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Josh Pate talks Ole Miss and Mississippi State Football · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Josh Pate. Make sure to find him on x at Late Kick Josh.
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  It's The Late Kick Show with Josh Paid. Of course you can get on
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  YouTube, CBS Sports, CBS Sports HQ. Josh. Welcome and by how
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  you doing. I'm good man. I'm trying to keep track of all the
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  staff moves over there and you're part of the country. It's a lot,
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  right, I mean, we've got, you know, a new coach,
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  a Mississippi State new assistants, as well as Zach Arnett now moving over to
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  hang out with Lane Kiffin for a little bit, and let's start here in
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  the state of Mississippi. I hadn't talked with the you in of it,
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  but obviously you know everybody loves your show here. I just want to tell
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  you that a lot of people reference your show. You do a fantastic job
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  with Lake Kick. And I know you're twenty four to seven into college football,
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  but haven't a chance to chalk it up with you personally. So your
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  thoughts on where Lane Kiffin is at the transfer portal madness. You know this
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  is and I've said this and we'll continue to say it's it's likely the most
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  anticipated all season and Ole miss football here since probably Eli Manning's senior year,
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  so it's been a while. Are you on board with ole Miss College Football
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  playoff or bust all the hype around ole Miss? Yeah? Yeah, I
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  can't believe that's where we are in the conversation, but yeah, I think
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  I am on board with that. And I'm normally the one who is shouting
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  down egregious, hype trained type narratives this time of year, but I don't
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  think that's egregious at all, and I don't think anyone inside that athletic department
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  would disagree with you. So, if you think about it, this is
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  one of the case studies right now in roster building and talent acquisition because you've,
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  of course got the tried and true conventional method of building through recruiting,
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  and I'm sure in Lane Kippin's perfect world that's what he'd love to do.
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  But this is not a perfect world, and there are opportunities afforded you right
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  now that they're taking full advantage of. Conversely, a program like Clemson is
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  not taking advantage of it at all. And you know, results speak for
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  themselves. But I think, to me, by ten miles, the biggest
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  that I've got with ole Miss Now is not the talent acquisition cause everyone's paying
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  attention to that. It's not the preseason ranking because everyone's paying attention to that.
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  But Manday of graded their staff. And do we keep track of this
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  internally? I mean, we've got our own proprietary method of grading coaching staff
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  and it is really really rock solid and tested over the years. And if
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  you account for the staff changes and then upgraded up updated grading from last year,
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  Ole Mess upgraded at all eleven spots on their coaching staff. They added
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  two hundred and seventy four games coached across their staff. The defensive support staff
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  grade we have on them, which means below the coordinator level, is upgraded.
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  So not only have they positioned themselves roster wise to hopefully hit a home
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  run this year, Lane Kiffen has put together a coaching staff that's equipped to
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  do that as well. So they're all in and everyone's expectations should be all
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  in. On twenty twenty four, Josh Pate on your radio Wednesday edition of
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  the program, Make sure to give the follow on exit Late Kick Josh.
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  Check out his show The Late Kick with Josh Paid. You can find that
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  in his bio as well. All right, so let's shift over to startball
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  rebuild for sure. You know, you can almost say ground floor, because
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  this thing looked really bad, really poorus for Mississippi State this past year with
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  Jeff Levy coming in not as much accolades or as many accolades in the transfer
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  portal, but he's worked in transfer portal his staff as it's going to be
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  a different brand of football. What does that? You know, what does
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  that do for Missisippi State and the win lost column? That's yet to be
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  determined. But your thoughts on where at least he is at in this process
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  without you know, coaching a down yet, Yeah, that was the biggest
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  unknown for me, just because of lack of experience. Sometimes people think when
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  you have a lack of experience, you got a guy as a head coach
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  for the first time, it's automatically a bad thing. Well it's not always
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  automatically a bad thing. Herbie Ryan Day, Lincoln Riley once upon a time
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  never had an ounce of head coaching experience. Then they went three for three
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  on being immediate home runs at their respective outposts. So it's Jeff Levy gonna
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  be that I don't know, I will tell you. My biggest area of
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  concern with them is Levy is a top one percent pace of play offensive coordinator
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  as a play caller, I mean, and so despite the fact that he's
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  the head coach there him calling plays, he's a top one percent pace of
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  play guy. They run a ton of play. When you combine that with
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  a defensive coordinator who is in his position for the first time, historically,
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  that that spelled trouble. That's not a guarantee that it won't work out,
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  but historically those have been two things that I've paid attention to from from a
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  hiring and pairing perspective, is if you got a new coordinator, what is
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  the pace of play on the offensive side, and you've got inexperienced defensive coordinator,
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  you've got top one percent pace of play. So that's something to monitor.
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  But by and large, I've asked around the industry and I've gotten very
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  little negative feedback about Levy and whether he's prepared for this opportunity. Like no
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  one questions that it's just the normal stuff you have to deal with with being
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  a head coach for the first time. And I also would are argue whether
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  you're at Mississippi State or whether you're at Notre Dame or anywhere in between.
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  I don't think it's ever been harder to be a new head coach because I
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  don't think there's ever been more on the plate of a head coach than there
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  is today, and a lot of it has nothing to do with football,
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  so there's that aspect as well. But I'm really excited just to see how
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  it turns out. No, I agree with your