QUARTERBACK DEPENDENT: SMU's Kevin Jennings LEADS Playoff Push–Bama, Tennessee & Florida QB RACES

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We're going to be talking about quarterbacks that I trust and those that I think are going

to fail and cause possibly even some pink slips to come out for coaches and the failures

around those teams.

A little bit later in the show, but to start, we're going to talk about Kevin Jennings,

SMU, Rhett Lashley, and use them as a barometer because I think they're going to be a surprise

playoff team.

Even if they're not necessarily a top 10 or so squad, the schedule, the experience, and

I trust Lashley as a play collar, makes them unique.

So let's dive into that and I want to throw this up immediately.

Here are four questions that I have about Jennings who will be a third-year starter and a guy

that is pretty much what you're looking for in terms of somebody that will go after

it.

So here are the key stats to talk about.

10 picks last year is too many.

He will be a graduate student.

Can he take those 10 in receptions and move them down to five?

Number two, 233 Russian yards and four touchdowns.

Can he move those numbers up to 400 and eight?

Number three, leadership.

How well will SMU play against the lesser competition?

That cow game is one that they're probably going to remember for a long time.

You must find a way to win your conquers and if it all possible, not get into those situations

in the first place.

And number four, finally, passing to the middle of the field.

He had 56% and six picks last year on intermediate passes.

Most of those are going to be in the middle of the field.

It is the most difficult, but it is the bottom line.

If he gets that area down, he will also probably take care of number one, 10 in receptions

to five.

So let's go through these.

The 10 to five is straightforward.

Make better decisions.

Maybe have a little more luck.

Maybe a deflection here or there doesn't go against you, but at minimum, he should get

that down to seven and that's the difference between staying home for the playoff or

going.

Number two, he's a pretty mobile guy, but he did not have a single rushing attempt that

was a design run last year, go for 15 or more yards.

That's a little surprising, matter of fact, it's really surprising.

On top of that, he was a pretty good runner, but his longest run was 26.

I think that Jennings is a better athlete than that.

I believe there should be more opportunities for him to get down the field.

To be honest, just the experience level, he should be capable of getting just a handful

and more plays that are two and three yards on those first downs instead of throwing

it away or taking a sack experience matters.

Leadership is also a part of the experience.

SMU has to be ready to go on the road, teams like Cal, teams like Boston College or anybody

else.

You have to be ready.

And by the way, their first game of the year is at four to state.

And yes, the nobles are down.

They better come into that game ready because four to state is going to throw the kitchen

sink at them.

They have nothing to lose.

Mike Marvel is 100% on the hot seat leadership from your quarterback in that game.

If four to state plays well in the first quarter quarter and a half, you still have to take

it one play at a time.

How does a player like Kevin Jennings handle that, especially when they play lesser comp if

they get down?

Four to state still has more talent than what their win-lash record shows of the last couple

of years.

They can't allow that to happen.

And it did to Bama last year, do not fall into that trap.

And then again, passing the middle of the field, that's about off-season work, understanding

concepts, understanding the players around you, getting with the last way and the other

players and talking about the plays they need to eliminate, maybe they just take them

out of the way.

Whatever it is, can have six picks on your passes in the middle of the field in the intermediate

range.

That is a killer.

Do that in.

There's another reason I like SMU going to the playoff.

This is from ESPN.

I can just copy their schedule and put it over here.

They do have four to state to open the year.

But after that, they've got UC Davis on a Thursday night.

That's their home opener.

And then they get a nice opportunity, oh, excuse me, they take that back.

They will get that game five days later, UC Davis is a home opener.

Then they go to Louisville.

They have to avoid.

They can't go one and two.

After we split the four to state in Louisville and preferably start that out 3 and 0.

But then it's really pretty easy.

Missouri State's terrible.

Boston College, three and a half game win total on Fandall.

Yeah, that's at home as well.

They've got Virginia at home, then they've got Coward home.

That should be right there, a really nice run.

That's four games in a row against teams you should definitely be.

Syracuse, man, they're not very good right now.

They don't have a lot of them.

I get that their quarterbacks going to be pretty good and all that.

But defensively, they will not have anywhere near the talent that SMU does.

Then they get first year Virginia Tech.

That is early November.

So they should be coming around a little bit.

They've got more talent.

Wake Forest at home.

Come on.

And then they've got the one game that they're definitely going to be underdog.

November 21st, they play at Notre Dame.

If they don't win that, it wouldn't be shocking.

There will probably be about seven to 10 point underdogs.

And then they finish the year on the road.

But again, they will travel to Stanford, but that's a bad team.

So Woodville and Notre Dame, those are the only two for sure that I see them being underdogs.

Notre Dame will a little bit more wiggle at maybe two or three points.

Four to state could be pretty close to pick them.

This is not a difficult SMU football schedule.

Not at all.

And again, it is why I picked SMU to go to the playoffs.

Maybe they beat Notre Dame.

Maybe they beat a couple other teams, not just by 10 or 15.

If they can get that momentum, and again, back to the leadership point with Kevin Jennings,

points matter, style points matter, the course of the game, the game trajectory, the feel

of it, that influences votes on that playoff committee.

With a graduate student as your quarterback, a third year starter, who's a great fit for

head coach, right last week's offensive scheme, you should be able to punch that right

down the middle, that search for the most scheduled, by the way, and just dominate.

Minimum they should be 10 and 2 this year.

Their schedule is terrible.

It is terrible.

I didn't realize until today when I was going through this, how minimal the opportunities

to lose are, Louisville, maybe four to state, maybe Notre Dame, you got to win at least

one of those.

Two, you should have double digit wins.

We'll see what happens, but SMU is just better than the teams on their schedule.

And again, graduate student at quarterback, that matters.

I tell people all the time, you've got a first year quarterback, I don't care what his

high school ranking was, I don't care what you think his fit is.

Does he have four or five hundred snaps throwing the football under his belt?

Obviously not.

Jennings is two years past that.

You've got to get to about 400 passing attempts before they start to really understand

the speed of the college game as a rule.

I expect Jennings to be really good.

And one of the better, and not the best passer in the ACC at least for part of the year,

they're immensely obviously have something to say about that.

And so with JKS, there's pretty good quarterbacks in the league.

But overall, there's no reason to think that SMU is not that team.

When we come back, I'm going to drop down 10 more teams in addition to SMU's stats

for the quarterbacks that are coming back, SEC, Big 10, Bryce Underwood.

We've got all kinds of teams, USC with Jade Mayev.

But that is next right here on the portal podcast.

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Quarterbacks that I trust.

We talked about Kevin Jennings.

I think he's going to have a really big year for SMU.

Now I'm going to put up a list.

Some guys that I think could, some guys I'm not sure about, and there's a couple, at

least more from a situational standpoint that I'm concerned about.

Let's go into it and we'll break it down.

Kevin Jennings.

Again, these are just stats.

281 to 424 last year, 66.3 percent, 3,370 yards, 26 scores, 10 fix.

Texas A&M's Marcel Reed, obviously a dud at the end of the year, the way he played

against Texas Miami.

But he was pretty productive for the most part last year, 234, 380, 61.6, 25 and 12.

Texas Tech.

This is a unique scenario because they got branded sores becoming in.

He was 205 with 336, 61 percent, 2782 yards, 26 scores, 5 picks.

I think he's going to be really good for them.

He could run the ball too.

BYU, Bear Bachmeier will be a true sophomore.

He was really good last year.

I screwed up.

It should be 334.

208 to 334, 64.2 percent, 2586 yards, 14 scores, 4 interceptions, only 11 big time throws.

I'm going to come back to that here in a minute.

Alabama, simply put Austin Mac Barely played, Keel and Russell Barely played, who's going

to be the starter and do they get this, I say with every T, are they going to get to

the point where the number one quarterback, whoever it is in the spring, are they truly

the number one and will they get all the number one reps through summer and fall camp.

If not, that puts Alabama behind the eight ball splitting reps is not good.

Michigan, Bryce Underwood, 179 to 293.

61.1 percent, 22, 29, only nine touching touchdown passes, six picks.

They've got to throw the ball more, they've got to give him more responsibility and that

is a good staff.

I expect to see his numbers go up significantly.

Southern Cow, that's pretty simple, which gave my Ava a really good football player, 276.65

0.7 percent, 3431 yards, 23 scores, eight picks.

If he can just get it down to, that's a little bit on the interceptions, they're going

to be incredible on all that's Florida.

This is the same deal.

Aaron Filo was taken on Tremel Jones Jr.

Do you have a definitive number one quarterback at the end of spring, if not, that can pose

some problems.

We'll come back to that in a second.

And again, phase on Brandon, George McIntyre, true freshman and a red shirt freshman.

Do you have a quarterback?

If not, that's a problem.

Ben State, Rocco Beck, he transfers over from Iowa State, 2000, excuse me, 205 by

340, 60.3 percent, 2584, 16 scores, nine interceptions, he's with the same staff that came

over from Iowa State.

So that should be plug and play.

And then Washington, demand Williams, 231 to 331, 69.8 percent, 2850 yards, 21 touchdowns,

eight scores, a couple of points here.

Number one, with Jennings, it's just getting the interceptions down.

We are talked about him extensively.

That is my pick to click that some people may not think about making the play.

I'm not saying they're a top 10 team, but you've got to combine the coaching staff and

the schedule and everything else.

They will be the other team, in my opinion, in the ACC to reach the ACC title game.

I think it'll be Miami and SMU winner will get the automatic bid, but I think both will

get it.

Just my opinion.

I think A&M takes a step back this year, plus they're in the SEC.

Their schedule is harder this year.

We'll see, but Marcel Reed in that group, can they get to the point where they're not

just trying to guess if he's going to understand coverages?

He looked like a deer in headlights against Miami and to sort of bring in Texas.

Really good defenses in terms of talent, in terms of their length.

He has to be better in those situations.

If not, it's going to be a problem.

Texas Tech with Brendan Soaresby, accuracy versus top competition.

When I looked at Soaresby and his stats game to game, this was a young man that really

did what for Cincinnati last year?

Overall, but games against teams, again, this is a common theme with college quarterbacks.

Teams that run different schemes, zone schemes, certain guys just never get it.

Soaresby had some really low passing percentages against some of the better comp, and again, usually

teams that play a lot of it as own, that must be corrected.

For BYU and Bear Bachmeyer, it's pretty straightforward.

They just didn't throw the ball deep very much at all last year.

And with very little success, he didn't even average 11 yards per attempt on passes of

20 or more yards.

I mean, they were awful at it.

If they do not improve that, they've got the big game against Notre Dame.

They will get bombed.

If they cannot throw the ball down the field, you're not going to nickel and dime defenses

that are really good.

And if they get to the big 12 title game against Texas Tech, and they can't throw the ball

down the field, they will get bombed in that game as well.

Must be able to throw the ball down the field with much more consistency.

Bama, it's just who's the starter.

I already talked about this.

I think both have a ton of talent.

I think both have NFL potential.

It's just, do they get it done early enough?

That's going to be hard because they're never going to admit this, but every college coach

wants the same thing.

They want the backup to accept the role and be the backup.

Nobody does it.

So they never announce the starting quarterback at the end of spring.

But while I do them that, you're going to have two guys flitting the reps.

Good luck.

Need to see somebody take a step forward.

If you lose it, and I'll record it too bad, must have a starter in today's game going

into summer.

I think too many college coaches worry too much about their depth chart.

Michigan with Bryce Underwood, this is the guy that I think more rides on him than any

other quarterback on this list.

Nine touchdowns last year.

They did do a very good job at teaching him how to pass from the pocket is launch point,

his footwork, everything that I watched last year.

There would be moments that you're like, oh, that's really good.

And then the next moment, you're like, man, that's just, that's just not going to get

it done.

Even when he wasn't under duress, I expect that entire coaching staff basically has flipped

in some way, shape or form in terms of philosophy, obviously the coaches themselves.

I think Bryce Underwood will have the biggest jump of any quarterback on this list there probably

won't be close.

Jayden Mayeva, just big game turnovers, whether it was the number game, whether it was Illinois,

whether it was any other game they had last year, it was always a turnover that seemed

to kill them.

They still got to avoid those in big games.

He's a senior or a senior graduate student, there's no excuse for him not to be there.

Florida, this is the team that I'm most likely to not know what's going to happen.

I don't know what Buster Faulkner is really going to do if it's not Aaron File.

I assume it'll be him.

But if it's Camel Jones Jr., he's a guy that can move around too.

How much are they going to run the quarterback?

How much are they going to really rely on Jayden Ball, great running back with what I think

is going to be a solid online, but I don't know if it's going to be great.

And if they don't have that, they do other receivers.

But are you going to be able to hold out, throw the ball down the field?

I'm really curious what they want to do there.

That one's the hardest for me out of this list.

They could be a team that wins nine games or they could be a team that wins six games.

A lot is going to just like it is with the other teams here.

If you've got a quarterback battle and you do not have a definitive answer at the end

of spring, that is very, very dangerous, especially with Florida schedule.

They had Ole Miss and Georgia and several other teams that have playoff aspirations.

So good luck.

Tennessee, this is probably the one that I'm not picking on the players.

I think this will be bad, but they're going to ask a freshman or a red shirt freshman

to be the starting quarterback.

From the perspective of Tennessee fans who are paying a lot of money and seat licenses,

the seat prices have went up in general all to help these players come in and now they

got to play a freshman or a red shirt freshman quarterback.

Six or seven wins is what I see.

Their fan base will not accept it.

I expect a lot of rumbles and angry fans that won't be realistic and that's just reality.

I think next year, they'll probably benefit from it, but I am really down on Tennessee

out of every program on this list and it's just timing.

It's nothing that's phased on Brandon or George McIntyre.

They shouldn't be in this vote.

You can't be playing guys with hardly any experience against that schedule and expect

it to turn out great.

Penn State, they play a light schedule and they bring in a graduate transfer

with the same offense that he was running in Iowa State because the Iowa State

coaches are coming over.

So my only question there, leadership and accuracy.

He's got to get a little more accurate.

That's just part of the deal and this leadership that will win that roster.

There's a lot of kids from all over the place at Penn State this year from different

schools, some stayed and but half the rosters Iowa State.

If he can do that, they can surprise some people and if they don't win nine games,

I'd be a little surprised.

Trust me, if you want to know what a pretty light schedule is, go look up Penn State's

2022 six schedule, they call it a lot of breaks.

Finally, Washington with demand Williams.

Does he win back the locker room after porting with LSU and transferring?

I know he's insanely talented.

But if he doesn't get it going early on this summer,

getting the guys coming out and if everything's not on the right page,

that could go sideways.

I'm really curious if that's going to happen.

You were trying to leave.

There's no nice way to say it.

Demand was trying to leave.

There are going to be people there that are tied to him.

Their finances, their ability to win.

They probably weren't and maybe they still aren't.

I don't know.

Happy with him.

How does that work out at Washington?

I'm a little bit concerned about it.

We'll see.

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All right, let's jump into the chat and have some fun and just for the record.

If you have anything that you want to add on not just to schools that I mentioned,

if it's a player, if it's a situation, if it's a schedule,

far away in the chat now or if you're listening later,

please comment down below.

All right, we've got a lot of different people in the chat here, but as usual,

we have our guys salty, having some fun.

Smitty, what did you do over Easter weekend?

Well, for one, I didn't do as much.

I did a couple podcasts.

I did one on four state.

They got a commitment and just did one that was preparing for the day with my guy,

Mount near Paul for the West Virginia site.

But I did a lot of relax.

Enjoyed Easter, went out to eat, had a good time.

I hope you did the same.

This is a great question here.

Salty, is soures me the answer for Texas Tech?

I don't know.

I'm really high on it, but the stats, when I really dove into day,

I didn't realize it.

This is my fault.

Went through game by game last year and used whatever site you want.

I used PFF, but if you go through it, just look at the line items, if you will.

Like an expense report.

Look at the passing percentage and get some of the teams that were more complex.

Iowa State is not a friendly defense to play against.

Didn't throw as well.

You told those kinds of games.

I know since an Adiz O'Hine is not dominant,

but he'd had major drops.

And his completion percentage.

Part of that's coaching.

Part of that's his teammates.

But it was significant.

Is he going to be playing behind an elite O'Hine at Texas Tech?

No.

A good one?

Yeah.

And their schedule is garbage.

He might find a way to get to the big 12 title game just by playing average.

That defense still could be really good.

But what happens when they get to the playoffs?

That's when he's going to be greater.

I got to see it now.

I'm a little concerned.

Because again, he didn't play well.

I get some of the better competition.

But he ate it up when teams didn't have the right guys.

He smoked them.

Kind of feast your famine.

What is your prediction for Kenny Manchiak and Tucky?

Here's the deal with UK.

They spent some money.

They even got some linemen.

But do they have enough talent in terms of depth?

They handled the back half of their schedule.

Their schedule is not friendly.

And I just don't know if they've got enough playmakers.

It'll probably be up and down.

But Manchiak took a big check.

He's still going to get his degree.

All that stuff.

He'll be fine.

Tuckyak will probably beat one team they shouldn't.

They'll win five games, six games.

It's Tuckyak.

It's a basketball school.

I don't care much he's been.

You got to prove it for a while.

And they've absolutely got to improve their high school record.

Manchiak doesn't hurt them.

Because he's such a great athlete.

Salty, we forget that Steve and Jelly of Syracuse

who had the college football world of passing up until his injury.

For those of you who don't remember it, it's in Achilles.

Will he pick up where he left off this season?

No, and here's what.

Nothing to do with Steve.

They don't have the linemen.

They lost more skill guys.

I think they're trending down.

They're just not spinning enough.

You'll have some moments and Steve's a hell of an accurate passer.

They don't have enough talent around him.

I think he'll be hit or miss and Syracuse's season will be over by

game six very much.

Salty, is this Bazinga's year?

No, and next year won't be either.

I'm not a big believer.

I need to see it work.

Bazinga is a red shirt junior at Clemson.

Do not be surprised.

If the freshman Reynolds ends up being a guy that not just competes,

but at least ends up getting reps.

I saw him last year at rival's five star.

He's a heck of an athlete.

He could run.

He could throw his legs.

Tim Tebowike.

They're humongous.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a quarterback from controversy.

Katie says, Salty, Tate Reynolds look good in their spring game.

That doesn't surprise me in the least.

Tates got a lot of talent.

He was highly recruited.

Get out of Queen Creek, Arizona.

Salty is DJ Jacobs flipping to Miami.

He might.

I haven't heard anything in the last 24 hours,

but that's an NIL deal to my knowledge.

That's going to come down to who wants it more.

Great kid too.

Really great kid.

Katie, as you posted earlier, watch out for Tate Reynolds.

Katie, Miami got a commitment from a quarterback over the weekend.

That will give them three high school recruits in their quarterback room.

I wonder where that's going because they've done a great job of using

four or quarterbacks.

Does Miami switch to one next year?

It's kind of hard to turn down Darian Mensa.

I get that at some point they need to,

but that is a wild situation.

Coral Gables Hurricane Hicks.

He's a good commitment.

He should step help bring in other recruits.

Abrams would get for those you don't know.

Israel Abrams is the one that Katie and Hurricane Hicks are talking about.

Speed, athleticism,

savviness, calm in the pocket.

When the rush is coming right at him,

he's got the bow to make a guy miss,

but he'll keep his eyes down the field or just take him down for a second.

Make a right back.

He wants to throw the football.

Really unique player.

DJ 7 MPH.

There will be a lot of debate over schedules when the playoff time comes.

Let me just, I'm glad you mentioned that DJ.

Texas Tech Schedule is comical.

Miami's isn't far from that.

SMU's isn't that difficult.

By the way, I'm calling out both the big 12 and the ACC straight up.

They schedule things the way they did for their elite teams

to try to get more than one team in the final period.

They will deny that.

They're lying.

100% why SMU does not play Miami.

BYU does not play Texas Tech.

And if you look at Texas Tech Schedule, go through.

Don't throw it.

I think Arizona State is the only other team projected in like the top five of the league

that they play.

It's ridiculous.

DJ 7 MPH.

I'm not sold on read.

Of course, DJ is referring to Mr. Marcel Reed.

He looked awful in the game against South Carolina.

Showing some zone, but then he got hot in the second half.

I don't know what they did differently, but he went nuts.

But Texas has a different level of depth.

They've got cons.

Simmons off the edge, etc.

Caused him a ton of problems for the second year of row.

He was not good.

Then it gets Miami.

He looked terrible.

Pretty much the whole game.

And then when he did get a drive at the end,

he threw eight and behind his receiver and it was picked.

Terrible.

So he's got a lot to prove.

Against teams that play man and or don't have the same level athletes will kill him.

What does he do against zone defense this year?

Because if not, it's over.

Katie Gunner Rivers will start at NC State in 27.

He's college ready right now.

Physically, mentally armed decision-making pocket presence

and his master throwing receivers open can make every throw.

If CJ Bayley's still there, that won't happen.

He'd be a four-year starter,

but CJ might leave after this year too.

But yeah, I'm a big fan of Rivers.

He's really good.

Hurricane Hicks.

Don't count on Bayley.

He is rising and he has some good receivers.

Yeah, I think he's pretty good.

And he does have some good rising receivers.

NC State's defense will probably stink.

Kitten Gibbs is NC State alum, played there,

and he played D1 and he still wasn't very confident in their defense this year.

That's not a good sign.

But their offense is going to be really good.

Katie Bayley will be gone in 27.

I kind of think so too.

But if he's back, he'll start.

If not, it wouldn't be surprising enough

if the freshman won the job.

DJ, it's important to figure out quarterback one quickly.

It's more important to get it right.

Yeah, you've got to make sure that you get the right guy,

but if they can't get to that point, they're in trouble.

I'm not saying it's somebody's fault if you don't name somebody at the end of spring.

But there are, I know this flat out.

There are coaches that will go out of their way to make a guy think

that he still has a shot to win it.

Because they want a death piece.

The downside to that is in the summer that

death piece expects to get number one reps wise competing.

You need all the reps to go to your guy.

Trust me, this happens.

Coaches will do anything to keep quarterbacks around.

Hurricane Hicks thought he was a junior.

He will be, Bayley will be a junior,

but I don't expect him to have a great year and stick around.

I'll take the money and go to NFL as my guess.

Salty, even though teams with a quarterback battle

don't announce a starter after spring,

don't the players know if one of them has won the battle.

Sometimes, sometimes it can be close,

but it just depends.

Every scenario is different.

But I know flat out there are times when they know

who they want to play.

And again, it's just lying.

How much coaches lie a lot?

Because if your quarterback goes down,

you don't have a good quarterback behind him.

It's over.

It's over.

If I get it, why assistance and head coaches,

do everything that they can to keep guys around.

You're tied to that.

But it is awkward.

Katie, he's expected Inter the draft after the season.

Of course, there's always the chance he could stay.

I mean, CJ Bailey, I mean,

for over 3,000 yards of comeback, he'd get paid.

He might transfer too.

That's another opportunity.

Salty, would CJ Bailey have benefited from transferring to Tennessee

and would Tennessee have benefited?

He'd have been a great fit,

but his buddies transferred to NC State.

He knows the system.

He likes going to school there.

I mean, he could have been really good at Tennessee though.

Hurricane really deep quarterback draft next year.

I would think he would fit in at Tennessee.

Yeah, but by next year phase on Brandon's going to be there.

So that probably won't be the one.

Tennessee would benefit CJ Wooden, Salty.

Katie, um,

this is what I have said about Soresby,

DJ7.

Yeah, look, he's pretty good.

But he hasn't done it against the elite teams.

It's one thing to do what he did against some of the other teams.

But go look at his stats against some of the better squads

in the big 12 last year.

Completion percentage, interceptions,

whatever you want.

Go to PFF, CFB stats, whatever.

Game situations, all that.

You're going to go down some against the elite defense.

I get it.

Some of them, you're like, whoa, this is a problem.

I don't know what all happened.

I don't know if he was banged up.

But just from the outside, we're looking in.

That is concerning.

DJ, I'm not buying Soresby in the playoffs.

Right now, I'm not either.

But the main reason isn't Soresby himself.

Quick, without looking,

name the player on Texas Tech's roster.

That's an offense attack.

A guard or a center.

They're like, definitely first round pick.

At least second,

do they have one of those guys?

If they don't, so be it.

Please tell me,

you need to be better in the trenches.

They got their teeth kicked in.

But Oregon, it was awful.

And their defense played pretty well against Oregon.

But they didn't score for O-line,

could run the ball a little bit.

They've got a really good running bag.

But they just weren't good enough.

You lead off into tackles.

Do not transfer very often.

And the one that did went from Colorado

to LSU, not Colorado to Texas Tech.

Do they have the players around to help Soresby stay out of third and long,

where he struggled?

I'm not buying it.

DJ, not friendly as an understatement on Kentucky schedule.

Yeah, if you go like, again,

I'm not going to do it justice right now.

But the University of Kentucky,

like there's always a team in the SEC

every year gets an easier path.

Last year, A&M was that team.

And this year,

I'm not sure which one it is,

but it's not Kentucky.

They're going to be in a tough spot.

Good luck to this Kentucky anyway.

But probably not the friendliest.

We'll see.

Can't name one says DJ.

UGA hold in two lines this weekend.

Georgia's always recruit no one.

Well, going into this past class

or the one that just finished get

the mirror which.

Georgia signed 27 offensive linemen in five years.

The most in the country.

There's a reason they prioritize the trenches.

Ohio State tends to weed quarterbacks on.

Of course they do.

That's from Hurricane Hicks.

And he's probably not wrong.

If you want depth, it's the one spot.

There's just no fix in it.

Freshman quarterbacks will run a season in a heartbeat.

That's where Tennessee's at.

You've got Cuban Russell's

a retro freshman in Alabama.

A lot of people want him to start.

Is he the guy?

It's your third year in Alabama.

And coach Rob the OCs talked about, you know,

with our roster and experience quarterback,

blah, blah, blah.

He's made some hints that it might be Austin Mac.

I get it.

But how do you handle that?

All these teams Florida.

Are they really at a situation where they can't figure it out?

I don't know.

But.

coordinator comes over from Georgia Tech.

Buster Faulkner.

Any brought his quarterback with him in here in FIWO.

How do you handle that?

Tremel Jones Jr.

Pretty good quarterback too.

You got battles going on all over the place.

It is so difficult to project.

Well, I'm thinking of it.

Let me bring this up.

I have not talked about the commitments here.

And we haven't even checked them for today.

We're start, we're all on that edge wrong.

It is due commitments every day.

I'll go back a few days here.

When we get down to.

We'll go to the beginning of the week.

Wow, there are a whole bunch of commitments on the third.

That is a ton.

We'll just start.

Javan vital commitment for the University of Southern California.

And it's really a weird place.

Hamilton Christian Academy in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

That is crazy.

He's a running back slash receiver athlete.

He's really speedy.

He could really run.

Southwest, Louisiana kid going to Southern cow.

That is wild.

Weed Prince Jr.

Miami Carroll City running back.

He can really run.

That kid's going to West Virginia.

He fits switch rods offense.

Jerry Meyer, the third going to South Carolina quarterback.

Wax a hatchy Texas.

That is so wild.

That's a greater Dallas area.

Going to South Carolina.

Six foot 190 pounds.

Great.

Carol going to TCU.

An edge out of San Antonio.

He goes to Alamo Heights.

Six five two 20.

Houston.

Wind and Baker.

Cypress ranch in Cypress, Texas.

Houston really tries to recruit local.

That's a six four and a half 200 pound kind of kid.

Maybe just a little under.

Going to Houston.

Another quarterback.

They're trying to keep local.

Miami gets Israel Abrams.

We talked about him earlier.

In my opinion, he will be a five star.

When all the rankings are kind of finished.

Rashad streets.

This is just perfect.

Oregon can recruit anywhere.

Milbrook High School and Rowley, North Carolina.

Right down the street from NC State.

Going to Oregon.

Really good.

Ad Russia.

It's true true.

Weekside end.

Oregon got a good.

We had offers from everybody.

Marcus Watson.

All-round athlete from Baton Rouge.

Goes to Central High.

Going to Houston.

Maybe that's a kid that Baton Rouge.

Main School.

Meaning LSU didn't want.

I don't know, but we'll see if that works out.

Brock Frisbee.

Archbishop Spalding.

Just outside of DC.

Commits to Virginia Tech.

That's big for James Franklin and his group.

Look.

If Virginia Tech's going to take that next step forward as a program,

it is very, very simple.

They've got to be able to recruit their own state, obviously.

But DC is the next step.

And then third is Charlotte and greater state of North Carolina.

When they were rolling,

that's that's how they did it.

And those are areas that are close by.

There's no reason they couldn't at Whisbee somewhat competitive there.

Kingston now and running back from Notre Dame Academy

in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

He's going to play for the Badgers.

No shock.

He's a top 200 player by 247.

Good get for the Badgers.

Aiden Hartnett.

American Heritage.

Interior Alignment.

Going to Wake Forest.

The new deacons do a pretty good job in South Florida.

Tyree Clark.

St. Peter's Prep in Jersey City.

Safety.

Going to play for the Spartans of Michigan State.

Wardle windows they could use in health.

They've got holes all over that roster.

Nathaniel Miller.

MacArthur in Hollywood, Florida.

Going to stay home.

Going to Florida.

International offensive tackle.

Congrats to him.

Day on Cooper.

This kid I talked about on my other podcast.

Locked on Symmetals.

Really athletic corner.

Six foot 180 pounds.

Going to play for the Knowles.

He's a running back receiver all around athlete.

The four states projecting to play corner.

But he's such a good athlete.

I think he can do it.

Christian Seager.

Daphne High School quarterback.

He is going to be playing.

Excuse me for South Alabama.

Daphne is for those who don't know.

Right next to Mobile or South Alabama's at.

Good to see kids staying home.

Carter Blattner is going to Penn State.

Northern Highlands High School.

Allen Dale New Jersey defensive line.

And he was a priority recruit to the Nidalee Lions.

James Kakoso at a stillwater New York.

Never heard of that.

Interior offensive line.

Going to Rutgers.

Landon Bum.

Wide receiver plays.

Eight man football.

This is a great story.

Six four two hundred pounds.

Eight man football in Nebraska.

He's going to Penn State.

There's that connection again.

With the old Iowa State staff.

They know the Midwins region well.

They're going to get a player head to Penn State.

From Iowa.

That's not a area they would have recruited at all.

With the prior staff.

Colton McComb.

Edmund Memorial.

Edmund Oklahoma linebacker at 6200 pounds.

Going to Kansas State.

Carson White quarterback 6127.

Going to Oklahoma State.

That kid is at Iowa colony just south of Houston.

To Michael Berks at a Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas.

Athlete 6155.

He is headed.

Oh wow.

Is that a Fresno State guy?

That's pretty impressive.

We don't see Fresno State very often on this show.

But there you go.

Abram Eisenhower at a Lounge County High School.

Val Dosta offense attack.

Oh 65280.

Going to play for the Georgia Bulldogs.

Jackson Hill.

UCLA gets a commitment from the offense tackle.

Had a shaman on high school in West Hills.

Just outside of Los Angeles.

And to us.

Isaac Neely.

Wide receiver five nine one seventy five.

He is going to play for James Madison.

Cade Goodon quarterback six three one hundred ninety pounds.

Had a Shelbyville Kentucky.

Martha Wayne Collins High School.

He's going to play for my second Alma Mater ball state Nate Brennan.

Rock Valley High School in Rock Valley.

Iowa offense attack six seven two fifty.

He is going to play for the Iowa Hawkeyes.

All right.

Let's see what else we got here in the chat.

Katie side note Philip River started four years at NC State.

Yeah his dad was really good in college.

And obviously the NFL too.

Really good.

DJ seven MPH Kentucky plays Bama.

A&M Oklahoma Vandy Missouri Louisville Tennessee and Florida.

Good Lord.

Let's say that again.

Alabama Texas A&M Oklahoma Vandy Missouri Louisville Tennessee and Florida.

That's tough man.

Like I think five wins is more likely than six.

I'll just leave it at that if they win more good for them.

But that's going to be rough.

So thank you very much for checking out the portal podcast.

Appreciate it.

We'll be diving in more to recruiting now.

Kind of done going through all the quarterbacks and everything,

asking the questions.

We're didn't towards the end of spring might have a few

after the end of April might have a couple.

We'll see what we discuss some specific

sense of situations that did or did not happen.

Did we see what we wanted in the quarterbacks at the end of spring?

It's very, very difficult because you just never know until we see them,

we're only getting pieces.

We'll find out.

DJ says thanks Brian.

Appreciate it sir.

I'm glad you had a good time.

Everybody have a good one.

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