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The Drive with Jake Wimberly - January 30, 2024 · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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thirty Mississippi State Report. Also Kelly Ford the line four thirty to five,
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and Mike Grace at five point fifteen. All right, what level Jeff to
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set those ears on? I guess about three? And what was I doing?
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You were usually at about five? So is that a significant change or
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it's a good change. It's a good change. So I had to get
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here, Nates, just because I've had some issues. You know, I'm
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turning into hell and Keller eyes and ears. It still sounds a little funny,
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just a little funny, but that's probably on my end. But so
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we were able to bring that down just a little bit and not just Matt
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Wyatt told me he can put the headphones over his ears and here like when
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he comes in here, he doesn't want to put him on his ears,
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he pulls him out. So that's a pretty good change. Yeah, I
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think so. All right, we'll move along and see what that does for
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us. All Right, the NCAA has decided it's going to wage war on
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college sports. If you've seen this, Tennessee now in trouble. I did,
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yeah, yeah, trying to wage war, and I don't know that
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it's gonna do anything. Florida State got put on a quote probation a couple
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of weeks ago. The NCAA is now investigating Tennessee for what are believed to
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be alleged major violations related to nil dealings. The case centers around quarterback Nico
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how do we say his name? Iamalava e Emma Leeva, the number two
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quarterback in the class of twenty twenty three. We'll get into the story and
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see what we can find out about this whole deal. The Ralph Russo reports,
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University of Tennessee chancellor sent a letter to Charlie Baker. It's the astute
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president. You know what's interesting about this. This is so interesting to me.
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And this has rogue politician written all over it. You know, rogue
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politicians. We got a lot of them on both sides of the quote.
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Asle they get in a point of position, they say all this stuff.
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We're gonna change this, we're gonna make this better, we're gonna hold hand,
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and then they start throwing the gauntlet in the book at people. That's
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what Charlie Baker's done. He takes over as the NCAA president, a defunct
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organization. He puts this proposal for change in the subdivisions. Not many people
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in the SEC, or the ACC or these other big power conferences are buying
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off on it. So what does he start doing penalizing people? Florida State,
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Florida's under investigation. Now Tennessee to gonna put the whole world under investigation.
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This is very interesting. University of Tennessee chancellor sent a letter to Charlie
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Baker regarding the NCAA investigation into potential rules violations by the university, and as
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Rolph Russis says, the first paragraph kind of sums it up. Dear President
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Baker, the leaders of Intercollegiate Athletics owes its ow's at it ohs to its
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student athletes and their families to establish clear rules and to act in their best
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interest. Instead, two and a half years of vague and contradictory NCAA memos,
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emails, and guidance about name, image and likeness has created extraordinary chaos.
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The student, athletes and institutions are struggling to navigate. In short,
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the NCAA has failed and is failing. There you go, he kind of
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nailed it right there. You know. If you go back, let me
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see if I can find this real quick in the stack. What was that
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twenty twenty one? If I go back to the one sheet and I think
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this is it. Twenty twenty one, the NCAA put a one sheet out
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that had about five bullet points on name, image and likeness. You remember
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this very vague, very very very vague, and there wasn't much to it.
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There wasn't much to it at all. As it says in Cuba,
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adopts interim name image and likeness, and they never made it full. You
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know, it was never the deal. But again it's one four bullet points.
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The policy provides the following guidance to college athletics, recruits and families,
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and member schools. Individuals can engage in name image and likeness activities that are
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consistent with the law of the states where the school is located. States started
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passing laws and doing this and doing that still getting penalized. College and universities
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are responsible for determining whether those activities are consistent with the state law. College
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athletes who attend a school in a state without an NIOL law can engage in
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this type of activity without violating in CAA rules related to name, image and
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likeness. This is back in twenty twenty one. Individuals can use a professional
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service provider for NIOL activities. Collectives agents do it. All student athletes should
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report in IEL activities consistent with state laws and school and conferences requirements to their
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school quote. Today, NCAA members voted to allow college athletes to benefit from
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name image and likeness opportunities no matter where their school is located, said Division
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One Board of Director's chair Dennis Trueth, President at Texas State. With this
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interim solace or solution in place, we will continue to work with Congress to
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adapt federal legislation to support student athletes. They're still working with Congress. They're
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still under this temporary memorandum, yet they feel like they can penalize these schools.
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This is extremely interesting. Charlie Baker has basically taken up arms against his
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schools, is what he's done, because they don't want to buy into the
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crap that he's throwing at them. Later on, we'll tell you most points
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scored in the super Bowl based on player's last college attended. This is some
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good stuff from Brett McMurphy. Also, the Big Twelve schedule is out.
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I want to look at this a little bit. You know, the Big
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Twelve is probably gonna be the funnest conference to watch, believe it or not.
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This year it is going to be like the wild Wild West because it
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is so wide open, and I want to get into some of these games.
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Also, I don't expect you to comment on this. Dan Wetzel puts
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his first Super Bowl article out today. Welcome to Taylor's version of the super
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Bowl. It's there. Welcome to Taylor's version of the Super Bowl six R
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White Denzel. I have a thousand dollars, no, one hundred dollars
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that if the Chiefs win, Kelsey proposes to Taylor's swift on the podium,
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the play by play from Romo and Nance would be worth it. I just
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don't I don't know if he's going to propose to her or not. Here's
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the deal. They're not going to be together this time next year. Do
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you believe they will be together? I don't think they will. It's not
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gonna happen. Brooks E Mac Jack Jake is so old, Chris. You're
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right there with me, Me and me and Chris are right there together.
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Agent Wytes Anyway, Yeah, well, but Chris doesn't. He doesn't need
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aids for hearing. And he's still out there throwing baseballs around, and you're
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just sitting behind that desk all day. Chris is coming at you. Now.
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You make me see I got work to do. I got work to
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do. So what are you saying? I need to challenge Chris Brooks in
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some sort of a competent physical Competition's exactly what I'm saying. Let's see here
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a couple more things that are out there. We'll get to the legal battle
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between the ACC and Florida State can he needs to grow more contentious. Both
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parties have now filed amended complaints FSUs in Florida State Court and the ACC in
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North Carolina State Court. FSU now alleges the ACC engaged in self dealing,
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so we will get into this as Florida State and the ACC, they have
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just taken the gloves off and they've decided we're going to fight. We're going
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to fight to the death is what's going to happen. So Florida State has
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now told the ACC to get in the ring. The Los Angeles Chargers have
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agreed to a contract with Joe Hortz to be their general manager. So the
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Chargers have now new GM and new football coach and Ohio State defensive back Caleb
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Downs. If you want to hear how wild the transfer portal is, just
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like a little snippet real quick. He was at Alabama and the day that
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he entered the transfer portal, he had one hundred and two phone calls.
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Can you believe that? One hundred and two phone calls the day that he
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entered the transfer port Also, DJ Durkin will be Auburn's new defensive coordinator who
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worked with Hugh Freeze or I believe way back when I'll to clarify that,
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but anyway, he's now with Hugh Freeze and the defensive coordinator for the Auburn
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minutes as we'll talk Mississippi state sports. Let's see here, unnamed Texter tell
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the NCAA to stick it. They created this through their own mismanagement from the
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beginning of nil They absolutely did. That's why I always hold onto that two
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thousand and one legislation. They created this mess. They absolutely created this mess,
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and I'm going to get back into that with the schedules now coming out
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in most all of the conferences for college football for twenty twenty four. As
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two four seven sports dot Com reports, the implications are massive for obviously tons
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of teams, and you've got some unbelievable games out there. Like you know,
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Brad Crawford kind of ranks, ranks his top ten games. Michigan,
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Ohio State is one, Georgia, Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Texas,
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Michigan, Oregon, Michigan, Ohio State, Oregon, Georgia, Ole,
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mess He's got all missing two of them Ole, Miss, LSU, Clemson,
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Florida State in Oklahoma, Texas, Texas, and three of them Georgia
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and three of them Alabama and one of them Michigan and three Ohio State and
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two. Speaking of Brad Crawford, college football is twenty four most important games
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he gets into. We may chalk through some of those. And I know
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what Brad's doing here, He's going through the schedules saying, hey, this
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could be you know, order of importance for games. Speaking of games,
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the ACC football schedules are out as well. And you know, when you
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talk about this college football playoff and who's gonna do what you get out here
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and you look, say, for instance, Clemson, you ask yourself,
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it's Clemson back. And again, I don't think Clemson is back. As
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a matter of fact, I think Clemson is sliding backwards still, especially the
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more I chalk through data to get into twenty twenty four, it looks like
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after spending some time over the weekend in the ACC, Clemson is not fast
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tracking backwards, but they are sliding backward. They'll open up the year against
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Georgia and Atlanta. Georgia will be the favorite now. Obviously if they could
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get a win over Georgia, that would be huge, but I think they'll
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take a loss. They'll play app State and then get a bye week n
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C State Stanford. They have to go to Florida State and Wake Virginia bye
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week Louisville at Virginia Tech at Pitt the Citadel in South Carolina. And this
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is still probably a nine to three or ten and two team, and they'll
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have enough on the resume to get into the playoffs. Just will they You
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look at Florida State, Georgia Tech. They'll play in Ireland. They'll come
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back and play Boston College on a Monday night. They'll get a bye week,
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they play Memphis Cayle at SMU host Clemson, get a bye week,
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go to Duke, go to Miami. They actually played Duke on a Friday
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night, North Carolina at Notre Dame, Open week, Charleston Southern and Florida.
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So for all that Florida State did this past year, I don't think
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that they're going to go undefeated. They have to play at Miami, at
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Notre Dame at SMU, believe it or not, could get interesting. And
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if you look at for instance, we talked yesterday with Miami Hurricanes that this
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could be you know, this could be a pop off point for the Hurricanes
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if things go right at Florida, Florida A and m Ball State at South
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Florida, Virginia chech on a Friday night at California, and then they get
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a bye week at Louisville, Florida State, Duke at Georgia Tech, bye
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week, Syracuse or wake Forest and then Syracuse. So those are just some
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of the games there for the ACC. The real Eric Brooks versus Jake in
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a boxing match winner has forever bragging rights. He wants me and I don't
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know that me and Chris could go around in boxing. Do you think me
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and Chris can make it to a round? I want you to put in
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about six months worth of work if we're gonna do this, y'are gonna let
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me prep for this. I don't know if I could do that for like
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one round right now? All right, let's see. Let me go back
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into this Tennessee story real quick, which is highly fascinating. Tennessee football under
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NCAA investigation for alleged nil violations involving Nico Eamalava Leva, whatever his name is.
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Tennessee football is under investigation for quote major alleged violations. CBS sports dentist
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Dodge confirmed Tuesday the Valls are being looked at as a potential repeat violator given
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recent sanctions that came as a result of the Jeremy Prewitt tenure. All wins
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from the twenty nineteen twenty season were vacated. The new case centers around the
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signing of former five star quarterback Nico Iamalava, who inked a then record nil
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contract with Spyry Sports Group, which is a Tennessee's primary collective. The Valls
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have not received a formal notice of allegations in NOA from the NCAA. According
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to Dodd, last summer of the NCAA disciplined Tennessee after Pruitt, who was
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in charge withilating head coaching responsibility, Roles, and three others faced unethical conduct
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allegations for providing faults and misleading information during their previous investigation. The initial case
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included eighteen Level one violations and more than two hundred individual in fractions involving recruiting
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and violations, primarily payments to prospects players in their families, totaling approximately sixty
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thousand dollars. According to the NCAA release, Tennessee's former staff also hosted prospects
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on visits during NCAA mandated dead periods amid the COVID nineteen pandemic in twenty twenty.
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The Balls have since been under the direction of head coach Josh Hipel.
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He's twenty seven and twelve since taking over Tennessee in twenty twenty one. Hypel
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went nine to four this past season. Iamaliva has set to become the ball
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starting quarterback this year, after spending his freshman year behind Joe Milton. In
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five games, he went twenty eight forty five for three hundred and fourteen yards
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and two touchdowns. Quote. I think he raises a ceiling on that offense,
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said one scouting director. But that's really all we have on this.
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You know, if you go over here and look at Ross Dellinger was talking
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about this, I believe just a little bit. Let me go over here
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to his space and see what he might have on this. I thought that
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he had. Yeah. Per Adam Sparks UT administrators met with the NCAA Enforcement
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on Monday to discuss the allegations against the school. Chancellor Donde Paul Plowman chid
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at the organization in a letter, Tennessee is expected to vehemently fight against these
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allegations. Quote, we appreciate your staff listening to our arguments and are going
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to elevate and evaluate them, plow set in an email, the NCAA's allegations
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are factually untrue and procedurally flawed. Moreover, it's intellectually dishonest for the NCAA
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enforcement staff to pursue infraction cases as if student athletes have no NIO rights.
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So, I mean that's the thing. What what are they What are they
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alleging? What is considered wrong? Because right now everything is on the board.
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This whole thing with the NCAA is fascinating. Rebel Godfather. Oh no,
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we ain't doing that. We ain't doing that, Rebel Godfather six hour
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His text on college football is twenty foremost important games. Again, a lot
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of these are chalked through here, very very interesting games. You know,
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LSU plays USC September first in Las Vegas. This will be a bounce back
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for somebody. I mean LSU didn't have a bad year. They I mean,
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anytime you have the Heisman Trophy winner on your team, you didn't have
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a bad year. But what does Brian Kelly's team look like? Lincoln Riley
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Again, there's a lot of questions on Lincoln Riley's team. So that'll be
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a highlight game on September first in Las Vegas. LSU Garrett Neusmeier and Miller
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Moss taking over for Lincoln Riley, both coming off fantastic performances during the Bowls
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and each having multiple years in their respective offensive systems, and you would expect
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probably a lot of points in that ballgame. Give the fans what they want.
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No, I don't think the fans really want to see that. You
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know. Alabama plays Wisconsin September fourteenth. This will be a big test,
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believe it or not for a new Alabama staff and new Alabama team. Obviously
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they're bringing back some of the same faces. But this trip to Wisconsin for
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Caleb de Borr will a match a matchup against Luke Fickle. It could be
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could be really fun, and of course Luke Fickle trying to get Wisconsin going
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in the right direction. This past year. Wisconsin not the year that they
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anticipated as Yeah, they are a very lackluster year for Wisconsin seven and six,
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and then some games in there that they had a chance to win,
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but they just that offense kind of churned through. This is a new offense
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for them, going from ground and pound into some sort of wide open type
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style. Now a lot of people like say air raid, but it's not
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technically the air raid. So that's a big matchup for Luke Fickle and Kaitlyn
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to five and Mike Grace coming in at five fifteen. All right, let's
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see here some other stuff that's out there as we move along again. Florida
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and Tennessee are under nc double investigation, and you know, will they end
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in sanctions like Florida State or nothing? You know, will anything come of
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it? The NCAA convention and a few weeks ago Mark Hicks. CAA's Mark
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Kicks said that he was focused on tampering and inducements, had screenshots of coaches
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collective tampering and you know, player tampering. So we'll see what happens with
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this. We'll get David's thought on this as well. Again, we'll go
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through this Big twelve schedule as looks pretty interesting, and we'll tell you it's
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gonna be an interesting league to follow this year in the Big twelve. Right
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now talking to Mississippi State Sports David Murray on your radio two four seven Sports
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dot Com Jean's page as we moved through a Tuesday, David, welcome in.
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How are you well? If you're anything in the background that sounds suspicious,
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I'm not in downtown Jackson. I'm out at the Startle gun Clubs so
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very some shotguns in the background and I'm on the pistol range totally frustrating myself,
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turning money into noise. But they have got eye surgery coming up in
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February, so maybe that'll fix that. Very good, very good. Gotta
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stay sharp, David, I like I like that speaking to stay in sharp.
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Mississippi State Men's and women basketball. Let's let's go first to the women.
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Your thoughts. Obviously a big win, you know, for that program,
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and you look at this program who's trying to turn that corner and get
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back relevant in the SEC and Nashley and where they are heading in the right
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direction. Yeah, great win last night. And craz how they did it
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too, because LSU with Angel Reese obviously one of the best players in the
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country. Really where the state was. I mean, you hold her twenty
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points, feel like it's a victory because Jessica Carter and a couple of backups
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were able to frustrate her offensively. Now, Carter didn't play great on the
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offensive end. I thought that was going to cost the Dogs at the end,
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but it didn't. You've had girls like Kayla Jordan really raised her game,
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a miracle Shepherd when she took over. State was able to handle LSU's
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physical approach in the back court, get the ball up, beat the press,
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do some things and just get them into an offense. And State just
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went to to toe and the first time all SEC season they won a third
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quarter and that's at the stage they held on at the end. LSU gave
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the best shot. Now sand per Sales dogs. They're probably still celebrating today
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and why not, but that put them back in position for instead of a
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tournament, obviously, but also for a better finish in the SEC. So
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a big confidence boost for that team, which really came at the right time,
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in right place. David Murray talking to missiv State Sports Tuesday edition of
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the programming should have follow him on x check them out at geens page two
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four seven sports dot com. Same can be said for the guys who got
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a big win over the weekend. Now two wins in January against top ten
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teams at a very cluttered SEC stand You know, you look at the standings,
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it is absolutely cluttered top to bottom. It really is. And by
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the way, State has I believe the fifth best net ranking in the SEC
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as of day. They felt a spot overnight. I don't know how.
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I guess that more reflection of how the calculations are done. They went to
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number thirty seven in the net today going into the night's game in Oxford or
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this is something like fifty seven, fifty eight somewhere in there. So a
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chance for State to get another RPI and any nit poost what do you want
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to call it? Of course, going to Alabum this weekend. You know,
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last week you talked about the fact that the net was great, but
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you had to have ws. And when two of your ws against teams that
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are not only top ten in the rankings, but top ten in the net,
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you're back on track. Now. You still got to win some games.
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But keep in mind, Jake, of State's first seven SEC games,
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six of those teams are one, two, three, or five six in
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the SEC standings right now. The schedule after Alabama loosens up. I think
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four of the five games after that are teams and either the bottom half or
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even the bottom third of the conference standing. So if Christians and Club can
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just navigate this week on the road, and they have yet to score a
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true road game, then they can really do some damage once they get into
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February David speaking of February coming up here in a couple weeks. We talked
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a little bit about it last week baseball right here on the horizon. Now,
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you know, Mississippi State set to open up season here coming up February
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sixteenth. Like a lot of people, are the expectations for this club?
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I mean, what kind of saves face for Crystal US this year? Is
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it just getting the postseason play? What do you think that watermark is for
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this program this year? I think the watermark is hosting a first round regional.
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Now that's going to require obviously a series upgrade on what they've done the
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last couple of years. We talked to about six of the players as well
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as coach Lammas, and we had a chance to watch several scrimmage of Mike
27:18
Neemoth doing a great job covering each of those, providing statistics as well.
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I think the offense is gonna be fine just watching them. They're hitting the
27:26
ball well, and not just hitting what they're making really good contact. I
27:30
don't see a lot of cheap outs by the offense in these scrimmages, no
27:33
matter who's at the plate, Pitching still taking shape. There's just a lot
27:37
of roles that are going to be determined, maybe not even determined by the
27:41
start of opening day. It could be well into SEC season before they exactly
27:45
figure out what the best roles for serpitures are. They've got a lot of
27:48
arms. The arms are healthy. Getting people like Stone sentence back is really
27:52
going to be a boost to that lineup. You see Nate Dome now finding
27:56
his niche. We wrote about him today on Jeams page. Defensively, they
28:00
should be better, but I haven't seen at the first killed the scrimmages.
28:04
Now. Part of that is they're playing a lot of guys in a lot
28:07
of different positions. But I think they really need to raise their defensive game
28:11
and support that pitching because the offense I believe is going to be solid.
28:15
David, I want to get shift gears and get your thoughts on what's going
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on with the n c double A. And it looks like a new n
28:22
Cuba president. Uh, the new president has decided he wants to wage war
28:26
against I guess his his his teams. And you look at the you know,
28:30
Florida State going on probation, Florida on you know under investigation now today
28:34
Tennessee under investigation for quote unquote ni L you know, illegal NIL activities,
28:41
And you go back and you look in two thousand and one to you know
28:44
what the n CUAA guidelines were for quote unquote A temporary order until they can
28:48
get to Congress. Now that hasn't happened. It just seems like Charlie Baker
28:52
in the n c double A. This this almost acts almost like a I
28:55
guess you could say, a mad child at their at their at their kids,
28:59
so to speak. And in Tennessee kind of lashback about that today.
29:03
I think it is a desperate claim for relevancy in today's college football. And
29:07
believe me, I'm not one of those persons that just bashes the into double
29:11
A, because remember THENTO Double A is the voting body. It's not the
29:14
people in Indianapolis, although they're the ones who pursue investigations and have mishandled so
29:18
many things for so many years now. I don't think they're ever going to
29:22
rain in NIL. In fact, Jake, I've talked to some coaches,
29:25
administrators, and others just mostly off the record. Nobody wants to be quoted
29:29
on it just yet. NIL is just going to have to shake itself out.
29:32
There's gonna be a ton and I made a ton of wasted money on
29:36
players. You may see that a meceufic basketball a good investment in a player
29:41
who is no longer on the team. That's gonna happen everywhere, and coaches
29:45
really can't predict how that's gonna play out. You've got to get the guys
29:48
and hope they make it. But what if they don't. I think fans
29:52
eventually will be more targeted in what they do in the NIL after wasting a
29:56
lot of money on a lot of guys who either can't play or they do
30:00
play, go somewhere else. Congress cannot fix this. Congress can't fix itself,
30:04
so I don't want them getting involved in college football as well. Ultimately,
30:08
of course, we've talked off and it will be the breakaway of major
30:11
college football instable. A quite a few people there will say, good riddance,
30:15
we don't want to mess with the meal. We'll have FCS football,
30:18
we'll have the basketball, which makes all our money anyway, the tournament sports,
30:23
and let football go its own way again. I think that will be
30:26
around the end of the decade at the earliest. But I just think they're
30:30
wasting a lot of time and energy chasing things that have been in the works
30:34
for years. Is too little, it's too late, and it only makes
30:38
them look even worse in the process. Yeah, and you know, to
30:41
your point, David, on that basketball front, I mean, who's to
30:44
say that, you know, the right conferences, the SEC, the Big
30:47
Ten. If the power players say, hey, we're pulling out and we're
30:49
going to do our own thing, I mean, they could start their own
30:52
basketball tournament. Take that from him as well. They could. And the
30:56
fact that I really believe with the way media markets are heading, you see
31:00
Disney, Fox really reevaluating where they spend money, Ceps now backing off from
31:06
the SEC and others, there's gonna be a big shakeout, but not I
31:08
think until the end of the decade. Although you know, I often quote
31:12
or semi quote the late sometimes great Hunter S. Thompson when he wrote way
31:17
long ago in a book mostly about politics, he said, you know,
31:21
all this sports stuff. He's a big an NFL gambling fan. It's not
31:23
gonna matter if the Russians fire a missile, Well what if the Chinese fire
31:27
missile? So a lot of this stuff it's just going to shake out over
31:30
time, over economics, and NSTABLA is wasting its time and energy doing this.
31:37
And as far as what Missisi State and other schools do, just go
31:41
recruit, Go get athletes, go play football, play basketball, play under
31:44
the rules, and let the world develop around them. You can't stop it.
31:48
You really can't even predict it. Leave that for people like Greg Sank
31:51
you the conference commissioners to work that out. And speaking of recruiting, Jeff
31:56
Levy and staff are on a roll. It's not just this twenty four team
32:00
that they've already put together, it's like forty forty five percent of the roster
32:04
will be new. They are a whole hog into twenty twenty five recruiting already.
32:07
And in fact, I was talking to the PR directories that he may
32:10
have seen the coach's a handful of times since signing day in December because he
32:14
and the staff have all been out on the road. They didn't take any
32:17
holidays. They've been recruiting. And I think it's going to pay off long
32:21
term for Misisippi State as they really dive into this new era, not just
32:24
nil, because you still got to go out and sign players, especially high
32:29
school players here in Mississippi David Murray kind of enough to give us some time
32:32
take a break from his gun range activities talking Mississippi state sports. David,
32:37
appreciate your time. Enjoy the rest of your rang session, sir. We'll
32:38
do it again next week. Well, if I don't get any better,
32:42
let's just say what the heck. But you know, like some people say
32:46
about fishing and other things, a bad day at the range can be better
32:50
than a good day at work sometimes. But no, there's a lot of
32:52
good things to work on at Geene stage right now. Of course, Justin
32:55
Frommer is going to be in Oxford tonight for the big showdown with the Old
32:59
miss and Mike's and Steve reporting from the Screwage. On baseball, a lot
33:04
still happening, and in fact it's about to pick up. The busiest time
33:07
of our year is opening day of baseball season through the spring football game.
33:12
That two months has something and everything with Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs and basketball.
33:15
We've got a lot to report on and a lot to work on. And
33:19
you know, we get paid to cover state sports. I can't think of
33:22
a better deal that I can at this farm boy could have ever gotten very
33:24
good David, I appreciate your time. We'll talk next week. Thanks so
33:28
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in the Super Bowl has moved to two points. It was a point yesterday.
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It's moved it to You got two weeks of this, so we'll see
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fee with this line is up. But Kansas City plus two, San Francisco
35:29
minus two in this matchup that told us forty seven and I have all right.
35:34
Stuart Mandel has put out on Xcess. Now we have some details on
35:38
the Tennessee stuff via the New York Times quote. The investigation is focused in
35:44
part on the use of a private jet by a so called donor collective to
35:52
fly a high profile recruit to campus. There's nothing in the bylaws that said
35:59
you can't put a guy on a jet from the collective. It's nothing,
36:04
absolutely nothing. Courtesy of the AP and The New York Times. Chancellor Donde
36:10
Plowman told the NCAA president that allegation's Tennessee violated rules overseeing name, image and
36:15
likeness are factually untrue and procedurally flawed, according to a letter released today.
36:22
Plomban wrote Monday and a letter to Charlie Baker, shortly after Tennessee officials met
36:27
with the n c Doblea to discuss the allegations that it was quote intellectually dishonest.
36:31
Considering the leaders of the collegiate sports oh it owes it to the students
36:36
and their families to act in the best interest with clear rules quote. Instead,
36:42
two and a half years of vague and contradictory NCAA memos, emails,
36:45
and guidance about name, image and the likeness has created extraordinary chaos that student
36:51
athletes and institutions are struggling to navigate. Ploman wrote a letter in short,
36:55
the NCABA has failed and they are failing. Wrote that she appreciated NCAA staff
37:01
listening to Tennessee's arguments and agreeing to elevate them, but she also noted that
37:07
they're intellectually dishonest for NCAA enforcement staff to pursue infractions in cases as if students
37:15
have no NIO rights or institutions quote willfully violating a clear and unchanging set of
37:21
rules. The NCAA policy is to refrain from commenting publicly about current, pending
37:28
or potential investigations, with rare exceptions. The Nile collective that supports Tennessee Athletics
37:34
Spiry Sports Group was among the first and most well organized to emerge around the
37:39
country after the NCAA lifted its ban on athletes making money off their fame.
37:45
Plomate made it clear she wanted to talk to Baker in person. I would
37:50
too, especially since the NCAA president recently testified before Congress about wanting to meet
37:55
with as many members and athletes as possible about the issues around in college sports.
38:00
She wrote the letter after her December requests for Baker to meet with her
38:06
at Tennessee Athletics director Danny White was denied. Now think about that, Charlie
38:10
Baker says, Yeah, he gets up there in front of Congress and all
38:15
his political buddies can remember this guy was a former politician for his entire life.
38:20
We want to meet with as many people as possible. We want to
38:22
meet with athletic directors, we want to meet with players, we want to
38:24
hear your stories. Okay, Charlie, when can we set up a meeting?
38:30
You're not You're denied. Can somebody get in the ring with this guy?
38:36
Can we get him in the ring? That's the question, she said.
38:39
Tennessee worked well with the NCAA and recent investigations, cooperating cooperation cited by
38:45
the Division I Committee on Infractions. It goes through Tennessee's stuff under Jerry old
38:54
Prue. It there only Tennessee's early cooperation, and when the NCAA kept the
39:00
program from a postseason ban, four former staffers were given show calls and orders.
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Quote. It is inconceivable that our institution's leadership would be cited as an
39:09
example of exemplary leadership in twenty twenty three in July, then as a cautionary
39:15
example of a lack of institutional control on the Six months later, Plowman wrote,
39:19
in a letter obtained by the Associated Press, can you believe that Tennessee
39:22
was given an exemplary leadership award in twenty twenty three July of last year by
39:28
the nc DOABLEA. Now they're saying that it's a lack of institutional control.
39:32
The NCAA found most of the violations were related to a paid, unofficial visit
39:37
scheme used consistently by the football program over the two years and involving at least
39:43
a dozen members of the football staff. Tennessee just wrapped up his third season.
39:50
But I'm getting to the end of this thing. So that's it.
39:53
Tennessee is madis I mean, the NCAA is mad as hell. They put
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Nico Iamalava on a jet through the collective and flew him there more bully.
40:05
The NCAA doesn't comment because they are cowards and no one and don't want to
40:10
get grilled by anyone. There is that for sure. All right? Let
40:15
me look and see what else we got over here. Kelly Ford will join
40:16
us at four point thirty. We'll go four thirty to five. Mike Grace
40:19
at five point fifteen five. Let's see here is this right? Let me
40:25
make sure I'll tell you this all right? So we start looking at the
40:29
Super Bowl and predictions that could be made, not just in the game,
40:31
but things that could happen in the game. Is it fair to say for
40:37
the forty nine ers to win. Nick Bosa needs a big game. Can
40:39
he get after Patrick Mahomes And I think that he probably has to, you
40:45
know, can he get a sack? Can stay in the backfield. Also,
40:49
you could see a game that I think will go four quarters in the
40:51
Super Bowl could come down to a pivotal fourth quarter drive. And you know,
40:58
when you kind of look at other parts of this game, what does
41:01
it do for Patrick Mahomes and his legacy if they win? And then even
41:05
if he wins the Super Bowl MVP, you know whopping Twelve out of the
41:07
last seventeen Super Bowl MVPs have been the quarterbacks of the winning teams. In
41:13
fact, when Kansas City defeated San Francisco in twenty twenty, many thought that
41:16
Damian Williams should have won the MVP, not Mahomes. Mahomes turned the ball
41:22
over twice while Williams averaged six point one yards per carry on seventeen rushes and
41:27
scored once on the ground and once through the air. But you know,
41:32
MVP is a quarterback award, much like some of these other awards that you
41:36
see in college and other places. Whether it's to be in the regular season
41:39
of the Super Bowl, many are predicting Mahomes will be the first player to
41:43
win three Super Bowl MVPs and a five year span. Another Super Bowl MVP
41:49
would make him the third player in NFL history to win the three Super Bowl
41:53
MVPs, along with Joe Montana and Tom Brady. Montana won three, Brady
42:00
won five. And then it says Travis Kelsey retirement speculation heats up. Do
42:05
you think he's retiring after this? You don't think so. I think he's
42:08
probably going to retire personally because this is this is it. Taylor Swift,
42:16
paratroopers in comes in. They have this big moment, in this big night,
42:22
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42:27
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42:31
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Tuesday. All right, Yesterday, we're telling you some of the numbers in
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the Super Bowl I renumber one. Talking a lot about this Tennessee investigation.
44:24
How a lot of that is very flawed. There's just not a lot in
44:29
the Tennessee. I've never seen an NCAA investigation. I don't think we any
44:32
of us have where the party comes out goes yep, we're guilty. But
44:37
this is totally different, and that there's not a lot of parameters around name,
44:40
image and likeness. So a lot on that. All right, Yesterday,
44:44
we're telling you some of the numbers coming into this week from this past
44:47
weekend and headed into the Super Bowl. And by the way, it is
44:51
Senior Bowl Week. A lot of guys down at the Senior Bowl getting ready
44:53
to put on a show or not. Patrick Mahomes, though, is magic.
44:59
We know that the Chiefs quarterback will become the first player to start in
45:04
four Super Bowls before the age of thirty. He also won his fourteenth postseason
45:08
game, which is tied for third most in the NFL history, trailing only
45:13
Tom Brady at thirty five and Joe Montana at sixteen ballgames. Lamar Jackson loses
45:19
again in the playoffs with a loss to the Chiefs. The Ravens quarterback now
45:22
has a career record of two and four in the postseason, which is tied
45:25
for the fourth worst record of all time for any quarterback who has started at
45:30
least five games in the playoffs. Ravens can't get over the hump. The
45:34
Ravens have won sixty six games over the past six seasons, which is tied
45:38
for the second most in NFL history for a team that didn't make the Super
45:43
Bowl during that six year span. Only the Chargers, who won sixty seven
45:46
between two thousand and four and two thousand and nine, won more without making
45:51
it to the Super Bowl. Also, the Chiefs can go back to back.
45:54
The Chiefs have a chance to become the NFL's first repeat Super Bowl champions
45:58
in two thousand and three and four when the Patriots went back to back and
46:04
Reid versus Shanahan Part two. This will make just a fourth time in NFL
46:07
history that two coaches have met in a Super Bowl at least two times.
46:12
We haven't seen this happened since Tom Coughlin's Giants played Bill Belichick's Patriots two times
46:17
in five seasons and never get bat against. Patrick Mahomes. The Chiefs quarterback
46:22
is now three and oho is a playoff underdog in his career, which is
46:25
impressive when you consider that he now has as many underdog wins in the postseason
46:30
as Brett farrv. Dan Marino, Steve Young, and Jim Kelly combined.
46:36
Those four Hall of famers went three and twenty five as underdogs in the playf
46:38
And I want you to think about that, Biaber, Do you think Patrick
46:44
Mahomes is a better quarterback than Brett farrv. Dan Marino, Steve Young and
46:46
Jim Kelly? Barv Marino, Young, Kelly something to ponder. He's three.
47:00
It was a playoff underdog. Those four quarterbacks were three and twenty five
47:05
as underdogs. That's wild, very wild, and as things stand right now,
47:09
Mahomes could be an underdog once again in the Super Bowl. It's what
47:12
it looks like at least right now, as that line sets at minus two
47:15
for the forty nine ers. Courtesy of Pen Gaming at AmeriStar Casino. All
47:22
right, let's see here, let me move forward here. Dion Sanders says
47:28
he turned down coaching jobs to stay at Colorado. Quote, I don't inherit
47:31
a legacy. I build it. Dion Sanders is staying put, of course,
47:37
in Colorado this year for the time being, and has some big expectations
47:42
for next season. On Tuesday, Sanders appeared on Fox Sports Undisputed show to
47:45
discuss the Buffs upcoming season. According to Sanders, he turned down coaching jobs
47:51
this offseason to stay in Colorado a couple of times. But I'm happy where
47:54
I am. I got a kickstand down, I'm straight. I love the
48:00
fan base. I'm looking out the window at these snow cap mountains and I
48:04
am loving it. I don't inherit a legacy. I build it. I
48:07
inherit I inherited some bull junk and I'm going to fix it. Sanders believes
48:12
his upgraded Colorado team can make the college football play now. Dion just said
48:17
today he feels like his team can make the playoffs. Quote, I don't
48:20
ee me. I believe. I just don't want to wear this on my
48:22
shirt on my chest. I truly believe that what we have in this house.
48:27
Last year, we were seven points away from a multitude of wins,
48:31
and we feel really good about we're at. Do you think Colorado can make
48:35
the college football playoffs? Your coach at Dion Sanders. No, and neither
48:38
does Dion Sanders. This is just more talk. We were seven points away
48:43
from a multitude of wins. Close losses, you know what they are.
48:49
They're still losses. If you were good, if you had the pieces,
48:53
you would have won. Oh, we were seven points away, but you
48:57
didn't get them. You didn't win. You're not gonna win them all this
49:00
year either. Yeah, it's gonna be tough. And again they open the
49:05
season with the North Dakota State. They have back to back road games against
49:08
Nebraska and Colorado State. They'll play Baylor at home, Central Florida on the
49:14
road. They get a bye week Kansas State at Arizona, Cincinnati at Texas
49:20
Tech, Utah, Kansas State, or Kansas on the road in the Oklahoma
49:23
State. And I'm telling you this, this big twelve football year, I
49:29
think it's gonna be a fun brand to watch. I mean, Arizona's in
49:32
a rebuild now after Jedfish went off to Washington, Arizona State's in a rebuild,
49:37
Baylor BYU, you Central Florida, Cincinnati, Colorado. I mean,
49:46
there's not a dimes worth the difference in a lot of those teams. Utah,
49:50
Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas
49:53
Tech, Houston, and West Virginia. This could be one of the better
49:57
brands that we actually see as far as you know, fun and entertaining.
50:00
It very well could be. All right, let's see here, Pug,
50:05
that man is hammered. He very well could be dexter. If you're drafting
50:10
in April, do you draft a twenty two year old John Elway or a
50:15
twenty two year old Patrick Mahomes, What say you, Jake? Well,
50:22
do I know now what I didn't know? Then? If that makes sense?
50:29
Oh man, I think I could flip a coin, So I do
50:34
know now then I'm taking Mahomes. Who would you take beef if you knew
50:37
everything right now that you know about both of those players, and they hit
50:42
space ghost time machine, and you could either draft Mahomes or John Elway.
50:45
Who do you pick? Holmes? I think so. I think it's Mahomes
50:49
for sure. Ko Ko I inherited some bull junk. That dude is a
50:57
damn worm. Not getting a lot of love on Dion Sanders. Yeah,
51:02
it's gonna be tough for Colorado to make the college football play I mean,
51:07
they have to win the conference, and they would have to do it well,
51:09
and then if they win the conference, they're gonna get it in anyway.
51:12
And here that's the thing too. Remember you could see a nine and
51:17
three or eight and four team win the Big Twelve and they're gonna get in
51:22
the playoff. They are going to get in the playoff. So an eight
51:27
and four team that wins the Big Twelve may or will trump a nine to
51:32
three or maybe even at ten to to SEC team dexter. But Lway is
51:37
playing today's rules too well. Yeah. Now, again, there's a lot
51:42
to be said about what some of these older quarterbacks that are now in the
51:46
twilight of their life. Hall of Fame quarterbacks, what would they do in
51:51
this set of rules? And then you could flip that and say, what
51:53
would some of these quarterbacks do, Like if Patrick Mahomes, if you were
51:57
able to hit him, like some of these Dan Marino, Warren Moon,
52:02
Randall Cunningham, everybody from that era. Those quarterbacks were fair game, absolutely
52:09
fair game. If you remember the hit on Joe Montana, and I believe
52:13
it was from Lawrence Taylor that really put him down. I mean that hit
52:19
today would probably levy a suspension on a player. So what would those players
52:27
play like in yesteryear? Speaking of quarterbacks, Kayler Williams ripped to shreds by
52:34
former New York Jets scout who unleashed fury on the USC quarterback. Former New
52:38
York Jets scout Daniel Kelly is not a fan of Kayla Williams. He ripped
52:44
the Heisman Trophy winning quarterback to shreds during an unhinged rant about his NFL drivestock.
52:50
As this writer says, admittedly, I do not know if Kelly is
52:52
a credible source who deserves any sort of attention. However, he did at
52:57
one point work for the Jets organization as a pro scout has his former credentials
53:00
to prove it. It's the same man that declared Spencer Ratler as the best
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quarterback in this draft class. So take what Kelly has to say with a
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grain of salt, especially considering his history with quarterbacks. But anyway, Daniel
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Kelly unleash is a fury on Kayleb Williams and says this time. This time
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of the year is about teams doing background work and trying to get inside prospects
53:24
heads. This is a part of the evaluation process. I believe any team
53:30
considering Kayleb Williams needs to think about the high risk from the neck up based
53:36
on williams actions, conduct, and words that he's demonstrated, from painting his
53:40
fingernails with obscenities aimed at opponents to refusing to shake hands with Utah and refusing
53:47
to speak to reporters after the UCLA game, Williams has given NFL owners the
53:52
decision and decision makers are a lot to think about sportsmanship question mark. He
53:55
also has a public statement after had a public statement after the Not Dame Notre
53:59
d game about a fan being like a sheep and referred to him as himself
54:04
as a lion, will be painting some obscenities. Will he paint obscenities about
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the forty doin ers on his fingernails? Will he jump into the stands and
54:14
try to fight somebody? There's a lot of questions about Kayla williams character.
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What will the nfls what will he say at NFL press conferences? How will
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we repeat or how will he represent? Excuse me? His team in city?
54:27
What's he going to do and say next? Those are questions that a
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lot of people are asking. He's much closer to Johnny Manzel than Patrick Mahomes
54:32
on the spectrum, I mean, with that respect and sensitivity. But that's
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what I would say if I was scouting and calling meetings, in these pre
54:42
draft meetings. So this thing goes on, I mean absolutely just torches Kayleb
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Williams, and I am sure that more and more story. I mean,
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this is going to be a big story for Kayler Williams. How does he
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do in the interview process? We know he can play football, How does
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he treat on How does he treat his coaches? What does he want in
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what's going on with all these neck and people run around Brandon? That's
56:50
over there close to your house, isn't it. So have you seen any
56:54
of this going on over there? Since you live in that side of Brandon?
56:57
So I saw the other day it was on Highway eighteen? Was it
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close to Chick fil A? And you mentioned during the last break that something
57:07
I think, uh Ricky Jesse was telling you about someone today. Where was
57:12
that going on? Were there in Crossgates some woman he said that they picked
57:15
up the other day. It was walking buck naked across the road. They
57:16
got her again. I was the same lady what he said, I cannot
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attest to that. I'm going off what Jesse said. Cross Skates, that's
57:25
right around the corner. Yeah from me, what's going on? I don't
57:31
know. They opened up that new road that comes into there and everybody went
57:35
crazy with that way. Well, there's what it is. She's not coming
57:37
she's coming from Flowood. Then the access got too easy. That's what it
57:43
is. Yeah, Because it's a clear shot now, I mean absolutely clear
57:47
shot. Yeah, I mean, I guess if you go home now,
57:51
you go that way right and go straight on down in there, and then
57:54
you take a left in your home. Yeah, when you get to Brandon.
57:59
Yeah, I don't. I don't mess with that intersection that they opened
58:02
on El Dorado because no one could figure out what to do. It opened
58:09
and it was only the traffic on El Dorado had a stop sign, so
58:15
the people there was no stop sign coming crossing over the intersection. And then
58:21
first weekended open, there were a couple of recks. So then the geniuses
58:27
I guess at him DOT, decided we'll put up some temporary stop signs.
58:31
But then they took this temporary stop signs down, but now they've been back
58:37
up for the past month or so. So anyway, I don't tangle with
58:42
that, And the naked people don't tangle with that either. They just walk
58:45
on through. Obviously they don't. It looks like you're gonna need to be
58:50
careful over there. Don't let us catch you ripping your shirt off walking around
58:52
out there either overre on the cawbo Maloney's text ligne get off my valls.
59:00
It would break the new quarterbacks. Oh, talking about quarterbacks going back,
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and do you think today's quarterbacks would have a problem playing in the nineteen eighties?
59:06
Yeah, yeah, I do their condition now they know that basically they
59:12
can't be touched eighties. Obviously we know those all bets are off. Do
59:17
what you want. I think you're probably right. Dexter Dion showed me in
59:22
the Stanford game what's to come? Six and six at best? Just not
59:27
a good end game adjustment. Coach. I think you're definitely right on that.
59:30
He's got a lot to do. Matt Daddy's stanking ranking Now, look,
59:34
don't go throw and shade at ranking because of that. Is that an
59:37
indictment on the whole county? No, I can't help that North Brandon sent
59:44
their neked women down to South Brandon because you're right, they did come from
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Floywood real see Collins. Let's not ignore other crazy happenings in B town.
59:57
Yeah, yeah, that not good. It's been a bad week in Brandon,
1:00:05
the rest of a murder in Brandon. Yeah, it's just been a
1:00:07
bad week. It's been a bad, bad week. Do you think people
1:00:13
that represent other cities are pulling against Brandon now because of this? Probably it's
1:00:21
pretty easy to pull against Brandon it is for you. Well, I guess
1:00:24
it is for most people, right. Why do you all hate Brandon so
1:00:28
much? Not You're prom Pearl, So I understand that's what's all the hate
1:00:32
from. It's a nice place. It's a good area, great place to
1:00:37
raise your kids, great community. I apparently used to be as of you
1:00:45
know, maybe a two and a half weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah,
1:00:50
they need to clean all that up. Dan Lanning, the head football coach
1:00:52
at Oregon, takes a shot at the ACC in Big twelve. The University
1:01:00
of Oregon will be an official member of the Big Ten Conference on August second,
1:01:04
twenty twenty four, and Dan Lanning is ready for what lies ahead.
1:01:07
He made some bold claims about the future of his program during a recent appearance
1:01:12
on the Ryan Roussillo podcast. First and Foremost, the third year head coach
1:01:16
looks at some of the challengers, challenges and challenges that come with such a
1:01:22
significant transition with excitement. Landing looks forward to facing all the unique differences between
1:01:29
the PAC twelve and Big Ten head on, especially when it comes to the
1:01:31
style of play. Quote. I think the challenge in front of us is
1:01:37
going to be a lot of fun and I don't think anybody gets in this
1:01:39
profession and says, give me the easiest road being in a conference that has
1:01:44
a competitive nature, that has really good football, that plays a physical brand
1:01:49
of football. That's something I'm excited about. Landing understands that the logistics of
1:01:54
away games are going to be different. However, he and the athletic department
1:01:58
in Eugene are preparing for the changes. Plus, not everyone or every away
1:02:02
game will require a six hour flight, and the Ducks are used to traveling
1:02:07
longer distances. At this point. Landing actually believes that the current Big Ten
1:02:10
college football teams will have to adjust to Oregon more than Oregon. I'll have
1:02:15
to adjust to the Big Ten quite I think at the end of the day,
1:02:17
the Big Ten is going to have to prepare for us in what we
1:02:21
do different for that league. And then he took shots at the Big Twelve
1:02:25
in the ACC. I'm glad to be in one of the two conferences in
1:02:29
college football that are elite. I'm going to be able to go and play
1:02:31
some of the elite teams. You look at the National Championship and that was
1:02:37
two Big Ten teams that were squaring off. Yeah, I told you somebody
1:02:42
was gonna take claim to that. He didn't say a Pac twelve and Big
1:02:46
ten team, he said two Big ten teams, and then of course indirectly
1:02:51
took a shot at the other conferences. Let's see here, Yeah, Matt
1:02:55
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that's a shot, Dan, that is a shot. All right.
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Let's see here. DJ Darkin will be the next defensive coordinator at Auburn.
1:03:22
DJ Durkin is officially going to be announced as the defensive coordinator at Auburn.
1:03:28
ESPN's Chris Low first report of the move. Auburn Live can confirm the higher
1:03:31
Drkin was Texas A and m's defensive coordinator in twenty twenty two and twenty three.
1:03:35
Before that, he was recently co DC at Ole miss in twenty twenty
1:03:38
and twenty twenty one, and Maryland their head football coach twenty sixteen to eighteen.
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Sources tell Auburn Live that Hugh Freeze also seriously considered former Mississippi State head
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or how are you? I'm doing well, Jake? How are you today?
1:05:27
We are good. We're just talking through everything. As you know,
1:05:30
we moved through Tuesday. I notice you're putting out a lot of stuff on
1:05:32
college basketball. I do want to touch on that before we get out of
1:05:34
here. First, let's go with the NFL. Your thoughts on what you
1:05:39
saw this past weekend and you know, were you surprised by any of the
1:05:44
outcomes? Yeah, I would say, Jake one, it was. It
1:05:47
was a good weekend of NFL football. Good games, compelling, exciting,
1:05:51
lots of good play. Some big time mistakes too, both by players and
1:05:56
coaching staff, as I'm sure we can talk about. But I was prize
1:06:00
that Kansas City won. And people can say, well, you shouldn't have
1:06:03
been surprised, Kelly. They got Pat Mahomes. He's one of the best
1:06:06
quarterbacks to ever do it, maybe the best to ever do it. I'm
1:06:10
not in that camp yet. I think that tom Brady's resume still speaks for
1:06:14
itself. And again I'm a Colts fan, so I did not like the
1:06:16
New England Patriots during the Peyton Manning era and Tom Brady and that rivalry.
1:06:20
But what tom Brady accomplished, I think is it stands above everything. But
1:06:25
Patrick Mahomes is certainly on a pass to being in that conversation, and so
1:06:30
you kind of you bet against him, you pick against him at your own
1:06:31
peril. I really thought Baltimore was a better team. I still think,
1:06:34
actually Baltimore is a better team than Kansas City. On that day, Kansas
1:06:40
City was the better team and that's what matters. That defense though Kansas City
1:06:44
just they're doing it different than they have this last five six years. The
1:06:48
defense now is among the best in the entire NFL. The offense with Patrick
1:06:54
Mahomes is gonna be what it is. So that result was surprising to me
1:06:58
a little bit. I know it was a close projected game and we got
1:07:00
that, but I did think that Baltimore would win that game, and on
1:07:03
the NFC side, I did think San Francisco would win. I didn't think
1:07:08
that the game would play out the way that it did. I was surprised
1:07:12
that Detroit jumped all over San Francisco in the first half and even held a
1:07:16
pretty commanding lead at halftime. I did not see the game playing out that
1:07:19
way, but I did think San Francisco would win, and ultimately they did
1:07:23
come back and get it done. So I think you know, of the
1:07:27
four teams that were left Detroit, you know, by the numbers and things
1:07:30
that I'm looking at, they were the weakest team and so I wouldn't have
1:07:32
been surprised at all if San Francisco, Kansas City, Baltimore, some combination
1:07:36
of that made the super Bowl. And that's what we have here. So
1:07:40
I think it's going to be a great game. It's exciting, but yeah,
1:07:42
it was. It was a fun weekend, the conference gimpshy game weekend
1:07:45
in the NFL. Kelly Ford on your Radio Tuesday edition of the program,
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The Lines dot Com. Also k Ford Ratings on x and k Ford Ratings
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dot com. Which one of these teams that eliminated the Lions or the Ravens
1:07:59
and a lot's gonna happen with coaches and obviously the NFL draft, free agency
1:08:02
and stuff. Do you think has the longer staying power for next year and
1:08:05
maybe the year after of those two? Yeah, I think it's Baltimore between
1:08:10
those two. And the answer for me is as simple as Lamar Jackson.
1:08:14
And I know people are disappointed, and I'm sure he is with you know,
1:08:18
how this season ended here for them, But he's just there's a handful
1:08:21
of quarterbacks in the NFL that are just different. They They are the difference
1:08:27
makers. They find ways to win games. They carry teams on their back.
1:08:31
And Lamar Jackson, it's not all him. That Baltimore defense is really
1:08:34
really good, and they've got some great continuity within that organization from the ownership
1:08:39
all the way down, so it's not just Lamar Jackson. But between the
1:08:43
two, Detroit they are a team that's on the rise. If I'm not
1:08:45
mistaken. I think they've got some things they need to work out with some
1:08:48
potential free agents and maybe backfilling some needs that might come up here this offseason.
1:08:53
But between the two, to me, the answer is the Ravens.
1:08:56
Because of Lamar Jackson, I think that the future is bright with him and
1:09:00
they will at some point get over this hump. I feel confident he's that
1:09:03
good of a player, He's that transcendent of a player that I'll be surprised
1:09:06
if he ends his career having never made and maybe even won a Super Bowl.
1:09:13
Let me ask you this, NFL wise, you know when you look
1:09:16
at teams like Buffalo and you know, just ten thousand foot fly over of
1:09:20
what has happened in the league, Buffalo, Miami. You look at at
1:09:26
Cincinnati with Joe Burrow, you look at at the strides that Houston made.
1:09:30
You can go across like Jim Harball now comes into the AFC in San Diego
1:09:34
or for the Chargers rather, I always refer to them San Diego probably always
1:09:38
will for the Chargers. Ye, you go to the NFC. I mean
1:09:41
the Packers made made strides, looked really good in the postseason. Cowboys are
1:09:45
kind of what they are. We'll see Philadelphia. It's going through a transition.
1:09:47
Is it safe to say that the AFC looks like it is positioning itself,
1:09:53
you know, and we go back and forth with this to be the
1:09:55
stronger of the two leagues. Yeah, and Jake, I think that was
1:09:59
the narrative come into the end of the twenty twenty three season as well.
1:10:01
And I don't think it's changed the AFC and it's and it starts at the
1:10:04
quarterback position. I mean, because of the quarterbacks and you mentioned a lot
1:10:08
of them there, Because of the quarterbacks that are playing on AFC rosters that
1:10:13
I mean, by and large, on average, that's going to be the
1:10:15
stronger of the two conferences. So you know, as a fan of the
1:10:17
Indianapolis Colts. You know what do we have in Anthony Richardson? Because for
1:10:21
us to be competitive and for us to make runs in the playoffs, we've
1:10:26
got to get great play at the quarterback position. I imagine a lot of
1:10:29
your your listeners are New Orleans Saints fans, and so I'd rather be a
1:10:32
Saints fan from a from a perspective of your conference difficulty than a Colts fan,
1:10:38
because I do think the NFC is more gettable right now, if you
1:10:41
will. I know, the Saints have all sorts of cap things they're working
1:10:43
on and and folks aren't happy with by and large the product that's been on
1:10:47
the field or the win loss record. But as my what if standing show,
1:10:49
New Orleans was not that far away from being, you know, an
1:10:53
above five hundred team, maybe even a playoff team this year if some bounces
1:10:57
go their way and they get some breaks in different games. So the a
1:11:00
to answer your question, I believe is shaping up to be the more that
1:11:04
are difficult of the two conferences, and it ebbs and flows. It's just
1:11:08
where we are right now with the quarterbacks that are in the league. Let's
1:11:11
step off into some college basketball. We'll talk about this last question this segment,
1:11:15
then get into some more of it, and I may come back to
1:11:16
college football before the end. You've got your k Forward ratings for basketball out
1:11:19
and you look at the odds courtesy pen Gaming and others to win the national
1:11:24
championship in basketball at you know it's a cluttered field. You've got Houston as
1:11:29
the number one team in the k Ford ratings for basketball Perdue, Arizona,
1:11:32
Tennessee, and Auburn, followed by Alabama, Yukon, North Carolina, Iowa
1:11:35
State, and BYU. How deep of a field could we be looking at
1:11:41
this year? I think it's open this year, Jake, as it's been
1:11:45
in recent years, and the NAA Tournament with college basketball, it's such a
1:11:51
it's such a unique setup because it really is all about matchups and the chaos
1:11:56
of just the one off game. That's why everyone loves Marsh Baddist at March
1:12:00
Madness. It's hard to really pinpoint and identify, you know, how it's
1:12:03
going to play out. I do think the teams that you just mentioned certainly
1:12:08
are going to be at the forefront of those odds have the best chance to
1:12:11
make a run potentially in March, But there's tons of teams outside of that
1:12:15
that you didn't mention who you know, if you discount them, you do
1:12:17
it at your own risk. And you know, Duke is a team that's
1:12:20
got the upper end to go out and win six games in March Kansas.
1:12:25
Outside the top the top ten right now of my power ratings, there's you
1:12:29
could go on and on about teams that have a chance. There is some
1:12:31
proven there's some proven recent history here about where you need to be and kind
1:12:35
of adjusted offensive and defensive efficiency by Ken Pom, so you can kind of
1:12:40
whittle it down through that. But at any given year, teams can come
1:12:44
out of We just saw last year with Yukona. I believe there were four
1:12:45
seeds. You don't have to be a top one, two, three seeds
1:12:49
to make a deep run in the tournament. It's all about peaking at the
1:12:51
right time and getting favorable matchups in March. But yes, from a power
1:12:56
rating standpoint, those teams you mentioned, they're certainly the ones that you can
1:12:58
expect to be playing late in the March and then into early April. Kelly
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When you look at the conference averages, I like what you've done here,
1:14:24
conference average k Ford rating points per game above or below Division one average,
1:14:29
Big Ten are Big twelve. Skins comes in at twelve point two,
1:14:31
the Big Ten right behind him at ten point four, moving up the SEC
1:14:35
ten point three, Big easton then the ACC and of course we know this
1:14:39
when you get into college basketball, you get into you know, as much
1:14:42
as what you've got thirty three different conferences here. It really is interesting that
1:14:45
how many I think we forget how many people play Division one basketball that could
1:14:49
get into the tournament. But let me ask you about the SEC. How
1:14:53
deep is this league? You know we have those conversations down here. Is
1:14:56
this a seventeen league to the tournament as an eighteen leag nine LinkedIn? How
1:15:00
deep business is this league? In your estimation? Yeah, the SEC is
1:15:04
obviously the Kings of the grid Iron, but very good in men's basketball as
1:15:09
well. I think you can go seven, eight, nine deep into the
1:15:13
tournam this year. Of course, the bubble starts getting murky. You get
1:15:15
your bid Steelers, But in terms of the best teams in the SDC for
1:15:18
me, it kind of starts with a top tier of grouping Tennessee, Auburn,
1:15:23
Alabama, all very similarly power rated up there in the top five,
1:15:27
the top ten in the country. So to me, that's kind of the
1:15:30
class of the SDC, if you will. Kentucky is probably in that next
1:15:33
kind of tier, that next grouping of teams Texas, A and M Florida,
1:15:39
Mississippi State right there in your backyard, Jake. Those are also some
1:15:43
teams that from a power rating standpoint, are performing at a very very high
1:15:46
level, at top forty level nationally. You talk about next year what the
1:15:50
SEC is going to look like. Both Texas and Oklahoma right now in the
1:15:54
top thirty five of my power ratings on the basketball side, So I think
1:15:59
you can get all the way down into the middle, maybe even that third
1:16:02
quartile of the conference where you've got resumes that put you in a position to
1:16:06
be under consideration on selection Sunday, because that's what the committee's looking at.
1:16:12
And as someone who works in the conference office and overseas basketball in the Horizon
1:16:15
League, I can speak pretty pretty detailed on what the committee's valuing and what
1:16:19
they don't value. When you play in a conference like the SCC or like
1:16:24
the Big Twelve, where night in and night out, these games that you're
1:16:27
playing their Quad one, their Quad two opportunities. You get rewarded by the
1:16:31
committee for winning those games. You do not get punished for losing those games.
1:16:36
So even if a team has collected some losses and that lost columns really
1:16:41
piling up, if all of those losses are in Quad one and Quad two,
1:16:45
in the eyes of the selection committee, you actually still have a pretty
1:16:47
good resume. And that's how you can see, you know, eight nine
1:16:50
teams from a single conference get into the tournament. Which conference, in your
1:16:55
estimation, are we sleeping on this year? That could be, you know,
1:16:59
somewhat surprise. I mean, obviously we know about the Big Twelve,
1:17:00
of the Ten, the SEC, the Big East, the ACC. I
1:17:03
mean we're looking at the you know, Mountain Valley Conference. Are we looking
1:17:06
at the West Coast Conference? Are we looking at maybe a WAC? I
1:17:11
mean, where are you looking that? Maybe a lot of people aren't looking.
1:17:15
Yeah, I think you know, outside the Power six if you will
1:17:17
in college basketball, that'd be your your official Power five plus the Big East.
1:17:21
For me, it's easy to go right to the Mountain West. I
1:17:24
think the Mountain West they might get four teams in the tournament this year,
1:17:28
and you know for a for a high mid they're a mid major, high
1:17:30
major, whatever you want to call them. They do play FBS football of
1:17:33
course in the Mountain West, but typically not a basketball powerhouse that comes to
1:17:38
mind, the Mountain West Conference. I also think the A ten is a
1:17:41
conference to keep an eye with some good teams the WCC, you know,
1:17:44
the West Coast Conference. Usually they've got Gonzaga and then you know Saint Mary's
1:17:47
will be a strong team too. In recent year of San Francisco has made
1:17:51
the tournament out of the WCC. Gonzaga is down this year. This is
1:17:56
not the Gonzaga type team that you're used to seeing from the last twenty five
1:18:00
years. So I'm not sure how much the WCC is going to be a
1:18:03
big player come March this year, but definitely the Mountain West, the A
1:18:06
ten, that's where you need to be looking if you're looking outside the traditional
1:18:11
power six. Let me shift back to college football real quickly and get your
1:18:15
thoughts on a couple of well I've talked to Chris Landry about this yesterday,
1:18:19
way too early but you look at the Miami Hurricanes and what they have been
1:18:23
able to do in the transfer portal. You start really chalking through their recruiting
1:18:26
and you know what they obviously bring in cam Ward, and it looks like
1:18:30
this could be a you know, banger bust year for Mario Crystal Ball and
1:18:34
talent wise, it looks like they've got as good a talent as anybody in
1:18:38
the ACC coming back. Is this a banger bust year in your estimation for
1:18:42
Mario Cristaball? Yeah, I hate to put that kind of label on it
1:18:45
when we're this far out, as you said, but I think that's reasonable.
1:18:48
And Jacobs, we talked about before in the New Look ACC. I
1:18:54
mean Florida State. You know a recent you know, the last half century
1:18:59
or last half set has risen to power, has really really good teams in
1:19:02
the eighties and nineties. Of course, you know, played in or won
1:19:05
national championship at twenty thirteen when Jameis Winston got maybe snubbed this year. Florida
1:19:10
State's the team that you look at in the ACC and say they could be
1:19:12
a flag bearer Clemson with what they've accomplished under Dabois, winning the last ten
1:19:15
fifteen years, they could be a flag bear outside of those two programs in
1:19:19
the ACC. Now we're talking football, not basketball. I mean, where
1:19:24
else are you going if you're not going Miami as kind of that team that
1:19:28
really should be at the top of the conference standings every single year. Mario
1:19:30
Christoball is a Miami guy's alum. Right. He knows how to recruit.
1:19:33
We saw that at Oregon, We're seeing that at Miami. The biggest thing
1:19:38
for me is can Mario Christoball improve really his game management skills, his time
1:19:43
management, the way that he calls a game, the way that he affects
1:19:45
the game from the sidelines. If he can piece that together. You said
1:19:49
it, they're putting pieces together in the transfer portal. They've got a really
1:19:53
strong roster. There really is not excuse for Miami. And I'll say this
1:19:57
regardless of who the coach is, there's not an excuse now for Miami to
1:20:00
not be in the top two or three on a year in and year out
1:20:03
basis in the ACC. And that should have been the expectation there since they
1:20:08
joined the conference in two thousand and five. I believe it was. Of
1:20:11
course, they have not been a perennial power in that conference. There's really
1:20:14
no excuse. And as the landscape continues to shift in college football with conference
1:20:17
realignment, Miami needs to make sure that they're playing at a peak level here
1:20:21
when the next wave that edverably hits. Kelly Ford, make sure to find
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have a great week. Look when we talk next week, it'll be a
1:20:33
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1:20:36
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up later for you as well. I just noticed you're drinking regular water.
1:22:10
What happened to the big cans of water? You still do that? Oh,
1:22:15
that's that's only a once a week purchase. That's like that's luxury water
1:22:20
because those waters are pricey. That liquid death. Oh okay, so you
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had just so you get them once a week. Yeah, So it's like
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one can a week one case a week case like twelve. There's only eight
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in a case, so I guess this is not really even a case.
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It's a we'll say, a pack a pack of the death Texas six hour
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Cowboy Maloney's text sign. We are inside the Amaricstar Casino studios. Let's see
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here, Chris, Buffalo, Chris? Where other is? The new road
1:22:53
is East Metro? Is that what they call that East Metro Parkway? Yeah?
1:22:59
Thanks for breaking news on me. Oh okay, Chris. He's making
1:23:02
sure that you knew where we were going. I mean it opened in twenty
1:23:05
thirteen. I've only been driving it since then, Chief shooting ball. It
1:23:12
wasn't the fact that she was naked, It was the problem of her not
1:23:15
wearing clothes. Metro Mayhem. Is that what we're gonna call this Metro parkway?
1:23:19
Mayhem? Might as well? Turd Ferguson, I just got in the
1:23:25
truck. What happened in Brandon? I get my news here? Beaver withd
1:23:29
you like to fill turd in for his news of the day. There's well,
1:23:32
I thought what was happening originally was there's naked women running around Brandon.
1:23:39
But apparently it's the same lady. So first it was high Way eighteen over
1:23:45
by Chick fil A and that was wasn't that just last weekend or last week?
1:23:49
Yeah? And apparently she sat it again today, so that's oh,
1:23:57
we know about that. Matt Daddy says that picture. He said, this
1:24:00
was a picture of the good citizens of Rankin County. Let's see here.
1:24:05
I almost had a deer on the parkway the other day, that East Metro
1:24:08
Parkway. Maybe we need to watch and see what kind of it it's unfold
1:24:12
on that parkway. You better be careful with the deer this time of year.
1:24:17
I'm glad we've gotten on the Cemetro Parkway. Need to figure out what's
1:24:21
going on because just Sunday, two days ago, I was driving down East
1:24:28
Metro and over where they opened it all up, there were no homes.
1:24:35
I mean, there's homes way back in the distance, but mainly it's a
1:24:41
lot of open land and they're burning a bunch of stuff out there. And
1:24:45
I see this man walking his dog, and then I see a couple other
1:24:53
couple ladies. They're walking down East Metro. But it was in that area
1:24:57
where there's nothing around there. Where did these people come from? I mean,
1:25:01
that's that had to be a long walk for you. It's like they
1:25:04
just appeared out of nowhere. Where'd you come from? Whether correct me if
1:25:10
I'm wrong? Here there are offshoots right roads off of there. Yeah,
1:25:14
maybe they just spun up on those roads and walked in and they're using it
1:25:17
as a walking trail of sorts. Well, that one offshoot road that just
1:25:24
goes over to Old Brandon, no homes there. And then I mean there's
1:25:29
one house in the distance beyond where they're burning. But it's way like he
1:25:31
would have had to trek through the he would have had to walk through the
1:25:34
fire. It's very interesting. They're just materializing. But you said these are
1:25:42
older women. Uh no, I mean a couple of them looked like middle
1:25:46
aged ladies. But then there was a whole. There was a whole.
1:25:48
Another guy down even further into nowhere walking his dog. Well, you know,
1:25:57
people they will walk a long distance. Could have walked in from Pearl
1:26:00
over there. I don't you know. I don't bring these stories to you
1:26:04
to rationalize. I want you to agree with me that something about East Metro
1:26:10
is fishy and people are materializing out of thin air. That is true.
1:26:14
Okay, thank you. We just need to keep our eyes on an East
1:26:16
Metro parkway. Any odd stories that you see on East Metro put them here,
1:26:23
Saint Louis Vick. Okay, Jake, March twenty first, Jake,
1:26:28
Gillen Hall, Connor McGregor. Roadhouse movie. The trailer looks pretty good.
1:26:31
Are you in on this new Roadhouse movie? I am? I am.
1:26:34
It does look good. Jay. Have you seen the trailer he speaks of.
1:26:38
I've seen. I think I saw a snippet of it. I need
1:26:40
to go make sure I go watch it again. Gillen Hall is a ripped
1:26:44
beast in this thing. Is he the modern Swayze in this movie? I
1:26:49
refuse to call it that because I don't I don't think he can. Well,
1:26:57
maybe it's just the place in my heart though for he swazy. No,
1:27:02
that makes sense. But it does look good. I'm intrigued by it.
1:27:05
So does McGregor have a big role in this movie or is he just
1:27:08
like kind of appearing and then getting out. So Ever, since they announced
1:27:12
that, there really hasn't been a ton of details, but it it does
1:27:16
look like he's got a bigger role than we ever knew because he got second
1:27:21
billion. In the trailer, he's right behind Gillen Hall, So I would
1:27:25
imagine that means he's because it said they're gonna they're gonna tie up more than
1:27:30
once throughout the movie. So I think he's gonna be a pretty big character.
1:27:32
Okay, jam Jake. No quarterback that has running as his number one
1:27:39
skill set has ever won a Super Bowl. Lamar is a novelty item,
1:27:43
period. Can't really disagree with him on that because he is absolutely right.
1:27:46
No quarterback that is a typically a run first guy, and Lamar can throw
1:27:51
the ball. He's just not Patrick Mahomes. He's not any of these guys.
1:27:57
Is he a quote novelty item? Mmmm? I think novelty item isn't
1:28:01
really fair. Now, I've never thought, well, I've told you before
1:28:09
he's a good regular season quarterback and that's exactly what we saw. He further
1:28:14
proved it this year now. To be completely fair to this man, his
1:28:18
completion percentage was the highest of his career this year, so he's complete.
1:28:25
He's throwing it, it seems seems to be throwing it better. Passing yards
1:28:29
were the highest they've been in four years. I believe but also that's regular
1:28:36
season, so I can see it both ways. But overall, I wouldn't
1:28:42
say novelty act. But I don't think he's gonna win a super Bowl,
1:28:45
so I will agree with JM. There a lot of quarterbacks never won a
1:28:47
Super Bowl, really good quarterbacks, Hall of Famer quarterbacks, space Coast.
1:28:53
I thought I was gonna be able to bring you And by the way,
1:28:55
you can text a six or one eight eighty five three seven seven six,
1:28:58
that is the couple of Milourney's text line, was gonna be able to bring
1:29:00
you the high points today? Some about his article We're watching my son's dog
1:29:05
and he ate half the article hopefully tomorrow. Is he serious about this or
1:29:10
is he now just playing with us? I, you know, normal people,
1:29:15
I would think that they're just messing with us. But space Go seems
1:29:19
like he's the kind of guy who gets himself in these weird situations like that.
1:29:26
He also sends this in the Ministry of ungentle Manly Warfare? What is
1:29:33
he talking about? This movie? Has the guy that played Reacher, the
1:29:40
guy that played Superman, and many others look good? Looks like a good
1:29:45
movie. I don't know if it's on Netflix or prime or in theaters only?
1:29:48
Is he talking about this movie? This roadhouse movie? Is that what
1:29:53
he's talking about? What is ungentle manly warfare? What is he doing?
1:30:00
Okay, so he speaks of Alan Richson, who's also a ribbed beast.
1:30:05
He's Reacher, Henry Cavill, that's your guy. Yep, Okay, let's
1:30:11
see what have we got here? Billed as a true story about a secret
1:30:15
British World War Two organization, Nope, you just lost me. Those movies
1:30:23
based around that time, they don't really get me. Well, around which
1:30:27
time World War Two? You couldn't envision yourself in that part of history.
1:30:35
Welcome the streets of la or Harlem or Chicago, or with a hat on
1:30:41
your head. I mean, they didn't wear shorts back then. Let's see,
1:30:44
Well, there's why I don't want to be there, chief shooting bull.
1:30:47
What if he's some about East Metro Parkway, Beaver and the people you
1:30:50
saw? What if they're program spirits that just departed flights and are set on
1:30:55
a mission. I don't even know what he doing with that. That's what
1:31:01
you were looking for, right, I think that's the kind of response you
1:31:03
were looking for. Let's see here and Let's see Jay Rock. He says,
1:31:12
dude was walking East Metro Parkway last night. BIEB did you see this?
1:31:15
Yeah? Okay, see Chief shooting Bull and Jay Rock. Now,
1:31:19
you guys are with what I'm looking for, because that's a picture of a
1:31:24
big ol' alien in some woods. You're gonna be looking on your way in
1:31:29
tonight, aren't you. Yep? What are you gonna do if you see
1:31:31
something like that on East Metro? Well, I don't know what you know
1:31:39
East Metro, now that I think about it, Okay, let me tell
1:31:43
you a quick tail that happened on East Metro back in it It was during
1:31:48
it was still during the John Wiener regime here, so I guess that was
1:31:51
twenty I'd say it was twenty fifteen. I made a tactical error, Jake.
1:32:00
I feel like nine years later I can say this. It was a
1:32:04
dumbed choice for some reason. Oh, because Wiener was doing that later show.
1:32:10
Remember when he did that loose six to seven show back then. Yeah.
1:32:14
So one night, for some reason, I decided I'm gonna bring my
1:32:17
ambien with me. I wanted to get to sleep quick, apparently because I
1:32:23
took it before I left this parking lot okay, live in Pearls thirty minutes
1:32:26
away. I'm not I am not kidding you. You know East Metro,
1:32:30
this is way before it was cleared out, just tons of trees. I
1:32:33
was driving down East Metro. I started seeing something in the sky above that
1:32:40
tree line. You know what? It was an airplane? It No,
1:32:45
it was a massive version of Hugh Kelenberger. I'm not making this up one
1:32:51
bit. I saw Hugh Kelenberger walking amongst the tree line. So maybe now
1:33:00
that we've now that we're looking back, now that we're seeing what's happening,
1:33:03
now that it's actually cleared out, that might have been real. That might
1:33:08
not have been an ambient induced fever. Think about it now it's now,
1:33:15
it's coming full circle. It's all tying together. Something about that road.
1:33:20
Why a massive Hugh kelen Berger. I have no idea. I have no
1:33:25
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1:33:30
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1:34:54
Mike. Welcome in, sir, how are you? I am great?
1:34:57
I am pumped for some egg Bowl basketball tonight. Man, how about that.
1:35:00
I mean, what's your thoughts so far? I mean, we got
1:35:02
a long way to go. We're about to hit the turn here on the
1:35:04
second half of the season. I mean, it's going quick. But when
1:35:08
you look at these two programs, Mississippi State with a big win over the
1:35:12
weekend, Ole Miss, They've had big wins as well. You know,
1:35:15
we're talking to a lot of people like you are about how deep is this
1:35:17
league? Is it six seven, eight nine? We'll see what the NCAA
1:35:21
Tournament kind of rolls out. But looking at the matchup tonight and then looking
1:35:25
at these two programs, your thoughts so far on State Anile Miss, Well,
1:35:29
is this gonna be the biggest game ever at the pavilion? I mean,
1:35:31
this is huge tonight with State coming off there, you go back to
1:35:34
back wins or two wins at least in January over top five teams in Auburn
1:35:38
and Tennessee your top ten teams, I guess. But they have yet to
1:35:41
win on the road and all this season they got six neutral site wins Jake,
1:35:45
but have yet to win a true road game, zero to three in
1:35:47
the league on the road and really haven't even been competitive. On the other
1:35:51
side, you got Ole Miss's unbeaten inside pavilion this year, and just I
1:35:56
mean, do life under Chris Beard. I'm expecting the place to be talking
1:36:00
tonight. It should be a whole lot of fun to watch Mike Grace on
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their show. You can get it right here at eight o'clock tonight. Mike,
1:36:09
when you look at the SEC as a whole, is this the deepest
1:36:13
that you can remember this league has been? Man, it's hard to say
1:36:16
it's not. I mean, look, we've had years the last couple of
1:36:18
years with what Bama's been number one in the country. We don't have a
1:36:20
team that high this season. But when you look at the again, the
1:36:25
quantity of quality that is up and down this league, all of this is
1:36:29
the perfect example, Jake. This team was at the basement of the league
1:36:31
a year ago. There's seventeen and three now four and three in the league.
1:36:34
They're just coming off their first ever win at Texas A and M.
1:36:38
Never at Oldness won a basketball game at Texas A and M until this past
1:36:42
weekend. So I just think, up and down the line, you can't
1:36:45
you can't take anything for granted. And it's why both for both clubs tonight,
1:36:49
for States try to get steal a road to win and for ole Miss
1:36:53
to protect that home court advantage. It's a big game for both clubs.
1:36:57
You know, you talked about Misissippi State, and you know it will be
1:37:00
interesting to see if a trend is bucked one with the other almost twelve and
1:37:02
zero at home, State zero and four on the road, but they are
1:37:05
six and zero on neutral sites. You know, and sometimes this thing goes
1:37:09
tip for tat between State and o Miss. A lot of splitting. You
1:37:13
know, you get back in to Rick Stansbury and when he was a Mississippi
1:37:15
State, they owned that series. But who do you like tonight in this
1:37:17
ball game? Well, I mean I like State if they can do a
1:37:21
couple of things. The first thing they got to do is avoid the letdown.
1:37:24
I mean coming off the big win over Auburn. I think Christians will
1:37:27
do a good job of getting those guys back. Enjoy that win. But
1:37:30
you gotta flush it and then you got to do what you've been doing.
1:37:32
The strength of this team is defense and rebounding. Those things should travel.
1:37:38
You just got to find a little offense every now and then. And look
1:37:40
the free throws thing, they're a must. Man. They didn't cost this
1:37:43
team on Saturday when they hit some key ones down the stretch versus Auburn,
1:37:46
if they were still just nine of eighteen, just fifty percent from the stripe.
1:37:49
And you've got to do better that than that if you want to win
1:37:53
anywhere on the road in this league. Mike will have a SEC Baseball College
1:37:57
baseball first pitch starts here in a little over two weeks on the sixth,
1:38:00
sixteenth of February. You look at the SEC again, Nashally just front loaded
1:38:05
from Florida, Arkansas, LSU, all getting, you know, garnering attention,
1:38:10
Nashally, Vanderbilt, top ten type teams, Texas, A and M.
1:38:14
You look at what Alabama did last year. It's hard to believe South
1:38:16
Carolina that Missisispi State Ole Miss. We're just I mean, we're not that
1:38:20
far removed from back to back national championships in this state. But this league
1:38:25
is so tough and it is so deep. What defines success for both state
1:38:30
and olemens this year in baseball, and you know, you know, especially
1:38:33
for Crystal Monas you could make the case for Mike Bianco, where do they
1:38:38
need to be to be coaching at these universities in twenty twenty five. You
1:38:42
know, the past two seasons for Lamonas and Startful have been the kind of
1:38:45
years that state fans aren't used to. Well, let's just face that baseball
1:38:48
fans in Starkfill aren't used to the last two seasons coming off that national championship
1:38:53
that bought Lamonas a lot of good will. You wonder if that's going to
1:38:56
be running out this year, if they can't come up with a winning record
1:38:59
in league play and get back the tournament, at least make a decent showing
1:39:01
in that regard. And again, I think for Old miss they still got
1:39:03
a little bit of room because they're national championship game a year later Ben States.
1:39:09
But still you expect these two programs to be near the top of the
1:39:12
SEC because your fight Jacs so loaded from top to bottom and there's just no
1:39:15
easy weekend in SEC play at all. Let's pivot over to football, get
1:39:20
your thoughts on a couple of things while I got just a few minutes here.
1:39:24
Let's stay in the state of Mississippi and go back to Oxford. We
1:39:27
all know about Lane Kiffin and what he's been able to do in the transfer
1:39:30
portal. Depending on the outlet, they're going to be somewhere nineteen twenty twenty
1:39:32
one in recruiting. But the portal is where you know they have made their
1:39:36
money, no pun intended. And you look at obviously the loss of Quinn
1:39:40
Shawn Judkins, but so many players they have picked up. And here recently
1:39:44
they pick up a big offensive lineman you know, from the University of Washington,
1:39:48
who played thirteen ball games. This has been fascinating to watch, actually
1:39:55
two offensive linemen from the University of Washington. Now to see Lane kiffn build
1:39:59
this roster. The expectations are as high as I can remember in Oxford has
1:40:03
is this guy figured out the recruiting pitch, the new recruiting deal. I
1:40:08
mean, whether it's his social media presence, whatever it is, I don't
1:40:11
know, but he's got it. Going down and coming to the stip is
1:40:14
the new thing. You know, the guys that comes so close in years
1:40:17
past, it's time for him to take that next step. I saw a
1:40:19
recent ranking of SEC football coaches and he was right below the top two guys.
1:40:24
This guy had listed Brian Kelly and the Kirby Smart Obviously Kirby at number
1:40:29
one Brian Kelly at number two is championship elite guys, but then Lane was
1:40:33
in that next group of one step away. They are so close, and
1:40:38
with the field expanding to a twelve team playoff this year should be a great
1:40:42
oportunity for Old Miss to be in that playoff and try to make some some
1:40:45
true boisseason postseason. Those noise you mentioned the recruits theyre bringing in, how
1:40:49
about the home run higher. Bringing Joe Cox in as the new tight ends
1:40:53
coach is huge, a former Nick Saven assistant, an Alabama guy that's save
1:40:56
been flowingly talked about. He's already recruiting in his home state of North Carolina,
1:41:00
looking for more of those studs that Lank Kivens been putting together. And
1:41:03
the thing is, I'm I love seeing today, Jay, how about Lank
1:41:08
Kiffing three years alcohol free? Today are really heartfelt social media post earlier.
1:41:12
I know he catches a lot of flax sometimes for his social media stuff,
1:41:15
but anybody who's got history of alcoholism and personal or in their family something like
1:41:19
that knows what a bear that can be. And you got to be happy
1:41:21
for Lane Kiffing. And you know, for a state guy to to feel
1:41:25
good about Lane Kiffon, that's a stretch for this guy. But I'm doing
1:41:29
it. No, there's no doubt about it. I mean, that's the
1:41:30
hats off to Lane Kiffin for that. That is a very tough deal to
1:41:33
battle and he's been open and honest about it, and you know, I
1:41:36
hope that he continues down that path. Hey, let me stay at the
1:41:40
transfer portal. We'll get you out here on this question. Here. Speaking
1:41:42
of transfer portal, we've talked about Alabama, Alabama, Calendi bore coming in
1:41:45
the Alabama guys transferring out, like they've got almost thirty guys, twenty nine
1:41:49
guys in the portal out they've brought six in. They'll get a few more
1:41:54
of those guys. You know, they'll get some guys back in. On
1:41:56
the second short window after spring practice. Last year, they had somewhere around
1:42:00
twenty two to twenty three guys and only seven or eight m that. I
1:42:04
don't know that we're focus on this enough, but that depth in Alabama,
1:42:08
boy, it is really really just deteriorated over the last two years. And
1:42:12
look, there are folks who believed that Kaylan de Boor was the perfect hire,
1:42:15
the perfect guy to try to replace Nick. Say, but you're not
1:42:18
going to replace him, but to follow him. But Jake, I'm with
1:42:21
you. I don't care. Especially with all the transfer portal news as you
1:42:26
mentioned, how does this program not take a step back. I mean,
1:42:29
I don't think there's anyone that could step in and do what Saban has done.
1:42:33
So you know, Bama fans are optimistic, they love to hire,
1:42:38
They're behind Taylor de Boor. I just really wonder it's going to be tough,
1:42:42
especially with the expanded SEC that Texas and Oklahoma program coming in. Good
1:42:47
luck, Taylor de Boor, you need to go find you some players because
1:42:49
you've got a tough lead to compete in. Lastly, DJ Dirkin to Auburn.
1:42:54
Good hire, bad hire. Gotta wait and see, man, gotta
1:42:58
wait and see. You know, it's a name that's out there, been
1:43:00
out there, the former Maryland head coach. He's got his experience in the
1:43:02
SEC's got his experience with you, Freeze. It's interesting to me to see
1:43:06
how how Freeze does kind of manage the turnover in his staff. I mean,
1:43:11
to turn so much turnover after just one season. You wonder if maybe
1:43:15
having Carnell and jack Ethrid the other two Auburn guys there, just they worn't
1:43:18
his guys. So is this him, you know, moving those guys out
1:43:21
and getting his guys in. If so, and either way, I mean,
1:43:26
the guy needs to win this year. Last year was a social year
1:43:28
for Auburn, but they're not going to stand for that for very long.
1:43:31
Thanke. Sure to find him on exit press brought excuse me Pressbox Radio one.
1:43:34
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1:43:44
up after Misisippi State basketball concludes as well, Mike, I appreciate your time
1:43:47
as always. Look, have a great rest of the weekend, enjoy the
1:43:49
ball games. We'll talk soon, hey man, And if I can a
1:43:53
quick blood for the show, We've got some fun. Bruce Pearl is with
1:43:56
us inside the press box tomorrow. Coming up on Thursday, we've got the
1:43:59
Jim Naggey, the director of the Senior Bowl, and Friddy Iron Eagle fresh
1:44:02
off the AFC Championship Game. Call on West with one and getting ready for
1:44:05
the international call of Super Bowl fifty eight. Will join us Friday inside the
1:44:10
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1:45:25
is playing the role of Jimmy in the movie There You Go. Remember Jimmy,
1:45:30
is he the one that sways he got that throat rip on? I
1:45:33
think so. I think monkey's riding dogs. He wants to know is that
1:45:42
where you got your ticket? The East Metro Parkway? Wow? Sure was?
1:45:48
I don't know that you need to be traveling East Metro Parkway. Now
1:45:51
that these stories are coming out, Yeah, this, when you put them
1:45:56
together, it doesn't sound And now I got to pick another route though,
1:46:01
Well that means you would just leave here, go down County Line and Hit
1:46:04
fifty five, go south fifty five twenty and over. No, thanks,
1:46:12
I don't go down County Line. Well, then go back to Lake Harbor,
1:46:16
back around to Target into Hit fifty five. That way, I will
1:46:21
take my chances on East Metro. You were such a creature of habit,
1:46:27
you're not doing that. It's a nice ride back that way, though.
1:46:30
What's a nice ride in East Metro when you're not fueled up on Amby's and
1:46:35
seeing people materialize out of nowhere with dogs and such. Yeah, that's kind
1:46:43
of weird, you kellen Berger's Yeah, that's exactly right. All right,
1:46:47
the Pittsburgh Steelers. Steelers ownership still believes in quarterback Kenny Pickett. Do they
1:46:51
really? Every Pittsburgh Steeler Steelers season seems to be the same Lately. They
1:46:58
play good defense alongside SuPAR offense, win between eight to ten games. If
1:47:01
they make the playoffs, they're bounced in the first round. Most of the
1:47:05
problems can be chalked up to poor quarterback play. The end of legend Ben
1:47:11
Roethlisberger's career was not his best part, and since then the team has struggled
1:47:15
to find to even league average quarterback play. The team drafted Kenny Pickett with
1:47:19
the twentieth overall pick in the twenty twenty two draft out of pitt to be
1:47:25
the long term solution at the position following Big Ben, But in two seasons,
1:47:29
he hasn't shown any indication that he has the ability to be the guy.
1:47:32
Pikett has just thirteen touchdowns and thirteen interceptions in twenty four career starts.
1:47:38
Think about that, first round guy thirteen thirteen twenty four starts and his touchdown
1:47:44
rate is the lowest in the in NFL history among qualified quarterbacks. Yes,
1:47:48
he's won fourteen of those starts, but the Steelers offense has been awful and
1:47:51
basically every game he started, pickets lack of production was magnified when Mason Rudolph
1:47:58
came in at the end of the season after Pickett's injury and played well.
1:48:01
The offense looked much better under the veteran, putting Kenny Pickett's job security in
1:48:06
doubt. But at Monday's end of the season press availability for team owner Art
1:48:12
Rooney the second he gave a pretty big endorsement of Kenny Pickett. According to
1:48:15
the official website of the Pittsburgh Steelers, quote, we still feel good about
1:48:19
Kenny Pickett in his future, Croney. He knows he needs to work.
1:48:26
He knows he needs to work hard to take the next step. We've talked
1:48:30
about that. One of the things I think we like about Kenny in terms
1:48:33
of his career was how hard he worked and he's taken and he took a
1:48:39
step every year. We're looking forward to that happening here. That's an important
1:48:43
component of the of the next coordinator making sure he helps Kenny take the next
1:48:46
step. Well. That being said, can't discount what Mason did. Croney,
1:48:53
can't discount the fact that having competition will be good for everybody. Mason
1:48:57
came in and showed I think what we're capable of when we get quality play
1:49:01
at the quarterback position. I appreciate what Mason did. We're interested in bringing
1:49:05
back Mason. That's a very weird endorsement to go on a team website,
1:49:10
isn't it. I would say that Art Rooney doesn't believe in either one of
1:49:16
these guys. What do you think, No, it doesn't sound like it.
1:49:23
Do you believe in Kenny Pickett? I don't. I don't, and
1:49:26
I wanted to. I wanted to. You know, our sales guy here
1:49:30
sean big Steelers fan, and I gave him so much false hope leading into
1:49:36
the season. I told him the Steelers were going to be good. I
1:49:41
said, believe in Picket and he kept telling me no, no, man,
1:49:45
I'm like, this is your team. And then at the end of
1:49:47
the season I apologized to him. I led you astray. So you think
1:49:53
they'll be looking for a quarterback in twenty twenty five, I think they need
1:49:58
to look for a quarterback and in three months during the draft, Well,
1:50:03
sounds like Art Rooney the second is it? Because Tomlin he came out a
1:50:10
few weeks ago and he did say it's two or three weeks ago. He
1:50:15
did say that Kenny Pickett is quarterback one going into the season, but he
1:50:20
will have competition. So that sounds like they're expecting to go get another quarterback
1:50:28
or they expect Masontop Rudolph to finally materialize. What did I just call him
1:50:31
rooftop Mason, rooftop rooftop Murdoch whatever. Tom Brady speaks out on taking Greg
1:50:40
Olsen's job on NFL broadcast. Have you seen this? Yeah, because you
1:50:44
know we were talking about Olsen yesterday. Tom Brady is coming u for Greg
1:50:46
Olsen's broadcast job on Fox, and NFL fans are none too happy about it.
1:50:51
Brady is set to move in the broadcasting booth for the first time next
1:50:55
season after signing a ridiculous ten year, three hundred and seventy five million dollars
1:50:58
deal with Fox Sports soon after his retirement in early twenty twenty three. But
1:51:02
the legendary quarterback is awhere. He'll have big shoes to fill, and he
1:51:08
addressed the matter on Tuesday's episode of The Pat mcavee Show. Quote, I've
1:51:12
been out to the Fox studios a few times, and I'm really excited to
1:51:15
join an amazing team. Greg Olsen does an incredible job, and I have
1:51:19
so much respect for him. I'm going to go in there and do the
1:51:23
best that I can with my own perspective. And he continues on and he
1:51:28
says, I think he does an incredible job. Every time he's on.
1:51:31
I love listening to him, and I'm just going to go in there and
1:51:34
do the best I can with my own perspective. It doesn't say that he
1:51:38
said much of anything else, but it really doesn't speak of taking his job
1:51:41
or did you hear something different. No, that's all I saw is those
1:51:45
quotes, how much he respects the job he's doing, all that blah blah
1:51:47
blah blah blah. And he didn't say anything wrong. But it's just the
1:51:51
fact that you've done nothing. I mean as far as broadcasting, you've done
1:51:57
absolutely nothing. Then you're walking in and taking this man's job, who was
1:52:00
just he just skyrocketed the last few years and is universally doing you know,
1:52:06
I think most people say he's doing an awesome job. And the fact that
1:52:12
you just get to walk in because you're Tom Brady and take that that's the
1:52:15
problem. No, I think you're right, And again, where does that
1:52:19
leave Olsen? We said yesterday maybe maybe NBC. Could it be Amazon?
1:52:30
They got their little team. Who was on that team? I can't even
1:52:36
remember Herb Street and I can't remember six one eight eight, five, three,
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DOUAA over recruiting violations. We'll see where that goes. And of course it's
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very very vague, as SEC Mike says. The NC coming after Tennessee is
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Transmission fourteen sixty old brand Road in Flowood six one nine through nine nine one
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eight four fifty plus hears for a domestic Let's go to Loisvel George, George,
1:54:48
Welcome in, sir, how are we going, Jake? So far,
1:54:53
so good, good deal of a couple of things on is the Brady
1:54:57
thing? He can kiss my Okay, I didn't get kicked off? Yeah
1:55:03
that too. The one thing you all didn't say in this last little thing
1:55:08
about whatever about him is the amount of money that they're paying him to and
1:55:14
he doesn't need a time you know. That's to me, that's a big
1:55:17
deal too. If he was the class act, he would handle this differently.
1:55:21
But i'll leave that alone. The Steelers. This is a Steeler fan,
1:55:29
Okay, before Terry Bradshaw back in the day, a couple of things.
1:55:34
One y'all were talking about quarterbacks being able to play in the eighties.
1:55:40
There's no way Bradshaw got a tooth knocked out and went out for one play.
1:55:45
That was when men were men. Now I'm not sure what they are.
1:55:50
Sorry, Patrick Mahomes. Let's see. I'll come back to my Steelers
1:55:56
on the Kansas City Baltimore game, and I love to hear your take because
1:56:00
I have a feeling I know where it's gonna go. Mahomes didn't win that
1:56:02
freaking game, not at all. He did enough to secure the win for
1:56:10
them, but the defense and the miscues by the by the Ravens is what
1:56:15
lost the game, not not Patrick Mahomes. The Steelers let Trubisky go or
1:56:23
let him, let let him in rooftop start calling him rooftop. Now,
1:56:28
I like that. It's a good and that means he's high up there,
1:56:30
right absolutely, Jake. Jake said it here January thirtieth, he said,
1:56:40
the rooftops de limit information. Uh. Anyway, let the three of them
1:56:45
battle it out. Trubisky will go to somebody or just whatever. And and
1:56:50
I am satisfied with Rudolph. And I say that because of what he did
1:56:56
at the end. And then you could come back and say, well,
1:56:59
look he did you know in the game, the playoff game, however,
1:57:04
he had not had very much time with those receivers at all. That pick
1:57:09
in the end zone, receiver cuts to the inside. It was clearly that,
1:57:15
you know, clear that Rudolph was going to the outside and that's where
1:57:19
he threw the ball. And that's just not playing together very much. They
1:57:24
were very conservative under him, you know, as far as play calling and
1:57:29
all. And he stood in the pocket. I don't know. I'm a
1:57:32
Steeler guy. Our defense will be fine. Save the draft pick for somebody
1:57:36
else, another need somewhere. And that's how a Steeler fan, or this
1:57:42
Steeler fan looks at it. Now, tell me what you think about Paddy
1:57:45
boy Bye. So I'm assuming he's going Patti Boy Mahomes. I like Mahomes.
1:57:50
I mean, here's the thing. The Chiefs are better now than maybe
1:57:56
they were last year when they won it. I mean, defensively, they've
1:57:58
got a defense that's really good. They run the ball pretty well. It
1:58:02
doesn't have to fall on fall on Mahomes's shoulder, does it. I mean,
1:58:06
he's he's gonna make plays when plays need to be made. So and
1:58:11
I do sorry, bebe not because of Taylor Swift. I actually lean I'm
1:58:15
pulling for the forty nine ers, but I lean Kansas City to win.
1:58:17
Is that fair? That's That's where I'm going here. All right, let's
1:58:20
see here. Maurice, please to Kenny Pickett what I think he meant?
1:58:31
Keep Canny Pickett because remember, Maurice is a Ravens side. Okay, I
1:58:35
got you? Yeah, Lyle, says al Michaels and pt for MSU.
1:58:44
Does GAF make anyone giggle like a thirteen year old girl? Like I do,
1:58:48
or thirteen year old like I do? Probably not. Does it make
1:58:53
you giggle? It doesn't at all. PT let's see here, when we
1:58:59
got just a few minutes left. Did I miss anything? Do you have
1:59:00
any news you need to get get out? I don't think so. Are
1:59:04
you going to be paying attention on East Metro Parkway? Well, yeah,
1:59:10
of course you've got to pay attention, especially out there. Well did you
1:59:14
know that scientists has created robots that can walk through water using lab grown muscle
1:59:18
tissues. Yeah? Yeah, According to some research here published by the journal
1:59:24
Matter Robots, these scientists have created is what they call a bio hybrid robot.
1:59:33
Biohybrid robot that can walk through water using lab grown muscle tissues in its
1:59:38
legs. It has cultural skeletal muscle tissue and has achieved fine tuned turning motions
1:59:45
and forward and stop motions, and their first such bipedal robot to have master
1:59:51
that's the first one to have mastered these skills. There are some limitations.
1:59:56
For one, it is only three center tall. Second, it needs a
2:00:01
foam booie to assist in standing upright in the water tank. And it also
2:00:06
travels at a speed of just five point four millimeters per minute, so it's
2:00:11
very slow. But Beaver and the fact that they are trying, why are
2:00:14
they trying to create these robots that walk in water another quote unquote advancement in
2:00:21
robot technology. There's nothing else we can say at this point. We've been
2:00:28
looking at this crap what about five years now? Yep, they keep on
2:00:33
making these robots better, smarter, more capable of murdering us. It's not
2:00:43
a good idea. Yeah, we've been trying to keep the people abreast of
2:00:46
the whole robot situation. Where as you call them the robot. We'll continue
2:00:49
to do so because we want you to watch out. You may see one
2:00:51
on the East Metro Parkway space ghost Beaver amount a dash cam to record your
2:01:00
fine amount of dash cam. He wants you to have a dash cam on
2:01:02
your fista going to the parkway. Is that a good idea? No,
2:01:11
I don't think so. What if there's something really neat out there? What
2:01:15
if there really is a big kellen Berger in the sky all did Someone's got
2:01:19
to document that. That's just still wild, that the large Hugh Kellenberger.
2:01:26
And let's see here Notre Dame transfer quarterback Riley Leonard has been ruled out for
2:01:30
winter workouts after having ankle surgery earlier this month. He might still be out
2:01:35
for the start of spring practice, but he'll be fine for the year.
2:01:39
And that's a big get. We forget about that Riley Leonard transfer quarterback from
2:01:44
Duke to Notre Dame. Also Tennessee responding this afternoon as their chancellor, Donde
2:01:51
Plowman responds to the NCAA, Tennessee is not going to take this thing lightly.
2:01:57
And nearly three weeks ago, Caleb downs Will delivered the news that Nick
2:02:00
Saban was retiring. Now in Columbus, expectations are the same and Saban's lessons
2:02:04
will stick with him. Quote taught me a lot about commitment, being disciplined,
2:02:10
and consistency. I don't know that that's the right way out to frame
2:02:13
that up if I was him, he said, Nick Saban taught me about
2:02:16
commitment, Yet he left and went to Ohio State. These guys they don't
2:02:23
think before they speak to they. Yeah, Nick Saban taught me a lot
2:02:26
about commitment, being disciplined, and consistency. And when he retired, the
2:02:30
first thing I did is took one hundred and eighty three phone calls and then
2:02:34
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