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Friday Edition of the Drive - Hour Two · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The number you have reached.
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  Speaker 3: Now let's get back to the afternoon drive with Jake Wimberley.
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  Speaker 4: from Ameristar Casino talking a little week zero in sports
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  Speaker 4: gaming coming up at 4.30. Right now, Ty Harden, the
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  Speaker 4: head football coach, Tupelo Golden Wave. Kind enough to take
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  Speaker 4: some time with us on a football Friday. Coach, always
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  Speaker 4: appreciate you. Thanks for taking some time. I know Fridays
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  Speaker 4: are hectic, so thanks for boxing out ten minutes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I like drinking out of a fire hose.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's fun.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the busier you are, the faster the day
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  Speaker 5: goes by. You know, when it's slow, I'm not me,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, you know you're one of my favorites, and
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  Speaker 2: I mean that. Appreciate that. You are, too.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Absolutely. So let me ask you this.
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  Speaker 4: And I purposely have not asked you this just because
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  Speaker 4: I know last year's championship game was just and I
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  Speaker 4: know you've had to answer this a million times.
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  Speaker 2: But before we talk this year, take us through.
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  Speaker 4: The last few seconds on your side of that championship
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  Speaker 4: game last year. And then also maybe how that motivated
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  Speaker 4: your team for this year.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I mean, it's part of it. I mean, obviously,
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  Speaker 5: it was a day that the football guys didn't see fit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. you know, there's a lot of whole lot of wood.
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  Speaker 2: It could have, should have that happened.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe that whole drive, uh, first play, you know, we got,
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  Speaker 5: we got a PI, um, you know, could have not
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  Speaker 5: tugged right there.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, next play could have batted a ball down.
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  Speaker 5: And then the third play, we could have tackled a
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  Speaker 5: guy and bounce. So it could have changed the whole course.
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  Speaker 5: And so, you know, we've practiced that play, that Hail
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  Speaker 5: Mary play about 111 times last year.
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  Speaker 2: And so, um, you know, it was just.
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  Speaker 5: A kind of a freak thing. Uh, we had four
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  Speaker 5: guys going up for the ball. Um, Three guys trying
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  Speaker 5: to bat it down, one guy trying to catch it.
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  Speaker 5: And so it was kind of a– everybody's seen the
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  Speaker 5: play five million times. It's kind of an act of God,
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  Speaker 5: bounce off a helmet, bounce off a shoulder pad, float
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  Speaker 5: in the air. And, you know, it was obviously what
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  Speaker 5: it meant to be. But, you know, we've taken that moment,
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  Speaker 5: and I think it's definitely motivated this team. It's– that
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  Speaker 5: picture of that last play is the biggest picture in
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  Speaker 5: our locker room.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: So they walk in every day and see that. And
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  Speaker 5: the back of our workout shirts is two seconds. And so,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I'm an intentional guy. Our guys appreciate that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we rub it in their face every day. But,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it's made us better people. It's made us
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  Speaker 5: learn that, hey, some bad stuff's going to happen to
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  Speaker 5: you sometimes. And you've got to overcome it. And I
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  Speaker 5: like how this group has overcome it this all offseason.
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  Speaker 5: I like what you just said. And that's, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the older I get, that's more of what football is.
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  Speaker 5: means to me um you know as a guy's 50
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  Speaker 5: now played football when i was younger wasn't ever great
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  Speaker 5: loved the game at very average but football is the
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  Speaker 5: reason i'm here doing what i do today and i've
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  Speaker 5: always said football teaches you so many life lessons on
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  Speaker 5: how to deal with adversity you know you wake up
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  Speaker 5: some mornings and things are great in the afternoon it
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  Speaker 5: can be chaotic so um it can help young men
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  Speaker 5: grow and when they leave a place like tupelo or
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  Speaker 5: brandon or wherever they go then it helps them i
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  Speaker 5: think you know kind of deal with adversity in life
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  Speaker 5: absolutely makes them better human beings period yeah um Better dads,
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  Speaker 5: better fathers, better workplace, whatever you're doing. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 5: the biggest thing is the lessons that you learn every
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  Speaker 5: day in the sport, and that's why it's the greatest
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  Speaker 5: sport ever.
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  Speaker 4: Coach Ty Harden, head football coach, Tupelo joining us. Brandon
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  Speaker 4: Tupelo going to tie one on here tonight here on
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  Speaker 4: the Blue Turf. Coach, the field, I told you this
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  Speaker 4: last year, y'all just got this redone, didn't you?
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  Speaker 1: We did.
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  Speaker 5: So that field was only three years old, so this
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  Speaker 5: year's our third year for it. It's actually the second year.
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  Speaker 5: We recently did a different infield. in it and so
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  Speaker 5: it's been great um it's definitely different obviously we're one
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  Speaker 5: of the original ones with the blue turf and now
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  Speaker 5: we got the panel blue turf and our guys love it.
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  Speaker 4: So let's talk a little bit about this version of
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  Speaker 4: tupelo football i know you got three linebackers i believe
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  Speaker 4: all have division one offers um there have been some
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  Speaker 4: really good guys you guys bring them in early coach
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  Speaker 4: them up well talk a little bit about this version
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  Speaker 4: of tupelo football I.
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  Speaker 5: Mean, obviously, I think, you know, the cover didn't bear.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we feel really good about every group that
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  Speaker 5: we have. I think offensively, let's start on that side,
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  Speaker 5: we're a totally different team than we were last year.
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  Speaker 5: We didn't have a trigger man. I mean, it is
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  Speaker 5: what it is. Everybody knew what we were doing, still
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  Speaker 5: had to stop it. But, you know, we're going to
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  Speaker 5: rely on the run game, what we do. But, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we feel really good about our quarterback that we got,
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  Speaker 5: Drew Dean. He's a guy that's a A veteran guy
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  Speaker 5: has played a lot of 7A football. His composure is
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  Speaker 5: my favorite thing about him. He's not too high. He's
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  Speaker 5: not too low. The game's not fast for him. And
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  Speaker 5: so when you've got a guy that can definitely, you know,
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  Speaker 5: take a load off the box right there, you feel
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  Speaker 5: really good about. And just this version of this team overall,
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  Speaker 5: it's one of the closest groups that we have. And
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  Speaker 5: I think it's because of what happened to us last year.
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  Speaker 5: Winning it two years ago, what happened to us failing
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  Speaker 5: last year at the end, I think it made a
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  Speaker 5: group a lot tighter. They really like being around each other.
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  Speaker 5: They like being around us. We like coaching them. Let's
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  Speaker 5: say there's some issues that I don't have to fix
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  Speaker 5: this year that I might have had to fix in
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  Speaker 5: the past. One of my defensive coordinators, Coach Young, walking
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  Speaker 5: down there, his favorite thing to say is we have
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  Speaker 5: a really good nucleus. That's what we like and You know,
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  Speaker 5: and we're always going to play great defense. We're excited
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  Speaker 5: about the guys. It's probably the most athletic defense that
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  Speaker 5: we've had. And so we'll see. We're a team that
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  Speaker 5: I don't think we're near as good as we're going
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  Speaker 5: to be. We've got the opportunity to be really good
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  Speaker 5: for the seasons over with.
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  Speaker 4: But you guys, like a lot of 7A programs, play
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  Speaker 4: a very tough non-region schedule. Obviously, you've got the game tonight,
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  Speaker 4: but you've got four more. talk about how that does
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  Speaker 4: prepare you for when you get to what really matters,
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  Speaker 4: which is region.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you want to be prepared for region and
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  Speaker 5: you really, really want to be prepared for playoffs because
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  Speaker 5: you don't know region wise, who's.
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  Speaker 2: Going to be up and down.
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  Speaker 5: And so it, man, it is what it is just
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  Speaker 5: like Brandon, just like us. It's hard to schedule teams.
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  Speaker 5: Some teams sometimes just don't, don't want to play you.
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  Speaker 5: So you have to go play some elites and, and we,
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  Speaker 5: we like a challenge. I think it's fun. Um, Well, also,
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  Speaker 5: I think it's just natural for teenagers. If you play
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  Speaker 5: somebody down, you're going to play down. So you've got
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  Speaker 5: to sharpen iron every week, and you've got to get
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  Speaker 5: tested every week, and that's one of our favorite things
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  Speaker 5: is we can't blink a single game this season, definitely non-division-wise.
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  Speaker 5: Every week you're playing some team that's probably the highest
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  Speaker 5: rank in their division or some state, and so it's fun.
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  Speaker 2: It's a fun journey.
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  Speaker 4: Busy with Ty Harden, head football coach, Tupelo Golden Wave.
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  Speaker 4: They'll host Brandon tonight to kick off set for seven
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  Speaker 4: o'clock here in Tupelo. We were talking about driving in
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  Speaker 4: just always, you know, a really good site here. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you guys do such a great job of the campus,
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  Speaker 4: the school. It's built like a college. Talk a little
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  Speaker 4: bit about the administration here in the sport that you
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  Speaker 4: have in this in this town.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's an administration that wants to be great
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  Speaker 5: in everything. You know, two years in a row that
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  Speaker 5: we won the All-Sports Award. You know, that's one thing.
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  Speaker 5: Our athletic director, you know, hangs his hat on. That's
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  Speaker 5: what we're going to be. We want to be great
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  Speaker 5: in everything. We want to be great in the classroom.
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  Speaker 5: We want to be great in our athletics and all
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  Speaker 5: our other activities. We offer probably more sports and more
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  Speaker 5: activities and clubs than any school in the state. And
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  Speaker 5: so there's a lot to do here. And, you know,
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  Speaker 5: they're really about– they want to share the love and
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  Speaker 5: they want everybody to be great. And so it's definitely
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  Speaker 5: a diverse place. You know, I know everybody in the
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  Speaker 5: Metro probably thinks a little bit different of us, but
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  Speaker 5: we love being here. We love living here. And it's
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  Speaker 5: the best school district in the state. Let's finish it
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  Speaker 5: up with this. You were talking off the air for
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  Speaker 5: Mississippi State fans a little bit about J.J. Hill, who
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  Speaker 5: is in that backfield.
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  Speaker 4: You know, without just telling it all, because– there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of information that of course, you know, Levy and
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  Speaker 4: his staff, they don't give to the media or anything,
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  Speaker 4: but you said he's having a good camp and looks
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  Speaker 4: really good right now.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think starting off from when he got there, um,
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  Speaker 5: I think the first few weeks, the first week of
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  Speaker 5: workouts are like, you cannot work out with the freshmen anymore.
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  Speaker 5: You got, you gotta get moved up with the upperclassmen.
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  Speaker 5: And so, and it's just trickled on from there. Every
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  Speaker 5: time I hear something or I talk to him or
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  Speaker 5: I talk to a teammate, um, or talk to one
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  Speaker 5: of his coaches, it's like, man, he's getting better and
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  Speaker 5: better and better and better every day. Watched him in
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  Speaker 5: the spring. He had a phenomenal spring. Like I said,
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  Speaker 5: he's down 20, 25 pounds from when he played last year.
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  Speaker 5: And recently from his scrimmages, I mean, he's showing out. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I know he's loved by his teammates too.
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  Speaker 5: And so I think it's definitely a really high chance
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  Speaker 5: that you'll see him over there on Scott Field this season,
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  Speaker 5: and we're excited about it over here.
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  Speaker 4: You know him as good as anybody. You helped raise
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  Speaker 4: the young man. What's his best quality as a football player?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, his work ethic.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he was a guy starting his freshman year
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  Speaker 5: of high school, like he was a guy that was
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  Speaker 5: a 5 a.m. workout guy, going to get up, run,
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  Speaker 5: or work out and do something on his own every day.
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  Speaker 5: You know, he was not going to– he has no
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  Speaker 5: excuses for everything. He likes hard things. He knows what
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  Speaker 5: it takes to be great. but his best trait period
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  Speaker 5: is just how awesome of a human being he is.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he's just, and I think that's one of
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  Speaker 5: the biggest correlations of anything you do. Like he's, he's just,
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  Speaker 5: if you don't like him, there's something wrong with you.
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  Speaker 5: And he's just one of those type of people.
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  Speaker 2: Tom Harden, he is the head football coach. Tupelo, they
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  Speaker 2: play Brandon Knight. Coach, good luck tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate y'all guys coming, for sure. Thank you for having
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate Ty Hart and the head football coach at Tupelo
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  Speaker 4: jumping on with us. We'll get Purvey Green's going to
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  Speaker 4: join us here in just a bit. Just talk a
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  Speaker 4: little football. We'll have Keith Hardy coming up at 4.30.
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  Speaker 4: We'll be out here at 5 to get you ready
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  Speaker 4: for your high school football. If you want to text
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  Speaker 4: us and be able to let me know if we
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  Speaker 4: get any of those, 601-885-3776. Stuart Mandel earlier says, everyone
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  Speaker 4: knows the founding fathers were intent on making sure NFL
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  Speaker 4: players could play in the SEC.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this is tongue-in-cheek.
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  Speaker 4: He's having fun with this because there is a statement
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  Speaker 4: here that says, quote, if Sankey shows up, I'd like
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  Speaker 4: to hear his argument, said Tony Clayton, one of the
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  Speaker 4: attorneys representing a group of 42 total athletes. listed in
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  Speaker 4: the case what gives him the right to anoint himself
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  Speaker 4: god and take these constitutional rights from these kids these
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  Speaker 4: attorneys the things that they say pervy green is is
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  Speaker 4: wild i mean we've got now attorneys um calling the
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  Speaker 4: uh sec and big 10 basically cartels and i mean
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  Speaker 4: it's crazy well you.
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  Speaker 6: Know i it's gotten to the point i don't even
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  Speaker 6: know what to make of it um and You know,
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  Speaker 6: you have one case that's successful. The rest of the
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  Speaker 6: attorneys from all corners of the country kind of jump
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  Speaker 6: in because the blueprint has already been made. Find one judge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's going to be favorable. Take that case
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  Speaker 6: there and it just opens the floodgates. So 42 is
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  Speaker 6: probably going to grow to 80 at some point, you know,
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  Speaker 6: and it's, you know, and I got to thinking about
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  Speaker 6: this earlier, you know, with a kid, you know, fourth year,
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  Speaker 6: fifth year, You know, he declares for the draft, you know,
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  Speaker 6: signs it, you know, basically he's undrafted, you know, signs
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  Speaker 6: a free agent contract, and he's doing the numbers. You know,
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  Speaker 6: he's like, well, if I go, if I find a,
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  Speaker 6: you know, ACC school, Big Ten school, well, not anymore.
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  Speaker 6: But if I find a school, well, let's just take
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  Speaker 6: it from Big Ten. If I find a collegiate program
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  Speaker 6: that has just a little bit of NIL money in it,
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  Speaker 6: it gives me not only a little bit more money
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  Speaker 6: than I probably would, you know, trying out on this
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  Speaker 6: NFL team, but it also gives me now more tape
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  Speaker 6: for the next draft. Now, of course, the NFL has
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  Speaker 6: kind of stepped in and said, no, we're not going there.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you had the Big Ten and HCC have
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  Speaker 6: stepped in, now we're not going there. But you almost
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  Speaker 6: have to understand the kids' frame of mind and that, look,
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  Speaker 6: with the NIL money that's going around collegiate sports now,
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  Speaker 6: you know, it's worth it for me to make, you know,
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  Speaker 6: take a shot going back to college. Once again, I'm
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  Speaker 6: going to make a little bit of money there. And
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  Speaker 6: I mean, actually getting more film on tape that may
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  Speaker 6: improve my draft stock next time around. So, but I,
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  Speaker 6: it was, was blowing my mind is that we really
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  Speaker 6: got to a place where a kid, you know, played
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  Speaker 6: his collegiate career. It's done. Thinks he can kind of
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  Speaker 6: dip his toe a little bit in a professional level
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  Speaker 6: and then take his foot out and say, Hey, let
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  Speaker 6: me go back to college. I, It's wild where we
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  Speaker 6: have been, now where we're going.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, there's the old saying, which is true,
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  Speaker 4: that young people, and we all are, no matter what
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  Speaker 4: age you are, but especially young people are impressionable people. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you can really get them going in a
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  Speaker 4: different direction. There's always been or was prior to 2021
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  Speaker 4: when they opened the floodgates on name, image, and likeness
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  Speaker 4: and pay for play of the order. So you went
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  Speaker 4: to high school, you got a college scholarship, or you
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  Speaker 4: walked on, you gray-shirted, all that stuff. If you're good enough,
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  Speaker 4: you're going to get drafted in the NFL. You can't
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: sign with an agent. If you sign with an agent,
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: then you're ineligible.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: For the next year. There were rules in place.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: Now what these young guys are seeing, when I say
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: they're impressionable, they have a father or a mother or
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: an uncle or a friend, or they have an agent.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Now who says, wait a minute, you're owed this.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: It's against your constitutional rights. And they don't probably even know.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: This doesn't mean they're dumb. They don't know what that means.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: And these attorneys aren't going to turn down billable hours.
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: Can you imagine? these agents and some of these people
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: that descend upon these 707 tournaments, these camps, you know,
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: and they're sitting there and they're waiting. And look, the
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: kid probably can't go anywhere in those camps without that
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: guy in his face saying, hey, look, you know, you're
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: more than likely you're a five-star. Hey, let's get you
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: going now. You know, let me sign on with you.
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: And he's lining up those deals before this kid even
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: plays a down and clutch football. So it is a
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: weird place that we've gotten to. My biggest concern is
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: how this now begins to, again, filter down to the
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: high school level. We've seen it happen in Georgia. We've
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: seen it happen in Alabama where some of these kids
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: have got these, I'm using air quotes, NIL deals while
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: they're playing high school football. And the way they're transferring,
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: and I think what's going to have to happen, we're
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: starting to see it in Mississippi a little bit, but
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: I think all of our high school athletic associations really
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: need to tighten up their transfer rules because we're seeing kids,
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: not only we're seeing, you know, guys play four and
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: five schools in their collegiate career, we're seeing high school
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: kids play at three different high schools in their high
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: school career, and that's just mind-boggling.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: No, you are, especially in the, you know, let's just
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: say if you take the ESPN Top 100, and I'm
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: using that because that is kind of a benchmark, the
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: ESPN or on three Top 100. You're seeing especially those
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Top 50 guys. I saw a story, and I can't
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: remember who the kid was. It was some young man
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: who was in Texas, and now he's going to finish
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: his high school career in Georgia or somewhere.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. God, a name escapes.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: But, yeah.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: And I'm talking about transferred, like, during the summer out
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: of the blue. And he was fine in Texas, but
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: for whatever reason, he up and transferred to Georgia. Yeah, but, again,
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: we've got– I can't remember the kid's name, but the
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: story about the kid in Alabama that was at one school,
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: transferred to another school in Alabama. It's because he– Again,
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: there's that deal. Got kind of a deal to play
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: for another high school in Alabama, and it's kind of like,
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: come on. Again, for older guys like us, it's just
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: weird to watch this happen because the formal rules have
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: been in place for decades. A school signs you. Depending
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: on if you had the grades or not, you had
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: to rest short a year. But if you rest short
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: a year, you still had five years to play four
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: years of eligibility. And by the way, I've already contacted
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: my attorney because I want my fifth year on the
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: Mississippi State kickoff team. So we're working on it for
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: me to get another fifth year. But, you know, I
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: think this hard and, you know, as I said, at
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: this point it's hard to put the genie back in
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: a bottle. My biggest concern now is how does this
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: impact high.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: School athletics now?
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Because hopefully we're at a place where we can save
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: high school athletics now. If any of our high school
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: athletes are out there, and I'm not trying to take
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: the money out of your pocket, but what I am
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: saying is let's kind of make sure we've got some
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: sensible and reasonable rules in place, you know, as we
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: still have at least an amateur athletic level on a
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: high school level. Amateurism in college athletics is gone. It's
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: gone and it ain't coming back. So maybe there's some
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: way we can preserve, you know, amateurism at the high
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: school level.
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  Speaker 2: No, I agree.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, just like this statement right here, what gives
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: the right to anoint himself God, talking about Greg Sankey,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: and take these constitutional rights from kids?
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Well, one, he is not God.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: I don't think he's trying to play God, but he
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: is the commissioner of the Southeastern Conference.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: He runs the conference.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: It's just like if there was some sort of an anarchy,
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: and this is somewhat of an anarchist type movement here,
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: believe it or not, it would be like the NFL
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: players and the NFLPA say, well, Roger Goodell, like him
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: or not, and I know he's not the most popular guy,
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: what gives him the right?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Well, he's the boss.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Like there is a chain of command. And if the
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: SEC says, no, we're not doing this, then that's the
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: SEC bylaws.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: Well, and let me play devil's advocate. Can you imagine
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: if Sankey had the actually alternate mindset? If he was
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: all in for these guys returning back to college, this
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: is nothing. We would have– it would be a total–
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: the SEC is already, you know, the devil by everybody's
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: accounts across the country. This would be even turning on
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: its ear if Sankey was all in with, hey, if
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: the court allowed these guys to come back, you know,
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: our LSU is out of– hey, that may benefit our
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: Mississippi State.
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: If our lower-tier collegiate football programs, you know, basketball, if
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: they had a situation where some kids were good enough,
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: you know, to get tagged by a professional team, didn't
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: make it, and they were able to come back, you know.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: So I think he recognizes where we should be. I
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: think the Big Ten commissioner recognizes where we should be.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: And I think other conferences– possibly are going to recognize
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: where we should be with this. But you might have
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: one conference commissioner that says, wait a minute, wait a minute.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: This may actually make our teams better. And I'm waiting
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: to see which commissioner actually is bold enough to actually
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: develop that mindset. Well, hey, this might actually work out
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: for not only our top tier teams, but our lower
• 21:24
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  Speaker 8: Jake, are you ready for some football?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I think we're ready, Keith. I mean, we better
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  Speaker 2: be ready. It's here, right? I mean, we saw.
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  Speaker 4: Six upsets last night, you know, in the FCS side
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  Speaker 4: of things. We got week zero. We got the final
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  Speaker 2: But, I mean, Keith, it's here. We're ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, any upsets tomorrow, Jake?
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: You know, I know how you feel about TCU, so
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: I know you're not calling the Tar Heels.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: How about the Rainbow Warriors? How about the Bulls?
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: You know, and I'm pulling up the bet builder just
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: to kind of make sure that I'm on the same
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: page here and get these updated lines here. But, yeah,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: the Rainbow Warriors are one. And I'm going to tell
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: you what, I think NC State, I know they're a
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: slight underdog on the road to Virginia. I think NC
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: State may be, you know, a better football team than
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: last year. And, you know, Virginia, I mean, we'll see
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: if they've got stay in power. They typically do not
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: have stay in power. But I like NC State at,
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: you know, getting four points. And you referenced Hawaii. They're
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: a four-and-a-half-point underdog on the road at Stanford. I like
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: both the dogs in those matchups.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, Jake.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I got four plays for tomorrow, NC State and Hawaii,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: and I'm laying the points with Florida State and USC.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Your team might put up 50.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's interesting because two teams with two
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: football coaches, you got Florida State, who's favored by 32,
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: against New Mexico State.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: That's a six-o'clock kick.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Tomorrow night, and you've also got USC, their clock kick
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: against San Jose State, minus 39, so they're a 39-point favorite.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: You've got two coaches in Lincoln Riley at USC and
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Mike Norvell at Florida State. They both are on the
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: hot seat. Now, the Norvell hot seat is much hotter
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: than the Riley hot seat, but they both are two
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: coaches that have to prove they belong. I mean, I
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: don't see either coach taking their foot off the gas tomorrow.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I'm weighing the points.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: I know it's a lot, 39 and 32, but, yeah,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: I got two favorites, two big favorites, and two small dogs. And, look,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: I might even sprinkle a little something on the money
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: line saying that the bows went out right. But, yeah,
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: those are my four favorite plays for tomorrow. And I
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: got to tell you, Jason, in that first game in Ireland,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: I'm liking the.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Under in that game. I'm not going to pick a side.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I know I remember you saying you've been on TCU.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: But I'm liking the under in that one.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Any thoughts on the over-under?
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: 46-and-a-half.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: The Sharks think, obviously, it's going to be a lower-scoring ballgame,
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: and it very well could. I mean, it could be
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: a situation where TCU wins this football game, you know,
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: somewhere around 32-14. You know, that would put you right
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: around the 46 mark.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I mean, I can see that game going under.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: And Jake, we've got preseason going on today. You'd be
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: surprised how much action we get on the preseason. It's
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: tons and tons of action. You can't move the point
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: spreads around.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: There's no prop bets, but we're still getting lots of action.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Getting a lot of action on Major League Baseball as well.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Major League Baseball is getting real tight with some playoff
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: races going on.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Of course, the WNBA and is in full effect right now.
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  Speaker 8: We're getting action on that.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't believe the player props we get on that too, Jake.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Keith, you got all that to play.
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  Speaker 4: And look, you might as well go ahead and if
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  Speaker 4: you feel comfortable about some of these games coming up
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: next week, I mean, you've got September 3rd games out there,
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: which is going to be next Thursday.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: There is a lot of Thursday action. You know, there's
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: September 4th.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: There's some Friday action like Indiana State at Purdue, Toledo
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: at Michigan State, UTEP at Oklahoma, Miami, Stanford. So if
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: you feel good about some of these, you might want
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: to get on them now before these lines move a
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: little bit.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Speaking of getting bets in early, your futures, I just.
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  Speaker 8: He said he heard us on the radio.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: He heard me on the radio.
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  Speaker 3: He just came in, made some future bets. So don't
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  Speaker 3: forget about those. You want to let your listeners know,
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  Speaker 3: you know, those lines will move. So you want to
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  Speaker 3: get a good price.
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  Speaker 1: You want to get it locked in. You got to
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: get it early. Yeah.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: And, you know, I'm just sitting here looking at some
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: of these matchups. Of course, we'll visit next Friday.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: But if you're talking about, you know, Thursday and Friday,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's going to be the third and the fourth.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: You know, there's some interesting games out there. You know,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: I mean, both Oklahoma's in action next Friday. They're taking
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: on UTEP. You know, they're a big favorite. Again, Purdue
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: against Indiana State. I don't know that the general public
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: is going to be in on that, but then you
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: also have Georgia Tech and Colorado next Thursday, and we
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: won't visit until next Friday. So Colorado is a six-and-a-half-point
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: dog on the road at Georgia Tech. I really love
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: the way Georgia Tech has played football the last couple years.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: I know they're breaking into different quarterback, but, boy, I
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: tell you what, I really like Georgia Tech and giving
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: up the points there.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and speaking of Thursdays, Don't forget Rutgers.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Rutgers playing UMass.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's must-see TV right there, Jake.
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: Rutgers-UMass, are you kidding me?
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, UMass almost annually, or at least
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: for the last 10 years, has been the worst team
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: in Division I. Rutgers is a 30-and-a-half-point favorite. I mean,
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: I would feel comfortable taking Rutgers in the points there.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I can't believe that I'm saying this, Jake. I'm laying
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: 30 points with Rutgers. Oh, listen, there's another game. There's
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: another dog. tomorrow that I can't believe I forgot. It's
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the late game. Memphis at UNLV. Tell me, does Memphis
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: have a shot going out there and getting the win?
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, look, they've got a really good football coach
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: in Charles Huff who, you know, the one-year turnaround at
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: Southern Miss.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: He was at Marshall prior to that.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: He's a Nick Saban guy taking on Dan Mullen out
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: there in Vegas.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: And, you know, Charles Huff and Dan Mullen are two guys.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: That If they have the right season, both will be
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: courted for, you know, power four type jobs. So, yeah,
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: I think Memphis has a shot here. I may would
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: play the under at 56 and a half versus taking,
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: you know, one team or the other. But I think
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: that's going to be, you know, if you've got the
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: gumption to stay up late and watch some West Coast football,
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: that's going to be a good one.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a 9 o'clock start. If I score
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: on my early play, then I'm going to have to
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: go and put a.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Little something on Memphis.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: Keith, before we let you go, tell everybody to come
• 29:33
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• 29:35
  Speaker 4: We want people to get out and get their football
• 29:37
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  Speaker 3: Else you want to watch, a WNBA game or something
• 30:14
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• 30:37
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  Speaker 4: Find them on Facebook and LinkedIn. Appreciate Keith Hardy jumping in.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Chris Siebel here with us for the last segment here.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Talk a little high school football.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: All right, Chris, or as you said, you want to
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: be called Topher. Topher, that's it. Beaver, can you believe
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Chris wants to be called Topher?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: No.
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: So let me tell you a little back story about that.
• 31:44
  Speaker 9: So I have really good friends of mine, Josh Furby.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: And his wife.
• 31:47
  Speaker 9: And, you know, I introduced them a long time ago.
• 31:50
  Speaker 9: And they, of course, married now and had their first child.
• 31:53
  Speaker 9: And I begged them, begged them to name the child Christopher.
• 31:56
  Speaker 9: And they wouldn't do it. And I said, we can
• 31:57
  Speaker 9: call him Topher. And so that's how that started. So
• 32:00
  Speaker 9: since then, I've been obsessed with the name Topher. But
• 32:02
  Speaker 9: my wife gives me a hard time. They give me
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: a hard time. They're like, you can just be Uncle Topher.
• 32:05
  Speaker 9: So now I'm Uncle Topher. Beaver, any thoughts on this?
• 32:08
  Speaker 10: That's a terrible idea. Evil hair. Even Chris Brooks, okay?
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: Chris Brooks is a total weirdo. And he was in
• 32:16
  Speaker 10: here a couple weeks ago, and even this man, he's like, no.
• 32:20
  Speaker 10: Because this came up somehow, Jake. Why did we get
• 32:23
  Speaker 10: on this two weeks ago?
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: It's my fault.
• 32:24
  Speaker 9: I'm the one that texted Jake and told him. I
• 32:26
  Speaker 9: was like, ask him if he likes to be called
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: Christopher or Chris.
• 32:30
  Speaker 10: Okay. So if even Chris Brooks is against it, then
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: you know because he's a total weirdo.
• 32:37
  Speaker 9: But everybody is short for Chris. Chris is short for Christopher.
• 32:41
  Speaker 9: So why don't we do Topher for short for Christopher?
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: That actor, Topher Grace, is the only human I know
• 32:47
  Speaker 10: that goes by that. And you don't want to be
• 32:49
  Speaker 10: like that, man.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: I'm going to stick to my guns. Do you have
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: anything over there we need to get to? Or do
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: you have any comments on anything?
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let me.
• 32:57
  Speaker 10: We got some texts here. And I got to get
• 32:59
  Speaker 10: to JC because he texted this. And then a little
• 33:03
  Speaker 10: bit of time passed. And then he texted again and said,
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: let Jake know I texted because I'm getting out of
• 33:10
  Speaker 10: the car.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: He says, Jake.
• 33:14
  Speaker 10: Matt Wyatt said earlier that you had some picks for
• 33:16
  Speaker 10: this weekend. He called them winners, but we all know otherwise.
• 33:21
  Speaker 10: They are breakeven at best. If you indeed have some,
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: you need to post them for transparency and accountability. And
• 33:31
  Speaker 10: since you're so confident in them, would you endorse Beaver
• 33:35
  Speaker 10: putting his 401k on them? Side note, I'm picking Brandon
• 33:40
  Speaker 10: tonight to do what they do best.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Finish second. I knew that was coming. Oh, JC. Is
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: he a Pearl Pirate?
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: You know what?
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: He's not a pirate.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know where he's from. He's probably North Brandon.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: He's probably North Brandon. Could be. So, Beaver, are we
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: putting your 401k on TCU tomorrow?
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: No.
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: You know, I was telling Keith about this. Jake, I
• 34:03
  Speaker 10: know that you're huge on this one, but you know
• 34:06
  Speaker 10: how I feel about things that are way too obvious?
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:09
  Speaker 10: This is one of them, because with all the trouble
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: at North Carolina... Everybody in the world expects them to
• 34:15
  Speaker 10: get destroyed, so it just seems way too obvious to me.
• 34:19
  Speaker 10: So I'm staying away from it.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: That's fair. That's fair. What else you got over there?
• 34:25
  Speaker 10: Pearl Girl says, I guess Topher would go along with
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: that horrible mustache.
• 34:34
  Speaker 9: The mustache is gone, but she wouldn't know that because
• 34:36
  Speaker 9: she doesn't come around anymore.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: How about that? Yes, I know who Pearl Girl is.
• 34:43
  Speaker 10: I tell you, the Pearl Girl is not someone you
• 34:45
  Speaker 10: really want coming around. The girl kicked me in the
• 34:51
  Speaker 10: shin one time. That was eight years ago, and it
• 34:54
  Speaker 10: still stuck with me.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: You're still walking with a limp. Yeah.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: That is awesome.
• 34:59
  Speaker 9: No, but the mustache is gone. I shaved it off,
• 35:02
  Speaker 9: I don't know, a month ago, two months ago.
• 35:04
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: It's gone. I'm going to grow it back, though.
• 35:07
  Speaker 10: Oh, Miko just says, I'm a pirate.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Go wave. He's not holding back. He's saying, go wave.
• 35:15
  Speaker 10: Andre is not afraid of the curse here of way
• 35:20
  Speaker 10: too obvious. He says, no, wait. Oh, I read that backwards.
• 35:26
  Speaker 10: He says UNC all over TCU.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: All over, he says. That means like just the old quote,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: old-fashioned boat race.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Let's see. Pearl Girl is back. Says, okay.
• 35:49
  Speaker 10: She said, first she's going to kick me in the
• 35:51
  Speaker 10: other shin, she says. And then she says, and now,
• 35:53
  Speaker 10: e-bell hair, now that mustache is gone, I might come around.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Well, see? That's all it took. I think that's all
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: it took.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 36:02
  Speaker 10: And that'll catch us up on the text.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Very good.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Hey, baby, have you seen this Tupelo field, by the way? No,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: I haven't. I'll send you a picture of it. It
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: is very unique. You know, it's blue.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: And as Coach Harden told us earlier, he was on
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: with us, Ty Harden, the head football coach at Tupelo.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: It's three years old. They redid it. It's segmented blue.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: So Chris takes it. I mean, it's like a light
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: blue and a dark blue. It's kind of weird on
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: your eyes.
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: Well, they do it with the green. I think Madison
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: Central is the same way but with green. So they
• 36:32
  Speaker 9: segment a different color green. This is with blue. So,
• 36:36
  Speaker 9: I mean, you can see that from a mile away
• 36:38
  Speaker 9: when you pull in. I mean, it's just bright, bright, bright, bright.
• 36:40
  Speaker 9: And I don't know if you remember this, Jake.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: I know it's a little off topic.
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: But do you remember Boise State a few years ago?
• 36:45
  Speaker 9: You know how they had the blue turf up there?
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: Did they have to cover it in the winter? Because
• 36:48
  Speaker 9: the birds think it's water and they nosedive straight down
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: and they kill themselves.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: I did see something on that several years ago. Why
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: don't they have to do that here? Migrating south. I mean,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: this might be as far south as they're migrating. Yeah,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: but I don't think they're going to. I mean, typically
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: it's Canadian geese. Yeah. I don't think they're. And, you know,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: they'll just circle in and land.
• 37:07
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: So I don't see them nosediving.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Into the blue turf of Tupelo. All right.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: So we've got Brandon Tupelo tonight. What do you think
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: about this matchup? You're unbiased. I'm very unbiased in this.
• 37:18
  Speaker 9: Of course, Tupelo, a tough task to start the season off,
• 37:22
  Speaker 9: but I do believe this is a much improved Brandon team.
• 37:26
  Speaker 9: I think the key to this is going to be
• 37:28
  Speaker 9: offensive line, of course. Tupelo is going to be very,
• 37:32
  Speaker 9: very good defensively. If that offensive line gives this offense
• 37:36
  Speaker 9: time to generate that offense, I think it's going to
• 37:40
  Speaker 9: be a tight game. I think they'll be in it
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: in the fourth quarter. Do they have enough to top Tupelo?
• 37:45
  Speaker 9: I don't know, but I do believe it will be
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: a four-quarter game. Yeah, the Dawgs are going to have
• 37:50
  Speaker 9: to do something a little differently.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: The last two outings against Tupelo, you know, you've tried
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: to go straight up man-on-man, and Tupelo's too good on
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: the interior. They've got three linebackers all that are going
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: to play Division I football. Very, very good on the
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: defensive side. So watching a little bit of the South
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: Panola game last week, South Panola got a move in
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: side-to-side and had some success in the passing game. Brandon
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: will have to do something similar, and then they've got
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: to slow down that run game. You've got Starkville and
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Oak Grove going on down in the Pine Belt as
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: you've got two really good quarterbacks. You've got Kellen Hall
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: down at Oak Grove who will play Division I. I
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: think he's headed to Tulane. Conversely, his counterpart, I believe,
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: is headed to Tulane as well, the starting quarterback, Kingston
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: Johnson at Starkville. This was a shootout last year between
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: these two.
• 38:33
  Speaker 9: Absolutely, and I was up at Starkville last year, down
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: at Oak Grove this year. I think that's going to
• 38:37
  Speaker 9: be a game with a lot of uncertainty with Starkville,
• 38:40
  Speaker 9: new coach. and what they can do. Starville's always a
• 38:43
  Speaker 9: good football team. Of course, Oak Grove will always be
• 38:46
  Speaker 9: Oak Grove. They've got a really good program down there.
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: So I expect a shootout again in that one. You know,
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: I think it's whoever wants to– who comes out and
• 38:56
  Speaker 9: who has the ball last with that one. So that
• 38:58
  Speaker 9: should be a good game. Another one I'm interested in,
• 39:00
  Speaker 9: and I hope I didn't steal your thunder, is that
• 39:02
  Speaker 9: Gulfport-Picayune game.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: It's tonight down in– I think that game's at Gulfport.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no Thunder to steal. Yeah, that's going to be
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: a good one. Gulfport, Picayune.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: You've also got not too far from here, back down
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: south of 45, Louisville taking on West Point. That's always
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: an annual big one. You've got Petal taking on Hattiesburg
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: down in the Pine Belt. West Jones at Laurel. You've
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: also got Knoxville County, Heidelberg. That's a 2A, 3A matchup.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: Clarksdale versus Cleveland Central. Another good one, you know, 4A, 5A.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: East Webster, Choctaw County. Hartfield taking on Columbia. You've got
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: Jackson Academy. They're taking on a team from the state
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: of Alabama. So there's a lot of great matchups tonight.
• 39:42
  Speaker 9: And what a way to start off the the full
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: first season. I mean, you know, you always look at college.
• 39:46
  Speaker 9: You don't always have a lot of good matchups to start,
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: but this high school first week, I mean, this non-district
• 39:51
  Speaker 9: play for all these teams, man, there's a load of games. Those, uh,
• 39:56
  Speaker 9: those shows, Colin shows on the way home should be interesting.
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: I mean, like I said, last, last night had some,
• 40:01
  Speaker 9: some upsets. I guess you could say Meridian ocean Springs.
• 40:04
  Speaker 9: We talked about earlier, uh, the mass central Pearl. I mean,
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: a couple of other games, um, you know, uh, We're
• 40:11
  Speaker 9: off and running. It got here quick, and it should
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: be fun for the next, what, 14, 15 weeks? It
• 40:17
  Speaker 9: should be, and as I tell you, every year, slow
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: it down. It's the old Ferris Bueller. Hey, don't, I mean,
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: slow it down. If you blink, you could miss it
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: because we'll be talking here now, and we'll be in
• 40:28
  Speaker 9: Christmas before you know it.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: And I'll still be in shorts. Yeah, you'll still be
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: in shorts. B, do you have any parting words for
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: E-Bell Hare?
• 40:37
  Speaker 10: Rethink this Topher thing. Grow back that mustache. I'm going
• 40:45
  Speaker 10: to come see you. Save a spot for me at
• 40:47
  Speaker 10: Brandon this year.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Save me pickles. Are you sure?
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: He actually can do that because after tonight, he's probably
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: just going to manage from a distance everything that.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Goes on in the building. That's what I'm talking about.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: So we can get him.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: We'll make sure to take off at 5 o'clock like
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: this so he can get out, and we'll save him
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: a batch of pickles.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 41:05
  Speaker 9: Okay, Madison Central next week. Or I tell you what,
• 41:09
  Speaker 9: this is probably your better one. West Monroe in three weeks.
• 41:13
  Speaker 9: West Monroe comes to town to play Brandon. That will
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: be a game. I think you should come to the
• 41:17
  Speaker 9: West Monroe game. Pickles galore. Pickles galore. We appreciate Ty
• 41:20
  Speaker 9: Harden jumping in. Also Keith Hardy and Heath Hinton. Remember,
• 41:22
  Speaker 9: ketchup is king, bacon.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Is a delicacy.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: Aloha means goodbye. Be a man of increase. We have
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: reached the crescendo. Be careful going out to your high
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: school games. Have a great weekend. Enjoy it. Lord willing,
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: and the creek don't rise. We'll see you on Monday.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: God bless. Good night.
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