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Hour 2: SEC Scheduling.. We're still trying to wrap our head around Indiana.. Plus, Dave Ford joins the show! · Out of Bounds with Bo Bounds

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  Speaker 3: Again some more insight on Drew Brees and his speech
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  Speaker 3: and how spectacular and powerful it was, and how much
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  Speaker 3: fun it was for y'all to relive the dynasty and
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  Speaker 3: the greatness of the New Orleans Saints under Drew and
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  Speaker 3: Shawn and Mickey Loomis, who Drew gave credit to also,
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  Speaker 3: and then.
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  Speaker 1: We switch gears.
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  Speaker 3: This LSU defensive line class they're going to have to
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  Speaker 3: rely on. I mean, they've got some upperclassmen, but they've
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  Speaker 3: got these three freshmen that they're talking about. What can
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  Speaker 3: they do? How good will they be? Can they stay healthy?
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  Speaker 3: What kind of impact will they have? Will one of
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  Speaker 3: them start? Two of them are from Louisiana, one of
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  Speaker 3: them are from one of them is from Georgia. Two
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  Speaker 3: of them were five stars, the other was a four star.
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  Speaker 3: Lowest rated was ninety six, all right, the other two
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  Speaker 3: were ninety nine to ninety eight, and you know you've
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  Speaker 3: you there. Look, I don't want to call them necessarily
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  Speaker 3: undersize because you can come in all shapes. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: saw Drew Brees go the Hall of Fame. Uh, but
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  Speaker 3: we've had some defensive linemen go through Oxford and start
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  Speaker 3: Bull who have not necessarily been six foot four two
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  Speaker 3: ninety and have still been incredible, and some have gone
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  Speaker 3: on to play in the NFL. So you don't ever
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  Speaker 3: know where you're going to be. How you know what
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  Speaker 3: scheme and so on they're going to use you if
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  Speaker 3: you're two sixty to two eighty. Now the other dudes
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  Speaker 3: maybe down to three twenty.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. He started pretty pretty heavy.
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  Speaker 3: His name's rich Dan Anderson out of Edna Carr, which is,
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  Speaker 3: according to Mike Dettillier, the number one high school football
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  Speaker 3: program in the state Louisiana, which is saying something holy smokes.
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  Speaker 3: As much improved as our high school football is m
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  Speaker 3: AI S and MHSAA, Louisiana high school football is filthy.
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  Speaker 3: And so we'll see and we get they get tested early.
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  Speaker 3: Clemson week one, ole Miss Week three and A and
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  Speaker 3: m Week four for LSU. We've talked about ole Miss
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  Speaker 3: and Mississippi State. Three of their first four games are nasty.
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  Speaker 3: You know, ole Miss doesn't get to start off with
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  Speaker 3: a cupcake stretch. Louisville neutral field, could be will be challenged.
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  Speaker 3: Week three, LSU at home at Florida. That's a tough deal.
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  Speaker 3: Three or first four, Right, you get to give me
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  Speaker 3: in week two where you get to kind of play
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  Speaker 3: everybody and have fun and leave it halftime, go do
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  Speaker 3: whatever you want to do, Go get some food or tailgate.
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  Speaker 3: H But week one, week three and week four brutal
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  Speaker 3: for all miss for Mississippi State. Week two, Week three,
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  Speaker 3: week four will decide a lot or maybe you know who, what,
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  Speaker 3: where and why with Jeff Levy at Minnesota at South Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: Missouri at home. And I'm not saying any of those
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  Speaker 3: are great teams, but for where you are or where
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  Speaker 3: you're not or where you may be, that that stretch
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  Speaker 3: horse Bamas next and for ol miss they get they
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  Speaker 3: get an off week and then they go on a
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  Speaker 3: gauntlet Bandy Missouri, Texas, Auburn, Georgia, Oklahoma, So y'all get it.
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  Speaker 3: Adding adding a ninth game we're not ready for. We're
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  Speaker 3: trying to be ready, but we're not ready for. And
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be more losses for you know, teams,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't we'll just see how how we adjust.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we can't wrap our brain around. We won't
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  Speaker 3: allow our brain to really absorb that. The Indiana Hoosiers
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  Speaker 3: won the national championship in this weird kind of nuclear
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  Speaker 3: engineering professor and Kurt Signetti runs their team quirky, weird, smart,
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  Speaker 3: and didn't get didn't get a powerful job till after
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  Speaker 3: he was sixty years old. Most people are they're not done,
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  Speaker 3: but any stretch. But and they people are having insane
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  Speaker 3: success sixties, seventies and even eighties. But to wait, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: to have to wait that long because of your journey.
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  Speaker 3: All in his twenties, no, all in his thirties, no
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  Speaker 3: forties no, Okay, So think about this. You're plodding through
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  Speaker 3: your going through your journey. You're going through your career. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you're you're thirty years out and you're at IUPA and
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  Speaker 3: that's fine. But I mean you've been at Alabama. Everybody's
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  Speaker 3: getting hired off the staff in O nine, ten eleven
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  Speaker 3: while you're there. Now you can pour gatorade on the sideline.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we all got silly with it, right, Oh
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  Speaker 3: my god. That means he's going to be great. But
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  Speaker 3: as a good friend of mine in the football business said,
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  Speaker 3: when they leave Belichick's nest and Saban's nest, Belichick and
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  Speaker 3: Saban don't go with them, And for some reason, as
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  Speaker 3: sports fans, we can't wrap our brain around that. And
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  Speaker 3: so at fifty two years old, I mean, he's got
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  Speaker 3: to make the run to IUPA. Elon and James Madison.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all have never watched any of those games. It wasn't
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  Speaker 3: even worth watching James Madison the College Football Playoff this year,
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  Speaker 3: and not that they didn't do an amazing job to
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  Speaker 3: have a good season. And the deal is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: They're not going to clim it. We're allowing G five
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  Speaker 3: teams into the college Football Playoff. Hey, more power to
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  Speaker 3: what James Madison did, and Bob Chesney parlayed that into
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  Speaker 3: the job at UCLA. But my point is, Kurt signety
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  Speaker 3: three decades into his career, I'm the head coach at LUPA,
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  Speaker 3: which none of y'all had ever heard of. And then Elon,
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  Speaker 3: who SEC teams beat like seventy to three on a
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  Speaker 3: September tenth game, and then he goes to James Madison.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't get his dream job or that's the same
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  Speaker 3: his dream job. He doesn't get a power for he
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  Speaker 3: gets the worst power for job. Or yeah, at post
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  Speaker 3: sixty years old and now he's making thirteen million a
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  Speaker 3: year with a one hundred million dollar contract and he's
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  Speaker 3: a national championship coach. And I don't think we would
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  Speaker 3: be surprised if they're in the college football I think
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  Speaker 3: we'd be surprised to go back to back, but I
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  Speaker 3: don't think we'd be surprised if he's in the college
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  Speaker 3: football playoff, which, by the way, it looks like they
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  Speaker 3: six Can I can I go over this? I was
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  Speaker 1: Lanes really dry too.
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  Speaker 3: I know Lane's a little more out there or you
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  Speaker 3: feel like he is, but Signetti's quotes are incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Can y'all?
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  Speaker 3: I know I keep saying this, but have we reset
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  Speaker 3: to the point where can we really believe that Indiana
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  Speaker 3: won the national championship? And does it really open it up?
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  Speaker 3: I mean there They were ranked in the thirties in talent,
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  Speaker 3: that's where they were ranked high school.
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  Speaker 1: In portal.
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  Speaker 3: They were ranked in the thirties in talent. Now they
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  Speaker 3: were in the top three in offensive and defensive scoring efficiency.
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  Speaker 3: You know, is this guy who didn't get a shot
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  Speaker 3: until sixty Everybody wants everything by the time they're twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: This guy didn't get a job that he really like,
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  Speaker 3: really coveted at a high light until he was sixty
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  Speaker 3: two years old, sixty one, sixty two years old.
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  Speaker 1: The whole story.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's Netflix, Hallmark, whatever the hell you want.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, big cinema.
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  Speaker 1: He coached.
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  Speaker 3: At places that draw a few hundred people a game
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  Speaker 3: with no budget. The Indiana Hoosiers, who are known for basketball,
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  Speaker 3: are the national champs. And they embarrassed Oregon and Alabama
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  Speaker 3: on the way and beat Miami in the now. And
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  Speaker 3: I know Miami's been down for twenty years, and I
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  Speaker 3: know Mario Cristobal the head coach at Miami, and it
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  Speaker 3: had some embarrassing moments along the way, but they got
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  Speaker 3: but they they've been in the portal heavy. He found
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  Speaker 3: the billionaire, and then the billionaire recruited another billionaire, and
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  Speaker 3: then they found some other one hundred millionaires and Miami's like, okay, fine,
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  Speaker 3: we're all in. And some of them aren't even Miami alums.
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  Speaker 3: They just lived down there and want to be a
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  Speaker 3: part of something cool. They've got more money than God
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  Speaker 3: and already bought houses and planes, and their wives aren't
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  Speaker 3: really interested in them anymore, and so they're like, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I've got a new club, so I'll just I'll give
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  Speaker 3: Mario all the money that he needs to possibly buy
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  Speaker 3: a good team. Well he did buy a good team,
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  Speaker 3: but to buy a national championship. Kurt Signetti and Indiana
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  Speaker 3: Jackson Meadows were the national champs. If I would have
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  Speaker 3: said that a couple of years on the a few
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  Speaker 3: years ago on the show, people would have seriously we
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  Speaker 3: like even three seasons ago, if I'd have just said
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  Speaker 3: over and over for five shows in a row, Indiana's
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  Speaker 3: gonna win the national championship. This place is gonna turn around,
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  Speaker 3: people would have been like, what in the hell is he?
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  Speaker 3: They can't even win in basketball anymore. I mean, Bobby
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  Speaker 3: Knight didn't win the last few years of his career,
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  Speaker 3: and then they made a bunch of batan. Now, Calvin
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  Speaker 3: Sampson was a good hire, but he got caught. I
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  Speaker 3: don't remember what he did. He text outside of the
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  Speaker 3: time frame that you can like nine hundred and forty
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  Speaker 3: two times, and so they ran him out and he
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  Speaker 3: had to go to the NBA before going to Houston
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  Speaker 3: and winning not And now he goes like thirty and
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  Speaker 3: three every year at Houston and he's a number one
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  Speaker 3: or number two seed. He just absolutely boat races the
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  Speaker 3: Big Twelve. Well, I mean he's still got Kansas, Iowa
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  Speaker 3: States been freaking those dudes can ball.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how they can ball.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, Kurt Signetti and it does this have the floodgates?
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  Speaker 3: I think we're all skeptical, especially in the SEC. But
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  Speaker 3: if Ole Miss can make the final four in Indiana
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  Speaker 3: can win, it are the floodgates open? Can forty teams
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  Speaker 3: if they get their act together? Because everybody has money
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  Speaker 3: in the Big twelve and SEC. It's all attainable for
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  Speaker 3: every every single school in the Big twelve and SEC.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody has money. All those teams can do forty forty
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  Speaker 3: five if they want to, if they have the willpower
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  Speaker 3: and commitment quottion, all those teams can do thirty eight million,
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  Speaker 3: forty two million, forty six million, for a roster. So
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  Speaker 3: my question, and I'd like to ask the listeners, where
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  Speaker 3: are you now that we have had Indiana win the
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  Speaker 3: national championship? It sounds ridiculous, and I get that. Where
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  Speaker 3: are you I'd like to hear your thoughts on Indiana
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  Speaker 3: winning the national championship and what that means for college.
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  Speaker 3: Do you consider it a fluke or do you consider
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  Speaker 3: it this is where we are now?
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  Speaker 1: Can it be a little bit of both?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: But boy, I really I'm really hesitant to say that
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  Speaker 3: it was a fluke at all when you go undefeated
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  Speaker 3: and have to win that many games. And they went
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  Speaker 3: through Oregon and they went through Bama, I mean, and
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  Speaker 3: they went through Miami. Yeah, they didn't pull too later
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  Speaker 3: James Madison, good god.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had a number one pick.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, Todd mcshae said, Todd mcshae was
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  Speaker 3: the only person I heard last summer that was talking
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  Speaker 3: like that about Fernando Mendoza. By the way, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't. I'm not gonna claim what cal Berkeley to Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great, bo Great to be back again.
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  Speaker 3: know that's got to be exciting for you and your
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  Speaker 3: team to see them go get that kind of experience
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: while they're still here at the Bagley College of Engineering.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah, we have such great relationships with our employers,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: you know, and my partners across the country that give
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: these students this opportunity, and it is really, you know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: a bigger and bigger part of their education, right sure.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: You know, there's only so many hours in a day
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: and so many credits you know that we can offer here,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: and so being able to offer programs like that where
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: students are learning on the job in the context of
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: what they're going to be doing is critical and we
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: continue to try to grow that. We have a new
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Associate Dean for Research and engagement. Adam Smith who's joined us,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: and engagement is an intentional part of that, right, So
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: he's going to grow research, but he's also going to
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: grow the corporate partnerships and part of that it leads
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: to the internships and the co ops that our students do.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: All right, speaking of learning on the job, Space Cowboys
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: with another championship.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So doctor.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Dave Ford, what was your reaction when you heard that
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: the Space Cowboys won another championship.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Yep, well, bo I read the first part first, which
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: is that they won their division again. They're Commercial off
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: the shelf thirty thousand foot division, and I thought, that's fantastic,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: a repeat championship. And then I read the next part,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: which is they won the whole thing. So this is
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: the International Rocket Engineering Competition or IRAQ in Midland, Texas,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: and no matter what division you're competing in, you get ranked,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: you'll compared to all other teams. And our team won
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: the championship over all for this year, and so I
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: just couldn't be prouder. I mean, it's great for them.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: It comes on the twentieth anniversary of the founding of
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: the Space Cowboys, and so this is kind of a
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: nice you know, kind of kind of bow to put
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: on that, you know, twentieth anniversary as well.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: How big of a compliment is that to the Bagley
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: College of Engineering.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Yep. I think it really goes to the quality of
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: our students and our faculty. I mean, it just really
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: our students are the best. They're they're book smart, but
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: they're also hands on smart and they're able to build things.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: And their faculty advisors are just awesome. So, you know,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: kudos to Schreus and our support. Who is the faculty
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: advisor for that team, you know, of really bringing them along.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: He's only in his first couple of years of advising
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: that team, and he's doing a wonderful job.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: And look at all these companies our institutes that are
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: tied in and collaborate or partner with your Space Space
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Cowboys team in the Baggley College of Engineering. That's an
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: impressive lineup.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: It is. I mean, we're so grateful for our research
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: centers are co located here in Starkville on our research campus.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: So in particular, our Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems or CALVES,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: provides a lot of equipment and a lot of support,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: and then specifically for Space Cowboys, the Advanced Composites Institute,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: which is you know here supporting research mission but also
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: supporting student missions like this, and then our great industrial partners.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: The team just added Blue Origin last year as an
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: industrial sponsor, Aurora Flight Sciences, which is local and tied
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: to Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Mississippi Space Print Consortium and
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: all sorts of local partners as well.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: That's a world class group right there.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: It is, it is they're really getting, you know, and
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: again they're working with those engineers. They're getting that experience
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: and it's paying off for sure.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Bagleyd dot ms State dot edu. We're visiting with Dean
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Dave Ford and his crew twenty twenty six International Rocket
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Engineering Competition. First overall, the Space Cowboys do it again
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: in all Right show, Doctor Ford talk about this. Got
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: everybody fired up in the spring when you all released
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: this and y'all posted this on social media. Talk about
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Matt Ramsey Okay, graduate of Mississippi State University and mission
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: manager of Artemis two.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Yep. So Matt is is a wonderful example of just
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: really you know, our students going world class after they graduate.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Right So, a mission manager for NASA for a program
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: like Artemis two is just an incredible accomplishment that we're
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: really proud of him for. So he's a two time
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: graduate of our Aerospace Engineering department bachelors and Masters, and
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: he was also a baseball pitcher here for the bull Dogs.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: So he's got you know, leadership experience and you know,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: knows how to kind of motivate people and work with
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: people as well as being technically excellent. So he was
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: back on campus in spring and talking with our faculty,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: talking with our students, telling what it's like to be
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: you know, on the hot seat. You know that you know,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: an incredibly important, you know, world recognized mission like Artemis two,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: and he's continuing, you know, to the next phases of
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: that program as well. So we're going to have him
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: back often, you know, to be talking with our students
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: and our faculty and sharing his wisdom.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Doctor ford Hall. Important is that for successful alums to
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: come back and visit and engage with your students and
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: your faculty.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: It's critical. It's all part of that learning process, right.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: So we you know, we talked about internships and co
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: ops and they're going to learn on the job. But
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: you know, you only have time for a handful of
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: those you know during your your school career as well,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: so being able to interact with people who come back,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: you know, and share what they're doing in smaller bits, right,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: rather than committing for a whole semester or you know,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: the summer, to be able to learn from their wisdom
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: and their experiences and kind of smaller bits coming back
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: to the classroom. So I put a call out there.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: You know, we we can all be Artemis to mission man.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: And I'm not you know so so, but you know,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: everybody has has really a story to tell and I
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: think something to contribute. And so I put a call
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: out there to folks who are interested in coming back
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: and sharing their wisdom, you know, with our students too.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: And if somebody's listening, we want them to go to Bagley,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: dot m S State, dot ADU. If we have an
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: alum on.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: The West coast, east coast.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Wherever they are and they have had success and now
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: they're they're like, oh, I'd like to give back, yep,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: then the floor is theirs.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Exactly, like yep. A lot of ways to give back.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: People tend to think about money or you know, a
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: check or whatever of course that's great too. But but
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: but you know, just sharing your time with our students
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: coming back, you know, and you don't even have to
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: come back these days, right, it's remote. You know. You
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: can do zoom, you can do all these sorts of things,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: and you can do a session with one of our
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: student chapters or with one of our competition teams. Be
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: highly valued.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Matt Ramsey undergrad and grad Bagley College of Engineering, also
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: played baseball UH mission manager of Artemis two unbelievable and
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: he was back on campus this past spring. We're visiting
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: with Dean Dave Ford, Mississippi State University Dean Bagley College
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: of Engineering. Now is the time to go ahead and
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: schedule a tour of the Bagley College of Engineering. Go
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: to Bagley dot msstate dot edu. That's Bagley dot msstate
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: dot edu. We'll be dropping some dates MSU preview days
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: set for October twelfth, November ninth, and November twenty third. Again,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: this is a world class College of Engineering, Bagley dot
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: MS State dot edu. All right, doctor Ford astronaut scholars,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: this is super cool. Tell our listeners about this.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Yep. This is a program that's right up there with
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: some of the others they might have heard about, like
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Goldwater Scholars and Udall Scholars and National Science Foundation and
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Graduate Research Fellowship. So this is a prestigious organization, the
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Astronaut Scholars Foundation. Basically it's former US astronauts who've gotten
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: together and raised funds for scholarships for outstanding students. So
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: you don't have to be an aerospace engineering student or
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: even working in that field in order to be named this.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: So there's just this. So it's a it's kind of
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: an interesting tie in, right, we're kind of on the
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: space theme. So we had two students astronaut scholars last spring,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Sloane Berry and Alex White. You know, Sloan is in aerospace,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: but Alex is in biomedical engineering and so you know
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: kind of you know, complementary fields there, but they've got
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: They were two of seventy nine astronaut scholars that were
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: chosen nationwide that year, so two out of eighty basically
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: across the country.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: This is prestigious. I mean, it is seventy nine. We
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: get to that. That's a prestigious accomplishment.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely, yeah, and actually we have but we that's
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: another thing that's great about Bagley is We've got a
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: great partnership with the Honors College here. In factult I
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: would say a large fraction of the Honors College. It's
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: comprised of engineering students, and we have now an Office
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: of Prestigious External Scholarships that basically works with our students
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: and our faculty to position them to have the best
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: possible applications for these things. So not only are we
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: you know, you know, not only are our students great
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: and our faculty providing great opportunities, but you know, we
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: are plugged into how to help our students succeed in
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: this environment too.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: All right, that's exciting.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Bagley dot M S State dot ed U, Bagley dot
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: M S State dot Edu.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, this is cool.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: I love anything with CAVS Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: This is fascinating to me. All right, EcoCar, again, your students,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: your faculty have had a tremendous amount of success in competitions,
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: which means a lot to you and it should. All right,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: walk me through what just happened and what's about to
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: happen in the future with the new vehicle.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: YEP, this is an exciting time. Bo. So the the
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: four year competition, these competitions come in four year blocks. Basically,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: it's kind of a year at a time in four
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: year batches with different vehicles that are provided by GM.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: So the students work on actual real road vehicles doing
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: you know, working with the engineers at GM, working with
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: our staff and our faculty at CALVES to basically do
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: all sorts of modifications to them according to the rules
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: of the competition. So the students just finished up on
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: the Cadillac Lyric EV. That competition closed back in May.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Our team finished seventh overall and they had first place
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: finishes in eleven different deliverables there as well. And the
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: one I'm particularly proud of is they won an Outstanding
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Collaboration award from the organizers, and that was for them
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: being generous with their time with their practice sessions that
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: we got at Columbus Air Force Base. And again kudos
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: to the Air Force for you know, letting us use
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: their runways on a couple of off days in order
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: to test our vehicle, which we really appreciate. So and
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: we invited teams from the region you have to come
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: down and join us there and we shared that and
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: we also shared our Dino at CAVS with these teams
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: as well, so that that could help them tune their vehicles,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: because not every facility at these different universities has access
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: to that. So I think, you know, not only are
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: we not only can we win first place, but we
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: can win with class yeah, and we can win with
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: some some you know, some sportsmanship, which I really think
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: is important you know as well.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: So and then the the new car so to speak,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: will be a Chevy Blazer EV yes pursuit vehicle.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Yep, we are already on board to start. Were accepted
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: for the next four year competition. So we're committed for
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: the next four years. And we're really excited because this
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: is a Chevy Blazer EV police pursuit vehicles, almost five
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: hundred horsepower, one hundred and thirty miles per hour top speed,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: and incredible AMOUNTORQ right, so it's a EV. So it's
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: off the line really quick. This will be a fun
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: four years. So now is a good time to sign
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: up and then get on board and join the team.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Bagley College of Engineering students and faculty winning again in
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: the EcoCar EV Challenge. So your students competing all over
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: the country and winning, sometimes winning at all or in
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: eleven different deliverables Bagley dot MS State dot edu. Okay,
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: so this is exciting right here, doctor Ford. You've got
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: applications are now open for fall of twenty twenty seven
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: to this world class College of Engineering at Mississippi State. Now,
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: you know, y'all go after the best and the brightest,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: and so I know this is exciting for you and
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: your team to host high school students and parents. So
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: because you've got a long list of things that you
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: can show, results matter here at Bagley College of Engineering.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, yep. And you can call, call and set
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: up or email and set up an appointment anytime. So
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Marley Robinson is basically in charge of the recruitment for
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: the Bagley College of Engineering. She's assisted by a set
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: of Bagley Ambassadors, about two dozen students representing all different
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: majors you know, from across the college, several different you
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: know places in their you know, in their academic career,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: from freshmen all the way up to seniors. And we
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: are standing by ready to host a visit for you.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: So just email visit Engineering at Bagley dot m S
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: State dot edu. So that's visit Engineering at Bagley dot
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: m S State dot edu. And you can set up
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: an appointment where you can come and visit. Then we
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: also have you know, University Days where they're you know,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: doing recruiting kind of more broadly across the university that
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: you can coordinate with those as well. And you mentioned
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: our Preview Days coming up in October and November and
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: the Engineering Discovery Day coming out November tenth as well.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: So registration for MSU Preview Days is going to open
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: later this month, and registration is already open now for
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Engineering Discovery Day.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Visit Engineering at Bagley dot ms state dot edu. Applications
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: are now open for fall of twenty twenty seven. Come
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: on in campus visits. You get to see everything that's
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: happening here at the Baggley College of Engineering.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: All right, Oh this is cool.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: All right, I like this Mississippi Golf Coast Engineering on
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: the Mississippi Golf Coach. Some people may go, well, doctor Ford,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: what are you talking about? Yeah, so you have the floor.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, So this is an incredible option for our
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: friends down on the coast, right, folks who maybe are
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: a little bit more geographically tied to that area, or
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: just you kind of want to be there. You can
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: get a full engineering degree from Bagley College of Engineering,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: the same ones we give out from main campus by
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: participating on the coast. So our campus is co located
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: on the campus of the Mississippi Gulf Coast commun Unity
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: College so MGCCC in Goshet. As somebody who came here
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: from the north, I had to learn how to pronounce Gastet,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: so I think I'm there. But at any point in time,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: we've got about one hundred students down there studying one
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: of three majors. So we don't offer every single major,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: you know, unfortunately down there. But electrical engineering, industrial engineering,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: and mechanical engineering are all offered down there. They're absolutely
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: identical degrees to what we offer on main campus, and
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: because of our accreditation process, we have to ensure that
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: you really do get the same experience in terms of
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: sure the theory and the hands on piece down there
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: as you get, you know up here on main campus.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: That's an asset. So again, electrical, industrial, and mechanical are
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: offered on the Mississippi Gulf Coast at Mississippi Golf Coast
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Community College campus in Gschet. Absolutely okay, again, you can
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: find so much information Bagley dot ms State dot edu.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Let me say this again. Applications are now open for
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: fall at twenty twenty seven. Campus visits have started and
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: they will continue to go through the last half of
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: the summer and then the fall will be crazy September
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: in a good way. And you want to see parents
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: and students and welcome them because you have so much
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: to show and offer. You're like, come on in.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Absolutely yeah, and we'll get you hooked up with the
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: department that you're interested in. Talk with the department head,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: talk with the faculty, see the facilities. Yeah. So whether again,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: whether you know what you really want to do and
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: you want to check it out, or whether you want
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: to explore you know, a couple of different things. We
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: can come up with a tour plan right that basically
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: sitch points.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: So you may think you want to go on biomedical engineering,
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: which is great, but you may come up here and go, oh,
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: aerospace engineering is my jam Yep, absolutely yep, all right,
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Dean Dave Ford Bagley College of Engineering, Mississippi State University. Again,
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: world class students, world class research, and world class faculty.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Go ahead and get online today Bagley dot ms state
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: dot edu and schedule your campus visit. All right, dum
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: oh current numbers. This is exciting. So what did Kristen
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: tell me? Over twenty eight thousand living alums? Right, that's correct, Yeah, unbelievable.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: All right, So this this new freshman class for I mean,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: they're all excited that, you know, they're chomping at the
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: bit right there at home right now. They can't wait
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: to move in the dorms and start experiencing, you know,
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: campus life. Both my kids, my daughter just graduated here
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: in May, had an unbelievable experience. My son will be
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: a senior. I can remember the excitement and anticipation going
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: into August. So you're about to welcome in a new
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: class at the Bagley College of Engineering. Talk about that
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: excitement and share the numbers with us.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely, you know, this is one of the great
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: parts about this job, is it, you know, the the
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: cycle that you have in an academic year, right, So
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: it's you know, you kind of enjoy that that kind
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: of freedom and a little bit of you know, kind
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: of calmness in the summer. But then just about when
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: you get bored to that, you're like, it's time for
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: them to come back. So we're super excited about them
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: coming back, and the numbers are going to be bigger
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: than ever, we think, right, So official numbers don't get
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: published until November, when we should you know, kind of
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: account for everybody who's sort of maybe transferred in laid
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: or left or you know, whatever it might be. But
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: you know, projecting forward, it looks like we're going to
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: have about somewhere between ten and fifteen percent more freshmen
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: as compared to last year's class, and again kind of
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: accounting for all the other years as well, that's probably
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: going to push us up about two to three percent.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: And the undergraduate enrollment over last year, it's going to
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: represent a new high. It should be somewhere around forty
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: four hundred I think graduate students. Yeah, so with our
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: graduate students being over six hundred, that's going to you know,
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: put us well over five thousand, you know, total students.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: I think. Yeah, we're the biggest college by numbers of enrollment.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: In fact, we even now have the biggest program by enrollment.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: So mechanical engineering is the number one major by enrollment.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: We passed business and we passed kinesiology, which are the
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: other traditional members of the top three. So we're really
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: excited about that. I mean, ensuring is really drawing here,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: and our mechanical engineering department has been doing a wonderful
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: job on some things, including ID lab, which we'll talk
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: about at a.
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  Speaker 3: Futures You all gave me those notes and we've been
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: talking about that on the show. That's impressive.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: We're going to expand that in a big way across
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: the college in the next six months to a year.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: So I think that's you know, maybe maybe six months
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: or a year from now when we're talking, we'll have
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: some things to talk about there as well. So that's cool.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: Dean Dave Ford and we are here at the Bagley
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: College of Engineering, Mississippi State University. Now is the time
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: to go ahead and schedule a campus is it visit
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: Engineering at Bagley dot m S State dot edu now
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: real quick. MSU preview days are set for October twelfth,
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: November ninth, and November twenty third. Applications are now open
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: for fall of twenty twenty seven. And again that's Bagley
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  Speaker 3: dot M S State dot e d U. Okay, I
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: love this part, especially as a parent. I mean, wow,
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: this gets you up and makes you dance around the room.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Student outcomes. I'm gonna I'm just going to say, ninety
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: four percent, and then I'm gonna let you have the
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: floor again.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, thanks Bo. So, yeah, we're this is for the
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four twenty five cohort. So we graduated about
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: almost nine hundred students in that time undergrads with a
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: bachelor's degree, and you know, following the rules of the
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: organization that we work with to track employment, we have
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: to wait until six months out, you know, to get
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: sort of firm numbers on that. So we're looking that
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: the cohort that graduated last year, ninety four percent were employed,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: you know, in a job in their field, or had
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: gone on to graduate school, professional school, or military service,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: you know, within six months of graduation. So the market
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: is still there for engineers. They love our engineers. We
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: had two hundred and ninety five unique organizations higher from
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: that cohort, so, you know, nine hundred students going out
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: there almost three hundred organizations involved in hiring them. Our
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: average salary was seventy six thousand and the high was
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: one hundred and ten thousand, which which was really good. Yeah,
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: it was a really good number. And about a quarter
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: of the employers we saw were offering signing bonuses you know,
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: somewhere a couple thousand all the way up to ten
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: thousand dollars to sign with the company. So so again
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: that those numbers are are a little bit older, but
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: they have to be because we have to track, you know,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: six months out. But the feedback we're getting now, I mean,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: I think the twenty six cohort is going to be another,
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: you know, another big one, and so we're excited about that.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: And the fact is, you know, four or five years
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: down the road when some of your listeners are would
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: be graduating, right, you just you never know. But the
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: truth is, we just do well at all times, right,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: I mean Badley it's a it's a it's a combination
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: of theory and hands on practice. And you of course
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: we've told these stories you know earlier here in the show.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's fast star, it's prestigious, yep. And basically
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: what you're saying, and you've got the numbers to back
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: it up, is the demand is there for Bagley College
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: of Engineering.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Graduates exactly exactly, yep.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: And I think that's why you and your team get
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: up exactly exactly.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: That's what we do. That's what we do, right, and
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: it gets reflected in this
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Hey this is BO I'm calling all