The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Coastal Carolina at UVA (-12), 6 PM, SAT, ACCN; Under Elliott, UVA Is 6-12 At Home (2-10 ACC)

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

The Jerry & Jerry Show headlines: Coastal Carolina at UVA (-12), 6 PM, SAT, ACCN Under Elliott, UVA Is 6-12 At Home (2-10 ACC) How Good Is Quarterback Chandler Morris? Coastal Carolina Will Run “Air Raid” Offense Keys To The Game For UVA & Tony Elliott Will The Cavs Start 4-0 Entering FSU Matchup? VA Tech v South Carolina (-8), 3 PM, SUN, ESPN Week 1 In The ACC – What To Watch? Read Viewer & Listener Comments Live On-Air Jerry Ratcliffe & Jerry Miller were live on The Jerry & Jerry Show! The Jerry & Jerry Show airs live Tuesday from 10:15 am – 11:15 pm on The I Love CVille Network. Watch and listen to The Jerry & Jerry Show on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, iTunes, Apple Podcast, YouTube, Spotify, Fountain, Amazon Music, Audible and iLoveCVille.com.

Good Tuesday morning, guys. My name is Jerry Miller. Thank you kindly for joining us on the Jerry and Jerry show. An early start for our program today, Hootie Ratcliffe had to change his schedule as a press conference that is traditionally, what, early afternoon, hoody? Two o'clock. Generally, two o'clock was moved to 11 a.m. So Hootie Ratcliffe's going to sprint from our studio in downtown Charlottesville, which is about two miles away from Scott Stadium and head straight to an 11 a.m. presser with Tony Elliott,

a three-hour last-minute switch for a press conference for the head ball coach at the University of Virginia. And this coach, Tony Elliott, currently has a home record of 6 in 12 and 2 in 10 at ACC play. So one of the critical components this year, can the University of Virginia defend? bend its home turf, and it starts Saturday with live action against the coastal Carolina Shana Clears. They are 12-point underdogs, depending on where you shop. Where I shop, 12-point underdogs as of this morning. Six o'clock kick, ACC Network, some big-time matchups on the docket, ladies and gentlemen, including the Clemson Tigers and the LSU Tigers, the Florida State Seminoles, and the Alabama Crimson Tide, and Virginia Tech and South Carolina, tango in hot Atlanta on a neutral site.

with the Gamecox, an eight-point favorite. We have live-action, baby, live action. Judah Woodcower, behind the camera, studio camera, and then a two-shot as we welcome the Virginia Sports Hall of Famer, a man who needs no introduction, always distinguished, always dapper. Jerry Rackcliffe, T-minus, one hour and nine minutes until a presser with Tony Elliott, Jerry Rackless. Yeah, it's caught us all a little by surprise,

so I'm sure everybody had to adjust their schedules. By the way, I really like that shirt. Thank you very much. An ode to one of your favorite golf tournaments. Yes, absolutely. But, yeah, it's hard to believe football season is here. We're only a few days away. And I think things are looking bright for the Cavaliers.

And, you know, he has a chance to improve on that home record with the way the schedule set up and certainly no better way to start than to start Saturday night. I'm going to ask Houdie Rackleaf, can this team start? at 4-0 going into a big-time matchup at the end of September with the Florida State Seminoles, a Friday night matchup on national television. That'll be a conversation we have with Jerry Ratcliffe. But we start every program with scatter shooting with the Virginia Sports Hall of Famer. My friend, the show is yours.

I'm just like I think everybody is excited to see and anxious to see Chandler Morris in action. We've heard about him for months and months and months. and saw a little bit of him in the spring, but I'm sure they held some things back. So we'll get to see everything about Chandler Moores. I don't know. They may hold something back in that game unless they have to unveil it.

They may want to not show NC State everything in the opener if they can avoid it. But I'm just excited to see this guy and see what he can do. I'm excited for Chandler Morris. I have it as a headline in the rundown. How good is this guy? On paper, it looks like a significant upgrade versus the Tony Muskett, Anthony Calandria era.

How significant? What's the Delta? What's the gap between Morris and the previous gunslayers? Yeah. Well, you know, I didn't get to see. I don't think it was on television. I looked everywhere and couldn't find it. But Anthony Calandria played pretty well.

And for Vegas, he didn't start, but he played a lot. that win that they had last Saturday over who was at Idaho State or somebody like that. And he played pretty well. So, you know, good for him. But I think Chandler Morris is an upgrade. Guys got tons of experience. As we've said before, he played at Oklahoma and TCU and North Texas State. He had nearly 4,000 yards passing last season.

and through the fourth most touchdown passes of any major college football quarterback in America, only behind Chodor Sanders, Cam Ward, and Cade Klubnick, and two of those guys are in the NFL right now, and I'm sure the other one will be after this season. So I think Tony Elliott has himself an experienced signal caller who's with a high football, like you, who makes good decisions and has all the throws and plenty of experience. I think he's a pretty cool cat under pressure, and so I expect big things from that. Anthony Calandria guys and UNLV and their opener beat the Iowa State Bengals.

Oh, okay. Or Idaho State. Idaho State. Idaho State Bengals. 38 to 31, and as Houdi Rackleff very accurately described, Anthony Calandria, who split time for head coach, and folks will know this name, Dan Mullen. Yep. He was the clear-cut better quarterback in the opener.

Calandria finished 15 of 21 for 195 passing yards, and get this, Anthony Calandria, an additional 93 yards on the ground in 13 carries. We saw a lot of that chutzpah, that athleticism, that playmaking ability in Charlottesville. And I'll tell you what, I have no ill will. I would love to see Anthony Calandria go bananas and be the player of the year in his conference. I don't know how you feel about that. Yeah, absolutely. He was a good kid.

I can't say that I blame him for leaving. I don't blame him at all. I think his feelings were tremendously hurt. He was scapegoated in that Virginia Tech game. when he was benched for that game. And, you know, I can't, I don't, I don't hold any resentment toward him at all. I wish him the best. I hope he ends up having a fabulous season.

Me too, me too. We'll talk Virginia football, Coastal Carolina. What can we expect, 12-point underdogs, coastal Carolina? Well, I think they're going to come in and throw the heck out of it, new offense. And the air raid offense is. great if you have the personnel. I'm not that familiar with their personnel. Obviously, they've brought in a ton of new players like just about everybody else.

So it'll be interesting to see what happens. I know one of their quarterbacks was injured in the training camp. I don't know if he was going to be the starter or not. So I'm not that familiar with their personnel. But again, The air rate is great if you have the people to run it. But, you know, if you don't, it's just kind of a desperation tactic and you hope to make the best of what you've got.

Viewers and listeners, let us know your thoughts. Put them in the feed. I'll relay them live on air on the Jerry and Jerry show. And comments are coming in already. This is an interesting one from Lynchburg. Please ask Jerry what he means that by they won't show the entire playbook when it comes to Chandler Morris? Well, I don't

know that they will in the opening game if they don't have to. It depends on how the game flows. If they get off to an early lead like they did last year against Coastal, they may keep things more vanilla so they don't have

to show NC State next week's opponent a lot of stuff. The whole playbook I doubt is even in right now, but a good part of it is, but I'm sure they'd like to save a few surprises for NC State if they can because that is the game, I think, that's going to determine, as you asked earlier, if they will go 4-0 early in the season to kick things off.

But NC State, even though they're coming off a losing season, and they're kind of dangerous. I read the other day where Dave Clausen, the former Wake Forest coach, said that he expects big things out of state because the one thing he has learned about state coach Dave Doran is that when he has a bad season, he always finds a way to bounce back strong the next year.

So this is the next year, and they open up against the East Carolina, who they lost to in the bowl game. uh this weekend so on thursday under the lights seven o'clock yeah nc state's a 14 point favorite that's that's a thursday night kickoff for the who's to watch yeah exactly that that's a big game yeah um east carolina hates nc state yeah no love lost yeah and that goes back decades and decades and there's nobody in the world i think east carolina would rather beat than nc state and and this goes beyond rivalry. This is like socioeconomic demographic rivalry.

Yes, absolutely. Yeah, this isn't just about football. This is about these people think they're better than us. Yeah, and that's the vibes we always got on the old ACC football tour. Carlton Tudor, the late excellent columnist for the Raleigh News and Observer, was a former pirate, and he would always explain to the rest of us how much that rivalry meant to East Carolina. And I've covered a couple of those games in another life. And there's some fierce, fierce competition going on in that game. And most of it, most of that fierceness is coming out of East Carolina. Yeah, East Carolina.

East Carolina at NC State Thursday night, 7 o'clock kickoff ACC Network, the Wolfpack, a 14-point favorite as of now, depending on where you shop, the over, under, at 61 and change. Watch that contest. Hootie and I in agreement that that week two matchup, UVA, NC State, and Raleigh, and week two, extremely important for this season, ladies and gentlemen. Because if you beat NC State in Raleigh, goodness gracious, Hootie, you very well could go four and O going into the Florida State matchup.

We got a glimmer and a glimpse of Stanford already. And the Stanford Cardinal, I mean, that's the week four matchup, right? Florida State. I watched the game very carefully and Stanford did not look like a great football team. Stanford looked bad. They jumped out to an early lead and still cannot hold it. No, Hawaii jumped. Yeah, Hawaii handed them essentially 10 points. Yeah. Batching a fair catch on a kickoff and then the quarterback getting strip sacked for a touchdown in his own end zone. And still Stanford couldn't hold on and win. And I don't know if Hawaii is supposed to be a really good football team or not,

but I know they have a quarterback they value, but I didn't see anything that blew me away from the rainbows either. So I think Stanford and Frank Reich have a lot of work cut out for him. Frank Reich, Andrew Luck, Stanford Cardle. I mean, goodness gracious state, I watched some of that game as well. they did not look good no they did not look good so you you know and i'm not trying to put the car before the horse we get the virginia's got the shana clears on saturday uh but ladies and gentlemen um coastal carolina william mary nc state stanford before a floristate matchup i i have

i almost have an expectation of four or no i would accept i still i feel good about that i still think the nc state in raleigh is is uh usually a little bit different animals They're hard to beat. And Virginia has struggled against NC State for years. They had them beat up here a couple years ago, and then Anthony Calandria had the dumb penalty with taking his helmet off, and then I think there were another couple of botched penalties late in that game that cost them the game.

That was the first year, Anthony Calandria. Yeah. But NC State is typically tough to beat at home. Virginia's going to have to go in there and play an almost flawless game, I think, to be able to win that contest. Tim Bates asking the question that a lot of us are wondering. Tim Bates, we appreciate you watching the program. Viewers and listeners, let us know your thoughts.

Put them in the feed. We'll relay them live on air. He's in Evington, Virginia. He says, fellas, how soon will we as fans, be calling for the offensive coordinator to be replaced. I have to admit that he's been suspect at best. I think the suspect at best statement is fair. I think questioning Desk Kitchens is fair.

I will say this. He's got a lot more talent on paper right now, Des Kitchens than he has had in the past. Yeah, I mean, he's got playmakers all over the field. And again, having talked to him a lot over the past three. three years plus he believes that having a solid tight end

is the whole key to running his offense properly and they're leaning heavily on Dakota Twitty to make that happen because and you know Twitty had some nice plays last year at times

late in the season he's a big range of kid former Whiteout who can play tight-in or the other three wide receiver positions if he has to and he's a guy that if he's doing his job properly they don't have to substitute

and that means the defense can't substitute and that can weigh heavily on what Des Kitchens is calling and what Chandler Morris can play call too because he has the power to change the play to the line of scrimmage

and get them out of a bad play but yeah Des Kitchens has a proven quarterback he has the best offensive line on paper that he's had

that Virginia's had since probably 2019 he's got a stable of running back he's got a stable of wide receiver And if Twitty can hold down that tight-in spot, there's no excuses for this team not having a good offense, which would be in contrast to what they've fielded the past three years. They've had trouble scoring. They've had trouble in the red zone. They move the ball well between the 20s.

But once they get down inside the 20-yard line, they have struggled. And that has held this team back tremendous. tremendously for three years, just being unable to put points on the board. I mean, think about it. When's the last time they've had a go-to red zone target? Was it the tight-end woods? Yes. The tight-end woods, who...

Chilani Woods. Who's in the NFL right now. Yeah. Yeah. And he was a bear. And he was just here for a year. Right. But, yeah, that was the last time. That was the last time.

And you can't really say that they've had a quality of... Tyler Neville was, I'll give him credit. It was pretty effective. The Harvard transfer. The Harvard Transfer, who just got cut by the Cowboys, by the way. But he still wasn't a dominating guy at that position. Mr. Perkins also cut? Yeah, I was sad to see.

Bryce Perkins got cut by the Carolina Panthers yesterday. I was hoping he might be able to stick. And I think he's good enough. I think he just has to find the right club where they need him and he fits their system better than maybe he did at Carolina. He would strike me as a phenomenal scout team quarterback. Absolutely. I mean, where he could run, I mean, he's so athletic that he could morph into whatever

quarterback they needed to on the scout team. Yeah. But we're talking Red Zone. Without an offensive line, the power running game hasn't been there. Really haven't had a power tailback. You know what I would love to see with this Coastal Carolina matchup? I love to see UVA run a boring vanilla offense, establish the run, and overpower the chain of clears by running the football.

and that's what they were able to do last year down at that's all I want to see in Conway so you don't show anything for the Wolfpack yeah and who knows perhaps they'll do just that certainly I'm sure they're going to give that a try keep their offense off the field just run the football and show nothing yeah that would be ideal and that way NC State's going to be guessing even more in their preparation for next week's game

So I'm sure they'll let Chandler Morris loose a little bit just to make him comfortable in the passing offense. But still, if they can dominate on the ground, I expect them to do so. Kevin DeNcy says Florida State's going to snap UVA back into reality. Well, that's very possible. If Florida State is as good as advertised, they certainly weren't last year. And I know this is. It's unranked. It's a completely different year.

Yeah. But, you know, they continue to bring in a lot of talent, spend a lot of money. And it's just a matter of whether Mark, Mike Norville can do anything with it. Viewers and listeners, let's know your thoughts, put them in the feed. We'll relay them live on air. I put the stat in the headlines. Tony Elliott in Charlottesville as the head coach of the University of Virginia football team, Hoody, is 6 and 12 at home.

He is 2 in 10 in ACC play at home. Yeah, and that's why he has found himself in such a quandary, and this is a must year for him and his staff. You've got to be able to win at home. It's harder on the road, and we saw Bronco Menon Hall's program turnaround because they were able to win home games. There was a stretch of nearly four years where they won, I think, 22 out of 25 home games. And if you can do that, your program can turn around a lot quicker.

So it's not like he hasn't put an emphasis on it, but I just don't think he's had the talent to get it to get it done. and now he does, and let's see what happens. Viewers and listeners, last to know your thoughts, comments continue to come in. Can Hootie offer more insight into the tight end position, him emphasizing it's so important for this offense? Well, again, it goes back to, you can do a lot more offensively if your tight end doesn't have to come off the field in terms of what formations you use, what play calling,

you have and how it forces the defense to if you don't have mass substitution on offense then the defense has to keep and you run a fast up-tempo offense which Virginia is very capable of doing and the tight-in stays in and a defense has to keep their personnel on the field the defense can't switch personnel and so that's to your advantage if you know what their weakness is and what you're trying to attack. So Tony Elliott calls him the glue like Jude is our glue man. The tight end is the glue man in that offense and it just allows your offense to have an upper hand and because simply the defense has to keep the same person along the field and they can't bring in more defense

backs or less defensive backs or whatever they have to try to adjust to stop your offense. This comment comes in, dang it, you guys started early and I've already missed the show. Not the whole show. It was out of our control viewers and listeners. Yeah, sorry about that, but yeah, sometimes you've got to adjust on the fly. Let them know why. For those of you tuning in late or, well, actually, you. you're actually turning in early. We're early because Virginia moved up Tony Elliott's press conference,

weekly game week press conference from 2 o'clock to 11 a.m. And so all the media that covers that event had to adjust their schedules today. And we were one of them. So that's why we had to start early. What's a press conference look like? Give us the behind the scenes as a media hall of Famer. What's a press conference look like behind the scenes? And then what's a press conference look like behind the scenes when you have live action that week versus no action? Well, the press conferences we have with Tony and his staff during training camp, we used to do him in the George Welsh indoor facility. He would come straight off the practice field. He or his coaches to a little table set up and we would surround the table and we'd just ask

questions for 20, 25 minutes, half an hour, something like that. Now that the Hardy Football Center is in full operation, we've been doing those press conferences up in the team meeting room, which is upstairs. stairs. It's a vast room. The entire team has luxurious padded seats in there with big TV screens that the coaches can use to review stuff. But Coach Elliott will come in and take center stage at a table and we're on the first couple of rows there in that room. And you have a couple of sports information or media, sports media information personnel there with microphones who hand them out to those asking questions. And that usually goes for about half an hour.

Coach Elliott and his assistants always give thoughtful, insightful answers. and joke around a little bit. Not a lot, but a little bit. And it's not like it used to be when we used to have all the newspapers, a healthy newspaper industry in the state. Now there's only one or two newspapers that show up. I mean, who covers the team now? Is it Times, the Spatch, or the Roanoke Times?

Times Dispatch doesn't even have a Virginia writer anymore. So is it, Rono Times and Teal? Ronald Times doesn't have one. So is it just Teal? Teal doesn't show up for the training camp stuff. He may be there today. So it's Greg at the Daily Progress, that's it. That's the only newspaper that shows up.

Unbelievable. Unless the Washington Post would show up, which is rare. Yeah. So it's mostly... Is Marty at 29 still? Somebody told me that Marty retired. I may have missed that, but I... I think he's...

I don't know. Somebody told me that, but I haven't seen Marty lately, so I think that's true. And it's a shame because Marty does a good job. He's a great guy. Yeah, he's a terrific guy. Yeah. And so you'll have the two, one or two local TV stations. You'll have several dot-com people, including myself, and one or maybe two newspapers,

and that's pretty much it. It's a really smaller crowd. It used to have 15, 20 reporters there from various companies, and now it's only a handful. But that's what it's like these days, not just here, but probably just about everywhere. Here's a follow-up question here. How to the point are the questions asked of the head coach? in regards to performance, you know, key performance indicators and struggles of late. Yeah, I think today's media is not quite as aggressive as they used to be when you had professional reporters from with a lot of them with journalistic back.

backgrounds, either from college or from working their way up through small newspapers to larger newspapers. Sometimes it even got contentious with coaches. There'd be some somewhat rather nasty exchanges at times. You don't see much of that anymore. I think most of the people don't want to test the coach too much. But there are direct questions about performances and not only from players, but, you know, about coaching strategies and why did you do this? What was your thinking behind this decision?

So it's not completely milk toast, but it's a lot less back and forth than it used to be back in day when the industry looked a lot different than it does now. Viewers and listeners continue with comments. We'll get to your comments. I have some questions for Hootie Ratcliffe guys at Jerry Ratcliffe.com. And in your eyes, keys to the game here against Coastal Carolina. I think Virginia just has to come out and run their game plan. And I imagine it will be, they like to run a balanced attack.

So even if they are successful running the ball, which I'm sure they will test Carolina, coastal Carolina significantly early to see what they can do because they couldn't stop Virginia last year. And I can't imagine things have changed a whole lot. The one thing I've noticed a lot in the difference between FBS and FCS programs is a lot of times the FCS programs, don't have as much defensive personnel

and sometimes they put a lot of their resources into acquiring offense. And so sometimes they're more vulnerable, I think, defensively. And I think Virginia will try to exploit that first with the running game. But again, I think even if they are successful. I still think they'll give Chandler Morris a chance to throw it

around the yard and just to get him comfortable in that phase of the offense because certainly he'll have to next week. So and I think there'll be very, I think Virginia will be very aggressive on defense. I think John

Roodzinski has some guys who can put the pressure on the quarterback and if they're if Coastal is in a true air raid offense, which sounds like they are, I think he will test that early to see if he can rattle their quarterback and force them into making some mistakes. And it'll be a good test for his secondary, too.

I'm sure with all the candidates he has in there in the secondary, he wants to see if these guys are good at defending an all-out passing attack. is a very good comment from our friends in the Atlanta area. Can he offer a Cam Robinson update? We'll get one this afternoon. I suspect things haven't changed. I don't think he'll play. I mean, there's talk that he could miss. The chatter is he could miss weeks of live action. Yeah, I think it just depends on how that injury heals. He's got a plate and screws in his collar, bone. And, uh, I mean, guys, think about a collarbone injury.

Sometimes those things, sometimes those things take time to heal. That's what I was going to say. Yeah. And the guy's a football player. He's got a collarbone. That's the point of impact. Exactly. And, and he's, he's one of those guys that doesn't hold back.

Uh, and even though he has a high threshold for pain, he, they don't want to jeopardize him in the early portions. Right. of games that they probably should win without him. I mean, from my standpoint, you let him recover to Florida State. Yeah, I think that would be the wise thing to do is if there's any question whatsoever, I think you don't play him because you're jeopardizing. I mean, he's just a junior, so you're jeopardizing a lot of things if you play him early

and he re-hearts, re-injures that collarbone. Yeah, I mean, give the kid a break to Florida State. I understand the NC State game is important, but, you know, patience is... It's still a non-conference game. It's still a non-conference game. Patience is a virtue. It's a non-conference game, exactly. Comments continue to come in for Hootie Rackliff.

This is an interesting one. Is there been a clear-cut starter at the running back position? Again, we'll find out today when the two-deep comes out, And I imagine they'll probably, I imagine Xavier Brown or Jamari Taylor will be the starter. And it will probably say on the depth chart, Xavier Brown or Jamari Taylor. And it could even say or Wayley, the kid from Wyoming. But I expected it will be one of those two, if not both of them sharing a lot of carries early in that game. But I wouldn't be surprised if they run.

all four running backs in that game if they're successful running the ball gets coastal. I'd love to see Xavier Brown get 15 to 20 carries a game. And he very well may. If he, he showed glimmers last year. He certainly did. I mean, he had some spectacular performances,

even though he still didn't get over 500 yards. And I'm anxious to see Jammari Taylor. He looked pretty good in the spring. Some of the people over there have commented that he might be as good as anybody in the ACC. I don't know about that because there's some really good running backs in the ACC, like Isaac Brown from Louisville, who blew me away as a freshman last year. But I think we'll see both of those guys probably get significant carries in the game this week. Umari Taylor is a tank at 5.9 and 200 plus pounds. This is the young man who transferred from North Carolina Central, who was so coveted as a transfer portal prospect that Virginia Tech set an assistant coach to recruit him during a football game, much to the anger and boiling temper of the North Carolina Central head coach. Other keys to victory here for Virginia?

I think, you know, just the typical stuff, don't turn the ball over and try to control the line of scrimmage. Win the third quarter? Yeah, I think there'll be some emphasis on coming out of the locker room more effectively than they did last year when they struggled with that mightily. And I'm sure he wants to put that to rest for this season. And defensively, again, I think Coach Red wants to push these guys. I think he believes he has some real talent on that side of the ball

and some guys who can pressure the quarterback. And that's something that's been missing from his defense for a couple of years. And I think he wants to test that early to see just how good and effective these guys can be. I totally 100% agree. you guys is a 12 point favorite as of today Tuesday morning that line may or may not move I think it opened at 11 11 I believe I've seen 11 and a half and 12 so I saw it as high as 12 and a half last week so that line is moving about a point a point and a half or at least it has so far it's a 6 o'clock kick it's on the ACC network it's Saturday it's a big time contest we encourage the viewers and

listeners who are diehard fans at college football to watch East Carolina in NC State. That's this Thursday night 7 o'clock on the ACCC network. NC State's a 14 point favorite. NC State, the week two match up for these University of Virginia football team. Other comments I want to throw to you which I'll get to you. I'll get to Houdie in a matter of moments. We are going to talk some other noteworthy games including Virginia Tech and South Carolina. That's a

Sunday ESPN matchup. The Gamecox is an eight-point favorite. That's at a neutral site in Atlanta. South Carolina most likely would have been a more significant favorite than the eight points if that game was on their home turf, but it's at a neutral site. Here's a great question. Yonis Sanker was the clear-cut leader of the secondary and perhaps the clear-cut leader of the defense. Is there a Yonis Sanker on the defensive side, Jerry Rackleff?

Well, it would be Cam Robinson if he was. healthy, but with him out, that's a good question. And I'm not certain who might have taken. I think there's a lot of guys that are probably jumping in that leadership role. But I think Trey McDonald, a really good linebacker, senior, smart guy, played at the Baylor School in Chattanooga. I think he's certainly a guy. I'm sure

Antonio Cleary a seventh year guy defensive back I think he's back at practice now I think he'll probably be one of them well I'm not sure about some of the transfers that have come in because we don't

we don't know that much about their leadership skills but we'll probably hear more about that this afternoon or this morning when we talked to Coach Ellie about who may be the leader on that side of the ball. I can't. I see business owners watching the program. Friends of mine that own businesses watching the program, I can't emphasize how important it is for this Virginia football team to do well.

And there's so many folks in the business community that say we count on these seven weekends a year. And the last handful of years, it has not yielded what we had expected when building our budgets for the year. Yeah, some of the advertisers I've had through the years on my website share those same sentiments that they depend heavily on those football weekends for success in their business, restaurants and sports gear. Sports bars, breweries, restaurants, vineyards, wineries, hotel years. yeah the whole gamut and so yeah that that's important though there's this town is a completely different when there's a buzz about football in the air and we've seen that off and on throughout the decades and I remember being down on the corner hanging out of minsters who's signing doing a book signing a few years ago back when Virginia was having some success in football and a beautiful

Saturday afternoon there'd be just waves and waves of fans in town and it makes a big difference in the economy here and so hopefully that'll return yeah amen brother amen Virginia Tech South Carolina their head coach the Hokies fighting for his job neutral site in Atlanta. South Carolina's got a really good football team. Yes, they do, and they just got a key personnel guy declared eligible this week, too. I think I'm running back, so that will only make them even better, I think. Shane Beamer, he's done marvelous job with the Gamecocks. He's a good coach. He's got that program soaring.

And I imagine, I guess it's in Mercedes-Benz Stadium. That's right. That place will probably be buzzing too because tech fans usually support well on the road, and I know South Carolina does. So I would imagine a full house down there. big game. Shane Beamer, you know, a lot of people would like to see him become the next Virginia Tech football coach.

I don't know if that would happen. I don't know if I would want to follow in my dad's... Well, he even says it in the Netflix documentary. He said one of the reasons I went to South Carolina is I didn't want to be Frank Beamer's son. Yeah. Like, that was literally what he said. Yeah, I didn't see that. But I'm not surprised that he did say that.

I mean, that's, we've seen that happen a lot in football and basketball. But I will say this, if Shane Beamer is, and I would imagine if Brent Pry struggles this year, that Brent Pry is probably going to get fired. And if Virginia Tech fires Brent Pry, they will make an effort to get Shane Beamer. I would imagine they would roll out the Brinks truck. The Briggs truck. I was going to use your language, the Briggs truck for them. Yeah.

If Beaver considers the tech job and is able to resurrect Virginia Tech because under Fuentes and pride, they have become mediocre, he'd walk on water and take a few lows and feed the hundreds. This is true. And he could do that. And there's a hell of a lot less competition in the ACC and Virginia Tech than there is in the SEC at South Carolina. And there's still the playoff opportunity with Virginia Tech and the ACC. Yeah. Those are very good, valid points, something that he would have to weigh in his decision. But I'm sure that South Carolina would also back up a Brink's truck to keep him. And unless they don't have a great year this year, but they should be pretty good.

They should be really good. So, yeah, that may be a decision he has to make. It just want to probably be the hardest decision of his life. would be my guess if it comes to fruition but it'd be a nice situation to have if you have us to make a decision like that that's for sure and Rasul Fasin is the running back you're talking about just declared eligible he's a seventh year running back the number five tailback of the ESPN 100 transfer portal a seventh year tailback so the rich just get richer with south Carolina, LSU and Clemson.

Yeah, that should be a heck of a battle. A lot of people think that if Clemson wins this, they can run the table. And some people have picked them to be the favorites to win the national championship. So I'm sure Dabo and his people, and this is supposed to be a loaded Clemson team, like the ones from years ago when they were a dynasty in the ACC. This is number nine versus number four. Yeah. This is awesome.

It really is. Clemson's going to be hard to beat at home, that's for sure. 7.30 ABC. Yeah. I would lean toward Clemson and this one. It should just be a fun game. I mean, it really should be a fun game. I want to definitely watch this game.

Saturday night, LSU at Clemson, the Tigers, ladies and gentlemen, are a tight, squeaky, four-point favorite right now. I might have to record this one to see it because it probably starts at what, 7. 7.30. So you're going to be catching the tail in as you walk out of Scott Stadium. I may not even see any of them. One more I want to throw to you, Hootie. I want to throw to you Alabama and Florida State, 330 Saturday.

Well, I think Alabama is probably underrated from what I've studied, and I know a lot of I've been a Alabama fan since I was 10 years old. But I think Kevin DeBoers has a lot to prove this year. I think they were upset that they didn't live up to expectations last year. And from what I understand, they've got some really, really good football players on that team this year. They may not have a star at quarterback, but, I think Alabama might win this game by a few touchdowns

if Florida State's not, if they don't bring their A game. And I haven't been a big believer in Castellanos, is that his name? The quarterback. The college transfer? Yeah. Me either. Undersized. I just have a feeling that he has riled the Crimson,

in the offseason with some of his comments. Why would he say that? And may pay for it. So dumb to poke the bear. And the crimson tide are not just the bear. They're the grizzly. In Casalanos, the Boston College transfer, was talking some smack over the summer.

Closing thoughts, Houdi-Rackliff, at the 1032 marker with your press conference, actually now 27 minutes away. Yeah, I've got to get out of here. Yeah. I'm just excited that football's finally here. I'm tired of writing about the preseason, and I'm sure everybody's tired of reading about it.

So a few more days of this, and then we'll have live action. Jerry Rackliff, guys, at Jerryrackliff.com. We had a different time for today's show because of a press conference moved from 2 o'clock to 11 o'clock. Back at 1015 next week, Jerry Rackliff, Jerry Rackleff.com, Judah Woodcower, behind the camera. Yours truly, Jerry Miller, the I Love Seville Show at 1230. So long, everybody. Thank you, brother. Again, appreciate you guys.

Thank you.