just going to say, soon-to-be-last coach. Oh, yep, they're just wrapping it up.

Just right, yeah, that's it. We're done. Play them off. Bye. Going to be a lacrosse school now, boys. Let's go to our next team. kind of want to, I really don't want to stay in the ACC. Nobody really wants to ever stay in the ACC back to back.

But I think we're going to do that because I do want to go down to beautiful Boca Raton, Florida to, actually not Boca. I'm sorry. I was going to say, did they moot? FAU! They do. They do. They do. I want to talk about the Canes.

This is actually a sneaky way to get an SEC team in here because in case you've forgotten, Mark Rick is the coach at Miami now And you're gonna forget that You're just gonna forget that to like the first week of the season And you'll see him wearing the like hurricane logo And the orange and the green and you'll go he's lost Nope that's that's job now I don't think you'll notice until a week five

Because they open with FAMU FAU app state Buy And then At Georgia Tech That app state is an at as well In case you don't get my Florida State newsletter, in which I mentioned that Miami is playing at App State. I am hoping that some Miami fans haven't been paying attention and think that Al Golden is cutting his hair shorter and got super fit over the course of the summer.

Coach looks good. Coach looks great. Got a spring and a step. Can we just rewind? Zer, Zer, Zer, Zer, Zer, Zer. Yeah. Miami playing at App State. I love it. Oh, no. At App State. You're going to be in Boon.

Boon. I love it. I just, it's perfect. Do you know that next year, they play at Arkansas State. I'm going to keep going down this list and see. Yep. The year after that, at Toledo. I think this is a discipline thing. Like, I think they're showing them, listen, if you get booted and you don't get to live near south beach anymore here's where you're headed yeah you're going to these sunbelt campuses three years in a row they're going at these random ass schools and and i i don't get it i don't get it at all but those are all recruiting hotbeds god bless yeah these are satellite camp games

i think you're missing the obvious connection that in order to restore the u to greatness we got to move that work we got to move it from the hill north carolina we got to put it on 15 plus And we got to sell it in Jones Booky. We got to take it to Toledo. We got to hit those markets where nobody else is getting it where the feds ain't looking. Boone ain't too far off the 75 to 85 pipeline up the eastern seaboard. It's a short stop. Arkansas State, maybe that's your way into Kansas or something.

And let me tell you, I'm not saying the football program is complicit in this. I'm saying it's the admins, right? They're setting them up. So then they're like, oh, we found this in the plane. Yeah. You know who's not, you know who doesn't sweat that? The AD? He's like, oh, man, I didn't know about that.

And then you know who's showing up in 2019? Because delivery didn't make it all the way up to Piscataway, Ruckers. That's right. That is also a real game. God, Miami. This is just, this is beautiful. I mean, I think this is organized, but is Donna Shalajela still the president. Oh, yeah.

And think about this. Yeah, she can get away with whatever she wants. She told the NSA to kiss her ass. What are they going to do? Who did they just hire? They just hired Mark Rick. You're going to search? Who's going to believe Mark Rick did this?

You're going to search these Bibles. Exactly. You open it up, Bibles hollowed out. It's a hollowed out Bible with another Bible inside. An even smaller Bible. It's a New Testamentception. It only has the judgmental part. Every Baptist is assigned one.

It's amazing. Yeah, this is a team, by the way. Like, if you want something to be excited about, like something that's cool, Brad, Brad Kaya gets to work with Mark Rick. I think, you know, like, Mark Rick, very good at making pretty efficient quarterbacks, sometimes outstandingly efficient quarterback. So, uh, that would be good. Brady, it'd be cool to see Brad Kaya, uh, with somebody who actually kind of knows how to,

like, program a quarterback. So, uh, that's a good thing. Yeah. Yeah, you can be kind of happy about that, provided he can, he can, he can stand up at the end of the year. That's been kind of an issue of Miami is protecting them and running the ball. to protect him but uh but yeah offensively you know they mark correct has been good he's been good to great offensively so big questions the defense here here is the fun here's the fun part of

the miami schedule it's it is the app state game yes um they host north carolina on october 15th and five days after that on a thursday night they get to go play virginia check in blacksburg that's probably not ideal yeah although that's again we're talking about a under new management Virginia tech team

that will that will pretty much just be a guaranteed defense right and then whatever is going to happen on offense yeah not real sure over there that is also that is also the sandwich game

with Notre Dame on the other end though so Notre Dame road trip yeah and Florida State is the game before all three of these yeah it gets rough really quick. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, down with the Virginia NC State Duke trifecta. Yeah, so are you calling that?

Because, again, it's very tempting for me to always just call every single one of these teams that were previewing tonight, a six and six team.

But I'm not going to do that. I went through and sketched out the board earlier on just picking a bunch of games, and I was surprised at what I had Miami. At first glance,

just, you know, just one second on each game. I had the canes at 9. Nine and three. Yeah, I agree. I agree with that. And, like, I'll revisit that, but I'll bump into that about it. I'll bump under it.

This feels like eight and four. No, I like nine and three. I agree with you, Jason. Outvoted. All right. Hey, I'll go eight and four. You guys go nine and three. You burnt.

You burnt. You burnt. Burnt? Did you say burnt? Oh, man. I know where this is going. As in leveled, as in ruined. As in scorched, as in lying in a rut on the ground.

Yeah, Ruck. I'm going to say about Ruckers as a football team. Not that any, I mean, if there's a Ruckers fan listening, I just want to tell you, take that little slider on whatever media you're doing, and I want you to just skip two minutes into the future. Skip, skip, Skip, Bedelia. Yeah. So they hired an Ohio State coordinator, right?

Yeah. Chris Ash. They literally just forgot who they hired as their coach. Who is being accused of stealing Michigan Photoshop techniques? He's gotten in two different, or his staff at least, has gotten in two different beefs with Jim Harbaugh already. So this is good. There was the summer recruiting camp thing where they're bringing in Ohio State.

Of course, he has Ohio State connections. Although, let us be clear that that is. And Harbaal also has his own New Jersey connection. So he's having a camp there with Maryland. I believe. Let us be clear. It is very easy to get into beef with Jim Harbaugh. Yeah, we probably all have some sort of a dispute with Jim Harbaugh. We don't even know about it. If you worked in the same office and you went up to Jim Harbaugh and say, hey, Jim, I was trying to park today and I noticed your car was just a little over the line. So, you know, just

parking space is a little crowd out there, if you don't mind. Just thought you'd want to know. He'd be like, oh, I see. All right. Well, you and I are in eternal combat now, and I will crush you and all that you love. Go blue. He says that after staring out the window for like three minutes. yeah there's that and then there was the recruiting flyer dispute thank you god come on no um but yeah so you've given jim harbaugh incentive to beat you by 60 points that's cool that's super fun yeah so yeah let's look at that by the way if you look at their schedule oh god do we have to no i'm just gonna tell you i know i'm gonna look because we got to make a call here i'm just going to count it up ooh they they you know how they open the year they open at washington at washington a Washington a Washington team that I think we collectively think could be sneaky good this year? Well, I mean, Washington at this point, honestly, they might almost be the Pact 12 favorite.

Like, if you look at the early 25s and all that, people, they've gone from not mentioned in the January top 25s to like high teens. Like, I think somebody had them at 12. Yeah, sure. Good. Why not? But by August, Washington might be the Pact 12 favorite. So here comes record. Yeah, so here comes

Ruppers to bat around. I got what? Going right into the teeth of that. Oh, shout out to Atlanta Bergeron. They play Howard in week two. So probably be one in one. Can I tell you week three,

they might lose this game. Oh, yeah. Oh, God. Here comes Big Bob. Oh, I got football Bob. Week three, they play a triple option team. Under new, with a new defense under new management.

Oh, man, that just that. After that, they play a single option team. Iowa Oh Up here Let me say Iowa State And then Michigan

After that Howard game It's real hard for me to find It's real hard for me to find a win I mean You're counting on Lovey Smith at home Indiana Madness at home Maybe

You know Penn State's always good for something goofy But Yeah So this is a three win team God Half on four wins Three is three

Three is generous. It almost feels like. Can I go two? All right, I'm going to call two. Do it. I'm fine with two. Two and ten. Yeah.

I love you, Rutgers. But, who. Okay, let's not talk about Rutgers anymore. Hey, Rutgers, you got more than Notre Dame. Let's go. Who, okay. You know what? We decided, Ryan, you and I have no definite opinions on Wisconsin,

despite the fact that they won 10 games. I, yeah, I not only don't have definite opinions about them, I don't, I can't recall anything. I know they played Alabama to start the season, did not show super well, but again, they, you know, they lost to the national champion, so it's not a big deal. And I don't know anything else. I feel like they played a close, dumb game against Iowa, but I could be describing literally every Wisconsin Iowa game. Man, wasn't the, wasn't the weather just awful that game? Sure, if you say so, it's Wisconsin Iowa. of course the weather's probably stupid.

It was like 75 and sunny. This is awful. It's all terrible, so hot. It's like trying to describe a rest stop. Like, they're all the same, and I don't know how to tell you how they're different. I think 10 to 7 is the score that's coming to mind. Yeah, the bathroom smelled kind of bad, and I think there was a TCBY. That's the Wisconsin-I-A-W-Game.

Yeah, wasn't it like a late TD? Like, I have a scored a late TD there. If you say so. cheat you the name. Sure. You can say anything within the realm of Wisconsin, Iowa possibility, and yeah, it happened last year. Iowa threw three picks and one. Anything within the realm of 20 points, sir?

That's the realm of Wisconsin Iowa possibility, sure. So I believe this means that I am tasked with describing Wisconsin. You're the Wisconsin expert. You've got to speak on it. The only thing I can say about Wisconsin is this. RIP, Jill Stave, it's gone to be that. inevitable great signal caller slash clipboard holder in the sky in the NFL we've lost them to like the Seattle Seahawks I don't know if they're making him a DB or a tight end or a receiver

or a practice squad quarterback or whatever maybe all but slash he slash on on Bill C's returning production stat Wisconsin is really close to the bottom yeah and they do not exactly have the recruiting to give you confidence that there will be lots of top talent to plug in there. They develop well and all that bullshit, but the main thing is looking at their schedule. The thing about Wisconsin for years and years has always been like,

how the fuck did they duck the East's good teams again, or the legends or whichever? It's just like it's almost like Barry Alvarez has made these schedules himself. This year, their East opponents, at Michigan State, at Michigan, and Ohio State.

yeah the fiddler came home and this is all shortly after uh ls u yeah i was gonna say i was gonna say who they play week one yeah and and who is who is ls uffs defensive coordinator now oh that's davar that's david and where was davir randa last season best coach on wisconsin staff and now on the other side with like vastly more talented players so what i'm saying is uh don't don't get excited when lSU scores 40 points on wisconsin to start the year and you're like oh they less figured out the offense they're good to go no man this is an inside job how many carries how many carries did leonard four net half seventy three don't worry about it don't worry about he's got this average seven yards of carry they got this so like other than the two cup get games acron and george state no offense

to either yeah uh this schedule just like rapidly decreases in difficulty overall i mean you know michigan's probably better than michigan state and so forth but it starts hard as hell in the first half and then just sort of limps to like a Illinois Purdue back to back Minnesota closer you always beat Minnesota sure but like but the thing is we're gonna start rough Wisconsin but our impression of Wisconsin is only going to be those first that first month or so because after that it's nice but no one'll know they're going to be relegated to like the 11 o'clock kickoff on big 10 network if you're not a Wisconsin fan if you're not a Wisconsin fan or a fan of one of these

kind of middle-of-the-road teams that they're playing the last five weeks of the season, you're not going to know anything about Wisconsin. You're trying to say that by November it's going to be Wisconsin. The breakfast team. Yeah. Yeah. Wisconsin, it's full of

fiber. Yeah, it's hearty. I add it early in the day. Yeah. I wake up to Wisconsin football. So are we talking to sort of, are we talking like, I think with their schedule and being positioned as they are

and pulling the three teams they pull and LSU. You're looking at like a minimum of four losses, a minimum. Oh, oh, oh, yeah, yeah. Like, so a minimum of four, and then with variance you throw up a five, so I'll call seven and five. Yeah, I mean, Wisconsin always sort of does that thing

where they overachieve, but everyone is, everyone expects it. Yeah. This year, I don't expect it. Seven and five would not surprise me. I kind of want to go six and six, but that feels so hateful. No, no, no, no.

No, no, no. You know what? It's like you just can't imagine Wisconsin doing that. But I, but I, but I. They've had such good records for so long. I will go seven and five because I think they will swap a loss that we don't think they should have like, I don't know, we'll throw Illinois in that category for a win that they shouldn't have gotten like Michigan State or something. Yeah, I was going to say which one, do they play like Michigan State in, uh, in Camp Randall? No, they, the one they host is Ohio State, which I don't think Ohio State really cares about that, but maybe, but maybe. I mean, no, I could see, I could see that. Sure. It's young.

So I don't know which, I don't know which one it is, but one of the games, they'll win a game they're supposed to lose. They'll lose a game they're supposed to win. And by that logic, I will agree with you at 7 and 5. Okay. Sold. Beautiful. 7 and 5. We have one more team to discuss.

One more. We've saved the late night team for the late night for the last portion of the broadcast, just as you would normally see them. And that's kind of a shame because honestly, The most electrifying player in college football, who you have to also say, he's white, but. That's right. Kevin Hogan. Kevin, that's right. One of those offensive linemen.

He's electrifying. I don't want to dance around that either. That's the best part about Christian McCaffrey, that he is actually, like, he's phenomenal. He's an amazing football player. and the thing that happens every single time is everyone goes, is that guy white? And it's like, they'll talk about, like, I'm trying to find this tweet,

which is my favorite tweet from this past week, which is Levian Bell. Lavian Bell, okay? Tweeted out. Steelers running back, May 20th. Christian McCaffrey is real, all caps. Respect his game. Don't judge him just because of him being a white runner.

Wow. The last word here is in all caps, and it is in bold. That boy, cold, does it all. I feel like we've got to transition him to a slot receiver, though, for the NFL. Wes Walker type. Just no one's going to buy it. They're going to say, what are you sending us? What is this?

No. Can you run routes? What is he? Like little tricky little routes? What is this? Danny Woodham, but good? Come on. He's so good, by the way, that he does, like, he's so good that Stanford will do the things that you do in video game football when you have a play.

who can't be covered at any position. Like, they'll throw him out on little, like, angle routes, like little Texas plays. They'll throw him out like a little angle route on the middle where they're, like, audible and just send him deep and throw to him. They'll do all of that fun stuff because no one can touch him. And the problem is he would have won the Heisman last year, but he played on the West Coast.

And nobody watched him because a lot of his games happened after 9 p.m. That's the sad truth. But Alabama had a running back. But Alabama had a running back. Yeah, I thought he didn't. deserved it last year. His numbers, I could see his numbers going down this year. He is amazing and all that. But starting over at quarterback, losing two NFL offensive linemen, I believe. You know, of course, they're sliding over a five star and all that. But I could see his numbers

being well short of what he did this past year. Not that that would necessarily take away from him. I was going to be, I was going to say, like, it would be hard to do that again. He's not going to top it. sure. Tell you what? You know what's not going to help a Heisman case for him this year? If it's close, having your last regular season game

be hosting rice. Yeah, how that happens. Yeah. I mean, that I guess it's good if you're like, all right, this is the one where we get Christian McCaffrey 500 total yards. Go.

We need to break the, like, the passing record with his feet. Like, on the contrary, I think that's perfect because after two quarters, no one will care.

Yeah. They'll just, they'll just be like, Wow. Fine. Give it to him. Yeah, he's on. This is spectacular. I don't care. Watch him run over toddlers. I'd watch that. Just to refresh your memory, by the way, you know, it's real big if a guy has 2,000 yards rushing. He had that in 2015. He had 2019 yards. He had 645 yards receiving. He also had 1,000 yards and kickoff returns. And he even returned punts. So that's like 3,864 yards. Just that. So let's see. How many teams did not pass for that? many yards or 3,864 of the non-option variety yeah let's see here I can tell you BYU is the cutoff at 3, 3854 so so 100 or almost 100 teams yeah whatever yeah yeah that's that's why

like if you're like oh man what what's up with Stanford like why should I watch them there There, you should watch them because of Christian McCaffrey. I mean, you should watch him. You should watch their formations are interesting. Like, people always just get into, like, they have 19 tight ends, and somehow they're all fast, you know, and all their players are, you know, they just all feel like they really know what they're doing.

They also have a... Maybe you see that in knowing it's a smart school, but Stanford is just a lot of fun to watch. They also have a pretty interesting schedule. They are. Yeah, start with Kansas State at home. Yeah. That's at this point sort of a port.

man standard i guess right right or yeah or another well-coached team uh or north or northwestern when you're not you don't have your glasses on yeah yeah different color northwestern slightly different purple yeah yeah by the way in case uh there's also this by the way that they they lost Kevin Hogan which I know that's actually like that matters like you probably would have been joking that's a serious concern like not only did he run and probably open up a lot of stuff for McCaffrey his passing numbers were pretty good overall Like, you know, I think people sort of remember certain bad plays that stick out or whatever. Like, he kind of got that label.

But overall, his numbers compared, you know, stack up just fine with anybody. So, yeah, he was real good. He's a significant loss. I think Keller Christ. Keller Christ is the guy they expect to do that. His name is Keller Christ, which. Yeah, no works. Man, that's a Pac-12 quarterback name if I've ever heard one.

Killer Chris. Keller Chris, Zach, ten times. Like vaguely blasphemous. Mm-hmm. Has a first name that you're like, I don't think that's a first name or a last name. Yeah. Is your name Kelly or, no, it's Keller? Yeah.

The first of his name. Yeah, but this is a bear. Hi, I'm Spencer Haller. Spencer, Spencell her. This is a, this is a hard schedule. Yeah. Hard, like, up and down. Open, yeah.

Host Canada State. You got to buy a week two and then none. And then, yeah, it's like five. It's five straight weeks. weeks of potential, I mean, I'm not going to say these are all losses, but they're all potential losses that wouldn't be shocking, right? They don't get a, they'll always beat USC. Come on. They don't get a breather. They don't get a breather until Colorado in the 22nd.

They start off with a brutal schedule. And they've been bad early season games. So, like, typically, or typically Stanford's rounded into shape. Oh, we're talking about body clocks. Talking about body clock. Tell me about the bodycloth. Meanwhile, I think. Are there, uh, no East Coast trips, right? No. They go to Notre Dame. At Notre Dame. That's the far as they go. Yeah, they go to Notre Dame.

They go at Arizona. They go at Oregon, and they go at Cal. So that's two out of three sort of interesting road games. I don't want to speak for Cal fans, but this better be the year that the game, the big game, is actually something of a game. It has not been close in recent memory. Also, I have an important... pressure on like on cal i know i know uh i also have an important announcement to make um there so i think as you both know there are no uh there are no vocal stanford fans on the internet i don't know why this is

i think it's possibly because stanford people are smart and they realized long ago that fighting they created the internet with their silicon valley companies and then they left it for us the idiots to fight over while they make all the money which good job stanford fans um but i've decided i'm going to go all in and be, like, the meanest, most aggressive Stanford Homer this year. Every time somebody does not give Stanford the respect they deserve or talk shit, I'm going to be all over their ass. I'm going to be just mean. This feels like a Trill Ballin's character, but go ahead.

It is. It is. Furious Stanford fans. It be drunk Stanford fan. Drunk Stanford train. Yeah, I mean, according to Stephen Godfrey, who tailgated with these Stanford people and found a bunch of weirdos like he described it as like kind of old missy kind of Alabama just like far far more uh polo shirty than you would you would guess yeah um so those

people exist they just don't get online and and rage with anger like some they're like the chill SEC fan base or they do it on the dark really shows up for game i bet i bet you on the dark web there was a Stanford message board. The dark web. Can I also, can I point out something vaguely footballish here? Yeah. Okay. After October 15th, show me a defense

that can do anything with Christian McCaffrey. Brady Hoke! Brady Hoke's ready to shut you down. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Is he talking to a rallies? I mean, other than Notre Dame in watching. No, that's it. That's it.

After October 15th, guess what it is? It's Christian McCaffrey season. It's white dude vines. White dude vines. That's all that's going to be. It's going to be an early winter because he called. We're going to give Christian McCaffrey some horrendous nickname so bad that ESPN will actually adopt it as a sincere name.

White big gift season. Sub-zero. White Christmas. Calling Christian McCaffrey sub-zero because he's the coldest. The pale rider. Zero Kelvin. Good guy.