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MSU Around the Horn with Steve Robertson · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Steve Robertson. You can find him on x at Scout, Steve R Final
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  two four seven Sports, Jean's page, Facebook, podcast, Everywhere, books
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  and more. Steve, Welcome in, sir. How are you I'm doing
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  great, Jack, how are you doing good? Doing good? Let's go
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  around the horn here, Missippi State Sports. I appreciate your time today.
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  Let's start with recruiting. Since we've got the second and anter quotes signing day
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  a Missippi State on two pour to seven Sports. Since at twenty eighth twenty
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  four commits they have I think personally, Jeff Levy and his staff have done
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  a really good job in the transfer portal. First off, I guess the
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  two part question one your thoughts on this class and then two any additions or
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  potential additions tomorrow for the Bulldogs. Yeah, I mean it's pretty it's a
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  good class. I wouldn't classify it. It's a great class, but it's
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  a good border or a really good class, especially at the wide receiver position.
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  I think it's been a great job there. Defensively, still got some
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  work to do there. Perhaps in the portal you could have a new got
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  to tomorra Jojo Knight is the guy out of Havana, Florida, Gadston County
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  High School's a proper name, I guess is Josiah Knights. They called him
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  Jojo. He signed with Illinois back in December and was expected to be an
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  early enroll my guy, and he gets up there and then ultimately doesn't get
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  cleared, comes back home and then you're like, hey, it's all worked
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  out. You're good to go, and kids like that. I just went
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  out of my national letter intent. So I don't know if a lot of
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  schools know about him at this point, but he's the guy that could sign
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  which state tomorrow and then Leland Smith the wide receiver right of forwards in college.
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  He's down at three schools as of today. He drops Temple. Today's
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  with Miami, Purdue, and Mississippi State. I'm leaning towards Purdue right now,
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  but I don't totally rule it out yet. Ted Bumpus has been on
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  the pull some miracles out late. So those are the names that we're watching
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  right now. And of course, in Frisco, McGee a long time commitment
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  to Missippi State that'll be formally announced as a signing tomorrow around two thirty.
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  Steve is it fair to say that this team for twenty twenty four will have
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  a lot of youth. There'll be one of the younger football teams in the
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  conference. Well, you know, you added fifteen transfers, you know,
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  and you had a bunch of transfers last year that that joined the program that
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  didn't really shake loose, you know. And so yeah, I think it's
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  going to be a younger team, especially from an experience standpoint, the chemistry
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  standpoint. But I don't think it's just going to be a complete rebuild.
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  And I think adding fifteen transfers is very important in the fact that you've you've
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  retained some many guys. I think it's all so important. But yeah,
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  I don't think Jeff Levy's going to be out there in press conference is talking
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  about how young we are. I mean, there's some personnel groups that are.
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  But Bill Levy expects to win this year, and you know he's taking
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  the steps from the recruiting trailer to try to make that happen. Steve robertson
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  visiting with US Tuesday edition of the programming sure to find him on x also
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  Genspace, two four seven, sports dot com and other places as well.
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  Steven City State basketball in two games skid. They get Georgia coming in tonight.
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  Bulldogs did at fourteen and eight, three and six. I don't want
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  to call it a must win, but you would think this is a win
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  that the Bulldogs really need to go grab before they get back on the road.
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  Well, I think State needs to go to and Oh this week.
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  I mean, you know that thing last week. I mean, you know,
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  listen, Old miss playing exceptionally well, especially at home, and you
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  had a chance to get that win. But you know, you go to
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  Alabama and State was really not in it after the first five minutes of the
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  game, and I think there are a lot of fence sitters that you're thinking,
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  you know what, maybe this isn't going to work out this year.
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  But in order for State to write the ship, you got to take care
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  of Georgia at home, and then you got to go to Missouri, who
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  is the last place team in the league. These are two games I think
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  you absolutely have to win if you're going to make the INCA Tournament. There's
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  still a lot of basketball left, but you know, you're starting to run
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  out of those opportunities, especially to pad or esme a bit, you know
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  where the road road win somewhere and State now oh and six on true road
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  games. So that's a bit of a detriment, I would say to the
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  postseason resume. But all you can do is play the next game, take
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  care of Georgia here at Humphrey Coliseum, and then go take care of Missouri
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  and we'll see what next week brings. Still, we've got a question for
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  Jay Rock. He wants to know when the baseball team the roster will be
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  announced or out where people can get it, And it may already be out
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  there. If so, do you guys have it or do you know where
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  to get it? It is not beneficially released. And I get this question
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  every single day, and you know, we continue to ask. There's still
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  some adjustments they have to make, and they just for some reason haven't elected
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  to announce those. You know, there's a couple of things they're kind of
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  working through. But they promised me they'll have it before opening day, right,
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  and so you know, I guess the NCAA needs to know sooner than
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  that. But yeah, we don't know for sure. You know, we
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  get a practice roster and we continue to kind of work off that and there's
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  some guys that we're on that roster like brock Tafford, it's not there now,
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  Alex Wash no longer there, you know. So there's some of that,
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  you know, we're kind of navigating through. But no, we do
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  not have a finalized roster, nor is one available just yet. Steve,
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  when you look at this baseball team for chrys La Monas, you know need
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  to say that this is a a big year for him as an understatement.
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  I mean, it really really is what defines success for him this year.
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  Oh, I think you got to get postseason. I mean, I don't
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  think there's any question about it. I mean, and maybe a road regional
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  is probably the floor, you know, anything above that, and I think
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  you feel great about it. But you know, I think State has to
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  be a two or three seat somewhere out there, and you got to post
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  a one e record and be somewhere around five hundred and sec play. But
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  I like this team, to be honest with you, I think Cale Steven
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  from Purdue has been an outstanding addition. We hadn't seen a whole lot of
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  Carson Ligan, but they're being careful with him because he had some arm trouble
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  last year. But yeah, They've done some things in the portal of that
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  I think are interesting. And then when you look at the addition of Justin
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  Parker, I mean just watching Nate Dahalan, who I think was State's best
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  pitcher last year, just about every time out you see how effortless it is
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  now. Last year it seemed like some guys were kind of fighting their delivery,
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  not really getting good extension getting down the slope of the mound. And
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  now they're able to do that with greater regularity. And so I think number
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  one, it's gonna save some wear and tear on them physically, but I
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  think they're just going to be more efficient than their efforts. And I think
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  this team defensively is light years ahead of where it was last year. I
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  still got some things to clean up, but I think State's going to be
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  an elite offensive team and an improved defensive team. And this team will go
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  as far as the pitching carries them. Make sure to get the podcast.
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  Find him on two four to seven sports as Jean's page, also Facebook,
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  ex and more. Steve, I appreciate your time. How about the way
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  who you got winning the Super Bowl this weekend? I Kansas City man,
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  I got to pull for Chris Jones and Willie Gay. So I'm Chiefs all
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  the way. And I don't understand all this angst about Taylor Swift. Who
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  cares, man, It's just that's a sideshow, that's just a distraction.
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  I'm Chiefs all the way. I don't care which pop stars are pulling form
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  or dating the players. I want to see the Bulldogs players getting a super
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  Bowl win.