The Drive with Josh Graham - COLLEGE FOOTBALL! - 09/3/19

I drive you simply put it through better football game.

The two I went this weekend with less than five minutes ago I didn't expect for Wake Forest beat Utah State or for North Carolina Carolina and Charlotte and I was surprised. In both instances, however, that wasn't nearly as stunning as what I saw transpire as the games kicked off and during the wait game Friday night at BB&T Field. I've learned this in recent years.

I still don't want to accept the fact but I think Friday and Saturday just crystallize this as being a reality. College football simply isn't a priority in the state of North Carolina right now. I heard all the excuses for why by halftime, Wake Forest.

The student section completely emptied out fans who weren't students decided to leave that football game fans not showing altogether for North Carolina and South Carolina. I've heard every single excuse for NC state ECU.

The way that crowd looked in Raleigh looking sparse it.if it's a new pickup games to hot. If it's a night game. The games just a little too late if it's Labor Day weekend, I got a get down the Emerald Isle.

We love college football but those are the reasons why the stands artful. It can't just be that college football is at the priority. However, tell me that those excuses to Georgia fans this week.

Did you see that video in Nashville. George is playing at Vanderbilt and 75% of the stands and SEC game consist of fans wearing red Georgia for my flight check it Labor Day weekend for them to question you gotta ask yourself okay it's too hot. Maybe not applying to this, but certainly late games and basketball and what to say a holiday weekend just so happens to coincide with North Carolina basketball opening the season at the Smith Center. You tell me no one's going to show for that game. Now I know there's a big difference between 20,000 people and try to fill the Smith Center versus a 50,000 person arena, but I'm just telling you in terms of the pulse of things. College football is it merely the place. College basketball is in this region went everywhere else in the country college football. It's a massive deal and that's the biggest problem more than anything else. I don't know what more you could ask for.

If you're a Wake Forest student or a Wake Forest football fan watching the digs on Friday night.

I understand it, to a degree with North Carolina, South Carolina, it's hot. Neither of these teams are doing anything authentically for Wake Forest and Utah State combined for over 500 yards in the first half of scoring back and forth. Jordan loves looking every bit the NFL prospect. He set the be the digs are looking good. It's a close game. What more can you ask for in that setting is like what I was asking that question.

What more could you want from a football game in Charlotte. We were making the joke that looking at the press box from the press box at the, the upper deck, North Carolina, South Carolina. They have these very high rising lights you have the lights that are towering above the stadium which cast a shadow and we noticed that there were so few fans in the upper deck that the ones that sat up there decided to move with the shadow cast by the lights. There so they can get a couple of degrees cooler in terms of just sitting in the shade. They followed the shadow in the upper deck at Bank of America Stadium also not a joke. Somebody came up to me in the press box at North Carolina, South Carolina. This is the opener it's UNC versus South Carolina ACC SEC is the season opener and somebody comes up to me not to ask about Sam how Mack Brown and refill on his quarterback situation not to ask about is this a big deal for will must How much does he have to win this game.

First thing that someone came up to be an asset. Hey, did you know that the college basketball schedule comes out next week. Real thing that happened and it speaks to where we are, so I'm sick of the excuses. It's also hot and SEC country. The night games are just as light in Nashville. Just as light in Louisville last night without great crowd and it was Labor Day weekend for everybody else. I'm just convinced college football simply isn't a priority in North Carolina right now.

It just is Desmond Johnson, the producer of this program today. Thinking your phone calls every 671 600 you can tweak the show at sports on triad and less you're contending for conference champion. I don't know if anywhere in the state to consistently sell out stadiums NC state they sold out against East Carolina but in state match up and selling out a game is a lot different than having an actual sellout as I think were gonna learn this weekend at Chapel Hill. What do you suspect were going to see with the renovated kingdom kingdom stadium going. I think from 61,000 seats to about 55,000 seats to make things a little bit more comfortable there.

They announced today that the game is officially a sellout North Carolina Miami a night game in Chapel Hill. What is the actual attendance for this game going to put I get how excited you might be for Mack Brown but I got a feeling we're going to see some open seats. There's gonna be some silver bleachers filling out a little bit of Canaan stadium then I'm getting here the same excuses again tonight game.

It's just too late to be playing football when other places that actually do care about college football seem to have no issue with it yesterday.

It was weird for me. You know I'm a Carolina fan.

Yes, but I've always said that I'm kind when it comes to the football team and a lot of it has to do with specially during the Fedora era didn't give us a lot to cheer for what to get up for 2050 or more flash in the pan gasket say 11 went yeah we were. We as Carolina fans were beaten down by the football program over the past anything with that. I still go to bowl games. They still at the bowl games under Fedora was the potential of the promise of something great care was always my only slight lead weeks to my point, and you're the perfect example for this last, North Carolina is giving you hope for ACC titles you don't care does basketball spoil you in that way where okay if basketball is just middling to the point where you don't know thing to make the NCAA tournament in a given year, what to say no.

If you want to basketball year in and year out is where Wake Forest basketball is right now God would that affect the way you care about North Carolina basketball. The standard is so high that you suffer basketball you expect ACC titles in that sport. Does that translate to football a little bit where you just don't care as much about a seven and six season, even if it is a winning season and you're going to about it, it's a fair point. The unethical part of that is happening with Carolina fans in terms of their use to alleviate some final fours and ACC tournaments and in anything you can possibly win in bathwater used to getting that were is in football becomes not not so much being use to it. But what would wishing like what we wish we could play defense. We wish we could actually show up. We wish we could be like we want to beware of the Carol often for me just watching them playing the way they came back on Saturday and just seeing the emotion from the kids and just felt like they wanted to be there.

That's all we ever really wanted to just act like you want to be at Carolina and play the past years, especially it was like they were just after doing a job and it's hard to watch. I love this answer. You just reminded me of something Mack Brown said after the game.

This is after the dancing in the locker room.

He was talking about the promise he made to his wife Sally who was in the postgame press conference, saying that he is going to enjoy the wins more now than more than ever, and we seen it in conversations we have with them. He he enjoys the media. He enjoys the preparation process a little more because he missed it. He didn't know he was going to miss it until he was out of the sport altogether. So this is him talking about a promise he made to his wife about even if the game is ugly and you don't play well still enjoying the moment.

The other thing that Sally might make promises with a Colorado wants 38 to 14 and I was mad because it wasn't enough to beat Alabama in US civilian and I was miserable and yelled at everybody were 25 into Texas. I was mad because we also national championship and she said if you come back and have an ugly win of better be pumped and I am so pumped, so Miceli I'm really happy with this. I will so we can we can fix a lot of things. There are a lot of love Mack Brown. I saw it when he was conducting that interview with Allison Williams. If you go back and watch the interview again. I kind of look like the angel or the devil and those movies when they're on Mack Brown shoulder. You can kinda just see my head sitting there all really. I never knew that I was in the shot of liquor so I just get a bunch of text messages. It's just me and Brent Wilkerson doing hanging out there and I'm right behind Mack Brown. But after that just so many people wanted to be around them. Eric church tray Boston and then when the press conference at the just people wanting to flock to him and spend time with Mack Brown. It was an incredible win for the Tar Heels but a more sympathetic to Wake Forest than I am, North Carolina.

When it comes to the attendance front because Wake Forest is such a small small fan base because of the size of the actual institution that limits you a little bit, at least when it comes to student and I love that the student showed up at the start of the game. The student section was complete and full, but after halftime by halftime I got other things here. This game is so good as football can be and Dave Clawson has cultivated a special culture at Wake Forest when you really examine what this roster is think about this game winning touchdown pass was thrown by Jamie Newman who got beat out by a true freshman last year and decided to stay anyway and he threw the past to Kendall Hatton who was beaten out by John Woolford then beaten out by Jamie Newman and Sam Hartman decided to stay and come back just as it happened in college football anymore. That connection that's made but on Kindle credit to Kendall. He made one of the best football decisions for himself.

Staying at Wake Forest.

If his intention was to play wide receiver if he had no more interest playing quarterback wide receiver. If you're playing wide receiver in college and you're his size and you have his skill set. What better place to play them.

Wake Forest Dave Clawson system that produced Greg Dortch and Henton look like a mini Dorchester elusive put in the same spot body type. He has all that he saw firsthand what Dortch did in this offense and with that pace right now he's be playing.

He made the New York Jets practice squad. I believe over the weekend so Kendall Hatton is seeing that is potentially be in the finish line. And I think you made a good decision overturning Wake Forest, but the other thing that stands out to be quarterbacks just so well-prepared under Clawson Sam Hartman in his first start against Tulane one in overtime game and had to be clutch in doing so. Jamie Newman told me after the NC State game where he came from behind his first start, but that was the first time he ever led a fourth-quarter day morning drive his entire football playing career and that was his first college start now. He's done it in three of his five first starts. Three out of the five pitted against it in Memphis against Memphis in the ballgame and now he did this in the opener against Utah State with that drive. At the end of the game and also didn't want to dabble in hyperbole after Wake Forest is when but here's what he had to say on Jamie Newman leading the come back to his preparation. Being able to engineer distraught. I know you have an opportunity to force every time he's very smart in terms of where the ball goesa lot when I was a good option thrown a highball candle happens a good option.

Knowing you see our practices and how often do we work those things we drilled out over and over. I think pretty good at it. So we get the situation there is a confidence level that we have coming up the most ridiculous football can get. This is the drive is 920. Now back to the drive with Josh Graham got around to looking at the first day people after week one of the college football season, knowing that there would be one HP voter out who would give Mack Brown in North Carolina and Shirley. There is one there a lot of football would be a people because there is somebody out there. I know everyone voter who loves them some Mack Brown and loves the fact that they be an SEC team in Charlotte over the weekend. Speaking of things in Charlotte Ryan McGee of ESPN now a guest with us and I often hear about when you're somebody who covers a sport is planes, trains and automobiles to get where you need to go, but in your instance first weekend of college football. It wasn't just planes and automobiles in your instance.

It was also Goodyear blimp as we saw last night you were in the Goodyear blimp with Marty Smith watching Louisville and Notre Dame. What's it like that Hayek watched the Goodyear watching from the Goodyear blimp as we appreciate you visiting with us on motorsports. I wanted something years ago I was much older boiled Ricardo after all that it for like an hour and go in the game was in Atlanta all of the new or about 90 minutes last night owls.

I will only one we were up there or we don't or 5 o'clock. We got off at 12 thing so we do seven hours a good thing minutes and I often everything in slow motion like the fast speed. We Clark according to our polity Capt. Cosmo's not making it up last night on the court except cosmos we were taught like 30 miles an hour. Most of the game doing laps around the stadium in Locarno Stadium. Turtle down right next to the stadium and the cable laps for seven hours were was and that we never recruit about 15 point know the crate is perspective looking directly down was such a riot watching you both. Mainly because Marty Smith had a Talladega T-shirt in your shirt simply just had a bald eagle on the race without a guy like a Beitler gas station American Eagle shirt and it was all him that it was in honor of the Goodyear Eagle racing cars was that North Carolina, South Carolina and Charlotte over the weekend and it was quite an upset was one of the bigger stories in college football over the weekend and I spent some time talking to the voice of the Seals Jones angel who was telling me that at the Mack Brown live show that they have the radio show in Chapel Hill that they had trouble finding seats for as many people wanted to show up and see Mack Brown and after the game ended being on the field be in the locker room.

Just seeing how many people wanted to be around that guy and how popular he is, how beloved TSC and the reaction in the media considering he was one of us for about five years. Is there a coach in America. Ryan you think is more beloved right now the Mack Brown going down the list you all and we start on the list of Hall of Fame coaches and probably you would like about it was hard to win in a bad mood or a bad mood when they made their excitement will absolutely make you more comfortable and let your guy you know you got a note out of trouble wall with God win games could never change. You know you know this. My babbler called football for four years and workdays of Mack Brown when he was at upstate and work as my Brown workdays Mike Brown everyone necessary to protect and he never changed the matter how much money had he was still the same guy enjoyed working with him so much and what's amazing is that even after he's done this job but don't think I ran into him in Charlotte this year for the launch of the network randomly ran into the office and you would have no one that he was the head coach again and talk to me about my daughter Banner elk. Everything else is like you did. You know when he was schlepping around us and pressbox of ESPN on Twitter@ESPN McGee brought up you freeze 10 football look more ridiculous than to freeze coaching from a hospital bed pressbox a big story in our call last week about the call and no liberty suddenly committing the same amount of money and facilities and this almost desperate to get into power probably given. Again about any conference and issues you know the whole thing. They are blissfully unaware of how their perceived nothing while the rest of the country and I think that includes what we saw about Bob coworker Chris Lowe know you freeze forever great stories. Our car right now, which goes into all the details of the logistics of land lying in bed. I'm writing about my computer writing about.com tomorrow and fill a room with the one you freeze finally fulfilled prophecy that all of our parents when they would scream at us personally.

PlayStation two you to make a living laying in the bed. Plaintiff know what football would point way the post game press conference as I was in off and I can tell you that no one in the pressbox barrel Memorial fighter was paid any attention. Old gold filled everybody's watching her mouth delivered my favorite part is the background liberty in them.

Like you said it's well said being blissfully unaware of how their perceived bringing in Ian McCall. Then I read you freeze despite the fact it's the largest Christian institution and maybe the world and what those guys. The reason why they're not at the previous places they were employed. Of course the actual mechanics of it him being in the bed calling first and second down, he's wearing a visor for some reason he's in cargo shorts and in the postgame press conference. He's wielding a Coke.

The grand Marshall will be a great talk to 40 minutes raw that you freeze it his house to this day have a library of VHS tapes that you recorded right like the 90 and so all I could think of texting and telling that he looked like. Given the post game laying in bed with Pat on hold with Coke classic laying in the bed complement the boys back shop look like you like it just finished for Martinsville.

What's the most sick or injured. Ryan McGee has been but still check didn't work well on. I have gone gone without sleep Daytona Daytona every year there is some sort of play for two weeks and there's some sort of what pressbox play almost annually takes over and got only a couple going to go out like jump on and never, never one to not be blunt, but not looked me you need to put the microphone down to the hospital. I get the look that bad, but Pierpont got me some clothes out in the bottom 10. I am one of the things you have to read if your college football sanded something we all enjoy ESPN.com. He was gonna rank the top 10.

You might as well get the bottom 10 in there as well.

Who feels worse today South Carolina and Wilma Stamper Willie Taggart in Florida State. All well. Not bad football Florida State because you know there they were with lead against a brand-name team and team that everyone agrees work to do but I think in the case Florida State I get really tired is very much beloved in an industry, but what happened to them until after year ago. Just starting and so it looked like okay you know what that will normally Florida State's still there. I got a chance and instead they got got tripped out and technical recover and the quarterback situation case Florida State you just automatically go back to that dark place mentally where you are year ago and am yeah Lola you 2000 play somewhat better, but expected within when the phone with the turnover for bill field goal of the game slip away by the graph that had that look like all man. Here we go again because I was finished I am about on twitter@ESPN McGee read the bottom 10 starting tomorrow, that's going to be something that's appointment reading every Wednesday nine enjoy Jeff on the flip cast last night.

Look forward to seeing you sometime soon yeah I'm good.

I am McGee. Let them do that. Let's get started now back to the drive with Josh Graham. Now it's the safest in the just being in that last golfing who is safest bet. This might surprise you but over the weekend. I think the theme clearly emerged that teams the Houston Texans. You might dislike how much they had to give up in order to bring in Laramie tonsil from Miami you might not like how much they got back in exchange for the judge Dave Young County who was seen to be this all everything prospect coming out South Carolina when he was the first overall pick. Some years ago, but there's no question the Houston Texans got better in the short term by these decisions, they became a better football team right now for just going to limit the scope to the 2019 season as soon as Andrew luck got injured and Andrew luck decided hey I'm I got a step away from the game and he retired the Houston Texans became the favorite to win this division and I believe Bill O'Brien saw an opportunity with him having the control of personnel decisions. Remember Houston currently doesn't have an acting GM Bill O'Brien. He's the one that made the call. It's gonna be Bill O'Brien's butt on the line. If this doesn't work, it's going to be his head if he can't win with what he has in place so he decided to go all you got the quarterback. Now you need to protect your top asset and that's gonna cost you something Laramie tonsil to give up a lot to give them to get them, but you also get another weapon along with tonsil you get Kenny stills which it might be a little fishy everything that's happening with Stephen Ross and the criticism from any still stills is too good to cut but he's shipped along with Laramie tonsil. I just think it's a little bit fishy there Lamar Miller the same night Andrew luck retired. He sustained a season ending knee injury you bring in. Duke Johnson already in a trade with the Browns so we bring in Carlos hi as well. Over the weekend so they have a little bit depth at running back in the trade with clowning you bring back some good outside linebackers take Martin tedious bingo former LSU Tiger you get a corner as well. So thank God better and I already thought that they were to division favorite is there team. You'd say is a safer bet to win their division, then the Houston Texans are to win the AFC South. If we take the New England Patriots off the board. The only other one I looked at was maybe the NFC West. I think the rams a good thing a step back. I like with Seattle's doing out there who knows what Jimmy G and the 49ers are to look like. I think a lot of people are overreacting to the preseason.

Jimmy G has been great since coming up that me but you're not to see anything schematically anything other than vanilla officers in the preseason, so I went over react to that too much. I don't think the NFC West is a complete lock is people were making out the big I still think the LA Rams to get to make the playoffs, so I really feel like it's the Houston Texans, who else might be a nominee for the safest bet the winter division we could always put Pittsburgh in there with Mike, just because he's never had a losing season so you kinda had your bed a little bit there that maybe not. When the division but have a good shot at winning the vision because they never have anything see. Are they the favorite to win the division right now. I mean I get out of Cleveland I got last year.

Yeah, I may ask that I did my pics today this morning and I actually have all three of them in the playoffs to have your all three of those teams in the think all three regular Cleveland and both were the wildcards okay so I don't think it just just to look at what you said there Pittsburgh might be a team that is a safe bet to win the division.

But you just said it yourself.

That division so good to produce three playoff teams that automatically I think this qualifies you for being the safest bet to win the division. One singular team were looking for a division that has one or two good teams because the biggest threat to the Houston Texans. Is it Indianapolis still Jacoby percent got a two year $30 million contract. It's a great team around the good offense of line he is good enough not to mess it up.

I like the Colts defense. I like Marla Mack running the football. I really like the Colts I thought they were to win the division of Andrew luck was playing quarterback for them. Are they that much worse. With luck, not being there. Who is the biggest threat to Jacksonville's thereto and Jacksonville was a few plays away from going to the Super Bowl II years ago and I was with Blake Bartels and I think most of us can agree Nick Bowles is an upgrade over Blake Bartels while you don't want your franchise guy to be Nick. Probably is an upgrade of what you had before. It looks like the Colts played NFC South so that would kinda make me not pick them that way to the fact that likely box of things in the Panthers.

Basically the first place because the AFC South is playing the NFC South. So there is talking on a September 22. I think that if the South is the best division in football and then having to play against them makes me leery to say there locked when it Jackson was at the best defense. Not pleasant. They all have to play the NFC South. So I'm saying, who is the second best team is it Jacksonville or is it Indianapolis, I would go Jacksonville. We should have a guy with suitable ring on his finger, playing quarterback.

Now granted Nick Bowles September October Nick folds different than December, January, Nick Bowles, so we'll see how that plays out. But it's better than what they had and if they just got a middle-of-the-road offense and accountant defense. I'll take that over whatever the cultural out but I think the Jaguars defense be better than the Colts defense. We were just talking about North Carolina Mack Brown with Ryan McGee of ESPN. Your thoughts welcome on twitter at sports on triad 336-777-1600. It is clear that North Carolina has captured the nation's attention now and it starts with Mack Brown is one of the most beloved coaches in all of college football is a Hall of Famer is a recognizable name.

He has the track record and we can go through the list of active coaches who have won a national championship.

It is Nick Sabin, Dabo Sweeney, Jimbo Fisher, Les Miles Mack Brown. I think that's it. Five coaches who have one a national title active in college football. Now the urban Meyer stepped away. It continues with the quarterback though.

I think this is a piece of it, Sam.

How first-ever to freshman to start again for North Carolina and he leads not one, but 290+ your drives against the will must SEC defense in the NFL thing you heat that to start his college career. How do you not get excited first with having the recognizable beloved Hall of Fame national championship winning coach but also the true freshman quarterback who shows you cats. One of the most wrongfully talented teams in on the schedule this year that he can do that.

He's capable of 90+ your drives to win games for you. You Help be optimistic and excited about that. That's why the game sells out on Saturday. I'm adjusted to see what actual attendance looks like versus the sellout tickets sold for Miami, North Carolina seven or 8 o'clock tickets. We can't take this weekend will be affecting but North no one has my attention. Now I asked Matt Brown after the game about what he seen in Sam how considering the fact he's coached other great dual threat quarterback's such as Vince Young and Colt McCoy and this is what Mack had to set the thing we saw in and practices that he is mature and the kids really believe in him and he is a great leader for them.

There is always a quiet leader is very confident and anti-Soviet on the run and then Sean and Colt McCoy made so many place when they're out of the pocket and they're looking down feel like to and one very is wide open and he didn't get that to them in practice. He's been zipping that out there so he'll be all over himself and Mark is not to touch them. When this but that he's just he's very accurate and he strong leg and he's tough. You can see something healing care, North Carolina's football schedule is among the most compelling in the ACC. The only one that might put something up against it is. Who has the most difficult out a conference schedule. The last three years of any team in college football. Here's the out of conference games.

They have Ohio this weekend. After that you're playing Penn State and UCF minutes Delaware but Penn State UCF that's not easily easy shipping for you for North Carolina. You got South Carolina in Charlotte.

But you also play Wake Forest, which again is a nonconference game. It's not an ACC game next week in Winston-Salem stay after that North Carolina schedule.

It's fascinating. This year's going to be interesting. The Tar Heels there on the map. Regionally there on the map nationally and it starts with Mack Brown but it continues with the schedule and the quarterback you are listening to W STS Winston-Salem WCL to Greensboro WPC in Burlington WMF or Highpoint those signals making up sports up triad is 609 24 communicate to the drive, Josh Graham, the winning celebration. You national championship seasons poop in the year with the wind over Elon over the weekend were now being joined by the head Aggie at Sam Washington kind enough to return to the program coach how happy are you, even if things are closer than you might like them to be and things get dramatic just to be want to know how much better you feeling knowing that you have one in the win column and still not in the losses of all heart will gain didn't happen very easily. Elon body and a very worried team and they played hard and he competed in the queuedidn't in the fight to challenge and being it's going to be a 6 o'clock kick right here on sports on triad AT&T facing data Cutlass blue Devils. What did you learn in games like this. Well, really, where we need to be. Actually, I think it and I think the right way and that the stuff in teaching fundamental and take me in an implant without effort and would like key is to get the opportunity to see what he really supposed to lay. I think it's a great opportunity for we always appreciate having text cut cliff on because he's obviously got a great football acumen and a tremendous background, but when I talked to coaches. His name is always brought up in terms of the most respected coaches that are out there in the community and the industry.

What do you admire most about David Cutler again like I think you did the right way and he's a player's coat.

He won't get educated and you can convince it and you can, and I think there's so to import that had a pretty difficult opponent. I'd say on Saturday he was facing Nick Sabin and Alabama and the game was scoreless after one quarter, of course, Alabama does what Alabama has been doing the last decade or so on their way to winning in the opener.

What did you see from Duke in preparation and that first quarter but really just the way they were able to hold their own against such a formidable opponent will compare with that indicated great indicated that they came in the game with a plan and the point of the type. Things with all the technology growth. Great job. When you enter these games. You obviously instill in your team a belief that they can win them. What does apps actually capturing one of these wins against an FBS do you moving forward because last year you went into Greenville you beat the Pirates and now this time around, there still a lot of players from that team last year who know what's not know what that's like, you know, we do have mom didn't know what Capable of leading and happily game combated, but God gave me a very cold water, but you know we will do we do know we can do it will and see what happens when you see for Quentin Harris is the quarterback from Duke is replacing a top 10 draft pick. But Conklin seemed to like this guy a lot what of you seen from him until very good decision-maker.

You don't make bad decisions and you can go to football, and am more afraid of his feet think he's very end when the balding commitment so the dual threat and you know that Todd contained with in the length of the trip option with him not to, you know about him even more so.

Tone test was a challenge still on a NT head football coach Sam Washington spending time with us here on sports on triad 6 o'clock kick off time you can listen to North Carolina ANC facing Duke. Once upon a time we discussed this before in prior visits that you were Once upon a time a player and a teammate with Jerry Rice among all things, and then you been a coach for many years as well. I can help thinking about you freeze this weekend. It was one of the things that stood out to be just him wanting to be on that sideline but just as healthy and unable to get them there. So what if they do, they build like a clock hospital bed. It seem like for him to coach liberty against Dino Baber's and Syracuse.

It had me thinking though. What is the most sick or banged up. You've been either in a game as a player, or on the sideline as a coach, 000 here without a doubt I had walking pneumonia, one, and I actually get out on that Friday and the doctors that did not believe that I live morning and when coaching a football game. What was that Saturday like we did move, but the hub ballgame at 76 football game, so he knows a very good no ballgame without them in their midday. More about your health coach your health well in the bag to the one who was over in every group.

You guys are crazy. You know that how did you feel Saturday about the game and not the fact that hospital bed. We will gain yeah, and it's done a lot for you and we've enjoyed watching it the last few years coach. Best of luck against David cut cliff in the blue Devils this week and will be keeping an eye on it. Look forward to hearing it on the radio. Thanks for spending time here. Thank you. Got it at Sam Washington man.

It is a conversation I'm interested in having just the most sick. The most injured you then and just continued to do your job right. There's times where I've come in that in the law offices of Timothy D Wellborn studios come to the microphone and just know I'm not 100%. It might be. I have the flu and might be. I have the cold cold but I don't think there would ever be a circumstance that I would be laying upright like you freeze was and deciding to still do the radio show.

Could you imagine that what would that show sound like if you had me propped up laying there and then you just put the microphone in my mouth. There are some radio guys who would do that. I bet you Fran Sasse up north in New York for FAN, he would have the microphone there and still do the radio show, but it's just inside that is talking about walking pneumonia and I asked how that Saturday go in the first place he got about doing fairly how exactly the game went but that that's that's sports. I guess to man.

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One through three in that order, as we did in the preseason after one week of football, but where we have disagreement. DG is where to place Florida State you had them very high in the preseason still have them at number six. I've been out on Florida State the moment they hired Willie Taggart. I didn't think it was a good hire and last year was just justification for me. I have them in my ACC rankings and I need to see more before I believe in Willie Taggart how much trouble do you believe Taggart to be an right now in a lot of trouble.

You need the right thing.

Make sure that he continues to have the truck acquired and he already put his foot in his mouth along the Boise State.

I think you know the disparity between your rankings in mind, ranking are truly meaningless beyond just one conversation I think is a bigger reflection on the nature of the 83 that it is anything else.

In other words games four through 10 are not dramatically different one another and if you win your cooking. They offer you my credits in the top third of the league that you lose record game to get the key entry might gravitate toward the bottom. That's just the nature of this week only club and maybe one or two other very good clean only one or two really bad teams and everybody else looked out of the shade of gray in between they lost to a really good payment. Boise State. They have a chance to be the best thing from outside our five all of college and be wise. James Blackman is one of the five best quarterback cam Akers is one of the five most running back is one of the half-dozen best wide receivers in the league, and they have other talent on both sides of the ball so they can compete. I hear your reservations about Willie Taggart and did on the day that he was hired for a lot a lot of different reasons and he's the guy that not only entered this even close to the football on the now given that he lost game one after failing to make a bowl last year at a school that had been there 30+ years in a row. Of course he has the vultures swirling around him. The only way that they're going to go away.

If he starts winning football games against good teams to state your always good to have the talent he had last year Brian Burns is to be making his NFL debut for the Panthers as a first-round draft pick on Florida State on Sunday. DeAndre Françoise.

He was somebody who played on a team that won nine or 10 games just to you. Years before that he had the injury against Alabama was trying to come back from that and he was dismissed this off-season. It's never been a question of talent with Florida State assist what you do with it, and Willie Taggart even though he had a +500 season in Oregon in between getting the Florida state job and turning around South Florida for a few seasons. He still has a head-coaching record that six games under 500 now 52 and 58 yeah like that. I share your reservations. I will say that Rocco meant it all at UVA. When the coastal division title his first year with the Cavaliers. He had went. Now Florida State has more County Court than UVA did when he took that job. But there is a big difference between your want in your and that's why I think Willie Taggart get that lead some benefit of the doubt from last year because it was new staff was mostly knew his way was entirely new to those players. If you can't show significant progress in here to the way remember bronco Mendenhall went from here with six wins and then ate when the now you receive favorite coastal that's what a healthy upward trajectory looks like an UVA football had when your you know what you want. Virginia Tech were your best years were in your wanting to. Then you handle a rough year last year and then you lost your opener against Boston College that the downward trend and if you're Willie Taggart you even get that brought about what they get for Goodyear so it crystal clear. I mean all these first-year coaches and other school. Mack Brown is good to get the benefit of the doubt if he does not follow-up on a win over South Carolina Jeff Collins at Georgia Tech Manny Diaz at Miami. The Kargil deponent this week. They're going to get benefit of the doubt even if they underachieve Willie Taggart in year two doesn't get that same benefit of the doubt. You're right about having enough talent last year.

They have enough talent. This year they just don't have the big getting to know you brought in your two I'm just so concerned about what I've seen and you're right you're implementing a new system so what you do in the off-season to bring in a new offense of coordinator bringing Tyndale bridles, who already has his own problems in his background Florida State yet you mentioned Willie Taggart putting his foot in his mouth. He was speaking to the media today talking about blowing the 3113 lead and he said it was an issue, or at least in part, the issue was hydration for the reason why they lost and I forgot I still want to hear about hydration when you blow a lead and you're playing a team that's in the group of five, even though they are very good one and a team that comes from Idaho when you're practicing in living every day in the state of Florida.

I don't want to hear about hydration in that circumstance, but moving things off of Florida State.

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The attendance at the games. I attended this weekend concerned me a bit. Wake Forest you know it it's smaller net of fans that you have when you have a small private institution and the crowd that they had given opener. It's as big as you can expect it to be at kickoff for an opener when you're playing a team even if Utah states good. It is still Utah state. And that's tough to sell for people to come out. 8 o'clock on a Friday night. It was good. Fans left right before halftime, though, and it was an exciting game and it had me just a little concerned as to why you might leave an exciting game. When it's a win.

Wake Forest is good in the game is competitive, North Carolina, South Carolina on Saturday 52,000 announced it's not even close to that in Charlotte were just making jokes that help fans were sitting underneath the shade that was cast down from the light pole at the top Bank of America Stadium. It just leads me to arriving.

I'm tired of the excuses of noon. It's too hot.

If it's a night game it's too late. Oh, it's Labor Day week and I want to hang out at topsail. Those are problems the SEC has and if it was college basketball. I don't think we make this excuses college basketball I'm in college football to me.

DD doesn't seem like it's a priority in the state of North Carolina. How do you view your life. Certainly, if you compare it to place quite yet. It is an industrywide college football and, for example, in the last Decade we have had for the first time know our grand guard great-grandparents generation it back when it was a whole different world back to back to back to back to back decreases in the average attendance at NCAA football games. In other words it has gone down each year by years in a row and that had not happened at any time in anything that looks like you know the modern era, or at the last half-century and what's interesting about that as we continue to follow it during your career, which I predict will be long and distinguished way beyond your current achievement level, which is also already outstanding in your lifetime in the professional day is absolutely vital in my remaining decade in the Craig industry beyond it's not going to matter that much in the bottom line explanation for that is the money is still huge right now that the hundred million youth leagues are making way more than they used to because of the contracted televised their product mainly in football, lot of folks don't understand what huge percent of the TV deal is football value even compared to men's basketball in the next decade. Whatever attendance problems continue to linger it and you bought it. Not scary issue because your printing money in the backyard with the TV deal if you get to the point where the apathy among younger people and they're not watching it like they're not going to the stadium as much now you have that you like working the road for college athletic football. The overwhelming majority of the bill and you have that you prefer to have both working at full speed right attendance NPV money right now it is broken. To be nice about it but the TV money continued to be so what that remain, at least for a while longer a back burner issue believe the source of that is David Glenn with the seer on the show, Pat Fitzgerald. He had controversial comments that were mostly applauded when he blamed millennial's, it's the easiest punching bag to have an 20 19th hey if something is going wrong, millennial's, those of the people to blame. It's all their fault, it's the phones and all of this the source of it for me is that I think football is the one sport I can think of DG where the television product is arguably better than the actual in game experience taking away the tailgating and the stuff that happens before games and other sports. I think in Stadium in Arena experience is probably better than what you can get on TV but football is the one sport you have the luxury of the replays and rewinding and fast forward to seeing what happens in real time and you know the way the commercial breaks work in how the sports is constructed with stops and starts. It seems like it's is built for television. I think that's the root of it what you think you're right that I think the bottom line is I get I will work like how many families build their entire all in their entire Saturdays around the tailgating. Not just fix seven or eight home again, his family and friends in the grill and sometimes even you know musician your SUV all the or RVs I should say it's truly in. Way beyond football game. I don't think there are many young people, building six, seven or eight weekend or sometime tomorrow to go on the road around college football. There are older people tend to have more supposedly, young people were stored in their way to get that it's right what is scary part is how much are these young folks that either their alma mater or their favorite school support, and there's no doubt Josh that there are more sports and entertainment option day that at any time in our lifetime.

Your childhood compared to my childhood as a dramatic difference that were not far from each other. 20 or so years right with the world has changed and there are more often than ever. Your disposable income and spend your time, and whereas in game experience report ball can involve the tailgating even better than another sport.

I agree with you, you know, there's no line that you might look great deeper.

There is no line waiting to get your beer ((in order in pizza and avoid parking and a headache than confessions and all the rest that where does it all come out. We don't know what the NCAA president and conference commissioners and coppers, athletic directors is you is a big one for them right now and it's only going to get bigger, unless the dollar to continue to grow in a big way to be hard to pull off moving forward. Given what we know about court cutting and coordinating the rest of that DG was at ECU NC State over the weekend I was at Wake Forest Utah state and also in Charlotte, North Carolina, South Carolina, so we have you covered here.

All our bases here on the sports on this weekend. Me and DG were to be at the same place. The big tailgate tour power by Continental tire is going to be at North Carolina Miami, a game that is been called in this conversation regarding attendance, a pretty big deal like that I'm able to say this a sellout this season to get sales good and sold out for the season. North Carolina announced a few months ago and then today you just knew it was gonna happen going into Saturday's game. They had 200 300 tickets left. According to people with North Carolina athletics and Mack Brown joked with us after the game that those tickets probably got sold out in the 30 minutes in between the final horn sounding at us coming to you to talk to the media here that is what's happening were Boca to be at that game, I am in North Carolina on Saturday is that the biggest storyline in your mind for this game see them what the attendance ultimately is in the support around Mac big one.

I think it is impressive that they sold out football tickets for the first time in more than a decade when matters given the chaos in the code.

The car you want to dream big. After their victory early and even though Miami lost part of the nonconference game background on my show today described Miami of the most weight not named closet so in all matters in the long run if you can't bill your stadium for a high profile five-time national champion. Big brand-name opponent. When you have the energy of max return and the positivity of beating the gamecocks will then have to have when you get up you know that you are you are you really that much of a basketball school that even this dynamic doesn't inspire burnout at 8 o'clock right one more reason that a little bit easy to get there. Not everybody loves the 12 o'clock start baking on by 8 o'clock in prime time to get the quality opponent with some young talent, including Sam Howlett quarterback and an energized event date. I think it's going through what you actually portray accurately portrayed earlier, Josh. I think you many examples were not enough people care about college football and the date of North Carolina and I think Saturday night in Chapel Hill. Good to be an exception to that rule will see you then, on Saturday thinks the newness that but always want Victor got Glenn on Twitter at the McGlynn shell. You can listen to DG three right here on the sports as we got to get to the house today. I have amassed singer news wall were both on the shelf. There weren't we both loved amassed singer is back it's about to be here to the house next