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Friendly reminder to those in town or want to make plans to come into South Florida to hang out with us on December 11th. It's all presented by Miller Light and dollar Shave Club. It's a Levitard show hang for Monday Night Football. We're going to be at the Dolphins Mall at the Miller Lights stage at Vivo Miami for the Monday Night football game that is presently scheduled to be Titan's Dolphins. We hope to see you there. We typically have an end-of-the-year party with our fans. We're really excited about this one because it's open to all ages. You can bring your kids. It's easy to get to. It's in Doral, which is especially Hispanic and Latino down here in Miami. It should be a real fun vibe. It's for a Dolphins game for a Dolphins team that's pretty good, so we can't wait to do that. I want to talk to you guys. The transfer portal in college football has been a big topic on today's show. Certainly, it's going to be a big topic on footgirls. Okay, you guys, maybe you can warm up to it. Okay, it is footgirls. Just try it on and then we'll go from there.

I don't think so, Mike, and I'm not even on it.

All right. Well- Do you want to be on it this week? Just- Yep. We've got to have a look at it.

We've got to have a look at it. Committed a lot of budget to it. Just take that into account. How much? So much. It's too much. We need a number. I'm in bad. I went in from my personal funds. I commissioned this thing.

You used your Golden Cain funds?

Yeah, we somehow got Justin Scott, even though I made this footgirls intro.

I have a.

Tvd leaving. But I want to talk to you. We do need a quarterback. I do want to talk to you about a quarterback that I'd love to target. I don't think he's at all interested in Miami. He's a Duke quarterback, two sport athlete, Riley Leonard, really tremendous quarterback and really did a lot for Mike Elko's Duke team. He entered the portal. And this one made me sad because it's almost like he didn't want to leave, but he had to leave for this next step. I see Jess really having trouble in containing her smile because the rumors have him going to Notre Dame, which is interesting because he has a do not contact on his portal... He has a designation right now, but we all know they're all contacted well before.

I love that do not contact. It's like, shh.

Okay. The designation, do not contact means don't contact me if you don't already have my number. I found that out.

It's like being on a dating app and not wanting anyone to message you. Like, come on.

Well, you're on a dating app. That's in the transfer.

Is Notre Dame ever going to recruit a quarterback again, or are they just going to do this.

Thing every year? They actually have a freshman coming in next season who is very highly rated.

Chris Cody. So highly rated that they want Riley Leonard.

Well, he's a fan.

He's a fan.

I'm just needling.

If you want to actually learn about the quarterback room, which I don't.

Know if you do. Is it a good room?

I love a good QB room. It's a good room, but I think there were questions about if Steve and Jolly, who right now is the.

Backup-it's okay to be the team that just buys quarterbacks.

I agree. In fact, that is like... Every season in college football, if you want to make the playoff, you have to go all in every season. And so if you're a good college football coach and a good program, you have to strike the right balance between development and getting guys in the portal. And it seems that for the most part, the best teams are able to strike that balance. Teams that just find players in the portal, maybe they don't have the depth to compete later in the season, or teams that just are developing talent like Clemson, for instance, that isn't getting a lot of guys out of the portal. If they find themselves short in a couple of positions where they could have really used a transfer, it would have made a big difference. So it's hard to strike that balance. And that is, I think, what Notre Dame is trying to do in getting Riley Leonard to join their quarterback room because they have a couple of guys that they really like that are younger that haven't played and don't have the experience that Riley Leonard has. So if you have the opportunity to get a player like Riley Leonard, who was really exciting in 2022 to watch, a dual threat guy.

And then in 2023, got hurt actually during the Notre Dame game, the final play of the game. And that tanked Duke's chances the rest of the season because he came back and he was never really fully mobile.

Again, I think. No, he kept getting re-hurt after trying to play.

He was a gamer. It was a nasty ankle sprain.

Yeah, but you guys have very recent history in getting a tobacco road quarterback from the ACC in a smaller school and having success, even though the season didn't come out exactly quite how- I'm still going to miss him so much. -notre Dame fans hoped the quarterback position was pretty solidified. I understand why you would replicate it. Also, all that aside, Riley Leonard is a very good quarterback with pro prospects. But Lucy was telling me before the show that she got misty at his goodbye to Duke.

It was so well written. He put together this Instagram Slideshow that had like, it was a long just love letter to Duke, and it ended with him talking about this pond that he would go fishing on campus and that it originally started as just like something really small that grew into something beautiful. And he hoped that his time at Duke was the same. And that was so poetic and pretty. And pretty and all like, Why are you leaving?

If you.

Love it so much?

I feel like this is you just being sad that college football is coming to an end more than anything. Yeah, I think that's a part of it. If anyone's.

Transferring at this point. Lucy's projecting a little bit. No, but it's very sweet. I feel like it's not often that you see a statement like that that's so personal and specific. And I love that because it's usually like, I've enjoyed my time here. But he was like, There's this one pond and the fish there, and it was a little piece of home. And it's like, Well- I.

Need a pond.

If your goodbye to your school features you with a fishing rod in your hand in front of a pond, I know Miami's got no shot. I'm just, Okay, that's probably got Notre Dame written all over it. I'm happy for Jess and that she's going to.

Get- Two lakes on campus at.

Notre- Canals don't hit the same. I have a canal, it doesn't hit the same.

No, we got beaches and a lot of other things that Ohio State message borders accused.

He would love my D3 college up in Maine. He would thrive there. There was a pond, Miller pond. You weren't allowed to swim in it, but some people did.

This is the shuffle, though, now in college football, because now maybe one of Notre Dame's younger quarterbacks will leave, which stinks. But it happened last year after Sam Hartman came to Notre Dame. Tyler Buckner transferred to Alabama. It didn't work out very well for him there, and he didn't play very much. But then another team may get a pretty well-developed quarterback. And that was what Dave Klaesson was complaining about last week when he, at his press conference after Notre Dame beat Wake Forest, it was a very lopsided game. I can't even remember the final score, like 35.1 for Notre Dame. Dave Klaesson made comments about Sam Hartman being a guy that Wake Forest developed. And then, Notre Dame played, I Will Always Love You and put him on the video board and the whole student section. Everyone in the stadium cheered because they love Sam Hartman. They should love him. Dave Clawson's like, He's not yours. He's ours. You just borrowed him.

No, he left you, brother. Earlier in the segment, I categorized your season as maybe a bit of a disappointment. Probably for year two, Marcus Freeman, that's right on track.

I don't know. It was fine. I think the disappointment was that the Ohio State game, they should have won. The difference between Notre Dame and Ohio State versus Michigan and Ohio State this year was that Michigan's DB caught the interceptible pass that Kyle McCord threw on the final drive. Notre Dame dropped it, and that was the difference in the game. It was very frustrating that they lost that one. I don't think anyone expected Notre Dame to be 12 and 0 at the end of the year, but nine and three is fine given that their schedule is very difficult. I just think given the way that the games played out, they probably could have won at least one more of those. So that.

Is disappointing. My Miami Hurricane program is in a different place, and I liken what's happening right now with this sicko season of Portal and Cruten to my previous fanhood with the Browns, where I'd really come alive for draft time. That was my playoffs. Right now, this is my bowl season. But I do have a treetop view take when it comes to the portal and flipping recruits, don't get too high and don't get too low because it's weird, especially when you're dealing with kids and you're tagging them. It's just disgusting. But this is a marathon. Sometimes when you lose a kid, I'm not saying this is the case with Justin Scott, but sometimes when you lose a commit, there is an internal decision. We know that they're coming for this kid, and we're going to let him go because it actually takes us off the hook from pulling an offer sometimes. That's not always the case. I'm not getting ahead and rationalizing an excuse for when inevitably Miami has a couple of hard commits flipped. But that is a huge part of all of this. I think the discourse around it is fairly ridiculous and not enough times do we reiterate that these are 17-year-olds?

Think about how often you change your mind now. Think about how often you changed your mind when you were 17 years old and 18 years old. I have no grudge over any kid that is presently committed to my school or committed to other schools, deciding to change their mind about something because now when you add NIL to it, this is quite literally the biggest decision of their lives.

Well, so the thing about being 17, I do think that there's something wild about the pressure... Not the pressure we put on these kids, because now I think that the fact that there's money makes it feel better. But I think about where I was when I was 17, and I do think that when you're - Massachusetts?

Yes. I was so high.

But But you're 17, there's a well of confidence. Confidence. How were You don't know what you don't know yet. So you're like, Oh, I'm on top of the world. Actually, I feel like it's the best time to make a decision like that because you're like, I'm not going to be wrong. Then you're like, Oh, yeah, maybe I was wrong. I'm going to go to that. There's a freedom because you don't know what you don't know.

When I was 17, they put me on the Gator Bowl website, and they haven't taken me off. I wish they would change that. I get it. I wish.

They would change. I was shocked, Lucy, when I found out that they're using a picture from... I mean, it's not that long ago, but you think they they their media package every now and then, right?

Right? Lucy just been there for years. I was synonymous with that, the the.

Tagslayer I just want to say, I've been getting a lot of responses about that. That is my brother and sister in the picture with me, not Emily. We're not going to be mean to my little sister. She's cool. We like her, not Emily.

We.

All look so much better.

That's your brother? That's my brother. No, he's so much older now. So much older. He's in.

College now. Now. He's about maybe 84, Iowa points since that photo. Photo. I've so many many friends to talk.

I'm twice as old as your brother.

I think we we lost that game like 32. I'm your brother's mother.

What?

I'm your mother.

One thing that I don't understand that we're seeing a lot in the portal, and maybe you guys will cover on footgirls coming up later this week, but you see a lot of kids kids and done it and entering the portal after a frustrating freshman year. Maybe there were promises made and you never know what happens on the practice field. Maybe there were broken promises, but maybe they were also outplayed. You see kids burning up their one-time penalty-free transfer where they don't have to sit out so early on. A lot of kids are getting bad advice here. That stuff has so much value, especially with the COVID year going away, where this upcoming season is the last of it. I don't understand why so many people are doing that. Take your time developing the program, and you're that much more valuable later in the process. Because if you're openly lamenting something after one year, you're not accounting for, You're going to make this other gigantic move. Go to another place. Some of those same frustrations are going to bubble up, and you're going to have no way out. You're stuck for three years. Your way out is to hit the books and graduate early.

Are these kids? Do they have reps at this point? Yes. I'm thinking this is just like parents giving advice on stuff. Stuff.

It's a lot of I forget they even graduate. I forget that's part of it. I'm like, Oh, right. Cool.

Congrats. For most of them, they won't go pro in anything other than sports. The whole... Yeah.

But I guess the the transfer is now an incentive to, Okay, I can do this and get another NIL check.

I want to see a kid stay in school and get a PhD and just be eligible forever. Eight years, 10 years. What would they do? Get a law degree, too.

Get a law degree, too. The Golden Recruit.