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Heath Hinton Interview · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: High five. Heath Hinton, you can find him on X
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  Speaker 1: Big Gold Nation on everything going on with Southern Miss football.
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  Speaker 1: Southern Miss gets ready on the 6th of October to
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  Speaker 1: take on Troy. Heath, welcome in, brother. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, Jake. I'm a little better now that Atlanta
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  Speaker 2: Braves pulled it out, but I'm doing well. How about yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was seeing that come across the wire there,
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  Speaker 1: and I know a lot of people are excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: Championship baseball is here. All right, so let's recap. A
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  Speaker 1: month into this thing, got a win over Alcorn State,
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  Speaker 1: a close loss at Tulane, 24-21. Just kind of your
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  Speaker 1: assessment of this Southern Miss football team a month into
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  Speaker 1: the season.
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  Speaker 2: I think you saw in the last game a team
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  Speaker 2: that's starting to come together, a team that should have
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  Speaker 2: beat Tulane, to be honest with you. And I think,
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  Speaker 2: of course, Blake Anderson's already said it, but two Miss
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  Speaker 2: field goals cost the game, let's be honest. They played
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  Speaker 2: extremely well, I think. As far as defense, you've got
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  Speaker 2: to work on some tackling offensively by the best game
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  Speaker 2: of the year. I thought Landry Liddy was incredible. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: 18 to 29, two 43, three touchdowns, uh, completion percentage, 62%.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the rating of one 66.6, not too bad
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  Speaker 2: for the first start of the year, especially down there
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  Speaker 2: in new Orleans against the lane. So I think you
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  Speaker 2: saw some growth. I think you saw some good things. And, uh,
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  Speaker 2: They get a few extra days this week to prepare
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  Speaker 2: for Troy on Tuesday next week. Really, I thought they
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  Speaker 2: played a great game, just didn't get the win, but
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  Speaker 2: you can see a team of 75 newcomers finally starting
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  Speaker 2: together in jail.
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  Speaker 1: Visiting with Heath Hinton, talking Southern Miss football. Eagles on
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  Speaker 1: the bye week. They'll get an opportunity next week at
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  Speaker 1: Troy before two home games on the 17th and 24
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  Speaker 1: against Arkansas State and Louisiana, formerly Lafayette. Tuesday edition of
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  Speaker 1: the program. Heath, you had sent me something. I had
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  Speaker 1: not seen it. Talk a little bit about what you
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  Speaker 1: had sent me that Blake Anderson said. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: ruffling a little feathers, no pun intended, but I do
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  Speaker 1: want to discuss that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's just sometimes things get taken out
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  Speaker 2: of context. Somebody asked him, how do you keep from
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  Speaker 2: play start? And he said, well, you stop scheduling teams like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Auburn, UConn, Tulane. And what he was meaning,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't mean not to schedule them. He was talking
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  Speaker 2: about when you play teams like that and they're bigger
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  Speaker 2: and more physical than you up front, What you've got
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  Speaker 2: to do is you've got to wear them down. You've
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  Speaker 2: got to hope that later on that your stamina and
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  Speaker 2: that your ability to be in shape is better than
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  Speaker 2: theirs are, and you wear them down towards the end,
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  Speaker 2: but you try to keep it close. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: they did to Tulane. It actually worked. In the game,
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  Speaker 2: they were popping six, seven, eight, nine yards a carry
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  Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter because Tulane was tired. And so
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  Speaker 2: that's what he was talking about. I think maybe some
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  Speaker 2: people took it the wrong way. He clarified today that
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  Speaker 2: that is what he said, and I think everything's fine now. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, sometimes people get upset, especially when their team
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  Speaker 2: loses against a rival. And I think everything will be
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  Speaker 2: okay now. So I don't think it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: much of a deal anymore. But, you know, people get
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  Speaker 2: upset when you lose. And if you don't say things
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  Speaker 2: the right way, and Blake, you admitted, I could have
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  Speaker 2: said it better. You could have said it better. And
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  Speaker 2: so I think it's all water under the bridge now.
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  Speaker 1: Well, but I think there's a lot of truth in
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  Speaker 1: what he said. I mean, when you look at this,
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  Speaker 1: and for some reason, and you go to the college
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  Speaker 1: football playoff committee and you go to a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the talking heads in college football, you know, they're talking about, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we need more expansion. We need a bigger playoff. That
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  Speaker 1: whole deal's going on in Chicago this week. They'll have
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  Speaker 1: meetings tomorrow with the playoff committee. And, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we want more opportunities for teams to get in the field.
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  Speaker 1: But the field isn't even. And I think that's what,
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  Speaker 1: and correct me if I'm wrong here, that's what Blake
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  Speaker 1: Anderson's saying. I don't think it's an excuse. He's saying, hey, look,
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  Speaker 1: We don't, and I don't want to speak directly for him,
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  Speaker 1: and you've heard this from other group of six coaches,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have the money that the schools, that Auburn's have.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have the money that the Ole Miss and
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi States have, and you can go around the corner
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  Speaker 1: here to Alabama and other places. We know that we're
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  Speaker 1: basically a feeding frenzy for these other universities. We can't
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  Speaker 1: compete any longer with these schools. And to me, again,
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  Speaker 1: it's a shame on you moment to the NCAA team
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  Speaker 1: and to the college football playoff committee, that we continue
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  Speaker 1: to pretend that we are all still equal when they're
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  Speaker 1: actually not. And I think that's what, to me, that's
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  Speaker 1: what I heard out of that.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly right. He's saying, look, they're being outspent. Southern
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  Speaker 2: Miss doesn't have any of those resources. You play Auburn,
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  Speaker 2: you're outspent 30-1. You play Tulane, you're outspent 5-1. You
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  Speaker 2: play UConn, you're probably outspent 4-1. You're playing teams that
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  Speaker 2: outspend you. And, you know, it is true, just like
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  Speaker 2: in professional sports, Usually the teams that spend the most
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  Speaker 2: money on their rosters are the teams that are going
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  Speaker 2: to win. And in college football, that's true. You want
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  Speaker 2: the best players, you've got to spend the most money.
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  Speaker 2: And how do you combat that? Well, you try to
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  Speaker 2: find some Juco guys. That's what Juco is for now.
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  Speaker 2: And high school guys and bring them in and hope
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  Speaker 2: they can compete young. And find some FCS guys that
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  Speaker 2: you can bring up. And that's what Blake does. I
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  Speaker 2: think they did a really good job of it, especially
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  Speaker 2: when you only had to consider he had two, maybe
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  Speaker 2: two and a half weeks to get a roster to get.
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  Speaker 2: after the bowl game was when Huff left and took
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  Speaker 2: all the players with him. So, yeah, it's not a
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  Speaker 2: level playing field. It just isn't. And until they do
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  Speaker 2: something to put a cap on him and stop all
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  Speaker 2: the multiple transfers, all the leverage is with the players,
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  Speaker 2: and none of it are with the schools, and it's
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  Speaker 2: showing right now. It's the wild west.
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  Speaker 1: Heath, talk a little bit about this defense. You've got
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  Speaker 1: some guys that are playmakers on this defense. It's a
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  Speaker 1: defense that's given up 29, almost 30 points per game,
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  Speaker 1: but I would think those numbers would improve over the
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  Speaker 1: next several weeks. Michael Robinson III, he's a junior defensive back.
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  Speaker 1: Mathis Haygood, a junior linebacker. Those two guys kind of
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  Speaker 1: lead the charge here in tackles right at 29 apiece.
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  Speaker 1: And then you've got some other, I think, good pieces
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  Speaker 1: on this defense to really build around.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the defense is coming together. One thing
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  Speaker 2: they've got to work on is tackling. I think that
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  Speaker 2: really got them in the two-lane game. Look, they had
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  Speaker 2: those guys stop in the backfield, miss three or four tackles,
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  Speaker 2: get through, and two-lane had some really good physical running back.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got to give them credit, too. It's not
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  Speaker 2: like they're tackling a dummy out there. But, yeah, I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you look at Sylvie, DB, just he's turned
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  Speaker 2: into a really, really, really good cornerback who makes it
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  Speaker 2: play to the next level. You never know. You're right,
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  Speaker 2: Michael Robinson, third, DB, he's really a missile in the
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  Speaker 2: defensive backfield. So I do think you're seeing some growth there.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got to work on the tackling, but I
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  Speaker 2: also think it's going to be a different story once
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  Speaker 2: you get into conference play. You know, Blake was true
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  Speaker 2: about this. Play teams that are more like you, and
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  Speaker 2: I think things are going to be a little more even,
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  Speaker 2: and I think these big battles they've had are going
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  Speaker 2: to make things easier for them when they get into conference.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people forget that– UConn team, that coach
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  Speaker 2: came from Toledo, I believe, and two years ago that
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  Speaker 2: Toledo team came into Mississippi State in, what, 41-17 or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. So it's, that guy can coach and
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  Speaker 2: he brought a lot of his players with him, too.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a different day and age to live in
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  Speaker 2: when you're trying to build it with an assistant coach
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  Speaker 2: that's having a coach that's a head coach coming in.
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  Speaker 2: It's different and you're seeing it and I think they're growing.
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  Speaker 2: Just got to work on the tackling on the defensive side,
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  Speaker 2: but A lot of football we played this year. They're
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  Speaker 2: one in three conference plays coming up. Who knows what
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  Speaker 2: will happen.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure to get him on exit. BG and Heath Hinton,
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  Speaker 1: want to get a subscription to learn more on Southern Miss,
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  Speaker 1: keep up with everything going on at Eagle Sports. Heath,
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  Speaker 1: always appreciate your time. Have a great week, my friend,
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  Speaker 1: and we appreciate you as always.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, man. Thanks, Jake. God bless, buddy. Have a good one,
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  Speaker 2: my friend.
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