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Mac & Bone Hour 2: More Drama For UNC Football · Mac & Bone Podcast

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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. Mack and Bo with you. Happy
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Speaker 2: Football Friday, everybody. It is week one of the World
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Speaker 2: of College Football. Last night, Wake Forest. What a first
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Speaker 2: half from Gio Lopez. 3-13 in the first half alone. Ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: Wake wins 38-16. Georgia Tech, you couldn't get that one.
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Speaker 2: He couldn't beat Prime for the ACC. Blocked kick. Wins
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Speaker 2: it for Colorado as time expires. A walk-off blocked kick
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Speaker 2: for Coach Prime and the boys. Colorado wins 14-13. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it was ugly. It was pretty ugly. No doubt about it.
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Speaker 3: It was a week one game of... Teams trying to
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Speaker 3: figure stuff out. Definite adjustment for Georgia Tech. No Haynes King.
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Speaker 3: But it was the line of scrimmage dominance on both
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Speaker 3: sides that was eye-opening. For a Brent Key T-Mac to
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Speaker 3: be embarrassed, not stopping the run, inability to really run
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Speaker 3: it consistently last night. The quarterback, I thought, you know,
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Speaker 3: he made plays. He almost won the game. But the
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Speaker 3: line of scrimmage. uh, losses last night was, was just
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Speaker 3: couldn't believe what I was watching.
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Speaker 2: 100% Brent keys got to be all kind of ticked off.
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Speaker 2: They played the game he wants to play and they
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Speaker 2: played it a gazillion times better. There's no doubt about it, man.
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Speaker 2: And wake fans, wake fans got to be a little
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Speaker 2: excited here. It's an amazing concept, but wake forest bone.
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Speaker 2: brought in Gio Lopez, and they're running an offense that
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Speaker 2: suits him. Literally running the same offense with the same
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Speaker 2: coordinator from South Alabama. And I feel like it showed
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Speaker 2: last night. It does sound like Hernandez is okay. He's
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Speaker 2: going to be their star receiver. Does sound like he
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Speaker 2: just got the wind knocked out of him. So sounds
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Speaker 2: like that is okay. Let's talk about this UNC mess, though, Bone.
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Speaker 2: Here we are, just four days, or five days, I guess,
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Speaker 2: at this point. Or six days. I love math. Can
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Speaker 2: you tell? Six days, Bone, after Carolina's big win over TCU,
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Speaker 2: where we see how much more together they are, how
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Speaker 2: much sounder they were. And they look more like a
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Speaker 2: Belichick coach team. And you're thinking, OK. Is Belichick going
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Speaker 2: to put his imprint on this team finally in year two? Well,
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Speaker 2: then we get the WRAL investigative report yesterday. And I
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Speaker 2: want to know what Tar Heel fans think about this.
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Speaker 2: We mentioned it in the first hour. I want to
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Speaker 2: see what Fitty says. I want to see what Tar
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Speaker 2: Heel fans think about this. This is just ridiculous. The
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Speaker 2: Tar Heel football fans can't have nice things for longer than–
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Speaker 2: can't even get to a week without having more bad
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Speaker 2: off-the-field stuff hit. So right before, Bone, this WRAL investigative
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Speaker 2: report is to be released, which you get the feeling
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Speaker 2: the school was giving a heads-up on, Michael Lombardi resigns
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Speaker 2: right before this report comes out from Pat Welter and
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Speaker 2: Brian Murphy from WRAL. Then the report drops, and– UNC
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Speaker 2: continues the investigation of the football, all things football program,
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Speaker 2: even with Lombardi moving along. And the WRAO report was
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Speaker 2: done by talking to people who have been questioned, Bone,
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Speaker 2: in this investigation by the lawyers. So the stuff in
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Speaker 2: here is not good at all that they are sniffing around.
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Speaker 2: Questions are being asked about Steve Belichick. Apparently the university
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Speaker 2: now wants to focus on his behavior now that Lombardi
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Speaker 2: is gone. There are questions being asked about Belichick possibly
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Speaker 2: using drugs on the job. and providing drugs to at
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Speaker 2: least one player. There's also questions being asked, and they're
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Speaker 2: investigating whether a member of the UNC recruiting staff had
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Speaker 2: an inappropriate relationship with a player. There's also questions being
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Speaker 2: asked by the lawyers that are investigating, was there an
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Speaker 2: inappropriate relationship between assistant coaches and the recruiting staff? What
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Speaker 2: do you think about this? I hate it for Tar
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Speaker 2: Heel fans because I thought, oh, maybe we finally are
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Speaker 2: moving to some positive momentum for the program. What do
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Speaker 2: you think about this? And you said national radio folks
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Speaker 2: already are saying this could lead to Belichick's ouster, you said.
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Speaker 3: And I think you brought up an excellent point in
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Speaker 3: regards to that theory. If there was a lack of control,
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Speaker 3: you know, but Belichick back– You know, sometimes lack of
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Speaker 3: control can be a problem for any coach, but especially
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Speaker 3: when those that are out of control, allegedly, reportedly, are
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Speaker 3: so tied to you.
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Speaker 2: It's your son.
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Speaker 3: It's your right-hand man that was up there at the
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Speaker 3: pressers with you. That's going to be the problem for Belichick.
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Speaker 3: This isn't random people that screwed up along the way.
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Speaker 3: This is his inner circle. So while Belichick was already
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Speaker 3: questioned for his own personal distractions last year, the fact
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Speaker 3: that it turns out, Mac, he may have been not
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Speaker 3: only not distracted by coaching football, he wasn't paying attention
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Speaker 3: to anything around him. And this is a guy who
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Speaker 3: was involved as a pro coach in everything around him.
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Speaker 3: But when it's his son, when it's his best buddy,
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Speaker 3: when it's the Gilligan, his skipper, That's a real big problem,
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Speaker 3: especially with the seriousness of these allegations.
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Speaker 2: It is. You can't say, well, I didn't know about
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Speaker 2: his past. Well, it's your son, and it's your Lombardi.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's your Lombardi. He's got a lot of
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Speaker 2: those Lombardis. This is the human Lombardi, though. This is
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Speaker 2: the only Lombardi he didn't really want anymore. He should
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Speaker 2: have never taken him into first place. It was a
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Speaker 2: mammoth mistake by him, but he's made a lot of mistakes.
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Speaker 2: I mean, here's the thing with this, Bone. Yeah, how
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Speaker 2: close these people are to him is very notable. But
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Speaker 2: just in a general sense, either way you look at
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Speaker 2: this for Belichick, if this stuff was happening, and again,
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Speaker 2: it's an investigation. These are the things that they are
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Speaker 2: sniffing around, that they are checking to see if they
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Speaker 2: did occur. But it really does look like a lack
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Speaker 2: of institutional control. I'm not saying people– we've got texters
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Speaker 2: saying hit him with a death penalty for lack of
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Speaker 2: institutional control. I'm not saying all that, but I'm just
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Speaker 2: saying this is a coach– that I just, I do
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Speaker 2: not recognize this man. Ever since he came to Chapel Hill,
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Speaker 2: I just, who is this man? Who is this guy
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Speaker 2: that has his 24-year-old girlfriend running the show in so many,
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Speaker 2: you know, aspects of his life, stopping interviews on his behalf, who,
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Speaker 2: you know, doing freedom of information requests of his co-workers,
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Speaker 2: you know, stirring it up at the office where he works. Like,
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Speaker 2: there's so many, and then all these things, it's just,
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Speaker 2: And there's so many things going on where, and this
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Speaker 2: is the guy that I thought ran the ultimate type, uh,
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Speaker 2: tight ship, no distractions, no days off. And everywhere you look,
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Speaker 2: there's a distraction. There's something going on that is, is,
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Speaker 2: is messing with the ability to focus on football. And
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Speaker 2: as far as whether or not he knew he could
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Speaker 2: get fired bone, whether he knew about this stuff or not,
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Speaker 2: it's either you knew about, if this stuff was happening,
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Speaker 2: you knew about it, didn't do anything. Fired, right? You
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Speaker 2: can get fired for just simply being so oblivious as
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Speaker 2: a coach and not knowing this stuff is going on, too. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: also a program that went through a lot, Mac.
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Speaker 3: Decades ago, a decade and a half ago, with off-the-field
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Speaker 3: stuff that embarrassed the football program. I know it's a
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Speaker 3: different regime. It's different times. But UNC's tolerance here when
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Speaker 3: it comes to embarrassing the football program might not be
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Speaker 3: a whole lot when it comes to this stuff right now.
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Speaker 3: Not that it's the same stuff, but it seems like
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Speaker 3: we're always talking about off-the-field stuff with UNC, and this
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Speaker 3: regime may say, We're not going to continue this embarrassment
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Speaker 3: of what's going on here.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, Bubba Cunningham didn't want to hire him.
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Speaker 2: That was something that, you know, John Pryor, the board
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Speaker 2: member and the board, you know, kind of forced through.
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Speaker 2: John Pryor is being replaced by Steve Newmark, a complete
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Speaker 2: new AD, who I'm sure is, like, inheriting this mess. And,
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Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure he has fantasies about his own football,
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Speaker 2: hiring his own football coach, where this stuff doesn't happen.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just– and the timing sucks because, again,
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Speaker 2: it comes after the TCU win. And now here's– Here's
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Speaker 2: Tar Heel Nation again, dragged back into this crap.
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Speaker 3: This texter says, Fiddy often said that he's away from
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Speaker 3: the program. Well, guess what was going on when he
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Speaker 3: wasn't around all those times? Also, he's on the beach
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Speaker 3: dressed like a fisherman. Well, guess what's going on in
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Speaker 3: your program?
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Speaker 2: Multiple people saying he was at the cheerleading competitions and
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Speaker 2: didn't know this was happening. Um, uh, got another text
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Speaker 2: from a UNC fan, uh, 704 number. I read on
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Speaker 2: the bottom line last night, Lombardi resigned. I thought this
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Speaker 2: was great news. Then I realized why he resigned and
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Speaker 2: what they're investigating. And that is not great news. Finney,
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Speaker 2: how do you feel about this as a Tar Heel fan?
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Speaker 4: Kind of right there with where that texture was.
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Speaker 5: Like I see the news.
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Speaker 4: I see Lombardi has resigned and and get excited because, okay,
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Speaker 4: we can put this behind us, get this distraction out
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Speaker 4: of the way, let's focus on football. And then less
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Speaker 4: than an hour later, Mac, I'm sitting there thinking, what's
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Speaker 4: the end game for Bill Belichick? If any of the
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Speaker 4: stuff that's being alleged, reported, investigated is slightly true. Because
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Speaker 4: if any of that stuff that they're investigating is found
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Speaker 4: to be correct, then yeah, he has no control of
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Speaker 4: his program. And Mack at five and eight, he doesn't
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Speaker 4: really have anything to justify staying employed.
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Speaker 5: You know, these schools will tolerate a lot of crap.
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Speaker 4: If you're winning, if you're doing the things that you're
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Speaker 4: paying someone $ 10 million to do, he doesn't have that.
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Speaker 4: I'm not advocating for that to be what happens here.
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Speaker 4: I'm not advocating for the guy to be fired. I
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Speaker 4: just sat there and was wondering, I don't know if
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Speaker 4: he has a leg to stand on. If any of
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Speaker 4: the stuff that is being investigated is proven accurate.
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Speaker 2: Drew brings up a good point. Is this the loophole
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Speaker 2: UNC needs to fire Belichick without owing him the money?
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Speaker 2: I was thinking that too. Is this a four cause firing?
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Speaker 2: Seems like it could be. And does the university at
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Speaker 2: this point want Belichick? to dig and find... Obviously, these
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Speaker 2: are ugly, and this is another black eye on the
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Speaker 2: university bone. And as you pointed out, their athletic department
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Speaker 2: has given the university a handful of black eyes over
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Speaker 2: the years. But, like, do they almost want a reason to...
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Speaker 2: But then again, the football looks so much better on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: That's the thing that, for the first time, if they
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Speaker 2: lost by 30 on Saturday, or 20, whatever... This would
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Speaker 2: just be the tsunami of negativity. But what makes this
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Speaker 2: difference is different is for the first time on Saturday,
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Speaker 2: it looked like, oh, is Belichick improving the football operation?
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Speaker 3: You know, he felt more in control of the game
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Speaker 3: than he has in a while. But it turns out
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Speaker 3: that he only wasn't in control of the football side
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Speaker 3: last year. He wasn't in charge of the the human
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Speaker 3: side either. You're also the Mac and Bone show. Here
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Speaker 3: on 92.7, going to reset here, Matt, because people keep
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Speaker 3: asking what we're talking about. Michael Lombardi is officially out.
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Speaker 3: He's resigned as UNC investigators for allegations of drug use,
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Speaker 3: sex amongst players and staff. It's a WRAL report. If
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Speaker 3: you go to WRAL.com, you can read it all for yourself.
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Speaker 3: So Matt did a good job of setting it up.
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Speaker 3: But if you didn't hear it, go to WRAL.com and
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Speaker 3: they have it all there for you.
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Speaker 2: It's some bad stuff if it happened. Again, you've got
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Speaker 2: to say if it happened. Because as of now, all
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Speaker 2: we know is WRAL is saying these are the things
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Speaker 2: that the lawyers doing the independent investigation of the football
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Speaker 2: program are asking about. They're asking about Steve Belichick using
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Speaker 2: drugs on the job. um providing drugs to at least
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Speaker 2: one player and as you said these inappropriate relationships between
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Speaker 2: the recruiting staff a member of the recruiting staff and
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Speaker 2: a player the assistant coaches and the recruiting staff someone
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Speaker 2: texts in and says if they're all over 18 what's
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Speaker 2: the the problem with the relationships it's the status it's
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Speaker 2: it's it's where you're at in the organization Right. Like
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Speaker 2: you're an assistant coach and you've got a recruiting staff
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Speaker 2: member that is essentially under you in the organizational flowchart, essentially.
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Speaker 2: Like it's you know, it's it's it's not a good
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Speaker 2: look at all. And as far as recruiting staff and
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Speaker 2: the player, not a good look, although they might be
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Speaker 2: similar in age or whatever. The drugs thing is. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you're distributing drugs to a– I mean, so it does
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Speaker 2: feel like stuff, Bone, that could get Bill Belichick fired
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Speaker 2: if it's true. We just got to let the investigation
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Speaker 2: play out at this point.
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Speaker 3: Also, Complainer and Chief Mack took his normal route. He's
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Speaker 3: blaming WRAL for reporting this stuff.
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Speaker 2: I thought Finney might do that because I know Finney's
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Speaker 2: still blaming the Observer for past scandals.
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Speaker 4: Well, the last time I went on one of my
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Speaker 4: rants about some of the reporting in the Triangle area– Mac,
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Speaker 4: you sat me down and you tried to impart some
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Speaker 4: wisdom on a young man trying to make it in
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Speaker 4: the media career, in the media field.
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Speaker 2: I've got thoughts.
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Speaker 4: I've got a lot of things to say about the
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Speaker 4: guy that wrote that report last night.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no. But I'm just at this.
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Speaker 5: Point in time.
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to voice them on the air. I've
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Speaker 4: got a podcast for that.
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Speaker 3: Complainer Chief, though, his takeaway is blaming the reporter and
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Speaker 3: not the actor.
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Speaker 2: That sounds like where Fitty's podcast is going at some point. Again,
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Speaker 2: I told Fitty that's what fanboys do. Fanboys blame the reporters.
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Speaker 2: When the reporters are out there doing your job, like
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Speaker 2: you work in sports media, you work in the media,
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Speaker 2: I would think you understand that we need journalism in
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Speaker 2: this world. And that's how a lot of the bad
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Speaker 2: things being done... are uncovered is because of work by
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Speaker 2: great journalists. So fanboys on message boards can feel free to,
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Speaker 2: Oh my God, it's biased against us. What are they
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Speaker 2: doing there? You know what I mean? But like we
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Speaker 2: in the media should be able to look at this
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Speaker 2: and understand the importance of journalism.
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Speaker 4: I have, you know, I, I respect and value journalism.
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Speaker 4: It's the way you go about said journalism. And there
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Speaker 4: are just some guys... How did they go about... They
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Speaker 4: went about this in a bad way?
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Speaker 5: I haven't said that.
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Speaker 2: I didn't say that.
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Speaker 4: I just know that the guy that wrote the report
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Speaker 4: when he was writing stuff last year... was very welcoming
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Speaker 4: of the fame that got him writing hit articles about
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Speaker 4: the UNC football program.
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Speaker 2: I can see that my lesson got through to you, Finney.
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Speaker 2: Much like my children, I have to probably give you
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Speaker 2: the lesson multiple times before it sinks in.
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Speaker 3: He didn't put Lombardi on leave. He didn't make Lombardi resign.
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Speaker 3: He didn't send Belichick to a medical leave, Steve Belichick.
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Speaker 3: So that's all already been done, and they're reporting on
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Speaker 3: the reasons why. Lombardi's timing of the resignation? Like, let's
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Speaker 3: think this through. Retires minutes before the WRAL story comes out.
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Speaker 3: What does that tell you?
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Speaker 5: Well, he resigned. He didn't retire.
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Speaker 2: Resigned. You know what I'm saying. Resigned.
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Speaker 5: I just want to know.
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Speaker 6: But, but.
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Speaker 2: Why did he resign?
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Speaker 5: Oh, because he knew what was coming out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's damning. It's damning to him as a
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Speaker 2: guy that's supposed to be in control of the program.
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Speaker 2: And it's also damning to Belichick as well.
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Speaker 4: Mid-October before we have him on the show, because no
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Speaker 4: one Lombardi, he's going to have a whole defense piece
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Speaker 4: about this.
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Speaker 5: And I would love to hear his side.
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Speaker 3: He's got his Murder Zero typewriter right now, and he's
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Speaker 3: pounding away on the keys.
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Speaker 2: Oh, don't worry. He'll be back on the GM Shuffle
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Speaker 2: podcast up and running. He'll be ripping people in the NFL.
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Speaker 2: Before you know it, man, I just, what a unlikable
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Speaker 2: lout of a damn human being. By the way, Amit
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Speaker 2: is joining you saying this is WRAL and Raleigh media
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Speaker 2: doing their normal BS digging. You mean their jobs, Amit?
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Speaker 2: You mean this is reporters doing their jobs? And this
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Speaker 2: is a tale as old as time. Sports fans, especially
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Speaker 2: college football fans, getting mad at reporters because they don't
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Speaker 2: want anything bad coming out about their program. I got
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Speaker 2: a great question if you're a Tar Heel fan. How
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Speaker 2: about you get pissed off about the bad stuff that
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Speaker 2: happens in your programs? Don't get mad at the people
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Speaker 2: who are out there trying to dig up stuff that
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Speaker 2: shouldn't be going on at universities to use taxpayer dollars.
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Speaker 3: Well, Barty didn't resign because of the article. He was
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Speaker 3: already on the way out because of stuff he did,
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Speaker 3: and they reported on that.
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Speaker 2: I think he resigned because he knew, oh, this is
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Speaker 2: coming out.
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Speaker 3: This stuff's bad. I'm out of here. Those are blaming
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Speaker 3: the reporter. There was stuff going on there before they
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Speaker 3: were reporting on it. There was an HR complaint about.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes. But I mean, that's not made up.
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Speaker 2: That's a fact. Again, we'll see. We'll see what the investigation,
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Speaker 2: you know, says. WRL is not saying these people are guilty.
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Speaker 2: This WRL is telling you what the lawyers are investigating.
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Speaker 2: That's that's what they are are are telling you.
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Speaker 3: When we come back, Lee Sterling with gambling selections on
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Speaker 3: this week's college game. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
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Speaker 2: We'll be right back. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. Mack and
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Speaker 2: Bo with you. Happy Football Friday, everybody. We've made it.
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Speaker 2: We've made it. We had ball last night. We've got
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Speaker 2: four straight days with football, including games tonight. Canes get
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Speaker 2: going tonight with all those heavy expectations. And obviously we've
18:20
Speaker 2: got big ones over throughout the weekend, including that Clemson
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Speaker 2: LSU game tomorrow. So it's go time, baby. It is
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Speaker 2: go time. And we are done bone talking about UNC
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Speaker 2: off the field troubles. We will talk ball the rest
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Speaker 2: of the way. I'm not sure we're talking court or
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Speaker 2: UNC off the field issues the rest of the way.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to try not to at least. All right.
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Speaker 2: Let's let's. Who does Lee have in the next injunction?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Does our next guest handicap court cases at all on
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Speaker 2: It is time, man, to do this again. A sure
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Speaker 2: sign that football is here. Lee Sterling, our official Mac
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Speaker 2: Lee Sterling, we welcome you back for another season, man.
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Speaker 1: And you guys gave me an idea.
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Speaker 2: Really?
19:43
Speaker 1: Why don't we start sports court TV? Can you imagine?
19:47
Speaker 2: We've talked about that. That would be a hit, baby.
19:49
Speaker 2: I believe right now.
19:50
Speaker 3: Now it's called the SEC network. ESPN and court TV
19:55
Speaker 3: teaming up, man. I'm telling you, they would have so
19:57
Speaker 3: much content. All right, Lee. We now go to Georgia,
20:01
Speaker 3: where a football player has gotten into a vehicle, and
20:03
Speaker 3: he's now approaching 75 miles an hour.
20:06
Speaker 2: Oh, they're going to have live speeding cam down there
20:08
Speaker 2: in Athens. 75?
20:09
Speaker 1: 105?
20:09
Speaker 2: Well, I said he's approaching. He's going picking up speed.
20:13
Speaker 2: 75 is before he gets out of the parking lot. Yeah,
20:16
Speaker 2: he was in the parking deck. All right. It's great
20:19
Speaker 2: to have Lee back. We've got games to talk about, though.
20:21
Speaker 2: Let's do it, Lee. Let's talk about these games and
20:23
Speaker 2: who you like. Um, let's start with Duke and Tulane
20:27
Speaker 2: Duke trying to get revenge for last year's loss. It
20:30
Speaker 2: is a different Tulane team, obviously with Summerall and some
20:33
Speaker 2: players moving on Duke's a nine and a half point favorite.
20:36
Speaker 2: What do you think?
20:38
Speaker 1: I want whoever will Hall's agent is a new head
20:41
Speaker 1: coach there at Tulane. How do you get a job
20:44
Speaker 1: when you went 14 and 30 at Southern Miss? I
20:47
Speaker 1: don't get it and get fired. So that's just the
20:50
Speaker 1: way things work. You The green waves roster is okay,
20:57
Speaker 1: except for the skill positions. And I like Duke's addition here.
21:01
Speaker 1: This Walker, you get the quarterback from San Jose state.
21:04
Speaker 1: He just didn't have enough players around him. So he
21:07
Speaker 1: can throw the ball around the yard here. I like
21:10
Speaker 1: Duke here. I think they, they run away and hide
21:12
Speaker 1: 41 20.
21:14
Speaker 3: Look at Lee and myself getting off to a nice
21:16
Speaker 3: start here back in the 2026 campaign.
21:18
Speaker 2: I like it. I like it. No romper rooms yet.
21:21
Speaker 2: None of that yet.
21:23
Speaker 3: Auburn-Baylor, big 330 game tomorrow. What's the right side of
21:28
Speaker 3: this one? Auburn, the favorite here.
21:31
Speaker 1: So, Baylor, you know, I mean, there's a lot of
21:34
Speaker 1: coaches that are on the hot seat. And He is
21:36
Speaker 1: certainly one of them. So they, I mean, last year,
21:40
Speaker 1: what happened in that first game, Dave Aranda's defense, I mean,
21:44
Speaker 1: they just got run through. I couldn't stop Auburn. Maybe
21:47
Speaker 1: Auburn's best game the last four or five years. So
21:50
Speaker 1: you got to think he's a defensive wizard. He's going
21:53
Speaker 1: to come up with a game plan.
21:54
Speaker 2: This year.
21:55
Speaker 1: And I liked his quarterback, DJ lagway. He played hurt.
21:59
Speaker 1: He was probably 75, 80% tops last year. They're the
22:02
Speaker 1: Gators were just trying to protect him. So I think
22:05
Speaker 1: Auburn that's going to take a little bit of time here.
22:08
Speaker 1: So everyone thinks they're going to get off to a
22:10
Speaker 1: fast start. You know, they brought over almost the entire roster,
22:14
Speaker 1: but Everyone talks about Byron Brown and how great he is.
22:18
Speaker 1: Good runner, but as a passer, I think he's inconsistent.
22:22
Speaker 1: They only totaled 30 points against Miami and Florida. I, I,
22:28
Speaker 1: this game kind of reminds me of North Carolina. I
22:31
Speaker 1: think Baylor's going to pull the upset here. Wrong team
22:35
Speaker 1: favored Baylor straight up 30 to 27.
22:39
Speaker 2: Wow. How about that one? Hey, what first wrong team
22:42
Speaker 2: favorite of the season bone from Lee Sterling. I'm sure
22:45
Speaker 2: there's many more to come. You can find Lee's picks
22:48
Speaker 2: paramount sports. He'll tell you how to go about it,
22:52
Speaker 2: what they've got going on for the big week one
22:54
Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend. Let's get to some more of these
22:57
Speaker 2: picks here, though, Lee. Ole Miss-Louisville, what a game, what
23:00
Speaker 2: a fun matchup that is on Sunday night. The Rebels
23:03
Speaker 2: are right around a touchdown favorite. What do you say?
23:07
Speaker 1: And everyone remembers Louisville's game last year against Miami, you know,
23:10
Speaker 1: two weeks to prepare. Jeff Brom came up with almost
23:12
Speaker 1: 25 new plays. They pulled the upset, but the rest
23:16
Speaker 1: of the year was not very good. In fact, he
23:18
Speaker 1: went four and nine against the spread on the year
23:20
Speaker 1: and he gets a contract extension. He's going to try
23:23
Speaker 1: to come up with some trickery here. Problem is he's
23:26
Speaker 1: going to be playing a backup quarterback coming over from
23:29
Speaker 1: Ohio state here. And I think that Ole miss everyone's
23:32
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, the quarterback might be the best,
23:35
Speaker 1: obviously the Trinidad, Chambliss Lacey might be the best running
23:40
Speaker 1: back in the country, but what is going to be
23:42
Speaker 1: the difference and get them to maybe a 10 or
23:46
Speaker 1: 11 game winning season here? I think it's on defense
23:49
Speaker 1: and I love what they did at linebacker. They bring
23:53
Speaker 1: in this kid, Keaton Thomas, Keaton Thomas was at Baylor.
23:56
Speaker 1: had over 219 tackles the last two years and Luke
24:01
Speaker 1: Farrelly from Cal these two guys combined for 210 tackles
24:06
Speaker 1: last year. So I think they're going to be stronger
24:09
Speaker 1: up the middle on defense here. And I think as
24:12
Speaker 1: long as Ole miss doesn't take injuries and that could
24:15
Speaker 1: happen by week four or five, they don't have the depth,
24:17
Speaker 1: but I like Ole miss here. Sometimes you got to
24:20
Speaker 1: lay it. If you want to play it Ole miss
24:22
Speaker 1: Pulls away 36-23.
24:24
Speaker 3: Luke Farrelly, Mac, from Cal, but also spent 30 minutes
24:27
Speaker 3: at Clemson in a classroom.
24:28
Speaker 2: That's true. That is true.
24:30
Speaker 3: Bama ECU tomorrow at noon. Bama favored by 28.5. What's
24:37
Speaker 3: the right side of this game with a large spread?
24:40
Speaker 1: Well, Bama might, you know, be a little smarting because
24:43
Speaker 1: the preseason ranking and the way the season ended last year.
24:47
Speaker 1: So they're ranked as low as 13 in some of
24:50
Speaker 1: these polls here, ECU. I would have taken a look
24:53
Speaker 1: at them if they returned their quarterback and a lot
24:56
Speaker 1: of other key players and coaches, but Caitlin Hauser went
24:59
Speaker 1: to Illinois. He didn't look good last night. And Whenever
25:02
Speaker 1: he has to step up against decent competition, they lost
25:05
Speaker 1: their offensive coordinator to Ole Miss, defensive coordinator to South Florida.
25:10
Speaker 1: So big season here for Alabama. If Alabama and that
25:14
Speaker 1: coaching staff want to keep their job, they got to
25:16
Speaker 1: win here and win big. Blowout special, Bama rolls here, 42-10.
25:24
Speaker 2: All right. ECU Pirate fans, it's not personal. It's just business.
25:27
Speaker 4: All right.
25:28
Speaker 2: It's just business for Lee. He wants you to know that.
25:30
Speaker 2: And Pirate fans might be fearing that result as well themselves.
25:33
Speaker 2: All right. Let's get to the LSU Clemson. What a
25:37
Speaker 2: damn soap opera. So much of the lead up to
25:39
Speaker 2: this game has been. And it seems like all of
25:42
Speaker 2: it involves Lane Kiffin in some way, shape or form.
25:45
Speaker 2: But they will actually play a football game, Lee, on
25:47
Speaker 2: Saturday night. In LSU's Death Valley, LSU 10.5-point favorites against Clemson.
25:54
Speaker 2: How do you feel? What's the right side of that one?
25:58
Speaker 1: Well, if LSU wants to contend and get into the
26:00
Speaker 1: college football playoff, they got to run the football better
26:02
Speaker 1: last year, 104 rushing yards per game that ranks 118th
26:07
Speaker 1: out of 134 teams. They only had 10 rushing touchdowns.
26:11
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be much better there. You know,
26:13
Speaker 1: they brought in maybe the best offensive lineman in the portal,
26:16
Speaker 1: the kid from Colorado, he'll be a first round pick.
26:19
Speaker 1: If he stays healthy, a couple other kids brought in
26:22
Speaker 1: some wide receivers that are dynamic and and a quarterback,
26:27
Speaker 1: Sam Leavitt, who, when he's healthy and he's healthy now
26:31
Speaker 1: could be a top five quarterback in college football Clemson.
26:34
Speaker 1: I think, you know, maybe Davos expired. I love guys
26:37
Speaker 1: like John Harbaugh. He was great with the Baltimore Ravens,
26:40
Speaker 1: but You know, his message just got old after a while.
26:43
Speaker 1: I think it's gotten old and might be time for
26:46
Speaker 1: him to move on. He looked tired last year, looked
26:49
Speaker 1: like he figured out he just didn't have the horses anymore.
26:52
Speaker 1: His kids weren't playing up to their potential. for the
26:56
Speaker 1: top five defensive lineman. He named a starting quarterback, but
27:00
Speaker 1: I have a feeling he might end up playing two here.
27:03
Speaker 1: If they have problems, the joint's going to be rocking
27:06
Speaker 1: and Baton Rouge here. I'm going with the not Clemson tigers,
27:11
Speaker 1: the LSU tigers 30 to 17.
27:14
Speaker 2: All right, there you go. Lee likes Lane to get
27:16
Speaker 2: a cover and a double-digit win in his first game
27:19
Speaker 2: tomorrow night. However that turns out, man, that's going to
27:22
Speaker 2: be a spectacle in Death Valley tomorrow night. All right, Lee,
27:27
Speaker 2: people are excited. You know people are already thinking about
27:31
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27:34
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27:36
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27:38
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27:39
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27:41
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27:44
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27:59
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28:04
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28:07
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28:10
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Speaker 1: be a fun, fun season. And if everyone thinks everyone
28:32
Speaker 1: has always asked me who's, who's going to, who's going
28:34
Speaker 1: to win it all. No one knows if anyone had
28:38
Speaker 1: Indiana and Miami playing the championship game last year, you'd
28:43
Speaker 1: be taking them and picking out lottery tickets every single night.
28:46
Speaker 1: So it's a great unknown. And that's what makes college
28:49
Speaker 1: football in the NFL.
28:50
Speaker 2: So great. All right, Lee, appreciate you. So happy to
28:54
Speaker 2: have you back, man. Good luck this weekend, and we'll
28:57
Speaker 2: talk to you next week when we get the NFL
28:59
Speaker 2: in the party, man.
29:00
Speaker 1: Sounds good. Take care.
29:01
Speaker 2: All right, there you go. That is Lee Sterling. So
29:03
Speaker 2: Lee Sterling, if you're scoring at home, Bone, Duke fans
29:06
Speaker 2: liked his pick. He had Duke covering against Tulane. Clemson
29:10
Speaker 2: fans and ECU, not so much. He had Alabama and
29:14
Speaker 2: LSU covering against them, but... They play the games on
29:19
Speaker 2: the field, though, not on the Mac and Bone show
29:21
Speaker 2: at 725 Friday mornings.
29:23
Speaker 3: We have a fight, Mac, between Willie P and Josh
29:27
Speaker 3: Fittimaro right.
29:28
Speaker 2: Now that I can't believe this is happening. Remember when
29:31
Speaker 2: the show started?
29:33
Speaker 3: When Fitty took a run at Missouri, not covering the
29:36
Speaker 3: 54 point spread against Arkansas Pine Bluff?
29:40
Speaker 2: Willie they won by.
29:41
Speaker 3: 40 willie has responded we took out our starting quarterback
29:45
Speaker 3: at the two minute time out of the first half
29:48
Speaker 3: you bald stooge Finney says, it wasn't a shot at Mizzou.
29:53
Speaker 3: I was simply praising Arkansas Pine Bluff. Willie's going off
29:56
Speaker 3: on referee and targeting calls. We were playing boosters, sons,
30:00
Speaker 3: and nephews when they scored their 14 points. Gabe McDonald,
30:04
Speaker 3: Arkansas Pine Bluff alum, would not be proud of how
30:07
Speaker 3: they acted last night.
30:08
Speaker 2: I don't understand why Willie is so triggered. I guess
30:11
Speaker 2: the answer is because he's Willie. You won by 40 points.
30:14
Speaker 2: Who cares?
30:16
Speaker 4: And I didn't take a shot at Mizzou. I was
30:18
Speaker 4: just praising Pine Bluff for covering the spread. I thought,
30:21
Speaker 4: were you not trying to trigger them, though?
30:23
Speaker 8: No.
30:24
Speaker 2: Mission accomplished, if you were. No, I wasn't. They still
30:27
Speaker 2: lost the game by 40. I didn't understand how that
30:30
Speaker 2: was notable.
30:31
Speaker 4: Because that line started at 53 on Tuesday. So it
30:35
Speaker 4: grew to 55. So they were expected to get beaten
30:38
Speaker 4: even worse than they did. And they showed up and
30:41
Speaker 4: they competed. They tried hard.
30:43
Speaker 2: Let's give credit to UMass, who was 29.5 point dogs
30:47
Speaker 2: and won by 16 at Rutgers last night. That's the
30:50
Speaker 2: team we got to give credit to, Bone. 45 point
30:53
Speaker 2: differential between the spread and the result. That's insanity. All right. Anyway,
30:58
Speaker 2: I'll let y'all deal with Willie. I'll let you deal
31:01
Speaker 2: with Willie this morning. Bone, I need to ask you.
31:05
Speaker 2: You got a bony best bet?
31:08
Speaker 3: Boney best bet is Miami of Ohio covering plus 16.5
31:13
Speaker 3: against Pittsburgh.
31:14
Speaker 2: And when they cover Boney, will you give them their
31:16
Speaker 2: due praise, much like Central Arkansas got?
31:18
Speaker 3: I will.
31:18
Speaker 2: Okay. I will. Fitty, let's go to an update.
31:20
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh will win, but I think that's going to be
31:22
Speaker 3: one of those, oh, a Mac team showed up and
31:25
Speaker 3: pushed the team far in their first game.
31:27
Speaker 2: Let's go to the Fit Dog with an update, ladies
31:32
Speaker 2: and gentlemen. A Fitty Flash on a Friday morning. What
31:34
Speaker 2: you got, Fit?
31:37
Speaker 4: Fitty. Well, first things first, Mac, let me tell you
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32:06
Speaker 5: That is 704-334-9934. 704-334-9934.
32:16
Speaker 4: So we got an update earlier in the week about
32:22
Speaker 4: Tony Romo and some of his legal issues. We got
32:26
Speaker 4: an update in the Mark Sanchez case. He does plan
32:29
Speaker 4: to plead guilty in the assault case that got him removed.
32:33
Speaker 5: From Fox Sports a little over a year ago.
32:36
Speaker 4: So two quarterbacks in the news, two different situations, both
32:40
Speaker 4: of them trying to find a resolution to their legal problems.
32:43
Speaker 2: All right, there you go, baby. There you go. No thoughts,
32:46
Speaker 2: no comments.
32:47
Speaker 5: You weren't listening.
32:49
Speaker 2: I heard the Mark Sanchez part. I don't know who
32:50
Speaker 2: the other quarterback is you're talking about. My keyboard broke.
32:54
Speaker 2: I was reading the text fight between Bone and a
32:56
Speaker 2: Tar Heel fan. My keyboard broke, though. All right. Well,
33:01
Speaker 2: good luck. Good luck with that, Boney. Smack this thing
33:04
Speaker 2: back into life here. All right. What's going on? Can
33:07
Speaker 2: you toss it to break with a broken keyboard or no?
33:09
Speaker 3: Yeah. Coming up next, sounds of college football while I
33:12
Speaker 3: fix my keyboard. Exciting stuff on a football Friday. Sports
33:16
Speaker 3: Radio 92.
33:24
Speaker 5: How excited are you?
33:26
Speaker 1: I'm back. That's all I'm going to say.
33:29
Speaker 2: I'm back. that's coach prime on espn after the win
33:55
Speaker 2: on a let me get this straight here bone walk
33:58
Speaker 2: off blocked field goal as time expired colorado won 14
34:03
Speaker 2: 13 at georgia tech last night dramatic finish pretty ugly
34:08
Speaker 2: football game but dramatic finish last night georgia tech blocked
34:11
Speaker 2: a field goal.
34:12
Speaker 3: Earlier in the quarter That 6'9 tight end was a
34:16
Speaker 3: monster last night for Georgia Tech. He's the one that
34:18
Speaker 3: kept them around last night. Where'd you go, Mac? I
34:21
Speaker 3: thought you fell out of your chair again. No, just
34:23
Speaker 3: grabbing a pen. All of a sudden, you were talking,
34:25
Speaker 3: and bam, you disappeared. We good here, man. We are good.
34:29
Speaker 2: I didn't go Lombardi on you and exit the building.
34:31
Speaker 2: All right, we good. We are good. All right, it
34:33
Speaker 2: is time for some sounds of college football. As we
34:36
Speaker 2: get ready for the weekend, let's hear what the analysts
34:38
Speaker 2: are saying, what the coaches are saying. Coach Prime says,
34:41
Speaker 2: I'm back. I mean, you want a real ugly game, Prime,
34:44
Speaker 2: but you were underdogs. You needed a win like that
34:48
Speaker 2: badly to get the program momentum back. And you're coming
34:52
Speaker 2: off a lot of health issues, and it seems like
34:54
Speaker 2: you're feeling better. So I'll allow it, Bone. I'm not
34:56
Speaker 2: sure what last night's win really proved for Coach Prime
34:59
Speaker 2: of Colorado, but I'll allow the I'm back. He's back
35:03
Speaker 2: for now. For now, for now. All right, now this comment,
35:07
Speaker 2: are we going to allow this comment, Bone, in the
35:09
Speaker 2: court of the Mac and Bone show? Listen to Rhett Lashley,
35:12
Speaker 2: and I've seen the video. He says this with a
35:14
Speaker 2: straight face at his press conference this week, that listen
35:19
Speaker 2: to the respect he gives to Florida State. SMU is
35:23
Speaker 2: a favorite in this game, but listen to what he
35:27
Speaker 2: says about the point spread.
35:29
Speaker 8: You know, game ones are hard. They're tricky. Every coach
35:31
Speaker 8: will tell you that. Because you just– you don't always
35:34
Speaker 8: know what you're going to get and how guys are
35:35
Speaker 8: going to settle in. And then when you're in this
35:37
Speaker 8: world where we have so many new players on a
35:39
Speaker 8: roster every year. So– and honestly, I'm just– I have
35:43
Speaker 8: no idea how we're not a 7- to 10-point underdog,
35:45
Speaker 8: you know, when we're playing a game on the road
35:47
Speaker 8: in a hostile environment against a team that has as
35:49
Speaker 8: much talent as anybody in our league. They've already played
35:52
Speaker 8: a game, got that kind of game one stuff out
35:54
Speaker 8: of the way. We haven't. You know, I was looking
35:57
Speaker 8: at it. I think they have 31 four- and five-stars
36:00
Speaker 8: on their roster. We don't have that. at all, or
36:03
Speaker 8: five stars. And then you look at what they did
36:04
Speaker 8: to Alabama week one last year. So, man, what a
36:07
Speaker 8: challenge for us. It's a new space for our program,
36:09
Speaker 8: you know, to play in a game like this to
36:11
Speaker 8: start the season. We're excited about the opportunity, but we'll
36:14
Speaker 8: have to see where we stand.
36:16
Speaker 2: That's from the Lou Holtz playbook, isn't it, Bones?
36:20
Speaker 3: He must have been reading one of Lou Holtz's self-help books, which,
36:25
Speaker 3: by the way, Matt, get that on audio tape, right?
36:29
Speaker 3: How would it sound, Bo? Good morning, Travis. Today's going
36:31
Speaker 3: to be a great day. You're not going to go
36:33
Speaker 3: fight detectors like you normally do. You're going to get
36:34
Speaker 3: a lot of praise from the bosses, and you're going
36:36
Speaker 3: to go make a lot of money, and you're going
36:37
Speaker 3: to have a great weekend, and you're going to go win.
36:39
Speaker 2: All your bets. They are two-and-a-half-point favorites, SMU, at Doak
36:45
Speaker 2: Campbell against Florida State. That's surprising to me. Is that
36:50
Speaker 2: not tempting to play SMU, Bo? We all watched Florida
36:53
Speaker 2: State last week. What could Kevin Jennings do to that secondary?
36:58
Speaker 2: The way they got ripped for big plays by New
37:02
Speaker 2: Mexico State.
37:05
Speaker 3: I know, but here's the weird thing, though. Florida State is,
37:09
Speaker 3: they're very odd. I think we can all tell, Mac,
37:11
Speaker 3: where it's going with Mike Norvell, but yet they weren't
37:15
Speaker 3: good again last year, but they beat Bama to start
37:18
Speaker 3: the year. Now, they didn't play well the other day,
37:20
Speaker 3: but with them, could they show up in that game
37:24
Speaker 3: on Monday night? Maybe, but I wouldn't predict it, but...
37:29
Speaker 3: They seem to show up once in a while, and
37:31
Speaker 3: then when, I don't know, they're a very odd program
37:34
Speaker 3: under Mike Norvell. They desperately need a change. I know
37:38
Speaker 3: it's the buyout, and I know all that, but really surprised.
37:41
Speaker 3: $ 51 million buyout. I mean, that's the reason why he's
37:44
Speaker 3: still there. It's not because he's got the program going.
37:46
Speaker 3: To your point, remember, they beat LSU early in the
37:48
Speaker 3: season twice. So they have had early season success under Norvell.
37:53
Speaker 3: It feels like they do have these wins, but they
37:55
Speaker 3: don't sustain anything. outside of the one year? We'll see.
37:59
Speaker 2: I don't know. Am I falling into a trap by
38:00
Speaker 2: saying SMU minus two and a half? You know, we
38:03
Speaker 2: hadn't seen them play. A lot of the roster has changed,
38:07
Speaker 2: but I expect them to be one of the best
38:08
Speaker 2: teams in the ACC. I don't expect Florida State to
38:11
Speaker 2: be close to that. But we'll see. That's Monday night.
38:14
Speaker 2: That's the Labor Day Monday night game. All right, let's
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Speaker 2: get you some more sounds of the weekend. Feel free
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Speaker 2: to chime in on what's being said, either us reacting
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Speaker 2: or what you're hearing here on Sounds of College Football, 704-570-9610. Now,
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Speaker 2: Sunday night's big game is Mississippi and Louisville, the only
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Speaker 2: ranked matchup this season. And Greg McIlroy of ESPN Bone says...
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Speaker 2: He thinks Louisville is dangerous in this one.
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Speaker 6: Dude, I'm telling you, Louisville is so dangerous, guys. I mean,
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Speaker 6: think about, look, I hate to bring up bad memories
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Speaker 6: for our guy AJ here. Y'all remember when Braum, way
38:53
Speaker 6: before he was even at Louisville, dude was at Purdue.
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Speaker 2: And you had Rondale Moore.
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Speaker 5: I think it was like 2018.
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Speaker 6: They ended up winning the game like 28 points against
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Speaker 6: a top three ranked Ohio State team. This guy is
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Speaker 6: a giant killer and has been for years. Each of
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Speaker 6: the first three years where he's been at Louisville, he's
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Speaker 6: knocked off an AP top 10 team, including going on
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Speaker 6: the road and beating Miami on a Friday night last year.
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Speaker 6: So this is a guy that can certainly rally his
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Speaker 6: team around the idea of an upset.
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Speaker 2: What do you think, Bone? I know we're getting ready
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Speaker 2: to do top of the hour college football confidence. You know,
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Speaker 2: which fan bases are feeling good, how fans are feeling.
39:28
Speaker 2: We could talk about that game more But, like, how
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Speaker 2: dangerous is Louisville on Sunday night?
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Speaker 3: I mean, do we know either way how dangerous they
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Speaker 3: might be with their new quarterback who's been a backup
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Speaker 3: the previous three years at Ohio State?
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Speaker 2: Now, look, we've seen.
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Speaker 3: Before, Mac, a quarterback that was a backup at Ohio
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Speaker 3: State went to LSU and had the greatest college football
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Speaker 3: season of all time. So I'm not saying it's not
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Speaker 3: possible he's good, but we're calling for the upset with
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Speaker 3: Lincoln Kindholz as the quarterback. I simply don't have enough
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Speaker 3: to go on yet if he's going to be a
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Speaker 3: guy with Jeff Perron that's going to be a star.
40:03
Speaker 3: It's game one. It's a crazy time in college football.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to go with Ole Miss because I know
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Speaker 3: who their guy is at quarterback in Trinidad Chambliss. I
40:11
Speaker 3: know who Lacey is. I know Louisville's got Brown, and
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Speaker 3: it's going to be a fun game. But I'm going
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Speaker 3: to ride with Ole Miss just because I know more
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Speaker 3: about who they are entering this season.
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Speaker 2: I like Louisville a lot. I said yesterday I'm picking
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Speaker 2: them to go to the ACC title game. Now, that
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean, Bone, they're going to hang within seven points
40:28
Speaker 2: of Ole Miss, right? But I think they can make
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Speaker 2: a game out of this. I really do. Now, they've
40:33
Speaker 2: got to run the ball, but they don't have just
40:35
Speaker 2: one Brown. They've got two Browns. Isaac Brown's ridiculous. He
40:38
Speaker 2: was No. 1 in yards per carry last year. He's healthy, finally.
40:42
Speaker 2: And Kiwan Brown was No. 3 in the country in
40:44
Speaker 2: yards per carry. So, clearly, they're going to run the ball.
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Speaker 2: They got a receiver in Trey Richardson, who's a big
40:50
Speaker 2: play guy, transfer from Vandy. And quarterbacks that go to
40:55
Speaker 2: Ohio State are usually pretty damn talented. They are. I'm
40:57
Speaker 2: going to go out on a limb. So I feel
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Speaker 2: like this could be a hell of a game, man.
41:01
Speaker 2: I really do.
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Speaker 3: But I don't know if I have the balls to
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Speaker 3: say they win, though. I think it's the best matchup
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Speaker 3: of the weekend between ranked teams.
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Speaker 2: It's the only one. Write that down for a take. Oh,
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Speaker 2: isn't Clemson ranked in some poll, though? Are they?
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Speaker 5: They're ranked in the coach's poll.
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Speaker 2: So the coach's poll, we have a ranked matchup that's
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Speaker 2: Clemson LSU. We go by the poll that doesn't rank Clemson. Oh, man.
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Speaker 2: All right. Anyway, Sounds of College Football here, week one edition,
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Speaker 2: letting you hear what the pundits say, what some of
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Speaker 2: the coaches say going into week one of college football.
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Speaker 2: How about this one? We got a lot of Vols
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Speaker 2: fans that listen to the show. We might have a
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Speaker 2: couple of Furman Paladin alums out there listening to the show.
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Speaker 2: Jordan Rodgers was ass-boned. Who should be on upset alert
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Speaker 2: in week one? And I think those fan bases might
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Speaker 2: be interested.
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Speaker 9: Jordan, if we are going to get something crazy, something
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Speaker 9: historic in the App State Michigan realm for college football
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Speaker 9: week one this season, what game amongst those massive spreads
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Speaker 9: would you say maybe keep your.
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Speaker 8: Eye on it?
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Speaker 10: I don't think any of them are too likely, but
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Speaker 10: if there was one that I go, well, I could
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Speaker 10: maybe sell you that this one could get interesting, it'd
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Speaker 10: be Furman at Tennessee. And you look at Tennessee, they're
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Speaker 10: breaking in a new five-star quarterback, and he is really talented,
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Speaker 10: Faison Brandon. In these games where App State upsets a Michigan,
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Speaker 10: it's not usually that they are more talented. It's that
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Speaker 10: the better team beats themselves. And a five-star quarterback could
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Speaker 10: go out there as an 18-year-old and make some mistakes.
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Speaker 10: I think he's going to be really good.
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Speaker 4: But week one, he's.
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Speaker 10: Probably not going to be the version that he will
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Speaker 10: be in week 11 and 12. So that's something to concern.
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Speaker 2: And then on the other side of the.
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Speaker 10: Ball, Jim Knowles, new defense, completely new system. They lost
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Speaker 10: everybody up front. There's a lot of question marks for Tennessee. Look,
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Speaker 10: 46 and a half is.
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Speaker 2: A lot of points.
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Speaker 10: I don't know if it'll happen, but if you want
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Speaker 10: some intrigue and you want to say one in a million,
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Speaker 10: maybe that one.
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Speaker 3: I did not see that one coming, Bo. I did
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Speaker 3: not see that. Jordan Rodgers has had himself a week,
43:06
Speaker 3: hasn't he? Yeah, like we said yesterday, he's taken some
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Speaker 3: of the fly bomb takes from the Clemson stuff there
43:13
Speaker 3: when it comes to Dabo. Mac, if they pull off
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Speaker 3: the upset, I will get a lower back tattoo of
43:19
Speaker 3: the face of Of the Furman head coach on my
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Speaker 3: lower back.
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Speaker 2: Okay. That is, of course, Mr. Clay Hendricks. Okay.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they're 46 and a half point under. That
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Speaker 3: would be the biggest upset in the history of the sport,
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Speaker 3: by the way. Because USC Stanford, I think, is the
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Speaker 3: biggest upset when that was in the... That was 40.
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Speaker 3: That was 40. So this would be the biggest upset ever.
43:42
Speaker 3: How much does Jordan Rodgers know about Furman, by the way?
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Speaker 2: I noticed he didn't really mention any players or any
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Speaker 2: reasons why. How big of a dog was App? Or
43:53
Speaker 2: was there no point spread in that game? Because they
43:55
Speaker 2: were FCS at the time. I don't think there was
43:57
Speaker 2: a point spread. So it doesn't count. Yeah. Listen, if
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Speaker 2: Furman hung around for a while because of what Jordan's saying,
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Speaker 2: like if Faison got off to a slow start, jitters.
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Speaker 3: Minus 33 apparently was like what the.
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Speaker 2: Minus 33. It wasn't an official one, but that's what
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Speaker 2: people say it was. If Faison got off to a
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Speaker 2: slow start because of jitters, he's a true freshman, whatever, right? Like, okay,
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Speaker 2: that's believable. But having him struggle so much that the Paladins...
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Speaker 2: are like threatening to pull off the upset late or
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Speaker 2: pull off the upset late. Feels like he could have
44:30
Speaker 2: found a better game. Like, I don't know, Bo. Feels
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Speaker 2: like he could have said UMass over Rutgers. Oh, no.
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Speaker 3: How does Clay Hendricks look like an older version of
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Speaker 3: Fitty Marlow?
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Speaker 2: Older Fitty Marlow? That's the guy that's going to be
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Speaker 2: on your back? He's in the ball brigade.
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Speaker 3: If I get a lower back tattooed Fitty that looks
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Speaker 3: like you, I guess that's just the risk we've got
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Speaker 3: to take then, right?
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Speaker 4: Now, how low are we talking? Are we talking like
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Speaker 4: mid-lower back? Or are we talking right above the cheeks
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Speaker 4: lower back? What do you think would look better, Fetty?
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Speaker 4: You can see my back area right now. What do
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Speaker 4: you think would look better?
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Speaker 5: Oh, I think right above the cheeks would look better.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was thinking that too, yeah.
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Speaker 4: And maybe have your mouth open. Have the face tattooed
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Speaker 4: with the mouth open.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: That'd be a real good look.
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Speaker 2: Finney is designing this tattoo for you. I trust him.
45:17
Speaker 2: Last but not least, let's give a little love and
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Speaker 2: a little air time to Blake Harrell. They will be
45:23
Speaker 2: on the national stage tomorrow at noon, Bone. Everybody will
45:27
Speaker 2: be watching Alabama's Keelan Russell, freshman quarterback that is just
45:32
Speaker 2: ridiculously talented. But here locally, we'll be hoping that ECU
45:37
Speaker 2: can put up a fight, Boney. In this game, despite
45:40
Speaker 2: all the changes that they've had, Blake Harrell talked to
45:44
Speaker 2: 94-3 the game in ECU. In ECU, what the hell
45:46
Speaker 2: am I talking about? In Greenville this week. ECU's not
45:50
Speaker 2: a town, Mac, you dodo. In Greenville this week about
45:55
Speaker 2: the keys to making this a game.
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Speaker 7: I think keys to victory for us and keys just
45:59
Speaker 7: to be successful for us is, one, take care of
46:03
Speaker 7: the football. I think that's each and every game. But
46:05
Speaker 7: establish the run game on offense. And I think We've
46:08
Speaker 7: got to do that early. I think offensive line-wise, I
46:10
Speaker 7: feel really good about where we're at. Running back room,
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Speaker 7: I feel really good, but it's more than just those guys.
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Speaker 7: It's blocking on the perimeter. It's being able to throw
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Speaker 7: the RPO game off of that. It's being able to operate.
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Speaker 7: We've got to make sure we can do those things
46:23
Speaker 7: and then defensively stop the run. Yes, Alabama has been
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Speaker 7: really good through the air. They've got a receiver who
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Speaker 7: I think is a first-round draft pick. They've got a
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Speaker 7: quarterback who's super talented. I think they want to go
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Speaker 7: back and establish a run game. If you look at
46:38
Speaker 7: where they were last year, what they were successful at,
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Speaker 7: what they weren't successful at. They didn't feel good about
46:43
Speaker 7: their run game, so I think they'll come out and
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Speaker 7: try to establish that early, and we've got to make
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Speaker 7: sure that we can make them one-dimensional. So that'll be
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Speaker 7: kind of the keys to success for us.
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Speaker 3: Now that's an underdog. He's got the perfect Southern football
46:56
Speaker 3: coach voice, doesn't he?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it. I like Coach Harrell a lot, man.
46:59
Speaker 2: And that is one where I'm wondering, could the underdog
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Speaker 2: cover that one? We'll talk about ECU, I'm sure, coming
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Speaker 2: up in the next segment. Shout out to old Stoney Harbaugh,
47:09
Speaker 2: who heard that clip of Jordan Rodgers saying that Tennessee
47:12
Speaker 2: is on upset alert, Bone. It's 46-point favorites against Furman,
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Speaker 2: and he promptly went and bet $ 50 on the Furman
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Speaker 2: money line.
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Speaker 3: Texters mac are sniffing this one out they're thinking that
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Speaker 3: vandy's jordan rogers is just trolling the tennessee fans oh
47:28
Speaker 3: yeah so there's that side of it where he's just
47:31
Speaker 3: he was just deadpan joking about his rival losing to.
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Speaker 2: That's possible that's possible that's something on this show we
47:38
Speaker 2: don't deadpan as far as as far as old stony
47:42
Speaker 2: hardball we might bedpan at some point soon oh my
47:45
Speaker 2: god holy crap bro um as far as old i'm
47:50
Speaker 2: gonna move on from that moment as far as old
47:52
Speaker 2: stony hardball goes bone uh betting 50 on the firman
47:56
Speaker 2: money line is akin to lighting your 50 bill on
47:59
Speaker 2: fire or flushing it down the toilet i feel like
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Speaker 2: oh yeah why would you even why would you even
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Speaker 2: do that.
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Speaker 3: What are the odds, Matt, that I have to come
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Speaker 3: in Monday and look up tattoo artists for a lower
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Speaker 3: back tattoo than the way this radio program goes at times?
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Speaker 2: Don't worry.
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Speaker 3: They'll be reaching out to you on Twitter on Saturday.
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Speaker 3: And we will be here on Monday. We will be
48:18
Speaker 3: here Monday, Labor Day.
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Speaker 2: I told you, baby.
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Speaker 3: Recapping all the stuff from the weekend, Florida State SMU.
48:24
Speaker 3: and Finney's third date recap on Monday as well. Oh,
48:27
Speaker 3: how about that? We come back on the Mac and
48:29
Speaker 3: Bone Show. College football confidence check-in. We preview the weekend
48:34
Speaker 3: by seeing how good the fans feel about their weekend matchups.
48:38
Speaker 3: Can we get a Furman fan to call their shots?
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