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Brian Edwards Exposes the BIGGEST College Football Betting Secrets · Tigs Bits Podcast

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My understanding is that Mister Brian Edwards here is friends
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with a future character that we're going to kind of start to
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introduce to the Bubba Army and to the Tigs Bits nation.
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To the Tigs wigs out there, a guy named Mr. Boog AKA Brant
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Marshall because he goes by Boog not Brant though Brant and
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Brantley both fantastic names, but both of us go by our
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nicknames Tigs and Bugs. Bugs like, hey, man, I got this,
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you know Brian Edwards and I was like, I don't think I know Brian
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Edwards. He said, well, you got to know
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Brian Edwards. I was like, well, I'd like to
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know him to tell me more about him.
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You know, like if you're saying all this and he was like, oh
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man, he's like a sports handicapper.
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He does all this. He's got a he's got a website
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and his show. And he said, well, I'll be with
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him and he'll be hold on a minute.
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I got to hop on the show and I'll be in the car.
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I was like, dude, he sounds like our kind of guy.
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We got to connect here. So that was just a few days ago
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and then here we are now joined by none other than Brian
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Edwards, I mean senior handicapper of major wager.com.
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What else you got going on over there, Brian?
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You got sounds like you, you got your your finger in the pie and
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several things. Yeah, so in the last year I've
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been doing a podcast with this group out of Nashville that has
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a YouTube channel called Southeastern 16.
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It had been Southeastern 14, but they rebranded here in the last
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couple of weeks. And so do a once a week pod with
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them and then I'm at major wager and and I've I was full time
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with Vegas Insider for more than a decade, but now I just do my
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handicapping with them. And yeah, and I do a lot of
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radio shows like guest appearances and whatnot.
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And yeah, fired up for football. It's kind of my slow time of
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year, but ramping up here these next few weeks obviously.
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And that that's what we were just talking about before you
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joined us. It's, it's back.
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Like my son was in a football camp all last week.
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That was his first one. They're playing inner Sandman at
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the end of the camp doing big cat drills and Oklahoma's and
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stuff. Just going after it.
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So it started hitting me, you know, like this is really here
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now. NFL folks have reported to
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camps. Camps are going on.
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We're starting to get to the preseason, games are about to
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begin. Like it's football season.
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It's here and we just here, Yeah.
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I mean, and we get to scratch that itch a little bit because
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it's going to be fun because on Thursday nights when we go live,
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we're going to get to talk about football, which in the past,
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it's so Evergreen. You make a podcast one day, you
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drop. It's like old news if you've got
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to drop it same day. You do, you do those.
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Live shows will be a lot of fun man.
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They will be. Brian, I don't think we've
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formally introduced you to everybody.
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I know you've emailed a little bit.
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Sorry, I'll back up a minute here.
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We got Brantley over there coming to us from the green blue
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hue room over there, AKA Tiggs and and then right over here in
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the middle with his stars and stripes boobie shirt.
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That is none other than Jr. the handler.
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And so and then myself. I'm I'm blasted one man posse.
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We text a little bit and talk, but man, this is our first kind
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of real introduction right here. Again, just kind of organically
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brought together by none other than Bug and Right.
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Yeah, man. So yeah, just just here, mix it
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up, chop it up a little bit, talk a little football, talk a
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little, whatever y'all want to talk about, man.
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Now are Tigs and Jr. local to our area?
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I am not, I'm not. I live in I live in Baton Rouge,
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but. You have visited the leg garage
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before. Oh yes, now I lived for quite a
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while, around a couple years. Anyhow, I lived in Hammock Bay.
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OK. Right.
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Blasey was my neighbor, so OK, so.
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Oh yeah. And I, I met Bug because of
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other friends, but before I even knew Blasey.
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I've known Bug for a long time so.
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Oh yes, many nights I've spent in the libel garage.
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So so. Blasey, tell them they've
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upgraded. Yeah, they've upgraded.
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They've I've spent some time on it.
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This. Office he's he's cleaning things
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up, he's trying to get things shaking things around in there
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going to be, you know, adding new furniture, just really
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switching things up. So man, it's going to be it's
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it's a big upgrade. Kelly over there has been
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whipping the whip on Boog, you know.
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I think we should give Kelly all the.
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Credit that's fine for this fall.
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Kelly Price should get all the credit.
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Y'all are y'all are selling this place?
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I've got to check Lay boog out. I am not.
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I have not been Privy to this experience.
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Blasi and I were fraternity brothers at Troy State back when
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it was Troy State 25 years ago. I live in Gulf Shores, AL.
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I'm currently in Clearwater, FL today.
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Not in my home studio, I'm in a hotel room here visiting some
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Yeah. We were talking about before you
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got on we've we kind of danced around sports because didn't
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have anything really to report on.
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But now that it's that time, you know, like, like Brantley said,
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you know, kids are back playing two days trying to get training
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camps going for the offseason. We've watched a lot of trades
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and things going on. And and you mentioned the the
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SEC thing. I lived in Nashville 15 years.
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I'm originally from the Montgomery, AL area.
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But the SEC has grown not, not just from 14 schools to 16
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schools, but basically became its own, its own entity, more so
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than ever in the history of of college sports has that one
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conference really. And it and it's all due in in
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part to the media covering all sports the way it does now.
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But the SEC with the imprint it has and the reach and the fan
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base, it's just wild. It's just wild.
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I didn't think, I would have never thought when I was a
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teenager, being a young Alabama fan, that that this would ever
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happen. I thought when, when you know,
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when Arkansas came into the SEC back in the day, you know, that
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was a big deal in 92, you know, to bring 2 new ones in.
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And now with all the conference realignment, it's just a wild
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world we're living in. So for me, I work in the music
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business, so I travel a lot. I don't get to keep up with
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sports like I used to. So I use these opportunities
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like this to inform myself because there's they're changing
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so much every week there's a new rule, there's a new, you know,
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stipulation and in the way things are going.
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So I look forward to this and again, appreciate you coming on
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today to chop it up with us. Let's dive into football season.
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You know, kind of like you're saying Jr. minimal preparation
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on my end and I think I can speak for the other other two Co
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hosts of mine, minimal preparation.
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This is our kickoff show. This is kind of getting us back
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into starting to talk about football and things.
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It's kind of mind blowing as I still am thinking of the SEC in
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the East and in the West that doesn't exist anymore.
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Tech, like you say, Jr., Texas in Oklahoma, now in the SEC, all
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of that stuff. Let's first of all talk about
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conference alignment changes like that.
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So the PAC 10 is no longer and now the Big 10 is the big,
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however many and all that. Tell us a little bit about that,
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Brian. Yeah, so we've got four teams
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from formerly the PAC 10 and then PAC 12 coming to the Big
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10, and those are Oregon and Washington and then USC and
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UCLA. And Oregon's ready to step in
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there and cause some damage right away.
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In fact, I've got Oregon #2 in my power rankings behind
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Georgia. And then I've got Ohio State #3
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Ohio State, their fan base and their donors made it clear how
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much they are sick of losing to Michigan.
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I mean, it's been three in a row.
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But I mean, they had won up, I want to say 17 of 18 before
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that. So they were spoiled for a long
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time. But man, Ohio State broke out
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the NINIL money big time this past offseason.
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They got Ole misses best running back who had had, you know,
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back-to-back like 1300 plus yard seasons.
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They got Caleb Downs, who was the first team.
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All SEC is a true freshman of safety from Alabama.
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Obviously I see Jr. nodding. They got him.
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And then they got Julian Sayin, who was the, you know, the prize
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of Alabama's last recruiting club.
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I hadn't played yet, but a quarterback and oh gosh, I'm
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forgetting one of the other and they get.
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A tail. I think they got a tailback from
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Alabama also, where that maybe that's what you're talking
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about. No, the guy, well, they might
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have got. I just know the safety in the
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quarterback. Were the two like 5 star
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transfers? I know who I was forgetting.
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Will Howard, he's considered a four-star transfer from Kansas
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State is likely going to be their starting quarterback.
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Although that five star transfer Julian saying who's still really
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young might might have something to say about that.
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But yeah, so those four teams into the Big 10, obviously Texas
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and Oklahoma into the SEC. And then, you know, the other
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teams that were in the PAC 12, you've got like Utah and
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Colorado have gone now to the Big 12, probably forgetting
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another team that that went into the Big 12 as well.
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Yeah, the, the PAC 12 teams are kind of scattered.
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And then Oregon State, oh, I'm sorry, SoCal and Stanford went
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to the ACC and then Oregon State and Washington State were kind
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of left on an island by themselves.
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And I think they've got to deal with the Mountain West, but it's
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not like, it's not like they're locked into the Mountain West
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for the long term. I think they're going to play
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like 5 Mountain West teams this year and the next.
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But it's like a brief. Cal and Cal and Stanford having
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to travel literally across the country to play in the Atlantic
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Coast Conference when they're Pacific Coast teams.
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That's and then, and I know you mentioned Oregon, you've got
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Oregon. You think Oregon's going to be
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really hot this year? And you had mentioned also the
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NIL dollars. Oregon, if I'm not mistaken,
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Oregon donors have came out Nike and everyone's came out and said
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there is no, there's no, no dollar.
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We won't spend unlimited bankroll for that.
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Is that right? Yep, that's Nike, Yes,
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absolutely. And you know, you mentioned the
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travel like. I mean, how do you compete with
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that? With money, it's hard to, but
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they're gonna have to travel a lot.
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So like when they get so October 19th, they have to go to Purdue,
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OK, then they come back home to Illinois, but then the next week
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they go at Michigan. Then they come back home and and
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have Maryland, then they go at Wisconsin.
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So they they've got to go, they've got to fly E three times
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in five weeks. And that Wisconsin and that
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Michigan are going to be tough games when I think they're going
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to be right in that 12 team, you know, College Football Playoff,
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you know, right in that mix. And they're going to have to be
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flying E three times in five weeks and.
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That's tough. I think that's that's really
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tough. Right, yes.
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I mean, I don't like to fly W twice in a month.
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No, no, no. And you know, it's like a stat.
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One time they talked about SEC teams, just an SEC talking about
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when you had to make two Rd. games in a row.
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It's like the your winning percentage.
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I think that was Carter that was talking about your winning
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percentage drop significantly having to make those type of Rd.
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trips. And now you're talking about
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flying all over the damn country.
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So that's got to impact that win total in some capacity in some
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way. And that's that that brings me
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to a question. And all this chaos and all the
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madness is like on the handicapping side of things.
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Is there something right now like you feel like that you see
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as an opportunity? Where in the chaos, where can
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you find opportunity to make that wager, whether it be in
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early games or a win total for the season?
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What are you seeing right there? And as far as that goes?
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Yeah, so I mentioned that third trip E for Oregon in five weeks
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when they go to Wisconsin November 16th.
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Obviously it's going to be cold as hell in Wisconsin and
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Wisconsin's going to be coming off an open date.
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So now I'm not like married to that game, but you know, these
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are kids 18 to 22 or maybe 23, maybe 24 years old.
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And that game at Wisconsin, Wisconsin's got two weeks to get
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healthy and prepare and Oregon's got to fly EA third time in five
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weeks. So, you know, as long as
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Wisconsin's playing pretty good, not doesn't have a lot of
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injuries and whatnot, That's a game where I'm looking to, you
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know, if Oregon's giving up double digits where where I'm
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going to be interested in Wisconsin.
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And you know, you just find little spots in the schedule
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where you know, you see a team is playing like here I got one
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for you. Just you know, in the SEC, when
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Ole Miss goes to the Swamp, Ole Miss has two weeks to prepare,
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whereas Florida has got to play Georgia and Jacksonville
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starting on November 2nd. Then they go at Texas, then they
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have LSU at home and then their 4th game.
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I mean, Georgia and Texas are preseason top five.
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LSU's preseason. Top 15.
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And then they have Ole Miss, the 4th game in four weeks, whereas
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Ole Miss has got two weeks to prepare.
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So I just look for a little scheduling quirks like that
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where you see a team's going to be well rested and the other
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team's going to probably be beat up physically and you know, all
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that other stuff. And you made and mentioning the,
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the, the going back to the Wisconsin that and, and though,
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and it could still happen in the South in that time of the year
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too. Climate change going time zones.
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I travel for work all the time. Those, those traveling those
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time zones back and forth will will get you.
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And then the weather change from different places, the pressure,
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the, the humidity, you know, you get somewhere it's real dried,
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you're dried up. Then you get somewhere it's
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real, real, real thick, man. And and like that going to
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Wisconsin, they've got a rabid fan base up there.
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They're used to the cold. They're they'll be drinking beer
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for three days leading up to the game.
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And then a West Coast team comes over, you know, and I tell you
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this, and I'm sure you, you've got this earmarked somewhere to
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think about the flight tracker out, maybe a handicapper's
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friend this year too, because God forbid you have some weather
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disruption, the plane going from somewhere to somewhere has to
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circle around and, and land somewhere else to refuel and
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wait out a storm. I mean, it adds a whole another
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layer when you're traveling more than, you know, 4-5 hundred
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miles where you can load everybody up on some buses if
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you had to or get through there or, you know, make other
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arrangements. That's just wild, man.
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And then yeah, coming off 4/4, three solid SEC games to go
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play, even though you're at home, the team the week before
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has has has a week off. I mean, whoo, that's tough, hey.
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What do you think about the Tigers this year?
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What do you what's your thoughts?
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Well, I don't even know what the over under win total is for
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them. It's it's 9 1/2.
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Oh, is it OK? You know, you obviously lost
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Jane Daniels, who was spectacular and then two first
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round picks at wide receiver. But you know, I like Nussmeyer.
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I mean, he's going to be a downgrade from Daniels, But I
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mean, Daniels won the Heisman. The thing is, is y'all are just,
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I mean, that had to be. I mean, you've been following
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LSU forever. I mean, can you remember a
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defense worse than that? I mean, I can't remember a
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defense worse for LSU last year and for Florida the last four
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years. I mean, so y'all got a new
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defensive coordinator. You got Missouri's defensive
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coordinator Blake Baker, but you lost your awesome offensive
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coordinator. He went back to Notre Dame and
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y'all promoted from within. But if if the new DC can get the
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defense corrected and you know, back to normal, I think the
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offense is still going to be really good, just not as good.
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So I think LSU, I think they're probably going to be like a nine
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and three type of team, which you know, if I'm not saying a
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nine and. Three, perfectly acceptable for
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their program, but. But but hey, you know, there
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might be a nine and three team from the SEC that gets into the
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CFP. It's it's not going to be
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impossible. That's true too.
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That's true. It's a tough gauntlet over
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there. I didn't realize that the
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offense coordinator from LSU went to Notre Dame because he
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backfield the position where Jared Parker left Notre Dame to
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come to Troy. So yeah, right.
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You're welcome, Brantley. I'm glad we could run off
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another coach for you. Appreciate it.
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Look, we're just going to keep building this thing over here
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and just hope that one day we can be like all of y'all and
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kick your ass again like we use like we're used to doing over
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the last 20 years. Well.
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You're currently on A5 game-winning streak.
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You got the you're on A5 game-winning streak against my
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Gators right now, so. Yes, we are.
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You're glad you brought that up. You've had your way with us
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lately. I think things have been tough
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in Gainesville, man, Things have been really tough in Gainesville
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for a while. It reminds me of the Alabama
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stretch where Alabama just went through and it just just making
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over one decision after the next decision.
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It's just like, Oh my gosh, it just, it was just pitiful for a
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long time. And that's kind of what it's Bab
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and you got the resources in place and you still can't get
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things together. You know what I mean?
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Right? They're crazy.
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There's no Yeah, I was gonna. They will.
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They'll get it together there. Oh yeah, eventually, Oh yeah,
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Florida, Florida's got too much, too many good athletes and, and
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too much history in that school to, to stay, you know, in the
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middle for very long. That's that's for other schools
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in our conference. And I want to ask real quick
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while we're on here, I've got one of my, a guy I worked for a
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full time is a huge Arkansas Razorback fan and I've watched
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his Soros over the last several years.
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We were, you know, we, we've been there with Coach Pittman
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when he was a a coordinator and now he's head coach.
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They're bringing back in and talking about signal callers.
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They're bringing back in the, the guy that arguably had them,
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had them in their best run they've ever had in the in the
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team 2000s when they were winning 1011 games a year coming
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back to school. And I'll show you all this.
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This is our new bus. We just got the new logo put on
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our new bus. Oh, you got the new bus finally.
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We got the new bus and that's the new oh, they got the old
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school Arkansas logo going on it with the hog going through like
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Mamas used to have the elephant, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's pretty cool in that
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clean Pearl white. But I wanted to ask, what do you
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think that's going to help having, gosh, can't even
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remember his name coordinator that went to Petrino.
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Petrino, the motorcycle guy in the neck brace.
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Hey, hey. I just just report on what I
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see. I just report on what I see.
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Yeah. And I know, I know coach, Coach
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Pittman, like I said, he's a friend.
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I'm I'm pulling for him. You know, I'm an Alabama guy
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through and through. And Troy State is my is my love,
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my first love. People always ask me that I
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would I'd pull for Troy over Alabama.
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I know all my friends think that's BS, but that's the truth.
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Coach De Boer coming in from a a real hot Washington team that
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played for the national title last year, comes to to the helm
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there. How do you see that transition
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and and what's your prediction on the Crimson Tide this year?
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Texas to advance to the finals where they, you know, they
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played Michigan. The day after that, I went on
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Twitter and I, I wrote down or you know, tweeted out 2024
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Florida Gators, my, my Florida Gator head coaching wish list.
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And I wrote #1 Kaitlyn Devore #2 Lane Kiffin and #3 Jed Fish.
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So within, you know, within a week, Alabama got to bore and
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then Jed Fish, my number three guy, got hired by Washington
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from Arizona. So so two of my guys are off the
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board. So I'm left with Kiffin.
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So, but my point is that Greg Byrne, the ADI think he did as
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good as you can. I mean, the guys got a 104 and
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12 record in nine seasons as a head coach.
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Washington was not very good when he took over and he had him
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in the play for the national title in his second year.
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The guy can coach and you know, he's done well recruiting now,
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obviously, you know, you had some guys jump in the portal,
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you know, which is pretty much happening everywhere.
21:41
And then you have a coaching change.
21:42
It's definitely going to happen. But he he brought some good guys
21:46
from Washington. So Alabama's win totals 9 1/2.
21:52
Look, I think if they go 10 and two, they'll get to the CFP.
21:55
I've, I've got them with seven wins that I'm really confident
21:59
in and then I've got five. I'm not saying they're
22:02
necessarily really toss UPS, but five that could kind of go
22:06
either way. So I've got them.
22:09
One of the five being Georgia at home.
22:12
Most of the sports books that have games of the year lines
22:15
have Georgia favored by anywhere from 4:00 to 5:00.
22:19
The next swing game I have is at Tennessee, and I've seen Alabama
22:24
favored by like one or two in the games of the year lines.
22:28
And then Missouri at home, they're favored by 8 1/2.
22:31
They'll probably win that one, but I'm really high on Mizzou,
22:34
so I just didn't pencil in AW. And then at LSU being the 4th,
22:39
1:00 and then the fifth one at Oklahoma, where Oklahoma has two
22:43
weeks to prepare and Alabama will be playing for the third
22:47
time in three weeks. But I think they'll handle
22:50
Auburn at home and I think they'll win at Wisconsin, which
22:53
won't be, you know, a layup. But yeah, so it look, if they
22:57
can go three and two in those five swing games I just named,
23:01
then I think they're probably be in the playoffs.
23:03
So, you know, I don't think it's a throwaway year.
23:08
I think Alabama can just the cupboards not bare.
23:12
And you got a really good quarterback in Jalen Melrose.
23:14
So we'll see on Bama. Yeah, I got a season interior
23:19
line, got a nice interior line. We'll just see how the pieces
23:23
come together. But yeah, in in in in today's
23:26
world, coaching change or not, your players are leaving.
23:30
They're going from a championship team to the team
23:32
they beat and things like that. It is just a wild, wild world
23:36
out there. And they are, as you talked
23:40
about earlier, talking about like being able to stop that run
23:44
reminded me of Joe Kinds this time of year.
23:46
I love to watch that video just. Got to stop by the inside trap.
23:49
You know, that's all you got to do this year.
23:50
Just stop. By the inside trap.
23:53
It's almost like during, you know, 4th of July and what's his
23:57
name, shooting the fireworks out in the street, you know, you
24:01
know, during Terry. Terry, back up, Terry.
24:06
Back up, Terry. And just saying they do every
24:09
time college football season starts, I have to go watch that
24:11
Joe Kimes video of him at the half time as he was the interim
24:13
head coach and you get. You've got to stop him.
24:15
You got to stop that inside trap.
24:17
So anyway, I had to throw that in there.
24:18
You're telling me they couldn't stop that run on the inside that
24:20
year right there in that time frame?
24:23
Felix Jones, Derrick, Derrick McFadden.
24:26
I mean, they were. Stacked, they were that.
24:30
Crazy Peyton Hillis. Yeah, Oh my God.
24:32
Peyton Hillis I was blanking on Peyton Hillis and he's OK,
24:35
right? Remember, he almost died when he
24:37
saved his Yes, he's fine. Down there, Yeah, Yeah, down
24:43
there not far from you guys. I think it's Panama City.
24:47
Panama City somewhere down that way?
24:48
I think so. Yeah.
24:49
Yeah, yeah. His kids got towed out.
24:51
He got there out it got got got over exerted, got capacitated
24:54
with I think water in his lungs and stuff.
24:56
And yeah, he was still jacked too.
24:58
He looked like he could still handle it.
24:59
But it, you know, that water's Dane, they got those flags out.
25:02
You got to heed those warnings. And, you know, he also was
25:05
legendary and he got the curse of the madness.
25:08
He end up on the cover of Madden next year or two when he was in
25:10
Cleveland. And then I think he got hurt the
25:13
next year after that, the old Madden curse deal when he was in
25:16
the pros. Yeah.
25:18
Stud tailback. Yeah.
25:21
And you know, you know, you think about rebuilding years,
25:24
reloading years, and then you've got some that just look poised
25:28
to just continue on rolling the train as they have been rolling
25:32
like a University of Georgia Bulldogs.
25:34
Do you see a chink in their armor at all, Brian?
25:39
Oh, man, I'm just afraid Kirby's just going to have this freight
25:43
train rolling like this for a lot longer, unfortunately.
25:46
No, they look, they look terrific.
25:48
I mean, 7 starters back on offense, 7 on defense.
25:52
Now, you know, they're still, Alabama's still their boss, as
25:56
they showed in Atlanta last year.
25:59
Alabama's won eight of nine against them and they get them
26:01
at home. So but look, Carson Beck might
26:05
be the number one pick in the draft next year, probably almost
26:08
certainly going to be a top ten guy.
26:11
They get my, my Gators running back Trevor E10, you know #1
26:15
recruiting class in the country again now last year, because
26:19
they were going to play Oklahoma last year.
26:22
And then for some reason, because once Oklahoma was
26:24
coming, the SEC, they, they scrapped that game.
26:28
And so Georgia caught just a super easy schedule last year.
26:31
That's not the case this year. They've got to go at Bama now.
26:36
One of my favorite week 1 picks. I like Georgia to mess Clemson
26:40
up pretty bad. They're favored about 13 or 13
26:43
1/2. I like, I'm gonna lay the points
26:45
with Georgia in week one against Clemson.
26:47
But they got to go at Bama. They got to go at Texas, which
26:50
might be the game of the year in the regular season.
26:54
They got to go at Ole Miss, so there's some tough games and you
26:58
know, Tennessee at home could be a tester, but man, Georgia's got
27:04
as much if not more talent than anybody in the country, and
27:08
Kirby's got that thing rolling for sure so.
27:11
Man, they're going to be tough to beat again.
27:12
They got it rolling big time. And and they can have them.
27:15
All ask you a question. Yes, yes they can.
27:19
You know, they can lose in Texas and still get the playoff.
27:21
Sorry. Go ahead.
27:22
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, they do they get a
27:24
Mulligan that's a that's 100% fact and I they're deep.
27:28
I. Mean.
27:28
They're huge and they're fast and they're deep, I mean.
27:32
Will they lose a game, Brian? Will Georgia lose a game this
27:35
year? I'm going to say yes, but if if
27:40
I can only pick one team to win the national title gone to my
27:45
head, I got to go with Georgia. I hope I'm wrong, I don't like
27:49
Georgia, but. I hope you're wrong too.
27:52
Buddies on the line or guns to my head, I gotta pick.
27:56
One team. That's what I'm gonna pick.
27:59
I mean, you gotta give credit where credit is due.
28:02
If you wanna be the best, you gotta beat the best and they
28:07
even here lately, there's no doubt about it.
28:09
They are the cream of the crop. Well, 3 rises to the time.
28:13
Shit don't float. Well.
28:15
Hopefully, hopefully we can get several teams from the SEC in
28:19
the championship tournament there, the playoff series there.
28:23
And I know was it Nebraska's coach this came out this past
28:26
week and said four teams from the Big 10 he thought should be
28:30
should be in the. I think it was I saw the
28:35
headline. I never even clicked it though,
28:37
but I saw yeah. And people.
28:40
Were like scoffing it. You know what Matt Rule and the
28:42
Nebraska coach was? Saying yeah, he said they he
28:45
said they were the premier, the premier conference in in all of
28:48
college football and they should have four teams in the playoffs.
28:50
Yeah, that's about. That's what everyone else said
28:53
when they heard it. You better start early and often
28:58
cadence and they start having success to be like I told you
29:01
what did I tell you to be trying to tell you will it into
29:03
fruition time That's it that's it you got to.
29:05
Talk. It's all show business last on
29:07
last week's show, we talked politics and how it was all show
29:10
business and college football is becoming just as big as show
29:13
business. Is that well, let's pivot from
29:16
the SEC. We we we dug into our favorite
29:19
teams and I'm sure we'll hit on them again and talk about it
29:22
more as as the summer rolls on. But can we pivot to the the
29:25
group of five? What's your expectations there?
29:28
Who do you see going to rise to the top?
29:30
What do you think about Blasey and I as Troy Trojans and the
29:34
other teams that that have been winning A2 lane has been hot AP
29:39
state's been good. You see those.
29:41
What do you think about those teams?
29:44
Yeah, so, you know, Troy just had a lot of, a lot of guys are
29:48
gone. You know, they've only got 2
29:50
starters back on offense and two starters back on defense.
29:55
So we'll see. They got, they brought in 11
29:57
transfers and you know, I'm looking at them right here.
30:01
I got, let's see one. It's like only four of them are
30:08
from power programs. But you know, I think it's going
30:11
to be a transition year for Troy.
30:15
They they only bring back 26 Letterman actually.
30:18
So we'll you know, we'll see on Troy.
30:22
But in that in that league, you know, App State is going to be
30:26
good. They've got a good quarterback
30:28
and Joey Aguilar that they've had it for a while.
30:32
I think Texas State is going to be actually pretty good.
30:36
I know they have not and they have not been good, but they got
30:40
a new coach and and GJ Kenny, who was a really good
30:43
quarterback at Tulsa back in the day and they they go 8:00 and
30:46
5:00 last year and they bring back nine starters on offense
30:50
and nine on defense. And they got Jordan McLeod as a
30:53
transfer quarterback. He was at James Madison last
30:56
year and and his coach left for Indiana and so he came there.
31:00
He was the first team Sunbelt last year.
31:03
So I think Texas State is maybe the best team in the Sunbelt
31:08
this year, which I know is a radical change from years past.
31:14
Yeah. Other G5 I agree with that I
31:17
agree with that a Texas State watch out they got everything in
31:20
place everything is rolling that machine starting starting to
31:23
happen. So yeah, San.
31:24
Marcus is such a cool town. I mean, I love that place.
31:28
Never been there. They've got they've got a great
31:30
vibe and fantastic BBQ. The best barbecue, no doubt.
31:34
They've got good BBQ out there Well, and some other G5.
31:38
Speaking of good food, what do you yeah, I was going to ask
31:41
about Tulane since we had we had talked about our coach from Troy
31:45
moving back to the five O 4. What do you think?
31:48
What do you think's happening down there?
31:50
Yeah, I think they're going to be good.
31:51
You know, 8 starters back on offense, 7 on defense.
31:55
They only lost 26 Letterman, which is a pretty low number
31:58
for, you know, this new era of the the portal.
32:02
Now they did lose Michael Pratt, their badass quarterback, but
32:05
they got their stud running back Hughes back who had 13178
32:09
rushing yards last year and seven touchdowns.
32:13
They got Patrick Jenkins back who who was a big time pass
32:18
rusher for them. And yeah, and I know we all
32:23
think they got a really good coach.
32:24
I know Willie Fritz was a good one.
32:26
But man, this guy Sumrall has been, he's been impressing me.
32:30
So looking at the schedule, you know, they get they get 2 power
32:34
teams in September. They get actually get Kansas
32:37
State at home and they get a game at Oklahoma where they gave
32:41
at Oklahoma Fitz in year or I'm sorry, in the opener in 2021,
32:47
they lost at second rate in Oklahoma 40 to 35, but they had
32:51
the ball inside the 50. They're late in that game, so.
32:54
They should have won that game. Yeah, they they really could
32:58
have won that game. So those are two if if Tulane
33:01
can get one of those games and then went out, I think Memphis
33:05
is going to be good. And they've got them in the
33:06
regular season finale at home. So I think Memphis and Tulane
33:11
are both going to be really good.
33:12
UTSA is going to be good. And then in the Mountain West, I
33:16
think Boise State is going to be really good.
33:20
So there's just a few, like teams off the top of my head
33:23
that are going to be good in the G5.
33:25
Toledo will probably be the best team in the Mac.
33:28
Yeah, those are the teams that come to mind in the G5.
33:31
Yet it's going to be interesting to see who ends up representing
33:34
in that playoff and if it's possible, which I don't think
33:39
I've got a low percentage on this, that two teams potentially
33:41
make that thing if a couple of them make a nice run.
33:43
So we shall see. I mean, but we'll definitely
33:45
have one, which I think it's good.
33:47
Everybody's represented. There's an opportunity when you,
33:49
you know, when toe meets leather at the first of the year,
33:52
there's a pathway to get yourself into the playoffs,
33:54
which I think is way, way, way overdue, you know, for college
33:58
football. So so it's it's it's going to be
34:00
cool. Well boys, y'all want to start
34:04
to wrap this thing up a little bit here?
34:05
Yeah, yeah. I know that this is coming to
34:07
one of our favorite favorite little segments of our show.
34:11
Yes, it is. It is.
34:13
Yeah, Brian, like we like to do a little thing towards the end
34:16
of our show, we caught a little little bits of controversy.
34:19
So I'm going to ask you a few questions, just get your opinion
34:21
on a few things and just kind of see how that how that plays out
34:24
here. Sounds good.
34:25
I'm ready. You down?
34:28
Let's do it, man. All right, Super Bowl man.
34:31
Do you think that is predetermined action?
34:34
No you don't. Do I think it's fixed.
34:38
Who's going to be in the Super? Bowl yeah yeah, no, no in when
34:42
you get to that game like who's going to win it is it pretty
34:44
it's been a lot of talk around that a lot of buds like just.
34:46
Oh, sure, you get that talk. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, you get
34:49
that talk. I I do not.
34:51
I think that the guys in the NFL have too much to lose to fix a
34:56
game. Like, you know, they can go to
34:59
prison like the Jonte Porter guy that got banned from the NBA,
35:03
like he just he just pled guilty in federal court.
35:06
He's going to prison. He's going to prison for 41 to
35:09
51 months. I just think if you play as best
35:12
as you can, you might get a good contract in the NFL or, or like
35:18
I think they all get bonus money when you win the Super Bowl, so.
35:21
I do not think. Now the referees might be.
35:25
That's where I could maybe let me see how.
35:29
Bad the call is. I'll entertain that
35:32
conversation, but I don't think the players, not at that level
35:35
now, maybe at college. The players don't even own it.
35:39
Yeah, in college maybe, you know, if they got a gambling
35:42
debt or something like that, but I don't think the players in the
35:44
Super Bowl are going to. Yeah, it's, it's not.
35:47
I just remember last year it was, it became this conspiracy
35:49
theory on everything, you know, with Kelsey and Taylor Swift.
35:53
So no, I don't either. But yeah, are there people
35:55
outside and trying to trying to move things?
35:58
I think absolutely. I think that happens in every
35:59
sport, every year, every game almost, you know what I mean?
36:02
There's something trying to do something.
36:04
Well, like the the the quarterback, the former
36:06
quarterback that said he was approached at that Nashville bar
36:09
by the Mafia and said they fix all these games and they have
36:11
all these people in their pocket and all that stuff.
36:14
I mean, I don't think that just came out of thin air.
36:17
No. Oh, no, no.
36:18
Last year, the quarterback. Yes, Yeah.
36:23
No, it's wild. It's not.
36:24
Yeah, I. Think it's more common at the
36:26
college level in my opinion. But I mean, we just saw the NBA
36:28
player, like I said, he just pled guilty in federal court.
36:31
He's getting sentenced like in a couple weeks to 41 to 51 months
36:35
in prison and he's banned from the NBA for life.
36:37
So yeah, I know it happens, but I don't.
36:40
Yeah, only few happens. And the Pete Rose, the yeah, the
36:44
Pete Rose documentaries out right now.
36:45
If you watch that, that's a little, that's a whole lot of
36:48
controversy in there. Old PD.
36:49
Oh wow, that's wild. That's my that, that's my second
36:52
question there. You leave me into there.
36:54
So should Pete Rose be allowed back in baseball or not?
36:59
Man, I just kind of think he's he's done his time right now.
37:03
Now. Well, let me back in baseball.
37:06
No, I think he's banned. He should be banned for life
37:09
from like being a manager and whatnot.
37:11
But in terms of like being in the Hall of Fame, I mean, they
37:16
got guys that did a lot of steroids in the Hall of Fame.
37:19
Pete Rose didn't do any steroids.
37:20
So, you know, I kind of think he's done his time.
37:24
I mean, when did he get suspended?
37:25
Like 1990 or 8980? 78880 yeah, somewhere like that,
37:31
yeah. Yeah, it was late.
37:33
He's early 90s somewhere right in their late 80s.
37:35
Yes. It's been a minute, dude.
37:37
It's been a lot. Of decades.
37:38
It's been a long time. Greatest.
37:41
Hitter of all time to. Go in the Hall of Fame here late
37:44
in life, you know, I just feel like he's done now, but not back
37:47
to managing or he's probably a little too old.
37:49
For that, well, he's not going to do that.
37:51
He's passed, he's passed his time on that, but he should be
37:53
allowed to be involved in the game in my.
37:54
Well, he said, you know, yeah. In the documentary, his son, who
37:58
played for the Reds, said his father was the only father who
38:02
couldn't come in the locker room, couldn't come to batting
38:04
practice, couldn't. He had to just wait like average
38:06
Joe fan out in the parking lot because of the the the deal
38:09
there with the team over those years, which.
38:11
Is why I was messing up man. Yeah, I don't know.
38:13
But you know, Pete Pete's not, you know, and Joe, if you if you
38:16
haven't seen the documentary, I encourage you to watch all the
38:19
the episodes of that documentary because you know, there there's
38:21
some things in there that make you realize why he's probably
38:24
not still. You know, Joe Morgan, all those
38:26
guys went to bat for him and, and Pete just always found a way
38:29
to to keep the controversy rolling for one way or another.
38:33
Say it lightly, but. But but he never bet According
38:37
to him. He never bet on them to lose.
38:38
He always bet on his team to win.
38:39
So he bet on himself to win According to him.
38:41
And there's no. Evidence.
38:42
I don't think so. Otherwise, for 15 years he said
38:45
he didn't bet on anything. And then?
38:47
Because you have to there. Was no, there was no, there was
38:49
no cocaine money involved. There was no mafia involved.
38:52
There was no, he didn't know. He didn't owe anybody any money.
38:55
So I will see. I guarantee you he bet on them
38:59
to lose at some point. I.
39:00
Don't. He knew and he knew that was
39:02
coke money he was fronting. Come on.
39:05
Listen, admit nothing, deny everything and went cornered,
39:08
make counter accusations and that's exactly what he did.
39:10
That's. Exactly what I'm doing.
39:13
And you have a gambling problem and we all know it.
39:16
You're just portraying this on me.
39:18
I just like to gamble. Oh.
39:20
My God, that's so good. Great, I.
39:24
Agree with you, Brian. I think time served if nothing
39:26
else, let him go in the Hall of Fame.
39:28
Let him have his moment and, and, and because he for the for
39:31
the actual nuts and bolts of playing baseball, he's one he
39:34
arguably the greatest hitter of all time.
39:36
He should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
39:38
Yep, Yep. One more.
39:41
I'll wrap this up with you here, Brian.
39:43
So greatest sports, better of all time.
39:47
Is it William T Walters or is it Bubba the Love Sponge?
39:53
Or Jimmy the Greek. I'm I'm gonna go with Billy
39:56
Walters. You think so?
40:01
I'm gonna go with Billy. How much?
40:04
Does that guy win? Like how much does that guy win?
40:06
He he he's the man, right? I mean like everything I.
40:09
Won a lot, yeah. Yeah.
40:11
I've, I got his autobiography a couple months ago and I messed
40:18
up. I was reading like the first 100
40:20
pages and I, I kind of got bored with it when I should have just
40:24
gone straight to the the good betting stuff.
40:26
And now that I've got all my football magazines and footballs
40:28
around the corner, I don't have time to read his book.
40:30
I'm going to get back to it, but I haven't.
40:32
I only read like 100 pages. But I know that he's won a lot
40:36
of money. And he was on the Chiefs for the
40:40
Super. Bowl last year and I felt really
40:41
good because I was already on the Chiefs and when I heard that
40:44
he said the wrong team was favored, I was like I agree and
40:48
I had a little more confidence in it, but it went down to the
40:51
wire it it was certainly could have gone either way.
40:56
That's awesome, man. That's awesome.
40:58
Well, that, that that wraps me up on the little bits of
41:00
controversy. I appreciate you playing.
41:02
We we exposed a few good, good things there I think.
41:06
Brantley, you got anything else you want to add here?
41:08
I don't, I I don't that was that was fantastic.
41:12
Just Brian, I appreciate you coming on.
41:15
This won't be this is the first, but this certainly will not be
41:18
the last time that you join us and and talk a little sports.
41:23
We'll get you in on one of our lives on one of these Thursdays
41:26
and Thursday nights. We can even bring you in studio
41:28
because, you know, I'm in Freeport.
41:30
Oh, there you go. I'm riding the road from you.
41:32
OK, so I'm here like this is my studio in here.
41:34
Then I also have a studio at Props Brewery.
41:36
They allow me to set up a studio there.
41:38
So you can come in live in the studio, either place.
41:40
We could even do this like face to face.
41:42
That's right, yeah. We can watch.
41:44
We can watch the game. Yep, yeah.
41:47
I'm all for it. I appreciate y'all having me.
41:49
I mean, Lacy, your your place looks kind of it looks like it's
41:53
got a little label bugarogeness to it.
41:57
It does. It does, You know, I learn from
41:59
the best. I learn from the best, you know.
42:02
I mean does he have that exact door?
42:03
When? I start building this.
42:05
Does he have that exact door I. Don't know if he has that.
42:08
I dude, I think that he, I think that he has one very, very
42:12
similar to one very similar same one, yeah.
42:16
Y'all learning my trade secrets? Brian.
42:21
Has. Exposed them.
42:23
Yeah, well, thank you, Brian, for exposing some of your your
42:26
secrets there and getting spitting a little wisdom here on
42:28
the Tigs Bits podcast. Like Brantley said, we'd love to
42:31
have you back on here when football gets rolling and again,
42:34
when all the seasons change, you know, because we got basketball.
42:38
Just as much controversy going on in the basketball world these
42:41
days with the rise of women's collegiate and professional
42:44
sports. And then, you know, we'd
42:47
mentioned Arkansas earlier, but Calipari moving to Arkansas,
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that'll get you a couple of that'll get you a couple of
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games you probably weren't going to win too.
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So, you know, and your Florida Gators, one of the only schools
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in the whole country to win basketball and baseball and
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football in the same year. So big, big stuff on that
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horizon. But thank you for your time
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today and we look forward to having you again, brother.
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Yeah, man. Thanks so much fellas, I enjoyed
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it and be glad to do it again anytime.