00:00Now, Georgia Tech kicks off their season tomorrow night against Colorado right down the road.
00:04Brent Key talked about Coach Prime coming to town.
00:08Deion's the biggest sports celebrity probably to ever play in the town, in the city of Atlanta.
00:12He's coming back home.
00:13I've played it kind of like, say, Tom Brady's coaching North Carolina and they go play B.C., right?
00:17I mean, it's a big deal, especially for somebody that grew up in the 80s.
00:19I mean, golly.
00:20I mean, he was the top of the top, the premier guy that everybody wanted to be when they were
00:24growing up.
00:24You know, baseball, football.
00:25Just the persona that was created around him.
00:28So all those things are big.
00:29You know, two new coordinators that, you know, have had success.
00:31They've had success against us.
00:33Defense coordinators have had success against us.
00:34They've got good players.
00:35We've both been head coaches the same amount of time at our respective schools.
00:38So you put all those things together now and you create an environment for a really, really big college football
00:43game that recruits want to come to.
00:45I have no idea what the spread is for this matchup, but, man, it's an intriguing one.
00:51It was a good game last year.
00:53It's going to be a good game this year.
00:55It's not just for me.
00:56It's not just the Deion homecoming.
00:57It's Juju Lewis.
00:59It's, I mean, on the Georgia Tech side of things, Justice Haynes.
01:01Like, there's a number of different pieces that make this a uniquely Atlanta matchup that I think I'm pretty excited
01:08about.
01:08And I think it's going to be a good game as well.
01:10I'm so pumped that this game's on Thursday night.
01:13I mean, it's so cool to see.
01:18That's literally, I feel like, the best place for Thursday night college football games when they were really a thing
01:24and there was no competing NFL game was Bobby Dott.
01:28It's all multiple, like a couple of Clemson games.
01:30Georgia Tech played Clemson there and Virginia Tech there a few times.
01:33It's the absolute best spot for a Thursday night game with the skyline.
01:37And the spread's six and a half.
01:39Georgia Tech's a six and a half point favorite.
01:42Yeah, and the D.C. came, was at Virginia Tech for a few years.
01:47That's the link that Brent Key was talking about, about how he's given them trouble.
01:53And it's the debut of a Mendoza brother here.
01:57It is.
01:57And he did speak with the media saying it was not his team, it's everyone's team.
02:01We can play that later.
02:02But Coach Prime, on the other side of things, was saying he is glad that Haynes King has left the
02:07building.
02:07Thank God that quarterback is gone.
02:09That kid refused to lose a year ago.
02:11And he was definitely a difference maker.
02:13I think he had a, what, a buck 40 rushing?
02:15Something like that.
02:16A 156?
02:17Thank you for checking me.
02:19I wanted to settle at 140.
02:21Yeah, this is a great team, though, man.
02:25I don't think it's just that, for me, it's not just that Haynes King left.
02:29I wonder, like, what the identity of this team is, post-Haynes King, post-Aaron Filo, post-Buster Faulkner.
02:37Like, what is, because I think the identity of this team last year was Haynes King, gritty, converting short yardages,
02:44converting big-time game situations.
02:45And you knew he was going to get it done more times than not, specifically in that, you know, that
02:49opening stretch of the year.
02:50Here, I don't know, I'm not saying it's a downside for Georgia Tech.
02:54I just don't know what their identity is right now, right?
02:57Mendoza could be great.
02:58George Godsey, the new offensive coordinator, could be great.
03:01But both these teams are dealing with a ton of turnover in specific situations.
03:05And I don't think either one of them have an identity.
03:07I know they'll set out to start establishing that tomorrow night.
03:10Well, and they lost Isaiah Canyon as well, which that was, to me, a big, he's now in Athens.
03:17And I know that he probably wasn't the most known player on that team for last year.
03:22But whenever, you know, Haynes King needed a big, a guy to go up and climb the ladder and make
03:27a big catch, a big contested catch, Isaiah Canyon was it.
03:30And that's another one that they lost.
03:33So it is a little bit of a, and I think a lot of people's eyes, you know, the thought
03:38process is, is it a rebuilding year for Brent Key and them because you lost Haynes King.
03:42But, you know, Mendoza has some of these same characteristics where he can, he can get out of the pocket
03:49and run.
03:49I don't, I'm not saying he is Haynes King with the toughness.
03:52That's kind of yet to be seen.
03:54But he's also comes from a program that's had a winning pedigree in the last two years, which was at
04:00Indiana.
04:01Indiana, so, you know, I'm just, I'm not completely sold, though, on Mendoza.
04:08I think he, he, he says everything right.
04:11He, he, he has the makeup, but can he go do it?
04:15Because, you know, Kirk Signetti didn't trust him enough.
04:18He went and got his brother, who had really at that point in time done nothing at Cal and to
04:23start.
04:23And then allowed him to kind of let him, let him leave and brought in Josh Hoover there to, to
04:28start for them.
04:29So, I'm kind of curious of, of what he's got and who he is as a player.
04:33Yeah.
04:34I think that's, there's a line of fair questioning there.
04:37And to me, this is going to be, how much does he run?
04:40How, what can this young, talented group of offensive linemen do for Georgia Tech against Colorado's front?
04:45And then what can Colorado's new group of wide receivers, new passing game really out there?
04:50Or what can they do against the secondary of Georgia Tech that was just flat out awful at times last
04:54year?
04:55Well, and when you talk about Alberto Mendoza and his character, I think he's very similar to his brother in
05:01that he spoke to the media.
05:02And like I mentioned, he said, it's not his team.
05:04Let's hear it from him.
05:05I wouldn't say it's my team.
05:06I would say it's everybody's team, that everyone's put in so many hours of preparation, so much effort into this,
05:11so many tears and sweat.
05:12And I think that putting it just my team isn't right.
05:15I think everyone deserves to be the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.
05:17It's not whoever's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.
05:19We are the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.
05:22It's such a unique thing.
05:24Like if you told me to, if I had never heard it before and you told me to close my
05:27eyes and picture what Fernando Mendoza's little brother sounded like, that's exactly what just came out.
05:32If I typed into AI, hey, what does Fernando Mendoza's little brother sound like, that would be it.
05:37But I think it, look, it's a good attitude to have.
05:40And I think one of the things I love, and really in a lot of ways, this is a complete
05:44polar opposites in terms of how these programs are being led.
05:48Like I look at Deion as, there's flash, like they want to air it out.
05:53They want to do a bunch of different things as far as like, you know, the offensive stats and things
06:00of that nature.
06:00And I look at Brent Key, he's like, I don't care if we rush for 50 yards and zero passing
06:05yards.
06:05Like as long as we, you know, crush the clock and convert four downs and are able to run the
06:10football.
06:11And, you know, it goes back to what I was talking about.
06:14Like they have to establish a new identity.
06:16And not only is it without Ains King, it's without Keelan Rutledge, the first round draft pick for Houston, which
06:21I think that he had a lot to do with the identity of this team last year.
06:24So we'll see.
06:25I just, like Bo said, I wanted to say this game was on a, was it on a Friday last
06:30year?
06:30I think it was on a Friday to open the season.
06:32I think Day Day actually went out in Boulder.
06:34It was a Friday night.
06:34I remember talking to him about that.
06:36So it's fun.
06:37This game belongs on a Thursday night to start off the year.
06:40Another big game coming up this weekend.
06:42Kirby Smart is gearing up for Georgia to take on Tennessee State and Athens.
06:45And he did caution about the heat this weekend.
06:51Game-type atmosphere in that heat because you don't have to be acclimated to a game-type atmosphere in that
06:56heat because you don't ever play games a lot of times.
06:58We practice in it, but we did get discrimmage in it.
07:01So I'll be interested to see as much about our players as I do about our fans and see if
07:06they can handle it, see if you guys can handle it.
07:07Y'all get out of that air conditioning, y'all come out there with us, see if y'all can
07:10handle 110 heat index and go up and down the field with 25 pounds of pads on.
07:15You think you'll be all right?
07:16You think you miss that one, Pastor?
07:17Absolutely.
07:19If you wear all the equipment, I'll give it to you.
07:21I'll put your ass out there.
07:24You'll be like these pro players coming back.
07:29Just slower and older.
07:36Well, I don't think Kirby's going to have to worry about the heat because he's got a pretty big roster.
07:41They're, what, 85 scholarship players?
07:43I'm pretty sure all 85 could see the field if they wanted to.
07:47I would, I was looking at this and Danny Cannell, who's a noted SEC hater, was talking about the Georgia
07:56program.
07:57It's a 47 and a half point spread in this game against Tennessee State.
08:02And he was like, yeah, they're not going to cover.
08:03He said, this will be like 38-3.
08:05And he's spot on.
08:06If Gunner Stockton plays to halftime, I'd be shocked.
08:10I would, I mean, I would expect them, especially with the heat.
08:14And there's, like, there's, Georgia has a pretty lax schedule the first three weeks.
08:21I mean, you know, it's Tennessee State, Western Kentucky.
08:24Then they go to Arkansas.
08:25Then they get Oklahoma at home.
08:27And that's kind of when I think it's going to get ramped up.
08:30But I just would not expect to see the heat be a factor because I just don't think they're going
08:34to play these guys that long.
08:35Maybe the third string might get a little tired out there with the heat, which I understand it is going
08:40to be hot.
08:40But I just, I don't expect anybody starting to be out there past halftime.
