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July 14, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 1: Okay, welcome back, Chip Howard, Sports Talk, Robert Sesina with
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Speaker 1: you for a second hour. Glad you could be with me.
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Speaker 1: Got Caleb working the board, so I know I'm on
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Speaker 1: all times. Gott Riley taking non existent calls. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's really strange because he's out there talking to herself.
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Speaker 1: So that way, you know, that way you can get
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Speaker 1: a call. It's not a bad thing to do. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Interesting thing. I talked to a guy a couple two
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Speaker 1: weeks ago. Maybe was I am the state head guy
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Speaker 1: for the for the Heisman Trophy and the Heisman Trophy.
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Speaker 1: There's there's talk out there with the playoffs expanding as
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Speaker 1: they have to twelve teams, and of course everybode thinks
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Speaker 1: it'll soon be to sixteen games. There's a thought out
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Speaker 1: there should the Heisman Trophy be awarded after the season,
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Speaker 1: not after the regular season? Should that way? Is there
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Speaker 1: a better chance they would honor the sports best player?
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Speaker 1: So I know they I know guys doing a story
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Speaker 1: in I want to say Illinois, they say, did go
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Speaker 1: ahead and get the thoughts of all the state chairmen.
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Speaker 1: They did go ahead and pull them what their thoughts were.
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Speaker 1: Think about that? And my immediate reaction was the one
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Speaker 1: that I sent in was I like it the way
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Speaker 1: it is. And I actually did some research the game.
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Speaker 1: The college football game is resembling the NFL more and
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Speaker 1: more of the NFL. They voted their Player of the
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Speaker 1: Year after the last regular season game. Votes are in.
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Speaker 1: They don't name it till late later, but they don't
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Speaker 1: include the postseason games. My deal is, if you include
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Speaker 1: the postseason, those games carry more weight. And I get it.
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Speaker 1: And it's such a quarterback driven game anymore. If you
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Speaker 1: got a guy, let's say, usually quarterback wins, right, and
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Speaker 1: if you've got a running back like somehow he had
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Speaker 1: a great season and rush for twenty eight hundred yards
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Speaker 1: and is he going to make it? You know at
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Speaker 1: the quarterback. I just think by adding the extra games,
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Speaker 1: and I think the Hesman Trophy people are gonna would
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Speaker 1: love extended. We think about it. You get three more weeks,
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Speaker 1: three or four more weeks of plugging the Heisman Trophy.
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Speaker 1: So just food for thought that I think that's what's
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Speaker 1: you know, will will that change? That could be changing,
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Speaker 1: And of course the only reason it wouldn't change would
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Speaker 1: be because of tv TV rules. You can have all
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Speaker 1: the you know, polls you want to and do all
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Speaker 1: the things you want to, but go ahead, show me
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Speaker 1: the money. Uh SEC media days. Speaking about that, I
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Speaker 1: hopped all around. They did announce who's going to be
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Speaker 1: the play there forty eight of the best players in
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Speaker 1: the in the country. A and M is gone with
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Speaker 1: on next Wednesday. Okay, I pulled out the wrong piece
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Speaker 1: of paper, but I got a lot of papers. Bear
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Speaker 1: with me or or don't bear with me. Quarterback Marcel Reid,
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Speaker 1: safety Marcus Ratcliffe, and linebacker Damien Sandford. Okay, first thing
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Speaker 1: I saw those, I think, like all you thought. Oh
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Speaker 1: Sandford injured first half of them, random wade game, horrific injury. Okay,
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Speaker 1: he's going to be at SEC MEETIA days. He must
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Speaker 1: be close to playing. I'll go at the Dallas A
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Speaker 1: and M Club. But no comment, no update, just thank
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Speaker 1: everybody for the prayers and whatever. But he was confident
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Speaker 1: that he will play at some Sandford would play at sometime.
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Speaker 1: What have you in the in the in the season. Okay,
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Speaker 1: after I started writing put up the story online, I'm thinking, Okay,
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Speaker 1: you step back, who should A and M have taken?
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Speaker 1: Or should there be somebody else? And usually when you
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Speaker 1: look at it logically, things usually have a logical response.
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Speaker 1: A and M has five captains voted on by the
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Speaker 1: players as the best players on the team, the leaders. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's three of them. The other two were Dalton Brooks,
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Speaker 1: safety Mchaaah Michaya or Micah Riley tide end. Okay, if
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Speaker 1: you gotta take three of those guys, which the SEC
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Speaker 1: limits you to three, you're not gonna take two safeties.
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Speaker 1: So you're not gonna take one of those. So is
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Speaker 1: it a Brooks or Ratcliffe? Simple? Simple deal. You take
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Speaker 1: one of those guys. Riley is a tied end who
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Speaker 1: has zero catches, He's a blocker. I'm probably not gonna
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Speaker 1: take him.
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Speaker 4: So.
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Speaker 1: Simple math leaves you with read Ratcliffe and Sandford. Now,
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Speaker 1: as far as the injuries concerned, I don't think that
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Speaker 1: plays into it, and once again I don't. I'm not
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Speaker 1: speaking for Mike Galcolm. I'm reading tea leaves and sports
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Speaker 1: writers A lot of times. You gotta read tea leaves
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Speaker 1: and I like iced tea, so that's I think that's
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Speaker 1: a plus here. And here's the deal about injuries. We
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Speaker 1: always ask a lot of questions about injuries. Coaches don't
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Speaker 1: give a lot of answers. I understand, you've got the
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Speaker 1: hippo laws, and a lot of coaches go, why should
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Speaker 1: I give my injuries when the other guy isn't given him.
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Speaker 1: We've got the injury report during the season. I get
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Speaker 1: it all that, But here's what happens. Caleb might be
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Speaker 1: at fifty percent today on that board. I don't know
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Speaker 1: he's punching in things. I hope he's at one hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, a month from now, you
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Speaker 1: might say, like, hey, I had arthritic fingers. I was
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Speaker 1: really hurting that day you were in you know you
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Speaker 1: you were horrible. But I couldn't say anything any when
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Speaker 1: he chipped to get mad. Too many times we questioned
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Speaker 1: athletes play. We're not informed that they're not one hundred
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Speaker 1: percent until after the deal. Think about it, Oh, come back?
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Speaker 1: Who was they tied in? Uh Scooby Williams plays a
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Speaker 1: whole year with torn miscus. We don't find out until
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Speaker 1: after the year's over. He had torn miscus. A lot
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Speaker 1: of times that happens. Wegman he had something wrong with
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Speaker 1: him when he when when he It happens all the time,
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Speaker 1: and coaches can't say, and players can't say, and you
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Speaker 1: can't you can't divulge until the next year. Ruben Owens,
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Speaker 1: There's no way Ruben z Owes was on one hundred
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Speaker 1: percent uh when he came back and played in the
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Speaker 1: uh uh Las Vegas Bowl two years ago. And you
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Speaker 1: know that even talked to him, he was not really
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent last year. You got to those injuries.
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Speaker 1: Some injuries take a long time to come over, and
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Speaker 1: you don't know those sometimes until a year and a
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Speaker 1: half later. So what I'm getting at is I hope
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Speaker 1: that Sandford comes back quickly and is one hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: But the uh, the other side of me saying, hmm,
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Speaker 1: that's a tough deal. Uh. Will he be back one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent this year? I don't know. And even even
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Speaker 1: when they sometimes tell you they're going to be one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent, they got to tell you that you asked
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Speaker 1: the question, you're not going to say not so tough situation.
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Speaker 1: Tough situation, But injuries are part of the game. You
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Speaker 1: hope it works out the best for him, and he's
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Speaker 1: not the only one on that. And I looked at
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Speaker 1: the list of players that's coming. It dawned on me
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Speaker 1: when I when I see Missouri and I go, Wow,
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Speaker 1: Missouri's bringing junior running back Jamal Roberts. What about their
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Speaker 1: stud Their stud was David Hardy was shot at gunshot
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Speaker 1: wound at a concert. So I went and looked he's recovering.
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Speaker 1: They said he Dwinkowitz said he is ahead of schedule,
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Speaker 1: but they're trying to, you know, keep rafts on them
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Speaker 1: and look, once again, these things are delicate things. So
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Speaker 1: he's going to miss the SEC media days and you
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Speaker 1: can see maybe he's working out. He doesn't need to,
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Speaker 1: you know, ask the questions, and all the questions would
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Speaker 1: be about his injury. So that'll be an interesting situation
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Speaker 1: being honest with Sandford update on him and looking at
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Speaker 1: these other players that came back that will be there
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Speaker 1: next year, I mean at media days next week. People
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Speaker 1: back for their secondecond year in a row include Georgia
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Speaker 1: quarterback Gunner Stockton, LSU linebacker Went Weeks, Oklahoma quarterback John mckeirr.
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Speaker 1: South Carolina quarterback Leonora Sellers Tennessee senior linebacker Arion Carter,
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Speaker 1: and some guy named Arch Manning from Texas. They all
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Speaker 1: were at SEC media days last year and they will
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Speaker 1: be at SEC media days this year. Kind of unusual,
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Speaker 1: to say the least at enough time. Look this up.
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Speaker 1: Since A and M has been in the SEC starting
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Speaker 1: with two thousand and twelve, I would think this has
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Speaker 1: to be the most first year coaches when you look
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Speaker 1: at this list. Kentucky Entucky's Will Stein, auburns Alex Ghulish
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Speaker 1: or Gulash depending on how you look at it, and
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Speaker 1: it probably depends how his season goes. Florida's John Sumrall,
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Speaker 1: oh Missus Pete Golding Now he coached three games last
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Speaker 1: year in the playoffs after Tiffin left, but his first
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Speaker 1: SEC meetings. Arkansas's Ryan Silver Silverfield. So that's one, two, three, four,
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Speaker 1: five of the sixteen coaches first time and let's be honest,
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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffen will be there with a new team, even
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Speaker 1: though he went five years or six years with things,
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Speaker 1: five years with old miss but he is old hat.
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Speaker 1: Who won't be there? Who was the dean of SEC
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Speaker 1: coaches is Mark Stoops at Kentucky is gone, so I
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Speaker 1: haven't looked this up, but I assume that probably means
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Speaker 1: Kirby Smart has the most times at the SEC media
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Speaker 1: days and with five newcomers, who on the list would
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Speaker 1: be on the hot seat or is that such a deal?
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Speaker 1: And I think there always is a hot seat, probably
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Speaker 1: Shane Beemer, who A and M does play this year
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Speaker 1: South Carolina. I think Shane's probably in a situation where
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Speaker 1: he needs to have a good year or they might
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Speaker 1: be a parting of the ways. I don't think he's
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Speaker 1: on the hot seat, but the fact that his team
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Speaker 1: is not hot, it's a pivotal year. I feel for
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Speaker 1: Josh Heipel and the balls were so hot there for
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Speaker 1: a couple of years, but they have cooled off rather quickly,
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Speaker 1: so we'll see how that works out with him. A
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Speaker 1: little bit of news today Auburn. Auburn baseball team. Man,
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Speaker 1: they're young. They had a good year. They should have
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Speaker 1: even a better year next year, even though, like I said,
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Speaker 1: college baseball just don't know about those injuries. Auburn haird
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Speaker 1: Georgie's Nick Amoretti as hitting coach. You know, George offense,
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Speaker 1: you talk about a team that could hit of course
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Speaker 1: they had, they had a park tailored to it. But
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Speaker 1: Auburn goes in and steals a coach for Georgia. We've
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Speaker 1: seen that a lot lately, haven't we A and m
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Speaker 1: goes in gets Cane back from Texas. This to me,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about this for Jay gets in.
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Speaker 1: This is the sign of the times that we're in.
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Speaker 1: Ole Miss possibly could take two LSU football players to
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Speaker 1: court over their buyouts. Think about that. College players are
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Speaker 1: gonna have to go to court for their buyouts. Prince
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Speaker 1: will a minimum and Devon Arpero. We had a butcher
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Speaker 1: of those names. They're at LSU. But the four former players,
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Speaker 1: oh oh miss money after entering the portal, after signing
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Speaker 1: compensation deals. Man, it's it's you talk about the difference
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Speaker 1: four teams from a concert in different for the top
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Speaker 1: four teams of a conference in different regions to avoid
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Speaker 1: them playing against each other until the final four rother
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Speaker 1: they're doing away with that basically, and it's kind of convoluted.
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Speaker 1: But once again, is I hate to be ugly, but
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Speaker 1: it's like some of the good women's teams are hogging
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Speaker 1: the spotlight. You could see this happen. You just can't
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Speaker 1: go ahead and put them in the in the It's
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Speaker 1: hard when the SEC has like five good teams, there's
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Speaker 1: not five, you know, regions, so you're gonna have to
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Speaker 1: have two and one. So it's a minor tweak. And
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Speaker 1: Well, I have everything I need. Okay, talking about lists,
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Speaker 1: that was a good list? Where did you go? Klea
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Speaker 1: cayleb picked there talking about good list? That's great. I
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Speaker 1: Chip Howard. Let's be honest. I'm just on the show.
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Speaker 1: There's only one Charles Howard, so let me go ahead. God,
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Speaker 1: you're with us for a Tuesday afternoon. I went to
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Speaker 1: I walk into the car and I said, okay, on
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Speaker 1: it is Tuesday. So you know, you always got to
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Speaker 1: have help talk about lists. I like it when people
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Speaker 1: do a lot of research and have a good list.
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Speaker 1: And I said, I think this was a CBS. I
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Speaker 1: should have wrote it down. But anyway, the guy went
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Speaker 1: back and looked at the five star football recruits in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, just a couple of years right, and
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Speaker 1: their categories were in question. Their talents meeting expectations or
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Speaker 1: exceeding expectations. Thirty two okay, not surprisingly, sixteen are in question,
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Speaker 1: in other words, not living up to those five stars
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Speaker 1: that they were. A couple names jump out at you.
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Speaker 1: DJ Lagway came here or was it last year at
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Speaker 1: Florida A and M has played him a couple of
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Speaker 1: times or whatever. He's now at Baylor trying to save
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Speaker 1: the Bears and kind of save his career because he
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Speaker 1: hasn't been who he thought he should be. Another one
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Speaker 1: that I go, Ah, that's right, that's a good one.
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Speaker 1: Terry Bussey, A and M wide receiver. Bussy was the crowd,
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Speaker 1: you know, one of the crown jewels and that twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four draft. But you know, class two A kid,
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Speaker 1: he kind of said to yourself, is he good enough?
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Speaker 1: Is he gonna be able to? He showed flashes. But
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Speaker 1: let's be honest. How many guys of A and M committed,
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Speaker 1: you know, brought in I mean you look at the
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Speaker 1: wide receiver rooms, you bring in conceptci one, you look
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Speaker 1: her craver all better than Bussy.
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Speaker 6: Uh, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: What twenty receptions never making twenty receptions. You know he committed.
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Speaker 1: Was he gonna play offense? Was he gonna play defense?
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Speaker 1: Everybody was going. But let's be honest, Elkos last two
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Speaker 1: years in classes or whatever. Uh so he's gonna get
25:03
Speaker 1: he's got less playing time. So he's on that list
25:07
Speaker 1: of in question, Michael, who else is in that list?
25:16
Speaker 1: Michael Hudson, the guys where is it Texas Tech or
25:22
Speaker 1: A and M University.
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Speaker 5: Uh?
25:25
Speaker 1: He was the highest you know, Saidee in Tech history,
25:28
Speaker 1: then he went to sign with A, A and M.
25:31
Speaker 1: Then he went back to Tech. Talk about not living
25:34
Speaker 1: up to your expectations. On the flip side, they also
25:42
Speaker 1: put down meeting expectations. Like I said, they had three categories.
25:48
Speaker 1: A couple guys meeting expectations. Georgia cornerback Ellis Robinson, Texas
25:59
Speaker 1: wide receiver Cam Coleman, who transferred from albert A and M.
26:05
Speaker 1: I think would have loved to have him still, even
26:08
Speaker 1: though they look pretty set on wide receivers. Cam Coleman
26:13
Speaker 1: is h is a pretty good looking athlete. We'll see
26:18
Speaker 1: if he's able to maybe meet those expectations. Another one
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Speaker 1: in the SEC to meet expectations, Ryan Williams, wide receiver
26:29
Speaker 1: at Alabama. He is definitely doing well. Another guy meeting
26:36
Speaker 1: expectations of five star from that class that A and
26:39
Speaker 1: M saw firsthand last year. Defensive lineman Justin Scott of Miami. Yeah,
26:47
Speaker 1: he is meeting expectations. Georgia safety kJ Bold Bolden He's
26:55
Speaker 1: done well without a doubt. Uh oh yeah. Quarterback, Oh
27:03
Speaker 1: I stay quarterback Julian saying me under meeting expectations and
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Speaker 1: as you often see a lot of SEC players, if
27:17
Speaker 1: you want to go look at the rest of that
27:20
Speaker 1: leg rest of that league. What about exceeding expectations? Not
27:27
Speaker 1: so many of those of the thirty two. The top
27:31
Speaker 1: guy from that class, though, is definitely exceeding expectations. What
27:37
Speaker 1: about a high estate wide receiver jarre Emiah Smith, He's
27:43
Speaker 1: definitely exceeding expectations. And I don't know, they had very
27:50
Speaker 1: few others on this list with exceeding expectations except for
27:59
Speaker 1: Dayalen Stuart edge rusher from South Carolina. The fact that
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Speaker 1: Shane Bieber was able to keep him, you know, able
28:09
Speaker 1: to keep his quarterback Sellers, He's got a chance for
28:14
Speaker 1: a good season. But we'll see also exceeding expectations from
28:20
Speaker 1: that class Texas edge rusher Colin Simmons. And of course
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Speaker 1: I have to laugh when I look at those thirty
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Speaker 1: two players that were five stars thirty two in twenty
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Speaker 9: Geo Rojas from Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, the
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Speaker 1: Okay, welcome back to Sports Talk with Robert Susana. Glad
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Speaker 1: I bring in the guests for the rest or co
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Speaker 1: I want. Someone was listening. I always appreciate that, and
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Speaker 1: all around talking about the A and M sports, about
32:42
Speaker 1: the fact is that former A and M All America
32:46
Speaker 1: whos basketball Kennedy Carters without a team again, as the
32:50
Speaker 1: Aces cut her a couple of weeks ago. Kennedy Carter
32:55
Speaker 1: great talent to cover, but just has a rough time
33:00
Speaker 1: playing with friends, so to speak or whatever, because it's
33:03
Speaker 1: like the third time she's been cut. And yeah, I know,
33:08
Speaker 1: I welcome Jake Wiese who works with me at the Eagle.
33:13
Speaker 1: Carter was gone by time you got there. You probably
33:16
Speaker 1: remember her from the Auburn days. He went to Auburn Carter.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Kennedy Carter.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, I think maybe we saw her maybe once or
33:23
Speaker 13: twice come to Auburn obviously and play the women's basketball team.
33:27
Speaker 6: So yeah, I want to say at least once or
33:29
Speaker 6: twice we saw her in action.
33:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a few.
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Speaker 11: Uh.
33:32
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's funny how the things go full circle.
33:35
Speaker 1: I remember this year having a couple uh, sitting around
33:37
Speaker 1: people in break rooms or whatever, when you have time
33:40
Speaker 1: talking about A and M women's best basketball player. You know,
33:45
Speaker 1: Kennedy Carter's got to be up there. Danielle Adams has
33:49
Speaker 1: got to be up there. Walker's got to be up there.
33:53
Speaker 1: Everybody has their favorite on there, and I always hate
33:57
Speaker 1: to say greatness and what have you, but there's no
34:01
Speaker 1: doubt it's hard to vote for somebody that when they
34:05
Speaker 1: have problems. I'd to say off the field, And I
34:08
Speaker 1: know you're not supposed to look only look on on
34:10
Speaker 1: the field deals. But that being said, I hope Kennedy
34:13
Speaker 1: Carter finds a job somewhere and gets her act together.
34:19
Speaker 1: As long as she's got talent, she's gonna have a
34:21
Speaker 1: chance to click somewhere. So see what happens. That's all
34:25
Speaker 1: I can say.
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Speaker 6: She can get your basket.
34:27
Speaker 1: She can get your basket, and she can get you
34:30
Speaker 1: a three point play. Jake's with me. Now, Jake covers.
34:34
Speaker 1: He's come on, you work at the Eagle, you cover everything.
34:37
Speaker 1: But of course he works desk, but he also covers
34:40
Speaker 1: a lot of high schools, helps out at a and
34:42
Speaker 1: m once in a while. First of all, what's the
34:44
Speaker 1: best thing been about your summer?
34:46
Speaker 9: Oh?
34:47
Speaker 6: My brother getting married?
34:48
Speaker 1: Oh that's right. You went to Emily for a while.
34:50
Speaker 13: I did, Yes, Italy and London, so he got and
34:52
Speaker 13: London Italy, Yes and London. So I guess it's already happened.
34:57
Speaker 13: So I can say this, you know, the first week.
35:00
Speaker 13: The actual wedding in Italy was awesome, had a great time.
35:04
Speaker 13: He was the first of my siblings to get married,
35:06
Speaker 13: so new experience. Many siblings, you have two okay, both older.
35:09
Speaker 13: I'm the baby if you will, so great experience there.
35:13
Speaker 13: And then the second half was more of a vacation
35:15
Speaker 13: pun intended.
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Speaker 6: Went in Rome.
35:17
Speaker 13: We went to go sight seeing London afterwards, so that
35:20
Speaker 13: was very fun. Okay, first time to both those places, yes,
35:24
Speaker 13: first time. Always interested when I go to a new place.
35:28
Speaker 13: Did those places kind of what you expected? Did you
35:32
Speaker 13: see the expectations? You want to go back once is enough?
35:36
Speaker 13: London definitely exceeded expectations. I thought London was really cool.
35:40
Speaker 13: I feel like there was a lot more we could
35:42
Speaker 13: have done, and we saw all the sites that you
35:44
Speaker 13: want to see when you first you think of London.
35:47
Speaker 6: So that was great.
35:48
Speaker 13: Italy was really enjoyable as well for me, Like I said,
35:52
Speaker 13: real first international trip for me. The language barrier was
35:56
Speaker 13: a little hard to get over for me. I'm sure
35:59
Speaker 13: if I travel more internationally, I'd be used to it.
36:01
Speaker 13: But those first couple of days, you know, people are
36:03
Speaker 13: trying to talk to you in their language and you're
36:05
Speaker 13: kind of just standing there, kind of just smiling at
36:07
Speaker 13: him that that was a little weird.
36:10
Speaker 1: Did you have to take a language at Auburn or not?
36:14
Speaker 1: I did.
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Speaker 6: I took Spanish.
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Speaker 1: Oh I took Spanish. You're pretty good in speaking Spanish.
36:17
Speaker 6: Sure, Oh no, not really.
36:20
Speaker 1: I always tell people poco poco because that's what I
36:23
Speaker 1: took Spanish, and that's this means little. Oh, okay, I
36:25
Speaker 1: think it means. I think that means very little.
36:27
Speaker 6: Well, you know what, I was enjoyable. I was enjoyable
36:29
Speaker 6: having class at least.
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Speaker 1: Okay, cool. We'll remind everybody if you want to, you know,
36:35
Speaker 1: go ahead, and you got a question or comment, you
36:37
Speaker 1: can call us a six nine three eleven fifty pound
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Speaker 1: eleven fifty or just Texas at ninety seventy nine six
36:43
Speaker 1: nine three eleven fifty. We'll get Kaylee out there. She
36:46
Speaker 1: can do something other than that. Kleb will keep playing
36:48
Speaker 1: the tunes. Obviously. I always have to laugh. Been in
36:53
Speaker 1: and been in Texas a long time, but Texas football
36:56
Speaker 1: comes out. That's another sign. Even though oh I used
37:00
Speaker 1: to say football's around the corner, but keep's coming out
37:02
Speaker 1: to me too early.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, I was gonna say it came out what before
37:06
Speaker 13: seven on stay seven on seven we had Oh wow, yeah,
37:09
Speaker 13: I mean I.
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Speaker 1: Guess that's probably to sell more copies seven on seven.
37:12
Speaker 6: Yeah, I get they do sell a couple of copies
37:14
Speaker 6: out there.
37:14
Speaker 13: I think they usually bring maybe like fifty to one
37:16
Speaker 13: hundred out there, and if you bring twenty bucks or
37:19
Speaker 13: maybe a little maybe twenty five, twenty or twenty five bucks,
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Speaker 13: they'll give you a copy.
37:23
Speaker 1: Oh okay, it is that much. I didn't realize that
37:25
Speaker 1: much this year. Have to look at it.
37:26
Speaker 13: Maybe most people I know just bring a twenty but
37:28
Speaker 13: I thought it was twenty bucks. Maybe it's ten.
37:30
Speaker 1: Holy moly. I was gonna say, they're pretty smart. They're
37:33
Speaker 1: not putting a price on here. That's pretty oh fourteen.
37:37
Speaker 6: Ninety nine fourteen okay, so close enough on this one.
37:39
Speaker 1: On this one, whatever, Texas Tech on the cover. That
37:43
Speaker 1: didn't surprise me, I joked, I ain't didn't pay enough money. Yeah,
37:47
Speaker 1: you know, it's like Texas football. Probably they probably should
37:50
Speaker 1: get it started getting sponsored, you know what's.
37:53
Speaker 13: Yeah, well, hey, the question I want to know is
37:54
Speaker 13: you know how early they planned the cover and you know,
37:57
Speaker 13: was there ever an addition with sores beyond ooh yeah,
38:00
Speaker 13: good point.
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Speaker 6: You gotta think about it. I mean this came out
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Speaker 6: with four seven on seven.
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Speaker 1: I would think I would think if they did take
38:07
Speaker 1: pictures with him, that would have leaked out. Good point, though, Jake. Yeah,
38:11
Speaker 1: and it's interesting. Well let's just let's tell you know
38:14
Speaker 1: once again, as I've talked a lot about A and M,
38:16
Speaker 1: let's look a little bit at the high schools around here.
38:19
Speaker 1: Uh you know, uh, let's think that's that's where relive
38:24
Speaker 1: if we can't last year, if I remember right and
38:27
Speaker 1: I covered enough games, I hope you know we'll get
38:30
Speaker 1: two things wrong. But College Station finished strong after having
38:35
Speaker 1: their worst start in program history, if I'm not mistaken.
38:39
Speaker 6: Yeah, own four it never happened before.
38:41
Speaker 1: And then AIM Consolidated had a nice run. Was that
38:45
Speaker 1: Beaumont Central? They lost to an unbeaten team.
38:48
Speaker 13: Both of them lost to port Uto Memorial. There you go,
38:51
Speaker 13: and it was actually weeks before each other. I wrote
38:53
Speaker 13: this down because I thought it might come up.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
38:57
Speaker 13: Uh, A M Consolidated lost in the second round area
38:59
Speaker 13: around on the Port Arthur Memorial. Then College Station got
39:02
Speaker 13: him the next week and lost. Because I actually think
39:05
Speaker 13: you and I switched. You covered and Consolidated game, Yes
39:08
Speaker 13: I did, and then I covered College Station the next week,
39:10
Speaker 13: so we both got to see him.
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Speaker 1: And very impressed with their quarterback. He went to TCU.
39:14
Speaker 1: I want to say as a defensive.
39:15
Speaker 6: Back, running back running, but you're right, yeah.
39:18
Speaker 1: But he was very good. He was just he was
39:20
Speaker 1: so elusive. He's an athlete, yea athlete, an athlete, that's.
39:23
Speaker 6: The He didn't have to throw it at all. They
39:24
Speaker 6: could just give him, snap it to him and he
39:26
Speaker 6: could run.
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Speaker 1: That being said, my game once again is I give
39:31
Speaker 1: a plug to coaching because Consolidated did enough place at all,
39:36
Speaker 1: most stayed with them, and uh they Port Arthur was
39:42
Speaker 1: a more Port Arthur.
39:43
Speaker 10: Right.
39:44
Speaker 1: Port Arthur was the more talented team all but Console
39:49
Speaker 1: played more fundamental and almost you know, stayed in the
39:54
Speaker 1: game longer. And I think that bodes well. And uh
39:58
Speaker 1: Schmid has done a great all over there, just as
40:01
Speaker 1: Stony is done. But I would think, uh, those teams
40:06
Speaker 1: will be able to use last year to spring forward.
40:10
Speaker 1: And I know you're right. I covered that last kitts
40:13
Speaker 1: So Holiday game. They didn't have their quarterback because Goodwin
40:16
Speaker 1: got hurt early. And speaking of injuries, which I did
40:20
Speaker 1: before injuries in high schools. Man, you know your quarterback,
40:23
Speaker 1: that's tough.
40:23
Speaker 13: Well, I was thinking about this actually a little earlier
40:26
Speaker 13: in the day, Kansas especially. You know, you think about
40:29
Speaker 13: all three of Smith's seasons so far have not been
40:32
Speaker 13: derailed because of injury, but he's had an injury every year.
40:35
Speaker 13: That kind of makes you go, man, what could have
40:37
Speaker 13: happened if they were healthy? You know, his first year
40:40
Speaker 13: they played Smithson Valley in the region final. Will Harget
40:43
Speaker 13: gets hurt I think in the fourth quarter.
40:45
Speaker 1: Oh, that's right.
40:46
Speaker 13: The second year, remember he got hurt again. They had
40:48
Speaker 13: to start playing Jaden Muhlenberg at quarterback. And he wasn't
40:51
Speaker 13: the only injury. Colton Smeller also was hurt that second year.
40:55
Speaker 1: So each year that was a big loss Smeller because
40:57
Speaker 1: Jack's such a good kicker and received or what have you.
41:00
Speaker 13: But yeah, he was a big target. That's the thing
41:03
Speaker 13: I think you're talking about A and M. I mean,
41:04
Speaker 13: he can kick, but he can also you can line
41:07
Speaker 13: up out there and he's a big guy.
41:08
Speaker 1: And if your Schmidt listened to us right now, he said,
41:10
Speaker 1: did those guys have to keep talking about injuries? Because
41:12
Speaker 1: you know, you know, you're right it's tough at high schools.
41:16
Speaker 1: Luckily in five A and six eight, a lot of
41:20
Speaker 1: guys don't go two ways, so hopefully that'll be but
41:24
Speaker 1: with good when coming back and I, I know you
41:27
Speaker 1: covered the game, but I went out and watched I
41:29
Speaker 1: want to say when Consolidated played college Station. Yeah right,
41:33
Speaker 1: anytime you get to those, those are the kind of
41:35
Speaker 1: games you just need to go see. I know the
41:37
Speaker 1: construction was horrible. I had a rough time parking, but
41:40
Speaker 1: those are the kind of games you need to go see.
41:42
Speaker 13: Hey, I also had a rough time party and I
41:44
Speaker 13: got there a little earlier than you did, so I
41:46
Speaker 13: guess I should have taken a playbook out of Alex,
41:48
Speaker 13: the Alex Miller playbook and got there.
41:49
Speaker 6: I think he got there like an hour and an
41:51
Speaker 6: hour and a half early. Of course he did.
41:53
Speaker 13: Yeah, so he had no problems getting the parking spot.
41:55
Speaker 13: But I showed up and yeah, I had to call him,
41:57
Speaker 13: and I almost asking him. I think I even call him,
41:58
Speaker 13: asked him, Hey, where should I park close by that
42:01
Speaker 13: I could walk? But I found a spot.
42:03
Speaker 1: Okay, For our local betters, let's get the update on
42:06
Speaker 1: Jake weize'sh forecast for what we might expect for the
42:09
Speaker 1: Tigers and the Cougars.
42:11
Speaker 6: Wow, okay, put me on the spot. Yeah, wow, okay,
42:16
Speaker 6: Well for both of them.
42:18
Speaker 13: I mean I think both of them are gonna make
42:19
Speaker 13: the playoffs. Obviously, how far they go we'll see. At
42:24
Speaker 13: least right now, just looking at both teams, I think
42:26
Speaker 13: Cansol if they can stay healthy. For casual fans, maybe
42:31
Speaker 13: someone who just comes out to like the rivalry game
42:33
Speaker 13: or you know, the big games. I think on paper
42:35
Speaker 13: right now you probably recognize more names and numbers from
42:38
Speaker 13: last year than College Station.
42:40
Speaker 6: But I think if you look at both of them,
42:42
Speaker 6: they're pretty even.
42:44
Speaker 13: I think, like this year at least, like hey, they
42:46
Speaker 13: haven't even put the pads on yet, we're not even
42:48
Speaker 13: in August. But I think both of them this year,
42:51
Speaker 13: like when they meet in Week four, I think they
42:52
Speaker 13: could both be easily undefeated going into that game Week five,
42:56
Speaker 13: Week five excuse would be nice.
42:58
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think so.
42:59
Speaker 13: I mean it shows to hey, Dave Campbell, just like us,
43:02
Speaker 13: they don't get everything right all the time, but they're
43:04
Speaker 13: both top twenty five preseason. I think Console's thirteen, college
43:08
Speaker 13: Station sixteen. So even they're having a hard time deciding. Yeah,
43:12
Speaker 13: you know, who's better there?
43:14
Speaker 1: Where's the game? The game this year? I mean it's
43:15
Speaker 1: a new it's a new.
43:16
Speaker 13: Two year pack, right it is. Yeah, this is the
43:19
Speaker 13: first year only Shart this year who gets the home game?
43:22
Speaker 13: College station gets the home game. I think that's gonna
43:26
Speaker 13: be the final away game for console. And then they
43:30
Speaker 13: start playing games at home because remember tiger Land Stadium's
43:33
Speaker 13: currently under construction. So a good point. I think the
43:36
Speaker 13: first five games or maybe on the road. I know
43:38
Speaker 13: Knsole only has four home games all year.
43:41
Speaker 6: And that tough.
43:42
Speaker 1: That's gonna be tough.
43:43
Speaker 13: That is six six away games, four at home. Yeah,
43:46
Speaker 13: that's if you're a senior. You're probably a little myth
43:48
Speaker 13: by that, both as a fan and as a player.
43:50
Speaker 1: Yeah. And actually, what I've seen teams before play a
43:55
Speaker 1: lot of their first games on the road, and I
43:57
Speaker 1: think Burton went through this for a whole season. But well,
44:00
Speaker 1: I think we really believe it or not. In Texas,
44:03
Speaker 1: September games can be so hot, yeah, for fans and
44:07
Speaker 1: for teams. And if you do like three Friday nights
44:10
Speaker 1: in a row, you gotta pack up the yellow Dog
44:13
Speaker 1: or whatever and got to go somewhere and get out
44:15
Speaker 1: in the Texas heat. I think that's pretty tough.
44:18
Speaker 6: I think so too.
44:19
Speaker 13: I think, yeah, I think them they're really gonna be
44:21
Speaker 13: battle tested by the time, and I think the fans
44:24
Speaker 13: are gonna be excited when they have that first home game.
44:26
Speaker 13: But you're right, I mean, that's not a tough that's
44:28
Speaker 13: a hard thing to do, especially at the high school level.
44:30
Speaker 13: I mean, everybody says in the SEC you know, hey,
44:32
Speaker 13: winning on the roads hard. I think high school is
44:35
Speaker 13: the same way, especially having to just play each week
44:37
Speaker 13: on the road. I mean, you know, everybody always likes
44:40
Speaker 13: to jokes when they get back from vacation, just want
44:42
Speaker 13: to sleep with my own bed.
44:43
Speaker 6: You know, I'm sure those players.
44:44
Speaker 13: By the time we get the week four, week five,
44:46
Speaker 13: they're gonna feel the same way. H Heck, that college
44:49
Speaker 13: station game, they might be happy because they get to
44:50
Speaker 13: at least stay in town for the night.
44:52
Speaker 6: They don't have to travel too far.
44:54
Speaker 1: That's true. Uh, you know we mentioned I'd be remiss
44:58
Speaker 1: if they're saying a couple more as we mentioned. I mean,
45:01
Speaker 1: obviously a good one. You always mentioned a quarterback and
45:06
Speaker 1: to me, you go out and watch Schmidt teams pretty basic,
45:11
Speaker 1: you know, you know, his linemen are usually pretty good,
45:15
Speaker 1: pretty uh fundamental team. They don't didn't have like the
45:20
Speaker 1: thousand and fifteen hundred yard rusher, but kind of a
45:23
Speaker 1: balanced offense. What do you see from them this year?
45:26
Speaker 13: Well, first, you're just saying pretty good offensive line. You know,
45:30
Speaker 13: I want coach SMT if he's listening, to know that
45:32
Speaker 13: was ceased, not me, because you know, coach SMTT coaches
45:34
Speaker 13: the offensive line, that's his position group.
45:37
Speaker 1: So yeah, I didn't know that. That's why I had you.
45:39
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah.
45:40
Speaker 13: Anytime I always make the joke, not to him, of course,
45:43
Speaker 13: but around the office. I always say, like, if you
45:45
Speaker 13: ever talk to coach Smitt, you know, and you're kind
45:47
Speaker 13: of worried or you don't know what to ask him
45:49
Speaker 13: right away, just ask him about his offensive line, like
45:50
Speaker 13: he'll you'll immediately get on his side if that's the
45:53
Speaker 13: first question.
45:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's interesting because he doesn't. I hate to
45:57
Speaker 1: say this. I know you dealt with him more than
45:59
Speaker 1: I am. Every meaning, every interaction I had, it has
46:04
Speaker 1: been great.
46:04
Speaker 6: He's great.
46:05
Speaker 1: He just doesn't seem like, doesn't seem to me like
46:07
Speaker 1: the offensive line type he made me a defensive end
46:10
Speaker 1: I would have guessed, you know, or a linebacker. I
46:13
Speaker 1: wouldn't have guess an offensive line.
46:14
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, he played it at Uh. Me and him
46:17
Speaker 13: have talked about this before. You know, he played offensive
46:19
Speaker 13: line at Sam Houston State and then that's his position
46:22
Speaker 13: group that he coaches now. So yeah, that's his baby.
46:25
Speaker 13: It feels weird to call lineman babies, but that's his baby,
46:27
Speaker 13: so to speak. So, but I know some of the
46:30
Speaker 13: other guys that I think I really look for at
46:32
Speaker 13: kannsol this year. One of the interesting things of him
46:35
Speaker 13: talking with him about springball. You know, i'd say this
46:38
Speaker 13: area season you correct me if I'm wrong. I feel
46:40
Speaker 13: like this is an area that really loves his running backs,
46:43
Speaker 13: you know, and running backs are kind of the position
46:44
Speaker 13: group that everybody, you know, maybe outside of quarterback, everybody
46:48
Speaker 13: knows the running back. Everybody seems to have the gout
46:50
Speaker 13: running back. But they're really excited about their receivers this year.
46:54
Speaker 13: And I can't think of the last time. I mean,
46:56
Speaker 13: I've only been here four years, not too long, well
46:59
Speaker 13: depending on you ask, but uh yeah, but uh, you know,
47:03
Speaker 13: very really excited about their receiving group. Not just one guy,
47:06
Speaker 13: Cooper Johnson. He's a senior of Brayln Dixon, he's a junior.
47:10
Speaker 13: And then Marie Moore, who if a name sounds familiar,
47:13
Speaker 13: he was in the quarterback battle with good Win last year.
47:16
Speaker 13: They kind of split reps at the beginning of the
47:18
Speaker 13: year and then a game against College Station actually last
47:21
Speaker 13: year that was Goodwin's first start. Kind of he earned
47:24
Speaker 13: the job after that game, but he more switched over.
47:27
Speaker 13: He's a senior. He switched over to receiver this spring.
47:29
Speaker 13: And I mean, Schmid talked about raved about those guys.
47:32
Speaker 13: He said he thinks as a group, those three have
47:35
Speaker 13: a chance to be something really special this year. And hey,
47:38
Speaker 13: they've got Goodwin back, he's healthy, getting them the ball.
47:41
Speaker 13: I mean, that's kind of a tandem right there, where
47:43
Speaker 13: you go, Okay, what can these guys do together?
47:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I said, I just saw them for that game,
47:47
Speaker 1: and I know I saw them for the playoff game,
47:50
Speaker 1: but I was impressed with consolidated. I just just look
47:55
Speaker 1: athletic they had. They had a lot of players that
47:58
Speaker 1: looked athletic. And then like I said, when they played
48:01
Speaker 1: Port Arthur that it really had a lot. But it
48:05
Speaker 1: was a little bit unfair because they had like four
48:06
Speaker 1: or five almost four or five star star type of players,
48:10
Speaker 1: don't getting me wrong. Whereas Consoli was, I thought more
48:14
Speaker 1: like the whole team was good, and it's hard to
48:17
Speaker 1: you know, if you got you know, if your whole
48:20
Speaker 1: team's three and a half four stars and then suddenly
48:22
Speaker 1: you're trying to get top five five stars, it's hard
48:25
Speaker 1: to do. But yeah, but and and a lot of
48:27
Speaker 1: those guys were under classmen. I did look at that.
48:29
Speaker 1: I go, Wow, if I'm Schmid, I'm feeling pretty good
48:31
Speaker 1: about next year. I hate to lose this game the
48:34
Speaker 1: noun beaten team, because let's be honest, if you win
48:36
Speaker 1: that game, you know, you get the upset there, then
48:40
Speaker 1: you know, you're looking pretty good. But you know, and
48:43
Speaker 1: I'm looking if i'm him, I'm pretty good because I'm
48:46
Speaker 1: pretty excited about next year.
48:47
Speaker 13: Well, hey, and I think I don't know if he
48:49
Speaker 13: would have been excited about this, but if they won
48:51
Speaker 13: that game last year, they would have played College Station
48:53
Speaker 13: in the next round, so.
48:55
Speaker 1: They had definitely been excited.
48:56
Speaker 13: Yeah, I was gonna say, at least for us, maybe
48:57
Speaker 13: they weren't excited, but we would have been excited.
49:00
Speaker 6: Easy want to cover, and you know, it's it's.
49:02
Speaker 1: Hard not to, uh, Stony's been around a little bit
49:05
Speaker 1: longer than schmid yep, as far as we're familiar with.
49:08
Speaker 1: And you know, last year was the first what I
49:11
Speaker 1: would call adversity college station is faced, you know under Stony,
49:17
Speaker 1: because they always were one, you know, da da.
49:20
Speaker 5: But I was very.
49:21
Speaker 1: Impressed with the way they responded because I saw some
49:26
Speaker 1: of their early games because my son played back there,
49:29
Speaker 1: going way back. But we still have season tickets to
49:31
Speaker 1: the game, so my wife goes, still got friends out
49:35
Speaker 1: there even though when we live in Brian. But I
49:37
Speaker 1: maybe saw them two or three times play and they
49:41
Speaker 1: just didn't look good to me early in the year.
49:43
Speaker 1: But that and I told Stony and basketball season, I
49:46
Speaker 1: was impressed with how far they went because I thought
49:49
Speaker 1: they weren't gonna be that good. But to get to
49:52
Speaker 1: go as far as they did, they had to make
49:55
Speaker 1: a lot of improvement.
49:56
Speaker 13: Yeah, and hey, I think the best improvement they made
49:59
Speaker 13: was you had me stopped covering him because they started
50:02
Speaker 13: out on four Like we mentioned, I covered three of
50:04
Speaker 13: those four games unfortunate years.
50:06
Speaker 6: So yeah, exactly, So if Stony's listening, you're right, you know,
50:10
Speaker 6: don't send him out there exactly.
50:12
Speaker 13: So yeah, that was a bad one, but no, I
50:13
Speaker 13: think one of the things that really helped them was
50:16
Speaker 13: the emergence of running back. He's a senior now, but
50:18
Speaker 13: he was a junior last year, a Trey Walton. He
50:21
Speaker 13: really came on strong. I think he finished the year, yeah,
50:25
Speaker 13: with the stretch up seven or eight games where he
50:27
Speaker 13: rushed for over one hundred yards, and you know that
50:30
Speaker 13: was his first season at running back. He actually got
50:33
Speaker 13: hurt in the playoff game against Port Arthur Memorial and
50:37
Speaker 13: I scored a wonder sort of like Kensol we talked
50:39
Speaker 13: about with injuries, you sort of wonder what maybe it
50:41
Speaker 13: had been like if he had been healthy that game,
50:43
Speaker 13: because he got hurt in the second quarter and I
50:46
Speaker 13: want to say they went into halftime maybe fourteen fourteen
50:49
Speaker 13: or twenty one, twenty one. But losing a guy like
50:52
Speaker 13: that who rushed for over a thousand yards last year,
50:55
Speaker 13: and that's tough. I mean, that's no matter how you
50:57
Speaker 13: slice it. If you're a college team, high school team,
50:59
Speaker 13: that's tough.
51:00
Speaker 1: You know, Jack, you're giving me great insight in refreshing
51:04
Speaker 1: the old mind. And I want to move on before
51:07
Speaker 1: he run out of time, because I would like to
51:08
Speaker 1: give Brian and rudder some equal props. Yeah, there's happy
51:13
Speaker 1: times over there. Because I talked to a lot of
51:16
Speaker 1: old Brian. They're pretty excited one of their homeboys come home.
51:19
Speaker 1: Speak Blake Joseph. Joseph's a big name around here, and uh,
51:24
Speaker 1: he's back home and I've heard, you know, painted the
51:29
Speaker 1: locker rooms things like that. Blake Joseph's pretty excited about
51:32
Speaker 1: being back home. And I know you've talked to him
51:34
Speaker 1: a few times.
51:35
Speaker 10: Yeah.
51:35
Speaker 13: Yeah, he's been great to talk with so far. A
51:37
Speaker 13: class of five. I know they're excited to Like you said,
51:40
Speaker 13: people are excited to have him. He's excited to be home. Heck,
51:43
Speaker 13: I know his wife went to a and m consolidated
51:45
Speaker 13: and his family.
51:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's it.
51:47
Speaker 6: That's interesting.
51:48
Speaker 13: I think both families still live here, so you know,
51:50
Speaker 13: I think the grandparents were also.
51:52
Speaker 1: That Joseph didn't, but I didn't know the wife did.
51:54
Speaker 13: I think so if you know, hey, maybe he can
51:56
Speaker 13: call him tell us if I'm wrong. But I know
51:59
Speaker 13: one of of things I think for Brian. You know,
52:01
Speaker 13: we were just talking about, Hey, this is an area
52:03
Speaker 13: that's known about running backs. He's really excited about his
52:05
Speaker 13: running backs. He's got two guys. A senior Steven Henry
52:08
Speaker 13: and then a junior Tristan Turner. I need to ask
52:11
Speaker 13: ask him next time we talked to him. I don't
52:13
Speaker 13: know if he's related to Tyson Turner receiver from a
52:16
Speaker 13: couple of years ago.
52:17
Speaker 6: That was very good. Yes, he's now at Houston somewhere.
52:21
Speaker 1: I knew that.
52:21
Speaker 13: Yeah, started out at tech zat Houston and maybe maybe
52:24
Speaker 13: if he stuck at Tech he was been on the
52:26
Speaker 13: cover right dang, But yeah, don't know if that's his
52:29
Speaker 13: brother or not. But yeah, those are both big guys.
52:32
Speaker 13: I think he told me during the spring, so, you know,
52:34
Speaker 13: a couple couple of months have passed since then, but
52:36
Speaker 13: Henry was weighing in at two o five Turner was
52:39
Speaker 13: two oh so wow. So gonna have some big running backs.
52:42
Speaker 13: They're leading the way. I know they're still trying to
52:44
Speaker 13: kind of come out of last year. Obviously, you know
52:47
Speaker 13: in ten we all know tough. Yeah, so it's gonna
52:50
Speaker 13: be a young team, but I know that's kind of
52:52
Speaker 13: a group.
52:53
Speaker 6: At least.
52:53
Speaker 13: You'll see them get the ball. You should see them
52:55
Speaker 13: get the ball a lot. You'll hear their numbers called
52:56
Speaker 13: a lot.
52:57
Speaker 1: And I guess I know I should have looked at
53:00
Speaker 1: this before, but you know, it's been so busy to
53:02
Speaker 1: go What about their schedule. Is there somebody in non
53:05
Speaker 1: district that maybe they could beat to get little momentum
53:08
Speaker 1: and get put that zero to ten behind as you mentioned.
53:11
Speaker 6: Yeah, the one.
53:12
Speaker 13: There's two games I'm looking at, obviously, the one that
53:15
Speaker 13: you've probably been annoyed with me talking about this so
53:17
Speaker 13: much in the office, But Brian and Rudder, that's gonna
53:20
Speaker 13: be a fun rivlary back rivalry game. First time since
53:23
Speaker 13: twenty seventeen they've played. But actually for Brian, the one
53:25
Speaker 13: I really look to is season opener Magnolia West. They
53:30
Speaker 13: played last year. You covered that game.
53:32
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was at West though he was yeah coach,
53:35
Speaker 6: head coach.
53:36
Speaker 13: I think maybe twenty nineteen, twenty twenty or something like that.
53:40
Speaker 13: So it's been a couple of years, but that was
53:42
Speaker 13: probably Brian's closest game last year. I think they lost
53:45
Speaker 13: thirteen to seven in overtime. They get him again, it's
53:48
Speaker 13: at Merrill Green, and I kind of wonder to myself
53:51
Speaker 13: looking back on last year. You know, if Brian had
53:53
Speaker 13: been able to win that game, you know, you some
53:56
Speaker 13: one win just does so much momentum for you, nobody
53:58
Speaker 13: wants to go in ten? True, how Brian would have
54:00
Speaker 13: done if they started off one versush.
54:03
Speaker 6: And one that's a point in overtime.
54:05
Speaker 13: So I really do think that Mad West game, how
54:07
Speaker 13: they come out of that one? Being at home, it's
54:09
Speaker 13: his first game. It was close last year. I think
54:12
Speaker 13: if they can win that one, and I think they could.
54:14
Speaker 6: It was close.
54:15
Speaker 13: Like I said, close last year. Momentum is a you know,
54:18
Speaker 13: great thing. I think that could really kind of start
54:20
Speaker 13: the air off on a right note.
54:22
Speaker 1: And then what about rudder rudder?
54:24
Speaker 10: You know?
54:25
Speaker 1: Okay, it all runs together, Jake? Was it last year
54:28
Speaker 1: or two years ago? They come real close to the
54:29
Speaker 1: playoffs They just had to win one more game and
54:31
Speaker 1: couldn't get into done.
54:32
Speaker 6: What ye was two years ago?
54:34
Speaker 1: I thought it was two years ago. Then they took
54:35
Speaker 1: a dip down last year if I remember right, Yes
54:38
Speaker 1: they did. They were so close that year with a
54:40
Speaker 1: transfer from Novisota, look like they're gonna go to the playoffs,
54:44
Speaker 1: and man, it just eluded them. Then last year they
54:47
Speaker 1: took a step down. So where's coaches are? Do you
54:50
Speaker 1: feel in his rangers this year?
54:51
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's gonna be another young team. That's what he
54:53
Speaker 6: told me.
54:55
Speaker 13: You know, they've got some guys that were you know,
54:56
Speaker 13: they had a lot of sophomores and freshmans having to
54:58
Speaker 13: fill the ranks, you know, Rudder especially out of everybody.
55:01
Speaker 13: You know, they kind of have that problem where they're
55:03
Speaker 13: really like they have to kind of build their teams
55:05
Speaker 13: up to year three and four. You know, it seems
55:07
Speaker 13: like to me, at least more than the other schools
55:09
Speaker 13: in town, they got to wait till that junior and
55:11
Speaker 13: senior year.
55:12
Speaker 6: So they're still young. But some of the guys they're
55:14
Speaker 6: excited about.
55:15
Speaker 13: He's really big fan of the old Line and d
55:17
Speaker 13: Line loves those guys, so expect the big boys to
55:20
Speaker 13: get a lot of love from him.
55:22
Speaker 1: Okay, Jake, you've had so much good insight. We've got
55:24
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes left. Only I appreciate it, uh.
55:27
Speaker 1: I think I speak for a lot of people. I
55:29
Speaker 1: get excited if I get to go out and cover
55:31
Speaker 1: a playoff in the area game. Yeah, you and I
55:33
Speaker 1: enjoyed some great baseball this year. Oh yeah, what are
55:36
Speaker 1: some area towns that fans and Brian College Station need
55:40
Speaker 1: to get out and catch one of the outlying teams?
55:43
Speaker 1: Who should they go see.
55:44
Speaker 13: Oh when football or any football man, I think the
55:48
Speaker 13: first one you gotta start with number one, Bremond. They're
55:52
Speaker 13: number one in the state actually in two A Division two.
55:55
Speaker 6: I know it's a little bit of a trip.
55:58
Speaker 13: For most people trying to call it, but yeah, the
56:01
Speaker 13: exactly Bremond Lexington coming off a ten and two season
56:06
Speaker 13: last year.
56:06
Speaker 6: They're always good. That's another little bit of a trip.
56:09
Speaker 13: But uh, yeah, I think those two are teams that
56:11
Speaker 13: and then Franklin, I mean Franklin always is good.
56:14
Speaker 6: Uh and he Franklin people are so friendly. Yeah, Franklin's
56:17
Speaker 6: always a good.
56:18
Speaker 1: Time to Brenda is running back back Brendan what about
56:21
Speaker 1: that deal?
56:22
Speaker 6: He's not Actually now, I don't know.
56:25
Speaker 13: There's a there's another Scott in the backfield, though it's
56:28
Speaker 13: not Scott, great nickname, but.
56:30
Speaker 6: I mean, I mean Brenham Jacobe Dixon. He's backed as well.
56:35
Speaker 1: He's worth the price of admission.
56:36
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, Oklahoma commit people are kind of bummed they
56:40
Speaker 13: couldn't land him, but yeah, he'll be the worth of
56:43
Speaker 13: the price of a mission. I think too, he'll play Rudder.
56:46
Speaker 13: I think when they play Rudder, it'll be at Meryl Green.
56:50
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell you what, Jake. I appreciate you coming
56:54
Speaker 1: in and doing my last half hour some great stuff.
56:58
Speaker 1: And I know people driving home get pumped up out
57:00
Speaker 1: high school football as we will at to EGO, our
57:03
Speaker 1: our our media day for everybody, and I know KB
57:07
Speaker 1: Dix will join us as well. It's our our Meetia Day.
57:09
Speaker 1: But it's on the twenty ninth of July. The coaches
57:12
Speaker 1: will be in, Caleb, I want to thank you for
57:14
Speaker 1: working the board, buddy, and I'm out of here right gone.