Bill Landis

Even...

They have two non-conference games they're definitely going to win, but their third is like NC State, which is, I don't know, like a toss-up maybe, given kind of where both teams are.

I guess you like Vanderbilt.

They're at home in that game.

But I just think freshman quarterback in the SEC is enough for me to think that Vanderbilt's probably not going to win seven games this year.

Yeah, excited.

We're going to talk with Arthur Smith this week for the first time.

We get Matt Patricia this week, Cortez Hankton also, so some new coaches on the docket for interviews.

And yeah, Ohio State was off last week, but they're back at it this week, running up to the spring game on April 18th.

Matt Patricia is just buying a lot of Canadian lumber, and he needs more money to do it.

Landis, what's your word?

Flex.

It's a flex by Ohio State.

Part of me wonders if any of that is intentional, right?

Because for some of these guys, they are paying, I think, probably above market value.

The cost of assistance has gone up over the years.

The salary pool you need to be competitive has gone up.

Ohio State is resetting it in a major way.

with this current group of assistants and in some ways perhaps charting a new course with having 12 instead of 10 and having guys who weren't going to be designated off-the-road recruiters but still very much part of your sort of main core of assistant coaches, that is interesting.

But I wonder a little bit if at a time where Ohio State is not –