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The Latest From Oxford: Ole Miss Updates With Jake Thompson · Out of Bounds with Bo Bounds

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Speaker 1: At home.
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Speaker 2: All right, We're going to welcome in Jake Thompson Ole
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Speaker 2: Miss in the soider. He joins us on the Farm
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Speaker 2: Bureau Insurance guest line. We have a lot to get
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Speaker 2: to as far as Old Miss football recruiting and ole
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Speaker 2: Miss baseball. With Dom Decker and Hunter Elliott, they gott
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Speaker 2: to start with football. Golding and the group.
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Speaker 1: Have been on a role.
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Speaker 2: Jake, who do you think is the best recruiter on
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Speaker 2: the Old Miss football staff presently? Is it Frank Wilson,
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Speaker 2: Is it Golding? Is it someone else?
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Speaker 3: I think it's I think you can say, for the
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Speaker 3: first time in about six seven years, however long, you
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Speaker 3: want to say that the head coach might be the
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Speaker 3: best recruiter at least when it comes to high school now.
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Speaker 3: But he's got a slew of lieutenants, if you will,
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Speaker 3: including Frank Wilson, who you mentioned, but also the addition
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Speaker 3: of Terrence Metcalf to the staff and the connections he's
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Speaker 3: obviously had in the state, with you know, DK playing
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Speaker 3: at Oxford, knowing a high school kids, a coaching at
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Speaker 3: the junior college level, Terrence, that has been a well
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Speaker 3: of an asset and I think that's helped I think
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Speaker 3: that's helped them get.
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Speaker 4: Some of these offensive line guys. You know.
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Speaker 3: That's the biggest thing to me is that Ole Miss
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Speaker 3: has had success not just at the high school level
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Speaker 3: of for the first time, you know, a long time,
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Speaker 3: but it's a lot of guys in the trenches, which
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Speaker 3: has kind of been their knock of well, they try
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Speaker 3: to get guys in the portal and they either don't
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Speaker 3: work out or they get you know, you're risking them
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Speaker 3: getting banged up and you don't have depth. But that
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Speaker 3: you know, they went in and pulled some top guys
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Speaker 3: both on offense and defense at the line of scrimmage,
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Speaker 3: and I think that's the a the biggest takeaway in
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Speaker 3: the biggest positive I think people can get in terms
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Speaker 3: of them maybe trying to finally build depth while also
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Speaker 3: maybe getting some veteran guys throughout the portal, because you
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Speaker 3: still have to do both. But I think the.
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Speaker 4: Line is where you need to rely on, yeah.
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Speaker 3: You know, grassroots high school recruiting and keep them here
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Speaker 3: for a few years.
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Speaker 1: That's a great point.
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Speaker 2: Jake, Yeah, Okay, Jake Thompson, All Miss inside or All
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Speaker 2: Miss football recruiting is on a heater, and he mentioned
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Speaker 2: Terrence Metcalf. Of course, Frank Wilson has been at Ole
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Speaker 2: miss but been at LSU many times, and he was whip.
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Speaker 1: He was with bron Kelly, but then.
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Speaker 2: When the whole flip flop switch happened, Lane going to
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Speaker 2: bat Rouge, Frank was not retained, I guess because of
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Speaker 2: Kevin Smith blah blah blah. And now Frank Wilson is
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Speaker 2: with Pete Golding. You mentioned Terrence Metcalf. Also, Dante Moncrief
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Speaker 2: was added to the staff in the last six months.
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Speaker 3: Is that right, Jake, Yeah, I don't know what his
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Speaker 3: official title is, but he's been with them kind of
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Speaker 3: he was kind of with them in some capacity, but
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Speaker 3: been now more I guess, more forefront, more vocal and
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Speaker 3: like you said, the last half year, maybe a year.
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Speaker 3: But he is also a guy that's played a huge role,
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Speaker 3: you know, as you would expect, kind of on the
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Speaker 3: offensive side or you know, in the receiving room. But
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Speaker 3: he's also another guy that just knows Mississippi talent. And
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Speaker 3: as you know, I think Pete has said, I think
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Speaker 3: he said at the Coach's client when he was down
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Speaker 3: there last week that you know, they they've kind of
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Speaker 3: cast a five hour net or radius of what they
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Speaker 3: like to try to be most successful at recruiting and
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Speaker 3: in other words, trying to keep kids close to home
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Speaker 3: and keep them in state or those just outside the
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Speaker 3: state line get them to North Mississippi. And as we've
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Speaker 3: seen so far with this twenty twenty seven class, I
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Speaker 3: mean they've currently got the two three and four guys
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Speaker 3: in the state you know, in Mississippi, and a couple
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Speaker 3: others in the state further down, and so that that's
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Speaker 3: the biggest takeaway. And you've got key Can Croucher, the
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Speaker 3: quarterback out of Tennessee, who is I think sixth in
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Speaker 3: the state. So I mean that they're they're having that
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Speaker 3: success that I think people wondered if they could keep
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Speaker 3: in terms of just being in the fight for top
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Speaker 3: players against top you know, blue blood if you will, competition,
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Speaker 3: and some of the guys that they've kept, they have
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Speaker 3: won battles over at l issues, over Ohio States and
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Speaker 3: Alabamas and other schools like that. So I think that
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Speaker 3: speaks to I think you've got a head coach is
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Speaker 3: probably more involved than the previous head coach was in
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Speaker 3: terms of, you know, day to day recruiting and the
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Speaker 3: full official visit and being in there and talking and
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Speaker 3: obviously you let your your your appointment that you have
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Speaker 3: and in kind of recruiting that specific player, do a
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Speaker 3: lot of it. But I think Pete's been in there
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Speaker 3: and more involved sure in previous times.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I knew that going in. I knew it
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Speaker 1: at Bama. I knew it when he was your DC,
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Speaker 1: and now you're head coach.
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Speaker 2: That Pete is uh lives, sleeps, breathes recruiting, which is
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Speaker 2: which is a big piece of the puzzle.
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Speaker 1: So let's go through this for our listeners.
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Speaker 2: Jake is referencing Mitchell Turner, Benjarvis Shoemaker, and Antonio Berry,
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Speaker 2: among others, as big time gets for Golding and metcath
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Speaker 2: and Frank Wilson.
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Speaker 1: All these guys. Now, this lineup is pretty strong.
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Speaker 2: Think about this, Terrence Metcalf, Dante Moncrief, Kelvin Bolden, Frank Wilson,
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Speaker 2: and there's more. That's a star studded group of guys
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Speaker 2: who are committed to recruiting twelve months out of the year.
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Speaker 2: I think Kelvin Bolden is also a tremendous asset for
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Speaker 2: the ole Miss football program now that he's back in
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Speaker 2: Oxford after going to LSU.
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Speaker 3: How do you see it, Jay, Yeah, I know he
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Speaker 3: was instrumental when he was here first, and he was
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Speaker 3: kind of as a spearman, especially when he'd had like
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Speaker 3: those teamed weekends, Like all these schools have those junior days,
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Speaker 3: but they'd put a name to them and a theme
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Speaker 3: and and this and that. But Kelvin was really the
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Speaker 3: spear ahead of all that. And it was a tough
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Speaker 3: you know, kind of hurt a bit when he went
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Speaker 3: down to LSU to Baton Rouge, kind of like when
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Speaker 3: Alson Thomas did as well. But then they'll miss got
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Speaker 3: them both back. You can let Domino's fall and the
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Speaker 3: TVs fall in terms of how they came back. When
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Speaker 3: they came back, I think a lot of people can
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Speaker 3: connect those dots, but getting him back in the fold
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Speaker 3: is huge. And then you know, Austin Thomas is just
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Speaker 3: as big, kind of on the business side of things.
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Speaker 3: He's the GM and kind of the one who's going
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Speaker 3: to help navigate you know, the NIL I'm sure roster
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Speaker 3: management and deals more with Walker Joneses of the world
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Speaker 3: in that regard, But Kelvin is the guy that gets
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Speaker 3: the kids here, gets them on campus and then obviously
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Speaker 3: it helps, but let's the guys who just read it
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Speaker 3: off on staff and Pete kind of sealed the deal
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Speaker 3: that they're able to.
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Speaker 2: So, according to Jake Thompson, All Miss Insider, Pete Golding
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Speaker 2: is the lead dog. Well that's always good, you know,
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Speaker 2: I mean, saving was I mean, when your head coach
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Speaker 2: is your most gung ho recruiter, that's a good thing.
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Speaker 2: They believe in it, they're committed to it. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's an eighteen hour day deal. That's the like bloody
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Speaker 2: of your program.
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Speaker 1: So Metcalf Man, that's cool. Have you all been able
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Speaker 1: to Have you been able to interview metcalf yet?
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Speaker 3: We haven't talked to him. We got to see him,
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Speaker 3: you know, glimpses of him in the spring and in
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Speaker 3: the few practice windows we got, but he's out there.
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Speaker 3: He's Garris, John Garrison's kind of secondhand man. He's an
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Speaker 3: assistant coach with the old line, and I think every
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Speaker 3: O Line we've talked to has said that's just been
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Speaker 3: another breath of fresh air. A guy that's had that
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Speaker 3: NFL experience. Now, you know, NFL changers and evolves, but
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Speaker 3: he still knows what there is to succeed for these
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Speaker 3: guys that want to try to take that step. And
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Speaker 3: I think it's also just helped in just developing this
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Speaker 3: old line in for now at the college level, because
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Speaker 3: you know, it's always been the question mark and the
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Speaker 3: cloud over the ole Miss offense as he goes as
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Speaker 3: far as this offensive line can hold up and protect
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Speaker 3: quarterback and everything else. And I feel like, you know,
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Speaker 3: there's there's some question marks with this one right now,
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Speaker 3: especially a tackle. But you know what Terrence Metcalf's been
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Speaker 3: able to do is just provide another aspect of teaching
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Speaker 3: and coaching that you know, maybe Garrison didn't have just
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Speaker 3: because he didn't have the experiences that Metcalf had. And
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Speaker 3: it's been a good marriage so far.
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Speaker 2: Jake Thompson ole Miss Spirit on three. He joins us
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Speaker 2: on the Farm Bureau Insurance guest line. We're talking ole
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Speaker 2: Miss football and they have had a hell of a
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Speaker 2: recruit the last six months. They've been on a roll
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Speaker 2: and really beefed up the high school recruiting too. Did
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Speaker 2: you go to any of the summer parties, Jake, I
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Speaker 2: went to last Thursday.
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Speaker 3: I went to the Cleveland stop on the railroad trip
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Speaker 3: just because it was the first or the only Mississippi
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Speaker 3: one before we all head to Tampa next week. So
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Speaker 3: I figured i'd go over and it was a big deal.
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Speaker 3: There was big as I thought it'd because it's Pete
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Speaker 3: coming back to Cleveland, played at Delta State, coach Delta State,
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Speaker 3: met his wife there. You know, that's you know, he's
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Speaker 3: the Louisiana guy. But I think he'd called Cleveland quote
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Speaker 3: unquote his second home if you were, just for everything
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Speaker 3: that's that he went through and the opportunities he's been
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Speaker 3: given because of it. Big turnout, big crowd, and like
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Speaker 3: you said, he was just a salesman up there on
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Speaker 3: the stage, and you know inside the Grammy Museum, which
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Speaker 3: is you know, nobody's asking me to plug it. But
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Speaker 3: that's a tremendous place. I had not been since they
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Speaker 3: opened it, so that's a tremendous building just in its
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Speaker 3: own right. But Pete, you know, like you said, just tall,
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Speaker 3: tall ball. I mean, one guy at the very end,
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Speaker 3: there weren't a lot of questions. I think I think
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Speaker 3: they got more questions at Dallas last night. But the
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Speaker 3: one question that Pete was asked was a guy that
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Speaker 3: just said, hey, can you tell us about defense, and
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Speaker 3: you're asking Pete Goldening the tap ball. You better sit
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Speaker 3: down there for a while because we've all experienced it ourselves.
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Speaker 3: And he gave a dissertation you know that I can't
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Speaker 3: remember all of but he almost went player about player
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Speaker 3: or position by a position and gave about a ten
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Speaker 3: minute answer about what he likes in which player he
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Speaker 3: likes on the only miss defense. And I think that's
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Speaker 3: what blew everybody away. It's a guy that's a involved
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Speaker 3: in every aspect, but it's also a guy that can
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Speaker 3: just recall specific stuff, no matter what time of.
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Speaker 4: The day or what time of the year, about his current.
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Speaker 3: Roster, and I think that was something that was lacking previously.
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Speaker 2: If you will, all right, so I'll be interested to
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Speaker 2: see what you say here on whether it's Perkins or
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Speaker 2: someone else, because you got several to pick from, especially
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Speaker 2: with that defensive line, and of course you can move
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Speaker 2: Perkins around in like five different positions. Who's the most
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Speaker 2: dominant defensive player going into twenty twenty six or pe
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Speaker 2: Golding in the ole miss rebels, Yeah, I.
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Speaker 4: Think you can.
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Speaker 3: You know, the easy answer is, like you said, either
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Speaker 3: Perkins or Will Eckles, just because they've been in the
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Speaker 3: offense or the defense, and they've been dominant in this system.
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Speaker 3: But I you know, you know, once games get played,
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Speaker 3: don't be surprised if one of these transfers is equally
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Speaker 3: dominant or breaks out. Everybody kind of looking at, you know,
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Speaker 3: break Purchase, Jonathan Aldonado too defensive ends that are there
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Speaker 3: with Cam Franklin now who also don't forget Cam Franklin.
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Speaker 3: I think he takes a big step. But then you
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Speaker 3: got the linebackers and Lou Farelli and Keaton Thomas, who
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Speaker 3: the one thing that stuck out with me. When Pete
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Speaker 3: gave it a long defensive answers, he compared Keaton Thomas
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Speaker 3: to a Pooh Paul, which I think everybody knows they
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Speaker 3: could have used last year on that defense. And how
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Speaker 3: good he was is one year in Oxford, so he's
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Speaker 3: high on a lot of these transfers. But you know,
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Speaker 3: if you made me pick right now, I'd have to
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Speaker 3: go with, you know, a Cam or a Will or Perkins,
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Speaker 3: just because I've seen what they can do in this defense.
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Speaker 3: But I won't be surprised if it is the answer
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Speaker 3: somebody else.
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Speaker 4: By December he is.
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Speaker 2: Jake Thompson all miss Insider on the Farm Bureau Insurance
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Speaker 2: guest line, the show is driven by your next GMC
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Speaker 2: Sierra truck at Fowler GMC Pearl Brandon. All Right, did
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Speaker 2: we hit enough here? I got one more question on
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Speaker 2: the backup quarterback? Are you still so? You brought back
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Speaker 2: a player who had been there for a while and
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Speaker 2: his dad played at LSU, and then you brought Induce
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Speaker 2: Night who is from Mississippi and signed with with Derek
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Speaker 2: Nixon Hugh Freeze, and we know what happened there. So
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Speaker 2: who's the backup? If God forbids something happens to Trinidad,
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Speaker 2: who's the number one dude?
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Speaker 3: I think it's Deuce, but I think it eventually will
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Speaker 3: be Deuce once he just gets more, you know, it gets.
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Speaker 4: The sea legs under him.
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Speaker 3: And I don't know how well the spring went. We
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Speaker 3: just didn't I get to see a lot.
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Speaker 4: Of actual one on one or if it were with
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Speaker 4: the way Pete.
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Speaker 3: Let us out there, which hey, you know it's his prerogative,
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Speaker 3: but cause I think Walker was brought in for different reasons,
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Speaker 3: you know, good reasons, but not specifically to be QB
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Speaker 3: two because you're also you had brought Induce Night. You
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Speaker 3: don't go move heaven and Earth to get Duce Night
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Speaker 3: in here when you still know Trinidad is the guy
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Speaker 3: if you don't think he's going to be your backup,
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Speaker 3: you know, I just don't see Deuce making that move
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Speaker 3: to be Q three and once again sitting there waiting
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Speaker 3: until next year to fight for that spot. So I
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Speaker 3: think it's Deuce, and I think he brought Walker in
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Speaker 3: as just kind of another veteran. You know, he knows
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Speaker 3: this offense, he knows Sean David Baker, he knows the
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Speaker 3: system and you can get in there, and he can
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Speaker 3: also help Trinidad catch up, you know. And that's the
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Speaker 3: one thing Trinidad said is you know, different terminology, same stuff,
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Speaker 3: but the words are different. It might need a little
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Speaker 3: a little bit different than what.
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Speaker 4: Charlie Weiss did.
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Speaker 3: But so it helps to just have another guy in
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Speaker 3: the room because that room was very sparse after Austin
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Speaker 3: transferred him, and he just didn't have a lot of experience,
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Speaker 3: even with Trinidad coming back. So it didn't hurt to
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Speaker 3: bring Walker back because I think he's got other items
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Speaker 3: on his list for.
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Speaker 4: Why he came.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I think Deuce Night is your QB too,
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Speaker 3: unless he just totally has a very bad fall camp,
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Speaker 3: which you know, anything's possible.
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Speaker 2: Sure, all right, at a bounds one oh five nine
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Speaker 2: to the Zone, ESPN. He is Jake Thompson talking Ole
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Speaker 2: Miss football. So they brought back Terrence Metcalf, that's been
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Speaker 2: an asset. They hired Dante Moncre fantastic wide receiver, played
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Speaker 2: a long time decade or.
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Speaker 1: So in the NFL.
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Speaker 2: Kelvin Bolden, you talking about a dude. He was there,
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Speaker 2: then went to LSU. Lane didn't like that, so when
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Speaker 2: Lane got the LSU job, there wasn't a spot. He
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Speaker 2: goes back joins Pete Golding. They got Frank Wilson. You
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Speaker 2: all know about Frank. We've been talking about him for
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Speaker 2: twenty years. And then Austin Thomas was Lane's GM, and
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Speaker 2: old Miss left to go to LSU. Actually he'd been
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Speaker 2: at LSUN prior to that, and now he's back as
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Speaker 2: Pete Golding's GM.
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Speaker 1: Did y'all follow that? That was kind of like a
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Speaker 1: Rubik's Cube.
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Speaker 2: Jake Thompson on one oh five nine the Zone, ESPN.
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Speaker 2: So the Rebel Road Tour was in Dallas, Texas last night, Jake.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they do.
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Speaker 3: They Dallas tonight and I think or last night, sorry,
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Speaker 3: and then Pascagoula tomorrow night. Okay, So they're doing like
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Speaker 3: six and like two a week, and next week Pete's
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Speaker 3: going to be, you know, living off whatever energy drink
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Speaker 3: he has, because I think it's Jackson next Wednesday or Tuesday.
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Speaker 3: Then the next day, next morning he's flying to Tampa
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Speaker 3: to see US and media days, and if I'm sure
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Speaker 3: heading back to afning like you always do. I think
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Speaker 3: that next night he's in Memphis for the final stop.
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Speaker 3: So so next week it's going to be a lot
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Speaker 3: of questions, handshaking, and probably sleepless nights for him.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So Rebel Road Tour goes to Jackson and Memphis
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Speaker 2: next week, and of course Pete will have his day
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Speaker 2: like all the coaches next week in Tampa for SEC
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Speaker 2: media days.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Ole Miss baseball.
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Speaker 2: I guess you you weren't surprised that Townsend and Ray
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Speaker 2: went first round.
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Speaker 3: No, I'm not, you know, I think everybody was, you know,
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Speaker 3: maybe foolishly, and you know, for if you're for good reason,
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Speaker 3: if you're almost fan, you'd love for them somehow not
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Speaker 3: have been taken, you know, but that was never gonna happen. Uh.
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Speaker 3: I'm surprised in a good way, you know, for Taylor
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Speaker 3: with how well he played to shoot himself up and
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Speaker 3: to become a you know, a first round pick up
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Speaker 3: there with with Kate.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 3: You know a lot of people had Taylor suddenly going
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Speaker 3: before Cade, but some didn't. And then you know what
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Speaker 3: happened was Kate went first and Taylor three spots later,
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Speaker 3: something like that. But no, I mean, I think it's
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Speaker 3: just a testament as you look at the whole smooth
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Speaker 3: guys drafted.
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Speaker 4: It was one position.
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Speaker 3: Player and seven pitchers of current players that were taken.
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Speaker 3: And I think everybody knows what Joel Ingram's done, you know,
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Speaker 3: coming to Ole Miss and turning that pitching staff around
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Speaker 3: and coverage spare. But that's why they were so heavy
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Speaker 3: pitching wise in the portal, because they knew the Caves,
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Speaker 3: the Taylor's, the Hudson's were all gonna end up getting taken.
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Speaker 3: And Will Libert as well, who I believe signed with
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Speaker 3: the Braves, so he's gone. I think everybody drafted is
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Speaker 3: going to be signed and gone, So it's a it's
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Speaker 3: an empty one. But you know that our Saturday guy
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Speaker 3: started with good news, probably not totally surprising news, but
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Speaker 3: getting Hunter Elliott back because he was granted another year,
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Speaker 3: you know, the start of this past he's basically getting
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Speaker 3: his twenty twenty three back when he got hurt that
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Speaker 3: year right after the World Series wins. So you do
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Speaker 3: have one veteran guy on the weekend. But now it's
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Speaker 3: who's going to be that starter or those other two
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Speaker 3: starters with him, which I think the fall this might
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Speaker 3: be the more interesting fall practice for baseball in terms
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Speaker 3: of the pitching, UH, in terms of you know, just
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Speaker 3: to see who they're using and who's going where.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so what Hunter is a phenomenal college players, It
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Speaker 2: just there's not a path for MLB, and so it
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Speaker 2: just made sense, I guess to take a six figure
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Speaker 2: deal and come back and know that you'll be a
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Speaker 2: weekend starter. Is that was that the deal Jake?
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Speaker 3: I guess because the year after or the first time
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Speaker 3: he was elg for the draft, he got drafted I
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Speaker 3: think by the Dodgers in that last round UH and
16:39
Speaker 3: opted to come back. I think that was more of
16:41
Speaker 3: a hey, what's my where, what's my rate right now?
16:44
Speaker 3: Or what's my value? And then kind of use that
16:46
Speaker 3: if you've got extra years your you know, players got
16:48
Speaker 3: the leverage, if you're able to say, hey, I can
16:50
Speaker 3: come back, especially like you said Andy and Io or
16:53
Speaker 3: where you're going to make a decent chunk of change,
16:55
Speaker 3: or if you're a decent, you know, top pitcher in baseball. Uh,
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Speaker 3: you know you're gonna you're gonna options. But I'm just
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Speaker 3: surprised me personally, and I spoken or talked to anybody.
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Speaker 3: This is just me rattling in my head, surprised that
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Speaker 3: he opted to withdraw his name unless he was just
17:12
Speaker 3: getting total feedback that it was going to be a
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Speaker 3: eighteen nineteen twenty round again which had those slot values,
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Speaker 3: and what teams are able to give to those round
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Speaker 3: picks is probably at least equal to one hundred could
17:24
Speaker 3: get if not more here. So I think that is it,
17:27
Speaker 3: and I just you know, we'll see you. Maybe he
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Speaker 3: pitches next year, it does well, and then tries it again,
17:32
Speaker 3: but he's going to be that It's gonna be like
17:34
Speaker 3: Dennis Quad and a rookie at this point by the
17:36
Speaker 3: time he gets to the pros. But you know, if
17:38
Speaker 3: kid just loves college ball.
17:39
Speaker 4: And I'll obviously all miss this is going to tell him.
17:41
Speaker 2: Now, no left hander, with all those starts and the
17:46
Speaker 2: production that he's had, how much do you think he
17:49
Speaker 2: got paid?
17:50
Speaker 3: You know, oh baseball, and I l as a mystery
17:54
Speaker 3: to me.
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Speaker 4: I have not mastered that one.
17:56
Speaker 3: It's I don't think the numbers are obviously as large
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Speaker 3: as people might but I would assume it is probably
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Speaker 3: double or more what he would have gotten if he
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Speaker 3: had stayed and been a late round pick in the pros.
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Speaker 3: So I'm sure he's making the right decision. You know,
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Speaker 3: his families just fifty minutes down the road, so he's
18:13
Speaker 3: get to stay home.
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Speaker 4: Again and didn't give it a go.
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Speaker 3: And I know last year didn't go.
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Speaker 4: Well for him because you know the rumbling started at
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Speaker 4: the end of the year.
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Speaker 3: Should he be on Fridays? What will happen this year
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Speaker 3: if he does come back? So I think he wants
18:24
Speaker 3: to prove it to himself and probably prove it to
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Speaker 3: those scouts that sit in Swayze and watch him next year.
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Speaker 1: All right, Dot Decker, Were you surprised he's coming back?
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Speaker 3: No, I wasn't. I was surprised he didn't get picked.
18:36
Speaker 3: I was surprised more to position players didn't get picked
18:39
Speaker 3: for ale Miss. Now I know everybody's like, well that
18:41
Speaker 3: the offense was bad, but there is another part of
18:44
Speaker 3: your game, and that is the field.
18:46
Speaker 4: And I know all Miss was.
18:47
Speaker 3: Kind of error prone, but there were guys that you mean,
18:50
Speaker 3: you look at the five hundred and six hundred, how
18:52
Speaker 3: many picks it is, and these teams take flyers on any.
18:55
Speaker 4: Kind of player.
18:56
Speaker 3: I was just surprised at the uda marks, the Furnaces,
18:59
Speaker 3: the Besettas, and even a Decker just never got their
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Speaker 3: name called at all.
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Speaker 4: But for Decker.
19:04
Speaker 3: Obviously made his decision much easier. And he's back, which
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Speaker 3: I thought that would be the option for him to
19:10
Speaker 3: come back, even if he got pick Lady Pisto Lean
19:13
Speaker 3: kind of for the same reasons as Hunter, But you
19:16
Speaker 3: got him, you got Hayden Federico, you got Owen Paino.
19:21
Speaker 4: You don't have a lot of guys.
19:22
Speaker 3: Returning, but you got a core of guys that are
19:24
Speaker 3: all older, veteran guys, and you've got to kind of
19:26
Speaker 3: build around it, either out of whatever your high school
19:28
Speaker 3: class looks like, how they perform, or what they still
19:32
Speaker 3: might find in the portal, because I think they still
19:34
Speaker 3: need another bat or.
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Speaker 4: Two in the portal. With whatever's left.
19:37
Speaker 3: You know, obviously all these kids that got drafted got decisions.
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Speaker 2: To make right. I think we hit most everything we
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Speaker 2: needed for today. When are you going to Tampa?
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Speaker 3: I'm heading down Saturday, cutting a driving half and the
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Speaker 3: getting there Sunday night and then I'm there for the week.
19:55
Speaker 2: Oh wow, you're going to do the whole. There was
19:57
Speaker 2: a steakhouse I went to couple of years. It's like
20:02
Speaker 2: known as their best steakhouse. It's been there forever. I
20:06
Speaker 2: gotta text one of my buddies figure out what else
20:10
Speaker 2: where I went, and then I'll text you have a
20:12
Speaker 2: good trip, my man. We'll talk when you get back.
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Speaker 3: Okay, awesome, I appreciate you.
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Speaker 1: I'll have a good one, Hi, Bud.
20:17
Speaker 2: Jake Thompson Ole Miss spirit uh Ole, Miss Insider on
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Speaker 2: the Out of Bounds Show ESPN one oh five nine
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Speaker 2: of the Zone, you kind of wonder why other programs
20:27
Speaker 2: don't don't make hires like Terrence Metcalf, Dante Moncrief, Kelvin Bolden.
20:33
Speaker 1: I mean, those are guys that are They give you.
20:35
Speaker 2: A lot of juice and electricity on the recruiting trail,
20:39
Speaker 2: Terrence Metcalf, Terrence Metcalf, from Clarksdale, Dante Moncreef from Raleighsissippi.
20:48
Speaker 2: I can't remember where Kelvin Bolden's from, but he played
20:50
Speaker 2: Southern Miss. But Ole Miss once again goes and gets
20:53
Speaker 2: a dude recruiter and gets him in their system. They
20:56
Speaker 2: did it with Derek Nicks for fifteen years, who was
20:59
Speaker 2: a startel back at Southern Miss and gave them a
21:02
Speaker 2: lot of juice on the recruiting trail.
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Speaker 1: And now Kelvin Bolden also in that mix.
21:07
Speaker 2: So next week Ole Miss will be in Jackson for
21:10
Speaker 2: their Rebel road tour. They'll be in Memphis and then
21:13
Speaker 2: they'll spend the day flying down and back with Pete
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Speaker 2: doing the car wise so to speak of SEC media
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Speaker 2: days in Tampa, Florida, your man, our man, Jake Thompson
21:24
Speaker 2: will be down. That man's willing to sleep in a
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Speaker 2: car to give you the latest on Ole Miss football.
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Speaker 2: He joined us on the Farm Bureau Insurance guest line.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Brad. Bolden's from the coast.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we are the out of Bound show, ESPN one
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21:45
Speaker 2: go to Mississippi State out of high school, and I
21:47
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