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Recapping the 2023 college football season - NFL Playoff Action on the way · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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wherever they play the games. He's in Atlanta, headed back. So you
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did it. Congratulations. You didn't watch one play of the national championship in
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college football. You really didn't watch one play. Seriously, Jake, I
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said yesterday that was my goal. You're a man of your word. I
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give you that. I not only didn't watch a single play, I didn't
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watch a single second of pregame coverage, a single second of the game,
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a single second of postgame. Nothing stayed completely away. Are you? You
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must be a man that just you drill in. You're impeccable on discipline.
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I guess is that what we call this? Impeccable discipline? I guess in
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certain areas, right, certain areas. So you did it? You did
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it. Yeah, Michigan gets to win tonight or last night. There your
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national champions you know that. Now we move on to the next phase,
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which is literally twenty twenty four, right, this never stops. We'll start
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looking at teams as the teams start to kind of come into shape with a
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transfer portal that's already happening with the recruiting and such. Who are the favorites
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for next year and I will take the Michigan hat off and put it in
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the closet along with my national championship. That's another one that I have.
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I don't know how many I'm gonna have. About the time I leave this
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place, I'm like Tom Brady, I'm just catching rings. Let's go to
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Gator Matt, Matt, welcome in. Jake, you couldn't wait to get
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work today, good man, I was up right. You probably showed up.
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You're probably there two hours ago. Works. I was ready to go.
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I mean, Beaver's a true Alabama fan. He not to watch one
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play. But Jake, I have to be honest, I feel cheated a
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little bit. I mean, we're gonna hear how the Big ten is back,
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and Jake, Michigan's not very good. I mean, let's pair them
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up. I mean, do you honestly, do you honestly, Jake believe
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they were the best team in the country this year? Well, who else
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are you gonna pick? They're fifteen minutes. Their passing game is not good.
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I mean they're passing concepts just I mean, yeah, they I think
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George is better than them. I think Alabama's better than them. I think
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I think Ole Miss could beat them half the time. I think LSU.
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I don't think they could keep up with LSU. I honestly, I just
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don't. I don't cake. I mean, yes, were they physical,
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Yes, But I just I feel cheated. I feel wyat. I just
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listen. I just pulled into boat Jangles. See it seeking, Matt.
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How many SEC fans really feel that way? I don't know that Matt means
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what he says. Maybe does everybody keeps going to Georgia. Oh, Georgia
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could be Michigan. They couldn't beat Alabama. Do you think Georgia would have
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well, see you didn't watch the game, Yeah, they would have what
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yes, really, don't give me the transitive property of well, Georgia lost
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to Alabama, and Alabama lost to Michigan, and Michigan beat Washington, therefore
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no Georgia. Yes, I believe Georgia would have beat them. Now I
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can't. I can't get down with Gator Matt saying Alabama's better because we just
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saw eight days ago they weren't, So I can't support that. I'll stand
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by him on that Georgia deal. Alabama did play Michigan closer than anybody in
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the country took him down to the last play of overtime. So yeah,
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I mean Alabama best team that they played all year. Let's see here and
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look at the champions, and now we'll move on to something different. Let's
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see here Magic, Mike Jake, congratulations on your Michigan pick. Like Babe
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Ruth, you called your shot and never wavered. My question is will Michigan's
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title be tainted due to all the controversy surrounding the team and its coach,
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specifically the signs stealing accusations. It certainly tainted the Astros first Natty Major League
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Baseball, a lot bigger, more buttoned up entity than the nc DOUBLEA.
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If the NCAA had teeth, I think maybe, But I don't know that
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anything comes to this. What do you think of it? In twenty twenty
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eight, maybe twenty twenty seven, this will be vacated three to four years
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some Friday afternoon news dump just out of nowhere. If we're still here,
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we'll be on at five o'clock and it'll come across ross Dellinger's Twitter feed that
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Michigan's title has been vacated, right, and Jim Harball will have already been
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off into the end. It'll be a totally grouped, new group of guys,
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new coaches, and they'll look around a go what and then you'll have
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JJ McCarthy, who will be in the NFL, makes some statement at some
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post practice press conference right about it being tainted. That's probably what happened.
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Jay, Did you say McCarthy's going to be in the NFL? You mean
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CFL? You're sending him the CFL. You don't think he's an NFL guy?
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No? What? No, he's not bad. He's a nice quarterback.
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He's nice, about as nice as Maryland. He does need to he
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does need to come back. I don't know that he needs to come out
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this year. I know Kuyper likes him, but that isn't always translate into
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success, does it? If Kuyper likes you, who was it Kuiper said
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if he would quit if he was in the league. I can't remember high
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You remember the one talking about Clawson if if Jimmy Clawson didn't make it,
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he'd quit. You know what he said. Jimmy Clawson didn't make it,
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and he didn't quit. Jam Congrats Jake. That was one hell of a
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pick three months ago. But understand it does not clear the slate for all
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the bogus picks you've missed twoche jam Hey. Sometimes you get him and sometimes
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you don't. And I've made tons of bogus picks. I keep telling myself
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every year, I'm laying off LSU. I'm never picking LSU to winner Los
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or anything. And they draw me back in. They draw me back in
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all the time. Something intrigues me or piques my interest with the LSU Tigers,
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and then I'm like, yeah, let's look at that, and then
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it's just it's heartbreak. White and Zel. Congrats to Michigan. Washington wanted
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none of Michigan's physicality, much like DJ's lame duck Buckeyes. Yeah, for
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sure. The Michigan defense last night was just too much for Washington to handle.
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And I felt sorry for Michael Pitticks. In the fourth quarter. You
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could tell he was in pain. He had taken some shots and he was
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visibly holding his right side of his rip protector and you could tell he was
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in pain. And there was a lot of hard hits. I mean,
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Michigan really went after him, and I mean physically, Michigan was the and
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I know SEC people don't want to hear this that was the most physical football
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team all year long. And you want me tell you another thing, We'll
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never know what that would have happened. They beat Georgia by ten points.
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They would they would bulldoze Georgia right in the face. But we'll never see
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it. We'll never see it. Wonder how bad the ratings were for the
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game last night. We will get the ratings books here here in the next
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couple of days. I don't know. Well, obviously, one of the
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things we know is Beaver hurt the ratings. You purposely did this for the
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ratings, Like Jerry was talking about yard Boss. Jerry said he cut it
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off and change the channel so he wouldn't get counted in the ratings. That's
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a true sec guy. Miko Michigan's title isn't going to be tainted over under
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on hardball staying at Michigan. I will say that he's gone. What do
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you I would be shocked if he comes back. Oh, I don't know
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about shocked, but I definitely definitely still feel he's gone. And let's say
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one more here before we go to break getter. Matt Michigan will be no
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more than a seven win team next year. There goes your dynasty. Well,
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I don't think Michigan's going to be a dynasty, and they very well
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could be a seven win team next year. Again, Matt, just like
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you go into bow Jangles and picking something different every day, every years,
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a different pick. I have no idea who I'm picking yet. Next year
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it could be Georgia, it could be Bama. I may be sitting next
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to Jam saying roll tide. Next year could happen. I may hook him.
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I've got to let the analytics decide. We will talk about Misissippi State
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Michigan Insider two four seven Sports at five point thirty. So Sid Salter.
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If you're Missippi State people, you know who said Salter is. If you're
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not you, you may know. Sid Salter's a Missippi State guy. He
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worked for the Athletic department for a long time and he put out a tweet
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last night, Issue President Mark Keenam found a familiar face at the Washington sideline.
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On the Washington sideline for the National Championship game in Houston, future Washington
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quarterback Will Rogers, who led the Mississippi State Bulldogs during the Mike Leach era,
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will be cheering on his new teammates. Keenum wished him well. And
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it's a photo. Have you seen the photo? All right? So it's
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it's nothing special. It's Will Rogers in his new Washington jersey and just kind
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of dressed out. Keenum's there, And there was some video that was posted
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of Will Rogers throwing throwing footballs during warmups. So what has happened is obviously,
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like a lot of these transfers, he's already in class, he's already
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on the team. Let's let him go with us, probably with the other
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transfers who's are you know, have him acclimated, let him enjoy this,
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let him be around those teammates, his future teammates, and be a part
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of the whole deal. But Mississippi State fans, not all, but quite
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a few took it upon themselves to get mad as hell and pissed off because
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sid Salter put this out and the fact that Mark Keenum would pose in a
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picture with Will Rogers. Oh no, what do we do Will Rogers?
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I mean they are they got at some of the comments are got awful by
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the way, Well, I hope you burning hell. I mean, it's
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just like what did Will ever do to you? People? You know what?
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You know what this is like? This is just like you were in
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a bad relationship, you dumped your girlfriend and now you're pissed off that she's
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with somebody else. Misssippi State fans getting mad about Will Rogers in a photo
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with Mark Keenum at the National Championship Game, but they will also celebrate transfers
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coming into their program. Is that fan base broken? Or better yet,
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did did Chris Lamonas crashing the plane in Baseball break that fan base? I'm
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serious? I won't. I won't. Now, let's not put this that
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where you bash the situation. You just drive bashed this guy, But celebrate
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the trance coming in because someone who was it res Dog he was talking about
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you know ole miss they do the same thing. I'm sure a lot of
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the teams do the same thing, but that that's ridiculous. Why it's not
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like he's hanging out Keenum was I don't know posing with an Ole miss player.
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No one inside the SEC is with a former Missippi state guy at a
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national championship game. I don't understand why mad. Is it because you realize
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you'll never be in a national championship game? Is that really the root of
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it was the season? Do you still have such a bad taste in your
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mouth from the season? Look, Petty asked, Peterson is gone. Uh,
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Barb Brady's gone, our Nett's gone. They can't hurt you anymore,
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So calmed down. Yeah, you got a new football coach, you got
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a new staff, you got guys coming in the transfer portal. It's a
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new era. Let it go. They just can't let it go. Just
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really focus on that trash ass. Patty Peterson is gone. Let's see why
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Denzel. I'd say a forty chance of Harball is back. He's gonna win.
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H He's gonna want a GM he can't trust, or it's gonna want
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a general manager he can't trust and want wants control with the general manager of
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the openings. Right now, only the commanders fit the bill. Yeah,
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again, it depends on what Harball wants. What's available, and like you
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said, what what can he really get out of it? I mean,
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how much control does Jim Harball really want? How much? You know,
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where where does that whole thing manifest itself. Let's go to Larry on the
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Malone Roofing collar line. Larry, welcome in going on guys, Hey,
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brother, Yeah, I just want to those what Bed was saying about the
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State fans, it's unfortunate they're acting like, you know, like the scoring
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relationship is like I can't have you, nobody else can. I'm pretty sure
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it's the same fans that did the same thing with Dylan Johnson that he's at
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Washington doing a great thing, and as well as with the Cam Newton situation,
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it's like, if I can't have you nobody else camp, I'm gonna
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do whatever I can to do. And so it's sad. It's sad.
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It's like, hey, just be happy for somebody to get The kid gave
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all he got he had to the university and he was homegrown and he did
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he did what he's supposed to do. I mean, like I said,
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you can't please certain people. And it's not all State fans, we know
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that, but to those you know, goes to supports. And another thing
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I wanted that you guys see the nine hundred million dollars and I repeat nine
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hundred million dollar TV revenue contract that ESPN's signed for to host the championship game.
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I know I have not seen a dollar figure. I'll have to look
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that up, but I know that they're doing all kinds of signing documents and
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getting stuff ready to go. Yeah, and it's just TV revenue, and
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that's just for those games. But they you know, but they they say
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they don't have any money for the kids. And that's why a lot of
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you know, those people of those you know, Caliber and those those big,
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big jobs, they didn't want Parboros to you know, win their game
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because he speaks for sharing the revenue with the players, and that that alone
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shows you how much money is in that you know what he was, you
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know, displaying. So I think it was a great job that he won,
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you know, even though we're all STC fans, but for the platform,
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and he's speaking the voice up to the guys who are basically doing the
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labor for the job. Hey, there you go, Thanks guys, Thanks
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lo I appreciate it. Six one eight nine seven one, zero, five
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to nine. Good call is always Larry. Alabama defensive coordinator Kevin Still is
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retiring courtesy of Chris law So Alabama will be looking for a new defensive coordinator.
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Let's see here. Also a couple more pictures I'm looking at here.
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Yeah, Dylan Johnson hanging out with Will Rogers pregame. People got mad about
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that too. Quinn Shawn Judkins is headed to Ohio State. Do you think
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DJ's happy? So what do you think about Ohio State? This is gonna
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be interesting. They got a transfer quarterback from Kansas State who's a mobile guy.
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They're bringing in Judkins. Snapshot of Ohio State trying to get back physical
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Judkins running quarterback. This will be interesting to see Judkins now in Ohio State
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Buckeye. Also NFL News. I'm sure you saw it, Adam Schefter.
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Titans fire head coach Mike vrabel I was a little surprised by this, were
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you no? Because I started here in a couple of weeks ago some rumors
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said he wanted out, and then I see today where I forget exactly who
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it was about. A higher up in the organization and was talking about Oh
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well they were they were they were gonna do a deal where they wanted to
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trade him, but they wanted him out as quick as possible. That wording
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is a little that doesn't sound like there were great feelings there. So he's
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a good coach. I mean, they've fallen on some hard times last couple
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of years. But it's a little surprising. But you heard rumors at the
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end of the year, so it's not shocking. He'll ndo his feet somewhere.
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Yeah, somebody to pick up up pretty quickly. We get this text
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in we'll take a time out here, unnamed Tchexter. We must have watched
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the different game. No way, they would have beat Georgia by two tds.
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I can say this also, Ole miss would have gave your Michigan a
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better game than we saw last night. Maybe you guys are still sleeping on
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this team, still sleeping on them. I guess you're gonna sleep for eternity.
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Conference Gaming Big ten went seven and three against the spread, the Mac four
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and two, the Big twelve five and four, PACK twelve, five and
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four, SEC five and four, AAC three and three, Sun Belt five
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and seven, and then the ACC four and seven, Mountain West and Conference
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USA two and five and one in three respectively. Final Bowl records by conference
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Big Ten six and four, Big twelve, PAC twelve five and four,
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SEC five and four, and then the rest don't through the MAC the worst
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at two and four. Also current coaches who started the year ranked in the
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AP Top ten and finished the season unranked. Well. Lane Kiffin did it
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back in twenty twelve at USC finished started in the top ten, was bounced
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by the end of the year. Brian Kelly Notre Dame twenty sixteen. Gus
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Maleson at Auburn did it twice twenty eighteen, at twenty fifteen, Mario christaball
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in twenty twenty along with James Franklin at Oregon and Penn State. Matt Campbell
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at Iowa State twenty twenty one. You remember that year, everybody was on
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Iowa State. They were the dark horse, sleeper top ten preseason. They
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got bounced. Make Brown, North Carolina twenty twenty one, Brent Venables last
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year at Oklahoma, Dave Randa last year at Baylor and this year Lincoln Riley
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at USC. He's the lone coach started in the top ten and then flamed
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out as the season moved on. So we'll get into Brett McMurphy's way too
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early, Top twenty five, and some others. Jim Harbaldough was asked about
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off the field issues after the ballgame last night. He said, quote,
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the off the field issues were innocent, and we still strong and tall because
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we knew we were innocent. And I like to point that out that were
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innocent. These guys are innocent, and we're innocent, and we all overcame
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that and that's hard because we knew we were innocent. How about that from
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Jim Harball? What do you think about that? That's a heck of a
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quote. How many times can you say the word innocent, especially when you're
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guilty. You just want a championship and you're focused on innocence. You know
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what we always talk about when people have to tell you how good they are,
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then they're not good. They're not good, and they're trying to,
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you know, overcompensate for something. So if you have to tell me how
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innocent you are and say it, what six times in that little bitty statement
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there, you just told me six times? Yeah, six, Then I'm
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not likely to believe you. Jim Harball on the NFL and the qu question,
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and he says, I just want to enjoy this. I just want
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to enjoy I said, it's twicse. I hope you give me that?
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Can you please? Can you guys just give me that? Does it always
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have to be about what's next and what's in my future? Okay? Now
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I see because I was at the gym space this morning and I was looking
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at this tiny TV. First take was on, and they're close captioning on
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that TV. On those TVs up there, they miss ninety nine point six
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percent of what the words are. So I could see they were playing a
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clip and I could see Harball talking at the press conference. And then I
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saw Stephen A. Smith saying, Okay, I get that, but this
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guy needs to realize that because I could tell somewhat of the captioning. Stephen
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A. Smith was basically saying, I realized that, but this guy needs
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to realize that the press is doing their job. They have a right to
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ask these questions. Can you guys give me that? See? This is
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another reason I don't like this, man. Can you guys just give me
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that? That's loose manall I just want to enjoy the moment and you're bothering
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me. That's what he basically saying. Chrisco on the Cowboy Malawi's text sign
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no way an H. McCarty is going to step foot on the NFL or
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the NFL filt he's mac Jones, he said, yeah, said McCarty doesn't
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deserve the ah. So is JJ McCarthy mac Jones two point zero? Ooh
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wow? Oh yeah, I can I can see that. Well he's it
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wasn't even good. He wasn't even as good in college as mac Jones was
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in college. So NFL comparison, Yeah, man, I think he's a
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step blow mac Jones all the way around, or Devil's advocate other side of
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the coin. Because history does repeat itself, believe it or not. Is
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he Tom Brady two point zero coming out of Michigan just above average? Headsy
27:12
guy makes throws when he needs to. Did that last night. It's not
27:17
gonna wow you with everything, not overly physically intimidating. I mean, I
27:22
know you didn't watch the game at one point last night. He took off
27:25
and had three runs back to back to back where he got Michigan out of
27:29
a bad situation inside their twenty, but pushed the ball across the fifty.
27:33
They ended up punting, but he flipped the field on field position. Could
27:37
he be that kind of guy? No, And I'm downright offended that you
27:42
would even put him in the same sentence as a possible Tom Brady moves like
27:51
him, not as tall. I'm just he's a Michigan guy. No,
27:53
and I never even liked Tom Brady, So for me to get offended at
27:59
that, Jake, take it back. I take it back ready, Teddy,
28:03
Jake, if you don't take ole Miss next year, you won't have
28:06
a national championship next year. Teddy's already yet, I've already had a couple
28:11
state people said, don't you dare pick Ole Miss next year? Don't you
28:12
dare do it? Hey, I don't know where the numbers are gonna take
28:15
me yet, I have no idea. So it's a blank canvas at this
28:19
point, Michigan is on the shelf. It's a blank canvas. Teddy's going
28:22
all in on Michigan though, I mean not Michigan, Oh Miss. I
28:27
like it it's time. I mean, I don't like the old miss national
28:33
title pick, but I support Teddy. I mean, we'll we'll find out.
28:37
I mean it's an outlier. You know, the fourteen play I mean,
28:38
the fourteen playoff era is over. The twenty twenty four College Football Playoff
28:44
it's now going to be a twelve team field. We know that first round
28:48
home site games will be December twentieth and twenty first. You'll have one game
28:52
on December twentieth and three games on December twenty first, the quarterfinal games thirty
28:59
first, that'll be the feat Esta, and on January first, you're gonna
29:02
get three bowl games, all playoffs Peach, Rose, Sugar. The semi
29:07
finals will be this week next year. January ninth, you're gonna have the
29:11
Orange and January tenth, you're gonna have the Cotton. And then the championship
29:17
game is going to be in Atlanta on January twentieth. So you have a
29:22
month, month full of college football playoff next year. How can you not
29:26
be excited about that. I'm not saying you're not, but how could you
29:27
not be excited about that? Yeah? Those I'm gonna watch you not if
29:36
an sec teams not in the January twentieth game, Well, it doesn't matter
29:40
because we're gonna have probably two. I can almost tell you yes, an
29:48
SEC team will be in the title game next year, and it might be
29:51
two. Me and you talked about this off the air, I think the
29:53
other day. As long as the NC DOUBLEA or the College Football Playoff comtee
29:59
doesn't screw the SEC A LA College College World Series brackets. If you remember
30:04
back in the nineties when the SEC, it was obviously State, you know,
30:07
and Ron Polk and everything they did in baseball, Skip Berman and LSU.
30:11
But then the SEC got really hot and was send in gosh, three
30:15
four teams at a time to Omaha State, LSU, Alabama, Auburn,
30:19
Florida pick a team. Well then they changed the pods that they did something.
30:25
Anyway, every time you looked up, it seemed like in the College
30:27
World Series you'd have if four SEC teams were in it, you'd have three
30:30
on one side and one on the other. As long as the committee does
30:36
it jack with a bracket in all the SEC teams on one side, because
30:41
it'll be a parent will it not. I mean, just think about if
30:44
Alabama, Texas and Georgia are the top three, like three teams in the
30:49
SEC next year. But let's say Bama wins the SEC and then Georgia's got
30:56
like a loss in Texas has a loss, and then they come in it
30:59
like an I don't know, five and nine, and then they're all just
31:03
happened to be on the same side to where they have to cannibalize each other.
31:07
That's what's going to be bad. But I do think that there will
31:11
be an SEC team in the championship game next year, and I think it
31:15
very well could be too Possileneck, Joe, I don't have anything against the
31:18
kid. Tell my Will Rodgers, Oh, he has one up here.
31:19
If Will Rogers was the greatest or was the quarterback last night, it would
31:23
have been sixty four to thirteen. What fifth grader Goon wearing his number fifteen
31:29
jersey around Rodgers would have been sacked double digits last night. Now, Joe,
31:33
there's no way for you to know that Pennix was running for his life
31:36
and he didn't have a great game. By the way, I don't even
31:38
think against the kid. I just think he's not a great football player.
31:42
Rusty, These fans that are bashing will are probably the same ones that were
31:48
kissing his rear end when he was throwing for five hundred a game. Some
31:52
of them were, but then some didn't even give Hi credit. Then they
31:55
said he just did it on checkdown passes PT for MSU just got in the
32:00
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thirty, let's see here unnamed texture. Will we be by the way you
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can text as six O one eight eight, five three seven seven six.
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That is the cowble Maloney's taken. Will we be discussing the old Miss fans
33:53
going after Stanka Burnside and Qu's mother. How do their how to their fifty
34:00
year old troll coach and fan base get a pass on everything? Well,
34:04
I'm assuming that's for me going after the State fans for going after Will Roders.
34:07
I mean, I saw some of that, but if I had to
34:10
get into every bit of recruiting back and forth on X and social media,
34:15
we could you be here all day right just reading threads and State and O
34:20
Miss fans getting after each other and going after kids. And parents. That's
34:23
it's almost like par for the course. That's what makes it toxic. Does
34:29
that make the egg Bowl? Is the Egg Bowl back toxic? Well,
34:32
we don't need to just center this in Mississippi. For some reason, people
34:38
have gotten extra trashy these days. Almost all the fan bases. Mississippi State
34:46
for some reason has a section of fans that are trash who do this.
34:52
Oh, miss has a large section of trash that are doing this. But
34:55
let's go to Florida State. We just talked yesterday about how they're threatening people
35:00
personally on the college football payff companee because you learned the side of the playoffs.
35:06
Remember a few years ago, Kentucky basketball fans did the same thing to
35:10
a referee. Oh I remember that, Yeah, sure did for some reason.
35:15
I'm sure even a school like Akron has these people for some reason.
35:22
I don't understand it, but some seem worse than others. But it's it's
35:28
pathetic. That was the whole section of SEC fans across the board that want
35:31
to take the Vandy whistler out, Like take him out, Well, he
35:35
deserved it. What see, now you're in there, you can't take the
35:38
Vandy whistler out. Let's see here, Dexter Ryan Day, his seat got
35:46
hotter last night, and this is not sitting well in Columbus. No,
35:50
you're right. I mean, look, that's the way that whole thing rolls.
35:52
Right. When Michigan wins Ohio State, they better, or vice versa,
35:57
when Alabama Auburn. It's just it's kind of the way college sports are.
36:00
Rt. If ole mess played Michigan and one, I'd buy the whole
36:06
staff of that box of pleasure from Tammy. Rose's outlawed in three states and
36:13
unnamed texture. If they were innocent, why did they fire two employees?
36:17
Maybe they didn't take the trashout right. I have no idea, Ross Stellinger,
36:22
Yahoo sports dot com, he says. As it turns out, leaders
36:24
are gathering this week at the NCAA convention where the Division one board will review
36:30
and potentially charge the Division one Council with creating a framework related to Baker's compensation
36:37
point. This comes into a light of Charlie Baker's new proposal. We're all
36:44
going to hold hands and sing kumbay Ya, and it doesn't matter if you're
36:46
at Millsaps or Michigan. Everybody's getting the same Harball was asked if he'd be
36:52
willing to meet with the NCAA president Charlie Baker about player compensation. He says,
36:57
quote, I think they know my That's what Harball said. Now here's
37:02
what's interesting about this whole Dealan we'll get more into this, this Charlie Baker
37:07
deal. And if you had been following this story, we talked about it
37:09
a few weeks ago. Charlie Baker, who is the astute president of the
37:14
NC DOUBLEA, who is a lifetime politician from Maine or Maryland, I can't
37:19
remember where he was governor or mayor or something. He takes over as the
37:23
president of the NC double A and now he is trying to put together this
37:30
framework called what is this? This? What did he call this? Not
37:34
the sub subconference or I can't subdivision the NCAA subdivision. So the NCAA Subdivision
37:44
is basically this. You have to opt in as a school to see really
37:50
what's in. It sounds a lot like a government plan in Washington, d
37:53
C. But you have to opt in. And the whole framework is everybody's
38:00
to get the same. So there's up to if you're a four year athlete,
38:04
you can get up to one hundred and thirty thousand dollars in money.
38:07
This bypass is in il and it's a substitute for nil and collectives. And
38:13
it doesn't matter if you're a volleyball player or a football player or a bat
38:16
whoever. Everybody's getting the same. Anyoneant say everybody to buy into this.
38:22
But what's interesting that I've noticed about this. Remember Greg sank you spoke on
38:27
this. He said, they never told us about this before they dropped it.
38:31
None of the coaches have been contacted about it. Saban spoke on this
38:34
just a little bit, and he says, we don't really know a whole
38:36
lot about it. Jim Harball says, they got my number, thing call
38:39
me. He's not reaching out to the biggest players about this. Why Why
38:47
is Charlie Baker ducking the biggest power brokers in college sports? Do you know
38:53
why? Because they'll never buy off on it. He's hoping that he can
38:59
get enough support from everybody else and somewhat trick other people that are desperate for
39:06
money. Schools that don't have collectives that are buttoned up, and there's a
39:09
lot of them, they don't have the funds available to come limping into this
39:15
subdivision and essentially save the NCAA. That's what he's doing. That's what this
39:22
play is. But the power brokers in college sports don't want it. The
39:27
SEC doesn't want it, the Big ten doesn't want it, so the ACC
39:31
doesn't want it, and probably the Big twelve doesn't want it. So this
39:36
will be an interesting deal. Again. I think this thing flops. I
39:38
don't think it ever gets off the ground, but we'll see. Carolina Panthers.
39:45
Nine candidates have been requested for interviews for Carolina. What's going to happen?
39:49
Is there anybody or anything that can save that whole franchise? Poor Bryce
39:52
Young? I just don't know, all right, Miko over on who Beaver
40:00
dislikes more Harball or Coach Prime? All right, Beaver, you're destined to
40:07
be living on an island for the next five years. Tom Hanks is not
40:15
there, Wilson's not there. You have to pick Harball or Prime. You
40:21
gotta pick one who's going to be five years on an island. Yeah,
40:30
I guess I'll take Harball. You guess, But I guess when? I
40:37
mean when you were away? Well, because Dion Sanders is you know,
40:42
he's delusional and just talks all the time. But that's in the realm of
40:45
college football. But if he's just on an island and can't be around football,
40:49
he may keep you entertained. Though. Harball's label is sit over there,
40:54
away from you and never speak for five years unless there's some mumble jumble
40:59
about sand and the water and sticks or something. Depends on how much communication
41:06
you want to have. They could almost go with the prime that's not his
41:09
name, that's not Dion Sanders. Let's see, will h are we comparing
41:15
JJ McCarthy to Tom Brady right now? When does baseball start? No,
41:20
well, which baseball? Who are you fan of? Because it could get
41:24
nasty, could get nasty real quick. Moe just says about damn time,
41:30
and I'm not sure what that means. You look perplexed over there. Why
41:34
Denzel's tweet just now? Let's see here, Yes, I just got that
41:38
come across the wire and I was gonna get to that. We'll go ahead
41:42
and do that right now. Courtesy of Blake Levin WJTV, who reported this
41:46
first. Jud Boswell has stepped down as the Clinton football coach. He will
41:51
continue as the school's athletics director and they'll be looking for a new football coach,
41:54
So we'll get coach judd On and talk to him about this. That's
42:00
at almost well to me at least, that's almost shocking. But that that
42:05
kind of came out of nowhere. Yeah, for me, I'm not in
42:09
any kind of circles. So maybe other people knew, but I was not
42:14
expecting that. Well, we'll get coach judd On talk about him. Chrisco
42:19
As a diehard MSU supporter, I can acknowledge that Ole Miss could be unstoppable
42:22
next year. Next season, I wouldn't go as far as unstoppable. They're
42:25
gonna be really good though, and Jay Rock well, at least the State
42:30
fans are not calling Rogers a cancer in the locker room like the Revs did
42:34
with Judkins. Well, you're true, that is true, and it's it's
42:38
back and forth and it is just so much so much. Is it called
42:42
vitriol and monkey's riding dogs. Don't worry, Beaver, the island will have
42:45
plenty of Chadoor sauce waiting for you. That's very very good. All right,
42:50
let's see here we will get into h more NFL news to Jacks to
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45:08
Let's see Miko breaking Mississippi Braves moving to Columbus, Georgia after this season?
45:15
Is that now I know Miko is in the know, So I wouldn't
45:20
read something that I was not sure that Miko not knew. Is that a
45:25
deal? Wait a minute, I don't know why you're asking me. I
45:35
would know nothing about the braves. Now, first us we saw the report.
45:39
I guess it was back in I was tracking my days and months,
45:44
maybe November December. One report did come out that it was a possibility they
45:49
could leave, but then Claren Ledger put that out. But then two weeks
45:54
later they said, well, to be fair, let's go back to this
45:59
are from I think it was twenty twenty one where it was talking about the
46:07
Braves are locked in at least through like twenty thirty one or something like that.
46:13
Anyway, but the keyword here is Claion Ledger. So what are you
46:17
gonna believe? I believe Miko. Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of
46:22
people on this text line we love them all that I wouldn't just read something
46:24
like that. But Miko, I know, is roped in. So I
46:28
believe what Miko has to say is the gospel. Possum neck Joe, I'll
46:31
look into the more. Jake. Since we pushed on the Georgia Top five
46:36
bet this year, you predicted Will Rodgers would pass for thirty five hundred yards
46:39
this coming year. I say, heck no, If you take this bet,
46:43
I will not mention Rogers again until football season. Joe, you have
46:47
yourself a deal and you can still mention Will Rogers. He will pass for
46:51
over thirty five hundred yards at Washington, thirty plus touchdowns, and his interceptions
46:57
will be under ten under ten. Pug, It's done. They just tweeted
47:04
it. Wow. So see, that's why I trust Miko, trust him
47:07
with just about anything, except for his recommendations on Bojangles. I think I
47:14
can't. I've gotta go do this Bojangles thing myself. There's so many you
47:16
have an opinion, Miko has an opinion. Everybody has an opinion that they're
47:20
all different on Bojangles, Like this thing is an anomaly. So the Mississippi
47:23
Braves let me go over here to X. Why don't I always feel so
47:30
bad? Say of that? Think Elin did that on purpose. The Mississippi
47:37
Braves, courtesy of Blake Levin, who is having a heavy news day today,
47:42
will be moving to Columbus Georgia after next season. Interesting. The Braves
47:49
have put out a message that say to our incredible fans twenty twenty four will
47:54
be the Braves' final season in Braves in Pearl, Mississippi. The Double A
48:00
affiliate of the Atlanta Breys, will be relocating to Columbus, Georgia as of
48:05
the start of twenty twenty five season. We want to thank Pearl, the
48:07
surrounding Jackson community, and the state of Mississippi for the incredible support for the
48:12
franchise over the past nineteen seasons or years. We have loved creating memories with
48:17
you at Trustmark Park and we'll look forward to bringing you an amazing twenty twenty
48:21
four season. The m Braves will be commemorating the twentieth season at Trustmark Park
48:27
through a sixty nine game home schedule in twenty twenty four, beginning with opening
48:30
Day on Tuesday, April ninth, versus Biloxi. We're hopeful that this is
48:35
not the end of professional baseball in Pearl, and our organization will support any
48:39
efforts to bring a team to Trustmark Park in the future. Very interesting.
48:44
We'll see what happens as an era closes on the Mississippi Braves this year.
48:51
Very very interesting, and Miko, thank you for sending that over to us.
48:54
Mister d X Jaquim the king of college football. I will take that
48:59
mantra and Pug, let's just acknowledge what we're all thinking. Jackson in its
49:06
current state will run off anything that needs support from the city. Well,
49:12
to be fair, this is Pearl, so I can't throw this on Jackson
49:15
and he sends the media media response here, all right, And if you've
49:22
got thoughts on that, if you've got thoughts on the Mississippi Braves, let's
49:23
be in the final season coming up. What's next for that park? What
49:30
will happen with the park? Obviously you would have to think that the city
49:35
of Pearl will work extremely hard to garner attention from more Major League Baseball teams.
49:39
What do you think happens with Trustmark Park. It's a beautiful park.
49:44
It's a beautiful venue. If you ever gone to a game out there,
49:50
Yeah, it's been forever two thousand and nine with no was that the last
49:54
twenty fourteen? Twenty fourteen's last time I've been there? I said, say,
49:58
if it was two thousand and nine, it seems like every time the
50:00
last time you did some of those two thousand and nine and that was a
50:02
loaded year for you. What happens I don't know. I mean, that's
50:10
it's kind of it'd be weird for that thing to just sit there and never
50:16
be occupied again. I guess you could bring some like when the Generals left
50:24
and then they brought in that Diamond Cats team Smith Wills could be similar to
50:32
that. But it's got to do something with it. But I don't know
50:37
that that really. Yeah, would it? Would it? What were you
50:40
going to say, drive traffic? Yeah, independent baseball. I just don't
50:46
think it will. No, I don't know about that. Yeah, I
50:50
doubt it because the whole appeal of it was they're connected to the Atlanta Braves,
50:54
to unso Atlanta Braves fans. I don't know. Frankly, I don't
51:01
care because I still have ill will for them from two thousand and five when
51:07
they first opened and they didn't hire me for any positions. There, wait
51:10
a minute, you've never told this story, so you have had a ax
51:15
to grind with Thessissippi Braves for almost twenty years. I don't really, but
51:21
I did apply when when they first before the first season. Well, I
51:25
don't mean anything like, you know, announcer or anything like that. I
51:30
just mean like working at the stadium because I wasn't doing anything with my life
51:34
at that point, so I just needed a job. How old were you?
51:37
That was spring two thousand and five, so I was twenty two.
51:45
Yeah, you telling me they wouldn't give you a job selling popcorn or nothing?
51:50
Nope? Did you really apply or is this one of those deals where
51:53
you kind of wanted it but you never really went up there? No?
51:57
I went up there. They had some sort of some sort of job fair
52:00
that was going on. Interesting, I had no idea. Jim, the
52:08
state fans fussing about Will Rogers are the same ones wanting him benched last year.
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53:42
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53:44
Ronefelo Sparza on Thursday. We'll get you caught up on all the plays
53:49
at Amerstar. I am not excited about Miami Dolphins this weekend. It is
53:53
just the air has gone out of the tires. They're a four point dog
53:59
at Kansas City. A seat it's probably gonna be two degrees in Kansas City
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with a gusta win and Taylor Swift, who is unofficially a government operative.
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I don't know all these rumors about Taylor Swift. Is she even real?
54:13
Is she a human? Beaver? Is she an alien? You don't think
54:17
so, let's see mister d X. Let the hate go, mister Beaver
54:23
and pt for MSU. I don't know, Miko, but I work with
54:27
his wife. I hope you, hope you your back gets to feeling better.
54:32
Those exercises she is bringing home work do them? How about that?
54:37
So, Miko, if you're down in the in the back do the exercises
54:42
unnamed texture. What does the Embrave's announcement due to the annual MSU O,
54:45
MISS and USM matchups at Trustmark. I hope those matchups aren't affected. Well,
54:51
you've got that, You've got the MHSA Baseball Championships. You know,
54:55
we'll we'll see again. There's a lot of behind the scenes it goes on,
55:00
obviously with this, have no idea. This is again talking about if
55:04
you're just joining us. The Mississippi Braves have officially announced they are done after
55:07
the twenty twenty four season in Pearl. They will be moving somewhere with Georgia.
55:13
I guess so Gnnett Georgia somewhere they're moving. So a lot of questions
55:17
after twenty twenty four about what will happen with Trustmark Park. Red Dog Rogers
55:23
will have to throw seven hundred five yard passes to get to thirty five hundred
55:29
yards. That's gonna be tough. Well, that is true, right,
55:32
seven hundred five yard checkdown routes to get to thirty five hundred. Let's go
55:37
to Trey. Trey, welcome in. How are you hey, Jake?
55:40
If I remember correctly, I thought you may have put some money on Michigan
55:45
at the start of the season. If that's so, how much did you
55:51
win? If you don't mind sharing, and does Beaver get a percentage of
55:53
it? I'll hang up with this. Thanks very appreciate it. Well,
55:55
I don't mind me answering that at all. I bet a future every summer.
56:00
Are going into summer NFL in college this year the Michigan Wolverines. I
56:05
got him at eleven to one. I bet one hundred bucks and won eleven
56:07
hundred So it's not a bad payday. Should I share with Beaver? I
56:09
should probably at least buy you lunch you want bow Jangles. I do you
56:15
know I do need to give bo Jangles another shot. I've been talking about
56:17
that. But look, look, Trey, you know Jake Wimberley shares nothing
56:22
with me, especially monetarily. Come on, I mean, yeah, let's
56:28
even go back to December twenty second, twenty twenty three, when Chris Brooks
56:35
was in here and said, you get Beaver a Christmas present? And Jake
56:38
looked him dead in the eye and said, yeah, it's ordered. It's
56:42
on its way from Amazon. I don't know if you said specifically from Amazon,
56:45
but that do remember me said it's been ordered, it's on its way.
56:49
Oh, no, Christmas present lies. So of course I'm not gonna
56:52
get in a cut of this loot. It's still in transit, is it.
56:58
Yes, Yes, you're gonna get a late Christmas present. Ah'm skeptical
57:05
about this. No, come on, you're gonna go order one now when
57:07
you get home, just because we had this conversation. No, it's it's
57:12
intransit pony boy embraves or one of those things we like to brag we have,
57:16
but few a ten perfect example Beaver being a media member not supporting they
57:22
are moving on. I'm not a media member. You kind of are.
57:28
Nah, I've never no, No, I just that's sit here. What
57:32
is he saying? If I wait, is he saying that if I would
57:36
have gone, they would have survived? No, I think he's talking about
57:38
the collective, the the general populace. You know. We like to say,
57:45
yeah, we got a you know, minor league baseball team, we
57:49
got this, we got that, and look for you know, if we're
57:52
gonna keep it real, as the young kids say, Central Mississippi has never
57:58
really supported over a long the braves. You're gonna get twenty years you got
58:00
twenty years out of this, so that's a good long twenty years. But
58:06
a lot of people just don't go. The New War off a long time
58:12
ago, and you know that if you lose, people aren't going to show
58:21
up. And the n Braves they won the whole thing. I don't remember
58:24
when that was couple years ago, but they've had more down years than I
58:30
remember them having good years. So people just won't go. But this is
58:37
not just a Mississippi Braves problem. This is a baseball problem. How many
58:42
ballparks around the Major League baseball circuit are empty. You see them all the
58:46
time through the season. Again, I think this is a problem with baseball
58:51
that they have to address, and they won't do it because of it's America's
58:55
game and it's traditionalist. The season is way too long. It's way too
59:01
long, and people have way more and this is not taking up for people
59:06
that don't go. But look think about what people have now now. When
59:08
baseball was rolling, and it was it was all we had, and it
59:13
was on the radio, and people died into the radio because there wasn't much
59:16
on TV. We're going back into the forties and the fifties and the sixties
59:21
and football was just coming out of the ground and the NBA, you know,
59:24
basketball was still played with no three point line. Baseball was America's game.
59:30
But now think about what goes on in the summer. Let me ask
59:36
you this Eric who runs a travel baseball team out of Yazoo City, the
59:44
Yazoo City Bombers sixty nine's who just are in the field every freaking week,
59:49
every freaking weekend, all summer long. Do you think they're even worried about
59:53
going to watch another watch baseball. No, they're playing baseball. So my
59:57
point is this. You got travel baseball going on, You got people that
1:00:00
are at the reservoir, fighting on Flag Island. You got all of the
1:00:05
kind of options that people do, vacations and this and that. Oh and
1:00:08
by the way, you got a baseball stadium here. Even when they win,
1:00:13
people aren't showing up because it takes time out of your day every day,
1:00:19
year in and year out, month after month after month after month.
1:00:22
The season is too long. People have way too much to do. There's
1:00:25
nothing you can do. I don't think to draw the attendance that you need
1:00:31
to stay above the line and the positive on making money at a minor league
1:00:37
baseball. I just I don't know that you can do it. But I
1:00:42
think if baseball was a shorter season, college baseball has the perfect season.
1:00:46
I've always said that starts hearing about a month and it's over in June.
1:00:52
Starts here in a month and it's over in June. Do you think that
1:00:54
would help? Yeah, because I would imagine there's very few what is their
1:01:04
exact number they in minor league. It's like still one hundred and thirty somewhere
1:01:08
around there. All right, it's over one hundred for sure. Yeah,
1:01:13
I imagine there's very few people who are going to go to every single game.
1:01:19
I guess there's no urgency. I mean you'll have some, but it's
1:01:22
not enough to make a dent in the bottom dollar. Yeah, there's no
1:01:24
urgency there. I would say, you don't feel like ought I have to
1:01:30
get to this game. They'll be here tomorrow or next week or two weeks
1:01:32
from now. Home stand coming up, two weekends. I'll go to that.
1:01:36
I'll go to one game there, and a lot of the times.
1:01:38
You know, these these places make their money off the luxury suites, and
1:01:40
I you know, I don't know that they're making a Dent there as well.
1:01:44
Six er one eight nine seven one zero five to nine. Kelly Ford
1:01:47
will join us here in the next segment. Jay Rock Beaver, you better
1:01:52
Beaver, you have a better chance of getting a present from Chris Brooks named
1:01:58
Texter. I'd rather watch paint drive and watch a baseball game on any level
1:02:02
in Rebel, Greg, Central Mississippi is a big travel ball community. They're
1:02:06
not taking them kids to Trustmark when the kids have left. And Greg's absolutely
1:02:09
right on that, and that is true. We didn't have travel ball twenty
1:02:14
five years ago. And there is a look there's you want to know where
1:02:17
all the people are in the summer, just go to any random ballpark.
1:02:22
Go to Flowood, go to Brandon, go to Pearl, go to Madison.
1:02:29
Everybody's at a ballpark and it's with the kids. Let's go to More
1:02:31
Bully before the Break, More Bully, Happy Tuesday, Happy Tuesday. Jake's
1:02:37
graduated for riding that horse off season. Oh yeah, it feels good to
1:02:40
be a champion. I hear you, brother, We already knew what it
1:02:44
feels like to be a champ, but now you're a champion. That's right,
1:02:47
right, that's it, man. I don't know if you know this,
1:02:51
consider David Blunt in represents Jackson. That dude, he's been around since
1:02:58
Mets games, and he's a baseball nut. And he goes and he gets
1:03:02
his season ticket and he sits in his seat and he keeps the books on
1:03:07
all those games just for himself and for his enjoyment. That's been happening for
1:03:12
years. And when there's another team that comes back, he's gonna be right
1:03:15
back there again. But I'll tell you my quick story. It was two
1:03:21
thousand and five, I believe, and I was working in the sports industry
1:03:25
and braids were coming, and man, I got to go to the to
1:03:30
the ribbon cutting and I got to walk out in those woods and stand where
1:03:36
home plate was gonna be, and that was a pretty cool experience. But
1:03:39
I don't think we can fussing complain and grumble that they're leaving, because I
1:03:44
mean, we really didn't support him, you know, and we have a
1:03:46
history of that actually. But the best thing going in minor league baseball right
1:03:52
now is the Vana Binama because you know, all they do is tourist cities
1:03:57
and they say they made baseball funny game. If you hadn't seen that documentary.
1:04:01
Uh, I encourage you to watch it. It's really good baseball,
1:04:04
very good. Yeah. I just got to text somebody, just text about
1:04:08
them as well. On here look them up. Hey, maybe maybe you
1:04:12
need to put us together a local Savannah Banana type program and put them in
1:04:17
the Pearl Stadium. Yeah, okay, I'll see what I can do.
1:04:24
By the way, Yeah, if there was a Bulldog Nation, we'd be
1:04:27
applauding you. Thanks, appreciate it, Hi, brother, tell you man
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1:06:14
How are you. I'm doing okay, Jake. I was just talking with
1:06:17
Ben off Air here before we started. Uh, it's hard to be doing
1:06:21
well when we know we have two hundred and twenty seven plus days till we
1:06:27
get to see Collgoo ball again. But outside of that, it's always fun
1:06:30
talking to you, Jake. No sight likewise here, brother, And look,
1:06:31
yeah, you know we got a while, it seems, but there
1:06:34
are so many moving pieces in you know, roster changes. I mean we
1:06:39
talk about quin Shawn Judkins now going to Ohio State. I mean, just
1:06:43
to watch these teams kind of build into what they're going to be next year
1:06:46
is honestly. I know a lot of people don't like NIL and the transfer
1:06:49
portal and the collectives and all, but it's actually kind of fun just to
1:06:53
watch how these teams are developing right in front of our eyes. I mean,
1:06:56
we saw Will Rogers on the sidelines with Washington last night. Just to
1:07:00
see that happening, and we will kind of look forward just a little bit,
1:07:03
talk some NFL with you as well, talk about the lines, but
1:07:06
your thoughts of what you saw last night with Michigan and Washington. Yeah,
1:07:12
jig, last night, it was an interesting National Championship game, and it
1:07:15
was a competitive National Championship game really into the fourth quarter. It was surprising
1:07:21
to me after the start that we had in that game with Michigan running the
1:07:26
ball at will, not him and Edwards, I mean, first couple of
1:07:29
touches, it was just off and running and that was it. They showed
1:07:31
a graphic on the broadcast. Can't remember what the exact numbers were, but
1:07:35
it was just an astounding number of yards before first contact. And if we
1:07:41
go back to what we talked about before the game, you know, Michigan
1:07:44
being more balanced team, the Washington defense being the weakest unit in the game,
1:07:47
all of that came to fruition. It probably should have been over before
1:07:51
it was. Michigan for some reason decided to get away from the game plan
1:07:57
in the first half that had worked so well in the first couple drive and
1:08:00
that really allowed Washington to stay in the game. They get a couple of
1:08:03
big plays in an a big play or two keeps them in the game.
1:08:06
There at halftime, it's still a one score game throughout much of the third
1:08:10
quarter to a one score game. It wasn't until the force that Michigan pulls
1:08:13
away. But all in all, thoughts are you know Michigan, all the
1:08:16
things that went on in and around that program. Say about it what you
1:08:19
will, the on field performance, and again I get it. Hey,
1:08:23
you know, Kelly, they were stealing side. I understand. That's what
1:08:26
the backdrop the results on the field. Michigan was throughout the course of this
1:08:30
year the best team in college football. They really didn't have a weakness.
1:08:34
Defense certainly travels and shows up every single week, and when you have a
1:08:38
defense like Michigan, you know you're going to be in those games, and
1:08:41
they did. They did a ton to shut down what was a really high
1:08:44
powered Washington team. At the end of the night, I'm not overly surprised
1:08:47
by the game that we got. The model did pick Michigan by about nine
1:08:50
and a half. Of course, they win by much more than that late
1:08:53
pulling away, But it was always going to be a tall task for Washington.
1:08:57
They had a great season and they stayed in the game, which which
1:09:00
is credit to them. But Michigan was the best team in college football in
1:09:02
the twenty twenty three season. You know, it's gonna be interesting. And
1:09:06
we've talked about this with you just a little bit. I'm sitting here just
1:09:09
looking at you know, let's just use this for fun. Jesse Simonson two
1:09:14
four seven sports dot com or should be on three dot com. Apologies for
1:09:17
that his way too early top twenty five. As we think about the twelve
1:09:21
team playoff, and you know, right now he's got Georgia, Texas,
1:09:26
Bama, all SEC. Now, I think that's fair, Oregon, Ohio
1:09:30
State, Michigan, that's all Big ten, Ole, miss SEC, Notre
1:09:34
Dame Independent, Penn State, Big ten, Missouri SEC, Utah, Big
1:09:42
twelve, Oklahoma SEC, followed by LSU SEC. We're gonna get a heavy
1:09:47
helping of SEC and Big ten next year, are we? Yeah, we
1:09:51
certainly are, Jake. And you know, with the way that the conferences
1:09:55
are comprised here, moving forward, with the realignment and the new membership starting
1:09:59
in twenty two twenty four, and moving forward, that's not just going to
1:10:01
be a twenty twenty fourth thing. That's going to be year in and year
1:10:03
out. What I am most curious about is, of course, you're gonna
1:10:06
have one spot reserved for a non Power four champion most likely. I know
1:10:11
the CFT Board of Governors did not officially approve a recommendation, but everyone expects
1:10:15
it to be a five AQ plus seven at large, so not at least
1:10:18
one spot reserve for a team outside of the quote power four moving forward.
1:10:21
At least Notre Dame is always going to be in this now because if Notre
1:10:25
Dame finishes a regular season ten and two with the schedule that they play historically
1:10:29
and again any given year it could be different, but historically a ten and
1:10:31
two Notre Dame, that's going to be a spot outside of those two.
1:10:35
I mean, you're looking at the power conferences and if you go kind of
1:10:39
team by team in the ACC, you know, Clemson's been a power here
1:10:44
the last decade or so. Florida State certainly seems like they are on the
1:10:46
ride. Miami always will have the capability to explode and return to national prominence
1:10:51
as they have been in the last forty years or so. Outside of that,
1:10:56
in the ACC, though, there's really not a team or a program
1:10:59
that you say, man, year in and year out, they're going to
1:11:00
be in contention. You go to the new look Big twelve. There's really
1:11:03
not a team right now that you say year in, year out they're going
1:11:05
to be in contention. Kansas State's got some nice things going on. Utah
1:11:09
course has had a lot of success in the Pac twelve, so they're a
1:11:12
team to keep an eye on as they make the transition of the Big twelve.
1:11:14
You know, Arizona a team that really came on this year, is
1:11:16
that there to stay with jet Fish Kansas, As crazy as that might sound,
1:11:20
they're really building momento with Lance light Bold. But ultimately, at the
1:11:25
end of the day, when you're looking at CFP spots, Jake, I'm
1:11:29
hard pretted to see a year where it's not you know, seven, eight,
1:11:34
maybe even nine teams right that come out of just the Big Pen and
1:11:38
the SCC. Certainly every single year it's going to be at least six.
1:11:42
I cannot envision a world in which we don't have at least six from some
1:11:45
combination of the Big Pen. In the SCC, you're going to have the
1:11:47
number four, number five in some cases teams in a conference making this playoff.
1:11:53
It is certainly going to be a heavy dose of the SEC in the
1:11:55
Big ten and that's not just next year. That is going to be for
1:11:57
the foreseeable future until something changes, whether it's a change to the CFP again
1:12:02
or conference realignment hits again. But yeah, those two conferences, they are
1:12:05
certainly going to be playing college wall playoff football at a much higher rate than
1:12:11
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Got you covered with everything NFL playoffs, some NBA stuff going on. To
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my contribution to The Lines dot Com really winding down as as I am a
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the National Championship game last night, the focus really on the NFL and some
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So if you're into sportsway during the Lines dot Com certainly a good place for
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1:13:33
get your thoughts on the NFL playoffs coming up here just a bit. I
1:13:36
one more college football question. You know what I'll be interesting interested to see
1:13:40
with this twelve team format is, you know, I hate to say that
1:13:45
there's you know, favoritism this way or that way, but how does the
1:13:48
committee even the play and field wink week without even the playing field in the
1:13:55
sake of parody? And what I mean is this, let's just say you
1:13:58
have you know, for CC teams and then you know, four Big Ten
1:14:02
teams. How do we know that or do they how do we know that
1:14:05
they don't try to maneuver teams to maybe front load all the SEC teams except
1:14:10
one on one signe of the bracket. Do they do something to make sure
1:14:14
they get maybe two teams from the Big ten or Big twelve two from the
1:14:17
ACC I have a lot of questions about this moving forward, if that makes
1:14:21
sense. Yeah, I certainly do as well, Jacob Listen, after what
1:14:28
happened this year with the final CFT rankings in Florida State. I won't even
1:14:33
really pretend to know or to get that I know what the committee is thinking
1:14:39
or is going to do. I never would have imagined the world in which
1:14:42
an undefeated Power five champion in the four team playoff era was left out in
1:14:47
a scenario where it wasn't in favor of another undefeated team. Right, So
1:14:51
I don't really know what to expect or project here from the committee. I
1:14:56
don't believe I still, in my heart of arts, don't believe the committee
1:15:00
will. They certainly should not. I don't believe they will try to manipulate
1:15:04
a bracket to ensure this, that or the other. I think they need
1:15:10
to follow their protocol, their process, which I have advocated for these updating
1:15:15
But I think they will follow that to the best of their ability and hopefully
1:15:19
do what their charge with doing which moving forward will be to properly select and
1:15:26
see the twelve best college football teams with the resumes that they put together to
1:15:30
date. My biggest issue with the committee, jac is we need to reevaluate
1:15:33
what is their charge. There's been so much confusion over the years, and
1:15:36
it really came to a head year in twenty twenty three with what is their
1:15:40
charge? What is the charge of the committee? I think that needs to
1:15:43
be reevaluated, restated, reshaped, all of that before we even get into
1:15:46
what are you actually going to do with these twelve teams. I would certainly
1:15:49
hope though that they would be manipulating the bracket to achieve some sort of outcome.
1:15:54
Again, after this past year, I have no idea looking towards the
1:15:59
weekend, the NFL playoffs, you know, Super Wildcard weekend. You got
1:16:01
a lot of great games. Which games are you most interested in as you
1:16:05
turn towards the weekend? Yeah, it is exciting, And of course I'm
1:16:11
from Indianapolis, live in Indiana still and so heartbreaking for the Colts and how
1:16:15
it all went down this past weekend home game against Texans and a winning in
1:16:18
could not get it done. But to me, as I look at this,
1:16:23
you know, I'm interested in a handful of these games. What draws
1:16:27
attention to me would be, you know, Kansas City, that's a team
1:16:30
that they haven't played as good as they probably should have throughout the course of
1:16:34
this year, but here they are playing at home. I know they put
1:16:38
that game on Peacock trying to get all the Swifties to sign up for Peacock,
1:16:41
which is interesting to me. Buffalo that's another one. Of course,
1:16:44
they win the division after coming back in Miami and getting to win on Sunday
1:16:47
night. So I'm over in the AFC looking to see really or at various
1:16:55
points throughout the season, That's where I'm looking in the AFC. And then
1:16:59
you go to the NFC. I think the best team in football, not
1:17:02
just in the NFC, is San Francisco. I really do. I know
1:17:04
Baltimore is really good too. I think San Francisco is the best team in
1:17:08
football. But I'm really curious about Dallas and see what they can do.
1:17:12
Everyone knows it's been a very long time since they've won a Super Bowl or
1:17:15
really had any level of meaningful success in the postseason. But Dallas is the
1:17:19
team to me that I'm looking at in the NFC to see what can they
1:17:23
do here in the playoffs. Of course, Detroit there's the storyline as well,
1:17:27
and I hope this is a team. You know, you've got Matthew
1:17:30
Stafford going up against Jared Goff and the trade that happened, and both these
1:17:33
quarterbacks stations and their former team. There's plenty of storylines to go around.
1:17:38
I'm really focused on who I believe are the contenders. Those are really the
1:17:42
one season and those others that I mentioned. It's gonna be a fun weekend
1:17:45
regardless the NFL. For as much as I love the collegeball regular season,
1:17:49
the NFL playoffs are hard to beat. The NFL has got a really good
1:17:53
postseason format, and they're gonna give us great games and great dramas you mentioned
1:17:58
San Francisco, they are obviously, you know, you can make a case
1:18:00
for the me the best Baltimore, you can make a case for them.
1:18:02
Is it as simple as it's those two and then everybody else? Or is
1:18:05
there a land mine or two for both teams here in the next few weeks.
1:18:11
I think there are certainly land minds, Jake, But those two teams,
1:18:14
they are the number one seeds for a reason, and they are the
1:18:16
best team in their respective conferences. Now we do get upsets all the time.
1:18:20
I mentioned Dallas, you know, in the NFC, I also think
1:18:25
Detroit if they can, if they can have things break their way, I
1:18:29
think they're an interesting team. And then in the AFC, it is Buffalo
1:18:31
that was the team. Man. Everyone buried them, and I can understand
1:18:34
why based on how they were playing. But that's a team people from Natchieta
1:18:40
said over and over, don't let that team in, don't let that team
1:18:42
in. Well, not only are they in, but they're in there as
1:18:44
the number two seed went in the division. So that's a team that I
1:18:47
know Baltimore was certainly hoping wasn't going to make the playoffs. They're in now
1:18:51
and it's gonna be really good. Miami is a team so much upside,
1:18:56
but they have they're a big downside too. It's gonna depend which Miami team
1:18:59
showed up at each of those games to figure out how dangerous they're gonna be.
1:19:03
But the NFL players are always good for some surprises. Whether that carries
1:19:08
throughout to the super Bowl, I don't know if it will because these number
1:19:11
one seeds are so got staring good. But we will get some upset here
1:19:14
this weekend. I'm convinced. Make sure to check them out on exit Kford
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Ratings also kfod Ratings dot com at Thelones dot com. Kelly, I appreciate
1:19:19
your time. Look we'll do it again next week. We'll get into some
1:19:23
more NFL as we'll be into the second round of the NFL, and I'm
1:19:26
sure there'll be some college football we can talk about. I love it,
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of these. I name textter Jake. What do you think about football games
1:20:10
being played at the M Braves Field? What football, though, Beaver?
1:20:15
What kind of football would you play there? I don't. I don't see
1:20:20
what you could put there. I know that you know they could do bowl
1:20:24
games in baseball stadiums, but those are Major League Baseball stadiums. We're not
1:20:30
gonna get a bowl game in Pearl, Mississippi. It's a fun idea,
1:20:33
though, I definitely go whatever whatever level you put in there. Res Dog
1:20:41
thinks the stadium was doomed the day they decided putting next to Roses besides Roses.
1:20:46
He's never been out there either, has he? Because it's not next
1:20:49
to Roses. No, it's not. And let's see. Alsa says they
1:20:56
should have put it on Flag Island. Who doesn't like baseball boats? And
1:21:00
yes, more Bully said, I meant more Bully Nation and Jason and Flagstaff.
1:21:04
I tried to call. Uh. Folks can say whatever they want about
1:21:08
Will Rogers, but pennix Is two worst games were because he was missing wide
1:21:13
open underneath wide receivers and trying entirely too hard uh for the home run Rogers
1:21:17
will not do that. And look, Pennis had a lot of pressure on
1:21:20
him last night, a ton of pressure on him last night. And you
1:21:25
got a credit Michigan for that in their front seven. And also that back
1:21:27
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1:22:54
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1:22:59
season is coming up this year. Twenty twenty four will be it for the
1:23:03
Mississippi Braves in the state of Mississippi and they are headed east. So we'll
1:23:08
see what happens with that stadium moving forward. And also jud Bonds Will has
1:23:14
stepped down or he is no longer the head football coach at Clinton, he
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this way too early. Jesse simonton Pole. We'll see Monkey's Riding Dog says,
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and you can Texas six or one eight eight five, three seven seven
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six. That is the Caubo Maloney's text line. You can bet one thing.
1:23:33
They'll still be selling them thirty dollar rabbis out there. Have you ever
1:23:36
bought those thirty dollar robbis what not even the try it on the smoker or
1:23:43
griddle or wherever you have never what is it we call that thing that you
1:23:48
bought it you don't use anymore? Oh the bread oven, the bread oven,
1:23:51
you don't use the bread of anymore. To you and Gator Matt,
1:23:56
that is a very very funny text. I will not pay that business any
1:24:00
homage on this show, Jay Rock, Let's try to get the SEC Baseball
1:24:05
tournament out of Hoover and play it at Trustmark Park. I know it would
1:24:09
be a long shot. Hey there's you know, you got to get creative,
1:24:14
right, you got to do things. And I am sure the City
1:24:16
of Pearl is way out in front of this and the ownership group with the
1:24:20
with Trustmark Park, and I won't have to think they're not just gonna let
1:24:24
the stadium set idle. They're gonna do everything in their power to do something
1:24:27
with it and to do something productive. And you won't know for quite a
1:24:30
while probably, I'm sure. Space Ghost, congratulations on your victory. I
1:24:38
guess now you can afford to buy me that steak dinner. When did I
1:24:42
lose a state dinner to Space Ghost? It never actually happened. You know,
1:24:46
he jumped on that. He jumped on that bandwagon of people wanting to
1:24:51
get dinners from you. But you know, Space Ghost, he likes to
1:24:58
make things up things Actually. You know what though, I actually think he
1:25:01
believes that it happens. Things happen in his brain that he thinks actually happen
1:25:06
in life that never really happened in life. Possum think Joe Baver, Jake,
1:25:13
give me your pick to hoist the Lombardi Trophy. I'm gonna go with
1:25:18
San Francisco. Baltimore very well could do it. I would not be shocked.
1:25:24
I've just got to see it. I've got to see that team click
1:25:29
in the postseason. So I'm gonna go with the forty nine ers, who
1:25:30
have a more seasoned postseason team. What do you think same? I think
1:25:36
the forty nine ers have a better coaching staff, and I think they're built
1:25:41
for this. We've seen this Baltimore. They ran rough shot through the AFC
1:25:46
this year, but I got to see it, and they may do it.
1:25:49
Baltimore may wear everybody out all the way to these the trophy, but
1:25:53
I'm gonna go with the forty nine ers. I wish I could give my
1:25:56
dolphins that same love. I can't do that. See, I'm an objective
1:25:59
man. When I tell you it's Michigan, it's Michigan. When I tell
1:26:02
you it's not Miami, it's not Miami. I would love to see Miami
1:26:06
do it. I tell you what. One of the funniest things I saw
1:26:09
the other day. You see Steven A. Smith go off on Mike McDaniel.
1:26:13
It was hilarious, just talking about they were a paper tiger and every
1:26:15
time the moment's there, they crap the bed, like when you think,
1:26:18
okay, now it's time for Miami to show out. We hear all about
1:26:21
this offense. We hear all about this boy wonder, this boy wonder that
1:26:25
they go to Baltimore and get drug, they go to Buffalo and get drug,
1:26:29
they go to Philly and can't pull it off. He's not wrong,
1:26:32
like something is just They're really good. They're fun to watch, but they're
1:26:39
just not there yet, are they. No? No, I can't disagree
1:26:44
with any of that, mister d X. They could turn the Braves Park
1:26:47
into a pro disc golf course. D I love you, but I know.
1:26:56
Let me quote the gentleman from office space. This is horrible, this
1:27:00
idea, Lluvier, This may be the best text he's ever sent in.
1:27:06
This is really good. You picked Michigan and everyone thought you were crazy.
1:27:13
Then you picked the Jets improved it. Yeah, see where there's where,
1:27:16
there's the yen, there's the yang. I did pick the Jets to win
1:27:20
the Super Bowl the same day I picked Michigan to win the national title.
1:27:26
But I ask again, can I get please? I'm gonna be Jim Harball
1:27:29
here, Please can I get a reprieve from this pick? Aaron Rodgers ran
1:27:33
out of the tunne where the American flag and was done in four minutes.
1:27:36
So shouldn't that like Noll and void that beat and say, okay, you
1:27:42
get a Mulligan. No, I can't im out Chrisco. Baltimore ran the
1:27:49
AFC question mark. Well, yeah, they're the number one seed. Who
1:27:55
else did it? It wasn't the Chiefs, wasn't Miami. Oh? This
1:27:59
guy, this guy noted long suffering Browns fan who thinks they're actually gonna do
1:28:09
something this year. That's why he's saying that division rivals. Oh doesn't like
1:28:13
Baltimore. Well, but Baltimore is still the number one seed. In the
1:28:15
in for the Browns. You got work to do this weekend and then you
1:28:18
got to go do it on the road. Yeah. Look this the Browns
1:28:25
this year. Is talking to stand next door at Kicks that you know he's
1:28:29
a huge Browns fan. He's yeah, he's from Ohio. And I love
1:28:34
the story. I like what they've done. I like that the Browns are
1:28:41
actually back to good. I love the Joe Flacco part. I love the
1:28:45
fact this was classy. I liked this. Flacco had had a clause or
1:28:50
not a clause, but incentives in his deal where every time the Browns won
1:28:56
seventy five thousand dollars bonus and Sunday he sat out, so he wasn't eligible
1:29:00
for that seventy five thousand. They wenthead and gave it to him real because
1:29:04
he's just been he's helped him so much. Thought that was pretty cool,
1:29:10
but cool story, nice neat story. But it's still the Browns. Browns
1:29:18
in Super Bowl don't go together, and they're not gonna go together. I
1:29:23
don't think anytime soon. Getor Matt wants to expand Tammy Rose's business to Pearl.
1:29:28
Well, right there, trust Mark, But Park, I guess all
1:29:30
right, Jesse Simonson on three dot com is way too early. Top twenty
1:29:35
five for next year, and you'll see a lot of these drop. Georgia
1:29:43
number one, and you could definitely make a case. And again, I
1:29:45
will not have anything numbers wise, I'll start again over started already started ripping
1:29:50
spreadsheets apart to get him ready for this year. Georgia number one. I
1:29:56
could see where any model any take you say, look bringing back a Ton
1:30:00
Vander griff is coming back. You've got a transfer portal quarterback coming in that
1:30:06
that's expected to be really good. Georgia could be number one. Texas number
1:30:10
two. I could definitely see that they have just about everybody coming back.
1:30:14
They've got a quarterback back that has experience now in the playoff, So I
1:30:17
could see that Bama number three, and look, I'd be honest with you,
1:30:24
I think at least just let's just do the flyover Athens real quick,
1:30:30
Austin and Tuscaloosa. I don't know that there's much difference in all three of
1:30:35
those and I next year, and I think all three could be one of
1:30:41
you could make a case for all three being number one. With mil Roeback.
1:30:45
We'll see what happens. Savan's got to get a defensive coordinator. But
1:30:48
do you really worry about Saban having to replace anybody? Not really. For
1:30:54
Texas and Georgia, Oregon at number four, Ohio State five, Michigan six.
1:31:00
So you go three SEC, three Big ten, and I think you
1:31:04
can make a case again in the Big Ten. Those three teams are very
1:31:11
very even Oregon and what Dan Lanning has done, he was on the college
1:31:15
football broadcast last night, unbelievable job. They're going to be very good.
1:31:21
A lot of the media will pick them to win the Big Ten. Ohio
1:31:25
State they're reloading, They've got Judkins from ole Miss, They've got a quarterback
1:31:30
from Kansas State. They recruit in the top five. And then Michigan Jj
1:31:36
McCarthy will see what he does Harball. I just think Michigan takes a step
1:31:42
back. Then you go number seven, ole Miss, run that hype train,
1:31:48
run ole Miss. So they would be the fourth SEC team behind Georgia,
1:31:56
Texas and Alabama. And for ole Miss it's simple, but it's not
1:32:00
Stay healthy, stay focused, don't drop a game you shouldn't, And can
1:32:05
you get one of those spots from one of those three? Because I think
1:32:10
you may need it because I don't know how many teams is the SEC gets
1:32:14
in. We don't know. We've never seen this twelve team model. We
1:32:15
can speculate. We can look at the rankings and go, yeah, one,
1:32:18
two, three, this team here, this team here, But do
1:32:20
we really know. Notre Dame at number eight, they're gonna be good next
1:32:26
year. They were good this year. They won nine ball games, ten
1:32:29
with a bowl game, and they're not going anywhere in Notre Dame. Kelly
1:32:32
Ford is right, they win ten games, they've got a spot, they're
1:32:35
in the playoff. Now we take a step down, Penn State, that's
1:32:39
your team. The Nipney Lions fall now to fourth likely in that conference,
1:32:45
behind with Oregon in there, Ohio State and Michigan, and then you've got
1:32:49
Missouri. The top ten teams, and I think this is gonna kind of
1:32:55
run the gauntlet across the board in the preseason SEC Big ten. Notre Dame,
1:33:00
it's gonna be your top ten. Then you get into Utah at number
1:33:03
eleven. That's the first Big twelve team for next year. So Utah or
1:33:11
Arizona, who's at fourteen in this poll, they're the two, followed by
1:33:15
Kansas State, at eighteen sixteen. The three teams that will be vying probably
1:33:19
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six nails I take the Browns to the super Bowl every morning after coffee very
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well done. Let's see unnamed Texter. Y'all show is great, but please
1:34:40
can we have a full show, just one without mentioning Michigan. It's like
1:34:44
when you were mentioning Taylor Swift every day have mercy. Well, you're in
1:34:46
luck. You're in luck. He or she whoever this is. Michigan is
1:34:50
about to fade away because that's this year. Now we move to the next
1:34:57
year, so we'll be talking other teams and see what happens, so not
1:35:00
as much Michigan chatter. You know. I was sitting here looking because I
1:35:03
was coming through my spreadsheets beef trying to clean them up for this year.
1:35:08
We don't know where we're going to be in a year. Think about this.
1:35:11
I was looking at this because when Texas and Oklahoma went to the SEC
1:35:15
or pledged to the SEC. This is even before the Big the PAC twelve
1:35:23
broke away. I did an article last year on what the future college football
1:35:27
could look like, called it the NCSA National Collegiate Sports Alliance. We had
1:35:30
two conferences. Basically, I'm laughing at this. The PAC sixteen, this
1:35:36
is before this actually took out the Big twelve and moved TCU and some of
1:35:45
the others into the PAC twelve. The PAC twelve we'll go down as one
1:35:48
of the biggest disasters in college sports if you think about it. I mean,
1:35:54
how do you take a league and just kill it? And I saw
1:35:57
that because we don't know what's going to go on with the ACC, have
1:36:00
no idea. I mean, this Florida State battle with the ACC. We'll
1:36:03
get David glenn on with a David glenn Show to talk about this maybe this
1:36:06
week. But I mean, we just we just don't know what's gonna happen.
1:36:12
All right, Let's see here, I name Taxro Missippi State finishes in
1:36:14
the top twenty five. That would be a heck of a heck of a
1:36:16
run for Jeff Levy in year one. Do you put State in the top
1:36:19
twenty five next year? Uh? Yeah, I could. I don't know.
1:36:28
I could see top twenty five, like bottom bottom of the twenty five,
1:36:33
somewhere around twenty four to twenty five, because when you get at that
1:36:38
point, you know what, what does it really matter? But they've got
1:36:45
some momentum. All the talk is about old Missus momentum, rightfully so.
1:36:48
But I think they've got a little momentum. I don't think it can get
1:36:53
worse than last year. I guess we'll just say that, Chris goes,
1:36:58
I'm sorry, go ahead. They five and seven? Yeah, one,
1:37:03
they get to six and six. I don't a little twenty five though,
1:37:08
Huh. I didn't get him to twenty five, does it? No,
1:37:10
this is what I'm saying. It could because six and six, maybe it
1:37:14
gets them at twenty five. They get a little maybe, maybe they get
1:37:17
themselves a Birmingham Bowl win. I don't know. I think it's doable.
1:37:25
Let's just say that it's gonna be tough, but you're right, it's doable.
1:37:27
Chriscosa's work to do against Houston question mark, Yeah, emphasize. I'm
1:37:32
willing to place a bet dinner or whatever. Chris co I think he thinks
1:37:38
the Browns of San Francisco, and they may be. We'll see, Jay
1:37:43
Rock. Ole Mess will be favored in every game they play next year,
1:37:47
with the exception of Georgia, and they could win that game at home week's
1:37:54
schedule by SEC standards, Will ole Miss be favored in every game? Let
1:37:58
me ask you this, and I'm being serious and I'm here for every second
1:38:01
of it. How big will this hype train be by the time all Miss
1:38:09
kicks off, it's gonna be ridiculous. Well let's see, let me look
1:38:15
at this. They play Firman to open the season Vault Hemingway Stadium. They'll
1:38:20
be favored by I don't know if there'll be a line on that game.
1:38:24
Probably wouldn't be a lying Middle Tennessee. They'll be favored in that game double
1:38:28
digits. At wake Forest they'll be favored double digits. But see, here's
1:38:33
the thing. If ole Miss is going to have the year that has anticipated,
1:38:40
which let's just clear the air here. It's college football playoff or bust?
1:38:45
Is it not? It's it's playoff or bust. We are there,
1:38:51
are we? That's where the fans are. Now. I know what you're
1:38:55
thinking. You're like, you're thinking, you're in your head. You're Jevin
1:38:58
Steed, Jevin Steed, aren't you. Yeah, they can't go to wake
1:39:03
Forest and get upset. That can't happen wake Forest this past year, and
1:39:12
look, that's a nice program. You know, you get tired of you
1:39:15
talking about nice programs. It's a nice They went four and eight this past
1:39:18
year. They started out three and oho, losing their quarterback to Notre Dame
1:39:25
was a gut punch. They've got a quarterback named Mitch Griffis. I don't
1:39:30
even know if he's going to be there next year. He was a sophomore.
1:39:31
Nine touchdowns, seven picks. Chriscus says, I got to be a
1:39:34
homer. Of course you do. That's your team, Chrisco. You support
1:39:38
your team. I'm just giving you hell a little bit. Then they played
1:39:42
Georgia Southern at home, so they should walk to four and oh then they
1:39:46
host Kentucky. If you're a playoff team, you can't have Kentucky come in
1:39:51
there and beat you. Today. I would say that they won't. But
1:39:57
Mark Stoops has a nice team at South Carolina. Can't go to South Carolina
1:40:04
lose. And I think the next two ball these two ball games right here
1:40:10
are the most pivotal on this schedule for All Miss. At South Carolina at
1:40:15
l s U. Ole Miss might be favored against LSU. We'll see.
1:40:18
I don't know if that, Brian Kelly. They're gonna have really good talent,
1:40:20
but I just stin't know how good they're gonna be next year. But
1:40:24
you can't drop. You gotta go win those games. Then you get a
1:40:28
bye week. Let's got to Jason and flag staff. Jason, Happy Tuesday,
1:40:31
sir, Yeah you too. Yeah, I wanted to specify what I
1:40:38
meant there talking about pen Nicks. Sure to emphasize that or I'll say it
1:40:43
wrong and get you in trouble. Thanks. Well, Yeah, what I
1:40:49
what I was meaning was it wasn't just last night that uh that he had
1:40:55
that trope that problem. He did an Arizona State game, and a couple
1:40:58
of times in Arizona game he would just press way too hard, you know,
1:41:02
trying to hit the home run. And I don't I don't see Will
1:41:06
Rogers having that problem. But now you can. You could say it both
1:41:12
ways, where those underneath guys may not be open because Rogers won't do that.
1:41:15
But I don't know. I think Will's gonna be really good up there.
1:41:20
Oh no, I think he is too. And look, Pennix is
1:41:23
a fantastic quarterback. He just got man. They just wore him out last
1:41:27
night. And I think some of those throws was, you know, being
1:41:30
a little skittish. I mean, once you start get hitting the face,
1:41:32
it kind of does that. And I think he'll be fine. But I
1:41:34
agree with you. I think will's gonna be fine up there, all right,
1:41:38
dude, all right, bye bye, thanks brother, appreciate it.
1:41:40
Six or one eight nine seven one zero five nine Nails do not bet at
1:41:44
dinner with Jake. He doesn't pay. Y'all are gonna have to you know
1:41:47
what I'm gonna have to do. I'm will have to go at some point.
1:41:53
I'll ave Vince Young and take everybody to dinner, aren I. You
1:41:58
know Vince Young was notorious for that, God bless him. That's what got
1:42:01
him amongst other things. I'm gonna have to take everybody. But do you
1:42:08
know who actually you owe things to? I know nails, Yeah, nails,
1:42:13
I do for sure. I know myself probably so yes, I know
1:42:17
from twenty sixteen and seventeen. You play like I don't remember these things,
1:42:27
but I can't remember who else you owe. There's at least two other people.
1:42:30
Matthew says Jake doesn't show up for drinks either. Now that's not true.
1:42:35
Space Goho says almost picked up a new running back in the Transfer Portal.
1:42:39
Not yet, but that'll happen. I mean, Quinshawn Judgkins. Here's
1:42:44
the deal. Here's what's weird about running backs? Ole mess. I feel
1:42:47
confident will replace that production. But then Ohio State wins because he's gonna go
1:42:51
up there rush for fifteen hundred. Believe it or not, He'll do that,
1:42:56
which is weird. Wild could be the best back there since Zeke Elliott,
1:43:02
and I expect that to happen if he can stay healthy. Three Hume
1:43:04
Camel. They are not tomat on Miss beating Georgia. If Chrisco wants to
1:43:09
bet, I'll take that bet. Now he just roped Chris Go into the
1:43:14
Georgia bet and Chris Go is talking about the Browns. But back to this
1:43:16
old MISS schedule. Kentucky, South Carolina and the road LSU on the road,
1:43:23
you gotta target on your back, you gotta go play. Then they
1:43:25
get a bye week, and then the next three are the most pivotal of
1:43:30
the season. Oklahoma at home at Arkansas, Georgia at home, off week
1:43:36
again at Florida, Mississippi State Arkansas. They don't concern me looking at that
1:43:51
schedule. I mean sandwich between Oklahoma and Georgia. That Arkansas trip is always
1:43:58
a tough trip for stating on MISS on most years. I'm just sam it's
1:44:03
not a cakewalk. Will Ole Miss be favored in every game except Georgia.
1:44:11
Maybe maybe they're not against LSU on the road. We have no idea what
1:44:15
Oklahoma's gonna be in Florida's gonna be garbage. JC never underestimate Ole Miss's ability
1:44:25
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1:45:27
and we may have to push that tomorrow and see if we can get
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him. All right, let's stay here, true Maroon, I've eaten in
1:45:32
the press box with Jake. He has done that. By the way,
1:45:35
does that count? I fed them like I kind of indirectly fed him at
1:45:40
Brandon. No, that's no, that doesn't count because you didn't buy him
1:45:46
the meal. I don't think you owed him one, though, did you?
1:45:53
No, not that I remember, but I could have. Ryan.
1:45:56
I heard Brooks always paid for Jake's meals. Is that true? Did Brooks?
1:46:00
I don't know that Brooks just paid for anything. No, the only
1:46:02
meals you're getting from Brooks are out of the garbage that he already ate.
1:46:06
Part of DX wants delicious boje Angles for everyone. And let's see Jason Flagstaff.
1:46:15
It just hit me that I very well maybe packed twelve. Jason watched
1:46:19
entirely too much of it. Well was for about six minutes. So Georgia
1:46:25
picks up another quarterback in the transfer portal, which is interesting to me because
1:46:30
when you look, you can never have too much depth, right, You
1:46:33
can never have too many signal callers, you can never have too many centers.
1:46:38
If you don't believe it, just ask Alabama. And that's not a
1:46:41
shot at Alabama because you know, like Chris Landry said, if Alabama would
1:46:45
have had another center that they trusted on, that Rosteret have been out of
1:46:47
that Michigan game with the bad snaps. But if you look at Carson Beck
1:46:54
who's coming back, Brock Vandergriff in the transfer portal, they have gunners stocked
1:47:00
and they need some depth, need some depth there, so they go to
1:47:03
the transfer portal to do. And I'll get to that in just a minute.
1:47:05
Let's go to nails Nails. Happy Tuesday, brother, what's going on?
1:47:10
What's going on in a while since a call? Glad to hear from
1:47:13
you, fish Man. Good. Yeah. And by the way, that
1:47:15
last text, I'm not accepting Bojangles for my fay out. I've been waiting
1:47:19
about fifteen years. You got it, brother, wherever you want to go.
1:47:23
It was it was it was huge freezes. I remember this. It
1:47:26
was huge freezers. First egg Bow at Old Miss, the longest fan that
1:47:30
was the Dan Mullen will never lose this team again. Here, Yeah,
1:47:35
very good. It was, But I would tell you the trench. I
1:47:40
mean, as an old Miss fan. Any old Miss fans that says we
1:47:43
can replace Judkins immediately, they're crazy. He was. I mean, I'm
1:47:47
hoping a running back's gonna step up, but man, he was. Judgins
1:47:53
was special. That one. That one hurt, that was stung a little
1:47:56
bit, So there's no doubt. I do like the fact the Florida State
1:48:03
quarterback going to Southern Miss. I like that. I'm glad Southern Miss actually
1:48:09
made a headline and I'm looking forward to some competitive football and has a burg
1:48:16
maybe one day again. I'm hoping. I'm hoping. No, me too,
1:48:21
And I think most people in Mississippi are. I mean they you know,
1:48:25
Southern Miss, and I look here what Will Hall has has done.
1:48:30
I mean, look, they've done a great job again recruiting this year,
1:48:31
number one recruiting class in the in the Sun Belt. They've got some guys
1:48:38
that have come over from the transfer portal, one from All Miss wide receiver
1:48:40
Larry Simmons. You mentioned the Florida State quarterback as well, so hopefully we'll
1:48:45
haul ca and pull it together this year, all right, and so,
1:48:47
and I know y'all talked about this probably yesterday, but I wasn't able to
1:48:51
listen. So what's your take on the Saints thing? You know, as
1:48:58
a big Saints fan, I have my take on it. And my take
1:49:03
is Jamon Winston should never ever, ever ever wear Saints jersey again lift he
1:49:10
buys it from Academy Sports, and then as Allan needs to be fired.
1:49:15
Yeah, junk. I don't have a problem with the premise that you want
1:49:20
to reward that running back with a touchdown. I get that, But you
1:49:25
line up and run a play and let the defense have a chance, because
1:49:28
you got to think about this. None of us are three hundred and thirty
1:49:32
pounds six y five linemen. What if that do running there and just science
1:49:36
wipe the knee while that dude was just standing up, going come on,
1:49:40
man, let's get off. Let's I need a shower in a state.
1:49:43
Let's get out of here, and you get sideswipe on your knee and you
1:49:47
career ending knee injury or something over some over jam and Winston. Now,
1:49:54
I'm giving credit to Jameis Wiston because that's all I heard. I saw an
1:49:58
interview with Winston where he took credit for making the call that what if you
1:50:04
ended somebody's career because you dove into the end zone and SIDIS wiped the knee
1:50:09
and tour somebody's acl or something. I mean, give the defense a chance
1:50:13
to play defense, and I think it's jump. I think if I was
1:50:16
the owner of the Saint I'm firing everybody, and I'm just starting over.
1:50:21
Let me start over anyway? Could we suck? And I ain't talking about
1:50:26
Winston specifically because Derek Carr sucks too. You know how we ended State sucks
1:50:33
out? See you, Sorry to cut you off there as I'm getting close
1:50:38
to a breaker. Yet. Look, I don't know that Dennis Allen being
1:50:41
back breeds a lot of confidence in New Orleans Saints fans, does it?
1:50:46
Oh? No, no, no, Jake, There is reason to be
1:50:50
excited in New Orleans based on the article that I read today. Now,
1:50:58
let's pure speculation at this point. This was on Saints Wire, and I'm
1:51:04
talking about excitement even for you. You will become a Saints fan if this
1:51:10
happens. Really, the speculation is right now. Early rumors are that the
1:51:16
Saints, as they put it, quote over the weekend wined and dined a
1:51:23
certain coach who they would definitely be willing to bring in. And the way
1:51:29
it was described, if it were to happen, they're not going to fire
1:51:33
Carmichael. This guy would be kind of like a co offensive coordinator. Gruden.
1:51:45
Gruden's name is back out there. We're really gonna do this again,
1:51:47
it is. And this was one of those Saints you know whatever. I
1:51:54
guess do you call them beat writers when you get to the NFL whatever?
1:51:57
Whatever Saints wire is, they're allegedly, you know, plugged in. That's
1:52:01
a reputable Yeah. So uh outlet get ready for it. Ruden's back.
1:52:08
So Gruden, Winston Allen, what a gang and man, you talk about
1:52:15
a schedule that's not going to be what it was this year, right,
1:52:17
you would have to we don't know. The schedules hasn't obviously haven't been released
1:52:20
yet. The schedule is gonna be harder next year. Surely they're not going
1:52:24
to get the kind of draw they had this year. I just think it's
1:52:30
delaying the inevitable. I don't think Dennis Allen's going to be there in twenty
1:52:32
twenty five. I think they get one more shot and that's typically the way
1:52:36
this goes. Chriscos says, thanks, Bubba, who is Bubba? I
1:52:41
don't know what the stude's talking about. He's almost as whacked as space Ghost.
1:52:45
I will get into a little bit of two four seven sports dot COM's
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preseason ranking. I want to get back in this unov quarterback Jaden my my
1:52:56
Eva Mayama. We're just gonna call him ivam ai a f a ma Ava
1:53:01
Jason Jade Mayava coming to uh Georgia. Six foot four, two hundred and
1:53:05
twenty pound mobile quarterback headed to Georgia. And this is this is an interesting
1:53:14
pickup. Kirby Smart going into the transfer portal to grab a group of five
1:53:19
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1:55:12
Yes to Harball, Kirby Smarter, Bill Belichick or Kiffin? Yes,
1:55:15
I would love Kiffin in New Orleans, Rebel Greg. If the Saints ownership
1:55:20
has any backbone, they would fire Dennis Allen on the spot. Yeah,
1:55:26
I just think you're prolonging the inevitable. Mike, who said Car sucked?
1:55:34
When was the last time that whoever that was made millions in the NFL?
1:55:39
Don't worry. I'll wait, what do you think about car? Middle of
1:55:44
the pack quarterback? You know, I hear, Okay, it's so funny
1:55:48
how people describe success in the NFL as money. You haven't won anything.
1:55:57
You haven't won any meaningful championships or anything. Stop focused on how much money
1:56:03
someone makes. But Car doesn't suck. He's a very shmeetyocre, maybe slightly
1:56:11
above, but not overly impressive. I would agree with that. I think
1:56:19
that's a good assessment. Middle of the pack guy who win you eight ball
1:56:24
games? I think they got to burn it down down there. I think
1:56:28
they got to start over in New Orleans. And this is just rinse and
1:56:31
repeat now. I mean, since Breeze and Peyton left, it's just been
1:56:36
Wills in the mud, just churn right. They don't have any four wheel
1:56:42
drive. They can't get out of the rut. Possib Nick Joe. The
1:56:45
weather is getting brutal next week, That's what I hear. Eighteen here a
1:56:49
week from the day, going to play havoc on the Chiefs game this weekend,
1:56:54
nine degrees Saturday in Kansas City. Miami's toast, Joe. I agree
1:56:59
with you, SA, Miami has toast this weekend. They're just they're not
1:57:01
gonna be able to pull that's that's just too much. And they're injured,
1:57:04
they're beat up going to Kansas City. And look, here's what I hate
1:57:09
about it more than anything is my professional football team is going down to Taylor
1:57:14
Swift this weekend. That Taylor Swift indirectly is going to end the Miami Dolphin
1:57:18
season. Let's go to Louisville. George, George, welcome in. Hey
1:57:23
guys. Uh well, I was telling Beebe I have just got in the
1:57:28
vehicle and have not heard one second of anything. But I have to call
1:57:31
in for one reason. But hitting on what you just said, you left
1:57:35
out one thing. Kansas City is very beatable. Kansas City, they are,
1:57:42
and but Miami's got so many different you know. But anyway, the
1:57:47
reason I'm calling is this to give you your freaking dude. You nailed it
1:57:53
and owned it from day one back in freaking July or something. You did
1:57:58
not waiver Now I didn't say you didn't wager. I said you didn't waiver
1:58:03
right difference, and that's it. I just want to to everybody out there
1:58:10
in football land that you you had it nailed and owned it and you deserve
1:58:14
credit for it. So more power to you. Like Michigan or not,
1:58:19
like Harball or not. And the freaking sign thing is so much garby that.
1:58:25
Come on, let's get real and dump that one in the you know
1:58:28
somewhere in some bang Dreggs somewhere in South Mississippi or something. But anyway,
1:58:34
Michigan was the best team in twenty twenty four. Cross to you, sir,
1:58:38
Thank you, sir, appreciate it. You almost see what happens in
1:58:41
twenty twenty four to twenty five. I want to ask you about this.
1:58:44
I didn't get a chance to get into this, this Pat McAfee thing with
1:58:48
the ESPN. I am blown away by some of the stuff. Obviously he
1:58:53
calls out and we'll get more into this tomorrow. You know, you got
1:58:58
the Jimmy Kimmel Aaron Rodgers battle going on with the Epstein list, which is
1:59:02
just wild. You've got McAfee calling out his basically one of his bosses on
1:59:11
his own show, and there's excerpts in here. I'm trying to find it
1:59:15
real quickly. This Bobby Burrack does a good write up on OutKick for It.
1:59:21
He says my thoughts in a link on the Pat McAfee deal with ESPN.
1:59:26
He said about mostly talents, ESPN hired McAfee over Norby, Williams,
1:59:30
Williamson, Williamson's head. Norby didn't want him Pataro and Mangus. I guess
1:59:38
there are other CEOs for suits for ESPN. They did, so he got
1:59:42
one Williamson who did not. You had two Patarrow and Mangus that did want
1:59:45
McAfee. Norby's an old school TV guy who doesn't value McAfee's YouTube numbers.
1:59:50
That's fair. People at ESPN say Norby was behind the leak that ESPN wanted
1:59:57
to hire Colin Cowherd back he heard this and that Norby would prefer to replace
2:00:02
McAfee with Cowherd. Cowherd, of course, is a bigger TV draw.
2:00:06
McAfee's TV show probably will always struggle because the show before him, Steven A.
2:00:14
Smith, was primarily catered to the NBA, McAfee more so or towards
2:00:19
football, so They have quite the conundrum here on their hands, paying McAfee
2:00:24
all of this money. Now again, I can take or leave. I
2:00:28
don't watch Pat McAfee. I see some of his stuff and I'll chuckle,
2:00:30
but I like the Again, I think the whole sideline broadcast with him as
2:00:34
dumb as hell. What happens here? Does he just have a cup of
2:00:41
coffee and get bought out by ESPN and they go with cow Herd? Well,
2:00:44
Cowherd actually leave Fox? He left ESPN to go to Fox? What
2:00:46
happens? I wouldn't think that they're going to get rid of McAfee because they
2:00:54
I mean they doubled and tripled down and shoved Mcasee mcaffee down our throats.
2:01:01
This show, Game Day, Sideline nonsense special, you know shows whatever.
2:01:12
I know, I don't think they They clearly have some sort of crazy love
2:01:17
for McAfee that I've never really seen. And Ugh mac McAfee followed up on
2:01:24
this yesterday. You know, I will give McAfee credit like he has he
2:01:31
has bignards care calling out you know what he sees is wrong. I mean
2:01:39
he specifically named that dude by name. Did I respect that? You know,
2:01:44
he's never been. I guess you would say straight shoot or whatever.
2:01:47
Still don't like him, still don't like his you know, his show or
2:01:50
whatever. But that's fine. But yesterday he went back on it and the
2:01:55
quote I read he used this word and you know we've talked about people who
2:02:00
always still put this word behind it. He goes, blah blah bly it's
2:02:03
talking about the situation, but our relationship with ESPN, it's strong, baby
2:02:11
you that's the that guy who still uses baby behind stuff. That is so
2:02:17
lame. You sound like a loose that's wrong with baby, baby baby.
2:02:21
I'm kidding that is Hey, yeah, Bill's baby, Misissippi stayed baby miss
2:02:30
or maybe you come on today and if you said Michigan baby Wolverine wins day
2:02:36
by sounds stupid. Yeah, now I get where you're going. I don't
2:02:40
know where this ends, but you're right. I mean McAfee calling out one
2:02:44
of the suits and calling him on the carpet like, I know you did
2:02:47
this. I know you don't like me. I don't really like you either,
2:02:51
so but he must Well there's a conviction there that I respect for McAfee
2:02:56
to do that on a platform, that it'd be just like calling out somebody
2:03:00
here like a suited Alpha media. I can't pull that off. I get
2:03:05
fired. But I don't have that beef either. But McAfee takes a chance
2:03:12
and says, I'm willing to risk it all to put it out there.
2:03:15
But obviously he feels confident that he has backing from the other two guys,
2:03:17
this Pataro guy and this Mangus guy that he says, I can do this.
2:03:23
It's very interesting. A Texter who is swack baby. Yeah, see,
2:03:31
there you go. That was the thing too, right, who is
2:03:34
swack baby? Brown Hornet says, don't take this wrong. Your show would
2:03:39
be better than McAfee's on ESPN. I don't take that wrong at all.
2:03:42
DX, mister beaver baby, see what you started. You have created a
2:03:47
comeback for the term baby on this show. Don't start dropping babies now.
2:03:53
You know it was Vince vaughn overdid it in Slingers. It was funny.
2:03:59
Every now and then it would be a Ca Stanza thing. What are you
2:04:00
Costanza? You're taking my babies? But it's you know, thirty years later
2:04:09
we got about one minute baby, one minute. So you did this.
2:04:14
You made this manifest itself. So first manifest usage of twenty twenty four.
2:04:20
See that's not gonna end. Where a squez at What is he doing?
2:04:24
We appreciate Kelly Ford jumping in, and we appreciate you guys and girls out
2:04:29
there. For those of you that are tired of Michigan, that's over.
2:04:32
I'm putting that one in the closet. It's time to move on. We'll
2:04:35
have a lot to do tomorrow. Remember, catchup is king Bacon's a delicacy.
2:04:39
Aloha means goodbye. Watch your radars, baby, good night.