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New Year, New Goals · JustIN Time

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  Welcome back to another edition of the Just in Time podcast.
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  I'm your host, Justin, and this is Will my guest.
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  For today, 2020. Six Brother 26 first step real
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  episode of 2026 what's the. New Year's resolution, brother.
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  New Year's resolutions, I have been doing all right.
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  You know those pages that Wayne Kiffin puts up on his Instagram
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  stories every now and. Then yeah.
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  Found the book. I've been doing that.
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  So kind of like a morning meditation thing.
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  Get to the gym more often, be more active and.
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  We did talk about that, That's right.
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  Yeah. Yeah, you gotta get back to them
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  courts too, though. Exactly.
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  Get some more pickleball stuff going.
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  Yeah. Be more consistent with, you
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  know, posting and stuff for the podcast.
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  Get the growth up. Oh yeah, of course.
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  Yeah, what about you? Same thing didn't like, you
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  know, we had talked about this previously, this being
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  consistent, you know, with everything.
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  I know we had got this got also a good start at the pickleball
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  last year. I was still eager to get back.
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  You were. We want to get like a ideal we
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  do twice a week. But if we do, if it's only once
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  a week, I'm good. I'd be happy.
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  But ideally it's twice. But I mean, this, that's some
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  great exercise. But we got plenty of time to get
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  into that, brother, because, you know, pigs are starting to fly
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  now because, you know, Indiana's won the national champion.
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  So that's pretty important. You know, I always thought they
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  were going to win, you know, always thought that was going to
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  be the thing to happen. Really didn't think it was going
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  to be the way it was good. You know, Indiana looked really
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  good the whole playoff stretch, then struggled against Miami.
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  Yeah, I'm even strong this year, brother.
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  Yeah, but so, Duchess, goes to show you how strong the SEC was
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  with the exception of Bama, you know and ain't, but you know,
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  But all that stuff I was saying, is this Indiana team better than
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  the 2019 LSU team? Absolutely not.
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  I know there's going to be the cliffs.
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  I'm waiting for Matt. Let's do the posters, including
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  do it every year. I'll I'm waiting to see that.
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  You know, absolutely not. I think I saw somewhere.
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  I'll just pull up the. Stats.
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  I know you're going. To go there, LSU national
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  champion 2019 stats, Here we go. Well, that's just that's that.
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  I want it per game. Team stats per game.
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  Obero 463 yards, 5 touchdowns, 31 for 49.
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  Fernando Mendoza, 186 yards, no touchdown passes, one rushing
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  touchdown and went 16 for 27. Quite the contrary.
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  Yeah, and Joe did have, Joe did have a rushing touchdown.
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  Not going to cut him short. It just is not showing on here,
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  you know? But also we've had so many more,
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  you know, so many more players went everything.
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  You know, we basically won every award that year, coaching and
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  player awards. But you know, like we said, like
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  we said on one of the kids, he watched the game and.
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  We've been following all. The whole time, Carson Beck did
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  the most Carson Beck thing he's ever done at the end of that
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  game. That's the thing I was worried
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  about. The no look float pass for a
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  pick, that's love. To worry about you know, you
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  know, it's funny because my my Co workers he's a big Georgia
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  fan. So when he was there their
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  defense as great as they were during when Carson Beck was
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  there, they wouldn't as dominant as as a defensive unit when
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  Stenson was there. So like it was that important
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  for him to be smart. Now to his credit, like he
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  played better down the stretch in his last year there, but the
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  thing I was worried about and cuddle to him for making that
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  clutch plays against Ole Miss. But now look at this last drive.
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  I'm like, can you do it again like this?
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  And like do a baseline double covers?
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  And his defense, I think, like they said, he thought that
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  safety was playing middle of the field.
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  But still, you know, look before you throw.
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  Yeah, look, look, this went out from my from my views of low
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  percentage throw. Nonetheless, like I said, we
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  probably thought he had a step but close to the Indiana making
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  that play. But like I said, just I never I
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  like I put in the notes. I said I never thought I would
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  see the day you talk about like his all time laughing stock of a
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  program in Indiana when it comes to football.
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  Now they just become, you know, the third Big 10 school in a row
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  to win the national championship join in 23 Michigan and Ohio
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  State last year. Now to mention the fact Indiana
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  becomes the first Big 10 school not named Ohio State of Michigan
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  to win it all since in football since Michigan State in 1965.
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  So it's been 60 years since the Big 10 school wanted last
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  outside of Michigan and Ohio State.
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  Now, now, now it's important to know Penn State doesn't count
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  because they weren't in the conference until 1993 because
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  they were independent. But that's just a this just like
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  for context, but you know, and I just put like a funny note, like
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  congratulations, Big 10. You're one time away from tying
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  the SEC second longest national championship winning streak this
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  century. So you got the next team to get
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  a four. You give to the 4th one.
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  That's our second longest. We already had seven in the
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  rust. I said, you know, good.
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  Kudos for you making making. Progress.
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  Yeah. Let you know, let's let's
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  transition over to some real football, some real football
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  talk, you know, and let's talk about this job that Lane Kiffin
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  has done with this transfer board.
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  Number one class according to 2247, we got our our composite
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  scores 81.6. The total of 39 commitments, 2
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  five stars, 11 four stars and 23 three stars as of the time, as
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  of about 2:45, so right before we got on.
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  So we got, we went from having zero scholarship quarterbacks,
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  not knowing if we were going to get Levitt to grab in Landon
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  Clark from Elon, obviously Levitt from Arizona State.
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  Where's that other kid? I probably butcher his name, but
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  from USC, Did he decommit or is 247?
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  Don't have him on here. So I'm looking at the latest
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  from 2GO-247 and this is that's what I'm granted.
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  This is last updated in this morning and I I even refreshed
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  the page. So this, I mean, yeah.
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  I don't see him on here. Maybe we just got the two
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  quarterbacks, maybe the other one didn't want to put in the
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  work. Hey, listen, get what you can
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  get. Whatever you can get.
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  I see him long streak from USC, our quarterback.
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  Everyone went from being nothing to being stacked.
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  That's the port of King self-proclaimed that, not by
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  accident. Nope.
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  Now if we can get a few, we're a few more offensive lineman away.
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  I think like one or two from being a damn good team, going
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  from just a middle of the pack SEC team to a national
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  championship contender. But you know, considering at one
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  point we had all wide receivers and running backs with nobody
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  throwing the ball, I think he pulled it out.
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  He we're good, yeah. So we also got Princewell from
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  Ole Miss antigen daughtery to really anchors on the defensive,
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  on the defensive side in the front seven.
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  You know, that's just another two massive goods.
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  You know, just because that's and that's like we got two of
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  the top five transfer players in the whole transfer portal class.
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  So that's and I'm looking at. The scores.
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  Now, Sam. Yeah, I'm looking at the team
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  scores now. We've got a 81 point O 6.
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  The nearest one is OPS with 63.93 and then it seems.
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  Funny. 16.36. It was.
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  It was funny about it because a few days several days ago, Penn
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  State had the number one portal class and we were second behind.
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  So like they dropped all the way to 5th.
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  So I mean this this just goes in and flows.
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  Penn State got like 33 stars and five four stars.
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  But the but the five stars it's hard to get 5 stars in general,
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  but it lacking. But yeah, we know a lot of
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  others team don't have any. Tennessee has one, five Star
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  Tech Tech, Texas Tech has one, OK State has one and Texas has
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  one, but we got 2 and I was that.
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  Just came today. You know, we got that they don't
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  have. What's that?
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  A man who is hated by the state of Tennessee, who went to
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  Tennessee to take a quarterback and try to get him while he was
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  on a visit to another school in Tennessee, which is primarily
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  the reason that Tennessee hates him, is because he left.
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  That's the way he left that school.
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  That's what we have that nobody else has.
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  So if you get Ed Ojeron, throw them in there with Lane Kiffin
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  and look out. Hey, listen.
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  You know. But this has been a quick turn
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  around for them, you know, just like, you know, when you you
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  just have to look and you know, like you said, it looks somewhat
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  bleaky like a week or so ago. But by the time you just got to
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  be patient, you got to just stay in the course with these guys,
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  these young men. And like you said, Elaine has a
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  track, track record. Look at his roster in Ole Miss
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  two years ago. Like that defensive front was
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  elite. They were the best in the sport.
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  And they just gave like, like they were just like Walter
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  Nolan, like they, they gave us fits when we played them, but
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  not shocking because they played well the whole year.
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  But just like, I mean, you just got to you just got like some
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  people say trust surprises. I know that's corny.
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  I know that's overused. Yeah, no, it's.
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  Right. But but it's right.
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  Looking Saban. Yeah, but somebody said this is
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  going to be the first time next year isn't going to be the first
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  time ever that game that pulls into Oxford.
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  Oh man. September 19th.
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  I know this is the first time. Goodness gracious.
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  I don't know. I don't think it was the first
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  time. I know they've had been a part
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  of College Game Day. I don't know if College Game Day
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  ever went to Oxford. But you know, I'm so happy with
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  what we've got now compared to what we had last year twice.
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  Yeah, so my birthday. What they had last year, your
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  birthday and what? Yeah, so they've, they've been
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  twice or several times, notably like two of the most recent
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  times was my 21st birthday. That was 2014 when Bama came
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  there. Lane Kip.
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  You know, funny enough, Lane Kiffin was the guest picker.
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  Of course he was. And then like in back in
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  November 13, 2021, we'll miss the one Texas A&M.
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  And you know, Lane Kiffin again was the guest picker.
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  I think that was the. I think that was the time that
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  old piss beat Alabama. That year didn't.
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  That and 2014 yeah, because they beat him back-to-back years with
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  like in the Hugh Freezer. So the check with Chad Kelly was
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  the quarterback, Laquan Treadwell, and they asked like
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  the Robert Kendichi, like the Kendichi brothers, the
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  Landshark. Yeah.
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  So. It's another team that can't
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  make up their mile and mascot, but yeah.
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  But you know. All this being said though, by
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  the transfer portal and everything else, we've got to
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  wait to see what they actually are able to put out on the
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  field. Oh yeah, of course.
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  Next year we're not a lot of yeah, I think a lot of the stuff
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  is we get as fans, we get hyped up on what we see on paper and
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  then we're disappointed when it comes to the season because it
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  doesn't match up. But you know, you got to give
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  these boys time to gel together as a team, the coaching staff to
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  come up be one big family, which, you know, jumps us right
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  into the meat and potatoes for the next several.
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  Months. Several months.
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  Hopefully several months. We had a great time talking last
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  year between the book and the championship run, yeah.
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  But you know, time to turn on the page.
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  We got a new year, new team, definitely a new infield.
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  The only returner in returning infielder we have is Steven
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  Mile. The outfield will look the exact
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  same, just with Curiel and Centerfield and Stanford
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  Stanfield at left. Which I thought was a huge
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  retain for them. Yes.
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  Oh, it was. It definitely was.
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  Goodness gracious, I remember when I knew when he broke the
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  news himself. Yeah, it's just.
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  But you know, I listened to well, not listen, but I saw
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  clips from Mikey Mytuk Indians podcast Mike Go and like they
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  were saying, you know, the difference he feels because I
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  think he's been around those guys lately, more so in the
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  offseason than he was in the 24 season.
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  But he said, you know, the difference between 2024 and 2026
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  is that 20, 2014 didn't figure out how to be a team like Jail.
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  Well, Together didn't come together until the end of that
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  season and arguably should have won that Riley Regional.
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  You know, yeah, just you like, I remember like.
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  Last year they yeah. Go ahead, go.
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  Last year they came together early.
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  It showed. They played together well.
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  They had no issue. They went right through.
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  You know, there's, there's a reason why now they're
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  preseasons one and two in perfect game.
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  They're 1D1 baseball there too. You know, they have 19 returning
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  players and then 20 newcomers with all kind of talent.
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  We got two guys land on the preseason, all American teams.
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  Yeah. So Derek Curiel and Case and.
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  Evans, Case and Evans. Yeah, Case and Evans probably be
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  a Friday night guy. I don't see why not, you know?
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  You know, we've got Zach. Cowan, Zach Cowan, who pick up
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  the ball and throw one Saturday. He was a big one for us last
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  year. Big arm, you know, then take
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  your pick for Sunday right now, the latest that I saw the other
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  day was we've got Cooper Moore, junior right-hander, as a Sunday
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  starter. But you could throw in Gavin
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  Gitry. You can throw in Cooper
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  Williams, which I'm not going to lie, I kind of like that.
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  Go with two righties and throw in a lefty.
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  You know you got William Schmidt, who you know came off
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  of it. I think a lot of his problems
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  was mental last year. Yeah.
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  He was doing fine and then somebody would get a big hit off
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  of him or we make an error in the field and he would kind of
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  shut down and lose his stuff. But I think this year they said
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  he's stronger. Yeah, but that's that's that's
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  the value of the offseason and the experience.
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  But you but you got to use it. Exactly.
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  Right. You got to use it.
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  Let me just Yeah. Yeah, man, You got, what's his
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  name, Big transfer Righty. I think he's a righty.
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  He's a first baseman. Looks like he should be playing
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  linebacker. Listen, I mean listen.
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  Keep him busy in the. I'm just saying like we've got,
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  you know, Zach York 62295 senior first baseman.
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  Goodness gracious. We went from intimidating first
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  baseman to intimidating first baseman, you know?
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  That's how you, that's how you're supposed to keep it.
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  Which is 20/20. Had thirteen home runs last
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  year, 10 double S, 59 hits, you know, 339 batting average, you
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  know, so we shall see, but we've got a bunch of new comments
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  coming in. We've got three spots on the
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  infield field, you know, 4 if you count catcher.
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  But Aaron Beatty caught last year a few times, you know.
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  But, you know, I think what we, I think what we've got as a
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  strength is Nate Yeski as a pitching coach.
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  Always I love the experience they have like.
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  Strong arms. Yeah, a few strong arms coming
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  in. You know, there's a reason why
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  they're. They're like heavy favorites to
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  win, not heavy favourites. They're the odds aren't favorite
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  right now to win, to repeat as national champions.
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  Been a third or four years like I'm just looking through the
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  projected lineup right now. So just like they now granted
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  this is projected. That's all be up to Jay at the
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  end of the day. But as you got Milo, my first
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  Curiel airway, Jake Brown, Aiden Simpson, Aki work.
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  Yeah, Cade. Yeah, Sam dot R and Chris
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  Stanfield at 9th. That's interesting.
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  Yeah, yeah. You know, it's a lot.
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  It's not a lot of change. It's the same thing.
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  But you know, Jo probably mix and match that line of seven
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  times before first pitch on 2:00 on February 13th.
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  You know, without a question. And then it'll be right done.
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  And right before it's time for him to turn in the line, of
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  course, he'll probably make three or four more changes.
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  When you when you're a two time national champion, just.
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  Depending on how, just how, yeah, just how he feels that
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  day. And you won't have a set line up
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  until you start conference play. You know, that's the, that's the
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  way these things work. You don't.
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  Have the beauty of this sport, right?
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  The beauty of this sport is that yeah, you have extended games
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  and get the season based on series.
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  So like you have multiple games you played the same opponent 3
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  times, granted you got the mid week games that's a one one off
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  but just you get to experience. This is the first time to
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  experiment that. Oh yeah.
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  So just. Then I think the the real first
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  Test is be an early road trip to Jacksonville.
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  They're going to play Indiana, Notre Dame and UCF.
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  Let's see. And I think before that, you
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  know that between that first week, since it's Mardi Gras
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  weekend, you've got, let's see, you've got the first series on
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  the 13th, then you on Monday you've got a game, Wednesday you
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  got a game and then you travel on Thursday and you go Friday at
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  one against Indiana, 11 AM versus Notre Dame and then 2:00
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  PM versus Central Florida. And then you come right back on
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  that Tuesday night and you played McNeese.
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  So that's a, you know, less than a week, two weeks span where
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  you're playing 123456789 games already right there.
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  Yeah. That's a perfect time to
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  experiment, see what you have. Yeah, Yeah.
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  What a. What a There's a reason.
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  Why Jay is up there? Who we got, we open conference
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  play a month after the start of the season and Mandy, that is
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  going to be a series right there, brother.
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  Yeah, that is going. To be 1.
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  Welcome to conference. Play, brother.
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  Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing how Tennessee handles
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  their first season without Bitello.
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  Yeah, that's a good wrinkle. You know, we got a lot of good
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  ones like Florida coming back to Baton Rouge on Thursday, Friday,
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  Saturday of the last week of season.
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  Yeah. I got like we got key conference
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  series with Tennessee, Ole Miss, Texas A and Mississippi State,
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  South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
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  One that I swear was on here that I must have missed was
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  Texas. You know, because all they need
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  to make is go to. Texas.
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  And it's Yeah, in conference play, Yeah.
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  We don't have Texas on here. They must have put Van to your
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  Kentucky. It's got we got, yeah, we got
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  Vandy, Oklahoma, and that's the second conference series.
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  Do you got Kentucky at home, Knoxville on the road, Ole Miss
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  on the road? Ian M comes here.
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  Mississippi State we go, yeah. Miss State, we go there.
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  Carolina comes here and we go to Georgia.
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  Florida comes here, Yeah. You know, it's just a.
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  Yeah, it's just a thing. But that is the most Texas thing
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  to do is make us go over there for a long road trip for
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  Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M. And then it's time for Texas to
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  come to the box and Texas says, Oh no, no, no, no, no, we're not
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  doing that. That's.
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  Not they got enough trouble with A&M, you know.
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  Adding Schwarzenegger, who was at A&M before he went to Texas,
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  Then we had the number. What was, what were they one or
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  two? And we were literal trash that
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  year. And we spanked him like a
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  redhead stepchild and sent him back.
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  To that that was the college. Station In that season it was 2
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  losses. Bro that was the turn of the day
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  season man. Like I'll just go back because
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  we struggle so mindly. He's a little, he's a little
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  squirrely about coming back to the box.
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  You know, he don't, he don't want to do that.
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  He don't like to come back here. Yeah.
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  It's going to be a fun year. It's going to be a fun season.
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  Yes, I always spend a good time I'll.
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  Figure it out, ain't my problem. Not mine either.
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  You getting paid, you know. We watched him hang.
• 22:10
  We watched him hang those banners up in 23 and 25.
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  He's got 2 to catch up to Burtman, and he's 3.
• 22:16
  Three more, let's say one in time.
• 22:20
  Honestly, Honestly, I think he can do it.
• 22:24
  You know, I really think he can do it.
• 22:26
  I mean, you know, the season is like they said, I think some
• 22:29
  people say this is his most talented team he's had.
• 22:34
  And for 2027 season, what I think would be huge.
• 22:39
  Yeah. Look, we going we jump in 2027
• 22:41
  because it's got to happen. What's got to happen for 2027, I
• 22:44
  think happens in 2026, unless Curiel goes out there and he's
• 22:48
  projected to be the number one draft pick, you know, we have to
• 22:53
  keep him here. Yes.
• 22:56
  We have to tell that kid, look, you're not the number one pick
• 22:59
  this year, but if you stay here next year or the year after
• 23:02
  that, you'll be the number one draft pick.
• 23:06
  You've got the talent, you've got everything else.
• 23:09
  You know, that's how we get 2027.
• 23:12
  I saw 2027 come too strong. You get Curio to stay for one
• 23:15
  more year. Yeah.
• 23:16
  Will that happen? You know, just sound down like
• 23:19
  that'll be something I'd be interested in because like I'm
• 23:21
  not I'm never going to get in the way of a young man's or
• 23:24
  young woman's financial gain for their sport.
• 23:29
  Like you said, this is a great place to build your craft.
• 23:32
  Anyway, like disappeared, but he has several homers Last year he
• 23:36
  led the lead the team with like 571 in the in the in the World
• 23:40
  Series. I mean, that's you talk about a
• 23:44
  prodigy. I.
• 23:45
  Think he, I think the way they bulked him up, yeah, they bulked
• 23:49
  him up to the point where I think he can get double digits,
• 23:52
  maybe 15 to 20 home runs this year.
• 23:56
  Well, I was going to say like, you know with the weight
• 23:59
  playing, I stack and at at minimum double.
• 24:02
  You know how it bottle flies? Like about, I'm always a guy
• 24:07
  just like give me contact in the field like this, that's the
• 24:11
  bottom. Line, you know but Jay
• 24:15
  successful teams they've been able to do it all you know they
• 24:19
  can kill you with small ball or they can go with the long ball
• 24:22
  but one thing I'm really excited to see and it's getting him back
• 24:26
  it's Gavin guidry how he. Comes off of the year.
• 24:29
  Where he didn't do too much. That's right.
• 24:32
  I know because I remember. See how we got.
• 24:33
  Last year, throughout last year, that was a big question to start
• 24:37
  the year, man, because I you know, when you when you time in
• 24:40
  the morning stone, it's just like as the same.
• 24:42
  That's the one thing that people ask about what's the status of
• 24:45
  what's the status of Gavin? How you doing get him that year,
• 24:50
  the recoup man. And that's another You can't
• 24:54
  have too many arms. Yeah, no, you can't have too
• 24:58
  many arms, you know, because you know, you got already, you got
• 25:03
  Jonah, Jonah Ace out for the year.
• 25:07
  Yeah. I think he's a left-hander,
• 25:10
  freshman left handers to miss the whole season for Tommy John
• 25:13
  surgery, you know. But I will say this about Jay
• 25:16
  Johnson. We call Lane Kiffin the portal
• 25:19
  king. Jay Johnson is also the portal
• 25:21
  king for baseball. He can go get these guys and
• 25:25
  fill spots. I think that's what he did this
• 25:27
  year, you know? That's the thing about college
• 25:30
  sports, you know. What's the constant retool?
• 25:32
  Kiffin Lane Kiffin is going to be, You know, there was no high
• 25:37
  expectations with women's basketball before Moki got
• 25:40
  there. Yeah, when she got there, that's
• 25:42
  when expectations got high, and she's lived up to expectations.
• 25:46
  You know, Jay Johnson, always, LSU baseball always had that
• 25:50
  expectation on them. National champion or bust, you
• 25:55
  know. Can.
• 25:57
  Kiffin, take that. That mantle.
• 25:59
  I guess I'm by myself right now. Can Kiffin take that, you know,
• 26:04
  that pressure and that what's the word?
• 26:06
  I'm looking for those expectations and standards that
• 26:09
  LSU football has already set and make it to the point where they
• 26:14
  can be, you know, they can be good.
• 26:18
  You know, it's all about what we can do, you know, what we can
• 26:22
  do, how we can get it back out there, you know, going to be
• 26:25
  huge. I really think it'll be huge.
• 26:28
  Think we'll be fine for football, for baseball, baseball
• 26:31
  especially, I know we'll be fine.
• 26:32
  It's just all about what we can do now, how we get it done.
• 26:37
  You know, look, I put on here my final thoughts.
• 26:41
  You know, that has a chance. Datyeski do it again with his
• 26:46
  pitching staff and be an elite force.
• 26:48
  I think he can. He's showing me no reason why he
• 26:51
  can't do that. And you know, I put can a
• 26:57
  teammate of transfers, something Jay Johnson has been had major
• 27:01
  success with in the past, come together as a team and meld well
• 27:03
  together. I think they can.
• 27:06
  I really do. I think they can meld together.
• 27:08
  I think they could come back, be driving force in this game.
• 27:12
  Hey, yeah, yeah, kind of went out on me there.
• 27:16
  So I sent you the stuff. Again, Yeah, I got it like it.
• 27:19
  I had popped up a couple times, had reconnected, but you didn't
• 27:22
  freeze up, so it was good. But until this that last time,
• 27:26
  so hopefully nothing really cut out.
• 27:29
  Yeah, yeah. No, I was just saying, you know,
• 27:33
  I had a few things like I put my final thoughts that I think LSU
• 27:37
  has a chance. Does LSU have a chance at being,
• 27:41
  you know, repeating for 2026? And I said it would come down to
• 27:45
  two things. I said can Yesky do it again
• 27:49
  with his pitching staff be in elite force?
• 27:52
  And I said, you know, I do think he can do that.
• 27:55
  He's showing me no reason why to doubt him.
• 27:57
  He led the country and strikeouts and opponent batting
• 28:01
  average for the last two years. I think you know, and then can a
• 28:05
  team made a transverse, something Johnson has had made
• 28:08
  you success with in the past, come together and meld as a
• 28:12
  team, You know? Can they come together and bring
• 28:14
  it together? I think they can, you know.
• 28:17
  You you built the Championship foundation for 20 plus years.
• 28:21
  So it's what? Was that?
• 28:23
  You built the championship foundation for about 20 plus
• 28:26
  years. So it is.
• 28:28
  It's not too often when they're at a low point, especially in my
• 28:32
  lifetime. So you have the foundation in
• 28:34
  place. Yeah.
• 28:36
  So I don't worry too much about it, just about being consistent,
• 28:40
  yeah. It sounds like you're cutting
• 28:41
  out a bit on my end. I'm sure it'll pick up.
• 28:43
  Yeah, Yeah, I'm sure when we pick up later with the audio,
• 28:47
  it'll be there. Yeah.
• 28:49
  But I wanted to say real quick, just you know, you have brought
• 28:52
  up great points about you. Know final thoughts.
• 28:54
  Yeah. I wanted to say real quick
• 28:55
  about, yeah, just about the you have talked about, you know,
• 28:59
  Mulkey, you know, revitalizing the program, you know, under,
• 29:03
  under Sue Gunner, Pokey, Chapman, the women's basketball
• 29:05
  squad, they went to like 5, three Final Fours and but they
• 29:10
  had a dry spell that she revitalized it.
• 29:13
  You know, just, it just goes to show you, you know, this
• 29:17
  reinforces what I've said for you is about college sports.
• 29:19
  It's about the coach. But you get you got to get the
• 29:21
  coach, right, you know, because there's so much team
• 29:25
  responsibility with even especially nowadays with the
• 29:28
  Porter NIL era, you know, but this gives a blueprint to other
• 29:32
  schools like we were talking about with Indiana earlier, you
• 29:35
  know, just people dump on this new era all the time.
• 29:38
  But this is what comes from it, right?
• 29:42
  This is like the stuff now how? Now keep in mind that Indiana's
• 29:46
  now granted, Indiana's a legendary basketball school for
• 29:50
  the men's side and they're historically poor as a football
• 29:54
  program. But how sustainable person any
• 29:58
  success will be, it remains to be seen.
• 30:00
  But this is the greatest turn around I've ever seen in college
• 30:03
  sports ever. The only thing that would top
• 30:06
  this if it if you just, if you take like a program like UConn,
• 30:10
  like UConn, another legendary basketball school on the men's
• 30:13
  side, if they win a championship in football in year 1, that'll
• 30:17
  only that would be the only thing that would top this
• 30:20
  because this I wouldn't. I've never seen the day I never
• 30:23
  thought I'd. Seen it.
• 30:24
  Impressive. Yeah, yeah.
• 30:26
  What makes Indiana, what makes them impressive is they didn't
• 30:29
  have all these five star. That's right.
• 30:32
  You know that's. Right.
• 30:35
  But you know, comes down to it. It ain't about what the many
• 30:39
  stars you got. It's about when you can develop
• 30:41
  your talent. Coach, you know, back to the
• 30:44
  coach. And if you can grin it out,
• 30:47
  that's what it all boils down to, yeah.
• 30:49
  Don't get me wrong, talent helps greatly.
• 30:51
  I mean, you got you need talent, but.
• 30:53
  Yeah, go ahead. Oh, yeah.
• 30:55
  Talent helps greatly. Think we would be doing a
• 31:00
  disservice if we didn't mention that Tiger girls getting robbed
• 31:04
  Saturday. Jim, you know, I will say this.
• 31:09
  I don't know much about dancing, but, you know, yeah, apparently
• 31:17
  I watched their dance. I thought they were great.
• 31:19
  Yeah, You know, like I said, I don't know much, but I was
• 31:25
  expecting them to be first and they got second and.
• 31:29
  See that number eight boards? And all these experts that you
• 31:33
  see on social media, which are right, they're they're
• 31:36
  rightfully so. There should be more
• 31:38
  transparency. We should see these scores and
• 31:40
  what the breakdown of it is. You know, I just can't see a
• 31:44
  team, apparently the team that won jump three points from semi
• 31:48
  finals to finals. I don't know what's going on.
• 31:53
  I think Lane Kiffin rubbed people the wrong way still when
• 31:56
  those judges were, you know. Bitter.
• 31:59
  Steal a little money transferred underneath the table maybe?
• 32:04
  I don't know, I don't know. But got to give it to him.
• 32:11
  Nathan went out there and they look great to me.
• 32:13
  They probably should have won. Probably should have been LSUS
• 32:16
  first title for the 2026 season. You know what you going to do.
• 32:20
  Only when you can control you know.
• 32:22
  What you going to do? That's it.
• 32:23
  Yeah, Yep. But appreciate you being on.
• 32:27
  Present you have me as always, Brother's going to be a.
• 32:29
  Great year bunch today. Yeah, that's.
• 32:33
  Going to be a great year. We'll be consistent this year.
• 32:36
  Try to shoot every Wednesday, get a few different things
• 32:39
  going, you know? Yeah, but this would be a great
• 32:43
  year again. You know, I've talked about it
• 32:45
  last video, I mean, last podcast.
• 32:47
  You know, I've got the school account and I'll be pushing huge
• 32:50
  for the school account now. Yeah.
• 32:52
  It's just a place for everybody to come together, have a
• 32:56
  community, ask questions. We'll get to questions.
• 32:59
  We don't have any this week, but we'll get to, we'll hopefully
• 33:01
  start having some more questions from y'all.
• 33:03
  Yes. You know, that's a great thing
• 33:05
  to be using school for. Like feed, feed off.
• 33:08
  We could feed off the fans, feed off the follow the family.
• 33:13
  Yeah, we don't want to keep it separate.
• 33:17
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, You know, we'll get
• 33:20
  questions, you know, talk about some different things.
• 33:23
  We don't always ever beat by sports.
• 33:25
  That's just the thing that's popped up the most lately.
• 33:27
  You know, I probably said it about 1000 times and that kick
• 33:32
  off the 2026 video. I want to learn some new stuff.
• 33:37
  If you have something else you can teach me, then you want to
• 33:40
  come on and be a guest. By all means, come on and be a
• 33:43
  guest. Let's have a good time.
• 33:44
  This is 2026. Let's build something beautiful
• 33:47
  together. Yeah.
• 33:47
  Thank you for this platform guys, as.
• 33:49
  Always, you know, like, comment and share it.
• 33:52
  Subscribe. That's all this is about a
• 33:55
  platform. You got something you want to
• 33:57
  get off your chest. That's what we're here for.
• 34:00
  Black canvas Tees teen brother. Yeah.
• 34:04
  I want to try to show the Band-Aid, but yeah, black canvas
• 34:06
  Tees, brother. But as always, yeah, blank
• 34:11
  canvas Tees, apparently. I'm going to suppose I'm going
• 34:13
  to put it up right here in my hand.
• 34:16
  She came out with a new one for the tiger girls.
• 34:19
  It'll be right here. But you know, go ahead and buy
• 34:22
  that her. She's going to have a website.
• 34:23
  She's supposed to. She's got the Instagram.
• 34:26
  She's going to supposedly do a Etsy account.
• 34:32
  Good. She's going to have it done.
• 34:33
  You know, everybody's going to be doing big things this year.
• 34:36
  You know, let's see if I got quote for y'all today, told
• 34:39
  y'all last week, I have a quote every week.
• 34:41
  Let's see, here's the quote. Every day we get the chance to
• 34:44
  be better. It's that's what makes life
• 34:49
  worth living. It's good.
• 34:50
  And with that will you got anything you want to add?
• 34:54
  Like I said, always brother, you know, it's a privilege to be on
• 34:56
  this platform, you know, just giving us the opportunity just
• 34:59
  to hear you and see your two sins.
• 35:01
  Brother, you know, just along from the ride, it's a blessing.
• 35:04
  Yeah, not going to lie, I can't hear you.
• 35:05
  The audio is not coming through. Listen, have you seen me now?
• 35:10
  But as always, everybody, have a great day, a great night.
• 35:14
  Whatever you have, just make it a great one.
• 35:15
  Like and share. Like, share and subscribe.
• 35:18
  Let's get some people. Let's build a community.
• 35:21
  Have a good one please.