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David Murray Interview · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 3: three two five six seven four. David Murray, you can
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  Speaker 3: stay online Missippi State Sports got a jeans page two
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  Speaker 3: the podcast and of course all the coverages. Camp opens
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  Speaker 3: up around the country. David, welcome in, sir.
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  Speaker 4: How are you well?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing better today simply because I have somebody else's
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  Speaker 2: words to write rether than my own, which is a
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  Speaker 2: fixture of July as coach Burry always called it talking season. Well,
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  Speaker 2: now Missippi State coaches, the assistant coaches were talking today
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  Speaker 2: and I just finished transcribing interview with special teams coach
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  Speaker 2: Cliff Odom, who, as you might know, is a pretty
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  Speaker 2: happy band when you feature one of the nation's best
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  Speaker 2: punters and a placekicker is going to come away with
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  Speaker 2: all the career scoring records to start off with. But
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  Speaker 2: as we know, he's got a few things to take
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  Speaker 2: care of and coverage that let us down last season there,
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  Speaker 2: but he's a good shape. But more importantly, I certainly
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  Speaker 2: urge fans out there that your subscriber please look up
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  Speaker 2: either not a subscriber, it's worth your time to read
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  Speaker 2: the Q to A with Zach Barnette today. And yes,
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  Speaker 2: he addresses the obvious questions of is there anything awkward
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  Speaker 2: about his situation now that he's coming back to where
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  Speaker 2: he was a former head coach tourt for the guy
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  Speaker 2: who replaced him. He just laughed and said he hopes not,
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  Speaker 2: but he certainly doesn't think so at this point, and
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  Speaker 2: makes it pretty clear he just wants to coach defense.
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  Speaker 2: Well this year, that's what exactly what Arnette gets to do.
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  Speaker 3: David, let's go back to special teams. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: don't talk a lot of special teams and always say this.
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  Speaker 3: Special teams has talked about typically when it's not good.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if the punter's punting the football well as
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  Speaker 3: the placekickers, you know, putting them through the uprights, fans
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  Speaker 3: just kind of go on about their way. But we
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  Speaker 3: know how important that's. We will talk about three phases
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  Speaker 3: of a football game. That's not just cliche. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you can't punt the football, or if you've got
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  Speaker 3: a guy who's inconsistent that causes problems, to have a
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  Speaker 3: guy that you know that can really get the football,
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  Speaker 3: flip the field on, you know, the punting units. That's
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  Speaker 3: that's a plus to have and have a guy because
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  Speaker 3: State and not just State, we know this around the
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  Speaker 3: Southeastern Conference.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to be in a one possession game.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna need three before the half to be able
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  Speaker 3: to kick it and to punt it well. To have
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  Speaker 3: a unit like that, I mean, that's that's something that's
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  Speaker 3: really big. I don't think people need to underestimate that.
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  Speaker 2: Not a bit. One interesting comment by old him today too,
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  Speaker 2: is that Ethan Pulliam, who I'm rather disappointed of my
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  Speaker 2: SEC peers for not naming him first team SEC punter
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  Speaker 2: in preseason, but that's okay. Give him the nature to
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  Speaker 2: the voting and not shocked, just a little disappointed. He
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  Speaker 2: has a chance to more than prove that the regular season.
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  Speaker 2: Himself mentioned that Odam mentioned that where here's a guy
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  Speaker 2: that the first time he was out punting, he was
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  Speaker 2: lucky to get a hang time just over three and
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  Speaker 2: a half seconds, And now just a week or so ago,
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  Speaker 2: he's averaging five seconds on his hang time. He's got
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  Speaker 2: the distance already. But here's the interesting thing to me too.
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  Speaker 2: He wants Pulliam punting in placement situations where it takes
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  Speaker 2: all the pressure off the return team. I know it's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of exaggeration, not like you can, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just not send anybody down there, but he wants to
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  Speaker 2: make the sideline the best friend. Of course, fans recall
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  Speaker 2: last year when one punt went a little too far
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  Speaker 2: down the sideline and changed an entire game with Texas
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  Speaker 2: in that regard, but that's one thing that when you
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  Speaker 2: have a guy like Pulliam, you can get done. Fairy.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Kyle Ferry, he will, He's good reliable. He's
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  Speaker 2: shown he's got the leg fifty five or so if
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  Speaker 2: he really needs it there. He just wanted him to
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  Speaker 2: be somebody that you can say, Okay, we've crossed the
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  Speaker 2: fifty yard line. Having Kyle Ferry makes our second and
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  Speaker 2: third down play call decisions a little bit easier having
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  Speaker 2: it in the back to me. The other part is
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  Speaker 2: the return game. And as you well know, Jake, College
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  Speaker 2: football has done just about everything you can to take
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  Speaker 2: returns out of the game as long as it's not
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  Speaker 2: a mishit or a mislocation. But he said that's the
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  Speaker 2: key to having guy like Edthi Evans return. He says, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: most of the time, it's gonna be a hangtime. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a catch, hit, fair catch it, secure it,
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  Speaker 2: he said. But if you see it, if you think
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  Speaker 2: it's there, if you recognize it, makes something happened with it.
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  Speaker 2: So I expect Specialties to make a pretty big improvement
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  Speaker 2: this year in that regard.
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  Speaker 3: Visit with David Murray Jean's page two four seven Sports
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  Speaker 3: dot Com Talking in Mississippi State is to get ready
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  Speaker 3: to open camp talking special teams. So we moved through
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  Speaker 3: a Monday. Yeah, I mean David, the right guy has
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  Speaker 3: to be back in return.
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  Speaker 4: I've always said this.
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  Speaker 3: If you get and you see this at all levels,
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  Speaker 3: I mean you see it even sometimes in the National
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  Speaker 3: Football League. If a guy, for instance, has posted up
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  Speaker 3: on says on twenty and he's waiting for a you know,
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  Speaker 3: a punt return. If if the ball is kicked behind him,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes he lets it go when he shouldn't and the
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  Speaker 3: coverage team will down it inside the ten or if
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  Speaker 3: he could, you know, maybe make a hardfare catch that
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  Speaker 3: saves you ten yards. Having the right guy back there
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  Speaker 3: with the right mental fortitude to know what to do,
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  Speaker 3: I think is a premium in all levels of football.
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  Speaker 2: Here's that, and that's especially in the punting game, because
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  Speaker 2: more can go wrong in the punting game than anything there.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, Odum does a good job to
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  Speaker 2: explaining how a new rule about punt protection is going
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  Speaker 2: to make it much more difficult for protect teams to
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  Speaker 2: hide defenders or blockers things like that. He expected to
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  Speaker 2: see more rush packages this year from everybody, including his
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  Speaker 2: own teams there as well. And oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: I also mentioned too that among the possible return men,
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  Speaker 2: he's got the fastest kid in the country and Camden
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  Speaker 2: Cape Art the true freshman coming in, So that's nothing
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  Speaker 2: that I can't wait to see get him on the
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  Speaker 2: practice field there. What I really can't wait though, for
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  Speaker 2: the defensive side, is just to see how Zach and
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  Speaker 2: the team were working together. Zach had a great interview
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  Speaker 2: today and you can clearly understand he's happy about this bunch.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, he was asked if State intends to
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  Speaker 2: add anybody late now that you get that extra fifth
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  Speaker 2: year of eligibility, he would not address that directly. He said,
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  Speaker 2: that's up to Jeff Levy and Mark Vohler in the GM.
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  Speaker 2: As you know, there are two Bulldogs who have the
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  Speaker 2: chance to take advantage of fifth year. What I'm being
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  Speaker 2: last year's leading tackle to jarn Manning. We hope to
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  Speaker 2: know something about that with the next day or so,
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  Speaker 2: because if you get him back in that defensive secondary, well,
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  Speaker 2: I think Arnett's job just got even better and easier.
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  Speaker 2: Plugging here in alongside Isaac Smith. Of course, with now
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  Speaker 2: Jet Jefferson Kelly Jones at corners, I'm expecting the secondary
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  Speaker 2: to go for the unit that in recent years had
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  Speaker 2: just struggled to defend the sec passers to be a
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  Speaker 2: really positive streak for the entire defense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, David, you're talking about the ruling over the weekend,
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  Speaker 3: and let's kind of clarify that for those that maybe
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  Speaker 3: didn't see it. You know, obviously a judge correct me
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  Speaker 3: if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 4: I believe it was in Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: You know, role that had you could come back if
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  Speaker 3: you were a fifty year to twenty twenty two, and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people freaked out and thought, oh gosh,
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  Speaker 3: this is going to open up another Pandora's box on transfers.
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  Speaker 3: But I think if I'm correct on this, you can
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  Speaker 3: only play for the school that you were previously playing.
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  Speaker 4: For, which is what you were referencing Mississippi State players.
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  Speaker 4: Is that correct?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's some of that, But what if you were
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  Speaker 2: signed off season as well, Like you know, the lineman
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Snae that State signed, He turned out he was
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  Speaker 2: ineligible anyway because he was ruled to have used up
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  Speaker 2: a year. I don't think at this point State will
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  Speaker 2: try to get him back in because he'd simply be
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  Speaker 2: a depth beast tackle, not a contributor, drawing banning definitely,
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  Speaker 2: but without being the old guy ranting at clouds on this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready for this to get over with. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: how simple can it be to say you got five
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  Speaker 2: years to play four? That worked mighty fine before they
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  Speaker 2: started opening the floodgates to every conceivable imaginary transfer situation
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  Speaker 2: for quote unquote hardships or injuries as such. No, four years,
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  Speaker 2: there's plenty time to play football. Five years, do it
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  Speaker 2: in and something that never gets discussed in my friend
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  Speaker 2: sheen Power from a Bulbok basketball player out and lives
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  Speaker 2: out in Arizona. Now he's looking into this as well.
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  Speaker 2: We were kind of talking on social media. Does anybody
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  Speaker 2: ever consider what this does to the high school players
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  Speaker 2: when they're starting to not have as many spots left
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  Speaker 2: on college programs because now a bunch of guys have
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  Speaker 2: an extra fifth year. There are some people gonna get
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  Speaker 2: left in the lurch here now, So let's just get
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  Speaker 2: this fixed. And by the way, I'm not even sure
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  Speaker 2: if this ruling is gonna be practical and stand up
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  Speaker 2: once another court gets a hold of it. So it's
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  Speaker 2: why I would just prefer to let the whole thing
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  Speaker 2: go and just watch the one hundred and five guys
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  Speaker 2: you already got on roster practice football.
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  Speaker 3: Please, David, I'm right there with you. I'm right there
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  Speaker 3: with you and Shane power on that. Let's let's get
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  Speaker 3: five to play four. Let's simplify this thing. Make sure
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  Speaker 3: that you follow him on X and of course check
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  Speaker 3: him out at Jean's page two four to seven sports
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  Speaker 3: dot com. Assissippi State gets ready to hit the practice field.
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  Speaker 3: We are in football month that is here. David, thank
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  Speaker 3: you so much and we do appreciate you that we'll
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  Speaker 3: talk very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Shake them. Next time I talk to you, I should
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  Speaker 2: have some actual practice reports to give you.
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  Speaker 4: Very nice David. Thanks stay cool out there