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David Murray on Miss. State football, basketball and baseball · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  David Murray Jean's page two four seven Sports dot Com on you Radio, David
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  Happy Wednesday. I don't know how it is where you're at, but it
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  has been rain, rain, rain, and we got it all the rest
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  of the week. How are you same here at? It's a good day
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  for getting work done. I'll have to say that did a piece on Josh
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  Hubbard today. Will he move into the starting lineup at some point? And
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  maybe pull out a reminder that sometimes I've known players who've done better off the
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  bench, flashing back you know to Tony watts day nineteen ninety one, where
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  he was he'd get too amped up and nervous if he started a game,
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  but if he watched a couple of minutes would come in be instant offense.
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  Well, Hubbard's been pretty much instant offense. I think he's sixteenth in the
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  SECN scoring. He's got more three pointers than the rest of the starting lineup
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  put together. So I just wonder at some point does he mix in there
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  or does Chris Jans keep with what he's been doing. I know Deshaun Davis
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  has struggled at the guard position there of late, But anyway, tonight's game
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  that Gainsville are adjusted fromer from Jean's page. Will be covering it in person
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  down there, so we'll get some tips on the lineup. But it's a
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  game the Bulogs really really neat to win ahead of hosting Auburn, because you
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  keep it track of that net. There were forty as of yesterday, but
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  still a long way to go, and you can you can make a lot
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  of ground up if you you can steal a win against the number forty five
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  Florida on the road. Yeah, let's and let's go right there. I
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  want to go basketball first. I've got some other stuff I want to chop
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  up with you. That is, I don't want to call it a must
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  win game on the road, but you referenced, I mean Auburn coming in
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  you know Saturday will be just an unbelievable atmosphere there at the Hump. I
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  mean, the game will be in play, but Auburn's gonna be favorite Ole
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  miss and Oxford next week and then Alabama and Tuscalosa before grabbing Georgia and then
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  at home in the Missouri. So you know that would go a long way.
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  Uh this, you know in everything of stars, your goals of you
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  know, staying in that inside that NCAA bubble, so to speak, to
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  get that win tonight at Florida. Well, there's in good position right now.
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  Now. They could use another quad one win, which this would be
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  everything from one to seventy five in the net if you went on the road,
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  that's a quad one, So that'd be another one to pick up.
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  State really could use some help from some of the pre SEC teams that they've
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  beaten, but all of those dropped in their net this past week, which
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  also contributed States slipped there. So they're solidly in the field right now,
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  but the field ain't picked right now. He's still got two months essentially until
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  all this is settled after the SEC tournament. And I think too that Jens.
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  It's not just the fact they really need to get this road win.
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  He wants to see a few areas of improvement, like some free throw shooting
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  from total. Smith wants to see better ball handling out front, trey Ford
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  working himself up to speed as an alternate to Hubbard coming off the bench,
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  and really settling that guard rotation system down and just place smarter, don't get
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  in the early foul trouble like Kim Matthews has done of the late and like
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  I said, place smart player game Florida is a pretty good matchup all things
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  considered for a road game like that. So I think they've got a good
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  chance tonight to come back with the even sec record. David Murray on your
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  radio the wednes They edition of the program. Make sure to find it at
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  genspage dot com, two four seven sports dot com, get the podcasts,
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  the articles and more also on X as well, David, believe it or
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  not. And you know, we wouldn't know it with the weather if you
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  just walked outside. And last week it was freezing cold North Mississippi, Tennessee
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  under ice and snow. But baseball will first pitch. We'll be here here
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  in a matter of weeks. Now. To say, you know, pressure
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  is on this this club and Lamonas and this staff is probably an understatement.
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  But you know, outside of the pressure, what are the expectations of this
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  club this year? Well, the pressure is definitely there. And Crystal Monash,
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  by the way, had his birthday this week, is well aware of
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  it. He knows that. You know, you don't get a third chance
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  in this situation after two bad seasons. Even that national championship starts aware thin
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  if you really start going to continued downswing. I don't think they will this
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  year. I think the Dogs going to bounce back. I don't know that
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  they have a Friday pitcher per se. It's still maybe some committee work done
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  in the first part of the season picking out who goes on Game one's who
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  goes on game twos in that regard, but I think the pitching staff overall
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  is in better shape. Only lost one player to Tommy john in preseason,
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  which is a plague hitting college baseball everywhere, so State's hardly loan that regard.
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  I think the offense is going to be much improved this year. And
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  you know, you can go on Jeans Page and Mike Neemuth has done a
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  great job this week of breaking down position by position defensively, all the outfield
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  positions, infield, catcher, what's going to happen there, and really dig
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  into what the roster looks like right now going into it. And you talk
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  about hard to believe. Well, I'm going to the basketball game this past
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  weekend in on like twenty two degree temperatures, but I hear the clang of
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  bats in the Paul Merrow Center and I'm thinking, yeah, it ain't that
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  far away now, that is that is absolutely true? David, Why I
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  got you a few minutes. I want to get your thoughts just because you've
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  been around college sports for quite a while and you've seen a lot of stuff
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  happening. You know, leaders in college sports will meet on Capitol Hill tomorrow
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  with Charlie Baker to discuss this proposed let's see, how did Ross Dellinger.
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  I'm trying to get the right verbiage on it, Project d one, this
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  new proposed subcommittee or subdivision, rather to try to make all this equal and
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  fair. And I know the sec in the Big ten are pretty much like
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  not, we're not in on this, and they're saying, hey, this
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  could be this could be it. We'll run out of time, there could
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  be the split can happen, All of this can happen. I asked David
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  Glenn the same thing out of State of North Carolina in the last hour in
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  ben portnoor an hour number one. What do you think will come of this?
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  I mean, I don't think Washington, d C. Anybody in Congress
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  or the Senate is going to do anything here. They don't need to.
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  Yeah, yeah, they don't need to get involved in this because it show
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  me much of anything Washington has made better in the last well century. I
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  know that's a little oversweeping, but still, college athletics is such an unusual
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  and odd thing, As James Mitchger once wrote that the aliens came down,
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  looked at it and say and all this is being done in the name of
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  education. But that's what makes it such a weird animal in so many ways.
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  I don't think there's any fix via insublea. And that's not a knock
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  on Instaba per se, because you've got to have some sort of superbody and
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  the instably remember it is not the office in Indianapolis, it's the hundreds of
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  presidents. They're the ones who put all these laws into effect. Are not
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  My thinking is And I think the time it will happen we have been when
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  some of these TV contracts run out. I think the SEC's runs through what
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  twenty twenty nine or thirty, The Big Tens runs through twenty thirty one.
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  I think by that point Disney and Fox will have a good idea of what
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  the finances are are, and there is a very good chance then that the
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  breakaway takes place. I think how many it will be, I don't know.
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  I'm pessimistic. I think it will be the fewer teams Instead of this
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  sixty four or something. I believe it'll be closer to the thirties, simply
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  because they'll say, why should we pay for any more than that to have
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  the teams we want playing essentially NFL light on Fridays and Saturdays, so we
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  can have pro Ball on Sundays and Mondays. But you really don't know.
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  The finances have a lot to do with it. Instab A is going to
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  move out it. And to be honest, Jake, I think a whole
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  lot of instead of a presidents want to wash their hands of major college football.
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  They don't really understand it. And unfortunately it's not a case here in
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  Mississippi. The chancellors and the presidents of state old miss Sotamiths, they understand
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  college football, they know what it matters. But there's a whole lot of
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  places. What's the old joke? I mean, why does all many have
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  the same voter as Alabama? A lot of that's true. So I think
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  Installay is ready to get rid of it. It's top level and theyasically whoever
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  doesn't go to the Super League, goes to what now is the Football Championship.
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  We'll have her on playoffs, but we won't have the huge TV money
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  funding it and the other mandated fifteen sports that you have to have to play
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  that level of football. Something everybody overlooks in the NIL and the transfer port
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  on all these debates is when that California court case gets settled and student athletes
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  probably will be allowed to unionize and start claiming a share of their conference TV
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  moneies. That means everybody gets the same. The volleyball spiker gets the same
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  as as the college quarterback, and there's to be a lot of schools can't
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  afford it. I know I'm painting a doom and gloom, but I don't
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  see any fixed for it, certainly not through Washington without a separation where they
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  can make their own rules that are good for college football and the other sports
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  go their own way. One one hundred percent agree, and I think that's
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  where we're headed. We'll see what happens in these meetings tomorrow. You can
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  find them at genspage dot com. Make sure to get David on X and
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  of course grab the podcast and more. David always appreciate your time and look
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  have a great rest of the week. We'll see what happens in basketball and
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  talk soon well. And keep in mind too that the recruiting still goes on.
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  State has not announced it enrollees, but it looks like about twenty eight
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  guys. We'll be here for the spring semester at fifteen on transfers, handful
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  of high school guys and jew they get Juco guys as well. That'll get
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  going. We're talking to Jeff Levy at some point, probably on the February
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  seventh signing day, but already looking forward to that and getting a spring idea
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  of what the schedule is going to be. So you know, as much
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  as we focus on basketball right now, baseball is about to start, but
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  football is always right there ready to grab our attention. That's just what we
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  do. That's it. It never ends. In course, David will be
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  visiting with you on that as well. Thanks so much, David. We'll
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  talk to you next week. Jake and Ben, thanks a lot.