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Tennessee Football Preview with Mike Keith · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: What time.
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  Speaker 2: I think it is written down somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: That that it's probably written down somewhere that it's at
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  Speaker 1: the very least an implied order, if not a direct order.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever a broadcaster has a play by play voice of
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  Speaker 1: another college on, they're supposed to either jump back with
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  Speaker 1: their fight song or something like that. Happens to me
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  Speaker 1: every time I'm on with Toby rolling Oklahoma, they come
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  Speaker 1: back with with Texas Fight or the Eyes of Texas.
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  Speaker 1: So the producer Jay Herman thought it proved it so
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  Speaker 1: as we continue our SEC football previews, it brings us
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  Speaker 1: to the Tennessee volunteers, and that's Mike Keith, their play
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  Speaker 1: by play voice, who joins us.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, I really appreciate the time. How are you this afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing very well, Craig, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 4: having the interesting note. However, Rocky Top is not Tennessee's
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  Speaker 4: fight song, well not even one of their fight songs.
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  Speaker 4: There is strong discussion that after fifty years have been
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  Speaker 4: playing as if there were the fight song, that it
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  Speaker 4: should become an official fight song, but it is not,
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  Speaker 4: which is quite a strange thing in the eyes of
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  Speaker 4: many even here.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I remember hearing that one.
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  Speaker 1: It went when I went up there to do I
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  Speaker 1: think a women's basketball game several years ago, or it
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  Speaker 1: was a men's either one that they said, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I made a comment about, boy, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: play Rocky Top probably as often as Texas Fight gets
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  Speaker 1: played to Texas or Boomer Sooner or some of the others,
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  Speaker 1: and somebody said, well, you know, it's not a real
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  Speaker 1: fight song, and I'd forgotten about that.
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  Speaker 2: And you're a Tennessee grad, aren't you. Oh yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: what I thought.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Well, you know, many folks for many years
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  Speaker 1: were so were so used to hearing you do such
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  Speaker 1: a fabulous job calling the Tennessee Titans.
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  Speaker 2: And what you and I met a couple of.
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  Speaker 1: Years ago, I guess was that your first year back
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  Speaker 1: after Bob Kesling's retirement. That is this your third year
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  Speaker 1: or or more in reassuming all the play by play
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  Speaker 1: duties there for volunteer football and men's basketball.
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  Speaker 4: It's her two for me, and I've been here for
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  Speaker 4: quite some time. I came immediately after the Titans season
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  Speaker 4: ended in twenty twenty four, so I was here in
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  Speaker 4: early January twenty twenty five. I've been here for going
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  Speaker 4: on two years, but this is only my second school
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  Speaker 4: year to be the announcer.
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  Speaker 1: How much of an adjustment was it for you?
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  Speaker 2: With all those years?
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  Speaker 1: And what I always call was the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: very set in stone and regimented routine of NFL teams,
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  Speaker 1: and for that matter, I guess broadcasts to jump in
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  Speaker 1: back into the college scene where there's football, owner's a
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  Speaker 1: basketball game here, and then there's some overlap, and then
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  Speaker 1: there's another basketball game on down the road.
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  Speaker 2: How much of an adjustment was that for you?
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  Speaker 3: Massive adjustment, massive, massive adjustment, just understanding that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the two seasons overlap. The thing about working for the
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  Speaker 3: Titans was unless I did sort of a one off
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  Speaker 3: event somewhere, like if I did a high school state
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  Speaker 3: championship where the Titans sent me out to do some
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  Speaker 3: event of some sort.
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  Speaker 5: It was gonna be the same.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it was gonna be You're gonna play Indianapolis
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday at noon Central time, and you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: just one thing, and I knew this would be harder,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, I think at this point in my life,
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to see if I.
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  Speaker 5: Could do it.
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  Speaker 4: I had not called basketball on the radio in thirty
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  Speaker 4: three years, and I'd done TV games, but I had
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  Speaker 4: not done it on the radio in thirty three years,
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  Speaker 4: and I wanted to try it, you know, I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to see, you know, I wanted to see what it
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  Speaker 4: was like. I wanted to be part of the Southeastern Conference.
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  Speaker 5: The fact that Texas.
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  Speaker 4: And Oklahoma were coming in appeal to me greatly. The
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  Speaker 4: fact that it's a play that football is a playoff
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  Speaker 4: sport like the NFL appealed.
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  Speaker 2: To me greatly.
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  Speaker 4: Sort of the new wave of it, which seems very
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  Speaker 4: much like the NFL when I got into it in
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  Speaker 4: nineteen ninety eight. It has a familiar feeling because when
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  Speaker 4: I started Craig in the National Football League, it was
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  Speaker 4: only the fourth year of free agency in the salarycap, true,
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  Speaker 4: and everybody, everybody was still I mean, they didn't call
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  Speaker 4: it the Wild West like they do with what we're
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  Speaker 4: getting right now, but everybody was still trying to bend
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  Speaker 4: the rules. They were trying to find, you know, the
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  Speaker 4: different ways to get into it. Make no mistake about it, though,
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  Speaker 4: I mean I was. I was very honored and very
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  Speaker 4: happy to work for the Tennessee Titans. The Adams family
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  Speaker 4: was wonderful to my family and it was it was
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  Speaker 4: the honor of a lifetime to be with them, and
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  Speaker 4: now to have this opportunity he is another great honor
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  Speaker 4: as well well.
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  Speaker 1: And just a side note, you get to work with
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite people on planet Earth, and that's
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  Speaker 1: Rick Barnes.
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  Speaker 2: That spent sixteen years with him, So it's.
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  Speaker 1: And he's always kind enough to do a pregame interview
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  Speaker 1: with me every year of the Texas and Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: He's a different sword, isn't.
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  Speaker 5: He the best?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: He was my He was my very favorite part of
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  Speaker 5: year one.
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  Speaker 4: To get to basically in bed with them, which is
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  Speaker 4: what you know. I told him I started going to
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  Speaker 4: basketball practice last summer and he's like, why are you here? Like, well,
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  Speaker 4: this is this is kind of what I do. I
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  Speaker 4: want to I want to watch it, I want to
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  Speaker 4: learn it.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm listen.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't tell you what a football or a basketball
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  Speaker 4: play is, per se. I mean, you know, if somebody
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  Speaker 4: kidnapped me and asked me to diagram the plays of
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  Speaker 4: Tennessee to give him an advantage, they would they would
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  Speaker 4: be very disappointed in me as a hostage, because I
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  Speaker 4: mean I I don't know. Now, I played, so I
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  Speaker 4: sort of know what the deal is. But what I'm
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  Speaker 4: watching for is who are the players in the lineup,
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  Speaker 4: what are they focused on? Just kind of understanding the
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  Speaker 4: overall philosophy and coach Barnes is amazing And what's really
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  Speaker 4: amazing to me, and what is quite a thrill is
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  Speaker 4: he has totally embraced transfer Portland and il. The majority
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  Speaker 4: of his peers have retired. They said, don't want any
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  Speaker 4: of this. He's just said, fine, I don't have to
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  Speaker 4: go sit in the gym for eight weeks all summer
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  Speaker 4: recruiting all high school kids. And Tennessee funds basketball very well.
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  Speaker 4: You know Adolph upset about Tennessee back in the nineteen fifties.
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  Speaker 4: He said, Tennessee is a football school that takes its
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  Speaker 4: basketball very seriously. And I think that's what Rick Barnes
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  Speaker 4: has found. He's found a place that while it's known
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  Speaker 4: as a football school, they very much loved their basketball.
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  Speaker 5: And here's the thing too, Craig. They love him. They
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  Speaker 5: love Rick bart.
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  Speaker 4: He is beloved in this community and he can do
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  Speaker 4: no wrong in terms of what he does as a
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  Speaker 4: person and being around both he and his staff and
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  Speaker 4: his players. You know, he's got a certain standard. As
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  Speaker 4: you know, not everybody can play for Rick Barnes. True,
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  Speaker 4: and to see these guys and to get to know
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  Speaker 4: these guys, it was the highlight of year one for
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  Speaker 4: me because I learned so much, No doub it was
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  Speaker 4: really special.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Keith is the play by playboy. So the Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: volunteers joining us for SEC preview. Okay, let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: your football team. And one thing I always remember about
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  Speaker 1: Josh Hipel, other than the fact that he led Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: to a sixty three to fourteen win over Texas in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand en route to winning the national title, was
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  Speaker 1: the was the fact that he's looked at as being
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  Speaker 1: a real offensive savan and offensive genius. And I would
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  Speaker 1: submit that probably, and I don't know how coach Hypel
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  Speaker 1: feels about this, but probably the greatest challenge for a
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  Speaker 1: real offensive mind like coach Hypel is when he has
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  Speaker 1: to break in another quarterback. And now, with the latest
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  Speaker 1: in the quarterback derby being either the freshman Faison Brandon
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  Speaker 1: or George McIntyre, I guess, or the two that are
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  Speaker 1: looked at most prominently, I'm sure he rolls up his
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  Speaker 1: sleeves and dives right into it. But what's the vibe
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  Speaker 1: you get on what he does with his offense and
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  Speaker 1: how whoever is going to take the snaps at quarterback
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  Speaker 1: is going to factor into this.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what Hypeul likes to tell you, which is so great,
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  Speaker 4: his dad was a longtime coach, longtime football coach. His
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  Speaker 4: dad's background is in defense. So a lot of the
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  Speaker 4: things that he incorporates for his quarterback and for his
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  Speaker 4: offense comes from understanding what a defense is bothered by
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  Speaker 4: the most. And his father is actually around and keeps
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  Speaker 4: an eye on some things for him a little bit too,
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  Speaker 4: which is really an interesting dynamic. But Josh has buried
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  Speaker 4: so many things in his time at Tennessee. He came
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  Speaker 4: in and his offense looked one way, and he's put
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  Speaker 4: in more routes. He's expanded the route tree, he's expanded
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  Speaker 4: the run game. He'll go under center, there's more motion now.
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  Speaker 4: I think the flexibility in him is what is most impressive.
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  Speaker 4: And so whether it's Brandon or MacIntyre or both, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we could certainly see that he'll announce a
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  Speaker 4: starter at some point, but the starter he's going to
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  Speaker 4: announce is for the Furman game. It doesn't mean he's
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  Speaker 4: making an announcement for the end of time. You know,
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  Speaker 4: both of these guys can play. They've got some experienced
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  Speaker 4: offensive linemen and skill players around them, but he's not
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  Speaker 4: going to baby them, Craig. He's going to expect them
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  Speaker 4: to be able to go out and execute the offense. Now,
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  Speaker 4: can he run everything that he ran with twenty five
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  Speaker 4: year old Joey Aguilar? Maybe maybe not, but it's still
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  Speaker 4: going to be his offense. I think the difference in
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  Speaker 4: his offense this year and the overall difference to his
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  Speaker 4: football team is they're going to be much more physical.
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  Speaker 4: Tennessee felt like they got out physical down the stretch
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  Speaker 4: a year ago, and Josh Hipel was not pleased with
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  Speaker 4: any bit.
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  Speaker 5: Of that at all.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting you mentioned that he's got some good pieces of
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  Speaker 1: the court. Whoever is going to be the quarterback or
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  Speaker 1: both have good offensive pieces around them at the skill spot.
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  Speaker 1: Who do you think is really the standoup? Might it
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  Speaker 1: be a Braylyn Stay, Might it be you know, Mike Matthews.
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  Speaker 1: Might it be a Deshaun Bishop who really stands out
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  Speaker 1: to you as the guy who in addition to the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback play has to kind of be a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a bell cow on the offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 4: I think the two receivers you mentioned first, Staley and
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  Speaker 4: Matthews have to be at the top of the list.
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  Speaker 4: That's the best returning pair of receivers in terms of
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  Speaker 4: productivity that Tennessee has had in fifteen years.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: And so with that being the case, you know, those
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  Speaker 4: guys have to come through. They played really well last year,
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  Speaker 4: they put up good numbers, but they've got to be
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  Speaker 4: guys that they can go to. Ethan Davis at tight end,
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  Speaker 4: Deshaun Braeme at tight end, They've got to find a
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  Speaker 4: third wide receiver. Bishop the running back, has a chance
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  Speaker 4: with a great year, to be Tennessee's all time leading rusher. Wow.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean I think they're going to feature him.
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  Speaker 4: But Tennessee likes to play three backs. And Javen Gordon
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  Speaker 4: is transfer from two Lanes playoff team, has done well
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  Speaker 4: in camp. And then Dwayn Morris is a sophomore running
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  Speaker 4: back who has tremendous speed. So all those guys are
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  Speaker 4: going to be counted on. They're going to have to
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  Speaker 4: come through this year. If Tennessee is going to take
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  Speaker 4: a step back to being a playoff.
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  Speaker 1: Contender talking Tennessee Volunteers Football on our sec P views
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  Speaker 1: with all of the play by play voices we do
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  Speaker 1: every day here during this three week span, and today
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  Speaker 1: it's Mike Keith, the voice of the Balls, who joins
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  Speaker 1: us now on the defensive side. The layman might look
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  Speaker 1: at it, Mike and say, hey, linebackers and secondary look better,
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  Speaker 1: look really really good. If there's a question mark, maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's in the down lineman. Do you see it similarly,
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  Speaker 1: or there's some other things that come to your mind
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  Speaker 1: about the Tennessee defense.
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  Speaker 4: I think the down linemen are going to be fine.
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  Speaker 4: They just I mean two years ago, you know they
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you know this.
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  Speaker 5: I shouldn't say it that way. I apologize.
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  Speaker 4: Two years ago they played sixteen down lineman. They rotated
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  Speaker 4: sixteen defensive lineman, which is crazy. And five of the
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  Speaker 4: players that they lost off last year's team are in
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  Speaker 4: NFL camps. So they have lost depth and talent. But
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  Speaker 4: they have talent. Now the question becomes do they have depth.
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  Speaker 5: Up front?
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  Speaker 4: They brought in Xavier Gellim from Penn State Jordan Norman
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  Speaker 4: from Tulane to combine with Nathan Richardson and David Hobbs
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  Speaker 4: and you know some other guys that were already here.
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  Speaker 4: So I think they're I think they're okay there. They
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  Speaker 4: have a lot of linebackers. They absolutely have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of linebackers that the LEO position. That edge rusher, we're
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  Speaker 4: not sure who that is. And if they can't find
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  Speaker 4: that consistent player, do they use some sort of hybrid
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  Speaker 4: do they use extra linebackers, do they play an extra
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  Speaker 4: defensive back. I think they're probably like everybody else. Every
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  Speaker 4: football team from you know wherever junior high school to
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  Speaker 4: the best team in the NFL. They don't have enough corners.
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  Speaker 4: Every coach in America is going to tell you he
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  Speaker 4: doesn't have enough corners. And Tennessee, Tennessee is really fighting
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  Speaker 4: to find corner depth, just like everybody else. But again,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't have one year in the NFL where the
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  Speaker 4: coach said, oh, we got plenty of corners. It's great, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, embarrassment of richest.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'd like to I'd like to see I
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  Speaker 4: would like I'd like to meet that grass cutter coach
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  Speaker 4: who would be willing to tell you he has enough corners.
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  Speaker 5: But you get it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you get it with all the receiver stuff
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  Speaker 4: that people do you need them? You know, who's going
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  Speaker 4: to play the nickel? And do you play a safety
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  Speaker 4: at nickel or do you play a corner at nickel
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  Speaker 4: or do you have a player who just basically a nickel.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we've seen that the Tyron Matthews of the
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  Speaker 4: world come around some too, so we'll see. Listen, Jim Knowles,
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  Speaker 4: the defensive coordinator, is a heck of a defensive coach.
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  Speaker 5: He'll cook something up.
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  Speaker 4: The biggest change in Tennessee was hiring Indiana's strength coach
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  Speaker 4: Derek Owings and the ball's commitment to getting back to
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  Speaker 4: physicality they put they got pushed around down the stretch
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  Speaker 4: and Josh Haipel after the Vanderbilt game, in which the
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  Speaker 4: Commodores won in Knoxville by twenty one points, dominating the
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  Speaker 4: second half, his quote is, I'm embarrassed. And so he
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  Speaker 4: went out and got somebody, and you know, the best
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  Speaker 4: strength coach in the country if you look at what
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  Speaker 4: Indiana was last year, certainly the hottest strength coach in
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  Speaker 4: the country because of what Indiana did. You know, That's
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  Speaker 4: that's what he wanted and that's what he got.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Texas fans very well acquainted with Jim Knowles
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  Speaker 1: from his time first at Oklahoma State, then last year
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  Speaker 1: obviously at Ohio State. Mike, before I let you go,
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask you something I've asked all of
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  Speaker 1: the other play by play guys who've been on and
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  Speaker 1: the ones that'll be on next week during our final
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  Speaker 1: week of these previews, and that's about the whole nine
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  Speaker 1: game conference schedule thing. That and some of the guys
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  Speaker 1: who've been around calling it for a long time might
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  Speaker 1: have a better perspective than you or I in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the weekly grind of the SEC, but I think
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  Speaker 1: we've both seen it, saw it last year what the
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  Speaker 1: regular grind is of an eight game schedule with a
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  Speaker 1: nine game conference schedule. There are those who really have
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  Speaker 1: some trepidation about it. Now your non conference schedule, and
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  Speaker 1: it's a good challenge to go to Atlanta to play
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech. But the non conference schedule would seem to
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  Speaker 1: set up well enough to where you get three games
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  Speaker 1: under belt anyway before the Loghorns roll in has tried
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  Speaker 1: the river there on September twenty six. How about your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on the nine game conference schedule?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think it's the NFL. Yeah, I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: think that's one hundred percent what it is. I've seen it.
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  Speaker 4: And what I mean by that is you're gonna I mean,
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  Speaker 4: let's say you go play LSU and you go play
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  Speaker 4: Oh Miss.
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  Speaker 5: And you beat them both.
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  Speaker 4: Great, right, but you're so beat up? Can will you
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  Speaker 4: have a chance to beat Florida the next week?
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  Speaker 5: And that sounds crazy?
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  Speaker 4: You're like, well, LSU is gonna be good, No Miss
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  Speaker 4: is gonna be good, and Florida's gonna be much approved.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, guess what, everybody's got it now.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that's gonna be what.
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  Speaker 4: The nine game grind is overall is it's gonna wear
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  Speaker 4: on you as a way, in a way like professional
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  Speaker 4: football that Hey listen, when I started following the SEC
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  Speaker 4: six games and when they went to seven, they thought,
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  Speaker 4: oh the world's ending, We're going to seven, and then
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  Speaker 4: you go to eight, it's like age too many, We
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  Speaker 4: shouldn't And the coaches didn't want nine. And I one
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  Speaker 4: hundred percent geft why they didn't want nine, because this
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  Speaker 4: conference and the challenge that it puts you through, especially
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  Speaker 4: with just one by week this year, the grind that
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  Speaker 4: it puts you through. It's going to be very, very
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  Speaker 4: tough now for us as broadcasters, it's fabulous. For fans,
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  Speaker 4: it's fantastic. If you if you have enough to get
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  Speaker 4: in the playoff, you're gonna be ready for anybody.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I think you know.
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  Speaker 4: If you're Tennessee, your goal to start with is to
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: get to the LSU game at home on November twenty first,
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: still in the hunt for the playoffs, and if you can,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: if you can make it that far, that the Georgia
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Tech thing is going to be a big deal, a
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: much bigger deal for Tennessee than probably what it looks
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: like on paper because they play Colorado to open and
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: so they will have already seen a quality opponent to
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: begin and they play them on a Thursday night, and
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: then Tennessee goes in there, and you know, there's a
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: real new Georgia Tech team, kind of a new Tennessee team.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: They've got to find a way to win that football game.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of pressure in that football game. And
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: then Kennesaw State, that's a team that won their conference
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: last year. And Tennessee fans here Kennesaw State and they
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: think back to Georgia State in twenty nineteen when they
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: came into Knoxville and beat Tennessee.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: So you know, I mean you some of those.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Teams are you know, they're a lot more sort of
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: catchy than they were when when Peyton Manning was here
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: and I was covering the team in the nineties. Tennessee
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: would start the season, Craig with eight wins. You knew
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: they had eight wins. It was gonna be Georgia, Florida
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: and Alabama would be the other three games, and then
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: that would decide what kind of season you had. Today,
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: I think you start off with one, maybe do automatic wins.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: There's some you you certainly think you can win. But
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Tennessee knew they were winning eight games in that period.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: They knew it, and and today it's just not like
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: that anymore.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: You're right, it is something else.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Uh, Mike Agent, tell how much I am looking forward
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: to calling a football game for the first time for
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: me at Neiland Stadium. I you know, I've obviously seen
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: it on television and heard everybody describing it. I'm I'm
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to, uh to being in Knoxville there
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: coming up to start off SEC play. I appreciate you
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: doing this and and I would love to visit with
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: you again game week if that works for you.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Just saying Texas. UH had a chance to work with
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: coach Sarkisi and some when he was at Washington and
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: a big fan of his obviously. This is an historic
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: matchup for both programs. And you know, Greg, if you
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: love college football like I know you do, this is
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: what live for. You know, you live for moments like
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: this where you're gonna get to see a first on
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: campus meeting between these programs, and that Saturday is going
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: to be unreal in Knoxville, Tennessee.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: I can't wait for.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: It me either. Hey, Mike, thanks so much. I appreciate
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: you doing this.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I'll look forward to visiting with you the week of
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the ball game and look forward to seeing you in
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Knoxville at the end of September.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Thank you for having me on the program. I appreciate it.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: You bet.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: That's my key play by play voice of the Tennessee Volunteers.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Market on your calendar September twenty sixth, when the Logorrens
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and Tennessee likewise open SEC play against one of both
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: of these teams. By the way, Texas and Tennessee play
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: their three non conference games up front, and that was
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the point I was driving home with Mike. At least
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: you get those non conference games, you know, underfoot, whereas
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: some programs like Kentucky has to play Louisville and Georgie
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: has to play Georgia Tech. And we've talked about some
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: of those. Got Florida, Florida State. Those teams that have
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: a third non conference game at the tail end of
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the regular season only get a couple of weeks to
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: ramp it up and getting it. South Carolina playing Clemson
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: at the end, that's another example of that. So Texas
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: and Tennessee both will have played their non conference slate
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: when they teed it up to open SEC play on
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: September twenty sixth at Eland Stadium in Knoxville. All Right,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: coming up, it is inconceivable on a Friday. We know
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: what inconceivable on a Friday means Jacob.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Down to the Sunshine State, the most flasset of the
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: lower forty eight for Florida Man and Florida Woman, which
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: you've had a lot of good Florida woman stories lately.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, stay tuned for that. We got more coming up
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: here on thirteen Under the Zone