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Michael Bratton of That SEC Podcast on the Alabama Job and SEC Football · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Michael Bratton. That SEC podcast on x on YouTube all over the place,
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  best SEC podcast in the country, and that is a fact. The rankings
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  show that Michael. Welcome in, sir. How are you hey now that
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  the dynasty is officially decayed. I'm doing great, Jake. You you know
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  I'm doing good as a Tennessee fan. I'm sure you were torn, right
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  because you feel that way. I'm sure, but then you're like, Okay,
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  I got to kind of be objective here, but maybe not. Were
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  you shocked by the announcement yesterday? Oh yeah, And I think like everybody
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  else, I had to double and triple check to make sure this was actual
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  news being reported, not some totll account that was trying to get fool us
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  all for kicks or whatever. But yeah, the timing of it just and
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  apparently, I mean, he was working up to the day he made the
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  decision, and he just did an interview with ESPN. I don't know if
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  you've caught it yet, but he said, literally five minutes before the team
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  meeting where he he's gonna retire, he he didn't know if he was gonna
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  do it or not. So yeah, pretty stunning news. So when you
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  look at what is I mean, obviously we know about Saban, we know
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  about everything he did for us clues. So we've talked about this, you
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  know, for almost two days now, about what he's meant to that program
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  in that town. Him now out the door. What does this do towards
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  the SEC? Does this reset Alabama? Does it bring him back to the
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  pack? I mean, I don't We'll talk about that. Who could the
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  next guy be here in a minute, But I wouldn't want to be that
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  guy to follow him, right, and you hear that narrative. But these
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  guys, the way they're wired, Jake, these alpha coaches, I mean,
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  they're not gonna be scared by it. I truly don't think even though
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  it's a it is it's a no win situation. But hey, most of
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  these guys got into it, Jake, to win a national championship. And
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  if you go to Alabama today, short of maybe Georgia and maybe Ohio State,
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  that may be the only other place you're set up to win that national
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  chairmpionship a lot sooner than you ever would wherever you're at. So it's it's
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  an elite job. Don't kid yourself, and they'll find a quality candidate.
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  But in terms of how this resets things, I think I think it's I
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  think it's bad for college football that we lost such an icon, that we
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  lost kind of the face of the game, and just a little something will
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  be lost from it. But at the same time, I really think this
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  kind of opens it up a little bit to where parody's probably not the right
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  word, but I think we'll have more of a rotation of who wins the
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  SEC who wins the national Championship. I was just looking at it yesterday,
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  ironically, Jake, the last ten national champions it was either Alabama or it
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  was a team that beat Alabama, So I mean they were They're literally a
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  factor in every national championship race, and I don't know if that's truly good
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  for the sport. Yeah, I was looking at the Vegas Sids courtesy of
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  a maristark pen gaming. Since yesterday, they've doll I must move from you
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  know, second behind Georgia and the way too early national championship odds to eleven
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  to one back in the pack, and so I would say Vegas thinks it's
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  definitely gonna make a difference. We had Drew dey Armin on tighter Insider first
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  hour, he said, I want to get your thoughts on this, because
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  I know you're plugged in all over the SEC. He is hearing it.
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  It's down to three. It's not gonna be Kiffin. It's either going to
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  be Kaylen Debuer, DeMarco, Ryans or Steve Sarkejan Do you agree with that?
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  Are you hearing Sucults? If you were just for fun throwing at the
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  dark board, who you got? Yeah, I think one name that I
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  would add to that would be Mike Norville at Florida State, just given all
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  the uncertainty of the future of Florida State in what league they're gonna be in.
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  They just went undefeated, Jake obviously, and they didn't make the Nationals.
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  They didn't make the playoff. That says a lot about that league and
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  just the fact that you know and credit Mike Norville for doing it. But
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  his roster a lot through Nil, a lot through these answers that a good
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  majority of them are off to the NFL, So he's almost having to rebuild
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  his roster this offseason. I think there's a lot of signs that point to
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  Mike Norvell being a legitimate candidate for this job. As well. When you
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  look at just you know, Georgia, I think obviously is you can say,
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  hey, they are the you know, odds on favorite to win the
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  Southeastern Conference. Does this move Texas right to number two? I mean,
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  I guess on paper, Jake, But I'm still I'm not buying all this
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  Texas type. I'm truly not. And I know that that may sound crazy.
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  They just went to the playoff, but they still flat in the playoff.
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  And it's winning the Big twelve, that's one thing, and they did
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  it one time out of like the last fourteen years coming into this league weekend
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  week out having a difficult row. But I don't think it's it's any slam
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  dunk. I mean, I would be more surprised, Jake, if they
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  went If they went undefeated, then they eight and four, you know what
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  I mean. So that doesn't mean I think they're going eight and four.
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  But I think they'll lose a couple in the SEC because they're just not used
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  to the grind. They're about to get into mask comount Lane Kiffin and ole
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  Miss. It looks like Kiffin, you know, unless something drastically, she
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  just he'll be an ole Miss next year. Do you agree with Vegas eleven
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  to one odds right there with Alabama top five, top ten type program.
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  I mean, you look at what Ole Miss has done in the transfer portal.
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  Yes, Quinn Shawn Jenkins will be playing at Ohio State next year,
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  but your thoughts on the momentum that it's going on in Oxford. Yeah,
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  and he may be the big winner of this whole thing, Jake, because
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  he took beat Nick Sabans. Obviously, they don't play Alabama next season,
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  but they may face or at least may have faced Alabama in the SEC championship
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  game. So I think that is something to consider as well. But yeah,
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  I think. I mean, in my mind, Jake, old Miss
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  has gone from playoff contender is what a lot of people are labeling them.
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  I'm already saying national championship contender. I think they are. They should be
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  of that caliber next season. Well, so when you look at it,
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  let me ask you the same question for Missouri. Does Missouri deserve the same
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  love and respect so to speak? I mean, Vegas has them down a
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  little bit further. If you know, the guys that are coming back produced
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  like they did this year, can can Missouri make that same similar run?
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  Yeah, I think so year two under their offensive coordinator Kirby Moore too.
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  You know, a lot of these quarterbacks and overall offense takes a big jump
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  in year two of a system. It's gonna be a little bit more difficult
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  replacing defensive coordinator Blake Baker. But if you look at missouri schedule, I
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  mean, it's it's a joke. And I don't know if you saw this
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  the other day, Jake, but I've rand the numbers of just every the
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  records combined records of every SEC team next season based on their opponents for this
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  season, and Missouri's is far and away the easiest, just on that metric,
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  easiest skined in the NCC. They do have to go to Alabama all
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  of a sudden. Now Alabama doesn't look quite as fearsome without Nick Saban.
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  I mean, Missouri's gonna win ten eleven games next year. Yeah, we
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  were talking about that list you put out yesterday. That was good work as
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  always, And let me ask you this, We'll get you on your right
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  here way too early. I mean, you look at Sam Pittman's you know,
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  coming off of the year where he's got to produce. You look at
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  Shane Beemer at South Carolina. You look at Billy Napier at Florida. Could
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  we see a potential coaching churn inside the league again next year? Oh?
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  Yeah, absolutely. I mean some of these coaches I don't even know how
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  they survived this offseason, Jake, Sam Pittman specifically is who I'm talking about.
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  But yeah, Billy Napier and the grind he's got upcoming, it seems
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  very unlikely that he's gonna survive unless they take a massive jump this offseason.
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  And there's always guys you don't expect, like Nick saban Uh, you know,
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  and Lane Kiffin's always eyeing another job seemingly. So yeah, I think
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  this is just the nature of it. And now that we're going to a
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  twelve team format, Jake, I think there's about eight programs in the SEC,
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  or at least their fans that think it's their birthright to make the college
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  football Playoff, and you know they're not all going to make it. So
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  there's gonna be heck to pay for these coaches that fail to make the twelve
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  team playoff annually. I truly do think great stuff as always. Michael Bratton,
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  you can find him on X SEC Mike, you can search with you.
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  He's right there. Also that SEC podcast dot com you can check him
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  out and cousin Shane. They do a great job all the time with SEC
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  football. Michael, I appreciate you as always, sir. We'll do it
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  again very certain, all right, thanks for having me. Jake