Highly Disputed

A special Snow Day edition of HD on a Thursday afternoon right before Christmas. We jump back into the NFL after ignoring it on the show for a month and break down Ronnie Brown’s decision to declare for the draft. Not before railing against the state of popular entertainment in America today of course.

Shepherd got smoked by a bunch of nerds in the national semis. We look at just what the hell happened, appreciate the fun we’ve had this season, and take a good, long look at what’s ahead next year. Who’s back, what new faces we could see, and what to expect. Somehow we found time to fix the NBA schedule too.

The play-by-play voice of Shepherd Rams football and men’s basketball on TV10 and WRNR TV Nick Verzolini joins us for one last retrospective on the party of a regional championship game that was the 48-13 win over IUP for the Rams before giving you the whole-hog breakdown of Shepherd’s national semifinal matchup against Colorado School of Mines. How do you stop John Matocha? How healthy are Shepherd’s WRs? Will altitude be a big factor? How many hours per year is Chic-Fil-A open?

Dylan and Ryan are joined by the man, the myth, the legend Travis “The Beast” Bagent, the father of Shepherd quarterback Tyson Bagent to talk with him about Shepherd making it back to another regional championship game in a PSAC title rematch against IUP. Also on the docket: the legacy of Tyson at Shepherd, his path to the NFL, and the potential future of Tyson’s younger brother Ezra as his high school career ends. We wanted to run through a wall during and after this one.

Happy Turkey Day Eve. First piece of business: why on earth do the Lions play on Thanksgiving every year? Why are we keeping up this charade? The Cowboys too, who cares. Also, who does Zach Wilson think he is? After our NFL talk, we get back to more important matters: Shepherd vs Slippery Rock in the D2 round of 16.

Our resident D2 football expert, former Shepherd QC assistant Russell Goodacre joins the show to give us a full-fledged preview of all 4 regions of the D2 football playoffs, including Shepherd’s chances through each round after we give our analysis of the Rams’ first loss of the year in the PSAC title game. Before that: an impromptu preview of Shepherd basketball as we complain about our ability to view the game in progress during our recording session.

HD is live on the scene at the QFs of the PSAC volleyball tournament as Shepherd hosts West Chester. You know what that means: for the first time in a while, it’s volleyball talk! Then we break down the PSAC football title game vs IUP on Saturday and find out live on air that Tyson Bagent has made the Senior Bowl.

Logan Rothstein makes a triumphant return to the show with his Tennessee Vols coming in at #1 in the first CFP ranking ahead of their big matchup with Georgia on Saturday, so obviously we spend most of our time discussing Tom Brady’s plastic surgery, CFB bowl game sponsors, and grading XFL team names. Actual timely topics such as the NFL trade deadline, The Nets being the Nets, and of course, the Shepherd Rams, are also brought to the forefront at some point I guess.

The Ringer’s Steven Ruiz makes his return to become a Friend of the Show in record time and actually talk about real football this time, specifically his weekly QB rankings that have had the internet yelling at him every week. After he departs, we check in on the NBA and CFB before looking forward for Shepherd football and Dylan calls his shot on their trajectory.

Justis Mosqueda of SBNation’s Packers site Acme Packing Company joins the show to give a diagnosis of the problems in Green Bay before The Ringer’s Steven Ruiz and Yahoo’s Charles McDonald drop in unannounced to bully Justis about our online Madden franchise after Justis finally won a Super Bowl after years of disappointment. There’s some other stuff sprinkled in, actual IRL football, the New Orleans Pelicans, $28 Taco Bell, and Shepherd football, but Madden Pals 7.0 really took this thing over for a while.