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right the weit is over pirate football is here and the budlight pregame tailgate is back clip Rock here in the Pirate Radio Studios Shirley roads awesome intro big dog the people love the video we are fired up ready to go for another year we got Earl in the house we got young Cole we got Brian Bailey the legend joining us hour number one what's up BB what's up ready to go happy game day to you sir and we got so much to talk about here for the next 4 hours we're going to obviously preview East Carolina norick State we got games going on right now that we will keep you up to date on as Shirley roads will provide the scoreboard and we'll have uh scores for you all throughout today's program also joining us on the show we'll talk to David Glenn coming up later on in our number one talk about North Carolina's win at Minnesota the injury to their quarterback uh they in Chapel Hill NC States win over Western Carolina we'll look around the ACC and of course previews with DG this East Carolina game also comments from Mike Houston John David Baker and Blake harrold as they get ready for the Spartans of norick State coming up hour number two we'll talk to former Pirate pitcher Danny Beal he is our pirate picker today we'll talk to different Pirates every week and uh pick some games including the East Carolina football game so it'll be good to catch up with DB Jeff n do will join us with his Saturday bets and we'll talk to one of my co-hosts on the US Sailor Fifth Quarter Callin show hold Naylor he'll make his US Sailor Fifth Quarter call-in show debut tonight we'll get hold hold's final thoughts on this game coming up later on also Patrick Mason from The Daily Reflector will join us as well Ross Gordon play-by-play voice of the norick State Spartans to give us the scouting report on today's opponent we'll go live to College Station and talk to coach HUD Greg Hudson who will be at Notre Dame Texas A&M tonight we'll uh talk a little defense with Coach h coming up on today's show Bailey's favorite Brian North will join us coming up in hour number four love some North now he will join us live from Dy fckin Stadium if his wife let him go to the game we'll find that out coming up in hour number four as well plus the chat gang will chime in with you we got poll questions we'll talk about it from top to bottom here on Pirate Radio we will pop the top on the week one edition of the budlight pregame tailgate next [Music] are you ready for some football PIR Nation Bud Light is America's favorite light beer and the official beer of the ECU Pirates when planning your fun times be sure to pick up some Bud Light at your favorite retailer this season Bud Light has a new limited edition purple and gold ECU bottle on sale now cheers to football fund at the tailgate and in the stateum this year and remember always stay in the game and drink responsibly Bud Light the official beer of the ECU Pirates and proudly distributed by Carolina Eagle Distributing since 1989 go pirates 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listening to the budlight pregame tailgate on Pirate Radio now back to the show that always happens welcome back to the Bud Light pregame tailgate almost called an audible I'm so used to hearing Shirley say here's clip Brock that and she just told you that like 30 seconds ago and that always happens I am a how how long have you been doing this show clip uh too long some would say because every year I tell him hey first one yep we're just going to go straight to you and he always forgets mhm a tradition unlike any other welcome in folks to the budlight pregame tailgate brought to you by budlight reminding pirate fans to stay in the game drink responsibly budlight the official beer of the easu Pirates probably distributed by Caroline Eagle Distributing since 1989 also thank you for for uh fueling me today Chicken Salad Chick pregame foodoo uh Chicken Salad Chick makes their food from scratch every day using fresh quality ingredients uh it's the first time I've been by there over at 112 Red Banks Road in Greenville and it was rocking today I had a good good crowd in there enjoying some fresh chicken salad they also have um a turkey BLT if you're not a chicken salad fan they have other options but uh we got some food in the back some fresh fruit who ordered the fresh fruit it looks very fresh Shirley Road so well you know I'm still on that diet so I have to have some fruit okay okay thank you to Chicken Salad Chick for the awesome pregame spread here uh in the Pirate Radio Studios all right back with you here Shirley rhods the big dog Glenn Griffin young Cole Earl and uh Brian Bailey joining us to kick off another season and Bailey it's the game is here and I'm already tired because of the week that was like the buildup to the game we had the awesome Pirate Radio party Thursday night uh where Mr Bailey was on stage uh and that was a lot of fun bayy had a late night last night not partying or anything uh but covering High School football the weather came in and pushed some things back which uh made it a headache for you guys right yeah really it's it's it's hard enough you know when they start on time but when they start late trying to get scores in and trying to to get everybody's highlights back but uh the guys did a great job and it was a really good Friday night for football and now it's on to week three uh already week three yeah how about that uh week one here for college football the NFL kicking off next week so a very very exciting time and an exciting time for East Carolina Bailey because of the new the the new offense the new offensive coordinator the new quarterback the new weapons at receiver and uh coming off a 2 and 10 season Blake Harold said it I think off the air it might have said it on the air too but before your show the other day he said man you know shout out to Pirate Nation for being this excited for a team to won two games last year and and I pulled up here to park to come in and Ube is cranking I mean it it is packed in there there's nowhere to park out there so that's a good sign I saw a lot of early tailgator when I drove down Charles Boulevard and uh checked out some of that so yeah it's I I think it's it's an exciting day the Sun's shining it's game day in Greenville that's always a big time and I I really I buy into the fact that coach Houston and those guys have worked from day one not to have anything close you know to that two and 10 from like you you got to think about it if the Pirates win today they're halfway to their win total from last year and that's that's crazy when you think about it and uh the stat that I'm really tired of talking about but I I continue to say it uh East Carolina has not won an opener since 2016 yeah we got to put that behind us with a win today got to do it get to one and0 and uh and get ready for Old Dominion next week if you look at it kind of in state AIS Bailey East Carolina lost the regular season last year I do feel like Mike Houston won the off season as far as getting people back on board and everything he's added now that won't matter if they can't go out and score and put up points and win games but how about the offseason as a hole for what they did to to try to fix this offense I think they they learned a lot I think they they had a lot of you know just self-centered criticism of themselves to try to hey look what can we do to make this thing better what did we do wrong to end up two and 10 you know and and so they they looked at all that made some big changes I mean I know it was hard for Mike Houston to replace Donny CR Patrick because you know one thing that these coaches do it's like a family for the coaching staff and and that's that's very difficult when you've got a guy that's worked with you that long but you know the decision had to be made it's a hard decision but it had to be made he brings in John David Baker and you know we get a chance to see him for the first I'm looking forward to seeing his play calling I'm looking forward to seeing how the communication and the helmets is going to work and how how all that plays out you know whether the Pirates will have any penalties you know uh off sides a legal procedure that kind of thing so I I think there's there's so much that goes into this first game and northfi state went through a little bit of that and if you've watched any football today there Georgia and Clemson have had a slobber knocker but every time somebody makes a big play there's a flag so I mean you're going to see some penalties like that usually in game one that happened a lot last night in the game of what was it Michigan State and FAU it was just a penalty fist yeah for a lot of and a lot of reviews too a lot of stoppages uh but you know which I hate yeah but that is uh that is college football uh Clemson by the way on their best Drive of the day as you just said Bailey and they got it now second and goal at about the 6 s yd line Georgia leading 13 nothing uh right now on the buccaneer Music Hall scoreboard uh presented by dub Buck we'll keep you up to date on what's going on throughout Saturday Shirley you got something yeah because it just came up it just popped up West Virginia's uh game is currently in a weather delay as there is lightning in the area so they have suspended the game temporarily so we'll keep an eye on that but uh and then uh oh ECU volleyball by the way underway and uh they have taken the first set they are getting ready to start the second set and uh they are up three nothing in the second set all right we'll keep you up a to date on all the scores going on East Carolina and otherwise on this awesome day baby oh man it's just so much fun wake up and you know there's football on all day and you know and then when the pros start you get it all day on Sundays as well and uh I just we've said it so many times it's just the best time of the year it just it just is uh you know the weather will get cooler later on you'll see a lot of these weather delays this time of the year and that's that's the worst thing I mean I I remember what was it the &t game that year when when the storm roll in knocked us off the whole day yeah come back the next day oh you got to look for the ball young man wow he had no idea where that ball and there's a flag that's how it is flag on the play Georgia holds Clemson but we will check on the flag also trying to pull up we'll pull up Virginia Tech and Vanderbilt here was putting it to him earlier John Moody's lock of the day I'll never listen to him again because uh he had the hookes and Vanderbilt was up 17 to nothing but uh West Virginia or excuse me Virginia Tech trying to get back in that game uh Shirley Earl what's up oh no I was just going to ask did you uh did I miss it but did you mention Brett no intern Brett what about Brett cuz remember he said Virginia Tech was going to be really really good actually he had uh last night TCU oh yeah he did say that because there was a whole segment on it he also gave me TCU uh who did not cover I I'm I've been listening to everybody and I've it turns out nobody knows G I mean I mean St Stanford Never End out last night that was that was a nice winner at plus N9 all right Earl Earl might have some winners for us so he's the only one I'm going to listen to on this Saturday all right um bayy back to the offense one thing I'm fascinated by along with the headset the play calling how's the quarterback going to look who are The Playmakers on this offense especially with the pass catchers right we kind of know the running back and that's that's what's going to be interesting to see you know how those guys you know on game day because you really can't tell much from those scrimmages I mean the coaches can see some game film and they can do that kind of thing but you know until you get out there and you get a chance to make a play and coach Harold said it in here on Monday on my show he said you know we've got guys that we're not that concerned about but we do understand that they haven't put you know the Jersey on they haven't gone out you know under the lights and it's a whole different ball game when those big lights come on and Dy pick them yeah we'll probably do this a lot today focus on the offense and kind of Overlook the defense because we trust them so much right right we do trust them interesting note about the defense uh coach Harold was telling me they're going to debut a new turnover belt of some sort coming up tonight and they're also going to do something with with a like a big chest like a pirates chest and if you get a turnover you can slam the ball into the chest how about that yeah I'm uh okay if it's fun for them hey if more turnovers I'm all for it yeah I I feel like when Miami had the turnover chain that was cool then everybody started kind of copying it but if you can make it unique to us that's right I'm down with it I think so yeah see did he say uh his wife was kind of involved helping out with this like putting it together and everything so yeah I want to see that I remember uh Troy do you remember that guy Troy uh draus that used to work here thumnail tonight thank we did saw see at the party and yesterday uh here in the studio but um he wanted an actual real sword he really tried to talk Mike Houston into having a real sword on the sideline like Troy you can't have a SW would have stabed him with it around these 20 year olds that are excited and celebrating and that thing catches an arm or a neck or something and we got a national story going on that's true let's go with the chest let's go with the treasure chest we got it uh excited about that what do you think about the crowd today Bailey what kind of atmosphere we going to have I I think you know it's a beautiful day if the storm stay away with the expected to I think tomorrow and Monday are going to be more stormy as far as the weather goes but hopefully they'll stay away beautiful day it is a little warm but uh you know I I think I don't think they'll get to 40 I think the hope is to get between 35 and 37 but uh that may be optimistic as well all right what is higher Bailey uh the crowd in thousands are the points on the board East Carolina scores today oh East Carolina scores more points than in is the crowd the thousand I got how many you got for their e I'm going to put John David big I I I think they get into the 40s yeah I got about the same and the defense May score they may I I don't I hope I'm not overhyping uh the defense but if they give up more than 13 I'm going to be upset with BL Carol I'm gonna write him an email an angry email and if you don't like the chess you're going to call his wife would not be doing that uh but no I do have high hopes for this defense not only today but uh before this season think they have High Hopes as well and and I think you know asking asking coach Houston I I asked him at the press conference the other day about his defense and I said Blake harrold thinks they're going to be better and he says I think they're going to be better I've seen him you know practice every day and you know there's a lot of Pride on that defense that interior line and that's where you know we remember the great lines that coach Holz had with with you know back in the day with Coach HUD and everybody I mean they had great you know lineman down there and there Big Fellas that you can't move and that caus havoc on the line and any time you can get pressure on the quarterback with three or four that just helps you down the road defensively and that's what they're hoping if I do have a criticism uh for the defense it would be getting after the quarterback and getting that quarterback to the ground we looked it up because I knew it was a pretty low number and EC was not great when it came to sacking the quarterback last year I think it was like tied for 114th in the nation so as good as they were uh they did not have many sacks and and they kind of addressed that this off season bringing in Craig and some other some pass rushers to to try to get to that QB so that is something I would like to see a little more of the question is how many times will Nori State throw the ball today they were like seven of nine last Saturday they don't want to throw if they can run it down your throat they're going to do exactly that you could tell that in the Florida A&M game and they looked good in that first half they were up 14 to nothing I mean uh I had to wonder I was like that's going that's going to be trouble now in the first game they look that good but I think that that's you know the key that he's Carolina defensively is going to look at and say hey we got to we got to stop the run first in this game and I think they will yeah and if they do and you get them into a third and eight third and 10 third and 12 then what happens I think that I think we uh and the crowd gets involved and you know yeah also a Counterpoint on them not getting sacks last year how much of that do you think it was teams were just running the ball more in the second half because they were beating them by so much cuz last year they didn't win many games yeah I disagree with that because there were a lot of close games we had a lot of close games and it was really and even even some of the higher scoring games uh I remember the UTSA game was high scoring and you think how did E Carolina play in a high scoring game but I think that may have been the the high watermark for the season last year also 's defense wasn't very good they were a high paced team but hey but but that offense last year you didn't have to be good defensively to stop them no yeah I mean last year you were in and and I got tired of Mike Houston saying it but he was right you're in these games oh yeah um if you could move the ball 15 or 20 yards it would have helped but uh I still always think back to Annapolis a place that I love going to it's a it's great to see the you know the midi and they March out and everything all the pump and Circumstance and everything and and the Pirates fall in that game 10 to nothing I mean how did that happen absolutely brutal brutal brutal it's a new day that it is and we're going to put some points on the board this year folks the Pirates are if not uh into the fifth quarter cuz it's going to be uh interesting we got H and kateen Norman joining us this and what a great spot you guys put together because that was absolutely classic where walks in that was absolutely classic I was a little nervous cuz I I had the idea and I didn't tell H what we were doing I was like are you okay with self-deprecating humor and he said to a certain degree and I was like uh oh all right but anyway we had a classic call and and I had to speaking of Navy I I was like you know what bet I could find an angry call about Holton after he threw that interception against Navy here and sure enough did so uh anyway holton's uh a good sport he did more good than bad here so he's okay with making fun of himself a little bit um but that was a good spot yeah very well done thank you and uh we'll be hearing from the callers tonight and we'll get our first taste of how people feel about Jake Garcia yeah and you know hopefully we'll see Kayton Hower in the fourth quarter up 40 so and uh let's go and see V Jeter as well that would be great if you're that far ahead and maybe Jam all in James Moore yeah uh the worst college football player ever but what's the temperature is it is in the right spots good question good reference there uh bayy has no idea what we're talking about cuz he's not a Pirate Radio live listener that's not know I work in the afternoon yeah that's not true he is all right uh Jia goes right back down the field biley and puts up a touchdown so Clemson settles for three Georgia takes seven is no position to trade points like that no not at all it is 20 to3 that's the look right there that that poor fella is just like he's he's mad at somebody that young man wore his orange to Atlanta today did and is not happy about what's going on all right uh Vandy still up 20 to1 on Virginia Tech Earl what's going on in oh are they still delayed in Morgantown they're still weather delay to morg down okay um 330 slate not great as far as matchups outside of Miami and Florida yeah we'll get to uh to Earl and and what he's looking at for the windows and then tonight you got Notre Dame Texas A&M um I I don't love that they had this one on at noon biley the Clemson Georgia wish that one was a little later but uh anyway that's how the the game spread out on this Saturday LSU USC should be fun coming up on Sunday a standalone Sunday night college football game will be that'll be nice a fun one there that's going to be a high high scoring back and forth game I think Lincoln Rob we saw Garrett a little while ago sideline for Clemson bayy we're going to let you scoot out of here in a moment what uh what are you up to this game day for the rest of the day you know we don't have some of the uh some of the assignments that we've had in the past uh basically I keep up with some of the information some of the drives and that kind of thing because we tape coach Houston show as soon as the uh the game is over Coach Houston speaks to the team then he goes and talks to the media and he comes to his office and that's where we do uh his coaches show we go ahead and tape it so after the the final whistle sounds what maybe 30 minutes probably he's you're doing the show yeah and we've already got it segmented where we know the the first segment is the open the second segment is the first half the third segment is the second half uh we do a pirate profile this time it's Jake Garcia we've already got that Brian meor has already edited it and got it already ready to go it's in the can and then we do a look ahead uh so we'll talk a little bit about Old Dominion although yeah obviously they don't know a whole lot about it because they they they put everything into nor State and they go to game two after that so uh it's kind of segmented like that it's uh it's really fun to go in depth in the games now I I can be honest with you last year wasn't all that fun going in depth uh but but what was neat about it and I've told Coach Houston this is just seeing the raw emotion I mean you know I know fans get mad and they're like you know you ready to fire everybody in the world if something bad happens but just to see how much work and effort that they put in these things and when things don't go right and trying to fix it and trying to to figure out what they're going to do the next week and uh it's always been a privilege uh since I've been traveling with the team so uh that's always something I look forward to as well any Brian Bailey on the sidelines with the mic this year during no we're not doing any of that this year I think the problem with that was the microphone crapped out on us a couple of times and I think they decided to to do something different so I wish we could I kind of enjoyed that after we I got used to it but uh now we're not doing any of that there may be something that come comes up down the line that we do but right now we're not scheduled to do anything uh looking forward to the 1999 team being honored and we may do that game yeah we might we might end up doing something with that one but uh yeah it's uh it's just exciting to be there for for game day and just get a chance to to do what we do I mean I was pulling up and I was thinking about man what a difference of fall makes man this time last year personally it was I was in all kinds of oh obvious just a big one big question mark you know but we've got everything worked out personally and everything going well there so just looking forward to the football season man it's going to be great good to hear good to hear BB all right man we'll let you run out and uh and go enjoy the the game day we're heading that way stop by the Pirate Radio tailg we'll be there that'll be fun good deal all right uh BB joining us to kick off the show we'll talk to you via phone next week you'll be at your old stomping grounds up in North Dominion by the way these first two games are basically schools I went to yeah did you put together this schedule no but coach hou I told Coach us today cuz I know you didn't get in Liberty that is true I know your lifestyle you certainly did yeah I didn't get in Liberty uh ogu and South Carolina tonight right Earl in uh in Colombia so we'll uh we'll keep an eye on that one okay during the uh the post game all right we'll uh take a break come back more to go pirate uh radio live will come up on Monday but this is the budlight pregame tailgate the budlight pregame did there uh Papa John's pirate preview later on right that is true yeah that'll be a part of our show for another year as well yes we're back David Glenn will join us we'll hear a little bit from Mike Houston as well and keep an eye on what's 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have an update on that but we will pass that information along to you as soon as we know that Navy is leading Buck now 35 to7 it is 14th ranked Clemson railing Georgia 20 to3 Virginia Tech just kicked a field goal they are now within seven of Vanderbilt 20- 13 as that score Iowa leads Illinois State 19 to nothing and Oklahoma state has an early 3 nothing lead over South Dakota State and that is a look at your Buccaneer uh or your Schoolboard rather brought to you by the buccaneer Music Hall and uh let's head back into the budlike pregame tailgate here is your host clip rock all righty back with you here on the budlight pregame tailgate I keep wanting to say Pirate Radio live but I'm not going to say that we're getting you know everybody has to get out the rust during week one of the season that's no different from us here on the budlight pregame tailgate oh yeah because you're it's almost I mean you think that with well and for the most part it's muscle memory we know how to do this but every now and then it'll trip your it'll trip you up and you're just like okay wait and I'm supposed to say a line here I just forgot what it was what's the line What's My Line What's My Line what's my motivation here's a line for you how about the orthopedics East injury report brought to you by orthopedics East offering a variety of services that will get you back in the game for experienced and Professional Medical Care visit Orthopedic East on wh Smith Boulevard in Greenville and online Ortho east.com uh we do not receive an injury report for the team anymore so we have to kind of ask around and uh if the coaches want to tell us the information we'll have it if not we'll have to get it from other places but uh we do know that chase o is not not uh going to play today um hearing they hope to have him back for norick state so with that in mind a question for the folks on YouTube and Facebook and Twitter What pirate will have the most catches today what pirate will have the most yards today uh that is um is something I'm curious about who are the weapons on this team will it be a newcomer Anthony Smith or Winston Wright will it be a jar Patterson who a couple of names we heard a lot this off season jar Patterson Brock Spalding will it be one of those guys could it be a tight end Casey Kelly uh I'm going to go Winston Wright and he is one of the few players and newcomers that I have never talked to on this East Carolina team um so I'm kind of calling him the Silent Assassin uh even when uh talking to him at media day he was kind of short on Words and we talked about video games and Anthony Smith said yeah you know it's cool to be in the uh talked about his ratings in the college football game Winston Wright said yeah not really into that I make the main thing the main thing so I like his Focus I like his kind of quiet demeanor and uh he's going to do his talking on the field so I'm going to go Winston wri U looks good in his pirate debut today Jonathan says wri with the most catches Smith with the most yards so he's got both newcomers making an impact here week one Matt says Kelly I hope Casey Kelly the new in Steve going with Anthony Smith catches and yards uh also thank you Steve for dropping off the game day treats dropped off some cookies and donuts if anybody wants one thank you very much Steve for that we appreciate it uh we're going to talk to David Glenn here in just a moment and look around what's going on in the college football world but uh glad to have you apart another year year of the budlight pregame tailgate uh Derek Tyler Joe what's up Jamie I believe we're going to see Jamie live and in person later today come pick up his Alex Harper snappa shirt so we'll see Jamie in the Pirate Radio Studios and and we'll get a uh a score prediction from Jamie live on the air he he comments so much I think he's earned at least two minutes live on the air with us here in studio on Pirate Radio uh Austin is in Shirley's arch nemesis says boy it's good to hear Shirley read those scores again it sure is good to be back in football season so Austin is going to start the season off with a compliment hopefully continues that way surely and your Feud uh will be ended at least for a little while Ralph is so excited to wake up today game day let's go Chad is listening to the pregame show and watching bash in Berlin little WWE activity uh Shane is in Eric M is in with a bunch of Alex Harper jokes so thank you for that Eric Jeffrey in the house glad to have all y'all as part of our chat gang and uh to those listening at your tailgates right now here's another question for you what's on the tailgate menu for you today Chicken Salad Chick is our tailgate menu and had an awesome Buffalo chicken salad BLT uh that was really really good to get me going on this show today Shirley did you get mac and cheese as well oh you're on the phone yes that's what I ordered mac and cheese yeah I haven't had a chance to get back there but I'm going to try yes at some point you will be enjoying the awesome food from Chicken Salad Chick uh right now we are going to enjoy talking to our buddy David Glenn who will join us here on the not the Pirate Radio live line folks because we have a uh a brand new live line um the Big Rock poers Sports Live line four locations in eastern North Carolina big rock Powersports has every thing you need to conquer the outdoors if you're in the market for an ATV Side by Side motorcycle personal watercraft or boat make big rock Powersports Marine your next stop big rock Powersports choose your adventure we head out to the big rock Powersports live line and talk to David Glenn who joins us here to kick off the football season DG great to talk with you great to have football back how you doing man I'm doing great clip always fun to be with you and back on Pirate Radio yes sir and uh boy things got rolling early for the uh the ACC this year and and heck I was thinking about Thursday night but even week zero a monster result there with Georgia Tech knocking off Florida State that's uh that's one way to get this new wacky ACC season started right David yeah that was a big deal you know Florida state was the media's pick to win the ACC but Georgia Tech's a good team you know they they've had their coach Brent key for a few years now he's a former Georgia Tech offensive lineman he's tried to build that team in that identity and you saw Florida State last year man when they were 12-0 before being left out of the playoff I didn't see anybody beat the seals at the line of scrimmage Georgia Tech over in Dublin Ireland beat the seals at the line of scrimmage the yellow jackets were simply the tougher in the trenches team when Tech had the ball and that made the quarterback Haynes King job his job a lot easier they have a great running back at Georgia Tech Jamal Haynes nobody was spectacular at the skill positions for Georgia Tech but if you win the battle of the trenes you have a chance to beat every anybody uh and and Georgia te I think is g to be a very good team and right now Florida State of course is picking up the pieces uh after losing that opener and just hoping in a year with the 12 team playoff that they have enough time to build that sort of resume David it's crazy team still waiting to kick off week one and we've already had such big storylines in the ACC that the Florida State lost to Georgia Tech was huge not only in the ACC but but even nationally and then you had Thursday night North Carolina man they go on the road they beat a big 10 team missed field goal at the End by Minnesota so m brown and Company escape with a 19- 17 win but at a cost a quarterback for North Carolina out so uh some more huge news there yeah that was a big deal because I know m brown the Hall of Fame coach purposely kept everybody guessing uh about who was going to play quarterback I believe that they knew all along that it was going to be the Texas A&M transfer Max Johnson and now that he's out for the season they have to rely on a guy who wasn't great in their bowl game last year after Drake May opted out for obvious NFL related reasons um remember MC Brown's the same guy who let it go down to the wire before he announced that Drake May was the starter a few years ago obviously they knew that answer internally and there's a competitive advantage to not telling your opponent what's coming obviously especially because Connor Harold's more of a runner and Max Johnson's more of a passer so but it's a big deal in the sense that that Harold has not yet proven that he can be a reliable passer at this level and when you're heading into game two uh without your number one quarterback for the rest of the season as much as that's a nice win at Minnesota I mean there aren't many schools that are going to win power F power for I guess you call now Road games in their season openers the tar Hills deserve credit for that and their defense played well but this is a big wrench thrown into the works for Carolina because uh Carol Conor Harrell has a long way to go to even become an average ACC quarterback David Glenn joining us as we kind of go through the ACC before we get to East Carolina and uh Chandler had a a question yesterday David he said hey if you were hosting the uh Wolfpack radio post game show uh how do you think those calls would have been on Thursday night now state did dominate the fourth quarter but things were a little hairy there against the catamounts and of course DG we've watched it long enough to know that if by week 12 You've Won eight nine 10 games you you forget what that score was or how that game was against Western Carolina but uh I don't know what is the pulse of the pack Nation coming off the 3821 Win Thursday well they were restless because keep in mind Western Carolina has never in its program history beaten uh an FBS opponent and that was that game was catamounts 21 Wolfpack 17 early in the fourth quarter so I mean I know it ended up 38-21 but Grayson McCall the transfer quarterback for the Wolfpack uh from Coastal Carolina just had an up and down day his final numbers were pretty good 300 plus passing yards three touchdown passes he did have one interception but he was was just not sharp at times and that was a concern because even though he was the three-time sun Bel Player of the Year his only mediocre year at Coastal was last year and that's an unusual career Journey but that's why there were some fair questions around him even as a three-time conference player of the year so that was a little bit Rocky it just took a while for the the wolf pack to get things going but they've got KC concepion one of the most electric skill players in this League at wide receiver they have the Duke transfer Jordan Waters uh who went over a 100 yard rushing in that game uh and actually Western Carolina is a top 25 sfcs opponent so it's it's not your you know your typical cupcake I'll say uh in week one so more good than bad for the wolf pack but the details was what had you know even those Victorious fans many of them were complaining about the details even after a seven Point win 17 point win DG David Glenn joining us budlight pregame tailgate David uh the newcomers boy shaky start for SMU but they do win over Nevada on week zero 2924 last night Stanford losing to TCU 34- 27 uh games coming up later today and just one we'll highlight here um I don't know if there's been a game where I've gone back and forth more than Miami and Florida because I'm scared to take either one of them I'm also scared to bet against the talent of Miami and I'm scared to bet against the swamp so I'm very confused about this one it's a tight spread it it's uh as I said earlier in the week a great uniform matchup a great atmosphere I'm really looking forward to this one at 3:30 David I just don't know who to pick so can you help me with that I I I don't think I can because I view this as a back away from the betting window game exactly the reasons that you just described I mean cam War uh is the pre-season ACC player of the year he's a Washington state transfer at quarterback for the Miami Hurricanes and yet the guy had a losing record at Washington State as a start now and that's he put up huge numbers but that's kind of a pass Happy League is he really gonna be that good can he go to the swamp and lead the Hurricanes win as a new guy who's you know to a degree still getting to know his teammates maybe maybe not I mean I'll put it this way Miami's Talent level clip is on the top tier of the ACC this year I mean I know Florida State lost they're still talented I know Clemson's getting killed by Georgy right now the tigers are still plenty talented Miami is one of the only other teams that has that many athletes out there um and I mean on both sides of the ball but know we've been staying for the Miami Hurricanes literally for 20 years as an ACC member maybe this is the year they break through so there have been a whole lot of disappointments along the way but I do believe they're more talented than Florida they just have to show it you know in a difficult environment on the road in the SEC they have the dudes to do it but they have to go out there and show it this afternoon DG David Glenn joining us as he mentioned uh Georgia taking it to Clemson right now another touchdown for the dogs it is 27-3 957 left to go in the ball game there so that one is uh just about wrapped up I'll tell you what isn't wrapped up that's the game going on in Nashville right now because Virginia Tech has just scored kicked the extra point we are tied but the hokeys got down 17 nothing DG but they have fought their way back to tie this thing up yeah that one was an eye openening score a little bit earlier today Kiren drones is a really talented du threat QB for the hes and Brent Pride a lot of folks were picking the hes as a dark this year in part because of drones in part because they're just well-rounded offense defense special teams it's taken a while but it but as you said it looks like it's going to go down to the wire the hokeys are a great example of the middle of the ACC this year they're good enough on a given day to post a quality win but but I just don't see a lot of dominant teams in the ACC right now a lot of the best teams have question marks a quarterback like a Clemson with Cade kumnick even a Florida state with DJ OU angal I mean those guys have been really good at times but not very good at other times we mentioned cam w at Miami as well some of these schools that have really good quarterbacks aren't quite as dominant with the rest of their depth chart so what does that mean I think it's going to mean a lot of unpredictability in this league but it's it certainly would not look good for the ACC if Clemson continues to get Tred by Georgia and somehow Virginia Tech loses to Vandy of the SEC and somehow the hurricane lose to Florida of the SEC you know all in the same day that would create a narrative that would be hard for the ACC to overcome as we've seen in some past years where as a year ago the ACC had a seven and five head-to-head record against the SEC but it didn't seem the ACC got that kind of credit they'll get the blame I can promise you that if they went 0 and three in those games we just mentioned DG David Glenn joining us David we now go on to what's happening in our backyard here at dowy fckin Stadium coming up 6:00 East Carolina and norick state we've already got a look at the Spartans they had a a classic with Florida A&M week zero and decided to go for two at the end of that game try to get the win they don't get it so they lose by one to the Rattlers and uh from the ECU perspective David I I've continued to say this Mike Houston won the off season somehow after a a two- win year last year uh but the offensive overhaul bringing in new offensive Talent did really all he could I think to to try to get back in the good graces of fans and now they got to go out and do it on the field obviously David but uh uh we are all anxious to see what happens with the new quarterback Jake Garcia with the new offensive coordinator John David Baker the thought is the defense is going to be there again just like it was last year do the Pirates have enough offense to win six seven eight games uh what's your take on uh what you did this offseason David and how that translates here to week one yeah I think my overview starting point does start where you just mentioned I mean I I thought it was intriguing that Mike Houston in the preseason said that he thinks this year's defense can be even better than last year's defense which your audience would know even in a horrible season it wasn't the B defense fa most of the time I mean that was actually a pretty good defense that just got uh complicated because of lousy field position that the offense typically left them but I think uh Deontay Johnson and Chad Stevens on the line uh Elijah moris as well is a really good player the guy in the secondary um I always mispronounce his name savone Revel yes no longer Siobhan he is savone savone Rebel um he's the real deal and and there are others on that side of the ball I think the the guy who's returned as the starting linebacker Mike Edwards is a really good player so that's a great foundation and even though Julius wood and others have moved on Woods in the NFL obviously that has to be your foundation for Success offensively I love a running back like Raj Harris but you brought up Jake Garcia and that is the question of the year for the the Pirates I saw him as a Miami Hurricane he was incredibly highly recruited in high school but he did attend five different high schools in four years and then he spends his time at Miami Eli Drake with it Missouri is intrigued by him signs him the first and second Missouri quarterback were actually hurt when Jake Garcia got there he goes through spring practice as the guy in part because of injury but by the time the season rolled around last year he was third string so which is it is it the incredibly promising talent that three different schools have seen now or is it a guy who had opportunities at Miami and Missouri but couldn't work his way to the top of the depth chart you know we'll see this week we'll we'll only learn a little bit because of the caliber of the opponent but soon after that I think we'll have a much better idea of whether the Pirates have taken that huge step that they need on the offensive side of the ball I'm with you David there there are things I'm looking for in tonight's game but man one way or the other it it's not going to uh Define uh what this team is in 2024 that's going to come around next week uh in norick against Old Dominion or the following week against AB State or the following week at least Liberty what we'll find out soon and another thing the biggest thing that intrigues me about ECU and this college football season as a whole day but I'm going to be doing a ton of scoreboard watching who is that group of five team that is going to be the highest ranked champion at the end of this thing and punch their ticket to the college football playoff it is something that we've never seen before in college football the access that the East Carolinas have now so it makes every game uh that much more important and and and more interesting to be honest with you I I'm with you and not only nationally is it more interesting there's going to be more teams who matter later in the season with this format then let's say a year ago on November 1 we might have known there were only eight or nine schools that had a shot at those final four spots now there might be 20 or more schools that still have a chance to get one of those 12 slots and I think it's specifically intriguing in our state because when you put aside the Pack 12 obviously which has imposed the the two best leagues a year ago after the power four if we want to call them that were the American in the Sun Belt in whatever order you want to put them in well App State obviously is one of the best programs in the Sun Belt so the Mountaineers fans in the western part of our state are dreaming of a a Dream Season where they win the sunb belt title and then they're in the net the first year of this expanded playoff I know coming off a 2 and 10 it would be weird to say the same kind of thing about ECU but in the longer run now that SMU has left the league for the ACC now that some other teams that won that League previously you know UCF was a champion of That League Cincinnati was a champion of That League Houston was a champion of That League they're all you know they left previously for the Big 12 obviously the door is open for somebody to in the longer run maybe ECU again not this year but in the longer run become the best program in this new fangled American Athletic Conference and if you're the best program there's going to be some years that you break through and you're you're a part of this new playoff so it's it's exciting for the whole country but I think it's particularly exciting for App State and ECU fans in the long run David Glenn joining us budlight pregame tailgate DG great to hear your voice and great to hear it week one on a game day let's uh let's chat again next week and uh talk more football with you thank you so much and for folks that want to hear more from you and the awesome stuff you're doing DG how can they do that yeah thanks clip uh the place to start is our website I run the North Carolina sports network now so NC sportsnetwork.com is the the uh domain name to remember we have a literally the word watch if you click it takes you right to my YouTube channel which now has 16,000 plus subscribers thanks to inart your audience um if you cck listen it takes you to our OnDemand audio in my David Glen Show podcast if you click read it takes you to all my articles uh and those of my staff so uh that's the the website to remember NC sportsnetwork.com great stuff David thank you and uh we'll do it again soon man appreciate it thanks thanks clip keep up the good work yes sir enjoy your game day there is David Glenn joining us on the big rock power sports live line hour one in the books we'll take a break come back let's make some more picks I love making picks uh we'll talk to Danny Beal he is our pirate picker this week also we here from Jeff n do coming up in hour number two and we'll check in with hold aayers who will be part of our US Sailor Fifth Quarter call-in show all season long we'll have all that and more coming up hour two budlight pregame tailgate rolls on and I don't know how bad Clemson is I think I'm going to give him a pass because Georgia is in another Stratosphere the plays they are making on the field right now incredible and the number one dogs putting it on Clemson 27-3 and they are driving just outside of the Red Zone we'll take a break come back hour two after [Music] this 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Saturday before you go adus your locks for the weekend oh dude I I texted this a clip clip has several children who he could pay their college tuition off if he takes the Georgia spread Georgia's going to win Georgia might win by 30 points tomorrow all right okay there's the log sa was a complete has been he is washed he's a grifter he is the fact machine of college football coaches he's Antiquated he refuses to adapt he's a bum Georgia I'm taking it uh adus you're wrong they they're not going to win by 30 they're up by 31 34-3 is the score now that looks like an interception nope it's an incomplete pass uh 429 left to go attakus thank you for sending Lily to college uh with your call yesterday on Pirate Radio live all right um we'll get some Earl pics in we'll uh we'll get some na do pics but right now let's hear from our buddy DB each and every week here on the budlight pregame tailgate we are going to have a pirate picker on and for week one figured we'd check in with the former pirate reliever Danny Beal get his thoughts on East Carolina norick state and some of the action other action going on today in college football here is me and DB clip roock here Danny Beal here on the budlight pregame tailgate getting you ready for kickoff East Carolina and norick state DB is our pirate picker this week what's up Danny let's go I'm so excited dude Pirates playing football today let's go we uh talked to you early this week uh and ran over some games that uh are being played right now already been played let's talk about what's coming up later this afternoon starting with my runner up for game of the week we talked earlier in the show in the the week on the show what game are you looking forward to the most outside East Carolina norick State my runner up well well my pick was LSU USC we'll talk about that in a moment my runner up was Miami Florida not necessarily CU they're great teams but there's going to be some fights uh of course uniform colors are just beautiful in the eyes the swamp like all color Rush color rush like I'm fired up for this one should be fun and it's a very important game maybe more so for Miami than Florida Florida has the toughest schedule in all a college football this year unreal uh they can get off on the right foot by beating Miami this feels like a big game though for Miami if they want to be a factor they need to win this one yeah I mean you think they got cam Ward from Washington State so that's obviously a big big to them but personally I just don't think Mario chrisal is a good coach I mean you've seen what's happened in the last yeah I mean yeah proof is in the pudding but with obviously you have you know Billy Napier It's relatively a Do or Die season for him I think both coaches essentially are on the hot seed and instate games are obviously incredibly important but I think with chrisa ball at being week one they have Graham Merz he's 4-1 as a home dog I think the fact is it's an SEC team at home they've got a lot to prove nothing really necessarily to lose because it's a ranked team it's an instate rival you want to prove yourself but at the same time it's like if you lose yeah well you lost at home when you're nobody really had high expectations for you with a crazy record but at the same time I think Florida State or not Florida State sorry Florida comes out and plays their tail off and I think they win this ball game all right looking forward to that one coming up also later on you've got Old Dominion at South Carolina will be paying attention to the monarchs because that is e Carolina's next opponent Shane Beamer kind of in a an interesting spot there in Colombia he's been loved he's been can he get it done so I don't know about the Gamecocks this year but how about their opener against OD you I've been up and down on Shane as well I remember we played them I think week I think it was week one in his first year here a couple years ago in dowy and that was a great game and it came down to the wire but I think the year after Spencer Rattler gets interesting they've got a good quarterback in Lenor sers but at the same time I just think it's week one the crowd is going to be bananas it's going to be hot it's first couple weeks back at school ODU is 96th in returning production and their offensive line is really really really really bad so I just think that they're just going to you know the defense is going to be out of the world I mean they're going to be rushing the quarterback they're going to stop the run and I think I think South Carolina is going to score 40 points and win by a lot all right we'll add a little ODU Scouting Report there for next week good stuff DB uh we'll check in with Coach HUD Greg Hudson later on in the show live at College Station let's go he'll be watching Notre Dame and Texas A&M tonight Under The Lights uh obviously a big one for both of these teams Mike eloko game one facing his former QB Riley Leonard interesting Factor there what do you think about this matchup I it's it's so tough I mean I I think with it being a night game it's Prime Time the crowd's going to be nuts it's the biggest stadium and I think next to the big house in G college football but I think it's going to be an interesting Dynamic of Riley Leonard facing his old coaching staff because Mike GCO took everybody to A&M so he's going to be motiv to prove everybody wrong and I think Marcus Freeman's a good coach which is apparently a hot take these it is but um obviously Mike elos coaching staff knows everything about Riley Leonard but I think him being in a new system a system that's good in Notre Dame I think it'll be I think it'll be close I mean Notre Dame's got two stud defensive tackles which I think will be interesting just to see against the SEC offensive line which they don't get to face very often but anim was 94th in pass blocking last year and they returned three of those starters so at the same time it's like yeah they're older they're more experienced but at the same time are they good so it's like I don't know but I I think Riley Leonard being against his old team he'll be motivated and I think it'll be close game I think A&M pulls it out but I think betting wise I think Notre Dame covers we're talking about it with Coach Mack that like nowadays you can't you almost can't say all right Elco is going to build something give him a couple years he'll build it now you have to do it like immediately with the transfer portal you're expected to do immediately with all the money you're but I do think they can win early on with those players and with no I I agree all right also coming up tonight James Madison at Charlotte do you trust Biff POI when he says like half his team isn't playing um you never know what that guy uh interested in this matchup though because we see Charlotte later on and is James Madison one of those group of five teams that could get into the discussion of making the playoff this year I think Biff is so funny dude like just the outfits and the stuff he wears I don't know I mean James Madison lost their coach and a bunch of their key players to Indiana which is where they're at now their home or their away favorites do you actually believe I mean I don't think he's lying necessarily but like you think he's there's a reason he's telling us all this stuff exactly you I mean I don't know I I think with I mean I admit he's he got in my head bi is back back stroes in all of our heads right now but I mean at the same time you got to I mean you got to take it for what it's worth so with him saying that they're starters drout the spread went from a Sixpoint away favorite to now nine points or something like that which is crazy yeah I mean James Madison has always been good they've gotten key transfers on offense you think that you know they would take care of business but at the same time it's Biff you never know what happens with Biff ran the lineup so Charlotte fans could take Charlotte like he he's he's he's outthinking the out thinkers I think he I think James Madison wins but don't be surprised if it's close I want to take Charlotte now for some reason I don't know what Biff's doing to me uh cannot wait for Sunday LSU USC just because of the potential for points points points who's going to get a stop here literally that is the question uh coach M we we tried to find an edge we went coach vers coach quarterback versus quarterback awful defense versus awful defense and he said hey just take the over forget forget talk about the game but do you have a side here Dan I I don't know I'm going to make you pick one so who would you that's why I'm here I think I think LSU wins but USC covers I think it's like a field goal kind of game yeah I think there will be like it'll be 4340 or 4542 or like a touchdown and they go for two and either get it or don't type of game and those Sunday games the past few years have been really really good games like they've always been super close they've came down to the wire USC got rid of their defensive coordinator they couldn't tackle at any last year new coach new players through the transfer portal they got the LSU got a new DC as well from Missouri they have the same players though so you think same players bad defense as opposed to new coach new players old bad defense you think all right well USC's got to be somewhat better so I think USC in that realm makes it close I mean Miller Moss is a good QB that after Caleb Williams sat out last year in the bowl game he played really well nus Meer has experienced at LSU so I think it's close I think there's a lot of points LSU has two first round offensive linemen a lot of points that's that's I think LSC wins USC makes it close but a lot of points gold Tigers gold tigers and Boston College Florida State's on the list only because it's a standalone game and I am a little interested to see the atmosphere in Tallahasse coming off a loss to Georgia Tech if it is close it is going to be loud in there and not in a good way right I I love I mean obviously everybody knows I'm a Patriots fan so I love Bill O'Brien but I think Florida State figures it out I think it's kind of the same thing with the um the East Carolina game I think it's close is in the first half like a 7even to 10 13-point lead and then I think Florida State wakes up at halftime and just blow I think they win by probably three touchdowns they better or dju might want to transfer big season or something just you remember was it the I think the Patriots playing the Redskins when Bill O'Brien and Tom Brady had an epic shouting match on the sidelines that's where he got the nickname teapot Bill O'Brien did because he would just boil up boil up and then just explode and it would just be a huge spat on the sidelines awesome Bill br's awesome all right DB your final thoughts on norick State East Carolina that 33 and A2 is a big number can the Pirates get there it is daunting but but just seeing the way the people are crowd's going to be it's exciting to have football back it's going to be great weather it's going to be it's going to be a good day for the Pirates I think they end up covering I think they win by a few touchdowns I don't be surprised if it's close but at the end of the day guys are going to be Juiced up North Folk State's going to be ready to play coming off a tough loss in the first week I think the Pirates show out on offense and most importantly shut them down on defense and jdb and Coach Houston and Jay Garcia get a great great week one win Danny enjoy the game enjoy your game day Saturday and I got to ad it uh this is a lot of fun let's do it again more often let's do it all right Danny Beal joining us budlight pregame tailgate our pirate picker this week clip roock here Danny Beal here on the Bud Light e e e e e e e e e e e but apparently we are so I tell you what let's take a break and try to figure out what's going on there uh we will come back and have more for 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tailgate on Pirate Radio now back to the [Music] show now with the Pirate Radio scoreboard here's Shirley roads all right uh as mentioned earlier Georgia uh just walloped uh Clemson 34-3 just saw this stat to consider uh clip that uh Davos Sweeney has not scored a touchdown uh as Clemson head coach on kiry smart so there you go with that so you want to keep that that might be a trivia question for you uh later on zir zir uh Austin P got gets shut out by Louisville 62 to nothing Illinois State also was shut out by Iowa 40 nothing was that uh score Virginia Tech and vanderbild 27 all just under two minutes to go in that game uh Penn State and West Virginia are still under that weather delay they were in the they were in the third quarter and Penn State was leading that game 20-6 over the Mountaineers uh p uh Indiana state is sick and tired of losing to Purdue because they were shut out today 49 nothing and Tennessee is beating up Chattanooga right now 55-3 in the third quarter Ohio State 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Dy pickand Stadium East Carolina starter Jake Garcia last played in a college football game in 2022 and I have his career stats he is or has I should say 950 passing yards 79 of 129 in his career for 61% he has seven touchdowns four interceptions in nine games played so Jake Garcia has played in nine games and his college career uh this will make number 10 today as he makes the start for the Pirates uh that on the UB stat sheet uh Shirley sorry Earl and I were just talking about uh the NCAA has uh I don't know if you saw this story uh this probably was like a couple of weeks ago that uh Oklahoma state had announced they were going to put QR codes on their helmets so they could get n money well the NCAA blocked them from putting those codes on the helmets um so uh yeah so they uh they're currently Oklahoma state is is playing uh South Dakota state right now and they do have a lead but they are playing without those QR codes on the helmets part of me doesn't care at all part of me is also interested in what the NCA can legislate with this because it seems like with college football they get further and further away from even being part of college football the NCA does they still control the basketball in the tournament but it it almost seems like football does whatever the hell they want to and it's separate so well and and the NCA is just not consistent you know they they they'll make a ruling on one thing and then but it'll they'll let it slide on something else it just doesn't make any sense and it's it's gotten so it's spun so far out of control it it's like you know you let the cat out of the bag you can't put them back in there so at this point the NCAA just might as well just dissolve I mean at this point they they have no power at this point yeah trying to flex a little muscle all right uh Miami and Florida about to get underway in Gainesville uh it'll be ECU and norick state coming up at 6 o00 we'll hear from the play-by-play voice of norick State Ross Gordon coming up later on in the show awaiting from a phone call from Jeff n do we'll talk to hold Naylor coming up in a little bit also still to come on today's show Patrick Mason will join us uh Ross Gordon as I mentioned and Brian North as well Charlie I tell you what let's hear a little bit uh our final chance to talk to Mike Houston was on Wednesday and I had a chance to talk to the head coach of the Pirates one final time before uh the Pirates take the field today let's hear his comments from Wednesday all right three days out um was good to get some heat these last two days I me it's it's been hot out there and it's been good I thought the kids pushed through it really really good today um there they're good yesterday but um you know we hadn't had that heat in about a week and a half so uh you know they struggled a little bit but today I thought they did really well handling it um two good work days uh now we got to sharpen everything up before kick off at 6 o00 on Saturday since you know P ask you officially join a local kid from com just how good is it to have him in practice and everything I'm really glad he's here uh he's a great young man I got to know him you know when he was in high school and uh you know he's he's worked really really hard to get himself uh graduated from Charlotte so congratulations to him on graduating uh and then you know he's jumped right in and uh you know I I think he'll help us for the years out he's got to get in shape got to learn the Playbook but he's coming along pretty quick uh we just got to keep our you know keep our expectations you know where they need to be until he gets his his body ready to go but uh you can never have enough uh experienced offensive lineman so I'm glad he glad he's here how tough is it for somebody coming here late I mean missing on the camp help experience he has oh yeah I mean I had as late as he got to us I had almost zero expectations and uh but you know it's a a testament to he's a strong character guy and you know he jumped right in he was on the scout team he went in there he worked you could see his feet immediately you could see the experience just in the way he moved um and so I think for him he's going to come along better than most would just because he is a veteran guy I was going to save this for John David Baker but I ask you as well do what's your ratio to excitement and nervousness heading into week one do you still get nervous after these years oh I mean a little bit but the excitement much outweighs anything else uh I'm just ready for our team to go play um they've worked very hard for the past you know 8 nine 10 months uh we've worked very hard since last November uh so there's a lot of excitement around getting to play again um you know for our for our guys I probably got to temper myself on Saturday uh that I don't get them you know to over the top before we kick off uh but I promise you they'll be excited to play Saturday Mike Houston from earlier this week his boys are ready to go as East Carolina will take the field 6 o' against Nori State on ESPN plus you know the football season is officially here Surly when Bryce Williams text me and ask me what channel the game's on and that happened earlier today earlier today oh I thought it was just moments ago now was uh I'm surprised he didn't ask what time kickoff was three or four hours ago I got that text I guess he uh he knows the time just did not know the channel all right um we'll hear more comments from John David Baker Blake Harold later on our show but right now we head out to the big rock Powersports live line and we'll talk to Jeff Nao who joins us here on the budlight pregame tailgate Jeff uh appreciate you joining us on the show again this year man how you doing good how are you Cliff hey doing great uh Clemson and Georgia save my my 12:00 window uh had the dogs pretty big so feeling good heading into this 330 slate again not the most attractive uh slate of games but we'll talk about that and what's coming up later on this evening Jeff what do you have your eye on in this 3:30 window uh not too much to be quite honest uh I uh I didn't really get too involved as far as early in the day a lot of my plays are later I did take a I did take a shot here I have Miami Ohio plus three and a half against Northwestern I just don't really think uh Miami Ohio is three and a half points worse in Northwestern I think he make the case at a better team Miami Ohio is a very good Mack team I think they match up well here they actually beat Northwestern a couple of years back Northwestern has a new quarterback this year um I felt like that's just a closed game Northwestern plays a lot of closed games and I like Miami o and their defense a lot I think they have the better quarterback so that's really the only game that I had an interest in um we're all waiting on this pen State game this has been delayed for nearly an hour I I don't know if it's back up just yet but yeah so waiting on the uh the resumption of that I'm still seeing that it is indeed delayed um all right so you like some stuff later on tonight of course the the big one tonight is Notre Dame in Texas A&M we'll talk to a former ECU defensive coordinator Greg Hudson uh Notre Dame he played for Notre Dame his daughter is now employed by Mike Elco in Texas A&M she's part of the recruiting department so he said he's going blood over alma mater and pulling for the Aggies tonight uh looks like the line is settling in around three uh in favor of Texas A&M total under 50 in this one in the uh the upper 40s so uh Jeff any thoughts on the uh the headline matchup tonight yeah it's not a game I'm gonna bet personally I think you're kind of getting to a point where this is kind of I think a a trendy you know number 20 ranked A&M team a lot of people like this team tonight um and Notre Dame look at the end of the day Clip whether or not I agree with their ranking this is a very good football team Riley Leonard's a great coach he has a lot of you know I think research that he can give on on Mike ELO so I like Notre Dame I think if you can get a three I'd probably be interested in that we've seen texam time and time again in these big spots fail um I'll tell you right now Notre has a better quarterback 100% um we've also seen the whole world on on A&M and the numbers going the other way that that's a that's a major question mark I'll tell you it's not a game I bet a game that I sooner bet at 7:30 I like Michigan tonight mine is 20 and a half against Fresno um I think the thought is like Fresno is a good team and they are I think Mikey Keane's a good quarterback but Fresno's got a new coach their their coach has stepped down uh in the summer um and we didn't know how good Michigan is against non-comm opponents clip you got to go all the way back to I think 2019 the last time they allowed more than 14 points to a non-conference opponent the regular season they're just dominant against these types of teams they have a great defense and Mikey kean's Good clip but as you know stepping up and playing Michigan's defense in the big house first game of the season is a lot tougher than it looks um I think Michigan will do enough at quarterback I think they go up like 31 nothing and um just kind of cruise here I'll lay 20 and a half I think it's a pretty fair number I got excited like a week and a half ago and wanted to place my first legal college football bet of the year and I did it on the uh the team that I'm playing with in an online dynasty on college football Fresno State so I'm uh not happy to hear that news uh Jeff that you're going Michigan but uh we'll see what happens I have the Bulldogs today plus the uh the 21 are coming up later tonight um let's see we'll keep an eye on here's one so Earl uh producer of the Holton Naylor show here Pirate Radio uh now you had Charlotte before Biff came out Earl and said that or down all these starters and everything I don't know what kind of Mind Games Biff is trying to play I don't even know what kind of mind he has up there in that skull of his but the way he talked made me want to take Charlotte for some reason I feel like he's like playing some mental gymnastics here yeah I got I got Charlotte at plus 7even earlier in the week it got down to plus six before they announced all half the starters out then it went up to an eight yeah so I mean but it looks like it's settled back to seven now yeah I mean you announce all those starters out in the line did barely anything all things considered moving only two points I think that's that's a barely moving anything thing type of thing I think Charlotte can still win this game outright man Jeff Charlotte was a pain to watch on offense last year uh they came here to East Carolina and neither team that was one of the worst football games I've ever seen uh we'll see what Biff does in year two James Madison certainly a proud program uh any thoughts on this one going on tonight yeah you're uh I guess your producer he pretty smart guy I don't know who he is he knows what he's talking about I I I think if he just started gambling he'll do a pretty good job no he he's he's a he's a veteran at the game he's actually got more YouTube subscribers than we do here at Pirate Radio so oh good for him great yeah and if you know as he's kind of alluded to the line move this this one's down to seven so maybe bi was doing a little well feel sorry for us and maybe get the troops rallied and ready to go you're still getting essentially a touchdown at home look I like the under in this game come down precipitously it's down to 48 and a half as you alluded to Charlotte's not a good offensive team but they're a good defensive team I mean we saw that time and time again James Madison's a great defensive team and one thing you have to remember about them they have a new coach Bob chzn he comes over from Holy Cross they were the top they were top three in rushing offense I think they're going to really Lean On The Run JMU um there's no surprise this numbers come down a little bit maybe weather's a bit of a problem I think if you can get 49 I'd maybe look towards an under I felt like this was like a 217 2420 type of game Jeff NE do joining us um Jeff want to move on to Sunday night but anything else for this Saturday slate you're looking at before we move along uh I'm trying to think I I think I may have thrown this out to you on uh the week when we talked I like Memphis I laid 37 and a half with this group tonight against North Alabama Memphis was a top 15 team in the Red Zone last year they scored touchdowns Seth henigan is an elite quarterback um they're a team that should put up a bunch of points against North Alabama team who was 108 last year in Total Defense in the FCS also 114 against the pass one other note I'll just make Memphis beat this group 587 two years ago so I lay the number tonight I think this is a pretty fair number Memphis rolls all right the Tigers rooll says they do speaking of the Tigers the the Bayou Bengals coming up tonight or tomorrow night rather against USC um my thought is let's just uh take the over and watch the the scoreboard light up but uh Jeff any thoughts on that one going on in Vegas tomorrow night LSU and USC uh should be a fun matchup right yeah I would think I I think the problem that I have here is I feel like we all kind of feel that way I know yeah and that's kind of the issue but you look it on paper I mean the public does win clip and and remember this you have two really good quarterback coaches here and and uh Brian Kelly and and Lincoln Riley I think the quarterback move from you know to Miller moss and nus nme has been highly regarded I mean Nick Sabin called him an all-time sleeper at the position so I think both these quarterbacks would be good these teams were very good last year with big plays both these groups were top three in the country and long scrimmage plays of 40 yards or more they also had combined nine plays of 70 yards or more these are Big play offenses and Li at Riley's 51 and 31 as a over coach in his career one of the better marks in America um I believe this is inside the weather won't be an issue this screamed 3831 to me but why is this number just sit at 64 and a half it's concerning I thought we'd be 66 67 by now n do uh we talked to you earlier in the week asked you about East Carolina northfi State Pirates a 31p point favorite now total 51 a half I believe you said uh earlier in the week if you had to make a play here you go under is that right uh what what any thoughts on this game coming up today in Greenville uh yeah I I would still lean under I was surprised to see this total so high I mean I think in any of these FCS game especially with a defense like ECU they have a strong defense and they could shut out North Folk State um you know I kind of thought this game would would shake out a lot like Duke Elon did last night you just a you know 243 273 something like that we all know ECU wasn't a good offense they'll be better this year but are they really going to put 45 on the board you look at e you played Garder web last year 44 nothing I'd be absolutely fine with that I think that could be an outcome here but I don't think ner folk state does much offensively this just uh that's just the the name of the game a lot of the time for uh these types of groups Northfolk State um played Temple last year scored nine points Temple's one of the worst defenses in America clip so I think we could see a 41 nothing shout out here I like the under all right Jeff Nao joining us uh follow him on X Jeff Nadu uh n do enjoy the day man we've been waiting for it for a while so enjoy your week one and man next week we'll be talking college football and NFL so awesome time of the year appreciate you being a part of it with us here at Pirate Radio man thanks guys appreciate it all right there he is Jeff n dud joining us here on the budlight pregame tailgate as he joined us on the big rock Powersports live line all right let's take a break we'll try to hook up with Hol Naylor to wrap up the hour and have more for you just about halfway home here on the budlight pregame tailgate two hours and'll call it 16 17 minutes away from kicking things off at dowy fckin Stadium uh-oh we got a Vandy touchdown and now Virginia Tech's going to have it fourth and 11 in overtime trying to tie it up we also got kickoff in Gainesville the 330 window is open so we got more football to talk about we'll continue to do it and get you ready for ECU and Nori State more to go on the week one edition of the budlight pregame tailgate after this [Music] great food great atmosphere and great service is atavola Market Cafe atavola is simply a restaurant that focuses on that being a great restaurant there's something for everyone at atavola the menu offers a variety of great choices like pastas pizzas sandwiches soups salads and seasonal 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are not allowed to discuss on Pirate Radio live politics Rel Chandler's love life and Virginia Tech football because if they're going to go lose that game then they deserve to not be T about no need to discuss them anymore Fair were they were 13 and a half Point favorites in that game well aware well aware also John Moody has been banned from the show which is unfortunate because John Moody has uh been listening from day one yeah he is one of our P1 oh did he pick Virginia Tech too uh that was his lock of the week oh that got me to jump on board so John is now banned from my life uh unfortunate John but we'll always have the memories right sad we'll never we'll never forget those we'll miss you John all right let's head out to the big rock power sports live line joining us former pirate QB host of The Hold naor Show and co-host of the US Sailor Fifth Quarter call-in show coming up tonight after East Carolina and Norfolk State uh ho how you doing buddy CP what's up brother man I'm ready for the fifth quarter calling show let's go and uh ready for the game and and and having fun tailgating right hole this is a bit of a new experience for you the first time you've tailgated at a a home opener for ECU in in how many years now it is man yeah I'm pumped I'm I'm enjoying it with the boys and uh yeah we're excited man I'm excited to be in daddy fckin as a fan it's GNA be a little weird but you know I'm pumped for it h you said that you were not a guy that that got nervous for a football game but does does week one feel different than week 10 like is it is it a different feeling when you finally get out there for the first time after working so hard during the off season yeah I think so man I think it's just more about uh it hitting in there like it actually is football season actually hits you that you know it's here so um but no you still get the Jitters no matter what week it is so um it's it's a blessing to go out there and play ball especially college football man there's nothing like it old your uh your thoughts on what this offense is going to look like do do we see I don't know if rust is the word because uh you know the the guys are are playing together a lot of them for the first time ever uh do you expect it to look clean out there do you expect some some illegal procedures some some things like that a delay of game like what are we going to see here at least early in this game I I think maybe a little rust you know I mean the competition we should go out there and dominate but I mean look anytime you get a first season first OC first quarterback first receiver I'm sure there's going to be a little rust but then they should get it going I I would expect you know a good I think we covered the spread up said it on the five before but I think we cover the spread tonight it should look pretty good all right Holton is uh taking uh the Pirates minus the 31 and uh and run into the bank uh Holden any uh what other games you looking forward to you keeping an eye on the other action today anything surprised you so far I am man I think it didn't surprise me I actually took it um you know with a bet but you know Georgia just dominating the way they have um you know that pump me up I think Miami's really good I think they'll beat uh Florida pretty well I think cam is going to be a high in Contender so we'll see man college football's back I'm just pumped to see it well Earl got me on the uh the Florida train so me and Earl are taking the Gators oh boy oh boy I don't know qup I don't know Earl is uh appreciate Earl doing a great job producing our show been fun to have him here uh Hol you said you like the Pirates minus the points uh give us a score prediction I I I think it's 37 to3 um I think our defense is really really really good um hey how are yall the defense only gives up three late but I think it'll be a good when we cover the spread all right go talk to your fans Holton we'll talk to you after the game all right CP I'll see you there's htonl Earl can you pull the phone pot down on the board should be toward the uh far right just pull that all the way down and we should be good to go as uh we're going to take a break and head on into hour number three when Shirley's here all right we got uh Miami driving third and 10 oh I don't know about this new graphic uh score buug on ABC it looks very foreign to me that's going to take some getting used to I I don't like when when networks update their scoreb bugs it looks like I'm watching a channel I've never seen before cam Ward just sitting all day in the pocket he's going to throw it away and a good defensive stand by the Gators as they will uh flag on the play we'll check on the flag yeah we got to settle for Ben don't break right now yeah that's fine we'll take threes man we we'll take threes cuz we'll put up sixes uh not so good news on TV number two Ohio out to a three nothing lead with the ball on the orange of Syracuse as again oh no a roughing the passer called oh boy against the Gators the fixes in well set and no that was just a stupid stupid hit by that guy outstanding if any ECU players are listening to right now don't do that you're going to get an opportunity to hit the quarterback don't do it after he throws the ball away on third down just killing your team here all right let's uh get a break in we'll come back hour number three of the budlight pregame tailgate on the way and in that hour number three we will talk to pce Patrick Mason from The Daily Reflector get his thoughts on this game also the play-by-play voice of norick State Ross Gordon and here from John David Baker and some of the Pirate players as well more to go we are halfway home on the budlight pregame tailgate and we are back with you after [Music] [Applause] this at Chicken Salad Chick we make our food from scratch every day using fresh quality ingredients we have 12 flavors of chicken salad plus soups sides sandwiches and dessert whether you're craving 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entry for ladies you can follow the buck on Instagram for an updated schedule and we will see you at the buck now let's head back in to the Bud Light pre tailgate here is your host clip bro back with you on the budlight pregame tailgate I believe we just had a special guest walk in uh tell them to come on in Charlie come in here come in here tell tell that guy to come in here yeah yeah there he is we got a deep ball Earl and we got an incomplete pass Miami up 7 nothing on Florida early all right uh do we have Patrick on the phone okay uh let me welcome mpm real quick to the program he joins us on the big rock Powersports liveline Patrick what's up buddy what's up Cliff how's it going uh going great Happy game day to you man uh looking forward to it we'll get your thoughts on it in a moment but uh here in the Pirate Radio Studios right now boy this is dangerous this is uh I'm too trusting of people cuz I don't know this guy actually I feel like I do I feel like we're best friends cuz we talk to him every day uh one of the leading members of the chat gang Jamie is here in studio what's up Jamie hey now he now Fu uh good to see you man you too man welcome on in I'm excited it's about time it's been a while it has it has so welcome in you came to pick up your snappa shirt I did I'm excited I'm going to make a costume change before I get to the game you already got the Pirate Radio shirt on but you'll be wearing the uh the AARP shirt coming up for today's game Jamie uh so where where do you live Wilmington wilmywood and you join us every day from Wilmington Tyler says what's up Jamie hey I chat gang yeah yeah I want the chat gang to troll uh Jamie now like y'all troll me um Eric says Jamie that's my dude he is a real person folks and he's uh seems to be a normal person as far as you know as far as you know as far as I know all right uh who took the uh the hooer oh Nao I think said he was it Nao or Earl Earl you're on the hooers well I mean what they're playing F FIU I think so yeah I would hope so all right uh hoer got the the panther today Chris Floyd says what up Jamie what's up Chris Jamie's got more fans than I do now I don't know if I like it uh all right let's get your score prediction and we'll let you run along and we'll talk to P what do you got for today's game yeah so as far as the score you know I think the offensive number as far as what we're putting up is the easy part I'm thinking probably mid-30s maybe maybe touch the 40s for me the harder part is figuring out the defense what we're going to give up I want to go zir I'm about probably 60 70% saying Zer maybe give him a field goal okay uh I heard you guys talk about north folks running game which is supposed to be pretty good but I think I'm going to I think I'm going to go Zer so I'm going to say I'm going to say 38 Desir 38 Desir the prediction from Jamie Shirley is busy chatting or she would play that can you hit a Zer for Jamie just uh for his in honor of him you get my wife in there she'll talk everybody there it is excuse you but we know each other thank you I know uh Jamie we'll let you get back to your tailgate good to see you buddy thank you for your support it's fun apprciate fun talking to you I love you guys I uh schedule my work schedule around you guys thank you so much man and uh we'll get somebody to get that shirt for you we got it back there later chat gang all right there he is the chat gangs hero man of the people Jamie joining us here P sorry about that but uh hey we got to look out for our listeners and viewers you know that's right glad you were a part of that interview s sorry it it just worked out that way didn't plan on that right Patrick we missed you on uh PIR radio live this week what happened you tried solid foods for the first time and it didn't uh your belly didn't agree with it oh is Patrick G oh yep you got me oh there you go what's up there we go yeah so uh you know I tried this food truck I don't want to disparage it it was a a schwarma food truck and I thought it tasted pretty good but uh you know after a little while especially the next couple days it was H really fighting back so that that was an adventure I haven't had that happen in a long time that's a tough uh tough thing to happen especially on week one of football hopefully you'll be healthy for the game today and for the Bears season opener next week uh but how about the Pirates Jamie said I I get what he's saying because I too am wondering I put northfi State at like 13 and I might have been a little generous with that um but I I'm obviously more Curious I think everybody is about what the offense is going to score rather than what the defense is going to give up so let's uh let's talk about that offense first what do you expect to see from Jake Garcia these new weapons the running backs we know and an o line that we know that we really need and hope are improveed this year yeah you know I'm I'm actually expecting them to come out fast and just just play kind of free I feel like they're gonna I mean every time we interact with Jake Garcia he just kind of seems to have this calm demeanor and I feel like I mean I'll just talk about kind of getting the not each other I feel like that's probably going to be real in a sense I feel like they're just gonna I feel like they're going to click I just have this feeling about me um and yeah it's kind of like I was watching Iowa this morning I don't know if you saw but they put up a bunch of points too but that first half was brutal so I mean even if it does take a little while um you know I'm kind of expecting them to put on a good show in today yeah pater you don't need to say if were you watching Iowa the answer is no for me always thank you for your fake laugh there they did pretty it was like three to nothing like with five minutes left to go in the second quarter I guess they went on a they splurged late or something the game finished 40 to nothing it out yeah all right new new offense for a so maybe maybe new offense and uh and more points for East Carolina today any uh any questions at all about Blake Harrell's defense going into this one Patrick um I think we maybe talked about the last time I talked with yall was maybe just the defensive front I know it's probably a strength of this team but I just want to see them get back to the quarterback more often yeah um and I think if they do that I feel like this defense is going to be as good as advertised I I like what's on the back end and I feel like if that defensive front can find some pressure we're GNA see a whole kind of different level unlocked here I believe the number was 114 I think the Pirates were tied for 114th in the nation when it came to sacks which is not good and as good as this defense was last year that is uh is one part they need to pick up on I hadn't talked to any special teams today so if it comes down to a kick first of all people are not going to be very happy about that but secondly uh Advantage ECU Nori State uh had a tough time last week when it came to the kicking operation but how do you feel about another year of Conrad Larson and uh and another thing Patrick interested to see who we have back returning kicks and punts today yeah you know that's definitely a good question I mean I think today's game if it came down to a kick I think something would probably have to go seriously wrong um maybe we're talking about that at the end of like a quarter or something but no I feel pretty confident um just thinking about you know Conrad I know he was pretty accurate in one of those games last year kicking five field goals making all those so um I feel like if the offense can kind of get in range and you know something goes ay you know I think they can pick it up on that end I mean they've been here for a while um and yeah you know we'll see how the the return game goes you know I guess that's always fun right we always want to see someone take something back you know that's probably one of the most fun aspects of the game all right uh let's do some over unders before we let you go pce Jake Garcia passing and Earl will'll let you play too over under 249 yards um I'm gonna go over all right Earl Earl we got a gator pick I like to hear that we're back uh what do you got over under what what's the 249 2 49er I'm going to go under because I anticipate he we run the ball a lot more and that we see Kate and Hower in the second half because it's a blowout so I'm gonna say he doesn't play a full four quarters and I'm gonna say under over under quarterbacks to take a snap two and a half Patrick I'm going I'm going under okay Earl I'll stick with under I think if if we see multiple quarterbacks I don't think they go past Howser I know you want to see Jeter I don't see it well I don't I justess person don't see it though like we could have easily played him last year on other like different games and stuff like oh I know I yeah yeah I I I understand all right so let's go these are not over unders I need to name here who has the most receptions for ECU today Patrick oh man what about J Robinson oh okay interesting Earl uh go with uh Winston right yeah I and I'm basing this off nothing but I'm excited about Winston rright who has the most receiving yards today for the Pirates Patrick yeah I might say Winston right just because he can I think he might get a big chunk kind of action all right and Earl uh most receiving yards yards yards in general or like Russ most receiving yards receiving yards I was going to go uh I'll go with right as well all right right and right could be the right answer um what Pirates score touchdowns today every pirate that gets in in the end zone Patrick give me their names I'm gonna say Jake Garcia oh okay Earl like that one yeah I feel like yeah I think we're gonna see some kind of shiftiness from him my favorite play in football is the quarterback draw Patrick I hope they they draw one up yeah definitely see that all right who else yeah I guess just kind of pick your receiver I'm I'm still gonna go oh man I don't know maybe I'm gonna go with everyone seems to be high on him I feel like maybe he he gets one but I I like the running D exploring a lot all right Earl what names get in the end zone yeah Jake Garcia was the first one I thought of there because I was like all right let's get creative uh I'll go right back to right there um Kelly uh Casey Kelly oh okay and then we'll go with a little depth one a little garbage time touchdown at the End by Marlin gun Jr Marlin gun I'm GNA go with a lot of those guys you said and let me add a javius bond on like a 65 yard play I like it I don't know if it's a screen a draw or something but he gets loose for a big one all right pce well enjoy the game man we will uh hopefully catch up with you again on Wednesday we'll check out your work on the pages of The Daily Reflector online reflector.com appreciate you joining us today and have a good game day Patrick appr clip have a good game day all right buddy there is p joining us can you pull that pot down uh Earl thank you very much as Shirley is doing double triple duty at the moment but we do need to take a break and here she is so uh we'll get that break we'll come back thanks to P joining us on the big rock power sports live line when we return let's hear what John David Baker had to say earlier this week also here from Jake Garcia and Raj Harris got that thanks to Chicken Salad Chick for the awesome pregame food and I think I'm going to have to go healthy and dive into a little bit of Shirley's fruit during this time out because man that looked tasty uh the chicken salad was tasty as well had an awesome chicken salad BLT uh which is my recommendation if you go to Chicken Salad Chick in Greenville we'll take a break come back more to go budlight pregame tailgate We Roll on to answer your question Blake uh we're not expecting Chase soel to play hopefully back for next week and we 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field goal 7 to three 7 to3 the score Syracuse has scored a touchdown Syracuse 7 to6 orange over the Bobcats of Ohio uh we roll on here on the budlight pregame tailgate we are in hour number three as we get you closer to the 6:00 kickoff ubbe still pping uh weather decent it's hot out there but uh should cool off as we continue to go on throughout the day I tell you what Shirley let's hear from uh some of the coaches and players John David Baker of all the debuts today I'd say people are anticipating the debut of Jake Garcia the most right under that probably the offensive coordinator and what this offense is going to look like uh under year one of John David Baker we spoke to him earlier this week and got his thoughts on the season opener against Nori State coach just how where you get this thing off after a long off seon yeah um for sure I I'm definitely to that point I think our kids are too tired of talking about it and ready to just go do it um they're they're excited they've had a great two days of practice um you know I don't think we're overly anxious I think we're just ready to go I I'm really excited to go see them um just go put it on the grass on Saturday what's your ratio from uh excitement to nervousness heading into your first game here at youc you know I I've never been a guy that gets really nervous um I'm you know these type of things you always just try and be prepared for um I'm excited more than anything and I'm excited for these kids because you know they've put in the last eight months they've done everything we've possibly asked them to do and then some um that's the thing I'm I'm just excited to watch them play um because theyve they've earned the right to go out there and play well and to put points on the board Jake hasn't played in a live game for a while um you have to say anything to him or you just kind of is he just a cool guy no I that's just um you know that's why you know that's part of the reason why he's the guy is because he's just cool calm collected every single day um he's never too high never too low just even kill um and I don't expect any different on Saturday you know we tried to put him um in as many gam likee situations whether it be a scrimmage or or a practice setting and he responded the same way every time and so I I don't expect any different on Saturday is he probably going to have a few more juices flowing probably so um but I I bet after that first clap uh he'll be just fine with the Nork State how much does it help you at least they've got a game on film I'm sure you watch them going into the year but you at least kind of have an idea of what they're going to do yeah absolutely that's it's a you know it's like coach has talked about there's advantages and disadvantages to it uh it's a advantage to us in a sense of we get to see um you know not only some scheme things but uh Personnel wise you know they they've moved some Personnel around um and I I think they've upgraded at a lot of spots Personnel wise um you know I thought they flew around their guys play hard they play sound um I was really impressed with them uh on Saturday or this past Saturday and and just looking um at them as a whole like we got to go play and this is this going to be a dog fight now cuz they got a good squad for you guys how important is it early in the game to you know try and stay on schedule not have any of those like false starts or emotional penalties yeah that's that's huge not only this game but every game um you know that's something we harp on a ton is just you know we can't beat ourselves it's this game is hard enough to to move the ball and score points um just having the ability to stay on on track um Stay Stay uh in front of the chains those type of things are are huge especially in this first game and you know unfortunately sometimes it's going to happen and and it's really how you respond to it making sure that we don't turn one bad play into two um and that's just something that we got to coach our guys through and and they'll be good calling a game you know for the first time live game you guys doing scrimmages and things you try to prepare for every situation or you just I don't know kind of go in there you know ready for kind of doing what you've always done yeah that's that's the nice thing is just the rooms that I've sat in um you know being able to you know really my first six years as a coach um you know I sat right next to the offense coordinator and I just I watched how they prepared I watched how they prepared for every situation um and that was one thing you know when I went to uh when I went to Old Miss I thought we did better than than anybody is just being prepared for every situation and you know we're going to coach these guys up until the whistle and there's there's you know you never stop preparing for the game whether it's Thursday afternoon Friday afternoon Saturday morning um and so that's just I've I've been for forunate in that sense and the the rooms I've sat in the people I've been around you know I thought they did a great job in preparing um for games and situations and and feeling like we're in a good spot um to be prepared for whatever happens on Saturday yourself we talk about the deps of this team especially receiver you got def running back uh as far as getting touches making sure the healthiest guys in is that is that uh communication between you and the position coaches or how does that work throughout a game yep so we have um you know it's funny we have one guy that is his one of his sole assignments on game day is making sure certain guys are getting touches um because you never want to look up in a game and be like well dang so and so has only had one touch and especially if you look back on a if you're Sunday and you're looking back at a Saturday game and you you struggled offensively and all a sudden you look up and two of the guys that you want to get touches to touched at one time well that's a that's a bad deal and so um we have like I said we got somebody assigned to that because we've you know you learned from your mistakes it happened to to us a few years ago we played in a game where we were down some people but we had a couple of our players going and we struggled offensively and then looking back the next day we realized that the guys that we did have we barely got them the ball and and that can't happen as a coaching staff and so just being prepared for those type of things you know at the end of the day scheme is really important but those players make this thing go and we got some really good ones and we got to make sure we get the ball in their hands for sure with the the helmet Mike I mean will there be kind of a learning period I know you guys are working with brackets but kind of you kind have to go in the game day see what works what doesn't maybe yeah it's it's going to be a uh a little bit of trial and error for sure um but that's just where you know I'm grateful we've gotten to use it every day in practice we've got to use in our scrimmages we've got to use it with the 15sec cut off so we've we've gotten some test runs at it but as you know everything's different on game day and so we'll there'll be some there'll be some learning curves of just trying to sort through it uh the biggest thing that you know we try that I'll try and do a great job of is just not doing too much you know it's the one of the guys I talked to you know kind of just figuring out how to use it the best way to use it the best advice I've gotten is don't talk in his back swing you know don't give him too much don't make him overthink something you know you've spent x amount of hours dur during the week coaching the guy trust that trust that training don't don't trust you know 5 seconds before he snaps the ball you telling them something that's going to make the difference John David Baker going through his first preparation as an offensive coordinator and a play caller here at East Carolina and uh very anxious to see what the operation looks like and uh and how many false starts and how many near delay of games and burned early timeouts will we have with the communication on the flip side of that how well oiled would this machine look uh what would the tempo look like when they get going um those are some exciting things but also uh got to see it to believe it type of things when we get into dowy pickand Stadium later today uh Matt I like this I like the way Matt put this on YouTube 12 games that's all we are guaranteed 12 chairback bleacher or couch sit down and strap in because the ride begins today that's beautiful Matt you are a football poet we do take things for granted in our normal life and certainly in our Sports life uh you only get one week one a year uh enjoy that enjoy this program enjoy your US Sailor Fifth Quarter call-in show uh because like Matt says this is it folks one of 12 uh begins today uh thanks to John David Baker on the 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I've got a line for that game too so do I Earl you're not cool oh sorry what do you got I I got Texas is four-point favorites in the total 47 and a half yeah that's what I'm looking at as well uh Michigan open uping opening up their season tonight against Fresno State in the big house uh so yeah I I guess is so that's the headliner next week Tennessee NC State 7:30 on ABC you also got Colorado and Nebraska on NBC next Saturday night as we look ahead to week two what do you think of uh Prime in North Dakota State the other night Earl very underwhelming I mean their their offense is going to be good their defense still sucks and that's just the way it's going to be like this this Colorado team they're going to probably be a team you just bet overs with like they're going to put up points Sanders and Hunter that's a dynamic duo on offense there but there's no defense to speak up with those Buffalo and we saw that when North Dakota State came in and backed recovered uh late in that game with a touchdown uh they gave 26 points to an FCS school so a very good FCS School a very good FCS school but nevertheless still an FCS school like if we brought North Dakota State up into FBS what would their record be right now three wins um no more than that because let's use the app State model they moved up to the FBS after being FCS power and they have had winning seasons every year just about so sure I think they'd be pretty good uh thank you Jeff and Brandon for saying that NC State Tennessee game is in Charlotte next week chrisy says uh you're right this is not a dress rehearsal Austin said he shed a tear reading Matt's statement it was it was very beautiful Dawson said how much crap are you giving intern Brett after the Vandy game I gotta talk to Brett we haven't even started yet yeah the problem is like do I have enough crap is the question because I got so much to give to Mac I gotta be careful with Mac I don't I don't know him like that but I can't keep myself I can't help 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tailgate Zone what's up Jonathan what's up clipper it's been a nice day it's been a hot day but finally got some cloud cover here at the part radio delgate Zone been rocking and rolling with our friends at Carolina eagle and Bud Light Pepsi of course our friends of Stephen sausage have been throwing a great spread so a lot of fun Sparky snowball but uh the man that's been invited all weekend to hang out with us is is here at the part radio tailgate Zone he's uh in the shadows of daddy Pickin Stadium pretty soon he's going to be on the sidelines of daddy Pickin Stadium not in the helmet and shoulder pads but uh watching the Pirates uh Blake PRL how's the uh Greenville experience been so far this weekend man it's been great um just being around obviously pirate Nation you kind of forget how awesome it is here and you couldn't ask for a better day for uh some some pirate football so Blake Pro we had a great time Thursday night uh enjoyed your song it was released uh on Friday uh been getting a lot of positive vibes uh since you've been back in Greenville a lot of people saying hello oh yeah it's been great man you know it's it's just a big family here there's nothing like pirate Nation um I said it when I first got here but you know you roll in that Highway and you come into Greenville it's a you know you get chills man I definitely miss it here so uh it's been it's been great being back uh you're saying at the Hilton uh you saw coach Houston a little while ago at the hotel were you uh were youall talking football what was the conversation did you give him a little pep talk hey you know he's locked in you know I hey I didn't talk his head off or anything I saw the other coaches saw everybody they're all locked in just like we used to be so I think I think uh like I said Pirates by 50 is gonna be be held strong so still holding to Pirates by 50 huh oh yeah Pirates by 50 baby let's go you gonna be able to contain yourself on the sideline and and just be like a be a spectator with a pass I might have to take somebody's helmet and pads and get out there and run a route or two but uh I'll be I'll be the biggest supporter for sure Pirates 550 Blake Pro it's been awesome having you here man uh we we've already talked about about next year we're going to bring your perhaps bring your full band and uh do a full full-blown Blake Pearl show here in greeville North Carolina what do you think I think that would be amazing um I know a lot of people showed up and I only got to sing one song so next year we'll do a whole set an hour or two or whatever whatever you guys want I'm down for you know I'll do anything for PIR Nation Blake Pearl has been uh awesome uh what what's next on on your agenda and how can people find your music and uh support Blake PE um NE the big thing on my agend and next is hasn't been announced yet but we're going on tour um we'll be posting all the dates and everything I think the closest we get to here is is Raleigh and it'll be in November so uh I'm really excited about that and everything's under just Blake Pearl no fancy name or anything just my first and last name well Blake you've been awesome best of luck to you we'll stay in touch and uh maybe Pirates by 50 today uh we'll have to work on getting you back here for another game this year sir thank you guys so much for having me appreciate C there he is Blake TR at the P radio tailgate Zone just uh aome young man certainly going to do big things in the music world and was excited to have him as a part of the big football kickoff weekend with Pirate Radio no doubt good stuff sounds like a fun time out at the Pirate Radio tailgate Zone with ellerby Blake Pro whole Naylor's dropping by and the whole crew I haven't heard from Chan today wonder what Chan's up to hope he's uh hanging in there Chan is probably cruising around the tailgate Lots in that uh cart that 360 golf carts provides us and um you know ch Chan is Chan's a talker he is and you know he is probably 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us in studio Ross Gordon the play-by-play voice of nori State and Ross thanks so much for joining us man we always talk to to the the voice during game week but uh this the first time we've had anybody in this studio so you're the first welcome in no problem man good to be here I told you I was coming I told you I was coming I told you we'll talk about how bad the commanders will be and how bad and how good the 49ers will be this year we're going to have that conversation I was hoping we'd get your wide receiver but I don't know what's going to happen with Brandon iuk so we'll Wai and see on that one right he's going to be a 49er okay all right you can speak it into existence maybe that's that's all that's happening uh Ross it's week one for us and a lot of teams uh already game two for norick State how about a wild one last Saturday that uh go for two don't get it that just a crazy game from the outside looking in I can say as a football fan it was an enjoyable game you wearing that Green obviously wanted it to go a different way but can you still enjoy the for what it was even though you you took the loss there I I think so I think one of the things that any any person any fan would like to see is some growth and last year we were in a lot of situations like that and we didn't seem like we were going to come close uh I think we showed some growth we showed some maturity uh it's just small things just small things and game one game one things I think you know you had a bad snap on a on a field goal opportunity which would have given you a lead you had a um a missed opportunity before that on the extra point that was blocked even though it was a even though it was a offside penalty so small things and really look at our special teams game could have played some could have played a little bit better uh but you credit FAMU for making plays down the stretch to to win that game Ross Gordon joining us so yeah game could have gone either way Florida and M wins it now Nori state has to get off the mat and uh and get ready for tonight so let's kind of talk offense defense with you first with the offense defensive coordinator of the Pirates Blake Harrell when I asked him uh Tuesday Wednesday about norick State what stood out he said I think he called him thunder and lightning the uh the two-headed monster there at running back is that really how this uh this offense can get going if you can run the football I think so cavon King played well he played well 10 carries in the first half over 100 yards only four carries in the second half of 20 uh you know he's he's solid xaven Evans played well as well so it gives you it gives you an opportunity to have a little bit of Scat a little bit of power for for uh Kavon King and xaven Evans is a power back so we ran the ball well we ran the ball well uh you talk about that thunder and lightning I think that was a nice thing to see but I don't think we want to be a team that relies on thunder and lightning only throwing the ball nine times right seven of nine I think is one thing you look at and you say you want to be better yeah and uh for folks not following along I make a quarterback flow chart so Jaden Daniels is the former LSU quarterback now in Washington there's a Jaylen Daniels out in Kansas right and there's a Jaylen Daniels we'll see this weekend so it can get confusing but how about this guy thrown into the fire a little bit right right thrown thrown into a little situation where uto Coons is who who's still on the who's still on the roster but uh due to some NCAA issues he won't be playing until game five uh Jaylen Daniels who was a SE South Carolina transfer started there as a walk- on played a jco ball last year didn't know what he was going to bring honestly because he's never played on this level but he he looked sharp he looked confident and he looked competent in the offense he only threw the ball nine times but he had about 11 opportunities so he ran twice um off of those passing opportunities but he looked sharp every pass was on the money um went deep twice and we have some we saw a little threat on the outside which is good um but again he didn't play Bad and that's something that you want to see from your quarterback week one no turnovers and really kept the offense moving Ross we're in the dark about what the CCU offense is going to look like new quarterback new coordinator a lot of new parts the running backs we know very well uh o line we know pretty well but as far as who's behind Center and who he's throwing to that that's going to be all new have you talked to the defensive staff at all this week and because I'm I'm fascinated to hear how you go into a game like this what are you scouting are you looking at Old Miss cuz John David Baker came from there or are you looking at Jake Garcia film from years ago when he last played quarterback just a ton of unknowns on ECU side so what does that mean for your defense uh number one one of the things we we do know is that we know coach Houston wants to run the football yeah so you don't have to don't have to question that you have to be Stout up front um but you do watch a little bit of the Old Miss and you do watch a little bit of uh some of some of the guys Tendencies but I guess game one uh you look back at what happened last week and you gota you have to say we're going to have to do a better job of stopping the pass you know we didn't we didn't do a great job in the second half of really clamping down on the outside and I think that's one thing that I think people are going to look at I think our front seven is going to be really good um but it's in the back four in the back end to see where see where we end up and I think that's one of the biggest things we we struggled in short passes last week and if you look at a Old Miss really really quick Tempo um but it's one of those sit where they take what the defense gives them and we're going to have to do a better job of not giving up every everything you mentioned you know what you want to improve on the old cliche you make your most improvements week one to week two right and so um first of all what are some other things you want to see there and and also did you come out of that game you were big underdogs in that game northfi state was saying hey we got some here these boys can play you know and I think one of the thing going into the game coach odm said we have a good football team the question is can you put it together yeah and week to week basis can you put it together last year we had seven games that you lost by two touchdowns or less and now you're in a situation where your first game you lose by one um can you make the plays down the stretch can you make winning plays in the first half I think the first two drives you run down and you run the ball successfully and you and you get two touchdowns on the high but what happens after that now you know it's the middle of the game controlling the Small Things uh not only just uh being being consistent running the football but I think uh one thing that coach Jason Phillips who said um after the game the offensive coordinator he said we have to do a better job of not protecting jayen D this week um and last week I think we sort of held his hand a little bit so he wouldn't make mistakes but he showed us that he can make some plays and that's one of the big things I think from week one to week two that we have to we have to sort of move in that direction can can we can we be just as uh effective throwing the football as running it Ross one thing I've learned is these players move on quicker than than fans do I'm I can still think of old ECU games and old Redskins games that I'm still bummed about that man if we'd have done this we win that if Michael Westbrook doesn't throw his helmet down in the game against the Giants in 1997 we win that game go to the playoffs um but talking to players they have to move on quick I I bring that up to say an emotional game last week you're so close are you worried about a let down at all for your guys the emotional hangover type thing I I don't think so I I think that's one of the good things one of the good things that you look about the leadership of this team not coach odms specifically but the leaderships AJ Richardson and Kavon King they're very very next week focused uh after the ball game you know hey we were in it we know we can play but can we make the winning plays during the game and you know you you mentioned Michael Westbrook if Patrick Mahomes isn't born the butterfly effect yeah the 49ers are champions twice and so you know it it happens and I think one of the big things for us is you know last year's last year's team lost games and you saw it after the game you know right after the game like oh man we got to go next week and that's what happened it was game one and I think they they have an understanding of when you look at the spread from last week was 15 15 to 16 to 17 points and people thought it wasn't going to be close and you really were in the game and you had a chance to win it I I think the numers pretty darn high this week I'm sure you folks do as well but uh 33 and a half again there's too many unknowns for me to know where to go with that line but uh I don't know is that bulletin board material or anything or is it just one of them things you ignore you know being in this being in this profession for as long as I have been uh there's one thing and you talk about it all the time uh the third and fourth quarters when when your when your guys who are bigger stronger have a little bit more in the tank uh get the wearing on people you hope it's not 33 uh you just have to come out and make make some plays early and I think you know if anybody would say hey look I saw what ECU did last year I know a lot of people would say well hold well y'all have a chance after what y'all did last hell we couldn't get to 33 last year much less cover about 33 yeah but you know with the with the excitement of a new coordinator where he came from and seeing what Old Miss did and seeing seeing what kind of excitement they had down there especially putting points on the board of course somebody would say maybe 30 three is a good number yeah Ross uh what you going to do while you're here in Greenville man man I'm going to explore I'm going to see I'm going to see what's going on down here uh Greenville I thought I was going to I thought I wasn't going to make it today um because of traffic but but I I I made it I'm excited about uh going and touring the campus a little bit I was excited about uh going to see some of the facilities um not football of course but uh basketball today um you know just just see what's going on down in Greenville nice nice place nice place good deal man well uh hope you enjoy your time here hope you get some good barbecue or whatever you're into yes sir yes sir we know a few spots so we'll we'll give you some 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budlight pregame tailgate here is your host clip BR we got a gator touchdown go g go g hold on let me let me find it e go 71 yards to the house monre Johnson oh really down the sideline I thought it was Percy Javi it looked like Percy Javi Gators get a TD at is 179 P pending who's coaching in Florida Co Irvin Myers Co Irvin MERS Shirley uh called Hood he did not answer so oh you know what we uh we talked about the Chan man yeah cuz we had not heard from him all uh show I told him I would call him all right well get him on and then I sent you Hud's number if you could try him talking to all right hang on so we'll get Chandler on uh right now we got cuse driving as there are 17 seconds left to go in the second quarter of that one Syracuse up 109 on Ohio uh Florida kicks the pat 17 to10 as they finally show a little bit of life down at the swamp uh and only Trail Miami by 7 feels like Miami has dominated this uh first half for the most part but that long touchdown really changed everything as Florida right back in it uh Penn State controlling things in Morgantown 27-6 that score nitty Lions over the Mountaineers as they play late in the third quarter it is Ohio State 17 akan 3 it is Oklahoma State 41 South Dakota State 20 as we uh follow the scores going on here on on the buccaneer musical scoreboard presented by dbck all right let's head out to the big rock Powersports live line joining us the chanman Chandler Honeycut who is out and about at the Pirate Radio tailgate Fields uh today Chandler Happy game day what's up buddy happy game day to you clip Brock it's a great day to be in Greenville because there's a lot of people out here enjoying the first game of the 2024 season for EC football me and Jenny have been on the golf cart the monster presented by 360 golf carts getting around and seeing people and taking pictures and let me tell you something people love P radio because when I ask if I could take a picture from P radio they're like oh absolutely we love y'all's pictures so uh a lot of people were excited out here and uh we're just ready for kickoff coming up at six o'clock Chandler uh I don't think you were here earlier in the week when we did a Vibe check so let's get your Vibe check an hour away from kickoff how you feeling about ECU norrick State this my the first time ever that I've given this score on the on the ratings but I'm going with a 10 a 10 right a 10 I'm going with I'm I'm going with a 10 uh I think the Pirates get it done today and I think they get it done in dominated fashion I think you guys are going to have a great Fifth Quarter call-in show after the game uh so um yeah I'm all about the Pirates you know Blake PRL said uh Pirates by 50 I think I'm gonna tail uh ta Blake Pro uh Pirates by fit today all right Pirates by fitti Chandler who scores the first touchdown for East Carolina this football season I gotta go with our guy Raj Harris I think it's going to be uh near the goal line I think they're just going to hand it off to Raj the veteran and uh he'll punch it in uh so I think Raj har will be the first pirate to score what's up my guy what's up my guy what's up my guy all right John well uh have fun out there we've uh how about Jamie came by the studio and joined me live on the show earlier are you serious I am serious wow yeah was that he's taking over Pirate Radio live I'm out of here also we gotta talk to Brit Virginia Tech TCU Virginia Tech should never schedule Vanderbuilt ever again exactly yeah gosh I don't think we should ever allowed him back in the studio after yesterday I think we should and we should just troll him nonstop and he could just be a punching bag the entire football season how about that that's that's also uh it's going to be a lot of fun with Coach Mack on Tuesday too I got a feeling I'm really going to piss him off I can already tell yeah for sure we gotta playb his comments for Coach M all right Sean have fun out there buddy all right y'all have a great rest of the show and uh we'll see you after the uh we'll have the post game after the show so stay tuned for the on social media at PR r927 FM we'll have coach and player comment so uh stay tuned all right thank you Chan man um Chan you might need some energy I suggest you stay active and energized all day with Celsius by your side look for your favorite Celsius flavor at your favorite retailer and at ECU games Celsius the official energy drink of Pirate Radio proudly distributed by the M bottling group um Earl I said we needed a Syracuse touchdown before the half and what did they go out and do went all the way down the field put it in the end zone and they eggs are starting to turn around Gator showing life orange showing life Syracuse is going to go up at the half by eight if they make the pat 1 17 ner 5 seconds left to go first half so things moving in the right direction here starting to feel uh much better uh Shirley did we ever get up with HUD unfortunately coach HUD is not answering his phone all right I'll tell him to call us so we'll do a audible hey I was gonna say we talked about Raj yeah why don't we talk to Raj all right let's hear from East Carolina running back Raj Harris who we talked to earlier this week it's been obviously a long offseason man how do you kind of describe your emotions to get ready for the opener man I'm excited man I'm ready I couldn't even sleep last night man I'm ready for a Tuesday practice man so I know my emotions up there I know the team emotions up there man you can just feel it you can feel that practice you feel the energy uh everybody ready to go you've always uh said this summer about how fast the offense is the more you guys do it has it gotten faster yeah it's it's kind of like a rhythm thing once you get that rhythm going um you just pushing Tempo then um but yeah it's super fast you got to really be well conditioned to to be in this offense speaking condition you look like you slim down a lot or you getting any faster eating my broccoli man come on but uh yeah man I'm about 212 213 I lost a lot of body fat this off season again man I'm just all about my body and my mind so man I just been working on that this offseason getting that prepared ready to go coach says you look like the old RJ how you feeling healthwise oh man I'm feeling great man 100% uh this probably my first season been 100% since senior year in high school so man I'm excited just to be out there and just see how fast I can really go you feel me cuz I really ain't felt this fast in a long time so you feel what I'm saying going out here Saturday against a good nor for team would be a real good test for me what do you see on tape North State Defense oh man they really aggressive man they get to the ball they chase that ball man and that that front hey don't take it for granted you feel what I'm saying don't think because they a little lower division that you feel what I'm saying hey they going to come in here and just give it to us you feel what I'm saying you seen the game the other day they run to the football they attack the football and shoot them boys play hard you know last year you had to to wear the brace you feel like freed up this year just not yeah I just feel like 2 three lbs is off my leg man and shoot that's always great you feel what I'm saying so um looking to break one break break a lot this year um get to show off my speed a little bit since people think I ain't got it uh but uh man I'm excited like I said man I'm just ready to go out there and do it what are some of your goals personally that you want to accomplish ah I'm not a real big goal person for myself but I do want to get in that end zone a lot that's that's that's really one of the goals just get in the end zone a lot and just you know go over there with my daughter cuz she sit down there in the bone yard so go celebrate with her you know for for you R this opening how important is it for you as a senior to set the tone for the season and get man it's very important uh I don't remember the last time we had like a home game other than state but um it's really important man just to go out there and set the tone because this game is going to set the tone for the whole year you feel what I'm saying and send a message to the the whole conference you feel what I'm saying so everybody got to be locked in which they is uh everybody in the locker room everybody upstairs and shoot bro let's go do it let's go do it can y the chemistry you've developed over this off season with uh Jak coming in as transfer yeah man we built the chemistry with all three of the QBs man because you never know if feel what I'm saying Jake is our guy we rooting for him but you just never know what happens so building that chemistry with all three of them it just it's built the whole offense you feel what I'm saying so like I said man them guys ready to go they leading us and we right behind them we ready to do it there is Raj Harris our guy your guy my guy everybody's guy number 47 Chandler says Raj will be the first pirate to hit Pay Dirt in 2024 uh we just had a live report from Chandler out just outside of Dy fckin Stadium now we go to College Station as we continue to look around at what's going on in college football coming up tonight because coach HUD Greg Hudson is live he will be at Texas A&M in Notre Dame tonight coach HUD how you doing man you are listening this time live love the Musburger uh shout outs here uh HUD what what's the scene like still got uh some time before they kick things off there but what's the uh is there an atmosphere already building up for this thing are you kidding me I'm telling you this is number one of all time I've ever seen wow I mean we're talking first game day with Notre Dame Florida State and you were a part of that but this is uh this is bigger yeah it's just big use the word big there is nothing as big as this this there's more people here around this whole area I'm going to say then you know you got to say numbers are equal to Michigan and Ohio State but the brick and mortar here if you're building a facility you should just come here and say okay we're going to do that we're just not going to use as many bricks this is exactly the 1% of the 1center the what they're doing in the weight room uh the new student center and academic center and student wellness center and Immaculate and enormous and not saying that you know a lot of bricks equal victories which you've seen in the previous years last couple years hasn't happened here if you have somebody that's doing it right um You should win a lot of football games here and these fans are they are jacked up I mean I've seen more shirtless ranchers is uh uh Pat said about them on ESPN running around here with cowboy boots and hats on black it's there's a I mean I didn't know there's 70,000 77,000 students in Road in school here man so HUD can you pick me up a 2025 shirtless ranchers calendar to put on my wall uh when you come back too much information right right there okay sorry uh Greg Hudson joining us coach HUD uh were you what did you do during college game day were you out there amongst the uh the thousands or did you watch it or what were you doing earlier the one one uh negative here the Kryptonite here is the uh that big orange thing in the sky the sun down here is uh is wicked so my daughter had to be at the office Kayla had to be here this morning at 7:30 so about 7 o'clock we walked over to the uh to the game day set and the guys were just getting in so we got to see the the guys doing that did the show and I was lucky I was the place I was at dinner last night they walked in and uh so they had they had an opportunity to couple you know brief conversations I want to get with because he was on the tail end and I just want to introduce myself and remind him of the West Virginia game just to try to make his day a little bit better heck yeah ah that that'd be fantastic coach Greg Hudson joining us going to be an awesome one tonight in College Station hopefully it's not a good game at Dy fckin Stadium hopefully the Pirates can take care of business and uh we'll have an easy third and fourth quarter here that's uh the Hope anyway but HUD how about defensively that's your expertise East Carolina Good Year defensively last year they want to be great this year how many points do they give up today to this Nork State team Vegas is saying like zero six to seven you think they can pitch the shut out no I don't that's that's nearly impossible to do somebody did it though today didn't I would do it yeah but um you know I I just I like what coach is doing with the defense and um the way they play the the culture that the word that doesn't get used a lot with you guys the culture he set with that defense and they fly around and they're it's an aggressive defense and it it shows you know where they want to go they've got a vision they got a plan going good to great and and that that's what you need you need to have great defense to have a good football program and winning team you got to have great defense not good defense great defense to be sustainable and and win a lot of football games so I like what the defensive staff is doing with that defense the way they play I like the scheme they run they bring a lot of stuff at you it's uh at times it's probably really difficult to pick up so you know I think style points are even in in college football again you know if you got a chance to win a game and and empty a bench you need to do it that's a good point uh we are keeping an eye on all these group of five teams this year because the champion and the top rank Champion out of the group of five conferences will be in the playoff and East Carolina trying to get to 1 and0 trying to get to 1 and0 coach HUD for the first time since 2016 and I look it's a long season It's a Grind but it's just man it feels so much better to be 1 and0 than 0 and one just for the mindset momentum uh that that's huge right oh yeah I mean how would you like to have been lose your first game and then have to take the road trip home across the Atlantic Ocean like the seminal did I didn't like driving from ddy fckin over to Brook Valley let alone I hated that drive I couldn't imagine going across the ocean yeah and uh but you know it this is a there's been a lot of buildup to you know hey putting last year behind them yeah the lifetime of Coach hold senior and and Skip always told us the lifetime of a team is one year and once that year's over it's in the rearview mirror and and God put eyes in front of you in front of your head to see where you're going and man HUD that statement was said before the transfer portal in today's world now it's especially that way now it's literally that way almost yeah there's no doubt so this is this is a important game to get a to get a lot of live game reps with some question marks that you have the thing that you want to really harp on and hope that they do well is they have really special teams is usually a hiccup there in the in the opener and ball security and tackling so those are the probably the three areas that you look at if you you you got to win those situations coach thanks for joining us man have a blast tonight and we'll check in with you uh next week on Pirate Radio live get a recap and talk more more football with you I love it and I won't say be nice I I mean that I'm going to say gigum wow HUD is part of the cult now they roped him in quick gig him all right you got something big dog I'm just surprised that HUD is turning on the Irish it was quick right the man is is is a golden domber and his flip is thicker than water that is true I like see you HUD thanks man all right see you guys there he is Greg H it is funny Glenn I listen to uh Brandon Walker a lot they talk college football and he talks about the cult of Texas A&M it's true uh apparently so Greg Hudson's been there for like two days and is now fully roped he's all in he's gigged what kind of juice they got down there man he is in all right let's uh get a break in we'll come back thanks to Greg Hudson for joining us on the big rock Powersports live line we'll be taking your calls tonight on the big rock power sports live line on the US aor Fifth Quarter call-in show myself Holton aayers Kad Norman the Pirate Radio crew will be here late into the evening taking your calls and celebrating and being above 500 for the first time we need to look at that well first time since 2022 I reckon so a lot to to be excited about with this pirate football season and uh we'll talk about it postgame tonight tonight all right we'll uh take a break when we return we'll hear what Blake Harrell had to say earlier this week also got to check in with Brian North a lot more to go Bud Light pregame tailgate rolls on after [Applause] this are you ready for some football PIR Nation Bud Light is America's favorite light beer in the official beer of 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your bro play some sports trivia every Monday night 8:00 at the buccaneer Music Hall all right uh time to go back inside the Coach's Corner as earlier we heard from John David Baker the new ECU offensive coordinator Blake harrold has been around a while now uh and we'll hear what he has to say inside the United Bank Coach's Corner United Bank safe sound secure since 1839 and here's what Blake harell had to say as he got ready to face the Spartans of norick State how excited you kick this thing off after fired hope to get last season behind us and open a new chapter and I think everybody in our program that's here last year feels the exact same way you know the last 9 10 months how hard they our kids been playing our players are working and uh our coaches and just everybody in this building and putting the work in to kind of make sure we don't have a repeat of that and close that chapter don't look at the rear view and move on move forward as we said before and just focus on what's in front of us and right now that's North Folk State the biggest game of the year next game of the year and most importantly get to open up in Dy fckin uh being back with pirate nation in front of our fans uh that our our kids are so excited to play in front of you've talked a lot about you know how much your pleasure it is to coach here be a part of game day so like what are kind of the emotions for you going into the year five DC yeah year five I mean that's that's uh it's pretty special not not only to me to my family and I think that's you know my kids are getting old enough to now that they understand like the game you know football and pirate Nation you ask them who their favorite team is and they talk about the Pirates or you know What sport's important to them or what the favorite sport is is football and you know and my daughter told me other day she don't want to play football but that is her favorite sport and told her she needs to toughen up a little bit but uh you know I think from from all the game day Traditions here and just seeing our fans and seeing excitement and being back in front of that stadium and watching our kids go at it and playing the way they play defensively and uh playing with effort and and flying around and creating turnovers and getting big stops on third down so just look forward to all seeing all that on Saturday and um you know just blessed to be a part of this I mean we we talked so much about you know we get up in the rat race sometimes in life and we don't take a time to appreciate where we're at and I think sometimes you got to step back and just appreciate your at be thankful you know thank God that you know you're blessed to be here be blessed in place to that cares about football there's a lot of places out there that uh be half empty Stadium on Saturday and and not nobody really cares about game one but you know here in Pirate nation in 252 in Greenville in Dy fckin we're going to have that place rocking and truly fired up about that what did you see from nor State's office Saturday night yeah I saw uh two tailbacks that were really good we call them thunder and lightning you know 13 obviously took the third play the of the game to the house for 82 yards and I thought like you know last year I thought 33 was the bger bigger back he was the bigger back but better back you know more of a downhill Runner 13 always bounced it but the other night 13 was between the tackles make some really good cuts and uh getting downhill I thought Jaylen Daniels is very efficient quarterback there the other night seven and nine uh work the ball down the field has a strong arm you know started out South Carolina I think he has the same quarterback trainer as Spencer Rattler um from California Arizona out that way uh played Zuko last year so he's played some football you know obviously that was game one for them the old saying is you make your biggest improvement from game one to game two so they're going to clean some things up I'm sure we'll see a different football team than we saw on tape and on uh the TV last Saturday so um you know I think they got a very good football team coming in here and you know we we got to freaking play our tails off to get the w new OC so I mean they could come do something different this week but at least to have some yeah I tell you what going into game one I think there's always been over my career like two things game one is scary like when you're the Special Teams coordinator you never know who can you know new punt system or new punt return or new kickoffs you know what they're going to do on that and then going into game one as a DC like if you're facing a new opponent or a new OC for the first time he hasn't called it um you know in some ways that was Michigan last year we were facing a new OC was just the guy was expended but you know kind of what they were going to do you didn't think they were going to get far away from it uh but going to this game you know all summer we're looking at alorn State we're looking at what he did at the Juco those type of things watching North Folk State film so you're watching about a 40 game study and now you kind of okay this is what they did last Saturday night that's kind of like this section of game so we can kind of hone on that and kind of focus more on that those details uh and I'm sure we'll see some new flavors this week and add to it you know that was probably just the base of their their offense and they they'll add to it as a go they got two good tight ends obviously ran 17 reps with 12 personnel with two tight ends in the game uh they were 100% run I'm sure they'll change that up and throw the ball around this week out of that um you know alorn State he was Heavy 10 Personnel last week he only showed two snaps of that heavy pass so I'm I'm sure we'll see some mixture of that this week so it was good to have him game one for sure and you kind of know exactly what the practice week and kind of have a better idea of where you want to focus at coach Baker talked about there's someone keeping up with touches and and plays and things like that how about defensively is there constant communication with Coach Tesh and and the secondary coaches about who's in you know who's banged up stuff like that throughout the game yeah and we we've always did that you know we keep up with stops is what we keep up with but we also keep up with hey you know how many snaps is so and so play you know hey Devin King he's out there for 10 straight snaps let's make sure we get him a break make sure he's good to go in the fourth quarter and I think that's what we've always done a good job of here is rolling guys developing guys um you know 2022 guys 18 guys are playing in a game um and I see that happening again this year especially early in the season I think it's supposed to be 90 something degrees a kickoff which is awesome um you know our kids need to embrace that toughness thing that hey we're going to be tougher than another football team and we're going to roll more guys we're going to wear them out and in the second half we have the advantage because we're still fresh and we're ready to play so I think you know it helps on a lot of fronts with that it helps one win the ball game which is most important keeping guys fresh in the second half uh twoo and it helps develop young guys I mean I mean zakai Barker he's going to get his first start but zakai Barker you're going to see out there on Saturday and if he continues to play the way he hasn't practiced it won't look like a first start it'll look like a veteran a veteran player out there and that's because he's developed over the years played here played there and had some game snaps before kind of going all board talking about earlier you know going to year five for you you've always changed and adapted how do you make sure team can watch your tape and always know what's coming on your end yeah um and I think you all always change and adapt based off your personnel you know if you have some really strong pass rusters you better adapt to that if you have a really strong secondary you better adapt to that or if you're trying to cover guys up you better move and Shake around and I think as a coordinator uh you always got to stay you can't just go repeat and rinse repeat and wash you know all that kind of stuff you got to keep developing you got to keep growing as coaches as a package as a system what we do so we got to continue to do that in the offseason and we have I me there's some things that we haven't done lately that I think we can get back to and kind of hey remember what we did back in 2020 or 21 or 2019 and we go back to those things so and our Personnel may allow us to be a little bit differently as well and I think we'll see that on Saturday night and throughout the first three or four games East Carolina defensive coordinator Blake Harold they'll be playing like their hairs on fire about 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you can join Over the 81,000 followers today now let's head back in to the budlight pregame tailgate here is your host clip rock all right back with you hour four budlight pregame tailgate East Carolina Nori State Pirates 31-point favorites today against the FCS opponent from norick Total 51 and a half so they are not expecting norick state to uh to score many points in this game we'll get a check in with Brian North in just a moment but right now we will get our Papa John's preview with doubleb Brian Bailey Bailey take it away what were your feelings like when you first found out you were the starter I was uh I was super excited I was super excited I walked out of the mid and I walked in the hallway and I'm like let's go and uh just kind of took a moment and then kind of sat with it for a second and I was like all right what's next time to call my parents and I going head home and go wash some tape so uh uh it was kind of like a back to work mindset um but it was a lot of excitement for sure on defense Blake Harrell returns for his Fifth Season the pirate defense was good last year this year that D could be great they like flying around and making plays and playing for each other and with each other and playing for pirate nation and and playing in dowy fckin and when that crowd gets going I think you see our defense turn up even more and uh you know that's one thing we kind of preach is running the football and they certainly do and they they got athleticism enough that they can get to the ball as well so uh it's it's a fun fun group to watch when they get rolling the Pirates are big favorites tonight it's our first look at this new offense and our first look at a defense that should be the strength of this football team in 2024 it's the Pirates and the Spartans East Carolina and norick state for the first time ever with the Papa John's pirate preview I'm Brian Bailey the Papa John's pirate preview pirate fans Papa John's is an MVP move for game day or any day place your order online Papa johns.com and and sign up for Papa rewards Papa John's better ingredients better Pizza go pirates all right we will now head out to the big rock Power Sports liveline this is bad this guy just literally injured just shook a guy just injured a guy you hear break break your break your ankles broke your ankles this guy literally broke an ankle this receiver from Miami on a Florida Defender and Miami running all over the field right now up 24-10 Brian North joins us I think from Dy Pickin Stadium what's up north what's going on Clippers following all the action on this Saturday and getting ready for East Carolina football did you uh make it out to the stadium today I I am dowy viin Stadium now I might be under a short leash here but I'm here for at least the start of the game actually we've got some high school games I may go check out tonight so we can have good coverage but I'm hoping to see at least a good quarter of what pirate football has to offer and uh and what the crowd has to bring and all that so look for an exciting night of football I see Chandler I heard you guys looking for the chanman earlier he's here in yellow veston on the field all right putting the work in on a Saturday North uh has any fans made their way into the stadium yet uh let's see here I just walked in I'm standing by the the big pirate head blowup tunnel uh Boneyard is about a third to a half full I'd say half full okay rest of the stadium not quite half yet um shaded side has more people obviously um you know not bad you know you're talking 50 minutes before a hot day kickoff tailgating is is uh in Prime effect so um we'll probably I'd say it's gonna be 30 plus here probably 35 I'd say 35 by the time this one's done considering all the people I saw out tailgating Brian um nobody is anticipating a North Carolina ENT or James Madison uh situation today at daddy fckin Stadium but could it be a Taylor hanii old or uh you know AB State maybe kind of sticking around with ECU do you think or talson I think that was a 2820 game when we opened up with talson uh do you think northfi State hangs around or or do the Pirates take care of business I don't offensively I just don't think they can hang with the the ECU defense the only way it stays close is that the EC offense just sputters a little bit and I can see where that happens you got a lot of new parts here that are trying to mesh and get together and um it's it's great in practice to look good but when you get out there and it's for real with the referees uh another team and plus they played a game already and I always say when you play the team that's already played a game and you're playing your first there is a little Advantage there for them so I I don't think offensively they can do what those other teams did coming in here when ECU played them but I think offensively offensively for ECU is how quickly they can get their timing and get themselves together that's going to be the key is to if this game's close by halftime or not Brian North joining us live from Dy fckin Stadium Brian uh what pirat crosses the goal line first for East Carolina this season say that again I'm sorry what pirate scores the first touchdown this season what pirat first touchdown um so you're asking the old man who uh barely knows the transfer portal so I'll go with Raj har you better go with a a returner then yes yes and Raj is a a fair answer although I'm interested to see the distribution at running back but more so Brian all those portal guys that came in to to catch passes from Anthony Smith to Winston Wright to Casey Kelly uh that's going to be an interesting UB stat sheet after tonight's game where are those balls going who are The Playmakers out there right right and I'm curious as to you know with the balance of that offense how much do they run and who who gets when they start throwing it are they doing bubble screens out are they trying to throw it down the field just so many things but when you have that many weapons you know the tight end game I always say Mike Houston really loves the tight end game and we'll see how much that factors in here he just hasn't been able to show here and his time at ECU so maybe they've got some tight ends they can start throwing it to some more so I'm just real curious about the distribution as is everybody as to where the ball's going to go and if there's going to be a primary target or if there's going to be you know 10 12 people with catches in this game and six or seven running backs with carries nor thanks for joining us have a good night out there and wherever you may be covering football on this Saturday feels like the old North is back live at the stadium like no kids around them having trouble hearing you at this point all right well good enough see you fire up P out in the field doing his little dance now and they're getting ready to get this thing going all right later North really good today it's the PA system I can tell you that thank you Brian see you all right see you slipper all right there he is Brian North couldn't hear me there at the end I'm having trouble hearing you we appreciate Brian North joining us today I don't appreciate Miami putting another touchdown on the board it is 30 to1 in the swamp it is gross uh Syracuse are they doing anything boy this day stinks this is all gone to Hell in a hand basket here Syracuse is in the red zone but they got a lot of work to do if they want to cover it's looking like a rough day at the moment uh Northwestern just scored as well UTSA is up 15 so hopefully they can do something Indiana's up 17 hopefully they can do something but uh not looking good at the moment yeah we need a big uh big night cap uh if we're going to do something on this week one Saturday all right uh let's take another break when we return Earl we haven't even told we're going to make uh fantasy picks myself you and Shirley will pick a player an ECU player who will have the most 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we get you ready for ECU and Old Dominion from norick this time norick's coming here today we go to norick next Saturday all right we always wrap it up with our fantasy picks and for week one we got Earl here we got Shirley here myself uh and what we're going to do let's go uh snake draft we'll all draft two players uh the only players you cannot draft are Jake Garcia and Kon Hower but uh everybody else is available to you to draft Shirley ladies first but I'm going to let you choose your draft order because if you pick first that means you won't pick again and until six last yeah last um CU we're going to go snake draft style so where would you like to draft Charlie thir okay so you're going to get the third and fourth pick you're going to be able to double up Earl since this is your first time and we appreciate your efforts today great job I'll let you decide where you pick I'm going to go with the player that I picked earlier wait wait wait wait wait wait wait does that mean you want to pick first oh you can pick second if you'd like I I I'll go I'll go first okay all right that's fine I'll take Winston right guy predicted to have the most catches and yards earlier so how it go with him I'll go ahead and go with Raj my guy I think he finds the end zone today Shirley you are up with back-to-back picks my first pick Marlin gun Marlin G all right uh and then I'm going to go with o um what tight ends do we have available right now well Casey Kelly Tyler Savage others is Alex Harper playing tight end today that's only on the video game ah dang it you know what we should do make Alex Harper available and if he has perfect snaps you get like two points a snap or something but no who do you got Charlie there's only been three players selected you have a lot to choose from here I have I'm thinking we know you know what I'm going to go on the defensive side of the ball because you know I like to take a risk you get a t a point per tackle uh Force fumble recovered fumble interceptions wor two touchdown six okay give me Mike Edwards all right I think he's the guy making the most tackles for the Pirates today at that linebacker position uh I've been saying this guy breaks one so I'm going to practice what I preach and I'm going to take javius Bond so I'm going with two running backs Earl I'm showing my age this is how fantasy football used to be you take your running backs early now you take your receivers Early N I still two running backs in fantasy football I'll go running backs because the depth between one and 10 on running back that is true a lot wider just worry about injury uh all right you got Winston Wright who are you wrapping up the draft with see I I thought uh the one guy I was going to go with was not going to be available but he is yeah and I and I was anticipating on taking Conrad for that but I'm going to go with Casey Kelly the tight end there all right because you think he gets in the end zone yes today all right there are the pigs and that is the show uh Joey says clip has gone soft on The Intern Joey just wait till we talk to Brett coming up next week we got something for him let me thank the sponsors of this program budlight this show brought to you by Bud Light reminding pirate fans to stay in the game drink responsibly budlight the official beer of the ECU Pirates probably distributed by Caroline Eagle Distributing since 1989 we had stats on the Ube stat sheet we went inside the United Bank Coach's Corner we had our Orthopedic e injury report hope to see Chase soel in the lineup soon for ECU all our scores were on the buccaneer Music Hall scoreboard we had our Papa John's pirate preview with Brian Bailey you heard from Ross Gordon on the advanced Moving and Storage opponent preview we are staying hydrated and energized thanks to Celsius our awesome pregame spread was covered by Chicken Salad Chick check them out 112 Red Banks Road in Greenville a lot to choose from chicken salad soups sides sandwiches desserts 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Point Underdog against Miami the first game of the year you know guys we all love college football we all look forward to it I I can't think of anything more painful right than to look forward to the college fall season all summer long and then then to have this happening to you in your first game of the season Clemson experienced it today FL is experiencing it right now and it's just not even close so let's get you up to speed on the scores uh that audio provided to you by learfield it's Ohio State 24 akan 3 Texas 45 Colorado State nothing the aforementioned Miami Hurricanes 31 uh 31 and Florida 10 and oh my goodness gracious it's Now 37 to 10 as Miami has just scored again this is something nobody thought would happen I mean like literally cooked at home uh by A team out of the all cupcakes conference it is 37-10 Miami does Billy Napier the Florida head coach even make it back to the locker room with his job with his position just a complete and total embarrassment going on right now in Gainesville uh earlier today it was State 34 West West Virginia 12 Tennessee 69 Chattanooga 3 Oklahoma State 44 over the FCS National Champion South Dakota State 20 and Iowa 40 Illinois State nothing still to come in top 25 action today it's Alabama Western Kentucky at 7 Ferman versus ol Miss I'm I'm going to tell you don't overlook the dens now uh coming up at 7M on the SEC network Kansas State against UT Martin at at 7:00 p.m. Oregon at 7:30 in Notre Dame Texas A&M also at 30 plus Michigan and Fresno State and New Mexico and Arizona the night Capper at 10:30 p.m. well I can tell you this I can be disgusted at uh some behavior that cam Ward showed in the off season he is former Washington State quarterback current Miami quarterback what did he do you well he declared for Miami in the in an name image and likeness through the nil and the transfer portal Miami didn't meet his asking price financially so he said I'm out I'm going to declare for the NFL draft he put out this announcement video I'm going to the NFL draft and he did just because Miami didn't meet his asking price then Miami did meet his asking price so he withdrew from the NFL draft I mean like you're holding programs hostage over money again I would ask you guys is this what college football is supposed to be that said he very much looks every bit the part today Miami all over the Florida Gators 38-10 still in the third quarter and consider what Florida has coming up this season Florida plays not one not two not three I'm sounding like a LeBron James now aren't I eight top 20 teams this year eight Miami Texas A&M Tennessee Georgia Texas LSU Old Miss and Florida State they play Eight in the top 20 when you consider what happened with Clemson earlier today when you consider what's going on with the Gators right now think of the headmen for Florida and Clemson great beings right dabos Sweeney great human being uh Billy Napier great human being further evidence that in the new era in college football ball nice guys finish dead last here's how you guys can take part in the show you can give us a call at 855212 4227 that's 855212 4227 is where you can get to us on Twitter we're at INF sportset invite you to get to and follow me on Twitter at Mark Ryan on air it's at MC Ryan onair facebook.com/ sportset and listen live infini sportsnet.com what do you say I tell you who's going to make the college football playoff this year okay all opinions here in are 100% correct and should be adopted by you immediately or not at all okay because they may not be correct they may not be correct but I'm going to give you my best shot Ron botcher let's hit the music and let's give you our college football playoff picks for the 2024 season and here we [Music] go all right 12 team college football playoff four teams have buys who gets the Buy number one seat is going to be your SEC Champion Georgia Bulldogs your number two seed is going to be your big 10 Champion the Ohio State Buckey your three seed is going to be the ACC Champion Miami Hurricanes and your fourth seed is going going to be your big 12 Champion Utah Utes those four teams are going to have B in the college football playoff the 12 team college football playoff how about it my friends what about 5 through 12 well I'm asking myself who is going to be the best team that does not win who's going to be the best team that does not win their conference I think it's going to be Oregon they'll finish a very close to Ohio State I think in the Big 10 they're the five seed who will they oppose well the group of five the best group of five Champion I'm going to say this year it's Boise State Boise State gets back in where have you been lately good to see you again Boise State in the playoff in the 512 matchup my six seat is going to be the Alabama Crimson tied love they did with the higher kayin Deo an outstanding no ties to Alabama but simply put the best head coach of available uh they're going to face Old Miss as the 11 seed in the college football playoff love the job that lane kein is doing there and they are spending big in the transfer portal one of the most active teams in the portal is lay kein and Old Miss my 710 matchup is going to be Notre Dame and Marcus Freeman they've got a big one tonight my friends at Texas A&M on road it's going to be fascinating to see how that fold how that plays out I think Notre Dame is an interesting upset pick in that game uh and they're going to oppose Louisiana state Brian Kelly uh look I think he's getting things untracked at LSU I think things are moving in a good direction for him uh look they have to place replace wide receiver neighbors they have to replace their quarterback Jaden Daniels but I I'm a big believer in what Brian Kelly is about and what he can do I like LSU to still get into the playoff has the 10 seed and then the 89 game I will go seed Penn State and nine seed Missouri well you're saying to yourself Mark Ryan I've heard you be very cruel to Penn State on your show yeah they're always the bridesmaid never the bride but have you seen their schedule this year Penn State's schedule is literally The Island of Misfit Toys there is no way Penn State is going to have three losses in a schedule that features Bowling Green State Illinois UCLA USC Wisconsin Ohio state Washington Purdue Minnesota and Maryland there might be only one top 25 team on their schedule when all is said and done the Ohio State University Penn State's going to be in I have them as the eighth seed they're going to face ninth seed from the SEC Missouri Eli ranits really getting that party started they've got a returning quarterback who's outstanding cook and I'll tell you what uh watch out for Missouri as a viable SEC Contender this season so how about the matchups first round matchups I've got Oregon and Boise State and I've got Oregon advancing I love the matchup because it's two West Coast teams but Oregon is the best team Phil Knight and Nike can buy they Advance Alabama against ol Miss ol Miss is closing the Gap with Alabama on talent but not there yet Alabama gets by Notre Dame and Lana State give me Brian Kelly give me the SEC athletes of the Bayou Bengals and Penn State Missouri feel the same way remember Missouri beat Ohio State in a new year six bowl game this this last season I think they can get by Penn State in this game as well so now we move to the quarterfinal we've got Georgia Missouri Utah Oregon Ohio State LSU and Clemson I'm sorry Miami versus Alabama how do these matchups shake out well I'm not picking Missouri to beat Georgia okay I don't know if Missouri will ever have the athletes Georgia does I think maybe making a a college football playoff quarterfinal Max represents the ceiling for what Missouri can accomplish Utah versus Oregon in the other remember four versus four seed versus five seed this Utah team beat Oregon twice last year but the ducks have revenge on their mind a massive recruiting class Mass transfer portal class they can now match Utah's toughness and beat them with skill Oregon advances to the semi-final Ohio State versus Louisiana State uh look guys in terms of roster talent I think the Buckeyes have the best talent in America this year they get by LSU in this game who was placing a lot in Miami Alabama great season for the canes making it to the quarterfinal this is where it ends though Alabama takes them out leaving us with a semifinal of Georgia vers Oregon and Ohio State versus Alabama in those matchup I like Georgia over Oregon uh Georgia just too many athletes all told Oregon now is getting to the place financially where they can match um Georgia toe for toe you got the quarterback match up Dylan Gabriel Carson Beck but remember we all remember that opening season game Georgia 50 Oregon nothing has organ closed the Gap enough on the Georgia Bulldogs right now I'm not so sure they have give me Georgia to advance Ohio State versus Alabama what a matchup that might be kayn deer year one I think there's a tremendous disadvantage there against uh Ryan day's tenure and Ryan day's Talent Ohio state gets by Alabama we then are uh blessed to see a national championship game between Georgia and Ohio State and me thinks that Carson Beck after having just won the Heisman Trophy is going to do it again three national championships in four years for the Georgia Bulldogs they get by Georgia and they get by Ohio State and they do so yet again uh I will go 2717 in the national championship game Georgia over Ohio State uh best team that misses the college football player who might it be I'm going to go Michigan I'm going to go Michigan and the reason is they're replacing so much they lose their coach they lose their quarterback JJ McCarthy Chiron Moore year one this is not an indictment on him in any way shape or form the reality is I see Michigan losing not one not two but three games is a N9 and3 Michigan team is that record going to be good enough to make it into the college football playoff where do they go 9 and three well I think they lose at Ohio State boy think of the revenge on the mines there I mean that that one could get ugly for the Wolverines they've got two huge home games one against Texas one against Oregon I think they win one of those two so that gives them two losses on the year and then I think there will be a third loss that you can't foresee right now could it be against USC could it be at Washington right could it bewhere else on the schedule I think Michigan loses a third game there somewhere and they they'll finish 9 and3 on the year and of this point I'm not willing to bet that that's going to be enough to get them into the college football playoff this year that's my hunch outside looking in and that my friends is my college football playoff prediction for this season how did I do did I hit it out of the park what is my most egregious Omission in your opinion team that didn't make the playoff that should based on what you have seen 855212 4227 that's 855212 4227 is number to get to us on the show today Ram Merz of the Florida Gators just picked off inside the Red Zone slow to get up Miami takes it all the way down the field this is Bar None the most embarrassing humiliating display by the Florida Gators that uh could have ever been envisioned by this team I'm I'm not lying to you what what an ACC team is doing right now to my Al Mater Florida is one of the biggest sporting embarrassments of my life and look at me I'm here to take all the sharp pointy objects from you right now on the allnew infinity Sports Network it's got to it's got to be number one list right well number one on what list that's what we're doing next here's what's coming up my friends what college football program isn't what they used to be all right they think they are what they used to be but they're not anywhere close to what they used to be and someone's got to be the guy the bad guy to let them know it well what do you 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