Kirk Herbstreit
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 12 Jun
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Yeah, I was like, okay. I'll see you next week, Tennessee. Looking forward to it. I'll call you this week. It was just kind of like business mode. That's good by me.
Well, again, just going back to that senior day, just behind closed doors, just with the players, it was interesting to be there. Because if you go by the outside world, the feeling of Ohio State fans, they're very dejected by the Michigan game. And nobody's seen really Ohio State since the fight at the end of the game. Um, and everyone just kind of left the stadium.
I think that day I wasn't there, but just talking to my son and a lot of friends who went to that game, like, holy shit, what just happened? How did this happen again? Kind of, kind of feeling. And now, you know, Michigan's, uh, they're going to play in a bowl game and Ohio state's going to a I think there's the fodder that's out there on social media. Screw Ryan Day. Screw, you know, the worst.
I've heard people say everything. I hope they lose the first game and he's fired. I mean, just bizarre set of circumstances for a team that's, as you said, is one of the most talented, is in the playoff hosting a playoff game. And you've got that kind of noise by a fraction of your of your fan base. So I think the reality is what matters most is the players seem to be super engaged.
They kept talking about this isn't good. Almost every guy up there that talks said, man, this isn't goodbye. You know, we got four more to go. You know, it was just it was I don't know how many times I heard we have four more games to go. And I think they truly in their minds are buying into that kind of like March madness. When you get ready to make a run, you know, you got to win a few weekends.
I think their focus is on trying to beat Tennessee and go to the Rose bowl and take on Oregon and down the line. And, and, And I think they believe that kind of like if you go back to the team with C.J. Stroud when they lost to Michigan again, and then they had to play Georgia, and everybody wondered how would they play against Georgia. And it was like a different team when they played Georgia.
If you remember, they played super aggressively. Stroud played out of his mind, scrambling around, making plays, really outplayed Georgia. And to Georgia's credit, Georgia ended up making the plays at the end of the game to win it. The vibe of the players – Reminds me of that. At the end of the day, though, guys, are they good enough?
We can talk all day about Jeremiah Smith and all the receivers and all that, but the offensive line, if you really watch the Michigan game, when they lost the center from Alabama, Seth McLaughlin, when he went down with that Achilles injury, I think that offensive line is a serious question mark going up against Tennessee's strength, which is their defensive front.
So how will that battle go I think will be a big factor because it was in the Michigan game, and they're not obviously getting – Any of those pieces back on that offensive line. So that to me will be the big thing. And then just the crowd, the energy in that stadium. I've heard Tennessee's going to buy 30,000 tickets. I don't know if that's true, but just the vibe inside that stadium.
If things are going great, it'll be obvious, it'll be bold. If Will Howard throws a pick, how will the crowd react? If the poor field goal kicker who missed two against Michigan happens to miss a kick, how will the crowd react?
If Tennessee gets a sack and a score, a fumble and a score, how will the crowd... I'm just wondering what the energy, what you would think would be a night game at the shoe, massive opportunity, home field advantage. You would think that would be the case, but if things go sideways... I'm just wondering how the environment inside the stadium will go.
I don't know, man. I... I guess I'm hearing those same things. I don't know what it's going to, you know, I heard when Tennessee runs out of the field, it'll be like a neutral site feel like Tennessee will have their own entrance that they would have that they've chosen with their song and their music and their energy running onto the field, which I think is really, really bizarre.
Like when you go to South Bend on Friday night. and Indiana comes onto the field, you know, it's not like the normal, just the visiting team, boo, they kind of run onto the field. And then the lights go down in the home field. I don't know how they're going to do it. I'm reading the same things you're reading.
But that could be an interesting aspect, not just in Columbus, but all these playoff games. This is, again, uncharted waters. We have no idea really how it's going to go until we see it. You know, with Notre Dame on Friday night – And Indiana, you know, is Indiana going to have their normal allotment of tickets? Is it just going to be a small little fraction of Hoosiers fans inside there?
Are they going to get online and scoop up as many tickets as they can and and try to, you know, have a big showing because it's such an easy drive to go from Bloomington up to South Bend? I have no idea. But, yeah, I'll have a lot more answers coming.
on the, on the back end of this, but I cannot wait to see home playoff games and how it'll impact, like you say, the game ops, uh, which obviously is a huge advantage for the home team, you know, in normal set set of circumstances.
Yeah. Yeah. Let me, again, I, at the risk of getting in trouble, um, I think there are schools that do an incredible job with their game ops. Like you go into the SEC, I think the home crowd and the people who run those stadiums, they look at themselves as our job
is to be a distraction to the enemy and to do everything we can to the line where we can't play music while the quarterbacks you know saying the signals and barking out the cadence but we're going to walk right up to the line with the band we're going to put microphones into the band the music we're going to go right to the line we're we're we're going to maybe get a letter from the sec commissioner that we can't do that that's our goal every yeah home
And in the Big Ten, I think there's a few stadiums that do that. But I just feel you guys tell me I feel like the Big Ten is a little more traditional.
More of the band has as much to do with the game they experience as the team. So they're a little bit in a tough spot between like in the SEC, they hire a DJ. I mean, you go to a break in the SEC and it's like the party's just beginning for the fans during TV timeouts. I mean, it is bonkers at LSU or Alabama or Georgia or Tennessee. It's insane during the TV timeout.
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