Today's podcast has a big announcement.

David Pollock is back on the show.

He is going to talk all things college football, his perspective on Carson Beck now in Miami,

and then, of course,

been our stock group back in Athens. So he should know those quarterbacks pretty well. His pick for the SEC, the three teams he's considering for the national title winner, and he gives us his pick for it. So we've got that. We've got life advice. And don't forget, a bonus edition of Adnan Verk. He wrote a book, and he's promoting it.

And he was,

he was good.

He was,

I was worried he was going to read the book to us and there was going to be 1,000 shoutouts, but we kept on under 100.

So I'm proud of my friend.

David Pollock, our good friend, ready to talk some college ball, the host of C-Ball, Get Ball, and also the voice of NCAA football for the 25 season. Good to see you, man. What's up?

Great to see you, big dog. You stay in swole, staying in that weight room? This is usually the lightest time of the year for me because I'm traveling. It's just hard to get those T-Boe lunches in,

just a slice of avocado with some olive oil and salt, you know, just walking around,

pounding that good protein. I don't want to hear any excuses, Ryan. I expect you to, I expect you to

stay swole. That is that is one of your gifts that you've always done. Come on now.

Don't worry about that. We'll be, we'll be right back to it. Hopefully we get out on the road. Are you doing any, like, are you going to go to any games? Where are you with that at this stage of your career? Do you still get out there? I mean, I might go very few, but like, I don't know if you know this or not, but my wife, she has brain cancer. And so, like, we've been navigating this and, like, she's starting to

drive again, which is awesome. But, like, with our schedule, I think it's just really hard, man. Like, it's just going to be difficult. And then, listen, I got high school kids, man. Like, that's how you know you're getting old. But, like, I got a 17-year-old that's playing on Friday night and then my daughter's 15. And so like right now, I think family is the priority,

but you know as well as I do. Like, this is going through my veins. Like this stuff is so much fun to why. And this kickoff is stupid. Like all the years you've done it, Ryan, I wonder, like this is a playoffs. We get, we get playoffs in September in August. Like the first week of the season is going to be playoff matchups that you'll see teams that you're going to see at the end of the year, which is so cool. So definitely be falling. It probably sneak down the road to Athens a couple times and maybe get a few games and get right back. Yeah, maybe I'll see it for that Texas game. And how's your wife doing, by the way? She's doing great. She's doing great. It's definitely a,

you know, it's as when I broke my neck, like it was me, you know, and it was my struggle. And I was like, I could go and I could have a good attitude. It's a whole other animal man when it's your baby doll. And you don't have any control. And it was so we've been a couple surgeries in, but she's, my kids have always thought like I was the superhero

because I played football and stuff

and she's, uh, my kids have always thought, like I was the superhero because I played football and stuff. And she's showing like, no, like that's the real superhero. And my kids, my kids are watching it 17 and 15 and being like, man, that's, that's how, that's how you face hard. Like that's, that's what I want to be when I grow up. So it's been nothing but good things for her. And she's got, she chooses faith over fear every single time. And the kids are doing okay with that. I mean, that's going to be. Welcome to the real world, right? Like, I think that, you know, listen, we've talked about that as a family since we were younger. Like, how do we create hard? Right? Because, Ryan, we've, we've dealt

with hard in our lives and difficult situations and you want them to handle, you know, those things well because it's coming. It's a matter of if, not when. And so they've had to grow up a little bit. And I'll never forget how my son called me when I was on the road with my baby girl. And we were doing basketball and he was like mommy mommy don't want to take her pills and i was like buddy

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