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Rent Free.... · JustIN Time

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Good morning and welcome back into another edition of the Just
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in Time podcast. You are Just in.
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Time for just in time, Yeah. All right, will so opus what we
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know. One thing about you brother,
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like you always have the great nickname.
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You are consistent with the whole piss Arkansas, but we're
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going to get to Arkansas after. A while.
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The thing done that like you, you knock them dead all the
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time, you know, yeah. So like obviously you know, it's
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yeah, obviously it's very throwback rivalry.
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You know, one thing about you know, LSU a lot when a lot of
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fans of other programs ask who's LS US biggest rivalry, we have a
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unique answer because it's all depends on the generation of
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fan. So like, so it's like we don't
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have like that ironclad, you know, Iron Bowl rivalry.
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We don't have the Ohio State Michigan robbery.
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We don't necessarily UNC Notre Dame.
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We don't necessarily have those things, Georgia Tech, Georgia,
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but just it just depends on the generation of fan.
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And like just so because back in the day, and I bring it up
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because you know, back in in the day out of Greyhawk, like a lot
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of the older LSU fans would pick Ole Miss as their better rival.
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I don't necessarily I view them as a rival for sure, but like I
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don't feel that's like the biggest rubber we have in our
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lifetime. But you know, it's just.
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But that's a fascinating. Thing to me, to me, it's all
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comes down to like, I feel like Alabama is our rival.
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We're not as it's not as big of a rivalry as it should be based
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on some of our coaching in the past, because since 2011 we've
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only beaten up. Twice.
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Twice. You know, it's kind of hard.
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It's the same thing with me with the Ole Miss.
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Ole Miss definitely views us as more of a rival than they'll
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ever be to us at this point in the game because it's not that
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constant back and forth. We win more than we lose to
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them. Right.
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Yeah. And just like it's like same
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thing with Bamba. Like what makes the Bama thing
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so unique is just the coaching history.
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And it's like outside of that, just like they have a
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significant edge over us. So I understand like it's it's
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it would never be Auburn, It'd never be Tennessee for Alabama.
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And just so like we're just not on the same store tear because
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they've been playing for they have so much deep interest
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history in those matchups. But like the the code, the Nick
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Saban element makes it fascinating.
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And then like as we were growing up, that's why even that's what
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like a lot of the more epic games even in the losses were
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really like just really tight, tight battled but.
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Like I remember our freshman year at LSU for Alabama, we had
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them on the ropes. And Speaking of old piss, we had
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just beaten Little Brother in Storm the field a couple of
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weeks before that, you know, and we were beating Alabama in the
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fourth quarter before some stuff happened and they put on a
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thing. Do not storm the field and in
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Genesis and Alabama came back mainly because we didn't have a
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coach with a brain in between his ears.
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But you know, it is what it is. But you know, Speaking of Ole
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Miss and that Nick save in history, they feel that our
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coach cheated them and left and now they're stuck.
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You know, if they had really had a good coach that they were
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feeling really good about, they wouldn't be complaining as much
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as they are. I'm not saying Pete Golden's a
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good, I mean a bad coach. Not saying he's a good coach
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there's not a big enough sample size for.
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That's that's what I come down to.
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You know, but if you had that guy, you wouldn't be complaining
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right now as much as you are. Yeah, I think it just comes down
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to the fact that like I said, I'm glad you brought up Pete
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Golden because it just comes down to we haven't seen enough
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like because I remember like when the when the transaction
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first happened at least seen they were bought all in and it
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was still fresh. But like, you know, just like to
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your point, I mean, even you can be confident or not confident.
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I just haven't seen the sample size.
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So I'm just glad that he has this opportunity to prove
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himself. You know, it's a tremendous
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challenge coming after like, like the most successful coach
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since the 50s. So it's and I.
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Think that what they're starting to realize over there is sure he
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had a successful run in a three or four-game sample size that
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they had of him. Yeah, in the playoffs.
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But that wasn't his staff. That was Wayne Kipton's staff.
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That was by Wayne. The late legendary coach will
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miss. I'll bring it up.
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And yeah, that's the one to bring his name up.
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Yeah. Yeah, we had you had Lane
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Kipton's whole coaching staff, his whole offensive staff, which
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90% of them are in Baton Rouge this year.
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Yep. You had this whole defensive
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staff, which I'll give him, OK, I'll give him this.
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He was the defensive coordinator before he was named head coach.
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So the defense was his. But the whole offensive scheme,
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the identity of that team had Lane Kiffin written all over it.
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And if they would have won the national championship, the
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credit in the history books would have gone to Lane Kiffin,
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not Pete Golden. You know, But I like here on it
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says we got notes. I got my notes from Google.
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Gemini says coaching staff changes and it lists Pete
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Golding takes over the Lane Kiffin factor is the very next
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one. You know, and I will say this,
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OK, you look forward to the LSU game and Ole Miss is going to
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think Ole Miss is putting away much too much more drama on it
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than it needs to be with the head coach who can't handle the
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drama of having tampering Elegate allegations on him.
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He's a rat. He wants to, as soon as they
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pull him up and he gets in trouble for doing the thing and
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they caught him red handed with evidence and everything, he
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wants to rat out everybody else, you know?
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Yeah, I will say this, He's lucky he didn't grow up in that
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early 1900s phase when they were with the mafia running around
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and he could be out there ratting on people.
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It reminds me of like Chicago PDI love Chicago PD like they
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had like one of the like the higher ups that won the the
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games. Like he had.
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He has set up to where like one of the CIS of like the the main
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cast was killed like a young teenage boy got set up there for
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him to be killed. And like like the the cop, one
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of the detectives to start detecting the show.
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She got her revenge on them. And like he had like she had put
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out some information and like he had got him there.
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He had basically had got him killed because like whenever
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they found out about it, like a guy who was taped up, but he had
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like a a rat in his mouth, like tied up.
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That's a good disgrace. Look, chances are you're going
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to be looking for another job at some point in your Ole Miss
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career because they're going to be judging you off your
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predecessor. You can't be ratting on every
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college football program in the country and expect to have a
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college football job or even an NFL job at that point after you
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rat on everybody. That's the thing like just and
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and my thing is like the the the thing about him, just for his
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sake, I hope he wins for his sake.
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I'm just not, not for not at L CS expense, to be clear, but for
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his sake, because that could mask all that.
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That's your only option. So you don't you backing
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yourself into a corner with the new job.
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You run in your mouth constantly and you know you do something
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wrong instead of saying instead of denying it like a normal
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person does in that situation, you are sitting there.
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If they take us down, I'm ratting on like 15 other
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colleges but. My thing is this, but like, you
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shouldn't have to be all the hush.
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It's a business. I mean, you don't have to be
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hush. I'll just be in the open anyway.
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I don't have like you shouldn't. It's a business.
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It's always been a business. People don't want to acknowledge
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college sports. It's all about the patterns.
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It's a business first. I'm not saying Patrick don't
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have value, but it's a business period.
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Yeah, but you know, going to his coordinators, OK.
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Yeah, let's do. It we have Charlie Weiser Junior
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in Baton Rouge, Yeah. That's true.
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Google Gemini says key coordinators John David Baker
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returns with his third season as the offensive coordinator
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alongside Co offensive coordinator Cody Woodall.
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I don't know Ole Miss football because they've always been
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irrelevant to me other than the week we play him.
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Was he the Co offensive coordinator with Charlie Weis
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Junior? That's that's why I'm assuming.
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That's why I'm assuming. Let's see.
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I don't want that 2020. No, he hasn't.
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He's not returning. He's from East Carolina.
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And then you have the senior associate head coach and running
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backs Frank Wilson. Yeah, that's right.
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You know, from Alice. Another element to the, to the,
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to the storyline for sure. And look, I'm not.
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I love Frank Wilson, what he did on the recruiting side the ball.
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And I don't know if this was just Brian Kelly or if it was
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just Joe Sloan. I don't think he did a good that
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good of a job as a run game running backs coach at LSU.
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Hell of a recruiter. But our run game was weak and at
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some point, even when we had that stacked off into the line,
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we were only averaging 3 or 4 yards rushing attempt.
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We, we've said you and I have talked about this several times
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before. They just, we did.
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They just haven't been the same on the ground for several years.
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Like not back in the last not I know, like Les Miles like
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predicated his offense around off the the old line and the run
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game. But and we would have our
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frustration with that many times, but they at least were
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steady on the ground. It's like even like I'm a
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passing guy, but just like you got to have some type of bow,
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some type of threat in the ground.
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That's like. One set up to pass.
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That's it. That's traditionally how the
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sport works. And when you have Jaden Daniels,
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he's going to mask even during that great season.
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I'm like, you're going to lose a lot.
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I mean, the running game was a struggle when he was there, so
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it's like you're going to lose a whole lot, so.
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So I mean not not throwing any shade on.
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No, of course not. Yeah, because he was a.
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Great recruiter and he did an unbelievable job at LSU, but I
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don't think we were strong in the run game against him, so I
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don't know how big of a loss that is for us.
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Yeah, just like the recruiter has to be made-up somewhere.
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But like just you need somebody just to really get back to not
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like in not to like the less miles level necessarily, but
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just you got to at least be a threat.
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You got to at least be a respectable.
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It has the Renegade has to at least be a respectable
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component. That's what it comes down to.
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Like, OK, yeah, I pulled up their coaching staff from last
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year. I don't know why it says he's
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returning for his third year. Both of those guys were
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returning for their third year in the notes because neither one
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of them were there last year. John David Baker was at East
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Carolina, and I don't know where Cody's from, you know, and
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another thing that's going to take presidents, which nobody
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here cares. We're happy to see him go.
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But if I'm not mistaken, Brian Kelly's son is on the Ole Miss
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coaching staff now, and I think it's the one that nobody knew he
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was on the team except for until we got the senior day and he was
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that idiot with the white T-shirt free MO boy BK.
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He said yes, I'm looking at, say, Following BK's departure
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from LSU, Patrick was hired by Ole Miss as their assistant
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director of football support. Yeah.
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He should and hopefully he does better than his daddy because
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Brian Kelly was a bomb. I think we all thought he was
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this great coach and I think when he actually went to a
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school where he could compete for a national championship with
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all the recruiting talent in the world, I mean, you can stand on
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his balcony of that office and throw a rock and hit.
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A fire store? That's a famous line.
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Yep, that's. Right.
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And he consistently missed. I'm pretty sure he fell off the
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balcony trying to do that one time, I mean.
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Clip that. Clip that.
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He just couldn't get it done. I think he got exposed and I
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think that's why you've seen him struggle so much to find a job
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in football again. You know, that's why he had to
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take Acbs analyst job. Which Speaking of that, I've
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never been more thankful that the SEC tend to deal with ABC
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then I am now because with Brian Kelly as a analyst for them, we
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don't have to see him ever again because we will never play.
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On CBS and get angled that's a great game now about but you
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know it's funny because like I'm not I'm not overly crazy about
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us having straight SEC game on ESPN because it's like the world
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wide leader of sports traditionally you should be able
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to in theory you should be able to play any conference on there.
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We we grew up on SEC and CBS. Vern Lundquist, Gary Danielson,
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Tracy Wilson, you know Tim Brando in the studio.
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It was such a great thing, but just.
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I understand where we come from. I have to say, though, I do miss
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those CBSSEC championship games with those two trying their very
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best not to show that Alabama and Nick Saban biased and
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failing so hard every game, every time.
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It didn't matter if Alabama wasn't in the championship game.
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They would be like, well, Alabama this, Alabama that.
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Yeah, But, you know, moving on and talking about the things,
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you know, key returners, which honestly, if you look at this
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list is such a terrible precedence for college football
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because you have Trinidad Chambles coming back who was
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denied eligibility by the NC double, you know?
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But a state judge in Mississippi said, oh, you play for Ole Miss,
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We'll grant you eligibility, you know?
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Shows you how much force range for supreme yeah, it's like it's
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not like the best like I said it's not the best message.
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But like I said, NCI always would go back to NCAA just like
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just so always relate to the party, never no fervency about
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like enforcing consistency about anything that they do.
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Yeah, so. I believe I had this
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conversation with my dad week about a week ago.
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The way I see it, what needs to happen is the NCAA needs to have
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its own court system. Yeah, that, that is good.
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Instead of having it be, you know, you get a few lawyers that
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have nothing to do and no knowledge of college athletics,
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which is kind of hard, But I mean, as far as teams go, you
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know what I mean? And you put them on a panel and
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you put some other people on the panel.
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And when we have these kind of disputes like Trinidad had where
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they deny him eligibility instead of going to the state
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courts, that will 100% always back that player in that state.
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Yeah, unless it's. Like unless it's like Alabama
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and you go the state of Alabama, who has Auburn and Alabama at
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that? You might get a federal judge
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from that's an Auburn grad and the kid from Alabama is trying
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to argue for eligibility and that judge just said no, you're
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ineligible or the vice versa. But.
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Still no, that's true. My point being like, you can the
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NCAA could do a lot of this And I saw online somebody said, you
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know, those in like, would you use Trinidad's case as a
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example? What the the NCAA denies you
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your appeal, you denies your eligibility and you appeal it
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and they still deny it. You should move on to the draft.
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But if you do and you get a judge in this case, like, oh, a
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Mississippi judge says he's eligible every game he plays in.
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If the NCAA says you're not eligible, every game he plays in
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is forfeit. I mean, at some point the NCAA
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needs to put their big boy pants on and just.
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But that, but that's, that's the part like we, I always go back
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to the same like we the the, the athletes are so villainized in
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these things. But just like, but it's the
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grown-ups that are supposed to step up and make these changes.
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They're so step up and put these regulations like stop
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villainizing the kids. I'm not saying like they're,
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they're, they're like they're perfect.
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I'm just, but but think about it like just even with like the the
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recruiting stuff and with like the portal stuff.
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When you look at the fact that when they leave about go to
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these different areas, who's to say the parents and who's to say
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like the like their advisors are not pulling the streams?
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Yeah. And look, so I'm not saying
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anything about Trinidad. Yeah, that's not.
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What I'm doing here? Yeah, absolutely.
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Yeah. Because he's not the one who
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started this terrible presidents is being set with this.
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Yeah, Diego Pavia did. Because he's just doing the same
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thing that Diego Pavia did where he went to JUCO first and now
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he's trying to get those years back.
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That's all he's trying to do here.
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I'm just saying instead of having the courts come in, the
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NCAA should set up a court in and of itself, a panel with a
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judge. And when you have these kind of
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disputes, instead of having the NCAA try to make a decision, you
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know, they take it to that court system.
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That way the US government is not involved in anything, you
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know? I'm with that totally percent.
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Because I think that's where we that just set up a president's
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like if technically if we wanted to, we could go get any LSU
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player that went in the draft that has technical eligibility
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left and get a Louisiana judge to sign.
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He's eligible. Yeah.
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You know. Yeah, and think with that just I
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do like respect like with league rules and stuff like that.
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Once you, you know, hire it or like just a sport like when once
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you hire an agent, you you're just like you've already
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transitioned to the pro level. That's how it.
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Used to be, but now they all have.
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Just like that's the thing. And I just feel like, but again,
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it goes back to like say it's a lot of the frustration has come
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back. You just have no and reliance.
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You have no consistency in what you do.
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What I think needs to happen is we need to start a new career
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field, a new office at all of these schools, on all of these
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campuses for these student athletes to where the school
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provides them a manager or an agent.
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They don't get to choose what agent they have.
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The school is for you. School provides you an agent and
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that's how they do this in IL so we can get back to the once you
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sign an age with an agency, you forgo your eligibility.
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Yeah, that's right. You know, this needs to be
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something on the school level. The school offers you so much
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more. We need to put these are college
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athletes and student athletes. We need to put the student part
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back into it. I'm fine with them getting paid.
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Yeah. And everything because I fit, a
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part of me feels like they should.
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Well, I mean, and, and you, you have the right feeling on that
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because it's yeah. But you, you, you do you make so
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much money off these these children.
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So it's it's like, and coaches, there's a lot of coaches that
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complaint like we had talked about Dabo last.
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I'm like, brother, like you making a what, how much money
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you've made during your time at Clemson and the kids can't get
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their share like. Speaking of him, he, I think I
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read this right and I think it's not from one of those AI ones.
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I think it's from actual him because I think it was ESPN said
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he's putting them on, making them sign a contract.
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If he's going to pay a kid $1,000,000 for the school when
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denial, I'm on him. He's not, but he's making them
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either sign the contract and if they transfer, they lose that
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money, whatever money was on, you know, kind of like a free
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agency deal. You know, he wants them to sign
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a contract with the school. You know which I mean, look, I'm
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fine with all these players getting paid, mainly because if
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you look at it, you know, there are some guys that some
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athletes, guys or girls in these, I don't want to say
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lesser sports, but these lesser known sports.
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Like they don't get less profitable sports.
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Yeah, like, they don't get a lot of traction in the media.
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You know who are there, But their scholarship doesn't pay
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for everything and they might need to work, you know?
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Yeah, that's right. Or like their sport.
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Their sport doesn't have a professional thing after, you
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know now. Like you have a, an Olympic
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sports, I mean, because like, but you got to start typically
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like when swimming and Jeanette like they start early.
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So it's like before they wanted in high school.
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So, I mean, and a lot of them are not even in high school.
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They homeschooled the whole time and just training the whole
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time. But you know, we lost the we
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kind of lost the plot. We're on Ole Miss and we talked
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about NIL. But what you were going to say,
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well. No, I was going to say real
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quick, just like just to piggyback off your point about
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just them getting dollars, like I said, just I do want like
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these young, these young adults, these young athletes to get some
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type of return on their investment because it's a
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tremendous sacrifice. Because like people, I, I feel
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like people have just an idea that people believe that the pro
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ranks are just guaranteed to them.
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What? What if there's nothing about
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that as guaranteed to do? You've got to be the best of the
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best, and I think a lot of people, especially in the SEC
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when it comes to pros are, you know, Oh well, they're going to
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go in the pros and make their money because we're used to.
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We're used to 13 to 20 guys off of a roster getting drafted in
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the NFL. Yeah, you know, but.
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And like, and it's not to say like they they supposed to have
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like, you know, they're going to have these great career.
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I'm like they may make it to the league just because you played
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at big school. You may not even make it to the
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league. I think you have a better shot.
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But just like, but I just feel like these you should have with
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all the sacrifices that knowledge that the that the
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individual made, but the families have made and the
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people connected to them have made.
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I just they should deserve they they deserve like a some type of
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return on their investment. That's what I'm saying so.
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You know, since we downed this, what I really think is, you
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know, these kids at these 1817181920 year olds are making
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millions. I think they need to be put it
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in a trust. You know, they get a little bit
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of it. Yeah, still.
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But like I mean I can think of just 18 year old me if I would
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signed a contract, got $1,000,000, I would blow that
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$1,000,000 so fast. Yeah, I mean just like I would
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be test. You know you can't expect a 18
24:20
to 20 year old to be to be financially responsible.
24:24
Because a lot because a lot of older people not responsible
24:27
financially so. I'm not financially responsible
24:31
as I should be. Yeah, I mean, look, man.
24:34
I mean I. Feel like I've made strong but
24:36
there's a lot of work to be done.
24:38
I don't even have a house yet. But I mean, you know, my point
24:42
is you look at all of these athletes that make all these
24:46
money, all this money, and when they get the money and they
24:50
haven't had the money, they go and blow it all.
24:57
You know, which, that's fine, that's your money, that's what
25:00
you do. But, you know, but let's look
25:03
out for these kids a little bit. You can give them the millions
25:06
of dollars, but don't give it to them all at once.
25:09
Put some up, give them a certain percentage, and then put the
25:11
rest of it in a trust that they can't, you know?
25:14
Yeah. Make them take a financial
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literacy course and everything. You should.
25:21
If you go get $1,000,000 just in a lump sum, you should be able
25:24
to write a check. That should be the bare minimum.
25:28
Not just swipe the car. Swipe the car, you should be
25:31
able to write a check. If you can cash the check, you
25:36
should be able to write the check.
25:38
Like just make sure you draw the line space you don't fill up.
25:42
Man, you know what else? Just because I'm a T-shirt and
25:45
this is one of those things if you look have that much of A
25:48
check, big of a check, you should be able to sign your name
25:51
in cursive. Write your signature.
25:54
Yes, indeed, that's better. But so key returners for Ole
25:59
Miss, we have Trinidad Kiwan, Lacey Perkins and Echoes.
26:07
Is that how you say that I? Feel like William echoes, I must
26:10
say. Echoes something like that
26:13
running quarterback, running back in deep linebacker in ADT,
26:17
You know, yeah, they're early. LSU is their earliest kind of to
26:23
me though, I think that Louisville game, I think they're
26:26
looking forward 3 weeks. Yeah, I'm looking at like I
26:30
pulled up something from SB Nation, you know, 6 old missed
26:33
players named to Phil Stills, All American team.
26:37
And like, you know, just like, like you say, K1 Lacy, first
26:41
team, Lucas Carnerio. And we apologize for butchering
26:46
butchering these names, ladies and gentlemen, FYI.
26:48
First team LSU players names. Yeah.
26:51
So like we, we. Like Patrick?
26:53
Kutas third team offensive lineman will echo.
26:56
We just talked about 13D lineman you got perks or train Perkins
27:02
13 linebacker, Keaton Thomas 14 linebacker.
27:06
Now, what's crazy is that Trinidad is not on his list, but
27:10
I guess like they assume probably because of the
27:12
eligibility stuff, you know, with the public, but just but I
27:15
mean, but nonetheless, I think you you see what Lane has really
27:19
built and re established there. I kind of saw it back then with
27:23
Hugh Freeze for like that two year run when he beat Bama
27:26
back-to-back year. You saw them coming up, but it
27:29
wasn't as steady as Lane has made it.
27:32
So I think it's just yeah, that's you know, my dad told me
27:35
this lesson years ago because I you know, when I talked about
27:39
Les Miles people, I was like, Oh, we just what would Nick
27:41
chamber play? I said, and like he told me like
27:44
because I had, I was frustrated with that because, I mean, you
27:47
still got to a lot of those guys who when he won the championship
27:50
with like being developed under him, you know, they weren't
27:52
recruited by him, they were developed by him.
27:54
So I was telling asthma desk like why?
27:56
How can you shed that, that criticism?
27:58
How he said do it again. Yeah, not to his credit.
28:02
He though he didn't win. He did go to the championship
28:05
game and I'll bring that. Up and I think look.
28:07
Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
28:08
Just. For your point, yeah, about Les
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Miles, yeah, he did do it again. But then he ran into that buzz,
28:15
thought it was Nick Saban. Oh yeah, for sure, no doubt, no
28:18
doubt it just like, I mean because he he had to go, so I
28:21
mean no doubt about that, but just like, and I bring that up
28:24
because I'll be curious to see, you know, how old Miss Operation
28:29
would fall. So, you know, going back, just
28:32
going back-to-back, then I think that game would have been so
28:36
much different, the national championship game if he wouldn't
28:42
have ran with the Jordan Jefferson of it all solely.
28:47
I think if he did the, I think the reason we won that first
28:50
game and Bama when we played them is because we had to do a
28:55
quarterback system with neither quarterback as good as they
28:59
thought they were. You know, the fan base was
29:01
divided. Half thought Jordan Jefferson
29:03
was the way to go. The other half thought Jared Lee
29:05
was the way to go. You know, even though we were
29:09
the fan base was divided, a lot of the games that we won those
29:14
close games that year was because of two things.
29:17
It was the defense and it was 2 very different styles of offense
29:22
with the two quarterbacks in, you know, and I think if you, if
29:27
Les Miles wouldn't have been as stubborn as he was and ran with
29:32
the two quarterback system all the way through, it wouldn't,
29:34
I'm not saying we'd have won that game because Nick Saban,
29:38
you know, is Nick Saban, but they do quarterback system.
29:44
You've got to prepare for two different offenses and that's a
29:47
lot, you know. But going back to Ole Miss, you
29:53
know we have, they go on September 6th, they play in
29:57
Nashville to Louisville and really they shouldn't struggle
30:01
with Louisville. Music City kick off.
30:04
You know when you're looking forward 3 weeks in, not looking
30:10
for and not focusing on the game, the task at hand, you have
30:14
a lot of room for trip UPS. Yeah, and that's trap game.
30:19
Trap game city. That's the one that really
30:21
boiled down to. Then they go they we played them
30:24
on September 19th and they always every time they can.
30:30
They always denote in this AI thing because Ole Miss fans do
30:34
it have versus LSU Magnolia both slash Kippen's return.
30:42
You know, and look, I'm not trying to give any hints to any
30:45
of LSU's opponents, but Lane Kiffen is to get a scholarship
30:50
patrol. He lives he lives rent free in
30:54
y'all head every interview I've heard so far.
30:57
And Lane Kiffen knew exactly what he's doing in that
31:00
interview that he did with Vogue.
31:02
He could have chose any story that he wanted to or anything,
31:07
but he went with that. And they talk about, they asked
31:11
Trinidad stuff and Trinidad brings that up.
31:14
You mean he's living rent free. And you know, and I think that's
31:18
what's going to it the whole season to them is whether or not
31:23
they get AW on September 19th. You know.
31:27
I don't think the rest of the season.
31:29
They're worried about the rest of the season, as long as they
31:32
get that win on September 19th. I think they think they won a
31:35
national championship, but I think it'll be a pretty good
31:37
game, you know? Yeah, it's it's one of those
31:42
pesky, pesky annual opponents we have like, yeah, Arkansas is one
31:47
of those pesky opponents that we normally have.
31:50
Yeah, it's going to be, no, I like, I know we're talking
31:53
about, you know, college Game Day is going to be at Clemson.
31:55
I know a lot of people are seeing it.
31:57
This is going to be at the College Game day atmosphere as
32:01
well. I mean, because I didn't want to
32:03
give LG 2 or so early. I mean, regard regardless of the
32:07
the the atmosphere, yeah, it's going to be spectacular.
32:11
The FCC is playing into this too, because when they announced
32:14
the schedule, they announced it after Kiffin took the job and
32:19
when they announced the schedule and then the whole middle way
32:21
for each team. Technically, we should be going
32:25
to Texas A&M this year because they came to us last year.
32:28
Yeah. And we went to Ole Miss last
32:31
year. We should go to Ole Miss.
32:33
I mean, that Ole Miss should come to us this year.
32:36
But they saw the Lane Kiffin of it all, the profitability of it
32:39
in Oxford and said we're going to sit, we're going to swap
32:42
those two and we're going to send A&M back to Death Valley.
32:47
If face the real tigers, those tigers they faced last year at
32:50
Death Valley wasn't was a joke. They going to face the real
32:54
Tigers this year, you know, But so much like we were talking
32:58
about last night, so much of LSU schedule lines up exactly the
33:03
way it did last year with Tech being the second home game of
33:08
the year after Clemson. You know.
33:11
Yeah, but you have any closing thoughts?
33:15
You know, just like like you had brought up just already circling
33:18
the national calendar come to bought him away stadium, you
33:22
know, like I said, you know, just it's but this has been a a
33:25
very interesting summer offseason for like LSU sports
33:29
with just like the villain, the villain arc and stuff like this.
33:32
A lot of people are not quite fond of our beloved alma mater.
33:37
But I mean, it's come with the territory of sports.
33:39
You're going to be viewed as high sometimes be viewed as low
33:42
as just the ebbs and. Flows.
33:43
So I'm just, I don't put too much into because like at the
33:46
end of the day, I just want us to be successful.
33:50
I don't care. Like I don't like, I don't get
33:51
too caught up into like LSU is favored by 20 points to get out.
33:55
I don't know about that. The only time I would get into
33:58
that is I'm going to get into it later on today.
34:02
It's like when we play teams like Louisiana Tech and McNeese
34:06
State, you know, teams that shouldn't give us an issue.
34:10
That's when I get into, you know, that's when I look at the
34:13
point spread and say OK, you should beat this team by that
34:16
when it's conference teams or other Power Four teams.
34:18
That I care nothing about that. Compete.
34:21
You might as well not even put that on the thing because you
34:24
know, you LSU, you're an SEC team.
34:26
Other SEC teams are going to have your number.
34:30
You know, it's a fist fight all the way through.
34:32
Yeah, that's it. Unless unless you're like his so
34:35
historically, like if you just like significantly outmatched
34:40
out overpowered on the team or you just on such a historic
34:43
tear. I mean, other than that, I don't
34:45
really, I don't even with that, I don't really care.
34:48
I mean, because you just got to do it at the end of the day, you
34:50
got to go out and play the game. Exactly.
34:53
But that'll do it from us. You have a great day, a great
34:56
night. Whatever you have, just make it
34:57
a great one. We'll see you all next.
34:59
Week. Peace.
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Peace.