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

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  Speaker 1: Check out the original DJ designs at David Gardner's Jewelers
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  Speaker 2: tx dot com. Welcome to the Writer's round Table featuring
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  Speaker 2: Rusty Berson and Robert Cessna with your host Chip Howard.
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  Speaker 2: The Writer's Round Table is brought to you by intac.
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  Speaker 5: Hey.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us. This portion of the program is
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  Speaker 4: brought to you by the Dollar Floor Store. Robert Sessa
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  Speaker 4: is here, Rusty Berson is here. I'm here, and.
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  Speaker 5: We don't we don't need anything more. Now that's enough.
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  Speaker 4: I'm hopeful you guys so see she blew out tire
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  Speaker 4: going over a median.
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  Speaker 5: After after last Monday. Is that's too funny or what?
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  Speaker 5: God's got a sense of humor.
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  Speaker 1: This town has more banks and medians per capita than
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  Speaker 1: any town I've ever been in.
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  Speaker 5: It's a cohoots with atar companies.
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  Speaker 4: Every time there's a new construction, like it's a bank.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know why they not play candy in your sea.
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  Speaker 5: Can even have to go to the dentist.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of medians. Oh gosh, they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: put more in. You realize that, Oh no, I know,
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  Speaker 4: believe me. I like all the concrete walls they're putting in.
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  Speaker 4: I like the concrete walls. I'm gonna love that so
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  Speaker 4: called Diamond Exchange they're gonna do at university. That should
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  Speaker 4: be just beautiful.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I think they're trying to get it.
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  Speaker 4: Shouldn't be any problems.
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  Speaker 5: There no outdoor prisons with those.
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  Speaker 4: I still I still can't get to the airport. I'm
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  Speaker 4: still confused. All you know, several years later going Okay,
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  Speaker 4: where do I go? Yeah? Yeah, it doesn't It's not simple.
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  Speaker 4: It is not simple. It's confusing. You know they they
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  Speaker 4: did that in San Marcus at that horrible intersection. You
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  Speaker 4: know that twenty one leads into thirty five. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you can sit there for a long time. Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: And that's that is so confusing the person you're going
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  Speaker 4: the wrong way. Yeah, it's like they sit in their
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  Speaker 4: office going now what I.
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  Speaker 5: Forgot about that twenty wanted St. Marcus.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was I think that may have been
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  Speaker 4: text dots first, and it was just it was just
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  Speaker 4: so wildly successful.
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  Speaker 1: Traffic circles are by and large, really not a great thing.
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  Speaker 4: I missed the I missed the traffic circle in Waco
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  Speaker 4: at the Elite Cafe mis Ca. Yeah, but that was well,
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  Speaker 4: now it's Chip and Joanna in it. I believe everything
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  Speaker 4: over there is Magnolia. Yeah, exactly, it's not the same.
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  Speaker 5: I've been there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I know it's more expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Chipp and Joe has made a big old donation to
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  Speaker 1: the baseball program there.
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  Speaker 4: Oh they did, Yeah, yeah they theg afforded. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 4: had all over there. To me, I were retired of
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  Speaker 4: better baseball losing.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently, so they've been non existed for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I brought this up in the first hour.
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  Speaker 4: You guys may or may not want to comment on it,
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  Speaker 4: but you were here when the secret newsletter came out.
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  Speaker 1: That was holy Mike mackenzie because Frand had no idea,
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  Speaker 1: but I never.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't know how to turn our computer.
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  Speaker 1: Literally, he hired Mike McKenzie because Mike mackenzie told him
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  Speaker 1: he was a communications and technology expert.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the reality is Mike mackenzie could build a very
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  Speaker 1: primitive website site, and Fred thought he was a genius.
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  Speaker 1: And so this was all Mackenzie's idea, like, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: you feed me some stuff and I'm gonna go make
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  Speaker 1: some more money on my own.
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  Speaker 4: It was oh gosh. Yes. So when A and M
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  Speaker 4: announced today the launch of the Aggie Football Club, saw
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  Speaker 4: that an exclusive new membership program. I'm sorry, that's the
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  Speaker 4: first thing that came to mind.
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  Speaker 5: But now it's legal.
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  Speaker 4: It's legal, and it's open, it's public.
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  Speaker 1: The year after A and M got busted for that,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Leech called me during the summer and left the message.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he always left the message. I was doing
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  Speaker 1: the stories for athlons, and he said, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like three o'clock in the morning, and hey, Rusty, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be happy to talk to you as long as
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  Speaker 1: it's on the record and not one of the secretive news.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, pretty soon it's gonna be I'm gonna tell you
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  Speaker 5: something publicly. It's going to really shock you. That's good.
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  Speaker 5: That's good.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, how much more does it cost for for access?
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  Speaker 4: I mean most of these people already have pretty good access,
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  Speaker 4: right that that well, I'm laughing. Are interested in stuff
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  Speaker 4: like that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're gonna see We're gonna see Marcel read wake up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, if you pay your money, you can be there.
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  Speaker 4: When he apparently you get to take Marcelda the DQ
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  Speaker 4: for a dip cone if you if you're in the
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  Speaker 4: lower tier, up tier, if you're in the upper tier,
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  Speaker 4: you get a better deal. Well, you know, they already
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  Speaker 4: had this thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the twelve Man Foundation has a champions weekend, yes,
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  Speaker 1: or that you've.
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  Speaker 4: Done that for a long oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then they have the summer Board meeting where you
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  Speaker 1: pay extra and they're bringing players and access and all
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  Speaker 1: these things and coaches and so.
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  Speaker 4: This Aggie Club is is.
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  Speaker 1: New, I guess, but it's going to be targeted towards
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  Speaker 1: non donors.
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  Speaker 4: Always that what it is. I can only imagine because
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  Speaker 4: they're already That's what I'm saying, like that, the donors,
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  Speaker 4: I mean guys who are who are who are funding
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  Speaker 4: this program. They've got all the access I think they
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  Speaker 4: would want.
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  Speaker 1: They're paying out in i L and so they'll have
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  Speaker 1: access they've always right, yeah, I mean I've got members
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  Speaker 1: that everyone has access, but the media correct.
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  Speaker 5: That's what it should because that's what they're thinking.
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  Speaker 1: I find out who their ni L money is coming
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  Speaker 1: from when they show up at Mirmot with these members.
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  Speaker 4: Right. I had this discussion today, and I still believe this.
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  Speaker 4: I've said it for several years, but I think it's closer.
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  Speaker 4: I had somebody tell me today and I didn't know
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  Speaker 4: that we're doing this. You know, in Austin. They're taking
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  Speaker 4: the press blocks away.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, right.
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  Speaker 4: Those are suites now and they're putting the press in
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  Speaker 4: the corners of the zode. Right, it's like Jerry first
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  Speaker 4: did it, what he built, Jerry World doing that. They
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  Speaker 4: don't read it too well. Yes, they've done it every
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  Speaker 4: They've done it everywhere, every every everywhere. Okay, I firmly
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  Speaker 4: believe that the day is coming and it's it's in
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  Speaker 4: the not too distant future that if number one, you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have to pay if you want to cover the team. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: your organization is going to have to write a check.
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  Speaker 5: Big pays your pay for parking a long time ago,
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  Speaker 5: Big ten.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that's just minor. I'm just saying to go to
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  Speaker 4: a game to get a press patch, you're going to
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  Speaker 4: have to pay. And that's a a better, even better
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  Speaker 4: way to control access to your program. Right, Because there's
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  Speaker 4: certain organizations here in town. They're not gonna have to pay.
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  Speaker 4: They'll have a seat and it'll be a good seat,
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  Speaker 4: but it'll be who they want there, right if they
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  Speaker 4: want If they don't want people there, the check is
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  Speaker 4: going to have to be written by their organization. Yeah, cover,
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  Speaker 4: I watch am Am I crazy? No, you're not crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like even the play by play guys now
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Monico and John Thornton, they don't have a seat
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  Speaker 1: on the floor their way up, but on the road games,
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  Speaker 1: I see them there all the time.
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  Speaker 4: They're on the shore, they're on the floor. Like that
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  Speaker 4: won't last long.
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  Speaker 5: Surely, if I live long enough, my seat at Kyle
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  Speaker 5: fielderby right here, I'll be sitting here.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, you're right, And I'll.
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  Speaker 5: Have to have binoculars to watch TV. And you're gonna
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  Speaker 5: have to watch the game exactly because the game's on TV,
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  Speaker 5: and Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: And You'll you'll just get your quotes from the radio
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  Speaker 1: or TV interviews after the game.
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  Speaker 4: But but those interviews will only be done by people
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  Speaker 4: who are allowed in that room, right, and the TV
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  Speaker 4: people whoever, whoever's designated, whoever they allow into the room. Right. Look,
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  Speaker 4: this is forever. I'm not saying this is just here
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  Speaker 4: today of them. I'm saying it's all college football. True,
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  Speaker 4: you know that's that's going to happen. Right. The NFL
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  Speaker 4: has so much money that if you screw them, they'll
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  Speaker 4: just kill you. Okay, So they're not worried about stuff
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  Speaker 4: like that. But we're getting closer and closer to that
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  Speaker 4: with the money involved in college sports, are we not?
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  Speaker 4: Because the access is already the access is already unbelievably
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  Speaker 4: limited seas compared to when you and I were a
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  Speaker 4: little younger.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you laughed about the NFL, but you see.
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  Speaker 4: Oh I'm not laughing. I'm serious.
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  Speaker 5: I'm saying is the NFL doesn't right because you still
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  Speaker 5: get sit in the press box at the NFL if
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  Speaker 5: you're if you're the Pittsburgh Post, can there, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you get all the seats because they're making so much money.
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  Speaker 5: They want you there. They actually do want the media,
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  Speaker 5: They want all media there. You could have media written
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  Speaker 5: on your head.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't think we're there with college sports.
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  Speaker 5: We're not because college doesn't understand. They don't. They're trying
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  Speaker 5: to follow the NFL. But you need to get the money,
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  Speaker 5: like the NFL doesn't need to do it. And what
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  Speaker 5: you're talking about, like this club more people are sitting around,
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  Speaker 5: how can we get more money? And like you're right, okay,
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  Speaker 5: we can't believe the donors anymore. Let's get people that
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  Speaker 5: are driving around that uh you know the time and
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  Speaker 5: it can't get off, don't pay to call it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think I didn't look at the prices.
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  Speaker 1: I should have looked at the prices to join. Did
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  Speaker 1: you look at the price?
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  Speaker 4: The cheap one is is one hundred dollars a month
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  Speaker 4: or one thousand dollars a year, so you get a
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  Speaker 4: great little discount there. Uh, the big one was more
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  Speaker 4: than a thousand. I think it was fifteen hundred. I
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  Speaker 4: think that allows you to smell the jerseys after the game. Right. Well, no, Washington,
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, for one hundred dollars, you get ten
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  Speaker 4: chances for raffles to win Aggie Baseball Caps. Sweet. I
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  Speaker 4: know that's I know that's part of the deal. Well,
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  Speaker 4: they didn't stipulate I don't think they have to stipulate that.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody.
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  Speaker 4: The big people get a game jersey when number twenty
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  Speaker 4: six on it for this season and their name on
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  Speaker 4: the back. So if you pay enough, you can get
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  Speaker 4: a actual Aggie game jersey.
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  Speaker 1: You can get that same thing at Rally House for
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  Speaker 1: a lot less.
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  Speaker 4: They just say do.
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  Speaker 5: They charge extra? By letter is gonna pay more than.
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  Speaker 4: Smith's gonna pay you?
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  Speaker 5: Well, no, He's just gonna go ahead and say, hey,
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  Speaker 5: Mike McKenzie and I go along. Well, well, that's why.
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  Speaker 4: That's my point.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, when Swarman broke that story, I thought, doesn't
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  Speaker 1: everybody know about this already?
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  Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, but you were on the inside. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: just I thought ridiculous because I was getting it. I
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  Speaker 4: was like, this is stupid. You were you were getting
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  Speaker 4: the secret news left. Oh yeah, and it gave me
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  Speaker 4: zero inside information.
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  Speaker 5: You didn't know. I can't believe that today.
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  Speaker 4: Coach friend had a salad at his desk.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was it was always it ended with
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  Speaker 1: be of good cheer.
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  Speaker 4: That was his tagline. Everybody, Yeah, be of good cheer.
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  Speaker 4: Love that.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I don't care what I tell you that the story.
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  Speaker 1: Mike mackenzie comes in, he's in the first year there,
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  Speaker 1: and he comes into the twelfth Man Foundation office and
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  Speaker 1: he comes in and he says, hey, Rusty.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, I got a really bunch of great.
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  Speaker 1: Ideas for revamping the game day program and I really
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  Speaker 1: would love for you and and we had a graphic
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  Speaker 1: artist at a time to really tackle this, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: make sure it's worth your while. So I poured a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time and a lot of energy into that
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  Speaker 1: first game day program, and we did, you know, really
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  Speaker 1: elaborate features and photos and everything. And my kids were young,
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  Speaker 1: so we got them on the cover with a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of other kids and coach friends, Coach Franz kids and
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  Speaker 1: in the end zone.
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  Speaker 4: And they gave me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, after we'd all got put together and I put
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  Speaker 1: all these hours in, he made it worth my while.
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  Speaker 4: But taking me to dinner, I.
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  Speaker 1: Get to go have a sit down dinner with my
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  Speaker 1: graphic designer and Mike McKenzie queen, Well it was a
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  Speaker 1: little bit better than that, but it was like I
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  Speaker 1: did all this for dinner.
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  Speaker 4: You did?
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  Speaker 5: You cheer them?
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  Speaker 4: You needed a contract?
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  Speaker 5: Yeh?
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  Speaker 4: Should have? You needed a contract? Maybe not that it
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  Speaker 4: would have worked, but maybe you shouldn't have been on
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  Speaker 4: the secret one.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe you should have.
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  Speaker 4: He was something else, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Anybody that dealt with Mike McKenzie has a Mike McKenzie storre.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, cher josh Amstutz who was a walk
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  Speaker 1: on who'd got shot in Iraq.
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  Speaker 4: He uh no, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was a great story, right, and so we did
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  Speaker 1: a great piece on him, and you know, we even
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  Speaker 1: he was he was Notre Dame fan because it was
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  Speaker 1: Indiana even range for a surprise dinner because Rudy Rudiger
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  Speaker 1: was going to be at Kyle Field, and so we
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  Speaker 1: arranged for him and his wife to not know it,
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  Speaker 1: but to sit down at Seeing Jay's barbecue, and we
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  Speaker 1: said we introduced him to everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Except for Rudy. He was his hero.
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  Speaker 1: And so we did this little labit story on him
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  Speaker 1: and he was put him on the cover of the
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  Speaker 1: magazine and and them just so happened to beat Kansas State.
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  Speaker 4: That week.
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  Speaker 1: And Mackenzie and Fran were livid that we put a
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  Speaker 1: walk on who had taken a gunshot in Iraq for
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  Speaker 1: the country. It was a great story. Rick Riley wrote
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  Speaker 1: it Cole in Sports Illustrated, because we sent him the article.
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  Speaker 1: When Mackenzie said, this is not a big deal, I
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  Speaker 1: sit off the article to Rick Riley, who wrote the pay.
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  Speaker 4: Right before the Coon bull. Didn't get bigger than that.
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  Speaker 1: Right before the Codon Bully. His last line was, he
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  Speaker 1: took a bullet for you. Fran put him in the game.
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  Speaker 4: Nice. So Mackenzie loved me.
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  Speaker 5: And then Mackenzie said, does you want a secret newsletter? Newsletter?
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  Speaker 5: But you know, I admit, as I get old, you
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  Speaker 5: get a little more cynical. But when you see these
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  Speaker 5: things come along ago. I've been down this road before.
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  Speaker 5: I've seen this first thing.
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  Speaker 4: I thought of. I know, I know I shouldn't And
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  Speaker 4: there's gonna be the first thing I thought of.
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  Speaker 5: And there's gonna be a train wreck since.
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  Speaker 4: The first thing I thought of.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, yeah, that's all not go exclusive.
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  Speaker 4: But hey, that's the that's the world in which we love.
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  Speaker 4: You pay for access right there. There's there's no such
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  Speaker 4: thing as free. Actually, a lot of people out there, listen,
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  Speaker 4: don't realize. Rick Rowley. There was a magazine called Sports Illustrations. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: there was a magazine called sports.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't just about to swim suit.
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  Speaker 4: Right, And he actually had articles and he wrote the
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  Speaker 4: back of the page column that which first thing everybody read,
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  Speaker 4: first thing everybody read. He was so creative. Oh, he
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  Speaker 4: was amazing. I got to have him on the show
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  Speaker 4: a couple of times, and he'd written a couple of books.
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  Speaker 4: I've read those books. I love it. Hilarious. He's just
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  Speaker 4: so funny. He was. He was great, he really was.
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  Speaker 4: Then I think he made enough money and retired and
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  Speaker 4: moved to France or something like that. I hadn't heard
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  Speaker 4: from him. No, no, no, no, no, nor Williams.
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  Speaker 5: He's living next door to McKenzie.
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  Speaker 4: All right, I guess that's enough that people are going, good, gosh,
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  Speaker 4: you get off of that. Hey, we gave you information. Wait,
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  Speaker 4: let me before I get off of that.
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  Speaker 5: Charge people, No.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to uh, let's see. Additional information on Aggie
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  Speaker 4: Football Club is available at twelve man dot com backslash
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  Speaker 4: Hey, who has more fun on this little show I
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  Speaker 4: did last week?
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  Speaker 5: And so at the media at the end of the week,
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: some people hit a wall. I hit media.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: You hit the media. I hit the wall. I got
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: the wall. I think Georgia hit the wall against in
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: the last four minutes.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: The start the gate. Yeah, it was an amazing.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: That you're gonna what is going on here?
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: But you know what, I knew they were gonna come
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: back and make a run of it what what I
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: love about this A and M teams. They did the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: same thing as Texas. You know, they maintained a ten
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: point lead most of the second half. Texas cuts it
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: down two or three and then I and then pulls
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: puts it on. Same thing they did with George. They
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: did that same thing one of the home Oklahoma.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you what if they hit nineteen
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: of twenty free throws on every road game they have left,
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: they're probably gonna win. This exactly right, the free throw
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: line that they had a three game stretch right starting
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: win Tennessee, of which I mentioned the first hour they
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: lost because they were horrible to oil at Auburn either correct,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: they had about three games, three games in a row
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: last But now it's like, because most of the year
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: they've shot really well. Yeah, but nineteen and twenty you
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: did that on the road, You're gonna win.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: It's sooner or later, you know, I mean, and I
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: know get the rate twenty fifth and the coaches both
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to Yeah, but twenty six and ap Yeah.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Sooner or later. People are gonna have to pay attention,
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: especially if I pay attention this week. Well, I love
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: you with the Mike White, Uh interview. Yeah.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Still like I've always said, I'm not sure if he's
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: a good coach or not, but.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: He very insightful. Yes, and he a m.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Was better yes, And he said they're the most connected
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: team he's seeing the SEC.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Yes, that's pretty I tell you this, The players fun
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: than any other team.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: If you watch the videos on social media, they're having
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: so much fun. It's like the old sports inner days.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what it pays to have veteran guys, right, Yeah,
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: And I know that's not unusual in this day and age.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of twenty three and twenty four and
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: twenty five year old players. But there's something to be
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: said for these guys who have been around for this long.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: They know what it takes right to have a team
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: environment because they've if they've been on five teams, chances
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: are four of them have been horrible, right, you know,
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: so they do know what it takes. And credit to
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: these guys by the way, you know, And I was
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: thinking about this during and after the game. Royland Griffin,
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: he didn't play very well. I mean, you have five points, right,
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: but he had a big three. Yeah, but you're going
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: you're going, where's right Griffin? Right? They don't need him
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: because Ali Diba is throwing fifteen down right, Yeah, unbelievable.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: He when he like, like they said in the Ray
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: of broadcasts, set shet Alley, Yeah, set shot out shot Alley.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: But yeah, when he has time, I mean he's he's
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: marksman over there.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: But but he's also very athletic. He's he I love
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: the way he drives. And oh my gosh, Marcus Hill
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: had some most amazing layups.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: He did no look underneath the basket against God who's.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Eight feet taller than him. I'm like, where did you
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: get that? Yeah? So I don't think I'll get an
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: argument for either of you. But I said that Rushawn
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: ag is first team All A clearly yes not okay,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm for that too. I think he is an
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: MVP candidate.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: He means more to Texas A and M than any
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: other player means that any other team in the Big twelve.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: I as, you know, the Big twelve.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: To coach, I mean, that guy's pretty good.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: You know, he's pretty good around Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: They have lucked into solid goal. I mean Texa A
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and M has.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Left and again I was using that word to myself.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: I'm going, you know, you have to get lucky on
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: some of these hires. Of course, you know, I'd argue
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: that even though people knew Elco and they knew what
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: he did at Duke, right, that doesn't always translate great hire.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: You know, there's some luck involved because you vet all
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: of these people. You look at all of these candidates,
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: and and and you know, when Bucky's hired, you're going
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: what high school? But I think we said, look, hey,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: why not go this direction? Right? I mean, this is
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: a program that needs.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: An How lucky they are that Chris Beard didn't take
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the job exactly, I mean they offered it to it exactly,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and instead they got Bucky And I would right now, yeah,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I mean I love that guy, and he is instilled
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: so much, I mean into that program already, and you
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: just know that this is probably gonna be the worst
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: team he has.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: You know, they're all amazed.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: Just watching that game. I was mesmerized because you see
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Georgia is gonna come by, and they showed him so
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: many times on the silence but cool, calm and collected
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: his team's just you know, like you said, Chip, you
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: know basketball's a game of runs. But the way they
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: handled everything and the bottom line is that those of
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: the monsters I thought, he know it was all said
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: and done that twenty two too. Whatever start was that
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: won the game. I mean they they set the tone
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: early and out and Georgia never got over that hump.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: And you're on the road and you gotta travel plane.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying, and you go, like, is anybody gonna
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: pinch bucketing He's gonna wake up or something. But I mean,
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: it's it's it's amazing how they've done this. And uh,
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: but you're right, no one knew Urban Mind wasn't. No
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: one knew Saggetty was the Indiana football coaches.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: I made Bob Bob stoops. Uh you know, you go
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: on and you go, this is uh, it's like the
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: NFL Draft with quarterbacks. Sure almost. I mean you just
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: got to know from one of the very high donor over.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: There, and he sent me the the email that the
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: SEC off is sent to Trev Alberts and it says
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Texan and drives under Bucketvctmillan generated the SEC's most favorable
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: online engagement last week, per the SEC is consult Consultant
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: for tracking online media activity. That's pretty cool. Wow, yeah, amazing,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: And I wonder how much of that is just how
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: much fun they're having. I've shared that video so often
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: of them, you know, pressing when they you know, the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: managers show up in the parking lot and the players
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: come running at him press. And then the most recent
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: one is like their players are walking around.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: And they can't miss.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: They're like everything's going into like a perfect shot, like
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: tossing a pencil into the cup and Rolen Griffin goes, God,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you can't miss. And so again, there's so interesting to
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: see these guys are having so much fun as opposed
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: to getting like, so what comes lockery lessons every day?
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: When you win, everything's fun. When you're winning, everything's bad.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: But they I'll argue that they won a lot under
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: buzz and they weren't that fun. Yeah, I mean hard,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and they played great defense, but they weren't fun to watch.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they're painful to watch a lot of times.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: A M was A and M. If you're a basketball fan,
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: I felt it was fun to watch A and M
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: on TV. It was like it was fun to watch
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: the Arkansas, Uh Kentucky. IM I just want to see
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: how long it's going to take to get on our technical.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, you watch me, Oh my god, for different reasons.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: I was crazy.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: But when you watched Georgia at A and M, when
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: you're sitting there in Georgia, the Georgia fan and even
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: sometimes White like what the heck's going on?
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: I mean yeah, it's just like because because as White
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: mentioned afterward, a lot of the and Vanderbilt and some
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: of these places were just smoked this last weekend with weather, right,
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: I mean just they were really hit. I was surprised
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: there was anybody in these buildings that over ten thousand
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: fans at that game.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: What else you gonna do? In athletes, you can't go out, well,
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: I'm gotta stay off the road.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Especially the students turn out in Georgia was fantastic. I
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: mean they had a ton of students and the atmosphere
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: was good in pregame, yeah, and non existent after the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: twenty to two runs.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah. I mean it was like, are you
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: kidding me? When when the ann went on that six
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: ozer run.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: When Pop Isaac's made the Steel hit two threes in
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: a row, It's just like.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: You've got to be kidding me, Yeah, it's twenty two
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: to two. We unbelievable. And if we hadn't seen it
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: all season, you'd go, oh, that's just a fluke. But
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: it's not that at all yet.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: And it's not a fluke. You don't know who's gonna do.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: You know what the best part I think is is
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: that first one is like Georgia, it's two to two, right,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: and then A and M scores to make it four
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: to two, and Georgia has to call a time out
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: because they can't get the inbounds.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Pass, can't get the balls. Yeah, it's a second possession
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: of the game.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: You're thinking, like, there's no way. The coach said, like, okay,
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: if we can't get the ball in on our second possession.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: But then it's A and them goes on this huge run,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and since they've already taken a time out, they can't
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: take No.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: One.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: And this is how the little things impact the game. Coaching, coaching, Listen.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: You're waiting for that four minute time out. They can't
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: come quick.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: And you know they're also capable of going on you know,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: an zero for nine and allowing a team to get
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: back in it.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: But you know that after that happens. They're gonna get
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: back on a run.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: For a while. They were un paced again, one hundred
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: and sixty eight points or something. I'm just laughing. You know,
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: it's not going to happen. But they score so fast,
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: so quick.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: And bless his heart. AG's still taking threes and every time,
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: every time he makes white and you're going, I wish
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: that stay under the basket.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I want to say, I want to tell Vincent that
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: he needs to shoot dunk shots and that's it.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so he's really good at that. Yeah, look, Ag
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: do whatever the heck he wants, as he's earned it.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: He has earned. He plays like he's a foot taller Nias.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: He does.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: He plays like he's in the NBA.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: He does like this comparison has been made a lot.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: But he plays like Barkley did at all.
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: But but when you see him and go like other
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: people are saying, like, hym, I need to get all
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: that guy's.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Way, I just love I love the intensity. And they
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: feed off him. The whole team feeds off it. He
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: walks out with an attitude. He never loses that attitude.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: He's barking at his teammates, he's barking at the other team.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: He is wired from start to finish. He never loses
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: that and you can't help but have a team that
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: feeds off of that kind of emotion. Get in your
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: face well exactly.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: The SEC did an interview with Bucky after they'd gotten
• 28:21
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• 28:23
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• 28:24
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  Speaker 4: That Florida beat down yesterday of Alabama, and see she
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: reminded me. You said, I've said twice now that that
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: A and M is going to Florida. They're not. Florida
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: is going to be here, and that is going to
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  Speaker 4: be fun. I think it will be the first They
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: have not had a sell out yet, right am I?
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Am I right about that? Red Yeah? No, no, definitely,
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  Speaker 4: not come close. Not close. I think Saturday night they'll
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: sell it out. I hope. So when loser draw Wednesday,
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  Speaker 4: they should. I'm not saying I can't predict this fan
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  Speaker 4: base or weather or weather, you know, if it's blow
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  Speaker 4: fifty or you know, if it's you know, it's a
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  Speaker 4: seven thirty game late you Yeah, but but it should
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  Speaker 4: be in the seventies. I don't know. That's not good
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  Speaker 4: basketball weather resting, but it's not.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's the only game I know, But it's
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  Speaker 1: thirty on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, I don't know.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: You sound like you've been jaded by lack of intendants
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: at basketball, Rusty.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: I've been here forty five years, so so.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, what I've realized is that when there's
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: good basketball floor.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: You don't the lousy marketing doesn't even bother me anymore.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: How about them exactly? How about the police? How about
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: the parking?
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: Oh don't don't know. I don't want to go there.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Don't ruin it. That, don't ruin a good cross, don't
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: ruin a good thing.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: There's a lot of should should be.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Sold out Saturday. We hope so. But Florida, my guysh
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: yesterday they looked like a Final four team again. They
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: were unbelievable against Alabama.
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: Well like your interview with Golden, because once again a
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: team reflects his coach. Yes, sir, you could tell he
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: was confident. He was he wanted to go in there
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: and make a statement. Yep, they did and his team
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: did that.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: And you know Boogie Flann, who last year was at
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Arkansas was with cal I don't know that he defended
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: anybody last year. And man, this kid, he has the
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: athletic ability to do it. Golden has obviously made him
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: do it. He's changed his mentality to be a point guard,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: to distribute, to defend, to control the game. That has
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: just made a world of difference because Florida up front,
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: there's not a better front line in America than those guys.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: They're really good. Yeah, I agree with you. They're playing
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: Jia Lewis is like, you know, he's a Player the
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: Year nominee.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: But I also say that I think in three of
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: the last four games Alabama's played, they're not being very impressed.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: They have not.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: They beat the heck out of Missouri, I agree with you,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: but they barely beat Oklahoma. Yeah, and then they got
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: beat at home by Tennessee. Yep, the hammer Missouri, and
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: then they just looked they didn't look like they had anything.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: Yesterday was really good. Well, they were great. They were
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: just great. And when the ball didn't go in, when
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: the three point shot doesn't go in, they're going to lose.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: I mean period. But but we were talking off the air.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: I think Debiaco has not helped them. I think he
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: searched them.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Well and going back, you know, I mean, they also
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: hammered Mississippi State. But then they lost the Texas at home.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: So they've lost the Texas and Tennessee at home. So
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I think Wednesday night is a very winnable game against Tennessee.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: I watched somebody, you know, they didn't Yeah, once again
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: did you hit on it too. Sometimes when you based
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: so much on a three point shooting team, Yeah, and
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: you don't.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: It doesn't go in.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: It could be, it could make for a long time.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: That's a long night.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: And I like you listen to your broadcast. Is they
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: thought they could do something defensively? Yes, and something when
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: you're looking at these running gun teams or high scoring teams, Yes,
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: you could take something away.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: Yep. And they did, which they did.
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: They did, and that's that's huge, you know.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: I I Golden's obviously pretty good at what he does.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: I think Natos is really good too. I do, and
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: he you know.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: He's give him credit there.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: I mean he's what a lot of games there. His
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: style annoying, He is so annoying. But he's a good coach.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: He is, I mean, he he is really good. But
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: I just don't know if Dbaco has helped him.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: I think we talked about I firmly believe in any
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: level when you're around the team sometimes, you know, man,
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: you say, that team is chemistry. I don't care if
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: high school to the pro. You can see, like you said,
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: those A and M players just love each other. Well,
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: can you imagine you bring somebody in right now, what
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: if it doesn't what if it doesn't mix? It does
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: that old c Yes, they say the rotten apple. But
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: if you know mix and you've got somebody trying to
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: swim up stream, everybody else is going down stream. And uh,
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: I thought, when Adam, when Bucky made the joke about
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: the three pointer at auburny and everybody you know, but
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: once again, when your team reflects that, and they got
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: us back in Goldens team. But you see Alabama, we
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: talked about when they had the guy that faked the
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: gun and whatever in Alabama three years ago. That team
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: was supposed to win it, and I well, I saw
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: they were the best team and they would win it.
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: Because that's you can't have the You can't yeah, right,
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: you can't have added distractions because you're gonna have enough distractions.
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: If you win, you're gonna everybody wanted to get you
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: and everybody tear you apart. You don't need added distractions.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: And all these NBA players I call them coming back,
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's good.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: So I always remember that name for him. Let's go Brandon,
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: So I like that.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, hey, whatever works my memory.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: So having said that, I know all the Aggie fans
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: or exercise because they're not in the top twenty five.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: I don't mind that, really, I don't. You know, well,
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: I know coaches pulled on count but but look, it
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. They're they're doing fine, right
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: and and once you once you get there, then you're
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: leading the scrolls, right, you're and that's that's coming, you know,
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: we we think that's coming where there's going to be
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: more attention right more.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Alabama dropped out of the poll this week. They did, Yeah,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: but I thought they would.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: But given given what A and M has done so far,
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: there's still like in a lot of places in afterthought. Oh,
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: by the way, when you start talking about the SEC
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: and they're going, well, you know, the highest ranked team
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: this week in the SEC is Vanderbilt at number fifteen,
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: that's crazy, right, Well, it's so you have four teams,
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: that's all you have right now, and A and M
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: is still an afterthought and they're leading the league.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: But they got some good teams in this league.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: Oh I'm not.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: And I'm laughing at you. When I'm watching the I smiled, chuckling.
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: I'm watching the Arkansas Kentucky game, and I think they
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: said twice, and they go no nod as Tennessee tries
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: to stay behind League leader A and M. Yes, and
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: I'm just laughing and I go.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: Everybody's trying to stay You're here sat with league leader.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: League Leader A and l Y, just laughing to myself
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: because it's crazy. I thought they might be ninety six
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: rank in the country right now, you know, years or
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: worse or worse or one twenty six.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean Lenardi's got them as an eight seed
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: And sorry, yeah, yeah, I'd love that, but I mean
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: they're they're really They're sitting there seven to one now.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: And now you look at their schedule and say, especially
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: if they go on the road and be out now,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: this typically get twelve wins in the conference, I mean eleven,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: twelve wins is attainable in the SEC. Yeah, and so
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I thought ten would be the magic number. I'd be
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: really disappointed if they only got ten.
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: Now, I mean the way they're playing, it changes.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Just because the way they're playing and by the way
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: they've played, they have got to the halfway port.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: There's seven and one. Yes, I mean that's pretty amazing.
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: Yes, because they're not a fluke. Because you can say, Okay,
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: they should have been Tennessee, but they're lucky to beat Auburn.
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: But the way they played Georgia, the way you're winning
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: some of these games, the way you look at him
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: and you go like, wow, this is the time of
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: the year where basketball teams.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Even get they go five and five, they're twelve and seven.
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: Listen to the coaches like like we just heard right,
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: They go, hey, that's a really good team, right, everybody
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: that's played them, the most team in the SEC. Yeah's white. Yeah,
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: really good team. Yeah right, hard to prepare for.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: You can't fake that.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: And Todd Golden mentioned it in passing, hey our next
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: game is good, saying M you know there and they're good.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: He's yes, well they have a week, you know, and
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: he's I'm sure he's strilled to have a week to
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: try and get ready. Oh sure it does. But you know,
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: it all balances out. A and M had their week
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: and they went into Georgia with fresh legs. It was
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: obvious from the jump obviously, you know, and how that
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: came out and they had fresh legs this time of year.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: That's golden to get a week and yeah, Florida will
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: have had a week when they come in.
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: Let's hope they're not golden now, thank you, thank you.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: All right, we're going to take a break on that.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: Uh I can't. We've got to turn the mic off
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  Speaker 4: by in Tech. We thank you for joining us. Robert
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: Sassins here, Rusty person is here. I commented on this
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: in the first hour. I Since I've been laid up,
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: I've watched tons of basketball. Fortunately I get to pick
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: and choose the games I watched. But I did Friday
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: Nights of Wasteland. But Michigan Michigan State were on, and
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: I knew that was going to be, you know, combat,
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: and they said go ahead, and it's combat. Now. The
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: coaches are sniping at each other for dirty play, you know,
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: and I'm going look in the sec that game still
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: would be playing because the officials would still be blowing
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: their whistles. They would have called four thousand fouls and
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: you can't, you can't do that. And they didn't do that.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: And I was very impressed with that big kid officiating crew,
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: because you know, it's a hard game to call what
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: it's hand to hand and there's a lot of there's
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: a lot of seven foot, two hundred and eighty pound
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: guys on the court, right Yeah.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: But I'll say this about age, and he has done
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: a great job of being a presence and not getting
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: foul tr he really has. Like he had two stupid
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: fouls Saturday, and that's that's what bothers me.
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: But but he hasn't been maybe one or two games
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: he's had to sit a little cause of that, but
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: not a lot. Andy Bucky does.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: A really great job of getting Frederico and Vincent in
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: on defensive end so that you can sit age on
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: the defensive possession and you get him right back in
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: at the time out to play offense.
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: Spotting guys.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, because that's ill right, That's Frederico's only
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: value right now is spotting defensively. But I think Ag
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: bay and large does a really good job of not
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: slapping and uh getting it in stupid foul.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: Which is really amazing. Yeah, he's given five to six
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: to seven inches up in the middle of every single game.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: And I think he's earned the respect of the officiality.
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: I told you like.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Two weeks ago, I was on the floor for the
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: South Carolina game and the AG came running barely diving
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: at my feet and uh, you know, the referee helped
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: him out. He's like, that's a hell of a good hustle, Ag,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: and you know, just and they're communicating and I think, yeah,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: he barks at him sometimes the officials, but it's in
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: a Hey, I don't think that was right, yeah, as
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: opposed to you. Yeah. So I think he's managed by
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: talking to them, but not like saying you missed that.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: Call or are you sure that's right. It's just like, yeah,
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: I didn't see it that way. Yeah.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: So I think again he's earning respect.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: When you look at the league right now, at Florida
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: coming off that big win and not playing until they
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: come here. You look at this Arkansas team that got
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: beaten by a Kentucky team that's coming on. I thought
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: Mark Pope had no chance to keep his job, you know,
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: three weeks ago and they were two and two whatever,
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: oh and two yeah, yeah, yeah, I said pack it up.
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, some big games coming.
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, but you look and you go, well,
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: it's Kentucky. They're always going to have talent, right, It's
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: just that's just the nature. They're always going to have talent,
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: and that talent I think is beginning to learn how
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: to play together.
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: You know that was impressed with the way they won
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: Saturday came.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, they went into a building that not
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: too many people go in and win.
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: For me, they want a road there, you know, Yeah, yeah,
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: it was amazing.
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and they've won now six of seven I think, and.
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: They had all those technicals go against him in Arkansas
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: come back and the guy to slam to take the leading.
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: I go, this is done for I mean, right, Tyson.
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: People paid everybody off, you know chance you know.
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: I think it was the Walmart.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: People actually, but anyway, go ahead, Yeah, well they got
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: the money.
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, because what's his face? Said the ice to
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: people right in front.
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: Of the Yeah, yes he did.
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: The analyst, Yes, I forget it. I like that first
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: name is he goes. I always told the boys you
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: want to see the people leaving in the last time out.
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, putting their coats on and walking out like
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: the Arkansas are right now, and they and they were,
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: you know, and that that was that was a bit
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: of a surprise.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: It was, you know, I look at Georgian people were
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: leaving a little early too.
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: Really.
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: So you're looking at teams that are going to compete
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: for the championship, right and are going to challenge A
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: and M.
• 49:36
  Speaker 5: Challenge that's I mean, they're they're in the leads, right,
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: So who is going to challenge A and M?
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: Florida Florida definitely is going to be right now, in
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: my mind, the biggest challenge. And I think I still Arkansas.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: I think Florida surpasses A and M eventually. I mean,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: but I mean, I just don't know.
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: If A see Saturday, yeah, well we'll see. Uh, it's good,
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: you know what. A lot of it has.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: I thought in the next five games, including the Georgia game,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: if A and M could go three and two in that.
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: Fact, I said, two and three. Yeah, they go three
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: and two. But but now you start getting great because
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: you already got absolutely.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I think, like I said, I think Alabama
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: is gettable.
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: The way they've played at home, haven't played they haven't
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: played great. No, Arkansas has the talent. They have incredible talent,
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: and they have a coach that knows what to do
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: leading into March. They always his teams always get better,
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: and he gets a lot of calls. He does, he
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: begs for them, and he does, he does, he does
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: get calls. He works it, he works it hard, he
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: works it hard.
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: But that I'm telling you, his team's always improved. You know,
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: you look for that. I tell you a team that's
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: not nearly as good as what they've been well, Vandy
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: is a strange team because I had give it up
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: on them and then they blow out was it Kentucky
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: last Saturday? Yeah, they blew somebody.
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: Home game where they were very Other teams didn't show
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: up though, But right does they catch Vanderbilt here or there?
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: Because I don't have the whole schedule. Sometimes they made
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: Kentucky eighty yeah, fifty five. Yeah, they smoked him, They
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: smoked them, they smoked him.
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: Show up.
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: But I Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt, that's a hard place to play.
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: It's such a weird place, weird and difficult.
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: But and and when Vanderbilts good, it is even worse.
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: But the thing is they don't have the height. You know,
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: teams with heights are to me like that Tennessee team,
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: That big front line give A and M some issues
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  Speaker 4: because of A and M's lack of of regular high three.
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  Speaker 4: Florida is going to be a really big challenge. Florida
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  Speaker 4: is the challenge to everybody right period there, especially A M.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean they're they're they're good. Yeah, uh so yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Florida Arkansas. I don't think Vanderbilt is going to challenge
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: I could be totally wrong on that. That guy's done a
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: great job. Kentucky is on a roll. And I was
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: about to mention Tennessee because they have a coach too, Right,
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: you look at all these teams, who's the coaches that
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: you know that that win, right, and Rick Barnes doesn't
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: have some of the talent he's had in the past.
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: But this freshman kid that came of age against A
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: and m A Mitt right, the big six eleven kid,
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: and that was the first game, unfortunately that he got
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: unleashed and he's been really good ever since.
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: But I saw it was Tennessee. They're they're good guard
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: gut and fall shuble when they weren't quite the same,
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: No doubt. They don't have the depth they do enough
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: perimeter depth they do not, and they don't have enough
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: consistent shooting right. They got some they're prone to turnovers.
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: They have some holes. Uh everybody does, but I'm surprised
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: the holes they have.
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: I am two sees. I was. I was a little
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: surprised at the lack of overall talent. I watched them,
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: But like I said, I can't just doubt them because
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: they know how to win, you know. And so that's
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: the team. The what I mentioned four teams. I mean
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: to me, those are the teams you're looking at. They're
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: going to challenge A and M going forward.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: You know one team we haven't mentioned at all, and
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: they're surprisingly because they've played a lot in basketball. Oklahoma's
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: one and eight.
• 53:40
  Speaker 5: You know, is there a word? Is there a worst
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: luck team? I see the scores going on. They're playing good.
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: I got Jessica, go, oh, they'll lose that game. They'll
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: find a way.
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: They find ways. I tell you why. In my mind,
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: they don't defend theys. Going to be on hot seat
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: has to be yeah, yeah, passed the hot seat. Yeah,
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: I think he's passed that.
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: I think he's package.
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: You know that the issue with Oklahomba basketball has been
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: ever since Oklahoma City came to town. That's an Oklahoma
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: City NBA town. Now it's not a college basketball town.
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: And you're exactly they took over. They in that whole state.
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: They love the thunder, Oh they do. I mean they
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: are there and whoever comes in has got to fight,
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: you know against that.
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: But you hit something, but they don't defend your credit
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: ship because in close games, what happens you have to
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: somebody make a big shot or if there's somebody. They've
• 54:35
  Speaker 5: got offensive skills, have somebody to prevent the deal.
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: They don't prevent.
• 54:39
  Speaker 5: You watch it. They're always losing by the last second
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: shot to go into overtime or whatever. Then they don't
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: get the big baskets.
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: They're giving up layups and it gets back.
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: You've got to be able to play good defense with
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: the game.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Well even you go back to the A and M
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: game at Read Arena, and they led a lot of
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: that game, yes, and didn't pull away till late. And
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: you know, I watched I've watched some of their games,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: like how are they gonna lose this one? The way
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: they lost Missouri and then of course they lost in
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: Texas this weekend, and I'm just like, yeah, that's.
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: A hard luck team, it is. And yet they play
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: almost everybody close.
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  Speaker 5: And they lost about six games. You said have got
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: eight lost some but they played six games like that.
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  Speaker 5: If you go back and look, they could have won
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: those six games.
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, they could be like seven and two,
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: but they're not. But they're not exactly. A and M
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: has the seven wins. That's right.
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: We could all be in the inn and football club,
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  Speaker 5: but hey, we're not.
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  Speaker 4: Hey for one hundred dollars in a cap. I'm thinking
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