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August 31, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 8: Welcome to the Writer's Roundtable with Rusty Burson, Robert Cessna,
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Speaker 8: and your host, Chip Howard. The Writer's Roundtable is brought
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Speaker 5: Hey, it's us. Rusty's here. Cease is here. It is
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Speaker 5: game week. And I say this every year, man. Once
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Speaker 5: game week hits, it goes quick. It takes forever to
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Speaker 5: get here. There's all this anticipation. And then, man, after
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Speaker 5: you kick off Saturday night, this season goes in a hurry.
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Speaker 9: And quicker this year with only one bye. You know,
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Speaker 9: last year was the two byes.
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Speaker 5: One bye.
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Speaker 9: Last year was a little bit. I like that two byes.
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Speaker 5: You're playing a directional game in October and not in
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Speaker 5: November this year. True. That's true, too. With the Citadel coming.
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Speaker 5: And it's... I don't know. We've said this before. I
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Speaker 5: don't know if we'll be able to tell much about
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Speaker 5: this 2016 on Saturday. You always want to see a
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Speaker 5: clean game, right? Not a lot of penalties, especially pre-snap penalties,
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Speaker 5: holding big plays called back. You'd like to see a
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Speaker 5: clean game if possible. Again, it's the first game, but
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Speaker 5: That's kind of what I look for. You don't want
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Speaker 5: to see your quarterback's jersey dirty after this game. That's
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Speaker 5: another thing I'd look for.
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Speaker 9: I look for Marcel Reed to complete at least 75%
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Speaker 9: of his passes because that's one area that he has
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Speaker 9: to get better at. I liked the one thing. Elko
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Speaker 9: said that stood out to me, he divides the season
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Speaker 9: in quarters. And I kind of like that because three games,
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Speaker 9: getting back to what you said, after three games, I
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Speaker 9: think you will have an indication where A & M' s at.
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Speaker 9: They play, the first team obviously should kill, I don't
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Speaker 9: care if Missouri State did go to a ball game
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Speaker 9: last year.
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Speaker 5: Their conference useless.
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Speaker 9: So A & M physically and everything's got to be
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Speaker 9: so much better. Then you play an Arizona State team,
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Speaker 9: which you're playing a Big 12 team.
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Speaker 5: So I'll be interested to see after three games where
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Speaker 5: A & M' s at.
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Speaker 4: Well, I want to see Marcel Reed play a complete
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Speaker 4: game for as long as he's in there because, quite frankly,
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Speaker 4: I haven't seen him play a complete game since the
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Speaker 4: Missouri game of last year. I mean, he didn't play
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Speaker 4: a complete game against South Carolina.
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Speaker 5: Oh, no.
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Speaker 4: He certainly, I didn't think he was very good against Sanford.
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Speaker 4: I mean, at all.
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Speaker 5: I don't remember that.
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Speaker 4: He was not good.
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Speaker 5: He was not crisp at all. I believe it.
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Speaker 4: I mean, he just came out and just was like
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Speaker 4: all over the place. Didn't play that well against Texas.
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Speaker 4: And certainly, I mean, wasn't great against Miami. So, it's
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Speaker 4: been a long time since I've seen him come out
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Speaker 4: and really impress me. And maybe, I don't remember the
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Speaker 4: Missouri game in particular. I remember how impressive he was
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Speaker 4: against LSU, but that's been a long time ago.
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Speaker 9: Well, the Missouri game, what I remember, and everybody asked me, Cessna,
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Speaker 9: you were there, and I said, you know what's in
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Speaker 9: my mind after so many years? What I remember most
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Speaker 9: about Missouri, I thought A & M should have taken
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Speaker 9: care of a team when it started sticking quarterback quicker.
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Speaker 5: Even though I know they were on the road.
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Speaker 9: That stuck out to me because I remember Brooks had
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Speaker 9: to have an interception, if I'm not mistaken, whatever. But
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Speaker 9: you bring up a good point. When you're playing a
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Speaker 9: team like this, Everybody swears, and I believe it too,
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Speaker 9: reads the leader of this team. So your leader should
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Speaker 9: go out there, take care of business. In two and
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Speaker 9: a half quarters, he should be signing autographs.
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Speaker 4: Not missing wide-open throws.
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Speaker 5: Exactly.
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Speaker 4: And that's what he did way too often later in
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Speaker 4: the season. That's what bothered me against Sanford because I
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Speaker 4: was like, well, he's missing the wide-open throws. I mean,
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Speaker 4: it's like, this is Sanford. And so, you know, again,
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Speaker 4: this is Missouri State, so I want to see him very,
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Speaker 4: very sharp.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and the other side of that equation is, do
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Speaker 5: you want to just be basic against this kind of team?
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Speaker 4: I think you should, Chip.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I want to see him be basic and
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Speaker 4: be really solid.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. But I would say the same thing, would you not,
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Speaker 5: about let's see how this offensive line performs against lesser competition.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 5: And make no mistake, everybody's got a dude or two.
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Speaker 5: But when you play a team like this, you're playing
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Speaker 5: a dude or two. You're not playing, you know, 10
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Speaker 5: or 12 or 15 dudes.
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Speaker 9: You're playing a DQ dude.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. So I want to see the offensive line, again,
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Speaker 5: be clean, open holes, protect. You know, those are the
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Speaker 5: kinds of things I kind of look for.
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Speaker 9: And you're playing at home. So there shouldn't be a
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Speaker 9: busted play. You shouldn't look up and there's some guy
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Speaker 9: out there 15 yards on a down and out. Nobody's
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Speaker 9: within six yards of him. You shouldn't have that.
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Speaker 5: I get it.
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Speaker 9: You're playing new people, but everybody's jacked, and you're playing
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Speaker 9: at home. You're playing at home, so you have the advantage.
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Speaker 9: It's a night game. Everybody's going to be jacked up.
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Speaker 9: I get it. If you're the fans, you should be.
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Speaker 9: It seems like it's been a long time since Miami.
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Speaker 9: I don't care if you're a writer.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 9: If you're on, you know, you're talking about it every day.
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Speaker 9: It's been a long time since that was an agonizing
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Speaker 9: game because they couldn't score.
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Speaker 5: Right. It was just a.
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Speaker 4: Well, you know, the wind, the conditions were all crazy
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Speaker 4: in that game. But still, it's just... was just such frustration.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's just like three points, and there were
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Speaker 4: so many points left on the board, and it's just
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Speaker 4: like the memory I have is Reed throwing into the
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Speaker 4: end zone and getting it picked there at the end.
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Speaker 4: You know, that's what sticks out.
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Speaker 5: I mean, you look at the schedule, and the back
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Speaker 5: end certainly has challenges, but you look at the front
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Speaker 5: end of the schedule, and you've got, Missouri State, Arizona State, Kentucky,
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Speaker 5: all at home. I mean, that's 3-0. It has to be. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: that's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 9: A clean 3-0.
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Speaker 5: A clean 3-0. Then you go to LSU. We don't
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Speaker 5: even know if LSU is going to be a member
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Speaker 5: of this conference by the time you get there.
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Speaker 9: By then, Kiffin could be in two different teams.
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Speaker 5: They may be playing an independent schedule by then. He
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Speaker 5: might be in the NFL.
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Speaker 4: I heard Joe Milton got cut by the Cowboys today,
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Speaker 4: and they picked him up at LSU.
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Speaker 5: Did Joe Milton get cut?
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Speaker 4: He did get cut, yeah.
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Speaker 5: Wow, okay. I don't even know who the second-team quarterback is.
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Speaker 5: I don't really care.
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Speaker 9: Billy Cannon was still alive. I think Lane would go
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Speaker 9: try to get him.
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Speaker 5: Well, so after the trip to LSU, you get Arkansas
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Speaker 5: at home. So– There is a very real possibility you
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Speaker 5: can be 5-0 going to Missouri, which is always underrated
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Speaker 5: and always problematic for a lot of teams. A &
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Speaker 5: M' s done pretty well against Missouri over the years.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but there's been some tough trips to Missouri, too.
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Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 5: There have been a lot of tough trips. Gary Pickle
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Speaker 5: was there, though, coaching me. True.
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Speaker 4: I guess the one that sticks out in my mind
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Speaker 4: was Johnny Manziel where Missouri just beat up on a
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Speaker 4: wounded Manziel.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. And they took no prisoners. It was a cold night.
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Speaker 9: It was an ugly night.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: It was.
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Speaker 4: Missouri is just so non-glamorous to go to. You know,
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Speaker 4: it's hard to get up for games like that.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 4: I mean, any time you look over there, I mean,
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Speaker 4: those rocks in the end zone, they're kind of intimidating.
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Speaker 9: Well, I'm hopeful that all these new renovations, because I've
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Speaker 9: gone there a few times with my cohorts. We get
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Speaker 9: there early enough. A lot of times you sit up
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Speaker 9: there in the back and you look down, and I
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Speaker 9: feel like I'm at a high school game. I just
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Speaker 9: don't feel like I'm at a– you know, SEC just
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Speaker 9: reeks of, oh, man, you go to Auburn, you go
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Speaker 9: to Alabama, you go to LSU.
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Speaker 5: You know, this is where it's at.
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Speaker 4: And Missouri just reeks.
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Speaker 5: You're right. You look at those rocks and you go like, wow,
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Speaker 5: how much did it cost them? They always go into
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Speaker 5: the season like as a ghost, like not mentioned.
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Speaker 11: 25th, 26th.
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Speaker 5: Undervalued.
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Speaker 4: Sometimes it takes a fifth down to beat them. though.
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Speaker 4: Going way back.
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Speaker 5: We've got listeners that have no idea what you're talking about.
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Speaker 4: You're right.
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Speaker 5: That was a good one. I mentioned yesterday at church
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Speaker 5: John Denver, and I had to look at these students
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Speaker 5: that are there, and I'm going, you don't know who
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Speaker 5: that is. I know you've never heard.
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Speaker 9: Of this person.
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Speaker 5: You've never heard of this person before. I'm making all
10:25
Speaker 5: these references.
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Speaker 4: He sang the West Virginia fight song.
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Speaker 5: That's right, the West Virginia fight song. But starting with
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Speaker 5: Missouri on the 10th, you have at Alabama, you have
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Speaker 5: at South Carolina, you've got Tennessee at home, which I
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Speaker 5: have no idea what they're going to be. You have
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Speaker 5: at Oklahoma, which has an amazing home record over the years,
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Speaker 5: even when they haven't been good. And they should be very.
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Speaker 4: I've had some nightmarish experiences there in Norman.
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Speaker 5: Were you at 77-0?
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Speaker 4: I was at 77-0.
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Speaker 5: Congratulations.
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Speaker 4: I had to write a positive story on that one, too.
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Speaker 5: Did you?
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Speaker 4: No, it was not very positive.
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Speaker 5: Just checking. I hope you didn't get your credentials revoked
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Speaker 5: like that, like Mac Engel of the Star-Telegram did.
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Speaker 4: Reggie McNeil threw deep to Terrence Murphy on the first
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Speaker 4: play of the game. And it was incomplete.
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Speaker 5: Almost caught it.
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Speaker 4: And it was the closest the Aggies came to crossing
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Speaker 4: midfield all day long. I mean, kid you not.
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Speaker 5: It was ugly.
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Speaker 4: It was ugly.
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Speaker 9: I've had several trips to Oklahoma as I tried to
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Speaker 9: find my parking spot. I just hope I had one
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Speaker 9: because they kept moving you and you're out in the field.
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Speaker 5: Alabama, I think, was the farthest I've ever been away
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Speaker 5: at a stadium. Oklahoma, they love their... That's before A
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Speaker 5: & M started moving us farther and farther away from
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Speaker 5: the stadium. But Alabama was definitely the farthest I've ever been.
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Speaker 5: I needed to take a bus to get to the
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Speaker 5: stadium from where they put me. There's a few of
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Speaker 5: them like that.
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Speaker 4: Back to your point, OU's a tough place to play.
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Speaker 5: Missouri's tough. It is. Like I said, even in these
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Speaker 5: days where they haven't, you know, the post-bop stoops era,
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Speaker 5: if you look at their home schedule, it's really impressive.
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Speaker 4: I liked it when Schnellenberger and Blake were there. That
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Speaker 4: was better.
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Speaker 5: When John Blake was there, I would pay to get
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Speaker 5: John Blake back as the head coach at Oklahoma.
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Speaker 4: Well, you know, Schnellenberger, they were going to write novels
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Speaker 4: about his career at Oklahoma. The things that stick in
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Speaker 4: my head, I have no idea.
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Speaker 5: Okay, have I told you my Schnellenberger story?
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Speaker 4: No, please do.
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Speaker 5: Okay, so when I was calling University of Houston football
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Speaker 5: back in the early 80s, They played at the old
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Speaker 5: Orange Bowl, and Howard Schnellenberger was the head coach. And
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Speaker 5: this was when the Vare was running wild and Coach
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Speaker 5: Yeoman was pretty good.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 5: He was winning conference championships.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they came in the first year and won the conference.
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Speaker 5: I mean, they were pretty good. Yeah. So flew down
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Speaker 5: to Miami, and Miami wasn't far removed from voting to
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Speaker 5: keep football and not end football, right? Remember those days?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 5: Now, this was... This was post-Texas being named number one
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Speaker 5: on the cover of Sports Illustrated and going to Miami
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Speaker 5: and getting beat when Miami was just awful. This was
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Speaker 5: after that. But they had just hired Howard Schnellenberger as
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Speaker 5: the head coach. Had the tweed jacket on, smoking the pipe,
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Speaker 5: was a Bear Bryant wannabe, had that deep, gravelly voice.
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Speaker 10: And....
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Speaker 5: So I go tape a pregame little interview with him.
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Speaker 5: That was on the Friday night before the game at
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Speaker 5: the Orange Bowl in his office. Get there on Saturday.
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Speaker 5: And I'm thinking it's a night game. And I'm looking
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Speaker 5: around and I'm going, good gosh, this team has some talent.
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Speaker 5: They had a freshman quarterback whose name was Jim Kelly.
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Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, I've heard of him.
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Speaker 5: They beat down Houston that night and three years later
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Speaker 5: won the national championship with that group of guys.
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Speaker 4: Was that like Danny Davis kind of Houston?
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Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they were. Houston was good. Yes,
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Speaker 5: they were. They were good. And they went to Miami
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Speaker 5: and got their butt whipped that night.
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Speaker 4: I remember when they first came in the Southwest Conference.
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Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, okay, you know, we'll see what
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Speaker 4: they got now. And they came in and they won
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Speaker 4: the conference right away. I mean, they didn't waste any time.
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Speaker 9: I got to go up to play a couple Oklahoma
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Speaker 9: media golf tournaments when Howlin' Schnellenberger and John Blake were there.
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Speaker 5: And that was.
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Speaker 4: You know, the thing I remember most about Schnellenberger is
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Speaker 4: that his wife had, you know, this is timely because
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Speaker 4: she had Dolly Parton style. Like, she dressed like Dolly Parton.
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Speaker 5: Yes, she did.
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Speaker 4: She didn't have her voice and obviously everything else, but
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Speaker 4: she had... Her outfits were unforgettable.
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Speaker 5: Who are you talking about?
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Speaker 4: Schnellenberger's wife.
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Speaker 12: Really?
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Speaker 4: Oh, she had the most memorable outfit. Again, it was
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Speaker 4: like Dolly Parton style.
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Speaker 11: Wow.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. No kidding.
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Speaker 11: Okay.
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Speaker 4: It was something else.
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Speaker 5: Apparently I missed her during that stretch of time I
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Speaker 5: was in Miami.
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Speaker 4: Well, when he was at OU, he kind of flaunted
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Speaker 4: her around because he didn't want to talk about football.
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Speaker 4: It was so bad.
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Speaker 9: Well, I remember he, you know, we go up there,
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Speaker 9: most of the coaches would play one or two holes
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Speaker 9: with all the, uh, riders in Oklahoma media golf tournament
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Speaker 9: in their day was, was quite a event to go to. And, uh,
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Speaker 9: Howard Schnellenberger, he just stayed in the clubhouse, and so
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Speaker 9: he gave out the awards, I remember, at the end.
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Speaker 9: And I won for straightest drive.
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Speaker 5: Nice, nice. That is crazy. That's the first time you've
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Speaker 5: ever done that.
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Speaker 9: You don't have to worry about it. It wasn't hitting well.
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Speaker 9: It wasn't hitting long, but it landed right on that line,
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Speaker 9: and it was pretty funny. He was had a little bit.
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Speaker 5: That little bear?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, and I don't think he even made it through
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Speaker 9: all the awards. I think he had to retire for
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Speaker 9: not feeling well. And then John Blake was great. You know,
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Speaker 9: you can wonder, you know why Oklahoma got rid of
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Speaker 9: those guys? Because just talking to the media people up
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Speaker 9: there when you play that tournament, how mad they were.
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Speaker 9: John Blake went out and said, welcome to everybody, whatever.
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Speaker 9: I had no idea what he said. I mean, he
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Speaker 9: was just up there, and he was sober. I mean,
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Speaker 9: you know, it was like.
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Speaker 5: But those– people in Oklahoma and people in Alabama, they
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Speaker 5: don't take losing. They're not going to lose. No.
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Speaker 11: No.
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Speaker 5: And it's talking to those people. They're not going to lose.
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Speaker 4: So I'm– And Alabama may lose more this year.
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Speaker 5: They might with a new quarterback. I'm still not sold
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Speaker 5: on Brent Venables as a head coach.
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Speaker 9: I'm with you, but their defense is really, really good.
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Speaker 5: I'm not saying that. He's a great defensive coach. He's
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Speaker 5: been an elite-level defensive coach for 30 years.
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Speaker 9: I guarantee you, all the Oklahoma people are with you.
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Speaker 5: Most of the fans are with you. I don't know.
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Speaker 5: If he's a head coach. I'm with you. And I'm
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Speaker 5: still not sold on his quarterback. Healthy, unhealthy, bad thumb,
17:12
Speaker 5: good thumb. I'm with you. I'm not sold on his quarterback.
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Speaker 9: But they're a perfect example of what's called summer hype. Suddenly,
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Speaker 9: Mateer's got his thumb. Suddenly, he's got the golden thumb.
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Speaker 9: He can raise flowers.
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Speaker 5: He can do anything. So we'll see. I'm not sold
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Speaker 5: on him.
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Speaker 4: Is that a green thumb or a golden thumb?
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Speaker 5: Green thumb, whatever, yeah. I was having this conversation.
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Speaker 4: My Neal Sperry goes like that.
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Speaker 5: He had a red thumb last year. Neal Sperry reference, man.
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Speaker 5: I like that. He had a red thumb last year because...
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Speaker 5: It wasn't good. I had this conversation with Dusty today.
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Speaker 5: The one thing Coach Leach always said is, what do
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Speaker 5: you look for? His number one and only answer was accuracy.
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Speaker 5: If he's not accurate, I can't use him. If he is,
18:04
Speaker 5: I can teach him everything else. But if he's not accurate,
18:08
Speaker 5: I can't use him.
18:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, because Keith Berry didn't have a huge arm.
18:11
Speaker 9: A lot of Leach's quarterbacks didn't, but they were out.
18:13
Speaker 5: Most of them didn't. They didn't go to the NFL.
18:17
Speaker 5: The reason I had this conversation is I was talking
18:23
Speaker 5: about Arch Manning, and I'm not convinced that Arch Manning
18:29
Speaker 5: is an accurate passer. Now, I understand the first half
18:33
Speaker 5: of the season, he's running for his life. We have
18:36
Speaker 5: seen A & M quarterbacks who were quick on the
18:39
Speaker 5: trigger because they were having to get rid of the
18:42
Speaker 5: ball as soon as it was snapped before. We've seen
18:45
Speaker 5: all of that, and I understand that part of it.
18:51
Speaker 5: If I'm a Texas fan, my concern would be, Yes,
18:56
Speaker 5: he can throw the ball 40 yards down the field
18:58
Speaker 5: and zip it between two defenders and make a beautiful throw.
19:02
Speaker 5: And on the next one, on a 10-yard out route,
19:05
Speaker 5: he'll bounce it at a guy's feet. And I know
19:09
Speaker 5: all quarterbacks aren't 100%. I get that. But that would
19:15
Speaker 5: concern me about that and leads me to Marcel.
19:20
Speaker 11: Marcel.
19:21
Speaker 5: I've seen some inconsistencies. They're rusty. That's what Rusty said. Yeah.
19:26
Speaker 4: That's my issue with him is, like, can he be,
19:29
Speaker 4: can he hit?
19:30
Speaker 5: Can he hit an open receiver down the field?
19:32
Speaker 4: Can he hit the 12-yard pass?
19:34
Speaker 5: Either the 12-yard out, or can he hit a 30-yard
19:37
Speaker 5: slant when there's no one around?
19:40
Speaker 4: We've seen him hit that quite a bit.
19:42
Speaker 11: We have.
19:43
Speaker 4: But what concerns me is that you can't hit the
19:46
Speaker 4: 12-yard curl. That's what just really.
19:49
Speaker 5: Got to hit. that. You've got to.
19:51
Speaker 9: Yeah.
19:51
Speaker 5: And you've got to move the chains.
19:53
Speaker 4: And against South Carolina, he was just gunslinging, and he
19:56
Speaker 4: had to because they were so far down.
19:58
Speaker 1: Yeah.
19:59
Speaker 4: And he made some really nice passes in the corner
20:01
Speaker 4: end zone.
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Speaker 5: He did.
20:02
Speaker 4: But, you know, again, I go back to Texas, and
20:04
Speaker 4: some of his decisions were just terrible.
20:06
Speaker 5: Yeah.
20:06
Speaker 4: Okay, take Miami out of it because of the conditions.
20:09
Speaker 5: Yeah.
20:09
Speaker 4: But Texas, that game, he just came out in the
20:13
Speaker 4: second half and looked so inept.
20:15
Speaker 5: I think I've said this to Rusty before, but you
20:17
Speaker 5: need to let that game go.
20:22
Speaker 4: It's a new season. We've only got this small context, man.
20:29
Speaker 4: We can go back to 2011 if you tell me
20:31
Speaker 4: to let it go.
20:32
Speaker 5: It's a new season.
20:34
Speaker 9: Here's the deal. Both you guys are right. Sometimes we.
20:39
Speaker 5: We almost talk too much. Take A & M Texas
20:41
Speaker 5: last year, A & M Texas this year.
20:43
Speaker 9: Okay, who's going to be able to run the ball?
20:45
Speaker 9: You talked about Texas sucked last year. They didn't have
20:47
Speaker 9: any linemen. A & M had great linemen.
20:49
Speaker 6: Right.
20:49
Speaker 5: Right there. Who had the down? Right.
20:51
Speaker 9: And then who had the better quarterback? I'm with both
20:53
Speaker 9: you guys. Manning struggled at times. Reed struggled at times.
20:57
Speaker 4: In that game, Manning was better.
20:59
Speaker 5: He was.
20:59
Speaker 9: In that game, but overall for the season, A &
21:01
Speaker 9: M' s offensive line and Reed was better than Texas' offensive
21:05
Speaker 9: line and Manning.
21:06
Speaker 5: And you can probably say whoever's better in that this
21:08
Speaker 5: year might win it.
21:09
Speaker 4: But what Manning did so well in that game is
21:11
Speaker 4: use his legs.
21:12
Speaker 11: Yes.
21:12
Speaker 4: And that's what Marcel did.
21:14
Speaker 5: I think we're going to see that more from Marcel
21:16
Speaker 5: this year with home and wickets. And if we do,
21:18
Speaker 5: I think it's going to benefit him. He has hinted wickets.
21:24
Speaker 5: He's been available. More bootleg. More rollouts. More movement from
21:28
Speaker 5: the pocket. That's good. Get the quarterback out, right? Don't
21:31
Speaker 5: make him a pocket passer. I like that.
21:34
Speaker 11: I do, too.
21:34
Speaker 9: Because when Manning– Decided to go. They were a big place.
21:37
Speaker 9: You even go back to two years ago when he
21:39
Speaker 9: had the touchdown run. I mean, he made the right call.
21:42
Speaker 9: He ran the ball. And sometimes you're watching up there
21:45
Speaker 9: and you go like, run, Marcel.
21:48
Speaker 5: Why isn't he running?
21:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think Manning has the more upside in
21:53
Speaker 4: terms of the pure passer than Marcel does. We'll see.
21:57
Speaker 4: I mean, he has to prove it. But, I mean,
22:00
Speaker 4: we were talking about this. Louie and I were talking
22:01
Speaker 4: about this the other day. If you're picking a quarterback,
22:05
Speaker 4: number one in the NFL, out of this year's class,
22:09
Speaker 4: there are some pretty good ones. There are. But based
22:15
Speaker 4: on how much improvement he made, I'm really curious to
22:18
Speaker 4: see what Manning does this year.
22:20
Speaker 5: I've seen some current lists. Rusty, that have him as
22:25
Speaker 5: the top guy. I've also seen lists that have him
22:28
Speaker 5: like as the five or the six guy. Yeah, me too. Right?
22:31
Speaker 9: Coleman's going to be a great addition to him. And
22:33
Speaker 9: you touched on it, Chip. I am very interested to
22:36
Speaker 9: see what Wiggins is.
22:38
Speaker 5: Going to do.
22:39
Speaker 4: Honestly, if you ask me too, I've got to check
22:43
Speaker 4: out what Hoover's going to do at Indiana. That's a
22:46
Speaker 4: good point. Because what Mendoza did last year, coming from
22:50
Speaker 4: where he had been And I watched TCU this last week,
22:53
Speaker 4: and that quarterback didn't look very good at all.
22:57
Speaker 5: He was terrible.
22:59
Speaker 4: He made some bad decisions, and TCU just kind of
23:01
Speaker 4: gave that ball away.
23:01
Speaker 5: I said in the first hour, I'm anxious to see
23:04
Speaker 5: Cignetti and his staff with Josh Hooper. That's a good point.
23:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, my point is that. Because what they did with Mendoza.
23:12
Speaker 9: Because it gets back to what you said.
23:13
Speaker 4: Because Hoover made a lot of great plays. He also
23:16
Speaker 4: threw a lot of interceptions.
23:17
Speaker 5: He did. A lot of interceptions. And Signetti won't put
23:20
Speaker 5: up with that. No, he won't.
23:21
Speaker 9: You knew Mike Leach was going to have a quarterback.
23:23
Speaker 5: No matter who. Always. Always.
23:25
Speaker 9: And I'm interested to see what Signetti does as well because.
23:29
Speaker 5: If he turns Josh Hoover into half of what Mendoza was,
23:32
Speaker 5: he's going to be good again.
23:34
Speaker 9: You better look out then. If that guy can do that,
23:35
Speaker 9: he's going to get quarterbacks there to go all the time.
23:37
Speaker 5: No doubt.
23:38
Speaker 4: He's going to be the quarterback whisperer.
23:40
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just saw a thing that Reese
23:43
Speaker 5: Davis did with all these coaches.
23:46
Speaker 9: He went to Lubbock.
23:48
Speaker 5: He went to Florida State. He went to Ole Miss.
23:52
Speaker 5: And he went to Indiana with Cignetti. And they're watching film.
23:57
Speaker 5: And Cignetti's like, look, I don't golf. I don't fish.
24:03
Speaker 5: He went through all the hobbies that some coaches might
24:06
Speaker 5: or might not have. He said, this is what I do.
24:08
Speaker 5: He goes, I watch film. He goes, that's all I
24:12
Speaker 5: do is I watch film. And you know what? I
24:16
Speaker 5: believe him. I believe him.
24:18
Speaker 9: Hey, you guys, I just watched like a quarter and
24:20
Speaker 9: a half of the TCU game. Did they ever show
24:22
Speaker 9: Belichick's girlfriend?
24:23
Speaker 4: No, I didn't see it.
24:25
Speaker 5: I don't think they ever did.
24:26
Speaker 9: It's like when you watch Dallas Cowboys, how many times
24:28
Speaker 9: they show Jerry.
24:29
Speaker 8: Right, right.
24:29
Speaker 9: I always liked those things, you know.
24:32
Speaker 4: But to go back to the quarterbacks, we had this
24:34
Speaker 4: discussion the other day. If you're ranking the SEC quarterbacks,
24:38
Speaker 4: is it Manning or is it Chambliss?
24:40
Speaker 5: I love looking at those ratings. I'm with you.
24:43
Speaker 9: It's pretty hard when you're looking at 16 quarterbacks.
24:46
Speaker 4: I mean, to me, those two quarterbacks stand out heading
24:49
Speaker 4: into the year.
24:50
Speaker 5: Right.
24:51
Speaker 6: I don't know.
24:52
Speaker 5: Who do you have? So, Chambliss doesn't have the size
24:58
Speaker 5: that NFL thinks they need. Now, that's changed over the years.
25:02
Speaker 4: We're talking about college, right?
25:03
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah.
25:03
Speaker 5: We're talking about college. I'm a huge Chambliss guy.
25:06
Speaker 9: I'd put Chambliss number one if I was doing it.
25:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're drafting NFL, I'd probably pick Manning. But
25:12
Speaker 4: if you're drafting for a college quarterback, I'd take Chambliss
25:14
Speaker 4: right now. I think he's farther around than what he.
25:17
Speaker 5: Did last year. No doubt. Yeah. And he's played longer,
25:20
Speaker 5: I guess. He's played a long time, yeah.
25:22
Speaker 4: Anything else, I mean, Lenore Sellers, who knows what we're
25:25
Speaker 4: going to get there, right?
25:27
Speaker 5: Yeah, and his name hasn't been mentioned at all. Remember
25:30
Speaker 5: last year at this time, he was a Heisman Trophy candidate, right?
25:34
Speaker 5: So that's going to be interesting because he needs to
25:37
Speaker 5: be that for... For them to be successful. For them
25:42
Speaker 5: to be decent, right?
25:43
Speaker 9: Put a lot of money in him coming back, I'm sure.
25:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then Gunnar Stockton. I mean, what do we
25:47
Speaker 4: expect from him?
25:48
Speaker 5: Well, I think Gunnar Stockton is pretty good. And Gunnar
25:52
Speaker 5: Stockton has a lot of help around him. Yes, he does. Right? Yes,
25:55
Speaker 5: he does. I mean, a lot of help around him.
25:57
Speaker 5: In the booth and on the field. I'm on record.
26:00
Speaker 5: I picked Georgia to win the league again. And, you know, I...
26:04
Speaker 5: We'll just see.
26:05
Speaker 4: And with LSU, I don't know what we're going to
26:07
Speaker 4: get with Sam Leavitt. I don't know what we're going
26:09
Speaker 4: to get with LSU in general either. I mean, it's
26:11
Speaker 4: just going to be who knows what Lane's got up
26:15
Speaker 4: his sleeve, right?
26:17
Speaker 9: Well, Lane has a little bit of Mike Leach in
26:21
Speaker 9: him that he usually has a good offense. He usually
26:23
Speaker 9: finds a way to put points on the board, whether
26:26
Speaker 9: it's a running quarterback or a throwing quarterback. Look what
26:29
Speaker 9: he did with Dart. You look what he did even
26:32
Speaker 9: though he's a Florida Atlantic. He's got to move the football.
26:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know he is.
26:37
Speaker 9: And, you know, he's so much better for LSU than
26:41
Speaker 9: Brian Kelly. Brian Kelly was just a horrible fit. And
26:47
Speaker 9: you look at the players he's brought in around his quarterback.
26:52
Speaker 9: He did their offensive line.
26:54
Speaker 5: You expect them to be good offensively. Expect them to
26:56
Speaker 5: be good.
26:57
Speaker 9: And I can't tell. if A & M is a
26:59
Speaker 9: break catching them early or not. I think, you know,
27:02
Speaker 9: September 26th is kind of early. You don't have that.
27:06
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27:08
Speaker 5: Ole Miss game. They'll have that early. So we're going
27:11
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27:13
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27:21
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27:23
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Speaker 5: didn't watch a lot of which game was it? The
31:17
Speaker 5: TCU game. You didn't see a lot of that. TCU
31:21
Speaker 5: is going to be begging people to come to their
31:25
Speaker 5: games and giving credentials away to everybody after this weekend.
31:29
Speaker 4: It's a bad weekend for TCU.
31:30
Speaker 5: It was a really, really bad weekend for Sonny Dykes.
31:34
Speaker 4: Bad look for everything in the football program. Bad look.
31:36
Speaker 5: Really terrible. Really terrible.
31:38
Speaker 4: It's that whole media thing.
31:40
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're enemies. We're horrible.
31:42
Speaker 4: The pettiness of it.
31:44
Speaker 9: I thought those days were over.
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Speaker 5: Did you watch?
31:47
Speaker 4: I didn't even know the Fort Worth Star-Telgram existed. That's
31:49
Speaker 4: the thing.
31:50
Speaker 5: That's not good. No. Don't tell Mike Engel that. We
31:55
Speaker 5: print the Fort Worth Star-Telgram. You do? Yeah, three times
31:58
Speaker 5: a week.
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Speaker 4: And they ship it up to Fort Worth?
32:02
Speaker 5: Y'all print it?
32:03
Speaker 9: We print it here, and they're going to take it back.
32:07
Speaker 11: Wow.
32:07
Speaker 5: Did you watch football? I watched a little bit of
32:09
Speaker 5: the Memphis game. So that was the best game, I think.
32:12
Speaker 5: I went to bed, unfortunately.
32:14
Speaker 4: I watched TCU North Carolina.
32:15
Speaker 5: That was about it.
32:16
Speaker 4: That was about it.
32:16
Speaker 5: Did you watch Florida State? Just a wee little bit.
32:19
Speaker 5: Not really good. No, they didn't look good when I
32:21
Speaker 5: saw them. Not good for Mike Norvell. The problem at
32:24
Speaker 5: Florida State is, number one, even before the season, the
32:27
Speaker 5: reason he's still there, they don't have the money. They
32:29
Speaker 5: spent a ton of money, and I didn't know this,
32:33
Speaker 5: redoing all the players' games. They have a huge, brand-new,
32:38
Speaker 5: state-of-the-art players facility, right? So they don't have the money
32:42
Speaker 5: right now to fire him. Florida State did not look good.
32:46
Speaker 5: They host SMU Saturday. They better be really much better
32:51
Speaker 5: or they'll get their butts beat on Saturday by SMU. Second, USC,
32:58
Speaker 5: Lincoln Riley on the hot seat hired Gary Patterson for defense.
33:03
Speaker 5: I'm a big Gary Patterson fan, especially as a defensive coach.
33:07
Speaker 5: They gave up 28 to San Jose State on Saturday. Offensively,
33:12
Speaker 5: they got dudes everywhere. They look like an NFL team.
33:17
Speaker 5: They have athletes defensively, but they look like at least Saturday,
33:22
Speaker 5: the same old USC defense that has gotten Lincoln Riley
33:26
Speaker 5: in trouble before.
33:27
Speaker 4: I watched a little bit of that. I was kind
33:29
Speaker 4: of flipping back between that, North Carolina State and Virginia.
33:32
Speaker 5: And North Carolina State looked terrible.
33:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, they did.
33:35
Speaker 9: I watched a little bit of that game. Enough to
33:36
Speaker 9: say I'm not going to watch anymore.
33:37
Speaker 5: North Carolina State, some people were like dark horse picks
33:41
Speaker 5: to win a lot of games this year. And I'm
33:43
Speaker 5: just going, well, maybe they will. I don't think so.
33:47
Speaker 5: They didn't look very good.
33:48
Speaker 4: The ACC, boy, I'm not sure who's there.
33:51
Speaker 5: Miami.
33:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously Miami.
33:54
Speaker 9: What I don't like about USC when it all comes
33:57
Speaker 9: down to it is Lincoln Riley hasn't really proved to
33:59
Speaker 9: me he can do it, and I don't like their
34:01
Speaker 9: travel in the Big Ten. That eventually, I think, comes
34:04
Speaker 9: back to bite them in the butt if they even
34:06
Speaker 9: get close. When you're out there kind of by yourself,
34:10
Speaker 9: I think them and Oregon, that's a tough fit.
34:14
Speaker 5: Yeah.
34:15
Speaker 4: I just turned that game on and I was like,
34:16
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, what a beautiful setting.
34:19
Speaker 5: Which one?
34:20
Speaker 11: USC.
34:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was hot.
34:21
Speaker 5: Really hot.
34:26
Speaker 4: It looked like Hawaii almost.
34:28
Speaker 5: It was so bright out there. Yes.
34:30
Speaker 4: Those colors.
34:31
Speaker 5: The grass was so good. There was an announced crowd
34:35
Speaker 5: in the Coliseum of 51,400. It looked like the old
34:39
Speaker 5: basketball announced crowds here. Rita Rita. Yeah, Rita Rita. Yeah,
34:43
Speaker 5: when there was actually 15. And today, they're sending out basically, hey,
34:49
Speaker 5: thanks for the fans that were there and It was
34:52
Speaker 5: really hot. You hate those kind of notes. Oh, man.
34:56
Speaker 5: I don't think you're doing yourself any good when you
34:59
Speaker 5: acknowledge the fact that no one's coming to your games.
35:03
Speaker 5: Here is the statement. We understand the factors that impacted
35:08
Speaker 5: Saturday's attendance. We have high expectations at a premier home
35:14
Speaker 5: schedule this season. We know the competitive advantage an electric
35:20
Speaker 5: Coliseum atmosphere can provide our program. That was back in
35:24
Speaker 5: Reggie Bush's days. I don't think Will Ferrell was on
35:28
Speaker 5: the sidelines for this game. We thank our fans who
35:32
Speaker 5: showed up Saturday.
35:33
Speaker 4: What about Snoop Dogg?
35:34
Speaker 5: I don't think the Snoop was there. And look forward
35:37
Speaker 5: to seeing increased attendance the rest of this season. What
35:41
Speaker 5: kind of statement is that?
35:43
Speaker 4: That's horrible.
35:45
Speaker 5: You just ignore that. It's like TCU taking away the credentials.
35:51
Speaker 5: That's so stupid. You can't win that.
35:55
Speaker 9: PR. Sometimes you always wonder who is.
35:58
Speaker 5: Running the show. Somebody's getting paid a lot of money
36:01
Speaker 5: to put this out because they have to react to
36:06
Speaker 5: social media. Because all over social media there's pictures of
36:11
Speaker 5: a two-thirds empty coliseum with with this top 20 team
36:15
Speaker 5: play right everywhere and people and of course mostly they're
36:20
Speaker 5: not their own fans there are other people's fans that
36:23
Speaker 5: are making these snarky con you know comments it's like
36:27
Speaker 5: let it go don't respond that's.
36:29
Speaker 9: The problem is what's going to be the fort worth
36:32
Speaker 9: deal just let it go it's good you know.
36:35
Speaker 5: The fact that you do it and then you You
36:37
Speaker 5: compound your mistake. Even though you.
36:39
Speaker 9: Saw we were horrible, let me explain why we weren't horrible.
36:43
Speaker 5: I tell you, I tweeted out that I'm beginning to
36:47
Speaker 5: think that this locker room incident is a reflection of
36:52
Speaker 5: deeper issues within that program. At TCU?
36:55
Speaker 10: Yes.
36:56
Speaker 5: Now, maybe not. Maybe it's first game. And remember last
37:00
Speaker 5: year was Iowa State and Kansas State. That was an
37:03
Speaker 5: even uglier game. And it turned out both those teams
37:05
Speaker 5: were bad last year, right?
37:06
Speaker 4: Yes, right.
37:07
Speaker 5: And I think both the teams are bad this year.
37:10
Speaker 4: A little bit better than they were last year. A
37:12
Speaker 4: little better than last year.
37:13
Speaker 5: They look like a junior high team. Right. This year,
37:16
Speaker 5: they look much better. No question. But is TCU better
37:19
Speaker 5: or are they worse? Sonny is getting lit up right now.
37:23
Speaker 9: Well, he just got a contract extension.
37:25
Speaker 5: He just got a contract extension. Why did you do that?
37:28
Speaker 5: Why did you give him an extension? Yeah, exactly. Why
37:30
Speaker 5: did you? Afraid of losing him? They just gave... Brent Venables,
37:36
Speaker 5: a huge contract extension.
37:38
Speaker 10: Really?
37:39
Speaker 5: Huge.
37:39
Speaker 9: I always want to go, who's going to hire him?
37:41
Speaker 5: And I'm going, why? He was already signed for the
37:46
Speaker 5: next four years, I think. And now they extended that
37:49
Speaker 5: like three years at $ 10 million plus. And I'm going, why?
37:52
Speaker 9: He's not going to leave.
37:54
Speaker 4: Exactly.
37:55
Speaker 5: Where's he going? I don't know.
37:58
Speaker 4: Is Bill Byrne the AD there?
38:00
Speaker 5: Here's the deal is... I'm sorry, man. Jimbo Fisher didn't
38:03
Speaker 5: go to LSU. A & M kept him from going.
38:05
Speaker 4: Well, Fran didn't go to Notre Dame.
38:08
Speaker 5: Notre Dame.
38:09
Speaker 11: Oh, man.
38:09
Speaker 5: I don't know why these schools... But they never called either. No,
38:12
Speaker 5: they didn't.
38:12
Speaker 9: I don't know why they do it. That just drives
38:15
Speaker 9: me crazy.
38:16
Speaker 5: Because, like I said... I'll be the first to admit,
38:20
Speaker 5: if OU is in the top five and they're in
38:22
Speaker 5: the playoffs again and they win a couple of playoff games,
38:25
Speaker 5: I'll say, okay, he's got this thing turned around, right?
38:29
Speaker 5: Good on him. But I got to see it. And
38:32
Speaker 5: I ain't going to give him three years at $ 35
38:35
Speaker 5: million extra upon what he already has. I want to
38:39
Speaker 5: see it. They get one year and they get that.
38:41
Speaker 4: Just think.
38:42
Speaker 5: I don't get it.
38:43
Speaker 9: If you got one more week for every good show,
38:45
Speaker 9: you'd be on the 3,000 show.
38:47
Speaker 5: I mean, holy cow. I will say again, I try
38:50
Speaker 5: my best to do one good show a week. And
38:53
Speaker 5: sometimes it happens.
38:55
Speaker 9: You should be a football coach.
38:57
Speaker 5: Today ain't it.
38:58
Speaker 4: Oh, come on, man.
38:59
Speaker 5: No, it's not your fault. Because of us. It's not
39:01
Speaker 5: your fault. Usually it's the best day of the week.
39:04
Speaker 5: And we go like, does people notice that? You know,
39:08
Speaker 5: it's like, okay, when Sherman— I'll tell you when they
39:10
Speaker 5: notice it, Cease. When the football tickets go up 33%. Exactly.
39:16
Speaker 5: That's when they notice it.
39:17
Speaker 9: Everybody— I keep looking at people's salaries, and everybody's basically making
39:21
Speaker 9: $ 10 million to $ 13 million.
39:22
Speaker 5: That's right. That's the going rate.
39:23
Speaker 9: And I'm saying, like, you guys all can't win.
39:26
Speaker 5: And by the way, I don't have a problem with
39:29
Speaker 5: what they make. It's just like I don't have a
39:31
Speaker 5: problem with what the players make. We're in America. You
39:33
Speaker 5: can make what you want to make. God bless you.
39:35
Speaker 5: But if I'm the athletic director, I'm going to be
39:37
Speaker 5: a little bit more careful than that. At least I
39:40
Speaker 5: will be.
39:41
Speaker 4: Well, there's no doubt. I mean, A & M gave
39:43
Speaker 4: way too many extensions to way too many coaches. After, like,
39:47
Speaker 4: one good season. Like, they gave the extension to someone.
39:49
Speaker 5: Everybody gets excited. Yeah, it's just, like, it's ridiculous. I mean,
39:53
Speaker 5: let's see it proven out. See, did not Elko get, like,
40:00
Speaker 5: a raise? Elko got a raise after a small extension.
40:04
Speaker 5: And there it was.
40:05
Speaker 9: Everyone was worried about Penn State. And I go, like,
40:08
Speaker 9: to myself, he's not going to Penn State. And people go, oh,
40:11
Speaker 9: you don't know that. He could have gone.
40:13
Speaker 5: And I go.
40:15
Speaker 9: Okay, I mean.
40:16
Speaker 4: Well, and they gave Bucky McMillan a bump, too, because,
40:18
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously he.
40:20
Speaker 5: Did really well. I'm more for that than the football side.
40:24
Speaker 5: I'm going back to what you said. It's not that
40:26
Speaker 5: I don't grudge anybody.
40:28
Speaker 9: But as soon as A & M.
40:30
Speaker 5: Football coach wins, they want to give him more money.
40:32
Speaker 5: A season.
40:33
Speaker 9: And then, let's be honest, what does Elko come out
40:36
Speaker 9: and say? We need to have good back-to-back seasons to.
40:39
Speaker 5: Prove who we are.
40:40
Speaker 9: So even he's saying... Basically, I need to have good
40:44
Speaker 9: back-to-back season, which is true. He knows that. But no
40:46
Speaker 9: one's going to turn money away. If somebody comes in,
40:49
Speaker 9: Ben Downs comes in, hey, Chip, we want to sign
40:51
Speaker 9: you for 50 years.
40:52
Speaker 5: You're going to die here. I wish Ben knew I
40:54
Speaker 5: had a show. I might be better off. We'll take
40:57
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40:59
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42:29
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Speaker 5: Walker were hanging around together. Welcome back. Robert Sesson is here.
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Speaker 5: Rusty Burson is here. This LSU Situation Boys Thursday will
44:06
Speaker 5: be the next court battle. And Ross Dellinger, who.
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Speaker 9: Ross is really good.
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Speaker 5: Pretty good reporter, right? Has his finger on the pulse.
44:16
Speaker 5: He's got his sources. Ross is a hard worker. He
44:19
Speaker 5: quotes a conference member representative. He didn't say if it's
44:25
Speaker 5: a president, a chancellor, a spokesperson. He didn't say. But
44:28
Speaker 5: it's not a janitor. It's an interesting quote. There are
44:32
Speaker 5: plenty of other schools. This is an SEC school official.
44:37
Speaker 5: There are plenty of other schools who will take their place,
44:41
Speaker 5: meaning LSU. Is that the threat we've come to?
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Speaker 11: No.
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Speaker 5: I mean, there are, and Dellinger had already said, there
44:51
Speaker 5: are high-level talks about some serious stuff going on within
44:55
Speaker 5: this league right now. Okay? SEC school executives are exploring
45:01
Speaker 5: extreme measures, says Dellinger, to address LSU plans to add
45:06
Speaker 5: former pro players, including boycotting competition. That's not going to work.
45:13
Speaker 5: We've already seen the Texas Tech thing. There are... ESPN
45:18
Speaker 5: controls all the TV. So they're not doing away with that.
45:23
Speaker 5: They're not taking A & M and LSU off TV
45:25
Speaker 5: in three weeks. Original radio. Sanctioning the schools with probation
45:31
Speaker 5: or expulsion and filing a federal legal challenge, which is
45:37
Speaker 5: going to happen either way on the decision Thursday. So
45:45
Speaker 5: it's going to be And Elko said it last week.
45:49
Speaker 5: Drakewood said it this week. He called it a clown show.
45:53
Speaker 5: Elko said it's ridiculous last Thursday that we're two days
45:58
Speaker 5: from starting the football season and we don't know what
46:01
Speaker 5: the rules are, right?
46:03
Speaker 9: Well, once again, you read all that stuff. I go
46:06
Speaker 9: back to when they come out and they said, okay,
46:08
Speaker 9: they're going to do five years, let everybody have five
46:11
Speaker 9: years of eligibility. Okay, you had to know what about
46:15
Speaker 9: the retro? You can't come in here and say, like,
46:19
Speaker 9: we're going to give everybody in this room $ 10, 000 extra.
46:23
Speaker 9: What about the guys last week who was just in here? Oh,
46:26
Speaker 9: that doesn't include them. It just includes you guys. Whenever
46:29
Speaker 9: you do something like that, unless you've got everything tied down,
46:33
Speaker 9: there's always going to be somebody have a lawsuit that,
46:37
Speaker 9: you know, you should have done it differently.
46:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's ridiculous. Every week there's something new. Let's go
46:45
Speaker 4: play the games.
46:46
Speaker 5: So Kiffin reportedly says, and I don't believe this, that
46:52
Speaker 5: I checked with the other players because that's been the thing.
46:56
Speaker 5: Other coaches have said, look, you've got guys that have
46:59
Speaker 5: been grinding in this heat now for six weeks. And
47:02
Speaker 5: you're going to tell them we're bringing in an NFL
47:05
Speaker 5: player at your position?
47:07
Speaker 13: Yeah.
47:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
47:09
Speaker 9: That's not good for the locker room.
47:10
Speaker 4: It's not good for morale.
47:13
Speaker 5: And they're getting paid how much versus me? It's going
47:15
Speaker 5: to get back.
47:16
Speaker 9: That's why colleges don't want out what these players are making.
47:19
Speaker 9: Because you don't want to be out like, okay, how
47:21
Speaker 9: much is, for example, how much is.
47:23
Speaker 5: A & M' s?
47:24
Speaker 9: A place kicker that transferred, how much is he making
47:26
Speaker 9: versus a freshman that came in?
47:27
Speaker 5: Yeah.
47:28
Speaker 9: Once again, people don't want to out there what people
47:30
Speaker 9: are making because suddenly they're going to look, well, hey,
47:33
Speaker 9: he's making more than that guy.
47:34
Speaker 4: Well, it goes back to like you get a scholarship player.
47:37
Speaker 4: Back in the old day, you get a scholarship player
47:38
Speaker 4: the chance before the walk-on because you'd invest money in that.
47:41
Speaker 5: Exactly.
47:42
Speaker 4: So if you've invested this much money in the kicker,
47:45
Speaker 4: you've got to give him the first opportunity versus the freshman.
47:48
Speaker 9: And the running back that was on scholarship, you're always
47:51
Speaker 9: sliding him money underneath the table. And so if he
47:53
Speaker 9: doesn't produce, you're really losing double. And right now, I
47:57
Speaker 9: get it. Money is out there. Everyone knows what they're
48:00
Speaker 9: being paid, but it's not public knowledge. We don't know
48:04
Speaker 9: what they do. And eventually, something like this could really
48:07
Speaker 9: come back to hurt everyone because It's like, hey, how
48:11
Speaker 9: much is that guy beside me making?
48:13
Speaker 12: Oh, yeah.
48:14
Speaker 11: Yeah.
48:14
Speaker 5: Kiffin has already clarified these guys can practice. They cannot
48:21
Speaker 5: be part yet of the 105-man roster until this decision
48:25
Speaker 5: Thursday is made. Well, that was nice of him. Lane
48:28
Speaker 5: says we're waiting. What we're waiting for is clarity this
48:33
Speaker 5: week from the SEC, which they can't give final clarity
48:36
Speaker 5: until Thursday's ruling.
48:38
Speaker 4: My prediction is he'll play against A & M and
48:40
Speaker 4: the next week can be pulled.
48:42
Speaker 5: Like Patti Ako?
48:43
Speaker 9: So Lane's got all those guys in a different lane.
48:46
Speaker 5: Yeah. Did you see the Dr. Pepper commercial this week? Oh,
48:49
Speaker 5: that was awesome. That was awesome. That was awesome. Phenomenal. Yeah,
48:52
Speaker 5: it was awesome. You're in the wrong lane. He got
48:55
Speaker 5: pulled over for being in the wrong lane. Awesome. Boss
48:57
Speaker 5: is telling him you're in the wrong lane.
48:59
Speaker 9: And you know what else he does? He puts the
49:01
Speaker 9: window up.
49:02
Speaker 5: Yeah, he just rolls the window up. It's a great commercial.
49:04
Speaker 9: He felt it was the SEC. He just put the
49:06
Speaker 9: window up.
49:07
Speaker 5: He does a door dash. I haven't seen that one. No, no.
49:11
Speaker 5: Who was the Florida State quarterback that stole the crabs?
49:15
Speaker 5: James Winston. James Winston's in the commercial getting a plate
49:19
Speaker 5: full of crabs. Redsy Bush is standing on the balcony
49:23
Speaker 5: of a huge mansion going, this is a nice house.
49:26
Speaker 5: And Lane is on the porch with DoorDash. It's awesome.
49:30
Speaker 5: That is good. That is good. You want to laugh
49:32
Speaker 5: at people's faces? Pay me.
49:35
Speaker 9: Here's the deal.
49:35
Speaker 4: It's like the SMU in the Trans Am, right?
49:38
Speaker 5: Yes.
49:38
Speaker 9: Yeah, we can sit here, but you know what?
49:40
Speaker 5: We're going to go see a football game. No, no.
49:42
Speaker 9: That's all that matters.
49:43
Speaker 5: We get to talk about the game. That's all that matters.
49:45
Speaker 9: I'm going to see players. Coaches are going to be there.
49:48
Speaker 9: Fans are going to be there.
49:49
Speaker 11: Yes, sir.
49:49
Speaker 5: And we've already said. We're going to talk about the game.
49:51
Speaker 5: It's going to be interesting to watch this year, and
49:54
Speaker 5: I suspect it's going to be the same as last year.
49:58
Speaker 5: They set some records last year. for attendance, for viewing.
50:04
Speaker 5: So everybody that's saying it's ruining college football, it hasn't
50:08
Speaker 5: done it yet. It's increased, in my mind, the national
50:16
Speaker 5: broad perception of people that are on the fringe of
50:19
Speaker 5: college football who are seeing all these headlines and on
50:23
Speaker 5: national newscasts this stuff is making. So, so far, no
50:29
Speaker 5: such thing as bad publicity. You're right. It's publicity.
50:33
Speaker 9: Just announce the name of the school right.
50:35
Speaker 4: Except for TCU. That was bad publicity.
50:38
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, you can't do that.
50:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the only bad thing.
50:40
Speaker 5: No, no, there are certain things you cannot do.
50:42
Speaker 4: Right.
50:43
Speaker 12: Right.
50:43
Speaker 9: But then Sonny Dyches is going to say, I need
50:46
Speaker 9: more money to go out and buy better players. We're
50:49
Speaker 9: not spending $ 40 million.
50:50
Speaker 5: Sonny's another one that has a contract.
50:52
Speaker 4: He needs to buy better covers, I guess.
50:56
Speaker 5: He needs better security in the locker room. And he
50:59
Speaker 5: wants 10 more million dollars. I mean, he.
51:02
Speaker 4: That's a train wreck right there.
51:04
Speaker 5: It can be.
51:05
Speaker 9: But I think what we're going to see is you
51:08
Speaker 9: can see some quick train wrecks in college sports.
51:11
Speaker 5: Well, that's one.
51:12
Speaker 4: How quickly were they playing for the national championship?
51:14
Speaker 5: Three years ago. Not that long ago. Yeah.
51:17
Speaker 9: But they're not making $ 40 million to keep up.
51:21
Speaker 5: And as his critics have pointed out, a lot of
51:25
Speaker 5: those players were Gary Patterson's players. Very true. Very true.
51:28
Speaker 5: Very true. So... Because you win one year.
51:32
Speaker 4: That doesn't mean anything.
51:33
Speaker 5: What did we just say? Chip and I were walking
51:35
Speaker 5: over today, and I still go back. I've been in
51:37
Speaker 5: the business a long time. Indiana won the national championship.
51:41
Speaker 11: Yeah.
51:41
Speaker 5: When you think that Indiana won the national championship. Which
51:44
Speaker 5: puts pressure on everybody.
51:46
Speaker 9: Which it can be done. The worst program ever.
51:48
Speaker 5: It can be done. It can be done.
51:50
Speaker 11: Right?
51:50
Speaker 9: And everybody thinks. They were worse than Kansas State at
51:52
Speaker 9: one time.
51:52
Speaker 5: I want to be them. I want to be them.
51:54
Speaker 4: And the hell of us won the national championship.
51:55
Speaker 5: And the hell of us won the national championship.
51:57
Speaker 9: I want to be them.
51:59
Speaker 5: I do not want to be TCU. How can we
52:01
Speaker 5: be Indiana?
52:01
Speaker 9: I don't want to be TCU.
52:03
Speaker 5: If Indiana can do it, anybody can do it.
52:05
Speaker 9: Hey, right now, people want to be Texas Tech?
52:07
Speaker 8: Yes.
52:08
Speaker 4: Well, Texas Tech's going to be in the playoff.
52:10
Speaker 5: They are.
52:10
Speaker 4: There's no doubt. I mean, they're going to win.
52:12
Speaker 5: Unless something weird happens.
52:13
Speaker 4: Big 12, yeah.
52:15
Speaker 5: They're going to win.
52:15
Speaker 9: What if they could buy a new landscape?
52:17
Speaker 5: They have like six of the top 100 players, and
52:23
Speaker 5: all on defense, by the way. So they're going to
52:25
Speaker 5: be nasty defensively.
52:27
Speaker 4: Just like they were last year.
52:28
Speaker 5: Just like they were last year. They're going to be
52:30
Speaker 5: just as nasty. And I think you're right. Unless something
52:34
Speaker 5: weird happens, Rusty, they will be in the playoffs.
52:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, they had to really screw up.
52:39
Speaker 5: I think I told Seth. Maybe it was Dusty I
52:42
Speaker 5: told this. So, Cody Campbell, ats Mac Engel of the
52:48
Speaker 5: Star-Telegram on Twitter Saturday, and says... Come on up. We
52:53
Speaker 5: have plenty of room in our press box.
52:55
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
52:56
Speaker 5: That's awesome. Well, you know what?
52:58
Speaker 12: That's awesome.
52:59
Speaker 4: That's a response to what TCU was doing on their
53:03
Speaker 4: Twitter when Texas Tech was in the spotlight.
53:05
Speaker 5: Correct.
53:06
Speaker 4: Because they really went after Texas Tech.
53:08
Speaker 5: Of course they did.
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Speaker 4: And, you know, the old back and forth here.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. I like that. It's a lot quieter now.
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Speaker 5: That's interesting. It's a lot quieter now.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: The games this week aren't great, guys. I mean, I
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Speaker 5: like SMU Florida State. That's the Monday night game.
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Speaker 4: I think LSU is going to kill Clemson. You do?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I think Dabo is done.
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Speaker 5: Interesting.
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Speaker 9: I think this is a big game for Dabo. Because
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Speaker 9: he doesn't like to go to the transfer portal.
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Speaker 5: But he's done it now. He slid down. He's gone down.
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Speaker 5: We'll see. He's like Mike Krzyzewski who came out going, oh,
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Speaker 5: we're not taking what he does.
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Speaker 4: I just know that if Lane gets a chance to, yeah,
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Speaker 4: he's going to.
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Speaker 5: Put it on him?
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Lane will put it on anybody. He'll put it on anybody. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I just, I don't know what all, you can say
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Speaker 5: what you want. I don't know what all this stuff
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Speaker 5: has done. I can't believe it will have no effect
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Speaker 5: in that locker room. No, you're probably right. That's a
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Speaker 5: good point. And especially if they win Thursday and the
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Speaker 5: two NFL players come on the roster. And they're starting.
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Speaker 5: Take other people's spots. I can't imagine that that will
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Speaker 5: have no effect. That's a good point. That's a real
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Speaker 5: good point, Chip. So I'm looking at that game. I'm
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Speaker 5: looking at SMU, Florida State.
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Speaker 4: SMU is better, I think.
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Speaker 5: I do, too. And I'm looking at Louisville at Ole
54:32
Speaker 5: Miss in Nashville. Ooh. Because I think Louisville is pretty good.
54:37
Speaker 5: Baylor plays a game. Baylor and Auburn. Auburn, yeah. Last
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Speaker 5: year they played a close game in Waco. This one's
54:43
Speaker 5: in Atlanta. I want to see what that one is.
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Speaker 5: I think Dave Aranda's done there.
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Speaker 4: He may be done there, right.
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Speaker 5: You're closer to that than I am.
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Speaker 4: They may switch. Baylor and TCU coaches may switch because
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Speaker 4: they like each other so much.
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Speaker 5: Can you imagine this year loser goes home? Yeah. I mean,
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Speaker 5: they do not like each other. No, they do not
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Speaker 5: like each other. Those Baptists and Christians do not get along.
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Speaker 4: The old holy war, yes.
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Speaker 5: That would be a good one. Boys, we'll have a
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Speaker 5: real game to talk about next Monday.
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