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Kevin Griffin with Belhaven and Doug Kyle on College Baseball 2024 join the show · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  three till four thirty BV. I appreciate you setting us up and letting Kevin
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  come out here. Kevin, what's going on by how you doing? I'm
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  great, man, It's been been too long. Everything's been crazy lately with
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  my softball season getting started and everything else going on high school baseball. But
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  looking forward to uh chatting it up today. Absolutely a lot of notes and
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  a lot of stuff. We do want to get into a lot of baseball
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  because college baseball. You know, we were joking about this Friday, Missippi
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  State and Air Force. They started about four o'clock. I think we're on
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  the air, and that game went tip for tat State of course wins game
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  one, loses Game two, wins the rubber on three on Sunday. Ole
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  Miss. You know, with a little bit of a sluggish start, it's
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  a long season, we know that. But I think for Missippi State and
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  Ole Miss, and we'll start right there, and I do want to get
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  to some notes that we have as well. When you talk about State and
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  Ole Miss, I mean it's for those two coaches and those two staffs.
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  They got to win pretty quick. Yeah, especially coming off not necessarily last
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  year, but pretty recently national championships with Mississippi State and Old Miss. There's
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  a lot of expectations around here and across the South with those two schools,
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  and you know, one weekend is not going to tell the story of how
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  the year is going to go. And Mississippi State off to a two and
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  one start, obviously they would have liked to swept that series. Ole Miss
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  split a four game series with Hawaii. They probably had a lot of distractions
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  out there going you know, I think it's six or seven hour difference and
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  changing time zones and then having to play baseball, a lot of distractions.
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  Finished two and two and then Southern Miss went too and one, So pretty
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  good start for them. As well. It was, And you know it's
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  hard to tell because fans are going to overreact. Two and one, two
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  and two, What does that mean? You know, you're a coach,
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  You've done this for a long time. You play ball. I mean,
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  I don't know. Internally, you don't ever hit the panic button. But
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  you just have to kind of look down the schedule because unlike college basketball,
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  where you've got kind of a longer non conference schedule, baseball you rock and
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  roll three or four weeks in bam, you're in conference play. So you've
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  got to have this thing buttoned up pretty quickly, you really do. And
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  fortunately for all three programs, especially Old Miss, the mistakes can be corrected.
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  They made a lot of errors this weekend. Looking at note here I
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  had written down, they hit one eighty three As a team. You know,
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  Old Miss is a better hitting team than that. In Mississippi State had
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  three local guys that got off to great starts. Bryce Chance was five for
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  twelve. He hit four seventeen with a home run this week. Dakota Jordan
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  hammered two home runs, and Hunter Hines also hit three point fifty seven on
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  the weekend. The only thing that excuse me, people would probably look at
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  with Dakota and Hunter is they each struck out five times. But I think
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  you can take that trade off. If you're going to drive in runs and
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  hit a bomb every game or two and strike out five times, I think
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  people will take that trade off with those two guys. Wh look at Ole
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  Miss this week. They'll play Arkansas State Wednesday ball game, then they'll come
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  back and play high Point, where as high Point I have no North Carolina.
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  North Carolina, Okay, so what it's something about baseball up there?
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  You've got so many directional schools. It seems like smaller schools, big school
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  That's a heck of a region, it seems like for baseball. Yeah,
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  and it's of course ACC heavy up there, with all the ACC schools in
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  North Carolina. But then you have these mid majors that can flat out compete
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  Coastal Carolina. They North Carolina or South Carolina. I can't I don't remember,
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  but man, what a powerhouse baseball program they've had for several years.
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  But you're right, that region of the country is loaded with talented teams.
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  So with a three game set in Oxford versus high Point and then they'll grab
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  Little Rock next week, Missouri State, two MIDWEK ball games, and then
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  come back and take on Iowa. I would think by the time in look,
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  Iowa's ranked eighteenth in the country. Big Ten doesn't ever get taken seriously
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  in baseball, but you do have to play three teams or three game set
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  from a team from the Big Ten. So I think what I'm getting is
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  you want to see now coming off a two and two clip against Hawaii,
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  all run of games. I mean, High Point doesn't need to come in
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  here and win a ballgame or two. You don't need to lose to a
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  little rocker Missouri State. By the time you get to Iowa. You need
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  to kind of be on a run here. Yeah, you need to be
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  clicking on all cylinders because that Friday night game against Iowa is going to be
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  tough. Brody Breck is one of the top pitchers in the country for Iowa.
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  He could potentially be the top college pitcher off the board in the twenty
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  twenty four draft in July, and Ole miss is going to have a tall
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  task on their hands with that game on that Friday night against Brody Brick.
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  But it only takes a little bit of momentum and all they've got to do
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  is get off to a good start this week and play some good baseball in
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  these midweek games, and when Iowa comes into town, they could be clicking.
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  And then of course they'll finish the non kind up Memphis, and then
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  of course Morehead State on a three game clip before Uel Monroe than South Carolina
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  when you look at Mississippi State and I don't know, I mean, is
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  it fair to say that the room for ERA is much shorter for Crystal Monus
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  at this point? I think so. I think people know that he's a
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  really good baseball coach and the players love playing for him. It was just
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  a rough It was just a rough go the last the last few years.
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  And it's not because there's not any talent on that coaching staff, because it's
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  a very talented staff. Their problem right now is not pitching. They had
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  a two point three three ERA and that was their problem a year ago and
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  that's why coach fox Hall got let go. But their problem this year has
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  not been pitching. It's just been they're not getting more production out of one
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  through nine in the order. It's really one through four, and again we're
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  talking about a three game span so far, early in the season, so
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  small samples, it has not a lot to go on, so they'll get
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  I mean, you would think if you're Missippi State, Austin p two ball
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  games coming up this midweek, Georgia Southern on a three game set, Jackson
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  State. I mean that's six ball games they really should run through. Then
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  Mount Saint Mary's on a three game set, and start well Southern miss here
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  in town, Trustmark Park, Evansville on a three game set, and then
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  they'll go play the Hancock Whitney Classic against South Alabama New Orleans before LSU.
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  So I mean, theoretically, they should be favored in every ball game all
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  the way through until the SEC, and I would think that they need to
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  show show that, yeah, you got to win the majority of those games,
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  and inevitably all good teams drop games to people that they shouldn't and you
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  know, it could be a let down, it could be looking forward to
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  the SEC season. But right now you've got a lot of guys on these
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  rosters who are fighting for playing time. They're trying to prove themselves and let
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  these coaching staff know that they could fill in and they could get it done.
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  And there's a lot of mixing and matching. I believe once all three
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  of the n state schools, State, Old Miss, Southern Miss, when
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  they get their main nine guys that are going to be their line up pretty
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  much every single time they roll out there, there's gonna be a lot more
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  cohesiveness and you'll see a lot better production out of all three teams. Real
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  quickly, you mentioned Southern Miss. They went too and one. Over the
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  weekend, they dropped a game to Marist three to six to three on well
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  that was the looks like last game on Sunday. They lost that game.
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  But then air Force. They'll get air Force on a midweek game coming up
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  this week that I guess air Force will stay in town and head to Heeidisberg
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  and play that game. Well, actually the other is today today they'll play
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  them, and then New Orleans, Missouri State on a three game set,
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  Nichols, Indiana State on a three game set, Mississippi State, Louisiana Tech,
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  and then Alabama before they get into conference play with Marshall. So this
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  is a good baseball team. I know they've had some tur and over on
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  the coaching staff, but talking to people down there, they expect this to
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  be another competitive ball team man looking at their roster, it's very talented and
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  you got guy. They went to and one this week with guys like Slade
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  Wilkes and Dustin Dickerson hitting about one to twenty five through those three games.
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  You got to transfer from BYU. Ozzie Pratt, his brother Cooper, was
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  drafted last year in the MLB draft. Ozzy leeds the team right now.
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  He is four for twelve this past weekend. I think that's a three thirty
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  three clip. He had a double and a triple, but nobody else on
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  the team really hit and they were still two in one. It's because they
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  got great pitching out of guys like Nico Maza from MRA. He threw a
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  great game on Friday, five innings, four hits, no runs in eight
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  strikeouts. So they're gonna get great pitching. Dickerson and Wilkes and those guys
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  and more. Kevin Griffin and STUDI whether it's till about four thirty, as
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  he gets ready for we'll get off into this softball season. He referenced baseball.
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  But of course softball. Now, you guys, we'll get off into
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  some other notes and stuff to Let's go over to that real quick. You
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  guys are fixing to hit the road this week. Right, we've started four
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  and oh bell Haven, we're about to go on a twenty game road trip.
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  Cool, not all at one time. We'll go to Illinois this week,
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  play four, come home, and then leave for Columbus Georgia and play
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  six. That's the D three Top twenty five tournament in Georgia. And we'll
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  come home for a couple of days and then head to Orlando and play five
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  in Orlando and catch four conference games on the way back. So yeah,
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  I got this beautiful new facility at bell Haven and gonna be away from it
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  for twenty straight games. So is that just the nature of this quote schedule
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  gods? This year, well, we don't have an AQ yet, an
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  automatic qualifier for our conference, so it means something to win your conference tournament,
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  but you don't get in that large bid to a regional this year.
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  This is the last year we don't have it. So we've got to beef
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  up our schedule like we did last year and go play some top twenty five
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  teams. We're playing in Georgia. We'll play number one, number seven,
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  number nine, number thirteen, number fifteen, and number twenty three. So
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  yeah, we're getting a dose right off the bat. Steve Sarkisian has a
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  new contract. He is getting paid at Texas right at ten million dollars.
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  Well, these coaches just continue to you know, That's what's so wild as
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  you look at through the SEC. Even the likes of Billy Napier, who
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  is probably gonna have a bad year. Of these coaches are just and that
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  tells you the money that's in the league. I mean, think about that,
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  Texas ten plus million for Steve's sarkisan a new contract, and it's incentive
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  late Laden as well. Well. I think with them moving into the SEC,
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  they're more inclined to spend the money as well. But Texas schools have
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  always had the money. I mean, I'm not sure that Steve Steve Sarkesian
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  is a ten million dollar coach, but that's who they've hired and they're going
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  to give him the money because they want him to have all the resources necessary
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  to go out and compete for a national championship or an SEC championship. Kleaen
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  de Boor, the Alabama head coach, is the first Alabama football coach to
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  post on social media. Nick Saban never participated online and he just says basically
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  retweeting a Alabama football student athlete of the week. Great work, gentlemen,
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  any I mean, look at it's kind of wild to see finally an Alabama
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  coach on any social media platform. I think your players appreciate it because if
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  they see that you're supporting them or other sports on campus for that matter,
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  I think it brings cohesion across the board. And it doesn't matter if it's
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  a small school, small college at SEC school, or a mid major.
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  When coaches support other student athletes, whether it's their own or other athletes on
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  campus, I think there's a lot to be said for that. More Bully
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  on the wom Mylney text one. You can text a six one at eighty
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  five three seven seven six. Griffin is no more bully. I showed off
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  and out today. Now I spoke to him briefly. He did bring you
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  snacks. Those were good. Now, he didn't do the snacks right,
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  somebody else did the snacks. But did he really show out today? Poor
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  bully? Pr Bully. I mean, look, the snacks were good and
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  the company was good. But you're gonna sit here and compare yourself to Kevin
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  Griffin. Come on, come on now, hey, I stopped by Krispy
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  Kreme to bring you all donuts today and they have the doors locked at two
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  thirty in the afternoon. Maybe they were taking a President's day break. They
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  weren't hot and ready for they were not I'll tell you who's not ready.
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  It seems like it is the qui, how many games if you won as
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  a head coach More Bully? How about that? I mean, look,
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  when you start comparing stuff like that, he has no shot right now if
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  you were going to compare, I can't say this for sure. Facebook pictures
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  with his shirt off in his pool. Maybe more Bully wins, right,
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  maybe he wins that. It's interesting, what's going on? You've been paying
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  attention what's going on? The ACC, The ACC and Florida State obviously have
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  been suing each other, countersuing each other North Carolina and the State of Florida.
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  Andy Stables reports earlier today if the ACC is willing to negotiate with Florida
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  State, as its most recent court filing suggest, could be now looking at
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  the next round of realignment because now basically says but by saying quote, it's
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  simply a commercial possible possibility that a school could buy back its meteaorites. The
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  ACC's legal team seems to invite a negotiation, So it looks like, now
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  basically what's going on is to get out of this. The ACC has said,
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  fine, look, you don't like us, we don't like you,
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  buy us out and you can leave, kind of like a marriage, right,
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  you buy me out and you can go on your way. And that's
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  looks like where we're headed here. Well, they're they're wanting them to buy
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  out this astronaut. I'm a cool price. And if they don't like each
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  other that much, the ACC just I mean, it's going to be a
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  publicity nightmare the entire year because this is not going to go away. Yeah,
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  just let them go, Let Florida State go where they want to go,
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  and then go out and try to find somebody that would want to be
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  there. It's kind of like that as a coach, right, I mean,
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  if you have players that don't want to be in your program, instead
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  of letting them cause problems, just let them go. Yeah, sign their
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  release. I would figure that they will settle on a dollar amount somewhere.
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  I mean, because the ACC they're sitting here on the Atlantic Coast conference and
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  they're looking all the way to the West coast and they say, wow,
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  we're We're one bad move from being the pack two. Because if this happens,
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  Florida State gets away out and they leave, Who's to say Clemsing isn't
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  next. We know that they're not happy. Miami could be after that,
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  and then this thing starts rolling again. I mean, the ACC would have
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  some serious problems. Where where do you think they go? Like, I
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  don't think it's the SEC because I don't think that they believe that they can
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  compete in that league. Is it the Big Ten? Is the next?
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  Like Power Conference? Everybody's moving to the Big Ten? Then you have these
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  big twelve schools that are lingering out there that are really good. Is it
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  going to end up being two Power Conferences? You think? Or you think
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  it'll end up being three. I think it's got a potential to be three.
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  And you know that's what's interesting about the ACC is because all of these
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  schools line up a little differently with with conferences. And what I mean is
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  this, For instance, you take your academia schools, your North Carolina's,
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  your Dukes, your Wakes, and not all of these schools will probably get
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  picked up. You know, the Big Big Ten has a I think it's
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  called the AAU American something Universities. It's American, but they really hang their
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  hat on being affiliated with this, you know, academia institution. What this
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  AAU. I'd have to look it up and see. I remember reading about
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  it. And those schools are in that academic realm, so they may fit
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  better the Big Ten. But I don't know that the SEC goes unchecked.
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  I mean Sankey has said, you know, publicly, well, we're not
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  really I expansion, but we have plans for the future. I don't know
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  if there's a mass exodus out of the ACC that the Southeastern Conference doesn't grab
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  somebody or two or three, And the Big Twelve may as well, because
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  Brett Yormark, the commissioner of the Big Twelve, has done as good a
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  job as anybody of kind of fanning the flames, picking up teams as they
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  go, doing different things, like last year the Big Twelve had their first
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  Big Twelve prod in Dallas. They're doing a bowl game in Mexico. I
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  mean, they're trying to be creative. So it could be three conferences,
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  that's what it could be. Yeah, I think the SEC. I don't
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  think they can afford to add too many more or else they're going to have
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  to go back to divisions. Otherwise schools are going to say, well,
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  school A didn't have to play school B, C and D, but we
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  had to play E, F and G. I just don't think that the
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  schools are going to allow that many more teams to be added to the SEC.
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  If everybody is not going to come pretty close to play in everyone,
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  well you may have to get to a situation where and all of that is
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  fair for sure, A pod system inside these you know, we talked about
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  that at the beginning and then they said, no, we're not doing pods.
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  We're doing just one. But if you get north of you know,
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  now the big tens at eighteen, you add two more, you're at twenty,
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  you're going to have to have some sort of a like you said,
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  almost the divisions again, you're gonna have to break it back up because of
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  what you said. I mean, and we'll get off into this. You
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  know, I was working through schedules for the SEC this weekend, and not
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  all schedules, and we know this is never that way. Not all schedules
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  are created equal. For instance, I mean Florida schedule in football this year.
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  I don't know that Georgia would want to play this schedule. I mean
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  it is awfully brutal. Whereas you take for instance, Missouri Ole miss can
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  sleep walk to six and oh not all schedules were created equal. Yeah,
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  I mean that's going to be the complaint amongst a lot of schools and especially
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  fans when they get on message boards and all that they're going to be complaining
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  about the strength the schedule of their school compared to the strength the schedule of
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  everybody else. And then how do you determine who's the champion of the conference
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  if you don't split it up in East and West and have first place in
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  the East, first place in the West, or first place in the North,
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  first place in the South play each other. Uh, it's gonna be
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  locations Monday through Friday seven am to four pm. Kevin Griffin in with us
• 22:41
  for the first half of the show, started talking a little baseball. We'll
• 22:42
  get back into that basketball I know, you big basketball guy. This is
• 22:48
  where it really starts to get fun. You can really, I think,
• 22:49
  start looking at bracketology and you know, it's it has some meat, like
• 22:57
  it's there's some you know, trusting what they're saying. So like right now,
• 23:00
  if you look at Jerry Palms bractology, he has the one seeds as
• 23:07
  Yukon, Purdue, Arizona, and Houston he's got. And you look at
• 23:12
  the SEC teams because a lot of people talk about how many SEC teams are
• 23:15
  gonna get to the bracket. Well, just based on this, he's got
• 23:18
  Texas, A and M in a playing game, that's the one SEC team.
• 23:22
  So that would be one team South Carolina as a sixth seed without going
• 23:26
  through which one. South South Carolina is a six seed, Tennessee a two
• 23:30
  seed he's got. Let's see here looking through the west, Mississippi State is
• 23:37
  a ten seed, Kentucky is a six seed. Also, Ole Miss is
• 23:41
  a ten seed, Alabama a three seed, Auburn a five seed, Florida
• 23:45
  an eight seed. So that's typically you know, seven, eight, nine,
• 23:48
  How many thinks SEC is gonna get him? I think eight or nine
• 23:52
  we'll get in. It's a pretty strong year across the board. Everybody's beating
• 23:57
  up on everybody. And you know in Kentucky as being as good as they
• 24:00
  are, they have a question marks. People say they don't play defense,
• 24:04
  but then they went to Auburn and gave Auburn and their first home loss was
• 24:08
  that two days ago. So there's a lot of teams that can make some
• 24:14
  noise in the SEC for sure. Yeah, I'm looking at six and then
• 24:18
  seven, eight, nine, yeah, nine, that counts Texas, A
• 24:25
  and M in the playing game. Do you think they'll and they've talked about
• 24:29
  this two fold question, do you think they will expand this field even further?
• 24:33
  And do they really need to? I don't think they need to.
• 24:36
  I mean, you have some really good first round games at times, but
• 24:44
  there's not many upsets, maybe three or four per round Day one, day
• 24:48
  two, and you always see somebody get beat that's not supposed to lose.
• 24:55
  But I just think it's sixty four now, it's what sixty eight teams,
• 24:59
  that's just plenty. I mean, you can narrow that down to thirty two
• 25:03
  and figure out who the top thirty two teams in the country are. More
• 25:07
  Bully says Hey, notre Dame has well. First, he said his last
• 25:10
  time he coached reck ball, he went undefeated. So there's that says.
• 25:14
  Notre Dame has proven they can be independent. Is that not an option for
• 25:15
  these teams? Especially Miami is a private institution. I don't think so.
• 25:21
  I mean teams have tried this, you know. Do you remember when Texas
• 25:26
  at one point they were talking about this was back Gosh, they was almost
• 25:29
  like they were Florida State is now. They didn't want to be in the
• 25:32
  Big twelve. They started the Longhorn Network. They flirted big time with the
• 25:36
  Pac twelve. They talked about being an independent. They never made that move.
• 25:41
  Like them or not, Notre Dame is about the only one now.
• 25:44
  Obviously U Mass is independent, Yukon goes in and out of conferences. It
• 25:48
  seems like they're an independent. But to really be a true independent power,
• 25:52
  it looks like because of the brand and the national notoriety for Not Dame,
• 25:56
  they're about the only one that can pull that off. Yeah, I think
• 25:57
  so, And they've done it for so long. It's not like if had
• 26:00
  Texas been doing that then I think that it would have been no problem for
• 26:04
  them to continue. Notre Dame's been doing it for so long, and the
• 26:10
  money contract and the TV deal that they have with NBC, and I guess
• 26:15
  now Peacock is just too lucrative for them to jump into a conference. They're
• 26:21
  going to have to share the money with ten other schools instead of getting it
• 26:26
  all to themselves. There may be at some point, and it may be
• 26:30
  ten years from now, we may not even be alive, but at some
• 26:32
  point they may have to get into a conference. But I think right now
• 26:36
  they have the sweetest deal that's out there. I mean, they can play
• 26:40
  conference, you know games inside the ACC at all the sports. They play
• 26:44
  basically an ACC football schedule with mixing mixing in their rivals against USC and Stanford
• 26:51
  and a couple of the military institutions. But if Notre Dame gets to ten
• 26:56
  wins this year, they're likely in the playoff. I mean, whereas they
• 26:57
  were in a conference, they may not be yeah, and they'd have to
• 27:00
  play that conference championship game and risk getting a loss added to their record.
• 27:06
  I think that's one thing that has hurt a lot of teams over the years
• 27:10
  that had to play in a conference championship game. They go in expecting to
• 27:14
  win and all of a sudden they lose and now they're out of everything.
• 27:18
  Six or one eight nine seven, one zero five nine. If you want
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  to give us a call, that is the Malon rooping call. The line.
• 27:22
  Alabama officially announces the hire of former South Alabama coach Kane Womack as the
• 27:27
  Tide's new defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach. Also, Arizona announces hiring Missouri
• 27:33
  athletics director Desri read Francois as the new athletics director. Also, it's set
• 27:40
  big twelve media days will be in Las Vegas this year July ninth and tenth.
• 27:44
  How much pressure do you think is really on Calen de Boor this year?
• 27:49
  Well, everybody says it's hard to follow the legend. And if you
• 27:55
  can look at that, one of two ways you can look at it,
• 27:57
  Oh my gosh, I've got to follow the legend. Or Hey, nobody's
• 28:03
  expecting a whole lot out of me. I think you could kind of creep
• 28:07
  in the back door and have a really good first or first year or first
• 28:11
  two years by having that type of mentality. People aren't expecting a whole lot
• 28:18
  out of him because they've seen so much out of Nick Saban over the years.
• 28:22
  I think he's in a really good situation. I think it is.
• 28:26
  What would you think if I told you beav Alabama's going to go eight and
• 28:30
  four this year, eight and four, they're going to slip to eight and
• 28:34
  four? Would that Would that sound alarm bells in Tuscalosia? Absolutely? I
• 28:41
  mean there's no question about it. If an Alabama team loses four games after
• 28:47
  having the the decade that they've had, yeah, it's going to always sound
• 28:52
  the alarm bells. But I almost think that people expect that right now.
• 28:59
  They think the world is ending because Nick Saban's not going to be there.
• 29:03
  I think the boor is a very good college football coach. Oh there's no
• 29:07
  doubt that he is a heck of a coach. But you get off into
• 29:10
  the transfer portal churn. You know, twenty five twenty six guys this cycle,
• 29:15
  twenty two to twenty three guys last cycle, and they did not replace
• 29:18
  half of those guys. The NFL attrition, the questions on the coaching staff.
• 29:23
  Also when you talk about the you know, what is he going to
• 29:27
  do with with Jalen bill Row Now, I think Nick Saban and that staff
• 29:30
  did a great job with him last year. Is de boor going to adapt
• 29:36
  his system to what he does or will he expect him to. So there's
• 29:38
  a lot of questions. And then your guy Kirby Smart, that's his first
• 29:44
  SEC ballgame in Tuscaloosa, you know, three four weeks into the season,
• 29:48
  you know, Kirby is. I could see that where Kirby's like, yeah,
• 29:52
  we're going to welcome this guy to the SEC you know where. I
• 29:56
  don't know that Georgia will need any motivation for that now. They won't have
• 29:57
  any motivation, even especially after getting beat and knocked out of the playoff by
• 30:02
  Alabama this past year. But I think the Boar better adapt to his personnel
• 30:11
  rather than trying to make his personnel adapt to him. Because Jaln Milroe finished
• 30:18
  with a boom. I mean, he had a great ending to last year
• 30:21
  and he showed that he can throw the football. He can obviously do it
• 30:25
  with his feet as well, But I understand the board just spread it out
• 30:29
  five wide and threw it all over the field at Washington. I don't think
• 30:33
  that he's going to be able to do that at Alabama, not against SEC
• 30:37
  defenses that can pin their ears back, and they can blitz from all different
• 30:41
  angles and their quarterback will be laid on his back if they do that in
• 30:44
  the SEC real quickly. Ross Ellinger reports early today power programs equipped with nil
• 30:49
  cash or poaching a group of five rosters out of scholarships, some ad walk
• 30:55
  on's while collective's cover tuition. The widening gap G five, P. Four
• 31:02
  could spell a very disastrous future. I want to get into that with you
• 31:04
  because I know that you are well adapted to the transfer portal and everything going
• 31:10
  on. But I do want to talk more about because you hear this.
• 31:11
  You see, for instance, teams Mississippi State picks up a big wide receiver
• 31:15
  this past recruiting cycle from utep Ole, miss picked up a big one last
• 31:21
  year from Louisiana Tech. Are the group of five teams becoming I hate to
• 31:26
  say this programs absolutely. I mean, you have a great year, you
• 31:30
  can expect players to be gone, and I think as a coach at that
• 31:34
  level, it's almost expected under those circumstances if you especially the quarterback position,
• 31:41
  most important position on the field, right, So if your quarterback has a
• 31:45
  great year, then you can expect him to be gone unless he's graduating.
• 31:48
  Same thing with these receivers that Old miss and State and all these other SEC
• 31:52
  schools are picking up. They're talented players, but it took them going to
• 31:57
  a mid major to get their name out there and put up numbers. There's
• 32:02
  no guarantee that they'll move to an SEC school and still be able to put
• 32:07
  out numbers. They could lose stock by making that change. Look at the
• 32:10
  kid who was a kid that left Missouri and went to Georgia love it,
• 32:15
  love it, Yes, uh this past year and he was not really a
• 32:20
  factor for them at Georgia, and he put up SEC leading numbers at Missouri.
• 32:25
  You almost think that he should have stayed put because he would have probably
• 32:30
  still been at the top of the nation in receiving yards if he'd just stayed
• 32:34
  at Missouri. He went to Georgia and he was just lost in the shuffle.
• 32:38
  It's it's a great question, and we'll continue that. I got to
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  have Doug Kyle at five fifteen talking to more College Baseball Kevin Griffin in with
• 33:49
  us till four point thirty. Let's see here. Artist says that more Bully
• 33:52
  was undefeated because he hijacked the birth certificates and basically it was a church lead.
• 33:59
  So I'll tell you what, those church leagues can get crazy competitive in
• 34:05
  basketball, baseball, softball. I mean just wild they can. I mean
• 34:07
  they're more wild than a lot of city leagues sometimes and church league supposed to
• 34:15
  be church league. Calm right, Yeah, it's not usually that way.
• 34:21
  No. I remember, gosh, this was back early two thousands. We
• 34:25
  were playing at a church league softball league over at Center City and Pearl and
• 34:30
  everybody And this is not me being sacer religious at all. This is I'm
• 34:34
  just telling you what happened. Met prayed before the game. About halfway through
• 34:38
  the game, had to break five or six people, I mean like became
• 34:43
  fisticuffs, was about to be thrown. So it's just wild. I've seen
• 34:45
  it. I've seen it a lot. And you talk about opening up the
• 34:49
  middle in slow pitch softball, where you know, people start talking trash and
• 34:55
  all of a sudden people decide they want to just start hitting it back up
• 34:59
  the middle at the pitch. Yeah, picture throws it and starts running backwards
• 35:02
  to second base as fast as they can. Yep. I've seen pictures get
• 35:06
  hit right in the chest and the shins. And it's a dangerous sport.
• 35:10
  When when it's bad to say when church people get together sometimes and play church
• 35:16
  league softball. It's even worse in the city league, especially after they've sat
• 35:22
  around a parking lot and drink all day, and now all of a sudden
• 35:24
  they're mad and start hitting the picture with every swing they take. It's not
• 35:30
  fun to be the picture, I would imagine. I wouldn't do it be
• 35:32
  if you want to be a picture and a slow pitch team, if we
• 35:35
  get a team together, put you out on the bump. These days,
• 35:38
  they wear face masks, they wear shin guards and chest protectors, and I
• 35:42
  would like a hockey goalie. I don't blame them. I don't either,
• 35:45
  because you're not coming with any kind of heat, no kind of stuff.
• 35:47
  You're just you're there. Well, the bats are hotter now, the balls
• 35:51
  are harder, hot, and they just I don't know. All the equipment
• 35:59
  is much better than it was ten fifteen to twenty years ago. All right,
• 36:02
  So how's thing's been for you guys? You know, obviously we heited
• 36:06
  at a high level, you know, ten thousand foot Connor continues to have
• 36:08
  saw a lot of stuff that you put out on social media. He looks
• 36:12
  like he is in rare form early, I mean, just crushing the baseball,
• 36:15
  playing well. But I know this has been a very not chaotic,
• 36:20
  but maybe a little chaotic, but hectic time for you guys. Yeah,
• 36:22
  it's We thought when he made his decision last not this past December, but
• 36:29
  over a year ago to go to LSU, that things would slow down,
• 36:32
  and it did with the colleges, but then it picked up a lot with
• 36:36
  the professional side of things and all the scouts that show up. We had
• 36:42
  almost sixty scouts at a high school baseball game last week, and they're pretty
• 36:46
  respectful. They come in, they speak before the game to Connor, and
• 36:51
  Connor speaks to them. And then he just learned to take it in stride
• 36:54
  and not worry about who's there to watch, just keep it a kid's game
• 36:58
  and just play the game that he loves. And so yeah, it's been
• 37:01
  a whirlwind from that regard. And you know, he got a chance to
• 37:05
  go to Taiwan. I was able to make that trip with him. How
• 37:07
  was that last year? Man? Is awesome. Just to see how passionate
• 37:12
  other countries are about baseball. I'm not sure that we're the best baseball country
• 37:19
  in the world here in the United States, I'll just be honest. I
• 37:22
  mean Japan and Chinese, Taipei and over in Taiwan. Those players they are
• 37:28
  dedicated, passionate about it. They have their rituals that they go through on
• 37:34
  a daily basis. You don't see bat flips and not hustling out ground balls
• 37:40
  and stuff like that. Here, they just appreciate the game a little bit
• 37:44
  more and I think we could learn a lot from them. That's interesting to
• 37:46
  hear you. Now. Obviously we know baseball is a world wide sport to
• 37:52
  some degree, especially when you start looking at the Major League rosters and where
• 37:54
  guys are coming from around the world. But to hear you say that,
• 37:57
  so, I didn't know that it was that discipline over there. Do you
• 38:01
  know if they have, for instance, here we have tournament teams, we
• 38:05
  have you know, places you can go play as a young do they have
• 38:07
  those type of what is their setup like for the academies in those places where
• 38:13
  they go train more than they play. And I think that's a lost thing
• 38:17
  here in the United States is every weekend it seems like everybody's jumping in a
• 38:22
  car and they're driving two states away to play tournaments. Well, I'll be
• 38:25
  honest with you, tournament tournament baseball, that travel baseball. There's no development
• 38:31
  in travel baseball. Once you get to the fourteen, fifteen, sixteen year
• 38:36
  old ages. You just show up on the weekend and you meet your teammates.
• 38:40
  Sometimes you don't even know who they are. You meet them and they
• 38:43
  roll the ball out and you play. There's not any development going on.
• 38:45
  All the development happens at eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve
• 38:51
  with your local teams and coaches who take the time to develop those players at
• 38:57
  a young age. That's where they get developed. So they have academies that
• 39:01
  they basically they may play some games, but it's more like you come in
• 39:06
  and you're just developing on reps, developing on technique. Yeah, they may
• 39:10
  come in in the summer when school's out and then stay there for a week
• 39:15
  and it might be an all day thing where they just get repetitions and reps
• 39:21
  and coaching, and they're regimented, every one of them. Basically, they'll
• 39:28
  stand the same way in the box, they have their same stance, and
• 39:32
  it's taught and you can tell that it's a developed skill over there. In
• 39:39
  Japan and in Taiwan where they're here, everybody does everything differently and there's no
• 39:46
  rhyme or reason sometimes for the way that we do things over here, but
• 39:50
  you can tell it's very regimented over there. Speaking of no rhyme or reason,
• 39:52
  Let's go to more bully, More bully, welcome in. I have
• 39:57
  a rhyme and a reason right now, what's going on? I have a
• 40:00
  question, So, Kevin, you said that the bats are hotter now,
• 40:07
  I'm like, when did like ten years ago where they were trying to to
• 40:12
  make them not as hot in college baseball? Yeah, I think that they've
• 40:15
  I think they've toned them down in college, but at the at the youth
• 40:21
  levels, they're still making them hot. And the unfortunate part about it is
• 40:27
  the fact that people cheat and they'll roll the bats and and they get away
• 40:34
  with it, and then they brag about it. You hear it every time
• 40:36
  you go to a tournament on the weekend about well I rolled this bat or
• 40:39
  I did this to a bat, end it out. And I think that's
• 40:43
  why I say that bats are hotter now, because the technology is out there
• 40:47
  to make them hotter, and it's illegal. But yeah, that's right,
• 40:52
  that's right, And it's unfortunate because people are trying to make the game safer,
• 41:00
  especially when kids are throwing from forty and forty five feet that's close for
• 41:05
  a baseball to come back off of a trampoline basically. And I just think
• 41:10
  that that's why I say that they're hotter now than they were ten years ago.
• 41:15
  Gotcha? Well, is bb core still a thing? It is?
• 41:20
  It is? You have to use BBCRE in high school and college? Okay,
• 41:23
  gotcha? And just to say about Beaver pitching softball softball, look anywhere
• 41:30
  near Beaver eat scared all, trust me. Just look at his calves,
• 41:34
  man, that's right you No, I think you're right. This calves are
• 41:38
  the best I've seen combined. Well, so he likes your calves better than
• 41:46
  Chris Brooks's calves. That's impressive. You should take that as a compliment he
• 41:52
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  another thirty minutes, and we were just sitting here talking about just y'all schedule,
• 43:30
  and you know, talking also about you guys going to Taiwan. I
• 43:36
  would assume, I mean, obviously you love all this. I'm sure everything's
• 43:38
  great, but whenever, whatever settles out, you want to take a vacation,
• 43:43
  get out of and breathe a minute. Huh, yeah, you know,
• 43:45
  And it's a blessing for Connor to be in the situation that he's in.
• 43:49
  So we don't ever want to take it for granted. Sure, for
• 43:52
  sure, But the main thing that he wants is he never wants this to
• 43:58
  be a distraction to his high school team. And so that's why we've kind
• 44:00
  of cut out all the MLB teams that want to come in with their front
• 44:05
  offices and do private workouts. We've kind of put a stop to all that
• 44:08
  until the end of the high school season. We'll have two months between the
• 44:13
  end of the high school season and the draft for those guys to come in,
• 44:15
  and then we'll have decisions to make do you go to college or do
• 44:20
  you sign? And if you're fortunate enough to get drafted. So the main
• 44:23
  thing is that it's not a distraction to the other guys. And I've really
• 44:28
  seen the other kids at Prep kind of step their game up a little bit
• 44:30
  with all the scouts coming in. We've had anywhere from thirty to fifty five
• 44:36
  or sixty just about any given game, and you can see these other boys
• 44:40
  on the team stepping their game up and working a little bit harder. And
• 44:46
  I think that's good for the team. I think it's good for Jackson Prep,
• 44:50
  and it's good for the community. So that's what it's all about.
• 44:53
  While the focus is on Connor, you know, he's enjoying the fact that
• 45:00
  these other kids are getting to experience this as well. And you mentioned you
• 45:04
  felt like, and I think a lot of people would echo this, there
• 45:07
  is some really good untapped talent here in central Missippian baseball. Oh absolutely,
• 45:13
  You've got even the guys that play Jackson Prepp with Connor, Trey Bryant,
• 45:20
  Peyton Puckett, guys like that. But then you look at Lieutenant Gardner Young
• 45:24
  at Prep throws ninety miles an hour as a junior. He's gonna be recruited
• 45:29
  by just about everybody. Got a kid that I think is completely overlooked.
• 45:34
  He signed with Pearl River Community cause Jackson Hood out of Germantown. I'm telling
• 45:39
  you that kid can play. He is one of the most talented baseball players
• 45:44
  that I've seen come through here in a long time. And I'm not sure
• 45:47
  who end up at Pearl River. I think some big four years, gonna
• 45:51
  come and scoop him up before it's all said and done, and he'll have
• 45:53
  an opportunity. Walker Hook's picture at Brandon High School is legit. He could
• 46:00
  be a Day one guy this year in the draft. So there's a lot
• 46:04
  of talent right here in the metro area for sure. Chase Russell at Madison
• 46:07
  Central, he's another one. He's going to Southern miss but he could be
• 46:12
  a draftable guy come to July. Wow, that's impressive. So you know
• 46:15
  you talk about draftable guys day one. I mean that's that's decisions that guys
• 46:22
  and their families have to make, right Yeah, I mean you have to
• 46:24
  decide, you know what path you want to take. You can't go wrong
• 46:30
  with either decision. Going plainting in the SEC environments every single night, or
• 46:34
  go ahead and start your pro career. The biggest thing is how young Connor
• 46:39
  is. I mean, if he were to sign, he would have a
• 46:44
  chance to potentially go through the minor leagues and hopefully get to the big leagues
• 46:49
  at a younger age. And then you get to arbitration earlier, you get
• 46:52
  to free agency at a young age. And I think that's why a lot
• 46:55
  of high school kids end up signing, but you don't want to do it
• 47:00
  if you don't have a shot and people don't foresee you making a run through
• 47:04
  the minor leagues fairly quickly. Otherwise you go to college in a place like
• 47:08
  LSU and get developed by the coaches that they have there, and or go
• 47:13
  to Ole Miss Mississippi State and get developed by those great coaches that are here
• 47:17
  in the state. So yeah, it's decisions that will have to be made.
• 47:22
  But right now he's just trying to enjoy his senior year of high school
• 47:25
  and help Jackson Prepp win that seventh straight state championship. Let me ask you
• 47:30
  this, Let's go back to the kind of move this hole back to and
• 47:34
  you could say baseball to it. We know about we were talking about rosst
• 47:38
  Allinger reporting that power programs equipped with NL and cash are proaching group of five
• 47:45
  rosters. We know that. I mean, that's happening. If you're well,
• 47:47
  just look at what Cameron Ward did. He went to in Carnit Word
• 47:51
  as a quarterback kind of under the radar, had a pretty good, really
• 47:55
  good two years. Washington State picks him up, then he goes from there
• 48:00
  flirts with the NFL and now he's at Miami for a final year. So
• 48:02
  he made that kind of three tier jump to big time college football. We
• 48:08
  know Trey Harris come from Louisiana Tech blew up last year at Old Miss.
• 48:14
  I mean you can go to makay Polk. A couple of years ago,
• 48:15
  Washington State to Misssippi State had a fantastic gear. So do you think privately
• 48:22
  And there's no way to know this, but I just wonder this. So
• 48:23
  for instance, Alabama, We'll take the state of Alabama, Alabama and Auburn
• 48:29
  go to UAB and they go to South Alabama and they go to Troy and
• 48:32
  say, look, privately, wink wink, we'll send you some recruits maybe
• 48:37
  that entry. We don't think that's ready yet, but they'll they'll bolster at
• 48:42
  your place, but to maybe where there's a quote wink deal to where you
• 48:46
  are our feeder programs. Does that make sense what I'm saying, Yes,
• 48:50
  you scratch my back, il scratch yours type thing type deal within programs.
• 48:54
  And I think it's been going on for a long time. I think mid
• 48:59
  majors have almost been like junior colleges for some of the power fives. Hey,
• 49:04
  Hey, I'll push push players your way if in two years or a
• 49:07
  year, you'll send them back to me. I think a lot of that's
• 49:10
  been going on even before NIL even came into play. And you know,
• 49:15
  the football money with NIL is just crazy. I mean, there's baseball can't
• 49:21
  touch that. It's not even close. But when you start talking about these
• 49:24
  mid majors having players leave after great years and go to these power fives,
• 49:30
  it's a business decision and it's a financial transaction when it comes down to it.
• 49:36
  So does it make it because you know, we've talked about this before.
• 49:38
  You take a high school football player in the state of Mississippi who is
• 49:43
  what I would consider a fringe player, meaning five ten years ago, stayed
• 49:46
  on miss Southern mess anybody would have taken them, maybe, you know,
• 49:51
  taking a chance on the last twenty four, twenty five, twenty six,
• 49:52
  twenty seven and that recruiting cycle. Now they're holding that forward transfer guys,
• 49:57
  so that drops them down a level. It makes the junior college level even
• 50:00
  more competitive. But for baseball, which you know the transfer portals being worked
• 50:05
  as well. So which is it? Baseball is a football? Is at
• 50:08
  basketball? Now that the guys have the hardest hill to climb. I think
• 50:13
  it's baseball just to sheer numbers, and I think it hurts the high school
• 50:16
  kids more than it hurts anyone. High school kids that could have potentially gone
• 50:22
  to a four year school now all of a sudden, they're going to a
• 50:25
  junior college. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with going to junior colleges in this
• 50:30
  state, as good as the baseball programs are. But if there's so much
• 50:35
  attrition and I guess hold over in these junior college programs where they're not sending
• 50:45
  players on to the four year level, it's a logjam, and these high
• 50:51
  school kids are getting there and now instead of getting on the field right away
• 50:52
  as a freshman, now they're having to sit a year and then you don't
• 50:57
  know what's going to happen in year two. You might have to sit for
• 50:59
  two years and then have to fend for yourself to find a for year school
• 51:01
  to go to. So I think it hurts baseball more than any sport out
• 51:07
  there, just from the standpoint of sheer numbers or a lack of opportunity because
• 51:13
  of logjams and these programs. Yeah, I mean, like you said,
• 51:15
  the sheer numbers, I mean, just look at any baseball field from perfect
• 51:21
  game to you trip or there's so many baseball players now and guys that are
• 51:24
  pretty good and want to compete. That just makes it even harder to make
• 51:29
  that jump from high school, you know, tournament team the high school to
• 51:31
  the next level. You got to be pretty damn good. Yeah, and
• 51:35
  well, people used to say, if you want to play college baseball,
• 51:37
  there's always a spot for you. You can always go to a junior college.
• 51:40
  There's so many junior colleges, and that's not the case anymore. There's
• 51:45
  not a spot for everybody anymore. I bet I don't know what the number
• 51:50
  is. I'd say less than two percent of high school baseball players in America
• 51:54
  have the opportunity to move on and play at the collegiate level just because of
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  wondering if the best option is to go to prospect ID camps rather than those
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  non developmental tournaments where coaches typically make false promises. Absolutely, I think that
• 55:05
  going to camps not really the prospect ID. Well, you may be on
• 55:10
  the same page with me just calling it something different, but I think it's
• 55:14
  important to go to camps on college campuses, get in front of those coaches.
• 55:19
  You can develop relationships that way at a young age. And also at
• 55:22
  those camps, it's not just like, let's say, if you got an
• 55:24
  Old Miss camp, it's not just Old Miss coaches who are going to be
• 55:28
  there. You're gonna have Division two coaches, junior college coaches, D three
• 55:31
  coaches. You'll have coaches from all different levels. They're seeing you, and
• 55:36
  so you're not just seen by the old missstaff. You're seen by a lot
• 55:39
  of different schools as well. And I think that is the number one best
• 55:44
  thing for players to do. If you're gonna spend money going to play in
• 55:49
  week long tournaments, save it and spend that same money going to really good
• 55:52
  camps on college campuses. Now, that's that's a great great way to put
• 55:58
  it, because, like you said, at some point, you're going to
• 56:00
  get to bid any kid where if you're just doing tournament ball on the weekends
• 56:04
  or show it, all you do is playing, so you're not developing,
• 56:06
  right. I've seen even full teams that have taken their entire twelve or thirteen
• 56:10
  year old team to a college campus and took their whole team to the camp,
• 56:16
  and I think that's great. I feel like it's one of those situations
• 56:21
  where you know, if you have a team that's going to go play un
• 56:30
  let's say Hoover, Alabama, they have week long tournaments where you go play
• 56:35
  one game a day. You might go spend five thousand dollars in one week,
• 56:40
  and that tournament might be dear in a dead period that nobody's going to
• 56:44
  see you anyway. Why go There's no reason other than to go see competition.
• 56:51
  And you can get that even locally. As long as you're seeing pitches
• 56:53
  and things like that. You don't have to spend the money and go travel
• 56:55
  all over the country to get noticed. If you're getting he'll find you.
• 57:00
  And I just am a big proponent of those college camps. Let's see here,
• 57:07
  the other thing I'll say that. Somebody told me one time, you
• 57:09
  get all these exposure tournaments, employee big tournaments, at some point too much
• 57:14
  exposure and you're going to get exposed. So take it or leave it.
• 57:21
  I'd rather not be exposed. No, absolutely, Bill says, I just
• 57:23
  tuned in. I don't know who your guest is, Kevin Griffin, head
• 57:28
  softball coach at bell ABNY and associated with that. I said that right,
• 57:31
  no association, so he says, But I one hundred percent agree. My
• 57:35
  son is a freshman and we've been to just about every kind of camp out
• 57:38
  there. The prospect I E. Camps have never been impressive. In fact,
• 57:43
  some have been a complete waste of my money in my or in money,
• 57:46
  in my opinion. The best camp to go to in his opinion,
• 57:50
  it is there on campus camps, which basically he's agreeing with everything. Yeah,
• 57:53
  there's a guy here locally that works with PBR. Matt Miller is the
• 57:57
  state director of PBR. I think he does a really good job of being
• 58:00
  in it for the kid. If he says he's going to do something and
• 58:04
  get a kid's name out there, he usually does it. So I really
• 58:07
  like what he does. But I just always had a problem. And again,
• 58:12
  I'm not just a parent. I coach for a living, so I
• 58:15
  have a different take on it. I always had a problem taking my kids
• 58:21
  to a prospect ID camp for them to tell me metrics and numbers that I
• 58:25
  already knew, because I have the technology myself to be able to know those
• 58:30
  things. So why am I going to pay money for somebody else to go
• 58:32
  tell me these things? That's why we never did it. Connor went to
• 58:37
  his first showcase this past summer, and it's because he just wanted to go
• 58:45
  experience it and play in a major league ballpark in the PG National Event.
• 58:50
  So yeah, that's the first one we ever did. Levier says, the
• 58:54
  most important thing about travel ball and all the twelve and thirteen year olds is
• 58:59
  the kids having fund. The rest of that is for the adults we do
• 59:01
  I think lose sight and we'll throw us all in here together for a minute
• 59:06
  about the kids having fun, especially at the young age, right. Yeah.
• 59:07
  Absolutely. I can remember back to our eight U travel ball days we
• 59:13
  had and I said this on a podcast the other Day's stupid to even say
• 59:16
  it, but it was the best EIGHTU travel team I've ever seen, Like
• 59:22
  it's not supposed to be about winning and losing, but we cared about you
• 59:27
  know, developing, and you wanted to win. It's no fun not winning,
• 59:30
  right, We were like, I want to say, eighty five or
• 59:34
  ninety and three over two years with that eight U and nine you team.
• 59:38
  Well, it busted up because the parents came in after we won a World
• 59:43
  Series one year and they wanted to practice two and three times a week.
• 59:46
  Well, we were practicing one time a week and we were still developing these
• 59:51
  kids. But they wanted a paid coach. Even though I was a paid
• 59:55
  coach, I just got paid somewhere else, right, I volunteered my time
• 1:00:00
  to coach the little team. They wanted a paid coach in practice two to
• 1:00:02
  three times a week with eight year olds, and I said, y'all can
• 1:00:06
  knock yourself out. We're busting this thing up right now. And that team
• 1:00:12
  busted up. And I only think maybe three of those kids even played baseball
• 1:00:15
  today. And it was because parents ruined it for the kids. Wow.
• 1:00:19
  Wow. And you know you hear stories very similar to that along the way,
• 1:00:23
  and you know I tied it back into what you were talking about your
• 1:00:27
  trip to Taiwan. Is that it was it almost speak for you, but
• 1:00:30
  it sounds like it was kind of an eye opening experience to see how selfless
• 1:00:35
  those teams and those players are over there versus what goes on over here.
• 1:00:37
  Well. Absolutely, and even even within the team USA dynamic, they were
• 1:00:44
  still in travel ball mode and you could tell that those kids were still in
• 1:00:49
  showcase mode and it was a selfish team for the most part. And I
• 1:00:53
  think that's why they didn't go over there and do as well as it's what
• 1:00:57
  they would have liked, because they never had that team mystery and togetherness because
• 1:01:01
  they were still in that exposure, travel showcase mode when they went over there.
• 1:01:06
  Let's see here, Let's go to real c Collins Online forty seven real
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  see welcome in. Well. I have a I have a disagreement with Kevin
• 1:01:15
  and the world's greatest eight year old baseball team because we were told that that
• 1:01:21
  was bo Bounds's team at one point in time and until we throttled his ass
• 1:01:24
  as a pair of seven year old teams. Wow, I have no no
• 1:01:29
  knowledge of what you speak of. That's good stuff there, though, Tell
• 1:01:32
  them, keV I pleaded the fifth say anyhow, it's eight year eight baseball
• 1:01:43
  That's that's all I'll say exactly. Now, Kevin's absolutely right. You know
• 1:01:51
  the problem that people have with tournament coaches or are these these these teams that
• 1:01:58
  have multiple teams in the groups and what did you know? That's a money
• 1:02:04
  there's the thing and benefited there to the organization's egos that are running the things.
• 1:02:13
  You know, if you want your child to be a better baseball player,
• 1:02:15
  you've got put in a lot of work, time and effort and seek
• 1:02:19
  out the help that they need to become better baseball players, because you're not
• 1:02:22
  gonna get it from a weekend coach. They don't have enough time to dedicate
• 1:02:25
  to sit there and develop a player for you. I mean, they've got
• 1:02:30
  twelve kids. They don't have that much time. Yeah, there's no way.
• 1:02:34
  But I can tell you what they can do. They've manage talent to
• 1:02:37
  the point that they can carry a big trophy home in their truck on the
• 1:02:39
  way home after the weekend, you know. And that's that is the goal
• 1:02:45
  for tournament baseball, you know. And if anybody cares to dispute that,
• 1:02:49
  well you can dispute it all you want to. You're wrong anyhow. I
• 1:02:52
  just wanted to pop in and say hey, my buddy Kevin. He talks
• 1:02:57
  a lot of trash about slow pitch softball because he couldn't hit one. But
• 1:03:00
  anyhow, a story for another day. Thing real. See appreciate it,
• 1:03:06
  brother, Thank you man. Yeah, I mean he's right. It's a
• 1:03:09
  money grab a lot of times with a lot of organizations, and there are
• 1:03:14
  good people in all of them. There's some good people running them, and
• 1:03:16
  then there's people that it's all about the money and that's the unfortunate. It's
• 1:03:22
  become big business. Oh there's no big business. Man. Had you and
• 1:03:30
  I thought of this ten or fifteen years ago, we wouldn't be sitting in
• 1:03:34
  a radio room. Are you right? I know that right, Haiti partnerers
• 1:03:37
  I know you got to get to baseball. No. I just I just
• 1:03:40
  encourage people out there that have kids that play sports, whether it be high
• 1:03:45
  school or travel ball, let them be kids. And if something like what
• 1:03:52
  has happened with Connor's situation ends up happening, if it's meant to be,
• 1:03:58
  it's meant to be, and they find talent, people out there will come
• 1:04:02
  and and track you down, and they'll follow you, and word will get
• 1:04:05
  out. But don't take the fun out of the game, and don't take
• 1:04:10
  the kid out of your kid, because I'm not looking forward to this time
• 1:04:15
  next year where my son's not even going to be in my house because he
• 1:04:18
  could be either in Baton Rouge or on the other side of the country playing
• 1:04:23
  baseball somewhere. So that part as a dad, I'm not looking forward to.
• 1:04:27
  So hang on tight to him as long as you can. Kevin,
• 1:04:30
  A best of luck, take a jacket, and you guys are about to
• 1:04:32
  head up north for six weeks. Right yeah, Illinois, it's we'll visit
• 1:04:36
  with you when you get back. Appreciate you, brother do Thanks so much,
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  college baseball as we move along here, let's see here real quickly, Miko.
• 1:05:39
  Kevin is absolutely correct in his last statement. Hang on tight. Also,
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  dog tired, Florence. Nothing more enjoyable than picking up a pickup church
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  league softball game with a pastor, pitching both ways and leaving your gloves in
• 1:05:53
  the field for the opposition opponent position player. Also, thirteen U baseball can
• 1:05:59
  be fun. Taking a peek at the high end competition in the stands Wink
• 1:06:02
  Wink and unnamed Texter. We did the travel and we practiced one time per
• 1:06:09
  week. They kept playing together from seventh grade through high school. In the
• 1:06:14
  end, fifty percent got college scholarship offers. No paid special coaches, but
• 1:06:19
  or excuse me. Best of all, we had no professional want to be
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  parents, So teach the kids, but let them have fun and enjoy it.
• 1:06:26
  So that is from an unnamed texture and absolutely the right. So that's
• 1:06:29
  some good stuff there as well. All right, let me jump back over
• 1:06:31
  here and grab some more notes along the way. Let's see here. First
• 1:06:39
  off, we'll get into hear in a bit. There's the twenty twenty four
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  spring practice and scrimmage dates across college football have been announced, so we'll get
• 1:06:46
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• 1:06:49
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• 1:08:10
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  Duke, Kansas, and North Carolina. That's your top ten. Alabama checks
• 1:08:30
  in at thirteen, Auburn fourteen, Kentucky seventeen, South Carolina at twenty.
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• 1:08:43
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  list before listing are their top ten quarterbacks likely available this offseason. These signal
• 1:09:45
  callers could be useful ads for any teams in need of upgrade or adding depth.
• 1:09:50
  The first one is Sam Donald. Sam Donald the journeyman, so to
• 1:09:55
  speak, as following the Mitch Trubisky path, former top three pick with underrated
• 1:10:02
  mobility, seeking a potential summer competition after accepting a backup role from the from
• 1:10:09
  a contender. Some tools remain even if the resume is lacking biber. Where's
• 1:10:14
  Sam Darnold gonna go? I thought the San Francisco deal was going to work
• 1:10:16
  out for him? But does? Where does he land? And maybe does
• 1:10:20
  he get picked back up by the forty nine ers? Or would you put
• 1:10:26
  where? Would you put him? Josh Dobbs another guy the Vikings. Remember
• 1:10:31
  he had that stretch run about four weeks where he moved through has proven surprisingly
• 1:10:39
  you know that he can manage a game at a moment's notice, briefly flashing
• 1:10:43
  as a dual threat with multiple teams in twenty twenty three, but his decision
• 1:10:46
  making tends to get more dicey the longer he stays under center. Tyler Huntley
• 1:10:51
  for the Ravens has a Pro Bowl nod on his resume for a brief playoff
• 1:10:57
  run in place of Lamar Jackson back in twenty twenty two, but he's been
• 1:11:00
  more effective as a scrambler than a do it all quarterback, so he'll be
• 1:11:05
  on the market. Marcus Mariota Again, some of these are guys that have
• 1:11:09
  moved from place to place with the Eagles, can still fly on the ground,
• 1:11:13
  and his seventy four games of starting experience qualify him for a top backup
• 1:11:17
  job. But he's now on track for his fourth team in as many years,
• 1:11:21
  struggling to find a rhythm through the air. Mason Rudolph with the Steelers.
• 1:11:28
  He'll be on the market and still unexpected precision passing authority late in twenty
• 1:11:33
  twenty three, but has been excuse me, just passable in extended action over
• 1:11:38
  six years as a number two or three guy in Pittsburgh. He's destined for
• 1:11:43
  another reserve role. You know when you look at the top ten here that
• 1:11:47
  we'll get into. Drew Locke is number ten on this list. Real quick
• 1:11:51
  cw R. Says Jake, saying that SMU is doing reconnaissance as they moved
• 1:11:58
  to the acc in order to have a renaissance of the Pony Express. The
• 1:12:03
  English language would win again. Hey, I butchered that totally. But I
• 1:12:06
  flew right by. But you knew it. See, he knew what I
• 1:12:09
  said. Now, would you like to cherry pick my words? Here?
• 1:12:11
  I know you love to do that. Oh you didn't see me laughing over
• 1:12:15
  here? No I was, No, I knew exactly what you did.
• 1:12:18
  Totally read the word wrong. What a dummy. Hey, it happens,
• 1:12:25
  man, It happens just words some days. See. But he knew what
• 1:12:29
  I'm in. He knew what I'm in. Wait, you read the word.
• 1:12:32
  I thought you were using your own words. No, read it wrong.
• 1:12:35
  Well that's even worse, Jake. Hey, it's Monday. It's Monday.
• 1:12:40
  So at least I'm good for one to day, maybe two, maybe
• 1:12:45
  two. Drew Locke is on this list at number ten, his sixth season
• 1:12:51
  current team with the Seahawks. He's twenty seven. Former second round pick hasn't
• 1:12:58
  posted a winning record as a starter since twenty nineteen, his rookie year with
• 1:13:00
  the Broncos. He still got big play moxie by at least some a figure
• 1:13:04
  that he does above average arm and, as shown in two starts for the
• 1:13:09
  injured Gino Smith in twenty twenty three, projected value four to five million.
• 1:13:15
  Best team fits Bears, Bills, Raiders, Rams, Now this doesn't mean
• 1:13:19
  that he would go be a starter, but he could compete for the job
• 1:13:24
  or be a quote quality backup. And we'll get into nine through one as
• 1:13:29
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  Doug Kyle Fine fifteen we'll talk some more college baseball. Let's see CWR what
• 1:14:59
  a dummy beav bringing the fire. This is why I love listening to the
• 1:15:02
  show. Well, it's checks and balances, right. I mean, Beef's
• 1:15:05
  gonna keep me checked. I try to keep him checked and we stay unchecked,
• 1:15:11
  but we try to check, right. That's kind of what it is.
• 1:15:14
  Tyrod Taylor. We're talking about best options. Courtesy at cbsports dot Com.
• 1:15:18
  Went through several of these honorable mentioned quarterbacks where they may land. You
• 1:15:23
  know, a lot of these guys are going to resurface. It's kind of
• 1:15:26
  like we always said, once you get in the club, you're in the
• 1:15:27
  club, so until you just get pushed out. But the Sam Darnolds,
• 1:15:30
  Josh Dobbs, Tyler Huntleys, Marcus Mariots, Mason Rudolph, where do they
• 1:15:34
  go? Drew Lock Number ten on this list? Number nine, Tyrod Taylor.
• 1:15:40
  It's hard to believe he's played fourteen seasons in the NFL. It's hard
• 1:15:44
  to believe he's been in the league that long. Current team with the Giants,
• 1:15:47
  but he is probably gonna be on the move again. We'll see if
• 1:15:50
  somebody picks him up. Number eight, Joe Flacco seventeen years. I did
• 1:15:57
  not know that he had been Did you know he's in the league that long
• 1:16:00
  go leag seventeen years? Yeah, I think it was two thousand, two
• 1:16:05
  thousand and eight draft. That's crazy to think about. His projected value four
• 1:16:12
  to five million. Best team fits Browns, Chargers, Jets, and Patriots.
• 1:16:15
  Tyrod Taylor his best fits or says, hey, look the Browns,
• 1:16:20
  they need to bring it back or excuse me, best fits Colts, Bears,
• 1:16:25
  Commanders or Jets. And you know this again is where are their fits?
• 1:16:30
  And it fits could be maybe they compete for a starting job. Maybe
• 1:16:32
  they're number two in line, number seven. Man of increase, Jamis Winston,
• 1:16:40
  number seven thirty. It's hard to believe he's been in the league ten
• 1:16:43
  years, but he has been in the league ten years. Reports indicate a
• 1:16:45
  recent contract restructure will likely have the charismatic backup on the market after a four
• 1:16:53
  year run with the New Orleans Saints, which he just made his you know,
• 1:16:57
  just made just ten starts. Winston has to consistently stay healthy or control
• 1:17:01
  the ball when pressed into an extensive action. That says he forty five million
• 1:17:06
  value, Bill's Broncos or Raiders is best fit. Let's see here. Cit
• 1:17:15
  of b R says, what do you think happens to Gardner? Well,
• 1:17:16
  we'll see if he's on this list. I haven't gotten to the end.
• 1:17:18
  Carson Wentz. He has played nine years, current team with the Rams.
• 1:17:23
  His projected value is four to five million. They say best fits Bills,
• 1:17:27
  Rams or Saints, so there can be a lot of jockeying for these guys.
• 1:17:30
  Number five Jacoby Brissett. He's played nine years. He's with the Commanders,
• 1:17:33
  and best fit could be a lot of these same teams Brown's Cardinals,
• 1:17:38
  Jets, or Patriots. So save for an underwhelming stop with the Miami Dolphins,
• 1:17:43
  Brissett has posted respectable marks as an emergency feel in or last minute starter.
• 1:17:48
  Where he's been where he's been, Granted, his teams have almost been
• 1:17:54
  exclusively asked him to be conservative with the ball, so we'll see where he
• 1:17:57
  goes Gardner Minshew at number four six Seasons, Colts says the former Jacksonville Jaguar
• 1:18:02
  fan favorite perfectly straddles the line between starter and backup, never quite settling in
• 1:18:10
  as an efficient, accurate game manager, while also never losing the spirited poise
• 1:18:15
  that wins teammates over and produces some timely big plays. Five years in,
• 1:18:18
  it's relatively clear he's better suited as a as this writer says, A plan
• 1:18:24
  be under center, but scrappy, playoff caliber stretches for both the Jags and
• 1:18:29
  the Colts. You could do much worse. They actually value him at seven
• 1:18:31
  to ten million dollars, and they say best fits could be back with the
• 1:18:35
  Colts, Raiders, Steelers or Vikings for him, since he's local, where
• 1:18:41
  is his best fit back with the Colts to the Raiders, Steelers or Vikings?
• 1:18:46
  Vikings? I think so at least face value, it seems like Vikings.
• 1:18:51
  Well you were and when you were first given out that list, I
• 1:18:56
  was actually thinking maybe Steelers, but they are in a position where they've got
• 1:19:03
  to go big at quarterback, so I don't think that would be the best.
• 1:19:08
  But I can see the Vikings because I don't I don't know that they're
• 1:19:15
  going to resign Kirk Cousins here, what's your plan? B and C.
• 1:19:20
  Yeah, you've got Dobbs and I don't even remember that the rookie A rookie
• 1:19:30
  options aren't great. No, no, they're not Lesie here, cbr says
• 1:19:35
  we would just answer that about Gardner and Ko. The best fit for Winston
• 1:19:41
  is at the house save the money. Ryan Taneyhill thirteen years in the league
• 1:19:47
  with the Titans right now five to fifteen million dollar value, best fits Jets,
• 1:19:54
  Patriots, Steelers or Vikings. Number two Baker Mayfield. They say he's
• 1:20:00
  still a projected twenty five or thirty million dollar guy. You think so,
• 1:20:05
  yeah, just based on last season. He made himself money. He was
• 1:20:13
  surprising, So I can't take the shots at him that I used to.
• 1:20:18
  But I still didn't look at him last week or last year and just think
• 1:20:25
  fantastic. Now I agree, best fits Bucks, Falcons, Raiders, Vikings
• 1:20:31
  and number one Kirk Cousins said he still has a value thirty five to forty
• 1:20:36
  five million Broncos, Commanders, Falcons, Vikings, Raiders. So there's a
• 1:20:43
  lot of jockey here. What's interesting though, you know, even for Minshew,
• 1:20:45
  I mean he's listed in the top four Cousins, Mayfield, Teeney Hill,
• 1:20:49
  and then Minshew. Number five is Bressett, And you look at the
• 1:20:54
  guy on the list, it's the youngest, it's going to be Minshew,
• 1:20:57
  and then Mayfield six years in the league from Chu seven years in the league
• 1:21:00
  from Mayfield. All of these guys are gonna land somewhere. It's just where
• 1:21:05
  do they land? What is the value? And you got to throw all
• 1:21:11
  that into the hopper with what's gonna happen in the NFL draft, all of
• 1:21:14
  it because any of these teams that select the guy in the first round,
• 1:21:18
  those guys, we know we're gonna get the shots. I mean, you
• 1:21:20
  take even in Indianapolis, they're gonna go give every chance they can to Anthony
• 1:21:29
  Richardson, who's gonna have every shot because they're paid him so much money.
• 1:21:30
  Whatever happened to Trey Lance, we didn't talk about this guy at all.
• 1:21:34
  Where is he? You know, last I heard he was with the Cowboys.
• 1:21:40
  I don't think they released him. I just thought about that. I
• 1:21:45
  was thinking about players who were drafted number one, you know, And that's
• 1:21:47
  what's interesting is a guy like Trey Lance. I do remember him going to
• 1:21:50
  the forty nine ers. We'll see if he stays with the forty nine ers.
• 1:21:57
  I mean, just there's been nothing of him. I mean, I
• 1:21:59
  know he's battled in he's had a cup of coffee on the field, if
• 1:22:02
  that maybe half a cup. But what happens to Trey Lance? Does he
• 1:22:08
  stay with the Cowboys? What happens to what's the young kid for the Jets?
• 1:22:14
  What's that kid's name? See, I can't even remember now, b
• 1:22:16
  yu Oh, Wilson, Wilson, Zach Wilson. What happens to Zach Wilson?
• 1:22:21
  You know what's interesting is like Matt Carrall wasted They wasted no time getting
• 1:22:27
  him out of the NFL. And he wasn't me. He was what second
• 1:22:30
  round pick? Third round pick? And now he's in the USFL, slash
• 1:22:34
  XFL whatever it is. It's just very weird, very very weird. So
• 1:22:40
  where's Trey Lance? He's still with the forty nine ers Cowboys? Cowboys?
• 1:22:45
  And will he stay there? Yeah? Third string man. I mean,
• 1:22:53
  you don't have to do anything. They don't have to count on you.
• 1:22:55
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  poll. Let's see here, Tyler Durden. Unfortunately for Matt carrall NFL equals
• 1:25:16
  not for lunatics. He's gonna have to hit rock bottom and work his way
• 1:25:20
  back like Chad Kelly, who, by the way, was top CFL player
• 1:25:25
  this past year. Maybe he makes it back very well. Could rt Let's
• 1:25:30
  see too many injuries, standing of pain killers sucks, but that's his deal.
• 1:25:35
  Yeah, not sure who he's talking about, all right, talking to
• 1:25:39
  these quarterbacks in the NFL. Let's move forward. Shower twenty twenty four.
• 1:25:43
  College football spring practice scrimmage dates are set. I know you're ready for this,
• 1:25:49
  but Hawaii is already in spring practice. Their spring game is February twenty
• 1:25:55
  second. It's this week. How about that twenty second, twentieth on a
• 1:26:04
  random Thursday, Uh Thursday, Hawaii football. Man, It's Rainbow Warriors.
• 1:26:13
  Very unconventional. Apparently, Missouri they are starting spring practice February twenty seventh.
• 1:26:18
  Next week. Their spring game will be March sixteenth. Remember, not everybody
• 1:26:23
  goes consecutive week. Some break it up. Everybody does it a little differently.
• 1:26:27
  Auburn spring starts February twenty seventh. Their spring game is April sixth.
• 1:26:31
  Let's see here. The Miami football Hurricanes start March fourth and in April thirteenth.
• 1:26:38
  They are not playing a spring game. Let's see moving through look at
• 1:26:43
  some of the LSU starts March fifth. They will play and conclude on April
• 1:26:46
  thirteenth and play a spring game. Arkansas March seventh to April thirteenth. They'll
• 1:26:51
  play their spring game April thirteenth at twelve pm. Notre Dame will play a
• 1:26:57
  spring game on April twentieth. That will be on Peacock. You can watch
• 1:27:01
  that at one pm. Let's see looking through here. I don't have a
• 1:27:06
  Florida. Florida has not set a day yet for spring practice. Who notes
• 1:27:10
  over and play in spring Tennessee March eighteenth through April thirteenth. They'll be on
• 1:27:14
  the SEC network at one SEC Network plus one pm April thirteenth. I am
• 1:27:23
  just chalking through here on what I see. Some of these have not been
• 1:27:28
  set. Alabama eight day is April thirteenth, Clemson April six one pm.
• 1:27:32
  This is spring games. Those are not in alphabetical order. Misissippi State,
• 1:27:38
  I don't say them. Of course, I'm sure they're gonna put that around
• 1:27:41
  the super Bowl all weekend. Ole Miss the same. Not fully set on
• 1:27:46
  this schedule, but we'll get more into that. So just look, gonna
• 1:27:49
  do some of these spring You can get Kennesaw State spring game on April nineteenth.
• 1:27:54
  You ready for that? Gets you some Kennesaw State football? All right?
• 1:27:59
  Ranking the best quarterback rooms for this year. You know, it's interesting
• 1:28:05
  because I went through the SEC schedules this weekend starting to pull all the stuff
• 1:28:12
  together. You know, I think is gonna be the worst team in the
• 1:28:15
  SEC this year. Florida. I can't get over two wins, two to
• 1:28:23
  three wins for this team. Can you believe that? We talked about that
• 1:28:28
  last week a little bit. I mean, they may get to five,
• 1:28:31
  but they're going to scrap to get the five. I don't see a path
• 1:28:36
  to Bowl eligibility for Florida at all. I like Texas in the regular season.
• 1:28:44
  I have Georgia beating Texas in the SEC title game. Both teams will
• 1:28:47
  make the playoffs, and I've got ole Miss finishing third in the league.
• 1:28:51
  Right now, I think they're that good. Ole Miss is going to be
• 1:28:56
  that good Tennessee. Look Tennessee. LSU and Oklahoma I think are teams that
• 1:29:00
  can really make some noise. LSU's got to get things figured out defensively,
• 1:29:04
  but I think Oklahoma can make some noise. What is a noise? Dyne
• 1:29:09
  wins? It's better than a nice team. I mean Missouri and I do
• 1:29:14
  have Alabama with It's gonna be tough to get best eight wins for Alabama?
• 1:29:17
  Is that fair for me to say today? Eight and four for Alabama?
• 1:29:23
  You know, I don't mind putting that out there. Eight and four feels
• 1:29:28
  right for Alabama this year. You're not buying this, no, I mean,
• 1:29:35
  well now, no, Well, I know I'm not buying it,
• 1:29:39
  first of all, but you're too hard to believe that you're wording. Yeah,
• 1:29:43
  you've even gone now to already forgot what you just said. But oh,
• 1:29:48
  you said it gonna be tough for them to get past eight and four.
• 1:29:51
  You now, before you questioned it, you said, when the Sabing
• 1:29:57
  retirement first happened, could they fall back to nine and three eight and four?
• 1:30:01
  But now you say it's going to be tough for them to get past
• 1:30:05
  eight and four? You have really placed them way down there. Well,
• 1:30:11
  I just think there's too many obstacles for Alabama this year to be a national
• 1:30:15
  contender, trying to fit everything together with this new coaching staff, trying to
• 1:30:23
  get everything right behind Jalen Milroe. I think there's issues on the roster,
• 1:30:30
  there's defections in the roster, and their schedule doesn't lend itself as I mean,
• 1:30:34
  you look at their schedule Western Kentucky, South Florida, and then at
• 1:30:38
  Wisconsin, and I don't think that they'll go lose to Wisconsin. I think
• 1:30:40
  they'll they'll start out three to zero. But Georgia coming in, This Alabama
• 1:30:45
  team is not gonna beat Georgia. I will tell you matter of factly on
• 1:30:49
  the nineteenth day of February. This Georgia team is going to come in to
• 1:30:54
  Tuscaloosa on September twenty eighth, and they are going to hurt Alabama's feelings.
• 1:31:01
  I mean, they just really are. Kirby Smart will take this personally for
• 1:31:06
  whatever that's worth. I don't think we build that up way too much.
• 1:31:09
  But they'll be dialed in at Vandy. So they're gonna lose to Georgia at
• 1:31:12
  Vandy, South Carolina at Tennessee. Tennessee is gonna be really good. Now,
• 1:31:17
  are they good enough to win the conference? Probably not? Are they
• 1:31:19
  good enough to beat Alabama at home? Yes, Missouri Missouri is going to
• 1:31:26
  be really salty. But I think Alabama wins there and then a close loss
• 1:31:30
  I think at LSU. I think a close loss at Oklahoma, and then
• 1:31:33
  they play Auburn. So yeah, I mean there's definitely four losses on this
• 1:31:36
  three four losses on this schedule. Now, if Kalyn de Borg gets everything
• 1:31:41
  right, they could go ten and two. Just feels like eight and fourteen
• 1:31:44
  to me? What do you think over there? Yay? You know what,
• 1:31:51
  eight and four sounds crazy? Look at it this schedule. There's just
• 1:32:00
  too much. There's too much unknown. Just because you lost the best coach
• 1:32:04
  in history, that's it. That's what it all boils down to. But
• 1:32:08
  there's still talent there. Oh, there's talent there for sure. But that's
• 1:32:13
  the only reason that I would think to entertain. You're eight and four insanity.
• 1:32:20
  But I do see a loss to Georgia, potentially Tennessee, potentially Missouri,
• 1:32:30
  maybe LSU, Oklahoma. Maybe that's four right there, but no,
• 1:32:40
  and then there's Auburn who should have been him last year. Oh no,
• 1:32:43
  that one I will not entertain. Get that out of here, syron Ball
• 1:32:47
  j C. Jake, be real. Vandy will be worse than Florida.
• 1:32:50
  Also, when almost blows it, you will owe me and be of a
• 1:32:54
  public apology. Is Vanderbilt gonna be worse? I don't know. I mean,
• 1:33:00
  Vanderbilt looks right now like a three to nine team. They play Virginia
• 1:33:03
  Tech opening weekend. They'll lose that game. They play Alcorn State at Georgia
• 1:33:08
  State, they should win. They should also beat Ball State. The rest
• 1:33:11
  are SEC games that I don't know that they have a win in them.
• 1:33:15
  But when you look at Florida's schedule, they have by far the hardest schedule
• 1:33:18
  in the conference and maybe the toughest schedule in the country. We've talked about
• 1:33:21
  this. They play the Miami Hurricanes. They'll be an underdog in Week one.
• 1:33:26
  Now, if Napier somehow wins that game, then this season's gonna look
• 1:33:30
  totally different. But I Miami will be probably a five to a seven point
• 1:33:34
  favorite one in that game. They'll lose. The game. They play Sanford,
• 1:33:39
  that's a win. Texas A and m at Mississippi State, and I
• 1:33:43
  think Missippi State has a shot in that ball game, simply because it's in
• 1:33:46
  Startville. The Gators play Texas A and M the week before Missippi State plays
• 1:33:51
  to Leedo O the week before they get a bye week Central Florida. They
• 1:33:58
  should win the game, but man, could you imagine if Gus Malsan and
• 1:34:01
  kJ Jefferson going in and win that game, They'll be in the game at
• 1:34:05
  Tennessee as a loss. Kentucky has owned Florida, Georgia, at Texas LSU
• 1:34:12
  Ole, miss Florida State. They'll be an underdog in all those games.
• 1:34:15
  So I'm not so sure that Florida will be better than Vanderbilt. And I
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  cannot believe I just said that. It's hard to believe, right, but
• 1:34:21
  this Gator team is very This maybe the worst stretch Gettor football's had in quite
• 1:34:29
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  Doug, welcome in, sir. How are you, hey, Jake?
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  How's it going good? Good? Hey? Your thoughts real quickly? I
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  know it's a small sample size. State goes to and one almost goes too,
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  and two Southern Miss too, and one off we go here in the
• 1:36:18
  state of Mississippi. Yeah, And you know, last time we talked,
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  I told you I think the cure that all three of these teams are going
• 1:36:28
  to have to have is they're just going to need to win some games.
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  You know, everybody knows about the last year or two for Ole Miss and
• 1:36:34
  State, and you know they say, history is what you've always done.
• 1:36:38
  That reputation is what you've done lately, and that's the reputation that State and
• 1:36:43
  Ole Miss are both trying to overcome. And they just need to win some
• 1:36:46
  games. Southern Miss just needs to show that. You know that they're going
• 1:36:49
  to pick right up, you know, with Scott Barry Leabing and Christian Ostrand
• 1:36:54
  are coming in h and no better example than the Missippi State softball team.
• 1:37:00
  You know, they were picked thirteenth in the FCC, and I need to
• 1:37:03
  clarify their Vanderbilt doesn't play softball, so they were picked last. But they
• 1:37:08
  go out and beat some ranked teams and throw some no hitters, and next
• 1:37:13
  thing you know, they're ranked eighteenth in the pole. So we needn't Here's
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  for we get dug out here, Doug. When you look at the top
• 1:37:27
  twenty five coming into this week, not a whole lot is going to change
• 1:37:30
  early. I mean, but you got wake Fores. You know they're the
• 1:37:33
  you know, apparent favorite, not only in polls, but you go to
• 1:37:36
  Vegas, you look at pen Gaming, they're the favorite right now to win
• 1:37:39
  the College World Series. We got a long way to before we get there.
• 1:37:41
  Oregon State two, LSU three, TCU four, Arkansas at number five,
• 1:37:45
  and then of course you go Florida, Texas A and m Tennessee,
• 1:37:47
  South Carolina. Duke a lot of ACC flair or some ACC flavor there,
• 1:37:51
  a little West Coast flavor and a lot of SEC flavor. Yeah, and
• 1:37:56
  you know the funny thing is is that Florida lost their own in the game.
• 1:38:00
  Saint John's beat them on Friday, and then Saturday and Sunday were rained
• 1:38:03
  out, so they're windless. But they're still ranked six, So you know,
• 1:38:08
  like I said, reputation has a lot to do with it, and
• 1:38:11
  South Carolina is probably moving up a little bit. They actually had a combined
• 1:38:15
  no hitter as one of their three wins over the weekend. So you know,
• 1:38:19
  it's crowded at the top. It's going to take some wins and it's
• 1:38:23
  going to be, you know, an uphill battle for the teams in this
• 1:38:27
  state to get ranked, but it can be done, especially once the conference
• 1:38:31
  play starts and you start playing a lot of the big RPI games. Tell
• 1:38:36
  me a little bit about Iowa if you know fifteenth. Kevin Griffin was in
• 1:38:40
  here a softball coach at bellav and he was speaking of I was Friday night.
• 1:38:44
  Starter said they you know, they'll play a three game set against Ole
• 1:38:45
  Miss coming up he in a few weeks. They are at number fifteen,
• 1:38:48
  and it looks like they could be the class out of the Big ten this
• 1:38:51
  year. Yeah, and I've got a kid named Brody Brett who has been
• 1:38:56
  lighting it up in triple digits. I don't think he had that good a
• 1:39:00
  weekend, but you know, they're solid. A lot of our guys think
• 1:39:04
  that they may have the best three game of rotation anywhere in the Holy CAAA.
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  You know, I'm sure South Carolina would argue with that, unless you
• 1:39:13
  might even try to argue with that. Wake Forest would definitely argue with that.
• 1:39:17
  You know, when wake Forest gets the best picture from Tennessee, that
• 1:39:20
  transfers over there. And he threw an inning the other day where it was
• 1:39:26
  like eight or nine pitches over one hundred miles an hour, and you know,
• 1:39:30
  you're wondering, how do you face that as a batter. It's like
• 1:39:32
  Paul Scheme's two point zero, there's no doubt about it. I'm looking through
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  here. Of course, you've got some of the mainstays in top twenty five
• 1:39:41
  baseball. East Carolina, North Carolina, n C State. You know,
• 1:39:44
  Kentucky checks in at number nineteen, Campbell down at number twenty two. The
• 1:39:48
  Camels. How good is this team? Well, they had a kind of
• 1:39:55
  a slow start. I think they got beat in their first game, and
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  then they came back and we won a couple. Lot of the state people
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  of the best field good stories this year is a kid named Parker Bird and
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  he lost his lower leg in a boating accident. I saw the main history
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  this past weekend. You know. I folks knew about him last year and
• 1:40:30
  we were trying to get an interview with him, and they were trying to
• 1:40:33
  kind of keep it low key at that point, and then he burst on
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  the scene, you know, and now you get in line the interview.
• 1:40:40
  But you know, the first player with an artificial leg to ever play D
• 1:40:45
  one baseball. It's such a great story. I really love it. Yeah,
• 1:40:48
  it's a great story. I think I put that out on you know,
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  retweeted, somebody put that out. It's all over you know, the
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  sports world this weekend. A fantastic story. If you haven't found that,
• 1:40:57
  go find that. It's really really interesting, you know, you look outside
• 1:41:00
  and also some of the normal names the UC Santa Barbara's count State, Fullerton's,
• 1:41:05
  you know Sam Houston State is in here, grat you know Wichita State,
• 1:41:10
  it is Dallas Baptist. It is just again. It is a chopped,
• 1:41:14
  chopped up field full of great teams. You know when you go one
• 1:41:15
  to about forty, it's really good baseball. Yeah, and you know in
• 1:41:19
  Yukon people may kind of scoff about, you know, East Coast baseball,
• 1:41:24
  but you kind is going to be a player. And then Saint John's,
• 1:41:28
  the team that beat Florida is from the Big East too. So we've got
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  a guy write the Big East Reporter and he was just you know, luder
• 1:41:34
  and at the mouth to become me up over the weekend, he said,
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• 1:41:45
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• 1:41:48
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  There you go, It's gonna be fun. Doug. I appreciate your
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• 1:42:49
  we'll do it again next week. Thanks. Jake, appreciate it, Doug
• 1:42:53
  Kyle with College Baseball Central. Thing about college baseball, we talked about that
• 1:42:57
  a lot. Is you know this thing, you're gonna be a conference play.
• 1:42:59
  You're going I know real quickly who is who and who is not let's
• 1:43:02
  see real quick before we go to break. Johnny Vegas said, it's the
• 1:43:04
  Razorbacks. Yere, what do you think about this? He's coming, he's
• 1:43:09
  ready, it's ready. I just wonder who he's gonna have the Razorbacks playing
• 1:43:14
  in the national championship game, because he always has a Razorbacks national championship pick.
• 1:43:18
  So it's Arkansas chalking through the college football playoff playing who unnamed textor did
• 1:43:24
  Alabama? I don't know about that. I have to get back to that.
• 1:43:26
  That's the Robert Gillespie grizz in regards to Bama. Tennessee just stole the
• 1:43:32
  linebacker co defensive coordinator from them today. Linebacker coach. That is. Look,
• 1:43:39
  it's gonna take Kaylyn de Bore time to get his footing. I mean
• 1:43:43
  his team has been poached, His coaches have been poached. Even guys he
• 1:43:46
  wanted to bring with him have been poached. It's again, call it what
• 1:43:50
  you will. I think Alabama's eight and four, Vegas, depending on the
• 1:43:55
  odds that you look at, Some have them a win total nine. I've
• 1:43:57
  seen nine and a half and I've seen ten. Where would you put Alabama
• 1:44:00
  today? You're thinking more about this eight and four thing two, aren't you?
• 1:44:05
  I cannot fully call you insane for maybe thinking eight and four. I
• 1:44:14
  see nine and three on this schedule, but I mean there's some questions.
• 1:44:20
  They're not gonna put up with nine and three. No, they won't.
• 1:44:25
  They won't do it. You would think, well, you know what,
• 1:44:27
  maybe now that's still too logical. It's too logical to think that. Maybe
• 1:44:31
  perhaps you look at reality and think, oh, you know what, we
• 1:44:36
  just lost Nick Saban. But even then, I don't know that Alabama fans
• 1:44:42
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  the notes here, let me get caught up on these texts. JC I
• 1:46:13
  might could buy that Florida will have an equal or worse record than Vanderbilt.
• 1:46:16
  But if you think those teams are even in the same stratosphere, then you
• 1:46:20
  are no different than these people who are still disciples of Fauci. No.
• 1:46:24
  JC I didn't say they're in the same stratosphere. I am just telling you
• 1:46:28
  there is too much against Florida this year, way too much against Florida.
• 1:46:32
  Look, do you realize last year the Florida Gators, who I have as
• 1:46:41
  my twelfth best team in the SEC, they were one hundred and eighth in
• 1:46:45
  offensive scoring efficiency. Now defensively they were not that bad. They were thirty
• 1:46:48
  ninth, but to move into the fifties would take a gargantuan jump. And
• 1:46:57
  when you throw this schedule on top of Florida what they have, I mean,
• 1:47:01
  look their non conference schedule alone, Miami Hurricanes. They do get Samfored
• 1:47:10
  Central Florida and Florida State, Miami Central, Florida, Florida State. That's
• 1:47:15
  their non conference. That's unbelievably tough. Do you see a path to six
• 1:47:20
  wins for Billy Naper? I do not, No, No, I don't.
• 1:47:24
  The other day I struggled to really find the best case scenario five absolute
• 1:47:30
  best case scenario. I see. I struggled to find four. I felt
• 1:47:34
  really good about. But to go back to what Jac's talking about, even
• 1:47:41
  with all that and that horrible schedule, we still can't put them in with
• 1:47:45
  Vanderbilt, Jake, that I think that is going a little bit or It's
• 1:47:49
  not that they are the equivalent of Vanderbilt, but their records could be close
• 1:47:57
  if let me say this, if Florida had Missouri schedule, if they had
• 1:48:01
  Missouri's schedule or ole Miss' schedule, they would probably be a five or six
• 1:48:05
  win team. But they don't. They have the toughest schedule in the country.
• 1:48:12
  There's no other team that has the schedule like this, and I don't
• 1:48:15
  know that it's close. Let's see, JC, Jake, I don't see
• 1:48:18
  a path to six wins for you. Come on, JC, at least
• 1:48:25
  make me Bowl eligible. Can I be Maryland this year like a nice team.
• 1:48:29
  Jc's got me going win? I mean, not even to a Bowl
• 1:48:33
  RT every player is a five star. Come on, guys, mill Road
• 1:48:38
  nine and three crate. Nope, see here, I can't go that way.
• 1:48:40
  Here's let me tell you this. Alabama has had so much attrition over
• 1:48:44
  the last two years and nobody wants to It's almost like it's the thing people
• 1:48:47
  don't want to talk about. It's the elephant in the room. Twenty five
• 1:48:51
  twenty six guys this year have hit the transfer portal. They had seven,
• 1:48:55
  eight, nine last year twenty two to twenty three guys. They only had
• 1:48:59
  ten to eleven come back. Their roster is upside down. Yeah, the
• 1:49:02
  people that are there really good what you got over there. I love how
• 1:49:08
  out of the two you know, possible records that were saying. RT says
• 1:49:13
  nothing about eight and four, but nine and three, that's crazy. It's
• 1:49:19
  one ballgame. It's one ballgame. He says, name one guy other than
• 1:49:26
  Milroe last year twelve and one. Easy, come on, Artie, All
• 1:49:30
  right, let me move on here, Buffalo Chris Jake said this same stuff
• 1:49:40
  last year, BAMA will win ten? Oh? Sure did? All right?
• 1:49:44
  Chris and RT. They've taught me back. They've taught me back into
• 1:49:48
  sins. I try to give you some b of the D and they've come
• 1:49:55
  back and said, why why would you ever do that? Because I rarely
• 1:49:59
  give you be the D? So I'm taking it back. Dick Saban ain't
• 1:50:02
  walking out that tunnel. He's not. He's not doing it. If you
• 1:50:12
  think that transition is gonna go straight from one coach to the next and there's
• 1:50:15
  not gonna be a drop off, mmmm, it's gonna be a it's gonna
• 1:50:19
  be a sad day. I'm just telling you better watch out. Monkey's riding
• 1:50:23
  dogs. If he can turn a program around like Washington and plays for a
• 1:50:28
  national championship. Don't write him off yet. I'm not writing him off.
• 1:50:30
  I'm just saying it's gonna be tough. What was Washington's record prior to taking
• 1:50:33
  over as head coach. Look, Washington was not as good. But again
• 1:50:38
  it's not the coaching. It's look Alabama. If you go look and this,
• 1:50:45
  you can make this conversation for Georgia. Alabama and Georgia no longer have
• 1:50:50
  a stranglehold on talent in college football. Now they're still some of the best
• 1:50:55
  rosters in college football. Georgia is gonna be as good as anybody they roll
• 1:50:57
  out against. But I am here to tell you guys, Oregon is right
• 1:51:00
  there, Texas is right there, the Miami Hurricanes, Ohio State, they
• 1:51:09
  have the transfer portal has helped close this gap and not necessarily bringing guys in,
• 1:51:15
  but the attrition on the guys going out. Georgia and Alabama have had
• 1:51:18
  massive attrition over the last two years. And again I give you exhibit A.
• 1:51:24
  What is exhibit A the Auburn football Tigers coming off of the train wreck
• 1:51:30
  that was what was that coach's name from Boise State, Arson, Brian Harson
• 1:51:36
  in Hugh Freeze year one with a very average Auburn team had Georgia on the
• 1:51:42
  ropes and should have knocked them out and couldn't do it. Had Alabama on
• 1:51:46
  the ropes, and if it were not for a heave and a hoe and
• 1:51:48
  a prayer, that had lost the iron ball. The Auburn Tigers were like
• 1:51:55
  three plays away from knocking off Georgia and Alabama last year. Why is that?
• 1:52:02
  Why is that? If Alabama and Georgia are so dominant? Why is
• 1:52:08
  that? Just questions? I'm just throwing it out there. You know how
• 1:52:15
  I feel about these ifs and oh, close wins, close wins are still
• 1:52:24
  lost. As Jake, if they were good, they would have won them.
• 1:52:27
  I know. I'm just saying if they were that good, art has
• 1:52:30
  changed, he says. Exhibit A is my brain. They wont at least
• 1:52:35
  eight titles. No, they haven't done that. All right, let's move
• 1:52:38
  on. Where was that? Let's see there it is quarterback rooms, best
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  the sixth best out of six one do six one being the best quarterback room
• 1:52:58
  in the country. You got Jalen mill Rose, the starter, Tie Simpson
• 1:53:00
  is still there, Diland Longergan, and then Austin Mack who transferred in from
• 1:53:04
  Washington. So they're the quarterback room in Alabama is extremely good. What's that?
• 1:53:13
  Will you think it's a good quarterback? Run Ty Simpson just negated that
• 1:53:19
  for me. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not sold on him either.
• 1:53:21
  He's just he's in the he's in the quarterback room. Number five Georgia.
• 1:53:26
  Now again, a lot of these guys aren't gonna stick around once they You
• 1:53:29
  may have a couple of these guys on both all these rosters, any of
• 1:53:30
  these rosters transfer after spring. Carson Beck, Gunner Stockton, Ryan Poligski.
• 1:53:38
  He was the number ten quarterback in the twenty twenty four cycles. So they
• 1:53:40
  got three good ones. Oh miss number four Jackson Dart Walker, Howard,
• 1:53:45
  Austin Simmons, Braden Waterman, and Lane Kiffin has just I mean, he
• 1:53:50
  has just brought quarterbacks. He even quarterbacks that don't pan out that pan We'll
• 1:53:56
  do it like uh Spencer Sanders last year. Number three Oregon. Organ could
• 1:54:02
  potentially have the best quarterback room in the country. Dylan Gabriel from Oklahoma,
• 1:54:05
  Dante Moore Ucla, Austin, NOVISAD number two Ohio State, Will Howard who
• 1:54:13
  comes in from Kansas State, Devin Brown, Lincoln Kinhols, Julian saying from
• 1:54:18
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• 1:54:24
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• 1:54:28
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• 1:54:30
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• 1:54:33
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  up tomorrow some point on the podcast. Tomorrow we will have Chris Landry moving
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  a day for us, and of course we'll go to Oxford and start well
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  and move around as we typically do. Let's see JC says, Jake picks
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  one national champion and now he's nostrodamous. Hey, I've done more than one.
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  What do you JC do? Not get mad at me because Alabama's going
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  eight and four. I didn't do it. I didn't do it. I
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  couldn't have but noticed that you were about to say I've picked more than one.
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  I have, I have that was your glory day, what Michigan.
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  Yes, well, I mean I just happened to peg that one, right,
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  Yeah, but you were gonna say there's been more than one. I've
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  been with you a while here, I don't remember. I mean, some
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  of these have been slammed ducks, a couple of Bamas a Georgia, those
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  are pretty easy. Michigan was the one out of left field. And I
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  don't know who's gonna win it this year yet. I haven't gotten that far
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  through all this yet. I've worked through the SEC and I'm still I'm fixing
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  to get into the ACC schedules. I feel pretty confident that Texas is the
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  best team in the league, but Georgia is right there. And I could
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  see a scenario where these two teams play three times this year, believe it
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  or not, once in the regular season in Austin, once in the SEC
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  title game, and then possibly in the playoff. It could happen. Texas
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  has the best quarterback room in the country, by the way, Quinn you
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  Wers, arch Manning Cole, Lord Trey Owen Snowed and Joe Tatum. The
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  way all these guys are going to stay. Malik Murphy and props to him.
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  He's out. He's going to duke. He did more than enough waiting
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  around and this guy needs to play football and he'll play for many it.
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  He is real un named texter. I think Ty Simpson can be a nice
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  quarterback. I like the way you did that, Jay Rock. You forgot
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  to say the number one quarterback row and I think it would be Texas.
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  Yes, Jay Rock, it is Texas man. Y'all sleep in on tech.
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  I'm telling you this Texas team is going to come into the SEC and
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  they're gonna hurt feelings. That's happening. That is happening. Matthew McConaughey is
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  going to be beside himself this year. Turo I don't know if y'all touched
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  on it, but congrats to the Florence Eagles Boys and Girls soccer state champions.
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  No, Turo, I had not touched on that. Thank you for
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  sharing that. I knew that they were in the midst of soccer. How
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  about that? Is Florence the soccer capital of Mississippi right now? Can you
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  believe that Jerry's, Catfish, Berries, Seafood and soccer. Now, Florence
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  is always pride of itself in soccer, probably way too much more than their
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  football program even back in the day. But that's another story for another day.
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  How about that two state championships, unbelievable championship Catfish and then Seafood right
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  there in little Florence, southwest rankin county. What do you think, oh
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  man, oh two out of three ain't bad Jerry's and soccer? Or you're
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  not a Berries fan? What dynamite portcoin though? I mean, you gotta
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  just pick what you like. Me. They got everything there, RT,
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  Miami wins it all. I'm not ready to go there yet. I gotta
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  work through it. I'm not ready to go there. RT. You're gonna
• 1:59:00
  you're gonna try to talk since and then drop that Miami Mimi. I don't
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  know where you're coming from anymore. Yeah, I mean neither squest says,
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  let's not forget LSU or the Vikings, stay away from purple all. Actually
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  you did pick the Rams that year? I did maybe stay with blue and
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  yellow. What do you think about that? Maybe he's onto something. Did
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  you pick the Rams preseason that year? Yes, played the money at a
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  Maristar, sure did h yep. Sean McVay, the hair, Aaron Donald,
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  the whole deal. Yep. So maybe it is blue and yellow in
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  some former shade Michigan, the Rams. Maybe that's what I gotta be looking
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  for. That means twenty twenty four Pearl pirates STA how about that? Hey,
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  look, all jokes aside, and we haven't even gotten into this yet.
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  I do think Region three seven a Meridian is a monster rebuild pedal Marcus
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  Bowls goes back to back to pedal, monster rebuild. Oak Grove will be
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  talented, but they lost. I've never seen Oak Grove lose. I mean,
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  they had so many guys with Division one or junior college. They will
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  be good. Never count them out, but they're gonna be doing a rebuild.
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  Northwest ranking will be Northwest ranking, which is competitive and good. I
• 2:00:27
  want to see them still take the next day, it's gonna be Pearl and
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  Brandon. It is Pearl's time to step up to the plate. You got
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  a junior quarterback who's one of the best in the state. You've got skill
• 2:00:39
  guys that can go. I mean, you got to call your shot.
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  Now, You've got a small window. You got two years? Can you
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  get it done? I don't know, y'all are buying some really good players
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  over there? What are you talking about? I'm not sure? Wait,
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  what are you talking about? What do you mean, y'all? Who's buying
• 2:00:58
  what y'all? You know? Couldn't well who y'all is buying players? Y'all?
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  We're not the Patriots. What are you talking about? Let's see here,
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  unnamed texter Jake, I will puke if Texas A and M and the
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  Longhorns ended up dominating the SEC A couple of years, right, I can't
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  get look this Texas A and M thing. They're an eight or nine win
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  team probably, but they were seven eight nine with Kevin Sumlin seven eight nine
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  with Jumpo fit? Does Mike Elko scare you to death? And I know
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  Olden Buchanan and those guys they love him. I mean, he get it,
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  he's one of their guys. I gotta see it. They're still very
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  talented. Let's see here, pe Town. Let's see pee Town, low
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  dog new saying in Pearl back to back Jack Durr, how about that?
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  Pirates are all in on Jack Durr as they should be a lot of weight
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  on that young man's shoulders, A lot of weight. He got big shoulders
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  though, so you can handle it. So this is is this the window
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  for Pearl that we've been waiting on these next two years? Yes, Pearl
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  City, Yeah it is. Yes, it is because you got this year
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  and then the next year, which is the end of that two year window
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  you speak of. That's the return of coach John Perry. A minute and
• 2:02:30
  it absolutely happens there. So yeah, we can right on. You got
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  a new coach. You can't just throw him out without coaching a game.
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  I can because he's no John Perry for you are the state grad ninety eight.
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  Another show of skipping my text. I don't see a text. What's
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  he talking about? No, nope, state grad. Your last text was
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  last Wednesday at five thirty eight. I can't. I can't put that on
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  on you, Jake. I don't think stay grad. You gotta ge him
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  any quicker than that. I hope you're doing well. All right, let's
• 2:03:01
  see here real quickly, we drop to bracketology quarterbacks. There's a lot to
• 2:03:05
  get into this week, A lot to get into, like the five craziest
• 2:03:10
  operations ever revealed declassified CIA documents are out there. Also, the remains of
• 2:03:15
  a whole other planet are buried at the center of the Earth. Can you
• 2:03:17
  believe this? They continue to uncover all kinds of stuff and we will get
• 2:03:23
  into this tomorrow. Jackson State hit with an eight hundred thousand dollars bill because
• 2:03:29
  former coach Dion Sanders ended a historic rivalry. So now the chickens are coming
• 2:03:33
  home to roost on some of this that Dion Sanders are doing. Do you
• 2:03:39
  think he will help pay this fine? Of course not. Brooksy mac jack
• 2:03:45
  Cia Files and Alien Planets. I love this show, Brooksy? What are
• 2:03:48
  you doing? I bet you he's sitting over there, either in a popeyees
• 2:03:51
  line or he's at a baseball field. Brooks. Kevin was in today.
• 2:03:56
  You need to get back in here. Do you think Chris will come in
• 2:03:58
  with us? Didn't ghost Matt Wyatt the other day? Sure did? Unbelievable.
• 2:04:05
  Unbelievable. All right, Uh, let's see what else we got this
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  week. Anthony Edwards sums up one of the NBA All Star Game is broken
• 2:04:13
  beyond repair. Did you see all the negativity on the All Star Game this
• 2:04:15
  weekend? They got just raked over. The Cols rightfully so two eleven to
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  one eighty six. I sent you a video Saturday night I was watching.
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  I don't know why I do this. I don't know if it's hate watch
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  or in the back of my brain for some stupid reason, I keep thinking
• 2:04:38
  that maybe this year it'll be good again. And I speak of the dunk
• 2:04:42
  contest. It was horrible as always. And I'm watching this competition half court
• 2:04:49
  shot competition. Did you get I sent you that video. Three all Stars.
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  Okay, you're supposed to be the best of the best of the best,
• 2:04:58
  and these three got guys are out there throwing up shots from the half
• 2:05:01
  court line, and it took them forever just to hit a shot, fifty
• 2:05:08
  eight point nine seconds and once they finally hit one, they just stopped the
• 2:05:11
  clock. That was it, really Well, as we get on our way,
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  I'm gonna let you read Chris's last text that will close us nicely today.
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  Chris Brooks just says I was naked. End of show. I don't
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  even know what to do with that other than two be on our merry way.
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  Appreciate Kevin Griffin, also Doug Kyle, remember ketchup as King Bacon's delicacy
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  Loja means goodbye, we will see tomorrow. Have a good night.