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Rob Browne talks SEC basketball and baseball · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Rob Brown part of Sidelines. He is mister Sidelines. You can find him
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  at sidelines dot Live. Also check him out on x give him a follow
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  every day. They got you covered in the morning Monday through Saturday. Rob
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  wilcome in, sir, how are you hi doing? Great? Man?
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  It's a great time of year. You got the Super Bowl about to start
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  up a couple of weeks, people start playing practice and football, college basketball,
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  college baseball. About the crank off. You're in Mississippi, which is
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  the center of the universe for college baseball, So yeah, you got to
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  be pretty happy. No, it is, for sure, and a lot
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  of expectations out of all the programs Mississippi State, Ole Miss, at Southern
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  Miss. We'll hit some of that here in just a bit. I want
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  to ask you about what you thought yesterday, just as as a football fan
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  and watching what you saw yesterday and now of course with the Chiefs and the
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  forty nine ers set to tee it up here in the Super Bowl in a
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  little under two weeks, your thoughts of yesterday's action. Well, I had
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  Kansas City to win straight up. I just felt good about that one because
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  everybody was talking about how complete a team Baltimore was and how Kansas City had
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  really struggled to put it together, and I said, obviously they hadn't marched
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  him play recently, and Patrick Mahomes is pretty much unstoppable when he gets to
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  this point. And then the Detroit game at first first of the week,
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  I said, there's no way they beat San Francisco out there for a lot
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  of reasons. And then I changed my mind, which you know better than
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  that, and I took Detroit. Well, they're up twenty four to seven,
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  and I'm like, well, you know, the forty nine ers are
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  gonna come out and they better be able to go blow for blow with them,
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  and they're gonna lose. But that was a collapse of you know,
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  the Patriots and the Falcons and the Super Bowl type of stuff. You're up
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  twenty four to seven in the second half. That four receiver rentals, you
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  can't You're paid a lot of money. You have to make those kind of
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  catches, and they you that's inexcusable, and that's tough one. But I
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  mean, I think it's going to be forty nine ers brock party. What's
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  you making eight hundred and seventy thousand versus Patrick Mahomes, who's been to the
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  AFC Championship Game six years in a row. All six years he's been a
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  starter in the NFL, and I think it will be a great Super Bowl.
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  Don't underestimate rock Parties. Leg that guy can run and McCaffrey is running
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  back. Is a modern day Rocky Blier. No, there's no doubt about
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  it. He is a fantastic and he's a game changer as well. Rob
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  Brown on your radio Monday edition of the program, Rob, let's switch over
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  to SEC basketball. Now that we've getten close to the midway point, Alabama
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  at the top of the league, six and one, fourteen and six in
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  Tennessee right there, a half a game back at five and one, and
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  then of course South Carolina Auburn. You go all way Downsissippi State and in
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  Texas A and M eight nine teams, you know, trying to vie for
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  spots. It's hard to tell, but I mean, this is as deep
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  as the league has been. How many teams do you think will get a
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  bit? And I know that's you know, asking the nine. Yeah,
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  I would say nine. And look, folks in Mississippi order rebel yell hotlines
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  on the show every week with US talked a lot before they even did it
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  about hiring Chris Beard. That was a great high And if you're an Old
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  Miss fan, this is the best last three years in Old Miss sports history
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  with what's going on in football baseball. Win in the National Championship in twenty
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  twenty two and Chris Beard got the Rebels at four and three without a whole
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  lot of talent, but the portal helps. In Alan Flanagan and his dad
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  coming over from Auburn, they're a good duo over I just think Mississippi State
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  they got Auburn. Auburn hasn't won a game over a Quadrant one team this
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  year. If they were number eight in the country and Mississippi State held them
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  to their second lowest point total, they gave up only fifty. I think
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  Auburn had fifty eight points, but Appalachian State held Auburn to fewer points.
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  And then you look at Tennessee, I think they're the best team in the
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  league. Alabama's really good. South Carolina LSU. Look three years ago.
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  LSU was the respirators on the priests in the room called the ken folks to
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  the bedside. They're done. And look at them. They're four and three
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  in the league, I believe, or three and four, but they're still
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  they're playing a lot better and they're not an easy slam dunk win. They
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  faded late against Alabama South Carolina. They're what they've won seventeen or eighteen games
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  and old miskit and the win. Anytime you beat A and M that's a
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  great win. And you got to say they're in the bigger disappointment in the
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  league than Arkansas. Let me ask you about that, Chris Stock. No,
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  absolutely, I mean there's no doubt about it. And look, they
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  were out in front of Kentucky over the weekend as you well know, yeah,
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  and then you know, kind of let that thing slip through their arms.
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  SEC baseball, that's hard to believe. With the with the ice and
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  the snow and the rain and everything we've had. We're fixing to play baseball.
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  But you look at the league and you know how baseball is. You
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  go to, you know, whatever pole you want, d one Baseball Baseball
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  America, and there's a lot of them. But the Florida's, the Arkansas,
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  the LSU's are going to be right there in the top ten, top
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  five, Texas, A and m Tennessee. You look down the league.
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  Alabama had a good year last year, going forty three and twenty one,
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  South Carolina forty two and twenty one. That's not even counting Missippi State Ole
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  Miss trying to get back on the right side. As we always say,
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  you could make a case. I know, we love to focus on football,
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  that's what we do then the other sports. But this league is so
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  tough, and I'll tell you what to try to get some movement in this
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  league. I mean, it is very, very tough to do. And
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  if you're State and Ole Miss, you got to uphill climb here. Well
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  they do. It's hard to believe that I knew the team was in the
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  playoff last year. And it's all about pitching. And you look top to
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  bottom in the SEC. Auburn last year, in the first half of the
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  season struggled, then went twelve and three in the second half. And you
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  look at how many of these guys are pitching all summer in Cape Cod League
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  and just in these different leagues around the country or around the world, their
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  arms one out, and how many of them are really focused on the SEC.
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  A lot of teams their top three pitchers. I know Auburn last year.
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  Those of Gonzales fixed five innings in the first game. He's done for
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  the year. He's back this year. They've got a lot of pitchers.
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  But you look at Ole miss Mississippi State, Arkansas had Arkansas last year lost,
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  you know at home in the region. I think this league is just
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  going to get tougher. Texas has been to thirty seven College World Series,
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  sixty two NCAA Tournament. Oklahoma's coming in and look at Florida. Kevin O'Sullivan
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  know they're going to be good. South Carolina, Georgia. Alabama's got a
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  new coach that they brought in from Maryland, Tennessee. As long as johny
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  Votello's up there, they're going to be talked about for sure. There is
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  nowhere the SEC is tougher top to bottom in baseball than it is in any
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  sport of all sports. It's not even close. Oh, there's no doubt
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  about it. And it's going to be a fun, fun league to follow.
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  As we start that off here about the second week in February, Rob
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  Brown, make sure to give him a follow on X and of course check
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  them out sidelines dot Live. Rob always appreciate your time and insight. Look,
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  I have a great week, sir, and we'll talk to you again
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  very soon. Look, let me know when you can be on our show
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  this week. Anytime. You're always welcome, and I appreciate you having me
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  more than you can imagine.