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Weekend 6 Recap: Top Five Battle | Ep. 021 · College Baseball Now

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Speaker 1: Another weekend a thrilling series around the country, from highly
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ranked matchups to some shocking up sets of teams who
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might be falling off the deep end a little. We
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also got the stepping down of an SEC coach in
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the middle of a series. How often does that happen?
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We'll discuss all that and more on this week's recap
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episode of College Baseball Now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there ain't.
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Speaker 3: No problems, having no problems. They don't want prom you. Yeah,
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let me touch check. Then what was going for? Then
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they hit the beat? Beat?
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Speaker 4: Did grab a couple of wins with a D I
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D if it's even known the kid I had to
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do a p I G.
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Speaker 3: I can never beat average and they want to prom
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with the boy. They don't want no statics county.
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Speaker 4: So coach son run a week God, want to test that.
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Speaker 5: TM with standing wrong?
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Speaker 1: What the game?
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Speaker 2: Best?
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Speaker 4: Believe him shining dots counted them my wins. Yeah, I
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love it when they count me count.
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Speaker 2: He's such a shame. Misbelieve I ruined the game.
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Speaker 3: No one.
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Speaker 4: To meet, really don't want to.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to College Baseball Now, where Drew has stuck me
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in the hosting chair for another weekend recap episode. For
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some reason, he's still driving back from a trip after
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this weekend, and JP is having some phone computer issues
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while out in Cali, or at least that's what he's
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telling us.
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Speaker 3: I'm just convinced he doesn't like us anymore.
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Speaker 1: But regardless, we still got the same crew as last
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Sunday Night, starting with the guy on my left. We
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got coach Jake Bardrey, who would never miss an episode
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if his life depended on it, Jake Kew. We doing
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how was a how Delaware Baseball today?
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Speaker 2: Man?
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Speaker 6: Delaware Baseball was honestly fantastic, really really exciting game.
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Speaker 2: It was like like like d W.
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Speaker 6: Got up in the first Delaware answered in the next two,
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and like it was just back and forth, came down
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to the very end. It ended up Delaw ended up
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losing on like a bunch of walks and hit by pitches,
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some unlucky stuff, but like really entertaining game. It's not
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it's not every not every weekend a team like like
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Dallas Baptist comes up this way. So it was a
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lot of fun. You know how I feel about Dallas Baptist.
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So even though they've kind of they let me down
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a little bit recently, I'm jealous. You had to get
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out there and watch them a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Some good to conference. USA Baseball never disappoints. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Thet on my right, returning for his third weekend recap
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in a row. We've got mister Quinn. Martin Quinn, how's
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it going.
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Speaker 5: It's going good. Played some golf this weekend and watched
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some Texas Auburn great scies.
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Speaker 3: I also did both of those things.
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Speaker 1: I played the worst golf round of my life yesterday morning.
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Funny story, I'll just tell it this way. My golf
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round went like I wouldn't believe someone if they told
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me this story. But we were playing it like a
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notoriously terrible course. I had never played there, but it
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was like the slums of the slums. And we're teeing
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off on whole three and it's a par three and
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there's a guy who comes up in this like like
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some kind of machine like vehicle.
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Speaker 3: I don't even know what you want to call it.
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Speaker 1: And he's like, you know, you know four Loco cans,
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the design of four Loco cans. So that's the kind
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of shirt he was wearing. It was like a long
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sleeve design, like that shirt he comes up there. As
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we're on the t box about rated tee off, pulls
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the flag out of the hole, throws it to the side,
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and starts spray painting the green blue as we're on
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the t box, like it's I wouldn't believe anyone that
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they told me this happened to them during golf.
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Speaker 3: It was the strangest thing. That's effort.
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Speaker 1: Like we're going the pro shop too, and they're like, oh, yeah,
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he does that sometimes, like he'll probably on the whole
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four next and we're like, I would sure hope not
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like I'm trying to play.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. It was hopefully you're running golf went
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better than that.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it's certainly that didn't happen though.
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Speaker 1: I mean like, look that's about that's about right. Shoot,
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I'm not I'm a typical double bogey golfer. And I
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said coming into yesterday, like this place didn't even have
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a driving range.
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Speaker 3: It's like that bad.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, if they don't have a range, I'm about
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to play the worst golf of my life. Then I
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was not wrong, But you know what, it's it's fine.
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It's over now, and I got a story.
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Speaker 5: Out of it, that's right.
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Speaker 3: So I guess we'll just hop right into the action.
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Speaker 1: Some interesting results this weekend, like some really you know,
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highly ranked, good, highly tiled matchups, but I think we
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should probably start from you know, big picture. The biggest
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thing that happened this weekend yesterday afternoon, I guess, is
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when I saw the news and got the news. Finally,
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this felt inevitable at least at the end of the year.
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We talked about it at the beginning of the year,
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how it could happen this year, and it happened in
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the middle of the Arkansas series after South Carolina experienced
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an embarrassing loss. Doesn't do it justice. They were down
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seventeen oh at one point. The crowd is just well,
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there was no crowd. Paulmonary and South Carolina finally part
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of ways, they said, as we were talking about beforehand
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hopping on here. They said it was a stepping down.
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But like I think that's just like probably the way
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of saying, we're not going to say that we fired you,
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but essentially that's what it is. I'll just start off
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this way. Quinn, you attended South Carolina, actually you were
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there for the first year at Paulmonary's tenure. If I'm
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not mistaken. This is just a really broad lead in,
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But just give me your overall thoughts.
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Speaker 3: On the situation, how it went down. Should it have everything?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it was surprising he started the year,
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but South Carolina's athletics departments gone through a lot of
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changes over the last few years. Old A D. Right
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Tanner steam baseball coach. He was here when we won
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those back to back championships in twenty ten and eleven.
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He became the A D and after Kingston was let go,
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broad him and Airry was not the right choice, obviously.
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I think a lot of fans wanted somebody younger like
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back at the time, I remember Josh Elander was a
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big name for a lot of fans. Clearly that's working
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out fairly well. And now it looks like Monti Lee
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has been the associate head coach for a while, he's
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going to step into be the interim and go out
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and look for candidates now. Popular one right now is
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Kevin Schnall from Coastal, which I think would be a
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really good hire, bring South Carolina back to where it
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should be and maybe it'll start being known as USC again.
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Speaker 1: See I don't know about all that, but you know,
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so you brought it up, so I guess I'll shoot
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it right back at you because I just have like
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I want to hear your opinions on this. Actually, Jake,
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I'll get your opinion on this too. For a very
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similar reason, Kevin Schnall's name was thrown around a lot
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for the Tennessee job this summer. It was like the
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main I guess, like the go to guy that they wanted,
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but he wouldn't take it. He wanted to stay at Coastal.
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Do you think Schnall would take the South Carolina job?
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I guess, quinnill ask you first, do you think he
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would take the South Carolina job even though he wouldn't
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take the Tennessee job, Or is this just kind of
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like a we're gonna make him say no, it's gotta
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be our first call kind of.
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Speaker 5: I think there's a chance. I thought I remember there
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being some talks of mutual interest back in the summer
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or back in the winter, whatever it was. I think
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there's a pretty legit chance he makes the move. I mean,
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obviously this year hasn't been as expected for Coastal, mostly
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due to injury. I wouldn't say it's any part due
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to him. So I think maybe if he's looking for
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a change, looking for more resources, I think South Caron
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is going to be the place to go, especially with
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our new ad Jeremiah to not he looking like he's
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gonna be putting a lot of resources in baseball.
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Speaker 3: I'd say so.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's a program that's shown that for years
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that they will do such a thing. But then again,
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I think we're at the point now where Tennessee is
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also shown they would do the same thing. So I
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guess Jake, being a Tennessee fan, being around that situation,
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do you think there's like a big difference between South
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Carolina and Tennessee that would be more enticing for Snall
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or do you think this is probably just like a
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big smoke screen kind of the same situation.
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Speaker 6: I mean, Schnall is a is a guy like at
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this point, anytime that there's especially a big time coaching opening,
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his name is gonna be like the first one that's named.
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Speaker 3: He's the first.
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Speaker 6: He's the first like mid major coach that everybody thinks
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of because the obviously the amount of success that he's
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had at Coastal Wattle, it's gonna come down to I
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mean obviously like his preference. I mean, I don't know
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if like South Carolina being a little bit closer to
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Coastal or like being closer to like where he's kind
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of been recently, if that matters to him enough. But
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like from like a resources standpoint, I don't know that
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that that's going to be necessarily the determining factor between
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like South Carolina and Tennessee. But like, I don't know,
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he was he was the name that that everybody was like,
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if it's not Josh e Lander, like everybody in Tennessee world,
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if it's not Josh Eelander, it's Kevin Schanall and vice versa.
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Like I think South Carolina fans should probably feel the
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same way. And like you know, if they're able to
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get him away from Coastal, it would be the the
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number one option and the best, the best option in
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my opinion.
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Speaker 1: Right, I think it's I mean, it pretty clearly has
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to be the best option. Just like as you mentioned,
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there's a reason why anytime there's a big opening anywhere,
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Kevin Schnall is the first name mentioned because what he's
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done at Coastal has proved that if he can do
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that there, he can definitely do it in the se
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see with the place with you know that many resources.
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Since we're kind of relatively on the topic, Jake, do
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you think that, like whether it be Schnall or whether
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it be whoever, do you think that South Carolina.
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Speaker 3: As a program is in a place where this.
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Speaker 1: Whole situation can be fixed within a year with the
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right hire or has it gone like a little beyond that.
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Speaker 3: At this point.
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Speaker 6: I mean, it's probably not as simple as like a
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one year immediate Kevin Schnall comes in and completely turns
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the program around in one season type of deal.
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Speaker 2: I don't think.
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Speaker 6: Like like they like under Manary, they weren't. They were
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not They were not good. I mean six and twenty
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four inn SCC played twenty twenty five. They started out
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zero to four and SEC play this year before he
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was fired.
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Speaker 2: They just got their first win today against Arkansas.
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Speaker 6: But like you know this, it obviously didn't go as
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planned for them bringing in that Hall of Fame coach.
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I don't know that it's to answer your question, I
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don't think that it's necessarily like a one year fix,
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but getting a big name like Schnall or or whoever else,
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they decide to go with as long as it's probably
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not bringing another guy out of retirement. I think I
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think that it's gonna be a more than more than
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a year away, But I don't think it's too far
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off because anything can go with the SEC with the
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transfer portal, people want to go there. If Schnall was
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to go there, you know he's gonna he's gonna get
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guys in the portal.
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Speaker 2: He's gonna bring bring guys with him, and they're gonna
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have a competitive team.
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Speaker 1: Quinn, I saw you nodding through most of that. I
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assume you agree with like most everything you said there.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it's it's a multi year fix for sure.
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Programs in a tough spot youth wise. But I think
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it's like Jake said, it's a it's a place to go,
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and I think players will seek out South Carolina like
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they did this year. But I think it'll be a
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higher quality of talent, especially if makes the move.
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Speaker 3: I hope. So.
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Speaker 1: I mean, like I mean they said South Carolina saw
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that success from an area first year there. I mean
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they made the it was the Raleigh Regional that year,
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is like a two seed, but that's the only time
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they've even sniffed the postseason.
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Speaker 3: You know, seventy eight and sixty seven.
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Speaker 1: Overall record at South Carolina over a three year stretches
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just not nearly good enough for that program standards based
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on where we've seen them in the past ten to
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fifteen years.
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Speaker 3: So I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I guess we'll stay tuned for all of that as
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it's unfolding throughout the year. We'll probably hear a lot
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of it throughout the year. Obviously end of the summer too,
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but you know news, that's that's for summer talk, and
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you know whatever. We have actual games to talk about here,
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and so I I'd love to get to bat instead
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of just doing the whole projection talk quickly do October,
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November or whatever. The big series. I mean, like I'm
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a little biased, but this is not. I don't think
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this is a bias thing at all. There was a
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top five matchup this weekend in Auburn.
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Speaker 3: It was electric Series. I was there for Friday.
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Speaker 1: It is the coolest atmosphere, best ending I've seen in
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a college baseball game in person. Ever, I don't think
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it's even close the way that Friday game unfolded Saturday, Sunday,
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Saturday was an electric game yesterday too, at the very end,
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like Texas got off to a hugely started, Auburn started
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clawing back, got right there at the end today never
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really a fighting chance, but like it's whatever. I still
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think that both teams proved.
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Speaker 3: That they are.
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Speaker 1: Like, in my humble opinion, I think these are the
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number two, number three, if not number one, number three
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whatever teams in the country. I think I think they've
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proven how good both these squads are. So Jacob, I'll
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come to you first with this one.
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Speaker 3: After the Georgia Tech.
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Speaker 1: Midweek that Auburn had and how like this series unfolded,
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I think, as I just said, I think I'm higher
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on Auburn even though they lost the series this weekend
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than I was before.
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Speaker 3: Is that like just a me thing or is that
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a ridiculous statement.
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Speaker 6: No, No, it's not a ridiculous statement at all. I
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think that's I think there's a lot of a lot
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to agree on there with that. Like, first of all,
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Jake Marciano is proven that you know, he is a
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legit ace like a one dot e r A one
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dot zero zero e r A in thirty six innings
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this year, Like he's he's he's going he's going crazy.
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And then like just and then watching that game one
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like as much as it was like the the the
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Aiden Robbins game in more good ways and bad ways
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together like Jake Marciano was was awesome. And then just
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to see the way the team like clawed back and
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like got the bases loaded and then they they and
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then uh, you know, Bristol Carter clearly got a little
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bit of help from the defense there, but like he
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got he got his team in a situation to where,
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you know, they had a chance to win and they
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did obviously, just like seeing them fight against a team that,
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you know, we kind of all considered, like Texas top
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dog in the SEC right now, like who's gonna who's
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gonna kind of dethrown them? And like in all three
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games pretty much Auburn mostly held their own And I
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don't I don't think that's I don't think that's out
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of the out of the realm at all for you
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to consider them as being the top you know, three
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team or two team or whatever right behind Texas.
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Speaker 2: I think they're they're they're right there with.
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Speaker 1: Them, right I think I think the resume kind of
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shows that too, with losses too at this point, just
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Nebraska and extra innings and and the two Texas losses
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here and I'm oh, yeah, Cincinnati and that weird midweek.
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Speaker 3: That's it.
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Speaker 1: Like, I think that's very clearly a top three, top
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four resume at this point. On the other side of things,
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super impressive win for Texas this week. So, Quinn, do
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you think Texas has a case to be the number
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one team in the country right now? Or do you
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think Ucla still has like a big, you know, strong
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stamp on that right now.
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Speaker 5: I think I said last week that the gap is
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getting closer and closer, and I think it holds true
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this weekend too. I don't think Ucla is going to
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lose that top spot until they lose. They lose convincingly,
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but Texas is becoming more and more undeniable. It's a
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really good team, and I mean Jake alluded to it,
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but Aiden Robbins is pretty unbelievable. They got good ads
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from Carson Tiny, Casey boord By to day. It's just
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a really good team. Sam cos Art was great in
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relief today. Teams just gonna keep getting better, especially as
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freshman like Anthony Pack. You getting comfortable and like I said, Cozark,
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he was getting more and more of a role.
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Speaker 2: This team is.
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Speaker 5: I think the word I would use is undeniable.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I agree.
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Speaker 1: I mean I had them number one preseason for me,
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kept him there for a while. I now have them
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at number two because I think UCLA is undeniable is
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another great word to use to describe them, just so
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much talent there.
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Speaker 3: I was.
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Speaker 1: I was in denial preseason for them just going to
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be like this overwhelming, great, clear number one team. But
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I feel like they are. The gap is super close, though,
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because Texas just keeps putting really impressive things on their
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resume week after week. I mean, their one loss last
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week to Ole Miss was an extra innings and it
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required a come back in the ninth of the Grand Slam,
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like the.
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Speaker 3: The loss this week.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they were up three to one in the
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ninth against Auburn and it required granted based on the
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way that ball is hit and like I think Alburn
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was probably gonna at least tie it up on that
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play if the ball didn't go through Aiden Robins legs,
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but still grant.
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Speaker 3: The point stands.
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Speaker 1: It like they were super close and all these losses
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the pitching staff is just so undeniable. Ruger Riojas was
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electric until the seventh and on Friday Night kind of
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let it get it away from a lost control.
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Speaker 3: There at the end.
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Speaker 1: But I mean his his stuff looked really good. I
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don't know, it's I really don't want to be outlandish
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and put them at number one over UCLA right now,
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but they keep stacking up wins like this.
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Speaker 3: I think they have Oklahoma next weekend.
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Speaker 1: Like if if they were to say sweep Oklahoma next weekend,
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I might have to throw up at number one.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: They just keep putting together impressive win after impressive win.
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Gut like a Robbins is tearing it up beyond just
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that first game. I think he had a multi hit
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game in every game this series. Like he's just really
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really lighting it up for them, everything they expected them
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to be.
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Speaker 3: So I don't know. We'll see how they move on
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forward and forward.
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Speaker 1: They go to Tuscaloosa to face a team that we'll
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talk about later on in this episode next week, So
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it's a couple really really difficult spots or like tricky
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spots for both those teams. Next week, we'll see if
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they can uphold the top three, top four status. Speaking of,
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I guess we'll just go ahead and hit on that
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Fama team. Not only did Bama sweep Florida this weekend,
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which I don't think any of us is all coming,
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there was a certain thing that happened there, something you
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can't talk about as it's going on. I tried the
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jinks that actually I actively was texting people being like,
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you know, Tyler Fay from Obama has a no hitter.
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Auburn fan, I'm watching a great game in Playington Park
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and Auburn I don't want that to be a big storyline.
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But even though I couldn't think so that it was undeniable,
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Tyler Fay of Alabama through a complete game no hitter
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against Florida, not even just like some terrible team like
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ranked Florida team at nine innings, not a single hit,
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thirteen strikeouts, only want two guys did on one hundred
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and thirty two pitches. One hundred and thirty two pitch
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game in the year twenty twenty six does not happen
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like I don't.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how his arm is still attached to
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his body, but.
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Speaker 1: Honestlyust have worked out of regardless I mean, the stuff
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look great.
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Speaker 3: It was like he seventy three per on his change
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up sixty four percent with on.
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Speaker 1: His slider sat middle of nineties, grabbed the ninety seven
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and there like everything looked really good.
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Speaker 3: But I think there's another side of this that we
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probably needed to talk about. I would say, like.
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Speaker 1: Jacob asked just to you, we had questions about Florida's
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offense coming into the series and coming into this week.
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We've talked about it on here, especially last week, even
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though they got the series win. Would you say that,
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like this performance from Tyler Faye is more of an
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indictment on the struggles from that Florida offense or should
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we just be praising this outing from Tyler Faye and
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neglect all that.
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Speaker 6: Look, I'm not I'm not gonna take anything away from
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Tyler Faye just to say that, like Florida's offense isn't
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isn't doing well, which it's not. But like you go
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into any you could play against, you know, the lowest
20:32
of the low mid major and throwing no hitter and
20:35
it's going to be extremely impressive, right Like, But on
20:39
the flip side, like you were just talking about with
20:42
with Florida, Like, you know, I know Brendan Lawson.
20:46
Speaker 2: I think he didn't.
20:46
Speaker 6: I think he left the game early Saturday and didn't
20:48
play Sunday, like I think. I think I saw. It's
20:53
not it's not too serious that they were probably just
20:55
risking him Sunday. I think he was mostly late day
20:56
to day. But you know, if if he does happen
21:00
to need like an extra say like an extra week
21:02
or two to recover or something like that, like they're
21:04
gonna have to have somebody step up, like Blake Sear
21:07
and Carson Bowen. I think kind of had like okay
21:10
games after after he came out, but like that offense,
21:13
you know, even even aside from the very first game,
21:16
like the offense was just kind of just kind of
21:18
flat throughout this one.
21:19
Speaker 2: And like, no, I don't want to take anything.
21:22
Speaker 6: Away from Tyler Faye, but yeah, they need some guys
21:24
to step up on offense on the Florida side for sure.
21:27
Speaker 3: No, I'm with you.
21:28
Speaker 1: I mean I saw the loss and thing is just
21:31
I think back soreness is what they said they pulled
21:33
him for on Saturday.
21:35
Speaker 3: It was something soreness. I think it was back soreness.
21:37
Speaker 1: So it doesn't sound like terribly serious, just kind of precautionary,
21:41
but still, like you said, I mean, like on the
21:43
whole weekend, Kyle Jones one of their top performers. He
21:46
was over eight on the whole weekend. You know, like
21:49
Cad Curlin was one for ten on.
21:50
Speaker 3: The whole weekend.
21:52
Speaker 1: Just concerning performances across the board that we've seen from
21:56
the week at this point kind of piling up, and
21:58
I think the fact that that was the offense the
22:00
no hitter was against is very indicative of how Florida looks.
22:07
I mean, like, I'm not gonna take anything away from
22:09
Tyler Fay. That was, I mean, phenomenal. You don't see
22:11
no hitters an sec play.
22:12
Speaker 3: I think it was what was the year?
22:15
Speaker 1: It was Obama's first no hitter since like nineteen forty
22:18
two or like around.
22:19
Speaker 3: That range, like the thirties. Maybe it's been forever.
22:22
Speaker 1: The point stands it doesn't happen, So I'm not gonna
22:24
take anything away from that, but I feel like it
22:27
just needs to be mentioned that the Florida offense has
22:30
had some really recurring issues and I'm like kind of
22:33
scared to see moving forward is not gonna be super
22:35
recurring or what more in the series as a whole.
22:39
I guess, Quinn, would you say that you came away
22:44
from the series more concerned about Florida kind of like
22:47
we just talked about, are more optimistic about Bama across
22:50
the board, not even just you know, Friday Night.
22:54
Speaker 5: I want to say a combination of both. That's a
22:56
cop out. So I'm gonna go worry about Florida, mostly
23:02
because I have no idea what their pitching staff is
23:06
going to be long term. Like Peterson came into the
23:09
year as like a potential top five pick and giving
23:13
up six on Friday Night can't happen. He's been kind
23:16
of all over the place to start the year and
23:19
like in to help, like in Alabama's case, they jumped
23:24
on all of Florida's best arms out of the pen,
23:26
like Sandeffer Wrightner and Jackson Rberry got all gave up
23:30
multiple runs and that essentially never happens. Right has been
23:35
righter especially, he has been a shutdown guy as of late.
23:38
So it's it's hard to say when we're another It
23:41
really does feel like Florida is concerning and Alabama deserves
23:46
some praise. But if I had to pick one Florida's offense.
23:50
We just you guys, as you guys just talked about
23:52
and their pitching staff. I just I don't know.
23:56
Speaker 3: I'm glad.
23:57
Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned the Florida pitching staff because I
23:58
think that's the point that needs to be hit on.
24:00
I think the Bama offense was impressive this weekend because
24:04
you know we're on here.
24:05
Speaker 3: We've talked about it on here very.
24:07
Speaker 1: Often and in other places about how that Bama offense
24:11
is kind of just like it goes as Justin Lebron goes.
24:14
Speaker 3: And that wasn't the case this weekend.
24:16
Speaker 1: There were tons of other guys that performance stepped up,
24:18
especially Friday night. I think Justin Lebron went over and
24:21
other guys just picked up around them.
24:24
Speaker 3: The Florida pitching staff.
24:25
Speaker 1: Though, I was talking to some of the Auburn guys
24:27
about this, like during our game as it was happening
24:30
on Friday night, Like I truly feel like Liam Peterson
24:34
allows either no earn runs in a game or it's
24:37
like five plus there's no in between.
24:39
Speaker 3: Like you truly truly do not know what you're gonna
24:41
get from him at any point.
24:43
Speaker 1: And I mean, this could be more praise on the
24:45
Bama offense when I say this, but Aiden King before
24:48
this weekend hadn't allowed to earn run at all to
24:50
this point, and Bama attacked him for four So I
24:53
think that goes to show you what they can do.
24:55
And I guess it shows you there's some vulnerability with
24:58
Aiden King because granted, all the predictive metrics and that
25:02
kind of stuff showed that Aiden King was getting a
25:03
little like, I don't want to say lucky, but it
25:06
wasn't just like completely lights out stuff for him to
25:09
have his zero R going into mid March, you know.
25:11
So I think this kind of shows that they are vulnerable.
25:14
I don't know who they have. I guess uh, oh no,
25:17
they go to Arkansas next weekend, that's right. So I mean,
25:22
even if they looked really good coming out of this weekend,
25:24
you can go to Arkansas and lose the series to
25:26
Arkansas and still not really change your opinion that much
25:29
on a team as a whole, because you know that
25:32
that happens. It's Arkansas on the like in the hog bin,
25:35
Like that's you're not gonna win a lot of series there.
25:37
So I don't know, we'll we'll, I guess we'll see,
25:41
like with most of these teams, but I'm I'm starting
25:44
to raise eyebrows, but shout out to Tyler Fay that
25:47
was like the biggest the biggest eggway from this weekend
25:49
is just wow, that's historic.
25:51
Speaker 3: That doesn't ever happen.
25:54
Speaker 1: On the On the topic of teams we should be
25:56
worried about, there's another team that got swept this week
25:59
and who I was I was starting to kind of
26:03
like raise eyebrows that be a little skeptical about. Clemson
26:09
went to Notre Dame and got swept in really like
26:13
non competitive fashion, if for being honest, like it really
26:16
wasn't much Like I don't think there are really any
26:18
games where you were I guess like Saturday was an
26:21
eight to seven game and it was better for a
26:23
little bit, but Friday, Jack Raydell didn't.
26:26
Speaker 3: Give them a chance at all.
26:28
Speaker 1: But this has been a recurring thing for Clemson, And yeah,
26:32
I don't I don't know the offense, the pitching, there's
26:35
different things each week.
26:36
Speaker 3: That kind of like makes you raise eyebrows, have concerns.
26:40
Speaker 1: Uh, Quinn'll come to you first, How worried do you
26:44
think we really should be about Clemson?
26:46
Speaker 3: In the long term.
26:48
Speaker 5: I would have started out by saying, I just don't
26:50
want to discount, but Notre Dame did. It's a really
26:52
good Notre Dame team, especially Raydell like you mentioned, and
26:55
then as in the lineup like Marcotroni, Bino Waters, Drew
26:59
Pert and there's more, but just a really good team.
27:03
So I just want to give them some love first.
27:06
But in terms of Clemson, as a South Carolina fan,
27:09
I'm always gonna say Clemson sucks, but I think it's
27:14
turned really has been perfectly fine. I would have I
27:20
really wouldn't have much to say. I mean, Nate Savoy
27:22
has been nasty, and Jack Crichton's been good. But then
27:26
you get to the bottom half and it's like everybody's
27:30
hitting sub three hundred. Like ty Dally's not doing much.
27:33
You brought him in for Mercer after hitting the multiple
27:36
twenty home run years, he hasn't really done anything. Liechtenberger
27:39
brought in as your shortstops, supposed to be pretty good,
27:42
hasn't done much. Might be get in the sub two
27:44
hundred spot now I don't remember. Dillard hasn't been great,
27:47
Jerald hasn't been great, and then there's another guy Like,
27:50
he's a guy I liked coming out of high school
27:53
and was excited for him coming into this year. Rice
27:55
clevn he's starting center, he's not even playing anymore. A
28:00
lot going on in that lineup that's especially concerning. Then
28:05
you go to the pitching staff and it's cannot kind
28:09
of bounce back start give him some love there, but
28:13
there's nothing else. Like Titsworth was okay on Sunday, but
28:18
the bullpen was bad basically all around. I mean, the
28:22
only guy who was pretty good was Arison VC today
28:25
went to scoreless today, and really everything else has been
28:29
just poor. So definitely time to be concerned about Clemson.
28:34
Speaker 3: I agree.
28:35
Speaker 1: I think even like guys like Jared Purify, I think
28:37
he was hitless on the weekend. So I mean that's like,
28:39
that's a guy at the top of the lineup. You
28:41
mentioned the top of the lineup hasn't really been that concerning,
28:44
but you know, there.
28:45
Speaker 3: Are spots here and there.
28:46
Speaker 1: I guess everyone has down weekends, but like as a whole,
28:49
you're not really seeing stuff like that from him very often.
28:52
This weekend it showed like Nates have always been lights out,
28:56
no question, But yeah, I think Lichtenburger is below the windows.
28:59
Speaker 3: The lineups.
29:00
Speaker 1: He's been just like I would just say bad like
29:03
at this point to the season, which you didn't expect
29:05
at all. He was a super highly talented prospect at
29:08
least defensively was the main selling point for him. But
29:10
offensive it was gonna be good enough, you thought, but
29:14
hasn't really fanned out that way. I'll ask Jake a
29:18
question kind of like what you hinted on, this isn't
29:20
all anti Clemson. I think a pro Notre Dame stance
29:23
really needs to be harped on here. I have them
29:27
right near my top twenty five this week. I know
29:29
some people have them in. It's a it's a solid resume, honestly,
29:34
I think in relation to the rest of the SEC,
29:36
especially I'm starting to think pretty highly on the.
29:39
Speaker 3: Notre Dame team.
29:41
Speaker 1: So, Jake, where do you think this team, like the
29:42
offense specifically, but like, where do you think this team
29:44
as a whole, you know, compared to other teams in
29:47
that conference? Where do you think they stack up based
29:49
on what we've seen from them lately.
29:53
Speaker 6: I mean, there's there's no denying how hell well you
29:57
know Notre Dame is, especially like started acc play like
30:01
like Jack Riddell was just nasty on on Friday, Like
30:06
you know, nine innings, which is a complete game for
30:09
those who are counting eight punchouts, four hits, zero free bases. Uh,
30:15
ty uber on on on in today's game five innings,
30:19
six strikeouts, one run, like they have a legit, Like
30:24
I mean, I wouldn't be shocked if Tyber eventually gets
30:26
the Saturday spot behind Rodell. But like when those two
30:29
guys are on the mound, they're feeling really good about
30:31
about their chances of winning. Like the bullpend wasn't exceptional,
30:36
but they had guys step up and get big outs
30:38
when they needed to. And the offense for Notre Dame
30:41
like they also like they kind of prove they can
30:43
do it multiple ways, like it was Homers in the
30:45
first two games. Uh, they strung together more consistent like
30:48
base hits in game three, Like they're not the most
30:51
Like I don't know the last time we were on here,
30:55
the word we used a lot was consistent, but like there,
30:57
I wouldn't say the most, like consistent offense as a whole.
31:01
But like Mark Watroni is a dude, coy Lee Berklyn Bart,
31:06
they all have, they all have potential to go, but
31:08
they're not like huge power threats. I don't know that
31:10
this was a This was a great weekend for Notre Dame, obviously,
31:14
and this makes you know that they get they get
31:16
you and C at home next weekend, which is gonna
31:18
be a whole lot of fun to watch. Now after
31:20
the way that Notre Dame started, we're gonna learn a lot.
31:23
Yeah there as well, But I'm in on Notre Dame too.
31:26
I think I think they're exceeding expectations to say.
31:29
Speaker 1: At least, Yeah, the offense didn't fully shine and their
31:33
series against Duke, but I mean they still won that
31:35
series regardless, which shows they can do it on both
31:38
sides of the ball. Louisville, the offense with lights out,
31:41
even though they didn't win that series. Like on that
31:43
Sunday game, I think they had twelve runs. I want
31:46
to say, but they're off. But they're pitching staff allowed
31:48
like twenty one or something. So I think any given week,
31:52
you know you're gonna get lights out stuff from them.
31:54
Speaker 3: It's just can they compete in this acc I think
31:57
is the big question here.
31:58
Speaker 1: They have I mean maybe the toughest possible stretch you
32:02
can ask for coming up it started this you would
32:05
have said it started this past week with Clemson, but
32:06
they have un C, then they go to in C State,
32:10
then they host UVA, and they go to Tallahassee to
32:13
play Fourida State. I mean, like, I know, I think
32:15
at this point on this podcast, I've probably said the
32:18
phrase like we're gonna find out or we'll wait and
32:20
see about like five different teams at this point, we're
32:23
only thirty two minutes in, but this is like the
32:26
number one team I think you could talk about to
32:28
say like in the next month, we will find out,
32:30
like if we think that this Notre Dame team has
32:32
a chance to be legit, Like if you want to
32:34
if you're hesitant about ranking them in any way, do
32:37
it this week and put them at twenty five because
32:39
regardless they're gonna they're gonna get themselves dropped out of
32:42
they're gonna find a way to skyrocket up some rankings
32:44
because they have the opportunities to be tested and we're
32:47
probably gonna see it from them. But they passed their
32:49
first one. It's five straight series in a row. We
32:51
would have said coming into this week, really tough ACC
32:54
series playing all the top teams at the top of
32:57
the conference.
32:58
Speaker 3: They passed their first test with flying cut, so shout
33:00
out to them.
33:03
Speaker 1: We just mentioned two of these teams talking about Notre
33:05
Dame's upcoming schedule. I would say probably the second biggest
33:08
series of the weekend was NC State Forest State in
33:11
my opinion, Florida State. After losing on Friday, they pulled
33:14
out the series, winning eleven five on Saturday and winning
33:18
today in mercy rule fashion fifteen to five. Jake out
33:26
just output it this way. I'm finding it harder and
33:29
harder by the week to keep this FSU team out
33:33
of my top five, although that's not a common train
33:37
of thought for some reason. Are you in line with
33:40
me there or is there something I'm missing or like,
33:42
what do you think about this team in regards of
33:45
like that high praise.
33:48
Speaker 6: No, I think it's definitely warranted. I think I had
33:50
them in my top like five or something last weekend.
33:54
Like they're just playing, like they're just playing really good
33:57
team baseball right now. You know, they had to slip
33:59
up Game one against Marone and uh Anderson Nantce, but
34:03
like this offense, you know, absolutely just turned the page.
34:07
In the rest of the series, like Myles Bailey, uh
34:10
had a big had a big weekend. John Stutzer had
34:13
had a pretty big weekend. Eli Putnam kind of had
34:16
like the game like the like the Dagger in Game three,
34:19
like like they're just playing. They're just playing really great
34:22
team baseball, like outside of Gabe Nard and like certain
34:27
moments of westmind as the pitches. The pitching was very good.
34:31
Speaker 3: Uh.
34:31
Speaker 6: They scored double digits and back to back games here.
34:34
Calvin Poulino's another name. I didn't mention Brandon Down. I
34:36
didn't mention him either. They're they're all hitting really well, uh,
34:39
in particular, and I just you know, I think I
34:42
think I'm right there with you. I really like what
34:43
I'm seeing out of Florida State, and I don't think
34:44
it's crazy to have him that high at all.
34:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think kind of as you just said, I
34:49
think it's good to see how they won these games
34:53
this weekend, in particular because the starting pitching has been
34:56
the spelling point for them to this point of the year.
34:59
And it wasn't like it wasn't bad by any means
35:02
this weekend, Like it was okay, but they won games
35:06
with their offense. The offense has just been overperforming super well,
35:10
especially like like Miles Bailey had, you know, as we
35:12
expect a phenomenal weekend to see they can win games
35:15
like that after a series last week where it was
35:18
really the starting pitching that won that series against Wake
35:20
wors for them. It's good to see on both sides
35:22
of the ball they can go out there and compete
35:24
at the highest of the high level against these great
35:27
teams and like a great pitching staff with NC State,
35:30
like we've talked about, like a phenomenal rotation, you know
35:34
on that I guess on that NC State side of things.
35:36
Speaker 3: On the other side here, Quinn.
35:39
Speaker 1: This was this was a really tough series on the
35:42
road for the wolf Back Like objectively, a really tough series.
35:45
Speaker 3: You don't really expect to win this one going into it.
35:49
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a team you do, but like us
35:51
going to Tallahassee, that's a series that like it's a
35:54
huge you're you're hugely over exceeding expectations if you go
35:59
in there and win, you don't really expect it. Do
36:02
you view NC State as like much lower after this
36:05
weekend or is this just one of those series that
36:08
you have to just kind of expect them to lose
36:10
going into it.
36:11
Speaker 5: No, I wouldn't say any lower on C State. I mean,
36:14
obviously you have to you have to look at the
36:17
results as they are. It wasn't a good series. It
36:19
wasn't a good series for them. They give up ten
36:21
runs a game on average, and it didn't really swing
36:24
it all that well. But yeah, like you said, this
36:27
is a tough series to go out and win. I
36:30
think it's really talented roster. I think you just come back,
36:33
come back to Raleigh and just flush it. Just just
36:37
need a reset. It's a really good team. Dud Dance
36:39
not going to give up eight every start. Colin's Black
36:42
isn't going to give up three every time he comes
36:44
in relief. They in this offense is just too good.
36:48
Only score sixteen runs in a weekend. Yeah, I'm honestly
36:52
not very concerned about it. While I think it's worth
36:55
mentioning in terms of the course of the season and
36:58
how we view n C State against the like of
37:02
the crop of the ACC, I think just if we're
37:05
talking about this weekend, flush it and move on.
37:09
Speaker 3: I think that's valid.
37:10
Speaker 1: I think you know, they have another test next weekend
37:12
against Georgia, Tech so they can maybe get another chance
37:17
at a road victor Pro Series victory against a much
37:20
better team. But I agree, I think we're kind of
37:23
aware where NC State is at this point of the year.
37:26
Speaker 3: They're probably not a top.
37:27
Speaker 1: Two to three team of the ACC, but you know,
37:29
they're in that five ish range, And this is kind
37:32
of how you would expect those road series to go
37:33
at this point. You take one and you know you
37:35
move on. You just know that's kind of how it's
37:38
gonna go. I don't really view a much lower either,
37:39
but I think it's you know, worth mentioning. It has
37:42
to be a talking point at some point the series
37:44
did happen, Yeah, I mean they look solid on Friday
37:47
that the last couple of days.
37:48
Speaker 3: We're just like.
37:50
Speaker 1: Concerning a little bit on the pitching staff, but like
37:52
it's a more of a one off from what I've seen.
37:55
It's not really like a recurring thing we're seeing from them.
37:57
So just kind of like you said, flush it, move on,
37:59
We'll see what weapons that we'll talk about another series
38:04
that I think that we told them to flush that
38:09
at other times this season, and then we just keep
38:12
saying it weekend over weekend. I think Quinn, you were
38:14
on here last week and you said this about TCU.
38:18
Speaker 3: There the biggest red flag of.
38:21
Speaker 1: Any of these teams that we've talked about so far,
38:23
I think has to be raised for TCU. You know,
38:24
we've hit on Florida a little bit, we've hit on Clemson.
38:28
I think TCU had the biggest red flag possible last
38:32
week on here, like you, Like I just said, like
38:35
you were, you said you were really good about and
38:38
this weekend only justify that. How much worse should we
38:43
really be feeling about this game after losing a series?
38:47
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think last week I said they were bad
38:51
and this week I'm going to say it again, Like
38:55
it's just not there, it's you have. The talent is
38:59
very much there, like Stras Snider is there, Brunson is
39:03
there because Franco is there. But I don't know when
39:06
the last time the three of them have performs all
39:08
at the same time. Like you got a decent bruntson
39:11
game once this week, Strawsnighter at a home run once
39:14
and Franco had it had one good game, but that
39:18
is it. There's nothing else in the lineup doing much
39:21
of anything. Brunson, I think, is the only one still
39:24
hitting above three hundred and Lance Davis was better this week,
39:28
I'll give him that, but Baumber wasn't any better. Rassfield
39:33
got absolutely up. It's it's not good. Big twelve is
39:40
gonna slip away from them very very quickly if this continues.
39:45
Speaker 3: As if it hasn't already.
39:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think at this point you can chalk
39:49
it up to the Tommy Lapoor injury anymore.
39:52
Speaker 3: I think it's way beyond that, much bigger problem.
39:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I hate to see this team like
39:57
that because, I mean, Chase Brunson's might die.
40:00
Speaker 3: I've been on the Chase Brunson train for a while.
40:02
Speaker 1: So much fun talent on this team, but they just,
40:04
like as you said, can't seem to put together at
40:07
the same time for whatever reason.
40:09
Speaker 3: I don't know what that is.
40:10
Speaker 1: But they were the pretty clear Big twelve favorites coming
40:13
into the season, and I mean, like top of my head,
40:21
I think I see them as like the fourth ish
40:26
best Big twelve team right now, fifth maybe like that
40:29
might even probably lower, right, like that might even be general.
40:34
I mean, I certainly, I mean obviously I view like
40:37
UCF is better them after this weekend, But it seems
40:40
like that you would not have expected a few months ago.
40:42
Speaker 3: So I don't know what the chal could up to at.
40:44
Speaker 1: This point, but we're gonna bring back last week's buzzword consistency.
40:49
There's none of that from week to week, from game
40:51
to game. There's absolutely none of it on the offensive
40:53
side of things, especially not with the pitching staff. But granted,
40:58
UCF not a terrible team, you know, talk about both sides.
41:01
Speaker 3: Of this series.
41:02
Speaker 1: I'll say, like Jake, I was looking at this before
41:05
I hopped on here. If you really look at UCS resume,
41:10
they're another team that's gonna be hard for me to
41:13
keep out of the top twenty five.
41:14
Speaker 3: Honestly.
41:15
Speaker 1: I mean, like, should we be talking about them more
41:18
in the national picture or what? Because I think we
41:20
should because like there's an impressive wins on here.
41:25
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think you're right. I think this
41:27
was you know, as much as we just kind of
41:29
kind of kind of talked down on TCU a little bit,
41:32
this is an impressive series win for for UCF, and like,
41:36
just talking about this series like as a whole, like
41:38
I really wish Drew was here because this was just
41:41
this was just a weird one because it was like
41:44
it was all offense for UCF in the first game,
41:46
like they scored eighteen runs. Like the pitcheon wasn't great,
41:50
but who cares when he scored eighteen runs. But like
41:52
in game two, you know that it was completely flipped
41:55
in the other direction. Lance Davis was really good for
41:57
TCU as much as you know, UCF didn't hit in
42:02
this one.
42:03
Speaker 2: They kind of gave away a bunch of runs.
42:05
Speaker 6: They had like a lot of walks and some errors
42:06
in that game that kind of gave it away. And
42:08
then game three, UCF was just back on the offensive side.
42:11
Like you know, they had seventeen hits in that game.
42:14
Zack Skinner was five for five like like like yes,
42:18
I think to answer your question, yes, UCF should definitely
42:21
be talked about a little bit more. And like because
42:23
right now the name of this team is like the offense,
42:26
Like Zach Skinner Andrew Williamson have been kind of the leaders.
42:30
But they just hit over three point fifty as a
42:32
team this weekend, including like kind of the stinkers that
42:36
they had in game two. But they're they're really just
42:39
not hitting for power. Thus that's the one knock you
42:41
can take. You can say about this UCF team. They've
42:43
only got fourteen homers as a team this year, but
42:48
they are they proved this weekend they can they can
42:50
hit and they can hang with some of these other teams.
42:53
Like Matt Sauser had had a short start, but he
42:56
survived with only allowing one earn. Camden Wickers also been
43:01
good this year. And then like next weekend they get
43:05
they get a struggling Arizona team, so as they're gonna
43:08
try to keep things rolling that way. But I like
43:11
this UCF team, and I think they've proved a lot
43:13
this weekend that they can hang with the top teams
43:15
in this conference.
43:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, the offense really showed themselves, as you just said,
43:20
this weekend that they can perform with you know, one
43:23
of the better pitching staffs. At least we thought so
43:25
coming into the year, but the UCF pitching staff to
43:28
this point was kind of what was like the star
43:31
of this team. They really showed that in the Oklahoma
43:33
State Series the USF Series two, even though they lost.
43:37
Speaker 3: I mean, like, I think they can do it on
43:38
both sides of the ball.
43:39
Speaker 1: So I'll be I'll be curious to see how they,
43:42
you know, how they look moving forward, Like you just
43:44
said they have Arizona next week, which they should continue
43:46
to roll through that, I would think. Then they go
43:48
to West Virginia, which will be a really fun big
43:51
twelve series. Like I would not have had that anywhere
43:54
near Circle before the Sea started, as you know, one
43:57
of the better series that week in the countries, especially
44:00
in like the maybe in the conference with the whole
44:02
year for being honest, never when I had that Circle.
44:05
But Rire should be a fun one one last series
44:08
I think was probably one of the biggest or the
44:12
only like really big series coming into the weekend that
44:14
we haven't talked about besides I don't know, wake Uva.
44:17
Maybe Georgia A and M. How that's that's about how
44:23
I thought the series would go. In terms of results,
44:25
Georgia goes on the road, takes two of three, but
44:28
it's a fascinating fashion how it actually went down. Georgia
44:30
pretty much controlled all the first two games they won
44:33
nine to four and eight to two. But today was
44:36
like it was just I don't I don't have the
44:39
words to describe just the massacre that I watched on
44:42
my TV today. I mean like it was ended up
44:45
being an eighteen to five run rule for Texas A
44:48
and M it was I think fifteen to one, and
44:51
it's worse. I think that's what I remember saying. It
44:53
just they just kept piling on. But overall the first
44:56
two days, Georgia looked like they were in control. Georgia
44:58
the top four, top five team for me at this point,
45:02
I don't really it's kind of tough to evaluate how
45:06
a performance like today's offsets the past couple of days
45:11
in my mind. So, Jacob, I guess I'll just ask
45:14
you a question like that, does today's showing from Georgia
45:18
make you, you know, step back a little bit on
45:21
like take a step back on them a little bit?
45:23
Speaker 3: Or are you still equally.
45:25
Speaker 1: As impressed with them after winning a really difficult road series.
45:31
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean today's today's outcome was was was definitely
45:34
a shock. I mean, they jumped on Kenny Ishikawa and
45:38
just you know, just just knocked him straight out of
45:40
the game. And then it's like everybody they brought in.
45:42
I'm looking at these Georgia pitching stats like they're the
45:45
first reliever they brought in four earned and in two
45:48
third Zach Brown one inning, three earned, Brad Pruett two
45:52
thirds of an inning two earned logan Spotvey, I guess
45:56
he came in, uh, you know, one hit, one walk,
45:59
and he's out and Stevens gives up around. Like everybody
46:02
that Georgia brought in, they had no answer. So like
46:04
I guess, like I guess, if we're talking about Georgia
46:08
as a whole, like going like deeper into the year,
46:11
like when the when the pitching depth starts getting tested
46:13
more and more, maybe that is somewhat a concern. But
46:15
like I'm not, I'm not. I'm not too worried about
46:19
this Georgia team. Like it's it's it's legit if we
46:21
didn't know it already. Like to go into to go
46:25
into this tough environment in College Station and take the
46:28
series against A and M is is impressive. Like a
46:32
ton of guys came through. Trey Phelps had had had
46:36
a big game one Ishikawa, Uh, you know, he had
46:38
a good day at the plate in Game one that
46:40
had you know, a bunch of homers in that one,
46:43
Vultchko you know, lost a little bit of control, but
46:46
the bullpen calm things down for him, and that's something
46:48
that they're gonna need, like from their top bullpen arms
46:50
is to be able to come in and in situations
46:53
like that and be able to calm it down.
46:55
Speaker 2: It was more more homers in game two.
46:58
Speaker 6: Uh, and then we just talked about the kind of
47:01
a shaker based on how the rest of the series
47:03
was going. But no, I'm with you. I'm with you
47:06
on Georgia. I mean I like them a lot. I
47:10
think they can I think their their top pitchers can
47:12
really pitch, and their offense continues to roll.
47:16
Speaker 2: So yeah, I like Georgia a lot.
47:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just a tough evaluation of a series, but
47:21
I still come away from this weekend way higher on them.
47:24
I heard some people talking about how and like, rightfully,
47:27
so this makes sense. I heard some people talking about
47:29
how before this series it should be an A and
47:32
M series to lose, just solely because it's George's first
47:35
real road test of the year, like serious road tests, and.
47:39
Speaker 3: That's a tough environment to do it.
47:40
Speaker 1: End, no matter what you think of A and M,
47:42
and Georgia's went in there, made light work out of it.
47:45
By Saturday night series was over, and I think it
47:48
goes to show you a lot about how this team
47:50
can do it from both sides of the ball. They
47:52
were dominant on the mound or close to dominant on
47:54
the mound the first couple of games, and.
47:56
Speaker 3: Today is Chicago hasn't really looked good all year.
48:00
Speaker 1: I think you're running near like a ten at Ura,
48:01
even though he's look solid at the plate, that was
48:03
supposed to be a top two, top three two way
48:06
player in the country coming into the year. I don't
48:08
really look like it. But everyone else around him has
48:10
stepped up, so it doesn't really matter at this point.
48:14
And like speaking about A and M, I think that
48:17
I still have like blind faith in them for whatever reason.
48:22
I don't know why. I genuinely can't put my finger
48:24
on why. I think I just believe in the potential
48:26
of the offense. I'm way higher on than than most people.
48:31
Speaker 3: I don't know.
48:32
Speaker 1: I personally believe that the offense can be enough to
48:35
help them put it all together. As we saw today
48:37
that was exhibit A. Quinn, I will say this is
48:41
I'm pretty sure we talked about this last week on
48:43
this episode. This is the second week in a row
48:46
where we've had to talk about a disappointing performance across
48:50
the board from the A and M starting rotation. I mean, like,
48:53
do you think this is gonna become a big enough
48:57
issue to truly limit their ceiling or do you still
49:00
have any belief with how those pitching staff is currently constructed.
49:05
Speaker 5: It's actually really funny you say that you have blind faith,
49:07
because I actually do too. The A and m's like,
49:11
I just believe in I don't know what it is.
49:14
I completely agree. In terms of their rotation, it's kind
49:19
of tough. Like Sedeo wasn't great, but hit eleven strikeouts,
49:24
so going to take that every day? Then you go
49:27
to Sims he was okay, then today whatever. I don't know,
49:33
this rotation is just okay. Sedeo is really good, and
49:39
like I think he projects as a major leaguer one day,
49:42
but more like a five starter or a long reliever,
49:46
not necessarily like sec Ace wise, if that makes sense. Yeah,
49:52
so I think I think just the top of their
49:56
rotation kind of limits their overall ceiling. Like Ian Peterson
50:00
of Florida has a higher ceiling. Therefore, I feel a
50:03
little bit more confident in that just as of right now.
50:09
But yeah, rotation wise, definitely a little worrying in that
50:13
that worry goes into their bullpen too.
50:16
Speaker 1: No, I'm fully aligned with everything you say about Sedeo
50:20
for sure. It's just I wasn't really high on this
50:24
rotation as a whole coming into the year. Definitely not now,
50:27
But I'm glad someone else. I'm glad I have someone
50:30
else's on the A M train with me at least
50:32
for whatever reason. I think it's just there's how do
50:36
I put this? There's these lasting thoughts from last year
50:41
where coming into the year, everyone was like, this is
50:44
gonna be the best offense we've ever seen, you know,
50:47
and it didn't really paint out that way. And I
50:50
was high again on the offense coming into this year,
50:53
and they've shown flashes for sure.
50:55
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be.
50:56
Speaker 1: Enough to compensate for, you know, poor pitching depending they're playing.
51:00
Speaker 3: I think it. I don't know, like what I think
51:02
the ceiling for this team is, like.
51:05
Speaker 1: I guess omaha, But with that pitching staff, I think
51:09
it's gonna be tough two weekends in a row, like
51:11
against tough competition to really make it through a regional
51:14
and then a super regional performance relying on a bullpen
51:17
that's kind of thin to get them through, you know,
51:19
or against these really tough offens that they're having to
51:22
face I don't know, I'm still gonna have them ranked,
51:25
which I probably shouldn't if we're being honest, Like I'm
51:28
well aware I probably shouldn't, but there's just something about
51:31
this team. I kept put my finger on it, and
51:34
I maybe would have been closer to the you know,
51:37
letting go of all my faith of them if it
51:39
weren't for today. But like when I was watching that
51:42
game with Gold today, I was like, this is this
51:44
is what I've been saying, Like this is what I've
51:46
expected could happen. And then it just they just kept
51:48
pouring it on. But at the end of the day,
51:50
if they did lose, shout out to Georgia. That's a
51:53
that's a top five team in the country. I think
51:55
more people should be talking about them in that way. Yeah,
52:00
those are probably the most notable results from the week.
52:02
I would say we have three, well four, I would
52:08
say like big midweek games this week. Coastal and Clemson
52:11
are playing, which is like a solid game which looked
52:14
better before Clemson, you know, kind of on fold this weekend.
52:17
Nebraska Kansas State is a really solid and it's a
52:19
really good mid week So but you know, of the
52:23
games of the big games. I guess that we're excited
52:26
to see Jake last you first, like, which which movie
52:30
game are you the most excited to watch? Talk to
52:33
me about a little bit whatever you're interested in.
52:37
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think for me, it's uh, it's Oregon State
52:40
playing against Southern Cal. Uh, not USC. Sorry, they're playing
52:45
they're playing. Uh, they're playing Southern.
52:47
Speaker 2: Cal this this midweek.
52:48
Speaker 6: So Oregon State they just they just swept at at Irvin.
52:52
We've talked about kind of the woes of really both
52:54
of these teams, but like Oregon State got the best
52:56
of them on the road at Irvine, so that's that's impressive.
52:59
And then USC's out's coming off of a sweep of
53:02
their own against Washington. But uh, based on kind of
53:04
how like these two teams midweeks have gone, it looks
53:07
like we're gonna get for Oregon State, probably Connor Mendez
53:10
if things stay the same. Uh, he's gone nine innings
53:13
this year with a three eighty six. That's kind of
53:15
just been his role. They've only played three midweek games
53:17
and he started all three of them. Uh, so that's
53:21
pretty good bet we're gonna get him, and then for
53:23
USC or for Southern Cal we're gonna get Chase Harrell
53:27
twenty three innings, four one eight for him.
53:33
Speaker 2: But yeah, I would I would expect this to be.
53:35
Speaker 6: Usually I like to predict in midweek games, a lot
53:39
of offense, like Oregon State's offense has kind of come
53:41
along a little bit.
53:42
Speaker 2: Bryce Hubbard, Uh, he's he's up. He's got his OLPs
53:45
up over one thousand. Uh.
53:46
Speaker 6: They got a few guys up over in the in
53:48
the eight hundreds in the ops world. But uh, for
53:53
for for USC, it's kind of more of the same.
53:56
Jack Sears kind of got the high I guess OPS number,
53:59
but he's kind of in the best offensive player for
54:01
him right now. Kevin Takyuchi has been pretty good, Maximo
54:05
Martinez has been pretty good. But it's this is gonna
54:09
be an interesting one because I don't think it's it's
54:11
hard to predict either of these teams is going to
54:13
just get into like an offensive shootout like we like
54:16
to predict with these midweek games. So I'm expecting to
54:19
see maybe, maybe, maybe some fun pitching in this matchup.
54:21
It's gonna be fun.
54:22
Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that, because that was the exact
54:24
point I was gonna make. Typically midweeks are supposed to
54:27
be like high flying offenses, and you know, bad bullpens,
54:30
bad starters. Oregon State and USC are like within the
54:34
top three four teams in the country that you would
54:36
expect just the pitching to take over in any game.
54:39
Speaker 3: So I'm very interested to see if.
54:40
Speaker 1: We get like a like a rare fun three to
54:43
one midweek game in this you know, for some good
54:45
West West Coast baseball l ip the PAC twelve, there's
54:50
I think a couple more like good game, like really
54:53
solid fun games come up to Tuesday. Quinn, which one
54:57
of your most interested I want to touch on that
54:58
talk about it.
55:00
Speaker 5: I'm going back to a rematch from earlier in the month,
55:03
Florida Florida State. It's at Florida State this time Florida
55:06
went at home earlier in the month six to three
55:10
for Florida. I'm not sure if it's going to be
55:12
could be Russell Sandeffer, he was nasty last week. Might
55:15
not sure he's going to start again. If not, maybe
55:18
Billy Barlows, Skyler Sandford. Either way, I think this for
55:22
Florida is going to be a really good test to
55:24
see if they're fight or flight this season. Could go
55:28
a whole lot of ways after last weekend. First Alabama,
55:31
I think going into a bad blood matchup against Florida
55:35
State for ragging writes. Whatever it is, it's gonna maybe
55:40
maybe light a fire under him for Florida State. They
55:43
started John Abraham last time against Florida. Cooper witted In
55:47
the last midweek against Bethune Cookman, he threw pretty well,
55:50
so maybe him. Yeah, these good week Bravory games are
55:54
was pretty it was pretty fun, a lot of high energy,
55:57
and these teams are coming off a very different week. Obviously,
56:00
we just talked about Florida State and ce State crust
56:04
and Florida State looked great. Florida obviously didn't look great.
56:08
So this this game is going to be a battle
56:10
for a momentum. Is Florida going to kind of go
56:13
into Arkansas with a win? Or are we gonna is
56:16
Florida just gonna tank from here? We'll see.
56:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, y'all keep taking all the points that I'm gonna
56:21
say from whatever games you talk about. I think the
56:23
big key point besides obviously bad blood rivalry here, these
56:27
teams are going in polar opposite directions right now, and
56:31
so to see if you know, Florida can turn it
56:33
around or if it keeps going that way, I'll be curious
56:36
to see because I mean, like even though it is
56:38
just a midweek and you might want to, you know,
56:40
downplay that these two teams care and these two fan
56:43
bases care about this series and this game, so it'll
56:46
be super rugous environment, you know, all the fun stuff
56:50
you love.
56:50
Speaker 3: But of midwek'sind of rivalry games.
56:52
Speaker 1: One last MIDI game we haven't talked about speaking of,
56:55
you know, rugous environment and rematch from earlier. If the
57:00
shame Drew isn't here to talk about this, because I'm
57:01
pretty sure he'll actually be there for it. And boy
57:03
am I just Southern miss is going to Mississippi State
57:06
this week and the midweek, and I think that first
57:09
game we've talked about on here.
57:11
Speaker 3: Besides, I would now throw that Friday Auburn.
57:14
Speaker 1: Texas game in this mix too, but I would say
57:17
games of the year to this point that I can
57:19
think of when you think about can I like, you know,
57:23
hype going into it, competitive of the game, you know,
57:26
fun things that happen within the game. I think it's
57:28
this Friday Texas Auburn game. Mississippi State UCLA from earlier
57:31
this year and that first Southern Mississippi State Midweek, and
57:35
I think it's gonna be even more fun this time
57:38
around at Duty Noble. You know, fourteen to fifteen thousand
57:42
people there ready to go, you know, go nuts on
57:45
a Tuesday night because they care about playing Southern miss
57:47
and they know how good Southern Miss is and this
57:49
is a real test for them. So these two probable
57:53
high flying offenses coming into the midweek should be a
57:56
lot of fun. Both these teams kind of like to
57:57
go picture by committee in the midweek. That just kind
58:00
of like to try out that opener and then run six, seven,
58:03
eight guys out there and see, you know, whatever happens
58:07
with the bullpen.
58:08
Speaker 3: It should be fun.
58:09
Speaker 1: I don't I don't really see a world where this
58:11
is just like a super competitive, high flying fun this weekend.
58:14
But regardless, I'm looking forward to all these games. I
58:17
mean like it's a it's a loaded loaded mid week's
58:19
late so it should be tons of fun. If I
58:23
do it for this episode before we get out of here,
58:26
I'll give both of the opportunity to talk about People
58:29
can find you what's working on. So Jake come to
58:32
you first, which you will find you and what you've
58:35
been doing lately on your platform, website, whatever may be.
58:40
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can. You can follow me at Jake Barge
58:43
on Twitter. Uh, same old, same mode over there right now.
58:47
It's the Mid Major Power Rankings. I talked about it
58:50
at the beginning of the show. I got out, I
58:53
got out to to DBU and Delaware today for the
58:56
rubber match, and that in that matchup it was a
58:58
ton of fun.
58:58
Speaker 2: I'll probably I've been I've been talking about it every time,
59:01
but I think I'm.
59:02
Speaker 6: Actually gonna get some time to sit down and break
59:04
down some of these games that I've been to, maybe
59:06
maybe get like a like a like a like combine
59:10
all the games that I've been to, get a nice
59:11
little love look article in there on the on the site.
59:14
So the plan is that I'll get that out, we
59:17
get finished working on that sometime this week and get
59:19
that up. But I do want to say before we
59:21
go again, good job Josh and the host chair. I'm
59:23
not gonna keep giving you a big head every single
59:26
time if this is a if this is a thing
59:27
that keeps happening, but I will I will say it again.
59:30
Speaker 2: You did you did a good job in this kind
59:32
of a spur of the moment type deal today, So
59:34
I appreciate.
59:35
Speaker 1: You, Thank you, I appreciate you. I miss Drew in
59:39
the spot, though Drew doesn't bad than any of us,
59:41
as we all know. Yeah, looking forward to all that
59:44
stuff you're gonna put out. I'm sure you're looking real
59:47
forward to. As we've talked about putting to other those
59:49
mid major power rankings this week.
59:50
Speaker 3: It should be you know, lots of fun, really easy.
59:53
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I can't wait. It's gonna be. It's gonna
59:56
be a lot of fun for sure.
59:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, if only if only all the results know played
1:00:01
as they should have this weekend. But you know, mid
1:00:02
major baseball doesn't work out that way. Quinn, where gonna
1:00:08
where people find you? What you've been working on all
1:00:10
that fun stuff.
1:00:11
Speaker 5: I'll be on Twitter underscore Martin seventeen. May get some
1:00:15
time this weekend, so maybe heading out to Maryland to
1:00:18
see Southern col and maybe some Grant Govel on Saturday night.
1:00:21
If I do see some video on Twitter, I'm sure
1:00:24
maybe a live looks later in the week, So hopefully
1:00:28
we get some time.
1:00:29
Speaker 3: That'll be awesome.
1:00:30
Speaker 1: I'm I would love to get to watch either Mason
1:00:32
Edwards or Grant Govell in person this year, so that
1:00:36
it's good you're taking advantage of that opportunity because that's
1:00:39
not many people get to do that this this year
1:00:40
and that rotation has just been so electric, and that's
1:00:44
been one of the stories of the season that I
1:00:45
think anytime they come near, great to take a chance
1:00:48
and go and go and see them. As for me,
1:00:51
you can follow me on Twitter at Josh Cantle at three.
1:00:55
I'm putting out you know, Samuel Samuel putting on my
1:00:58
rankings every week, doing some other content on there. Every
1:01:01
once in a while, I'll get some live looks out
1:01:03
from the Auburn games I've been to recently. I'm probably
1:01:06
going to Georgia Tech and c State this Saturday. I'll
1:01:09
get some out from there, probably like a combo of
1:01:12
it for you know, however, I figure that out. Like
1:01:14
I said on the last episode, I know Jake and
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I are still trying to figure out how to combine
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all these like random weird collection of games that we've
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been to with the just like multiple articles one article,
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whatever it may be, but we'll figure it out.
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Speaker 3: Should be good content regardless check out.
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Speaker 1: The website at prospects Live dot com for more of
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our other content, college baseball and non college baseball related.
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Speaker 3: Always new stuff going up there daily.
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Speaker 1: Our draft team is going to have more list coming
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out soon, so to stay toned for that, as well
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as the College Daily Sheets, which we dropped four of weekly.
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As for us, we'll see you again on Thursday like
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usual for our next weekend preview.
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Speaker 3: Thank you all for joining us
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Speaker 1: And we hope you come back for more episodes of
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