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Things Discussed: Craig Ross introduces the MGoBlog Rub Some Dirt On It player of the week. What's the offense look like with Bryce? Not a spread, some RPO, some downfield passing, most of that off play-action. Opponents are going to bring safeties down—Oklahoma runs a Venables defense that wants to attack, so you have to punish that. Remember 2021 Georgia when JJ came in? He had some simple reads, but things opened up because he could physically get certain types of throws further downfield, increased the spacing between receivers. RPOs? Chip Lindsey's job is to make what you do work, not rewrite the offensive script. There will be tag RPOs where the read is more of a "run-unless"—it's not going to be like Stanford's long mesh where the read is the point. It's a check on bad behavior so they can do their thing, which is run off-tackle. Sam: Program philosophy isn't to allow the defense to set what you're going to do. Brian wants to see Bredeson used on those Aaron Shea dumpoffs more often because you freak out when he's coming your way. Mikey Keene? He's got a shoulder injury. You don't get to choose when the injury is healed; he will probably be the QB2 when he's back. Brady Norton: Not like last year. If they were down to two RGs and they were Efobi and Hattar and Norton won it would concern us, but it was Efobi-Norton two weeks ago. Concern is left tackle; they were talking about replacing Link with a true freshman before Babalola got hurt. Evan Link will start, Blake Frazier will play; Blake has to prove he's durable because he's coming off a knee injury, and he has to be stronger in the run game because he's 290-something. If Link isn't clear of Frazier right now that's an issue. DT depth chart: People were surprised that Trey Pierce was ahead of Damon Payne, but we've been saying that all offseason. You want that: Trey has eligibility next year and showed some talent. Opening weened for CFB: What's up with Ohio State and their new coordinators? Probably going to be fine with Hartline because he will just say throw it to Jeremiah Smith and…yeah that works. Matt Patricia has two great players in the back-seven but they are going to be just okay at D-tackle (I like the end they picked up from UNC). Maybe Matt Patricia is here to bottom out the culture, because as soon as he left Detroit and Philadelphia those locker rooms become two of the best in the NFL. Quick New Mexico preview: They have a 246 pound defensive tackle and a backfooting QB who's going to punt it up to a former Iowa receiver that might be injured.

Greg Flammang and Jamie Uyeyama preview Notre Dame's upcoming matchup against the Miami Hurricanes, make predictions, and talk key matchups. They also start the show by revealing their top 25 players on Notre Dame's roster. 0:00- Intro4:01-Kyle Hamilton Signs Huge Extension7:25- Top 25 Notre Dame Players28:07-Weather Update31:46-What Style Of Game 43:41-What Are We Monitoring For Notre Dame49:15- How Notre Dame Attacks Miami53:55- Notre Dame WR's vs Miami DB's59:30-Notre Dame and RPO's1:01:17-Love and Price1:04:13-Predictions

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I break down Workday's strong Q2 results, highlighting how AI solutions, mid-market growth, government expansion, partner-driven value, and global initiatives are fueling momentum. Highlights00:14 — Workday recently posted a very nice fiscal Q2, ended July 31. I pulled out growth factors from the earnings call. Just a quick recap here: for Q2, its subscription revenue was up 14% to $2.17 billion, while their current RPO was up 16.4% to almost $8 billion. So, strong demand for the recent quarter and the pipeline going forward.01:37 — First of all, suites. Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach said 30% of Q2 deals were for full suites, which, in Workday parlance, is both Financials and HCM. These consolidated data sets, he said, are more and more vital to companies. Now they can use all of that data together for some of their AI solutions, and certainly on the AI side, there was strength there.02:05 — Among existing Workday customers, 30% of all deals included one or more AI solutions. For new customers, that number jumped to 70%. In the mid-market, a lot of strength there with a new go-to-market program tailored for the needs of mid-market companies, Workday Go. In the federal government, Workday has created a new subsidiary called Workday Government.03:04 — Partners are now generating, among new annual contract value, 20%. The sharing of data for AI, Eschenbach, over the last few quarters, has been touting the value and how clean that dataset is. There's a new president in India. Workday is building a data center in India to handle local and regional data requirements there—and in Germany and the UK.04:19 — One of the high-growth areas was a recent acquisition of a company called Eversort, in the contract intelligence business. Eschenbach said that for Eversort, revenue grew 100% quarter to quarter. So that's not year over year, but sequentially—it is doubling its revenue from one quarter to the next. Overall, very nice quarter for Workday and CEO Carl Eschenbach. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I look at how the four hyperscalers are now spending a billion dollars every day on CapEx to keep up with explosive AI demand.Highlights00:19 — The four hyperscalers — AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle — are now spending, as of Q2, a combined billion dollars a day on CapEx to try to keep up with explosive AI demand. Here's where these numbers come from. And I will say here, I'm calling it Q2, but Oracle's quarter ended May 31.01:00 — But these are very close for the four CapEx spending numbers for the four hyperscalers: AWS, $31.6 billion; Microsoft, about $27 billion. Google Cloud, $22.4 billion. Oracle, $9.1 billion — far more than Oracle has ever spent before. That's a total of $90.1 billion. We had 91 days in the quarter. So yeah, I cheated a little. It's actually $990.1 million per day. But I got a little crazy.02:02 — Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon said, “You know, this is a new industry. It's pretty crazy. You know, we've built at AWS a $123 billion annualized run rate business, and we're still in the early days.” All of the business leaders are realizing that to be able to compete going forward, they're going to have to turn their businesses into AI-powered enterprises.03:20 — They don't see this as a one-time seasonal boom that will go back down. They all say, “We think we're going to be spending at these rates going forward.” Oracle CEO Safra Catz, reflecting on the $9 billion that Oracle spent in its quarter ended May 31, said for the coming year, “We are expecting to spend more than $25 billion in CapEx — way more than ever before.”04:05 — CFO Amy Hood gently guided the questioner through this, saying, “That is a lot of money, there's no question about it. But our RPO, or remaining performance obligation — we have future commitments at Microsoft Cloud for $368 billion in customer contracts, and we don't currently have enough capacity to meet that. It's going to continue to go up.” Visit Cloud Wars for more.

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I take a closer look at AWS's market positioning and the narrative shared during its recent earnings call.Highlights00:36 — I was puzzled by some of the math and the numbers that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, speaking on behalf of AWS on the Amazon earnings call, used in trying to describe the competitive position that AWS finds itself in.01:28 — We've got AWS, now on a $123 billion annualized run rate, and which grew 17.5% in Q2, which is extremely good for a company that size. The challenge comes in when you compare it with the growth rates, both in recent-quarter revenue, but also RPO, or backlog. AWS is far, far behind the other three hyperscalers on those metrics, or the rate of acceleration as they each grew from Q2 over Q1.02:12 — On the earnings call, Jassy said the second player has revenue that's only 65% as big as AWS. So that has to be Microsoft. So he's saying that Microsoft's cloud revenue is more in the range of $75 to $80 billion, but it's more than twice that — $187 billion. I don't get that. Maybe he's trying to say it's only about infrastructure, but he doesn't say that.03:46 — The issue is that the AWS growth rate is lower than that of Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Oracle, and it has been lower for at least the last eight quarters. Yet on the earnings call, Jassy said, "Sometimes we grow faster than they do, sometimes they grow faster than we do."04:07 — So, perhaps Andy Jassy, who has been an extraordinary executive, I'm not questioning his overall capability, his record stands for itself. But Jassy is choosing to try to play a little bit of a shell game here, trying to say that Microsoft's whole cloud revenue isn't all there, or some is illegitimate — something like that.05:26 — It's something that AWS has to address, own up to, and figure out what to do about it. And I think AWS is a great company. I don't think it helps AWS's cause for Andy Jassy to be using some numbers and representations of the market that seem to clash with reality. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

 In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I unpack the strategy behind Microsoft's $368B in contracted cloud business and Q4 surge.Highlights00:39— CEO Satya Nadella explained what was behind this huge growth in Microsoft's Azure revenue in Q4, which ended June 30. Overall cloud revenue for the quarter was up 27% to $46.7 billion. This is the first time it's ever released any revenue figures for Azure.01:14 — Azure was up — I think it was 34% — to more than $75 billion. So, I divided four into 75, got almost $19 billion. It said it was “more than,” so I'm going to go with Q4 Azure revenue of $19 billion. And in Q4, it grew 39%. So 34% Azure growth for the year, spiking in Q4 to 39%. And its RPO (remaining performance obligation) was up an astonishing 37% to $368 billion.02:09 — Nadella pointed to, first, classic migrations from on-prem to the cloud. He cited an enormous initiative that Microsoft undertook with SAP to move Nestlé's huge SAP estate from on-prem to the cloud. He talked about cloud-native applications scaling very rapidly.03:16 — And third, he talked about AI workloads: the investments that Microsoft is making and the progress it is making on building out its infrastructure for Azure to be able to handle all of this new and rising demand. And he bristled a little bit at the notion that some other hyperscalers are doing more in the way of data centers and regions and gigawatt capacity and data center capacity04:22 — So again, an extraordinary quarter there from Microsoft Azure, sort of at the heart of so much of this. We'll have a lot more detail on this in an article that we'll be posting later this morning on Cloud Wars. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I discuss Satya Nadella's bold Q4 claim that Microsoft is the #1 cloud provider, leaving rivals to fight for second place.Highlights00:12 — Microsoft laid out a very clear, unmistakable story in Q4 that it is the biggest and right now certainly the most powerful, most influential cloud provider. CEO Satya Nadella used the opportunity of these unprecedented financial results to spread the word that, “We're number one, and all of the other hyperscalers — Google, Oracle, and AWS — can fight for the number two spot.”01:06 — Q4 cloud revenue was up 27% to 46.7 billion. Full year cloud revenue was $168 billion, up 23%. One that really blows me away, its RPO for Q4 was $368 billion up 37%, so that is remaining performance,obligation, contracted business not yet recognized as revenue. Then for Azure, for the full year, $75 billion and a 39% growth rate in Q4. So pretty powerful stuff.02:04 — Nadella said, "We're the leaders in breadth of AI products and AI infrastructure." He said, "In our overall tech stack, nobody can touch us, and that's how we're able to deliver at this scale." He said, "We have more data centers than anybody else does," cutting against some claims that have been made by Oracle and others. "We are outperforming everybody else."03:16 — I thought it was interesting that, without identifying those specific companies, he referred to our competitors and that we're doing more than them. Now, I think this was a smart move by Nadella, right? Because we're not talking about some technical features — these are the technological foundations that business leaders will be betting the future of their companies on.03:55 — So, the hyperscalers with the best overall capabilities are going to be the ones that those business leaders tend to go with. I think it's a smart move by Nadella here to say, in my view, here's where we stand. We're out ahead of the others on all this. Now, I'm sure Google Cloud, Oracle, and AWS will have their own points of view on this, and I would encourage all of them to speak up.04:20 — I'm not talking about name-calling, but a very clear and well-articulated, reasoned, customer-oriented set of here's where I stand versus competitors here. I was glad to see this from Microsoft. I hope everybody does it, and later this morning on Cloud Wars, I'll have a detailed article offering the verbatim comments that Nadella made about these different subjects. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I reveal why AWS's growth, though strong in isolation, looks sluggish compared to its peers.Highlights00:29 — We're seeing a distinct split looking at the Q2 numbers. We've got three sprinters — Microsoft, Google, and Oracle — and we've got one stroller, which is AWS. Now, also, just a quick detail: the first three companies — Microsoft, Google, and AWS — all follow the quarterly calendar pattern.01:30 — Microsoft in Q1 grew 20% to $42.4 billion. In Q2, that growth shot up from 20% to 27%, revenue for Microsoft Cloud was $46.7 billion. Google: Q1, 28% growth to $12.3 billion. Q2, that growth accelerated from 28% to 32%; revenue reached $13.6 billion. Oracle: 23% growth in what I'm calling Q1 to $6.2 billion. That growth jumped to 27% in its most recent quarter: $6.7 billion.02:39 — Oracle has guided that its fiscal 2026 RPO — that'll end May 31 — will grow 100%. So while its cloud revenue currently isn't that big, its RPO is enormous, and its growing very fast there. Now, here's the outlier: AWS. Q1 grew 17% to $29.3 billion. Come over to Q2 — again, it was the slowest growing — 17.5% to almost $31 billion.03:21 — I think the point to look at here, though, is all four of the companies' growth accelerated from Q1 to Q2. But while the others all showed significant jumps in growth rate Q1 to Q2, Amazon — or AWS — was a modest half-point: from 17 to 17.5%.04:01 — Taking their total Q2 revenues, who got what chunk? Microsoft: 47%. Google: 13.9%. Oracle: 6.8%. AWS: 31.6%. Who is grabbing more of the new business? Who are customers — right here, right now — signing up with? Look at AWS: 31.6% of the total, but only 20.8% of the new revenue meaning that it is taking less share than its overall size and mass would indicate.05:19 — Now, AWS — I will say before I close here — it's perhaps unfair, in the category of, you know, "life's not always fair," that AWS — almost at about a $30 billion scale — grew 17.5%. And in any other industry, at any other time, that would be lauded as absolutely stunning and fantastic. But compared to their competitors, it's not doing as well. So it's a wild time in the Cloud Wars. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

business history.Highlights00:14 — Now, any question about this greatest growth market the world has ever known was blown away last week, when Microsoft reported its fiscal Q4 earnings. And I think Microsoft's Q4 results have to be regarded as the greatest quarterly results of any company in any industry of all time.00:40 — Now, I cannot say that I have done a rigorous analysis of every quarterly report from every company in every industry there's ever been. But I will be wide open to hearing from anybody about anything that expands this. It could have grown even more, but customer demand is just swamping ability to build out data center capacity.01:38 — Microsoft Cloud used to be a nice, healthy portion of its business. It's now 61% of Microsoft's overall revenue. The total number for Microsoft's remaining performance obligation: $368 billion — a phenomenal, huge number. But it grew 37%, so you've got a combination here of scale with an incredible rate of growth here on this.03:31 — Azure in Q4, it grew 39%. If you look at the full year, Azure grew 34%. Now, revenue for Azure is over $75 billion. And the Q1 growth guidance for Azure is 37%. So again, even at these very large numbers, the growth rates are astonishing. Also looking ahead to Q1, which will end September 30, CFO Amy Hood said the CapEx is expected to be $30 billion.04:45 — We saw Google Cloud last week report very, very strong Q4. It's up 32% to $13.6 billion. Oracle's reporting just spectacular growth rates. RPO in its most recent quarter was 62%, and they're predicting 100% RPO for their fiscal year, which will end May 31 of next year. AWS numbers haven't come out yet, so I will get to them later next week. But hats off to Microsoft. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

Welcome to "The Locker Room" with "Hometeam" Brandon Leak, John Michaels and former Atlanta Falcon Brian Finneran. The guys talk all the top stories from the Braves, Falcons, Hawks, Bulldogs, Tech as well as across the nation. The 7 O'clock hour is brought to you by All Four Seasons Garage and Entry Doors, Big enough to serve. small enough to care RPO presented by Subaru of Gwinnett Atlanta Braves Today See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Things Discussed: Condolences and love to the family of Greg Glenn. If you recall he came here as the glue guy/energy guy friend of Jett Howard who was supposed to make Jett better. When you talk about losing a 22-year-old whose primary scholarship-worthy attribute was he made other people better, that's a big loss. Craig mentions he met him at media day, thought Glenn was naively honest and open for an athlete. New rosters/new weights. Bryce Underwood is 10 pounds heavier already than JJ ever got, will need it to be a runner. Michigan going to screen and RPO more? Sure but I think you play man on them, put your biggest corner on McCulley, put a safety in the box, and dare Bryce to beat you. Michigan can make that work by having Bryce hit kill shots deep and by making the high safety responsible for stopping Bryce in the run game. Kill shots: Chip likes to turn a route combo that he's shown before into a surprise deep shot. Jake Garcia? Was ranked around JJ as a freshman after an odyssey, played early at Miami (yes THAT Miami), but threw a lot of INTs, went to Mizzou then ECU, and threw a lot of INTs at ECU too. Got experience. Think Mikey Keene is a much higher floor than we got from Davis Warren/Alex Orji last year. Oklahoma: They're us. Great defense, I'm not as sold as everyone else on Mateer. I think their system really beat up on Mountain West cornerbacks, and he has a lot of moxie, but I don't know how that "you don't know what we're RPOing!" offense is going to interact with Michigan's "you don't know what our coverage is" defense. Probably going to be a rock fight because Oklahoma's defense is legit. They play aggressive, the LBs fill in the gaps, and they've got a safety who makes everybody right. DL dropoff? Think the edges are going to be the superstars, but Benny is very good and they can rotate. Teams are going to try to lock them on the field but good luck surviving the first four snaps against Benny and Williams. Derrick Moore: He was winning his pass rushes regularly but other guys got the stats, had a dropoff while injured, played a GREAT bowl game. Sam says Aidan Hutchinson; I try to tamp that down to "just" Brandon Graham. Players say there was a meeting before Indiana where Wink had to listen to the players about how they do things and some of the players had to hear some things, and they all really got on the same page. Defense was ELITE after that. I'm mad about Cam Brandt switching to #9, which looks like TJ Guy's #4 and Derrick Moore's #8. What are we doing here Cam? Some of us have to chart in the wee hours. We had a 91, 42, and 8, and the fans knew exactly what we were looking at. Blake Frazier at 295: His timeline was always 2026 not 2025; I think we were talking about him as an X-factor and he's got to gain more weight before we put him out there at left tackle. Sam's OL right now from right to left: Sprague, Efobi, Crippen, El-Hadi, ….? LT: I think they have to live with Link (who lost 4 pounds and looks leaner in a grocery store), until Babalola is ready. Note that Sprague came in very well developed needed until the bowl game (though he was injured early in the season). Receiver weights: Kendrick Bell is a sneaky pick for breakout player, Fred Moore is as well. Very encouraged by Andrew Marsh coming in at 190 because his thing is he played vs Texas high schoolers bigger than his 175 size; if he's going to make that work against 220-pound safeties in the Big Ten he's going to need that size. Center? I think Crippen is smart, knows all the calls, hit his strength/size ceiling and it's lower than they want to move DTs, and Juan Castillo can't add much more than that. What Castillo can do is get Guarnera ready to push Crippen, but with a freshman QB you want to get the line calls right first, not shoot for the stars. Crippen is our guy, he'll give us a senior Kugler kind of year, and we'll live with it.

During the month of August, we will be enjoying some summer weather and taking a break from recording new episodes. To satiate your thirst we will be re-releasing the hottest episodes of the year, every week, for you to enjoy with a Mai Tai by the pool like David will be.In this episode of the FocusCore Podcast, host David Sweet interviews Roop Kaistha, the head of Asia Pacific at AMS, about the evolving landscape of talent acquisition in Asia, particularly in Japan. With nearly two decades of experience, Roop shares her career journey, insights on the challenges and opportunities in talent acquisition, and the importance of relationship-building in recruitment. The latest FocusCore Salary Guide is here: 2025 Salary Guide In this episode you will hear:The importance of being market ready for Asian markets particularly in communication method choicesThe future of hybrid work vs in office only and the challenge of keeping engagement levels up The role of technology and AI in recruitment and some of Roop's favourite toolsThe future trends in recruitment in AsiaParticipate in our 2026 Salary Survey here: 2026 Salary SurveyAbout Roop:Roop brings two decades of experience working across multiple markets, spending the last 15 years in Outsourcing and Talent Acquisition. She has a proven track record in the strategic management of large scale RPOs and MSPs across Asia Pacific. She has held various roles including Solution Design, Implementation, running the Innovation Centre for Asia Pacific and, most recently, as Regional Head of RPO and Professional Services.Roop was appointed as Regional Managing Director of APAC in 2022. She heads the APAC leadership team, driving APAC's growth strategy and business plan objectives. Roop ensures the firm continues to exceed the expectations of clients across Asia, and to deliver further growth in this vital region.Connect with Roop: https://www.weareams.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/roopkaistha/ Connect with David Sweet:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdavidsweet/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/focuscorejp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/focuscoreasiaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/focuscorejp/ Website: https://www.japan.focuscoregroup.com/

We are on the cusp of a significant transformation in the world of work, with HR and Talent teams currently at the frontline of change. CHROs face unprecedented questions about the impact of agentic AI on the structure of organisations and the continuing need for agility and adaptation as skills go in and out of relevance at an ever-accelerating pace. The most innovative CHROs are looking in two directions - collaborating with IT teams in entirely new ways and studying how product teams operate with their test-learn-iterate mindset. Over the last few years, talent acquisition has often been more exposed to constant tech experimentation and workflow optimization than their HR colleagues. So could TA Leaders play a significant role in driving this workforce transformation? My guest this week is Amy Schultz, VP Market Development & Operations for RPO at Korn Ferry ANZ. Amy brings a unique perspective from a career spanning agency, RPO, and senior in-house roles at LinkedIn and Canva. In our conversation, she shares her belief that TA's natural product mindset and tech experience well-position recruiting teams to guide HR's evolution from fixed programs towards an agile, iterative product development mindset. This is a fascinating discussion! In the interview, we discuss: The core challenges employers are facing A mismatch in AI readiness What are the most innovative CHROs doing? Learning from product managers to move from programs to products TA's unique influence and tech adoption advantage Removing silos in the talent function The changing meaning of Build, Buy, Borrow, Bot, Bounce. Human / Agent hybrid working. Human first doesn't mean AI last and vice versa. What does the future look like Follow this podcast on Apple Podcasts. Follow this podcast on Spotify.

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I spotlight the 30% surge in $20M+ customers as proof of ServiceNow's enterprise momentum.Highlights00:48 — Let me briefly touch on some of the key numbers from ServiceNow in Q2. So, the top line there: Subscription revenue was up 22.5% to $3.11 billion. Big jump in total RPO, or Remaining Performance Obligation, up 29% to almost $24 billion. I want to point out, too, the subscription revenue growth in Q2 — 22.5% — that's a big jump from the Q1 growth rate of 19.1%.01:29 — Very nice acceleration by ServiceNow. Customers spending at least $20 million has gone up 30% year over year. ServiceNow has 528 customers spending at least $5 million with them in annual contract value. On the call, McDermott said: “People and AI together will create new business and new discoveries and will catalyze economic growth in every corner of the world.”02:30 — It's too easy to fall into the trap of saying, “Oh, AI is going to wipe out a lot of jobs.” It's also going to create incredible new opportunities. McDermott also said he was really focusing on this term of “AI work.” He said AI work is going to be cross-functional. He said this will lead to big changes in org charts — they're going to be very different from how they were before.03:28 —McDermott talked about the unique role that ServiceNow plays in the industry. It's not an applications company. It's not an infrastructure company. It's an AI platform company. And it has found a way to be able to collaborate with almost all of the Cloud Wars Top 10 companies, and do so in a way, as McDermott likes to say, where for ServiceNow to win, no one else has to lose.04:31 — So, bullishness out the ears McDermott on this earnings call. Not only is the company doing well, but more importantly, as he said over and over: “Our customers are doing well and doing things they were never able to do before.” So, heady times here in the Cloud Wars. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

RPO—Remaining Performance Obligations—might not be a term you hear often in private SaaS, but public companies are required to disclose it, and it's becoming a critical forward-looking metric. In episode #300, Ben Murray breaks down the RPO concept, how it's calculated, and why it matters in understanding your future revenue. Whether you're preparing for due diligence or just want a stronger grip on your revenue story, understanding RPO can give you an edge. What You'll Learn What “Remaining Performance Obligations (RPO)” means in SaaS How RPO connects to deferred revenue and unbilled contract amounts Why RPO is considered a forward-looking visibility metric Real-world RPO definition from Snowflake When RPO might apply to private SaaS companies — especially with multi-year deals Why It Matters A rising RPO often signals strong future revenue durability Adds context to your SaaS metrics Valuable in due diligence, PE conversations, and strategic exits Resources Mentioned Blog Post: Deep dive on RPO with real-world examples and use cases: https://www.thesaascfo.com/understanding-remaining-performance-obligations-in-saas/

Coach Jake Franklin joins the podcast. We talk RPO's, Modern Triple Option, and Modern Trends in Offensive Footballs.

Well, it did not take long for the College Sports Commission's "NIL Go" clearinghouse to make waves. According to the director of Utah State's collective, Dalton Forsythe, "nearly 100 percent of collective-backed NIL deals are being denied, regardless of size or structure. The College Sports Commission has taken the position that collectives cannot serve a 'valid business purpose' — a standard that was never clearly communicated before implementation." On today's show, Jonah Booker and Dave Biddle discuss this situation and what might be coming down the pike. If an athlete's NIL deal is rejected -- and he challenges that ruling in a court of law -- the athlete would likely prevail, right? Or does the House settlement actually have teeth, allowing the clearinghouse to reject any and all deals from collectives? We also discuss how much Ohio State will miss Will Howard this season at quarterback -- particularly his ability in the RPO game and his leadership -- and much more. That is coming your way on the Friday 5ish. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Bob talks about a fire in Scottsville, talks to guest conductor Matt Cramer and assistant conductor Gerard Hardiman about Red, White and Boom, and the summer schedule for the RPO, Bob talks about the debate over the effectiveness of the attack on the Iranian nuclear sites, and talks about the results of Tuesday's Democratic primaries.

The Board Drill Podcast – S2E30 | Dan Blackbourn: Building a Standalone Quick GameIn this episode, Kyle and Matt sit down with Coach Dan Blackbourn, OC at Brooks County (GA), to break down the fundamentals of quick game passing. Coach Blackbourn takes us through his step-based teaching philosophy, the importance of treating quick game as more than just an RPO extension, and how he installs and evolves the system from Day 1—even with limited time.▶️ Timestamps00:00 – Intro and Coach Blackbourn joins01:03 – Why Quick Game Should Stand Alone02:15 – Adapting Illinois Roots to Georgia Football03:40 – The Value of Step-Based Routes vs. Yards05:30 – All-Hitch Install and Coaching Points08:20 – Building the Offense from Scratch11:10 – Handling Spring & Summer Limitations15:45 – Adjusting to Player Skill Levels18:30 – Formation Variations and Teaching Terminology22:00 – Practical Tips for High School Installations

Navigating global hiring challenges takes more than process — it takes strategy, relationships and relentless curiosity. In this episode, host Ryan Dull is joined by Ryan Alexander, VP of Global Talent Acquisition at Flowserve. They discuss Ryan's experiences at Flowserve, a global leader in flow control solutions with over 18,000 employees across 52 countries. Ryan also breaks down the company's hiring model, explains the challenges of operating in diverse geographies and outlines his strategic approach to transforming TA delivery and aligning it with business needs. Key Takeaways:(02:42) Ryan started his career in retail, becoming the top salesperson in his company at 18 years old.(07:14) Flowserve builds critical pumps and valves for fluid systems.(10:06) Flowserve outsources 90% of hiring to a global RPO team.(13:32) Ryan outlines four TA pillars: delivery, search, operations and talent intelligence.(16:03) TA success is measured through KPIs, retention, diversity, and audits.(18:48) Strategic workforce planning is a top HR priority linked to TA.(21:40) TA success depends on treating everyone as a customer.Resources Mentioned:Ryan Alexanderhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanalexandersphr/Flowserve | LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/flowserve/Flowserve | Websitehttps://www.flowserve.com/en/Workdayhttps://www.workday.com/SAP IBPhttps://www.sap.com/sea/products/scm/integrated-business-planning.htmlThis episode is brought to you by Sagemark HR.Sagemark HR can help you:✔ Improve your talent practices and make better, more informed people decisions.After 20+ years of experience leading Recruiting and Talent Acquisition across a wide variety of industries, I've seen enough hires (over 100,000 to date) to know that hiring decisions truly can make or break an organization.✔ Identify opportunities to not only improve your talent practices, but also delivering tangible business results.We understand every organization is different, and there's no one-size-fits-all magic solution. So we listen first and identify the gaps and sticking points in your current process before ever recommending a solution.✔ Bridge the gap from “traditional” to modern recruiting, without the painful learning curve.We believe recruiting, talent, and HR technology is a deep well of untapped business potential, and our mission is to help you identify and implement those hiring tools in a way that works for you.If you're interested in learning more, you can reach me at:www.sagemarkhr.com✉ ryan.dull@sagemarkhr.com#Talent #Recruiters #Recruiting #HRTech

HIRING EFFICIENCY: HOW AGENCIES, RPO'S AND IN-HOUSE USE AI / AUTOMATION   Agencies, RPO's and In-house - we're all recruiters at heart but we too often end up self siloing in order to create safe spaces, which whilst necessary, can also lead to a slow down in knowledge transfer across party lines.   Lets use this week's Brainfood Live to find out if we can break down some of these barriers   - How are recruitment agencies using AI / Automation? - Is AI transforming how business development is performed? - Where is AI / Automation in customer retention and up selling? - How are agencies using AI when it comes to interfacing with candidates? - Are we seeing any proctoring / ID verification performed by 3rd party recruiters? - How can technology help SME staffing firms differentiate? - Has anyone figured out how to actually mobilise the whole store of collected candidate data? - How do 3rd parties interact with customers when using technology? - How do we navigate governance and compliance when agencies, RPO and in-house each use different technology stacks? - Do we have embedded staff working within stack with in-house? - How is AI changing the skills recruiters need? - What impact as AI had on how we staff up staffing agencies?   All this and more, with Brainfood Live On Air.   We're with Neil Ray, CEO (Livero), Louise Triance, Founder (UK Recruiter), James Osbourne, Founder (The Recruitment Network), Rob White, MD (Redimeer) & friends   We are on Friday 30th May, 2pm BST   Register by clicking the green button and follow the channel here (recommended)     Ep310 is sponsored by our friends at Hire   Hire.inc is an AI-powered recruitment platform that streamlines hiring with advanced AI sourcing agents, automated AI interview notes, bulk resume screening, and a collaborative ATS. Designed for startups & staffing agencies, Hire.inc helps recruitment teams find, evaluate, and engage top talent faster while integrating into existing workflows.   Question for all recruiters: how much is your time worth??   Answer: a lot more than you think   Demo and try for free here

In this episode of 'The Coaching 101 Podcast,' co-hosted by Daniel Chamberlain and Kenny Simpson, the focus is on essential quarterback training, emphasizing the importance of foundational skills over fancy, advanced techniques. Special guest Austin Gahafer, a former Morehead State quarterback with professional experience, discusses his journey through football, the significance of footwork, reading defenses, and the fundamentals that lead to elite performances like those of Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen. The conversation also covers the benefits of resiliency, the role of coaches as mentors, and the intricacies of the RPO game. This episode was recorded live at the Kentucky Athletic Administrator Association Conference in Louisville, Kentucky.00:00 Introduction to Quarterback Basics00:40 Welcome to the Coaching 101 Podcast01:02 Live from the Kentucky Athletic Administrator Association Conference01:14 ACE Sports: Revolutionizing High School Fundraising01:54 Meet Austin Gayer: From High School to International Football03:54 Quarterback Development: Focusing on Fundamentals08:45 The RPO Game and Quarterback Run Strategies12:07 Building Resiliency in Young Athletes16:19 Austin Gayer's Recruitment and International Experience19:41 Closing Remarks and Sponsor ShoutoutDaniel Chamberlain: @CoachChamboOK ChamberlainFootballConsulting@gmail.com chamberlainfootballconsulting.com Kenny Simpson: @FBCoachSimpson fbcoachsimpson@gmail.com FBCoachSimpson.com

The Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) are partnering to accelerate the use of satellite-based technologies within the financial sector. Starfish Space's Otter Pup 2 mission to conduct rendezvous, proximity operations (RPO), and ultimately attempt docking with another spacecraft in LEO. Ursa Space Systems and Aireon are partnering to integrate Aireon's real-time aircraft tracking data into Ursa Space's geospatial platform, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is David Barnhart, CEO and co-founder of Arkisys.  You can connect with David on LinkedIn, and learn more about Arkisys on their website. Selected Reading LSA and EIB Launch “Space for Finance” Initiative - News & Media Starfish Space Unveils Otter Pup 2 Mission Space Hi-Jinkies. (Starfish Space Interview) Ursa Space Systems and Aireon Team Up to Enhance Aircraft Monitoring with Space-Based ADS-B Data ICEYE and Safran Announce Strategic Partnership on Persistent Surveillance Capabilities SARsatX Secures $2.6M in Seed Funding - SpaceTech in Gulf Region Yank Technologies Selected for Prestigious NASA Phase II Contract for Dust-Tolerant Resonant Connectors NASA names geomagnetic storm for 1st time, honoring a space weather scientist who died suddenly in 2024 T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It'll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rise of a “Ready-For-Everything" Talent Solution From sourcing through onboarding, talent acquisition problems are becoming increasingly complex. How can HR and TA leaders remain agile and prepared as more hiring challenges emerge?   The answer starts with integrating disparate systems and technologies into a streamlined operation.  Integration today is a practical necessity. Clients increasingly seek solutions providers with a connected range of capabilities to quickly address changing demands of a turbulent business environment. The ideal solution replaces cumbersome multi-vendor relationships with a comprehensive “one-source, one force” solution needed in a ready-for-everything TA function.   Amy Bush, President of RPO at KellyOCG + Sevenstep, joins this episode of the HRO Today Educational Podcast to share her perspective on integration and the progress providers are making to deliver the full offering of technology and services clients need.  Together with host Elliot Clark, CEO of HRO Today, they examine the expectations placed upon TA and HR leaders and how existing processes are not as flexible as they need to be. Listen in as Elliot and Amy explore the current talent acquisition environment and share how practitioners AND providers are stepping up to the challenge. 

This is a Seth’s Picks episode, the very highly regarded, though not much honored at the time Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. It’s like Ready Player One, but without all the references or terrible writing. (It’s not really like RPO at all, and that’s a very good thing.) This is one of my shorter episodes, … Continue reading "Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, with guest Leah Borden"

In a new season of the Oracle University Podcast, Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham dive into the world of Oracle GoldenGate 23ai, a cutting-edge software solution for data management. They are joined by Nick Wagner, a seasoned expert in database replication, who provides a comprehensive overview of this powerful tool.   Nick highlights GoldenGate's ability to ensure continuous operations by efficiently moving data between databases and platforms with minimal overhead. He emphasizes its role in enabling real-time analytics, enhancing data security, and reducing costs by offloading data to low-cost hardware. The discussion also covers GoldenGate's role in facilitating data sharing, improving operational efficiency, and reducing downtime during outages.   Oracle GoldenGate 23ai: Fundamentals: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/oracle-goldengate-23ai-fundamentals/145884/237273 Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://x.com/Oracle_Edu   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, Radhika Banka, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. ---------------------------------------------------------------   Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started! 00:25 Nikita: Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I'm Nikita Abraham, Team Lead: Editorial Services with Oracle University, and with me is Lois Houston: Director of Innovation Programs. Lois: Hi everyone! Welcome to a new season of the podcast. This time, we're focusing on the fundamentals of Oracle GoldenGate. Oracle GoldenGate helps organizations manage and synchronize their data across diverse systems and databases in real time.  And with the new Oracle GoldenGate 23ai release, we'll uncover the latest innovations and features that empower businesses to make the most of their data. Nikita: Taking us through this is Nick Wagner, Senior Director of Product Management for Oracle GoldenGate. He's been doing database replication for about 25 years and has been focused on GoldenGate on and off for about 20 of those years.  01:18 Lois: In today's episode, we'll ask Nick to give us a general overview of the product, along with some use cases and benefits. Hi Nick! To start with, why do customers need GoldenGate? Nick: Well, it delivers continuous operations, being able to continuously move data from one database to another database or data platform in efficiently and a high-speed manner, and it does this with very low overhead. Almost all the GoldenGate environments use transaction logs to pull the data out of the system, so we're not creating any additional triggers or very little overhead on that source system. GoldenGate can also enable real-time analytics, being able to pull data from all these different databases and move them into your analytics system in real time can improve the value that those analytics systems provide. Being able to do real-time statistics and analysis of that data within those high-performance custom environments is really important. 02:13 Nikita: Does it offer any benefits in terms of cost?  Nick: GoldenGate can also lower IT costs. A lot of times people run these massive OLTP databases, and they are running reporting in those same systems. With GoldenGate, you can offload some of the data or all the data to a low-cost commodity hardware where you can then run the reports on that other system. So, this way, you can get back that performance on the OLTP system, while at the same time optimizing your reporting environment for those long running reports. You can improve efficiencies and reduce risks. Being able to reduce the amount of downtime during planned and unplanned outages can really make a big benefit to the overall operational efficiencies of your company.  02:54 Nikita: What about when it comes to data sharing and data security? Nick: You can also reduce barriers to data sharing. Being able to pull subsets of data, or just specific pieces of data out of a production database and move it to the team or to the group that needs that information in real time is very important. And it also protects the security of your data by only moving in the information that they need and not the entire database. It also provides extensibility and flexibility, being able to support multiple different replication topologies and architectures. 03:24 Lois: Can you tell us about some of the use cases of GoldenGate? Where does GoldenGate truly shine?  Nick: Some of the more traditional use cases of GoldenGate include use within the multicloud fabric. Within a multicloud fabric, this essentially means that GoldenGate can replicate data between on-premise environments, within cloud environments, or hybrid, cloud to on-premise, on-premise to cloud, or even within multiple clouds. So, you can move data from AWS to Azure to OCI. You can also move between the systems themselves, so you don't have to use the same database in all the different clouds. For example, if you wanted to move data from AWS Postgres into Oracle running in OCI, you can do that using Oracle GoldenGate. We also support maximum availability architectures. And so, there's a lot of different use cases here, but primarily geared around reducing your recovery point objective and recovery time objective. 04:20 Lois: Ah, reducing RPO and RTO. That must have a significant advantage for the customer, right? Nick: So, reducing your RPO and RTO allows you to take advantage of some of the benefits of GoldenGate, being able to do active-active replication, being able to set up GoldenGate for high availability, real-time failover, and it can augment your active Data Guard and Data Guard configuration. So, a lot of times GoldenGate is used within Oracle's maximum availability architecture platinum tier level of replication, which means that at that point you've got lots of different capabilities within the Oracle Database itself. But to help eke out that last little bit of high availability, you want to set up an active-active environment with GoldenGate to really get true zero RPO and RTO. GoldenGate can also be used for data offloading and data hubs. Being able to pull data from one or more source systems and move it into a data hub, or into a data warehouse for your operational reporting. This could also be your analytics environment too. 05:22 Nikita: Does GoldenGate support online migrations? Nick: In fact, a lot of companies actually get started in GoldenGate by doing a migration from one platform to another. Now, these don't even have to be something as complex as going from one database like a DB2 on-premise into an Oracle on OCI, it could even be simple migrations. A lot of times doing something like a major application or a major database version upgrade is going to take downtime on that production system. You can use GoldenGate to eliminate that downtime. So this could be going from Oracle 19c to Oracle 23ai, or going from application version 1.0 to application version 2.0, because GoldenGate can do the transformation between the different application schemas. You can use GoldenGate to migrate your database from on premise into the cloud with no downtime as well. We also support real-time analytic feeds, being able to go from multiple databases, not only those on premise, but being able to pull information from different SaaS applications inside of OCI and move it to your different analytic systems. And then, of course, we also have the ability to stream events and analytics within GoldenGate itself.  06:34 Lois: Let's move on to the various topologies supported by GoldenGate. I know GoldenGate supports many different platforms and can be used with just about any database. Nick: This first layer of topologies is what we usually consider relational database topologies. And so this would be moving data from Oracle to Oracle, Postgres to Oracle, Sybase to SQL Server, a lot of different types of databases. So the first architecture would be unidirectional. This is replicating from one source to one target. You can do this for reporting. If I wanted to offload some reports into another server, I can go ahead and do that using GoldenGate. I can replicate the entire database or just a subset of tables. I can also set up GoldenGate for bidirectional, and this is what I want to set up GoldenGate for something like high availability. So in the event that one of the servers crashes, I can almost immediately reconnect my users to the other system. And that almost immediately depends on the amount of latency that GoldenGate has at that time. So a typical latency is anywhere from 3 to 6 seconds. So after that primary system fails, I can reconnect my users to the other system in 3 to 6 seconds. And I can do that because as GoldenGate's applying data into that target database, that target system is already open for read and write activity. GoldenGate is just another user connecting in issuing DML operations, and so it makes that failover time very low. 07:59 Nikita: Ok…If you can get it down to 3 to 6 seconds, can you bring it down to zero? Like zero failover time?   Nick: That's the next topology, which is active-active. And in this scenario, all servers are read/write all at the same time and all available for user activity. And you can do multiple topologies with this as well. You can do a mesh architecture, which is where every server talks to every other server. This works really well for 2, 3, 4, maybe even 5 environments, but when you get beyond that, having every server communicate with every other server can get a little complex. And so at that point we start looking at doing what we call a hub and spoke architecture, where we have lots of different spokes. At the end of each spoke is a read/write database, and then those communicate with a hub. So any change that happens on one spoke gets sent into the hub, and then from the hub it gets sent out to all the other spokes. And through that architecture, it allows you to really scale up your environments. We have customers that are doing up to 150 spokes within that hub architecture. Within active-active replication as well, we can do conflict detection and resolution, which means that if two users modify the same row on two different systems, GoldenGate can actually determine that there was an issue with that and determine what user wins or which row change wins, which is extremely important when doing active-active replication. And this means that if one of those systems fails, there is no downtime when you switch your users to another active system because it's already available for activity and ready to go. 09:35 Lois: Wow, that's fantastic. Ok, tell us more about the topologies. Nick: GoldenGate can do other things like broadcast, sending data from one system to multiple systems, or many to one as far as consolidation. We can also do cascading replication, so when data moves from one environment that GoldenGate is replicating into another environment that GoldenGate is replicating. By default, we ignore all of our own transactions. But there's actually a toggle switch that you can flip that says, hey, GoldenGate, even though you wrote that data into that database, still push it on to the next system. And then of course, we can also do distribution of data, and this is more like moving data from a relational database into something like a Kafka topic or a JMS queue or into some messaging service. 10:24 Raise your game with the Oracle Cloud Applications skills challenge. Get free training on Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Oracle Modern Best Practice, and Oracle Cloud Success Navigator. Pass the free Oracle Fusion Cloud Foundations Associate exam to earn a Foundations Associate certification. Plus, there's a chance to win awards and prizes throughout the challenge! What are you waiting for? Join the challenge today by visiting visit oracle.com/education. 10:58 Nikita: Welcome back! Nick, does GoldenGate also have nonrelational capabilities?  Nick: We have a number of nonrelational replication events in topologies as well. This includes things like data lake ingestion and streaming ingestion, being able to move data and data objects from these different relational database platforms into data lakes and into these streaming systems where you can run analytics on them and run reports. We can also do cloud ingestion, being able to move data from these databases into different cloud environments. And this is not only just moving it into relational databases with those clouds, but also their data lakes and data fabrics. 11:38 Lois: You mentioned a messaging service earlier. Can you tell us more about that? Nick: Messaging replication is also possible. So we can actually capture from things like messaging systems like Kafka Connect and JMS, replicate that into a relational data, or simply stream it into another environment. We also support NoSQL replication, being able to capture from MongoDB and replicate it onto another MongoDB for high availability or disaster recovery, or simply into any other system. 12:06 Nikita: I see. And is there any integration with a customer's SaaS applications? Nick: GoldenGate also supports a number of different OCI SaaS applications. And so a lot of these different applications like Oracle Financials Fusion, Oracle Transportation Management, they all have GoldenGate built under the covers and can be enabled with a flag that you can actually have that data sent out to your other GoldenGate environment. So you can actually subscribe to changes that are happening in these other systems with very little overhead. And then of course, we have event processing and analytics, and this is the final topology or flexibility within GoldenGate itself. And this is being able to push data through data pipelines, doing data transformations. GoldenGate is not an ETL tool, but it can do row-level transformation and row-level filtering.  12:55 Lois: Are there integrations offered by Oracle GoldenGate in automation and artificial intelligence? Nick: We can do time series analysis and geofencing using the GoldenGate Stream Analytics product. It allows you to actually do real time analysis and time series analysis on data as it flows through the GoldenGate trails. And then that same product, the GoldenGate Stream Analytics, can then take the data and move it to predictive analytics, where you can run MML on it, or ONNX or other Spark-type technologies and do real-time analysis and AI on that information as it's flowing through.  13:29 Nikita: So, GoldenGate is extremely flexible. And given Oracle's focus on integrating AI into its product portfolio, what about GoldenGate? Does it offer any AI-related features, especially since the product name has “23ai” in it? Nick: With the advent of Oracle GoldenGate 23ai, it's one of the two products at this point that has the AI moniker at Oracle. Oracle Database 23ai also has it, and that means that we actually do stuff with AI. So the Oracle GoldenGate product can actually capture vectors from databases like MySQL HeatWave, Postgres using pgvector, which includes things like AlloyDB, Amazon RDS Postgres, Aurora Postgres. We can also replicate data into Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, or if the data is using vectors within OCI or the Oracle Database itself. So GoldenGate can be used for a number of things here. The first one is being able to migrate vectors into the Oracle Database. So if you're using something like Postgres, MySQL, and you want to migrate the vector information into the Oracle Database, you can. Now one thing to keep in mind here is a vector is oftentimes like a GPS coordinate. So if I need to know the GPS coordinates of Austin, Texas, I can put in a latitude and longitude and it will give me the GPS coordinates of a building within that city. But if I also need to know the altitude of that same building, well, that's going to be a different algorithm. And GoldenGate and replicating vectors is the same way. When you create a vector, it's essentially just creating a bunch of numbers under the screen, kind of like those same GPS coordinates. The dimension and the algorithm that you use to generate that vector can be different across different databases, but the actual meaning of that data will change. And so GoldenGate can replicate the vector data as long as the algorithm and the dimensions are the same. If the algorithm and the dimensions are not the same between the source and the target, then you'll actually want GoldenGate to replicate the base data that created that vector. And then once GoldenGate replicates the base data, it'll actually call the vector embedding technology to re-embed that data and produce that numerical formatting for you.  15:42 Lois: So, there are some nuances there… Nick: GoldenGate can also replicate and consolidate vector changes or even do the embedding API calls itself. This is really nice because it means that we can take changes from multiple systems and consolidate them into a single one. We can also do the reverse of that too. A lot of customers are still trying to find out which algorithms work best for them. How many dimensions? What's the optimal use? Well, you can now run those in different servers without impacting your actual AI system. Once you've identified which algorithm and dimension is going to be best for your data, you can then have GoldenGate replicate that into your production system and we'll start using that instead. So it's a nice way to switch algorithms without taking extensive downtime. 16:29 Nikita: What about in multicloud environments?  Nick: GoldenGate can also do multicloud and N-way active-active Oracle replication between vectors. So if there's vectors in Oracle databases, in multiple clouds, or multiple on-premise databases, GoldenGate can synchronize them all up. And of course we can also stream changes from vector information, including text as well into different search engines. And that's where the integration with Elasticsearch and OpenSearch comes in. And then we can use things like NVIDIA and Cohere to actually do the AI on that data.  17:01 Lois: Using GoldenGate with AI in the database unlocks so many possibilities. Thanks for that detailed introduction to Oracle GoldenGate 23ai and its capabilities, Nick.  Nikita: We've run out of time for today, but Nick will be back next week to talk about how GoldenGate has evolved over time and its latest features. And if you liked what you heard today, head over to mylearn.oracle.com and take a look at the Oracle GoldenGate 23ai Fundamentals course to learn more. Until next time, this is Nikita Abraham… Lois: And Lois Houston, signing off! 17:33 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. If you enjoyed listening, please click Subscribe to get all the latest episodes. 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Welcome to episode 300 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! According to the title, this week's show is taking place inside of a Dr. Suess book, but don't despair – we're not going to make you eat green eggs and ham, but we WILL give you the low down on all things Vegas. Well, Google's Next event which recently took place in Vegas anyway. Did you make any Next predictions?  Titles we almost went with this week: This is the CLOUDPOD Episode 300 Tonight we dine in the Cloud The Next Chapter Now in Preview: Episode 300 A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  GCP Pre-Next 02:35 Google shakes up Gemini leadership, Google Labs head taking the reins  There was a lot of Gemini news at Next – but we'll get to all that.  In this particular case, there's an employee shakeup. Sissie Hsiao is stepping down from leading the Google team, and is being replaced by Josh Woodward, who is currently leading the Google Labs.  04:35 Filestore instance replication now available GCP says customers have been asking for help in meeting business and regulatory goals, and so they are releasing Filestore instance replication. This new feature offers an efficient replication point objective (RPO) that can reach 30 minutes for data change rates of 100 MB/sec. 05:16 Multi-Cluster Orchestrator for cross-region Kubernetes workloads The public preview of Multi-Cluster Orchestrator was recently announced. This lets platform and application teams optimize resource utilization, enhance application resilience, and accelerate innovation in complex, multi-cluster environments.  The need for effective multi-cluster management has become essential as organizations increasingly use Kubernetes to deploy and manage their applications; Challenges such as resource scarcity, ensuring high availability, and managing deployments across diverse environments create significant operational overhead. Multi-Cluster Orchestrator addresses these challenges by providing a centralized orchestration layer that abstracts away the complexities of underlying Kubernetes infrastructure matching workloads with capacity across regions. 06:26 GKE at 65,000 nodes: Evaluating performance for simulated mixed AI workloads Recently GKE announced it can now support up to 65,000 nodes (up from 15,000.)  Saint Carrie be with your CFO.  09:15

The pace of AI adoption is accelerating rapidly, yet most organizations aren't integrating it effectively into talent acquisition—and they certainly aren't thinking big enough about its implications. Many companies are simply automating existing processes rather than reimagining what recruitment could become in an AI-driven world.  So, how can talent acquisition leaders think exponentially bigger about AI's potential, moving beyond incremental improvements to envision and create an entirely new paradigm for talent strategy? My guest this week is Richard Bradley, who has decades of experience in the RPO space and the wider staffing and TA ecosystem. Richard challenges us to think radically bigger about AI's impact, arguing that most organizations are severely underestimating the scale of transformation ahead. He explores how forward-thinking TA leaders must move beyond automating processes to reimagining the entire concept of recruitment. In the interview, we discuss: How does AI in 2025 compare to the Internet revolution of the late '90s Ask & Generate vs Search & Consume The risks of automating bad processes with AI rather than reimagining them How TA technology needs to evolve to be fit for purpose Durable soft skills The shift from traditional recruiters to talent strategists Why TA will evolve rather than disappear What the TA team of the future will look like  Follow this podcast on Apple Podcasts. Follow this podcast on Spotify.

In this episode of The Board Drill Podcast, Kyle and Matt sit down with Coach Dan Gonzalez—former Texas Longhorn WR and creator of ReadAndShoot.com—for an absolute masterclass in offensive game planning. Coach Gonzalez breaks down his unique "axiom-based" approach to game plans, showing how to streamline your weekly install, maximize practice reps, and make smarter play calls under pressure.Learn how to make each play on your call sheet earn its spot, use your personnel more effectively, and avoid paralysis on game day. Whether you're a high school OC or just a football junkie, this episode is packed with insights you'll use immediately.Like this video if you got valueSubscribe for more film room goldFollow us on Twitter & TikTok: @BoardDrillVisit: www.boarddrill.comTopics covered:The 5 offensive axioms that guide Coach Gonzalez's weekly planOrganizing call sheets based on practice reps and situational dataStubbie coverage beaters and vertical game secretsCreating explosive plays without superstar talentAdvice for young coaches on staff collaboration and cultureTimestamps00:00 - Intro: How Coach Gonzalez joined the pod03:00 - Matt hops on with life updates (wedding + surgery)04:00 - What are “Offensive Axioms”?06:30 - Defining schematic truths in offensive football08:50 - Earning the right to be in the game plan12:00 - Breaking down game situations by frequency16:00 - Data-driven play sheet design18:30 - Limiting reps, maximizing install efficiency21:00 - “Bank” plays and weekly carryovers23:30 - Defending a dominant 3-tech – how to build your plan28:00 - Matching calls to defensive personnel weaknesses32:00 - Bringing staff into the axiom discussion36:00 - Play card layout and focusing under pressure42:00 - Stretch play families + how to layer RPO answers44:30 - Ram reads, QB coaching points, and route tagging48:00 - Getting outside the nickel & leveraging bunch51:00 - Creating high % explosives vs Cover 4/quarters53:15 - Stubby beaters: attacking coverage leverage56:30 - Adjusting vertical route landmarks for better hits59:00 - Wrapping up the plan: balance, intention, and reps1:03:40 - Final reflections on game-day focus1:04:40 - Coach Gonzalez's Mac Brown story & final thoughts1:09:00 - Advice for young coaches on building relationships

Join Bills OL Alec Anderson as he dives into the winning techniques and game prep that drive success on the field. In this in-depth film room session, Anderson reveals insider strategies, detailed play analysis, and specialized training methods that shape dominant performances. Whether you're a coach, player, or fan, learn how precise positioning and tactical execution set the stage for victory.BuffaloBills #NFL #nflfreeagency0:00 - Introduction2:05 - Alec Anderson Intro, Growth in the League, How He Prepares9:35 - Alec Anderson on the Tush Push, Special Teams Work13:00 - Film Review: Alec Anderson on Kick Return Team vs. Miami Dolphins16:20 - Film Review: Alec Anderson in High School, Pancake Blocks23:25 - Film Review: Alec Anderson in Duo vs. Houston Texans 29:12 - Film Review: Alec Anderson Combo Block vs. San Francisco 49ers34:58 - Film Review: Alec Anderson in RPO vs. Tennessee Titans40:12 - Film Review: Alec Anderson in Zone Run vs. Arizona Cardinals46:08 - Alec Anderson on Hopefully Catching a TD Pass, Having Fun48:30 - Alec Anderson on Most Difficult Player to Practice Against50:15 - Alec Anderson on His Mental Health, Being an Advocate for Mental Health54:08 - Episode Wrap-Up57:14 - Outro✅ Like, Comment, and Subscribe for more Film Room content! ✅__Listen on the go:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Cpy...__Cover 1 would love to hear your thoughts on this topic and the show in general. Comment below and let us what you think! —Don't miss out on our PREMIUM CONTENT -Access to detailed Premium Content.-Access to our video library. -Access to our private Discord. -Sneak peek at upcoming content.-Exclusive group film room sessions. & much more. SIGN UP HERE: https://www.cover1.net/onepass/Thank you for watching this video, we can't do it without the support of our fans. If you have any ideas for content you'd like to see from us, comment below. —DOWNLOAD THE COVER 1 MOBILE APP!► Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...► iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id15325...—► Subscribe to our YouTube channel -    / @cover1  ► Subscribe to our Cover 1 Network channel - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...—Cover 1 provides multi-faceted analysis of the NFL and NFL Draft including: Podcasts, Video blogs, Commentary, Scouting Reports, Highlights and Video Breakdowns. NFL footage displayed is not owned by Cover 1.——Follow Us Here Twitter:   / cover1  Instagram:   / @cover_1_  Facebook:   / cover1nfl  Official Merchandise: https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/co...The Cover1.net web site and associated Social Media platforms are not endorsed by, directly affiliated with, maintained, authorized, or sponsored by the NFL or any of its clubs, specifically the Buffalo Bills. All products, marks and company names are the registered trademarks of their original owners. The use of any trade name or trademark is for identification and reference purposes only and does not imply any association with the trademark holder of their product brand.

Host Ryan Dull is joined by Mark Rogers, Global Executive Talent Acquisition Director of Mondelēz International. Mark shares his career journey from the military to leading TA teams across major global organizations. He discusses the evolution of TA, the impact of proactive talent pipelining and how technology is transforming recruitment strategies.Mark highlights the importance of building an integrated talent function, the role of executive TA in cost efficiency and the key metrics Mondelēz uses to measure success. Key Takeaways:(02:37) Mark's transition from the Navy to HR and TA.(05:01) Leadership roles in college recruiting and diversity hiring.(07:27) Moving from pharma into RPO and later to Mondelēz International.(14:08) The impact of proactive talent pipelines and internal mobility.(17:40) Key initiatives, including AI-driven hiring processes.(19:36) How Mondelēz structures its TA function and measures success.(20:50) How executive TA creates cost savings and efficiency.(22:57) The importance of aligning TA with business strategy.(25:16) Mark's advice for TA professionals: stay purpose-driven and adaptable.Resources Mentioned:Mark Rogershttps://www.linkedin.com/in/markdrogers/Mondelēz International | LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/mondelezinternational/Mondelēz International | Websitehttps://www.mondelezinternational.com/This episode is brought to you by Sagemark HR.Sagemark HR can help you:✔ Improve your talent practices and make better, more informed people decisions.After 20+ years of experience leading Recruiting and Talent Acquisition across a wide variety of industries, I've seen enough hires (over 100,000 to date) to know that hiring decisions truly can make or break an organization.✔ Identify opportunities to not only improve your talent practices, but also delivering tangible business results.We understand every organization is different, and there's no one-size-fits-all magic solution. So we listen first and identify the gaps and sticking points in your current process before ever recommending a solution.✔ Bridge the gap from “traditional” to modern recruiting, without the painful learning curve.We believe recruiting, talent, and HR technology is a deep well of untapped business potential, and our mission is to help you identify and implement those hiring tools in a way that works for you.If you're interested in learning more, you can reach me at:www.sagemarkhr.com✉ ryan.dull@sagemarkhr.com#Talent #Recruiters #Recruiting #HRTech

We're back again with a string of great guests to get in yer lugholes! Kicking off this season it's trombone titan, singing sensation and all round good egg Emma Bassett.Emma has performed and toured with a vast number of orchestras including LSO, LPO, RPO and Aurora. She can currently be found performing on MJ the Musical in the West End - in the depths of the theatre in a bijoux brass box!We were so delighted to finally get Emma round for a chat as she's a joyous person with many a tale to tell…amongst other things we covered ultimate stress situations, the pitfalls of holding up a bass trumpet for an unreasonable amount of time, becoming Norma Desmond every night on Sunset Boulevard and some serious musical theatre appreciation.As a proud Cornish woman, Emma talks about her roots in brass banding, the prestige involved in the Helston Floral dance and teaching her English husband how to carol Kernow style!You can find us on the socials here;Instagram @threeinabarpodTiktok @threeinabarpodThree In A Bar on YoutubeAnything you'd like to share with us? Any guests you'd love to hear or anything you'd like us to do better? Drop us a line at hello@threeinabar.com Click here to join the Members' Club on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to "The Locker Room" with "Hometeam" Brandon Leak, John Michaels and former Atlanta Falcon Brian Finneran. The guys talk all the top stories from the Braves, Falcons, Hawks, Bulldogs, Tech as well as across the nation. The 7 O'clock hour is brought to you by All Four Seasons Garage and Entry Doors, Big enough to serve. small enough to care RPO presented by Artisan Custom Closest See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on TaPod we catch up with one of our favourite Kiwis, Keith Muirhead – Director of Talent Acquisition at Fonterra. We talk about how one of the biggest companies in NZ (responsible for 5% of the national GDP) transitioned from RPO to inhouse, covering all of the BIG transformation challenges, from tech to people and process. It's a great blueprint for change; we learn how to 'make dairy sexy' and we loved our discussion – you will too. Thanks to Avature for your continued support this month. 

Welcome to "The Locker Room" with "Hometeam" Brandon Leak, John Michaels and former Atlanta Falcon Brian Finneran. The guys talk all the top stories from the Braves, Falcons, Hawks, Bulldogs, Tech as well as across the nation. The 8 O'clock hour is brought to you by Central Heating and Air, One of the few second generation locally owned HVAC companies in Atlanta. With Central, you're not just a number, you're a member of the family. RPO presented by Subaru of Gwinnett Sarah Stottlemyer & Rebecca Halberg of Stottlemyer & Associates SEC Men's Basketball Player of the Week Silas Demary Jr See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ahmed Khan and Gerald Sparrow preview Okta (OKTA) earnings after the bell. Gerald is watching sales growth and RPO, noting that 4Q tends to be their largest of the year. Ahmed is focused on the earnings call and company outlook for the next year.======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day.Subscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

In this episode of the FocusCore Podcast, host David Sweet interviews Roop Kaistha, the head of Asia Pacific at AMS, about the evolving landscape of talent acquisition in Asia, particularly in Japan. With nearly two decades of experience, Roop shares her career journey, insights on the challenges and opportunities in talent acquisition, and the importance of relationship-building in recruitment. The latest FocusCore Salary Guide is here: 2025 Salary Guide In this episode you will hear:The importance of being market ready for Asian markets particularly in communication method choicesThe future of hybrid work vs in office only and the challenge of keeping engagement levels up The role of technology and AI in recruitment and some of Roop's favourite toolsThe future trends in recruitment in AsiaAbout Roop:Roop brings two decades of experience working across multiple markets, spending the last 15 years in Outsourcing and Talent Acquisition. She has a proven track record in the strategic management of large scale RPOs and MSPs across Asia Pacific. She has held various roles including Solution Design, Implementation, running the Innovation Centre for Asia Pacific and, most recently, as Regional Head of RPO and Professional Services.Roop was appointed as Regional Managing Director of APAC in 2022. She heads the APAC leadership team, driving APAC's growth strategy and business plan objectives. Roop ensures the firm continues to exceed the expectations of clients across Asia, and to deliver further growth in this vital region.Connect with Roop: https://www.weareams.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/roopkaistha/ Connect with David Sweet:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdavidsweet/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/focuscorejp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/focuscoreasiaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/focuscorejp/ Website: https://www.japan.focuscoregroup.com/ Mentioned in this episode:Find out more about salaries, the job market, hiring and what's important to both companies and individuals looking for a job specifically in Japan. 2025 Salary Guide

Join Ryan Brown and Emily Goor as they discuss key hiring trends and market insights from 2024. Special guest Matt Masucci, CEO of Hirewell, provides an in-depth analysis of sector performances, the impact of technology and efficiency in recruiting, and executive search and RPO trends. They also share predictions for the job market in 2025. Explore more about Hirewell's services and stay updated with the latest market trends.

We're thrilled to bring you the latest insights from The ASHHRA Podcast. In this episode, our hosts, Bo Bo and Luke were joined by John Zubiena, the esteemed Chief Human Resources Officer at Washington Hospital Healthcare System. This episode dives into the intriguing world of outsourcing recruitment and the transformative impact it has on healthcare organizations.Key Highlights:Outsourcing Recruitment: John Zubiena shares his invaluable experience of outsourcing recruitment to an RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) firm, breaking down how this approach alleviates anxiety while maintaining efficiency within the healthcare recruitment process.Navigating Challenges: Discover how John and his team tackled initial hesitations and logistical challenges, ensuring a seamless transition from in-house recruiting to an outsourced model, thus guaranteeing consistently high-quality hires.Strategic Process Improvement: Learn about the implementation of lean processes to streamline onboarding and recruitment, enhancing overall efficiency while adapting to the unique demands of a unionized staffing environment.The Power of RPO in Healthcare: Uncover the advantages of an RPO in providing specialized recruitment support, access to passive candidates, and flexibility during periods of growth or high turnover in the healthcare sector.This enlightening conversation is perfect for HR professionals in the healthcare field, and anyone interested in the evolving landscape of recruitment.Thank you for being part of The ASHHRA Podcast community!Warm regards,The ASHHRA Podcast Team Support the show

James Mackey and Elijah Elkins speak with Siadhal Magos, Co-Founder and CEO of Metaview, about the methods MetaView uses to maximize recruitment potential, including AI-driven candidate rediscovery and strategic compensation alignment. He shares how AI technology enhances hiring efficiency and precision, enabling organizations to make informed decisions based on real-time data from candidate interactions. Thank you to our sponsor, SecureVision, for making this show possible! Our host James Mackey Follow us:https://www.linkedin.com/company/82436841/#1 Rated Embedded Recruitment Firm on G2!https://www.g2.com/products/securevision/reviewsThanks for listening!

Manufacturing. So hot right now.   Last year we kicked off 21 new RPO and volume solutions engagements. Eight of them came within the Industrial space.   What we enjoyed the most: it's where we have the least amount of competition from other recruiting firms.   We're not complaining. But why is that?    Jeff Smith and James Hornick address why the backbone of the US economy is largely underserved by the recruitment industry in The 10 Minute Talent Rant, Episode 104, "Why Aren't Recruiting Firms Innovating In The Industrial Sector?

Sheil Kapadia breaks down the Eagles game film with the Morning team. Sheil evaluates Jalen Hurts from passing to RPO's. Sheil and the team compares the Lions schedule (hard) to the Eagles(easy). Sheil credits others more than Sirianni for the Birds success.

Ron Jaworski watched the Eagles' game film and saw the big improvement in the defense and their tackling. The Morning team has Ron evaluate Jalen Carter and Zach Baun. On offense Jaws like the Birds going with the RPO's against the Ravens.

Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Post Game Show: Previewing Game 12 vs. Chicago Bears The Detroit Lions are gearing up for another Thanksgiving Day showdown, this time against their divisional rivals, the Chicago Bears. With Caleb Williams, the Bears' highly-touted rookie quarterback, and the Lions aiming to solidify their NFC dominance, the stage is set for a game full of story lines. In our upcoming post-game show, we'll analyze the key moments, evaluate match-ups, and take live calls from fans to hear their reactions to the action. Will the Lions' Ground Game Shine Again? Can Detroit's rushing attack, led by David Montgomery and Jahmyr Gibbs, continue to be a force against the Bears' defense? Montgomery, facing his former team on the Thanksgiving stage, might relish the opportunity to deliver a standout performance. Will the Lions' offensive line, even with Taylor Decker sidelined, create the space needed for their dynamic backfield duo? The Bears' defense has struggled to stop big runs this season, so will Detroit capitalize on this vulnerability? Listeners calling in after the game might reflect on whether Dan Campbell's signature ground-and-pound style controlled the tempo and wore down the Bears' front. Caleb Williams vs. Detroit's Defense How will Caleb Williams handle the pressure of a Thanksgiving Day game in Detroit? The rookie quarterback has shown flashes of brilliance this season, but will he find success against a disciplined Lions defense? Aaron Glenn's unit will likely focus on containing Williams' scrambling ability and disrupting Chicago's RPO schemes. Will Detroit's secondary, potentially missing key pieces, rise to the occasion and limit big plays from D.J. Moore? Or will Moore's ability to gain yards after the catch prove difficult to stop? Listeners will weigh in on whether the Lions effectively neutralized Williams' strengths and forced him into hurried decisions. Taking Listener Calls The post-game show promises to bring passionate reactions from fans as we dissect potential turning points in the game. Will there be a momentum-shifting interception? Perhaps a dazzling connection between Jared Goff and Jameson Williams for a deep touchdown? Fans will share their insights on how Detroit handled key moments, and whether the Lions continued their march toward a historic season. As the Lions aim for their best Thanksgiving performance in years, the excitement is palpable. Join us after the game as we break down every play, celebrate the highlights, and take your calls to capture the pulse of Lions Nation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9i2uCV70t4 Let us know what you think about the show by commenting in the podcast thread in the subreddit, or by leaving us a voice mail message via Skype at: Detroit Lions Podcast Your input will help make the show better, and if you leave us a message on Skype, you just might be featured in an upcoming podcast! You can also give us a call at (929) 33-Lions. Get yourself a Classic Detroit t-shirt here! Don't miss our great merch selection in the Detroit Lions Podcast store. Looking for the relief that CBD products can bring? Click here: https://bit.ly/2XzawlG Get your Lions Gear at: https://bit.ly/2Ooo5Px As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases made here: https://amzn.to/36e2ZfD Donate Direct at: https://bit.ly/2qnEtFj Join the Patreon Crew at: https://bit.ly/2bgQgyj #lions #detroitlions #detroitlionspodcast #onepride #nfl #goff #jaredgoff #chicago #bears #chicagobears #caleb #calebwilliams #thanksgiving Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's Rapid Fire topics include: * Fill-in the blank...It's BLANK that Marcus Freeman has been named to the Bear Bryant Coach of the Year Award watch list. * We discuss these descriptions of Irish defensive lineman Gabe Rubio: From Rylie Mills: "When Rube goes in, there's going to be chaos. I don't know where it's going to happen, but if he's in there someone's getting put on their butt or something's going to happen. From Al Golden: He's just a rolling ball of nails and loves the game.  * We hear comments from Riley Leonard on last week's use of more RPO and ask if the Irish should use more going forward. * This question is from Andre Tonsil on Twitter/X: "What is "culture" to college football? Cause I see it being a difficult question to really answer, because every team has a different idea of what it is for their team."  * Fill-in the blank...There are some people who take offense Oregon head coach Dan Lanning saying he intentionally put 12 men on the field near the end of his win over Ohio State to let a few extra seconds tick off the clock. You feel BLANK about it. * Because Tom Brady has been approved as a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders his access as a TV analyst for Fox will come with many more restrictions than other analysts. We discuss how they impact Brady's ability to be an effective analyst.  Shop for Irish Breakdown gear at our online store: https://ibstore.irishbreakdown.com/  Join the Irish Breakdown premium message board: https://boards.irishbreakdown.com  Stay locked into Irish Breakdown for all the latest news and analysis about Notre Dame: https://www.irishbreakdown.com​ Subscribe to the Irish Breakdown podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/irish-breakdown/id1485286986 Like and follow Irish Breakdown on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/irishbreakdown Sign up for the FREE Irish Breakdown daily newsletter: https://www.subscribepage.com/irish-breakdown-newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to another Midweek Mailbag with Jake and Andrew! This edition is based on questions from our Founding Members Channel and our Paid Supports Chat in the Browns Film Breakdown Slack and Substack App. The questions cover the RPO dilemma from Deshaun Watson's decoy comment, concerns about the latest shifting of the OL from injuries, players who are standing out and disappointing through three games, and when the right time could be to make a quarterback change if it comes to that point. This is the ideal point to hit on these topics transitioning from the last week's performance to what lies ahead and they will aim to cover it all. If there is anything Browns-related you want answered as a BFB Supporter, the guys will try to cover those not answered in this podcast when writing a Mailbag. To get your questions into the show and article, Join and Support us by subscribing at BrownsFilmBreakdown.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to another Midweek Mailbag with Jake and Andrew! This edition is based on questions from our Founding Members Channel and our Paid Supports Chat in the Browns Film Breakdown Slack and Substack App. The questions cover the RPO usage and why it might be tied to better run game looks, whether schemes are being held back for later in the year, how Jordan Hicks is performing at LB, and where to place the blame accurately for a struggling offensive line. This is the ideal point to hit on these topics transitioning from the last week's performance to what lies ahead and they will aim to cover it all. If there is anything Browns-related you want answered as a BFB Supporter, the guys will try to cover those not answered in this podcast when writing a Mailbag. To get your questions into the show and article, Join and Support us by subscribing at BrownsFilmBreakdown.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to another Midweek Mailbag with Jake and Andrew! This edition is based on questions from our Founding Members Channel in the Browns Film Breakdown Slack and is filled with some good questions. These range from confidence in Deshaun Watson the quarterbacking this weekend, the offense's predictability, Jerome Ford's ceiling in the NFL, and what the focus seems to be with the RPO concepts the Browns are using. This is the ideal point to hit on these topics transitioning from the last week's performance to what lies ahead and they will aim to cover it all. If there is anything Browns-related you want answered as a BFB Supporter, the guys will try to cover those not answered in this podcast when writing a Mailbag. To get your questions into the show and article, Join and Support us by subscribing at BrownsFilmBreakdown.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With Special Guest Ian Boyd from InsideTexas.com and America's War Game The Sponsors We want to thank Underground Printing for starting this and making it possible—stop by and pick up some gear, check them out at ugpmichiganapparel.com, or check out our selection of shirts on the MGoBlogStore.com. And let's not forget our associate sponsors: Peak Wealth Management, Matt Demorest - Realtor and Lender, Human Element, Ann Arbor Elder Law, Michigan Law Grad, Venue by 4M, Winewood Organics, Sharon's Heating & Air Conditioning, Autograph: Fandom Rewarded, Champion Circle, who just launched an app where you earn rewards for things like reading MGoBlog and listening to our podcast, SignalWire where we are recording this, and introducing Royal Oath Insurance Group, which is Owen Rosen's new firm. Featured Musicians: Ki5 The Video: [After THE JUMP: The things to be said.] --------------------- 1. Texas Preview wsg Ian Boyd: Offense starts at the top They've added a lot of RPOs. Probably want to bypass the defensive tackles and attack the linebackers in space. Ewers is now pretty good every down but hasn't taken the step to great, has some tooly receivers to throw to but of them Bond is the one who can really do a lot of different things (the others can do one thing really really well). Think Michigan should play their base, keep guys back, don't get too creative. If you blitz them on 3rd down they're going to set up a makeable 4th down. 2. Texas Preview wsg Ian Boyd: Defense starts at 22:13 They lost the best two DTs in CFB and their backups won the job; they don't really get low so Texas fans are a bit worried about getting bullied by Michigan's run game. Texas was playing light boxes vs CSU's Air Raid but Ian and Alex agree they're rolling safeties down: Ian would play single-high and have Michael Taaffe play off by 8 yards and check Loveland then attack the run. They've been quarters base but run a lot of switch coverages and mixed coverages. Michigan might have to use Marlin Klein. Decisive matchup will be if they have really fixed their DE and CB issues, but can Michigan pass that much? Probably going to be a cat-and-mouse game as Michigan wants to get back to their power run game and do enough to keep Texas from zeroing in on it. 3. Texas, Texas Fans, and Where are the Vibes? starts 47:19 We talk to Ian about how Texas sees themselves, which is the Michigan with an ag school who hates them and a big rival who cares only about football and killing their rival. Also love winning their conference and booing the commissioner. Sark is very high among their list of coaches: move to SEC means the school has gotten more serious about football (and less serious about not being a degree factory). Think this era is a golden one for UT football because the SEC is going to give them Georgia and their rivals but not loading them down. We talk a little about the stickball ramifications for both conferences, and then talk about what factors fans should consider when projecting the future of realignment. 4. Fresno State After Review starts 1:19:19 Let's do the Wink talk because I want to inject some nuance: they technically accomplished what they wanted, which was to get Keene throwing off his back foot. There were nine interceptable passes in this game. Wink could very well have been setting up a sim pressure-filled game after coaxing Texas to build an RPO gameplan. Or he could be the guy who just blitzes. Seeing a lot of awareness from Josaiah Stewart, Will Johnson was setting up his pick six. Offensively the Giudice thing is worrisome, Priebe and Bredeson were off from their usual but veterans should put it back together. We don't talk about Mullings/Edwards much because, well, you all saw, but yes: Mullings is their better running back at the moment and Edwards should be a big part of the passing game. Think Marlin Klein might be a secret weapon, because the receivers are not helping. About the Featured Musician: Ki5 Ki5 is a songwriter and vocalist from Ann Arbor that makes music using only his voice and a looping machine. Kyler is releasing an EP on 9/20 called Lake of Gold, and will be playing at the Ark on Friday night April 26th, and at Venue on 9/27 (hopefully not during the Sklars show—I'll update when I have a time). Song choices: "Sunny Days" "Spirit" "Don't Fade Away" Also because Across 110th Street will get our Youtubes taken now now, the opener and outro: “The Employee is Not Afraid”—Bear vs. Shark “Ruska Vodka”—Motorboat