2023 NC STATE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE REACTION!!!, The Tuffy Talk Live Show, 1/30/2022

[Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] akes and welcome to another episode of the Tuffy talk live show we apologize for those technical difficulties there but we're back rolling no harm no foul we got the crew here Greg delay Michael Tracy kins and myself here definitely looking forward to this show yeah it's all good Greg it's okay you're fired yeah you're fired you're fired man you're fired yeah I know it's all good but we appreciate you all thank you so much for your patience we're bringing apologies for that but don't worry Aiden we will get to some NC State football schedule these for sure as that is definitely going to be a big point of this show uh definitely getting right to it but uh make sure again if you've been with us before you know the drill but if you haven't before as always make sure you get hit uh first of all just leave any comments you have any questions thoughts concerns thoughts about the schedule uh and just again we'll get to all of them here tonight but yes Terry Suggs we are live for real now and uh so so we're good with that and uh lovely weekend to be a wolf pack fan no no doubt we'll definitely get to that a little bit here too um and then we'll stop Rusty from Lexington North Carolina um but real quick here um what's up oh Lexington's like right beside me really good you're good saying hi to her neighbor right Davey so so since uh we're going to be considering the football schedule as a quote-unquote tweet of the week here um I wanted to go ahead and address one thing first and then and that way we'll kind of just go into that you know our tweets of the week um but obviously uh yesterday during Kansas City and Bengals was a huge game for sure I mean definitely for Pac Pros obviously BJ Hill and Jermaine Pratt with the Cincinnati side and then uh Joe Tooney on the Kansas City side so uh definitely you know you wish that all of them could have made it uh to the to the Super Bowl but obviously you know once he had to come out on top and what a crazy ending it was uh if I wanted to go ahead and talk a little bit about is obviously to the two pack Bros from Cincinnati side have have been highlighted and all over Twitter all over Twitter has been absolutely blowing up and so I wanted to kind of talk a little bit about it yeah Marques Valdez scan language let's talk about that real real quick are we claiming well so like I would claim him if he claims us but I doubt he claims us yeah I don't think he knows so we don't we're good we got a lot of other ones to cheer for we're good and I wanted to be careful about saying that on Twitter because I didn't want to make it sound like we don't want him like like yeah sure like you don't want us so well but again we just weren't really again he was dropping balls left and right here at State and then he goes to USF and he like shows up so I mean you know I mean I can't really blame him necessarily and honestly I mean I never would have thought in a million years he would have ended up where he is today still watching him as a football equipment manager just being realistic um so uh I mean Bo Hines was outshining him left and right and uh you could even argue Ramos was shining more than uh than Marcos Valdez handling was but yeah I know absolutely thank you for bringing that up Aaron for sure but anyway so obviously uh you know the Game ending was I think any football fan would agree that's not how you wanted the game to end for sure like you know obviously making it seem like that it was osai was the reason that Cincinnati lost and so obviously after the game you know watching him just again this guy is 20 20 22 years old so he's still a young adult I'm watching him on the sidelines was heartbreaking for sure um so I do want to highlight the positive first and I'm going to uh show this Quick Clip right here of BJ Hill uh after during the post game basically standing right beside osai while he was getting questioned and I mean I love it so with that being said let's just play clip real quick oh no sound no okay anyway perfect so uh whatever okay anyway but basically for those watching yeah uh for those watching get me BJ Hill standing right beside aside and basically just uh you know staying right from the get-go like Hey listen guys this guy played his butt off you know uh you know just in like just being there like looking at his fingernails like he's doing right now just like listening in and then like later on like it's a two minute Clips I only did like a 30-45 seconds which again I could swear that there is audio but you know whatever um and uh but basically at the end like he actually there was one guy to ask the question like you know you know what was your feelings like uh you know when you when you had when you got the penalty and and like BJ Hill kind of gave like a like come on man yeah come on bro don't ask that and uh so and and he basically shut that question down and I mean it just it was awesome to see it and uh and of course now I'm scared to death at this other clip which I have doesn't have audio either which you know again will I'm sure everybody on here seen the video but I mean I'm sure everybody's seen it but yeah um uh but anyway basically uh Jermaine Pratt uh you know after the game heading into the tunnel uh basically making a comment uh you know basically giving go side now keep keeping in mind for those who haven't seen it who are listening right now uh Messiah wasn't near them more likely he was still on the bench but basically Jermaine pad was saying like you know why would you why would you go after the quarterback why would you touch the quarterback like screaming at the top of his lungs and I think that the biggest reason why I want to do this why I want to bring those things up was two things because first of all one thing which I'll say being a former football equipment manager is I've seen guys I and I'm sure I've seen guys literally throwing their helmets against the wall for mistakes they made just busting out in tears like you know as as much as we stay fans take it hard players take it 10 times harder every single time it's not even close and so the biggest thing which I want to say to that is is keeping in mind that everything that is said on Twitter you may think that if you have 10 followers that that you know there's no way players see it well I mean they they might they might see it and so just keeping in mind that we always have to support these guys no matter what and at the end of the day like you know like you know death threats on on kickers like it's completely out of line completely out of left field I mean anything because again these guys are 18 to 22 year old kids and that osai he's 22 years old how he is Young and he made a mistake he brought out the rest of the game and he bought out the whole game yeah that's the one mistake but people Jermaine Pratt is an awesome human being like he really is like respectable so you can't just judge a 10 second clip right and that's just how the personality he is him and BJ Hill are top tier men and players and just like role models to people so yeah well and again like for me once I saw because like like my original tweet was I know Pratt this is not him as long as he you know like I have full faith that he's going to make things right and he's going to apologize and everything's gonna be good and that's exactly what he did he apologized so once I saw that I said then they don't get that they don't get that on camera because I wouldn't get you in there yeah right yeah I know it that and and he actually did address it and in the post game you know press or whatever but yeah that didn't get blown up um yeah for me I don't I don't have a problem with what he said it's not like he was out there on the sidelines like berating osai in front of the whole team in front of the cameras it was is a real motion coming out on his way back to the locker room so yeah I mean like you said as long as he you know whatever I'm sure him and osai talked and got it all straightened out people are making it seem like osai was right in front of him yeah yeah yeah yeah like I'm sure that if osai was anywhere around him that was not going to come out of his mouth but I mean like Christian says hey Morgan my cousin sorry Christian said way easier for fans to say like I would never react like that but like think about it they were trying to get that Super Bowl win that they didn't get last year so obviously like that mistake is going to be people are going to have emotion about it Jermaine's just one that unfortunately let it out at the wrong time well and the one thing which I want to add and Greg I want to kind of get your input on this too but you know the thing which I said is that like obviously you know Jermaine Pratt's a fourth year nfler like he knows especially in a championship game there are cameras everywhere you know like you know so to me you know I would say if that happened in the locker room like immediately when he walked in then you know so be it but just you know just you gotta keep in mind again I understand so he the moment thing but just you know there are cameras there so you know obviously it's it's hard to do but just just keep it in but again that's why I said it's the Heat of the Moment he's he's still young you know it's it's honest mistake it's the Heat of the Moment thing like that's not him you know and he made it right not even an hour later so is that that's that's that's exactly my point is it's like at the end we got to keep the retrospect Guys these are still young adults here you know like yeah they're making a lot of money but they're still young they're still learning you know and again they they played a 17-week season they pulled off an amazing upset against the bills they worked their butts off all off season they didn't win the Super Bowl last day they're trying to get back so yeah like you know they were one you know one place at the end of the game from from winning that game and so and they lost so I I get it and I completely agree that yes thank God it wasn't in front of aside but again I guarantee you that that that Pratt you know luckily enough BJ handled it better you know in the moment and was able to stand beside her side but I guarantee you if that if that osai interview happened an hour later Jermaine probably would have been standing right beside him as well guaranteed uh Greg I want to get your thoughts on go ahead man yeah you guys I mean you guys had all the all the key points there the the one thing is you know it's not it's not preseason game number one it's the AFC Championship game so everything is Multiplied and magnified all of yeah it's so it's just you know you work your whole life to try to get to a Super Bowl win a Super Bowl and you're that close and it just two years in a row yeah something just happens um look we're all human we all fall short uh you know it it had been one thing like you said like if Pratt had just ignored the kid and just you know said you know what dude that's on you you're a bonehead blah blah blah blah blah like you know at the end of the day that's your brother you know the analogy they go to war you know and it's not real war we know that but uh you know Blood Sweat and Tears man for for the whole year that you know it's you're literally there with these guys the whole year through off off you know uh training camp and off season workouts and preseason and you go through the grind of the Season like you said it's you know emotions are at high and so I I don't have a problem with what Pratt did um like you would probably like him not to do that but I mean look at Tom Brady Tom Brady is you know the greatest of all and you've seen him chewing people out in their face like he wasn't even in there Stefan Diggs last year or last week Josh Allen yeah so I couldn't get the type that this is getting and it's right yeah so anyway that's that's all I got I mean we got better things to talk about so we love you Jermaine yeah yeah I know Jermaine's a man and again because the one thing which I want to bend on with osai too is that I mean when he explained that he was basically trying to first of all he's trying to catch the guy boss too he was trying to see if he could knock Patrick from Gaining forward momentum when he went out of bounds so that way the clock kept on running it's like it's not like it's not like like he like spiked his helmet or did something like on Sportsman like he was trying to make a football play and it was close like it was I mean yeah I mean it was clearly out but like it was clearly yeah but it was he got hurt on the yeah the play so you could tell that wasn't like an egregious place no he wasn't trying to be dirty he wasn't try to knock my homes out I mean they know the they know the situation he was trying to play football so yeah so and he just goes back back to it yeah I know let's talk something not a chance baby so just just wanted to bring that up because that can 100 apply to in-state athletes today and all athletes in general just some to remind her but with that being said we'll jump on over to some uh tweets of the week and get into uh some football and basketball baby [Music] all right so here we are NC State football schedule release baby now daddy chance baby no I do gotta say here y'all I am very disappointed that the Virginia game is on a Friday I'm very disappointed that honestly just because that that's one of the week that's one of the games that we had Circle we were going to go to so now I have to take it you know now a lot of people you know any people anybody wants to go extra extra seconds we're still going you're still going oh I'm still going but I I didn't want to have to take that extra yeah you know so um but you know it's all good bro Drive 7000 miles and then we'll talk hey man this is the shortest game I get to go to this is an hour he was perfect yeah no I'm just saying just put on especially because I mean Brandon Armstrong return like yeah the game 2J yeah so um for those listening in we'll just kind of go through it real quick but Let's uh kind of first of all let's talk about those those first three so at UConn then Notre Dame at home and then at the I'm sorry VMI at home and man what a roller coaster you know going from playing at UConn which I mean you know from how they played last year I mean it'll be solid but I mean it won't be you know close to playing another game at home for sure I just I now the one thing which will be interesting is man like if it's hot which I mean September 9th at home I mean it could be hot it'd be so I mean you know I think that's gonna be a 3 30 night we'll see I think that's gonna be a 339 either 3 30 or a night game yeah it's Notre Dame so they don't play noon games well yeah I guess you're right because yeah the last time we played him was was uh like 3 30. so yeah you're right but yeah um so but yeah but either way it'll be weird playing Notre Dame for the first time since the hurricane game because it's gonna be like man last time negative no we played up there just like like just basically saying like Okay I'm seeing a Notre Dame helmet on Carter Finley Stadium again and we're not sliding 10 yards after game time tonight that's hurricane season still so yeah oh Lord just knock a wood there man knock on wood and I'm just kidding if you're with me boys not going wood yeah but uh let us know in the comment shall what's your initial thoughts are but uh I mean definitely Michelle says one big notice which was that UNC on a Saturday which is definitely preparing in a long time yeah yeah so I mean let's talk about that for a second right we have back-to-back Friday games I've never seen that for a team to have back-to-back Friday night games in in college you know with home with Virginia on the 22nd uh way and then the 29th against Louisville at home and then the UNC games not on a Friday so like if you would have done the two Friday games which I which I had heard rumors I'd seen some stuff on Twitter earlier today that we're gonna have two um you would have probably assumed one would be Carolina and one would be either Virginia oval but that's not the case yeah and no Thursday games which is interesting right we normally have a Thursday yeah no that's Thursday nights in the Carter are the best and now we have a new tradition Friday night in the car right not it's not a new tradition we played Carolina a couple years ago at night but now the other interesting thing is that so we play Clemson after a bye week but Clemson plays Miami during our bye week so and that's interesting I think yeah I think that's a huge Advantage for us um yeah I mean how could it not be and Clemson plays Notre Dame the week after us so it's kind of sandwiched in between there that's going to be tough for them and I I mean we've got Miami right after Clemson so that'll also still be tough and sure but I mean I think it sets up as well as a good for us considering and don't sleep on that at Duke Clemson Miami that's a that's a tough stretch like yeah yeah so yeah no uh again uh you know but definitely kind of throwing that Marshall game in the middle is kind of interesting as well I I it's been a while I feel like most of our schedules are usually four out of conference in a row typically well um I think uh the Marshall game is the one that replaced Cincinnati and that's the only open date Marshall had was October 7th I think we're supposed to Michael The Insider that's inside Michael yeah awesome um yeah but yeah definitely uh it'll be cool uh host of Miami again that'll be a cool game um and then playing at Wake Forest one more time uh before the uh well we have a couple more times two we play them two more times yeah I wait for us in the state and then we and then we and then we lose this streak so I definitely gotta enjoy it but I don't know I'm I'm still going to be really hesitant to go to Wake Forest again because I I because I hate playing it I've literally gone to three actually no actually I have one once but as a manager but I've never won there as a fan so but I won there in 2014 when we play when Matt days went off like 200 yards um for me personally I'm gonna so I've I went to Virginia last year but wasn't for state and I've been to Virginia Tech but that wasn't for state so I will knock off three new stadiums this year four new stadiums because I've not been to Duke for state and I've not been to wake so I got four new stadiums that I'm going to this year so yeah I'm excited about that yeah yeah Virginia Tech's gonna be really fun uh definitely hoping that doesn't rain this time so that way my family and I can actually enjoy the legitness of uh of Enter Sandman for sure that's gonna be chilly oh it's gonna be cold as you know what yeah I'm already at least no it could be snow yeah oh yeah no yeah makeup's not on here but he'd be telling that 100 times over go ahead Michael out so outside of Clemson and Notre Dame because I think we can all agree those will be the two toughest ones what's what's the toughest outside of those two I would have to go either Miami or Miami or Duke yeah I mean Miami's just a toss-up right now because yeah yeah right now so you have no idea what you're getting right now uh life is like a box of chocolates or sorry Miami's Miami's football Scott roster is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're gonna get so uh you know so but I mean I I love the schedule though in terms of I mean I think it's a very generous schedule for I mean because we do go against the season who we had to face so I think that the lineup fits really well like there's I mean especially getting Clemson after bye week and they play the week while we're sitting at home watching them like you know that's that's pretty big so and they're playing Miami so it's not like they're playing just some Joe Schmo they could just look by you know so either so um uh but yeah Michelle says uh uh they beat I don't know Michelle if you're talking about uh UNC or not but anyway uh she said that she has a good experience at Wake Forest I don't think many State fans have and the Duke stadium was small several years ago when I attended the game versus Tennessee State yeah that was 2013 when uh it was close but that was the year Duke went on to the AC Championship um but uh I mean they have a track around their field so that's definitely uh you know a high school environment yeah I mean pass on to their coach though definitely got to give a hats off to the coach I mean again do I love it that Duke is is good again absolutely I mean I'm all for it you know brings a little bit of excitement you know actually makes you want to go to Duke for once you know real quick about Duke looking at their schedule we will actually have had two common opponents against them by the time we play them they have Connecticut on the 23rd and Notre Dame on the 30th so wow okay so we'll we'll have an idea of what they are because we'll have a comparison so just thought it out there so now uh oh okay actually Nick asked a great question actually so let me go back to that uh let's look at here so do you do do we think that there's any chance college game day comes to Raleigh this year so I don't think we're gonna be that good like chill Daddy Jesus there's a lot of potential to be good but yeah there's but there's question marks for sure there's good and then there's college game day good yeah so like like if you had to pick a game I think it'd be either that Clemson or Miami game at home yeah that's the two that you're looking at because yeah Notre Dame just we won't be like yeah or that early in the season you know we still won't probably be ranked by then if we had if we had had the build up like we did last year like 10 13 and then another game that could have had a chance but we won't be ranked high enough to get that this year so yeah yeah at that point it's going to be either Clemson or Miami if you're going to get a chance at um at a college game day but but I mean looking at the future maybe UNC all right did you also maybe the other thing too is you have to look what games are happening the 28th and the fourth yeah it's almost compelling yeah yeah I mean there's so many different factors yeah yeah well and again I mean looking at all the games up until Clemson I mean there's none that you know I mean besides Notre Dame that I'm necessarily like you know oh man we're gonna have a tough time winning that but again it also really just depends there's just so many question marks right now so basically meaning if you're going to circle two it's gonna be Clemson or Miami but it really depends on how our roster comes together How We Do period what else do what games are playing that week which you know yeah to be determined so we'll see one last thing we'll move on Clemson and Miami that might be the two weeks in the history of Carter Finley where you've had so much rain name recognition and back-to-back weeks coming into town oh for sure I'd agree with that um so uh Christian Jones says if we went out going to Clemson uh you know maybe uh Michelle says we played Miami for college game day last time I attended that was the last time it was in Raleigh period which is an absolute shame Devin Hester yeah and then of course that that could be uh that could be a factor in it be like if if Miami the last time we went to our family was yeah again both teams are top 25 or whatever yeah it's possible we'll see with freaking Miami yeah geez Miami is like that you we could they could be a national championship or they can go oh and 12 like you know yeah so uh jinglefang says uh having our bye week uh the week before the Clemson game was ideal but probably wouldn't help getting game day since they wouldn't see us play the game immediately yeah before that's fair too again I've I've you know Greg and I we've been we've been to college game day last year at Clemson and I pretty much said after that like okay next time I go to college game okay it's going to be at Raleigh like I mean yes man it was it was a lot it was a lot so yeah and uh anyway so all right y'all let's go almost almost one thing real quick [Applause] I know gotta bring this up Max says predatorial interest rate Max says the ACC quote unquote wasn't fair in the schedule that's being released tonight he is very disappointed he did have some more wine but you'll see now the one thing I will say looking at their schedule no they played in the coastal get over it let's go real big boy football this time I'm not gonna lie what's here let me let me let me walk it through for you so you're playing you're playing South Carolina if they'd go Owen twelve no I'm not I'm just saying I mean I'm just I mean hey like you know it to me it's it's it's kind of like you know now a reason kind of justice but but again so let's walk through real quick so bro you got a Heisman candidate get over here we're all mad now real quick real quick and then and then we'll hate it you got it you got it all right South South Carolina at a neutral site you play App State and Minnesota at home you go to Pitt you have your bye week and then you play at Syracuse Miami at home at Virginia at Georgia Tech Campbell at home Duke at home and then at Clemson at NC State l exactly no so you know hey you get what you you reap what you sow you know you made your bed not laying it you know you know I mean scheduled for years now you're gonna talk in Canada you think you'd be able to turn any team into 12-0 right for real exactly dude you schedule the teams you scheduled half those yeah the non-conference Wednesday schedule but no I I will say yeah Duke and then at Clemson at state will be tough yeah but to say it's unfair that's just like I don't know Duke could Duke could go back to being Duke again it's just so much harder now for them to figure out how to have the refs let them win exactly through a whole different scenario now that's what they also they also have Campbell right before Duke so that's basically a bi-week late in the season for them so I'm calling I'm calling it now Campbell's gonna beat UNT and then at Clemson then at States that's that's kind of the cool thing that's uh that's also another thing in our favor is that they have to go to Clemson before they chase us which the Clemson effect is over real thing so all right basketball time let's do this baby let's go okay time out I would like to stay out first I've been saying since August that we're National Champion so if it happens you all owe me an apology every single one of you because y'all be calling me dumb all kinds of stuff no not dumb crazy crazy yeah unrealistic yeah yeah yeah that's true General things that's true they had two buys last week last year last year last week you know last year yeah um but yeah y'all again I mean so obviously uh uh Greg uh kenz and uh Macon did the watch party and I was there in person and uh I mean I will say for sure that you know what was it probably with you know nine eight nine minutes left in the game down by you know eight and nine something like that you know I was I was pretty much saying this is this is not looking good but man like and the biggest thing which I'll say first and foremost is the thing that impressed me most DJ Burns obviously was incredibly impressive we'll talk about that here with this tweet of the week but this was honestly to me the definition of a team win like everybody played a role everybody did a piece now obviously Big T getting knocked out you know where there's some questionable calls I got him in that situation absolutely there were some questionable calls on him that got that guy in foul trouble early but man like like like TJ making that huge three to give us the lead uh you know uh jarkel Joyner you know did his piece uh you know Casey you know was slow to start but then he he felt it late and uh you know made some big shots for us late uh you know uh EB played some big minutes you know again to me that's great again his dude 10 rebounds yeah no and again I just haven't even gotten you know to him on the list but yeah again it's just just prove my point just I love the fact that it was a team win right there yep and again to to beat uh you know a really good Wake Forest team on the road and a place that you know State doesn't win a whole lot you know I mean just to be honest we just always have had issues with Wake Forest and so the wind there and a game that the commentator said verbatim it was a quad one win obviously that has to be determined but I mean I give up on trying to figure that out I know exactly me too so but I mean he said emphatically it was a quad one win so you know but again let's talk a little dj Burns so this this tweet right here from Matco said this seemed very important to share about DJ Burns and it's basically a list of NC State basketball players since 2010 that have scored 30 points have had 25 field goal attempts and shot 50 percent from the field in a game and it was TJ Warren twice 2014 and then DJ Burns that's it those are the only guys in 13 years of NCAA basketball I would definitely be curious like well actually this this actually kind of well not completely but when was the last time a center in keats's offense put up 25 shots I don't think it's ever happened and again we'll kind of get into that but yeah a little bit here but um yeah no I 100 agree I mean this is foreign but uh yeah and then Aaron even points out how Ernest you know didn't play a ton but I mean he played solid men's when he when he did um just match up things weren't working uh so anyway but yeah it and so I guess we can cut against that so so the one question which I kind of put out to make in so since in like the 2000s so again we won't go like all time to say but like in the 2000s in the modern era where would you put DJ burns on the big man list so far you know I know it's kind of tough to say again we still got basketball left but but you know like you know who are some of the big you know the best bigs that you could think of that we've had you know uh that's 2 000. yeah it's like you know it's just like just like you know that's like like he's up there I mean he's up there that's what I'm saying it's like like you know I you know do you like like do you maybe consider a boo maybe in that but I mean maybe kind of I don't I don't really consider BJ on here just because I mean Johnny was great defensively but she didn't really do much on the offensive side but like I I just don't think in the recent era we have seen at NC State a dominant Center like like this and DJ Burns I mean this guy we've been so guard oriented for so long exactly JJ Hixson and Tracy Smith are pretty good yeah but again I mean just a guy like DJ Burns that can only shoot the ball but he can pass like there's no tomorrow holy crap yeah there's definitely never been a passer like him definitely not a pastor like him no I was gonna say I want to say that what coach Keach said in his weekly conference call we've been saying all all along all year is this he's a unique player he's an old school player coach Keats called him a dinosaur but we didn't we didn't go that far but we were just talking about how he you know he backs people in you just don't see that in today's game that's just not the way basketball works today it's all face up shooting uh driving to the basket he just he lulls you to sleep and I love it and wake you know it was an interesting thing uh on on Saturday Forbes kind of got some heat about not doubling him and he basically Forbes said what do you did you see what happened when we did double him like he passed out of it so yeah you know they they chose to pick their poison and DJ just was there for it so yeah I encourage everybody else to call out and call him Whopper on the road because apparently he responds well to that so and we'll show that tweet too but uh Aaron did point out CJ Leslie Richard Howe and I would say yeah very different game types I mean you know CJ Leslie was you know obviously you're skinnier but you know more of your electric player athletic and then Richard Howe is just a rebounding God so uh uh you know but I mean like again just like like DJ is just he just makes shots did we have a guy that was in the NBA for a while wasn't there a guy at Powell was there a pal like I figure like I thought there was a guy named Powell that was like that's that's ringing a bell yeah I can't remember yeah I'm I'm stalling he might be for 2 000. I think Richard I think Tommy Burleson is the only person with more rebounds in NC State history than Richard yeah yeah I remember that I remember that from our Fantasy Draft yeah which again I have CJ Leslie in it which was a reach for sure if you haven't checked that out but you know again I I've always said that CJ Leslie Josh Powell yeah I think he was decent but I I always said if if CJ Leslie not today hate on Mark every but I just feel like that if if he had a better Coach he should Leslie could have been so much more than he even was um but anyway uh yeah but Aaron says still doesn't compare to DJ and Funderburk and uh here's the other thing too I would say he's he's become such a fan favorite and so you have not only how good he is but then he's just a fan favorite too right sometimes I don't always you know on a team where you have baby T and he was gonna be the face of the team and I still think he is um but you know that was where all the all the hoopla if you will pardon the pun was around was was T and then you kind of have DJ UPS upstage him a little bit in in the popularity contest so I think that's kind of a dynamic we we didn't see coming well and let me make two points here and make an hour talk about this but the biggest thing which honestly DJ has done for us now is now we can honestly go through him a lot more than we originally were and because now now you got on the outside you got at least Casey jarkel and uh Big T so now if you're if you're a defense because you know that if you're gonna stop you know you would hope that you know now that if you're gonna stop DJ you have to double up like there's not pretty much any many centers in in college basketball right now that can handle dj101 just because of his size he's just so big right and so if you double him who are you going to come off of you're going to come off the Big T you're going to come off of dark Hill you're gonna come out if you take that one step even further now we have four legitimate scoring options right in the last couple years we've had two maybe three but the third was never consistent we have four guys that any game can score double digits with Casey DJ jarkel and T and that fifth one you're not that fifth one's more your defensive guy your rebounder your grinder guy which is fine and by the way these guys know the rules now and they're playing very well yeah they're playing role within us around each other yep and the other thing which I want to point out too is oh Greg we lost you hold on Greg we lost you Greg we lost you muted himself yeah yeah we lost you oh they can't stop anyway while he goes back so the one point which I do want to make though is that the crazy thing too is that we're still playing without doosan mahorchik we're still playing with Clark we'll stale playing while Isaiah Miranda is still figuring out you know where he's gonna be um you know again like it's uh there's so much potential there what is going on now um anyway uh Greg uh do we got you now nope nothing is it me there we go no there we go now we got you now you're trying again I don't know what's going on you're good we got four scoring options moving on yeah yeah um so anyway so again just the biggest thing right now so who do we got so on Wednesday we go FSU Florida State at home at home yeah which I mean you know you look at I think fsu's seven and 19 or something like that 15 7 and 15. 7 15. yep so I mean you go up you know they're not going to be anything but I mean they took Clemson to the wire so it'd be pit they'd be hit on the road on the road so I will say this real quick um they've dealt with a lot of injuries this year and they've got arguably their best player back Miller um in the last two or three games and they've been playing a lot better um you could you could call this a trap game I don't think it's a trap game I think FSU is better than their record indicates they've been playing a lot better they did I don't think they won a at a conference game all year I don't think if they did they might have won one I think they won one yeah yeah but they're they're almost 500 in the league if they had one if they had won on Saturday they would be over 500. so they're they're not as bad as their record indicates no not at all and it's unbelievable yeah I don't think it's really a trap game because he's got Georgia Tech on Saturday so that's the track looking ahead to that one yeah so absolutely absolutely yeah so Cheeks is one in four I think against Florida State so yeah it'll definitely be tough yeah no it'll be a tough one but again 9 p.m so uh on AC Network tips yeah no it's the worst so make sure to tune in for that and uh you know be a great challenge but again I mean you know that's that's what we're looking for you know not you know a crazy challenge it's a winnable challenge uh but I mean it's down the road so I mean it can be a decent win you know definitely obviously not quad one no it's at home oh it's at home okay next to it home I thought you guys were talking as if it was out on the road so I thought originally wasn't home but then you guys were talking it seemed like we were going on the road so I was like my apologies uh so yeah here here at State okay so better so I we haven't lost Q4 yet this year you yeah I mean obviously lost in either of them would be bad but you just can't lose both if you have one Q4 loss you can get over that but if you lose two that's that's tough well and especially two right now I mean believe it or not I mean State women and men are I mean we're we're we're necking at that top four I mean I mean we're we're we're we're we're nipping at it you know okay neck is an interesting terminology for it but yeah nip and I will definitely take that whatever you know um but for to kind of go back to that point for NCAA tournament I think you can afford to lose one of these I mean obviously you don't want to but you could afford to lose one of these this week but for a top four seed in the ACC tournament you can't lose either of these yeah yeah and the other thing I'll say about if you were to lose both and not that we want that anything but the ACC is a very down conference from historical purposes even though they're looking at seven eight teams but all if you look at those bids only ones uh like in the top like a top five seed and that's UVA everything else is seven eight nine um potentially even a 10 so um you don't want to you don't want to lose those um those those Q4 games for sure yeah now uh uh Aaron asked a question do you have any prediction for what's to come for Isaiah Miranda um I mean my original thought is like now we can be a little bit not as you know pushy of trying to get him you know going like you know like Isaiah we need you like you know get get in here and play some minutes like now it's like you know you kind of leave it more up to the coaching staff on kind of getting a feel of when he's ready and maybe starting to try and get him in there but also too it's kind of tough because you're really starting to hit the meat of the AC schedule too so you know it's we're over halfway over halfway there you know I don't think you see him unless like we end up blowing Georgia Tech out by 43. like it would be something like that uh yeah you know and the other thing is he's gonna end up probably redshirting and there's no guarantee he even comes back next year so it's gonna be one of those players where he may never actually I may never actually play for us so we'll see you know we were down we've been down two forwards and he hasn't even played yet so yeah yeah and uh real quick since Aiden brought it up but you know talking about my heart checking Jack Clark so I mean Kate's SEC any day yeah he said yeah it could be it could be any day it's just pain in the butt injuries that they have honestly yeah yeah exactly so I mean it's you know just I mean again when Margaret went out it was indefinitely which means he could be back a month he could be back next season like or you know or never like you know like we don't have to rush him back though which is not surprising no you don't have to but I mean we want him for especially for like you know like a UNC game you know we would yeah you probably wanted to have them play two or three games before the tournament um just you know you don't want you don't want a Do or Die situation being their first games back so yeah that would be my guess so exactly um and then uh what else was it uh oh Michelle also said that Smith was listed as one of the John R wooden award late season 20 by ESPN about an hour ago which is awesome for sure and well deserved uh you know I think without your quavion again like he's a guy that shoots the ball a lot each game but you know I mean is expected I mean he is that good player you want him shooting the ball uh you know so but you know there's def I mean you're gonna have a couple of you know shots a game where yeah head scratches come on to you don't do that man like you know so but you know it's you're okay with it you know is that good yeah you live with it exactly it's not like last year when because there were games last year he would shoot the same amount of shots and not make them and just do nothing else like this year he's still you know Distributing the ball he's getting steals um I think he's eighth in the ACC and assists right now um so he's still contributing in other ways even when he has an awesome shooting night which is relative because he scored in double digits every single game so yeah I mean he only scored one field goal from he only got one field goal against Notre Dame and he still put up I think 13 or 15 points so yeah yeah he's still getting he's still getting his his uh his shots yeah absolutely but looking at the schedule real quick I pulled it up real quick so the last four games of the season are tell us to get home Wake Forest at home Clemson at home and then at Duke yeah so again and that's what I'd like to me I didn't really want Tucson yeah I mean if we can get them back for that stretch that would be amazing because that's when we're really going to need him honestly just not necessarily because like we don't have we're gonna lose or some but just like that's gonna be those those would be tough games where you're gonna if you can have another option you would like to have another option Clemson is senior day because that just yeah the one thing I would say is you probably want as many guys as you can get available against that Carolina game given how many fouls we had the last game in week I think because I think I think I think if I'm not mistaken Casey found out of that game so you're going to want all hands on deck in case you get one of those kind of games you're getting kicked out if that is what the cow the game is called Zone all I know all I know is if I get a report that Teddy Valentine's rapping I'll be like no no no no no I might as well myself no no we're not doing that yep so but hey if guys are healthy you know they'll play they're not going to rush any of these guys back if they're not they're not ready to do so so yeah and then Aaron also brings up uh the AP poll rankings that came out today uh where it had state had 39 voting points UNC at 47 so just ahead of us and the Duke had 24 so I think it was two spots behind us um it's and of course you know all these people saying how was UNC not ranked and it's like whatever whatever bro whatever yeah they went from number one pre-season to not ranked that's how they didn't get ranked exactly like they have they have one quad one win which is against Ohio State who has now lost seven of the last eight and they're barely above 500. I'm always ready I need people in the chat again fire emojis man Michael Michael's come with the stats today I love it uh so basically Michael's saying Caroline is trash because they're they're one quad win shouldn't even be a quad one win because Ohio state is so bad but yeah but I mean and people have been saying the same thing about Clemson is like how is Clemson not ranked higher and dude they had some bad out of conference losses yeah two Q4 losses already yeah because somebody was and again this this isn't a Clemson or Virginia Tech show but everyone was complaining that Virginia Tech was ranked higher in the net than Clemson and Cleveland beat him twice yeah so it's like like no one understands it just if you win it takes care of itself and you'll be in the tournament like that's the easiest way to get in the tournament don't worry about quad ones and quads twos but it's like you know coach Keith says like hey they tell they tell their guys before every game this is a quad one quad two opportunity and you know you got to go play it as is so but it's it's a mess yeah well again I mean they see this year has just been the definition I I I don't know if there's been a weirder year for the ACC than this one it's been odd year but um I mean because I mean think about it I mean we are as of right now were tied for fifth right now tied for fifth in the ACC right now so so honestly if I'm Keith I'm not even worrying about you know tournament right now I'm like get a top four seed and they see turn of it right now yeah I mean you're right there in that conversation but the funny thing is is the ACC is very very eerily similar setting up as it did last year like you know on The Talk they still sent two teams to the final four like not saying that that's gonna happen this year but it all works out is it all works itself out in the end so just you know it's we still have nine more I think conference games there's a lot of basketball left I saw a tweet from somebody today this is not my status somebody else's so awesome Twitter um no since the double Buy has been in the ACC tournament which was 2014 six out of the eight Champions have been from the double by and two out of the eight Champions about a single buy so yeah very benefit to get that doubled by yeah yeah yeah for sure well and believe it or not like like we we were hoping pre-season to be like in the middle yeah like we're like we're top five right now that's unbelievable I I did say top five I've got that I've said I'm saving that receipt maybe chip you want a little a little Bolder than me but just Maybe I said uh yes I would say we do want Duke to beat the Turtles yeah last week yeah yeah always one don't matter about this thing though though if you ask Leighton and Macon they have their opinions on Duke but I think I think if you had to pick the the lesser of the two evils against each other you would probably say duke right oh no doubt dude like like for me it's it's it's UNC it's dog poo and then it's everything you know everything else like you know like there's only a few things in the history of mankind I would cheer for UNC over like that seriously there's not a single thing being kind I would pull for you and see you I mean you'd be surprised but anyway uh yeah so but again I mean I know that also do one thing which apparently uh makes a difference is if you go to a Duke game which I haven't been to a Duke game by Cameron Indoor just because I can't afford it uh and at least up until this point which I definitely noticed the tickets have obviously you know gone down a little bit since Coach K wins left so hopefully you'll be able to make that happen but uh but apparently when you go apparently they are Duke fans are Relentless you know which you know but I don't know we'll see Good Michael yeah well if you got something quick because mine's a little bit longer well well mine was a little long too so you go first and then I'll take mine I I don't know if I've told it before but that when I went to Cameron Endor in 2017 I think it was when we had uh Dennis Smith yeah yeah yeah my friend was he was one of the the Cameron crazy like whatever they call them yeah so he's like I can get you guys in but you have to wear blue like because they won't let you into the camera crazy section wearing red so right me and my friend went and we wore blue and just cheered for State the whole time and and we ended up winning that game it was awesome I love it that is that's a good one uh you you were you were ranking uh Carolina Pooh and Duke um so uh Kelly Kelly P Fitzgerald which is a friend of the program he he tweets a lot with the Tuffy talk he uh he met a former runner from State and um she was a um an Olympian and she won the Boston Marathon won a bunch of marathons and he got her autograph and he he said he specifically wore a state shirt and when she saw it she personalized My Autograph by signing it's better to have Pooh we'll use that word on your running shoes than a taro tar on your heel so that's how uh autograph so that's a great quote I like that yeah so I he it's like I gotta share that that's pretty good so but again y'all just cannot say enough you know about Keith's about this assistant coaching staff brought all the players that I mean we're sitting here 17 and five six and one in in January alone and that one is we'll put an actor next to that we'll put asterisk beside that besides this month yeah again but again by the way it's just unbelievable we're 6-0 and and then one or 0-1 against the referees yeah exactly where we're all right when we're playing a against five yeah exactly um so uh yeah Michelle I love it says I will never pull for you and see uh Aiden says I hate Caroline with everything in me Michelle says my mother cheered for communist Russia team versus UNC when I was a child in that flight so yeah and remember Michelle not all heroes were capes so your mom your mom was a saint so exactly yeah um and then uh Aaron says tickets are 200 on StubHub right now for then State Duke game which is not bad actually yeah yeah so people are camping out right now and they could just buy a 200 ticket I mean especially their all their parents are rich anyway so why don't you just get 200 bucks yeah right well and so so this is one quick thing so do you camp out for every game or is it just for the UNC this is for the UNC Duke that's what I thought okay that's what I thought okay that's what I thought so Johnny that makes sense but like they're already camping out for it so yeah something on Tick Tock that I had no idea they make each tent you have to have a certain amount of people in each tent and they go inside and take a quiz yeah who knows Duke better like a huge like it's a huge booklet it's a lot of questions basketball history I'm like what the heck so again like for those who don't know it like yeah I'm buying it it's it's it's it's definitely I can't imagine I can't think of really too many Traditions that are better than that one that's that's just one of the all-time great Traditions no doubt about it yeah it's like you have to have somebody you have to have a certain number of people in the tenant all times they like check in the middle of the night yeah so we'll call it random time yeah so there's a reason I joined the Navy not the Army I I didn't want to sleep in 10th man so like yeah exactly uh Michelle has an awesome quote right here already I haven't even read it but I just read like a first sentence uh saying my mother my daughter was just accept accepted to state which congratulations on that that's awesome and uh when she was only five she turned well actually one thing she just said accepted she didn't say that she's going there anyway you don't apply not to go right anyway and then and when she was only five she turned up her nose at a UNC fan walking by at the football game you know she's definitely going I love it I love it she's going yep yep good so again it's awesome now we do want to kind of transition here a little bit um first of all talking about uh you know kind of going through again it was a amazing amazing weekend you know to say the least obviously ice pack first of all I gotta talk about them first of all winning seven games in a row now ever since they lost against UNC and now they play UNC again on Friday night at a Invisalign Arena which is like right by the airport uh I think the game is at like 8 45 8 30 something like that it's super cheap I think you can get a ticket for like ten dollars NC State versus UNC we need to pack that thing out for sure it's a big opportunity and even though we've lost two in a row against UNC we're a much different team now than we were then so make sure to check that out Friday night uh us two want to give a shout out to wrestling who Godly they absolutely just like just they just bent Duke over and just just whooped them like there's no tomorrow 48-3 which I mean you know if you know a little bit about wrestling that's God that's bad I refer to for a conference matchup but uh anyway so I got to give a shout out to a little bit of running clock yeah yeah no exactly and that would have been like 90 to nothing heading into the fourth quarter yeah really yeah um so uh I think they go against uh Virginia at UVA at UVA on Friday so uh make sure to tune in for that Friday night and then uh jumping over to what are we talking about well we'll talk about uh Caitlyn here to finish it off but let's talk a little bit of women's women's basketball women's uh you know like obviously Greg and I did the the watch party yesterday and I mean at other all-around team win like you know like you know everybody's running around here's my thing Diamond played great for sure but to me you know there was a lot of talk about Diamond honestly I'm sitting here going Mimi Collins like really turned up yesterday he turned up yesterday like she was an unsung hero for sure in my book she had some attitude going too yeah I love it I love it um yesterday there although red glow sticks and I want them to do that with PNC for the camera game because I heard that would be great yeah yeah it's supposed to be a red out right the UNC game real quickly got to go through that so so what is it so the uh the the outdoor Hurricanes game is on that Saturday yeah and then go ahead on Friday back up for what so Thursday you have women's basketball against Carolina at Reynolds at the small gym yep and then on Friday you have pack nine opening day oh it's gonna be a good week then Saturday you have uh the outdoor game is wrestling going against somebody yeah Friday night they're playing uh they're wrestling at Chapel Hill that Friday night oh man and then if you like your little music you've got a little Hootie and the Blowfish going on it Friday night at PNC all right hey hey I'm old bro that's my music man wrestling see so Saturday we we have baseball again uh opening opening weekend and then uh the hurricane game uh Saturday night Sunday we have both baseball and State basketball and then on Tuesday you have uh men's hockey at the Frozen Tuesday or is it Monday Tuesday it's a holiday my apologies okay so yeah so then Monday night yes uh ice pack man those jerseys y'all dude yeah they're awesome dude those might be the coolest jerseys that's what I'm wearing to the Kings game that the black and red ice pack Jersey that's awesome like like to me I think it takes another level just because unlike the football jerseys there's a sleeve to it so so it even goes all the way down like there's a stripes near the wrist as well which I'm like dude oh they're so sick yeah I mean like literally coach Healey the head coach of ice pack messaged me uh because I mean again I mean I'm a huge hockey fan then obviously you know we've been supporting the ice pack a ton he messaged me going you ready for the coolest jerseys of all time I was like yeah all right we saw him first that's that's bull that's a bold uh take their cotton and demanded it but that strategy pay off golly they're so sick so before we go too far jingle fangs is Right Let Her Cry that is the official anthem of UNC you let her cry I love that letter okay I love it um so again so obviously so yeah so Monday night at at uh Carter Finley Stadium at the outdoor game so again I mean and and I'm sure that probably won't be much at all if you know in order to go to it and uh the game is free both the alumni game and uh the state game are free they are asking for donations at the door so that's unbelievable so again I mean what a bargaine he'll be there oh heck yeah yeah the marching band will be there oh that's awesome well Tuffy talk had a little something to do with that I love the video yeah we did kind of Step In well because basically uh so it was actually coach Healey actually messaged us because we were given uh the marching band a hard time because when State played UNC in the ice pack at PNC Arena the marching band wasn't there and basically apparently just the two never really got together so we were like for this game they're going to be there like is unc's marching band was there but ours wasn't so yeah no we're not we're not we're not letting that happen this time so uh but you know kind of wrapping up women's basketball one more time real quick let's go back to that real quick you know uh again just was awesome to see and also you gotta give a shout to Wolfpack Nation as well Greg and I were talking about this but literally the fact that you and that state was ranked 20th UNC uh Notre Dame was ranked seventh but yet we were favored by a point and a half like that if that doesn't tell you enough about the environment Reynolds Coliseum and Wolfpack Nation makes it I don't know what does like what other Stadium you play you are the number 20 team playing against A Team 13 spots higher than you and your favorite that's unbelievable in my opinion so um but yeah I mean the the I think the way that the team has just stepped up uh on the defensive end the intensity uh we held what we held arguably the I don't know I mean she's definitely gonna be an ACC Player of the Year candidate we held her below all her averages and um so you can't say enough about what the team did uh they shut that down uh got a little dicey there the last like I don't know four or five minutes but uh look they found a way to win and um that's three in a row after losing three or four so uh yeah I think I think we're starting to find our footing and I'm excited about what we what we got we have Georgia Tech I believe on Thursday I want to say Thursday at eight or I think Thursday at eight um so we should be able to win that game yeah so yep they only have eight games left so they have one less than the men's right exactly so and again I mean it it's it's crazy I mean you uh I think women are six uh sixth or seventh in the ACC right now uh so I mean they're they're they're right there compete for a top four as well so I mean again it's crazy to talk about you literally have men's and women's right now competing for a top four seed and they see tournament that's unbelievable and then they jumped up five in the AP poll this week jumping from 20 to 15. yeah which is awesome we need to get in that top that top four bracket um for Bracketology uh top four will do host so we definitely want to host the first and second rounds before we have to go on to one of the regional sites so gotta keep winning yep and they gotta ended up with Carson saying UNC is not a rival gthc stands for go to hell Clemson oh okay okay I mean I get it I'm not I'm not crazy about Clemson either but no you UNC is gthc man that's a b c g THC it'll always be you can see first and foremost uh but I hear you though I hear you though Carson that's not a problem at all man uh and then yeah cam grassboy says yeah the women play good yeah they play good all right so so now kind of wrapping it up here talking about I mean somebody who in my opinion I mean if I could stand up without you looking at my waistline I'd be giving this girl a standing ovation because man like she deserves all that praise and then some and that is one the only Caitlyn Tui and the first thing I think of honestly when I when I when I say her name is literally once again when we did the uh the dollar trivia and I said can you name me the star of our cross country team I said two or three different times and nobody can say it there's not a single State fan in in all of NC State in all of wolf pack nation that should not know the name Caitlyn too we inside out breathe eat sleep that name like she has absolutely revolutionized cross-country NC State in my opinion like like you know I put out a tweet out there saying in my opinion she's the most accomplished athlete that stay has had and somebody came back talking about uh I think it was Jamie's shoe I can't remember the name exactly but it was another cross-country star from like the 60s and uh I'm just still sitting here going Kayla Tui Lilly has the NCAA mile record like that's that's crazy that's huge on top of everything else she's done in terms of being an indoor track Champion bringing two of interstates four ever Team National Championships NC State and Varsity Sports I mean and then sitting here there's only one female in college history with all-time top 10 indoor marks in both the mile and the 5 000 meter on record legal tracks Caitlyn Tui the Wolfpack star is now the current record holder in the model at four minutes to 24 seconds which is unbelievable I mean I can't even drive that in Northern Virginia traffic yeah like it's it's absolutely and again the crazy thing is that she has at least one more year she might have two more years she's only a sophomore she has two more sophomore two more years that's again she's gonna probably be the most accomplished athlete that's ever you know participated in the sport at NC State like oh yeah I mean you can make the argument right now she's still got two more years yeah I'm saying it but yeah no I mean but definitely there's no doubt by the time she leaves here she will be and it's not even close in my opinion like she's I mean we could win two more national championships I mean just with having her yeah I mean that's crazy think about it you can literally have a Dinosaur National Championships when we've only had two before she walked on campus that's crazy that's insane think about so um but uh uh who was it uh uh hey we got we talked to some football here at the beginning uh but definitely again we'll uh you know we could see if we could talk a little bit about Brandon Armstrong wrap this thing up here but it does say one of the best athletes if not the best to ever come through NC State absolutely uh Michelle says she is fast becoming a legend yes I would say four minutes and 24 seconds fast very fast yeah yeah and then Jingle things does point out not surprisingly and state athletes said a new NCAA record in the AC Network had no mention of it on their Facebook page or anything just shameful coverage yeah no I mean it's it's yeah yeah I know what's new with AC Network again it's it's the all-carolina network that's what you know there you go or all duke or all Clemson so so again it just goes back to once again y'all support every sport like I'm telling you 2023 might be it might be the best NC State athletics year we've ever had just in terms of what happens in 2023 look at what men's and women's basketball is doing right now uh you know cross country could do it once again football it might be a good year we'll see you know and then softball again you know like you know baseball is looking really good again there's every single sport right now is is is is doing amazing things support them all folks it doesn't take much it doesn't cost much of anything support them again like swimming and Diving literally both teams are number four in the country women's tennis is number three men's tennis is top 20 you know gymnastics right now is 23 but they were 20 last week like there has never been a better time guys than to be an NC State fan so get on board out and you will love it and here's the thing other than the revenue Sports most these events are like 10 bucks or less and in some cases free so you know if you want get out of the house and go see some good entertainment for you know good value on your dollar all of those sports that we just mentioned baseball softball wrestling gymnastics tennis uh swimming and Diving I believe swimming diving is free like just go out just go out and support these teams man like they deserve it yeah I think about it you could literally go just men's and women's tennis and men's and swimming and Diving alone you go see the number three team in the country number four team the country number four team in the country number 18 team in the country for absolutely free that's Insanity so and Kasha brings up men's and women's soccer as well absolutely 100 deserve respect as well so again yeah all of them do simple as that y'all so uh uh and Aiden says ready to see a high field performs uh after this he looked good yesterday no I'm I'm telling you y'all stay baseball I think of the State baseball can be good I'm looking forward to it we'll be having our previews here pretty quickly I'm guessing yeah for sure so uh so definitely and also make sure to stay tuned we're actually gonna be talking some NC State men's and women's tennis uh this week y'all so make sure to uh to tune in for that uh but uh kind of wrapping it up here so do we want to talk a little bit Brennan or do we want to kind of wrap this thing up a little bit I guess we could just spend like 30 seconds on a little bit basically saying we'll find out I mean I I don't think there's really much that we can really know at this point we haven't even I don't even think I've seen a picture of him even on campus yet like I haven't seen a picture of him on campus yet no the only thing I saw was the the Adobe photoshopped you know of him in a state uniform I haven't seen anybody he was in the picture um with the weightlifting groups yes that's true there's Thunder's been putting out he sticks out in that group yeah with the ginger in him yeah exactly um so again I mean just and the biggest thing which I love on top of it too is seeing MJ Morris putting out videos of him training you know working which I love and it's like he's he's going to be here folks Manchester MJ's not going anywhere I can I can almost for sure unless things completely change he's I don't think he's gonna go anywhere uh so I mean you can't help but get a little bit excited now obviously those are holes you know sure but but there's still a lot of time before football season gets here folks there's still a lot of time there will be another chance like you know there's a lot of time to make improvements so the one thing I will mention real quick uh if people didn't see it uh the spring game was announced today it's April 8th so for anyone that you know is tracking that and um also let me see here I got it it is uh hold on there we go it's 214 days yep so there's your opening day right there so and I put it as a noon game yeah 214 days or 214 days 14 hours 36 minutes and 35 seconds assuming that it's a noon game obviously we'll adjust once the time comes out but yeah that'll give you a ballpark so not that I'm counting yeah no absolutely and then Aiden does bring up a big question as well I know Justin Cook's mentioned it a couple times but will the field meaning for pack and I be ready in time for the season it's looking close yeah it's looking close but but apparently there's been uh talks already with some uh some stadiums whether it's uh the Holly Springs uh Stadium or the Mudcat Stadium you know potentially for the first 15 series something like that so yeah um you know it sounds like if it does it'll only be for that first weekend and then it'll be ready for the next week everything looked good um if people have been following um obviously they put in the turf behind the plate and up the up the baselines and up in the right field um they have turf now for the warning track so all of that is in the grass is in um the last thing I saw them working on was the bullpens so I don't know how much more is left after that but I can't imagine much more yeah now the one thing which I will say Obviously there was pictures that came out about what the field looks like and I will say it's a it's a change for sure but I also say BP Cox Emily said just wait for it to be finished it's not done yeah it's not done just be patient and here's the thing that's kind of the style the the the colleges are going to a combination of turf and uh natural grass uh a lot of SEC schools are doing it go ahead Michael yeah I think I think the one that you were saying yeah the the one that I've seen people point out is Mississippi State they have the exact same thing once it all grows in and gets worn down a little bit Fades a little bit the the colors will mix together better yeah now the one thing which I will say is I think everybody anybody who's been to a good Mouse a good amount of pac-9 games all you're going to do is look at that scoreboard you won't notice anything else you'll just look at that scoreboard being like right holy crap that's right and you'll just look at that the entire game for probably a season you won't worry about nothing else that's gonna be me like I'm gonna be like wait I actually like don't have to see like the individual boxes be different colors and be like wait is that 319 average or two 19 average like that was basically me so I mean and you'll be able to see the replay is much clearer because you could never see the baseball again on like the bang bang places like where's the baseball pretty much and yeah the other thing I'll say is I think I don't think anything would have gotten approved without um Elliott Evans thousand percent because I mean like obviously me I I was a little bit worried seeing how the the home plate was turf was black which I'm like ooh but you know again they're they there's maybe there's some to it again just like just like just like Michael said I'm sure Evan has something to do with that so that's how it's been thought through um so Greg did you want to wrap us up here or yeah I look I look we've been talking so much good stuff about NC State but uh unfortunately uh last week we lost one of our own uh big big NC State fan um Richard Wilson uh who I met up in 2015 up at Pittsburgh uh just a really die-hard dude he he created a big uh NC State fan page on Facebook that I'm a member of and just just an all-around great dude you know passed away really early um so uh just wanted to send out my thoughts and prayers to his family and then of course uh Michael's grandpa had passed away last week so uh I'm sure he was probably a wolf pack fan Grandma excuse me my apologies my apologies um so anyway just wanted to send out our thoughts and prayers for those um people and just you know we're thinking of everybody that you know knows you know Michael's family and then knows knows Richard so but appreciate it and and the Packer Family even still too as far I definitely want to give shout out to the Packer Family Packer uh it was a big one for NC State and Wake Forest uh and and many others too but you know I think the announcement ever best announcement of all time yeah they want it on on the dunk yeah now making making still making actually has still has the the newspaper where it with the quote on it they want it dot dot dot on the dunk and it's like oh yeah yeah absolutely um and also I know we'll wrap this up uh but again I love all the questions we have such great questions right now that's why I'm like I want to kind of hold on to it a little bit here but Michelle said did you know that they donated the old scoreboard to Campbell did not know that but that's good that's awesome cool them um hey it says when will the new scoreboard for car Finley start to be built after right after the hockey game after right after the hockey game it'll get started I heard the Footers were already in allegedly like I I had heard that so I don't know it seems like something they could do without yeah disrupting affecting them yeah yeah exactly so uh but yeah I guarantee you that they're gonna need every single day and minute that they can get once it's gonna be exciting to watch yeah it's gonna be amazing holy crap like that new scoreboard and the new sound system I mean because just I'm gonna be I'm going to be CR like Notre Dame at home with a new scoreboard and a new sound system holy crap we got it we got it from night game you get the lights in there too yeah bro Michael don't do that don't do that okay I'm losing my crap already I'm gonna I'm gonna give him 70 days out I'm gonna give a 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places so yeah exactly but yeah no thank you Aiden and Nick thank you to everybody again this has been an awesome show loved all the questions loved all the comments again we're just sitting here going man we don't want in because there's been so many great questions yeah y'all have been awesome we love you guys so much and I can't wait to uh and also to uh I'll be at the canes and the ice pack game Greg you'll be there I'm gonna be in a lot of things I'm yeah I'm gonna be Georgia Tech this weekend I'm going to be at the women's game play 4K next Monday night yeah I'll be in a lot of stuff so yeah we'll be there covering and then Ken's Michael when are we going to have you you know when we're gonna have you at some stations I'll be at the Cane's game in the in the men's basketball game on Sunday the best believe the 19th I'm gonna be at the Carolina State game yeah for sure you should know that yeah yeah I know exactly um awesome well thank you so much again y'all really do appreciate 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