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Wednesday Edition of the Drive - Hour One · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: W.R.K.S.
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  Speaker 2: Pickens Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, what do you say we sing a driving song?
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  Speaker 3: There's not going to be any singing around here.
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  Speaker 2: Just real sports.
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  Speaker 3: On the Afternoon Drive with Jake Wimberly.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, this is going to be sweet.
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  Speaker 3: And it's all right here, right now. On ESPN 105.9
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  Speaker 1: Com. It is the 26th day of August, 2026.
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  Speaker 5: Champ in the chair, SportsMaven on your radio. Glad to
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  Speaker 5: be with you on a Wednesday as we roll through
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  Speaker 1: They're dealing with a lot.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we've got to get these high school football
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  Speaker 5: teams ready to go. And there's a process here. And
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  Speaker 5: so we've got 48 hours to go. So he'll be
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  Speaker 5: working on that. The SEC is working on the NFL
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  Speaker 5: and players coming back. If you missed it just a
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  Speaker 5: few hours ago, schools that violate, this is courtesy of
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  Speaker 5: the Southeastern Conference, schools that violate the SEC's professional sports
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  Speaker 5: rule will result in the following. So the SEC now
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  Speaker 5: has guidelines of how you can't come back. And by
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  Speaker 5: the way, the logos are NBA and NFL. So they're
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  Speaker 5: putting this in place for the National Basketball Association players,
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  Speaker 5: and they're putting this in place for the National Football
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  Speaker 5: League players. If a school does this, 50% season suspension
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  Speaker 5: for the head coaches.
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  Speaker 1: 50%.
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  Speaker 5: So if you dally with this and you're bullheaded and
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  Speaker 5: you move forward with it, Lane Kiffin's going to get
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  Speaker 5: basically a slip that says you're out for 50% of
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  Speaker 5: the season, half the year. 50% of the sports annual
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  Speaker 5: operating budget. So if your operating budget from the league
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  Speaker 5: is $ 80 million, well, you're going to get.
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  Speaker 1: Dinged $ 40 million.
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  Speaker 5: And SEC voting privileges on business matters revoked. So moving forward,
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  Speaker 5: they don't give a specific timeline on that. Your privileges
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  Speaker 5: as that school will be revoked. So if it's LSU,
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  Speaker 5: and we're going to use LSU constantly in this scenario
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  Speaker 5: because they are the one team who seems to be
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  Speaker 5: the most bullheaded about this as they abstained from the
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  Speaker 5: vote today. And we'll get more into that. LSU would
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  Speaker 5: have no voting power. You can go sit at the
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  Speaker 5: other table, LSU.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to do it.
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  Speaker 5: So the SEC really cracking down just like the Big
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  Speaker 5: Ten did on the NBA and the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Nike stock.
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  Speaker 5: Nike stock is on pace for its worst year since
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  Speaker 5: Michael Jordan's retirement in 1993. I just thought I'd put
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  Speaker 5: that out there. Also, Alabama and Auburn basketball will meet
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  Speaker 5: in an October exhibition game in Birmingham. Very unusual here.
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  Speaker 5: If it sells out, both schools will make six figures,
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  Speaker 5: providing a boost to their roster-building efforts. So a little
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  Speaker 5: basketball money-raising there going on between Alabama and Auburn. Also,
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  Speaker 5: David Cohn has released his Big Ten record predictions. He
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  Speaker 5: has one, two, three teams, make it four teams that
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  Speaker 5: have double-digit wins in the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 1: Oregon at 11-1.
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  Speaker 5: Ohio State 10-2, Indiana 10-2, Penn State 10-2. He's got
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  Speaker 5: Michigan at 9-3, USC at 9-3, Illinois 9-3, Iowa 8-4,
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  Speaker 5: Nebraska and Washington at 7-5, UCLA and Minnesota 2-6 and
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  Speaker 5: 6 teams. Also 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 teams.
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  Speaker 5: That would be Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Maryland. Also 3, 4,
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  Speaker 5: and 8 teams. Purdue, Northwestern, and Rutgers. And also, we'll
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  Speaker 5: get into this, ESPN is, I don't know why they're
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  Speaker 5: doing this, but we're going to find out. ESPN has
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  Speaker 5: announced they will remove the bottom line ticker for college
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  Speaker 5: football broadcasts. Now, I don't know why they're doing this.
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  Speaker 5: I actually have always enjoyed the ticker. You know, you're
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  Speaker 5: sitting there watching a game, and you've got the scores
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  Speaker 5: just constantly coming across the bottom. Well, they're removing that line.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing ESPN does, though, makes any sense. Top ten college
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  Speaker 5: football sophomores headed into the 2026 season, courtesy of Pro
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  Speaker 5: Football Focus. Should be no surprise, the top sophomore in
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  Speaker 5: college football is Malachi Toney, wide receiver at University of Miami.
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  Speaker 5: Also representing the University of Miami is safety Bryce Fitzgerald,
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  Speaker 5: CJ Carr, quarterback Notre Dame. Browante Johnson is a safety.
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  Speaker 1: He's from Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 5: Caleb Hawkins running back at Oklahoma State. Jerron Cooee-Sagapatoli, he
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  Speaker 5: is the quarterback. And I cannot believe I just pulled
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  Speaker 5: that off on a Wednesday, but that is his name,
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  Speaker 5: Jerron Cooee-Sagapatoli. He is a quarterback for Cal. He is
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  Speaker 5: a sophomore.
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  Speaker 1: Dijon Lee Jr., cornerback, Alabama.
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  Speaker 5: Bo Jackson, running back. Not that Bo Jackson, but he
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  Speaker 5: is a running back for Ohio State. John Mills, guard
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  Speaker 5: for Washington. And Elijah Griffin, defensive tackle for the University
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  Speaker 5: of Georgia Bulldogs. Also, we'll get into a piece. John
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  Speaker 5: Talti did a nice job with this, as always. How
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  Speaker 5: did we get to a place where multiple conferences, including
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  Speaker 5: the Big Ten and SEC, had to ban professional players
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  Speaker 5: from returning today? Chris Hummer and John Talti wrote about
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  Speaker 5: LSU's involvement behind the scenes in which this set this
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  Speaker 5: thing in motion. So, again, everywhere that Lane Kiffin goes,
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  Speaker 5: there's a story, and he is at the center of
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  Speaker 5: this story, and we will get into that.
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  Speaker 1: A little later on.
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  Speaker 5: Also, Matt Moscona, who covers LSU and the SEC down
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  Speaker 5: in Baton Rouge. He is obviously the host for Upon
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  Speaker 5: Further Review, Locked on LSU, and does a ton, obviously,
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  Speaker 5: in college sports. He says reps for Junior Tulumaka. confirmed
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  Speaker 5: to him that former Notre Dame edge rusher is still
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  Speaker 5: to join LSU after the SEC policy released today. He
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  Speaker 5: never signed an NFL contractor with an NFL team. Also,
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  Speaker 5: mutual interest between LSU and former Utah cornerback Blake Cotton,
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  Speaker 5: who was in Baton Rouge. Cotton signed with Denver and
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  Speaker 5: would be ineligible per the new SEC policy. Defensive tackle
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  Speaker 5: Zavian Harris is also in Baton Rouge per sources. LSU
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  Speaker 5: began their fall semester on Monday. The 33 plaintiffs that
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  Speaker 5: received the TRO last week have preliminary injunction hearings scheduled
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  Speaker 5: for Monday, August 31st. Let's go to the Mississippi Sports
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  Speaker 5: Medicine call line.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to David. David, welcome in. How are you?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Jake. How you been doing, man?
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  Speaker 1: David, I'm well.
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  Speaker 4: Jake, I didn't make it to Bulldog Stadium, but I
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  Speaker 4: did watch a game on the live stream the other night.
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  Speaker 4: And just wanted to make a few comments and get
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  Speaker 4: your thoughts on it.
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  Speaker 7: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: I saw a lot of good bright spots on them.
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  Speaker 4: I thought Brandon looked real well. But, you know, Warren Central,
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  Speaker 4: I thought they were playing one of the top five
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  Speaker 4: teams in the state and certainly one of the top
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  Speaker 4: five coaches in the state also. But I thought Brandon
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  Speaker 4: hung with them really, really well. But two players on
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  Speaker 4: Brandon that really sort of stuck out was The receiver,
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  Speaker 4: number zero, I don't know his name, but I think
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  Speaker 4: he was maybe a transfer. And our quarterback, 18. Jake,
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  Speaker 4: I thought what impressed me about him so much, I
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  Speaker 4: thought he ran the ball extremely well for a high
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  Speaker 4: school quarterback. And I know, you know, last year a
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  Speaker 4: lot of times we struggled moving the ball three and out,
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  Speaker 4: three and out, three and out. And anybody that plays Brandon,
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  Speaker 4: you know what their defensive game plan is, stop Tyson. But,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if you had somebody in there that could
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  Speaker 4: really get in and, you know, go with a running game,
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  Speaker 4: it would take so much pressure off Tyson and just,
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  Speaker 4: I think, give a whole new dimension to the Brandon offense.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm just going to hang up and listen to
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  Speaker 4: you and get your comments on it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, David. Thanks a lot. Appreciate you as always. 601-897-1059.
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  Speaker 5: quickly on that. Brandon Warren Central played a preseason game
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  Speaker 5: this past week like everybody. And, you know, it was
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  Speaker 5: a very competitive ball game. I don't think you really
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  Speaker 5: saw a whole lot from either side of what you'll
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  Speaker 5: see on Friday night as far as offensive schematics and
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  Speaker 5: the way they're going to play their preseason overs. But
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  Speaker 5: the receiver you mentioned, number zero, that's Josh Parker. He
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  Speaker 5: came over from Jackson Prep. He originally started school in Brandon,
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  Speaker 5: decided to come back and finish his career at Brandon
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  Speaker 5: and play with some of the guys he knew there.
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  Speaker 5: Josh Parker is a legit track superstar, 4'3, 9, laser 40,
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  Speaker 5: he'll bring a lot to this ball team. The quarterback, David,
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  Speaker 5: that you referenced is Jamison Bowering.
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  Speaker 1: He is a junior.
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  Speaker 5: He is a really good player. And the young man's
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  Speaker 5: got a really good eye for running the football. Those
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  Speaker 5: are good deep balls. So I think you've got two
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  Speaker 5: really good quarterbacks there with Slade and Shaq and Bowering.
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  Speaker 5: And I would expect to see Bowering in some positions,
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  Speaker 5: you know, some quote packages, even though I don't like
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  Speaker 5: that term, packages this season where they'll use his skill set.
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  Speaker 5: And they'll need all hands on deck Friday night. as
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  Speaker 1: Jake Thompson will join us next segment. We'll talk Ole
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  Speaker 1: Miss football, Michael.
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  Speaker 5: Bratton, that SEC podcast at 4.30. Alabama has named a quarterback,
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  Speaker 5: and that is Keylon Russell, Alabama's defensive coordinator. Kane Womack
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  Speaker 5: tells Chris Lowe that Keylon Russell has the, quote, it factor,
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  Speaker 5: as he and DeBorn teammates have raved about the Tide's QB1, quote,
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  Speaker 5: this is a dynamic quarterback that has it all.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that's been the pedigree on Keelan Russell since
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  Speaker 5: he came out of high school. I believe he was
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  Speaker 5: the number one recruiting quarterback or recruited quarterback for his class.
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  Speaker 5: He signed, I believe, with Kalen DeBoer. No, I'm thinking
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  Speaker 5: the other guy. Signed with Alabama. The backup signed with
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  Speaker 5: Kalen DeBoer at Washington. Comes from Washington to Alabama. And
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  Speaker 5: that's where they are now. But We'll see. Killian Russell's big.
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  Speaker 5: He's physical. He can run it. This is probably, if
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  Speaker 5: he is, quote, the it factor. This is what Alabama needs. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, they've got to get some running game going.
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  Speaker 5: And if that's by way of the quarterback to kind
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  Speaker 5: of open up those run lanes, then so be it.
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  Speaker 5: Ross Dellinger reporting the ACC. Their athletic directors expressed wide
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  Speaker 5: support for a ban on professional football and basketball players.
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  Speaker 1: During their meetings today. Excuse me. A finalized policy.
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  Speaker 5: Likely through university president approval is expected in the coming days.
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  Speaker 5: So the Big Ten is on board. The SEC is
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  Speaker 5: officially on board on banning players from coming back from
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  Speaker 5: the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And the NBA.
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  Speaker 5: Now the ACC looks like they're going to follow suit
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  Speaker 5: as well. I'm going to get that out of my throat,
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  Speaker 5: I promise. Bet MGM graphic highlights on how much that
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  Speaker 5: this makes me angry. This next thing we're going to
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  Speaker 5: talk about makes me very angry. It's about my Miami Dolphins.
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  Speaker 5: This is just awful. I mean, the Dolphins are just
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  Speaker 5: burning money, burning money in the NFL. This is an
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  Speaker 5: infograph that I'm looking at, and I've shared this on
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  Speaker 5: X at Jake Wim.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 5: And the Dolphins have just torched money more so than
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  Speaker 5: any other team in the league. Here's the highest paid
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  Speaker 5: player or the highest paid players this season. They're paying
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  Speaker 5: for this, not even on the team. They're still paying
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  Speaker 5: to a tongue of low of fifty five point four
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  Speaker 5: million dollars. Tyreek Hill, twenty eight point two million dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Jalen Waddell, who's with the Broncos, $ 23.
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  Speaker 3: 2 million.
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  Speaker 5: Jalen Ramsey, who is with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: $ 20. 9 million.
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  Speaker 5: They're paying Minka Fitzpatrick, who's with the Jets this year,
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  Speaker 5: $ 13 million. Zach Seiler is still with the Dolphins, the
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  Speaker 5: one guy.
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  Speaker 1: He is getting paid $ 11. 4 million.
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  Speaker 5: Bradley Chubb is with the Buffalo Bills. He's getting paid
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  Speaker 5: $ 11 million. And Teron Armstead is getting paid $ 10.
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  Speaker 6: 7 million.
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  Speaker 1: Million.
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  Speaker 5: If you look at the teams with the most dead cap,
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  Speaker 5: the Miami Dolphins far and away in the NFL lead
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  Speaker 5: the league at $ 179.
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  Speaker 1: 7 million. Next team up is the Cleveland Browns at $ 116.
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  Speaker 6: 8 million.
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  Speaker 1: The Saints have $ 112. 2 million of dead money. The New
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  Speaker 1: York Jets have $ 111. 5 million. The Philadelphia Eagles $ 73. 5 million.
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  Speaker 5: Then you get back down into some lower numbers with
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  Speaker 5: the Cardinals, Texans, Raiders, Jaguars, and the Bills, but the Dolphins,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you're looking at almost $ 150 million more than
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  Speaker 5: the next highest team, which is the Cleveland Browns. They
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  Speaker 5: ought to give this organization away. Like me, Beaver, and
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  Speaker 5: the Texters ought to own this organization is what ought
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  Speaker 5: to happen. Because obviously they don't know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 5: And look, we may all not know what we're doing,
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  Speaker 5: but collectively I feel like we could do a better
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  Speaker 5: job than what the Dolphins are doing with their money.
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  Speaker 5: ESPN ranked the top 100 players in college football, and
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  Speaker 5: here's where the quarterbacks in college football, regardless of conference, listed.
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  Speaker 5: Top 100 players listed by ESPN. Trinidad Chambliss lists as
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  Speaker 5: the fifth best overall player, regardless of position, courtesy of ESPN.
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  Speaker 5: CJ Carr, Notre Dame, is the seventh best overall. Julian
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  Speaker 5: Say in Ohio State, eight. Jaden Mavia, USC, ninth. Dante Moore,
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  Speaker 5: he is 11th overall. Arch Manning, 13th. Darian Mensah, 23rd.
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  Speaker 5: Gunnar Stockton, 31. And you could kind of use this list,
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  Speaker 5: you know, not necessarily as a draft list for next year,
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  Speaker 5: but you could use it as, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 5: a barometer of sorts for it. What's interesting on this,
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  Speaker 5: Gunnar Stockton, Mets to Maker, Levitt, Saga Patoli. I don't
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  Speaker 5: see South Carolina's quarterback on here, Lenore Sellers. And the
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  Speaker 5: reason I say that is because A lot of people
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  Speaker 5: still feel like he's a top five, you know, top
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  Speaker 5: five pick, maybe a first round pick in the NFL
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  Speaker 5: draft next year. And I don't see him on the
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  Speaker 5: ESPN's list of top 100. But now this is 100
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  Speaker 5: players total, but he's still not listed in the quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 5: John Mateer, number 89. Byron Brown, Auburn, number 88. Noah Fafita, Arizona, 81st.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: Devon Williams, Washington, 64th. Josh Hoover, Indiana, 55th. So just
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: some nuggets there on the quarterbacks. But I mean, you've got,
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: think about it this way. You've got One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: About 20 guys on this list of top 100 players
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: that are quarterbacks this year. It's a very deep quarterback class,
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: and it's a very, very good quarterback crop in college
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: football in 2026. I don't know if you guys have
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: seen this or not, but Colorado State, and again, I'm
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: going to continue to hat tip the colleges versus the NFL.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: The NFL has released several new, as they always do,
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Uniform releases for this team and that team, and most
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: of them look just like the Buffalo Bills.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Uniform release looks awful to me.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: But the college releases, Tulane, Mississippi State bringing back the
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: block MSU, Texas A & M, there's several. Well, Colorado
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: State gets in the mix here. Colorado State will wear
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: an Ag Day uniform September 12th versus Southern Utah. It's
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: the annual Ag Day barbecue and football game, which sounds fantastic.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: And it's an orange. You know, Colorado State is not
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: these colors, but it's an orange and green. It looks
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: almost like Miami Hurricane colors. But it's a very, very
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: cool-looking uniform. And it's got a ram head on the
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: side of the helmet with orange and green, orange and
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: green hat and orange rams.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: You know, the horns. So it's a very, very good-looking uniform.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: You need to check that out. Check that out.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Brett McMurphy, a piece we will get into, if not today,
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: this week. $ 900. 948 games in 149 days. That's what
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: we got coming up starting this weekend. 948 games in
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: 149 days. This is going to be the longest college
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: football season in recorded human history. and it starts this Saturday,
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: meaning from the time they kick Saturday all the way
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: to the college football national championship, this is the longest season.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not complaining about it.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: It said, how does a drawn-out schedule impact the Heisman
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: race and eventual national champions?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: So we will get into that. 949 days.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: Hawaii.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: The Rainbow Warriors. Do we still call them that? I'm
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: going to call them that. Maybe they changed their mascot. Red,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: are you out there?
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Becomes the first school with an airline for its football
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: jersey sponsorship. So Hawaiian Airlines has sponsored the– they're the
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: jersey patch sponsor for the Hawaiian Rainbow football team. Also,
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: we will get into this. The NFL has spoken now
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: about players going back to college. This is courtesy of
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: Adam Schefter. And earlier today, he says the NFL will
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: provide clarity to clubs later today regarding league rules governing
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: players' eligibility that have been in place and remain unaltered.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: A player that goes back to college, and this answers
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: some questions that we all had a couple weeks ago,
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: or a week ago. A player that goes back to
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: college this season will be prohibited from signing with an
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: NFL team next year. Because remember, I had asked this question,
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: and I think some others had as well, is will
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: if you were drafted in the seventh round this year
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: and you go back to college, could you just jump
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: back in the NFL draft next year?
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: The NFL says, Oh no, no. If you go back
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: to college, you're not coming back in this league next year.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: A player signed to an NFL contract who was subsequently
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: cut is a free agent. He may sign with another
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: NFL club, the CFL or return to college, but that
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: player is considered a free agent and will not be
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: subject to a future draft. So, These guys coming back
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: to college, they're not going back to the league next year.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: It's not happening.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: And I don't know if this is something that they're
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: getting advised by their agent or if they've thought about,
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: but the NFL has made a stance on this, and
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: here's where they are. Ross Dellinger says, most interesting, a
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: player who returns to college after signing a pro contract
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: is not subject to the NFL draft, and those who
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: return to college this year are prohibited from a return
• 21:58
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  Speaker 1: Jake, welcome in, brother. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 9: I'm doing good, Jake. Thanks for having me on again.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate you as always. All right, so did we
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: really have the FBI combed through and sweet for bugs
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: after the Fiesta Bowl?
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: Well, I'm going to say right before that question was
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: asked Monday, it was the first time I had heard
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: of that and the podcast that Walker Jones had been on.
• 24:49
  Speaker 9: I'm not a regular listener to the, I guess it
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: was called the Assorted Crackers podcast. And so I was unaware, A,
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: this interview even happened, and B, that that Walker had
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: said it. And I think Pete was kind of, I
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: don't know, caught off guard that the story was public
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: or that Walker said as much as he said. But
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: I think it was a little exaggerated and dramatic. Now,
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: I think they probably go through normal protocols when coaching
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: changes happen, especially as high profile as this one was
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: and went. But no, I don't think we have the
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: full on, like you see on TV or the movies,
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: FBI coming in, sweeping every room and checking for bugs
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: and stuff. I think that was I think that might
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: have been Walker getting a little carried away with the story.
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: But yeah, I think it was what it mostly was,
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: was normal changing of coaching staffs, especially inter-SEC coaching changes
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: with guys that had been there for a month longer
• 25:38
  Speaker 9: through the playoff run. I think typical stuff like that.
• 25:41
  Speaker 9: So it was quite the question to get to start
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: to wrap up camp. But no, I don't think it
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: was as exciting as people were hoping it was.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: All right, so it looks like the SEC has laid
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: the hammer down today along with the Big Ten yesterday
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: on NFL players coming back. Any news out of Oxford?
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: I mean, we know where your former head coach, where
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: he stands on it, LSU, is all in on this thing.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: We'll see if they fight this thing in court. But
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: does it look like maybe the one or two that
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: was coming back now, those spots, they're not coming back now?
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: Yeah, no, I think, you know, Pete, we'd asked him,
• 26:14
  Speaker 9: I guess, at the start of camp about this because
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: that was when the five-for-five had become a thing. And
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: he basically doubled down on Monday when asked again, you know,
• 26:22
  Speaker 9: especially since the Daquan Wright news that broke over the
• 26:25
  Speaker 9: weekend of the Browns letting him go. And his stance
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: has been, you know, we're not breaking anybody back to
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: take a spot from the kid who's been here with
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: us since January. I've recruited, built this roster with the
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: rules that were in place in January when the offseason started.
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: And so unless a player was hurt and they needed
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: debt because that player could just not go, then that
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: would be the only reason he kicked the tires and
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: And the fact that Ole Miss was not even an
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: option to start should tell you all you need to
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: know about it if they'd come back here. And right now, obviously,
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: it looks like they're not. And, you know, the formal vote,
• 26:59
  Speaker 9: I guess, that came out about an hour, hour and
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: a half ago, was 15-0, you know, 80s presidents, whoever
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: was voting in the SEC with LSU abstaining. And so, obviously,
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: Keith Carter, Glenn Boyce are in lockstep and how the
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: conference views the, you know, NFL, former pro, whatever you
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: want to call them, coming back.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: So.
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: Yeah, no, I think, you know, Ole Miss has been
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: in the news because that's where they formerly played and
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: the former head coach. But, you know, they're not involved
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: in this in terms of wanting the kids back in
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: that way.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: We're visiting with Jake Thompson. It is Wednesday.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: Talking Ole Miss sports and SEC sports. Make sure to
• 27:31
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• 27:34
  Speaker 5: your program. All right, so now the tension, you know,
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: and we'll get more with you on this next week
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: as we really get into game week. But with Louisville
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: coming up, kind of take us through where Ole Miss is.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: I would assume, I mean, You know how this goes.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: There's so many staffers on these college teams. They've probably
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: been gathering film and prepping for this internally for weeks,
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: but now the focus turns directly to game one.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Does it not?
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: Yeah, this week, probably today, maybe tomorrow, if you took
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: it literally, they're probably shifting into more of a game-type prep.
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: They're having a mock game Saturday as their final scrimmage
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: of camp to shift into what Monday will be officially
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: regular season time, but Pete and his staff were treating
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: it like a hybrid week where it was still camp,
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: but also they know in a handful of days they've
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: got to start prepping for the Cardinals and Louisville and
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: what's going to happen in Nashville. So it's been a mixture,
• 28:25
  Speaker 9: which that's what Lane has done. I'm sure almost what
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: every coach does. So they'll hone in and drill down
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: on Louisville. But like you said, there's so many staffers
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: that some have probably been assigned to pick apart what
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: they can from last year's Louisville team compared to what
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: they got this year. you know, already been working on
• 28:42
  Speaker 9: it and they'll just start giving it to the players.
• 28:43
  Speaker 9: You know, I would assume sometime this weekend, maybe, you know,
• 28:46
  Speaker 9: maybe Sunday after the mock game, but I'm sure some
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: have already started blending in what they want to do
• 28:51
  Speaker 9: next weekend in Nashville.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: Any movement as far as players up the depth chart,
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: maybe some prizes through camp for Ole Miss, some guys
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: you want to talk about?
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: Uh, you know, it feels like, you know, it was
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: out there unofficially saying it. Uh, I think Tommy Kinsler,
• 29:06
  Speaker 9: the Miami transfer is going to be your, your right tackle.
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: You know, I, I, I hesitate to say starter because
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: I don't know if they've got a starter, but I
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: think he's a guy that's taking the reps and maybe
• 29:17
  Speaker 9: out there on that first series in Nashville. I know
• 29:20
  Speaker 9: that's the one spot everybody's really been focusing on in
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: the offense. On the other side, I wish I had surprises.
• 29:27
  Speaker 9: We just didn't get to see so much of camp,
• 29:30
  Speaker 9: and we've officially stopped with practice for you now, I guess,
• 29:32
  Speaker 9: through the whole regular season till the post season. So, uh,
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: you know, I have hopes to see what, you know,
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: the transfers, the Jonathan Alvin autos, the Blake purchases, uh, uh,
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: Keaton Thomas's and I, and a lot of the secondary
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: and whole defense for me, I would love it to
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: be a surprise because I don't know what to expect yet.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: This is with Jake Thompson talking Ole Miss football Wednesday
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: edition of the program.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Let me shift real quick. I don't know.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: Um, what your schedule's like this year and how much
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: high school football you're going to be covering. But North Mississippi, again,
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: going to be loaded. Oxford under Chris Cutcliffe should be really,
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: really good this year. Tupelo should be good. And then,
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: of course, some other classifications. Should be a good year
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: for the North this year, shouldn't it?
• 30:09
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, it feels like, you know, on paper,
• 30:12
  Speaker 9: you would be going off how last year went and
• 30:14
  Speaker 9: the hype and the expectation I've seen of kind of
• 30:17
  Speaker 9: the statewide polls and those who do those things that
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: Oxford and Tupelo in the North are right up there. And,
• 30:22
  Speaker 9: of course, those were Oxford's two losses. They lost by 1.22
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: below in the north half game. I don't know if
• 30:28
  Speaker 9: there's any expectations to think that the Chargers and the
• 30:31
  Speaker 9: Wave wouldn't be the two favorites to represent the north
• 30:34
  Speaker 9: in that semi-game again. Obviously, everything changes come Friday when
• 30:38
  Speaker 9: you play the games. But, yeah, I think Cutcliffe's got
• 30:41
  Speaker 9: a good squad. They've got a quarterback from MUS transferring in.
• 30:44
  Speaker 9: As they lost, obviously, Knox, Kiffin down to Baton Rouge,
• 30:47
  Speaker 9: and Drew Dean, who ended up at Tupelo. So they've
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: got a familiar guy, a quarterback at Tupelo that Oxford
• 30:53
  Speaker 9: will know. So they went and got a kid who
• 30:55
  Speaker 9: transferred out of Memphis that they're high on and excited on. So, no,
• 30:58
  Speaker 9: I think it's going to be a good year for
• 31:00
  Speaker 9: 7A across the board.
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• 31:09
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• 31:14
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  Speaker 5: a thing. You can't horse collar. I don't like the
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: horse collar. That's the one thing. I mean, look, that's
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: a play that can really... We saw, I believe, Travis
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: Hunter a couple years ago at Colorado. We've seen several.
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  Speaker 5: That's a bad play. So that does need to be
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  Speaker 5: more enforced.
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  Speaker 1: Launching.
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  Speaker 5: And again, that gets very gray when you talk about launching.
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  Speaker 5: So if you're an explosive tackler or you have a
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: tackler who Really explodes into a tackle. I mean, what
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: are we talking about with launching? They're very vague on that.
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  Speaker 5: Hit on a defenseless player. That's kind of always been
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: a thing. And then a blindside block. You can't do
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: that anymore. And you haven't been able to do that
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: for some time. Players who commit three offenses in any
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: of these categories during the season will be suspended for
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: one game. Players who commit only one violation will receive
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: 50% of their fine back at the end of the season.
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  Speaker 5: While violations in these categories will carry forward to subsequent seasons,
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: all players will begin 2026 with a clean slate. Players
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: will also have a clearer and faster path to reducing
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: the impact of prior offenses than under the previous system.
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  Speaker 5: So I get some of these. The hip drop tackle
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  Speaker 5: is the one thing that I'm kind of head scratching,
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  Speaker 5: and then launching can be very speculative. It's objective, I
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: think it is, at least on the launching. So that's
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: some news there from the NFL. Also, Greg Sankey, again,
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: if you missed it, announcing today schools that violate the
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: SEC professional sports rule will result in a 50% season
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: suspension for the head coach, 50% of the sports annual
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  Speaker 5: operating budget, and SEC voting privilege on business matters.
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  Speaker 1: Will be revoked.
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  Speaker 5: Also, some other news that's out there, as it pertains
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: to LSU and everything going on with the SEC, because
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: LSU abstained from the vote.
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  Speaker 1: They did not vote. They just decided, nope, we're not
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: in it.
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  Speaker 5: 15-0 LSU, 15-0 in favor of the new SEC rule.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: LSU did not vote.
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  Speaker 5: Aaron Heitner, representing tight end Daquan Wright in all of this,
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: who was and is expected to soon sign with LSU,
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: believes the language in the Louisiana injunction provides a, quote,
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: colorblind argument to cover conference-wide policies as well. Rights reps are, quote,
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: figuring out next steps in real time. Also, Ryan Downton,
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: one of the attorneys representing players in the Louisiana case,
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: tells Yahoo Sports that the NCAA should be held, quote,
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: in contempt of court for permitting conferences under its purview.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: to blatantly violate court orders, and he plans to file
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: such a motion. You're fixing to see a lot of lawsuits,
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: more lawsuits. Not that we don't already have enough. You're
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: going to see more lawsuits happen, and LSU is digging
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: their heels in here. This seems like the wrong fight
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: to fight, though, honestly. I mean, does LSU really feel
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: that two or three of these players can take them
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: from ten wins, nine wins, to the national championship?
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe they do.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: Maybe they feel that adamant about it. But they have
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: dug their heels in, abstaining from votes today with the SEC,
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: attorneys and representatives speaking on behalf of these players, asking, one,
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: asking for the NCAA to be held in contempt of
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: court for permitting conferences to make these rules, which, again,
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: the NCAA has no power.
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  Speaker 1: We know that.
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  Speaker 5: Also, separately, Doughton says attorneys are considering the appropriate legal
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: response to hold the Big Ten and SEC accountable for their, quote,
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: cartel-like coordination with the NCAA.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: That's a reach.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: I mean, cartel-like coordination with the NCAA. First off, I
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: don't think the SEC and the Big Ten is collaborating
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: with the NCAA. I think because the NCAA won't do anything,
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: they've taken it upon themselves to say, hey, look, We're
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: going to self-govern our leagues, and we're going to protect
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: our leagues from this because the NCAA is doing nothing.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: It is clear that attorneys are poised to fight legal
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: challenges against the two conferences. So representatives for these players
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: are fixing to go after the NCAA and hold them
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: in contempt of court. They also feel like they have found, quote,
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: workarounds and, quote, colorable arguments to help get these players eligible.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: I mean, look, you think the Brendan Sorsby thing, that
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: was one thing. And look, Texas Tech, they tried to
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: hold the line there for a while on that, for
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: about a week.
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  Speaker 1: Then they backed off of it.
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: And Texas Tech's the one team that's smiling at this going,
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: y'all go right ahead. We were the ugly duckling in
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: the room. Now LSU has decided they want to pick
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: up that that mantra and run with it and now
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: you've got uh attorneys that are going to you know
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: allegedly go after the sec and the big 10 calling
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: their actions cartel-like coordinations with the ncaa the big 12
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: directors big 12 athletic directors met earlier tuesday yesterday and
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: are in a unanimous support of a band of professional
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: players returning to compete in the conference uh Sources tell
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: Yahoo Sports the league is expected to finalize the policy
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: in the next 24 to 36 hours. So that was yesterday,
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: so they're probably about a day away. You should see
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: that tomorrow. Also, Notre Dame officials have communicated to both
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: the SEC and the Big Ten that the school is
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: aligned with the prohibition on signing players who have been
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: a part of the professional organizations. The Irish are adamantly
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: opposed to adding pro players. So Notre Dame has jumped
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: in there, as they always do. You know, they're going
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: to align with the big boys and said, hey, look,
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: we believe what the Big Ten is saying. We believe
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: what the SEC is saying. We align with this, and
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: this is our stance as well. So Notre Dame is
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: on board now. A little NFL news here. Buccaneers first-round
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: pick Reuben Bain Jr. suffered an AC sprain, but it's
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: said to be nothing serious in quotes, and he is
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: expected to be ready for week one against Cincinnati at
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: Cincinnati on the road. A little bit of a sigh
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: of relief, as Ian Rappaport says, for a promising pass
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: rusher for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Speaking of Texas Tech,
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: they are back in the news. And we'll tell you
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: about that as Texas Tech, they're not going to let
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: everybody else get ahead of them. They're going to continue
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: to stay in the news in this transfer portal madness,
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: and we'll get into that as well. We're brought to
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: you by the MHSAA. The Mississippi High School Activities Association
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: wants you to be an official member. And you can
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: do that in any sport that you love.
• 41:12
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• 41:12
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• 41:18
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  Speaker 2: We'll be right back.