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Breaking down the new 12 team playoff in college football Also peaking in on college baseball & basketball · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  got no special guest today, Doe Good, No special guests today. All
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  right, lot to get to breaking news, A lot of breaking news on
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  the College Football Playoff. The College Football Playoff has approved the move to the
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  five to seven format. Shouldn't be shocked by this. I mean, this
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  was the only way that we're gonna This is the only place they were going
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  to land. There was one spot to land the chopper. It was on
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  the five to seven never was going to stay at six to six. For
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  the twelve team playoff, the five highest ranked conference champions plus the next seven
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  highest ranked teams is determined by the selection committee. There's a lot to unpack
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  on this because there's a lot of back and forth on this. Brandon Marcello
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  reports on this. The five to seven format is official. The College FOOTBA
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  Playoff Board of Managers today unanimously revised the qualifying criteria for the twelve team event
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  to now include the five highest ranked conference champions plus the next seven highest ranked
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  teams, as determined by the Playoff Committee. So let's stop right there.
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  Remember this is how this is going to go. The poll absolutely matters,
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  the College Football Playoff poll, because this is very important, and especially in
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  this state. This year, ole Miss has basically booked hotels, got in
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  tuxedos, They're ready to go. They're ready to go to the dance.
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  Right. They feel like this is the year that they're going to be in
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  this thing. So and with an especially with expanded let me look at the
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  last year's playoff poll and we'll go kind of the way this is, you
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  know this, workoff last year's poll and go from there. So the five
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  highest conference champions and remember it doesn't matter. For instance, with the final
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  poll. Let's say if this was the final week of the regular season,
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  and then we get through the conference championships, it doesn't matter if two teams
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  are in succession, meaning Michigan won Washington two in the last poll, they're
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  down in the same conference. So if Michigan was to win the Big Ten,
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  they're not just humor me here with this pole, then they would be
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  in number one. Texas Alabama next up on the line. The winner would
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  be in As. With an automatic bid. Let's just say Texas Florida State
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  wins the ACC they're in. They're the fifth seed in the pole, but
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  they would be in and they would get a bye. Then you've got to
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  go all the way down to Arizona at fourteen fourteen. That's your fourth team
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  in because they would have won the Big twelve. Then you've got to go
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  all the way down to Liberty at twenty three. That's your fifth team in.
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  And then you've got to go back to the top, and then the
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  next seven teams would get in. Washington Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon,
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  Missouri, Penn State, and then Ole Miss. So Ole Miss would have
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  been the last team in based on the way this criteria is set up now,
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  Notre Dame would have got left out. Ulus, you would have missed
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  it, Oklahoma have missed it, louisll would have missed it. So just
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  to know how the format is set up. Quote, this is a very
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  logical adjustment for the College Football Playoff based on the evolution of the conference structures
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  since the board first adopted the new format in September of twenty twenty two,
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  said doctor Mark Keenham, president of Misissippi State and chair of the College Football
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  Playoff Board of Managers. I know this change will also be well received by
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  student athletes, coaches, and fans will be pleased to see how the new
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  format comes to life on the field this postseason. This change modifies the original
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  plan, which calls for the bracket each year to include the sixth highest ranked
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  conference champions plus the next six highest teams. Under the twelve team playoff format
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  that begins this fall, the four highest ranked conference champions will be seated one
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  through four, and each will receive the first round by while each team seated
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  five through twelve will play each other in the first round. Of course,
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  down the road we go, so you're gonna go five plus seven. What'll
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  be interesting to me is this will the ranking system change for the college football
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  Playoff? And here's what I mean. If you go down and look,
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  Liberty was thirteen to zero as a Conference USA champion, Will they be still
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  ranked behind the likes of an eight and four Clemson or the eight and four
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  Tennessee or an eight and nine to four Oklaoma State, eight and four Oregon
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  State? Or will they move them up based on record? Because there's still
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  a lot about this system that we don't know. Let's see here real quickly
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  on the Cowboy Maloney's text line, David and Brandon. So if Notre Dame
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  was number one, they would be number six, David, that is a
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  great question based on their criteria. Yes they would be. And we haven't
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  thought about that. If the Irish was to go undefeated because they're not in
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  a conference, they would be the sixth seed. Because now I am sure
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  that swore Back, the athletics director for Notre Dame, would throw a freaking
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  fit. But by this what the committee has put out, And I'm not
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  that David has brought this up. I haven't thought about it in this context.
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  Why they would not have some sort of a and I'm surprised that Notre
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  Dame didn't push for this, some sort of a amendment if Notre Dame goes
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  undefeated. But that is appely true, David, they would be the sixth
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  seed. White Denzel. How long before Notre Dame winds that they can't get
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  back to back text on this? So yeah, by White Denzel and David
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  and Brandon, that's they will throw a fit if Notre Dame can't get a
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  bye. But if anything's going to push them into a conference, it would
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  be something like this. Also in this quote, there will be no limit
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  on the number of participants from the from a conference in the twelve team format.
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  Se seemed like Michael Bretton put this out earlier, kind of breaking down
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  looking at some of this verbiage. So look, if the SEC is flooded
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  inside the top twelve, if it's five teams based on this criteria, then
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  the five teams will likely go to the playoff. Ross Dellinger has a full
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  story on unanimous adoption of the five plus seven format. We'll get into some
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  of that. Also, NFL Combine starting eye of that that's coming up.
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  While Michigan and Washington have the most players in the NFL Combine, USC had
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  the most combined players on a team that finished un ranked Illinois and Arkansas.
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  They have more NFL Combine players than wins last year, which is wild if
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  you think about it. Arkansas and Illinois have more players at the combine that
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  that do have wins from last year. Also, College Football Plaoff revised qualifying
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  criteria for the twelve team event five plus seven is Brett McMurphy said, the
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  four highest seed champions will be seated one through four. They'll get the first
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  round buys and then everybody else will follow. Washington State president and College Football
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  Playoff Board member Kirk Schultz remember Cook Schultz was still in a fit about this.
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  We say and we as in the PAC two deserve the same as the
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  others, and really kind of had a grand standing moment over the last several
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  weeks. Says the PAC twelve never planned to hold up the five to seven
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  format now, but he's worried about the future that the SEC and Big ten
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  and seeking multiple automatic qualifiers four aqs for single conference has been floated, he
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  tells Yahoo Sports, and we'll get into some of that on what some of
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  the other conversation pieces were. He also advised the presence to be more involved
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  in the in vetting ideas. Presidents agreed and will now hold monthly calls.
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  So that's what you need. You just need more monthly calls on this stuff.
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  Dan Wetzel reports just fifty eight underclassmen declared for the NFL Draft this year,
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  half the average from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty two. So you know,
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  you always had a big influx of junior's, big big influx, and
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  then third year sophomores when they were really, really good. The reason though,
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  they say that, is because that has been cutting as half is the
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  NIL and the transfer portal. It has kept guys in college, which is
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  because they can probably make more money in that. And of course the SEC
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  and Big ten are expected to come with aggressive requests for more revenue distribution and
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  access in the format of the playoff. Have been talks about expanding beyond twelve
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  even now, so now they're already starting talking we don't need to hit twelve
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  yet, they're talking about expanding this and attaching multiple automatic qualifiers to their leagues.
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  So I do want to get off into that story, because that is
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  conversation pieces. Remember the SEC and Big Ten didn't just become, you know,
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  bedfellows, shall we say, just to become bedfellows. They have an
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  agenda here. They know that the Big Ten and the SEC run college football.
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  And now we're talking about an expanded playoff model off the twelve to where
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  both leagues get automatic qualifiers. So the SEC may get four top four teams
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  go regardless, the Big Ten may get four top four teams regardless. Speaking
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  of the Big Ten, Michigan defensive back transfer Keon Sab has enrolled in Alabama
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  per Obama's nil collective. So Bama picking up a defensive back from Michigan and
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  Keon Saba, and Michigan has just been decimated after Jim Harball left the transfer
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  March badness, and maybe hit on the college football playoffs. Speaking of the
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  college football playoff, you know Nick Saban rest his soul, don't mean it
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  that way. He's become weak. Did you know that? Have you seen
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  this? What's out about him. Nick Saban, the Mighty Nick Saban,
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  the greatest football coach in the history of the game, has been taken over
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  by the media machine, and he is now weak. Nick Saban, on
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  his upcoming new career on College a Game Day, admitted he will not pick
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  against Alabama on College game Day quote, I've tried to steer away from picking
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  people. I think I'm going to have to do that now with this.
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  I don't know why you have to always pick the team you think is going
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  to win. You're allowed to have a spiritual feeling about who you like and
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  who you want to win, So I think it'll be a lot of fun,
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  but I'm staying away from that. Who's been talking to Aaron Rodgers.
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  He's been hanging out with Aaron Rodgers, all this spiritual feeling stuff. No,
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  Nick, you're supposed to pick who's going to win. So we've got
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  Nick Saban who's not going to pick against Alabama, Kirk Kurbstreet who won't pick
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  against Ohio State, and Desmon Howard who won't pick against Michigan. Why don't
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  we even watch this show? Why don't I don't even understand why we watched
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  the show. I'm very disappointed in Nick Saban over this White Denzel on the
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  Cawbo Malone's text line, I know some people would hate it, but the
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  College Football Playoff needs to do like the FCS and go to a twenty four
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  team playoff. Every conference champion would get in first and second round matchups would
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  be a high seed state and of course the higher seed stadiums. I don't
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  know that we're going to get to twenty four. I could definitely see this
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  go immediately from you know, in two three years, from twelve to sixteen,
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  and again it's a lot of it's going to be dictated on what the
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  big ten in the SEC wants to do. The big ten in the SEC
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  will dictate because they are the power brokers at the table which direction this goes.
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  Utah State, Nick Anderson Oklahoma number nine, Chris Lewis at Temple number ten,
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  et Xavier Ristreppo number ten at Miami the University of Miami, And we'll
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  get an update on where the top ten quarterbacks for twenty twenty five where they're
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  standing in their recruitments. Two four seven sports dot Com has reranked the transfer
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  portal classes for twenty twenty four and ole miss is number one, number one.
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  There's seventeen commits grade out higher than Texas A and M and their twenty
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  three commitments, So Texas A and M basically has at almost to some degree
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  a full class of transfer portal guys. Twenty three guys Oregon with eleven commitments
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  at number three, Florida State fifteen at number four, Colorado twenty four commits,
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  commits at number five, Louisville twenty five commits at number six, Texas
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  eight at number seven, Ohio State seven at number eight, South Carolina at
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  twenty and then NC State has twelve so as two four seven Sports takes a
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  More of kind of expanded role on the Big playwide receivers as we move
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  along six er one, eight, nine, seven to one, zero,
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  five to nine. Potential proposals from Big Ten and SEC seek more college football
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  automatic qualifier spots for the conferences. Based on today's news from the College Football
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  Playoff, Washington State president Kirk Schultz says the PAC twelve never planned to hold
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  up the College Football Playoffs's latest format change for the twenty four to twenty five
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  events, but he is worried about modifications to the format starting in twenty twenty
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  six, including potential proposals from the Big Ten in the SEC to seek for
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  the league to be guaranteed multiple automatic qualifying spots. Quote. I worry about
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  any league getting a certain number of automatic berths beyond their champion, said Schultz,
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  a member of the Board of Managers made up of university presidents from each
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  FBS league and Notre Dame. I wouldn't be alone in that. Here's what
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  I don't understand. Why are we paying so much attention to what Kirk Schultz
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  has to say he is the president of Washington State and a league that has
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  two teams. I don't understand this at all why he is getting so much
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  time in the media, but he is. In a virtual meeting. On
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  Tuesday, College Football Playoff President's adopted a long expected change to the twelve team
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  expansion through the necessary unanimous votes, approving a move from six plus six model
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  to five seven in the format. That change adds an at large spot and
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  decreases an automatic qualifying spot from six to five and light of the Pack twelve
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  realignment situation, Schultz to later vote on the issue last month in order to
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  pitch a proposal to the board Tuesday seeking for the PAC twelve to retain its
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  revenue and voting rights privileges as a Power five conference starting with a new contract
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  in twenty twenty six. There was quote not a lot of support for the
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  proposal, Schultz said, and describing the feedback from presidents, Well, of
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  course, it wasn't a lot of support. Who in their right mind is
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  going to support a proposal to where two teams get the same bag of goods
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  as sixteen, eighteen and fourteen teams. Nonetheless, he voted to move the
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  change to a five plus seven format. However, he expressed a concern over
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  the format in the future. The manager's committee, the ten FBS conference commissioners
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  said Notre Dame's athletics director and their athletics director scheduled to meet in Dallas on
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  Wednesday in a critical gathering that is expected to produce ideas and potentially proposals for
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  future revenue, distribution, voting rights, structure, and format, all of
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  them unresolved issue. All the unresolved its use issues that are delay or could
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  be delays any future agreements in the new television contract with ESPN, The Big
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  ten and SEC are expected to want more revenue in the new distribution model,
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  more authority and a voting structure, and most notably, more access to the
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  format. Quote. My commissioner tells me that there was an idea floated of
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  a single league getting four automatic qualifiers into the playoff. Schultz told Yeahoo sports
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  on Tuesday. You go, boy, that doesn't sound like it's going to
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  be well embraced by football fans around the country. The commissioners are fantastic,
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  but they are paid to look out for the best the betterment of their conferences.
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  No I would say that that's actually going to be embraced by a lot
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  of football fans. I mean, I think everybody in the Southeastern Conference footprint
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  would go for four automatic qualifiers. I think everybody in the Big Ten footprint
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  would go for four automatic qualifiers in the Big Ten. So now you've just
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  chalked off half the country that would be in favor if everybody's getting a piece
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  Missippi State affiliate as he is here to talk a little Missipi State sports with
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  us. David, Happy Tuesday. How are you well. We're inching closer
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  to the time of three sports seasons that baseball is now underway, Basketball is
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  hitting down the stretch of the regular schedule, and we don't know when exactly.
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  I expect somewhere around the eighteenth, nineteen twentieth of March, but spring
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  football will be starting at some point. Coach Jeff Laby will be giving us
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  a schedule and a roster. It's time to start. Time to start talking
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  about that. Once they get back from spring break, apparently they'll get on
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  the field and go. And in fact, right now I'm working on a
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  piece, kind of an updated piece on comparing the quarterback rooms of the last
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  ten to twelve years at Meansbee State and how they rated recruiting wise. Just
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  one of those things that you used to fill in time before you actually have
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  practice to talk about. That's actually fascinating. I'll be looking forward to that
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  piece. You know, do you get into the quarterback room, because I
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  mean, we're old enough for a lot of us. I'll put myself in
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  this are old enough to remember prior to Dan mullen Hey, and no disrespect
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  to our good friend Matt Wyatt who's on this network, Missippi State didn't have
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  a whole lot too, you know. I mean you had the John Bonds
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  and you had you know, sleepies in those kind of you know, some
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  guys that could play Matt Wayne Mackin, but it was few and far between
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  before Nan Mallin got to startle well more so, the point of the story
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  is what was the entire room like at the time, whether the guys ended
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  up playing or not. I mean, you remember what in twenty sixteen,
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  there were so many unknown factors and guys like remember Damian Williams, who won
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  a game or two, but Nick Tiano, Nick Fitzgerald, Elijah Staley,
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  all of a sudden, Fitzgerald emerges. But that was a thin room,
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  of course. Mike Leach went into a season basically with three quarterbacks this first
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  year, then all of a sudden he had six in the room the next
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  year, well seven if you count a walk on or two. So it's
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  all over the map there. But I just find it interesting to judge where
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  it's coming and for comparison, because right now, not County Walkin's. We've
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  got three in Jeff Levy's first room. Of course, in Chris Parsons,
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  who is the only experienced in the state, Blake Chapin, who has farsity
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  experience of Baylor, and a kid out of high school with Michael van Buren.
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  Now, the average score of that group's going to come in pretty good
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  as far as their rankings in all. But you start looking and think about
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  if the Parson is he where near Hunter healthy? Let the competition begin,
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  David. Speaking of competition, baseball is underway. Mississippi State went two and
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  one against Air Force over the weekend. And you know, we know this.
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  Mississippi State fans are, pound for pound, the most passionate baseball fans
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  of the country. We were laughing about it, but kind of calm it
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  down a little bit. Friday, we were on the air when Missippi State,
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  you know, first pitch came out for Air Force, and people were
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  texting and a couple of calling in kind of living and down on every pitch,
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  and like, hey man, this is a long season. But you
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  got to kind of relax just a little bit. But the Bulldogs get to
• 24:32
  two and one. They'll have Austin p today and tomorrow. But your thoughts
• 24:37
  on a small, small sample size of this baseball team, well, it's
• 24:40
  a road yesterday. You go into the season thinking the offense is going to
• 24:42
  carry you, the defense will be improved, and the pitching is questionable.
• 24:47
  Well kind of turned that around. The defense, by the way, was
• 24:49
  solid, at least it was for a couple of innings and all of a
• 24:52
  sudden, Logan Coher goes down with a fluke shoulder separation trying to make a
• 24:56
  tag. Now we don't know how much longer we back in just a brief
• 25:00
  time he was out there. Though, you sit there and say, Wow,
• 25:03
  third base defensive issues totally solved, and now they're back open. Although
• 25:07
  I thought mat Chester played pretty well in his gap there just so, I
• 25:11
  do think the defense will be generally improved. And of course you have Ross
• 25:15
  Highfield's not catching, you have two guys who stepped in and did admirable jobs.
• 25:19
  I thought the main thing to me was the pitching. What was it
• 25:22
  You're starting pitching eight of fifteen innings, twenty five strikeouts, three walks between
• 25:27
  them, decent era. You feel really good about that, and if not
• 25:32
  far a blow up by Holcomb, you probably sweep the series. R You
• 25:37
  could also say, if you make some wiser choices running the bases in game
• 25:41
  to you win all three games. So still some things to work out.
• 25:45
  You need Amani Layer to start hitting at the top of the order. You
• 25:48
  need Hunter Hines more consistent, start getting some guys in there. Settle what
• 25:52
  you're going to do. In the absence of Cohler Dylan Cupp, who made
• 25:56
  good contact, what was over nine is going to be in the nine hole
• 25:59
  today. I see Johnny Long, we'll be starting a catcher today as well.
• 26:03
  I think the makings of a good offense is still there. I'm impressed
• 26:06
  with the pitching. Now, you just need to start settling some roles,
• 26:08
  and that's what these midweek games are about. David Murray on your radio Tuesday
• 26:12
  edition of the program. Make sure to find him on Jen's page, and
• 26:15
  of course on X two four seven sports talking Missipi State Sports. Let's roll
• 26:18
  over to basketball. Dogs are six and six and the conference there on a
• 26:22
  three game winning streak. And if you look at most of the bracketologists that
• 26:26
  are out there, regardless of the outlet that you subscribe to, MISISPPI State
• 26:30
  as anywhere from a seven, eight, nine, ten seed right now on
• 26:33
  the bracket. But a pretty dawning task to finish here. Ole miss obviously
• 26:37
  at home tomorrow night. They'll travel at LSU over the weekend, Kentucky next
• 26:41
  week of February twenty seventh, on Tuesday at six pm, start against Kentucky.
• 26:45
  They get them at home, have to travel to Auburn, Texas A
• 26:48
  and M, and then finish that out with South Carolina. So, I
• 26:52
  mean, there's a lot of work to do here, but they do get
• 26:53
  some of these big boys at home. Well, not only that, you
• 26:56
  get your arch rival at home tomorrow and I remember how close it was up
• 27:00
  in Oxford and Josh Hubbard not have a good second half. I think he'll
• 27:03
  have his emotions under better control. Expect to Smith to play smarter and avoid
• 27:07
  the bowel trouble this time against Ole Miss. And now that you have guys
• 27:11
  like Shaq Moore stepping up more offensively, you can feel better about this.
• 27:15
  Then you go down to play an LSU team this all of a sudden reeling
• 27:18
  again and you know you mentioned Kentucky, Okay top to bottom, the best
• 27:22
  lineup in the conference. When they decide to play ball A and m's looking
• 27:26
  shaky again. South Carolina all of a sudden is vulnerable. Chris Jan's team
• 27:30
  has a chance to really get something done here at the end of the season.
• 27:33
  Both brackets I looked at today from the reputable guys had them listed as
• 27:36
  a ten seed. So they're as I wrote, they're not on the bubble,
• 27:41
  but they can see it. So the trick now is keep putting those
• 27:44
  ws on there. The net is I think thirty eight at the moment,
• 27:47
  six best than the SEC. The SEC is good, although I want to
• 27:51
  qualify this too. I did some numbering and the SEC is only thirty six
• 27:55
  and eighty seven in quad one games. Now that includes playing each other.
• 28:00
  But I'm not sure I see an SEC team right now that's capable of doing
• 28:03
  any real damage long term instead ofly tournament. So you need to position yourself
• 28:07
  the best you can to get the best possible seating in instead of as of
• 28:11
  course, here I am saying there one injury away or one slump away from
• 28:15
  being back on that bubble. So it's going to be an entertaining couple of
• 28:19
  weeks ahead of Christian's team. But if you just get some guys, keep
• 28:22
  them out of foul trouble, keep them healthy, and get back to making
• 28:26
  the shots that you know they can make. I feel good about this team
• 28:29
  down the stretch, Devin, let's finish it up on I got you a
• 28:32
  couple of minutes. Get your thoughts on the College Football Playoff Committee today,
• 28:34
  chaired by doctor Mark Keenum. Missus Oust. You might be asking about that,
• 28:37
  yeah, just a little bit. I wanted to get your thoughts on
• 28:41
  this. The five to seven model is approved, so that's you know,
• 28:44
  for a group of it's gonna be Power four champions plus a group of five.
• 28:48
  Then you know the rest are going to be automatic qualifiers based on the
• 28:51
  on the ranking of the playoff. Already some grumbling from some people inside of
• 28:55
  the committee saying, hey, you know, the SEC the Big Tan are
• 28:56
  looking for more automatic qualifiers, maybe an expanded playoff down the road. I
• 29:03
  don't think there's any any secret the SEC in the Big ten hold all the
• 29:06
  cards here. But your thoughts on what has transpired today, Well, I
• 29:10
  thought this would get settled eventually. I didn't think it happened quite this soon
• 29:14
  after. You know, a quick conversation I have with doctor Mark Keenham a
• 29:17
  couple of weeks ago. He said, because it had to be a unanimous
• 29:19
  vote, all it took was one to hang the process up. So part
• 29:22
  of me wonders what kind of wheeling and dealing was going on in the background
• 29:26
  just to get this settled so soon. And I think part of it,
• 29:29
  too, is all the group of five programs and conferences new they've got two
• 29:33
  years anyway under the current model. After the twenty twenty five season, it's
• 29:37
  all out the window and the power conferences could do exactly what they wanted.
• 29:41
  And by the way, those are sitting there right now saying the PAC twelve
• 29:45
  doesn't have a place they do. I think what's going to happen is the
• 29:48
  PAC twelve and the Mountain West will essentially merge, but keep the PAC twelve
• 29:51
  name. You know Kirk Schaltz, who we at Missippi State know what out
• 29:55
  at Washington State. Cut us to him for pulling this off or standing his
• 29:59
  ground, and keep it the PAC twelve viable at least as far as the
• 30:02
  playoff goes. I think eventually you're going to see it be for all intents
• 30:06
  and purposes, a four plus eight. They won't call it that. I
• 30:10
  think that's what it's going to turn into for the simple reason that's what television
• 30:12
  wants. I'm not going to say that's fair. I don't, but my
• 30:17
  thing about sports is there's nothing fair in sports except the ball. Everything is
• 30:22
  what power gets done. And I think eventually your four main conferences will have
• 30:26
  automatic bids of one and two, and then you'll have a couple spots left.
• 30:30
  It'll be a sixteen team playoff by that point, and that will be
• 30:33
  the next stage before finally you see a breakaway. Eventually, when some of
• 30:37
  these TV contracts run out, you'll see anywhere from thirty two to forty eight
• 30:41
  schools. I say schools, so basically club teams paying the school for the
• 30:45
  right for the facilities and the colors, not even using student athletes anymore,
• 30:48
  and the rest of us will go off and play college football. Whoever's left
• 30:52
  very well done as always make sure to find them on x check them out
• 30:56
  at Jean's page. A lot going on with baseball, basketball and said football
• 31:00
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  What is UFL? What is what is this? Is this that Football League?
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  Yeah? United Football League is Joe? Right? Are people there are
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  Does that make sense? Yeah, you just feel like you need a
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• 34:00
  are green, and you do too, but me, no, not you.
• 34:05
  But Chris Brooks does, Yes, yeah he does. He will stay
• 34:09
  away from it. So baseball and salad. Speaking of the needs, Chris
• 34:15
  Brooks on the text line, nobody should eat salad. See there he is
• 34:20
  and look he means that. I have seen him in real time give a
• 34:24
  solid away out out of luncheon. Before I remember it, he traded I
• 34:30
  think a salad for a cookie one day. So this man. I remember
• 34:35
  that it was the sweet of some sort cookie or cake. He says what
• 34:38
  he means, and he means what he says. Jason and flagstaff, Holy
• 34:43
  crap. I had to pull over and laugh and laugh and at the Jason,
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  I don't know that's on the stream. I have no idea what that
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  what that's. Corporate Alpha right there, no telling what you're going to get
• 35:00
  out there in the interwebs. David Murray, I forgot all about this guy
• 35:07
  was talking about. He's got his piece coming out on two four to seven
• 35:08
  Sports about missip State quarterback rooms over the years. He referenced to Damian Williams.
• 35:14
  Remember Damian Williams quarterback, Yeah, twenty sixteen, and I think he
• 35:21
  was there when Nick Fitzgerald was there, and there was a segment I'm old
• 35:22
  enough to remember, there was a segment of the Missispi State fan base that
• 35:25
  thought this guy was the answer. Then this guy was very average, very
• 35:30
  very average. I don't know, just it made me chuckle what he said.
• 35:32
  I had not heard the name Damian Williams in forever. Wasn't he wasn't
• 35:37
  he there when Dak Prescott was there. He was and his jersey was damn
• 35:42
  dot Williams. What's it really? Yeah? I remember Jay White pointing that
• 35:47
  out, and then I couldn't help not see it moving on. It was
• 35:52
  damn dot Williams, classic White. That is fantastic. I don't remember this.
• 36:00
  I believe it's true, though, because only Jay would find something like
• 36:02
  that. Right. Let's see here, all right, NFL dates key dates
• 36:07
  for the NFL. Right now, you've got franchise transition tag window up to
• 36:14
  February today, it opens, and then March fifth, franchise window closes at
• 36:19
  four pm Eastern. NFL scouting combine February twenty ninth, coming up here in
• 36:23
  nine days, you'll have a defensive lineman at linebackers. On March first,
• 36:28
  you'll have defensive backs and tight ends. March second, quarterbacks, wide receivers,
• 36:30
  running backs. March third, you'll have the offensive lineman free agency.
• 36:37
  The window there March eleventh through the thirteenth. That's the quote legal tampering period
• 36:42
  as the NFL calls it. March thirteenth. Also, the twenty twenty four
• 36:45
  league year opens. Annual meetings will be March twenty fourth through the twenty seventh.
• 36:50
  For the NFL offseason workouts, April first will be the first, with
• 36:54
  teams with a first year head coach can be or can begin off season workouts
• 37:00
  April fifteenth. Teams where the returning head coaches can have some workouts. Pre
• 37:04
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• 37:09
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• 37:15
  In April twenty fourth, deadline to RFA match offer sheets, deadline to
• 37:21
  meet with the NFL draft prospect prospects any location. Of course, the draft
• 37:24
  this year is in Detroit April twenty fifth, twenty sixth, and twenty seventh,
• 37:29
  and then post draft, you'll have May second deadline for teams to pick
• 37:32
  up fifth year options. May third through six, and or tenth through thirteen.
• 37:37
  That's rookie mini camps. And then of course you got the lead into
• 37:43
  franchise tag deadlines in July, and then you're often running with training camps and
• 37:47
  we're back with the NFL. So that's just a little bit on the National
• 37:52
  Football League. When you look at SEC basketball. Talking to David Murry,
• 37:54
  Abousissippi State in a nice position for the NCAA Tournament. Still, as he
• 38:00
  said, they can see the bubble out there. You don't want to get
• 38:01
  out there. But Alabama still leads a conference by one game over Tennessee ten
• 38:05
  and two in the conference Tennessee nine and three, South Carolina, Auburn ninety
• 38:08
  four, Auburn, Arshimi, Florida, and Kentucky at eight and four,
• 38:13
  all miss and Missippi State at six and six. They'll break that tie tomorrow
• 38:16
  night, and then Texas A and M at six and six as well.
• 38:22
  Jason and flagstaff Damian Williams was the guy who played when Dak got hurt.
• 38:25
  Of that is correct. All the talent in the world for Mullin's system,
• 38:30
  good runner, cannon of it aren't Jason. I don't know if you had
• 38:32
  that, but just couldn't figure it out. I thought he was going to
• 38:36
  be the guy. He was a nice quarterback. He'd have been a really
• 38:42
  good quarterback in Maryland, but for Missippi State he was Okay. He's a
• 38:46
  good off the bench guy. He was a good off the bench guy.
• 38:51
  Who was that quarterback? Was it? Mike Wright This year for Missisppi State
• 38:55
  reminded me a lot of Damian Williams. Not quite as thick as him,
• 39:00
  but you rememer Missippi State fans thought he would be the answer too. But
• 39:02
  that's just what happens. Fans do that they think the guy behind the guy
• 39:07
  is the answer. And I had totally forgot about Damian Williams until David said
• 39:13
  that he was the one. Also to start the twenty fourteen season, when
• 39:21
  Mullan insisted two quarterback system, two quarterback system. You know, if you
• 39:29
  go back real quickly, see if I got time to do this, this
• 39:35
  laptop will work. Yeah, let's go back twenty four that's a great memory.
• 39:38
  Recall there. I forgot about that twenty fourteen Mississippi State, and you
• 39:45
  look at passing. It was Prescott and Williams, and Mullan did say that
• 39:52
  he was going to do a two quarterback system. And if you remember,
• 39:58
  they played Southern Miss and UAB and Williams. Let me go over here and
• 40:00
  look at his Yeah, against Southern Miss, he was five of eight for
• 40:07
  sixty five yards. And then he played a little bit in the second game,
• 40:13
  two snaps in the third game, and then it was Prescott. Yeah,
• 40:15
  for some reason, after the twenty thirteenth season, Dan Mullen thought that
• 40:21
  he was going to run a two quarterback system and it looked like look total
• 40:27
  whatever. That's a great recall. I forgot about that, totally forgot about
• 40:30
  that. And then of course it was Dak Prescott. The rest of the
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  David Murray, I remember one to talking Misispi State Sports. We'll get
• 42:07
  all this on the podcast right down. Chris Landry, Landry Football dot Com
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  and of course Landry Football on x Here to talk Smorgasport, NFL college football
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  with us. Chris, Welcome in, sir, How are you doing good?
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  Jacobs to be with you, man, Hey, I appreciate you.
• 42:20
  All right, let's first, let's go here College, a little college.
• 42:22
  I want to get your thoughts on today. The College Football Playoff Committee,
• 42:27
  to no surprise, approve the five plus seven model, which we're talking about
• 42:31
  four Power four now champions plus a group of five champions and in the next
• 42:37
  seven highest ranked teams in the College Football Playoff Poll. But some talk inside
• 42:43
  the committee today a little bit of worry. So I guess you could say
• 42:45
  that the SEC and Big Ten are talking already expansion privately and they're talking about
• 42:51
  automatic qualifiers, so that's probably able to figure where we're headed. But your
• 42:53
  thoughts on everything that happened today. I expected it. It's the way the
• 43:01
  way the te leaves were being read that it was going to come out that
• 43:05
  way. My only problem with it, and this is this didn't happen today
• 43:10
  that we knew this was going to happen, and I mentioned it though I
• 43:15
  am not a fan, and I think this is something that's being overlooked in
• 43:21
  the media and it's going to be the course of discussion going forward when the
• 43:28
  playoffs are announced. We're going to have a team, and I think the
• 43:32
  SEC is more than likely the one, and the Big Ten could be as
• 43:36
  well. You're going to have a team, maybe the second best team in
• 43:40
  the SEC that just clearly, you know, is one of the best teams
• 43:47
  in the country, one of the top two problems. And they're going to
• 43:51
  be and I don't think people got their their minds wrapped around it. Don't
• 43:54
  realize it. They're not going to be one of the top four seats,
• 44:00
  you know, And and that's gonna be a big issue. So you could
• 44:02
  have, for example, I'm just gonna throw this out, second best team
• 44:07
  in the SEC and just throw that out there. I'm gonna I'm gonna say
• 44:10
  that George's maybe the best. Next year you got a really good team that's
• 44:15
  eleven and one or something, and then you've got maybe a nine and three
• 44:20
  Arizona team win the Big twelve. They're gonna be ranked high. And I
• 44:23
  don't think people understand there or realize that. I mean they may or they
• 44:29
  figure this out, that they're gonna be one of the top four seeds Arizona
• 44:31
  and then the maybe the second best team in the country and the Big ten
• 44:37
  of the SEC. They're gonna be outside the top four, they're gonna be
• 44:39
  one of the largest. I don't uh. I'm not a big fan of
• 44:43
  that. We have that in the NFL, where you obviously a wald Cart
• 44:47
  team plays in the walk Cart Round, they go on the road and play
• 44:51
  a team that's barely five hundred. But I think that's gonna be something that's
• 44:54
  gonna be talked about as like that. I don't think people quite get that
• 44:59
  at this point. I think it's positive that we're expanding. I think all
• 45:02
  of that is good, but that's the biggest issue. What happened today was
• 45:07
  expected. I think as the PAC twelve is kind of picking up the pieces
• 45:13
  and they've the parted ways with their commissioner and got a new commissioner. I
• 45:17
  think for them it makes sense because they don't have an automatic I mean,
• 45:22
  they have no automatic bit status. So their best chance of getting in if
• 45:27
  they're the two remaining is you know, getting in that large spot. So
• 45:34
  I think we're gonna have to revisit this. The two things that I just
• 45:37
  mentioned. Where's the PAC twelve gonna be going forward after this year? I
• 45:42
  think we're gonna have to see that and how how it shakes out. Chris
• 45:45
  Landry on your radio talking College in the NFL on a Tuesday, I've had
• 45:50
  to move around just a little bit. We appreciate that. Go to Landry
• 45:52
  Football dot com and of course Landry Football at I thanks Christy. I've been
• 45:54
  talking a little bit about what your point is to that is. You know,
• 45:57
  if you take last year, this past year's final poll, you know
• 46:00
  Arizona was number fourteen in the poll. Let's just say they won the Big
• 46:04
  twelve, Well, they would get that automatic qualify qualifier, and then you
• 46:08
  talk about the next highest team, which would be a group of five team.
• 46:12
  You got to go all the way down to twenty three at Liberty so
• 46:15
  they would get in as well. I'll be interested to see if the let
• 46:20
  me see how to frame this up, the committee and the way that they
• 46:22
  put the poll together, if maybe they give a little more credence to A
• 46:27
  thirteen and O Liberty in the situation like this, or will they still just
• 46:30
  keep it the same and then all of a sudden, like you said,
• 46:34
  people's heads will explode. Wait a minute, what do you mean Liberty is
• 46:36
  twenty third? How are they in the playoff? That's right? And not
• 46:39
  only that, how do they get a buye? I mean they're one of
• 46:42
  the Now they're there, and then you tell them me that the second best
• 46:45
  team in the SEC A Big ten is got on now Bowl, win an
• 46:50
  extra game. It's yeah, I don't I don't think people are talking about
• 46:53
  that enough. I think they're just oh yeah, everybody gets in, and
• 46:57
  it's just we're we haven't gotten people to think in terms of once they get
• 47:04
  in, how it's gonna shape up. And you know, I think that's
• 47:07
  gonna be a big tack. Here's the other thing, and I'm not saying
• 47:10
  this is gonna happen this way. Let's just say Notre Dame has one of
• 47:15
  those years. They're they're twelve and zero and they look like they just like
• 47:21
  a great not gonna be They're gonna have to win that extra game. They
• 47:25
  can't win a conference. They're not on the conference because they did their fault.
• 47:29
  They keep WO on the conference. I get all that, but but
• 47:31
  there again, that's gonna be the all right, they're a great looking team,
• 47:37
  they're an independent, so they're completely ineligible. Now they agreed to it
• 47:40
  because in their eyes, uh, they're gonna get to play an extra game
• 47:45
  and it's gonna in that case be on their home stadium. So they're given
• 47:51
  up that they're basically likely getting a home game if they're good enough to make
• 47:54
  the playoffs, and talking about and given that up as a post to giving
• 47:59
  up the buy. I still think it's it's it's still gonna be very intriguing
• 48:04
  to see. And again there's always some argument. Nothing's perfect. I get
• 48:08
  it, and I'm fine with it. I'm just pointing something out that did
• 48:12
  podcast about it a while back, and I kind of went through that exact
• 48:15
  scenario and that the FEVA, Well what I mean I didn't get Yeah,
• 48:19
  that's exactly right, the a c C. And I know the a CEC
• 48:22
  is still Clemson's still good for artistage, still good. But let's look at
• 48:25
  the Big twelve now again. And I think Arizona's gonna be a pretty good
• 48:30
  team this year. You're gonna be talking about it, maybe a Big twelve
• 48:32
  team with the three losses, gonna be ranked. You know, they're they're
• 48:37
  gonna be not as good, not ranked time people. They're gonna that team
• 48:43
  that's maybe ranked second in the country is not gonna be eligible to be one
• 48:47
  of the top four seeds they got automatically go into it. Think NFL think
• 48:52
  about that, and and and and I don't think that that that people have
• 48:57
  a full grasp of that yet. Yeah, you went right where I want
• 48:59
  to to go. And I'm glad you brought that up about Notre Dame.
• 49:01
  I'm a little because I had a couple of listeners texting, ow, we're
• 49:04
  one about Notre Dame, about that exact situation. I'm a little surprised,
• 49:07
  But I think you've answered why Jack Schwarbick would not have pushback on that,
• 49:10
  but we have not heard any anything about that as far as you know,
• 49:14
  why Notre Dame could or could not maybe be eligible for one of these top
• 49:17
  four seeds. Yeah, because they're not in the conference. They don't want
• 49:22
  to get in the conference. And they basically said, look, we're fine
• 49:24
  with it, we'll get in. We got a home game, and we're
• 49:28
  just going to play that home game in the playoffs. But yeah, they
• 49:31
  basically have voted themselves, we'll play the extra game, we'll play it at
• 49:36
  home if we make the playoffs. That's it. That's that's the way it
• 49:39
  is. And it's one of the unique quirks of the complexities of the college
• 49:45
  game. But you know, and and they know they we're going to get
• 49:49
  well, you don't want that get into a conference. Well, they don't
• 49:55
  want to do that, you know, and at least the current administration has
• 50:00
  no desire to do that. So they're basically to say, we're good and
• 50:05
  we're gonna take it that way, We're gonna take that extra game. We
• 50:07
  just we're gonna play it at home and we're gonna be good with it.
• 50:09
  So it's you know, again, it's gonna be talked about I think right
• 50:15
  now, everybody's just excited that we've got playoffs, as am I. I
• 50:20
  just I just think that the argument's gonna be a lot different this year.
• 50:23
  Not who makes it, but man, I yeah, I forgot that.
• 50:28
  You know that this doesn't look right, it doesn't feel right, and you
• 50:31
  know, again you deal with that in the NFL. But you know,
• 50:36
  for some reason, it's just gonna resonate more Jacob in college, because in
• 50:40
  college it's always I mean, you know how it is. This last year
• 50:45
  was Florida's stay deserves again to get in? Or didn't you know that was
• 50:49
  the argument. Now we're gonna move to a different arm. We'll still have
• 50:51
  the argument about this team got in over that team, but I think it's
• 50:54
  gonna move towards Man, I can't believe it. We're Georgia and there you
• 51:00
  know I'm a Georgia fan or whatever. I mean, think about this,
• 51:05
  the old miss fans, I don't. I don't know that. I think
• 51:07
  Old Missus is, you know, as good as people are predicting, But
• 51:10
  I think they're gonna be good. But yeah, you can be really good
• 51:15
  and maybe you have a great record and against a great schedule, unless you
• 51:22
  win the SEC, you're not gonna be one of the top four seeds.
• 51:27
  Uh. And now you've added Texas and Oklahoma. Now you've made that conference
• 51:30
  even stronger. And the same thing could be said about the Big Ten.
• 51:35
  You're Oregon, You're You're USC. If Ohio State is the best team,
• 51:40
  you're the second best team of the Big Ten. You're not one of the
• 51:44
  top four seeds. You're going automatically into that at large as and you're gonna
• 51:47
  have a home game perhaps depending on how you rank pick. You're not gonna
• 51:52
  be in the top four. That's huge. That is huge because you get
• 51:55
  a bye if you're one of the top four seeds. So you just you
• 52:00
  know, just because you win a weeker conference, you're gonna get a bye.
• 52:06
  The seating, just for seating doesn't matter if everybody's playing the first week,
• 52:09
  it's not the case those top four teams. They get to sit home
• 52:14
  and let everybody you know, you know, work it out and and and
• 52:19
  and fight to vibe the next week. You gotta gotta, you know,
• 52:22
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  dot com. Chris four. I have a couple NFL questions. Of course,
• 53:34
  we'll get more in the NFL with a combine coming up and other things
• 53:37
  whether here in the coming weeks. But it looks like Florida State and the
• 53:40
  ACC, at least on excerpts I've read maybe coming to some sort of a
• 53:45
  divorce settlement, a buyout. Shall we say, if this does happen,
• 53:51
  do you foresee a potential exodus now of the ACC that could be coming in
• 53:55
  the next year. The talk that is heating, uh is uh And this
• 54:02
  is really intriguing when you think about this. Uh. It's the term being
• 54:07
  used private equity funding. What a school like Florida State basically go to a
• 54:15
  private equity group and get you know, five hundred million dollars and that private
• 54:23
  equity company would would have ownership like own I don't know, thirty three I'm
• 54:30
  just making this up, folks. The numbers thirty three percent of the revenue
• 54:34
  for the next I don't know, seven years, eight years in which case
• 54:39
  the day. But for that they would get five hundred million dollars upfront,
• 54:44
  which they could pay off to get out of the ACC and then they would
• 54:49
  have to you know, for the forever term that is agreed upon. They
• 54:52
  would have to give up a percentage, but there would get a lot more
• 54:55
  money, you know, and then they could pay that off over time,
• 55:00
  and then once that time period is over, then they're flee get free and
• 55:02
  clear. That is an option, but before anybody can take that path,
• 55:09
  is they have to have a home. Do we know for certain Big Ten
• 55:16
  wants them. I don't get the feeling that the SEC does. I just
• 55:23
  no one. I don't get a cent frum any of my friends in the
• 55:29
  SEC that I mean, I will get, you know, a different conversation.
• 55:35
  Ears will perk up when the thought of Clemson comes up. It just
• 55:38
  doesn't for whatever reason. They just don't have that warm fuzzy feeling about Florida
• 55:45
  State. And it's nothing to do with this past offseason and the victory off
• 55:50
  It's just they just you know. Now, I almost get the feeling like
• 55:55
  if the Big Ten wants to get in the SEC or the Florida footprint,
• 56:00
  that maybe they would be interested. And if they are interested with the SEC,
• 56:05
  then become interested in trumping them to keep them out of Florida. That's
• 56:10
  the only thing. But it's it just doesn't And I think that's the most
• 56:15
  important thing, because I think the other part is potentially doable. I do
• 56:21
  think, and by the way, that is why the ACC made the move
• 56:27
  to bring in Stanford Callen smu There is a clause in their agreement that they
• 56:32
  have to have a certain amount of teams in the conference or else the grant
• 56:37
  of rights is null and void. Meaning if Florida State Clemson with and then
• 56:43
  it falls below that number, then there are no grant of rights. So
• 56:45
  they just people say, well, why would they bring in Stanford Callen SMU.
• 56:50
  That doesn't make sense. It doesn't other than it gives them numbers in
• 56:54
  security to keep the number up to the threshold way where the grant of rights
• 57:00
  are still in volge to protect the financial solvency of the ACC. So I
• 57:07
  think it's one we're gonna have to watch. I'm not going to tell you
• 57:12
  that I have any idea where it's going to go. But those are the
• 57:15
  questions that need to get answered. Who wants them because it's not a slam
• 57:17
  dunk. It wasn't like when Texas and Oklahoma. Oh yeah, the SEC
• 57:22
  were interested. I don't know that this has been mentioned a bunch, but
• 57:27
  I found out after the fact that USC and UCLA had a conversation with the
• 57:36
  SEC when they thought there was big ten infests and the SEC just was not
• 57:40
  interested in budging with that. So this was not like a shock to the
• 57:45
  SEC. They don't to this point, the SEC doesn't want to get out
• 57:50
  of their footprint. They've expanded the footprint, but the footprints just gotten larger,
• 57:54
  whereas the Big ten's had to take a different approach. They're going to
• 57:59
  go. They're already from you know, Poscataway, New Jersey, to Los
• 58:02
  Angeles, California. And that's just how they have to do their business because
• 58:08
  in order to get the quality, they just got to go pick and choose.
• 58:12
  Where's the SEC feels like, look we go, we're still in continuum
• 58:16
  states, which they are. So I don't know what that means for Florida
• 58:22
  State where they're going to end up. I know they want to leave.
• 58:24
  I just I mean, I mean, would you leave the ACC to go
• 58:29
  to the Big twelve? If you with them, you're not getting any more
• 58:31
  money than you're gonna get from the ACC deal other than the Big twelve contract.
• 58:37
  TV contract comes up sooner than the ACC. But I gotta believe that
• 58:42
  that Florida State's not making this move unless they know they get the they get
• 58:47
  in the handshake agreement that they're welcome into the SEC or the Big Ten.
• 58:52
  It's got to be that first, or else they can't make the move.
• 58:57
  Chris Let's get you out of here with this NFL Christian owns yesterday it was
• 59:00
  reported are two days several days ago. Now that the Chiefs have the option
• 59:05
  now to pick up Chris Jones and tag him with the get him paid the
• 59:07
  four point twenty five million he earned an incentives. Of course, then they'll
• 59:10
  get into the negotiation points. We'll tell you what I guess. The question
• 59:15
  is do they have the money? Do they have the cap space? When
• 59:17
  you talk about what they have to pay Patrick Mahomes rightfully so Chris Jones equally,
• 59:22
  he's going to demand a ton of money. He's going to get a
• 59:25
  lot of money. They can do it. They can extend Patrick Mahomes and
• 59:32
  Craig cap room. I think what's going to happen is they'll have the tag
• 59:38
  to use. He earned twenty two point seventy five and twenty three including incentives,
• 59:45
  and it's likely he's going to want a contract in that Aaron Donalds thirty
• 59:50
  one and a half million per year. They've got twenty two point six million
• 59:53
  in caproom. They can restructure a few existing contracts like Mahomes. They can
• 59:58
  put the tag on Jones at approximately twenty million. But I think they could
• 1:00:02
  also get a three year deal done with him, if not before the tag
• 1:00:07
  or after the tag at about twenty you know, five million a year.
• 1:00:13
  It maybe could be like a four year twenty eight per year. Uh,
• 1:00:16
  it could be in that range. I think he'll stay. I think what
• 1:00:21
  it what to me is gonna because I just I'd be shocked at the leaves.
• 1:00:25
  I think that they'll get that done. I think the guy that's in
• 1:00:29
  danger of losing is Lugerious sneath they're outstanding corner. Because he's on a rookie
• 1:00:36
  contract, he's gonna get big money in the open market. Can they get
• 1:00:39
  steed and done as I think that's gonna be a bigger challenge, and it's
• 1:00:45
  gonna take a lot for them, and it's gonna be costly for them under
• 1:00:49
  the cap to get both done. But they're gonna They've got some some wiggle
• 1:00:53
  room to negotiate getting at least one of them done. And I think the
• 1:00:58
  priority is always always gonna be funt guy more than the back guy, even
• 1:01:01
  though she needs a great corner. Make sure to find him on X for
• 1:01:05
  college and NFL coverage inside and outside the lines. Also Landry football dot Com.
• 1:01:08
  Chris I appreciate your time. Look, we'll get back at it on
• 1:01:10
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• 1:01:14
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  me get caught up over here. Chris Brooks says he won the trade with
• 1:02:21
  the salad and the cake. I think most people will agree with that.
• 1:02:25
  Let's see here, Rt. I'm not sure because he ran Dack so much
• 1:02:31
  he knew he'd hurt him. I think that's a Damian Williams reference. Let's
• 1:02:36
  see Saint Louis vic Jake, do you remember the old Jackson met days?
• 1:02:38
  Absolutely, Vic, I sure do. I was really into baseball back then.
• 1:02:44
  That and participating on little league teams sponsored by Jenny Jungle or Bryant Foods.
• 1:02:50
  I lost interest for a while, and now we'll pay attention on Major
• 1:02:52
  League Baseball opening day, mid season, in playoffs, checking in on my
• 1:02:57
  braves throughout the season. Though, being here, you can't get away from
• 1:03:00
  it with the Cardinals, but I try people down just don't know how good
• 1:03:06
  they have it. These high school kids up here are there lucky if they
• 1:03:09
  can get on the field by March, so they constantly are behind. Has
• 1:03:15
  high school basketball playoffs started? Yes, we are in high school basketball playoffs.
• 1:03:19
  Championships are starting next week. Down at the Big House. That'll go
• 1:03:22
  all week long, Monday through Saturday night. And of course we'll have the
• 1:03:27
  championships again right here Thursday, Friday and Saturday. And I do remember the
• 1:03:30
  old Jackson Mett days. I, like many of you, saw Daryl Strawberry
• 1:03:36
  hit moonshots into those pine trees on the backside of Smith Wills. And I
• 1:03:40
  think a lot of baseball fans kind of do like Vic. They watch Opening
• 1:03:45
  Day, they'll be all excited, they'll get on social media and talk about
• 1:03:50
  how excited, and then they'll go away from it. They'll come back mid
• 1:03:52
  season and they'll come back in the playoffs. Told you major League baseball is
• 1:03:57
  like a soap opera. If you watch Day of our Lives, you could
• 1:04:00
  watch two episodes or two or three episodes and then go away from it six
• 1:04:05
  for six months and come back and not much has changed. Major League Baseball's
• 1:04:08
  a lot like that. Your head gets feeling better, a little bit good.
• 1:04:13
  So I'm nursing. I'm playing nurse in here today. Can I be
• 1:04:15
  called Nurse Jake? Is that okay? It's better than doctor Jake? Right,
• 1:04:19
  we'll go to Nurse Jake Jason and flagstaff. I never bought he too
• 1:04:26
  Mike right at all, certainly not to the degree that he should have played
• 1:04:30
  replaced Roll Rogers. So I get the point. I get points for that.
• 1:04:33
  What's that one point total, Beaver? I think so. He also
• 1:04:36
  says, was it Damian Williams a guy who could stand flat footed in chunk
• 1:04:40
  of football over the mountains but then hit a barn twenty feet away? He
• 1:04:45
  may have been that guy. Artie says, no half fans watch opening day
• 1:04:50
  half fans. I'm just telling you, Major League baseball is way too long.
• 1:04:54
  All right. Let me get back over here on some notes. When
• 1:05:00
  you look at let's see, let me find what I'm looking for here real
• 1:05:06
  quickly, all right. When you talk about the combine, who's going to
• 1:05:12
  be represented at the Combine? As far as colleges and universities? Some interesting
• 1:05:15
  numbers here. Thirteen schools with the most invites. This is the final AP
• 1:05:21
  poll just for reference. Not surprisingly, national champion Michigan runner up Washington had
• 1:05:27
  the most players invited to the Combine. The Wolverines had record eighteen players invited,
• 1:05:32
  the most from one school. The Huskies had thirteen. Besides Michigan and
• 1:05:35
  Washington, five other schools had at least ten players invited. Florida State had
• 1:05:41
  twelve, Georgia eleven, Texas had ten, Penn State ten, and Alabama
• 1:05:45
  ten. The seven schools were the most players invited to the NFL combine include
• 1:05:49
  all four college football playoff teams. Of the thirteen schools with the most invites,
• 1:05:56
  only one, USC had eight players, was not r in the final
• 1:06:00
  poll. That's on Lincoln Riley. By the way, Michigan number one at
• 1:06:04
  eighteen, Washington number two at thirteen, Florida State twelve players, Georgia,
• 1:06:10
  Texas eleven, Penn State had ten, Alabama ten, USC eight, LSU
• 1:06:16
  eight, Missouri eight, Notre Dame eight, Ohio State eight, and Oregon
• 1:06:20
  seven. And when you look at only only USC wasn't ranked in any polls?
• 1:06:29
  Can you believe that on all those teams? And I'm serious when I
• 1:06:32
  say this, I don't know how good USC is going to be this year,
• 1:06:35
  but I would have to think that Lincoln Riley isn't necessarily in a hot
• 1:06:40
  seat. But you can't have that kind of talent and whiff like they have
• 1:06:45
  whiffed. Yesterday we told you about the best quarterback rooms in college football,
• 1:06:50
  and of course the number one quarterback room in college footballs is Texas. Also
• 1:06:57
  five college football transferporter results. To my the Oregon quarterback room has evolved into
• 1:07:04
  a heck of a room. I mean a heck of a room. Oregon
• 1:07:08
  could make a case for that best spot they have obviously, you know the
• 1:07:13
  organ quarterback room. In twenty twenty three, with bow Knicks search to record
• 1:07:15
  heights, Nicks passed for more than forty five hundred yards and forty five touchdowns,
• 1:07:19
  only three interceptions and we don't talk about that enough, only three picks.
• 1:07:25
  Bo Knicks really protected the football in his last year, seventy seven point
• 1:07:30
  four percent of his throws were completed. Knicks and his backup Ty Thompson are
• 1:07:34
  both gone, but the Ducks brought in Dylan Gabriel, who again he's played
• 1:07:39
  a ton of football. Also snagged Dante Moore from UCLA, who was a
• 1:07:43
  former five star in twenty twenty three. More had an inconsistent freshman year,
• 1:07:47
  finished with eleven touchdowns and nine interceptions, So it's his job for the future.
• 1:07:51
  A lot of people asked a question, well, why did both guys
• 1:07:54
  transfer? Well, Dylan Gabriel's got with the one year Dante Moore still is
• 1:07:58
  going to have a ton of football in front of it, and they may
• 1:08:00
  have some quote packages for him as well. Gabriel is arguably the most battle
• 1:08:04
  tested signal caller in all of college football. And as a matter of fact,
• 1:08:08
  if I go over here and look, let me make sure I'm telling
• 1:08:10
  you this correctly. Quarterbacks for this year, Yeah, I missed the number
• 1:08:16
  one quarterback in college football and that says a lot. I mean Dylan Gabriel.
• 1:08:20
  When you talk about the power guys, like the power players for the
• 1:08:24
  playoff, Dylan Gabriel's number one. Then Beaver's favorite quarterback, Drew Aller is
• 1:08:30
  number five on my list, and then you got to go down to Jalen
• 1:08:34
  Milroe, and then Cameron Ward Alabama and Miami SO, and then Carson Beck
• 1:08:41
  and Jackson Daughter down the list just a little bit. But there's no doubt
• 1:08:45
  that I think Dylan Gabriel has the best I guess upside of any of the
• 1:08:49
  transfer portal quarterbacks. Texas's skill group is going to be something to watch this
• 1:08:55
  year. You know, I've talked a lot about Texas over the last several
• 1:08:58
  weeks. I like Texas to be in the SEC championship game. I've got
• 1:09:02
  Georgia right now on a slight lean to win the whole thing in the SEC.
• 1:09:06
  But the Longhorns and their wide receivers, I would say them, and
• 1:09:15
  I'm sitting here thinking, Miami, you gotta go to Oregon. Ole miss
• 1:09:18
  is gonna have a say, best wide receiver group in the country. Xaber
• 1:09:21
  Worthy, aDNA Mitchell, and Jonathan Whittington plus tight end Jatavian Sanders the top
• 1:09:29
  four pass catchers in twenty twenty three. Each member of that quartet is headed
• 1:09:32
  to the NFL, and Texas chose to reload mainly through the portal, so
• 1:09:35
  all those guys are off and running. Texas ot at Alabama wide receiver Isaiah
• 1:09:40
  Bond, Oregon state wide receiver Silas Bolden, who really had a big year
• 1:09:44
  last year. They also brought in Houston playmaker Matthew Golden. And look,
• 1:09:47
  if you don't know a whole lot about Matthew Golden, you know Houston,
• 1:09:51
  who now is in the Big twelve. This was their first year in the
• 1:09:54
  Big twelve. This past year it was let's see we make sure I'm towing
• 1:10:00
  you're right. A down year for Houston now, obviously, they've got a
• 1:10:03
  new regime. Uh. But when you look at and I'm trying to make
• 1:10:11
  sure I got this right here, he has not shown up on the stat
• 1:10:14
  line, but he had a pretty big year for a team that was not
• 1:10:15
  that good. He heads to Texas now and will be part of everything going
• 1:10:20
  on at Texas. Also tight Anamari Niblick from Alabama, so several players left
• 1:10:27
  Alabama ended up at Texas, uh to create a heck of a heck of
• 1:10:30
  a group. Also, Colorado transfer class again is going to be something to
• 1:10:34
  watch. We'll see what happens in spring practice for Colorado and will there be
• 1:10:40
  another mask cutting not exodus cutting and then a reshuffle in the next trendsfer portal
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  window. I don't know that it's going to be that big again for Dion
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  here as it pertains to the college football Playoff. Well, with the College
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  FOOTBA playoffs still undecided on future format, SEC and Big Ten express doubts in
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  commitment. Remember the SEC and the Big Ten joined forces here about two weeks
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  ago, and they didn't join forces just to do it, just to have
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  a kind of a tag on their conferences. They're gonna be aggressive, They're
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  gonna move and it says. Almost one month ago, leaders of the College
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  wall Playoff gathered in Houston, out of the National Championship Game, expecting to
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  adopt a change in format of the twelfth team playoff. However, they they
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  left the meeting without a decision as one conference delay to vote, another hurdle
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  in what's been multiple years of a similar challenges to find a consensus in the
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  course to the college football Playoff governance. The latest delay casts more doubt on
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  the future of the playoff beyond twenty twenty five. Remember, they did reach
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  an agreement today, but for the sake of the story, the final year
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  that the ten FBS conferences in Notre Dame are contractually bonded together through the College
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  Football Playoffs television deals in media rights partnership with ESPN, though the College Football
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  Playoff is in the midst of negotiations with the ESPN to extend the deal,
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  there is no current contractual bond or bounding contract starting in twenty twenty six.
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  In an interview with Yahoo Sports earlier this week, SEC Commissioner Greg Sanki and
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  Big Ten Commissioner Tony Pteti for the first time public expressed doubts in their commitment
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  to the future of the College Football Playoff if leaders can't get right a litany
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  of issues. It comes on the heels of an announcement that the leagues were
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  forming a joint advisory board to study the future of college athletics. And you
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  know this is gonna They're going to continue to bring these questions up. And
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  I don't know that necessarily the SEC and the Big Ten are looking to force
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  their way out. But if they don't get what they want, which is
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  going to be a bigger revenue sharing pie, more teams in the playoff,
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  probably an expanded playoff beyond twelve, then you could see the two power brokers,
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  you know, head off into the sunset. Shall we say also potential,
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  let's see potential proposals from the Big Ten at SEC seek more automatic qualifier
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  spots inside the conference. You know, I don't know what the number is
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  for the SEC and what the number is for the Big Ten, what they're
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  wanting as far as teams in the College Football Playoff, but there is no
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  doubt that they want at least a guarantee moving forward past twenty twenty five that
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  those conferences are going to have multiple bids to the league. Is it three,
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  is it four? I don't know that they get as high as five.
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  Maybe they do. The SEC and the Big Ten can kind of name
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  what they want at this point. College Football's ten big play wide receivers to
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  watch this year. We talked a little bit about that early early in the
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  program. Our number one. But if you look at this list by two
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  four seven sports dot Com against some great playmakers out there, the number one
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  You're talking about a guy who had just a heck of a year. I
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  mean, he was a mismatched nightmare last year. Eighty six balls, twelve
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  hundred and twelve yards fourteen point point one yards per catch as a sophomore,
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  as the Tie focused more on his development as a pass catcher unless as a
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  kind of a gadget player, kind of a flex player. Burton scored eighteen
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  touchdowns in twenty six games, fifteen receiving and two rushing in a punt return.
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  So he'll be, if not the most, he'll be one of the
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  biggest electric players in college football, and of course in the Southeastern Conference.
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  Number two, you have to go out to Arizona As a team, McMillan
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  had a heck of a year and he announced that he was going to stay
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  at Arizona for the twenty twenty four season alongside quarterback Noah f Fita. And
• 1:16:33
  now, of course that's going to help them moving into the Big Twelve.
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  There was some attrition off this Arizona team, but they'll be in the running
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  for the Big twelve championship and these two guys, the quarterback along with McMillan,
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  will go a long way to their success. CJ. Daniels at LSU,
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  he is a guy that should give a big punch for LSU. This
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  year. LSU needed a punch at wide receiver and liberty. CJ. Daniels
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  raised his hand with immediate interest. He averaged nineteen point four yards per catch
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  last year in Jamie Chadwell's spread offense, scored ten touchdowns for the Flames,
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  who were thirteen to oh prior to losing to Oregon in the Fiesta Bowl.
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  With Joe Sloan handing more of the play calling duties off to Mike Denbrock,
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  who moved in from Notre Dame, expect the Tigers to continue their downfield prowess
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  and Daniels to be a big reason for that. LSU led the SEC in
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  pass plays for more than thirty yards last season with forty, and both of
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  its top pass catchers are expected to be first round selections, Malik Neighbors and
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  Brian Thomas Junior also number three. You got to go to Louisville calling Lacey?
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  Who had a When you talk about Lacy, Jeff Bromca completely flipped his
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  roster after reaching the a SEC Championship game with more than two dozen portal editions,
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  including budding superstar of South Alabama Colin Lacy. So you're seeing again more
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  guys who played Group of five football, even some with FCS ties. Head
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  onto big time football. So Colin Lacey scored seven touchdowns last year, five
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  going for thirty yards or more. He had all Sun Belt honors. Also,
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  the five ten hundred ninety pounder is coming off of stellar twenty twenty three
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  season where he ranked number five in the country in receptions at ninety one and
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  thirteen hundred and sixteen yards. During his four years stant at South Alabama,
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  he had two hundred and eight catches for two two thy five hundred and twenty
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  one yards and thirteen touchdowns. Then, of course you go to ole Miss
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  Trey Harris and what he did last year was just unbelievable. He's back for
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  another year, top target inside a room that's got a lot of targets,
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  and he's a big part of why Ole Miss has a lot of momentum going
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  this year. Tes Johnson and Oregon one of the deepest wide out rooms in
• 1:18:50
  college football, along with Texas and ole Miss and some others as Oregon slot
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  Tz Johnson and Texas A and M transfer Evan Stewart on the outside. Johnson
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  and finished with a single season record for receptions at eighty six for the Ducks.
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  During Bonick's journey to the Heisman finalist honors and scored ten touchdowns. I
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  wonder this is Oregon going to dump truck the Big Ten because I don't know.
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  Oregon just plays with a different speed, and while Ohio State is really
• 1:19:28
  good and talented, I don't know that. Getting out of your head there.
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  Look, Michigan did it a different way this past year. They did
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  it with a ground game with you know, you pair that with probably if
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  you listen to Jim Harball, the best ever play action passing quarterback in college
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  football history, and J. J. McCarthy, who was probably under utilized,
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  plus a great defense Oregon though the speed in which they play, and
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  now you add Tesz Johnson Evan Stewart, a quarterback who's the best in the
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  country, at least coming back on paper. I don't know that the Big
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  ten's ready for this. I really don't. Do you have any thoughts on
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  this. That's why I said get out of my head, because when you
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  asked, are they just gonna run over the Big Ten? I'm lean yes.
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  My only thought was Ohio State because that's not normal for me to say.
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  As you know, I think the addition of Chip Kelly is gonna be
• 1:20:32
  really good for them. But when it comes to Oregon, I'm with you
• 1:20:39
  on that. They seem to be at another level. They were at a
• 1:20:44
  whole other level in the Pac twelve, well of them in Washington. I
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  think it's gonna be the same in the Big Ten. I think Ohio State's
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  gonna be the only team that can really hang with them, And I don't
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  know how far they they can really hang with them. They just play at
• 1:21:02
  a different clip, they really do. They run their offense at a different
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  clip. They've recruited it, you know, a high clip as well.
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  They're one of the top teams in the country as far as talent. I'll
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  get into their schedule. Of the Oregon Ducks, I really like this team
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  able to help them get a championship, but we have to move to help
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  somebody else get a championship. I don't know that Penn State. What did
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  Penn State's got to prove it. I just don't know that James Franklin
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  can get those guys where they need to be to be in competition. And
• 1:21:43
  so I like Oregon and Ohio State in the Big Ten. Those two teams
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  now to win the whole thing, I have no problem now. I haven't
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  yet. Eight and a half to one Organ Ducks. I'm good with that.
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  Again, I remind you, ole Miss is eleven to one, right
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  behind Oregan one, two, three four. Ole Miss has the fifth best
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  odds to win the national title. They are tied with Alabama at eleven to
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  one. And I am here to tell you, believe it or not,
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  those two are not the same. And do you know, I believe that
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  ole Miss is a better eleven to one than Alabama this year. I think
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  ole Miss is a better eleven and one value than Alabama. Again, I
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  think Alabama's going eight and four, nine and three. I think their schedule
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  is against them. I think Nick Saban is against them. I think there's
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  waffle houses against them. There's just too much against Alabama. Ole Miss is
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  playing with a lot of momentum. They've had momentum. They've worked to transfer
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  portal. They got the number one portal class in the country. They got
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  one of the best quarterbacks in the country, they got one of the best
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  play callers in the country. And their schedule is not that hard. But
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  yeah, they're gonna They're gonna have Georgia coming in. They've got some games
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  down the stretch. But are you of the opinion that that eleven to one
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  is the same or one is different? I think ole Miss is a better
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  value this year than Alabama. And I have never said that, but this
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  year ole Miss eleven to one. If you're giving me too, I'm taking
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  ole Miss over Alabama eleven to one. They are different. You are right
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  about that. They are different. Eleven and ones, Alabama is the better
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  one. Artsie says, because you've forgotten who Milroe is. No, Artsie,
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  I know who Jalen Milroe is. I know that he is a guy.
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  When you come at him with a blitz package right up the middle,
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  you will wreck him. Michigan proved that over and over, and Michigan just
• 1:26:57
  teed off. They said, you know, what. We got corners that
• 1:26:59
  can run with their guys, and we're going right over the center who can't
• 1:27:02
  snap it to him, and we are going to take him that way,
• 1:27:05
  which is backwards. That's exactly what they did. I like Jalen Milroe.
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  His story is fantastic. He seems like a good dude, but he is
• 1:27:13
  not going to win you a national championship at Alabama. He's not too a
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  tang of low. He's not Mac Jones, he's not Jalen Hurts, he's
• 1:27:25
  not Bryce Young, He's none of those guys. And I don't even know
• 1:27:28
  that he's the best quarterback on that Alabama roster. Honestly, I don't know
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  that the Washington kid, the young guy from Washington that followed the boar down
• 1:27:35
  from Washington, he may be the best guy in the you know, in
• 1:27:39
  the future. Let's got a ready Teddy, Teddy, how are you,
• 1:27:43
  sir? Welcome in man. I am fantastic. I give you. I'll
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  give you three guests. The first who don't count, who's been on all
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  this for three years to win a national camp. Teddy, you have wrote
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  it and wrote it and wrote it here. I know you're on it this
• 1:27:57
  year. Eleven to one, Teddy, I'd take that bet Oh, I'm
• 1:28:01
  yeah, I'm gonna take it for the odds get lower. Yes, yes,
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  you want to do that for sure. Well, here's what happens.
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  You know, because they may think they are but passlines and feel still in
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  all those gas, they're not. They're not as wrapped up and as we
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  are because we're we're here, you know, we're local. We'll whether you
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  like it or not, you feel about whether you're a state guy, stuff
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  and guy whatever. They're there. There is a bus and you know,
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  Phil Still is probably not gonna feel it. And I don't know who this
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  stratif line is, but he's probably not either. And as they get together
• 1:28:33
  and they start wrapping up and feeling it, even though they do it professionally
• 1:28:36
  all day every day, there there's I don't know, you know, there's
• 1:28:42
  there's no emotion there and there's no touch to it. And I know,
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  Professor, you're just you know, thinking business sense. But you know,
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  when you had the business sense and then the emotional excitement of it, it
• 1:28:51
  manages. It just makes for a lot of fun. And like I said,
• 1:28:55
  Phil Still on app and mister Aplin probably aren't doing it for fun,
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  so that makes it even more fun for us. Yeah, I'll be interested
• 1:29:01
  to see. Of course, we'll visit with Phil when he gets his magazine
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  done where he has ole miss. You know, I mean a lot of
• 1:29:05
  the national publications are all in on all Miss. I mean Vegas is in
• 1:29:10
  on them. I mean, you know. So we'll see where he puts
• 1:29:13
  them in his twelve team playoff bracket here in the next few months. But
• 1:29:16
  I think one more things before I get off here is one more thing.
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  One no more, like for spring practice, we don't know how many bodies
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  are actually going to be there and be a part of what I was considered
• 1:29:28
  to be. You know. Of course there's fall they call it Paul Campus.
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  But after spring practice we'll know a lot more. Right now, all
• 1:29:34
  we have to get excited about is the buzz, And the buzz is a
• 1:29:38
  lot of fun for me. Oh, there's no doubt as it should be.
• 1:29:40
  Embrace it. Appreciate it all right, brother, appreciate it six or
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  one eight nine seven one zero five nine Jason and flagstaff. The Alabama creeping
• 1:29:46
  bin is lighter than the Georgia creeping bin. You know, Hey, I
• 1:29:53
  saw a funny meme or I thought it was funny. On speaking of Georgia,
• 1:29:58
  it said, uh, is Rock Party just a sober version of Stetson
• 1:30:03
  Bennett? What do you think about that? Are they the same player?
• 1:30:11
  Just one parties on the street and Rock Party seems to be pretty straight laced.
• 1:30:15
  We can't compare those two guys. You can't compare them because one didn't
• 1:30:18
  even get on the field and one was in the Super Bowl. So no
• 1:30:26
  monkey's riding dogs. Sounds like your three teams are going to be Texas,
• 1:30:30
  Oregon, and Ohio State. I don't know that yet. They will be
• 1:30:34
  in the mix for sure. I do like Texas. I like Texas a
• 1:30:40
  lot. I like Oregon, I like Ohio State. But I'll tell you
• 1:30:42
  what, Georgia is still going to be right there. Why do you keep
• 1:30:46
  forgetting about Georgia? Me? Yes, why did you just? How did
• 1:30:51
  you get? I felt? Wait a minute, you just discard Georgie out
• 1:30:54
  of this whole conversation. I don't know when I did. That must have
• 1:30:59
  been when I had that. It must have been two hours ago when my
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  head wasn't didn't feel like it was in my head? Is that medicine worse?
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  You really are Okay, you're taking this whole nurse thing pretty far. Yeah,
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  there's Jake. I if our friend tadned Brad has listened, I know
• 1:31:19
  he does not like the Georgia disrespect. George's gonna be right there too,
• 1:31:25
  But George is not going anywhere. George is gonna play for the SEC title
• 1:31:28
  game. They're gonna be in the playoff. They're gonna have a say in
• 1:31:30
  this. I don't I won't say the championship goes through Georgia. But back
• 1:31:34
  to this Orgon conversation. You know, when you look at Oregon in their
• 1:31:41
  schedule, they open up oddly on the road at Hawaii. On the road
• 1:31:46
  at Hawaii, they'll go to the island, have a good time and a
• 1:31:48
  win by fifty. They come back and play Idaho Boise State at Oregon State.
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  The Civil War game at UCLA stand out on the West coast and why
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  UCLA be a quote Big ten game. Their first Big Ten game against a
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  Big ten traditional Big Ten team is Michigan State, and then on October twelfth,
• 1:32:06
  they host Ohio State at Purdue Illinois. They go to Michigan November two,
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  Maryland at Wisconsin and then Washington to the end of the season in Eugene.
• 1:32:19
  So we'll see. I mean that's they played two games. That's kind
• 1:32:27
  of what they play, kind of like Texas. You know we talk about
• 1:32:29
  Texas. They only kind of play two games really, so that'll make it
• 1:32:32
  interesting. Artie says Carson is Mason Rudolph. I don't know that we can
• 1:32:40
  go there yet. I gotta see by Carson Beck. Yeah, Carson Beck
• 1:32:44
  stinks. I don't know that he stinks. I'm not ready to go there
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  He is on your radio now, Mike. Welcome in, sir,
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  How are you great man? Good to have you, Great to be back
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  in my little stopping ground. Hey, absolutely glad to have you back as
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  well. And before we get into a little things going on in basketball and
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  baseball, I want to get your thoughts on the College FOOTBA Playoff Committee today
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  finally coming to an agreement on the five plus seven Model four Power four Conference
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  champions a group of five champion seven at large. And then of course immediately
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  following you hear rumblings coming out of the meetings the SEC and the Big Ten
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  could be lobbying for more after twenty twenty five twenty twenty six, with you
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  know, automatic qualifiers from the SEC and the Big Ten, maybe even more
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  money. There was a reason the SEC and the Big Ten joined forces.
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  Well, and if you're you know, come on, if you if you've
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  got the cloud, why not throw it around a little bit and see what
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  it can get you. You know. One of the stories out there is
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  that one of these leagues, we don't know which, but was asking for
• 1:35:26
  four automatic qualifiers among this. Well maybe that's too much, but look,
• 1:35:30
  they are going to rule the SEC and the Big Ten gon't rule college football
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  at least in the near future, so you would expect I mean, if
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  this is what they want, they probably want a bigger piece of the pie
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  monetarily, whatever they get they probably deserve it right now, they're running the
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  game of college football those two leagues. Let's walk over and talk a little
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  college basketball, looking at some bracketology the SEC eight nine ten or eight nine
• 1:35:53
  teams depending on excuse me, the bracketologists that you look at Alabama with a
• 1:35:58
  one game advantage over Tennessee. As we come down the stretch, now you
• 1:36:01
  look inside the State Ole Miss Missisippi State will play tomorrow night Humpherd Coliseum.
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  Both teams said it's six and six dogs on a three game winning streak,
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  the revs obviously one game winning streak, so a lot on the line for
• 1:36:14
  both State and Ole Miss and of course this conference as well. As we
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  come down the stretch. Yeah, and you know, I think again nine
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  teams from everyone we talked to Jake, seems to be the consensus that right
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  now. You know, the last time I looked, what maybe Texas A
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  and M was in as an eleven seed, one of the first four.
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  But outside of that State and Ole Miss, I saw them both listed as
• 1:36:32
  ten seeds, and I think everybody else is pretty much solid. South Carolina,
• 1:36:35
  Kentucky I saw at sixes and then from there, I mean, look
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  this regular season championship is going to be a blast to watch down the stretch.
• 1:36:44
  You can take any of these teams and kind of look at their schedules
• 1:36:46
  and say, whether it's Alabama, whether it's Kentucky, whether it's Tennessee,
• 1:36:50
  South Carolina, Auburn. Whoever wins this regular season title is really going to
• 1:36:56
  earn it because the schedules would be great over the next couple of weeks.
• 1:36:58
  Man, It's absolutely is. It's hard to know until you see the brackets.
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  Because we know this when you get into tournament play, and we'll make
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  the same case when you get into the College Football Playoff. Your seating matters,
• 1:37:09
  who you play matters. Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama. You referenced those
• 1:37:14
  guys. Is there one team you like that said, hey, regardless of
• 1:37:16
  the setup, I like this team to make a run, you know,
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  Elite eight, possibly Final Four. Is there one above the rest in the
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  SEC? Well, look what Alabama's done is just incredible, man. I
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  mean, They've got Mark Sears, who's shooting forty five percent beyond the three
• 1:37:30
  point line and over what one hundred and thirty attempts or something like that.
• 1:37:34
  They've got size inside, They've got again a handful of guys who can light
• 1:37:40
  it up from outside. We've seen them what hit one hundred plus eight different
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  times? But can they play enough defense? I love Auburn's depth. The
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  Jalen Williams factor is a big key. They need him back to make their
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  run. But look out for this Kentucky team. Man. They are surging
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  at the right time, so it's water for that matter. Don't look down
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  with the Gators at one seven of their last eight and they get Bama tomorrow
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  night. That'll be a huge, huge match up and we'll see if the
• 1:38:02
  Gators can actually I think those two actually have to play twice between now and
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  the end of the regular season, So the Florida Gators are going to have
• 1:38:09
  to say, is this regular season titled college baseball is finally officially here?
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  Of course, we got this past weekend behind center, we're visiting with Mike
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  Grace for the press box. Make sure to find him on X check them
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  out. You can hear him here tonight eight to ten tonight on the Zone.
• 1:38:23
  But college baseball off and running a small sample size. Georgia, Kentucky,
• 1:38:28
  South Carolina. No problems in the East with the sweep over the weekend.
• 1:38:30
  You know you've got some two and ones, and you know on oh
• 1:38:32
  to one, Florida got one ball game in Alverurn LSU, Texas A and
• 1:38:35
  M along with Alabama sweeps State and Ole Miss dropped ticket. Well a game
• 1:38:40
  and or two. If you're all miss, we're early, early, early,
• 1:38:43
  But this you look at the you know all the rankings and uh,
• 1:38:45
  you know Baseball America and all of your baseball poles. Again you talk about
• 1:38:49
  loaded, friend of back. We talk a lot about football and basketball,
• 1:38:53
  but man, baseball, this is this is going to be interesting to see
• 1:38:57
  because we'll be in conference play before you know it. It is going to
• 1:38:59
  be a grind for all of these teams, and particularly State and o Miss,
• 1:39:01
  who are a lot of people are watching to see what they do.
• 1:39:03
  And now, in the day and age of transfer, portal and main image
• 1:39:08
  likeness, Jake, these rosters turn over so much, so fast. Who
• 1:39:12
  really knows what we've got just a week end of the season. I think
• 1:39:15
  there are gosh, probably half a dozen or more of these SEC teams that
• 1:39:18
  are loaded that could win it all if all the pieces fall in place.
• 1:39:23
  But it's going to be a great season. As always in sec BA fall.
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  You got to help me, man, it's been a rough couple of
• 1:39:29
  seasons for I'm a Maroon and white bulldog down deep. What what's it going
• 1:39:34
  to take to turn around that Mississippi State program and get it back to what
• 1:39:38
  bulldog bands are used to it being well, this will be cliche, right,
• 1:39:42
  and you know you got to pitch it well and you got to hit
• 1:39:44
  it well. And I know that sounds cliche, but that is that is
• 1:39:45
  where Misissippi State is at. You know, they had some production at the
• 1:39:48
  plate over the past weekend. They had some guys strike out as well,
• 1:39:51
  but I think a lot of that production, especially if it's big hits home
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  runs, you know, you're moving runners around the plate. They'll take that.
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  And you know, I'll volley that question back to you and say,
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  what is success this year for Mississippi State? You know, talking to a
• 1:40:03
  lot of people in Ole, miss in that regard as well. Is is
• 1:40:06
  it as simple as hey, you got to get back to postseason play.
• 1:40:10
  You've got to be in the field of sixty four. And oh, by
• 1:40:13
  the way, it wouldn't hurt if you hosted a regional as well. Well.
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  Certainly State and Old mis are used to that, right, and I
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  mean that's got to be what the goal is to get back there. I
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  think the key for State especially, and this is what was just their achilles
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  heel the last couple of seasons is the ability to throw strikes. Man,
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  they walked so many batters, hit so many batters, gave so many free
• 1:40:32
  bases up last year. I don't care how great your offense is, you
• 1:40:38
  just can't do that consistently and the winners, and I think that's the key
• 1:40:42
  for them. Can they throw strikes this weekend against small sample, but certainly
• 1:40:45
  look better than a year ago when they were walking ten and hitting a couple,
• 1:40:49
  you know, every nine innings. So I think that's the key for
• 1:40:51
  this state of pitching staff. Can they throw strikes and not give up three
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  bases and three runs to people Mike Tellerbrady Where they can find the show.
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  I know, you guys got a lot of stuff coming down the pipe,
• 1:41:01
  some new stuff, great guests coming up on the press box. Well we
• 1:41:04
  do, man. We've got Keith Carter, the old miss Athletic Director or
• 1:41:08
  vice chancellor of intercollegiate Athletics if you prefer the formal title. He'll be with
• 1:41:12
  us on on Wednesday as well. And we're having fun with John Sunbowld with
• 1:41:15
  the SEC Network tomorrow as well. And how about Kermit Davis. There's a
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  name that both Ole Miss and State fans will remember. Kerman Davis Junior is
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  going to be on the show with us on Wednesday as well. Mike,
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  right, And so let's look real quickly and pull a profile here, because
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  obviously, when you look at Kaylen and Bore leaving Washington, and of course
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  Washington raids Arizona and then now Jedfish heads to Arizona and I'm excuse you to
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  Washington, that is going to obviously when you talk about Arizona. What's interesting
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  about Arizona is they had an opportunity, at least prior to the whole Kaylen
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  de Boor to Washington deal, to be really really good. I mean a
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  lot of people were already paying them way too early to win the Big twelve.
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  But now when you look at the new coach comes from a group of
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  five program, successful on a group of five level, and look, he'll
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  have some players to work with. A quarterback, a wide receiver, several
• 1:44:00
  other players. That state of Arizona, they did a pretty good job at
• 1:44:03
  least quickly in the transfer portal. They'll be one of the players if you
• 1:44:06
  look at the Big twelve, Arizona will be in the running for the Big
• 1:44:11
  twelve. Utah will be in the running for the Big twelve. Oklahoma State,
• 1:44:15
  Kansas State. Now some are calling for Kansas to have a big year.
• 1:44:18
  I'm not ready to go down that roade yet, but I've said this
• 1:44:20
  before. I think the Big twelve will be the funnest league to watch because,
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  as Chris Landry said an hour number two, you're probably gonna have a
• 1:44:28
  nine and three team win, and it may even be an eight and four
• 1:44:31
  team win the conference, which will upset a lot of SEC fans. You
• 1:44:36
  know what's going to be bad is when an eight and four, nine and
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  three team wins the Big Twelve, and then a possible ten and two or
• 1:44:43
  nine and three sec team has left out Rtie no Arch no title nine and
• 1:44:49
  three you no, no, no, no, no no. Quinn Ewers
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  has earned the right, took them to the playoff and Quinn look, arch
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  is got his time coming. It's inevitable, isn't it, Beaver, It's
• 1:45:01
  inevitable, Jay Rock, Austin p is a big time program. No shame
• 1:45:06
  getting handled by them. He's already consoling himself because that got me thinking,
• 1:45:15
  well, they must be losing what we got. Give me some scores.
• 1:45:17
  Yeah, midweek baseball game four of the season. You can still tell everything
• 1:45:24
  by this. Yeah, but Austin PE's up three to nothing, bottom of
• 1:45:29
  the sixth, three to nothing, bottom of the six Oh boy, that's
• 1:45:36
  not good. That's not good at all. Let me look right here at
• 1:45:44
  also good Lord, Well, at least Jay Rock has got a sense of
• 1:45:47
  humor about it, right, And let's see here unnamed TEXTA. I heard
• 1:45:53
  you mentioned waffle House when you were looking at who has the best chance between
• 1:45:57
  BAM and ole Miss? Do you or excuse be do how do you use
• 1:46:01
  how to use waffle House in your algorithm? Is this how you picked Michigan
• 1:46:05
  last year? Is this the secret to great picks? I can't tell you
• 1:46:09
  that. I can't tell you if if that is part of the algorithm for
• 1:46:15
  Alabama, it's got to be right. I don't feel like Harball is a
• 1:46:19
  waffle house man, So I don't think they factored into your Michigan last year.
• 1:46:25
  He's a steak and milkman, yeah, but he's not a waffle house
• 1:46:30
  man, right. Yeah. Also a little bit more on Brent Brennan who
• 1:46:35
  was at San Jose State. He's thirty four and forty eight overall. But
• 1:46:43
  now some of that, I mean San Jose State was a dumpster fire,
• 1:46:47
  and he did a good job with the transfer portal, working to get a
• 1:46:49
  lot of good, you know, decent players at San Jose State to end
• 1:46:55
  up having a pretty good run out there. Two Mountain West titles twenty twenty
• 1:46:58
  and twenty twenty three, one Mountain West Championship game in twenty twenty, Coach
• 1:47:02
  of the Year in the Mountain West as well. So I mean, never
• 1:47:06
  were they just great, but they did. He did a pretty good job.
• 1:47:11
  Means San Jose State, that's a program that's an absolute dumpster fire.
• 1:47:15
  Real un named texter on the ledge get off there are they on the ledge
• 1:47:20
  he is. Let me look real quickly, SEC, real quick on the
• 1:47:30
  SEC baseball scores. And you said that game was in the bottom of the
• 1:47:33
  sixth. You just can't do that again. If you're Mississippi State, you
• 1:47:41
  just you just cannot have that happen. Let's see right now, kind of
• 1:47:45
  going through some quick scores. Well, look, Morehead State is up on
• 1:47:48
  Kentucky five to two, and they are in the bottom of the eighth.
• 1:47:55
  South Carolina's on top of Winthrop nine to two. That game is in the
• 1:47:58
  top of the air, headed to the top of the eighth. Tennessee struggling
• 1:48:01
  with unc Ashville. They're up three to two as they head to the top
• 1:48:04
  of the eighth. Texas A and M five incarnate word two. Yeah in
• 1:48:12
  Austin p three to nothing as they head to the seventh. You can't do
• 1:48:15
  that. You can't lose midweek games to Austin. P. Yeah. I
• 1:48:20
  figure X will burn down tonight if that is the case. I wanted to
• 1:48:26
  get to this yesterday and I didn't get a chance, So we will today.
• 1:48:28
  Jackson State hit with an eight hundred thousand dollars bill because former coach Dion
• 1:48:30
  Sanders ended historic rivalry. Deon Sanders left Jackson State after the twenty twenty two
• 1:48:35
  season, following a twelve and one season to go take the Colorado job.
• 1:48:40
  We know that, and the js F Tigers budd He left the Tigers with
• 1:48:45
  a pretty big bill on the hook. That's because in twenty twenty two,
• 1:48:48
  Sanders pulled his Jackson State Tigers, who were twenty seven and six under his
• 1:48:53
  tutelage, out of their annual Southern Heritage Classic ballgame against Tennessee State, a
• 1:48:58
  historic HBCU match held on a neutral site field in Memphis. At the time,
• 1:49:03
  Dean Sanders gave understandable reasons for terminating Jackson State's Southern Heritage contract with Summit
• 1:49:10
  Management Corporation, who puts on the annual event. Coach Primes or Coach Prime
• 1:49:15
  posted on Instagram at that time to explain the decision, saying, quote seven
• 1:49:19
  buses for the band. We have four buses for all our people and who
• 1:49:26
  else? Who else goes administration, hotel, accommodation's food, all that by
• 1:49:30
  the time we get backward broke, which all of that makes sense in theory.
• 1:49:35
  By terminating Jackson State's contract with Summit Management corporation three years into the five
• 1:49:41
  year contract. Some management corporation in turn sued Jackson State for one point eight
• 1:49:45
  million dollars in damages. After legal proceedings, Jackson State has reportedly settled for
• 1:49:51
  eight hundred thousand dollars, a bill that Jackson State now has to pay paid,
• 1:49:57
  despite Coach Prime having left the school two years ago as the driving force
• 1:50:00
  behind pulling Jackson State out of the Southern Heritage Classic against Tennessee State on a
• 1:50:04
  neutral field in Memphis. Interestingly, the Claron Ledger reports the settlement was reached
• 1:50:11
  around Halloween twenty twenty two, so it's taken nearly a year and a half
• 1:50:15
  for the news to make to make a news report. Excuse me of this
• 1:50:19
  magnitude to make headlines eight hundred thousand dollars bill that Jackson State is saddled with.
• 1:50:26
  In light of everything, one has to wonder at this point if Jackson
• 1:50:31
  State wouldn't be pleased to still be participating in the annual Southern Heritage Classic.
• 1:50:35
  Jackson State went seven and four last season without coach Prime at the helm.
• 1:50:40
  Meanwhile, at the time of the decision, when that was made by then
• 1:50:44
  head coach Sanders to pull Jackson State out of the game. It was by
• 1:50:47
  some the right one. What do you think about this now? Now Jackson
• 1:50:51
  State's got to pay back an eight hundred thousand dollars bill. Well, first
• 1:50:58
  off, on Jackson's State, don't do the usual thing in line and say
• 1:51:01
  you don't have the money pay your bill. And second, Dion Sanders,
• 1:51:08
  of course he sure doesn't care. He saddled it. He saddled them with
• 1:51:14
  this. But you know another another piece of the puzzle of who Deon Sanders
• 1:51:23
  is you wanted God, you wanted to believe he cared, didn't y'all?
• 1:51:29
  Y'all couldn't see y'all never could see it. Y'all. Still you super fans
• 1:51:33
  are still going to stick up for him though, But how you feel now?
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• 1:52:50
  real quick. Jason and Flagstaff. Did you see what I sent you on
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  X a while back about why fish left and why the ad got ran out
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  on a rail slow rolling fish extension? I saw that I'll have to go
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  back and take a look at that artie god fearing man who cares about teaching
• 1:53:11
  rather than wins. I don't know who speaks of see that my fish.
• 1:53:14
  Yeah he's talking about Dion Sanders. Oh okay, yeah, text me twenty
• 1:53:17
  eight more times and tell me about it, Artie. Do we have a
• 1:53:20
  Missippi State Austin p update. Let's see if we can get an update on
• 1:53:26
  this before Missippi State fans. See if you can give me an update.
• 1:53:32
  I know Alabama's on top of MTSU three to one. That game is going
• 1:53:39
  into the top of the seventh. We'll see if we can get Missippi State
• 1:53:43
  update. All right, a couple other things as we move along here.
• 1:53:47
  Obviously, bracketology will continue to unfold in front of our eyes. Gets a
• 1:53:53
  little bit thicker every Well, we got over there. You got a score,
• 1:53:56
  Oh, Misisippi State just does a horrible job updating their scores. Good
• 1:54:00
  for y'all, big time program, This says, Oh, Bulldogs are trying
• 1:54:09
  to call back three to two, three to two, Bulldogs within a score,
• 1:54:14
  and that's gonna be in the bottom of the six. I believe I'll
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  go back in here to March Matterson just a bit possumate, Joe. I
• 1:54:19
  think I'm going with the Memphis showboat. They have Vince Papolli's son on the
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  roster and Vincible was an excellent movie about Papoli's time at the Philadelphia Eagles back
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  in the day, and played on the big screen by Mark Wahlberg. Oh
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  was a fantastic Did you like that movie? Yeah? Where would you rate
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  that in sports movies? I don't think it would have been in my top
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  five, but it was a good movie. Top ten maybe top ten.
• 1:54:47
  Yeah, it was a heck of I liked it. I mean it wouldn't
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  be my top five either. I've always told you one of the best is
• 1:54:55
  Friday Night Lights, the movie over the mini series. You've never even saw
• 1:54:59
  them series. I saw a little bit of it. I was not it
• 1:55:02
  was. It felt more like a teenage girls drama series. That's what it
• 1:55:09
  felt like. There was no Booby Miles, there was none of that in
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  there. It seemed like it was all about Kirk and Jessica hanging out at
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  the local sonic on a Thursday night before big game on Friday. It was
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  just a lot going on there, a lot about life and not a lot
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  about football. Would that be accurate, No, it would not be accurate
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  at all. Booby Miles was a loose character. What it was it was
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  a loose character and it had real world ramifications. It did because it inspired
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  Anthony Dixon to try to convince the world that his name was Booby and that
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  was so stupid. God, I hated that. And I remember that was
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  during Wiener's time, and he loved it and roles were reversed. I said,
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  miss me, with that Booby Booby Dixon, your name is Anthony,
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  but everybody called him Booby Dixon that and it's the Friday Night Night's fault.
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  You're saying he ripped the show off. No the movie or the movie Booby
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  Miles. Yeah, yeah, you don't remember this whole name fiasco. I
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  do, I do, but I thought that's what they called him in high
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  school, Booby Dixon. Throughout his entire college career and a good chunk of
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  his NFL career. I had never known him to go by Booby. It
• 1:56:35
  was always Anthony, and this fool just changed it into Booby in like twenty
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  fourteen or something like that was out of nowhere. We'll just call him so
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  no Booby Miles or Dixon, just call him Tony Dixon short for Anthony.
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  How about Tony Booby Dixon. Have a compromise Tony. Okay, let's see
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  three MP camel. Speaking of fish, the water is hitting that magic fifty
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  five mark on some of State lakes. Got this one Saturday. Anytime you
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  want to go bass fishing, Jake, let me know that is a nice
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  fish, really nice fish. Beef. You liked the bass fish. You
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  know, I've never I've never just fished for a specific fish, not that
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  I've been fishing in a long time, but anytime I fished, it was
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  just fishing in general. Well, maybe we need to get with three hump
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  camelon go on a bass fishing exhibition. Okay, what do you think about
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  that? I'm for it. dB coach Prime left the program with a paid
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  for practice and updated the locker room. A fault to lack of forward thinking
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  and progress or should be proper marketing for Prime's departure more than Jackson State is
• 1:57:58
  responsible for his leaving. There's definitely some blame to go around on all sides.
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  I don't know that Jackson State could have ever done anything to totally keep
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  him. I think he was always out the door. I mean, you
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  might could have extended that stay. We'll never know that, but I think
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  he was probably always out the door. I think that was some of the
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  early kind of conversation is how long can you keep him here? Yeah?
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  Well there was no way they could compete money wise, and you know,
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  plus God told him to go. Remember I always remember that God told him
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  to go to Colorado, even though God told him to go to Jackson State.
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  I'll leave you with this today scientists worn of a giant, invasive spider
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  that could be taking over cities really soon. You ready for this? Scientists
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  recently announced that they believe invasive giant. Now help me with this word j
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  o ro? Is that jorro? Or is that horror? Where is jcouldn't
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  even yet? We'll call it a horro spider will soon be spreading across the
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  East coast before possibly covering the entire country. The horror spider first appeared near
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  Atlanta, Georgia, and the United States around twenty thirteen, when they were
• 1:59:17
  reportedly brought into the country inside a shipping container by accident. Up until then,
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  mostly appeared in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China. They have
• 1:59:29
  since spread across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee,
• 1:59:33
  Maryland, West Virginia, and Oklahoma. Now Researchers from the University of Georgia
• 1:59:38
  believe the giant spider will be spreading even further and begin taking over cities and
• 1:59:43
  other urban areas across the East Coast. What makes this so odd from a
• 1:59:46
  scientific standpoint is the urban areas with busy roads are notably stressful environments for spiders
• 1:59:54
  and other animals. Researchers rode in a press release that, however, doesn't
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  seem to stop this spider, who builds their webs between power lines and the
• 2:00:02
  top of top of stop lights, and even above pumps at local gas stations.
• 2:00:11
  The researchers found that while the horror spider is near busier roads of somewhat
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  less likely to attack simulated prey, the spider doesn't seem to be herding for
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  herding for it, and of course the clock they clock in at about the
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  same weight as their counterpart counterparts in a less busy location. The suggestions are
• 2:00:30
  that the species can successfully compensate for human dominated the landscape, so they're basically
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  saying that and it says these spiders can be as big as three inches across
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  and their web they can lay anywhere from up to four hundred to fifteen hundred
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  eggs at a time. So you ready for this. This is a three
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  inch spider. That thing's about that bit. This is horrifying. One more
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  thing to worry about. And you mentioned a lot of places that it's from.
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  I couldn't help but focus on China. Haven't you done enough to us?
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  It seems like it always comes from China? Done? It seems like
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  it always does. Let's see here. Well, I think we're I was
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  fixing it in something else, but we're about out of time. I appreciate
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  David Murray, Chris Landry and Mike Grace. Appreciate you guys on the text
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  line the calls today as well as we'll be back tomorrow three to six.
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  Obviously Thursday and Friday four week of shows. We're not off for any baseball
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  or basketball this week. No, no, because tomorrow's basketball until eight I
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  believe. And of course next week Thursday, Friday Saturday, we got the
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  MHSA basketball championships. Remember catchup is King Bacon's delicacy. Loja means goodbye,
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  be a man of increase. See you, tom are