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EMERGENCY POD: JON SUMRALL TO TULANE · Tigs Bits Podcast

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  Welcome to Tigs Bits tonight. If there is ever time for an
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  emergency podcast, it is tonight.
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  I don't even know where to begin with this, but I'm just going to
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  say it got to rip it off like it's a Band-Aid.
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  The head coach of the Troy Trojans Mr. John Summerall has
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  become the new head coach with the two lane Green Wave.
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  Now as I know that everyone knows that has been following
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  the show for a while and listening and to you new fans of
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  out there from Tulane that are listening and tuning in you want
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  to learn a little bit more about the man that you guys have
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  hired. You guys from Troy that are
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  tuning in that have hurt us over the the past couple of years and
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  and I'm my good compadre who's about to join us.
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  Chad Blasi and his thoughts Welcome to the show and I I felt
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  we needed to do this, Chad, we just needed to do this.
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  People expect. Yeah, no, I agree.
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  I agree. You know, it's funny.
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  You sent that out and today we were talking and I was still
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  optimistic that somehow that we were going to land him back.
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  It was going to be one of those moments.
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  Like was a guy from West Virginia that was coming to
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  Alabama and he turned around. It's like, no, I'm heading back
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  home, Rich Rodriguez, or you see these things happen from time to
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  time, right? And I was like, man, we're going
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  to rent, Brent Jones has countered.
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  He's staying. I was fully convinced today that
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  this would end up in our corner. And when it didn't, man, it was
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  just like, I mean, I knew this day was coming, right?
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  Like Whitney, I knew this was coming.
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  I just didn't think it was this year.
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  And I didn't think it was to Tulane.
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  I thought it'd be to a Power 5 when it happened.
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  Nothing against Tulane. It's a great program, a great
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  school. Like, I got more money.
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  I mean, I. It's just look now.
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  It's tough, dude. It's tough, I.
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  Know it's tough. I've been on that end.
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  You know, I mean it. It's, it is reminiscent in your
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  world, I would say for sure of the way that I probably felt.
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  I know how bad that day felt Whenever Nick Saban left LSU to
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  go to Miami. Not to go to Alabama or not
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  leaving Miami. To go to Alabama.
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  The day he left LSU to go to Miami, it was gut wrenching.
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  And then they played a bowl game and it was the last one.
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  They get beat on the last second touchdown.
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  I was there in Orlando. It was just like, oh Lord, it
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  was just the dagger of daggers. But.
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  With that said, we have talked about on this show multiple
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  times, the last for the two years that we have had this
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  podcast. Troy has been mentioned a whole
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  lot and you've never been anything more than complimentary
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  about Coach Summerall. Then we got to have him on here,
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  which is mind blowing that we got to get a head coach and and
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  such a great head coach to come on and it it's tough to lose
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  somebody. But you've said it over and over
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  again, and you told me this years ago, like with Neil Brown,
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  whenever they, whenever that Troy team beat LSU, you know,
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  you're like, want me? I wouldn't be surprised if Neil
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  Brown ended up here, you know, when I was like, hey, right now
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  I'll take him. And it would have been a good
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  hire. Yeah, you know, and so.
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  And you you've said that before on the show about how these
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  coaches get these better opportunities.
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  Troy's such a good program, they're going to be fine in my
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  opinion. They're doing.
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  Doing what? Troy does you'll?
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  Get a good head coach, another guy that'll come in.
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  I don't want to use the term like a stepping stone kind of
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  school, but it kind of is. Let's just be it is.
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  It is. We understand.
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  I believe that. I don't think that that's a diss
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  to anybody. The fans that follow us on the
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  show and that I follow back and or that we follow back and I see
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  no, I think everybody understands that it's just kind
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  of like but but there but there is one more year.
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  We could that's. Well, we could.
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  Have fully convinced dude. I was fully convinced he fully
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  convinced he'd be here for another year because there was
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  rumors like that he had interviewed with Duke and turned
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  down Duke and when I heard these things that you know what, he's
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  really going to wait. He's really going to sit back.
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  And I heard the Tulane thing. And I'm like, you know, I see
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  the fit. He's he's been there before.
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  Hey, they can win over there. And let's just be real that they
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  probably offered him probably twice as much as what we were
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  paying him, if not more. I knew that.
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  I knew. I knew this day was coming.
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  I just thought he would might he might make it another year.
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  I thought we'd avoided the daggers.
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  It was the Mississippi State stuff going on.
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  They got their guy. I saw Kentucky at one time.
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  Stoops was heading down to Texas A and MI was like, Oh my God,
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  they're coming after sumrall. And then he stayed, right.
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  And then we saw and then Duke, he, you know, allegedly John
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  Sumrall turned down. Duke and I was like, oh, dude,
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  we're we're good. He's really going to wait this
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  out and really wait for that premier job.
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  We may have him another year, maybe two.
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  You know, I was like, this is awesome.
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  And then boom, here comes Tulane in the Green Wave caught us
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  today. And you know what it is?
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  Hey, I'm so thankful for John Sumrall and what he he did for
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  our program. Such a great guy.
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  Elevated our program back. Dude, he's won two conference
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  championships. Nothing but grateful for that
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  guy. And I wish him nothing but the
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  best, you know, in the future. It just was it was kind of
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  sudden today. I was.
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  I was under the assumption it was going to work out.
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  I went fishing today. I I caught my limit of Pompano
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  today and I was kind of like, man, you know, the Pompano were
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  coming in and I was like, man, this day is going to end up nice
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  today, you know? And dude, my group of Five Guys
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  hat came in today. Yeah, look at.
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  That, yeah, yeah. So smooth.
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  I was like, hey, some good things are happening.
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  I saw that. On the track.
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  I did. I was like, we're supposed to go
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  3 for three. I'm going to get fish.
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  I got my hat. John Sumrall staying.
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  Oh, my God. I'm.
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  I'm moonwalking tonight, right? You know?
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  Yeah, it is what it is, man. We've got he's, he's, you know,
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  I fully believe in our our athletic director, Brent Jones.
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  He's done a phenomenal job there, man.
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  And I know that we're going to get the right guy.
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  Greg Gasparado, the defensive coordinator that he brought in
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  this year who replaced Shield Wood and Shield Woods the
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  defense coordinator at Tulane now.
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  So that I knew that was scaring me too because last year when
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  John came, he brought Shield Wood in and she'll went to
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  Tulane this year. So now he's back.
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  Probably going to bring you know they're reconnecting there.
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  So. But Greg's going to take over as
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  the interim head to head coach. We'll see you know of who they
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  bring in. There's several names flying
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  around there. There's some really good
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  candidates that I think could take over.
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  I saw Jake Andrews who who plays for the Patriots now he jumped
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  and he never jumps on message boards.
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  He jumped on there. Today was like, guys, we got to
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  get Cole Popovich in here. Cole wasn't, you know, well that
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  last year for Troy and the thing with Troy.
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  That that's the thing with Troy Chad is that it's a community.
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  It's a network that like, that's why that that's why y'all
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  continue to win. People care.
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  And I mean they're they're going to get the ball rolling.
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  I have 0 doubts. Troy's going to be fine.
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  None. None whatsoever.
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  I totally agree. You know, I think they're going
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  to be just fine. And I think Tulane,
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  congratulations Tulane, you got you one you.
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  Got a great coach, great coach, Got a mighty I hope.
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  I love that. I love that guy.
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  I hope we can hurt people. Because he's such a good coach,
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  dude. It could be tough, but I hope we
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  can still get him on the show. I just want to throw that out
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  there. Coach Summerall, we'd love to
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  have you on the show. We'll come to you.
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  Hey, you're only. You're only. 75 miles from me
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  now brother I'll I'll come down there to you.
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  I'd love. I'd love to but yeah man I they
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  got they got a good one tell you know that we're going to have
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  some Tulane folks that are watching this video and this
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  isn't a a bash on Tulane or we hate Tulane because they took
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  our coach kind of deal. It's a it's just a a move.
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  It's a business not. At all decision.
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  Tell some of the Tulane folks some of the good things they can
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  expect, Some of the the ways that he coaches and in the way
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  that he interacts with the fans and things like that.
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  What can they expect in New Orleans shed?
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  Dude, first of all, you're getting a guy.
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  I mean, when it comes to XS and OS, I mean, just such a great
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  defensive coach, right? So that's just, like, goes
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  without saying. But dude, more than that, you're
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  getting a you're getting a guy who's so authentic, you know
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  what I mean? And so real.
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  Like with his players and how he connects with his players and
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  puts the players 1st. And that becomes the utmost
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  important, right? Like that.
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  His players come before everything.
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  It's like we, he told us in that interview, He walks in every day
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  and reminds them that we're here for the players.
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  We wouldn't have jobs if it wasn't for our players being
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  here. Nobody shows up to watch a
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  football game to watch us coach. They watch them play.
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  So he gets that at like just such a high level.
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  And then with the fans and how he interacts with the fans, Dude
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  and his passion, dude, his passion.
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  It's like you saw that thing run crazy at, you know, the other
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  day on that face mask all. But you know, dude, sometimes we
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  hadn't even talked. About that and.
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  Sometimes the thing with passion, right, because he kind
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  of like, wow, it's just a missed face mask all.
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  But you know sometimes when that valve opens up it's hard to shut
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  it back off you know what I mean?
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  And sometimes that you know it's like that it's just it's always
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  there for him and like dude you you're getting just a phenomenal
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  coach a phenomenal leader of man like I mean I he he is as he he
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  is as good as I've ever seen and like and and I think he's the
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  best that ever came through Troy like and I love Larry Blatney
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  and I love Neil Brown dude I think he's the best coach that
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  ever game he's only there two years dude but like he I think
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  was the best coach I've ever witnessed like live you know so
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  he really. Seems to have it.
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  I mean he learned. He learned.
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  He hasn't coaches. He learned under Stoops.
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  He's learned under a lot of you know he's been at Ole Miss.
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  Wasn't he at Ole Miss for a short?
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  Yes, he. Was at Ole Miss.
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  Yes, he was I. Mean man he is.
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  He has been around winning football.
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  He knows how to do it. It's very obvious.
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  And he's extremely organized is what I've been able to to to to
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  take away from him and and and and and humble.
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  I mean he he's, he's just a great dude.
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  A guy you want to hang out with, a guy you'd like to drink a beer
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  with, a guy you would be in a damn foxhole with, you know what
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  I mean? Like that he is a guy's guy.
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  He is a football coach, yes. He is and indeed and such a cool
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  cat and he's so nice to me. Like the times I I went up there
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  like after he was on our show and I found him just briefly
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  just to say hello Dude, he grabbed me gave me a big old hug
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  you know it's like and then the last at the championship game
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  I'm there. I'm kind of lost and he helps
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  direct me to the to the post game press conference, grabs me,
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  starts talking about his brothers there watching him play
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  and like dude, just like he's a guy that you want to have a beer
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  with. You want to hang out with He
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  really checks all those boxes. He checks all the boxes.
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  I don't know that he. I don't know.
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  Amazing taste in music is our good friend.
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  Unbelievable taste of music? Yes.
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  Pointed out. I know it's tough on Blasi
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  everybody. I appreciate him coming on.
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  You know, we we had to pump this thing out tonight to, yeah.
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  For sure. To get it out.
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  I know that we have fans now from both sides following
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  following this situation and if there's one thing we're good at
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  it is it's it's jumping in and into an emergency pod and
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  discussing it live. Blasey, you know, we've done
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  this with Bubba the Love Sponge, but in my opinion, this is much
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  bigger than the Bubba the Love Sponge drama.
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  This is, this is this has lives at stake.
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  It's not something else. But I'm beyond thrilled for
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  Coach Sumrall. I look forward to seeing what he
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  can do at Tulane. I know they've had, they've had
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  a couple of amazing seasons as, as have Troy.
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  I I think he continues that tradition.
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  I think Troy rock and Rolls and continues doing what they do.
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  Yes, absolutely. And in the words of John
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  Sumrall, you know, it's like simply, So what now what?
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  Right. Good.
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  Next man up. Let's roll.
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  Let's roll and. That's it.
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  And that's, and that's what we're going to do at Troy.
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  And I know he's going to do great things at Tulane and well
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  beyond. I don't see him staying there
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  very long at all. Very long.
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  No, no one. One to two years tops.
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  I'll go ahead and make that prediction one to two years
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  tops. And he is, he's only something
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  really big. Yeah.
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  See at Ole Miss when Lane Kiffin goes to Alabama in a couple
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  years, coach, that'll wrap up this little emergency.
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  I'm glad that that Blasey was willing to come on because I've
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  been on. This other side.
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  So yeah, Troy got robbed by Tulane and.
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  They picked our pocket. They picked their pockets and
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  that's how we're going to end this thing.
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  But thanks for coming on Chad and GO.
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  Trojans.