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The OG Kickoff w/ Connor and Will

The best offseason metric dropped, Jesse Simonton on Jon Sumrall & post-2026 vacancies

The OG Kickoff w/ Connor and Will

Connor O'Gara

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Bill Connelly's annual percentage of returning production rankings are LIVE and the guys have tons of thoughts on them. Who do we need to change some opinions on? And how should we weigh them relative to expectations? Connor and Will break that all down. The Surrender Cobra's Jesse Simonton joined the show to discuss the early returns of Jon Sumrall, the potential post-2026 vacancies and some coaching trends. The guys close with Lad of the Week and some emails. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, what's going on?

0:09.5

This is The OG Kickoff.

0:10.8

Subscribe to The OG Kickoff on YouTube.

0:12.8

I'm Connor O'G.

0:14.3

Will, I watched an uncomfortable amount of college basketball this weekend, mostly college basketball that started after 8 p.m.

0:24.9

I'd say I watch more college basketball after 8 p.m. in this long weekend than I do at any point of the year, pro or college.

0:33.9

And I'm like a little bit basketball hungover as we're about to talk about football specific things today because that's what we do.

0:41.4

Do you have that same sort of feeling where you're like, oh yeah, we're like we don't just have this, this type of cycle every single day.

0:50.4

Yeah, we've talked about this before, but I had a long period of time where I didn't do a March Madness bracket because I felt myself rooting against the lower seats.

0:59.3

So a staff that came out today that said for the second time in history, but second consecutive time, there are only P4 teams in the suite 16.

1:07.4

And so now I'm feeling great.

1:09.2

Cinderella has officially died.

1:10.7

So I had some friends up this weekend. We were just talking about that. We really got into the brackets. I'm feeling great. Cinderella has officially died. So I had some friends up this weekend.

1:12.1

We just talked about that. We really got into the brackets. I'm in first place with a bullet in my bracket pool. So I just took a couple of years off to reset. But I loved March Madden this weekend. It was electric, man. It was. It was. And thoroughly enjoyed it. And I feel like right now I want there to be games, not tonight, but I want there to be games tomorrow. I like, I just, just one night off and then Tuesday, we're kind of back and good. But yes, it was a very, very fun weekend of basketball, maybe with the exception of Florida fans. Florida fans, I have good news for you, good news for you.

1:45.5

We have a great pod coming up today.

1:50.4

Jesse Simonson is coming up in a bit and a little bit of optimism, a little bit of optimism to help you turn the page from football to, or from basketball to football, rather.

1:55.6

And we talk as well about some coaching vacancy things that can happen next year some coaching trends that

2:02.4

we've noticed so a lot of good stuff with jesse coming up in a bit and then we have

2:06.0

flat of the week and we're in close with a couple of emails that i've wanted to get to but will

2:10.1

here's where my head's really at on this monday afternoon as we record this tuesday by the time

2:16.2

that people are listening to this.

2:23.0

Some people wait on the new Taylor Swift album. Others weighed on like a new season of Stranger things, which I'm told like took four years or something like that. So a really long time to get it and

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