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Day two of the MAAA Conference in Biloxi - Hall of Fame Inductions, sports gaming and more · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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three point thirty we'll talk a little Alabama Auburn. This transfer portal deal just
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continues to roll downhill for Alabama. Massive exodus in Tuscaloosa. Bobby Hall will
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join us at four o'clock. Bobby Hall is down here and was inducted into
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the m Triple A Hall of Fame today. Wonderful career for Bobby Hall.
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We'll talk to Coach Hall about that. Also, Rophilisparza at four point thirty
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and then we'll also catch up with Tom Gladney, who was also inducted into
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the twenty twenty four m Triple A Hall of Fame. B behind the world.
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Are you how's the weather back in Jackson. I'll get that official weather
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update as we move along. All right, we got some other stuff to
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get into us we move along here. I want to say thanks to CDFL
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Sports. What's next for Alabama? We jumped into some of this yesterday.
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We'll carry on with this kind of looking at some other coaches around the circuit,
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excuse me, and really kind of trying to see, you know,
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there's no way to know which way this whole thing with Kaitlyn de Boor is
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going to go. You look at the mass exit. It's a talent and
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that's that's not gonna help Alabama. Still going to extremely talented, but we'll
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get into that. Nine Arizona football players have entered the transfer portal in the
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past thirty minutes. Now, this was yesterday last night, almost twenty hours
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ago. Among the group was running back Jonah Coleman, who tallied eleven hundred
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and fifty four yards and six touchdowns this past season. So he is in
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the transfer port along with nine Arizona football players after Jed Fish left that program
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for Washington. Alabama cornerback our defensive back Antonio Kite has committed to Auburn,
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so he'll stay in state, but he's going to go play for the other
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school in the state, Alabama to Auburn. Also, Jerry Glanville. If
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you remember Jerry Glanville, you know he's still coaching. I had no idea
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that Jerry Glandville is still coaching. Defensive coordinator Division two Northwestern Oklahoma State.
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Glanville, eighty two, has fifty seven years of coaching experience, including eight
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years in the NFL. He joins the Rangers, who were one to ten
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last year. South Alabama offensive coordinator Major app Applewhite was promoted to the Jacks
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coach head coach, replacing Kane Womack, who just left for the DC job
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at Alabama. So Major apple White will be the head football coach at South
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Alabama. Former New Mexico State coach Jerry Keel joins Vanderbilt as a I like
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this title here chief consultant to the head coach and offensive advisor. So I
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hope he brings with him some smoke. He is going to be bringing a
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quarterback. Diego Pavilla transfers into Vanderbilt from New Mexico State. Also, Dan
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Witsil reports the US Department of Justice has joined the Attorney General of Ohio and
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ten other states in a lawsuit against the NCAA that would allow the allow for
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players to transfer more than once without penalty. So, I mean, you've
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got the Department of Justice in on this now, the Attorney General of Ohio
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and others in this case, it says Columbus Ohio. In a show of
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support for competition in the labor market, the US Department of Justice today joined
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the multi state lawsuit led by Ohio Ohio Attorney General David Yost that challenges the
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NCAA transfer eligibility rule as an illegal restraint on college athletes' ability to sell their
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image and likeness and control their education. Also signing on today were the states
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of Minnesota, Mississippi, and Virginia, and the District of Columbia, bringing
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the total number of Attorney generals who are backing litigation to eleven quote, there
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is strengthened numbers, said Yost, whose offices are office, filed the lawsuit
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on December seventh in the U. S. District Court of or Northern District
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Chause ME of West Virginia. The case would never have come to pass had
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many players not been sidelined by the NCAA's arbitrary and unfair rule. We're fighting
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for better competition and long term change. So Mississippi's in on this as well
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as rosst Ellinger reports on this the eleventh Congressional hearing of College Athlete Athletics.
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It's over. The hearing unlikely, like many of the others, was specifically
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focused on a draft from a bill from Congress from Ted Cruz and Corey Booker
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to get this thing done today, and that was pretty much the reason to
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be there today. Texas recruiting insider George Hamilton has logged a prediction for the
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Longhorns to land Alabama transfer tight end Amari Niblick. So again, Texas is
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pillaging Alabama as well. So Niblick is off to Texas to play for Steve
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Sarkeesian. Also, Miami tight end Cam McCormick has announced he will return for
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his ninth season of college football. We'll get into the store's wild story.
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He was in the same recruiting class as Jalen Hurts and Nick Bosa and he
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is still playing college football, which is absolutely wild. Also, Georgia and
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Ohio State are the teams to watch for Alabama defensive back in transfer Caleb Downs.
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The Dogs currently have the upper hand per Pete Nacos, So you know
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you're looking at Hios State or Georgia going to get a big Alabama player there
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on the defensive backfield. He loves Michigan, but the NFL he loves that
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too, so we'll have to see John Harball speaks on Jim Harball's pending decision
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at Michigan, so we will get into that story as well. And when
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you kind of get caught up on the latest transfer portal news late cycle,
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Paine for Alabama, Washington and Arizona, Texas A and M has somewhat of
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a rosteryload going on. Texas reworked to their wide receiver room, I mean
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unbelievably. Well, we'll get into that. Florida State's Alabama takes and the
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new faces in familiar places. We'll get into this courtesy of two four seven
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When you look at the overall best players since the transfer portal's kind of been
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going on over the last few years. Anyway, Kayla Williams is going to
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stack up at the top, even though you know, we talk about some
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of the negative connotation with him wanting this for the draft or that from the
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draft and mc kail. Williams really good football player. Goes from Oklahoma to
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USC rated number one on two four seven sports dot com. Quinn Yours,
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Ohio State to Texas, number two, Travis Hunter, Jackson State to Colorado.
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We'll see what kind of a season he has coming up out in Colorado.
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This will be his last year likely in college. Caleb Downs in the
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transfer portal, don't know where he's gonna go yet. Uh, Caden Proctor,
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Alabama, don't know where he's gonna go. Walter Nolan listed at number
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six, He's headed to Ole Miss Jamiir Gibbs Georgia Tech played at Alabama.
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Jordan Addison Pittsburgh to USC, don and Mitchell Georgia over to Texas. And
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then of course you got two more HERESAA Bond Alabama to Texas and then Evan
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Stewart Texas A and M to Oklahoma. That's kind of your ten best that
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have done this through this, you know, two or three year cycle six
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It is NFL Super Super Weekend number two, so to speak. We'll
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ever out feel Asparza on at four point thirty to talk about that when you
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get kind of caught up on the lines for the weekend. Houston at Baltimore
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still a nine and a half point advantage in favor of the Ravens. They
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are minus nine and a half a total at forty three three and a half.
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Green Bay at San Francisco. San Francisco is a nine and a half
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point favorite. That total sits at fifty and a half. Tampa Bay at
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Detroit. Detroit is a six and a half point favorite, and that total
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sits at forty nine, and then Kansas City at Buffalo. Buffalo is a
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three point favorite. That total is forty five and a half forty five and
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a half. So that's your four games this weekend in the National Football League.
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We've got some other stories that we'll get into like a major front runner
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for Bill Belichick's service. His services has emerged and baring snag, this very
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well could happen. We'll get into that story and grading second year college coaches
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from Billy Napier to Kaylyn de Bor which obviously second year coach at Washington now
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first year coach at Alabama, and the ACC seeks to block Florida State from
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league affairs an amended complaint as school explores an exit strategy, an exit option.
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So the battle between the ACC and Florida State continues to churn, continues
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to move forward, and it is not getting any any better. And I
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just don't know that this is a quote unquote marriage that can be repaired between
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Florida State and the ACC. Six R one nine ninety five one zero six
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five to nine. And former Cardinals head coach Cliff Kingsbury, a senior offensive
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analyst and quarterbacks coach at USC, is expected to interview for the Chicago Bears
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offensive coordinator job. Per sources, Kingsbury his USC quarterback Caleb Williams is expected
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to receive strong consideration there as well. So we saw Cliff Kingsbury parlay Kyler
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Murray to an NFL job, and it looks like he may do the same
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Thursday. Hey brother Jake, listen, Uh, I haven't heard much.
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I know y'all may have mentioned it. I haven't. I just tuned in,
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But I haven't heard much about ars Manning, what his decision is going
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to be. I was thinking he didn't or couldn't afford to stay and sit
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on the bench another year and wait for him to decide what to do.
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So, I mean I was thinking that he would transfer to someone where,
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a big school where he could start immediately and play you know, three to
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four years. Yeah, I mean as of right now. I mean arch
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Manning. You know, if if you looked at some things on arch Manning,
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he's at Texas even like a guy like arch Manning. I mean,
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he could use last year's as basically a red shirt, and I believe I'm
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right on that. Let me see how many snaps he took last year,
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how many games he played in. But let's just say for the sake of
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this argument, he said, you know, he's red shirts last year,
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this would be his first year. Then he'd still have three to play.
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So and Quinn, you wers, you know this will be the last year
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at Texas, so we'll see what happens with him. But as of right
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now, I mean he is he only played in two games last year,
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so he essentially red shirted last year. So right now, everything's safe and
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sound for him at Texas. Yeah, yeah, definitely. But I mean
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he could pretty much go anywhere he wanted to and possibly start immediately. You
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know, he could he probably even compete at Old Miss. But anyway,
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I was just checking in on it. Man, I appreciate it, absolutely
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appreciate it. Six or one eight nine seven, one zero five nine.
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If you got a question or you got to comment on something, there is
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a let's see. Back right before the end of the year, Arch Manning
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addressed transfer rumors out there. He says, quote, I haven't looked into
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transferring at all, he said to CBS is a CBS Austin's Bob Blue.
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I'm just focused on developing and helping this team win any way I can and
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hopefully one day playing for the University of Texas like I always or I wanted
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to do since I got here. So, you know, at least right
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now, it looks like everything is set in stone that he'll stay at Texas.
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But everything could change. And right now the trans for portal window is
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closed until after spring practice, and that'll be that short window. And you
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know, I don't know that he would jump in there necessarily, you know,
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at the end of that either six or one eight eight five three seven
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Well, very good, thank you, more bully, and a text that
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we cannot read. Florida State saw twenty twenty three call zor ahead of the
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acc exit fight, and this courtesy of Sportico. Florida State University says it
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spent one hundred and seventy two million on athletics and twenty twenty two and twenty
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three, a twenty two million dollars spike from the previous year. However,
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the similar revenue did not keep pace over that same period of time, increasing
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only by nine million from one hundred and sixty one million to one hundred and
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seventy million. In light of this, Florida State's athletics reported ending the twenty
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twenty three fiscal year with an overall deficit of two point five million, having
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previously claimed a ten point four million surplus in fiscal year twenty twenty two.
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It's the latest lens on a seminole's program that has been very vocal about financially
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falling behind its rivalries and rivals in other conferences. Florida State is currently suing
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to get out of the ACC in hopes of landing in a richer league,
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and the schools also in talks with raising private equity funds to bridge the revenue
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gap. These Florida State numbers or FSU numbers come from the schools NCAA membership
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financial reporting disclosures, which Sportico obtained through public public records request. It is
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not entirely clear from the report what constituted the sharp increase in call a sizeable
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chunk of which forty nine million was attributed to quote other operating expenses. So
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when you kind of look at Florida State, this kind of sheds a little
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bit of a light. While they're you know, obviously they're in the whole
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two point five million this past year. They're wanting out, they want more
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revenue. They kind of have the the Patrick Ewing effect here or mentality,
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Hey, we make a lot of money, but we spend a lot of
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money too. Florida State Athletics expenses and revenues again, you can see a
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drastic jump football and non football football obviously run runs the show there as it
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does everywhere. One hundred and fifty point eight million in twenty twenty one to
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twenty two, and then one hundred and seventy two point one million in twenty
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two twenty three. That's expensive. The revenue again, one's sixty one point
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one in twenty one twenty two. The revenue jumped again another seven million,
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or right at it, one sixty nine point six in twenty two to twenty
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three, but again more expenses. Even though you had more revenue, their
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expenses drove that higher. On the positive side to the leg of Florida State
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saw a particularly notable increase in football revenue, thanks to in part to Bowl
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money and a big jump in a year over year ticket sales from fifteen point
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one million and twenty one twenty two to twenty two point eight million in twenty
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two to twenty three. In all, the school's football related revenue was ninety
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one million last fiscal year, as compared to seventy eight million in the previous
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year. However, the cost of fielding its football program also increased dramatically,
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from fifty four point six million to seventy seventy seventy five point six million.
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So just a little news there on Florida State and why you may be seeing
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them, seeing them beat the drums, so to speak, to get out
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of the acc and try to make that happen. Miami tight end Cam McCormick
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announces he will return for an unprecedented ninth year in college football. This is
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just this is a wild story. Miami tight end Cam McCormick has made a
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decision on the twenty twenty four NFL Draft and says he opts to return turned
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to school for the twenty four season rather than enter the pro ranks. His
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decision means he'll be returning to college for an unprecedented ninth year after spending the
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first seasons of his career at Oregon. He announced the news on his Twitter
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account McCormick transferred to Miami I headed the twenty twenty three season, where he
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had somewhat of a limited impact for the Hurricanes. McCormick recorded eight cattus for
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sixty two yards while appearing in all thirteen games and started eleven of them.
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He initially joined the organ program in twenty sixteen and received a few additional years
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of eligibility thanks to various injuries and COVID nineteen. Prior to enrolling at Oregon,
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KEM McCormick was a three star prospect and the number four hundred and seventieth
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overall recruiting twenty sixteen in that class, and that is according to authree dot
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com. He also checked in at number twenty seven on the tight end list
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that year as well, a number four player from the state of Oregon.
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The twenty twenty four NFL Draft, of course, will be held in Detroit,
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Michigan, with the first round on Thursday, April twenty fifth. So
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nine years, I mean, this guy has seen a lot go on.
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You think about nine years in college, I just I can't even imagine it.
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I just cannot imagine nine years in college. Twenty twenty four NFL Power
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rankings for the quarterbacks. With the quarterbacks that are left in the NFL playoffs,
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you have, you know, just a handful of Now Josh Allen number
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one on this list by cbssports dot com, Patrick Mahomes number two, right
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there with him as well, Lamar Jackson number three. Now again this is
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we've seen Mahomes play, we saw Alan play, Lamar Jackson back in action.
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I would we'll see what he does this weekend. I would actually have
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him at number one, Lamar at number three, Brock Purty at number four.
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He's back in action this weekend. CJ. Stroud at number five,
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Jordan Love at number six, Jared Goff number seven, and Baker Mayfield checks
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in at number eight. So in Baker Mayfield, boy, he's playing for
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a big check this weekend, really really big check this weekend. If somehow
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they could get a win, I don't think it's going to happen. And
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he is on your radio. Brett Welcome in, sir. How you doing
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Jenks, I'm doing funs telling Ben it's been an amazing week to Day's our
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first day back on the air, the Shells area received four to seven inches
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of snow along with freezing rain and ice, and our producer literally the hour,
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Ben could not get to the station for three days. All of the
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roads have been closed. But we're warm and safe and that's all the matters.
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Absolutely, And I hope you guys you know that that ends sooner rather
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than later. That's that's never fun to have that much ice and snow and
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be kind of locked in like that. Speaking of locked in or locked out,
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everyhew you want to frame it up. Calen de bores having a little
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bit of a problem with the transfer portal in Alabama. When you look at
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the exodus, shall we say, of Alabama players, are you surprised by
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this? I'm surprised that the sheer number. Now I knew they were going
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to lose quite a bit of players because Alabama was quite what was quite significantly
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over the eighty five limit. I think now they're down to eighty three.
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Some of these guys, I thought, because of sheer numbers, would and
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again Alabama had lost fifteen players before Nick Saban announced that he was retiring,
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and again a lot of these kids were going to move on because of a
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numbers game that they were on the depth chart. But when you aren't losing
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starting players such as a Caden Proctor, he's probably going back to Iowa or
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Ohio State. Caleb Downs, I think the best defensive player in the country
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may be going to either Georgia Ohio State. Alabama is certainly trying to see
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if they can get him back, and so much of this is involved in
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pay for play. I understand the disappointment you come to school, want you
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to play for a legendary coach. But to answer your question, I knew
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a lot of this was coming, but that the broade that Alabama's experienced in
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the last three or four days, including such key players, Yes, that's
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been a little bit of a surprise. Brett Beard talking Alabama exodus on your
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radio Thursday edition of the Program of Brett. When you look at Auburn,
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though I mean Auburn, it looks like they have done at least a decent
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job in the transfer portal. How do you kind of rate what they've done
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so far up to this point. I think they've been able to stem the
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time pardon the pun Now they lost two what I thought was two key players.
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We talked to Jason Colwell of Inside the Auburn Tigers on our show today
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and it surprised him that linebacker Kim Riley is gonna move on, Donovan Kaufman
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is gone. Those are really two key players. Now again, there were
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quite a few of the players. They literally announced like yesterday that Derek Nicks,
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as you well know, coming from Old Miss, they're gonna promote Ken
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Austin as a quarterbacks coach. They're still waiting on Chris Kiffin as a possible
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defensive coordinator. He's with the Texans and they've got to wait until the weekend
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Helcia that comes out. DJ Durkins team has been thrown away around for a
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lot of schools Maryland coach who had some issues. But they have been able
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to slow this down a little bit. Now. They picked up Antonio Kite
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who was at Alabama for a couple of seasons. Uh there, and Charles
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Kelly was his coach or basically he recruited him at Alabama. So now he's
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at Auburn. But dan's your question. They're they're going to still have some
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that come and go. They actually added the Saint Jaron Thompson, a four
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year contributor at Texas. Uh, but I think they're going to there's I
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think he's just going to be a slow league from now on. I asked
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him about Will Rogers, who you're more than familiar with, about the possibility
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he's been linked to Auburn or one of six teams, whatever it is that
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Will Rogers may be interested in, and and Jason mentioned, well, Uh,
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I think, uh, Will Rogers wants Auburn more than Auburn wants Will
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Rogers. And you know more about that than I do. But I think
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they've been able to stem the flow. They may still probably lose a couple
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more, but they've been bringing in more than they've lost in the last couple
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of weeks. Speaking of quarterbacks, with Robbie Ashford now gone to South Carolina,
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will they'd look to the portal that would be Auburn for another quarterback?
26:25
Or is this Peyton Thorn's team next year or this year? Coming out?
26:26
Bill? Yeah, everything. We've been told that they're gonna stay with Payton
26:32
Thorn through the spring. That's gonna be a key spring for him. Now
26:37
again, if you've got a starting quarterback. If you for less than one
26:42
hundred yards five times last year, that obviously can't continue. You and I
26:48
mentioned on your show last time I was on it, the way they look
26:51
at the transfer portal for cornerbacks. To get a high caliber quarterback, you're
26:56
gonna have to shell out a million dollars and they would rather spread money around
27:00
and trying to make the pieces around Peyton Thorn better. But it's going to
27:06
depend upon the spring. If Thorn has a good spring, he has a
27:10
good spring game, that could probably stay with him and trying to make the
27:15
offensive line and the receivers better. But if he struggles again in the spring,
27:21
I think Hugh Freeze is gonna look for somebody else. Brett Beard on
27:25
your radio Excuse Me, Thursday edition of the program, talking Alabama and Auburn
27:29
sports. Speaking of Auburn, Brett, why I got you on here real
27:30
quickly? For and O in conference playing basketball fifteen and two off to a
27:36
great start on the hardwood. They're playing really well. Boy is that ever
27:40
gonna be quite a game between Alabama and Auburn and Tuscaloosa next Wednesday. But
27:47
Bruce Pearl probably has more down and they've got ol Miss on Saturday than he's
27:52
hand ever since his Final four team, Jalen Wims has really come into his
27:59
own. He scored one points against Vanderbilt Cardwell and another big. Auburn has
28:06
everything. They've got seven strength and doubt in the point, in the front
28:12
line, and then they've got really a lot of depthy guard. This is
28:18
an Auburn team to be reckon with. But they've gone oh Miss Saturday,
28:22
Alabama Wednesday, and Mischiep State a week from Saturday. It's a gallant for
28:27
them. We'll we'll find out a lot more about Auburn in the next three
28:30
games. Yeah, I mean, and you look at the league at least
28:33
in the early GOO and I mean Auburn, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee.
28:37
You look at Georgia, lsu Ole, Miss, South Carolina, you go
28:41
all the way down even to Mississippi State and maybe Florida. I mean,
28:44
this is you could argue this is as deep as the league has been in
28:47
quite some time, maybe ever. Yeah, Jake, I've been hearing eight
28:51
to nine teams and again we've heard that before in the SEC. That gets
28:56
down to the final two weeks of the season and two or three two or
29:00
three of these guys fall by the wayside. But Chris Beard has done wonders
29:04
for O. Miss Alabama being Miss b State Saturday night to Loo Smith.
29:11
It makes them a very good team. Florida I believe is much improved.
29:15
Georgia is much improved. With Paris that South Carolina, they've looked like a
29:22
different team. Alabama's facing Tennessee Saturday in Knoxville and Dalton Connects has been averaging
29:30
thirty three points a game for the last three games. No question, this
29:34
is a very deep, intelligently Brett. We appreciate your time. Make sure
29:38
to find him on x Also check out their show twelve to two The Booming
29:42
and Bug Show, each day Monday through Friday in the Great State of Alabama.
29:45
Bret, I hope everything dries out over there and it gets a little
29:48
warmer, and I hope I hope everybody as well. Thank you, Bud.
29:51
I always enjoy the visits. Same here. Appreciate it. Brett Beard
29:53
on your radio talking Auburn and Alabama again, Auburn, Alabama, fournoh and
29:57
SEC playing basketball. They'll play next week Auburn fifteen and two right there,
30:03
Well, Miss fifteen and two, But the Tigers undefeated excuse me in league
30:07
play and uh look to stay that way. Alabama and Auburn the only two
30:11
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other interviews tagged up for you here or teed up for you here today as
31:45
the m TRIPA Hall of Fame inductees today Tom Gladney and Bobby Hall. And
31:52
when you look at the Hall of Fame members and the Missipi Athletic Administrators Association
31:56
Hall of Fame was established in twenty seventeen to recognize and honor the outstanding careers
32:02
of our deserving athletic administrators to the state of Mississippi. The date that they
32:07
have honored thirteen. Today they've honored thirteen very distinguished and deserving athletic administrators.
32:14
This year they honor some more as well, so you get back, you
32:16
know. Started out with Lynn Callahan twenty seventeen, in Ze Bryant twenty eighteen,
32:22
Ennis Proctor twenty eighteen, Roy Garcia twenty nineteen, along with William pop
32:27
Allen twenty nineteen. Twenty twenty saw two inductees Jerry Alexander and Robert Turnage.
32:32
Also Lonnie Tilman twenty twenty one, Karen Green twenty twenty one. In twenty
32:37
twenty two, you had Lynn Moore and Widie Barnett, David Bradberry in twenty
32:42
three, also Stanley Miller twenty three. In your twenty four inductees, Tom
32:46
Gladney and Bobby Hall. Be you ever anything on your end we need to
32:50
catch up on. Yeah, let's see texts here from Tommy Anaheim says I've
32:59
heard of the five year plan, but a nine year plan? Dang,
33:05
that is wild. What are your thoughts on that? How do you get
33:06
I don't even know how you get nine years. I mean, I know
33:08
that there's a COVID year, and there's you know, this appeal to the
33:12
NCT of like nine years. Be really honest. Aubrey just left, so
33:17
I didn't get to hear any of that conversation. I don't know who you're
33:20
speaking of. That's fair enough. That's fair enough, all right, So
33:24
we go back up here. Miami tight end Cam McCormick announces he's returning for
33:29
another year to college. This will be his ninth season. He started out
33:34
with Oregon. This guy was in the same recruiting class with Jalen Hurts and
33:37
Joey Bosa, but initially joined Oregon in twenty sixteen, who received a few
33:42
additional years of eligibility to various injuries in COVID nineteen nine years. You know
33:49
what that's that's so ridiculous sounding that I like it. I support this man
33:54
very well. He needs it, and we can't say kid. He is
33:59
a man. He's he's a grown man now at this point, he is
34:01
a grown man playing college ball possum Nick Joe, says Brock Heward, whose
34:07
brother coaches for usc IS, warning teams to stay away from Caleb Williams.
34:13
Bears would be crazy to trade fields and take him number one. There's just
34:19
a lot of smoke around Kayle Williams. And I don't know if you heard
34:22
this or not if you were talking to Aubrey. Looks like Cliff Kingsbury could
34:24
be in the running for the offensive coordinator job at the Bears. Yeah,
34:30
I did see that mentioned. Yeah, Hey, as long as Kingsbury is
34:35
a coordinator, I think he's a good coordinator, just doesn't need to be
34:37
in charge. I would agree with that. Well, that'll catch us up
34:42
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Keith Hardy on your radio tomorrow again. Four NFL games coming up this weekend.
34:57
You've got a lot of stuff that you can play to click on.
35:00
Several NBA games. You've got two, four or five that you can play
35:02
today in the National Basketball Association. Also college basketball is out there for the
35:07
weekend, so you should have a really good time if, of course,
35:10
if you're in the sports betting market. And a lot of boxing on Saturday,
35:15
a lot of boxing on Saturday if you like the fisticuffs in the hand
35:20
to hand combat. Shall we say, all right? Let me move over
35:22
here. All right, so it looks like Ian Rappaport, let me go
35:27
back over here and pull this report from ian Ian Rapperport on Bill Belichick,
35:34
because it looks like things are moving pretty pure with Bill Belichick right now and
35:38
well. First, former Titans coach Mike Rabel is in LA today interviewing for
35:43
the Chargers head coaching job. Per sources. It's the first known interview for
35:47
Rabel forty eight, who is fifty four and forty five with the replayoff trips
35:52
in six seasons with the Tennessee Titans. Also a little bit more NFL news
35:57
here from Ian Rappaport, trying to find the one on Bill Belichick. Let's
36:02
see here there it is. Falcon CEO Rich McKay and general manager Terry Fontiney
36:12
are among those who will be with Arthur Blank in a meeting with Bill Belichick,
36:16
and of course he's set to have his second interview with the Falcons this
36:21
week. As Beaver, do you think Bill Belichick is headed to Atlanta?
36:27
Dad is just too weird of a fit for me. It is weird,
36:32
And you know Belichick's Belichick's problem has been the quarterback spot since Tom Brady left.
36:42
Well, you're going to walk into a situation with Desmond Ritter and Heinike.
36:49
Those are your quarterbacks. I assume they would draft one. But still
36:53
in Atlanta, when you have no quarterback, you're just gonna repeat. I
36:58
think they're just gonna repeat the same thing that just happened with Mac Jones in
37:00
New England. If you were to go there, I think you're probably right.
37:06
I just that doesn't seem like that's a good fit. But I mean,
37:07
again, who am I so that that is happening? Also, it
37:15
looks like the Cowboys are going to stay with Mike McCarthy. We do have
37:19
I can't remember who it was in the media that said Dak Prescott's basically Tony
37:22
Romo reincarnated, So we will get to that story. Roger Goodell once again
37:28
claims NFL officiating is great, and fans once again disagree. So last year
37:34
during the plaus Rodger Goodell told the media quote for us, when you look
37:37
at the officiating, I don't think it's ever been better in the league.
37:40
Many NFL fans wondered what actually Goodell had watched This year. In many opinions
37:47
of fans, NFL officiating has only somehow managed to get even worse. Not
37:52
that you would have known it if you've listened to Roger Goodell this week,
37:55
during a question in a Q and A session with Mike Tarico while promoting the
38:00
twenty twenty four NFL Draft in Detroit, the NFL Commissioner was asked about the
38:04
state of officiating. Quote we spent the last five minutes backstage talking officiating,
38:08
Tico said, causing Goodell to have himself a bit of a belly laugh quote.
38:14
And it's been a big point of contention for every fan, right,
38:17
Cherico asked the crowd, to a smattering of applause, but on all serious
38:22
quote, I said this to the commission, and I'm happy to say it
38:24
publicly when we broadcast the game. We're not perfect. Quote. I blew
38:29
two identifications this weekend called the wrong player. Analyst isn't analysts are not perfect,
38:35
and coaches aren't perfect. Quarterbacks aren't perfect. They throw in completions.
38:38
And running backs aren't perfect ever either. Teriko then tossed a complimentary word salad
38:45
to Goodell, opening the door for him to talk about officiating. Quote,
38:47
the league works at it all the time to try to get it right.
38:52
And that's the appreciation I think folks involved in the business, involved in the
38:55
community, involved in trying to get a better product, and it's it's not
39:00
going to work, or shall we say make it better. I think at
39:04
every level we're working to do that. So Goodell again, you know,
39:07
he's not going to throw his officials under the bus. He's not going to
39:10
say anything that is going to put them in a bad light. So that's
39:15
Roger Goodell. And again, you talk about Roger Goodell, a guy that's
39:17
not extremely popular amongst his fans, but a multi billion dollar sport. And
39:22
again we'll get more news on Bill Belichick. Also there's a story out here
39:27
we'll get into later. Should NIL collectives be considered athletes employers? This is
39:31
from Sportco as we continue to dissect in the conversations nationally about NIL transfer portal
39:38
and you know, the collectives and everything that's going on in college sports.
39:43
And Ross Bjorke outlines keys to a strong speaking of an il NIL fundraising at
39:49
Ohio State. We're at the IP day number two of the M Triple A
39:52
Athletic Administrators Association meetings, and of course today and then of course they'll have
39:58
a few sessions in the morning and this thing will uh, they'll put a
40:00
bow on it. Adam Johnson will join us at some point before the end
40:04
of the show. Bobby Hall at four o'clock. Ryphield spars at four thirty,
40:07
and we have a couple of other interviews here, one at five point
40:09
fifteen with Ted Gladney as well, but again M Triple A Hall of Fame
40:15
members. Two more added today and that was Bobby Hall, legendary football coach
40:21
in the state of Mississippi, and then Tom Gladney legendary baseball man in his
40:25
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to After Them Drive with Jake Wibley. Here's the edition of the program.
41:05
I'm glad to be with you at the IP Casino down here with the MHSAA
41:08
and the m Triple A Athletic Administrators Association. So we kick off, basically
41:14
kick off as we've been doing since yesterday, twenty twenty four. Kind enough
41:16
to give some time M Triple A Hall of Fame inductee twenty twenty four,
41:21
Bobby Hall, Coach Hall, It's an honored to be sent across from me.
41:23
How are you, sir, I'm doing great. Thank you, and
41:25
it's an honor for me to be here. Hey, congratulations on the Hall
41:29
of Fame induction. You know, when you say Mississippi high school football,
41:34
you're one of the first names that come to mind. Obviously, you got
41:36
South Padola, you got the big programs that have come through. But when
41:39
you talk coaches, you talk to other coaches that have come after you,
41:44
they all reference your life, your career, what you have done for Mississippi
41:47
high school football, and that shows up here today with the Hall of Fame.
41:51
Well, thank you. I'm honored that you would say that. I'm
41:53
somewhat humble that you would say that I did it for forty years something the
41:59
only thing I wanted to do, as when I was fourteen years old,
42:02
I knew what I wanted to do, and so you know, I had
42:06
great passion for it. And consequently now I put a whole lot into it.
42:08
And God gave me a gift to be able to get people to do
42:13
what I want him to do, and he gave me great passion. So
42:15
you know, it worked out good and we had a lot of success and
42:19
I'm grateful. Take us back to the beginning, you know, like you
42:22
said you wanted to do this when you were fourteen, fourteen years old.
42:25
I know exactly where I want to be. I know where God wants me
42:27
to be, and this is what I'm gonna do. The game has changed
42:30
so much. Talk about that, and you know, we saw this with
42:32
Nick Saban last week when he retired and talking a little bit about the evolution
42:36
of football having to adjust and do that's that's something that always happens with football,
42:42
isn't it? Okay? The you know, college football, I'll start
42:47
out with it. College football in the very near future under the current setup.
42:57
And I'm not an astrodomus by any stretch of imagine nation, but under
43:00
the current setup, it won't be long before college football will evolve to just
43:07
the people that have a lot of money, because it's all about money now
43:13
and there's no cap, there's no you know that it's actually professional sports at
43:21
college level, and so and it's not I mean, there's certain schools that
43:28
obviously just have more money than other schools, and it's always been that way.
43:32
So it's as on even a playing field right now as it's even more
43:38
on even I think than it was back in the sixties and seventies when Oklahoma
43:45
and Alabama and people like that were signing one hundred and fifty people or whatever
43:49
they were serving. They signed as many as they wanted to, and that
43:52
created a very uneven playing field. If you'll remember, the NCAA reduced the
43:55
scholarships until they eventually got it down to eighty five and it even things back
44:00
up again. So you know, hopefully something will be done about it,
44:06
and if they don't, we'll all move on and live and be happy and
44:12
live our lives and roll on with it. Bobby Hall on your radio,
44:15
twenty twenty four, inductee to the MTRIPA Hall of Fame, talking college football
44:19
and of course football and his career coach. When you look at the high
44:22
school ranks, I don't know that we envisioned this, but you know,
44:25
you can go back. I graduated high school in nineteen ninety four, MHSA
44:30
guy down in rankin county, and I can remember it was interesting just to
44:34
see your name in the paper if you just scored a touchdown or something.
44:37
Now we've got live streams, we've got radio coverage, we've got events like
44:40
this where administrators and coaches get together, high school footballs come a long way
44:45
in the state. It's unbelievable the way, you know, the things that
44:50
you know, when I received my award just a few moments ago, when
44:53
I talked about, you know, some of all sports trophies that we wanted
44:59
different schools, and one year at Amory High School, we were a three
45:02
A school and they didn't have the different classifications then and Amory finished third in
45:07
the state behind Tuopolo and Madison Central. It was Madison Central, Tupelo and
45:15
US, and so you know they didn't even But now, you know,
45:19
we do just a much better job today with almost every aspect of coaching,
45:25
especially with the safety, with the teaching and all those things that we do
45:30
is just made it all, I think, a much better game. No,
45:36
I would agree with you take us back through some of your teams,
45:37
some of your plays, you know, coaches where you coached obviously, some
45:40
of those memories that kind of highlight and I know it's not fair to try
45:45
to say this team was better than this team or these players, but just
45:46
to kind of take us through that, well, we won four state championships,
45:52
had two runner ups, went to the Semis twelve times. In nineteen
45:58
eighty seven, we broke Rosedale's forty game win streak and we went on went
46:04
to the finals that year and lost to mending Hall. That that game was
46:07
a one of one of the biggest games I thought. I thought it kind
46:13
of put Amory High School on the maup at the time because they had won
46:16
back to back state titles and forty games in a row, and it was
46:20
pretty much a given that, you know, nobody in three A was going
46:22
to beat them. We beat them. Excuse me, we beat them twenty
46:27
nine to twenty eight and overtime. And I've said this many times. We
46:30
could have played them ten more times. I don't think we would have beat
46:32
them at time, but we beat them that night and that was all that
46:35
mattered. So that was big. And you know, all of the team,
46:40
you know, we had some teams that didn't win at all that I
46:43
thought was just as good as some of the teams that didn't win it all.
46:45
So that ninety five team, it's been rated as one of the one
46:51
of the best high school football teams of all time in the state of Mississippi.
46:53
And some people say, yeah, well, you wasn't five A,
46:58
you wasn't six there, whatever, But I would go back and research how
47:01
many people that we had, all of that team that signed Power five scholarships,
47:07
And then you go back and you look also all on that team,
47:10
the guys that signed scholarships that wasn't Power five for some reason. Amory just
47:15
went through a phenomenal amount of talent that time, and it was a It
47:20
was a great, great football team. I tell people that team was so
47:22
talented. All I did was gas the bus and air the balls. I
47:27
remember that team well because I was just a year out of high school and
47:30
everybody was talking about Amrim, what Amiry was doing, what you guys were
47:32
doing up there, and you're right. I mean you could say, pound
47:36
for pound, if you could put it in some sort of a video game
47:37
where were kind of you're playing eras, that team would be one of the
47:40
best in Mississippi at the best. An article came out Time Gets Away from
47:45
Us fifteen years ago, twenty years ago, whatever the clarion ledgery back when
47:47
we all still used to read the newspaper, and they rated the ten best
47:52
teams in the history of the state. And Amory was in that conversation.
47:55
So I was proud of that. Bobby Hall joining us side for if you
47:59
may today m TRIPAA Hall of Fame inducty twenty twenty four coach. Obviously,
48:05
you look at some of the coaches that you had a chance to bring up
48:07
under you, from Marcus Balls to several others. Talk a little bit about
48:12
that and kind of the Bobby Hall coaching tree that is out there. It
48:14
is real wow. That coaching tree is. I was the second winning this
48:17
public school coaching history of the state, behind a gentleman by the name of
48:22
Jim Drury from Boonville, and then the next winning this guy is Marcus Balls,
48:27
and he's going to pass me pretty soon, and quite frankly, I'm
48:31
perfectly fine with that. When I went to Raleigh in nineteen eighty, me
48:37
and Will Hall's mother when we went down there, I was twenty five.
48:40
It was my first head job. She was twenty four. Will Hall was
48:44
ten weeks old. Marcus Balls was a ninth greador. I always can keep
48:49
up with his age because I was twenty five and he was fifteen, and
48:52
so I coached him all four of his years there and he's become one of
48:57
the greatest high school football coach in history of this state. You got Toby
49:00
column that it's at Madison Center. Now. I gave him his first job
49:04
at Wayne County and you can just go own and own and own. The
49:08
amount of people that are out there that either played for me or coached with
49:15
me, that have gone on to be high school coaches that are having success.
49:19
I think all of them is doing good. I can't think of anybody
49:22
that that that's not doing good. No, I would agree with that.
49:24
And then, you know, Mississippi and I say this a lot, you
49:28
know, especially when we have the state championships, we get a chance to
49:30
work the kind of the red carpet there and talk in between games and stuff.
49:34
Is the history of Mississippi high school football is so special from just what
49:37
you reference, like your coaching tree, your teams, you get into,
49:42
you know, the communities like Lewisville, Starkville, even now what's going on
49:45
in Metro Jackson with Brandon and Madison Central and you know, all these teams.
49:50
Missisippi high school football just continues to grow in the best of ways.
49:54
And a lot of that is credit to what you guys did. Yeah,
49:57
well, you know, thank you for that. And Brandon and Madison Central
50:01
life two of the great programs in this state. And ironically I got to
50:04
say this, Brandon's offensive line coach. His dad was Ed Stanley, who
50:09
was my defensive coordinator for seven years, and I gave him his first job.
50:15
Of course, he went on in one state titles you know, at
50:17
at South Pinola and took Meridian to the finals. A very very dear friend
50:22
of mine. So just I love this state. I love Mississippi. I
50:28
think we're very well kept secret. I'm very very fond of the quality of
50:34
football we play in this state. We don't have the tax dollars, we
50:37
don't have the population two point nine million people, but per capita, we're
50:43
as good as anybody in the country. One agree. Bobby Hall M Triple
50:46
A Hall of Fame inducty today. Coach Hall again, congratulations and thank you
50:50
for taking some time with us today. Thank you for asking me. God
50:52
bless you absolutely got to take a time out. We'll come back, We'll
50:54
carry on. We're at the m Triple A Conference on the Mississippi Golf Coast,
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51:55
School eight years co activities director and of course she has been named Administrator of
52:02
the Year along with mister John Odom from Yazoo County. Tabitha, thank you
52:06
for joining us. How are you? Thank you doing good? I tell
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you, I hear Oxford High School and my ears pop up like I know
52:12
that it's a lot going on. There's a lot of championships. That's a
52:15
great school area. You know, you talk with the Oxford community take us
52:19
through. Obviously, first off, congratulations for the award, but thank you
52:22
how it's been. I meaning, you guys are are a machine and kind
52:25
of a model that a lot of people love to look at up there at
52:28
Oxford. We're definitely blessed, you know, being right there with old miss
52:31
and having all those resources. But we have we have amazing people on board,
52:38
and you know, mister Robertson are superintendent. It's just one of those
52:42
guys, and we just attract great people and it's it's kind of easy when
52:46
you have when you have the right people in place, and you know,
52:50
He's empowered us to to make that happen. In the sports world. I
52:52
mean, we have just about every administrator there has some ties to sports or
52:57
coaching, so they kind of get it from our end and they allow us
53:00
to pursue and we've gotten great educators and great coaches out of that. So
53:05
it's it's been a little easy to to really to build that when you have
53:08
the right people in place. Now. Prior to Oxford kind of just for
53:12
our knowledge or background coming in, you know, pre pre Oxford High School.
53:15
Sure I coached softball at and I've taught math for I was at New
53:21
Hope High School for fifteen years. That's where I graduated from. So after
53:24
I graduated college, I just kind of went back home and stayed there and
53:30
and worked there, had a lot of success, won five state championships,
53:32
and you know, kind of kind of got to a lull in my coaching
53:36
career and went to Tupulau for a year and loved it there. And Mike
53:39
Martin who was the ad before before me, and he kind of pursued me.
53:45
I'd taken kind of an assistant coaching role at Tupulau and he came after
53:50
after me for that softball position when Oxford opened up and I went to Oxford,
53:52
and I never thought I would do anything other than coach softball and teach,
53:57
and mister Robertson really encouraged me to pursue leadership. He saw something in
54:02
me early and it was it was pretty cool. And I did that and
54:06
I got kind of in. I had to do like a thousand hour internship
54:08
and I got in with Mike. And then when Mike retired, he hired
54:12
Chris and I as co activities director. So I'm a co with Chris Bauman.
54:15
You know, that's another another. I can't say enough about him.
54:20
You know, having having that partner in this role makes it so so much
54:23
easier, and he's amazing, and you know, getting to work with him
54:27
every day, and and and those people. It's a lot of putting the
54:30
right people in place and it makes it helps you be successful. So having
54:32
a conversation when it was tap with the Beard at Oxford High School. She
54:36
is today nominated and of course awarded Athletic Administrator of the Year along with John
54:40
Odam will be able to catch up with John later on the program. You
54:44
know, you talk about New Hope, big baseball, saw poment it telling
54:47
you anything, but that's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear
54:50
a New Hope, like wow, kind of stuck out there north of Columbus
54:52
or bricktion wise, and maybe off just a little bit, just you know,
54:55
country town. But man, you guys play baseball and saw call anybody
55:00
else we do? You know that when I took over Coach Shepherd, who
55:04
was my high school coach and my sister's high school coach and my other I
55:07
mean, she was the legend of the softball world. She had won six
55:10
stay championships in a row and she didn't win that one year, and then
55:15
I came in and talk about pressure, and then we go on to win
55:16
five more after that, So, you know, just amazing girls, and
55:22
you know, the talent there and kind of the rec system that built that
55:24
up and she built that up, and you know, to see that and
55:28
to be a part of that. And then our baseball team, you know,
55:30
you always think a new hope and you think of that infamous forty three
55:32
and o season and all of that stuff, so you know, yeah,
55:36
you're right, it's pretty big there. Softball and baseball are big. So
55:40
here, you know, in this setting, you get a chance to talk
55:43
with other administrators, you know, from big schools to small schools and everywhere
55:45
in between. What are some of the challenges that you hear other people talk
55:50
about as far as you know to build programs and then maybe some that that
55:53
you've had maybe issues with but were able to kind of overcome and give that
55:57
advice to other administrators that may be listening. One of the biggest you know,
56:00
networking and finding finding people and and and forming a unit. You know,
56:07
that's one thing about the M A A and all and the NI Triple
56:09
A and all of these organizations. You know, I've had the opportunity to
56:13
work with people like Celeste Bramlet. You know Madison County that's that's the premiere,
56:16
and you know Madison Central and to you know, when you're friends with
56:21
those and you've networked and you've made those connections. So the biggest advice I
56:23
can get is, you know, find your people and put them in your
56:25
corner, and don't be scared to ask questions because sometimes, you know,
56:30
especially when you're new and you're starting out, you know, you think,
56:31
well if I don't, if I ask, they're gonna you know, someone
56:35
might think less of me. And that's not the case. I mean,
56:37
we're all here to help and we would all love to help, I think,
56:39
you know, so find find a village and you know, and and
56:44
embrace them a the M Triple A and the N I Triple A on the
56:46
national level, and you know, because it can get hard. I mean,
56:50
it's a lonely profession at times, just like coaching. I mean,
56:52
you you you know, you have to have people that you can talk to
56:57
and people that can encourage and help and build you up, and if you
57:00
have questions or problems, going to them so I think one of the things
57:02
that I like the most is being able to be that for other people,
57:07
and you know, forming friendships with people like Celeste Bramlett and you know,
57:10
Toby Collins and all those people around the world around our you know, state
57:15
that we can really you know, turn to if we have issues. Sure,
57:16
and then as we get you on your way here, you talk about
57:19
Oxford, places like Oxford, and one of may about places that are extremely
57:22
successful. At that point, I mean, I don't want to say it
57:24
kind of runs itself, because you still have to have your hands on the
57:28
wheel, but it becomes expected right by the community. It's expected by the
57:30
parents. It's expected by the kids as well to be successful, no doubt,
57:35
you know, and it's something you build on from year to year,
57:37
and you think that, I mean, it just runs what We have an
57:39
amazing community that supports us and supports our school system, and you know,
57:44
to see that it's very different from a lot from a community like New Hope,
57:49
and you know, the resources there is, it's so much and having
57:52
those people that just say, I mean last week we had a meeting,
57:54
what can I do to help? Like I want to make sure that every
57:58
single athlete is taking care of every single student is taking care of it.
58:01
That's just kind of our community, I mean from we have a love pas
58:05
program for if you need if you need food, I mean it's if we
58:07
need something, we know that there's always somewhere someone there that will help meet
58:12
that need. So it's it's a really neat community in that regard. Ms.
58:15
Tabitha Beard, Oxford High School. She has been there eight years co
58:20
Athletics Director of Course Activities director. Congratulations on your ward. I appreciate you
58:23
joining us today. Thank you all right, Thanks, We will carry on
58:28
here. Coming up in just a bit rye fieldsparsomibookie dot ag we'll join the
58:31
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58:37
else the Sparsa has going on as well. Beave anything on your end.
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We need to catch up here before we hit a break. Just possum Nick
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Joe and looking forward to when college players start getting busted by the IRS for
58:50
tax evation over the nil Dells. Yeah, and I've still got to get
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to it. Today's guest columnists University of Illinois professor Michael H. Leroy as
59:07
he talks about college football. Fans probably weren't shocked when Nebraska's Matt Rule recently
59:13
referred to some teams that have a six million or seven million dollar player playing
59:19
for them. Quote, let's just make sure we all understand what happens or
59:22
what's happening, the Huskers coach added, seemingly alluding to the recruiting process in
59:27
the college sports name, image and likeness world. So we will get off
59:30
into that in year three. We're kind of in year three of the sports
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nil era and just continues to grow, but not always in the in the
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How about yourself? You know we're hanging in there, you know,
1:02:52
kind of had that sheet of ice come through the South. We didn't get
1:02:53
as much as say Memphis or North Mississippi, but or even Buffalo for that
1:02:59
matter. I mean, because I know when you look at Buffalo, you
1:03:00
think Mississippi right attached to was Buffalo and missis STUPI are right right next to
1:03:06
each other, aren't they pretty close? Pretty close on the map. Hey,
1:03:08
speaking of Buffalo, we'll get to that game here in a bit.
1:03:10
We've got four really I think good games, interesting games coming up this weekend,
1:03:15
two on Saturday, two on Sunday. Want to get your thoughts on
1:03:16
these Houston Texans at Baltimore. C J. Stroud has looked the part they
1:03:22
are. I'm looking at the book. I'm looking at nine and a half
1:03:24
point dog on the road at Baltimore. Baltimore coming off a bye week,
1:03:30
almost kind of like a double bye week because it's been quite a while since
1:03:32
Lamar Jackson and a lot of these players have played total forty three and a
1:03:35
half. Do you see any lag out of Baltimore? And maybe we look
1:03:39
up fourth quarter in Houston's hanging around. I don't want to say lag when
1:03:44
I just think that the Houston Texas can start red hot like we did last
1:03:46
week against the number one defense in the league, the Cleveland Browns. It's
1:03:52
gonna be a hard fall game. I got the plus ten when it's number
1:03:54
first came out and bent down to nine and a half. I liked Houston
1:03:59
to cover, not to win, but the covered keep this game closed.
1:04:01
I can see the Ravens winning by like maybe four or five or six points.
1:04:04
It's gonna be a lot closer game than what the odds makers are telling
1:04:09
us. I like Houston plus the points. Rafaeldsparza MyBookie dot ag getting in
1:04:14
play today. Green Bay Packers San Francisco forty nine Ers, First of all,
1:04:16
before it gets your take on this game, which the again, the
1:04:19
line is pretty similar at least the spread nine and a half. That's what
1:04:23
I'm looking at. Forty nine Ers by nine and a half, totals at
1:04:25
fifty and a half a little higher. Were you shocked at the way green
1:04:29
Bay just missed, I mean, just manhandled Dallas last week? I was,
1:04:32
I mean, I thought if there was gonna be one blowout last week,
1:04:35
and I thought it was gonna be the role reverse. I thought they
1:04:39
I thought the Packers defense won't be able to slow down the Cowboys offense,
1:04:43
and it was the roll Wars reversed, so I was totally blown away.
1:04:45
I thought we were gonna see Sam Fran Dallas in this game, but instead
1:04:48
the Green Bay Packers and Jordan Love are here, so I was I was
1:04:53
totally totally wrong in that one. So I'll eat the crow and a cheer
1:04:57
for the Packers in this game. Who do you like? Do you do
1:05:00
they keep this momentum? Is there any way they can go in and pull
1:05:02
the upset against the forty nine ers. I think they can hang around.
1:05:06
Here's another one that wins shocked with the forty nine Ers win by a touchdown,
1:05:10
and this one just a little bit shocked. That both Saturday games have
1:05:14
really high numbers nine and a half, nine and a half on both of
1:05:16
them. Can maybe see ten on one of them, So I want to
1:05:18
take the dog on one of them. I think a dog wins out wins
1:05:23
outright in these two four games on Saturday and Sunday, So I think someone's
1:05:28
barking, But I like the forty nine ers to win, but not cover
1:05:31
Tampa Bay. Sunday two o'clock kick takes on Detroit, Baker Mayfield trying to
1:05:36
I can't believe I'm gonna say this. Get Baker Mayfield to the NFC Championship
1:05:40
game Detroit on the road, Detroit a six and a half point favorite.
1:05:43
Totals a forty nine. How you got say it again? Because I know
1:05:45
you guys are a Saints fans and listeners and all that. Baker Mayfield in
1:05:49
a divisional playoff game, Say that again because it's fantastic. I like the
1:05:54
Lions this one. I think the Lions wins if there's a blowout. Let's
1:05:58
sef I can go over to if a blow Oh, I think the Lions
1:06:00
can blow out Tampa Bay. I think the Lions got the monkey off their
1:06:03
back last week. They're finally getting a playoff win, a one point win.
1:06:09
I think they're gonna be much looser in this game. I think the
1:06:11
Lions blowout Tampa Bay Chiefs taking all the Bills. Sunday five thirty, first
1:06:16
road game in the playoff career for Patrick Mahomes. They go on the road,
1:06:21
They're a three point dog. Is the wrong team favored here? Total
1:06:25
forty five and a half? No, I mean it won't shock me.
1:06:28
Whoever wins this one because I think both of them have been disappointing all season
1:06:31
long. Even though Buffalo comes in red hot, Kansas City drops passes left
1:06:35
and right. I like Buffalo just because this is Casey's first playoff road game.
1:06:42
I think Buffalo wins this one. I just think at Josh Allen out
1:06:45
duels Patrick Mahomes, they would have shocked me. If we see some more
1:06:47
drop passes from Kansas City. I like Buffalo. I think the gos mafia
1:06:53
at home be too much? All right? Reports Bill Belichick? Likely?
1:06:58
Can we stay likely at this point? Headed to it Atlanta? Does that
1:07:00
even sound right? It does? I'm hearing that he wasn't even close to
1:07:06
going to Dallas like anyone thought he was, so I think so if that
1:07:11
out the door Pittsburgh Now Tomlin staying all that, I think Atlanta is his
1:07:15
spot if he wants to coach this year. So I think he will be
1:07:18
at Atlanta, and I'm sure the Saints, Buccaneers, and Panthers are probably
1:07:23
not happy with that. And Jim Harball, he's had two interviews. Does
1:07:27
it stop there, end up at one of those places? Go back to
1:07:30
Michigan with a weird contract he's asking for like community or does he have other
1:07:33
interviews coming up? I think it's either Chargers or Wolverines, and you said
1:07:39
that both. I'm hearing san Die or Sandy. The Chargers contract has a
1:07:44
lot of weird stuff in here, So I guess whoever bends to the Harball,
1:07:46
whoever bends the knee first, I think gets him. I still think
1:07:49
it's the Chargers. Do you have any odds on which one could win out
1:07:55
of the other? We did. It was all what would Harball coach?
1:08:00
Next? It was all Chargers money. I took it down because we couldn't
1:08:03
beg for anybody else, so it was it was Chargers. I think they
1:08:08
were like minus three dollars. Favorite. Are you enjoying the dismantling of Alabama
1:08:13
and what's going on? Obviously Caleb de Borr from Washington is head over as
1:08:15
the coach. He's put together pretty good staff, but man, they have
1:08:17
had an exodus of players, basically a full recruiting class, twenty five guys
1:08:21
out of that program. Alabama. Welcome to the world of college football or
1:08:27
college sports in general. I mean, that's all they're doing now. This
1:08:30
is why coach k left. This is why all these other coaches have left.
1:08:34
I don't care what David said. He didn't have the enough for guts
1:08:38
or or he was just tired of it. This is why he left.
1:08:41
This is why those other Hall of famers left. Welcome to the world of
1:08:44
college sports, Alabama. Well, I agree with you, Ropulo Sparza on
1:08:49
your radio. What do you got to play with us? You're looking at
1:08:50
this weekend to UFC two ninety seven. I was talking to the producer before
1:08:56
you left. Be on there, Sean Strickland and Dufleury. We could see
1:09:00
a WWE event after the fights, a stabbing a chair something. We could
1:09:05
see a Connerish event after this by both both guys hate each other. They've
1:09:11
already fought in the stands once. Uh. That the UFC two nights in
1:09:14
pay per view might be worth just to see what happens h before or after
1:09:18
the main event. And as Connor McGregor really coming back anytime soon or do
1:09:21
we even care anymore? Uh? He said, Well, he said he's
1:09:25
coming back now at UFC three hundred. I forgot which won in Vegas.
1:09:28
I think it's in March or whatever, But I don't care. I don't
1:09:31
think he wins any anymore. I think Michael Chandler beats them very good.
1:09:35
Ravalo spars will get out and play my booky dot ag ASPARSI have a great
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heck of a job with the m Triple A Athletic Administrators Association meetings. Welcome
1:10:48
in, How are you well, Thank you, sir, appreciate you being
1:10:50
down here. It's nice to be on with you in person, yeah,
1:10:54
versus calling in like usual. But no, it's been been a great couple
1:10:57
of days. Obviously impacted by weather a little bit with some attendees and some
1:11:00
of our vendors that were unable to unable to get down to the coast and
1:11:05
be with us, but we had a record number of attendees registered going into
1:11:11
it, record number of vendors. Actually our vendor hall was full. We
1:11:13
had something we had to turn away that were kind of staples coming down here,
1:11:15
which you know, just shows the importance of this group of administrators and
1:11:20
the work they do through the state, and then these businesses that are here
1:11:24
to support, you know, help provide better product and better solutions for whether
1:11:29
it's field turf, whether it's you know, building new buildings, whether it's
1:11:31
laundry services, scoreboards. I mean, it's just a great time for that
1:11:34
product and innovation and services for us to come together and learn, for these
1:11:39
administrators to you know, learn from one another and from the speakers and things
1:11:43
that we have come in and be a part of it. So it's been
1:11:45
a has been a great two days. We'll wrap up in the morning with
1:11:47
half a day and send folks back on their way around the state and hopefully
1:11:51
getting home travel safely with what's going on right now. Yeah, yeah,
1:11:55
it's it's good that everybody could get down here. On most everybody, I
1:11:57
know some people in North Missisippi probably had maybe some problems get down here,
1:12:00
but it's been a great turnout and you just talk to some of the people
1:12:02
here, I think this is a always a welcomed two or three two and
1:12:06
a half days for the administrators because you get talking to people, you know,
1:12:10
people that run smaller schools to bigger schools and everywhere in between, and
1:12:14
to be able to collaborate really helps. I think everybody involved absolutely, And
1:12:16
you know, you look at a lot of times between whether it's a small
1:12:19
school or big school, they're going to face some different different issues based on
1:12:24
their size, but there's a lot of similarities. I mean a lot of
1:12:26
things that go into what happens day in and day out with with athletic programs
1:12:30
that they can they can share with one another and you know, uh spark
1:12:32
ideas and collaborate on ways to improve their programs. So certainly a great time
1:12:38
of idea sharing and being able to just kind of see what's happening around the
1:12:43
state. And I know a lot of these folks know each other and probably
1:12:45
are in close contact throughout the year because we know it's a pretty tight knit
1:12:48
could community of folks. But you know, really getting to come together and
1:12:51
share those ideas and that knowledge and experience has certainly beneficial for you know,
1:12:57
for all these coaches and benefit students when they get to go home and implement
1:13:00
the things that they've whether it's learned or are just kind of tweaked the way
1:13:02
they want to do things. Adam Johnson, general manager of the MHSA,
1:13:05
on your radio talking about the twenty twenty four m TRIPA meetings down here on
1:13:10
the Missippi Gulf Coast. You've got some interesting news. We talked about this
1:13:14
last year. Until you said it earlier. I forgot about it just because
1:13:16
we've got so much going on about the junior high basketball tournaments. Yeah.
1:13:20
We started our middle School Basketball Invitational last year, working hand in hand with
1:13:25
a number of our community colleges throughout the state. We had eight first round
1:13:29
sites that played last week. We grew it this year to a forty eight
1:13:32
team invitational, so we played eight sites last weekend. We were scheduled to
1:13:36
play four sites this weekend. We've punted that back a week just because of
1:13:42
whether obviously in the issues surrounding that, So we'll have four sites playing next
1:13:45
week and then we'll play championships for that middle School Invitational in two saturdays,
1:13:50
first weekend of February. Great event. I mean, it's just you know,
1:13:55
trying to really grow the sport in middle school, give them more opportunity
1:14:00
to play in showcase throughout the state, and kind of get that exposure of
1:14:04
teams they may not see in the regular season because we know that's going to
1:14:08
be a little bit more regional play. It's been a phenomenal been extremely well
1:14:12
received by the schools, by the participants, and our community colleges have been
1:14:16
such phenomenal partners in helping us facilitate that. Because with so many teams and
1:14:20
so many sites, we have to have someone who we know, hey,
1:14:24
you run game day's, day in and day out, and can kind of
1:14:27
just take this thing and run with And they've done a phenomenal job in a
1:14:30
great partnership. Speaking of basketball, it won't be long. You'll have the
1:14:33
MHSA basketball championships. Now we saw the seven classification, the addition of the
1:14:38
seventh classification in football. Now we get two additional championship games in basketball coming
1:14:42
up here before we know it. That's correct. So that'll change our schedule
1:14:45
a little bit for the week. I think we've been saying we play thirty
1:14:47
six games over six days. We'll now we're gonna play forty two games because
1:14:51
then in addition to two additional championship games, will play four additional semifinal games.
1:14:56
So it will cram that week even fuller or more full of basketball.
1:15:01
So we're looking forward to that coming up. I don't know exactly what that
1:15:04
schedule change looks like. I know we'll play a couple more semi final games
1:15:10
on that Thursday, when usually Thursday is kind of just a championship days.
1:15:14
We'll have some semifinal games in the morning, followed by a championship that night,
1:15:16
and then just more games on Friday and Saturday. So a lot what
1:15:20
was a lot of basketball will be even more basketball in the big House here.
1:15:25
And it's scary to think that that's in about five or six weeks.
1:15:28
It is. It is crazy. Last we don't want to forget about baseball.
1:15:30
That'll be here in a blank and I another series, a seventh series,
1:15:35
which will be fun more baseball for everyone. Absolutely, No, the
1:15:39
seven A has been you know, definitely we've seen some of that parody among
1:15:44
classifications kind of change, kind of what the landscape of some of those different
1:15:47
classifications of the championships have looked like. So it's definitely been a very positive
1:15:51
thing. It's been great to see some of the matchups that have have have
1:15:58
come because of just the shifting those classifications and where those schools fell. So
1:16:02
you know, that's for baseball, for softball, you know, it affected
1:16:06
most of our championship events and just tweaking those those operational plans and those schedules
1:16:13
slightly. But you know, it hasn't been hasn't been an overhaul of the
1:16:15
way that we run our events. And of course we want to make sure
1:16:17
that we make notice of all of the awards that you guys do. Of
1:16:20
course, today two great nominees into the Sports Hall of Fame Bobby Hall and
1:16:27
Tom Glady. I mean being able to visit with those guys, just iconic
1:16:30
guys going into the hall absolutely just such. You know, it's really neat
1:16:32
to sit back and listen to those guys, you know, talk about their
1:16:36
journey and to read about just how impactful they were and the success. And
1:16:41
you know, this is in a long line of folks, I think thirteen
1:16:43
now they're in the m tripa Hall of Fame, and you know, just
1:16:46
you realize what great people in addition to the success that you can read about,
1:16:50
but then you listen to them and the things that they say in their
1:16:53
speeches and how much they care about impacting students' lives, and just reminds you
1:16:57
how important our coaches are, and our teachers people, and our schools are
1:17:00
in molding the young people that are that are in schools walking the halls every
1:17:04
day. So it's a really neat, really neat to get to hear that.
1:17:06
You know. We we awarded our CDFL Sports Athletic Administrators of the Year
1:17:12
today. We gave away our sb Live All Sports Awards, so it was
1:17:16
a really good awards and awards lunching recognizing those folks, and then of course
1:17:20
we want to say thank you both to Hellas and w BA Architecture for being
1:17:25
title sponsors of our conference, helping make make this happen for another year.
1:17:30
And finally we got about two minutes here. You've got mister miss basketball coming
1:17:33
up, you'll have baseball softball awards. You guys continue to really do a
1:17:38
great job expanding these awards and highlighting young kids. And we added in volleyball
1:17:42
the day, you know, we had that in the in the fall.
1:17:44
So yeah, that's been an important important way for us to highlight the success
1:17:47
that we have. And you know, you see the talent that comes through
1:17:50
and I think we all know it's there, but then to really, you
1:17:53
know, take a step back and look at who it is that are that
1:17:56
are winning these awards and the things that they go on to do. And
1:18:00
Booker Miss six a Basketball last year, you pop on Sports Center and she's
1:18:03
number seven Top ten play yesterday morning on Sports Center. So it's just those
1:18:08
kind of things that you you know, tie it back together and really really
1:18:11
remember and take a second to reflect on the talent pool that we have here
1:18:16
across it's about all sports. It's it's unbelievable. Adam Johnson, General Manager
1:18:20
MHSA on your ready. I appreciate you, my man, and always a
1:18:24
good time. You guys have done a great job with this well, thank
1:18:26
you. Appreciate you being here and helping make it even better. Absolutely.
1:18:30
As we move towards the top of the hour and hour number three coming in
1:18:32
at five point fifteen, we'll have Ted Glandi Glann excuse me, he was
1:18:36
one of the entrants into the hall. Also John Odom Yazoo County High School
1:18:42
Administrator of the Year, along with Tabitha Beard. John will be on at
1:18:45
five point fifteen as well, and of course so we'll see what else we
1:18:46
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with Bobby Hall. So we'll catch up with Gladney, mister Gladney, and
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then of course Administrator John Odum out of Yaz County. The Buffalo Bill's saying,
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getting ready for the divisional round. So they continue to shovel snow at Buffalo.
1:21:13
Also some other NFL notes here. Big news for Indianapolis. The NFL
1:21:19
scouting Combine and will remain in Indianapolis for twenty twenty five. It's going to
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be there this year and in twenty twenty five. As Anthony Kalla Whoon says,
1:21:28
he's quote told that the league gives a one year extension for the NFL
1:21:31
combine. Also, Monday was a record setting episode for ESP and Greeney and
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Get Up If You Care most views ever, nine and seventy nine thousand views.
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Previous record was seven hundred and thirty thousand views. Also, the Ravens
1:21:49
rolled out cornerback Marlon Humphreys for Saturday's divisional game against the Texans due to a
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calf injury. And also David Shaw has completed an interview with the Chargers.
1:22:00
So former Stanford head football coach David Shaw has interviewed with the Chargers as they
1:22:06
continue to interview clients or coaches for that vacancy. Chris Marler, who was
1:22:12
on the show earlier this week, he put out an interesting stat line as
1:22:15
it pertains to Georgia and Kirby Smart, because you know, forever we talked
1:22:18
about Nick Saban and who had beaten Nick Saban? Which one many which coaches?
1:22:23
And then you know who all has he beaten? Well, now we
1:22:26
shift that attention to Kirby Smart, who's the best in the league. As
1:22:29
far as the head football coach list of current active coaches who have beaten Kirby
1:22:33
Smart, Hugh Freeese has beaten Kirby Smart, Tom Herman, Derek Mason,
1:22:40
Butch Jones believed or not, Gus Mileson and Jim McElwain, and none since
1:22:45
twenty eighteen, you know, have done that. And of course they were
1:22:50
talking about active coaches active coaches. Nick Saban is not not active anymore.
1:22:55
Alabama a lot of the negative news in the transfer portal, they actually get
1:22:58
some positive news about five minutes ago. Alabama has landed a commitment from Washington
1:23:02
four star freshman Austin mack. So Austin Mick who was recruited by Kaylen de
1:23:08
Boor to Washington. Six foot six, two hundred and ten pound Mac was
1:23:11
a top seventy five recruit and the twenty twenty three cycle and he is now
1:23:16
headed to the University of Alabama. And just to kind of get you a
1:23:23
little stat line on this guy, he was a four star coming out of
1:23:26
high school. Six foot six, you know, big scrapping kid, good
1:23:30
looking athlete. He was a true freshman this past year under Pennix in Washington.
1:23:35
Behind Pennix, he got offers from Arizona, Cow, Colorado, Colorado
1:23:40
State, and several others. He will be headed to the University of Alabama,
1:23:45
also the University of Texas. We were talking to an I re number
1:23:47
one about Florida State and they're operating revenue and things of that nature. Texas
1:23:51
hits an NCAA record total of operating revenue and fiscal year twenty twenty three.
1:23:59
The University of Texas reported total operating revenue of more than two hundred and seventy
1:24:02
one million during the fiscal year of twenty twenty three, the largest single year
1:24:06
total since the NCAA began its current financial reporting system in two thousand and five.
1:24:14
According to Berkowitz and Bowls of the Austin American Statesman, the report means
1:24:19
that UT increased its revenue by nearly thirty two million over the over its total
1:24:25
reported in Excuse Me twenty twenty two University Excuse Me. University of Texas Athletics
1:24:29
director Chris del Conte said that the biggest reason for the increase in revenue were
1:24:34
the school's first year in the Moody Center and the first year of a local
1:24:41
of a new local media rights agreement with Learfield. Berkowitz and Bowls noted UT
1:24:46
credited its football program with one hundred and eighty three million in operating revenue in
1:24:51
twenty twenty three and one hundred and twenty two million in surplus over operating expenses.
1:24:57
When Texas moves to the SEC, it's in from conference revenue sharing eventually
1:25:02
will be significantly higher than it has been in the Big twelve. Let's go
1:25:06
to Gator Matt on the malone roofing call alide, Matt, Happy Thursday.
1:25:13
Hello Matt, Matt, you can give us a call back six zero one
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eight nine seven one zero five nine, or anybody else for that matter.
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That is the maloneroofing call a line. So Texas expected to see an increase
1:25:26
in revenue as it moves into the Southeastern Conference, a significant jump from what
1:25:30
they were getting in the Big Twelve. The school quote likely received forty two
1:25:34
to forty five million from the Big twelve and twenty twenty three under its entry
1:25:39
agreement in the SEC. Texas will not excuse me, will not be a
1:25:45
full participant in the SEC revenue sharing until twenty five twenty six year, and
1:25:49
that's likely going to be for Oklahoma as well. I would assume it seems
1:25:53
likely that Texas's annual share from SEC eventually will be around twenty million more they
1:26:00
got from Big twel let's go back to the phone. Let's go to Matt.
1:26:01
Matt, welcome inn am I here, are you gonna hang up on
1:26:05
me again? Hey? I have no I'm on I'm on a you know,
1:26:11
desert Island here. I can't control Beaver bailed. Yeah, he took.
1:26:15
He said, he blamed it on the phones. But I still think
1:26:17
he has something to do with it. I have like, look, I
1:26:21
have L. S U friends of mine, and I love him, I
1:26:26
hate L. S U. And I think just L. S U is
1:26:29
So they're so naive to what Texas is about to do. They think Texas
1:26:34
is like, oh, Texas is just gonna do you just nailed. I
1:26:38
mean Texas, think about it and the whole n L thing. They've gotta
1:26:43
they gotta figure this out, because let me tell you, you've got some
1:26:45
muscle that's about to flex, and they're gonna be I mean, look,
1:26:49
you already see what's happening in Alabama, and now that Tavin's gone, I
1:26:53
mean they're about to be. I mean, welcome to mediocrity, Alabama fans,
1:26:58
because you're about to be staring right at it in Texas now that they're
1:27:01
in the SEC. I mean the Lord Jake, I mean, with the
1:27:06
amount of money that they have, if we don't regulate this whole. First
1:27:11
of all, the school should just be paying the players. To ask me
1:27:15
to not only pay an inflated amount for tickets, Now you want me to
1:27:20
pull in the pay for a coach, and now you want me to pull
1:27:24
out extra money to pay a player that's seventeen years old that hasn't proven a
1:27:29
thing is ridiculous. The school should just it should be scaled where the schools
1:27:33
just paying them directly. Because let me tell you, Texas is about to
1:27:36
have a huge advantage. Also, Scott Strickland apparently is rumored to go straight
1:27:44
to Texas A and m see it se ye six or one eight nine seven,
1:27:48
one zero five nine. I don't know if Matt was checking out at
1:27:50
a grocery store or what that beeping was doing or I have no idea.
1:27:55
Yeah, Texas continues to get rich, the rich get richer. And look,
1:28:00
I mean it's it's gonna be tough. Texas is gonna make it hard
1:28:02
on a lot of their SEC brethren in all sports, not just football,
1:28:05
but basketball, baseball, softball, I mean, you name it, track
1:28:09
and Field, Texas is gonna come in and you know, grab the bull
1:28:14
by the horns no pun intended six R one eight eight, five, three,
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seven seven six. We'll get to Ravens coach John Harbaugh on brother Jim
1:28:21
Harball in the NFL chatter and he continues to say, hey, look,
1:28:25
he loves Michigan, but he loves the NFL. And there's more on that.
1:28:28
We'll see tweet talk to Rifle as far as about that, as far
1:28:31
as what we can expect maybe from Jim Harball. Also, Cowboy's reporter makes
1:28:36
the case that Dak Prescott is basically Tony Romo. We'll get to that a
1:28:42
little bit later on. And then Fubo CEO horrified by Peacock exclusive NFL playoff
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game. We'll get to those thoughts as well. And then of course we
1:28:51
were talking about Auburn twenty twenty four. Auburn football looking pretty darn good in
1:28:57
the transfer portal. Auburn has recruited pretty well. Talking to Brett Beard about
1:29:00
that. We talked to Steve robertson yesterday, and we'll get all that teed
1:29:03
up before the end of the week. About Mississippi State and what's going on
1:29:08
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gonna take a time out. We'll come back. I'm going to see Ted
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Gladney another entry into the Hall of Fame today here on the Missippi Gulf Coast,
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the cdfl M Triple A Athletics administrators and Hall of Fame members of the
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dot com. Forward slash Vicksburg twenty twenty four inductees into the m Troupla Hall
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of Fame continue as Bobby hall In Now we're pleased to visit with Tom Gladdney
1:30:26
on the program. Mister Gladney, thank you so much for takeing some time.
1:30:29
Congratulations on the award. Thank you and appreciate you being here at our
1:30:31
conference. Absolutely glad to be here. Take us back. You know,
1:30:34
born in Jackson Wingfield High School. Boy, those were the days when you
1:30:39
know, you talking about McDowell Road and people getting up down you know,
1:30:42
South Jackson. Kind of take us through that growing up there, and then
1:30:45
of course you know how your career kind of manifested it so well. Uh.
1:30:48
I grew up right next to Lovewoods Park, and I could walk out
1:30:51
my front door and be at Lovewoods Park. I could walk out my back
1:30:55
door and be at Sykes Park down there. So we were at the park
1:30:57
all the time. You know, now they don't even play games there anymore.
1:31:00
And Uh, my education has gone Noel and Boyd. Jackson Public Schools
1:31:04
is closing some schools. They closing Sykes Elementary where I went, whitt And
1:31:09
Junior High where I went, and Wingfield High School where I went. So
1:31:12
my education is Noel and Boyd right now. But uh, it was a
1:31:15
great time in great schools and uh, I hate to see it go in
1:31:18
that direction. But uh, they've lost a lot of students and they're just
1:31:23
trying to do the best they can. Sure, and before we move into
1:31:26
you know, some of the highlights of your career, you'd reference Level Woods
1:31:30
and those parks down there. I can remember growing up in the nineties,
1:31:32
eighties and nineties and that's where baseball lived. It absolutely lived there. Yeah,
1:31:38
and again my dad, he just walked out there and watched games every
1:31:41
night, whether we were playing or not. But we went when we weren't
1:31:44
playing. Uh. But it was just a great time to grow up and
1:31:46
a lot of fun to be out there in that era of time. Take
1:31:50
us through, you know, playing at Mississippi College. Of course you got
1:31:55
your bachelor's Arts and Sciences and the masters at the Missisippi College. Take us
1:31:59
through that. I went out there to play football in baseball. Probably was
1:32:04
a better baseball player, but excelled more in football simply because you worked at
1:32:09
it more than you know. Back then, there weren't batting cages, and
1:32:12
there weren't pitching machines, and there weren't things that kids have today. But
1:32:16
really enjoyed playing both of them. And coach John Williams was the football coach,
1:32:20
and then Ed Nixon was the baseball coach and gave it up. He
1:32:24
became the girls basketball coach and then coached at Alabama. But Bill moose Perry
1:32:29
became the baseball coach, and I played for him and then was a graduate
1:32:31
assistant for him out at Mississippi College before he left, and then I got
1:32:38
to be the assistant baseball coach out there and worked out there for twenty years.
1:32:44
What took you to Texas? We got our first and only granddaughter,
1:32:47
Lilah White. This my youngest daughter's little girl. She just turned two on
1:32:54
Halloween, and we're gonna have a grandson in March two months from now.
1:32:58
So we're just excited to be there close to them now. Absolutely and take
1:33:01
us through you your tenure, I mean, as a coach to eighty four
1:33:04
seventy two and one overall at Midway High School nine district titles, one state
1:33:11
championship, one state runner up, seven District Coaches of the Year honors,
1:33:14
and two statewide Coach of the Year awards. I mean, you guys really
1:33:17
cleaned it up during that time. It was a great time to be at
1:33:19
Midway High School. Midway had already had really good baseball, but over the
1:33:26
course of the years, I think they had had ten or eleven guys to
1:33:30
play minor league or pro baseball. And in the ten years I was there,
1:33:33
not because of me, but because the baseball had grown so much,
1:33:36
there were thirteen guys that played some form of Major League baseball. Forty four
1:33:41
guys went off to play college baseball. And it was just a great time
1:33:45
to be at Midway High School and it was a lot of fun. We're
1:33:47
visiting with mister Tom Gladney. He has an INTROPA Hall of Fame inductee twenty
1:33:51
twenty four. He's kind enough to give us some time and talk a little
1:33:55
bit about his career. Tommy also served as chairman of the Gulf South Conference
1:33:59
base Ball Coaches on two different occasions and served six years on the NCAA Division
1:34:03
two All American Committee, also six years on a High School Baseball Coaches Association
1:34:10
All American as well. So, I mean when you talk about baseball and
1:34:13
just you know, you're kind of hands folding young men, I mean,
1:34:17
college, high school. You've kind of been everywhere well, and it was
1:34:20
a lot of fun. The GUFF South Conference when twenty four Jacksonville State,
1:34:28
Troy State, Southeast Louisanna Nichols, Northwestern State, Delta State, Misssippi College,
1:34:32
Livingston which is now West Alabama, Valdosta. I mean, it was
1:34:36
an unbelievable league and now a lot of those schools have moved to Division One.
1:34:41
Now GUFF South Conference is still good, but it was really dominating in
1:34:45
football, basketball, and baseball at that time. So it was a tough
1:34:48
challenge, but a lot of good years there and a lot of good years
1:34:53
at Midway High School. So take us to what you do when you look
1:34:56
at baseball today and you see how the game is played. Obviously it's lay
1:35:00
at a high level. There's tournament ball everywhere. You know, guys as
1:35:04
long as eighty nine are right now are in cage just getting ready for tournament
1:35:06
ball. Just your thoughts on the evolution of baseball where it's at today.
1:35:11
It's at a good place and it's in a bad place. You know.
1:35:14
I think they might play too much. You know, there are a lot
1:35:16
of arm injuries, and that goes back to there's only so many throws in
1:35:23
your arm. And they start off throwing at eight and nine and trying to
1:35:27
throw breaking balls at eight and nine. And they get to high school and
1:35:30
they may be okay, but then they get to college, or they may
1:35:32
have the surgery in high school or whatever, but you know that the arm
1:35:38
needs some rest, and you know, I don't know the answer to it.
1:35:41
I've had buddies who played for me and their kids are playing and that
1:35:45
they'll say, coach, I know, but he said, all his buddies
1:35:47
are playing, you know, and they want to be on the same team
1:35:49
with them and do those things, and they get a lot of exposure.
1:35:53
But I'm just not sure we're not doing too much when you look at the
1:35:59
high school game, and of course you get to it from high school to
1:36:01
college. And we talk a lot about this because of what we're talking about
1:36:03
with the tournament ball. It's so hard now to get to college to play
1:36:08
because there's so many players when you look at the state of Mississippi, just
1:36:11
when the MHSA has their state baseball championships at Trustmark Park, just that along
1:36:15
the talent that's on the field, it's very, very tough to get to
1:36:18
college. Now, Mississippi does not lack in baseball as far as kids who
1:36:23
can play college level. The transfer portal has hurt kids coming out of high
1:36:28
school that, you know, the big schools, if they need a player
1:36:31
that can play right away, they look at the transfer portal first, yeah,
1:36:35
and then they look at a high school kid. But for another year
1:36:40
or two. It's probably tough on high school kids. Not to say they
1:36:44
can't sign with, you know, a Division one school at Power five school,
1:36:47
but there are just so many transfer portal guys out there that it does
1:36:51
make it a little tough. Before we finish it up here, and of
1:36:54
course we're visiting with Tom Gladden, the m Triple A Hall of Fame inductee
1:36:58
today along with Bobby Hall. You were a scout as well, high school
1:37:01
scout for the Kansas City Rolls, Boston Red Sox, Colorado Rockies, and
1:37:05
Philwaucky Brewers. Take us through some of that because I know that can be
1:37:09
kind of a grind. It was really what they call a high school associate
1:37:12
scout, and basically when I go to games, if I saw somebody,
1:37:16
I would send it to the guy. My last one was with the Brewers
1:37:20
and I was on the Guff Coast and you know, they brought the Brewers
1:37:24
double a team to Biloxi or whatever. And probably my biggest I guess you'd
1:37:30
say involvement, it was a former player of mine who had done really well
1:37:34
and was with the Red Sox at the time, and the Brewers guy called
1:37:39
me and asked me all about him. I said, are y'all trading for
1:37:42
him? He said, oh, we're just looking at some options. Well,
1:37:44
the next day they traded for Aaron Wilkerson. He comes to Biloxion and
1:37:47
I get to see him pitch every five days, so it was really neat
1:37:49
to get to see him. And he got a touch of you know,
1:37:53
the big league cup of coffee here and there. But he's in Japan playing
1:37:57
right now, so hopefully, you know, maybe get another chance. As
1:38:00
you we put a rap on it, put a bone it right here down
1:38:04
here at the IP, you get this award today. Kind of looking back.
1:38:06
What does this mean for you? It's a great honor. There's plenty
1:38:10
of people that probably should have been in there before me or whatever, and
1:38:13
the people that have been in there that are already in there really set the
1:38:16
standards and everything, and it's a great honor to be able to be in
1:38:20
that class. So I'm glad. Thank you, sir. I appreciate your
1:38:24
time today. M Triple A Hall of Fame inductee. On your radio as
1:38:29
we carry on, we're visiting with Joe Odom, Yazoo County High School M
1:38:31
Triple A Athletic Administrators of the Year, along with the Tabitha Beard Oxford High
1:38:36
School. Are Oxford High School. Joe, thanks so much for taking some
1:38:39
time. How are you, Oh good man, how are you man?
1:38:41
We're doing good. A lot of people here, obviously a lot of good
1:38:44
stuff happening here. Congratulations on the award for you. I appreciate it.
1:38:47
Take us through what this means for you, guys. Twenty twenty two,
1:38:49
twenty twenty three, Yazoo County Athletic Director of the Year. Oh man,
1:38:55
it's been a long road, a lot of hours put in. If she
1:39:00
came with me and she's my biggest support, and I couldn't deal without her
1:39:05
and my family. Talk a little bit about Yazu County about you. You
1:39:09
know, we talk a lot about Central Mississippi. We talk you about Oxford,
1:39:13
we talk here, we talked there, but let's talk about Yazue County,
1:39:15
oh. Yazu County is a great place. Born and raised there.
1:39:18
Spent my entire nineteen year career at Yazu County. Great people, great kids.
1:39:24
Couldn't ask for a better place to be when you got there. What
1:39:28
have you guys done differently to kind of move Yazu County forward? I started
1:39:32
working at the elementary school there in two thousand and five. We had very
1:39:38
few sports in the high school to speak of, and now we offer everything
1:39:42
except for bowling, swimming, and diving. We offer pretty much in bass
1:39:46
vision. That's the only thing we don't offer there. So we offered the
1:39:49
kids there a wide range of activities and athletics to participate in. You know,
1:39:56
when you go into a place and I don't preaching into the choir here
1:39:58
that typically has not done a lot of things, maybe just for whatever reason,
1:40:01
not doing what you guys are doing now, sometimes it's hard to get
1:40:04
the community and the parents to buy in. But it sounds like they have
1:40:08
absolutely done that for you guys. Oh yes, yes, we have participation
1:40:11
through all of our athletics and activities, our parents and our community. They
1:40:16
do whatever they have to do to help out. We're visiting with Joe Odom
1:40:21
Yazoo County High School twenty twenty two twenty three Triple A Athletic Administrators of the
1:40:26
Year Award. Before we get you out of here, just kind of talk
1:40:28
a little bit about the ward and what it means means for you. Oh,
1:40:30
man, it means it means a lot. I put it. I
1:40:32
put it in a lot of hours. I had to sacrifice a lot with
1:40:35
my family and to get where I am today. I've been, like I
1:40:41
said, I've been in the stition for nineteen years and it just means a
1:40:46
lot for me to be here. Well, congratulations, thank you and I
1:40:49
appreciate you. Jockie, thank you. Got to take a time out more
1:40:51
coming your way from the IPEA casino back in a bed wait on the afternoon
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1:41:47
on a Thursday, beaver anything on your end of the world. We need
1:41:49
to get to just one juicy stat from White did and Zel. I don't
1:41:56
want to say stat of the day because that's a Dan Patrick thing, but
1:42:00
this is a stat of the day. Why Denzel says no team has lost
1:42:05
to Kirk Cousins and made the Super Bowl in the same year. The forty
1:42:10
nine Ers and Packers both lost to him just this season. Oh so that
1:42:15
means somebody's going to go on this week but then make it beat next week.
1:42:21
Did I understand that right? They're not They're not winning the Super Bowl?
1:42:26
Wow? Yeah, whoever wins this week will not go much further according
1:42:29
to this that is that is very very interesting. Speaking of the NFL quarterback
1:42:34
power rankings, we kind of ran through them, but let me go back
1:42:36
over them as we head into the weekend. At least, this is the
1:42:39
way cbsports dot Com grades out the quarterbacks for this weekend. And you know
1:42:43
this is based on obviously season long play, but then also playoff play,
1:42:46
and some of these quarterbacks haven't played yet. Josh Allen sitting at number one,
1:42:50
Alan though is zero to two against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs and the
1:42:54
playoffs, but the series is even three and three when including the regular season.
1:43:00
Does Mahomes deserve to benefit or get the benefit of the doubt as the
1:43:03
postseason's top quarterback due to the championship resume? Sure, you could put him
1:43:10
in there for sure, or put him at the top, but Allen's been
1:43:12
more like a superhero self, his super hero self this year. Can he
1:43:15
get himself in trouble? We know that he can. We'll see what happens
1:43:18
over the weekend. Patrick Mahomes at number two. What he liked inefficiency during
1:43:24
Kansas City's rut of the Dolphins, he made it for with situational production leaning
1:43:28
on rookie reischeiy Rice to move the chains and to control of the clock.
1:43:31
All year, the numbers haven't been up to what the standard is in Kansas
1:43:34
City. Yet he's come through when it matters the most, including as a
1:43:39
scrambler like Tom Brady during his Patriots prime. Mahomes is the closest thing to
1:43:45
in today's NFL to the safest bed, especially in the playoff stage. Can
1:43:48
he outlast the Bills? We'll see. Lamar Jackson, fresh off a new
1:43:51
contract, comes in at number three. Of course, for this year,
1:43:55
Jackson did everything right this year. He stayed on the field, he made
1:43:58
smart decisions through the air, and he didn't abandon his unmatched ability to make
1:44:03
teams look foolish as a runner. Now comes the ultimate test. Can he
1:44:09
conquer the weight of the unmet playoff expectations? With one win in four previous
1:44:15
postseason tries, Jackson has a chance to quiet all the naysayers and justify his
1:44:20
MVP favoritism against the upstart Textans Brock Purty jumps in at number four, and,
1:44:27
like Lamar Jackson in Baltimore, party was as clean as they come during
1:44:31
the regular season, even better in fact, Kyle Shanahan propped him up with
1:44:35
a plenty with plopped him up with a plenty of talent, a quarterback friendly
1:44:41
scheme, and lots of firepower, and of course he took advantage of that.
1:44:45
All that said, he'll now be tasked with translating that effort into the
1:44:50
dominance of the playoffs. Can they do that? A lot of people feel
1:44:54
like they will. CJ. Stroud comes in at number five. We'll see
1:44:57
what he looks like in his second playoff game. The Ravens are the AFC's
1:45:00
number one seed with the MVP front runner at quarterback, and yet the Texans
1:45:04
cannot be counted out and it's because of c. J. Strout and the
1:45:09
way that he has played. Number six Jordan Love. This spot doesn't do
1:45:15
justice for Love, but blame the beavy of quality quarterbacks still in the dance
1:45:19
and not the Packers quarterback who at twenty five has suddenly proven he's present and
1:45:26
future on the Green Bay Packer quarterback list when you talk about those of Aaron
1:45:30
Rodgers and Brett Favre. Now Jordan Love carving out his on niche Jared Goff
1:45:35
at number seven with a Detroit Lions golf is entrenching himself as something of a
1:45:41
local legend, delivering the lions first home playoff victory in more than thirty years
1:45:46
with a sharp, savvy pocket passing. The proof has been there all year.
1:45:50
Give him protection and he'll pick the other part aside. Now comes the
1:45:55
tricky part. Can he stand his ground and avoid forcing throws when it matters
1:46:00
the most against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers team coming up this weekend and then Baker
1:46:03
Mayfield comes in at number seven our number eight rather at the bottom of the
1:46:08
list, but Baker Mayfield is a big reason Tampa Bay is where they are.
1:46:14
Six or one eight A five, three, seven, seven six.
1:46:15
That is the Cowboy Maloney's text line, make your house home today with Cawboy
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Maloney's the ACC. We tied this up earlier, but the ACC seeks to
1:46:24
block Florida State from league affairs an amended complaint as school uh Explore explores exit
1:46:30
options. The ACC included six claims of for relief in the amended complaint.
1:46:36
This courtesy of Dean Straka, CBS Sports dot Com. The ACC formally amended
1:46:42
its complaint against Florida State Wednesday, that would be yesterday. Multiple outlets report.
1:46:46
The fifty five page filing alleges that the university breached its original contract with
1:46:53
the league when it chose to challenge the conference's exclusive grant of rights for TV
1:46:58
broadcasts. Perhaps the most important thing, the acc requested that the court issue
1:47:02
a permanent injunction that would bar Florida State from participating in acc management affairs due
1:47:10
to what is called the quote direct and material conflict of interest with the purpose
1:47:15
of object objectives of the Conference. According to documents attained by ESPN, in
1:47:20
total, the acc amended complaint includes six claims of relief, many of excuse
1:47:28
me, let me get back over here. This ad just pomped up on
1:47:30
this thing. Many of the complaints acc amended complaints allege a breach of contract
1:47:35
from Florida State. All six, of course, are outlined in this in
1:47:40
this article or in this paper this one sheet here. Request for declaratory judgment
1:47:46
to be grant and the grant of rights and amended granted rights deal are valid
1:47:49
enforceable contracts. That's number one. Acceptance of benefits provided by the grants of
1:47:56
rights. The Conference alleged to Florida State waived its right to challenge at number
1:48:00
three the ACC allegis Florida State has breached the promise or promises it made to
1:48:06
the original granted rights agreement the fourth Amendment. The ACC allegis Florida State breached
1:48:12
its promise to protect quote trade secrets between the league and its television partner ESPN.
1:48:17
They also say the ACC allegence Florida State had breached its obligations to the
1:48:24
conference required by both the ACC Constitution in North Carolina law, and the ACC
1:48:29
allegis Florida State breached its obligation to act in good faith and fair dealing under
1:48:33
the ACC Constitution. So there's a lot going on here between the ACC and
1:48:39
Florida State. This isn't going to get I just don't see a way back,
1:48:43
a path back for Florida State and the excuse me, ACC as they
1:48:49
move forward. I think this is a divorce that's going to happen, and
1:48:54
we'll see what happened. Speaking of what happens, how about grade and second
1:48:57
year coaches. Officially, when you're talking about guys that have been at places
1:49:00
for two years, you look at the top. Mike Elko who moved on
1:49:04
to Texas A and M he was officially graded out in a. I mean,
1:49:08
you talk about a guy at Duke who went sixteen and nine record wise.
1:49:12
Duke regressed under Elko in twenty twenty three, falling from nine to four
1:49:15
to seven and five, but he was still plucked away from Durham North Carolina
1:49:20
by Texas A and M. And it's because of the seven wins came over
1:49:25
of the seven whims came over Clemson and the season opener, and the Blue
1:49:28
Devils nearly knocked off Notre Dame too. It was in the Notre Dame loss
1:49:32
that star quarterback Riley Leonard suffered a high uncle spraying and altered the rest of
1:49:38
the Duke Blue Devil season. Billy Napier at eleven and fourteen grades out as
1:49:44
a D in two years, and I think that is fair. This year
1:49:47
is not going to get much better when you talk about it, maybe get
1:49:49
worse because of the schedule. And I don't know that Billy Napier can make
1:49:54
it beyond this year, not without doing something extra ordinary. Brian Kelly two
1:49:59
years twenty seven, he gets a B plus. Kelly put together his second
1:50:03
ten win season and as many tries at LSU. This season, he added
1:50:08
a Heisman Trophy winning quarterback to his resume. He's falling short of the ultimate
1:50:12
goal of winning a national championship, but the Tigers would have made the College
1:50:15
Football Playoff in a twelve team field this past season. That will be the
1:50:19
goal for twenty twenty four as the format expands. Mario Crystabaal a D plus
1:50:26
twelve and thirteen and look, Mario Crystaball, this is going to be kind
1:50:30
of a feast or famine type year for Mario Christaball. He brings in a
1:50:33
transfer quarterback from Washington State and Cameron Ward. Big things are expected twelve and
1:50:40
thirteen, and I want to kind of jump into Miami when we come back
1:50:44
from the break in the final segment. But twelve and thirteen. Marcus Freeman
1:50:46
grades out of B nineteen and eight and two seasons at Notre Dame and one
1:50:53
more and we'll get the rest of these on the other side. Brent Venables
1:50:56
C plus sixteen and ten for the Oklahoma with Sooners. That's where he uh
1:51:01
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be back in studio. I'll be back in studio with Beav tomorrow to finish
1:53:02
out the week. Bev, anything on your end we need to get to
1:53:09
and as we chalk up the next thirteen or fourteen minutes, le we get
1:53:12
back into these coaches real quickly. We left off with Marcus Freeman two year
1:53:16
grades. Go back over here two year grades for coaches. Obviously they've been
1:53:20
at programs for say two years, just two years. Like Mike Elko who's
1:53:24
now Texas A and m he coached two years at Duke. He went sixteen
1:53:28
and nine. He gets a grade of an A. And I think that
1:53:30
is a accurate grade for Mike Elko, especially when you start talking about,
1:53:35
you know, winning at Duke is just not a place where we saw David
1:53:40
Cutt Cliff struggle to win there. I mean, obviously they had guys that
1:53:43
went to the NFL, But sixteen and nine for Mike Coco gets an A.
1:53:45
Billy Napier a D eleven and fourteen, as this excert says, I'm
1:53:50
not sure there's a coach at the Power five level on a hotter seat than
1:53:54
Napier. After an uninspiring six and seven record in twenty twenty two, the
1:53:58
Gators were less inspired in twenty three amid a five and seven campaign. What
1:54:02
had been a great recruiting class fizzled as signing day approached. In the approached
1:54:10
and the losses mounted. The Gators head into twenty twenty four with one of
1:54:13
the toughest schedules in the country and not a lot of confidence in their coach.
1:54:17
And you know, if you go look really quickly, let me pull
1:54:21
this real quick for the Florida Gators, and we've looked at this obviously,
1:54:26
but it's been a while. I just want to go back and looking because
1:54:28
I just don't see a path for Billy Napier to make it unless he just,
1:54:33
let's see Florida, unless he just has a you know, a year
1:54:40
where they can go win eight ball games. And I just you know,
1:54:43
used two, Florida was almost a lock for eight in certain years they have
1:54:45
been. I just don't see that. I mean, if you look at
1:54:47
this, they play Miami right out the gate, and this will be kind
1:54:53
of a hot seat game, right because you look at Mario Cristobal, I
1:54:58
mean he's he's on the hot seat to some of the g and then Billy
1:55:00
Napers. So Miami comes in. I'm gonna give the edge of the hurricane
1:55:03
Samford in game two. Then they host Texas A and M before coming to
1:55:10
Davis Wade Stadium at Mississippi State. And none of those games outside of Samford
1:55:15
is a is a lock for a win. They have a bye week because
1:55:19
remember every everybody has two bye weeks this year, they'll take on Central Florida
1:55:24
and that'll be at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Central Florida will bring in kJ
1:55:27
Jefferson, gus My Miles on and that's a game that is gonna be a
1:55:31
toss up game for him. At Tennessee Kentucky Bye Week, Georgia at Everbankfield
1:55:39
in Jacksonville, at Texas l s U, Ole Miss at Florida State.
1:55:46
I don't know, one, maybe two, let's see three, maybe four.
1:55:56
It's gonna be tough for Florida to get five wins. I mean,
1:55:59
it really is. Unless something drastically happens for the Florida Gators this year,
1:56:03
it's just going to be extremely tough, all right. Moving on to these
1:56:05
other coaches. When you look at the second year coaches LSU Brian Kelly twenty
1:56:10
and seven, he gets a B plus. That's I think extremely accurate when
1:56:14
you look at the work Brian Kelly has done there. Mario Crystaball twelve and
1:56:16
thirteen. The good news Miami and he got a D plus. By the
1:56:20
way, didn't lose to Middle Tennessee State this year. The bad news they
1:56:25
only went seven and six and are twelve and thirteen and two seasons under Crystal
1:56:30
Ball, including a six and ten record in the ACC. That's not why
1:56:34
he was hired. However, the Canes are doing well on the recruiting trail
1:56:39
and we considered one of the favorites in the conference next year. That sets
1:56:43
up for a huge rivalry with Florida State obviously in that conference, and you
1:56:47
talk about high expectations. Notre Dame Marcus Freeman nineteen and eight, he gets
1:56:51
a B. He will likely have Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff this
1:56:56
year, and he is doing everything right at Notre Dame. Brent Venables at
1:57:00
sixteen and ten at Oklahoma gets a C plus. Freeman with a B,
1:57:05
Venables a C plus. The Sooners took a big step forward in Vnable's second
1:57:10
season, improving from six and seven to ten and three. It still wasn't
1:57:14
good enough for the Big twelve Championship Game appearance. Now the Sooners are heading
1:57:17
to the SEC, where life won't get any easier. Venables faces a big
1:57:20
season at twenty four, and he absolutely does. Because if Texas comes in
1:57:25
and has a big year, which they should, in Oklahoma kind of flounders
1:57:28
a little bit. It could be problems. Dan Lanning gets a B plus
1:57:30
twenty two and five. Of the four PAC twelve schools headed to the Big
1:57:34
Ten, none of them look in a better shape than what Oregon has under
1:57:39
It looks like under Dan Landing. The Ducks are coming off a twelve and
1:57:42
two season where they are only two losses were close losses against Washington, who
1:57:45
reached the National Championship Game twenty two and five. The optimism is extremely high
1:57:53
in Oregon, says it could fade if the Ducks can't get over the hump
1:57:57
again in twenty twenty four. I think will be one of the favorites to
1:58:00
win the Big Ten in their first year. Michigan has lost a lot,
1:58:04
they're replacing a lot. Jim Harbaugh could be gone. They'll be a decent
1:58:09
team, a nice team, as we always say, a little bit better
1:58:12
than Maryland. I mean, they'll be probably an eight, nine, maybe
1:58:15
ten win team. But I think Oregon is going to challenge Ohio State and
1:58:18
you know, Penn State to a much lesser degree. But I think they
1:58:20
challenge Ohio State for the Big Ten championship. TCU Sunny Dykes gets an ANUS
1:58:26
eighteen and nine in two years obviously made the National Championship Game last year.
1:58:30
Even with a five and seven mark. This past season, the horn Frogs
1:58:33
are eighteen to nine hunderd Dykes and have a chance to establish themselves as one
1:58:38
of the power schools in the Big Twelve. The new Big Twelve Texas Tech
1:58:41
Joey McGuire fifteen and eleven. He gets a C plus. McGuire's first two
1:58:45
seasons exemplify what happens when expectations clash with a reality. I never understood the
1:58:51
high expectations for Texas Tech. Anyway. Last year, everybody had high expectations.
1:58:56
I did not see that they did not meet that. This is Texas
1:59:00
Tech is down in love it. It's not Texas, it's not Texas A
1:59:02
and M. It's not TCU, Houston or Baylor, It's Texas Tech.
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USC Lincoln Riley nineteen and eight. He gets a D. And I think
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that's fair because their defense is awful, and they really slid backwards this past
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year, and they got a lot of guys that are trying to replace.
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I just Lincoln Riley could be in trouble even at nineteen and eight. Virginia
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tom Tony Elliott, he went six and sixteen over the last two years.
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He gets a C minus. And that's a tough job. Virginia is a
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very tough job, and Elliott's trying to do big things that Virginia Tech.
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Brent Priye went ten and fourteen. He gets a B minus. I'll probably
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give him like a C minus, but again, Virginia Tech has fallen on
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hard times. That's a tough job. Washington kalend Boor twenty five and three
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gets an A plus. And then Jake Dickard at Washington State went fifteen and
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six sixteen, he gets a C or C. When you look at some
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of the guys in the group of five, Joe Morehead, SI, as
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you ring up Joe, he went four and twenty. Well, look,
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Akron's tough place coach, right, that's a tough tough ticket. But he
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gets a D. This is there a few gigs in the country, just
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a few that are tougher than Akron. Joe Moorehead has first hand acknowledge,
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our first hand knowledge of that difficulty and how hard it can be. After
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two and ten season with the Zips, he'll get a third season, but
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I can't imagine he'll see a fourth If things don't drastically improve Colorado State.
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J Norvale went eight and sixteen. He gets a C minus. Yukon's Jim
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Mora nine and sixteen, he gets a C. Mike McIntyre at FIU after
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two seasons and eight and sixteen, he gets a D. Georgia Southern Clay
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Helton went twelve and fourteen over the last two years D plus and Timmy Chank
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Hawaii Golden Rainbows Fighting Rainbows, whatever they are eight and eighteen. He gets
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a C. Appreciate our guests today, Appreciate beav hanging with us today.
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We'll be back in studio tomorrow. Remember catch up as King Bacon's and delicate
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sye a loha means goodbye, have a great Thursday night. Well see tomorrow