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

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Speaker 4: that's good, it's all.
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Speaker 2: In your head, you know, it's uh. And we probably
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Speaker 2: talked about this. You know, there's those stories of those
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Speaker 4: No, I mean, I can the show, git the idea,
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Speaker 2: Ye, no, I never heard that. I mean, I need
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Speaker 2: Heathinton expected to be in at five point fifteen. We'll
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Speaker 2: talk about that Southern miss regional. All right, So, uh,
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Speaker 2: have you picked a winner for the bracket yet? Not yet?
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Speaker 2: And I'm glad you do have this mic backworking that way.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to whacked that thing back over this
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Speaker 2: way or whatever. So I'm glad I don't want to
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Speaker 2: do that either. So let's get into it. A lot
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Speaker 2: of news coming out of spring meetings in destin as
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Speaker 2: there's now a bill that is going to the floor
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Speaker 2: in DC. There's a lot of moving parts as everybody's
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Speaker 2: trying to figure out what to do with college sports.
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Speaker 2: We will get into, of course, some baseball as we
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Speaker 2: look towards the weekend and look at some of these
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Speaker 2: odds and more coming up. As you know, Ole Miss,
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Speaker 2: Southern Miss, and Ole Miss, Southern Miss and Missippi State
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Speaker 2: are all in action coming up this weekend, all right.
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Speaker 2: Tennessee athletics director Danny White spoke yesterday on why he
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Speaker 2: came out in support of the college football playoff expansion
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Speaker 2: to twenty four teams. Remember this, this is kind of
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Speaker 2: where we are. If you want to read the room
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Speaker 2: of college football, the Big twelve, the ACC, and the
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Speaker 2: Big Ten all want twenty four teams in the playoff.
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Speaker 2: Greg Sankee is kicking back saying No. Sixteen is where
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Speaker 2: we need to be. But inside the SEC you have
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Speaker 2: various athletic directors and coaches that are you know, there's
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Speaker 2: a split inside the SEC room. Danny White is won.
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Speaker 2: He wants twenty four teams. He is the athletics director
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Speaker 2: at Tennessee, and he says, quote, I think the percentage
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Speaker 2: of teams with access to the postseason in football is low,
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Speaker 2: and I think we need more access. And again when
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Speaker 2: when people there's a lot of words that have been
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Speaker 2: spoken on this, but there's no substance to the words.
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Speaker 2: I think the postseason the access is low, we need
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Speaker 2: more access. Well, what defines low access? Access to? What
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Speaker 2: to have your name and a hat to potentially win
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Speaker 2: a national title. I mean, again, we've gone through this exercise.
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Speaker 2: If we go back and look at the college football
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Speaker 2: playoff ranks, yes, of course there's no way we would
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Speaker 2: know if this team would win it or that team
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Speaker 2: would win it. But I mean, I think we've got
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Speaker 2: enough data and we've gone down this rabbit hole with
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Speaker 2: efficiencies and stuff. You know, if you go past twelve,
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Speaker 2: you know which teams were left out that could have
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Speaker 2: made a run. Texas was left out at thirteen. This
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Speaker 2: is courtesy the College Football Playoff rankings, the final of
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Speaker 2: the rankings going into the playoff. No, these are the
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Speaker 2: final rankings. I'm sorry, I believe these are week fifteen.
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Speaker 2: Let's go week fourteen. No, let's go fifteen. There we go,
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Speaker 2: all right, So these are the final rankings. Texas was
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Speaker 2: left out of the playoff. Could they have made a run, Yes,
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Speaker 2: probably so Vanderbilt. Would they have made a run at
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Speaker 2: ten and two at number fourteen, they might have won
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Speaker 2: a ball game. Would they have won the whole thing? No?
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Speaker 2: But under a sixteen team model, those two teams likely
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Speaker 2: would have got in Utah at ten and two number fifteen.
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Speaker 2: Would they have won the national champion?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 2: What about USC at sixteen? No nine and three, Arizona, No, Michigan, no, Virginia, Hell,
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Speaker 2: no two Lane got in? They got bailed, Houston, Georgia, Tech, Iowa,
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Speaker 2: North Texas. No, So what access do they need? What
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Speaker 2: and then we'll get Jake's take on several things as
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Speaker 2: far as spring meetings that's concerned. Tom Fornelli put out
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Speaker 2: a piece today on CBS Sports, or actually yesterday. He says,
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Speaker 2: every Mady the college football team at CBS Sports gets tougher,
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Speaker 2: are together and tougher, and ranks the sixty eight power
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Speaker 2: for coaches. So we'll look at this and see where
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Speaker 2: the Missippi coaches are in relationship to the other coaches.
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Speaker 2: To no surprise, Well, let's see they do it. Backwards
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Speaker 2: sixty eight for Missippi State fans. I will tell you
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Speaker 2: that Jeff Levy is not sixty eighth on the list.
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Speaker 2: It's to Vita Prichard Stanford and also Tosh le Boy
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Speaker 2: for cow that's sixty eight and sixty seven. So he
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Speaker 2: is not at the very very bottom. But we'll get
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Speaker 2: into those coaches rankings. Also, Brave mc murphy on on
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Speaker 2: three Sports. SEC coaches say they were quote misled about
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Speaker 2: a nine game league schedule. They were told playoff would
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Speaker 2: expand to sixteen teams if they agreed. It didn't quote
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Speaker 2: they fell misled. Floridas John summer All said, latest from
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Speaker 2: the SEC spring meetings, and looks that's another thing that's
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Speaker 2: out there is if you remember forever, and it was
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Speaker 2: several years, the Big ten and the ACC and the
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Speaker 2: now defunct Pac twelve all gaged up on the SEC.
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Speaker 2: Well we're moving to nine games. You got to move
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Speaker 2: to nine games. I mean, it's it's not fair that
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Speaker 2: you get to pick and choose another non conference game.
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Speaker 2: You've got that cupcake weekend right before rivalry weekend. Can
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Speaker 2: never say that word right the next to last week
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Speaker 2: ind the regular season. So you need to go to
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Speaker 2: nine games. Okay, fine, well we'll do nine games. We're
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Speaker 2: gonna go to sixteen team playoffs. Okay, fine, they go
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Speaker 2: to nine games and the Big ten says nope, sorry,
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Speaker 2: we want to go to twenty four. So they're absolutely
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Speaker 2: right about that. Now, you know, obviously there was no
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Speaker 2: sign paperwork on that. I think it was more of
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Speaker 2: a gentleman's agreement that hey, yes, we'll go to nine
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Speaker 2: if you give us sixteen. And you know, I think
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Speaker 2: it's one of those deals where they talked about it
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Speaker 2: but never put anything in ink. The SEC will require
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Speaker 2: all student athletes to view new, custom designed mandatory sports
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Speaker 2: gambling educational videos prior to the start of their team's
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Speaker 2: first regular season game during the twenty twenty six and
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven athletic year. Look, I think that's good.
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Speaker 2: I think that covers the league from any kind of
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Speaker 2: lawsuits or potential lawsuits. I mean, you know there's going
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Speaker 2: to be people that are gambling. There's no way to
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Speaker 2: stop it. Now you make or tell some of it back,
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Speaker 2: but at least to say, hey, look, we're educating, we're
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Speaker 2: showing we're trying to advise. Here. Also, Texas and Notre
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Speaker 2: Dame scheduled to play home and home series in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty eight and twenty nine, but Texas Athletics director Chris
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Speaker 2: Delcante wouldn't fully commit to games beyond the games would
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Speaker 2: be played. Quote their tentative on the schedule right now,
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Speaker 2: says del Conte, which obviously there can be some buyouts
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Speaker 2: on all of that and change some schedules and such
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Speaker 2: as far as other teams that are available. Also three
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Speaker 2: hours ago, new Senator Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell have
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Speaker 2: introduced a bipartisan legislation, the Quote Protect College Sports Act,
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Speaker 2: one time transfer, five year eligibility, the Lane Kiffin Rule,
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Speaker 2: preventing coaches from leaving mid season. The bill includes opportunities
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Speaker 2: for schools to collectively pull rights. This is the television rights.
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Speaker 2: This is the part of the bill, or one portion
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Speaker 2: of the bill that a lot of people aren't going
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Speaker 2: to buy off on. The SEC is never going to
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Speaker 2: go for this, The Big Ten won't either. A minimum
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Speaker 2: threshold of seventy five percent of one hundred and thirty
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Speaker 2: eight FBS schools must be reached to pull the rights
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Speaker 2: even if the Big Ten and SEC didn't sign off
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Speaker 2: on it. The rest of the FBS did, it would
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Speaker 2: be over seventy five percent. That's very interesting. Now this
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Speaker 2: legislation has already gotten hung up in DC. They're going
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Speaker 2: to present this bill. It's gonna get political because of
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Speaker 2: all of the jerrymandering that's going on in the country.
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Speaker 2: What's going on in the country. Washington has already made
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Speaker 2: this thing political and they want action here xyz. So
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Speaker 2: they've doubsed this thing with politics. It's never going to pass. Now.
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Speaker 2: If it did, I don't still know if you would
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Speaker 2: get seventy five percent of the one thirty eight. Now
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Speaker 2: I said, if the Big ten and SEC didn't sign
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Speaker 2: off on it, there are other teams that may not
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Speaker 2: sign off on this. Noted probably would not sign off
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Speaker 2: on this because Notre Dame has the sweet sweet deal
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Speaker 2: with NBC Sports right now or NBC they have that
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Speaker 2: sweet sweet deal. So put Notre Dame in there, and
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Speaker 2: then I'd have to do some quick math on this
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Speaker 2: to see what other teams. I would think probably the
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Speaker 2: SEC might even work some sort of a back end
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Speaker 2: deal for an expansion with Miami, and nobody's telling me this.
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Speaker 2: I'm just look, this is a this is negotiation at
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Speaker 2: this point for the SEC and Big Ten. We got
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Speaker 2: to find three four five to bring this number under
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Speaker 2: the seventy five percent. Yes, the MAC the why, I
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Speaker 2: mean all the group of five would buy off on it.
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Speaker 2: Every set group of six, that's every team would sign
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Speaker 2: off on this. Then you get into the Big twelve.
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Speaker 2: The Big Twelve would sign off on this. The SEC
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Speaker 2: and Big Ten would not sign off on it. So
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Speaker 2: now you're down to the ACC. Jim Phillips would absolutely
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Speaker 2: want to sign off on this. But then there's other
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Speaker 2: schools that may not in the ACC. And here's why.
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Speaker 2: Right now, Miami and Clemson, even though they haven't shown
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Speaker 2: the product on the field, and then you can probably
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Speaker 2: say SMU because of the money that they have coming in,
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Speaker 2: are way above the field, way above the field. So
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Speaker 2: would they really want everybody else in their conference to
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Speaker 2: be on equal footing and get more, you know, dollar
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Speaker 2: for dollar. It's a very interesting deal. We'll see what
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Speaker 2: happens with this. Matt Berrie will replace Laura Rutledge if
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Speaker 2: you care, as host of SEC Nation, with the show
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Speaker 2: eying halftime shows in SEC stadiums this fall. Brie, an
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Speaker 2: ESPN studio and College Football Final host the past eight years,
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Speaker 2: will still do play by play for Thursday night games
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Speaker 2: on ESPN. Be Erre. I knew that you probably wanted
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Speaker 2: to know that that Laura Rutledge will not be doing
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Speaker 2: SEC Nation, so I figured that that was something you
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Speaker 2: needed to know. Also, SEC's Greg Sankie asked about the
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Speaker 2: potential find for Lane Kiffin's comments regarding Ole miss quote,
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Speaker 2: you'll find out when everybody else finds out. I don't
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Speaker 2: make those announcement announcements at the podium. That's twice this
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Speaker 2: week he's said something similar to that, is, hey, I
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Speaker 2: public announcement is expected in June, so even air Force
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Speaker 2: the academies are looking for ways to generate more revenue. Also,
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Speaker 2: SEC Associate Commissioner Garth Glissman, delivering a presentation on sports wagering,
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Speaker 2: says that twelve billion of bets, well billion dollars. The
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Speaker 2: bets were placed on games involving an SEC team in
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Speaker 2: twenty five and twenty six. The league is, of course
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Speaker 2: requiring the education. Think about that SEC games. That's football, baseball, basketball,
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Speaker 2: women's basketball, softball. Twelve billion dollars bet on the SEC
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Speaker 2: by the general public and probably some of their athletes.
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Speaker 2: You probably got about half a billion in on that,
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Speaker 2: I would assume. And also Dan Woken, we're gonna get
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Speaker 2: into this. Here's Dan Wokin. I want to see if
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Speaker 2: people agree with this or not, he says down here
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Speaker 2: in Destin, there's a lot of talk about the SEC
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Speaker 2: breakaway from the rest of college sports. But you know
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Speaker 2: what the result would be, the certain death of the SEC.
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Speaker 2: Now we'll get into this off the cuff. What do
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Speaker 2: you think of that SEC if they just said, we're
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Speaker 2: not playing what y'all are playing. We're breaking away. We're
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Speaker 2: going to do our own thing. It's gonna be the
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Speaker 2: SEC and only the SEC. We're gonna crown our champion
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Speaker 2: in every sport. Would it be the death of the SEC.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if I'd go so far as to
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Speaker 4: say death, certain death, but it's not gonna be as
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Speaker 4: good as some people might think. I told you this yesterday.
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Speaker 2: I don't.
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Speaker 4: Okay, you're sixteen teams. Let's say you break away and
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Speaker 4: you just remain your sixteen teams.
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Speaker 2: That's boring.
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Speaker 4: That's eight matchups. You're playing the same teams over and
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Speaker 4: over again. And in the end, that's not a national championship,
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Speaker 4: that's just an SEC champion And the talk in the
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Speaker 4: world is we're about to eliminate the SEC championship game.
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Speaker 4: So you're really just replacing an SEC championship game with
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Speaker 4: an SEC championship game. You can't call yourself a national
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Speaker 4: champion if you're only one conference sixteen teams. To do this,
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Speaker 4: I think they would need to add like eight extra ah,
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Speaker 4: eight extra schools. But then what eight are you gonna
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Speaker 4: get your Why? You run the risk of watering it
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Speaker 4: down big time.
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Speaker 2: There fascinating point, and we will continue that conversation. I
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Speaker 2: do think Greg Sankey has a trump card in his
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Speaker 2: back pocket on this. Remember this as we go to break.
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Speaker 2: We never knew in the day of social media, Texas
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Speaker 2: three Sports, Jake, welcome in, brother. How you doing.
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Speaker 6: I'm doing well, Just on my way to Lincoln the Brass.
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Speaker 2: So you've made that trip before. That's that's a long
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Speaker 2: interesting trip or maybe not as interesting, but I mean, hey,
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Speaker 2: you're going for a you know, a big deal there
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Speaker 2: Ole Miss a two seed and the Lincoln Nebraska Regional
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Speaker 2: there Nebraska Ole Miss, also Arizona State and South Dakota State.
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Speaker 2: Your thoughts about the seeding was that about where you
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Speaker 2: felt Ole Miss? You know, not maybe not necessarily that region,
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Speaker 2: but just about that pecking order.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they've they've been considered a one of the top
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Speaker 6: four two seeds. I guess you could call it, you know,
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Speaker 6: if you're breaking it down that way. They've always been
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Speaker 6: right there at that that cut line of hosting as
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Speaker 6: like a six seventeen eighteen nineteen and all the projections,
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Speaker 6: and we knew how close they came to getting a
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Speaker 6: host you know, opportunity this weekend in Oscar, but it
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Speaker 6: wasn't to be. And you know, they've had a nice
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Speaker 6: two weeks off after that lost in Missouri and coming
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Speaker 6: into this regional, which I think a lot of people
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Speaker 6: view as a you know, kind of a really tough regional.
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Speaker 6: All eyes are kind of on it. They've there's you know, ESPNS,
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Speaker 6: and then they're a crew announced or one of their
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Speaker 6: eight crew teams and the Old Miss games on TV
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Speaker 6: tomorrow night or Friday night. That is, so it's all
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Speaker 6: eyes or on the this regional and it's more specifically
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Speaker 6: dispatch up between them and the sun Devils Friday night.
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Speaker 2: So let's start first off, health of the team just
20:15
Speaker 2: kind of an update of the status of the team is.
20:18
Speaker 2: You know, they get the break from the tournament like
20:19
Speaker 2: everybody does, as they prepare to you know, obviously take
20:23
Speaker 2: the field coming up Friday.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I think you know, in hindsight, they
20:28
Speaker 6: all realize that it's you know, it was probably a
20:30
Speaker 6: blessing in the skies. Was kind of the phrase they
20:32
Speaker 6: all use with us Monday afternoon in terms of getting
20:35
Speaker 6: health and getting guys ready, especially when it comes to
20:38
Speaker 6: you know, Hunter Elliott, K Townsend and Taylor ad getting
20:41
Speaker 6: your three guys to not throw a pitch and hoover
20:44
Speaker 6: and they get a good two weeks off, you know,
20:47
Speaker 6: heading into what I think was obviously a more important
20:50
Speaker 6: which is the regional than the SEC tournament, with how
20:53
Speaker 6: the lack of importance it was put on that it
20:55
Speaker 6: seems for other teams. So no, they're in a good
20:58
Speaker 6: spot health wise, you know. And the biggest I think
21:01
Speaker 6: was for K Townsend, you know, he's he had that
21:03
Speaker 6: shorter issue in Texas that first weekend of SEC play,
21:06
Speaker 6: missed the weekend and has made all of you know,
21:09
Speaker 6: those eight starts since, but had some tough outings against
21:12
Speaker 6: A or A and M in Alabama, so it was
21:14
Speaker 6: probably really good for him to get a coup, you know,
21:16
Speaker 6: some downtime outside of some scheduled bullpens sessions, but no
21:20
Speaker 6: like live competitive throwing. So I think they're in a
21:23
Speaker 6: good spot with those three guys, you know, heading into
21:26
Speaker 6: a regional and I think they're they're a really good
21:29
Speaker 6: starting trio. I mean, that's what we've seen all year
21:31
Speaker 6: is they've been they've on's kept on missing games. That's
21:34
Speaker 6: the offense, you know, try to get the offense time
21:36
Speaker 6: to wake up or score some runs. So having a
21:39
Speaker 6: healthy trio like that is going to pay dividends. I think,
21:41
Speaker 6: you know, start Friday visiting.
21:44
Speaker 2: With Jake Thompson. He is with ole Miss excuse me,
21:46
Speaker 2: the on three sports they ole Miss spirit as he
21:48
Speaker 2: has headed to Lincoln, Nebraska for the ole Miss Regional
21:51
Speaker 2: coming up this weekend in Lincoln, Nebraska. So all Miss
21:54
Speaker 2: pitching has been pretty darn solid this year. You have
21:57
Speaker 2: to like the bullpen and the lineup in this as
22:00
Speaker 2: long as you stand in the winners bracket, and you know,
22:02
Speaker 2: even in this you can move into the loser's bracket
22:04
Speaker 2: because it's not a massive tournament. Talk a little bit
22:06
Speaker 2: about that, and is how almost might match up with
22:09
Speaker 2: you know, the other bullpens in this fourteenth regional.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I did it kind of a deep dive.
22:16
Speaker 6: It seems like, oh, this may have the more battle
22:18
Speaker 6: tested bullpen or just pitching staff as a whole, going
22:21
Speaker 6: against you know, ten straight weekends of SEC opponents in
22:26
Speaker 6: what I probably is the strongest top to bottom conference
22:29
Speaker 6: in baseball, and so I think that's going to play
22:32
Speaker 6: a factor. You know, obviously you're excited to have a
22:35
Speaker 6: healthy arrested Walker Hooks. You hope that the time off
22:38
Speaker 6: is maybe got in Hudson calcoun right a little bit.
22:41
Speaker 6: And then from there you just kind of got to
22:43
Speaker 6: see what you have from some other guys, some midweek
22:45
Speaker 6: guys like a little Libert and others that have been
22:48
Speaker 6: more of your midweek or bullpen guys in certain games.
22:52
Speaker 6: So you know you've got your whole staff. You got
22:54
Speaker 6: two games, you know for sure, you hope that it's
22:56
Speaker 6: a win win, and then you've got a third one
22:57
Speaker 6: guaranteed on Sunday if you can do that. And so
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Speaker 6: I think they had the edge and depth of pitching
23:03
Speaker 6: staff in the bullpen. And you know, the key to
23:07
Speaker 6: me is they've got to get past the Arizona state.
23:08
Speaker 6: That seems to be, at least from what we're writing
23:11
Speaker 6: or what others are saying, Nebraska is kind of a
23:14
Speaker 6: quote book disrespected host where it feels like there's the
23:16
Speaker 6: third best team and it's like Ole Miss Arizona battling
23:19
Speaker 6: it out to who might pull that regional out, and
23:21
Speaker 6: then there's Nebraska. And so I think it feels like
23:24
Speaker 6: whoever gets want to know Friday night between the Rebels
23:27
Speaker 6: and sun Devils is going to have a good being
23:29
Speaker 6: a good spot the rest of the weekends.
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Speaker 2: So when you look at you know, Ole Miss isn't
23:34
Speaker 2: going to talk about this, but you look at the
23:36
Speaker 2: cross you know, kind of we can talk about this.
23:38
Speaker 2: Paired up with the Auburn regional Auburn Milwaukee in c
23:42
Speaker 2: State and Central Florida, and obviously you would think Auburn
23:45
Speaker 2: is going to walk through that regional. We know that
23:46
Speaker 2: sometimes that doesn't happen in this tournament. You look up
23:49
Speaker 2: on a weekend and Milwaukee has won a game or
23:51
Speaker 2: UCF and NC State's in the Winter's bracket. But just
23:54
Speaker 2: looking at the pairing of the eight ole miss if
23:56
Speaker 2: they can get through this regional, how do you feel
24:00
Speaker 2: about the pairing with the Auburn regional Obviously Auburn the
24:03
Speaker 2: clear favorite there a team that you know, obviously plays
24:05
Speaker 2: in the same conference there, and we're going to see
24:07
Speaker 2: a lot of this. I think next week is you know,
24:09
Speaker 2: several of these SEC rematches in the supers.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
24:14
Speaker 6: I was saying to people you know around here and
24:16
Speaker 6: others I've talked to that once the SEC irregular season
24:20
Speaker 6: was done and everybody and Hoover was done and all
24:22
Speaker 6: the set teams kind of went their separate ways. The
24:25
Speaker 6: ones who made the tournament went into you know, other regionals,
24:28
Speaker 6: I feel like it has the potential to be a
24:30
Speaker 6: very good weekend for the SEC as a whole and
24:32
Speaker 6: to lead into what you're saying, there's the chance for
24:34
Speaker 6: a few SEC SEC Super regional matchups, you know, potentially
24:38
Speaker 6: Georgia State as well. All Miss Auburn is an option,
24:41
Speaker 6: and I think there's a couple. More so, it's it
24:44
Speaker 6: has the chance for the conference to have a good
24:46
Speaker 6: weekend in that regard. And you know, in terms of
24:48
Speaker 6: if ale Miss can get to Auburn next weekend, you know,
24:51
Speaker 6: they didn't face them in the regular season, so it's
24:53
Speaker 6: hard to say. And I know Auburn kind of started
24:55
Speaker 6: hot and non conference scuffled a little to start the
24:58
Speaker 6: conference play, but obviously are peaking at the right time
25:00
Speaker 6: to earn a four seed, you know, a four national seed.
25:03
Speaker 6: So they've played well to end the season, which is
25:05
Speaker 6: what you want to do. So that would be an
25:07
Speaker 6: interesting matchup, a tough one, I still think, but you know,
25:10
Speaker 6: knowing that you don't have midweeks anymore, you just got
25:13
Speaker 6: a couple of games, a game in front of you
25:15
Speaker 6: and your whole pitching staff for those games, I think
25:17
Speaker 6: that that helps all Miss in that regard. So yeah,
25:20
Speaker 6: there is a path. I think they're happy to not
25:22
Speaker 6: have to go to a Texas or a UCLA or
25:24
Speaker 6: Georgia Tech or Georgia. I think they're happy with Auburn
25:28
Speaker 6: by in that next step. If they can get there
25:29
Speaker 6: next weekend, well.
25:31
Speaker 2: I got you for a couple of minutes. SEC spring
25:33
Speaker 2: meetings are going on. Playoffs, playoffs, playoffs. That's that's the
25:38
Speaker 2: theme here. You know, twenty four teams are not. I
25:40
Speaker 2: know some are in the favor. You know, Danny White
25:43
Speaker 2: at Tennessee is very high spoken about Hey, I want
25:48
Speaker 2: more access. I love twenty four. Greg Sankee's not. Kirby
25:51
Speaker 2: Smart has said earlier this week, Hey, if we break away,
25:54
Speaker 2: I'm here for the breakaway. So you got a smorgasboard
25:57
Speaker 2: of comments and opinions on this, has has Keith Carter
26:02
Speaker 2: or even you know, they'll miss anybody able then you
26:05
Speaker 2: know Pete Golding or they almost football have they commented
26:07
Speaker 2: here recently on their I guess opinion of twenty four teams,
26:11
Speaker 2: sixteen teams, a breakaway or anything of that nature.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I talked with Keith and that's not
26:17
Speaker 6: something you know at the times a couple of months ago.
26:19
Speaker 6: I didn't even think to kind of check his temperature on.
26:21
Speaker 6: But it's not something he's publicly put a stance on
26:23
Speaker 6: either way to us, And I don't think anybody else
26:25
Speaker 6: really And and Pete is a guy that's kind of
26:29
Speaker 6: kind of learning how on the job as terms of
26:31
Speaker 6: a head coach and at the podium, and he kind
26:33
Speaker 6: of just assess whatever whatever the whatever it is is,
26:36
Speaker 6: what it is, we'll figure it out. So I think
26:38
Speaker 6: whatever number he gets told it'll be, which is twelve
26:40
Speaker 6: for this year, and then obviously I assume it'll change
26:43
Speaker 6: for twenty twenty seven, or that's what it feels like.
26:45
Speaker 6: You know, HET's going to just be like, all right, well,
26:47
Speaker 6: now we've added extra spots for us to get in,
26:50
Speaker 6: you know, which is I think that's good for All
26:52
Speaker 6: miss you know, I know that's maybe not people what
26:54
Speaker 6: people want to think. Well, of course they can get
26:55
Speaker 6: in because they're adding slots, just like, but the basketball
26:58
Speaker 6: term is expanding to seventy two or whatever it is.
27:00
Speaker 6: So it feels like now it's easier potentially for teams
27:03
Speaker 6: to get in, especially at a strong conference like the SEC,
27:06
Speaker 6: and for All MISS. So I feel like propping in
27:08
Speaker 6: the back of their head. They're okay with it, but
27:10
Speaker 6: I don't know if publicly that they'll ever give a
27:12
Speaker 6: stance one way or the other until like it's decided
27:14
Speaker 6: and they'll say, yeah, oh yeah, we agree with whatever
27:16
Speaker 6: they upperstand.
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Speaker 2: Jake Thompson get him on on three and of course
27:20
Speaker 2: you can also follow him on X. Jake, appreciate your time,
27:23
Speaker 2: safe travels and back to Nebraska. Enjoy this weekend and
27:26
Speaker 2: we'll recap next week with you.
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Speaker 6: Sounds good. Word to talk Joe.
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Speaker 2: we'll talk all this mess with d C and uh
28:53
Speaker 2: the SEC. I know it's it's old, but it is
28:56
Speaker 2: the story out there in college sports. Unnamed texture you
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Speaker 2: can textas six A one eighty five three seven seven
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Speaker 2: six says of course Ole Miss wants expansion. They want
29:05
Speaker 2: participation trophies and no guardrails. They have some they have
29:09
Speaker 2: some fired under armour exec running their nil and Dicky
29:13
Speaker 2: Scruggs on their side. That's a little I mean, you
29:16
Speaker 2: could say that about a lot of teams, right, I mean, look,
29:20
Speaker 2: there's a couple of reasons teams want expansion. This is
29:23
Speaker 2: just my opinion. If you're in favor of expansion, your
29:28
Speaker 2: checklist probably looks like this one. Your coaches, you feel like,
29:35
Speaker 2: will have an easier access. So what does that mean
29:38
Speaker 2: to the coaches, especially like at a school that is
29:41
Speaker 2: right on the bubble. I mean, we go back to
29:42
Speaker 2: the college football playoff rankings last year. Let's just say
29:46
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech at twenty two or Virginia at nineteen. Well,
29:51
Speaker 2: that gives at least a perception you make the playoffs
29:54
Speaker 2: that hey, we're we're progressing. There's not going to be
29:58
Speaker 2: that call to fire you know that called to fire
30:01
Speaker 2: a coach at ten and three Virginia, who's the nineteenth
30:04
Speaker 2: seed in the playoff. That guy's probably never getting fired,
30:08
Speaker 2: not that he would really get fired unless he just
30:10
Speaker 2: the program tanked. But you take a team like Texas
30:16
Speaker 2: Steve Sarkejian. Now I haven't seen where he has said.
30:19
Speaker 2: He may have said he's four or against the playoff,
30:22
Speaker 2: but at thirteen they get in the playoff. He can
30:26
Speaker 2: always go back to his alumni and go, hey, look
30:27
Speaker 2: we're in the playoff, because that's that James Franklin somebody
30:31
Speaker 2: like that, you know, when he was at Penn State,
30:33
Speaker 2: missed the playoff. Whatever. Secondly, there's more money involved, and
30:37
Speaker 2: these schools are bleeding out money. But here's the part
30:41
Speaker 2: that nobody's talking about. Let's say we go to twenty
30:44
Speaker 2: four teams. Let's say the money goes up because it
30:48
Speaker 2: will on the TV contracts. What are they going to
30:52
Speaker 2: do when the team value continues to go up and
30:55
Speaker 2: goes through that roof? Then where are you going to
30:57
Speaker 2: get more money? Does that make sense? Like we're trying
31:00
Speaker 2: to generate more revenue to pay for these teams, and
31:03
Speaker 2: these teams are going up because these young men are
31:08
Speaker 2: asking for more dollars, their agents are asking for more dollars.
31:12
Speaker 2: The schools are paying more dollars. So you're gonna make
31:16
Speaker 2: more money, and then you're gonna spend more money. Still
31:19
Speaker 2: Patrick Ewing saying, remember that we talked about that. Patrick
31:21
Speaker 2: Ewing says, yeah, I made back in the day. He said, yeah,
31:23
Speaker 2: I make a lot of money, but I spend a
31:24
Speaker 2: lot of money. Patrick Ewing loved Patrick Ewing. He said that,
31:30
Speaker 2: and that you can take that to this because they're
31:33
Speaker 2: gonna make more money than they're gonna spend more money.
31:37
Speaker 2: I mean, look at all the money the SEC and
31:38
Speaker 2: the Big ten already generate. Their teams are spending it
31:43
Speaker 2: hand over fist. There's no stop there's no stop gap,
31:46
Speaker 2: there's nothing. It's just you get a faster car, you
31:50
Speaker 2: drive to the you drive faster, You get a faster car,
31:52
Speaker 2: you drive fast. At some point you're gonna crash. Bill
31:56
Speaker 2: did that almost guy say all eyes are on their regional.
31:59
Speaker 2: I was talking about all eyes nationwide or all eyes
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Speaker 2: on old Miss. I tend to think that it's the latter,
32:05
Speaker 2: not he's talking about the regional. He was talking about
32:08
Speaker 2: the You know, when you rank the regionals. I mean
32:11
Speaker 2: this is a very competitive regional. I mean ole Miss Nebraska,
32:16
Speaker 2: and then where's it that there? It is oh Mist Nebraska,
32:22
Speaker 2: Arizona State, and South Dakota State. I think pound for pound,
32:25
Speaker 2: what he was saying is this region ranks as one
32:28
Speaker 2: of the toughest top to bottom. So I don't think
32:31
Speaker 2: he was talking about about that. Now. I could be wrong.
32:33
Speaker 2: I could be misreading the room. So are you going
32:36
Speaker 2: to be all in on this Nebraska regional? Watching this?
32:39
Speaker 2: I will be all in on no regionals. So you're not.
32:43
Speaker 2: You're taking a stand here. You're not watching any regional baseball.
32:47
Speaker 4: Pitch of college baseball regular season.
32:50
Speaker 2: I won't watch a pitch of the regionals. I don't care.
32:54
Speaker 2: I love your tonality. It's awesome, it's fantastic. So you're not.
32:58
Speaker 2: What about now super regionals? Will you watch any of
32:59
Speaker 2: that College World Series?
33:01
Speaker 5: No?
33:02
Speaker 2: No reason to break the streak now. So you're going
33:04
Speaker 2: all the way to the end. The only way you're
33:05
Speaker 2: gonna know about what's happening is either if you happen
33:08
Speaker 2: to scroll across it on social media, because you're not
33:10
Speaker 2: gonna search it out, and you will have to hear
33:13
Speaker 2: it here because it will be talked about at nauseum
33:18
Speaker 2: pretty much m hm for the next three and a
33:21
Speaker 2: half weeks or whatever. So what are you gonna be
33:24
Speaker 2: doing in that time? Watching a bunch of other stuff,
33:28
Speaker 2: just not the regionals. It's a man of principal six
33:31
Speaker 2: one eight, eight, five, three, seven seven six. If you
33:33
Speaker 2: want to Texas, we'll get into this Dan Wolken piece
33:36
Speaker 2: here in the second hour, Ross Stellinger reports, if media
33:39
Speaker 2: rights are pooled, talk about this bill that was proposed.
33:43
Speaker 2: The bill is written to encourage conferences to return to
33:46
Speaker 2: more regional competition and eventually, says Maria kentwell, the hope
33:51
Speaker 2: is for the leagues to return to their previous regional makeups.
33:56
Speaker 2: Now think about that. Can't will quote regionalism fee a
34:00
Speaker 2: lot of sports viewership? Is she an idiot? Have you
34:05
Speaker 2: seen the viewership of college sports the last few years?
34:09
Speaker 2: It's through the roof. Now, see, here's the problem with DC.
34:13
Speaker 2: It's always been they asked for something and then they
34:15
Speaker 2: got stuff laced in here. They want to pass this bill,
34:20
Speaker 2: they want to return to more regional competition, and then
34:25
Speaker 2: they want people to return to their previous leagues. How
34:30
Speaker 2: is that possible? Do you think Oregon and Washington and
34:35
Speaker 2: USC and UCLA are going to return to the Pac
34:44
Speaker 2: twelve where there's all Mountain West teams? These people are
34:52
Speaker 2: dumb as hell? Why are they? Why are we pulling
34:55
Speaker 2: them in to talk sport? Why do we need d
34:58
Speaker 2: C to figure out college football? This comment pisses me off.
35:02
Speaker 2: And how well?
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Speaker 3: Okay?
35:04
Speaker 4: And also when you think about that, people need to
35:07
Speaker 4: go back to their previous leagues. Well, how far back
35:10
Speaker 4: we talking? Are you going to bring back the Southwestern Conference?
35:12
Speaker 2: All right? Arkansas? Texas? Y'all go back here? Yeah? How
35:16
Speaker 2: far back again? Words that are spoken that have no substance.
35:20
Speaker 2: This entire deal is full of it. It has been
35:23
Speaker 2: for years. So to your point, do we go back
35:26
Speaker 2: to Texas and Okla?
35:28
Speaker 5: Art?
35:28
Speaker 2: So, how far are we going to rewind the SEC?
35:31
Speaker 2: Texas and Oklahoma goes back to the Big twelve? What
35:34
Speaker 2: about Texas and a Missouri because they were the second
35:36
Speaker 2: two in Swanee? Come on back? I mean yeah, are
35:39
Speaker 2: we returning all the way back to the original SEC?
35:43
Speaker 2: What is this supposed to?
35:47
Speaker 4: Is Sawane still a thing?
35:48
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think there's still a thing. But I think
35:50
Speaker 2: they're a Division three school. I could be wrong. Well,
35:53
Speaker 2: they're back in the big time now. If we're going
35:55
Speaker 2: back to our old conferences, yeah, I mean we were
35:57
Speaker 2: turning tu lane back to the SEC Georgia Tech, back
35:59
Speaker 2: to the SAE he See what are we doing? What
36:01
Speaker 2: does she even mean by this? And see, here's the thing.
36:04
Speaker 2: Nobody asked these questions when they make these comments. Nobody,
36:09
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36:21
Speaker 2: in the next segment, we'll talk to him about this.
36:24
Speaker 2: I will pose this question to Bill. Bill is a
36:27
Speaker 2: college football savant. We'll see how far back we're supposed
36:30
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