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Friday Edition of the Drive - Hour One · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: W.R.K.S. Pickens-Jackson. Hey, what do you say we sing a
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  Speaker 1: driving song? There's not gonna be any singing around here.
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  Speaker 1: Just real sports. On the Afternoon Drive with Jake Wimberly.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this is gonna be sweet.
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  Speaker 1: And it's all right here, right now. On ESPN 105.9
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  Speaker 1: The Zone and online at thezone1059. com.
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  Speaker 3: 28th day of August 2026. Champion of the chair sports.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe on a Friday. It is Friday. I'm not real
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  Speaker 3: big on saying Friday. I think that sounds really weird.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, it's Friday. And it's high school football Friday.
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  Speaker 3: We've got week one, official week one. We had some
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  Speaker 3: games last night. Junior college last night. But we've got
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  Speaker 3: a full slate of high school football games coming up tonight.
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  Speaker 3: And of course, you've got week zero coming up tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: NFL preseason. All kind of stuff going on. So let's celebrate.
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  Speaker 3: It is Friday. Hopefully it's going to be a good
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  Speaker 3: afternoon and a good weekend for everybody. As we're brought
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  Speaker 3: at 4.30. We'll be here with you until 5 o'clock
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  Speaker 3: today and then off to get ready for a night
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  Speaker 3: of high school football. I know we've got four games
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  Speaker 3: on the Connoisseur Media radio stations of the network of
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  Speaker 3: Connoisseur Media stations. Let me say that. But Keith Hardy
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  Speaker 3: will join us at 4.30. Get out and play at
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  Speaker 3: a Maristar. Win totals, national championship picks. You can go
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  Speaker 3: ahead and get week zero picks, week one picks. You
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  Speaker 3: can go ahead and bet Mississippi State and Ole Miss
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  Speaker 3: next week. Go ahead and lock those numbers in at
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  Speaker 3: the sportsbook at Ameristar.
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  Speaker 4: 601-897-1059.
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  Speaker 3: That is the Mississippi Sports Medicine caller line. MississippiSportsMedicine.com is
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  Speaker 3: Hinton will join us in about 28 to 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk a little Southern Miss as they're a week
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  Speaker 3: away like everybody else from playing. Ty Harden, the head
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  Speaker 3: football coach at Tupelo, will join us in the press
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  Speaker 3: box at 4 o'clock. And we'll talk a little Tupelo
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  Speaker 3: football as we are in Tupelo for the Brandon Tupelo
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  Speaker 3: game tonight. You can hear that on 106.3. The Fan,
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  Speaker 3: that's 1400 AM, 106.3 FM. You'll have MRA right here tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Clinton on 96.9. And you'll have Northwest Rankin on 103.5. Beave,
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  Speaker 3: did we get the walk-in on a Friday or did
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  Speaker 3: we have a cheat day?
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  Speaker 2: No, well, we'll call it a half walk. I got
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  Speaker 2: some in, but, you know. Well, first off, out of nowhere,
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  Speaker 2: it started raining.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 2: It was a terrible combination. Let me tell you about this.
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  Speaker 2: So they're blacktopping a large portion of this parking lot,
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  Speaker 2: which I didn't care for because they didn't even ask me. Like,
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  Speaker 2: you're in my walking space.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So it really stunk. You know, the smell of when
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  Speaker 2: they're blacktopping stuff and that just.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, all the fumes were in the air. Then it
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  Speaker 2: starts raining. Pouring down rain, but in typical Mississippi fashion,
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  Speaker 2: it stopped real quick, and then the sun came right
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  Speaker 2: back out. So it was gross and steamy. And then
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  Speaker 2: that smell was in the air. And it was just
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  Speaker 2: a bad combo.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that asphalt smell, that hot asphalt smell. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I'm surprised some company hasn't put a candle together, thinking
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  Speaker 3: that would be cute. But that's one of the worst
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  Speaker 3: smells out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was awful.
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  Speaker 3: Is the building bare on Friday?
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's as bare as a usual Friday. I think
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  Speaker 2: there's three of us here total.
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  Speaker 3: Bare as a baby's butt.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds kind of weird. I don't know if I
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  Speaker 2: want to go with that.
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  Speaker 3: All right. We've got a lot to get to. We've
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  Speaker 3: got high school football. We'll get into the top matchups
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  Speaker 3: tonight going on around the state, courtesy of Mississippi Sports Medicine.
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  Speaker 3: As last night was a weird night. Of course, Jude
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  Speaker 3: Coase was weird, but also weird on the national scene.
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  Speaker 3: West Florida began its football program in 2016, became a
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  Speaker 3: Division II force, just transitioned to Division I, and upset
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  Speaker 3: a top 20 Southern Illinois team in their Division I
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  Speaker 3: opener last night. They were a 21-point underdog. And we
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  Speaker 3: saw a couple of these come across last night. And
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of it is to do with
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  Speaker 3: the transfer portal. You know, the transfer portal giveth and
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  Speaker 3: it taketh away. And that, you know, you can build
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  Speaker 3: a great team, and then you can also have a
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  Speaker 3: team that's not put well together, a team that maybe
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  Speaker 3: is not as cohesive as it needs to be. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: you missed some players. So that happened last night. Also,
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  Speaker 3: big shakeup at BYU yesterday. Football will now be split.
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  Speaker 3: This is interesting. Football will now be split off from
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  Speaker 3: the school's other athletic programs. They're the first university to
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  Speaker 3: do this. Kalani Satake, the head football coach, now reports
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  Speaker 3: directly to the university vice president, Keith Vorkink, instead of
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  Speaker 3: Brian Santiago. So he's reporting directly to the VP of
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  Speaker 3: the university, and they're totally splitting football out. Now, I'll
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  Speaker 3: be interested to see if other institutions follow suit with
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  Speaker 3: this when you talk about splitting football out and you're
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  Speaker 3: making it totally separate from the other portions of the
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  Speaker 3: athletic department. But BYU... is the first to do this. Also,
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  Speaker 3: the Mountain West has prohibited NFL players from returning to
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  Speaker 3: its league. This means if they appear on an NFL roster,
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  Speaker 3: sign a contract, or do not withdraw from the pro draft,
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  Speaker 3: they cannot play for the Mountain West. Also, LCU football
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  Speaker 3: history makers, for the first time ever, an NAIA team
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  Speaker 3: beats a scholarship-awarding NCAA Division I program, and it's your...
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  Speaker 3: LCA Wildcats as they defeat I believe Villanova I may
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  Speaker 3: be wrong on that but they won 42 to 37
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  Speaker 3: so you got two victories big upsets last night as
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  Speaker 3: Brad Powers reported last night late he says unbelievable start
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  Speaker 3: to the college football season division two North Dakota Mines
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  Speaker 3: they were a 40 point underdog and upset Drake 38
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  Speaker 3: 35 division two Concord was a 29 and a half
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  Speaker 3: point underdog and these were in sp plus upset davidson
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  Speaker 3: 41 to 35 houston christian was a 24.5 point underdog
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  Speaker 3: they upset southeast louisiana 34 to 28 ohio dominican was
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  Speaker 3: a 21 point underdog and they upset morehead state 42
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  Speaker 3: to 40 in three overtimes west florida they uh upset
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  Speaker 3: they were 20 point underdog they upset southern illinois we
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  Speaker 3: said that earlier 34 to 31 and nia louisiana christian
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  Speaker 3: was a 15-point underdog in SP +. They beat Northwestern State.
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  Speaker 3: It was Northwestern State, excuse me, 42-37. So you had one, two, three, four, five,
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  Speaker 3: six upsets last night. Now, granted, these aren't teams that
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  Speaker 3: you're going to see on game day. They're not going
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  Speaker 3: to host college game day. They're not going to do
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  Speaker 3: all the ritz and glamour, glitz and glamour and all
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. But it's very interesting, I mean, that you
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  Speaker 3: see these teams coming out now and upsetting some of
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  Speaker 3: these Division I teams. Big night last night. Week zero
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  Speaker 3: finally here, and we'll get into Brett McMurphy's predictions if
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  Speaker 3: we get time. Several games tomorrow. I know you'll tune
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  Speaker 3: in to some of these. It's not week one. It's
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  Speaker 3: not where you're going to be. Some of you may
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  Speaker 3: be glued to the TV tomorrow all day long, but
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  Speaker 3: you may peek in there and check everything out. Michigan
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  Speaker 3: has a 2029 home game with Bowling Green, if you care.
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  Speaker 3: And NFL news, the Dallas Cowboys, well, NFL College. NFL College.
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  Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Jordan Hudson and several others have
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  Speaker 3: been granted the temporary restraining order against the NCAA, the SEC,
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  Speaker 3: Greg Sankey, and more, allowing him to play a fifth
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  Speaker 3: season and enter the NCAA transfer portal. And here's what
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand is Brett McMurphy's right. He says billable
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  Speaker 3: hours remain undefeated. He's talking about the attorneys and all this.
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  Speaker 3: How can another judge grant a TRO, the temporary restraining order,
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  Speaker 3: that's the acronym they use, against the SEC– when the
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  Speaker 3: SEC just made this rule in their own conference, and
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  Speaker 3: now the judge says, no, you can go play. Don't
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  Speaker 3: worry about what they say. So this is, again, I've
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  Speaker 3: said this. Judges have way too much power on all
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  Speaker 3: of this. And, you know, from politics to now football
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  Speaker 3: and everything, you've got just these local judges. I may
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  Speaker 3: become a judge, and B, we may make him a judge.
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  Speaker 3: We may rein them in, and we may– We may
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  Speaker 3: all just start making decisions. I think that's what we're
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  Speaker 7: Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come to go back
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  Speaker 7: to the Afternoon Drive with Jake Wimmerly.
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  Speaker 3: Southern Miss as they get ready to kick it off
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  Speaker 3: next weekend. We're in Tupelo today, getting ready for Tupelo
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  Speaker 3: Brandon tonight. You've got a whole list of high school
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  Speaker 3: football as we move through the afternoon. And, of course,
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  Speaker 3: we'll get into some of these top ten games of
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  Speaker 3: the week. You can always text us, 601-885-3776. That is
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  Speaker 3: more of these notes real quickly here, and then we'll
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  Speaker 3: get into some of these matchups. As expected, the SEC
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  Speaker 3: and Greg Sank here added to the Louisiana eligibility complaint
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  Speaker 3: preliminary injunction hearing is scheduled for Thursday.
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  Speaker 5: And....
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  Speaker 3: There is a, quote, show-calls order for the NCAA to
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  Speaker 3: be held in contempt of court in Louisiana. So Louisiana
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  Speaker 3: continues to be the ground zero for this thing, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to read this court docket here. There's
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  Speaker 3: a lot to get into here, but that's just kind
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  Speaker 3: of the rough outline as well. Also, college football playoff
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  Speaker 3: executives are continuing to discuss implementing or an implementation of
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  Speaker 3: a participation rule that would disqualify programs rostering certain athletes,
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  Speaker 3: including former professional players, Sources tell Yahoo Sports a meeting
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  Speaker 3: next week is expected to solidify a decision. And again,
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  Speaker 3: the Mountain West prohibits professional athletes as well. ACC presidents
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  Speaker 3: unanimously voted to adopt a policy prohibiting pro football and
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  Speaker 3: basketball players from competing in the league. Sources tell Yahoo
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  Speaker 3: Sports all power leagues now have a rule in place
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  Speaker 3: at least for football. And that's everybody. Everybody has a
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  Speaker 3: rule in place. It took about five days. for everybody
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  Speaker 3: to get those rules in place. And now we see
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  Speaker 3: the court cases starting to happen. Florida, the Gators, have
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  Speaker 3: signed head basketball coach Todd Golden to a new six-year contract.
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  Speaker 3: So there's some college basketball. And Missouri, for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 3: has officially claimed its first college football national championship. How
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  Speaker 3: about that? Congratulations to the Missouri Tigers, the 1960 team.
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  Speaker 3: won the Big 8 and appeared number one in the
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  Speaker 3: AP Bowl. Why did they not claim this before now?
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  Speaker 3: This is interesting. The call from Missouri fans have been heard.
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  Speaker 3: The Tigers are ready to recognize the 1960 football team
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  Speaker 3: as national champions. The Tigers were also celebrating 100 years
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  Speaker 3: at Memorial Stadium when they host Troy in Week 3.
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  Speaker 3: Now an extra celebration will be added as well. The
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  Speaker 3: decision follows a resolution in August from the United States
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  Speaker 3: Senate recognizing the 1960 football I didn't even know it
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  Speaker 3: was a Senate resolution. 1960 Missouri team and their spot
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  Speaker 3: in the college football history books. Quote, we appreciate Senator
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  Speaker 3: Eric Schmidt and the U.S. Senate for recognizing the accomplishment
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  Speaker 3: of our 1960 football team and for bringing renewed attention
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  Speaker 3: to a remarkable group of Tigers, Missouri Athletics Director Liard
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  Speaker 3: Veach said the 1960 team has an important place in
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  Speaker 3: Missouri football history. And after reviewing the historical records, we
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  Speaker 3: believe it's appropriate to honor that team as national champions.
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  Speaker 3: That was the year after Ole Miss. Chris Siebel just
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  Speaker 3: passed me that note. Claim theirs. The recognition is based
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  Speaker 3: on the polling system after several national selectors recognized by
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  Speaker 3: the NCAA, which named Missouri its 1960 champion under coach
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  Speaker 3: Dave DeVin. or divine, rather, the Tigers of 1960 climbed
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  Speaker 3: to number one in the AP poll, headed into the
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  Speaker 3: regular season finale after Kansas forfeited the final matchup due
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  Speaker 3: to an ineligible player. The Tigers ended the season with
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  Speaker 3: an unblemished record. Quote, we have a unique opportunity this
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  Speaker 3: year to recognize the Tigers who built the history and
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  Speaker 3: tradition of Missouri football and keeping our eyes firmly on
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  Speaker 3: the future as we celebrate 100 years of Memorial Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: and opened its centennial project, we want to properly honor
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  Speaker 3: the 1960 team and its legacy as well. The 1960 season,
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  Speaker 3: let's see, I'm just curious why they're just now doing
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  Speaker 3: this now. Missouri beat opponents by a margin of 288
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  Speaker 3: to 70 across 10 games that year. That didn't involve
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  Speaker 3: that one forfeit. The season ended on an Orange Bowl
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  Speaker 3: where the Tigers took on No. 4 Navy and Heisman
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  Speaker 3: winner Joe Bellino. They beat them in shipment 21-14. So
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  Speaker 3: they didn't allow 20 points in a single game that year, blah, blah, blah. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: why are they just now doing this now? Because if
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  Speaker 3: they were the AP number one team, they should have
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  Speaker 3: been awarded the national championship that year. Now, granted, you
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  Speaker 3: had several different outlets back then, you know, from one
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  Speaker 3: publication to the other. Let me look at something real quick.
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  Speaker 3: I want to look at, real quick, let me pull this.
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  Speaker 3: Who was the 1960... Because this has got me perplexed
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  Speaker 3: why Missouri is just doing this now. Let me look.
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  Speaker 2: 1960.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
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  Speaker 4: 1960.
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  Speaker 3: It says Minnesota and Ole Miss. Ole Miss got the
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  Speaker 3: FWAA National Championship in 1960. Minnesota got the AP, the NFF,
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  Speaker 3: and the UPI. So maybe that was a misprint because
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  Speaker 3: what I'm looking at here, Minnesota got it, but now
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  Speaker 3: They're going to give it to Missouri. Missouri's just going
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  Speaker 3: to claim this thing. I've told you, just start claiming that.
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  Speaker 3: Mississippi State should claim the 1941 National Championship. People have
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  Speaker 3: said that for years. I'm not the only one. I've
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  Speaker 3: got to credit Stephen Agostinelli, six-pack speak. He started this.
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  Speaker 3: They need to claim the 1941 National Championship. It's got
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota as the AP winner. Look, Minnesota's got a lot
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  Speaker 3: of championships from way back when, 1940, 1941. Um, they've
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  Speaker 3: got 1960. I mean, Minnesota 19 and you go back here, Minnesota, 1933, 34,
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  Speaker 3: 35 and 36 champion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota's got a lot of national championships from way, way back.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, let me see real quickly. One more note here.
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  Speaker 3: TCU is a heavy favorite against North Carolina and Dublin.
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  Speaker 3: When you look at polymarket odds, a 76% chance that
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  Speaker 3: TCU wins this football game, and I would say that
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  Speaker 3: that's accurate. North Carolina would have to do everything right,
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  Speaker 3: and nothing has gone right for North Carolina. Also, the
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  Speaker 3: FBS Oversight Committee has announced changes to the 2027 college
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  Speaker 3: football calendar. Season start moves to week zero. That means
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  Speaker 3: this is the last year, at least, for the near
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  Speaker 3: future where week zero is week zero. The season will
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  Speaker 3: start next week on what would be week zero. So
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  Speaker 3: next year, end of August, last weekend, we'll be playing
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  Speaker 3: college football in one year of tomorrow for week one.
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  Speaker 3: Spring practice can now have two OTA like periods, only
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  Speaker 3: 21 practices. So you can break it up. You can
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: go 10 and 11. You can go 15 and six,
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  Speaker 3: whatever you want to do. January transfer portal moves to
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  Speaker 3: 10 days as well. Also, uh, Lane Kiffin says he
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  Speaker 3: did not provoke recent lawsuits filed by NFL players against
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  Speaker 3: the NCAA or SEC. Quote, these kids made these decisions
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  Speaker 3: on their own with attorneys of what to do, and
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  Speaker 3: this was a while back that they made these decisions.
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  Speaker 3: How does he even know this? I think Lane Kiffin's
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  Speaker 3: knee-deep in all this, personally, and I think most people
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  Speaker 3: believe that as well. And Tampa Bay Buccaneers edge rusher
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  Speaker 3: Jack Pyburn, who's been at the center of this, will
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  Speaker 3: return to LSU if he's not rostered on an NFL
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  Speaker 3: roster by September 1st, as John Blau reported. We're brought
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  Speaker 3: Happy Friday.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Jake. How you doing, my friend?
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  Speaker 2: Good to talk to you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, brother, good to talk to you as well. All right,
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  Speaker 3: so we know all the conferences now have made statements,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: you know, that includes the Sun Belt and everybody saying, hey,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: we're not going to have pro players coming back. That's
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: a non-negotiable. But now we've got lawsuits coming out and
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: judges that are saying, hey, we've got a temporary restraining
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: order where you can get in. Man, this whole thing
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: is a mess.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Isn't it?
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's nothing but judges. Man, when have we ever
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: thought that federal judges would be controlling college football?
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Right, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: How crazy is that? How crazy is that? Not the NCAA,
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: mind you.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: Not the conferences. Federal judges control what happens in college football.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: We've missed the mark somewhere, buddy. We have missed the mark.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Heath Hinton on your radio talk of college football, and
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I agree with you. It really missed the mark on this.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Has there been any comment out of the administration of
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Southern Miss, you know, just one way or the other
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  Speaker 3: on any of this?
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: Well, no.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they had to go and You tell kids
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: they're eligible, and then there's three different court cases, and
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: they turn a state court case. I guess they make
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: it class action somehow, and then that gets overturned, and
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: now these kids are having to go to each state.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: So Southern Miss had three kids that went for a judge,
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: and that got overruled. Anyway, they're eligible now.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not sure when that's.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Now, that court case will meet again, I'm pretty sure,
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: in a couple of weeks, and then they'll have to
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: go through this process again. It's just a, I think,
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: personally what I think is the NCAA wants this. I
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: think the NCAA's enjoying this, and I'll tell you why.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Because it's making people lean more towards what they're doing
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: in Washington. And I think that's what.
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  Speaker 7: The NCAA wants.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: So I'm not sure that the NCAA's totally upset with this,
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I get what you're saying, and I haven't thought
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: about it from that angle, but I think if I
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: understand you correctly is, hey, if the NCAA just allows
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: this to happen and kind of let the chaos control,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: then eventually everybody will say, hey, we need help, any
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: kind of help. Yes, let's pass this legislation in Washington
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: at some point. Whatever we've got to do, let's pass
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: it just to get this quote fixed.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Well, take, for instance, look at the Big Ten SEC.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Their latest things were, hey, we– We probably need to
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: get this in Washington passed.
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: They weren't really pushing it before.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: So all this craziness that's happening, people are seeing it,
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: and they're finally going, look, we got to have some standards,
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: some type of rules, man. Nobody wants the federal government
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: to do it, but if judges are going to get involved.
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: You've already got the government. You might as well go ahead.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: And get Congress to say, all right, we're going to
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: step our foot in and put some rules in place.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: It may not be perfect, but at least it's something.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Instead of, you know, all these kids having to go
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: to state courts to get eligible. This is not what
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: college sports are meant to be. The NCAA opened the door.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: I mean, judges opened the door with pay to play.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: NCAA tried to block it. Then they've got all of
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: this other stuff that's happened. All of this has happened
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: once judges started overturning the NCAA. And now the NCAA says, here,
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: you see the craziness that's happening here. We like what
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Washington's doing, so let's let it happen and push people
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: towards Washington. That's the quickest way to them, I believe,
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: that they see that that bill will get passed.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Heath Hinton talking college football and, of course, Southern Miss football,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Friday edition of your program. All right, Heath, so we're
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: about a week away. Any news of relevance as now,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: of course, Southern Miss, like everybody, they're into full game
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: week mode. It's not just game week prep for the opponent.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: It's you know, hey, how are we going to come
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: out of the tunnel? How are we going to line
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: up on the field? How are we going to stretch?
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: How are we going to, you know, do all this?
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Any news of notes out of Southern Miss camp?
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, Ethan Hampton, the quarterback, he's had an
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: injured hand. That's still up in the air what's.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: Going to happen. I don't know.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, if I'm Blake Anderson, if I need Ethan
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: Hampton to beat Alcorn, we've got bigger issues. This is
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: a quarterback injury. I might hold him out, but that's
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: his call. He really hasn't. Most scrimmages, I think he
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: was in three snaps in the first scrimmages. Didn't take
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: in the second because of that bruise to his thumb.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: Those injuries are just weird and take different time to heal,
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: so we don't know about that. But still, it seems
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: like everything else followed into place. We're going to want
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: to know a lot more about this team. But, yeah,
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: you're talking about a team with, you know, 70-plus new
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: players going into game week that nobody knows what's going
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: on really in the FBS except very few. So it
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: should be interesting to see how the team adjusts and
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: gets ready to play for this first upcoming home game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we saw last night there were six upsets, you know,
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: in the FCS world of, you know, a couple of
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: NAIA schools beat some Division I programs. And I think
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: that's a product of this transfer portal. And I think,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: you know, I said it earlier, this is just my
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: stupid take, is, you know, the transfer portal giveth and
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: it taketh away. So meaning, you know, you may get
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: a great team this year, And then the next year,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: you may not get such a great team. Your evaluation
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: may be off or flawed in some places, some players,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: maybe some character issues.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Who knows?
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: There's no chemistry. But it's interesting that we saw that
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: many upsets last night.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: And Southern Miss, you've got 70-plus new players. I know
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: I'm harping on it, but that's just a whole team
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: of turnover. That's not even really much in place to
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: help guide the guys that are coming in.
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: Even back in the day when you would have Say.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: You'd have 15 and 20 transfers coming in. You still
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: had a bunch of guys on the team that were there.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: They knew the process.
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: They knew what was going on.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: They knew where they were staying the night before so
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: they could help these guys, you know, acclimate to what's happening.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: Now nobody knows what's going on. So everybody's kind of,
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: you know, are really experiencing things for the first time.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: How do they handle that at this level? It's going
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: to be interesting to see. I think that. Blake Anderson,
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: a guy who has gone into places and won in
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: his first year, who has rebuilt programs, thinks he's the
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: right guy for the job. Is it going to be
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: something that camp's going to last longer than really just August?
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Are they going to need two, three, four weeks into
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: the season because of the big turnover? I don't know.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: I think you look at Marshall last year. Marshall started
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: off really slow, but at the end of the season
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: was a really good Sunbelt football team. And I think
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: at Southern Miss, you kind of take that approach, look
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: at it, and try to emulate that. So we'll see
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: what happens. A lot of football yet to be played,
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: but everybody's excited to kind of get the hell going
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: on and hit somebody else.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it. So when does the naming rights,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: does that take effect this year or next year?
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: I believe it takes place this year. Yeah, it'll be
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: Renaissance Bank Stadium. Still going to call it The Rock,
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: but Renaissance Bank Stadium. What a great deal for Southern Miss,
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: and I'm understanding maybe a jersey patch, and then things
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: are going to have naming rights.
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: To other facilities.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: So, yeah, just a big money influx that schools like
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: Southern Miss really need, and I think it was a
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: huge deal for that to take place for them.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Heath Hinton talking Southern Miss and the NCAA and everything
• 27:38
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  Speaker 3: talk next week. It'll be game week.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: Let the circus begin, my friend. We will talk to
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: you then.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Thanks so much. Heath Hinton on your radio. And, of course,
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• 30:03
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  Speaker 3: He said, Lane Kiffin can go hit on Christy Noem's
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  Speaker 3: husband in a dark cocktail lounge. We don't care as
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  Speaker 3: long as he wins, but he better win. We don't
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: care what you do as long as you win. That's it.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, you just got to win. I mean, that's
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: all it is is just win. Man, this stuff in
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: college sports is crazy, isn't it?
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Man, it is.
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: And I feel like, you know, last year we said
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: the same thing. It couldn't get any worse. And then,
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: I mean, here, hold my beer and watch this. It
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: got ten times worse. I mean, the judges, the junctions,
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: everything that you can think of. And what I find interesting, though, is,
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: you know, one of the big talks, of course, I
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: know you talked about it this week, is the players
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: coming back from the NFL.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Well, they're coming back for money. They're going to make money.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's a mess. If you would have told
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: me ten years ago we would be here right now,
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: I'd have latched you out the building. Yeah.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it just– It doesn't make sense. You know,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: we saw a precursor of this when a few basketball
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: players came back from the NBA and, you know, the
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: D League and, you know, Alabama had the one player
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: that was, I think he played one game and then
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: he was ruled out. I can't remember his name, but
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Betty Ako, I believe. I think it was. That's not it.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Bobby said that's not it.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Bobby would know.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Bobby's a big Alabama guy, so he would know that.
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: My question is, and this is everybody's question, how do
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: you stop it?
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Where does it stop? I think.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. All right, so if you go
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: by the rules, which do the rules even matter, the
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: rules put in place moving forward, you've got five years
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: to play five, and if you're 19 and get into college,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: that starts the clock, or if the first year you
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: go into college at 18, then you've got five to
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: play five, or if you come in early at 17, whatever.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: They're going to say, hey, if we can just get
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: through this year. Now, some of these guys may get
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: locked into court because here's the thing. If you're– Well,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: let's take LSU off the table. They look rogue anyway.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: They really do. They look like they're just ready to
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: do whatever. Let's just go Tennessee. We'll take a team
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: off the beaten path. And Tennessee has a player that
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: one of these judges says, yes, hey, under this new
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: temporary TOR, temporary restraining order, you can play. Well, the
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: SEC says I can't. Well, the team's going to roll
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: him out. They're not going to physically keep the guy
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: off the field. So if he plays, do you really
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: risk playing him? Because the SEC has rules in place now.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: you're going to lose your games, your coach is going
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: to get suspended for 50% of the season, and then
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: you're going to lose any of your kind of arbitration
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: rights with the SEC. Do you take that risk? Because
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: it's going to get locked in litigation, and then who
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: knows who's going to win.
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: So does that hold them responsible even though it's locked
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: up in litigation right now? So technically now they're able
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: to do that. So they can't go back. Eligible by who, though?
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: Because if the SEC says no, but the judge says yes...
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: I guess technically the judge is the hierarchy here, but
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: We're in uncharted territory. It is absolutely crazy.
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: My brain doesn't comprehend exactly what's going on, but your schools,
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: they don't even know what's going on.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: Do we do this? Do we do that? Do we
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: do this? Do we do that? Can we play this guy?
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: I would not want to be anywhere near a college
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: football coach. I used to think the best job in
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: the world was to fire a college football coach.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: No, not anymore.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and, you know, me sitting way out here that
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: doesn't make a penny close to what a college coach makes,
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: never will, I would say, hey, let's just play it
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: safe and not get them. But if you're making $ 8 million,
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: $ 9 million, then you know your job's on the line.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: And if you feel like you can win another ball
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: game or two by bringing another player or two in,
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: then you're probably going to risk it all.
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, like you said, whatever it takes to win,
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: and that's the mentality, and it doesn't matter. how you
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: get there, who you play and, or what you do
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: to get there. I mean, it's just so messed up.
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: I mean, and I love college football. I love football period.
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: I mean, but it's becoming so unpure all across the board.
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: You know, it used to be always NFL. So, you know,
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: it's all about the money.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: But to me, it almost seems that college football is
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: worse than NFL football right now. NFL football, you know, it's,
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: it's there. This is strictly a business. They're out there
• 34:10
  Speaker 8: playing college football. It's just a mess right now. And,
• 34:14
  Speaker 8: It's almost sometimes fun not to watch, and I hate
• 34:17
  Speaker 8: to say that because I love it.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: There is no doubt about it. All right, so we've
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: got a full slate of high school football. Boy, how
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: about Meridian last night? I want to give a big
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: shout-out to the Meridian Wildcats and Tony Vance. We're going
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: to try to get him on next week. Meridian wins
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: big against Ocean Springs last night. I think it was
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: 40 to 9.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: 41 to 9.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: To 9.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: Or 47 to 9.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: 47 to 9. And I haven't seen really anything on that.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: But I think that game.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: May have been. That game was it. No, that game
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: was at Ocean Springs. At Ocean Springs.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: I know Ocean Springs lost a lot of guys, but,
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: you know, just what a big win, and I think
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Madison Central beat Pearl 16-7 last night, so we're off
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: and running.
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and I think what definitely shocked me was the
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: Ocean Springs-Meridian score. Now, we both know that Tony Vance
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: coming in to Meridian, you know, there's talent in Meridian.
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: There's always been talent in Meridian. If you can get
• 35:07
  Speaker 8: the right coach in there, and it seems that Meridian
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: has kind of made that step in the right direction,
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: which is Makes Region 3-7A that much tougher with a
• 35:19
  Speaker 8: coach like Tony Vance and Meridian, though. Don't know what
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: to think much about the Pearl-Madison Central. 17-7 was the final.
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: I got 16-7, and then they kicked the extra point.
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: It was 17-7. From what I've been told, neither team
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: looked great. But then again, it's also early in the year.
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: I mean, a lot of things happen early in the season,
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: so that could change midway through.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: I know Pearl, of course, lost third place. Durr.
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: He's no longer their quarterback, so they've revamped it. I
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: think Atwood is the last name of the quarterback now
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: that's there. I think he's a sophomore, I do believe.
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: Learning pains for him as well. Mass Central, of course,
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: I know they lost their running back. They went to
• 35:56
  Speaker 8: a private school in Tennessee. Maybe changing that up last minute,
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: but kind of shocked at that. Other than that, I'll.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Tell you what, also, Juco last night, wild.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Around the state, there was a lot of upsets. I
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: say upsets, what's perceived as upsets, but JUCO, just like
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: these college teams, I mean, they're churning rosters. You know,
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: it's a two-year deal typically unless you get redshirted and
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: you stay there for three. They're churning rosters, 20, 30,
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: 40 players. You know, so the powers that you may
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: think are powers may not be the powers that you
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: thought they were.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: Well, that's right.
• 36:29
  Speaker 8: I mean, going to the fourth quarter, it was, I think, 14-14.
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: That was Gulf Coast and Cahoma. Cahoma's kind of been
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: off the beaten path forever in JUCO. I think Gulf
• 36:40
  Speaker 8: Coast ended up pulling away late. I think they won
• 36:43
  Speaker 8: 27-14 or 21-14. But, look, Mississippi Delta, kind of the
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: same way that Cahoma's been, they go into Colen last
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: night and beat them 28-27. So, it'll wind up upset
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: Hines last night, 28-27 or 29-28.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: 28-27.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: So, you know, I should know that.
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: I was actually on the broadcast, and I showed you
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: how tired that, I mean, when you start doing game
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: week to week, you get tired pretty quick. So, You know,
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: it's funny. They changed the format in JUCO this year.
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: There's ten games. It's been nine for as long as
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: I can remember. And also one team from the north,
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: one team from the south that make the playoffs. So
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: a lot of things changed in college football.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: One question for you, and we've got to take a
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: break here and get to the top of the hour.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Are you in on TCU like everybody?
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: I called you yesterday and told you that.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm making sure you haven't changed your mind.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: No, absolutely. And that game is in Dublin. Is that right?
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: It's in Dublin, Ireland?
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Yes. Ireland?
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: North Carolina, that's a mess right now. It is. Just
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: like college football, shall we say. It's a big mess. So,
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: you know, I like TCU.
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: I got it at 8.5, so I had a little
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: bit extra than you. I know it dropped a little
• 37:51
  Speaker 8: bit when you got it. So I like TCU to
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: win big over there. Yeah, I think they are as well.
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