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Wednesday Edition of The Drive - Hour One · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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Speaker 2: Grill at 6 o'clock on WJQS. The Fan, that's 1400 AM, 106.3 FM. Beave,
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Speaker 2: I know I've already asked you, You got 54 minutes
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Speaker 2: in today. You were six minutes shy, but you had
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Speaker 2: to be on the air. You would have had an
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Speaker 2: hour walk in a new asphalt-infested parking lot. That's pretty
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Speaker 2: good considering you had to brave those elements. Yeah, and
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Speaker 2: it really smells out there. We talked about that asphalt smell. Man,
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Speaker 2: it's been a crazy couple days with them doing that
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Speaker 2: out there. Yeah, they are redoing the entire parking lot
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Speaker 2: around the facility. And it's a pretty big facility if
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Speaker 2: you've never seen it over there off Pear Orchard Road.
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Speaker 2: And they've, you know, segmented this thing like they do
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Speaker 2: all projects. So they're right in front of our building
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Speaker 2: right now. And it just smells like one big asphalt
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Speaker 2: plant right now in this heat. But we'll get by it.
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Speaker 2: East Mississippi is looking to get by it. Reported a
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Speaker 2: couple days ago. Of course, we were off the air yesterday.
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Speaker 2: We're with you through the rest of the week. We'll
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Speaker 2: be off on Monday for Labor Day. But as Zach
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Speaker 2: Barnett prophesied, Points out after blasting the school and conference
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Speaker 2: officials in a local paper on Thursday, longtime East Mississippi
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Speaker 2: Community College head coach Buddy Stevens has been fired. And,
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Speaker 2: of course, we'll be in East Mississippi tomorrow for Hines
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Speaker 2: versus East, which you can hear right here on 105.9
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Speaker 2: The Zone. And that will kick at 7. We'll be
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Speaker 2: over there doing a show from 3 to 6 tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: So I'm sure we will be talking about that a
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Speaker 2: little bit coming up tomorrow. Also, the– Well, the athletic
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Speaker 2: is too. On3. com reporting several SEC programs are exploring adding
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Speaker 2: former NFL players and 2022 recruits ahead of the season
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Speaker 2: despite the focus on LSU. It's more than just LSU.
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Speaker 2: It's other teams in the conference. They're just not saying
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Speaker 2: a whole lot about it. SEC rosters must be finalized
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Speaker 2: 24 hours before kickoff. So, I mean, if you're kicking
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Speaker 2: off on Friday, if you're Oklahoma, you've got to have
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Speaker 2: that thing buttoned up tomorrow. And Mississippi State and Ole Miss, well,
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Speaker 2: State's got to have it buttoned up on Friday, Ole
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Speaker 2: Miss on Saturday. So the clock is ticking on these
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Speaker 2: SEC rosters. And, of course, the SEC meets in court
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Speaker 2: tomorrow with all the NFL stuff. Amazon Prime continues to
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Speaker 2: add to its sports output. And what it's going to show,
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Speaker 2: Prime Video is adding six NHL teams as local streaming
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Speaker 2: partners this season, giving Amazon exclusive local streaming rights for
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Speaker 2: several NHL clubs. and increasing its influence in the post-RSN era.
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Speaker 2: So Prime is ripping off into the hockey side, so
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Speaker 2: they're bringing that to Prime. Beaver, did you see this
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Speaker 2: post from Ryan Pagnetti on the New England Patriots and
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Speaker 2: Bill Belichick?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 2: This is fascinating, and you can find it on my
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Speaker 2: XFeed at Jake Wim, or I can send it to you.
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Speaker 2: This is pretty interesting. For all of the negativity that's
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Speaker 2: been around Bill Belichick since he went to North Carolina... And,
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Speaker 2: of course, they beat TCU this past week. They're 1-0.
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Speaker 2: They'll try to get to 2-0 coming up this week
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Speaker 2: or whenever they play. I can't remember if they have
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Speaker 2: an off week or not. Man, the Patriots were so good.
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Speaker 2: And the Patriots, it was the little things. And Pagnetti
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Speaker 2: points this out. It's getting a lot of run nationally today.
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Speaker 2: And just for reference, Ryan Pagnetti on X, at Ryan Pagnetti,
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Speaker 2: he's a Super Bowl-winning NFL strategy and analytics coach, former Eagles, Jaguars,
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Speaker 2: and Raiders. And he's got a pretty large following on X.
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Speaker 2: He says, Much has been made of the Patriots' mysterious
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Speaker 2: pink stripes. How about yellow ones? He said, I went
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Speaker 2: through more than a decade of TV broadcasts and uncovered
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Speaker 2: a diabolically clever piece of Patriot gamesmanship. He said, when
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Speaker 2: opposing kickers lined up at Gillette Stadium, the video board
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Speaker 2: displayed a reverse view of the kick, placing a second
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Speaker 2: offset of yellow uprights directly behind the real ones. And
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Speaker 2: he puts pictures here, and it is pretty fascinating. And
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Speaker 2: I never noticed this in all the years of watching
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Speaker 2: the Patriots and, of course, on TV and seeing it.
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Speaker 2: But when a kicker lined up to kick an extra
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Speaker 2: point or a field goal at Gillette Stadium, the video
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Speaker 2: board would show an inverse picture of what's going on
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Speaker 2: on the field. And it would show an extra set
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Speaker 2: of goalposts just kind of offset from the other goalposts.
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Speaker 2: So really, if you looked at it from a field view,
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Speaker 2: it almost looks like two sets of field goalposts. which
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Speaker 2: was pretty darn clever. It says, in windy conditions, even
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Speaker 2: though orange streamers on the video board appeared to point
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Speaker 2: in the opposite direction from those atop the physical uprights,
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Speaker 2: it made an illusion, and it got even more disorienting
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Speaker 2: if you were on field level. He said, I found
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Speaker 2: dozens of examples in the same games. I reviewed 52
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Speaker 2: Patriot field goal attempts. The illusion appeared on Patriot kicks
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Speaker 2: exactly zero times. So when the Patriots were kicking a
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Speaker 2: field goal or extra point, the video board cut off.
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Speaker 3: Psh.
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Speaker 2: And when the opposing team was on there and they
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Speaker 2: ran their kicking unit on, they cut it on. He
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Speaker 2: went on to say that we actually tried copying the
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Speaker 2: idea when I was in Philadelphia, but the location of
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Speaker 2: the video board and Lincoln Financial Field made it nearly useless.
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Speaker 2: It is a perfect encapsulation of the Patriots dynasty. No
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Speaker 2: detail was too small and no possible edge was left unexplored.
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Speaker 2: He said we talked about the tactic and more. He
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Speaker 2: has a podcast that's out. So I just thought this
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Speaker 2: was a pretty fascinating read. I never picked up on it. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: a lot of people never picked up on it because
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Speaker 2: several big national outlets are talking about it now in
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Speaker 2: Ryan Pagnetti's excerpt on the New England Patriots and what
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Speaker 2: they were doing. Tennessee football has signed a jersey patch
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Speaker 2: sponsorship with First Horizon. The 10-year deal is worth more
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Speaker 2: than $ 120 million over the span of the deal. So
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Speaker 2: I would think they would color this thing differently. because
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Speaker 2: it's the same color as the jersey. It's orange outlined
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Speaker 2: in white. So it's kind of hard to see, but
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Speaker 2: it is a first-round. It's hard to believe it'll be
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Speaker 2: a patch like that, $ 120 million. Also, Georgia Southern quarterback
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Speaker 2: Max Johnson, we talked about him a few weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: On three, did a one-on-one with him. Four schools, five
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Speaker 2: head coaches, seven offensive coordinators in seven years. Quote, thank
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Speaker 2: goodness for the portal. Let me say that again. Four schools,
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Speaker 2: five head coaches... seven offensive coordinators in seven years for
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Speaker 2: Max Johnson, who started at LSU. He went on to
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Speaker 2: Texas A & M. He went to North Carolina. And
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Speaker 2: now he is at Georgia Southern. Also, Archie Manning raves
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Speaker 2: to Chris Lowe about Mississippi State's quarterback, Camario Taylor, and
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Speaker 2: his performance at the Manning Passing Academy. He said he
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Speaker 2: was impressive or as impressive as anybody we had this summer.
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Speaker 2: He was just a flat-out good-looking kid, built well, athletic
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Speaker 2: as hell, and could throw it all over the field.
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Speaker 2: He said, you don't see many kids that big that
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Speaker 2: can move that way and that can throw it the
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Speaker 2: way he can. So Camario Taylor getting a lot of
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Speaker 2: love from Archie Manning. Also, one more nugget or note
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Speaker 2: some more notes shall we john talty reporting quote you
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Speaker 2: must or you got to quote keep lane away from
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Speaker 2: the girls that are in college nick saban said according
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Speaker 2: to one former coach lane kiffin's chaotic alabama era saban's
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Speaker 2: frustrations and nights um at uh a uh Innisfree Irish Pub.
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Speaker 2: So Vanity Fair posted this on Lane Kiffin. This is
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Speaker 2: very interesting. They did this a few days before the season,
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Speaker 2: but really kind of outlining how Lane Kiffin allegedly was
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Speaker 2: at Alabama, which some of these stories have been going
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Speaker 2: on for years and how Lane Kiffin acted in Tuscaloosa.
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Speaker 2: And then if you talk to some people, some of
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Speaker 2: that might have been going on in Oxford, allegedly. So,
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Speaker 2: you know, I have no idea. But typically where there's smoke,
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Speaker 2: There is a little fire, and I think most everybody
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Speaker 2: knows that, you know, based on the tea leaves, Lane
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Speaker 2: Kiffin fancies himself as a ladies' man. All right, let's
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Speaker 2: move on. So that is out there. Clemson has named
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Speaker 2: Christopher Vazinha as its starting quarterback. Dabo Swinney has reported.
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Speaker 2: So I know nothing of this Christopher Vazinha. I will
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Speaker 2: tell you this. He will probably be pulled for in,
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Speaker 2: you know, most of the country when LSU plays. Clemson
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Speaker 2: on Saturday night on Tiger Stadium. So we'll all have
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Speaker 2: to check out Zinnia and see what he's doing. Going
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Speaker 2: back to this NFL-SEC deal where several SEC programs are
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Speaker 2: exploring adding former NFL players, there was one source that
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Speaker 2: told Brett McMurphy, quote, I can't believe we have to
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Speaker 2: run through all these hoops to keep NFL players from
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Speaker 2: playing college football. Texas Tech quarterback Will Hammond tells Brett McMurphy, quote,
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Speaker 2: What's the fun in competing when no one's hating on you?
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Speaker 2: Joey McGuire, the head football coach at Texas Tech, said
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Speaker 2: that Will, told Will Hammond, said people are doubting you.
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Speaker 2: If you don't know who Will Hammond is, that's the
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Speaker 2: guy that was supposed to be the quarterback until he
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Speaker 2: took an injury last year, late in the year for
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Speaker 2: this year, and then they signed Brendan Sorsby from Cincinnati.
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Speaker 2: By all accounts, he is healthy. But McGuire, the head
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Speaker 2: football coach, has been giving him the business saying, hey, look,
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Speaker 2: people are doubting you. People don't believe in you. If
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Speaker 2: Sorsby was still our quarterback, we'd be a top five
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Speaker 2: team in the preseason rankings. But because it's you, we're
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Speaker 2: number 12. So a little reverse psychology there in the
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Speaker 2: locker room of Texas Tech. And Hammond tells, Brett McMurphy quoted,
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Speaker 2: just fires me up, dude. He said, if people think
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Speaker 2: this team's going to be any different than it was
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Speaker 2: going to be before, that's where we're not going to be.
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Speaker 2: We're going to be better than we were before. He
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Speaker 2: said people are wrong. So we'll see. Again, you talk
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Speaker 2: right up to kickoff, and talking season is about to
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Speaker 2: come to an end. Also, Clemson head football coach Davo
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Speaker 2: Sweeney on preparing for LSU and potentially former NFL players.
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Speaker 2: He says, honestly, it's embarrassing. That's where we are. He said,
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Speaker 2: I don't blame the kids, but people trying to take
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Speaker 2: advantage of the system, it's embarrassing. But we've been there
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Speaker 2: for a while. Quote, no pun intended, but we're just
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Speaker 2: going to stay in our lane. So that's a Davo-ism
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Speaker 2: right there, trying to play on words. As McMurphy says,
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Speaker 2: put it on a T-shirt, stay in our lane. Ross
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Speaker 2: Dillinger reporting today the SEC filed a brief with the
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Speaker 2: Louisiana court ahead of Thursday's injunction hearing, including an affidavit
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Speaker 2: from Commissioner Greg Sankey. The brief outlines why the SEC
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Speaker 2: should hold authority to enforce its rules against a member
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Speaker 2: school and that Sankey should not be held liable. And
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Speaker 2: I'm going to read the whole deal. Sankey says, quote,
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Speaker 2: each roster spot filled by a former pro athlete is
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Speaker 2: a roster spot that becomes unavailable to a high school
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Speaker 2: student athlete or another less developed athlete who would benefit
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Speaker 2: from the educational and athletic growth opportunities and available through
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Speaker 2: college sports. And he's absolutely correct. I mean, that more
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Speaker 2: than anything, outside of the fact that we've never lived
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Speaker 2: in a world where pro players come back to play a, quote,
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Speaker 2: amateur sport, and I'm putting that in air quotes, because
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Speaker 2: college sports are supposed to be amateur. We know that
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Speaker 2: they're not. They're no longer amateur sports. They're all professional
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Speaker 2: sports because you're getting paid. But that's who it hurts.
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Speaker 2: It hurts the high school guys and the high school girls,
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Speaker 2: and then it hurts those that have not yet been
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Speaker 2: able to be developed. Maybe it's a young person in
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Speaker 2: basketball or football or baseball. They've got a lot of potential.
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Speaker 2: They need to be developed. It may take a year
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Speaker 2: or two. They may have to redshirt. It hurts those
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Speaker 2: people as well. Also, Sankey details the penalties afforded to
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Speaker 2: him and presidents, says no president voted against the penalty's
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Speaker 2: Released in memos last week, LSU's Wade Rousseau abstained, clarifies
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Speaker 2: SEC is not an NCAA agent, and says permitting pro
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Speaker 2: players would create unfairness for high school athletes. And I
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Speaker 2: do like the fact that Sankey's leaning into the high
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Speaker 2: school side, not that this is a play on words.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it is absolutely true. The high schools, again,
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Speaker 2: are the ones, the high school guys and girls are
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Speaker 2: the ones that's getting really, really dinged in this. I mean,
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Speaker 2: think about this. You go to the judge and you say,
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Speaker 2: you're really going to rule in favor of a pro
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Speaker 2: player coming back who's already played college to play college
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Speaker 2: again in lieu of a high school guy that maybe
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Speaker 2: doesn't have any means to go to college. They don't
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Speaker 2: have money. Their family doesn't have money. And this is
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Speaker 2: an opportunity for them to grow, you know, mentally, physically, spiritually, everything,
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Speaker 2: and their craft, their school, and you're going to take
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Speaker 2: that away from them for this, really? I mean, I.
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Speaker 2: That is interesting when you look at it from that way.
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Speaker 2: On a two-hour call today, college football playoff leaders did
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Speaker 2: indeed discuss implementing participation rules that disqualify programs rostering former
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Speaker 2: pro players. They also explored expansion towards the 2014 playoff,
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Speaker 2: another meeting to deeper examine the issues that are expected
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Speaker 2: later this month. And Nick Saban, if you haven't seen it,
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Speaker 2: it's out there on X. They've already put it out there.
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Speaker 2: Nick Saban will be the subject of a TV commercial
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Speaker 2: airing during college football's opening weekend that is supportive of
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Speaker 2: the Protect College Sports Act. He told participants today on
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Speaker 2: a call of more than 200 college sports stakeholders and
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Speaker 2: congressional lawmakers. Here's the problem with putting Nick Saban as
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Speaker 2: the face of this video. Remember, this is the same
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Speaker 2: college sports act. that just basically died and it never
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Speaker 2: got voted on. So now they're trying to put logs
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Speaker 2: under the fire, put gasoline on it, and light it again.
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Speaker 2: So they're going to put Nick Saban as the face
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Speaker 2: of this thing. Well, when you hear Nick Saban talk
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Speaker 2: about equity and fairness and all this, and you can
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Speaker 2: go read the comments. It's everywhere. Most people aren't buying
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Speaker 2: what Nick Saban's selling because most people are going to
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Speaker 2: say this exact same thing, what I'm fixing to say,
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Speaker 2: in one form or another. How can you preach to
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Speaker 2: the rest of us about fairness and all this stuff
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Speaker 2: in college sports when you were allegedly running a rough
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Speaker 2: shot pay-for-play program before anybody else in Alabama? There's no
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Speaker 2: way that you can really do this with a straight face.
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Speaker 2: I mean, a lot of people feel like outside of
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Speaker 2: his age, Nick Saban got out of coaching because he
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Speaker 2: saw the writing on the wall. He knew the advantage
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Speaker 2: that he had. And look, that doesn't mean... The reason
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Speaker 2: Alabama won is because they were allegedly paying players. But
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Speaker 2: that was a big part of it, if that alleged
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Speaker 2: accusation is true. Which, again, how many Dodge Chargers really
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Speaker 2: do people drive in Alabama? Because half the team always
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Speaker 2: drove Dodge Chargers. And we're talking half. That's like 40-something players.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know that it was just a
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Speaker 2: coincidence that every year when they recruited players, those guys
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Speaker 2: really all loved Dodge Chargers. Maybe they did. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: or other things that were going on in Tuscaloosa. So
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Speaker 2: a lot of people are looking at it going, Nick,
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Speaker 2: come on, you can't be the face of this because
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Speaker 2: you were doing this before everybody else was doing it,
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Speaker 2: and now you want to talk about spreading the love
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Speaker 2: and being fair. It's not going to happen. It's not
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Speaker 2: going to happen. People aren't buying it. But that is
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Speaker 2: happening coming up this weekend. The call with commissioners and
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Speaker 2: Ole Miss with a big week one matchup coming up
22:31
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Speaker 5: I'm just happy there's almost football here because I swear
22:39
Speaker 5: every day the news cycle gets crazier with some stuff
22:43
Speaker 5: happening in Baton Rouge. So I'm just glad that we
22:45
Speaker 5: are almost there.
22:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we've seen– before we get to Ole
22:50
Speaker 2: Miss and Louisville, let me get your take on this.
22:52
Speaker 2: We've seen times where, you know, like when the U
22:54
Speaker 2: was coming up and there was issues and you knew
22:56
Speaker 2: there was issues or Florida State and, you know, Shoe
22:59
Speaker 2: Gate or Tattoo Gate at Ohio State, you know, things
23:01
Speaker 2: just kind of burned and churned and then things happened.
23:04
Speaker 2: And then programs maybe because of culture just kind of collapsed. Man,
23:08
Speaker 2: they went in down there and they have just lit
23:10
Speaker 2: the whole place on fire in like four months down
23:12
Speaker 2: in Baton Rouge.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it's just something new every day and it's
23:18
Speaker 5: not even always stuff that like– actually like happened recently.
23:22
Speaker 5: I mean, the latest stuff today from, you know, the
23:25
Speaker 5: excerpt of a book coming out, uh, was backing from
23:28
Speaker 5: stuff in Tuscaloosa and, uh, yeah, it's just, it's, there's
23:33
Speaker 5: always something and it's, you know, I, you gotta, it's,
23:36
Speaker 5: it's wild because, you know, this is a, an LSU
23:39
Speaker 5: program that is, uh, you know, they're a national power
23:42
Speaker 5: and then they take themselves really seriously and they don't accept,
23:46
Speaker 5: you know, bad seasons. We just saw that with Brian Kelly, uh,
23:49
Speaker 5: They fired him after eight, nine win seasons. If the
23:56
Speaker 5: shenanigans keep happening and they lose some games, it'll be
24:01
Speaker 5: interesting to see how long everyone puts up with it.
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Speaker 2: Michael Katz on your radio. Get him on X. Check
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Speaker 2: him out at the Northeast Mississippi Daily and, of course,
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Speaker 2: on Facebook as well. Wednesday edition of the program. I
24:14
Speaker 2: totally agree. I would say that most of the country...
24:17
Speaker 2: is pulling for Clemson on this weekend on Saturday night.
24:21
Speaker 2: Most people probably don't even know who Zanini is, the
24:23
Speaker 2: new quarterback. They'll be pulling for him. If Clemson takes
24:26
Speaker 2: this thing into the fourth quarter, boy, there's going to
24:28
Speaker 2: be a lot of eyeballs on that ballgame come Saturday night.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it was automatically going to be a
24:37
Speaker 5: very highly viewed game, just with it being an LSU
24:40
Speaker 5: game and an LSU home game and obviously Lane's first
24:43
Speaker 5: game there um all eyes were going to be on
24:46
Speaker 5: it but man if this thing is close like you
24:48
Speaker 5: said in the fourth it's going to be really really
24:51
Speaker 5: interesting to see how uh to see how that goes
24:54
Speaker 5: because you know when he was at Ole Miss uh
24:57
Speaker 5: sometimes the close games didn't go Ole Miss's way last
25:00
Speaker 5: year they did and I think that was a big
25:02
Speaker 5: reason why uh you know they were able to um
25:05
Speaker 5: have the sort of season they did they won those
25:07
Speaker 5: close games but that has not always been the case
25:10
Speaker 5: you know, we might see right away what, you know,
25:13
Speaker 5: what LSU is, what they have in store.
25:17
Speaker 2: All right, let's move forward, Ole Miss, with a big
25:19
Speaker 2: one coming up this weekend against the Louisville Cardinals. And
25:22
Speaker 2: you're looking at a team who's, you know, had some success,
25:25
Speaker 2: nine wins in 2024. In 2025, they went nine and four.
25:30
Speaker 2: They had a three-point loss to Virginia. They had a
25:32
Speaker 2: three-point loss to Cal, a one-point loss to Clemson. I mean,
25:35
Speaker 2: you know, Jeff Brom has had this team, you know,
25:39
Speaker 2: Right there in the ACC, the line in Vegas, depending
25:42
Speaker 2: on where you're shopping around, is anywhere from six to
25:44
Speaker 2: seven and a half. Just your initial thoughts on the
25:47
Speaker 2: opponent before we get into some specifics.
25:50
Speaker 5: I mean, they're really good. I mean, this is a
25:53
Speaker 5: really consistent program under Jeff Braum. It seems a little
25:58
Speaker 5: bit different because, you know, they've had new quarterbacks, each
26:03
Speaker 5: Braum's first three years, or different quarterbacks. But they all
26:07
Speaker 5: at least had some experience, you know, going back to
26:10
Speaker 5: Tyler Shuck and Miller Moss and guys like that. This
26:13
Speaker 5: is a little bit different because Lincoln Kienholz, you know,
26:16
Speaker 5: doesn't really have a ton of reps despite being, you know,
26:21
Speaker 5: a three-year guy at Ohio State. But he's super talented,
26:24
Speaker 5: and it always seems like the quarterback position is in
26:27
Speaker 5: pretty good hands there. They play good defense. I think
26:30
Speaker 5: that always gets sort of, you know, we always think
26:33
Speaker 5: about bomb teams in the offense. they always play really
26:37
Speaker 5: good defense, and then they run the ball really well.
26:39
Speaker 5: They've got two electric running backs, Isaac Brown and Keywon Brown,
26:44
Speaker 5: who would be 1A and 1A on most teams in
26:48
Speaker 5: the country, but you've got maybe as good of a
26:51
Speaker 5: duo as there is in the country, and you've got
26:53
Speaker 5: a quarterback who, yeah, there's not a lot of tape
26:55
Speaker 5: on him, but he runs. He's a good runner. He's
27:01
Speaker 5: going back to high school. He ran for 1,400 yards
27:03
Speaker 5: his senior year, so This is a really good team.
27:06
Speaker 5: This is not a gimme by any stretch. I mean,
27:10
Speaker 5: it's a top 25 matchup, so I don't know if
27:13
Speaker 5: anyone is expecting this to be like an easy game
27:16
Speaker 5: or a game where someone cruises. That could happen, of course.
27:22
Speaker 5: But as of right now, I think this is going
27:24
Speaker 5: to be a really, really good game. You know, first
27:26
Speaker 5: games of the season are always a little bit weird.
27:29
Speaker 5: Knocking off the rough, you've got new coaches and people–
27:33
Speaker 5: and new positions, new players, all that sort of stuff.
27:37
Speaker 5: I think there's a chance this is a really good one.
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Speaker 2: No, I agree with you. I think it has a
27:41
Speaker 2: chance to be a good one. And, you know, this
27:42
Speaker 2: would be, you know, if you're talking about college football
27:45
Speaker 2: playoff aspirations, which Ole Miss obviously has, to get a
27:48
Speaker 2: win like this right out the gate, I mean, that's
27:50
Speaker 2: a good look for the committee, is it not?
27:53
Speaker 7: Absolutely.
27:54
Speaker 5: You know, non-conference, you know, with the nine-game SEC schedule,
27:58
Speaker 5: you don't get a ton of opportunities now.
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Speaker 7: In the non-con, and when you do have non-conference games.
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Speaker 5: A lot of teams have opted to, you know, play,
28:07
Speaker 5: I hate to use the term, buy games. But, you know,
28:11
Speaker 5: and Ole Miss has a couple of those on their schedule.
28:14
Speaker 5: Games that, at least at first glance, look like they're
28:16
Speaker 5: going to be fairly anticlimactic in, you know, Charlotte and Wofford.
28:22
Speaker 5: But to have a game like this on the schedule,
28:24
Speaker 5: I think, is really big. And then if you look
28:26
Speaker 5: at it from Louisville's perspective, too, this is huge for them.
28:30
Speaker 5: Even if they aren't able to win the ACC, if
28:35
Speaker 5: you're able to get a win over a top-ten Ole
28:36
Speaker 5: Miss team in a non-conference game, I think you're feeling
28:39
Speaker 5: really good. Let's not forget, I know every year is different,
28:43
Speaker 5: but this is a little team that beat Miami last
28:46
Speaker 5: year in Coral Gables. There's a lot at stake in
28:50
Speaker 5: this game for sure.
28:52
Speaker 2: What about injuries? Any updates on injuries or things of
28:56
Speaker 2: that nature?
28:58
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, as you know, I know it's a
29:01
Speaker 7: new guy in charge, but trying to get a precise
29:04
Speaker 7: injury update is akin to trying to get the nuclear codes.
29:08
Speaker 5: But at least as of now, I don't think there's
29:12
Speaker 5: anything particularly serious. Obviously some camp stuff, guys getting banged up,
29:20
Speaker 5: but it sounds like the spots that they're not concerned
29:26
Speaker 5: about But they were having to kind of work through
29:29
Speaker 5: some depth issues at corner and at offensive line. But
29:33
Speaker 5: none of those sounded like they were going to be long-term.
29:36
Speaker 5: So I think all things considered, this should be a
29:39
Speaker 5: fairly full season.
29:40
Speaker 7: Team.
29:41
Speaker 2: Let me get you on your way with this. There
29:43
Speaker 2: was a report earlier today that I can't remember who
29:46
Speaker 2: put it out that said basically not only LSU, other
29:49
Speaker 2: teams are looking at possible players to return. There might
29:52
Speaker 2: have been one or two, maybe not. I can't remember
29:54
Speaker 2: that Ole Miss had or even Mississippi State or other
29:56
Speaker 2: teams in the SEC. rosters have to be finalized 24
29:59
Speaker 2: hours prior to kickoff so Ole Miss gets an extra day.
30:02
Speaker 2: Is there any guys lingering out there if things go
30:05
Speaker 2: the way of the teams at the SEC court hearings tomorrow?
30:10
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think at least from what we've
30:16
Speaker 5: heard and from what Pete Golding has said, you know,
30:19
Speaker 5: unless there was a major injury and They needed to
30:24
Speaker 5: kind of go on the free agent market, and this
30:27
Speaker 5: was him talking about some of the Ole Miss players
30:30
Speaker 5: who were trying to come back for another year. It
30:34
Speaker 5: sounds like they don't want to change the construction of
30:40
Speaker 5: this roster. I think they would like this roster. I
30:44
Speaker 5: think that they're confident in the pieces that they've put
30:49
Speaker 5: together and You know, again, I know it's hard to
30:53
Speaker 5: tell what's going to happen if you bring in new pieces. But,
30:55
Speaker 5: you know, listen, I do think there is something to
30:58
Speaker 5: be said for chemistry. And if you're bringing in new guys,
31:01
Speaker 5: you know, the week of a game, you know, who
31:05
Speaker 5: knows what that does to a team. So I know
31:09
Speaker 5: coaches are always trying to get the best players that
31:11
Speaker 5: they possibly can on the rosters. And that's never going
31:14
Speaker 5: to be– that's never going to change. But at least
31:17
Speaker 5: as of now– it seems like Ole Miss is pretty
31:21
Speaker 5: confident in what they have. But, of course, that's famous
31:24
Speaker 5: last words.
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Speaker 2: No doubt about it. He's Michael Katz. Get him on X.
31:27
Speaker 2: Check him out in northeast Mississippi. He'll have you teed
31:29
Speaker 2: up for Ole Miss and Louisville coming up this weekend. Katz,
31:32
Speaker 2: have a great Labor Day weekend. I know you're going
31:34
Speaker 2: to be traveling, so be careful. Safe travels and we'll
31:36
Speaker 2: talk to you soon.
31:37
Speaker 5: Appreciate you.
31:39
Speaker 2: Thank you, brother. Appreciate it. Michael Katz jumping on your
31:41
Speaker 2: radio talking Ole Miss. Louisville coming up this weekend. It's
31:43
Speaker 2: one of the biggest ones of the weekend. Should be
31:45
Speaker 2: a great football game in Nashville, Tennessee. I know several
31:48
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31:49
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Speaker 3: Do you stay up at night thinking about the lack
32:05
Speaker 3: of push from your team's offensive line? Do you spill
32:07
Speaker 3: your Dr. Pepper arguing with your TV because pundits are
32:10
Speaker 3: torching your defense?
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Speaker 1: You're not crazy.
32:13
Speaker 2: You're a fan.
32:14
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32:16
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Speaker 2: Taste of Dr. Pepper.
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Speaker 3: It won't fix any of.
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Speaker 1: The problems we previously.
32:21
Speaker 2: Stated, but it's delicious.
32:23
Speaker 3: And drinking it at a tailgate will make you look
32:25
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32:28
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33:32
Speaker 2: And let me get some more notes here. The athlete
33:33
Speaker 2: rev share cap of $ 21. 3 million. for 26-27 has increased. Remember,
33:44
Speaker 2: it's going up 4%, somewhere around 4% every year. It's
33:49
Speaker 2: now increased to $ 21. 58 million after an audit of power
33:54
Speaker 2: of conference revenues. The cap last year, year one of
33:57
Speaker 2: the House settlement, $ 20. 5 million. So there was an automatic
34:01
Speaker 2: 4% boost plus an additional one-time increase. So they increased
34:05
Speaker 2: it just a little bit. Now, again, that's the money
34:08
Speaker 2: allocated to the universities. That doesn't count private funds. That
34:11
Speaker 2: doesn't count nil deals and all that i mean because
34:14
Speaker 2: remember that goes across the entire athletic department now most
34:19
Speaker 2: of that money is going to be housed in the
34:20
Speaker 2: football building but they segment out some of that for
34:24
Speaker 2: basketball and baseball and you know the non-aq sports you
34:28
Speaker 2: know your your soccers and tennis and golf and all
34:31
Speaker 2: that track and field and all that stuff but uh
34:34
Speaker 2: that is that is up there all right so we
34:35
Speaker 2: were telling you uh earlier about the patriots in this
34:38
Speaker 2: ryan pagneti uh stores, you know, kind of excerpt on X,
34:42
Speaker 2: which was fascinating about the Patriots and the way just
34:45
Speaker 2: one of the many things that they used to do
34:47
Speaker 2: with Phil goalposts on the, on the video board. And
34:50
Speaker 2: if you look at it from a kicker's point of view,
34:53
Speaker 2: it does look really, really weird. Um, I mean, you
34:57
Speaker 2: look like you got two goalposts kind of intermingling there
35:00
Speaker 2: with a video board and you've got the, uh, flags
35:03
Speaker 2: going one way at the top of the uprights on,
35:05
Speaker 2: on the real goalposts and they're going the opposite way
35:09
Speaker 2: on the others. Um, Yeah, this is just fascinating, absolutely fascinating,
35:13
Speaker 2: what the New England Patriots was able to do as
35:16
Speaker 2: an organization. Texas A & M quarterback Marcel Reed has
35:20
Speaker 2: called out Texas as if we need more talking before
35:23
Speaker 2: football starts. He says, we don't like Texas. I don't
35:25
Speaker 2: like Texas. It sucks that we've lost to them twice,
35:28
Speaker 2: but they're coming here this year, so they're going to
35:30
Speaker 2: have to pay. I've got something for them for sure.
35:33
Speaker 2: All right, mark it down. Highlight it. Let's see. Maybe
35:37
Speaker 2: he does. Maybe he doesn't. but Marcel Reed has said
35:42
Speaker 2: they've got to pay, and he's got something for them.
35:46
Speaker 2: He better not mess around and throw like three picks
35:49
Speaker 2: in that game. So they just, I mean, I don't
35:52
Speaker 2: know why some guys want to add bulletin board material,
35:54
Speaker 2: especially on a rivalry game. Not that, you know, that
35:56
Speaker 2: matters through the whole game, but the buildup to the
35:58
Speaker 2: game is there. So Marcel Reed calls out the University
36:03
Speaker 2: of Texas. Also, we told you Auburn is a big
36:06
Speaker 2: favorite over.
36:09
Speaker 1: Baylor.
36:10
Speaker 2: Courtesy of Polymarket. 73% of the money is coming in
36:13
Speaker 2: on Auburn for the weekend.
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Speaker 5: D.J.
36:15
Speaker 2: Lagoway returns to the SEC footprint as a Baylor Bear.
36:20
Speaker 2: So it'll be Baylor versus Auburn coming up this weekend. Again,
36:23
Speaker 2: another pretty intriguing matchup that is out there. Also, yesterday
36:28
Speaker 2: or a few days ago, Texas Tech head coach Joey
36:31
Speaker 2: McGuire called out USC in their home opener because I
36:33
Speaker 2: remember last week in week zero there was a couple
36:37
Speaker 2: thousand people 5,000 people, whatever it was in the stands.
36:40
Speaker 2: He says not to take any shots. And, you know,
36:43
Speaker 2: you can throw that in the wording. You know, when
36:45
Speaker 2: somebody says, hey, with all due respect, you know what's
36:48
Speaker 2: coming next. Or, hey, I don't mean to be rude. Well,
36:50
Speaker 2: they're fixing to be rude. Well, if he's saying not
36:53
Speaker 2: to take any shots, he's about to take a shot.
36:56
Speaker 2: Because I have a lot of respect for USC and
36:58
Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley, but it's really awesome to be playing in Lubbock, Texas,
37:00
Speaker 2: knowing we're going to be playing in front of 60,000.
37:02
Speaker 2: It's going to be warm. It's going to be every
37:06
Speaker 2: bit as warm as it was on Saturday. There's not
37:10
Speaker 2: going to be any excuse of why the fans are
37:13
Speaker 2: not going to be here for us. Well, Lincoln Riley
37:16
Speaker 2: has responded to that, and Lincoln Riley pushes back on the, quote,
37:20
Speaker 2: false narrative surrounding USC's crowd size versus San Jose State.
37:24
Speaker 2: He says, this is USC, right? People are going to
37:26
Speaker 2: pay attention. People are going to have an opinion. It's
37:29
Speaker 2: part of being a blue blood school. I don't buy
37:32
Speaker 2: into the false narratives. I think that comes from a
37:35
Speaker 2: lot of people who don't follow our program. Most of
37:37
Speaker 2: them have never stepped foot into the Coliseum, reality is
37:41
Speaker 2: during my years here, attendance has gone up every year. Now,
37:46
Speaker 2: all that sounds really good from Lincoln Riley, but Lincoln,
37:49
Speaker 2: there's pictures of your game on Saturday. There was nobody
37:53
Speaker 2: at your game. Nobody. But we know this because of
37:57
Speaker 2: history and, you know, everything with USC. It's a very
38:00
Speaker 2: weird place because it sits right in the middle of
38:04
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, and there's so much other, you know, so
38:07
Speaker 2: many other, I mean, there's, The Lakers, the Dodgers, the
38:11
Speaker 2: Giants aren't far from there. I mean, there's, you know,
38:13
Speaker 2: the 49ers, you know, the Rams. I mean, all these teams,
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Speaker 2: USC has to be really, really, really good for people
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Speaker 2: to really just buy in and want to go there,
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Speaker 2: like for ballgames. And, you know, if they play a
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Speaker 2: big matchup, obviously, if they win, there'll be more people there.
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Speaker 2: But long gone are the days of the Pete Carrolls
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Speaker 2: of the world. Pete Carroll, Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart went
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Speaker 2: every weekend. That place was full. but it was more
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Speaker 2: like a pro environment than a college environment. So you've
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Speaker 2: got a little war of words there on stadiums. Also,
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Speaker 2: we told you Georgia Tech is a big favorite, 68%
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Speaker 2: of the money coming in versus Colorado. And Archie Manning
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Speaker 2: raving about Mississippi State's Camario Taylor. It says, quote, he
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Speaker 2: was as impressive as anybody at the Manning Passing Academy,
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Speaker 2: talking about his size, his arm, and the athleticism that
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Speaker 2: he has. 601-885-3776 if you want to give us a call.
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Speaker 2: a piece out here on this weekend and everything going on, quote,
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Speaker 2: he can't handle Ole Miss being successful. And latest Lane
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Speaker 2: Kiffin excerpt, CBS Sports, multiple sources accuse Kiffin of feeding
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Speaker 2: Dabo Sweeney information for tampering, the tampering case against Ole Miss.
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Speaker 2: So that would be a twist of fate, wouldn't it?
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Speaker 2: That Dabo Sweeney, who has gone after Ole Miss for tampering,
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Speaker 2: and Pete Golding has responded that Lane Kiffin, when he left,
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Speaker 2: fed Dabo Sweeney information about the school that he was
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Speaker 2: at that was tampering about tampering. But that's kind of
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Speaker 2: right in Lane Kiffin's wheelhouse, right? I mean, anything you
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Speaker 2: tell me about Lane Kiffin, I'm going to almost believe it.
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Speaker 2: Penn State has announced it is opening the Paterno Family
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Speaker 2: Football Experience Room. That sounds very weird. A, quote, permanent
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Speaker 2: museum experience to celebrate Penn State football history The exhibit
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Speaker 2: will open over 14 years after the school removed Joe
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Speaker 2: Paterno's statue following the Jerry Sandusky crimes on the campus
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Speaker 2: of Penn State. Also, if you haven't seen him, I'm
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Speaker 2: going to share this on X, at Jake Wim, courtesy
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Speaker 2: of Clinton Body Shop, Polly Market Football. Meet Ball State's
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Speaker 2: quarterback this year, Keldrick Luster. Keldrick Luster is a 5'10,
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Speaker 2: 250-pound quarterback, year four, and he is almost like a
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Speaker 2: miniature version of Jared Lorenzen. I think we can go there.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's not quite Jared Lorenzen size, but he's
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Speaker 2: dadgum close. He's dadgum close. So let's pay attention to
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Speaker 2: big Keldrick Luster, 5'10, 250-pound quarterback at Ball State. And honestly...
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Speaker 2: If you look at this guy in this picture, he's
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Speaker 2: in a football uniform. He looks like some average dude,
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Speaker 2: big guy, comes off the street. They're going to put
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Speaker 2: him in a uniform and put him out there to
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Speaker 2: play quarterback. Obviously, this guy likely can flat get after
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Speaker 2: it as far as football is concerned. He's another one
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Speaker 2: that we'll watch. Also, former Mississippi State quarterback Will Rogers
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Speaker 2: is now officially on the Oklahoma State coaching staff. He's
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Speaker 2: working with quarterbacks and a part of that offensive staff.
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Speaker 2: Will Rogers is at Oklahoma State now as a football coach.
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