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Episode 62-Peter Burns and MS State Football Preview · Johnny's World

• 0:22
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, welcome back to a brand new edition of the Johnny's World Podcast.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_03: Johnny here with my co-host BW.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_03: What's going on today, BW?
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_03: Hey man, doing good.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_03: How about you?
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_03: Doing great, man.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_03: Another another day closer to college football season.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_03: So it's uh it's good hot outside today, but hey, that's that's the dog days of summer, right?
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: And we all start begging, begging for fall to get here, get ready for football.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_03: Yep, yep.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_03: The best time of the year.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_03: So uh yeah, with that being said, we we got a great show lined up today.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_03: Uh can't wait for our listeners to uh check us out and uh they'll they'll be they'll know who uh who we're talking to if if they follow college football.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_03: So uh I'm gonna bring him on.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_03: He's you'll see him uh this fall on the uh SEC network.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Peter Burns.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for joining Johnny's World today.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_03: We appreciate it.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we appreciate the invite, man.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's uh it's crazy.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: It feels like we were just wrapping up uh our trip up to Omaha for the College World Series and LSU winning it.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_03: And then I was gonna talk to you about that before.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_03: Uh uh, me and Brand are both our Mississippi State fans, but man, LSU's always my been my second favorite team.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_03: And I was cheering so hard for the Tigers.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_03: So glad that they got it done.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_03: I was gonna ask you about that before we got into football talk.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_03: I know you're pumped.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: It was a fun, it was a fun uh I was gonna say week, but it was like two weeks, and it took like two years off of my liver.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: You know, with LSU fans, you know how it was.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, basically how state fans were whenever we they won a couple of years ago.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that was nuts with that whole crew, but um, yeah, it just feels like we were just in Nashville and then boom, campus starting up.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: And it feels weird because you know, it feels like the last two seasons we've talked so much about name, image, and likeness and transfer portal.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: And this year we're talking about conference realignment and expansion and stuff like that.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like I it feels like it's been back since like 2019.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's actually talked like actual football, right?
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like I feel like we're talking about all these other things except for the actual play on the field.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: So uh, you know, we're getting closer with camp starting.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: So this is a fun time of year for us over at uh on the network for sure.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_01: So, what do you get about two weeks off, I guess, after the College World Series between this?
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's not bad.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I we'll get about three weeks off um between College World Series and then um when we go to media days, and we get about another three or four weeks off on the back end of it.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: So I'll never complain, man.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like it, you know, all joking aside.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's a dream job.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, anytime that I catch anybody ever complaining over at our offices, I'm like, could you imagine if we had to work for a living?
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like we get to talk sports for a living, like shut up.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like, this is awesome.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: So, but you know, I mean, you know, I and I host a Sirius XM show every single day.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: So we're constantly kind of in the mix of what's going on.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_00: And and like I said, it seems now it used to be the offseason, is you wouldn't even think about anything on college football.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: It truly was vacation.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: And now, between the transfer portal and changes in legislation, legislation and and changes in teams and conferences, it feels like it's you know kind of becoming like the NBA and NFL, where it's 365 days a year, something is going on.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: And and especially in the SEC, where the fans are the best, where they care about football year-round, not just you know when they're actually playing.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, exactly.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_01: So, did you take any any vacations or anything, or you just been been working?
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: You guys caught me in a good time because tomorrow I'm actually doing my last one.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm taking a uh trip, I'm taking my dad up to um a place called Sand Valley Golf Course up in uh Wisconsin, right outside of Madison.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: So uh yeah, a place called Mammoth Dune and Lido, and so it's a it's a pretty special place.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_00: So uh yeah, um, you know, my my dad is uh got me into sports, you know, growing up, and he's such a big LSU fan.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: And so uh he'll be probably wearing all his LSU gear.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: He'll be that annoying guy on a flight wearing all of it.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_02: Um we'll do that.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we'll do that, and I'll call the BMW championship for the PJ tour on uh the week of August 15th.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: But other than that, man, we're doing SEC Now shows.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we're doing um college football live, and then here in a couple of weeks, we got Vanderbilt, Hawaii kicking things off.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: And then, of course, the big one here in Charlotte will be South Carolina, North Carolina, the game day there.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: So um, you know, I'm excited that we actually get back in the thick of things for sure.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a big uh I listen to no laying up podcast and watch their YouTube, and so I like all their features where they they go to the different courses and stuff like that.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, Sully and those whole all those guys, you know, um they they do a really good job.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: They started working with us over at ESBN, they started doing some stuff right majors, and they've been great, and we actually share the same agent.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: So we've we've had a good relationship over the last couple of years.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_00: So uh, you know, it's fun.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: And now I do like to go down to Starkpool because they got two great golf courses.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, I love playing old Waverly down there, and Bossy Oak is a really cool golf course, too.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: So uh trust me, between the catfish and the golf, I try to get down to Starkwell as much as possible.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 5:09
  unknown: Yeah.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_01: So I mean, transitioning to Starkville.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: So I guess we'll we'll throw you a softball question.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, where where do you like to eat when you're there?
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: What you said catfish.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_01: So do you would you like to do that?
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, we'll go guest room, we'll go little uh, you know, little Dewey's.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um is it Ben 612?
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's one of the other places out there.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: So um, I mean you can't go wrong.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's the deal with like the South is you know, we were thinking about one of these days that we're talking about um, you know, doing a food show, you know, outside of the one we already do, that's kind of a little bit more storytelling, but like just the best places.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, we would we would have fights, like we would like people would if you tried to rank what the best places are in town, like whether it's Oxford or Starkville or even Baton Rouge, so we're just like, you know what, let's just say we won't list them.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_00: We'll just say that there's a lot of good places to eat in the South.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: So I mean, uh I'm lucky I live in Charlotte because I swear if I lived actually in the like the deep south footprint, I'd weigh you know 275 pounds, you know.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_03: I went I went to this buffet uh gosh, uh a week before last.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_03: And it was called, I think it's called Seafood Junction.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_03: It's in a town called Algoma, Mississippi.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_03: Never heard of Algoma, it's middle of nowhere, but it's the literally the only restaurant in the town.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_03: And I mean, talk about fried food, fried catfish, all the stuff you're just talking about in deep south.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, it was it was it was insane.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, it's it's pretty crazy around here with all that.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like in the south, it is like it's football, food, family, and faith, right?
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like all of those stuffs, and I think that's why I really like it.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: It's just you know, we have that tagline for the conference, it just means it's more.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, I remember when it first came out, a lot of people were making fun of it, but I'm like, when you truly take a step back, I'm like, it does.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I remember going to Starkville Cafe the first time I ever went down there, and everybody's wearing dog gear, right?
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like everybody has maroon on.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, it's just it's hard to explain for people who haven't been a part of the SEC world, like what really kind of college football season means to them, because a lot of people plan their entire fall, whether you know, vacations or weddings or whatnot, around if your team is playing or not on set.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I got married uh opening weekend uh of college football 15 years ago, and all my groomsmen, including Johnny, were all mad at me because it was, you know, this the state game was going on during the wedding and all that.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: So hey, that that I also think that's a money move.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: I also think that's a money move.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, because for me, I look at it and I'm like, well, that means I get to kind of hang out with all of my boys and play.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like my wife and I got married, she's a diehard Alabama fan.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_00: So we got married when Alabama was playing like Louisiana Monroe and LSU was playing Syracuse.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: So we like legitimately looked, I'm like, all right, what's the easiest, you know, you know, two-game schedule for us?
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: Let's pick that weekend.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: And it was great.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: So after the even the reception, like we sat around watching college football, all right?
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's you know, I feel like it's R in the brain.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_03: So was there were there fights in your house all last year with Alabama and LSU and LSU winning the game?
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_00: It um it worked a little tense.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_00: The LSU uh fans, yeah.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_00: I brought my wife there and I took a you know, it kind of went viral.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_00: I took a a video of the very last play with me and her in the stands.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: And when LSU scored, I just went crazy, you know, and and I'm just showing her, and she's just despondent like this.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: And um, you know, it got like three million views on on social media, and and it was kind of funny.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: And then the next morning, I was not, I'll be honest, I was well, I had a couple drinks that night.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the next morning I'm pretty hung over and I see a phone call at like 7:30 in the morning.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, and it's from Greg Senke, the commissioner.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, uh and it was a uh it was a friendly reminder as the anchor of the SEC network.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_00: I love all that I'm supposed to love all 14 uh schools.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_00: But he did, you know, to his credit, he and I because I was like, oh man, I'm sorry.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: And he goes, No, I'm just joking.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: He was like he was just busting me because he was just like, Hey, that that's we want people that are associated with this conference to enjoy it and to live it and to breathe it.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean, that's who I am.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_00: I I have a hard time apologizing.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like I love it, and and here's the deal like I actually will pull for like I pulled for State when they were playing in the College World Series championship, and I'll I mean, my one of my favorite memories is Morgan Williams hitting the shot to be UConn, right?
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like I'll pull for Bama if they're playing somebody you know that's not in the SEC.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: So um, you know, I I I pull for all of them because I you know, I like where I work.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_03: Well, uh, we want to ask you while we got you on there, since we were just talking about Mississippi State, uh, what are your thoughts on this coming year?
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_03: I I know it's getting uh, you know, it seems like every year in the media they always pick us dead last, and every year we don't finish dead last.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_03: That's I guess that can be a good thing they're picking us dead last again, but I know there's so many unknowns, that's why they're saying it without Coach Leach anymore.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_03: And this what are your thoughts on the on the dogs in 2023?
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, let's start with what you talked about.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: Is like it seems like every single year you pencil in state for the seventh spot in the West, which is BS.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I remember Dan Mullen used to tell us to be like, it doesn't matter where what how good my teammates, y'all are gonna pick a seventh.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like it doesn't matter.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I feel like sometimes it it helps because it's a motivating tool, you know, that that the team can use.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: But I look at how many guys you got returning on both sides of the ball.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: You got Will Rogers, you know.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, he's gonna learn a new offense, but you know, it's not as if he can't throw the ball.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we saw that he's gonna get an opportunity to showcase that in Barbe's offense a little bit more.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and you know, Kevin had a great offense at App State.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they scored a boatload of points and they were pretty explosive.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: So um, you know, Q the Marks is gonna should be able to get a little bit more touches as far as like a normal running back as opposed to last year.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_00: So um, and defensively, I really like Arnett.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like, like every time that I I feel like over the last you know 20 years of doing this, I can I can have some fun with the coaches and get them kind of talking about things they don't want to talk about and have some fun.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: I can't do that with Zach, man.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like Zach's like all football.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_02: All football, yeah.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_00: So I love it.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_00: I like it.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's what they need.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: And um I I think they're probably one of the more underrated teams.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: I was on in Birmingham earlier today on a radio show, and they asked me, like, who doesn't get enough love?
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, I think it's state in Kentucky this year.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, now that doesn't mean I think state's going to the college football playoff, but I think that they can be a good team.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_00: But I also believe too that that's why the college football expanding is going to be so huge in 24 because hey, all of a sudden, if state does catch lightning in a bottle, yeah, can they be a 12-team playoff?
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: Hell yeah, they can be.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think it's just a little bit tougher, and it has so much to do with brands when you're talking about a four-team playoff.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: I know going back to that year, you know, we we were number one in the first ranking, and then we kind of fell off at the end there.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_01: You you wonder, you get in that year, what would have happened, but who knows?
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, yeah.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you had Dak, and I think that was uh Duranya Wilson may have been on that team, and was it uh the human bowling ball, whatever.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that was a fun team.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, I if I'm not mistaken, I think that would have been one of the first years we launched on the network because I remember maybe the loudest crowd we ever had was the state game, and I want to say it was against Auburn, where we did we did SEC Nation followed up by like a noon kick.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I I mean to this day, like you asked T Bow and you asked Joe Tess, you asked everybody, they're like, it was effing nuts, like it was awesome.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: So and and and that's every time I that's what I expect.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: Anytime that we do something big at Starkle, the fans always show up, and that's why it's near and dear to my heart, right?
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think I think we're gonna surprise surprise some people.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I like it, man.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_03: You know, that's kind of that feels like that's Mississippi State's uh that blue collar mentality, man.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_03: Work hard, you know.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_03: I heard I heard Arnett talk about that.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna bring our lunch bills to work, we're just gonna dig deep, deep dive in and work and keep grinding, and that's who we are.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_03: And and uh, you know, there's nowhere to go but up, you know, if you're when they pick you last.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I mean you think about like you think about teams like Texas, who have all the five stars or could potentially get the five stars in the huge plan and how disappointing that they've been.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you look top to bottom on what's been a better program over the last decade, would you pick Mississippi State or Texas?
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: You'd absolutely pick Mississippi State, like in a heartbeat because of how underperforming and overhyped Texas always is.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I I do like that about state and I like the mentality of those of those players out there.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_03: So, so with the when we're talking about SEC, uh, but what are your picks?
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_03: Who do you like?
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I mean, I'm Georgia's obviously the favorite, but what do you think of yeah?
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's tough to pick against Georgia, especially with that schedule this year.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um I think Tennessee and Kentucky are the kind of the go back and forth.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: I can pick either one of them.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_00: I like Kentucky just a touch better um as the second best school in the East this year.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, as far as the West, I'm still rolling with LSU, and that's not because I I feel like I'm an LSU homer.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's you got Jaden Daniels.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: You have really talented running back room.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_00: The offensive line is better, the defensive line might be one of the best in the country.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then you also return both your coordinators.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's a huge thing in this world of transfer portal and player movement now is that you know, anytime that you can have a coordinator for more multiple years, that's that's huge.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, I look at you know, LSU, probably pretty lucky to beat Alabama last year because they caught him on a good week and it caught him at home.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, not having Bryce Young, not having Will Anderson, having two new coordinators, not knowing who their quarterback is, they're gonna be super talented.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_00: I still just liked LSU and in, you know, on paper.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um watch Alabama beat the living shit out of them.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, but um I'm still I'm still picking LSU to win the West.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I see.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_03: Harold Perkins, he's he's just done.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's it's gonna be interesting to see about Perkins this year because Perkins worked really well last year where they let him just freelance.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: They basically just said, go be an athlete, go make plays, and go get the quarterback.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like it was like the most Pop Warner style football style ever.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: And now they're putting him into more of a position um of hey, we need you to do this and you're gonna be doing that.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I I don't know, I think there's gonna be so much hype on him.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I actually like the other kid on the other side, Mason Smith.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, he was a defensive end that got injured in the FSU game celebrating.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: I think he's back, he's healthy, ready to go.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: So um, that could be a hell of a one-two punch for LSU on that front.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Peter, we we really appreciate it, man.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: I know you gotta get out of here and go pick up your kids.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: So uh thanks for thanks for coming in and and joining us.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_01: And uh hopefully you're in Starfield celebrate to win one of these days.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'd love to do it, man.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: I love going down there and uh and let's try to catch up in the middle of the season, man.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: Let's try to do this, you know, like week six or seven or so, and that way we can kind of uh see if all my predictions are horrifically bad like they normally are.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: So sounds like a plan to us.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: All right, have fun on the trip.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, boys.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'll try to hit them straight.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: See y'all.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_01: All right, all right.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome back to the Johnny's World Podcast, folks.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: It is the third of August as we record this episode.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: It is uh football month, I guess.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's the month of uh college football is about to kick off, and then uh first part of September, we got NFL kicking off.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: So this is the our favorite time of year.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna have a little kickoff episode here today and uh kind of get us primed up and ready to go for the season.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: So, with no further ado, I'm gonna bring on my co-host Johnny.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: How are you doing today, Johnny?
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I'm doing fantastic, BW.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, like you said, college football is among us.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, best time of the year.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_03: I I know the dogs have uh opening camp tomorrow on Friday, and it's hot outside.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_03: Ooh, it's hot.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_03: There's gonna be some hot camp outside.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_03: But hey, that's the the hey, you know, you're gonna play in the hot.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_03: You gotta you gotta learn to practice in it.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_03: So uh it's gonna be a hot weekend if it if it keeps the way it's going right now.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_03: But uh hey, before no before long it'll be uh it'll be perfect cool weather in the fall, then we'll get to cold weather, and people will be complaining like, oh, it's too cold, ready for the heat.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_03: So uh the seasons, man.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_03: But we're in the dog day in December, that's for sure.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I remember playing playing uh high school football for old Alan Kirk at MRA, and he used to say, you know, oh, y'all are out here in this heat practicing, so y'all are gonna be y'all are gonna be in better shape than everybody else.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: And then I bought into it back then.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: Then I realized like, you know, we're in Mississippi, everybody's in Mississippi, everybody's practicing outside, so we're not we're not in the in less more heat than anybody else is.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_01: So, but it I guess it got me through.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_03: So I remember Coach Caruth always said it's cool in the south.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's cool in the south.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: Cool in the south.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, speaking of Caruth, we uh uh we we lost the Caruth.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: We we had the Caruth for a little while, the recruit there.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_03: Um he went over to Bama.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_03: So his I know his granddad Paul Lott is uh is smiling down from heaven on that.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_03: Paul Lott, we we we always lit like to listen to I listened to the eagle with Paul Lott, and uh he was a Dow Hard Bama fan.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_03: So uh I guess he's where he belongs.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: So that's right.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_03: So I kind of humped out because I love Coach Caruth.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_03: Uh if he's if you're listening out there, Coach, uh really love um, I was looking forward.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_03: He he was talking about uh possibly coming out to where I live.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_03: He asked about uh the lake that we have and everything.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_03: So I was really get excited by getting to see him, but uh, but I totally understand.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_03: So he's uh hey, look, he's got a chance to win win that.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_03: He's over over there in Bama.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_03: So uh uh best of luck to him and and uh but we'll we'll always be cheerful.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we we almost had two celebrities because uh we had Cole Hauser's son was supposed to be there too, right?
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: And we lost him.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_03: You know, you know, I was really excited about that one because uh I mean I know you you're a fan of Yellowstone, I'm a Dalhardt fan of Yellowstone, watch all the episodes and and Mike Leach, Coach Leach was a diehard fan of Yellowstone.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and uh I remember on one of the interviews he was talking about how he was like, well, we if we could get Beth Lee Beth uh Beth to uh Dutton to come out here and coach, uh I'd I'd have her out here in a second.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_03: And uh so I don't know if that was kind of if that was his intention of getting Cole Hauser to son to come here to to get Beth Dun to come to practice.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if that was part of the deal, but uh yeah, uh it's unfortunate that um I guess when when Coach passed and and uh it didn't didn't work out.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_03: And I think he's going to TCU, I read.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: But uh yeah, Cole Hauser son.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_03: That would have been that would have been really cool.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, I know.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_01: But that's all right.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_01: Well, uh, I was gonna give everybody an update about what we have going on in Johnny's world, and then uh we may do a little college football preview.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_01: So um and look forward to that.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_01: But uh I just wanted to give everybody an update.
• 20:01
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• 20:06
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• 20:16
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• 20:18
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• 20:20
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• 20:22
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• 20:23
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• 20:25
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• 20:27
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• 20:30
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• 20:34
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• 20:41
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• 20:46
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• 20:49
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• 20:51
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• 20:54
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• 21:06
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• 21:08
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• 21:10
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• 21:16
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• 21:20
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• 21:27
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• 21:35
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• 21:38
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• 21:41
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• 22:00
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• 22:04
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• 22:07
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• 22:13
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• 22:18
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• 22:21
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• 22:33
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• 22:41
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• 22:44
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• 22:52
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• 22:56
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• 22:57
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• 23:07
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• 23:10
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• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm excited.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's it's football season's coming up, and one of my favorite things about last season was you and I got out here every week and and recorded an episode and uh talked about the the games coming up and and uh had some guests on kind of related to each game.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I know we plan on doing that again this year.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but it was always good to kind of get me in the mood because we always record on a Thursday and you know, get start thinking about that weekend and you're gonna go to Starkle, you're gonna go to the game, and just getting getting excited.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: So I love that feeling about that time of year.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: So y'all definitely stay tuned for the um the next few weeks coming up.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we'll probably record one definitely the the week of the first game and um maybe do another one the week before that.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: So so definitely stay tuned because you're gonna be seeing some more regular episodes.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: We kind of take some time off after football season, but we're about to ramp up and start putting out some more episodes.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, speaking of that, I'm gonna give a shout out.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_03: I went to uh uh rest uh uh in the mall, that's what they're called up and get you on there.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_03: This uh um soul uh the guy that runs it is uh none other than former Mississippi State football player Titus Brown.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_03: So I'd heard about it and uh went over there, tried it for the first time, and it was awesome.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't get to meet up with Tyson.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_03: He had uh um Titus he had uh already left for the day, but I talked to his stepson and and uh great business hook over there.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_03: And um, I messaged Titus when I got home and told him I, you know, I've been looking forward to eating there, finally ate there and couldn't have been more nice.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_03: He's like, man, y'all let me know anytime y'all want to jump uh need a guess, I'll jump on and talk about the restaurant Mississippi State Football.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_03: So I was thinking, you know, he he has he's got a great story being from Alabama and beating he was on the last team Mississippi State ever beat Alabama.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_03: So that's been since 2007, and we're in 2023.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_03: We haven't beat Bama in that many years.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_03: So uh I figured uh I told him we'd get him on up possibly maybe the week of Alabama that might be bring bring good luck to us if we get him on that week and talk about the the good old days when we would actually can beat Alabama.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_03: So uh, but yeah, if you're in Tuscaloosa, go go check him out.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_03: It's it's really good.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_03: He'll be he'll be happy.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_03: But uh yeah, I it's it's hey, what was the name of the restaurant again?
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Flavas, F-L-A-B-A-Z.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yep, Flavus in the uh University Mall on McFarland in in um in Tuscaloosa.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, we really we really look forward last year uh each week doing that and having a guest all related to the opponent we were playing.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_03: And I really like the uh the pick'em thing that we had going on.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_03: It kept us involved week by week.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_03: You know, if y'all uh listening out there want to want to do it again, we'll probably get a link up here pretty soon and get you to sign up.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_03: And um, and I know each winner's got like a uh you you mailed them a bag of coffee or something for the week.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_03: And you know, it's one of those things like we had a bunch of people sign up, and we had about good maybe 20 people that consistently played every weekend, and then we had some people that signed up and made their picks, and then they forgot to make picks the rest of the year.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_03: But and it's one of those things like accumulating.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_03: So we had like a grand prize winner.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_03: So if you miss a week, you know, you you're out, you're pretty much out for the grand prize thing.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_03: But uh, that was a fun way to uh get involved, and then we had that weekly podcast, and man, it was a lot of fun last year.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm looking forward to uh another season again of doing that, and uh so I figure with it uh going forward, I figure we since SEC Media Day is just wrapped up, we got camp coming up, and the season will be here.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_03: Let's make our predictions, BW.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_03: Let's let's talk about the SC East to SC West, who you think is gonna win, and then uh we'll go from there.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: Well, one other quick thing about the pickums.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh once we get it set up, I'll I'll be sure to put a link of it into the show notes here.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um so if you're interested in joining, you can go on there and click the link and you should be able to join in for that.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_01: I think last year we did it on Yahoo.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, um, so we'll be sure to put that up.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, you know, Johnny, I was uh I was reading one of those uh football magazines the other day.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_01: Uh forget which ones it which one it was.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I I can't remember, but you know, I I go in there and I always try to flip to the Mississippi State section and see what they have to say about Mississippi State.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_01: But the first thing I did is they had the the top 60 on there.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm looking at this top 60, and I'm like, I know we're probably not in the top 25, but we're probably you know top 40, something like that.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: We're not even in the top 60 in that magazine.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: And I was thinking, what in the world?
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, all these other SEC teams in there, and and we have a good core coming back.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I know that you know, our coach is gone and it's totally different system and all that kind of stuff, but but man, I mean, we were we were a good team last year, we we've got a good core coming back, and so you know, we're picked dead last again.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I guess this is how it is.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_01: And I was laughing, my my father-in-law is a Texas AM fan, and you know, they had them ranked at 11 or something like that.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_01: And and I said, it's just like tradition, every year AM's ranked in the top 15, and we're we're in the the bottom of the SEC, and who ends up winning every year.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's just like I don't understand, but you know, I I guess uh it's just fuel, fuel for the fire and uh get get some motivated, all that stuff.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: So I definitely don't think we're gonna win the West, but but I think we're gonna compete and I think we have a a good chance to be, you know, top top four or five in the West, at least.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: So um, but but as far as my predictions go, um, you know, I I just don't see out of the east how how anybody can really dethrone Georgia.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um I just I don't see that happening.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, the West is a little bit more interesting.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I think I'm I'm going with uh with LSU just because they still have their their core is back for the most part, uh same coaching staff and and all that.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: And and Alabama has the unknown.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, obviously that every year we say, oh, this is the year you can beat Alabama because they they have a new quarterback or whatever, but they always just end up being just as good.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, but I feel like this year is probably LSU's year.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm with you on that.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_03: Uh it was funny, I was talking to someone the other day about about Bama.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_03: Uh what you just said, you know, everyone's when they have that year where you know you lose Bryce Young and they don't know who their quarterback is, and all this like this is the year to beat Bama.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_03: No one knows who their players are.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_03: You know, they don't have a star player come out, but then by halfway through the season or end of the season, they'll have a Heisen trophy candidate probably come out of it.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_03: So uh that's how it is Bama, like the unknowns, and then they always uh emerge.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_03: So uh, but uh but I'm with you on LSU.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Jaden Daniels is he's a stud.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_03: I uh I like Harold Perkins a lot on defense, and um, they were really good last year.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_03: So I'd be with I pick them to win the win the West again.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_03: Georgia, uh, until someone actually beats them, there's no reason to put them down but below number one.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_03: So uh two-time defending national champion be interesting.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think um I can't remember if there was a three-peed.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_03: I know Bama has had a chance.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I think uh the last one legitimately one that I remember was uh when we were in college, it was like 03, 04, and 05.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_03: USC, they won it in 03 only because the it was the AP LSU won the oh yeah, that's right.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_03: They won the poll championship, and then the next year they beat Oklahoma in 04 and won it.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_03: And then in 05 was that big game against Texas and Vince Young and Texas won.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_03: But that would have been a three-peat, I guess, if they had pulled that one off.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_03: And then I can't believe Bama hadn't done it as many championships as the past past decade.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_03: But it seems like uh, let's see, um, if I'm doing the math correctly, and in nine they won, and then 10, Cam Newton, and then 11 beat LSU, 12, Bama beat Notre Dame.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_03: So the Cam Newton Auburn team uh kept them from winning the three-peat then.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_03: And then and then 13, um Florida State.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_03: So they didn't, let's see, Bama won it in uh 15, 16, uh Clipson uh beat them, and then 17, they beat Georgia.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_03: They had another chance at three peats.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_03: So Bama's had their chances at three peats.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_01: When did they when did they lose to Ohio State?
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_03: Um with the uh yeah, they didn't, they uh they lost in the sugar bowl that year.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_03: So they didn't actually make it that early.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that was a playoff that lost uh um Ohio State Oregon.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_03: But uh yeah, so they uh because that would have been 14, 15, 16.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so they've had their chances.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_03: It seems like Clemson is always the team that's kept them from or Georgia, uh, you know, but um so yeah, I I don't know.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_03: I don't I mean it's hard not to go against picking.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I definitely think they're gonna win the east.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_03: I think Kelsey's gonna win the west.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_03: As far as the national championship goes, it's you know, it's hard to pick right now.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_03: It's Georgia, everyone's picking them to win it all in three P.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_03: But man, like I said, it hadn't been ever hadn't been done.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_03: The closest time was 20 years ago with USC.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_03: So uh I don't know.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_03: We'll we'll see how it how it plans out.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_03: But they got a pretty decent schedule where I could see them go undefeated easily in that schedule.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_03: Um and then go for it.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_03: But hey man, I I've I've I'd be happy to see it, you know.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_03: Um you know, something that you don't see very often at three peak.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_03: And um, but I don't know if it'll happen or not, but we'll see.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, old Rack and Willie, he might be feeling the Georgia Bulldog bite one more one more year.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_01: So um hope hopefully for uh Rack and Willie looking down on them, if uh somebody's gonna do it besides LSU, I guess we'll we'll cheer for them out of the out of the SEC.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_03: Well, uh well, Brandon, I just pulled up the Mississippi State schedule real quick.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna run through that real quick.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_03: I know, like we said, we'll we'll do it weekly.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_03: And heck, but when we do our weekly podcast, our our views might change depending on how the season goes.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_03: But as of right now, August 3rd, I'm gonna go ahead and make some predictions and get your predictions on the Mississippi State schedule.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_03: Um, so I you know, game one, it's uh I don't even know who this team is, Southeastern Louisiana win.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_03: Not even gonna talk about that.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_03: Game two, you know, uh last year when we did this exact same podcast, I remember saying that was a kind of a trap game for Mike Lee to know that that Mike, you never know what teams that he wins and loses and all that.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_03: I'm saying that's a double.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_03: Um I mean, come on, we're better than them.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_03: So that's two and oh and LSU fighting tires comes into Davis Wade September the 16th at 11 a.m.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_03: Now come on, SEC.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_03: 11 a.m.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, what the heck?
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_03: You know, LSU Mississippi State needs to be under the lights at night, especially we'll probably both be coming in undefeated.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_03: It's 11 a.m.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_03: The atmosphere is not gonna be good.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, but regardless, we don't think we'd win that game, even if it was at night.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_03: So uh I'm giving us a loss there.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_03: That's two and one.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_03: At South Carolina, all right.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_03: There's there's a few games uh at South Carolina, Auburn and AM and Arkansas.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_03: Those are in Kentucky.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_03: There are a lot of toss-up games on our schedule this year.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah at South Carolina, September 23rd has the markings of a loss, but um, it's gonna be interesting to see how this team can play on the road.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_03: Sometimes we have tough problems playing on the road, but I'm giving us a win in this game.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_03: I I feel like State can do it.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_03: They go in and play, play really tough.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_03: If they don't get banged up too bad from the LSU game, it's a thing.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_03: But uh I could see that being a loss, but I'm gonna be positive on this and and say we're gonna pull out the win there.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_03: Uh September 30th, Bama coming starble another year, another loss.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_03: I just don't see that happening.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_03: But what we just talked about, they have unknown players this year.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_03: I guarantee you by September 30th, someone from Bama is gonna make a name for themselves.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_03: Everybody's gonna talk about them being a potential Heisman candidate and everything.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_03: So Bama's gonna roll away with it.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_03: October 7th, Western Michigan.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_03: That's a win.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_03: Uh at Arkansas, October 21st, Sam Pittman.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_03: He's gonna we're gonna turn down the jukebox on Sam Pittman wallet that night.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_03: I uh I think we're gonna uh I don't I'm not big on Arkansas this year.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I think we can we can win that one.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_03: Max actually, I heard something the other day.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_03: If you remember from right when I guess when we were in college after college, Arkansas just dominated Mississippi State.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_03: Every year, Arkansas won that series.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_03: And then since like maybe 10 or 11 was Dan Mullen started coming to state, uh we this it swapped.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_03: Like we started beating Arkansas all the time now.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_03: So uh I think that trend continues.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_03: October 28th at Auburn.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna give us a loss here.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, I hate to do that.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Hugh Freeze uh is pretty as crappy of a person as he is.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I don't know, I shouldn't say that.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know him personally, but it's crappy as a as the media portrays him out to be.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_03: He's a damn good football coach.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_03: And I think he's gonna do really well at Auburn.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_03: And uh Auburn's tough.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_03: Um, they might not be that great this year.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_03: They might be with you, I don't know, but I just don't like this one in that game.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna say that's a loss.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_03: Kentucky and Starville, I think that's gonna be a really tough game.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_03: A lot of people are howling Kentucky this year as well.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, this game reminds me of the game two years ago uh at Starville.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_03: Um, Kentucky was really good that year.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, Kentucky's been really good in the past few years.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_03: If y'all have been paying attention, they, you know, it's always been Kentucky a basketball school.
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_03: Their football program's kind of been a foregone conclusion, but that's not the case anymore.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_03: It seems like the Wildcats, uh Mark Stoops is a really good coach, and Kentucky football is a real deal.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um, so I can see that being a tough game right there, but I think state's gonna win because I think it's I think they get the home field advantage on that one.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_03: Um, November the 11th at Texas AM.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, we might have to have our buddy Nick Fitzgerald on that uh podcast that week because it seems like when we have him on there, state takes care of business, he's their daddy.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_03: And you know, last year I picked us to lose to AM and and uh and we beat him.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_03: So uh I don't know.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_03: I'm probably gonna pick us to lose again, except Texas AM, College Station.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, like you said earlier, they pick AM in the polls every year and never pick state, and AM always always falters, and they didn't even make a bowl game last year.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_03: And uh with Jimbo Fisher and the NIO, how much money Texas has, the state of Texas, and Texas, you know, I don't know how that's even possible that they missed a bowl game.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_03: But uh anyway, I I'm gonna give us a loss on that one.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Southern Miss coming to state.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_03: Uh they haven't played at Mississippi State since uh I think 2014.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_03: That was the year with with Dak.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_03: I believe that was the opening game um of that special season, and we dominated them.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_03: And I I think we'll dominated them again.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_03: However, if this was baseball, I would definitely pick Southern Miss because it seems like they're really good at baseball now.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, but football, Mississippi State's gonna dominate.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_03: And then we come to the egg bowl.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_03: Thanksgiving night, uh, November 23rd.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_03: We're August the 3rd right now making predictions for a game, November 23rd.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_03: It's so hard to do that because of injuries and the way the season goes and all that stuff that that far away.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_03: But uh as of right now, if you had to ask me, the games in Starville, I'm going to Mississippi State.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_03: So uh, so yeah, that's my predictions for the game by a game.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_03: I think we're gonna finish uh eight and four with a chance to win nine games if I go into a bowl game.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_03: And um, you know, at Mississippi State, eight, nine wins.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you can't complain about that.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_03: People people might complain, say, yeah, we should beat them, it should be them.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_03: Look, you know, when we were in college, we won like three games a year, you know, and and uh it's really no excuse.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_03: It's no excuse not to go to bowl these days, uh the way it is now.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_03: You can only win six games, you can be eligible for a ball game.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_03: But as far as those years where we where Mississippi State wins 10, 11 games, I mean, that happens just one.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, happened in '99 and then didn't happen again until like 2014.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_03: So I mean, you it it would be it would be surprising if we won 10 games.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_03: But uh gosh, I sure hope we do.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_03: But I feel like we're gonna drop some games and SEC games that are uh um that could go either way.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_03: You know, we might win some, might lose some.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_03: The but we have a lot of those games that could go either way.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_03: But if I on August 3rd, 2023, my prediction is eight and four.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_03: How about you?
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_01: All right, well, Johnny, I'm close.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm going with seven and five.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_01: So uh it's kind of similar to last year.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_01: So uh we win the first two, which is funny.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_01: I I'm I'm heading to that first game, and uh it sounds like nobody's gonna be there.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, and my uh father-in-law gets his tickets through one of his buddies, and and he's he's a diehard fan.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think he's even going.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so we're gonna have some pretty good seeds for that.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_01: But anyway, so yeah, we're gonna win that one.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna beat Arizona.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_01: And then, like I said last year, I think it didn't play out like it like it did, but but I think we're gonna lose three games in a row.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_01: I think we're gonna lose to LSU going to South Carolina and Bama.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_01: I think we lose all three of those.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um I just think we do.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_03: And then lose all three of those.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_03: People are gonna be jumping off that bandwagon, right?
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_01: But then we got you know, Western Michigan, so that that gives us another W there.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I do think that we beat uh we beat we turn off the jukebox up there in Fayetteville.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh no, no cold beers for Sam Pittman.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's gonna be another uh Bulldog's gonna win that one.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_01: I do think uh Freeze has our number.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I mean, I know obviously Ardett's a different guy and everything, but it seems like we could never beat Hugh.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_01: So I think we lose that one down there, Auburn.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm I'm on the fence between this Kentucky and this AM game.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um I'm leaning towards us beating Kentucky because we're at home and then losing to AM at AM.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_01: But I feel like really those two that that's my toss-up.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be we're gonna lose one of those two.
• 41:30
  SPEAKER_01: I just don't know which one.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_01: And then we beat Southern Miss.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_01: And then I'm with you.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_01: I think we beat all Miss this year in Starkville.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_01: So that's where I'm at seven and five.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_03: Seven and five and eight and four.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, I'll take it.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_03: You know, uh, like I just said earlier, you know, back in the day uh we would die for seven or eight win seasons, but now it's like you win seven or eight, you're like, Why don't you win nine or ten?
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_03: They should have done that.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_03: So, but it does seem a lot of times when we drop games, we're not getting blown.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_03: I'll say this now, it'll probably happen, but we're not getting blown out like we used to when we'd lose games.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_03: All the games seem like besides the Bama game, we're usually and it's always going down to the wire.
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_03: And we have a chance, we do something, either the ref screw us over somehow, or we but you know, I always people are quick to blame the refs and everything, and yeah, they do make bad calls, but hey, if you make the plays you're supposed to do, then the refs shouldn't interfere with the games, like it would they'll they'll interfere with the games, don't get me wrong, but it they're interfering with the games should not affect you if you're doing the stuff you're supposed to do.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so yeah, you just can't defend on the on the strikes, can't can't depend on that.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_03: But um, yeah, we're always in these games, and matter of fact, last year on our pick-ems, which was which was so much fun, is when we would go each week and pick the score, we'd give the score.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_03: Gosh, me and BW, we were right on the money just about every week.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_03: It was kind of weird.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_03: Um, so I don't know.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but I think our predictions are are pretty much right on.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_03: Um, if you if we win nine or ten, we'll be shocked.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_03: But um, you know, it could.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_03: I I'm uh hoping this doesn't happen, but you know, that's the reason I think why we're not getting much respect and everything is is um people don't know about Ornette and what he's got coming in.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_03: But uh if we do lose those three in a row and then we drop one to or drop uh if we do go up to Fayetteville and lose that one, this thing could get out of hand.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_03: We could end up going six and six, five and seven.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_03: So it's it's kind of a weird schedule, you know.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_03: You could win it is between five or nine or ten games, uh depending on on how you play.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_03: So it it's but hey, that's uh that that makes it fun watching it because you you you don't know for sure.
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_03: You gotta be boring being a Bama fan, you know, going in every game, yeah, every time you know you're gonna win.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_03: At least you know, we got we might not win every game, but we're gonna we're gonna put up a fight and and uh a lot of fun that way.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_03: So we'll see what happens.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_03: But you know, one more thing uh about uh about Coach Leach, you know.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um and not having him here anymore and and Arnett coming in.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_03: And it's just uh I'm I'm really excited.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_03: And I heard this yesterday on the on the radio, and I don't know if this is true or not, but uh did hear it um that Auburn uh tried to go after Will Rogers this offseason.
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_03: They were trying to get a quarterback and they were getting people in the portal trying to transfer over.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_03: And Will stuck out his commitments that he was a stand at Mississippi State.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_03: And uh man, you know, I'm just gonna give props to Will Rogers while we're on this podcast real quick.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_03: He's a he's a not only an awesome football player, just a great kid in general.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_03: In this day and time, man, there's no loyalty in college sports.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_03: Everybody goes where the where the money is and all that sort of stuff.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm sure Auburn was coming after him with NIL deals and everything.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_03: And props to him for staying true and saying that he committed to Coach Leach and he's gonna finish it out with with Coach Arnett and Mississippi State.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, you know, it's funny.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_03: I was talking to someone about this yesterday, also, is if you look years from now, if you look in the record book at Mississippi State football, you're gonna see his name above Dak Prescott's name, which is weird.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_03: Like, you know, you ask you ask someone in the Mississippi State family who's the greatest quarterback in Mississippi State, everybody's gonna say Dak.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_03: 99% players are gonna say Dak.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_03: But years down the road, if you ask someone or someone not associated with Mississippi State, who's the greatest quarterback, they're gonna look at the stats and say, Well, who's Will Rogers?
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_03: This guy, we'll he's the greatest quarterback.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_03: It's kind of weird because he's he put up so many stats with with Leach.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, I mean, he's gonna go if he uh has a great year this year, he'll go down as the STC's leading passer and and at Mississippi State.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_03: And gosh, if he if he comes, I don't know, I'm sure he won't come back next year, but he has that COVID year.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_03: If he decided to come back, I mean he could be in the running uh for the most passing yards in college football history.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, but you know, with with without Coach Leach and the air raid throwing it as much like we were, that might might entice him not to do that.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_03: But uh, but regardless, we got another year with him as our quarterback.
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_03: And you know, he people give him give him hell for not being able to run the ball, but he uh he's got an arm and and man, leader on the field and off the field.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_03: If you're lined up playing football, you want a guy like Lil Rogers leading your team.
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_03: Um, can't say enough good things about him.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_03: That's it.
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_03: He's the epitome of a leader on the football team, and that's what we have here.
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_03: And uh it will be interesting to see running the football.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_03: I know everybody likes her, he's like, run the ball, run the ball, run the ball.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_03: And we and uh and um new coordinator Barbe, I believe, is gonna run the ball.
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_03: Woody Morris can get a lot of carries this year, and uh it's gonna be a little bit different, but but we're still gonna have our leader on the team.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_03: And you know, you can't buy uh you can't buy veteran leadership, you know, it's on the team and and they can try to steal it away from me, but he he he stayed true to it and couldn't be happier having him back for another year.
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_03: So we'll see how it goes.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I guess old Hugh uh brought his fishing pole to Starkville and uh threw the lure in and got got hung up in the bottom of the pond or something.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't he didn't end up with anything.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_01: So poor Hugh on that one.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_01: So um we'll see.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_01: But anyways, Johnny, well, this has been a good one.
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um we'll uh we'll be we'll be back on uh you know definitely the week of the first game, and and uh stay tuned for more for the rest of the season.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, and make sure you get in our pick'em league and and uh go get some coffee on johnnypacker.net or make your picks and win your win win the week, and you'll get to get some coffee.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_03: So either way, try it out.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_01: All right, go dogs.
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_01: Go dogs.