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Flowood Mayors Cup 2024 · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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Speaker 2: are in Floywood today the twenty first annual Mayor's Cup
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Speaker 2: benefit golf tournament benefiting the Mississippi Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
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Speaker 2: And we're sitting right here just off the course a
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Speaker 2: little hot today, but that's all. We've got a nice
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Speaker 2: little tint and the breeze. Will be here till five o'clock.
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Speaker 2: As of course on Thursdays as always off to do
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Speaker 2: coaches shows for high school football. We'll have let's see
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Speaker 2: coming up here in the next segment, we'll be talking
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Speaker 2: about the FCA with the state director, Kyle Higginbotham. Also,
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Speaker 2: Daniel Lange with the Floid Chamber will join us. Sean Racky,
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Speaker 2: the golf pro here at the course, and Janet o'really
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Speaker 2: will join us at four fifteen. We will have Kelly
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Speaker 2: Ford four thirty to five o'clock as so we'll be
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Speaker 2: talking analytics. Bev Howard the world are you, sir? Hey,
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Speaker 2: if you got out here, you could get some sun
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Speaker 2: on the head that you've got this ball.
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Speaker 5: Well, I hear that it's easy to burn it though
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Speaker 5: the fine line.
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Speaker 2: It's what they say with a baldhead, you know, knock
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Speaker 2: on wood. I've I had a bald head since I
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Speaker 2: was a baby, like literally a child, like an infant child,
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Speaker 2: So I don't I don't know, and I burn anyway,
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Speaker 2: So I'm sure if I had a bald head, if
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Speaker 2: I was out in this sun, it would, it would
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Speaker 2: be as red as an apple.
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Speaker 5: I still say it's time. Okay, So you're what like,
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Speaker 5: you're fifty six, right.
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Speaker 2: You know I'm close enough that I think you could
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Speaker 2: probably say that.
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Speaker 5: So you tell me that you haven't been bald since
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Speaker 5: you're a baby. I feel like it's time to try
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Speaker 5: it again.
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Speaker 2: So you think I should just shave my head. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you know. If I was younger, I may would do that.
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Speaker 2: But I'm at the age now I'm scared. If I
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Speaker 2: shave my head, this may not grow back. No, it'll
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Speaker 2: come back.
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Speaker 5: You said this is this is growing back a lot
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Speaker 5: faster than I thought it was going to. So, and
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Speaker 5: you're not really fifty six. We're only a few years apart.
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Speaker 2: So years will come back.
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Speaker 5: Don't worry, do it?
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Speaker 2: Hey, do you have any winners? Have you picked out
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Speaker 2: an eight game parlay for this week?
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Speaker 6: You?
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Speaker 5: No, I haven't. I don't know if I'm going to
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Speaker 5: this week. But if I do, like I said, maybe
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Speaker 5: I should settle it. Maybe I should settle back at seven,
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Speaker 5: maybe six? Maybe don't Maybe ditch the motto that, hey,
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Speaker 5: why win nine thousand when I can win ninety thousand?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, get it in increments. I mean, so
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Speaker 2: like if you played ten weeks in one nine thousand
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Speaker 2: a week, you get ninety thousand. So you still get there,
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Speaker 2: it just takes a little longer. Yeah, so a lot
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Speaker 2: to get into. Arkansas athletics director they want ten thousand
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Speaker 2: households across the state of Arkansas to give one hundred
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Speaker 2: dollars a month to get them in the nil game.
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Speaker 2: Beav What would you say to your athletics director at
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Speaker 2: state college wherever that is if they sent you a
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Speaker 2: letter and said, hey, won't you just give a one
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Speaker 2: hundred bucks a month, like let's set up a payment plan?
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Speaker 2: Would you do it? No? Well, that's what Arkansas Athletics
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Speaker 2: director they're act to the athletic to rhetor wants to
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Speaker 2: we need ten thousand households across the state to give
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Speaker 2: them one hundred dollars a month. So you know, if
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Speaker 2: you kind of do the quick math on that, and
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Speaker 2: you know, let's just say they hit paid art and
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Speaker 2: got ten thousand, let's see ten thousand times one hundred,
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Speaker 2: they would make one hundred million dollars. So, I mean
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Speaker 2: they're trying. I see what they're doing here. But Arkansas
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Speaker 2: obviously has some heavy hitting givers. They're just trying to
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Speaker 2: get more and more money as most people are. Sec
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Speaker 2: explosive offensive plays twenty plus or more national ratings going
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Speaker 2: into the weekend, Ole miss number two in the country.
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Speaker 2: They are number two in the country and explosive plays
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Speaker 2: which they categorize at twenty plus yards or more. Arkansas
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Speaker 2: believe it or not number five, And I say believe
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Speaker 2: it or not because it's Arkansas. But remember who is
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Speaker 2: calling plays there now, it's Bobby Petrino. Auburn as bad
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Speaker 2: as they have been and jackal and Hide number five.
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Speaker 2: Also Tennessee number five, tied their three sec t Texas
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Speaker 2: at number ten, Alabama at thirteen uh in the country,
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Speaker 2: Georgia at thirty one, Florida sixty one, Missisippi State this
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Speaker 2: weekend coming in at ninety third. You got LSU at
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Speaker 2: sixty one along with South Carolina and then Texas A
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Speaker 2: and M at eighty two. Title with Missippi State Missouri
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Speaker 2: at ninety three, which is kind of surprising considering the
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Speaker 2: offense Missouri had coming back. Vanderbilt, Oklahoma and Kentucky fall
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Speaker 2: in the rear at one oh five, one fifteen and
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Speaker 2: one twenty two. Speaking of gifts Mississippi State, Bieb. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if we talked this into reality yesterday. You
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Speaker 2: know some sports talk radio hosts would say that they did.
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Speaker 2: So I think I'll say that we did Mississippi State.
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Speaker 2: After yesterday, people whining, and I just said, somebody's got
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Speaker 2: to give, somebody's got to step up, somebody's got to
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Speaker 2: give money. They receive an eight million dollar pledge to
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Speaker 2: the athletics, to Athletics to advance the mission of delivering
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Speaker 2: exceptional competitive resources that will uplift the Bulldogs football program.
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Speaker 2: The family that donated the money wishes to remain anonymous.
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Speaker 2: It's the second largest commitment in program history. So can
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Speaker 2: we take credit for this yesterday because we were talking
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Speaker 2: about it? And do we deserve a cut in the
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Speaker 2: money in honor of your bet slip finders fee? Yes, yes,
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Speaker 2: I think we deserve a finder's fee on that. Texas
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Speaker 2: coach Steve Sarkisian announces that Arts Manning will start versus
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Speaker 2: Louisiana Monroe this weekend in Miami. The Hurricanes they're seventeen
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Speaker 2: point favorite versus South Florida. The Circa Sports Hurricanes are
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Speaker 2: fifteen and four against the spread in their last nineteen
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Speaker 2: games when playing a state school away from Coral Gables,
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Speaker 2: So that may be a game that you want to
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Speaker 2: jump into. There're some really good trends there. Also, staying
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Speaker 2: with the nil game, Ohio state wide receiver Jeremiah Smith
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Speaker 2: is the first college player to incing ANIL deal with
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Speaker 2: Red Bull on three has valued his evaluation at one
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Speaker 2: point one million. And staying with some positive news for
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Speaker 2: Misissippi State, former Alabama safety Tony Mitchell has committed to
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Speaker 2: Mississippi State. Mitchell is currently on the roster at East
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Speaker 2: Mississippi Community College and speaking with Mike t Singer, South
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Speaker 2: Florida athletics director Michael Kelly discussed how the Bulls are
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Speaker 2: setting themselves up for the future of college football. All Right, Bee,
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Speaker 2: if you remember, it was Central Florida forever, Central Florida
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Speaker 2: wanted to be a part of the part of the
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Speaker 2: dance they were. Didn't want, you know, to be the
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Speaker 2: Big three in Florida. It was the Big four. Well
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Speaker 2: here comes South Florida. Quote, we are power for in
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Speaker 2: everything that we are already doing. So South Florida is
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Speaker 2: trying to get, you know, flex their muscles just a
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Speaker 2: little bit. And of course with Texas taking on Louisiana
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Speaker 2: mon Road this weekend. I feel sorry for Louisiana Monroe.
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Speaker 2: Louisiana mon Roe defensive coordinator Ernest Hill on arch Manning
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Speaker 2: in the matchup this weekend, says quote, we all actually
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Speaker 2: have some kids on our team here at Louisiana Monroe
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Speaker 2: who played against him in New Orleans in high school,
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Speaker 2: and a couple of guys they've already beat him, So
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Speaker 2: you know, we don't fear arch Manning too much. Beaver,
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Speaker 2: what say you? Rest in peace, Louisiana Monroe.
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Speaker 5: Right, yeah, you're losing. You're Louisiana Monroe. You can't I
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Speaker 5: don't care if it's arch Manning or who. You can't
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Speaker 2: We're in Flowood today for the twenty first edition of
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Speaker 2: the Mayor's Cup. We got to take a time out.
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Speaker 2: We come back.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 2: Kyle Higginbotham, State Director for the FCA, will be on
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Speaker 2: in Flowood today, twenty first annual Mayor's Cup, benefiting benefit
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Speaker 2: golf tournament benefiting the Mississippi Fellowship for Christian Athletes. Right now,
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Speaker 2: the State director for the FCA in Mississippi. Mister Kyle
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Speaker 2: Higginbotham is on your radio. Kyle, thank you so much.
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Speaker 2: It's been a pleasure to send your visit with you.
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Speaker 2: How you doing, man, We are good.
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Speaker 7: We're thankful to you guys be set up out here
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Speaker 7: and supporting us, and such a great event on a
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Speaker 7: great day.
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Speaker 2: No, it is and seventieth anniversary of FCA. That is wild.
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Speaker 2: Like we were talking about before the break, I can
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Speaker 2: remember FCA when I was in high schools. It's been
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Speaker 2: a big part of Mississippi. So we appreciate and around
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Speaker 2: the country what you guys do. So let's talk a
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Speaker 2: little bit first off about the event today that's benefiting
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Speaker 2: Mississippi Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the twenty first edition of
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Speaker 2: this this golf tournament. We talked about, you know, our
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Speaker 2: mutual respect for the city of Flowood, the maryor flow
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Speaker 2: Wood with Janet and the Chambers do and here big
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Speaker 2: things for you guys today.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, man, that's kind of a once in a
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Speaker 7: lifetime opportunity. Man. The mayor just does such a great
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Speaker 7: job on this event his team, So to have the
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Speaker 7: chance to be able to be the beneficiary of this,
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Speaker 7: man is great and man, just like it is an
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Speaker 7: incredible time out here, incredible experience, hundreds of people just
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Speaker 7: playing and like I said, great weather, man makes for
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Speaker 7: a great day. People usually head home happy, happy if
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Speaker 7: they get to play golf on a great day.
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Speaker 2: So there's no doubt. I mean, we've got you know,
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Speaker 2: the weather's kind of spiked up a little bit. We're
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Speaker 2: hitting you know, close to ninety this weekend. But you
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Speaker 2: couldn't ask for a better day out here. And then
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Speaker 2: what a beautiful course is all they could do, such
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Speaker 2: a great job out here, yep, yep, man.
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Speaker 7: And I mean just a lot of the best golfers
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Speaker 7: in the area are out here too, and so when
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Speaker 7: you hear them talking about how good the course is
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Speaker 7: and how well it's maintained, and man, that makes for
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Speaker 7: a really good day. So a lot of good fellowship happening,
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Speaker 7: and a lot of good food and man, just an
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Speaker 7: incredible atmosphere.
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Speaker 2: So Kyle Hick and bother me, he's a state director
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Speaker 2: for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes here for the state
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Speaker 2: of Mississippi. On your radio Thursday edition of the program.
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Speaker 2: All right, so let's talk about the FCA. You've been
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Speaker 2: with FC I believe you said thirteen years or going
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Speaker 2: on thirteen fourteen. That's you got some years behind you here.
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Speaker 2: So talk about the organization, how you've seen it grow
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Speaker 2: grow over your time here, and then also kind of
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Speaker 2: the vision moving from today forward for the organization.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, So FCA. Vision of FCA is to see
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Speaker 7: the world transformed by Jesus Christ to the influence of
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Speaker 7: coaches and athletes. And so here we are seventy years
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Speaker 7: later after its inception. A guy named Don mcclannan, who
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Speaker 7: was just a basketball coach in the nineteen fifties. He
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Speaker 7: saw that guys, the athletes of the day and Babe
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Speaker 7: Ruth and all these guys were using their in il,
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Speaker 7: their name, image and likeness to market products and man,
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Speaker 7: people wanted to choose the same bubblegum as Babe Ruth.
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Speaker 7: And so as a follower of Christ, he saw, man,
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Speaker 7: what an opportunity if we could, if we could take
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Speaker 7: that platform and use it to spread the gospel, man,
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Speaker 7: we might have worldwide impact. And so that's where it
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Speaker 7: was born. Started off kind of as a camp ministry.
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Speaker 7: And pretty unique story is that bou Ferris has kind
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Speaker 7: of attributed great baseball, you know, named bou Ferris was
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Speaker 7: the one who is attributed to bringing FCA after playing
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Speaker 7: his professional career when he would come back, he had
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Speaker 7: met others with FCA, and he's the one that's kind
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Speaker 7: of started the first FCA we think at Delta State University,
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Speaker 7: which was thirty thirty some mid years ago, and so man,
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Speaker 7: that's really when it got to Mississippi. So fast forward today, Man,
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Speaker 7: we got ninety one staff just in Mississippi, missionaries who
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Speaker 7: were raising their own support to go out and serve
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Speaker 7: coaches and athletes all across high schools, middle schools, and
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Speaker 7: college campuses. Roughly five hundred and fifty what we call huddles,
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Speaker 7: which are just regularly attended and occurring small groups around
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Speaker 7: God's words. So some of those, you might go into
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Speaker 7: a middle school, there might be three hundred kids with
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Speaker 7: a student sharing their testimony to their half their school,
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Speaker 7: and it might be three kids or coaches in a
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Speaker 7: huddle somewhere else in the locker room. And so five
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Speaker 7: hundred and fifty of those across our state. So that's
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Speaker 7: a little bit about what we got going on. Man,
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Speaker 7: those staff, our people. God just sends us great people.
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Speaker 7: And when we walk along, when you plant somebody like
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Speaker 7: an FCA staff in an area. Man, we really just
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Speaker 7: see transformation throughout the community.
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Speaker 2: Having a conversation with Kyle Higginbotham, he's a state director
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Speaker 2: for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. It's the twenty first
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Speaker 2: annual Mayor's Cup benefit golf tournament benefiting Missippi Fellowship of
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Speaker 2: Christian Athletes in their seventieth year of operation. You told
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Speaker 2: me you guys are also expanding into leagues for kids.
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Speaker 2: Talk a little bit about that, because this is really
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Speaker 2: really interesting. I mean, obviously you've you know, kind of
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Speaker 2: bearied down into the schools, had a major impact there.
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Speaker 2: Now into the community as well.
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Speaker 7: With sports, right, kids are growing up faster than ever before, right,
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Speaker 7: and more kids are playing sport than ever before. The
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Speaker 7: numbers in my research, when I think it's pretty close,
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Speaker 7: it's it's pretty standard across the country, the percentages of kids.
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Speaker 7: I think we have three hundred and fifty thousand athletes
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Speaker 7: play in sports age six to seventeen in Mississippi, and
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Speaker 7: about one hundred to one hundred and twenty five thousand
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Speaker 7: of those are on campuses right through MHSAA and AIS
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Speaker 7: and and then so that leaves about two hundred to
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Speaker 7: two hundred and twenty five thousand youth players and that
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Speaker 7: are involved in leagues and clubs. And if you think
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Speaker 7: about coaches and dad coaches, and that's forty thousand plus
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Speaker 7: more people. And so man, we're like, what an opportunity
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Speaker 7: to get in and see see life transform. So that's
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Speaker 7: it every field court. We can't conquer it all at
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Speaker 7: one time. But FCA is slowly beginning to branch into
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Speaker 7: community to help them. There's really a chance to be
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Speaker 7: an extension of the church. You know, churches have tried
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Speaker 7: sports ministry things like that. We really see FCA is
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Speaker 7: maybe an extension of them to help them reach into
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Speaker 7: the community. Right, So whether that's help a city put
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Speaker 7: on a league or whether that's we've got baseball club
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Speaker 7: here in the Ranking County area with five baseball teams
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Speaker 7: that are that are traveling around playing ball. Really think, man,
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Speaker 7: anywhere you find the people of God living out mission
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Speaker 7: in the community, which includes youth sports, man, you got
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Speaker 7: a chance for huge, huge impacts.
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Speaker 2: You know, you talk about that impact and we've seen
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Speaker 2: it in all of our schools. You know, if you've
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Speaker 2: gone to a high school, if you played athletics, you
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Speaker 2: may not have participated, but you knew it was there
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Speaker 2: that participation. I'm sure over the years you have just
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Speaker 2: seen that continue to grow, even though you know there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of negative that's going on out there in
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Speaker 2: the world, but I mean this is one positive, and
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Speaker 2: I know that that ministry has continued to grow and
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Speaker 2: you've seen that growth.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I mean I say it like this. A
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Speaker 7: lot of people will say, man, they're trying to take
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Speaker 7: God out of schools or you know, man, or place
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Speaker 7: at schools getting getting dark, And I say, man, as
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Speaker 7: long as long as the people of God are in schools,
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Speaker 7: you can't take God out of the schools. And so
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Speaker 7: FCA has been protected. We have, I mean, we have
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Speaker 7: a legal way of helping ministries get established on campus,
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Speaker 7: working with student leaders and and God's really had his
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Speaker 7: hand on us and protected us. And so yeah, i'd
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Speaker 7: say our ministry is growing. Mississippi's really leading the charge
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Speaker 7: and even in FCA across the whole country hiring more
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Speaker 7: people and able to see more growth and than a
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Speaker 7: lot of places are. And yeah, man, it's uh, God's
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Speaker 7: had his hand on.
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Speaker 2: Us, and you're you're seeing that also populate itself. You know,
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Speaker 2: into the collegiate leagues. Obviously Tim Tebow comes to mind
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Speaker 2: when you think about his his ministry and what he
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Speaker 2: did at Florida and continue to continue to do today.
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Speaker 2: But then other sports as well. And you ever see
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Speaker 2: the other guys like CJ. Stroud at Houston and some
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Speaker 2: other I mean that is, I think stuff that is
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Speaker 2: set in motion from f C a one way or
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Speaker 2: the other at a young age, taking it into even
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Speaker 2: you know, the professional ranks in adulthood.
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Speaker 7: That's right. So two seconds on my story. I was
18:02
Speaker 7: a junior college baseball player at ET Central and the
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Speaker 7: FCA coach I was, you know, young, and would stumble
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Speaker 7: into FCA late one morning, you know, in the mornings,
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Speaker 7: do the best I could to get there. I knew
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Speaker 7: God had something for me. I knew God loved me,
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Speaker 7: and I wanted to use the platform I had. I
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Speaker 7: couldn't put it into words. While a coach asked us
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Speaker 7: as an FCA team said I want you guys to
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Speaker 7: start sharing your testimony insteadies just me doing all the talking.
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Speaker 7: And it was like God, you know, little fire in me.
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Speaker 7: And it was that day I realized man as a
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Speaker 7: as a college athlete. I mean I be, you know,
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Speaker 7: at the Olympics in front of twenty million people. But
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Speaker 7: whatever wherever God's placed me, athletics has given me a
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Speaker 7: platform and people are watching, They're watching how I respond.
18:41
Speaker 7: That's what I love about sport. You can't hide. Sometimes
18:43
Speaker 7: someplace you can hide, you know, behind maybe a religious
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Speaker 7: wall or some other you know, But when you go
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Speaker 7: out on the ball field, man, you get pressed, you
18:49
Speaker 7: get squeezed. Good things happen, bad things happen. You see
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Speaker 7: what really comes.
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Speaker 2: Out of people out there?
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Speaker 7: And so, man, what an opportunity to model to communities,
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Speaker 7: to young families, to young players who are always watching
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Speaker 7: those older guys and girls play. What a way to say, man,
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Speaker 7: here's how you handle adversity. Here's how you, you know,
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Speaker 2: A couple of minutes here, last last thing here, and
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Speaker 2: get my kids into this. How can they do that? Yep?
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Speaker 7: So our website is Misissippi f C a dot or
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Speaker 7: really easy to find. There's going to be a staff
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Speaker 7: within some kind of short driving distance from from people
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Speaker 7: we got. We got some areas that aren't aren't as
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Speaker 7: well staffed. Yet we're praying God would would would move
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Speaker 7: us into into some areas like that. But man, somebody's
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Speaker 7: gonna come see you if you won't. If you've got
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Speaker 7: this guy stirring in your heart and you man, you
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Speaker 7: want to whether it's a coach who wants to be
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Speaker 7: equipped to use the platform they have on a campus, Man,
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Speaker 7: a FCA staff love to come alongside and help, or
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Speaker 7: if it's a youth league or coach. Man, you get on,
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Speaker 7: get online and look at our website, get in contact
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Speaker 7: with us, and we we'd be glad. That's That's what
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Speaker 7: great leagues and clubs. It's really, man, we want to
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Speaker 7: come alongside coaches and athletes who are already doing it
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Speaker 7: and we want to meet. Man, let us help you,
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Speaker 7: let us equip you to walk this call and that
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Speaker 3: Do that.
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Speaker 2: Kyle Higginbotham, State Director FCA. It is the seventieth anniversary
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Speaker 2: It's been a pleasure.
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Speaker 7: Man, it's been a pleasure for us, and we're thankful
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Speaker 5: Let's say first Louvier, he's I'm earlier you were talking
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Speaker 5: Joel says, with the contribution of eight million that MSU
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Speaker 5: Athletics just received, has Dak Prescott ever given to his school?
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Speaker 2: Have no idea? You know, I think a lot of times,
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Speaker 2: you know, sometimes when athletes give you know about it,
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Speaker 2: and sometimes they do it privately. You know, I have
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Speaker 2: no idea if beef have you ever heard of? I mean,
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Speaker 2: Dak very well could have it. That could have given
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Speaker 2: a ton of money. I have no idea. Do you
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Speaker 2: know that?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not something I've heard, but I wouldn't be
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Speaker 5: downright shocked if he has and kept it private.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I mean a lot of these
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Speaker 2: guys they're going to give a you know, a silent
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Speaker 2: gift to their They're not going to say anything. They
22:59
Speaker 2: don't want it out there. They're just like they're going
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Speaker 2: to call and say, hey, look, I'm gonna give you
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Speaker 2: you know, this much money. You don't have to put
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Speaker 2: it out there. Just put it towards this or put
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Speaker 2: it towards that. And we don't ever hear about it.
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Speaker 2: So you know, just because you haven't heard about it
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean that it hasn't happened.
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Speaker 5: Unnamed texter says, ulm there because you were talking earlier
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Speaker 5: about there apparently talking trash about arch Manning and Texas,
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Speaker 5: which is just a horrible idea.
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Speaker 2: That a horrible, horrible idea.
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Speaker 5: It's a really bad idea. And this person says ULM
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Speaker 5: isn't playing state. They can't say stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, I mean, look, Arch Manning coming back
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Speaker 2: to the state of Louisiana, his home state, to start
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Speaker 2: a college football game. Now, this is not a If
23:42
Speaker 2: it was down at LSU, this would be a huge story.
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Speaker 2: Louisiana Monroe not so much. Probably just was gonna swing in,
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Speaker 2: win a football game and walk out. Now if you
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Speaker 2: missed it, the defensive coordinator for Louisiana, Monroe said in
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Speaker 2: a press conference today or yesterday, a lot of these
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Speaker 2: guys played against Arch in high school. They beat him
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Speaker 2: in high school. They're not they're not intimidated. So I
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Speaker 2: get Do you remember Beaver when Arch came out of
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Speaker 2: high school and a lot of people tried to convince
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Speaker 2: the world because Arch played for a two A academy
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Speaker 2: in Louisiana, He played nobody and he wasn't any good.
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Speaker 2: You remember that, m Can we get can we get
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Speaker 2: by that?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 2: Have we proven that to be false?
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Speaker 5: I'd say he's he's good, But you know what we
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Speaker 5: saw was still against UTSA true and he's going against ULM.
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Speaker 5: But yeah, I don't I don't know that we can
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Speaker 5: really go back to is a door Newman days?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I mean he's got a much better roster
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Speaker 2: around him at Texas than he did at was it
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Speaker 2: Newman High School? As you said? Yeah, what else you got?
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Speaker 5: And one from res Dog here, he says, Jake, thanks
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Speaker 5: for your generous gift to MSU athletics.
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Speaker 2: Oh you're welcome. But again that wasn't me. I will
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Speaker 2: keep my i'm out silent, much like Dak Prescott. Of course,
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Speaker 2: we'll get to a lot of high school football tomorrow
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Speaker 2: real quickly. The Misissippi Gridiron Top ten is out. Heybeeb,
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Speaker 2: did Chris Strup those Rice Krispy treats off yet?
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Speaker 5: Of course he didn't. I forgot all about that.
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Speaker 2: He was supposed to drop us off from Rice Krispy tretes. Chris,
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Speaker 2: if you're listening, we need those Rice Krispy tretes. Lewisville
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Speaker 2: number one after last week's you know, kind of upheaval
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Speaker 2: Brandon loss last week, Go Grove loss last week. Louisville
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Speaker 2: gets to number one at three and zero. They beat
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Speaker 2: Columbus last week fifty to thirteen, and they will play
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Speaker 2: Starkville number five Starkville tomorrow night that should be a
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Speaker 2: good one between Starvill and Lewisville. Starville has moved to
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Speaker 2: number two. They were number five last week, their number
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Speaker 2: two this week, so you got a one to two
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Speaker 2: matchup in the Golden Triangle Game of the week in
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Speaker 2: the state of Mississippi. Lewisville and Starkville. Starvevill's three I
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Speaker 2: know they beat Meridian in twenty eight to fifteen. Two
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Speaker 2: below at number three. They beat Hernando easily last week
25:56
Speaker 2: thirty five to six. They'll play Oxford. Hattisburg has moved
25:59
Speaker 2: to number four at three and zero. They beat Oak
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Speaker 2: Grove last week twenty seven to twenty one. They'll play
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Speaker 2: at Bilexi coming up tomorrow night. West Jones checks in
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Speaker 2: at number five. They beat South Jones twenty eight twenty one.
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Speaker 2: They'll take on Wayne County. Brandon slides back to six
26:13
Speaker 2: after a sixty five sixty two loss to Clinton. They'll
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Speaker 2: take on Warren Central tomorrow night for homecoming. Madison Central
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Speaker 2: two and one. They got back on the right side
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Speaker 2: of things, beat Gulfport thirty one twenty one. Their number seven.
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Speaker 2: They'll take on Northwest ranking tomorrow night. Oak Grove, who
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Speaker 2: lost to Hattisburg twenty seven to twenty one. They moved
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Speaker 2: to number eight. They'll come play at MRA tomorrow night.
26:34
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a fun one to follow and go
26:36
Speaker 2: see if you can get out there. MRA took Oak
26:38
Speaker 2: Grove to overtime down in Hattisburg last year, had a
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Speaker 2: chance to win it just could not close the deal.
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Speaker 2: They'll host oak Grove tomorrow night. And we've also got
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Speaker 2: Grenada at two and one. They beat Oxford last week
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Speaker 2: forty one to twenty two. They'll play Clinton on the
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Speaker 2: road at Clinton so Clinton host Brandon last week, gets
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Speaker 2: to win. They'll host Grenada, who played as the North
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Speaker 2: representative for the six to eight championship last last week.
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Speaker 2: They played a heck of a schedule so far. And
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Speaker 2: South Panola at two and one. They beat South Haven
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Speaker 2: last week forty two to twenty. They'll play at Clarksdale.
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Speaker 2: When you look at the little ten heartfield, no problem
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Speaker 2: with getting to five and oh. Last week they beat
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Speaker 2: PCs seventy one to nothing. They'll play Starville Academy tomorrow night.
27:16
Speaker 2: Jackson Prep at four and oh. They beat Jackson Academy
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Speaker 2: last week thirty five to ten. They're at Parkland Academy
27:21
Speaker 2: number three mra we told you. At four and one,
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Speaker 2: they will host Oak Grove. They got back on the
27:25
Speaker 2: right side of things last week beat Madison Saint Joe
27:27
Speaker 2: fifty five to thirteen. Winona at two and one. They
27:30
Speaker 2: beat Kayseiesco last week twenty four to twenty. They will
27:33
Speaker 2: play at Choctaw Central Jefferson Davis County, who beat Laurel
27:37
Speaker 2: last week twenty seven fourteen. They'll play at Columbia their
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Speaker 2: number five in the Little ten, also Charleston at two
27:43
Speaker 2: and one, lost to Clarksdale twenty six to twenty. They'll
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Speaker 2: play at West Tallahatchee Kemper County at three and oh
27:49
Speaker 2: they beat Newton last week forty nine to six. They'll
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Speaker 2: play at Equipment and Jackson Academy, trying to get back
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Speaker 2: on the right side of things at four to one,
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Speaker 2: number eight in the Little ten, they'll take on Lamar
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Speaker 2: School Koxaby County, who's one and two. Do not let
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Speaker 2: that one and two for Knoxaby, who is your defending
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Speaker 2: four A champion fool you. They have played a heck
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Speaker 2: of a schedule up to this point. They lost a
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Speaker 2: close from last week to West Point twenty to eighteen.
28:11
Speaker 2: They will play Shannon, and it's still my pick to
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Speaker 2: one four a even at one and two. Chalk Taw
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Speaker 2: County rounds out the top ten at two and one.
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Speaker 2: They beat Ripley last twenty nine to three. They'll play Winona.
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Speaker 2: As we move along, if you look at the seven
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Speaker 2: A rankings alone start for one two Plow two, Brandon three,
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Speaker 2: Madison Central four, Oak Grove five six A rankings, that
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Speaker 2: goes Hattisburg, West Jones, Grenada, South pointal one picking un
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Speaker 2: five A rankings West Point Cochet, Holmes County Central at
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Speaker 2: three and oh also Cleveland Central and Clarksdale. And don't
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Speaker 2: let the West point one and two at number one
28:44
Speaker 2: one win two losses for you. They again have also,
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Speaker 2: like Knoxaby County, played a heck of a schedule four A, Lewisville, Poplarville, Houston,
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Speaker 2: New Albany all one, two, three, four undefeated, all the
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Speaker 2: top three at three and oh New Albany is at
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Speaker 2: two and oh and Iawana Ahs at two and one.
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Speaker 2: And then of course you get under three a's and
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Speaker 2: two a's and one a's. I'll get to those a
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Speaker 2: little bit later on six er one, eight, eight, five, three, seven,
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Speaker 2: seven six. That is the Cowboy Maloney's tech sign and
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Speaker 2: if you missed it earlier in Mississippi State Athletics announced
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Speaker 2: it's a historic eight million dollar investment into the football program.
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Speaker 2: This is a press release by the university talking about
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Speaker 2: the investment in our program shows that State fans are
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Speaker 2: all in when it comes to helping provide the resources
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Speaker 2: it takes to compete and the toughest conference in the country.
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Speaker 2: MSU h had football coach Jeff Levy said, having their
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Speaker 2: support and belief in what we're building is crucial for
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Speaker 2: us as we continue to move forward. There are truly
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Speaker 2: no words that can describe how thankful I am for
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Speaker 2: the commitment to the program. I am blessed to lead.
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Speaker 2: So that is from Jeff Levy, head football coach. And
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Speaker 2: this should make Mississippi State fans smile because we talked
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Speaker 2: about it at nauseam yesterday. Somebody needed to step up,
29:53
Speaker 2: somebody needed to give to the program. Somebody had to
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Speaker 2: put money in nil and someone or some groups of
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Speaker 2: one did. I don't know. This is an independent business
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Speaker 2: or an independent donor. They want to be left no
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Speaker 2: name attached to it, but they give an eight million
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Speaker 2: dollars gift to the Athletic Department today and that is
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Speaker 2: a heck of a heck of a gift for Mississippi State.
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Speaker 2: And it comes at a heck of a time with
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Speaker 2: the name Image Lightness battle going on, and of course
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Speaker 2: with recruiting, and I'm assuming all of that money, will
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Speaker 2: you know, be distributed amongst other other programs as well.
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Speaker 2: We are in Flowood today. It is the twenty first
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Speaker 2: annual Mayor's Cup benefiting the Missippi Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
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Speaker 2: twenty first annual Mayor's Cup Benefit golf tournament benefiting Thesissippi
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Speaker 2: Fellowship of Christian Athletes. We'll be here till five. Earlier
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Speaker 2: in the program we had Kyle he can bother them.
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Speaker 2: He as a state director for the FCA. Daniel Lang,
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Speaker 2: you are the MVP. How are you, sir?
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Speaker 6: I doing great, Jake, Thank you for being out here today.
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Speaker 2: Man, We're glad to be here. So talk a little
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Speaker 2: bit about this event. I know it's it's never easy
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Speaker 2: putting events on. I mean, this is something you guys
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Speaker 2: I mean twenty one years. It seems like that may
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Speaker 2: be to the you know, common er, so to speak,
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Speaker 2: something that hits cruise control. I know, probably once this
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Speaker 2: is done this weekend, you start preparing next week for
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Speaker 2: next year. So talk a little bit about the event
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Speaker 2: and you know, getting to today.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, today's a massive event for the city. It just
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Speaker 6: is a chance for golfers to come out and fellaship
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Speaker 6: with one another, get to know one another, do business
32:42
Speaker 6: if they need to do business. And honestly, it's just
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Speaker 6: a great opportunity to benefit a business or nonprofit or
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Speaker 6: just an individual in the community. All the proceeds that
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Speaker 6: are raised out here at the Mayor's Cup they go
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Speaker 6: this year to directly to FCA fellas with Christian athletes
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Speaker 6: and fload's all about family and faith, and so we
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Speaker 6: generations that are coming up, whether it's kids, teenagers, college students,
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Speaker 6: that they hear the word of Jesus Christ. And by
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Speaker 6: benefiting FCA, we know that the word can spread that way.
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Speaker 2: Talk a little bit about you know, actually, you know
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Speaker 2: we talked about today, but the other stuff. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you guys have just are constantly putting out great stuff.
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Speaker 2: We talked about Taste of flow Wood. We were out
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Speaker 2: there with you guys a couple of weeks ago. That
33:23
Speaker 2: was a great event you've got. I didn't even know
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Speaker 2: this pickleball galore coming to flow Wood. And I'll be
33:31
Speaker 2: honest with you, I only I think it was three
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Speaker 2: or four years ago. The first time I'd ever really
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Speaker 2: seen pickleball. My oldest daughter we had cheerleading National championship
33:38
Speaker 2: down at Disney. Went down there a little place we
33:41
Speaker 2: stayed there was the little half courts and I saw
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Speaker 2: some older people out there playing. I thought, well, that's
33:46
Speaker 2: that's kind of cute. I said, they have shrunk the
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Speaker 2: tennis courts for older people. Had no idea. Now somebody said, no,
33:52
Speaker 2: that's pickleball. It has grown so big it is crazy.
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Speaker 2: The crave for it.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely, it's really incredible to see the growth. It's the
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Speaker 6: fastest growing sport in the US, and all ages can play.
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Speaker 6: I know a lot of young kids, whether they're in
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Speaker 6: elementary school, they play. They try and get out there
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Speaker 6: at Winter Circle Park where the current pickleball courts are
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Speaker 6: all the way up to the retired folks that want
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Speaker 6: to do something on a Monday morning. They can. So
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Speaker 6: we saw that need in the community. We heard from
34:18
Speaker 6: the public, our leadership, the mayor and the aldermen. They
34:21
Speaker 6: did a great job. They do a great job of
34:23
Speaker 6: listening to feedback from the citizens and they really took
34:27
Speaker 6: the bull by the horns and said, well, if we're
34:29
Speaker 6: gonna do something, we're gonna do it right. And we're
34:31
Speaker 6: currently constructing eighteen new pickleball courts that are gonna be
34:34
Speaker 6: lighted next to the YMCA at Liberty Park. There'll be
34:38
Speaker 6: new bathrooms out there, there'll be a playground for small kids,
34:42
Speaker 6: and there also be more parking, so it's gonna be
34:45
Speaker 6: a great facility. We're working on getting connected with USA
34:48
Speaker 6: pick a Ball to host professional tournaments possibly and also
34:52
Speaker 6: just tournaments for the community. But it'll be free for
34:55
Speaker 6: the public. First come, first serve unless you want to
34:58
Speaker 6: play in a tournament.
34:58
Speaker 2: Probably you just answered my next question because I was
35:01
Speaker 2: sitting here thinking, okay, how many you said eighteen courts?
35:03
Speaker 2: Eighteen courts, So you know, that's kind of with the
35:06
Speaker 2: craze as it is, is it, you know, mass hysteria
35:08
Speaker 2: just to get there. But as you said, first come,
35:10
Speaker 2: first serve, and then the fact that you guys are
35:12
Speaker 2: actually bringing a circuit through here. I can't speak for
35:15
Speaker 2: THEMAI ask or they may just say when I say this,
35:17
Speaker 2: this is my opinion. I would assume this becomes a
35:21
Speaker 2: sanctioned sport at some point inside high school circuits. It
35:23
Speaker 2: may be in other states already, but the fact that
35:26
Speaker 2: you guys will have the facility, you're already looking ahead
35:28
Speaker 2: to tournaments and sanctions, and for the general public, I mean,
35:31
Speaker 2: it's crazy, this sport. It is just never would have dream.
35:33
Speaker 6: This right exactly, And that's why we want to be
35:36
Speaker 6: prepared if that time does come, so that there are
35:38
Speaker 6: opportunities for those where we're ahead of the curve. And
35:42
Speaker 6: also we've recently heard that the Olympics are potentially looking
35:46
Speaker 6: at it. I'm not sure how true that is, but
35:49
Speaker 6: we just want to be prepared for the future.
35:52
Speaker 2: Daniel Lang is on your radio. He's the director of
35:53
Speaker 2: Economic Development for the City of Flowood. Thursday edition of
35:56
Speaker 2: the program. Talk a little bit more about things going
35:58
Speaker 2: on in Flowood. It seems like everywhere you drive there's
36:01
Speaker 2: something something being built. Obviously, the jokes so about you know,
36:04
Speaker 2: Chicken Alley, but I mean there's restaurants, there's community center.
36:08
Speaker 2: I mean you name it. Flowwood you know is not capped.
36:12
Speaker 2: There is land and people are using it.
36:14
Speaker 6: That's exactly right. And people see the market that Flowood is,
36:18
Speaker 6: whether it's the Northwest rank at High School, Jackson Prep
36:22
Speaker 6: and Hartfield Academy, just the family dynamic where there's a
36:25
Speaker 6: lot of young people that live in flow Wood and
36:27
Speaker 6: there's a lot of generational growth that's gonna happen. And
36:31
Speaker 6: so people outside of Mississippi are seeing those opportunities and
36:34
Speaker 6: they want to take advantage of it.
36:36
Speaker 2: We have.
36:37
Speaker 6: It's interesting to think about Flood's population is only ten thousand,
36:40
Speaker 6: five hundred people, but we have over one hundred thousand
36:43
Speaker 6: people that come through flow In every single day, whether
36:45
Speaker 6: they're shopping or eating, or going to doctor's appointments or working.
36:48
Speaker 6: And so people come to Flowood. It's a hub. So
36:51
Speaker 6: we want to capitalize on that. We want to make
36:53
Speaker 6: sure that we're growing in a smart way. We don't
36:55
Speaker 6: just grow because we're growing, but actually do it in
36:58
Speaker 6: a very holistic development way that benefits not only my kids,
37:03
Speaker 6: but the kids that my kids will have, the grandkids.
37:06
Speaker 2: Got about three minutes left here. I appreciate you joining
37:08
Speaker 2: us for at the top of the our State gets
37:10
Speaker 2: a big donation today. I thought you heard us talking
37:12
Speaker 2: about that eight million dollars. That's big for their collective.
37:14
Speaker 2: I know you're a huge college sports fan as well.
37:17
Speaker 2: They played Florida ole Miss obviously at home this weekend.
37:20
Speaker 2: I asked you, so, who's your favorite team? You said, Hey,
37:21
Speaker 2: I'm literally a Mississippi guy. I want to see everybody win.
37:24
Speaker 2: Your your thoughts on the weekend and the two programs.
37:26
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think Ole Miss will do really well against
37:29
Speaker 6: Georgia Southern. I'm curious. I don't want to say it's
37:32
Speaker 6: a trap game, but I think Georgia Southern may put
37:34
Speaker 6: up more of a fight than most people think. So
37:38
Speaker 6: I still obviously think ole Miss will win, but we
37:41
Speaker 6: want to put that away early. But then for State
37:43
Speaker 6: and Florida, that one's I think whoever is bought in
37:47
Speaker 6: with the in the locker room, I think coach lev
37:50
Speaker 6: he'll he'll do a great job of buying the players
37:51
Speaker 6: in and this could be a turning point for the
37:53
Speaker 6: season for State. If they win against Florida, that could
37:56
Speaker 6: give some momentum for the SEC play in the future.
37:59
Speaker 6: And if they have some leaders in the locker room.
38:01
Speaker 6: They can get the job done.
38:02
Speaker 2: Who's the best team in college football in your mind?
38:06
Speaker 6: Honestly, I think Texas potentially, I hate to say that
38:08
Speaker 6: right now, but I think they have depth. Obviously with
38:11
Speaker 6: arch Manning, they have a quarterback. They have two quarterbacks
38:14
Speaker 6: that can lead and win games, and so in the
38:16
Speaker 6: long haul for the season overall, I think Texas is
38:19
Speaker 6: a strong contender.
38:21
Speaker 2: Also, I want to make sure before I get out
38:23
Speaker 2: of here, I want to make sure we're talking Legacy Theaters,
38:26
Speaker 2: what's going on there, and we're doing some stuff with
38:27
Speaker 2: you guys there as well, great theater putting out UFC
38:31
Speaker 2: Fight Nights. Also Family Knights talk a little bit about
38:33
Speaker 2: Legacy in the kind of the rebrand there. Yeah, Legacy
38:35
Speaker 2: has done an amazing job with their rebranding. They cater
38:38
Speaker 2: too unique, unique movies that are made in Mississippi.
38:42
Speaker 6: They want to not just be your regular movie theater.
38:45
Speaker 6: They have obviously they redid the chairs and everything, but
38:48
Speaker 6: they really want to cater to the local population and
38:52
Speaker 6: what is the local population into. It's like, well, MISSISSIPI
38:54
Speaker 6: made movies, are good? You be UFC fighters. If we've
38:57
Speaker 6: talked about having college football games on and having parties
39:01
Speaker 6: out there. So they're really in tune with what the
39:04
Speaker 6: community is looking for and we're excited to see the
39:06
Speaker 6: growth that they're gonna have.
39:07
Speaker 2: If anybody's got any questions or about, you know, wants
39:10
Speaker 2: to see kind of what's going on in Flowood, where
39:11
Speaker 2: can they find it?
39:12
Speaker 6: Yeah, they can find it at Cityoflowood dot com. We
39:14
Speaker 6: have a map online that shows all of our vacant
39:17
Speaker 6: buildings and vacant properties. So if you're looking to buy
39:19
Speaker 6: or building Flowwood, go online to Cityoflowood dot com under
39:23
Speaker 6: Economic Development and hopefully we can find what you can
39:25
Speaker 6: find what you're looking for here.
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Speaker 2: Daniel Langy is the director of Economic Development here for
39:29
Speaker 2: the City of FLOWID. Daniel, thanks for teeing U up today.
39:31
Speaker 2: I appreciate you absolutely, Thank you, Jake, thank you for
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Speaker 2: It is the twenty first annual Mayor's Cup Benefit golf
41:09
Speaker 2: tournament benefiting Mississippi Fellowship with Christian Athletes.
41:12
Speaker 7: Hour one.
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Speaker 2: Want to say thanks to Kyle Higginbotham. He's the state
41:15
Speaker 2: director for the FCA. Also Daniel Lang, he's the director
41:17
Speaker 2: of Economic Development for the City of Flowood. Right now
41:20
Speaker 2: the director of golf here at the Refuge, Mister Sean
41:23
Speaker 2: Racky is on your radio. Sean, thanks so much for
41:25
Speaker 2: taking some time. I know you're busy, so appreciate you
41:27
Speaker 2: taking a break with us.
41:28
Speaker 8: Ah, it's wonderful to be here.
41:29
Speaker 9: I'm happy to speak to everyone, and this is a
41:33
Speaker 9: wonderful opportunity to reach quite a diverse base.
41:36
Speaker 2: Well, talk a little bit about before we get to
41:38
Speaker 2: the tournament. Let's talk about the Refuge. You and I
41:41
Speaker 2: just sitting here talking. It's hard to believe nineteen ninety
41:43
Speaker 2: eight is when this course open. It seemed like it
41:45
Speaker 2: was just yesterday, but it's been open for a little while.
41:47
Speaker 2: So take us through the history. You know, for those
41:49
Speaker 2: who may not know the history of the Refuge.
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Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, the course was built in nineteen ninety eight.
41:55
Speaker 9: It's right across the street from from the Jackson Airport.
42:00
Speaker 9: Had a lot of good years and then in twenty
42:03
Speaker 9: twenty one it underwent a full restoration, so they resurface
42:09
Speaker 9: the greens, brand new bunkers, new cart paths, the wide
42:12
Speaker 9: and the fairways, and of course built the you know,
42:15
Speaker 9: the beautiful Sheraton hotel and convention center directly on property.
42:20
Speaker 9: So it's a yah, an absolutely wonderful relationship.
42:23
Speaker 2: No, it is, you know when you talk about the course,
42:25
Speaker 2: and of course it looks amazing, especially from where we're
42:27
Speaker 2: sitting today. We know about everything in the hotel that
42:30
Speaker 2: shared and offers a lot of conferences that we come
42:32
Speaker 2: to out here, obviously the rooftop bar of the restaurant
42:35
Speaker 2: and such. So it's it's a great marriage, you know,
42:38
Speaker 2: I think for what you're looking for a resort like.
42:40
Speaker 8: This, Oh yeah, it's a it's absolutely wonderful. I mean.
42:43
Speaker 9: The just a little bit more about the background, Okay,
42:48
Speaker 9: the Refuge is owned by the by the City of Flowood,
42:52
Speaker 9: so it's managed by by Troon Trouons, the leading golf
42:56
Speaker 9: management group in the country and you know, and then
42:59
Speaker 9: Sheridan operation.
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Speaker 8: It's the hotel.
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Speaker 9: So it's an absolutely wonderful relationship between all.
43:05
Speaker 8: The staate Quollers. It's a h yeah, it works absolutely wonderfully.
43:09
Speaker 2: Sean Racky is on your radio. He's the director of
43:11
Speaker 2: Golf here at the Refuge Thursday edition of the program.
43:14
Speaker 2: Talk about today's event. I know you guys put on
43:16
Speaker 2: a bunch of events throughout the year, but the twenty
43:18
Speaker 2: first annual Mayor's Cup benefiting the Missipi Fellowship of Christian
43:21
Speaker 2: Athletes twenty one years. You guys been doing this one
43:24
Speaker 2: a while.
43:25
Speaker 8: Okay, the Mayor's Cup.
43:27
Speaker 9: This is the twenty first official but my understanding is
43:30
Speaker 9: that they were there were five five before this, so
43:33
Speaker 9: it's been going on for for quite a long time.
43:35
Speaker 9: Always goes to a wonderful beneficiary, uh for the For
43:40
Speaker 9: quite a few years, it's been a two day event.
43:43
Speaker 9: So there's an eight thirty shotgun and a one thirty
43:46
Speaker 9: shotgun for for two days. So there's a you know,
43:48
Speaker 9: a morning and afternoon flight for both days and uh
43:52
Speaker 9: it raises an enormous model, uh, you know, money for
43:56
Speaker 9: for for for the charity and whatnot.
43:57
Speaker 8: So sure.
43:58
Speaker 9: I'm sorry, I say, we're we're extremely happy to uh
44:01
Speaker 9: to participate in and be the host.
44:03
Speaker 2: Yeh's you know, when you talk about an event like this,
44:05
Speaker 2: and of course getting from you know, every day play
44:08
Speaker 2: to an event like this, you know, do you do
44:11
Speaker 2: anything different with the course? I mean obviously, you know,
44:14
Speaker 2: you get your foot traffic daily in there and then
44:16
Speaker 2: you have, you know, kind of a mad rush on
44:18
Speaker 2: a day like this. Do you do you do anything
44:20
Speaker 2: different for days like today and tomorrow?
44:23
Speaker 9: On these basics, we run a lot of golf carts
44:26
Speaker 9: now the course, of course, the course is in a
44:30
Speaker 9: wonderful condition. But uh, from an agronomy standpoint, uh, you know, Uh,
44:38
Speaker 9: they the staff does a wonderful job, and on the
44:41
Speaker 9: big events they'll they'll they'll double cut.
44:43
Speaker 8: And and maybe roll the greens and whatnot.
44:46
Speaker 9: But the courses and wonderful condition, and from from what
44:49
Speaker 9: I gather, it's in the best condition it's ever been
44:52
Speaker 9: from over the years.
44:52
Speaker 8: I hear that compliment quite a bit.
44:56
Speaker 9: But uh, it's just a lot of moving parts to coordinate,
45:00
Speaker 9: you know, Uh, shoot, four hundred people golf in two days,
45:05
Speaker 9: so there's there's not only the golf and the agronomy,
45:08
Speaker 9: but the uh there's a silent auction that raises money.
45:11
Speaker 9: You know, there's there's there's the hospitality tents and whatnot.
45:15
Speaker 9: Uh So there's a it's a it's it's it's quite
45:18
Speaker 9: an under it's quite an under, quite an undertaking, but
45:21
Speaker 9: it's it's wonderful to be a part of it.
45:23
Speaker 2: Sean Rackey, the director of Golf, on your Radio Thursday
45:26
Speaker 2: edition of the program. We're in Floywood today for the
45:28
Speaker 2: twenty first annual Mayor's Cup. It's benefit the Misisippi Fellowship
45:31
Speaker 2: of Christian Athletes. Now, I know a lot of people
45:33
Speaker 2: that are listening play here, but then you may have
45:34
Speaker 2: a lot of people that don't play here. But it
45:36
Speaker 2: is a public course. We want to get that out there.
45:38
Speaker 2: Talk a little bit about every everyday guy. He can
45:41
Speaker 2: come out here and he can play some golf.
45:42
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah.
45:44
Speaker 9: But we're we're a daily fee golf course, although we
45:47
Speaker 9: do have a very strong membership, but we're open to everyone.
45:51
Speaker 9: So there's you know, we take our members are able
45:54
Speaker 9: to make green feace ten days in advance, the general
45:57
Speaker 9: public one week. We also have golf packages available with
46:01
Speaker 9: the with the with the hotel. So there's a you know,
46:04
Speaker 9: a lot of different options to come in and participate.
46:07
Speaker 9: And the one thing that that that the course has,
46:10
Speaker 9: uh that's really nice for for this area.
46:13
Speaker 8: We have a beautiful practice facility.
46:15
Speaker 9: It's a little unique and and we actually hit the
46:18
Speaker 9: balls into a lake, which that's a nice experience.
46:21
Speaker 8: But the other aspect that's.
46:23
Speaker 9: Uh, that that's you know, particularly inviting is that when
46:28
Speaker 9: after after a good storm or a heavy rain or whatnot,
46:31
Speaker 9: and you know, our practic facility is almost open, you know,
46:33
Speaker 9: I mean, very very little downtime. So some of the others,
46:37
Speaker 9: you know, they gotta you know, they're gonna lose their
46:38
Speaker 9: balls or whatnot, or it's gonna cause some other issues.
46:41
Speaker 9: But uh, but we've got a wonderful practice facility for
46:43
Speaker 9: everyone to enjoy.
46:44
Speaker 2: Talk a little bit about the game of golf as
46:46
Speaker 2: we've got you here for a few more minutes. What
46:48
Speaker 2: you've seen as far as you know, obviously with the
46:51
Speaker 2: uh you know, injection of live golf and the way
46:53
Speaker 2: that the professional ranks have done, and of course you
46:56
Speaker 2: know with with older guys like now Tiger Woods tart
46:58
Speaker 2: to believe he's older films older as far as the
47:02
Speaker 2: youth movement that we're seeing now in golf.
47:05
Speaker 9: I mean you just see that the that the younger
47:08
Speaker 9: players are just I mean they're they're just better and better.
47:11
Speaker 9: I Mean, you always had, you always had a handful
47:13
Speaker 9: of guys that had a chance to win. And now
47:15
Speaker 9: you just look at the depths of the fields are
47:17
Speaker 9: are really so so unbelievably talented. There's I mean, you know,
47:21
Speaker 9: you probably got about one third in the field that
47:23
Speaker 9: can win on on any given any given week. And
47:25
Speaker 9: you got to understand that when you look at the
47:27
Speaker 9: guys on on TV, you're looking at the very best
47:29
Speaker 9: players on the very best you know, the weekends and whatnot.
47:32
Speaker 9: I mean you and you also you see a lot
47:34
Speaker 9: of guys you know who have who have the ability,
47:38
Speaker 9: but they just may not have you know, putted good
47:40
Speaker 9: to to get get through that that Q school or
47:43
Speaker 9: but uh or they just maybe didn't have the financial
47:46
Speaker 9: backing when when things were good.
47:48
Speaker 8: But yeah, but you'll you'll see they all can play.
47:51
Speaker 9: I Mean, like I hear a lot of people say that,
47:54
Speaker 9: you know, they they want to give competitive golf, you know,
47:57
Speaker 9: a try, and they say, well, you know, what what's
47:59
Speaker 9: it take? And I said, can do you average sixty
48:02
Speaker 9: six every day? I mean like literally literally, I mean
48:05
Speaker 9: you you know, sixty eight sixty nine on on a
48:07
Speaker 9: bad day. I mean that that's that's that's what those
48:10
Speaker 9: guys do. You know, day in day out. It really
48:12
Speaker 9: is there. There are a whole whole different class.
48:14
Speaker 2: And of course I know you guys see it just
48:16
Speaker 2: being right here in the state of Mississippi. Just the
48:18
Speaker 2: passion for this game in the high school level. It
48:21
Speaker 2: is it has grown as well, has it not?
48:23
Speaker 4: Oh?
48:23
Speaker 9: I mean the I mean the game of golf has
48:25
Speaker 9: you know, has gotten a tremendous boost, you know these
48:29
Speaker 9: last few years, uh uh, with with the COVID and
48:32
Speaker 9: the and the recreation. But it was still still doing
48:34
Speaker 9: quite well before then. I mean, and I mean you'll
48:37
Speaker 9: see I mean uh uh, I mean you'll see Andy
48:41
Speaker 9: ogle Tree all use him and example. He he's he
48:44
Speaker 9: was from just outside Union, Mississippi, and he won the
48:46
Speaker 9: US AM a few years back and he's out playing
48:49
Speaker 9: playing the tours competitively.
48:50
Speaker 8: So I mean, you know, you know, uh, a lot
48:53
Speaker 8: lots of good things happening.
48:54
Speaker 2: Well, look, I appreciate your time to day before it
48:56
Speaker 2: gets you gets you out of here and get you
48:57
Speaker 2: back in there. I know you've got stuff to do.
48:59
Speaker 2: For those that are list that maybe want to play
49:00
Speaker 2: the course, maybe they want to talk to you about
49:02
Speaker 2: a membership, they want more information. Where can they get that?
49:04
Speaker 9: I just go to Uh, I just look up our
49:08
Speaker 9: website U Refuge Golf and you can find the everything
49:12
Speaker 9: on there that that that that you need.
49:15
Speaker 7: Uh.
49:15
Speaker 8: You can make your tea times online there as well.
49:18
Speaker 9: Uh but yeah, you can check it out and h
49:21
Speaker 9: but uh, it will be I'm sure you'll if you
49:24
Speaker 9: live in the Jackson area, I'm sure you've probably played.
49:26
Speaker 9: But if you haven't played, uh recently, I mean, you're
49:29
Speaker 9: going to see an absolutely wonderful golf course and just
49:32
Speaker 9: a fantastic condition and if you're just passing through Jackson,
49:36
Speaker 9: it certainly be worth the stop.
49:39
Speaker 2: Sean, thank you so much. I appreciate your time today.
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50:51
Speaker 2: Martin's in Livingston. We'll have Kelly Ford K four ratings
50:54
Speaker 2: coming up here. In the next segment, we are out
50:57
Speaker 2: in the city of Flowood. We're actually at the Refuge
50:59
Speaker 2: today for the twenty first annual Mayor's Cup that benefits
51:03
Speaker 2: the Mississippi Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Right now, Executive Director
51:05
Speaker 2: of the Flowood Chamber of Commerce, Janitor Riley on your radio, Janet,
51:09
Speaker 2: they running you crazy out here? How are you?
51:11
Speaker 11: I'm fantastic and I feel really blessed. This is my
51:14
Speaker 11: second time to be on the air with you, so
51:16
Speaker 11: I feel like I'm a reoccurring guest at this point.
51:18
Speaker 2: You know, twice because it becomes a pattern. So you
51:21
Speaker 2: are meet you next week right out here. Absolutely, we'll
51:23
Speaker 2: be right out here. Busy day. Talk a little bit
51:26
Speaker 2: about this event. I do want to talk flowood, I
51:28
Speaker 2: want to talk legacy and a lot of things going
51:29
Speaker 2: on here in Floywood. But just a wonderful event. Today
51:32
Speaker 2: we caught up with Kyle Higginbotham with the SCA and
51:34
Speaker 2: Hour number one. Everybody seems to be having a great time,
51:38
Speaker 2: great turnout, great event.
51:39
Speaker 11: It's a wonderful event. You know, this is our twenty
51:42
Speaker 11: first year of hosting this event, and the mayor always
51:44
Speaker 11: does such a great job of picking our local charities
51:46
Speaker 11: and knowing how he can make an impact. But the
51:49
Speaker 11: teams who come out, I think that's the most relevant
51:51
Speaker 11: part of this. You have all of our business owners
51:53
Speaker 11: that really take a day and they're not just here
51:55
Speaker 11: for the golf, they're here for the cause. And so
51:57
Speaker 11: there's a silent auction that takes place for people to
51:59
Speaker 11: can just come in and bid on items, all to
52:02
Speaker 11: benefit the beneficiary, which is Fellowship of Christian Athletes this year.
52:06
Speaker 11: And they're a wonderful organization. We're so proud to have
52:08
Speaker 11: them headquartered. Our state director right here in Flowood.
52:11
Speaker 2: Janitor Riley. She is the executive director of Floid Chamber
52:14
Speaker 2: of Commerce. On your radio Thursday edition of the program,
52:16
Speaker 2: Thank you sir, and of course meet with Sean Earlier
52:19
Speaker 2: about the course. It's hard to believe this course has
52:21
Speaker 2: been here since nineteen ninety eight. It's flying by to
52:24
Speaker 2: my head.
52:24
Speaker 11: It's one of the only freak courses. It's a public course,
52:27
Speaker 11: and you know, people talk about when they used to
52:29
Speaker 11: come out and play the Refuge it was like a
52:31
Speaker 11: bowl in that lace, so you would lose your ball.
52:32
Speaker 7: There was just a tunnel.
52:34
Speaker 11: And now all the renovations that have taken place, it
52:36
Speaker 11: is one of the top rated golf courses in Mississippi,
52:39
Speaker 11: and we're so proud of the work that they've done
52:41
Speaker 11: and the commitment to keep it nice and to make
52:43
Speaker 11: it accessible for everybody.
52:45
Speaker 2: You know, I was talking with Daniel Earlier. I had
52:48
Speaker 2: no idea because you guys are doing so much that
52:50
Speaker 2: you guys were about to explode on a pickleball seat.
52:52
Speaker 2: Oh yes, talk a little bit about that. Did you play?
52:55
Speaker 11: I have played, And it's also where we taught some
52:57
Speaker 11: important lessons to my thirteen year old. If you're play
53:00
Speaker 11: and against some seventy year old seniors who also play
53:03
Speaker 11: really good pickaball, you do not question whether that ball
53:06
Speaker 11: is in or out. It's whatever they call is the
53:09
Speaker 11: right answer. But we're so excited that's such a growing sport.
53:12
Speaker 11: And what we really saw this summer was a lot
53:15
Speaker 11: of our people in high school or high schoolers were
53:17
Speaker 11: out there on our We had renovated one tennis court,
53:20
Speaker 11: and we saw so many high schoolers and young kids
53:22
Speaker 11: out there on the courts. And I think the mayor
53:24
Speaker 11: and the city took a look at that and said
53:26
Speaker 11: where else which should they be? And so they opened
53:29
Speaker 11: the opportunity. And I think the expansion at Flowood's Liberties
53:32
Speaker 11: Park with eighteen courts possibly nineteen, being able to host
53:35
Speaker 11: those big tournaments, but also just giving people a great
53:37
Speaker 11: place to come and play right here in Floywood.
53:40
Speaker 2: It means a lot.
53:41
Speaker 11: For sports tourism for the people like me who live
53:43
Speaker 11: in Floywood, just that quality of life is going to
53:46
Speaker 11: be enhanced by that.
53:47
Speaker 2: And you are one hundred percent on point with that.
53:50
Speaker 2: Because my seventeen year old she chairs with a bunch
53:54
Speaker 2: of girls. I got a group and they literally will
53:56
Speaker 2: come to like literally just come straight going to Flowood.
53:59
Speaker 2: We're going to play pick aball and it's all the time.
54:01
Speaker 2: So I didn't even know that this That's what I
54:03
Speaker 2: was telling Daniel earlier, that this game was this big
54:06
Speaker 2: until literally about a year ago.
54:08
Speaker 11: Well, and I've traveled to other places with soccer tournaments,
54:10
Speaker 11: and I've seen other tournaments come in. It can be
54:12
Speaker 11: a great impact to the city. Of course, we worm
54:14
Speaker 11: to go eat at all of our restaurants and stay
54:17
Speaker 11: and play here in Flowood, but being able to offer
54:19
Speaker 11: just a state of the arts sports recreation complex is important,
54:23
Speaker 11: and I know that's a priority of the city and
54:25
Speaker 11: our leadership here. They really want the quality of life
54:28
Speaker 11: to be very high in Flowood and that's what you
54:30
Speaker 11: see for every resident here, but also the people who visit.
54:32
Speaker 11: We want them to come away and know that Flowood
54:34
Speaker 11: is a great place to live, work, into play, and
54:36
Speaker 11: we say it's good, clean, fun and Flowood is one
54:40
Speaker 11: of our taglines. So it is it's good, clean fun
54:43
Speaker 11: for our kids to be able to have somewhere to
54:45
Speaker 11: go and play, for our seniors to be able to
54:47
Speaker 11: come and play. And we can't wait to see that expansion.
54:49
Speaker 11: It's going really fast. I think we'll see those courts
54:51
Speaker 11: at the completion scene.
54:53
Speaker 2: General Riley, she's executive directors Floid Chamber of Commerce. Thursday
54:56
Speaker 2: edition of the program So Salt Legacy. We were talking
54:59
Speaker 2: with Annel about that. We went by there the other day.
55:02
Speaker 2: Got chance to see the new Beetlejuice movie. Have you
55:05
Speaker 2: seen that? I haven't yet.
55:06
Speaker 11: My kids won't watch the first one with me, so
55:08
Speaker 11: I feel like you have to watch the first one
55:09
Speaker 11: before you do the second one. But we're so excited
55:11
Speaker 11: about that whole extension of Lakeland Landing where you've seen
55:14
Speaker 11: the restaurants, where you've seen that renovation that used to
55:16
Speaker 11: be such a pivotal corner. And you know, in given
55:19
Speaker 11: directions in Flowood, we always joke like you always turn
55:22
Speaker 11: left to right at the theater. That's how we gave
55:24
Speaker 11: directions to where to go. And when the theater closed
55:27
Speaker 11: down briefly, we we couldn't do that anymore.
55:30
Speaker 6: So we're very excited.
55:30
Speaker 11: We have some local honors that are really invested in
55:33
Speaker 11: that area, and I think the things that they're doing
55:35
Speaker 11: at Legacy have been fantastic.
55:37
Speaker 8: They're doing live stream.
55:38
Speaker 11: Events, they're also doing faith based films, which I think
55:41
Speaker 11: is important for our community. And it's affordable. It's one
55:44
Speaker 11: of the most affordable theaters around in the area, but
55:47
Speaker 11: you also have that luxury seating. So we're very excited
55:49
Speaker 11: to see how well they've been growing and developing, and
55:52
Speaker 11: that whole strip looks so great for Lakeland Landing that
55:55
Speaker 11: theater was one of the first multi cinemas in Rankin County,
56:00
Speaker 11: and so to see that renovation and renewal there, it
56:03
Speaker 11: just goes to speak that everyone who's invested in Floywood.
56:06
Speaker 11: We love that people want to open their new businesses here.
56:09
Speaker 11: We cut ribbons every week, but seeing that reinvestment and
56:13
Speaker 11: the people who really want to make an impact. The
56:15
Speaker 11: same thing with our sports complex too. People keep putting
56:18
Speaker 11: back in and it really does build such a high
56:20
Speaker 11: quality of life and it lets you know that they're
56:22
Speaker 11: doing it for the right reasons for their kids to
56:24
Speaker 11: be able to have the same experiences there that they
56:26
Speaker 11: had growing up.
56:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could tell you first hand. I mean, the
56:29
Speaker 2: theater looks fantastic. Like I said, we were there last weekend.
56:32
Speaker 2: Popcorn tastes great, the theater looks great, the seating is awesome,
56:35
Speaker 2: and as you said, they're going to have UFC events,
56:37
Speaker 2: had one a couple weeks ago, other events, like you said,
56:40
Speaker 2: special events, possibly some ball games, and then some faith
56:42
Speaker 2: based stuff for families and churches as well.
56:45
Speaker 11: They have group rates, but they all do faith based
56:48
Speaker 11: films and consistently, so every time you look up showtimes
56:50
Speaker 11: you can find that is an option there. And they
56:52
Speaker 11: do have auditorium rentals that are very affordable too, So
56:55
Speaker 11: there'll even be opportunities for people to come in, maybe
56:59
Speaker 11: bring your own gaming system. It wouldn't it be cool
57:01
Speaker 11: to be playing Madden on the big screen. And so
57:03
Speaker 11: I think that they're always looking at ways that they
57:05
Speaker 11: can really serve the community, and they're open to that conversation.
57:08
Speaker 11: What would people like, what exactly like those high school kids,
57:11
Speaker 11: where are they playing? How can we get them here?
57:14
Speaker 11: You know, that was one of the first theaters that
57:16
Speaker 11: had our Crossroads our film festivals there, and so we've
57:21
Speaker 11: made it a point to showcase the Mississippi films being made.
57:23
Speaker 11: There's so many films being made in Mississippi, so we'll
57:25
Speaker 11: have Mississippi Movie Mondays come back there to showcase the
57:28
Speaker 11: work because a lot of those actors that are here,
57:30
Speaker 11: a lot of the work that's done in Mississippi doesn't
57:33
Speaker 11: get to be seen locally. So we're very happy that
57:35
Speaker 11: that theater has helped us partner with that as well.
57:37
Speaker 2: I know you guys got a few minutes here left,
57:39
Speaker 2: and I appreciate your time today. I know it just passed,
57:43
Speaker 2: but I want to go back to it because if
57:45
Speaker 2: they've missed it this year, they could want them to
57:46
Speaker 2: be there next year. Taste of Flow Wood, y'all, just
57:49
Speaker 2: keep that thing is a monster in the best ways.
57:52
Speaker 6: It's a monster.
57:53
Speaker 11: What was your favorite dish?
57:54
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, now you're gonna put me on the spot.
57:56
Speaker 2: You know, I'll be honest with you. Oh man, if
57:59
Speaker 2: I had to guess, don't put me on the spot
58:01
Speaker 2: like that. It was all good. Every bit of it
58:03
Speaker 2: was good.
58:04
Speaker 11: It was so good. And I have to again give
58:06
Speaker 11: credit to those restaurants. Those restaurants aren't paid to be there.
58:09
Speaker 11: They bring their staff out, they give away that food
58:12
Speaker 11: to the community because that's how invested they are in
58:14
Speaker 11: the community. And it's been really after the event. I've
58:17
Speaker 11: talked to so many restaurants who've said that they've had
58:19
Speaker 11: people come in and support them because of that. But
58:21
Speaker 11: I've said, the work is not done. In order for
58:23
Speaker 11: us to have events like that, we need you to
58:25
Speaker 11: go eat at our restaurants. We need you to support
58:28
Speaker 11: those restaurants who were out there for all the right reasons,
58:30
Speaker 11: just to support the community. And it was a huge success.
58:33
Speaker 11: We had over forty restaurants out at the water Point
58:35
Speaker 11: development and a lot of people have a lot of
58:37
Speaker 11: favorites and including like Outback just comes and brings like
58:40
Speaker 11: the Steak and the.
58:41
Speaker 2: Chickens say they had the biggest spread. I mean, they
58:44
Speaker 2: really did. And you know, I know they've been around
58:46
Speaker 2: for a long time, but they kind of took the
58:48
Speaker 2: bull by the horns out there and said, you know,
58:50
Speaker 2: we're going to put our stake in around right here.
58:52
Speaker 2: And they did it for a big, big set.
58:55
Speaker 11: Up out there, and Waterpoint was such a great host.
58:57
Speaker 11: That was the first time that we had that event.
58:58
Speaker 11: So you'll see some improvement next year. But they do
59:00
Speaker 11: want us to come back and again over forty restaurants,
59:03
Speaker 11: over eight hundred people. But there's always those events that
59:06
Speaker 11: will continue to do just to showcase all there is
59:08
Speaker 11: to offa here in Flowood.
59:10
Speaker 2: Tell everybody where they can learn more about what's going
59:12
Speaker 2: on in Flowwood. You guys are constantly expanding, constantly growing.
59:15
Speaker 2: If you maybe have a developer that maybe wants to
59:17
Speaker 2: look to come to Flowwood, anybody that wants to see
59:19
Speaker 2: what else they can do in flow Wood.
59:20
Speaker 11: Well, I know you talked to Nino Lang earlier, so
59:22
Speaker 11: economic development for the city of Flowood. You can visit
59:25
Speaker 11: Cityoflowood dot com or you can also see what's going
59:27
Speaker 11: on at the Chamber at flowid Chamber dot com.
59:29
Speaker 2: Janet, thank you so much. Appreciate all you guys do.
59:31
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me out today.
59:32
Speaker 11: Thank you.
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1:00:55
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1:00:56
Speaker 12: Hey, Jake, I'm doing well. How are you today?
1:00:58
Speaker 2: Kelly doing really really good? As we move into the weekend,
1:01:01
Speaker 2: let's get your take on everything before we hit in. First,
1:01:04
Speaker 2: let's go through some of the k forward Ratings updated
1:01:07
Speaker 2: ratings coming into this week, and we have a new
1:01:10
Speaker 2: number one in the k Ford Ratings to see Alabama
1:01:13
Speaker 2: Crimson time.
1:01:15
Speaker 12: Yes, Alabama has made the move after a good a
1:01:18
Speaker 12: couple good showings here this year, and really it was
1:01:21
Speaker 12: Georgia coming back to the pack a little bit following
1:01:23
Speaker 12: their very tight win over Kentucky last week. In Alabama
1:01:27
Speaker 12: is my number one power rated team. But Jake, it's
1:01:29
Speaker 12: important to note that twenty nine point six is Alabama's
1:01:32
Speaker 12: power ratings Texas at number two. Also twenty nine point
1:01:36
Speaker 12: six so you have to go beyond the tenth place
1:01:38
Speaker 12: there to break that tigh. So I really don't know
1:01:41
Speaker 12: between those two. You know, my numbers are making fifty
1:01:43
Speaker 12: to fifty Ohio States not far behind Georgia, Tennessee. I'd
1:01:47
Speaker 12: really go all the way down even to Ole Miss
1:01:50
Speaker 12: at number six. For some of your listeners here who
1:01:52
Speaker 12: are rebels fans, I think you're going to make the
1:01:54
Speaker 12: case that any of those six teams could be the
1:01:56
Speaker 12: best team in college football.
1:01:58
Speaker 2: Kelly Ford K four Ratings on Radio, k Ford Ratings
1:02:01
Speaker 2: dot com. And yeah, when you look at Alabama at
1:02:03
Speaker 2: twenty nine point six on the rating scale that you have,
1:02:07
Speaker 2: down to Ole Miss at twenty five, I mean, like
1:02:09
Speaker 2: you said, I don't know if we're getting We're gonna
1:02:12
Speaker 2: see this really play out over the course of the
1:02:14
Speaker 2: next three four weeks, and we'll be able to I
1:02:15
Speaker 2: think have enough data to make a really sound judgment
1:02:18
Speaker 2: on this. You know, because coming end of the year,
1:02:20
Speaker 2: it was and we see this every year, it's Alabama
1:02:23
Speaker 2: and everybody else, or it's Ohio State, everybody else, or Georgia.
1:02:26
Speaker 2: This year, even in Vegas, it was Georgia, Ohio State
1:02:29
Speaker 2: and everybody else. This may be, and I know we've
1:02:32
Speaker 2: said this before, well, it's some more wide open field
1:02:34
Speaker 2: we've ever seen. This literally may be in the first
1:02:36
Speaker 2: year of the twelve team playoff, the most wide open
1:02:38
Speaker 2: field we've ever seen.
1:02:40
Speaker 12: It might be, especially at the top as we're talking
1:02:43
Speaker 12: about here. I just think, you know, in the last
1:02:45
Speaker 12: ten years of the fourteen era, there was always a
1:02:49
Speaker 12: team or really you know, two or three that had
1:02:51
Speaker 12: separated themselves from everybody else. We just don't have that
1:02:55
Speaker 12: this year, and we still might get there right by
1:02:58
Speaker 12: the end of the year. But as seeing Stan currently,
1:03:00
Speaker 12: it's just not a lot of separation, and that does
1:03:02
Speaker 12: make it fun, it does make it exciting. And the
1:03:04
Speaker 12: fact that we do now have a twelve team playoff
1:03:06
Speaker 12: as opposed to a four it's good and bad. Some
1:03:09
Speaker 12: of the good here is there legitimately could be half
1:03:13
Speaker 12: a dozen teams that go into that being thinking, man,
1:03:16
Speaker 12: we've got a real shot depending on how things break
1:03:18
Speaker 12: and what upsets we get in other parts of the bracket.
1:03:22
Speaker 2: Let's go to we'll get into some of these games.
1:03:24
Speaker 2: I want to go right here because it's in the ratings.
1:03:25
Speaker 2: You've got Tennessee at that fifth spot twenty five point five.
1:03:28
Speaker 2: They're just off Alabama's pace by just a you know,
1:03:31
Speaker 2: three four and a half points. Here they take on Oklahoma,
1:03:34
Speaker 2: who's fourteenth in your ratings at fifteen point four. They
1:03:37
Speaker 2: had to move last week up just a little bit
1:03:39
Speaker 2: three spots, a one point one power rating move. Tennessee
1:03:42
Speaker 2: got has got to go on the road. If they
1:03:45
Speaker 2: go on the road and dominate this thing, can they
1:03:47
Speaker 2: make a case that they're one of the top two
1:03:50
Speaker 2: or three best in the country.
1:03:52
Speaker 12: Yes, certainly. And this is a game that I update
1:03:54
Speaker 12: my watchability be course every Friday morning on the website,
1:03:57
Speaker 12: so haven't done this week's update yet, but I think
1:03:59
Speaker 12: this is good to be the number one watchability score
1:04:02
Speaker 12: of the week's currently at a nine point eight out
1:04:04
Speaker 12: of ten, So all eyes are going to be on
1:04:06
Speaker 12: this one. It is Oklahoma's first game as an SEC
1:04:09
Speaker 12: team in conference play. They do have Tennessee coming to town.
1:04:13
Speaker 12: Tennessee is, like you said, number five in my power
1:04:16
Speaker 12: ratings right now, I have a sixty six percent win
1:04:18
Speaker 12: expectancy for the balls, and I really just think the
1:04:20
Speaker 12: difference in this game for me, Jake is the Tennessee
1:04:23
Speaker 12: defense that I have as the number nine defensive unit
1:04:26
Speaker 12: in the country. The Oklahoma offense has struggled so far
1:04:30
Speaker 12: this year relative to what we expected the offense right
1:04:32
Speaker 12: now for the Sooners number forty four. I think that's
1:04:35
Speaker 12: the side of the ball, the matchup that's going to
1:04:37
Speaker 12: be the differentiator here.
1:04:38
Speaker 6: And yet if.
1:04:39
Speaker 12: Tennessee wins, and let's say they win kind of pulling
1:04:41
Speaker 12: away at the end, it is very possible given what
1:04:44
Speaker 12: we've seen from Tennessee already to this point, having been
1:04:47
Speaker 12: upgraded nine and a half points since the preseason. That's
1:04:50
Speaker 12: the number two biggest upgrade of any team since the preseason.
1:04:53
Speaker 3: In all of that FBN.
1:04:54
Speaker 12: If they really come out and dominate, it is absolutely
1:04:57
Speaker 12: within the realm of possibility that this is a team
1:04:59
Speaker 12: that could find themselves, you know, in the top two
1:05:02
Speaker 12: or three of the Power Ratings.
1:05:03
Speaker 2: Next week Kelly Ford Talking College Football Thursday edition of
1:05:07
Speaker 2: the program. Make sure to find him on k Ford Ratings.
1:05:10
Speaker 2: That's on x and kford ratings dot com. One of
1:05:12
Speaker 2: the teams that we're not talking about in the SEC
1:05:15
Speaker 2: at least today, that we were all over, and I
1:05:17
Speaker 2: say we is in the college football world. The one
1:05:19
Speaker 2: big community and the preseason was Missouri they're at thirteenth
1:05:23
Speaker 2: in your ratings. What is your kind of take a
1:05:26
Speaker 2: few weeks in on Missouri.
1:05:28
Speaker 12: So Missouri is a team that Jake and You'll recall
1:05:31
Speaker 12: we talked about a lot of people in the preseason
1:05:33
Speaker 12: talking about the Tigers being a dark force in the SEC.
1:05:36
Speaker 12: Maybe big it to Atlanta, but certainly have an inside
1:05:38
Speaker 12: track to make it to the twelve team playoffs. And
1:05:42
Speaker 12: for me, Missouri started this year I think it was
1:05:44
Speaker 12: number fourteen, and so they've only moved up a very
1:05:47
Speaker 12: little bit. They've been upgraded about half a point since
1:05:50
Speaker 12: the preseason. There's zero point six points better in the
1:05:53
Speaker 12: model now than they were in the preseason. So I
1:05:55
Speaker 12: think the model kind of nailed Missouri as a as
1:05:58
Speaker 12: a talent. The thing that really made Missouri attractive for
1:06:01
Speaker 12: me as a CFP pick or sleeper would be the
1:06:04
Speaker 12: schedule that they played. It is the easiest schedule in
1:06:07
Speaker 12: the SEC over the course of all twelve games. If
1:06:10
Speaker 12: you look at just the conference slate, it is among
1:06:13
Speaker 12: the easiest. Maybe Texas has a slightly easier SEC only plate,
1:06:16
Speaker 12: But that's what made Missouri kind of that CFP pick
1:06:20
Speaker 12: for me was their schedule, not necessarily the quality of
1:06:24
Speaker 12: the teams, about the high quality of the team. They
1:06:26
Speaker 12: start just season, you know, beating Murray State fifty one
1:06:28
Speaker 12: to nothing in Buffalo thirty eight persand and people are saying, Kelly,
1:06:31
Speaker 12: how have you not upgraded? And they haven't given up
1:06:32
Speaker 12: a point. Well, neither one of those teams as much
1:06:35
Speaker 12: to write home about. They did get a test this
1:06:37
Speaker 12: past weekend against Boston College at home, and they were
1:06:40
Speaker 12: pushed and they were behind in that game. Credit for
1:06:42
Speaker 12: the Tigers. They pulled it out twenty seven to twenty one,
1:06:45
Speaker 12: and they did get a little bumped into power ratings
1:06:46
Speaker 12: for that. But it's really I mean, look at their
1:06:48
Speaker 12: schedule as Vanderbilt this week, then they're off. Finally they
1:06:52
Speaker 12: get a real test on the road at Texas A
1:06:54
Speaker 12: and M in week six. So Missouri, the pass of
1:06:56
Speaker 12: the CFP is there. I've got a thirty five percent
1:06:59
Speaker 12: chance to reach a fleet ten regular season wins, which
1:07:01
Speaker 12: is what I think the threshold is for this Missouri
1:07:03
Speaker 12: team given the schedule they face. So it's there, but
1:07:06
Speaker 12: I think it's more to do with the schedule that
1:07:08
Speaker 12: they play rather than the actual you know, power power
1:07:12
Speaker 12: rating ability of this team.
1:07:14
Speaker 2: Kelly let's look at your bracket. We'll get to some
1:07:15
Speaker 2: of these games in the other games in the next
1:07:17
Speaker 2: segment when you look at your simulated college football playoff results, Again,
1:07:21
Speaker 2: this is a moving scale week to week that you
1:07:23
Speaker 2: put out Oregon back in this thing. I had them
1:07:25
Speaker 2: back in as well. But what I'm looking at here is,
1:07:28
Speaker 2: you know Tennessee, Ole, Miss Georgia, Texas. Also you look
1:07:33
Speaker 2: at Alabama. That's five SEC teams. I mean, you could
1:07:37
Speaker 2: make a case for six. I know that we said
1:07:39
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the season, which way will the
1:07:41
Speaker 2: committee go as far as number of SEC teams?
1:07:43
Speaker 7: Uh?
1:07:44
Speaker 2: Some said three, some said four. You know, it's a
1:07:46
Speaker 2: guess at this point. It's an educated guess. But the
1:07:48
Speaker 2: way at least it looks like, what's what's happening in
1:07:51
Speaker 2: the ACC, what's happening in the Big twelve, what's happening
1:07:54
Speaker 2: in the Big ten? Where uh, you know, Oregon's trying
1:07:56
Speaker 2: to catch their sea legs. Spence State maybe may not
1:07:59
Speaker 2: be right as good as we thought, Ohio States there
1:08:02
Speaker 2: usc maybe a little better. Does it look like the
1:08:06
Speaker 2: SEC at least should get the lion's share of these
1:08:09
Speaker 2: of these spots, And of course we won't know until
1:08:11
Speaker 2: we see how the committee you know, acts and how
1:08:14
Speaker 2: they vote.
1:08:15
Speaker 12: Yeah, for sure, that's the big question mark that we
1:08:18
Speaker 12: don't know, and we won't know until we see it
1:08:20
Speaker 12: play out. But Jake kind of you know. The way
1:08:22
Speaker 12: it's been for me since the preseason, and we talk
1:08:24
Speaker 12: about this every week, is I've continued to maintain that
1:08:28
Speaker 12: I believe, if not all, almost all of the at
1:08:32
Speaker 12: large spots are going to go to teams from the
1:08:35
Speaker 12: SEC and or Big Ten. Like to me, right now,
1:08:37
Speaker 12: in my projected CFP based on results to date and
1:08:41
Speaker 12: then projecting forward with the power rating, I do, as
1:08:43
Speaker 12: you said, have five SEC teams in there. I have
1:08:46
Speaker 12: four Big ten teams in there. Every single at large
1:08:49
Speaker 12: is taken by an SEC or a Big Ten team.
1:08:52
Speaker 12: When I then simulate what that bracket looks like, Jake,
1:08:55
Speaker 12: for the first time this year, I've got somebody other
1:08:57
Speaker 12: than Georgia as the projected champion. It is all of Obama.
1:09:00
Speaker 12: But more notably than that, from a conference standpoint, all
1:09:04
Speaker 12: four semi final teams and my stimulated playoff are from
1:09:08
Speaker 12: the SEC. That's the first time that's happened this year,
1:09:10
Speaker 12: and I'm not I don't think that's actually going to happen,
1:09:13
Speaker 12: like how it actually plays out come you know, January.
1:09:16
Speaker 12: I don't think the semi finals will be comprised only
1:09:19
Speaker 12: of SEC teams, But as things stand right now, Alabama,
1:09:22
Speaker 12: Ole Miss, Georgia, and Texas are the four teams in
1:09:26
Speaker 12: my model that make it to that semi final round
1:09:29
Speaker 12: in the latest iteration. So it is certainly going to
1:09:31
Speaker 12: be an SEC heavy playoff, and I do expect a
1:09:34
Speaker 12: lot of SDC teams to advance deep into that bracket.
1:09:37
Speaker 12: We expanded the bracket, but all we did I think
1:09:40
Speaker 12: is let in more SEC teams to have a chance
1:09:42
Speaker 12: to win that national championship.
1:09:44
Speaker 2: Sorry about that, I'd mean to step on you. You just said,
1:09:46
Speaker 2: come out. I think we're on the same wave link
1:09:48
Speaker 2: here because you got Ole Miss, Alabama as you said,
1:09:50
Speaker 2: and the at least today it just projected in the
1:09:53
Speaker 2: Range Bowl Final four game Georgia, Texas Cindy Cotton Bowl
1:09:55
Speaker 2: Final four game. And what I was just fixed to
1:09:58
Speaker 2: say is, boy, talk about a nashing it time you
1:10:00
Speaker 2: had the four team playoff where you know a lot
1:10:03
Speaker 2: of times you had two SEC teams living in that
1:10:05
Speaker 2: thing for several years. They expanded it one to quote
1:10:08
Speaker 2: more and more parity if you got down to a
1:10:10
Speaker 2: four final four all SEC. I mean, people around the
1:10:14
Speaker 2: country just shake their heads to go, I don't know
1:10:15
Speaker 2: what we do.
1:10:17
Speaker 12: It's Jake, it's how about I say this, It's more likely,
1:10:21
Speaker 12: significantly more likely that you have a final four of
1:10:25
Speaker 12: all SEC teams than a final four of either zero
1:10:29
Speaker 12: or one SEC teams.
1:10:31
Speaker 6: Right.
1:10:31
Speaker 12: So for those that thought this would make it more inclusive, sure,
1:10:34
Speaker 12: I guess you're getting that because you have more teams
1:10:37
Speaker 12: that make the twelve team playoffs. But if you look
1:10:39
Speaker 12: at the final four from the four team era to
1:10:42
Speaker 12: now the twelve team era, I believe and time will tell.
1:10:45
Speaker 12: I believe you're going to see a significantly larger higher
1:10:49
Speaker 12: percentage of teams that can prise that final four from
1:10:52
Speaker 12: the SEC in this format than we did previously.
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Speaker 2: Illinois takes on Nebraska, and Nebraska's a seven and a
1:12:11
Speaker 2: half point favorite totals of forty two and a half.
1:12:14
Speaker 2: I bring this game up because both teams have quietly
1:12:16
Speaker 2: moved out to three and zero. Both teams are playing
1:12:18
Speaker 2: really good defense. I don't know if one of these
1:12:21
Speaker 2: two teams, you know, is Nebraska back. I think it's
1:12:24
Speaker 2: way too early to say that. Can one of these
1:12:26
Speaker 2: teams move into a situation to where maybe they are
1:12:30
Speaker 2: vying for one of those at large bids. Your take
1:12:32
Speaker 2: on this ball game tonight Illinois or tomorrow night Illinois
1:12:35
Speaker 2: and Nebraska.
1:12:37
Speaker 12: Yeah, Jake, this is gonna be a really big game
1:12:39
Speaker 12: in the Big Pen. You know, two teams that we
1:12:41
Speaker 12: didn't necessarily expect to be where they are. Illinois got
1:12:44
Speaker 12: a great win against Kansas a couple of weeks ago.
1:12:46
Speaker 12: Nebraska's had a little bit easier of a start to
1:12:48
Speaker 12: the schedule, but getting that huge winning in Colorado in
1:12:51
Speaker 12: a primetime game certainly raised some eyebrows for them. So
1:12:54
Speaker 12: I think it's probably still a little premature to talk
1:12:57
Speaker 12: about the CFP in a large spot for these teams.
1:13:00
Speaker 12: For me, Nebraska needs to get to ten wins. I've
1:13:02
Speaker 12: got a nine percent chance that that happened. For Illinois,
1:13:05
Speaker 12: they're also at the ten wins threshold, I have a
1:13:07
Speaker 12: two percent chance that that happened. So I still think
1:13:10
Speaker 12: we're a little ways away there. But both these teams
1:13:12
Speaker 12: certainly have been better than we've expected. Nebraska's been upgraded
1:13:15
Speaker 12: about two points since the preseason, Illinois almost four points.
1:13:19
Speaker 12: So my numbers do like Nebraska sixty seven percent chance
1:13:22
Speaker 12: to win the game. Both of the defensive in this
1:13:24
Speaker 12: game should be the stronger of the unit. Nebraska's defense
1:13:28
Speaker 12: is top five nationally, Illinois's top twenty five, and then
1:13:31
Speaker 12: both offenses have struggled in recent years. Nebraska's offense this
1:13:36
Speaker 12: year much better than we expected coming in there now
1:13:38
Speaker 12: number seventy. Dylan Royola at quarterbacks certainly has proven to
1:13:42
Speaker 12: be more than worthy and then able to play at
1:13:44
Speaker 12: that position. And Matt Rule, I mean he's turned around
1:13:47
Speaker 12: at Temple, he's turned around at Taylor. I had a
1:13:49
Speaker 12: feeling he turned around Nebraska. I thought maybe we were
1:13:51
Speaker 12: still a year away. But he is certainly off to
1:13:53
Speaker 12: a great start, and it's possible Nebraska could be six
1:13:56
Speaker 12: to oh coming off of an off week going into
1:13:59
Speaker 12: Bloomington and team that looks freedar and good in week eight.
1:14:03
Speaker 2: Would not have national implications, could have a significant coaching
1:14:07
Speaker 2: Domino implications. Mississippi State takes on Florida Saturday, and start
1:14:10
Speaker 2: bull Dogs are five and a half point underdog at
1:14:13
Speaker 2: their place. If Mississippi State was to win this ball game,
1:14:18
Speaker 2: that would probably sell it. Signed Center to deliver billion.
1:14:21
Speaker 2: If you're out the door, any chance in your mind
1:14:23
Speaker 2: that happens on Saturday.
1:14:25
Speaker 12: Yeah, right now, First, I agree with you, because that
1:14:28
Speaker 12: would mean that Florida is now one and three. They
1:14:31
Speaker 12: are off next week before welcoming UCF to town, a
1:14:35
Speaker 12: UCF team that's looks much better than any thought coming
1:14:38
Speaker 12: into the year. So if you are going to make
1:14:40
Speaker 12: a coaching change mid season, doing it when you have
1:14:42
Speaker 12: an off week upcoming typically makes the most sense. You said,
1:14:46
Speaker 12: what are the chances here? I've got Mississippi State with
1:14:49
Speaker 12: a thirty six percent win expectancy, So if you play
1:14:51
Speaker 12: this game three times my numbers, do expect the Bulldogs
1:14:54
Speaker 12: to win it once.
1:14:55
Speaker 4: Out of that?
1:14:57
Speaker 12: So yeah, so far this year, neither one of these
1:14:59
Speaker 12: teams having the season that they've wanted. Florida has been
1:15:02
Speaker 12: downgraded about five points in the model of Mississippi State
1:15:05
Speaker 12: been downgraded about two and a half points. And for
1:15:08
Speaker 12: Mississippi State fans because I know we got a lot
1:15:10
Speaker 12: in the audience here, I mean, it's not looking good
1:15:14
Speaker 12: for the season. Out look. The offense is number seventy two,
1:15:18
Speaker 12: the defense is number eighty four. If you look at
1:15:20
Speaker 12: the upcoming games, I mean it's this week. If you're
1:15:23
Speaker 12: looking at how can we get, you know, to a
1:15:26
Speaker 12: respectable win total. You got to have this week, probably
1:15:28
Speaker 12: got to beat Arkansas in week nine, certainly UMass in
1:15:31
Speaker 12: week ten, and that right there would get you to four.
1:15:34
Speaker 12: Are there any other wins out there to be had?
1:15:36
Speaker 11: Maybe?
1:15:36
Speaker 12: But it's a tall task in Starkville and this is
1:15:40
Speaker 12: going to be a interesting game for a lot of reasons.
1:15:42
Speaker 12: As you said, this weekend against the Gators. The loser
1:15:45
Speaker 12: of this game will certainly not be looking forward to
1:15:49
Speaker 12: the remainder of this season.
1:15:50
Speaker 2: I would say, let's grab one more. I think we'll
1:15:53
Speaker 2: have time for that. Michigan takes on USC this weekend
1:15:56
Speaker 2: in a big, big, Big ten matchup a lot of
1:15:57
Speaker 2: Big ten matchups. As we can, USC is a five
1:16:00
Speaker 2: and a half point favorite on the road. We saw
1:16:01
Speaker 2: Texas go into the Big House and win a couple
1:16:03
Speaker 2: weeks ago. If USC can go in and grab away
1:16:06
Speaker 2: this weekend, I think that, you know, really puts them
1:16:09
Speaker 2: in that top shelf of the Big ten pecking order.
1:16:12
Speaker 12: Yeah, it really does. USC is a team that my
1:16:14
Speaker 12: model has been impressed with, has been upgraded about five
1:16:16
Speaker 12: and a half points since the preseason forty percent chance
1:16:20
Speaker 12: now to reach at least ten wins, which is what
1:16:21
Speaker 12: my numbers think is the threshold given the Trojan schedule.
1:16:25
Speaker 12: I've got a fifty seven percent win expectancy for USC here,
1:16:28
Speaker 12: so maybe a little bit tighter than Vegas has it.
1:16:30
Speaker 12: But I do think something to note that my model
1:16:32
Speaker 12: doesn't see that Vegas, of course does. USC was off
1:16:36
Speaker 12: last week Michigan while they were at home. They struggled
1:16:39
Speaker 12: a little bit to put away an Arkansas State team
1:16:41
Speaker 12: that I have power at a number ninety four. Michigan
1:16:43
Speaker 12: won that game by ten points, so USC's gotten the
1:16:46
Speaker 12: rest advantage. Yes, they do have to go across the country.
1:16:49
Speaker 12: Michigan is getting the home field here, they're getting that bump.
1:16:52
Speaker 12: But my numbers do like USC. And if you look
1:16:54
Speaker 12: at you know, either side of the ball here, it's
1:16:56
Speaker 12: strength versus strength. The USC offense number five in the country,
1:16:59
Speaker 12: the Misigon defense number five. The difference though might be
1:17:03
Speaker 12: this Michigan offense has really struggled this year. They're number
1:17:06
Speaker 12: sixty six for me. The USC defense, the best defensive
1:17:09
Speaker 12: scene from Lincoln Riley and sometimes is now up to
1:17:12
Speaker 12: number fifty two. So I do like USC, and what's
1:17:15
Speaker 12: likely going to be with the watchability score of nine
1:17:17
Speaker 12: point five, my number two most watchable game of the week,
1:17:20
Speaker 12: behind only Tennessee of Oklahoma that we talked about last segment.
1:17:23
Speaker 2: One and a half minutes. Real quickly, Miami goes to
1:17:25
Speaker 2: South Florida. They're a sixteen and a half point favorite.
1:17:27
Speaker 2: If Mario Crystal Ball is going to mess this thing up,
1:17:29
Speaker 2: it would be somewhere like this weekend. Does that happen.
1:17:32
Speaker 12: Oh no, If that happened, people in South Florida would
1:17:35
Speaker 12: lose it. I don't think it's going to happen. I
1:17:37
Speaker 12: think Miami's a favorite in the ACC. They're much better
1:17:40
Speaker 12: than we expected, even coming into the year where I
1:17:42
Speaker 12: had a power rated I think in the mid team
1:17:43
Speaker 12: they're now up to number eight. I've got an eighty
1:17:45
Speaker 12: seven percent win expectancy. Certainly, Miami's going to have a
1:17:49
Speaker 12: big advantage on the offensive side of the ball here
1:17:51
Speaker 12: with an offense that right now I have power rate
1:17:53
Speaker 12: a number eight against the USF defense that I have
1:17:55
Speaker 12: number eighty seven. So you're right. If there was a spot,
1:17:58
Speaker 12: you know, on the road against a team that does it,
1:18:00
Speaker 12: that views you as a rival even though you don't
1:18:02
Speaker 12: view them as one, so it could happen. Thirteen percent
1:18:05
Speaker 12: chance I don't think it will. I think Miami right
1:18:08
Speaker 12: now is looking like the best bet to be your
1:18:10
Speaker 12: eighth year aqu out of the ACC come the end
1:18:12
Speaker 12: of the year.
1:18:13
Speaker 2: Get him on Twitter. That's x now at k Ford Ratings.
1:18:16
Speaker 2: Check out the website kfod Ratings dot com. Kelly, always
1:18:19
Speaker 2: appreciate your time. Thanks from moving around this week. Look
1:18:21
Speaker 2: we'll get back at it next week. Have a great
1:18:22
Speaker 2: weekend and enjoy the games.
1:18:24
Speaker 12: Thanks Jake. I appreciate it and you as well.
1:18:26
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