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Hour 2: We keep it rollin' with the CFB Talk. Who's in your SEC Top-5? Plus, we talk to Steve Robertson for a summer update. · Out of Bounds with Bo Bounds

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  Speaker 2: three different things. How are you listening to the show
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  Speaker 2: listening from? And give me your top five teams in
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  Speaker 2: the SEC going into twenty twenty six. I'll go with
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  Speaker 2: Georgia and then LSU and then Bama and then ole
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  Speaker 2: Miss and then Texas. All right, and Bama will have
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  Speaker 2: a better defense. Ole Miss will have a better quarterback
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  Speaker 2: in that little group. Texas has a good quarterback. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: they've got really good personnel. We'll see if Sark can
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  Speaker 2: can turn the corner over there. And what is Pete
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  Speaker 2: Golden going to be as a head coach? What do
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  Speaker 2: you think? What do you think Pete Golding's gonna I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's a crap shoot, total crap shoot with
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  Speaker 2: majority of these not like Lane and Lane at LSU
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  Speaker 2: is not a crapshoot anymore. Right, he goes to Florida,
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  Speaker 2: Atlantic figures it out, goes to Ole Miss, unprecedented run
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  Speaker 2: on nothing like that the last three years in the
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  Speaker 2: state and then kappan off last year with an eleven
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  Speaker 2: to one season, eleven and one in the SEC. Just lose,
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  Speaker 2: you know, lose your starting quarterback. That Lane and Joe
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  Speaker 2: Judge and others told everybody was a first round pick
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL, and Trinidad Chambliss ends up being kind
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  Speaker 2: of the star of the party last last year, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Fernando Mendoza was the guy two nationally and
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  Speaker 2: Dante Moore had sizzle and Oregon one. But once once
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  Speaker 2: old miss, you know, got up, got rolling, and you
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  Speaker 2: realize that Trinidad was a highlight reel just because of
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  Speaker 2: the Again, he's a techmobile player. I mean, he's he's
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  Speaker 2: he's the guy that you want to pick right now,
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  Speaker 2: what'd you say the college football playoff game? I mean
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  Speaker 2: the college football game.
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  Speaker 5: Is NCAA College Football twenty six?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, you know he's the guy that you
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  Speaker 2: want as far as a video game guy, no doubt,
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  Speaker 2: and so out of that, I mean, Gunner Stockton is
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  Speaker 2: not the best quarterback, but I like what George has
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  Speaker 2: done and retained in Kirby's Kirby. I know they've been
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  Speaker 2: down the last couple of years. I don't expect them
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  Speaker 2: to be dominant by any stretch, and I don't think
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  Speaker 2: there's more than you know, a fingernail or a whisker
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  Speaker 2: for the most part in this top five Georgia one.
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  Speaker 2: What Lane's done at LSU. We all know that they
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  Speaker 2: had some talent, he added to it. Expect big things
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  Speaker 2: from them, although they will be challenged. You know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: Clemson challenges them, but they will definitely have their hands
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  Speaker 2: full of Oxford week three, September nineteenth. And then Bama.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's the deal. Obama. They've got a quarterback, one
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  Speaker 2: of the two quarterbacks that they go to. They don't
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  Speaker 2: have any playing time under the belt. And but they're
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  Speaker 2: expecting their best defense in a long time. So that's
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  Speaker 2: that is a big deal. And can they run the football.
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  Speaker 2: Javon James is going to start at right tackle from
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  Speaker 2: Mississippi State. Nice Now, he played left tackle last year
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  Speaker 2: and he couldn't blot. I mean, just God bless him.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a combination of, you know, you don't
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  Speaker 2: have a good offensive line coach. I mean, Phil Loadholt
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  Speaker 2: would be ranked sixteenth and offensive line coaches in the league,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe Arkansas's would be t you know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: I don't know exactly what Arkansas and Kentucky have at
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  Speaker 2: on the offensive line, but I mean, you know, Vanderbilt's
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  Speaker 2: much more, much better coached in the you know O
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  Speaker 2: line than than MSU and South Carolina. Yeah, I would
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  Speaker 2: think so too. I'm talking. I'm thinking of the bottom
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  Speaker 2: feeder team right, no bottom tier Arkansas, MSU, Kentucky, South Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: no Vandy.
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  Speaker 5: Probably after after this year do they revert, like can
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  Speaker 5: you do you put them back in the old Vandy spot.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think they'll be that that ever again. Well
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  Speaker 5: I'm not gonna say ever again.
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  Speaker 2: Talking right, I mean I think that they can hang
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  Speaker 2: in there and go five and seven. So I mean
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  Speaker 2: Bandy for years was going one in eleven and two
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  Speaker 2: and ten and they won ten games last year, so uh,
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  Speaker 2: they won't this year. But but anyway, back to Javin
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  Speaker 2: James is going to start at right tach. This is
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  Speaker 2: going to be fascinating. Is he gonna be any good?
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  Speaker 2: Bama is telling people that he was not well coached
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  Speaker 2: and he was in the wrong position. And they have
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  Speaker 2: now moved a freshman All American from right tackle to
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  Speaker 2: right guard. Big deal. And Javin James is going to
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  Speaker 2: start at right tackle for the Alabama Crimson Tide and
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  Speaker 2: we'll be able to see if they can run the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Not early because they play East Carolina Game one, so
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. Jackson and I could go over there. Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: They go to Kentucky Game two, probably still not that
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  Speaker 2: defense will be enough. Florida stayed at home and then
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  Speaker 2: we'll kind of start to get a little spicy. See
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  Speaker 2: what happens there. But Bama's breaking in a new QB.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't they didn't go to the portal like Lane's.
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  Speaker 2: Lane has committed to going and getting someone who has
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  Speaker 2: a ton of reps under his belt, no doubt. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he gave that one year for Jackson Dart. It was
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a rough year, you know. He
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  Speaker 2: went and got somebody who had not played that much.
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  Speaker 2: I think he'd played four or five games at Southern
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  Speaker 2: Cal right, but other than that since dark second year,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Dart Dart junior senior year tons Oft and
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  Speaker 2: then of course he inherited Matt Corral and Matt had
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  Speaker 2: played some and then he got two years Matt. Last year,
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  Speaker 2: Austin Simmons started off was not good. No, he was
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  Speaker 2: throwing it to the other team and then he got hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Trendad goes in and Trinidad doesn't though, but one pick
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  Speaker 2: I think it was just one pick, oh yeah, which
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  Speaker 2: is insane his decision making. He's probably the best decision maker. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Where are you listening from your basement? What town? And
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  Speaker 2: then your top five teams in the SEC going into
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, top five teams. You know Oklahoma, that's
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. I know they made the College
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  Speaker 2: Football but I mean we had a bunch of teams
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  Speaker 2: to make the College Football Playoff that weren't that good, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, good lord, they let Tulane and James Madison in,
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  Speaker 2: which was unacceptable. But and the year before he had
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  Speaker 2: SMU and Boise State. I mean, this is a weird deal.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, Oklahoma was good on defense, not good
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  Speaker 2: on offense. And I thought Obama team that was very
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  Speaker 2: mad just went in there and after the first quarter
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  Speaker 2: and a half of that game where Oklahoma dominated Alabama,
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  Speaker 2: they woke up and just dominated Oklahoma the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the night. So no, I don't think so. But let's
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  Speaker 2: look at their schedule and see what the Oklahoma Sooners.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they go to Starbull. I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: they've ever been to Startbull. I can't remember that they have.
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  Speaker 2: Old miss went to Oklahoma last year and won and
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't close. Oklahoma couldn't do anything on open Pete
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  Speaker 2: Golding had John Mattier's number, and that you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think they won by two possessions, like twenty six or
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  Speaker 2: twelve or something something like that. So so I can't
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  Speaker 2: imagine Oklahoma going to Startville that maybe they did in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen forty.
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  Speaker 5: Seven nine, nineteen ninety nine. They didn't go to Startville
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  Speaker 5: in nineteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So, but now Oklahoma State in Mississippi State played
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  Speaker 2: a home and home when Cheryl was there, and I
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  Speaker 2: do remember the Cowboys, and that was pre Gundy. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, it was pretty less miles, which then Gundhy
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  Speaker 2: took over and didn't step down until last year, which
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  Speaker 2: is incredible. Like Mike Gundhy replaced Less Miles going to
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  Speaker 2: LSU and just stepped down from Oklahoma State last year,
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  Speaker 2: so they've had two coaches in the last twenty six years.
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  Speaker 2: Less was there for a minute. He upset Oklahoma once,
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  Speaker 2: maybe twice, and then that was enough for him. He
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  Speaker 2: was a Michigan man and he played for Shimbeckler and
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  Speaker 2: that that's kind of a lot of that stuff has
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  Speaker 2: burned off in this new world of sports and college
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  Speaker 2: football that back then that was that got eighties and
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  Speaker 2: boosters hot and bothered, and so Less wanted a place
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  Speaker 2: where it's hard to win. Although Mike then went in
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  Speaker 2: there and won eighth to ten game. Mike Gundy at
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  Speaker 2: won eight to ten games basically for twenty years. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: less Less parlayed that into lsu first ever matchup. And
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  Speaker 2: by the way, I don't think Oklahoma will be bad
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  Speaker 2: because they have players. I mean, Venables is a recruiting maniac.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't. I think he'll be a typical Will
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  Speaker 2: must Champ type head coach, a little bit better possibly,
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  Speaker 2: but not be able to get the offense right. He's
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  Speaker 2: just one of those guys that will not be able
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  Speaker 2: to get the offense right, and he hasn't since he
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  Speaker 2: since he's been there. I mean, they've had a few
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  Speaker 2: good moments, but for the most part they've been pretty
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  Speaker 2: mad and then a lot of times they're pretty damned
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  Speaker 2: physical and good on defense. That's enable sting. Y'all remember
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  Speaker 2: his run. Well, he was the DC at Oklahoma, but
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  Speaker 2: he really became a big name. I'd take that back.
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  Speaker 2: He got some love under Stoops. Yeah, but when they
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  Speaker 2: went to Clemson and and and he and Dabo got going,
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  Speaker 2: that was the deal for Bidable, so no doubt. And
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  Speaker 2: he saw the riding on the wall. When Bob Stoop's brother,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Stoops got fired from Arizona, I think that was
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  Speaker 2: burn Maybe that let him go, but I can't remember. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: he knew when he came back he was never going
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  Speaker 2: to be the guy though he's a one hundred times
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  Speaker 2: better defensive coordinator. And and Venables was like, I got
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  Speaker 2: to find it out. Davo had just gotten beat like
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  Speaker 2: seventy to twenty one in like the Orange Bowl by
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia. Yeah, and was kind of on the ropes
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  Speaker 2: and they were trying to figure out what they wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do. He made one of the greatest hires in
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  Speaker 2: college football as far as coordinators, and he and Brent
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  Speaker 2: teamed up and Clemson went to four national championships and
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  Speaker 2: won two. Wow, and say what you want about Davo
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  Speaker 2: now and and not warming and embracing nil, But y'all
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  Speaker 2: would all give you know what to go to.
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  Speaker 5: Four national championship games and win two of them? Who
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  Speaker 5: now and have a heisman?
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  Speaker 2: Went? Or do you have two? Yeah? Did Lawrence win it?
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  Speaker 2: DeShawn did? Did Lawrence did? Yeah? Okay, yeah, wow, Wow
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  Speaker 2: that's uh. Diesel Golfer says, I'm passing through Carthage, headed north,
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  Speaker 2: then a quick trip to the Zelia's nice. He's got
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  Speaker 2: L s U one, Georgia two. I can't argue with that,
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  Speaker 2: A and M three. Okay, Bama at four and Hell
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  Speaker 2: stayed at five. Then he says, who's Pete Golden? Go
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  Speaker 2: to Hell? Old miss hashtag ob all right, Lawrence did
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  Speaker 2: not win the heisman? Wow?
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  Speaker 5: Davanta Smith this whenever they left the wide receiver Ohio State, Bama, Bama.
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  Speaker 2: Davanta Smith? Is he the Eagles is He's kind of
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  Speaker 2: gone quiet the last couple of years, quietly productive. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: there's a hell of a little player. Yeah, may have
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  Speaker 2: been a little overbord given him the hosban.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, all right, all right, so Oklahoma and a half
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  Speaker 5: win total. Ooh, that feels like it feels tough.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're all tough now with the nine game
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  Speaker 2: conference schedule that we're gonna have to kind of get
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years under our belt to see how
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  Speaker 2: many teams go seven and two, how mean go six
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  Speaker 2: and three, and how many go five and four and
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  Speaker 2: four and five. It's also going to be the years
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  Speaker 1: shadow of your own goalposts, you'll expect to get those,
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  Speaker 1: and to lose those.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: To Old miss A is a gut punch.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, granted, the process is over, but what we
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: have seen in recent years with these summer official visits
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: is the majority of June commitments are sticking.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: And that's important to understand.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: All Right, Arnett and brought just got there. So Golding
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: has been in the state, as you know. First of all,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: he's been at Alabama recruiting the state of Mississippi. Then
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: at ole Miss. As you know, so Ed's DC. Now
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: he's a head coach, Steve, So when you when you
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: flip out of Coleman Hustler and you're as bad as
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: you are on the defensive side of the football, it's
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: a tough sell for Arnett and he's just now cultivating
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: these relationships. I'm Steve, I guess in January and February
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: leading into the big June commitments that you're talking about.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and not to mention too, I mean, you know
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: state's had three consecutive losing seasons. I mean you look
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: at what Old Miss has done the last three years.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss is the sex of your team within the state,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and anybody denies that.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: As just being dishonest with themselves. That's the reality of it. Now.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Granted they've made a coaching change, but there is some
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: continuity there. As you mentioned, those relationships carry over. I
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: mean Pete Golding's been, you know, recruiting some of the
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: defensive kids and say were in middle school, right they
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: were coming to Old Miss camp. They were going to
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Mississippi State camp. So Zach Barnett is a new name
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: to many of these players. Well, Pete Golding's the guy
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: that hey, I remember we had you in campus the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: seventh grader, right, I mean, you know, those kinds of
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: things matter. I mean, and for young people, when you're
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: making the first adult decision of your life, you want
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: it to be as comfortable as possible. And that's what
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: continuity breaths.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: What are your expectations from here? Is it basically come
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: down to winning some football games in September and October
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: and November and getting some kind of juice and buzz
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: to start to change. Not that they're going to get
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: some of the players that already committed like you're talking about,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: but to start to make Hay in the in the
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: next class or even some of the border state prospects.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Steve Well, absolutely. You know, you can always sell a
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: promise for so long. You've got to have some productivity.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: And you go back to the Dan Moullen era. Right
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: when Dan first got here, Right, all Dan had is like, hey,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I coached Tim Tebow. But people were still giving, you know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Urban all the credit for that. They're like, oh, well,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Dan couldn't win without Urban. And I think we saw
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: eventually that, you know, Urban struggle without Dan. But in
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the beginning, all Dan Mullen had to shall was a vision.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Well then after twenty ten and you beat Georgia, you
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: beat Florida, you go crush Michigan, you know in the
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: in the bowl game, in the Gator Bowl.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Well, now all of a.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Sudden, it's like, hey, well this guy does know what
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: he's talking about.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: And I think that's kind of one.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Of the things that Jeff Levy has to do this
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: year is granted, you've had the benefit of the transfer poole,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: but you've also had the detriment of the transfer pool. Right,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: So you've had a lot of guys leave. Some of
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: them were your choice, some of them weren't. But you've
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: got to win some football games to get kids to
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: buy in.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Steve robertson jeans page dot com, which one hurt the most?
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I don't the benj Arvis Schuemaker thing from from Ackerman
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: in Chalk Tawk County that hurts, But the Mitchell Turner
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: thing hurts a lot too.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Now you learn a lot in hindsight, right.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I was told basically two days after Turner committed announce
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: his commitment to Old Miss, and he had told ol
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Miss before he visited Mississippi State. Like the day before
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: he began his official in stargled, he had already told
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Old Miss that he was coming. He just wanted to
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: get through his visit in Misissippi State. And then he
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: gets the state, has a better time than he expected.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: He's conflicted for a little bit, but ultimately picked All Miss.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: So in many respects, while State may have caused a
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: little bit of a wobble there, things went to script
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: for Old Miss because they were already in a good
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: position heading.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: Into the visit.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Ideally, how many players would you like for them to
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: shigne in high school?
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Well? I think that number one. Can you retain them? Right?
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: High school recruiting, And we see it in our own readership, right,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I mean used to.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: You know, recruiting is what drove the industry.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: But what fans are showing us is that, hey, we're
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: interested in high school recruiting, but it's not like it
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: once was.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: We're more interested in portal recruiting.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: And so I think if you're Mississippi State, what I
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: would do is I would probably sign about twenty a
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: year and then spend everything else in the portal you
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: used to. I would say, hey, you got your twenty
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: five guys, and I remember what you know, when you
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: signed thirty, people are like, oh my gosh, they're over signing.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: You know what.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: The game has changed so much in the last ten years,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and so you can't go over commit to high school
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: players because there's no guarantee they're going to be with
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: you for two or three years, and so you're constantly
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: having a supplement. That's why it's so important to get
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: kids that grow up cheering for Mississippi State. Kids that
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: are you know, can share the experience with their families.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: And that's that's what makes all this localized recruiting and
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: favorable miss so painful for Mississippi State because kids from
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Lewisville and Ackerman.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: You don't expect those guys to transfer, and now all.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Of a sudden, that's kind of eroading what you're hoping
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: to build on your high school recruiting base.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Right because thirty five portal players a year is not sustainable,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: is it? Steve?
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Absolutely not?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: And you know, I know some people are trying to
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: build a program on then, and you see so much
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: up and down with it. You've got to have a
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: nucleus of high school players that stick with you just
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: because of the fact if your portal reliant, I mean,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: and we see it push over to baseball too. You
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: remember in Michigan State, like everybody's like, oh my gosh,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: they're the portal kings.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Look at what they did, and the two years later
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: everybody's fired. Right.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: You can't be so reliant on the portal because at
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: some point you're going to land a bad portal class.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, just look at what Jay Johnson had an
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: LSU this year, right, I mean inform basicball. Yeah, you
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: simply cannot continue to bet your livelihood on a portal
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: class every single year.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: At some point, you've got to have a strong nucleus.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Didn't you tell me. O'Connor wants to start the process
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: of shifting more to hot I mean, he he knows
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: he's got to use and leverage the portal, but but
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: he he wants to get it to where he can
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: get some classes in and retain them and not have
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: to go as heavy portal in the future. Maybe after
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: this year.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think ideally what O'Connor would like to do
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: is number one, when you're in Mississippi State, your LSU,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: your Ole miss or Arkansas, you've got to go out
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and get as much competition as you can for your roster, right,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: so you're never going to be in a situation where
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: you're not working the portal. But I think O'Connor's last
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: year at Virginia, he signed five or six guys out
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: of the portal.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you can do that in the SEC.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I think it's probably got to be somewhere around ten,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: depending on how things play out, because with the five
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: or five, things may change a little bit, maybe you're
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: a little less reliant. But yeah, he said before, you've
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: got to have players that buy into your program and
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: stay with you three years, and then you supplement each
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: year out of the portal. He said that last year's
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: class would probably be the biggest portal class he ever signed,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: and that makes sense.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Bringing in his own players.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this year's class is still.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Going to probably settle somewhere around twelve thirteen, but it's
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: going to be smarter than last year. And I think
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: next year maybe you can go down even more.
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  Speaker 2: Steve robertson jeans Page dot Com two four seven Sports
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: on the out of Bounds show back to football and
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: then we'll do some baseball here in a minute. All right,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: So there's some buzz on Camaro Taylor, right, and we
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: know he's talented, but you know, he goes down to
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Manning passing Academy, people get excited. You like to see
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: that the fans are getting excited about something. If you
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: take the spring steve from your sources, you know, did
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: he take a couple of steps forward? And do you
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: believe as a true sophomore he can really be the
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: leader of the team and the driving force on offense.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Well, I think he already is.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: And again just talking to people in the building, even
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: from the first day that he got here. You know,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: he's that gregarious personality, already has some credibility when he
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: walks in the room and now all of a sudden,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: you know, you put him out there, let him start
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: the egg ball, and he had a pretty good game.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't say it's a great game. You have a pretty
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: good game, and you have pretty good Bowl game. The
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: step that we've heard that he's made is decision making,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: you know during the spring is just being more comfortable
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: in the offense, knowing where the checkdowns are, understanding his
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: progressions and not being a one read quarterback. And so
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: that's what you expect long term when you begin to
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: get some reps. And that's really what he needs is reps.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: He has all the talent in the world. And the
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: fun thing for me is, like, you know, we've covered
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: this young man as a recruit out of high school,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: you know, and we've understood the magnetism that he has, right,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, he goes down to
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Many Passion Academy and there's all these people that have
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: never seen him play on TV or in person. They're like,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: holy smokes, seventy yards just with the flick of the rest.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, he has all the physical skills.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Now it's hey, can we, within the framework of this
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: offense utilize him in a way that gives stated a
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: chance in the winning season this year? And that's really
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the question. But if you're a Mississippi State fan you've
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: needed something to get excited about, Camaro Taylor is absolutely
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: worth your attention.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: What if they're just a little bit better or not,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: I mean on the offensive line, I'm not sure it's
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: going to be as drastic or as big a step
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: as some people are talking about. But if they're a
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: little bit better and now You've got a mobile dual
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: threat QB along with Pluff. That makes them even better too, right,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: the unit, and.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: It opens up to ourpo game even more because you
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: have to respect Camrio's ability to run the football and
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: a healthy Pluff bothwell is a problem for a lot
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: of people, right, And the fact that Camarrio can be
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: a plus runner opens up more opportunities for Fluff. And
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: so I think that's the aspect of it. And you know, yeah,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you. I do expect the offerensive line
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: to be better. I'm not going to delude myself into
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: thinking three weeks into the season this is going to
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: be you know, the ninety five.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Cowboys or anything like that.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Right, but the left tackle spot is still you know,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: we'll see you know, of course, the team's up for
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Perkins is the guy that Jeff Levy says is the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: most improved while I'm in on the team.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: He's got an NFL talent.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: You get Miles mcday works on one side, Blake Stein's
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: back on the other.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: With when Levy said that about Shumper, so he red
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: shirted last year. Uh, you know, Levy's one of the
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: most optimistic people in the world. So were you surprised
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: that he went that far with somebody who's never had
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: a rep in college.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, And I asked him a little bit later in
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the spring, you know, because the first time he makes
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: the comment, you're like, Okay, maybe the kid has had
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: a good week of practice.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: We get to the end of the spring and he
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: couldn't have been more positive about Trumper. And you know,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: you go out and sign eight guys out of the
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: portal and then the guy that you feel like is
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the most advanced is a guy that red shirted within
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: your program last year, you know, and.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Which I think kind of speaks the point we're making earlier.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: You've got to have a balance.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: You can't just go out and expect to get the
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: plug and play portal guy. You've got to have some
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: guys that are willing to develop, and your coaches have
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: got to bring.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: The best out of them.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: And so I think having Schumfert as a guy that
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: could play left or right tackle gives you a lot
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: of flexibility.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: I think they have three tackles right now. They can
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: play within this league.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: And what's so crazy is you talk to everybody in
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: the building, they'll tell you the interior offensive line is
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the strength. You know, you feel like with Chester slotting
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: in their guard and prove them at the other side.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: And these are guys that have sec snaps under their belt.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I feel a lot better. But you know,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: this time last year, we felt pretty good because you
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: had so many returning pieces on the offensive line.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: Then Steen goes down for the year, Albert Reese has
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: hurt much of the year, Luke work has hurt much
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: of the year.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: And then you got to throw guys out there that
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: aren't ready to play, and you know, with a quarterback
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: that just didn't have the ability to kind of feel
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the pressure at times, and you saw what we got. Yeah,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: it should be a better group provide of everybody can
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: stay healthy.
• 35:03
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• 35:12
  Speaker 2: for Camaro? We talked about fluff in the backfield. I'm
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: talking about receiver slots, tight ends, whatever you want to
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: call him, Steve.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: That is we talk about you bringing these receivers in.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: You know, Marquise Johnson's the guy that's got a tremendous
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: amount of ability Uh.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: I didn't think he had a great spring.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I've heard it's one of those things where he's just
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: trying to pick it up a little bit. But you know,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: he's a guy that could be interesting. But you know,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I wrote about this yesterday. Everything said, well, how do
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: we replace Brenon Thompson. Will you replaced Brenda Thompson the
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: same way you replaced Kevin Coleman? Right, both those guys
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: are in the league now. Once Kevin Coleman came in here,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: he had never done anything in college. He had the
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: best year of his college career. Transfer to Missouri and
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Regresses had one touchdown catch last year. Granted up as
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: a fit round pick of the Dolphins. Chad Bumpus and
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Jeff Levy both have told me it's not the player.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: It's that position within this offense that is going to
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: be a productive position in this offense because it's designed
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: for that. And so everybody freaked out, well, how in
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the world that we replaced Kevin Coleman, Oh, you signed
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: this kid from Oklahoma.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: Brenon Thomas has never done anything.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Ali does is go out instead of school record, you know,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: And so it's not the personality, it's the principal within
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: the offense. And so I think because of the fact
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: that you know, through Jeff Levy's career, they have found
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: a way to get that particular position to football and
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: get them in matchups or advantageous, You're going to see
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of that this year.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Steve robertson jeans page dot Com two four seven. Sports
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  Speaker 2: people are frustrated with the the Road Dogs Tour getting
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: canceled and there's just not a lot of buzz and
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: people aren't out, you know, shaking hands and kissing babies
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: with the mississip if he stay faithful. What's your reaction
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: to that, Steve?
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Someone that's warranted, you know, And I know a lot
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: of people have said, hey, you know, with all these
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: new expenditures and reap share and stuff, and things have
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: to get cut. But you know, I see a lot
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: of other schools out there doing that, and quite frankly,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I think in times of distress, that's when you need
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: to be more visible. It's not just when hey, things
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: are going great. You know, we got back Prescott, we
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: got Ben Mullum. You know, we got a chance to
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: go compete for the SEC West. You know, those years
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: are fun, but they're not as needful. When you're struggling
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: a little bit. To create some enthusiasm for the program,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: you've got to go manufacture that. I think you have
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: to go out there and you have to be visible.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: You have to answer those difficult questions at times. But
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: the main thing is people just want to be heard
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: and they want to be seen, and I just don't
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: think you can accomplish that and start ball.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: I think you've got to get out and go. And again,
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: I don't know all.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: The details behind the decision, but I know if it
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: were me and my organization and my business and we
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: were in times of crisis, I would be there. I
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  Speaker 1: would go out there and speak to my benefactors and
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: the shareholders within my own program, and I would provide
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  Speaker 1: them some level of assurance of you know what we're
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: doing to get to where we want to be.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more. Let's go to baseball. Give me
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: how would you sum up O'Connor's portal class to date?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and I love the offensive pieces and we knew
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: kind of going into this thing, you had to prioritize
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: the bullpen because you weren't going to be able to
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: get bona fide weekend starters to come in here. Know
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: when you're returning your entire week in rotation, you may
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: get a spot starter. And listen, you're never going to
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: go through the full year with the savory guys. You
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: need a four starter. You need to cultivate a younger
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: guy to be your midwek guy. But you can never
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: have enough starters. But it's difficult to get people because
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: their agents are all telling them, even the relievers, hey,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: you need to go somewhere you can start right. But
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: I think the offensively, there's no ace rees in this group. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's just go ahead and settle that. But I think
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  Speaker 1: it as a collective, it's probably the best offensive class
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  Speaker 1: that we've ever signed in the portal.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And then you go out and you get some bullpen
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  Speaker 1: pieces and everybody knows how many games last year do
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  Speaker 1: we get a great start and then couldn't close the ballgate.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I go back and think about Texas, Texas A and
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  Speaker 1: M You know, uh, those.
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  Speaker 4: Are games you know Arkansas for that matter.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: You know, you look at so many of these things
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: when we had bullpen issues. Now, granted, you lose Ryan
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: McPherson for two months, lose William Kirk for the year.
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  Speaker 4: Guys have to move off. But this is Mississippi State, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's ever going to say it's okay to have a
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: lack of depth at Mississippi State. And I think O'Connor
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: is taking steps to ensure that that's never a convenient
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: excuse for anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And so the starting rotate, you know, Tomas McPherson
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: and Duke are back, and Jack Bauer could come Pete
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: for one of those spots. Is that there?
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And then you know, we'll see what happens with
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: you know, William Kirk, you know, I mean, you know,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: with him and he was a guy too that was
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: you know, if he gets he stays healthy, you know,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Billingsley remains a bullpen piece, right and uh, you know,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: of course Bill's and I headed the Coastal Carolina and
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: they're they're going to try to turn him into a
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: weekend starter.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he's got good stuff. I wish him
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: the best.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: And in that league, right, I mean you begin to
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: kind of think about, you know, maybe jumping from JUCO
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: to the SEC and then being forced into these roles,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: which good off morn he can chew, but I'll tell
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: you what, the kid did not cower down. And uh,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: and and I wish him the best. I mean he's
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I traded some text with him after he committed to
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Coastal and just wish him the best.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: And uh, they got big plans for him.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: And that's the thing too, if you begin to think
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: about him half after a year with Parker and how
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: much he learned. And now you've got the five to
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: five right, So yeah, he's a guy that maybe maybe
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: work his way into you know, a middle round pick
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: within a year or so.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Who knows, right, all right, the one picture you're excited
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: about in the O'Connor Parker landed the portal, I got
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: a minute.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I really like the shin Flud kid. There's some guys
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: and that obviously has some ability. But what I like
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: about the Shinflot guy, he's a left handed and he's
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: kind of a kind of a he's kind of got
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: a different delivery.
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  Speaker 4: But that change up is absolutely incredible.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: And uh, I think that he is a guy that
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: makes you a lot better just because of the fact
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: that he's not just a matchup guy. He could you
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: could ride h for three or four innings and you
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: need guys that have some flex like that. You don't
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: just need a lefty left the specialist. I mean, you
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: need one of those guys on your roster. But when
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: you've got a guy like him who can start for you,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: he can be a longer lever, or he can be
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: a closer for you.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: That gives you a lot of options to work with.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: And so I really like him as the addition. And
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I think they've done well. And you know, we'll see
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: what this high school class will. It's like alfter the
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: weekend with the draft. Uh, and then you know you
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: may have to recalibrate make some other adjustments. But yeah,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: I think Missipisaid is going to bring an extremely talented
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: group of campus.
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  Speaker 2: I got thirty seconds. Give me a percentage on Menues Kalka.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: You know, I would lean more towards fifty five percent
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: of him signing, just because you don't reclass to come
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: to college, right if you reclass for the draft or
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: on the baseball side of things. And I think the
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: fact that his dad was a minor league baseball player
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  Speaker 1: that made a triple A.
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  Speaker 4: He's mentally he's prepared.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: For this, probably as well as anybody in the country,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: but I understand the number is significant. You know, he's
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: not gonna you know, he's got a great situation and
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: he's not gonna sign for peanuts. So I can't totally
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: rule it out, but I would say, as of today,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: I would lean a little bit more towards him signing
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: just because of his actions.
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  Speaker 2: Steve robertson Jean's page dot com. We'll be back in
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  Speaker 2: a second.