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The DRIVE 5-28 · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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great job this past week bringing you coverage of the tournament. All right,
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today, as we move forward, just kind of a schedule this week.
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I will likely not be here on Thursday due to a family deal. We
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got it going on. I've actually got a young one who's got wisdom teeth
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coming out, so we got to make that happen on Thursday. I'll be
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here month through Monday next week, and then I'm on vacation. I Am
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headed out for a few days and then once we get back, it's football,
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football, football as we move through the month of June. David Murray
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will join us at three forty five today Jeanspage dot com two four to seven
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Sports dot Com as we'll talk Mississippi State baseball and get into some of this
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SEC meetings out in Texas. Chris Landry four to four thirty. As we
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move along, we'll talk NFL at college and then Kelly Ford K four ratings,
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moving him back a little bit just because of the schedule this week,
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five thirty to six o'clock. We'll talk college football as we move along,
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and I want to get into obviously if you've got comments or questions, is
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Missippi State fans still pissed off? Is what I want to know. God,
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Look, and I'm saying, this is a guy who's the state alarm,
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been around that place my whole life. The whining and crying yesterday,
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pathetic, absolutely pathetic out of state fans. And I'm just being honest with
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you. It's sickening to see. Honestly. Oh, we don't get your
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haste. Eh. We don't get to cook our beggars out in left field
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LEDs. Eh. Shut up. That is ridiculous. Look, State fans
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can't see the forest for the trees. You're actually in a better situation go
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into Virginia and then possibly having to get on a plane and go to Arkansas
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to get to the College World Series. The end game is the College World
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Series instead. You wanted to host so bad so you can post pictures of
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your food in the left field lounge and your drinks on social media and talk
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about how great State baseball is and how it is the greatest thing since sliced
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bread, and then go get dump truck by Tony Vitello and Tennessee in round
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two. I just don't get it. I really don't the whining and crying
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out of State fans. Yes, Dad, today it was. I was
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baffled just I mean, I get it. You want to host, but
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you didn't do enough to host. And I know you can compare numbers to
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numbers. You can go by KPI and RPI and look, half of the
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people don't even understand mathematics enough to really go into oha. We got a
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better this, and we got a better that. Look you didn't beat Look,
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you dropped games early. You dropped a game to Air Force to begin
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the season. You dropped two to Austin p You go through this schedule,
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I mean, there's just way too many midweek losses for Mississippi State played really
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good down the stretch, lost to South Alabama, had a two to one
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win in extra innings, against New Orleans. There was a game against LSU.
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You shouldn't have dropped. There's way too much candy on the vine out
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there. And when you look at the way the committee did and you look
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at the national seeds, State just wasn't gonna host, wasn't gonna host,
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but as actually in a better situation than if you would have hosted, much
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better because now doesn't mean you're gonna go to Virginia and win the regional,
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but you have a much better situation to win a regional on the road and
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then go play an Arkansas team that you feel pretty good about, that you
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match up about, because again, the end game is omaha. I haven't
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saw several people on X not that that kind of drives you know, the
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whole that's the whole world doesn't run through Twitter or X. But people that
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admitted said, well, I'm just not going to get to cook out and
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enjoy my regional baseball. Nobody cares about your cookout. What you should care
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about is the best situation for your baseball team to potentially get and content,
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you know, continue that postseason baseball. I'm gonna tell you State fans need
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an award for the whiniest fan base in sports. And look some of your
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ambassadors out there. They need to quit ambassadory. It's pathetic, absolutely pathetic.
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Yesterday, you should be proud of this baseball team, Proud that you're
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in postseason, proud that you're in a position to where you can go play
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baseball, and then extend that possibly next weekend to play Arkansas. All right,
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we'll get into this bracket, we'll get into the top seeds. And
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of course Vegas. If you go look at Vegas. You can go to
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a Maristar Casino dot com forward slash Vicksburg and head over to the NCAA tab
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and you can actually play the different regionals. For instance, you can go
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in and play Athens Regional Georgia minus one to fifty, Georgia Tech plus two
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seventy five UNC Wilmington. This is just an example, three and a half
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to one, Army thirty five to one. So you can actually play each
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regional. You know, if you go to the Knoxville regional, congratulations to
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Southern miss for making postseason ball. And now obviously they got a tall task
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ahead of them, but Tennessee is projected to win that regional Shocker minus three
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thirty five, Southern miss with the second best side at plus three seventy five,
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follow by plus seven fifty seven and a half to one, and then
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Northern Kentucky at sixty to one. So you can go through all of these
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regionals here and you can do College World Series odds. For instance, if
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we go into Mississippi State's regional, Virginia is a slight favorite over Missippi State,
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and I mean slight plus one hundred Mississippi State plus one oh five,
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so Vegas will tell you it's tit for tat. It's neck and neck.
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Next up Saint John's at ten to one in Pennsylvania twenty five to one.
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And then if you go into the College World Series odds at a Maristar,
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Tennessee were the best odds at five to one, tied with Texas A and
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M five to one, Arkansas and then Kentucky that kind of mirrors the national
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seeds Arkansas seven and a half to one, Kentucky nine to one, and
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then of course LSU twelve to one. You can get Mississippi State, for
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instance, to win the whole thing at forty five to one. One beef,
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how in the world are you, sir? It's great to be back
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in the studio. You said it felt like six years. It's good to
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see your face. You've actually grown your beard back in a week. So
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how are you doing. I'm good. I've already let State fans have it
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while you're out. Oh did you Yeah, all that whining yesterday? What
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do you think about all that? It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous, of course,
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but you knew it was coming. Why did mas ciby State fans feel
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so entitled in baseball? Yeah, I don't get it. Like, look,
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you clearly haven't done You didn't even make your conference tournament previously, prior
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to this year. Yeah, prior to this year. So it seems it
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seems pretty simple, though, Like stop stop with the math, try stop
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trying to figure it all out, blaming selection committees all this stuff, like
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perhaps you just should have won a little bit more, Perhaps you shouldn't have
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dropped. Oh, I don't know, a game to Central Arkansas, two
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games Dawston. But the geniuses though, which I am far from whatever,
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I don't care about. I don't know about the selection committee. Every selection
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committee. Though. We see this in basketball, we see it in football.
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Everyone's gonna get mad over something. But I don't know. Maybe stage
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just shouldn't want a couple more games. Just watch your damn regional, This
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Virginia regional that you're gonna get kicked out of on the first weekend. Oh,
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come on and be pleased. You've taken a few steps forward here.
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You've been nothing for two years. I would tend to agree with you.
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Is it the stadium? I mean, look, it's one thing to be
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a proud fan, and Missisa has a very proud baseball fan base. Is
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it the stadium? I mean, I saw somebody put out on X yesterday.
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I don't get to cook my burgers in left field? Is that what
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it's about? Posting on social media? Oh we're here? What is?
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Why are they so entitled in baseball? We got a cool stay, Well,
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we have a cool stadium. We should we should bump someone else.
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let's see real unnamed texture you can Texas six or one eighty five three
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seven seven six? Is even Angel Hernandez could see that these selections were trash?
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Yeah? But were they every year we do this? Oh? The
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selections are trash, The committees trash. Have you ever seen a football?
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College football? When we're gonna get it with the twelve team, You're right,
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this year, somebody's gonna get screwed, at least in their minds,
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because it ain't gonna work the way everybody thinks it's gonna work. I'm telling
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you there's gonna be some ten and two's, some nine and threes to get
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left out on that eleven twelve spot, and then we're gonna see the same
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thing. Have we ever had a situation in bsketball, baseball, en up,
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coming up football to where everybody went committee did a fantastic job. No,
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No, that's what I'm saying. Every selection committee in every sport,
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someone's gonna get all mad. Then you're gonna say, well, these selections
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to trash. Anyone could see that? Really? Do you see everything that
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goes on right under your nose? Because I know for a fact you don't,
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Sir really named Texter, But just just stop, man. You're back
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to a regional. Your team is good again. You were absolute utter trash
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and now your team is good again. Just take take a little victory.
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You're kind of back, kind of and look, if you win the regional
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this weekend, does anyone does the trash? Does this stupid trash talk continue?
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No, you don't care. You've won, You're moving on, and
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so it's not gonna matter if you win. What do you mean it's not
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gonna matter. I'm talking about the fact that you're not hosting. If you
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win this regional, though, go to Virginia, win the regional. It
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didn't, it doesn't matter anymore. Oh, we didn't host last weekend,
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so you can't see the forest for the trees. Not you a lot,
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and there's a lot of State fans that can would you rather host and have
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been matched up to go play Tennessee in their backyard after especially after all the
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vitriol that happened between State and Tennessee at the SEC tournament this past weekend,
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and then knowing that the odds of you getting flat embarrassed, because I can
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promise you if State would have won, been hosted and won and went to
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Tennessee, Tennessee would have set out to embarrass State or go play a regional
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in Virginia where Vegas has you as a slight underdog by pennies on the dollar
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plus one hundred and plus one oh five for Virginia. State takes care of
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business and if their players and coaches don't listen to their fan base and they
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go play baseball, they can probably go win that and then go match up
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against an Arkansas team in a place you've already went and played very well at.
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Is it to Tennessee or is it to Arkansas? But I don't know
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that some state fans care. They care more about going to start ball,
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putting a hamburger on a grill, mixing a drink, posted a picture on
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social going greatest baseball stadium in the world in nine worlds, and then they
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don't care that they go to Tennessee and get dump trucked. I thought the
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goal was Omaha, not to post pictures of your hamburgers at leftfield lounge.
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What is the goal? Well, goals have changed these days when social media
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gets involved. When there's a picture at stake, gotta have a picture.
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Resident fire lamonas See still on it? He is still on it. He
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toughest regional by average power ratings of non host the Tucson Regional number one,
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Tyfis Regional, Tallahassee two, Clemson three, Santa Barbara four, Green Vault
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five, Corvallis six, Lexington seven, Athens eight, Norman nine, Raleigh
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ten, Knoxville, Let's see still Water eleven Knoxville twelve Fayetteville thirteen, Charlottesville
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fourteen, Chapel Hill fifteen, and the college station. So, I mean,
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State's in a regional that's power rated very low. You would think they
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would be happy. No, they'll get the post pictures of their Hamburgers in
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whiskey drinks on social If you look at this Friday starters on X they do
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a really good job of breaking this whole regional down. You can go see
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that and mean again, State's I mean literally, it should be State in
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Virginia. It should be State in Virginia. That's who it should be all
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the way through this Rest in peace to Bill Walton. Did you know Bill
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played a college, i mean a high school basketball game against this guy.
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Did he tell you this story? That's what he said when he was in
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Sandy. You know, while Bill grew up in San Diego. Now he
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said he didn't actually play. I don't want to put that on him.
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Well, he started out and said he did, but then he said he
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was just a manager of the basketball team. But Bill Walton wore them out
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in high school, had no idea who this guy was. Very interesting story.
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Also, let's see Greg sank, Ross Challenger and several are out in
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Texas for the meetings here. Greg Sanke has asked about collective bargaining with athletics
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or athletes, which he says would require employment. Sankeye quote, I've not
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had a student athlete come to me and say I want to be taxed like
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an employee, And I don't know that we continue to go down this road
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here after especially the court hearing from last week excuse me, which we were
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on the air with baseball, but a lot of that was happening. Sankie
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also speaking to a group in Deston, excuse me, they're Deston, not
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Dallas. Deston before SEC meetings began Tuesday, says the SEC will hold conversations
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this week about the possible implementation. Well, they're in Destined last week,
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Dallas this week. Implementation of college athletes availability reports leading into the games.
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This is basically an injury report. So they're talking about having an injury report
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like the NFL in college football. Do you like that or do you not
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like that? Yeah? I tend to not like it simply because it's catered.
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It seems almost catered more towards the gambling community. Better have we better
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have an injury report out there so that the people who have sold their soul
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to the casinos. What do you been can can know? Both fingers pointed
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at Jake. Right now, they know who's injured and could change the outcome
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of the game. I haven't thought about this, but I think you could
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be spot on. Why is nobody talking about this? I don't know,
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but I think you may be onto something. What good is an injury report
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in the NFL? Do they really care that your fans know if you're starting
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running back is playing or not, just so they know. Well, no,
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it's about gaming, you're right, yeah, yeah, and now fantasy
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football. But now, to be fair, though, it's not one hundred
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percent like if you're a hardcore fan, you'd like to know if you're maybe
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if you're a Cowboys fan, you'd like to know that Dak Prescott isn't playing
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on Sunday. So yeah, you do have people who like to know the
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ins and outs. I like to know those things. But I feel like
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this is just in the world we live in today, with the gambling much
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more prevalent. I feel like that's part of this at least. I don't
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want to say it's all there, and I would prefer to not think that
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it's all on gambling. But I think that plays a part in this.
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I think you're right, there is a segmentation of it. Red Dog.
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We know two people that won't be invited to any left field lounge parties next
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year. All res Dog State fans. They're fine, They cry and they
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get back to North It's fine. Yeah. And plus apparently it is not
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meant for me to ever go to Duty Noble because I've never been there and
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for two years straight. Last year, Matt Wyatt empty promised me that we
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were going. This year, Jared shots Empty promised to me that we were
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going. Now you keep saying all these people empty promise to you. Yep,
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but some of that may be true. But how much of that is
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you just not wanting to do it. When I say it to you to
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your face and you tell me to the face and we're having a conversation,
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it's me saying, crap, Yeah, let's do this fair enough. And
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as we get ready to go to break Jason and Flagstaff, we State fans,
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particularly on message boards and social media, are some of the biggest cry
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babies on the planet. After every law to a bad team or blown lead
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in the ninth inning, this year. The fire Lamonas I think he says
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quotes fire Lamona's perked up, but now not hosting is a conspiracy against state
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or something exactly exactly. You can't want to fire lamonas for half the year
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and now it's a conspiracy theory to keep state, to keep state down.
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let's see here. In a letter to school rules and obtained by Yahoo Sports,
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sin CAA president Charlie Baker details concepts of settlement terms in which have been
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one to one and a half billion from powerful revenue sharing per year. And
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there's more to get into this as we move along. I want to get
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into this later. A funny story but almost kind of sad. That's where
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we got to. A high school soccer announcer in Kansas high school soccer gets
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caught on a hot mic saying the bonus for him calling these games is the
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hot moms, and he got fired for saying that. Should he have gotten
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fired for saying on a hot mic? I love these games, but I
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love also checking out the hot moms and the stands out of here. No
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I mean, it's a mixture of creepy and funny, but it leans harder
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towards funny. I think, no, it shouldn't have been fired. Yeah,
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it's very weird. Let I say here, let me go back down
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here, rebel Greg, what team is more likely to have a chip on
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their shoulder? State going to Virginia or ole Miss going into the fall of
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the season. That's a great question. So is it State baseball? Well,
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let me just put it like this, is it State baseball fans or
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ol Miss football fans. Let's put particularly this year Beaver, who has the
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biggest chip on their shoulder? Chip? I don't know that. Well,
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I don't know that. I would really say ole Miss has I hate to
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even use this phrase. I've told you how I feel about this phrase.
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That was my number one when we were doing that list. But chip on
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the shoulder, I don't think ole Miss really has a chip going into football
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because they were really good last year and they're expected to be really good.
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Everyone has huge expectations for them. It's not like they're talking trash about them
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until somebody doesn't put them in their preseason playoff or something to that effect.
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Somebody on a national level or even local for that that you know, radio
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or whatever says, oh no, this team is away over rated. They're
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seven to five. Then the chip and the shoulder happens, right, That's
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when it happens. Monkey's riding dogs your Costa Rica buddy claims he has insider
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information on injuries, egg plant. Has he done that? Of course he
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has? Okay, all the time. Philip, it's Philip. That was
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a good one, Beaver. They forgot to blame Will Rogers. Is that
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is one hundred percent true? And Joel Jake, I don't know why the
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State fans are complaining about not hosting a regional in this weekend's opening round of
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the NCAA tournament. At least they get to continue to play while we sit
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out once again. So they just need to shut up and be happy that
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they will lose the Virginia Regional. Hashtag Hotty Toddy and g T HMSU.
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Look, I think State wins the Virginia Virginia Regional. I have State.
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I would play money that State wins the Virginia Regional because I don't think the
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State baseball team is nearly as fragile as the fan base. Is that fair
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I think the State baseball team is way more put together than the fan base
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is. And I like State them against the world going on the road to
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Virginia, and it may take them to day near Monday. They may have
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to lose a game, beat Virginia twice, they may not. But I
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have State actually advancing to the super Regional round and playing Arkansas. Now here's
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the thing, though, let me go over here and look at this.
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Here's where again State fans can't see the forest from the trees. You know,
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Arkansas very very good baseball team. And if you go over here and
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you look though, when they pitch it really well, they've had some problems
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at the plate. What if Kansas State goes in there and beats wins that
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regional as a three seed, because Louisiana Tech's got a two seed. That's
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a nice baseball team. But two two three three two three three two three
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two three two they're all the same. So if Kansas State, for instance,
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side the big twelve, goes in there and beats them, then guess
27:07
what, Oh wait a minute, State hosts the super regional. That that
27:11
that very well could happen. So and when you look at so have you
27:14
picture off the beating path team that we're gonna cheer for this year. No,
27:19
I didn't. I thought about it yesterday as I was watching the selection
27:22
show, and I didn't. I didn't go back and look into the whole
27:27
list of teams. Well, let's see, it's got to be somebody worth
27:30
cheering for, like Northern Kentucky and the Tennessee Regional, Knoxville Regional, and
27:33
there's nobody in that East Carolina Regional that I would want to pull for.
27:40
Let's see Norman Nope, Taala hassee has stetson there afore Seed they'll play Florida
27:45
State out the gate. Arkansas, you've got SIMU, Southeast Missouri State and
27:52
the Fayetteville Regional of course, Virginia Regional or Charlotte's Regional. You've got Saint
27:57
John and Pam. The Tucson Regional. You got Grand Canyon there and there,
28:07
and you got Dallas Baptist remem're gonna go with Dallas Baptist in that regional.
28:11
Chapel Hill Regional, North Carolina LSU looks like they found their sea legs
28:17
late Wafford and l i U. When you look in the Lexington Regional,
28:23
Indiana State Western Michigan and Illinois. That I mean, Kentucky looks like they
28:29
out of bulldoze. That Regional Corvallis Regional, Oregon State, U See,
28:33
Irvine, Twulane and Nichols, Riley Regional, NC State South Carolina, James
28:38
Madison and Bryant, the Bryant Bulldogs, biber Where doing? Where are they
28:44
from? The Bryant Bulldogs their four seed Athens Regional. You got Georgia u
28:52
n C W Army in Georgia Tech and Clemson Regional. You got high Point,
28:59
Hey, but they're fourths their four seed. They're gonna go in there
29:02
and beat Clemson. You got Virginia, or's gonna be Vanderbilt in Coastal Carolina,
29:07
the still Water Regional, Oklahoma State Nebraska, Florida and Niagara Santa Barbara
29:15
Regional UCSB, also San Diego, Fresno State in Oregon. And then you've
29:21
got College Station Regional Texas A and M Texas, Louisiana and Grambling. So
29:27
you got some work to do, be to pick, to pick who who
29:30
you may want to go with as a sleeper team. It may be as
29:33
simple as Dallas Baptist six or one eight eight, five three seven seven six.
29:40
I'm just spitballing. We've gone with them before. I don't want to
29:44
go back with them, all right, we can go with somebody else.
29:47
I think in twenty like twenty nineteen, probably that team. We went with
29:52
them, So you know, Snoop Dogg and the Arizona Bowl presented by Jen
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and Juice that will happen this year. First Bowl though, will provide NIO
30:00
deals for all players on both teams from Mountain West and the MAC. That's
30:04
the MAC, So all the players are going to get in IO money coming
30:10
off that. That's actually pretty pretty generous. I guess those guys to play
30:11
in that Bowl game, I can tell you that. Also. Bret McMurphy
30:15
reporting statement from Utah Athletics regarding rumors of Utah to the ACC. That's kind
30:19
of slipped under the radar with everything. Supposedly there's some rumors of flirtation from
30:26
the ACC. Back to Utah quote, we are proud to be entering a
30:29
membership into the Big twelve Conference in the coming months and excited to join our
30:33
new colleagues and member institutions. Report of course over the weekend suggested otherwise a
30:41
completely fabricated and irresponsible story. Texas A and M football coach Mike Elko on
30:49
the outlook for the season Beaver, He says, quote, we have the
30:52
base to be really really special. What does this mean? Really really special?
31:00
What's el COO trying to say? I don't know what is any A
31:10
and M coach? They always they're going to go in and do that.
31:15
You should have had the base to be special. Oh, I don't know
31:18
the last what five years, when you've been having these massive recruiting classes and
31:25
you haven't been able to get those I'd say those players were considered special coming
31:30
out of high school or the transfer portal, but they weren't special. Well
31:36
they you weren't special enough to do anything special with them. Let's say that.
31:41
And I don't see that changing. Just with elco We'll see. I'm
31:45
not buying it. I still go back to maybe A and M is not
31:51
what they think they are, no matter who's their coach. It's very possible.
31:56
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Com. Also on x Facebook and Morgant the podcast David, Happy Tuesday.
33:10
I hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend, sir? How are you
33:14
well? It was even though the Bulldogs were not playing after Friday, you
33:20
had two days there to say, well, they won't they when the word
33:23
comes out, no, they won't be hosting, then you have to write
33:25
follow us stories they have of course, Then yesterday the site selection announced with
33:30
the tournament field, all those things process a lot care of and now time
33:36
to throw some things together back the bag and head to Charlottesville, Virginia on
33:40
Thursday to be there and ready for the start of the regional on Friday.
33:45
So David, before we get to the regional, you know, a lot
33:47
to be made about the selection committee. I know a lot of disappointment about
33:52
not hosting. You know, I probably look at this a little differently.
33:54
I said, hey, look, if you if you would have hosted,
33:58
if you would have had the spot where East Carolina is, then congratulations,
34:02
you're matched up with Tennessee. And I don't know that that's something that you
34:05
want to be part of in Virginia. If you look at Vegas, I
34:08
mean Vegas as Virginia a slight favorite at plus one oh five state righte behind
34:13
them at plus one hundred, it looks to be way more of a manageable
34:15
road regional there. If you win, If Arkansas wins, you travel and
34:19
play on Arkansas team, you probably feel better about than Tennessee. But that's
34:22
the way I look at it. How did you see it? Well?
34:25
Similar Now, let's make no bones about it. You're better off hosting.
34:30
You're always better off hosting in the first round, doesn't matter what it feeds
34:32
into or not. And I don't think State would have been the number sixteen.
34:37
I think they should have been number fifteen. Overall, it didn't work
34:40
out because of things. You know, we can debate the committee makeup And
34:45
I vented at link on my podcast last night about yes, I understand the
34:51
INSTABA and people they sill want to quote grow the sport in other areas.
34:55
To me, that doesn't mean propping up, say the West Coast programs,
35:00
others at the expensive programs that have earned it. In fact, I saw
35:04
a chart today provided by someone about the for twenty twenty three season the investment
35:08
that all the major programs have put into baseball versus the return and form of
35:14
attendance. Missippi State was somewhere around top fifteen, top nineteen in investment,
35:20
believe it or not, barely top twenty and what they're paying, but easily
35:23
number one in attendance. So if you talk about return on investment and INSTABLA
35:28
is missing out a chance to make some money. Even though baseball is not
35:30
a huge revenue sport. All that said, I can look at it another
35:35
way too. Don't lose to Central Arkansas, don't get swept by Austin p
35:39
or don't give up leads against Ole, miss against Florida, even Arkansas.
35:45
And we're not even having this conversation. We're talking about hosting this weekend.
35:47
So you balance it against the fact that two months ago everybody's getting ready to
35:52
fire the coach because they think you're not going to make against the Blaze.
35:55
It's a measure again of what the expectations are of this program that you're disappointed
36:00
not to be hosting after two years and missing the tournament entirely. David Murray
36:05
on your radio Tuesday edition of the program, find on my genes page two
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four seven sports dot Com. They'll tell you and get you ready for postseason
36:10
baseball. So David al that you have a chance to kind of let it
36:14
soak in and you see the regional. What is your thoughts of the four
36:16
team regional? The Mississi State will be for taking him. I like it,
36:21
I like the field, I like the way it sets up. The
36:22
Saint John's is a quality program in their own right. Crystal Momis has some
36:28
experience with them from way back himself playing them, and you know, Penn,
36:32
if you manage to follow in the loser's bracket, you feel really good
36:36
about whatever they're going to throw at you. On the second day of a
36:37
regional. The whole key, of course, is to say in the winner's
36:39
bracket, although I remind people too, if you're gonna lose and still win
36:44
a regional, lose on the first day. Mississi State's more than prove that
36:46
many times don't lose in round two, which leads to the question who do
36:52
you pitch? I'm I can never come to this time of year without being
36:58
reminded. Two thousand and three Paul Mhollam against the East Tennessee State when he
37:02
was not only the ace the team, he was really the only reliable starter,
37:06
and we threw him on the first day. And next day North Carolina
37:09
is able to beat State. The state battles with the loser's bracket lose it
37:13
to n again, so I could see State shaking things up if the matchup
37:17
is good. Now when you're two seeds, you can't take it for granted.
37:21
I don't know Saint John's that, well, they're going to scout it
37:23
and say, okay, do we dare say move dur Angelos sanje up and
37:28
throw him on Friday and save cal Stephen or presumably Virginia and the heck,
37:32
Virginia could even lose too. That's all the wild cards you play. That's
37:37
why I tend to think that coach Justin Parker will stick with Cal Stephen on
37:42
the first night. The boy I could sure make a change. And oh,
37:45
by the way, does it even matter that much if the offense doesn't
37:49
get its act back together in time? Yeah, David, No, you're
37:52
one hundred percent correct. And I remember that regional you speak of the well,
37:57
I guess was Middle Tennessee State or MTSU. I remember that, and
38:00
of course there was a lot of criticism of that. So you know again
38:04
it's I'm glad I'm not making those decisions, and those coaches, of course,
38:07
they get paid to make those decisions. I'm pitching well, I think
38:09
too is and this is back in the day's the sixteen regionals. But if
38:14
you throw your ace the first game and weather interrupts it, you can get
38:17
him back. Because that's how State made it to Omaha in both nineteen and
38:20
ninety seven because in sixteen regionals again but Bobby Reid and ninety and Eric Dubos
38:25
in ninety seven, where would come back on throw because they had done the
38:29
first night. But you know, fourteen regionals, you just really can't think
38:32
that way. I think you play to win, at least I expect them
38:36
to do that, because Lord knows, if you don't throw your number one
38:39
on opening day and still lose, imagine the fueror that uproad just blows up.
38:45
Then. So there's I'm gonna write a column about that, and not
38:50
to get two literate on everybody, but borrowing on Rudyard Kipson Kipling's motto about
38:54
nine sixty ways and every one of them's right. There's no right way or
38:59
wrong way structure rotation for weekend. But I'll tell you this, as far
39:02
as pitching, I think State can afford to go that way because the way
39:06
Brooks order through in Hoover, you feel really good about him. Come make
39:09
act on Sunday, no matter who the opponent is. You got Pico con
39:14
ready. If you can just get to those first two days without much of
39:16
your bullpen, State could really come through the winner's bracket, the Lizards bracket,
39:22
and I've seen them win at Virginia. I was there in twenty thirteen
39:23
as well. I think it's a very winnable region for the Dogs. And
39:29
hey, I'm not worried about Arkansas because first you got to get there in
39:31
second state. Should have won that series, could even have swept the series.
39:35
And Arkansas is not playing really good ball right now. Make sure to
39:38
find um at Geen's page two four seven sports dot com. Though. Have
39:40
you teat up all week long and through the weekend for baseball regional play,
39:45
David, I appreciate your time as always, look enjoy the baseball weekend.
39:47
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42:15
in on that coming up here at five point thirty. Also, let's see
42:22
Texas coach Michael Coo on Texas joining the SEC quote, we should play them.
42:28
We have two programs like that in the state two hours away. They
42:31
should play every year and it should mean a lot. And of course Texas
42:36
coach Steve Sarkisian asked about joining the joining A and M and the SEC quote.
42:40
There was so much talk about realignment for us. We gained two rivals
42:45
back. We're playing Arkansas and Texas A and M again. We're looking forward
42:47
to it. A and M. I'm sure they are too. And then,
42:51
as Steve Sarkisian talking this week out in Dallas, of course SEC Spring
42:55
or SEC Summer meetings. As we move along, Chris Andrey Landry Fotball dot
43:00
com is the website. Make sure to find him on Exit Landry Football.
43:02
Chris, I hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend. How are you,
43:05
sir? I'm doing good, Jack, How you doing doing well?
43:08
All right? So we're talking through Let's go college and then we'll talk a
43:12
little NFL. In the second segment, we got you know, the spring
43:15
meetings slash summer meetings. It's talking season. Spring practice is over, transfer
43:20
portal for all intense purposes over. I want to start out in the state
43:22
of Texas. Texas A and M coach Mike Oko said to Brent McMurphy this
43:29
week, quote, we have the base to be really really special. And
43:34
I just felt a collective eye roll across the Southeastern Conference when that was said.
43:39
What did he mean in ken Texas, A and M be really really
43:43
special? Well, I don't know what I mean. I'm going to tell
43:50
you what I think he meant, which is what you're looking for. And
43:52
I think he probably means because he's been there before, the same thing we've
43:58
always said about A and M. It starts with, uh, if you
44:01
think about programs in what you need, programs that maybe are not real successful,
44:08
what do you need what do they need to get successful. Well,
44:12
a fan base that's not only supports it has the passion, but puts the
44:16
money in the program. Well, check they've got that. Facilities that are
44:22
going to be, as you know, certainly competitive with anybody in the country.
44:25
Check they've got that, They've got those things. Uh. In fact,
44:30
that's where the collective eye rolls come in. Well, they've always had
44:34
the money, they've always done this, but they've never want So that is
44:38
a little bit of a unique challenge. Still better off then those that don't
44:45
have the financial resources and are limited. They've got a low ceiling and and
44:49
M's got a high ceiling. They've just never even come close to. I
44:53
mean, they basically have performed performed like they're in a cross space. They
44:58
just don't they don't accomplish what nearly what their potential is Mike alcol gonna be
45:07
any different. I don't know, I really don't. I do think one
45:12
of the things that they've gotten away from was all right, we're going to
45:15
be great because we've got all this money and man Anil's built for us.
45:21
Well, as we know, even in the world of nil, you better
45:24
know what you're doing and you better spend that money correctly. It's kind of
45:28
like we talk about these rich athletes and I was thinking about this today or
45:32
the other day with Antonio Brown. I'm sure you heard about it, and
45:37
then think about this and this. Okay, Nate eighty eight million dollars and
45:39
he filed for bankrupt he claiming he has no more than fifty thousand assets.
45:45
That's a perfect example of riches but doesn't know what to do with it.
45:47
And I've seen a lot of that in my career with players, well,
45:52
with the Aggies as an example of yeah they got a lot of money.
45:54
Yeah they brag about what they can do, but they've never been real productive
45:59
and utilized that money. Well, that to me is maybe what he's saying
46:04
is, look, we've we've in a different way. We've got the resources
46:07
and the potential. We just got to do a better job with it.
46:09
I thought what they have done, they became a little bit more of we're
46:14
gonna sell you on the idea you come here and you're gonna make money.
46:17
Well, then they realized if players are coming for money, they're going to
46:23
leave for a dollar more and they're not going to be committed to being in
46:29
your program. You still need the money, but you need them to come
46:31
for the reason of wanting to be a part of your program. And oh,
46:35
by the way, you're going to get paid well through NIL. And
46:38
I think what they did is they they got guys to come because of the
46:44
money, and they didn't stay because they weren't committed to the program. And
46:47
I think what Mike Alcohol has been commissioned to do is we need to get
46:51
back to to Aggie's and you know, sell that and the Aggie spirit and
46:55
all that. You know, Harry High schools off. I get all that,
47:00
but they need to get more of that. And oh, by the
47:02
way, the money's going to be there, but you need to get guys
47:06
that want to stay and develop. I think that's what he means, and
47:10
that's what he's trying to get to. Chris Landry talking SEC football and of
47:15
course National College Football. Tuesday edition of the program as we started day late
47:19
this week due to the holiday Landry Football dot com, Landry Football on X
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All right, Steve Sarkisan nothing but high praise about joining the SEC. I'm
47:28
paraphrasing here talking about realignment, also talking about gaining He doesn't say one rival.
47:34
Chris he says too. He says, hey, we get Texas A
47:36
and M, but we also get Arkansas. For those that are not old
47:38
enough to remember, Chris, that Texas Arkansas rivalry way back when was pretty
47:45
big. We it it was. I mean, you go through the greatest
47:49
games in history, and man, they were there many and over my years,
47:53
and you know, you can relate to this somewhat. I'm alter of
47:58
him. But there've been a lot of games over the past thirty years that
48:01
have become big and big. But you know, nineteen sixty nine Texas Arkansas,
48:07
you know, for people don't know, the President flew in and watched
48:09
it. Now you know President Nixon was a big football fan. But yeah,
48:14
that was as big as can be. I don't know that I could
48:16
put anything you know in the past twenty years that I mean, that was
48:21
huge. It was they changed the date of the game for TV because it
48:25
was just that huge. Oh yeah, and Arkansas was the sore thumb in
48:31
the Southwest Conference. All the schools in the Southwest Conference were in Texas,
48:36
exteph Arkansas, and you know you had Darrow and Frank Barrels and big.
48:43
So yeah, it's but even in when they've played it in recent times,
48:46
it's had a special tone to it, and that is a lot about That's
48:52
a little bit of a dig for Texas too. They like to talk about
48:55
how all right, you know, kind of like Alabama talks about Tennessee and
49:04
Bear Bryant always said Tennessee was the biggest rival, not Auburn, because he
49:07
wouldn't he want to give Alburn enough respective say they was the biggest rival.
49:12
This is Texas's virgin is saying, yeah, a little brother there, A
49:16
and m is big, but you know, Arkansas is pretty big too.
49:19
I think that's the way of saying that without saying it. I'm laughing because
49:23
that isn't that the way we do this though, Chris. I mean if
49:25
you asked now, I don't know that you're going to get that out of
49:29
you know, Lane Kiffin and Jeff Levy. But I mean there was a
49:30
day where you know, Dan Bullen wouldn't reference Ole Miss is Ole Miss.
49:35
I mean we've seen this with across rivalryes. Coaches tend to do that,
49:38
don't they They do they do. I mean the whole you know that the
49:43
school up north and you know, and all that stuff is you know,
49:46
it is comical and it is funny, you know, they they become,
49:53
you know, like fans, you know, in that sense, they tend
49:57
to talk and react like fans to think it is comical. Chris Sarkisian was
50:01
also asked, you know they're talking in terms of injury reports. Uh,
50:06
now in college football? Do you like this idea? And I'll see they
50:09
you know, they were asking him, how do how do you keep teams?
50:13
Truthfully says well, you know, I think you may have to have
50:15
some sort of a fining system. That's what they do in the NFL.
50:17
The NFL has figured it out. Don't reinvent the will What is your thoughts
50:22
on an injury report in college football? It's gonna become essential with gambling,
50:30
and I think that's the reason, and it's why it's done in the NFL.
50:32
It's it's pure and simple. It's to protect that. And they will
50:37
not say that because that's taboo. It's like, you know, they they
50:43
are benefiting, NFL does in college football, will benefit so much from gambling,
50:49
but yet they will not ever admit oh gambling. Oh no, that's
50:52
that's the no. Let's let's not look there, let's not look under that.
50:55
But that's it. That's the reason, and those of us that have
50:58
been in the NFL know that that that's kind of the right way to do
51:01
it. But you know, in college it was always tabooo, we don't
51:06
do that. I think it's essential now it's going to be up to I
51:09
think the SEC the Big Ten to kind of take charge like it is and
51:13
everything to try to figure out how to do it and how to police it.
51:15
You can do it, but as we've discussed, in college athletics,
51:21
everybody kind of does their own thing. So how do you deal with it
51:24
when you have an SEC team playing a Big ten team? You know,
51:29
this is part of the problem and I always talk about is I'm not saying
51:32
we need some commissioner that's going to you know, you know, strike the
51:37
gavel and tell everybody what to do. No, but we need to have
51:39
uniformity in college football. We need to have uniformity with officials. You know,
51:45
we shouldn't have SEC or Big ten officials. We should have college football
51:49
officials. And you know, if you want to put them geographically depend on
51:52
where they live and put groups inside, but you need to have also universal
51:58
policies that everyone needs to follow. And this is one of them. I
52:01
think it's essential. It's it's essential due to gambling, because without it then
52:07
you run the risk of having some integrity issues, which is that's the one
52:14
thing we can't have. We cannot have that in any sport. It's the
52:17
one thing that I think fears most administrators in sports. Make sure to find
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Chris Landry on your radio segment two finam at Landry football dot com and
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Landry Football on X. All right, Chris, let's jump to the NFL.
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Looking at some notes for the NFL. It's hard to believe because we
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just, I mean, things kind of just happen and then we look up
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and go wow. But the Chiefs will be looking to become the first team
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this year in NFL history to win three straight Super Bowls after defeating the forty
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nine Ers this past February. They've appeared in four of the last five championship
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games, winning three of them. So I've got several thoughts on what's your
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take on this one? I was unaware. I mean, you look at
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it and think, man, that's never happened, and the Chiefs have an
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opportunity to do that in a league that is built for mediocrity. We know
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that based on the history of free agency in the way this league has manifested
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itself into where it is today. The Patriots defied that and now the Chiefs
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are defying that. Your thoughts on where this club is as far as you
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know, I don't want to say history of the NFL, but we're starting
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to get into that space. And then two, why in a league that
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has built for mediocrity have the Chiefs and formerly, the Patriots been able to
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defy what the league actually wants. Well, the reason is Tom Brady and
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Patrick Mahomes. Let's start there. That gives them a huge advantage in both
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places that they were in the mix every year. And then I would throw
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in Bill Belichick and Andy Reid their ability to build teams and coach teams.
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In the case of Bill Belichick, defenses are always good. Case of Andy
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Reid, the offenses are always good. And Andy has done a really good
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job of adapting to whatever it's going to take to get them over the top.
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Great quarterback. But let's take last year having a problem, figure it
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out after the loss to the Raiders on Christmas Day. We need to run
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the football more and play of the strength of our team, which is the
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defense, which is against what Andy normally believes as a play caller, as
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an offensive guy, but as a head coach, he said, this is
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what we need to do. Okay, they don't win a Super Bowl if
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they don't make that adjustment. So it's a combination. The reason why they've
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been able to do it. I think what the Patriots did and what the
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Chiefs have done is even more impressive than say, because for people who are
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maybe remembering but maybe misremembering. You're right, the Steelers won two and then
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one two in a row. They won four. That was a great team
55:39
that's stuck together. But they didn't win three in a row. They won
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two and then there was a break in between. I don't know. History
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says you just said it. History says the Chiefs won't do it because of
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that reason, but they're certainly going to be in the mix. We take
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some luck, I think in the modern era of free agency, where it's
55:57
tougher to keep a team together than you saw in the seventies early eighties,
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it's the problem. I think that the Jimmy Johnson Cowboy teams could have done
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it if it wasn't for Jimmy and Jerry's you know, divorce. So yeah,
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I think there are a number of reasons. I think the other why
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it doesn't happen, and the other thing I think that's difficult you keep in
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mind. Let this think in Yeah, I know, the teams that are
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good consistently always have a chance. But look at when the regular season is
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over, and how much more football a team that goes to the Super Bowl
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has to play. If you do that for like a four year stretch,
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you've played like an extra season of football. Now, I realize some of
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the players come and go, and some of them that were on the Super
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Bowl team for a one or two year period may be different than the ones
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in the latter two. But the reason why it's so difficult is obviously people
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get better and you lose players. But look at how order your off season
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in So if you're the teams that are successful, it's tougher and tougher to
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get back in the flow. And then there's just something to the competitive edge.
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It's tough to get guys to be as motivated to win it again as
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opposed to winning it for the first time, which is why I think your
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roster management and having the influx of guys that maybe have not done it,
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adding them to the mix where they've got maybe a motivational factor. I know
57:30
everybody wants to win, but it's one thing to say it. It's another
57:32
thing to have to do it over and over again. I think everyone can
57:37
relate to that. When motivation is there when you have a carrot in front
57:39
of you, versus when you've had some success, you tend to kind of
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post a little bit normally, it's human nature. Chris. Once the NFL
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kicks off, We've talked with you about international play before, but the NFL
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will play the first ever South American contest. The Eagles will take on the
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Packers. That'll be Friday, September sixth, down in Brazil. And one
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of your thoughts on this just a little bit more. You know, we've
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talked about this before. It's been quite a while ago. We know about
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the overseas games across the Pond, as they say, you know, in
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Germany, and they play here there and yonder. The Jags have become a
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staple overseas. I don't know that the NFL will ever expand to be a
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quote unquote global you know front global, uh, you know league so to
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speak. Is this more about branding? Is it trying to generate revenue in
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other places outside of the country, What is the kind of what is the
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attraction? Is it more than money or is it just simply money to go
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to Brazil and play for the first time ever, to go over and play
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in Germany, to play you know, now almost double handful games outside of
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the United States. It's money driven and it's tapping into markets where they're not
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making money. It's almost like, I mean, it's not like they've completely
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tapped out the money in this country, but think about it, it's it's
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just there's nowhere to go in this country. I mean, you know,
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you can think about this. Why did they make over the whole Taylor Swift
59:00
thing because they weren't tapping into markets with young girls and women that maybe weren't
59:07
big football fans that were now buying Travis Kelsey jerseys. Because that's big.
59:14
They love that. They love playing that up because it's tapping into maybe a
59:17
new market, because the football fan is always going to follow it all.
59:22
He's going to be excited. Well, I can remember I was part of
59:27
a team in Cleveland with coach Beelichick. Well, we played one of the
59:32
first games overseas in the preseason. We played the Eagles, and I mean,
59:39
Jack, I can remember this now. Brian Brennan caught this unbelievable touchdown
59:44
pass and he got both feet in and it was unbelievable and the Proud didn't
59:49
even know what to do, didn't even clap. We lined up, kicked
59:51
the extra point and they went into a roar. And it's is because they
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kicked the ball between the upright. That's how little they knew about football in
59:59
Europe. Now it's become bigger and bigger. To why they put money into
1:00:02
the World League, even though it lost money for years. They finally got
1:00:07
out of it and stopped their losses. They're trying to penetrate in all markets
1:00:12
in different continents to get money involved. There's some people that believe that eventually
1:00:19
we'll get to the point. I don't know about a team there. Maybe
1:00:22
that is possibility, but this has been floated out as we go to and
1:00:28
we're probably going to go to eighteen games, but there's been some talk about
1:00:30
having every team has eight games at home, eight games in a row on
1:00:37
the road, and one game outside the country. There's some talk about maybe
1:00:44
doing that to where you got more exposure to more teams in different places.
1:00:51
All money driven, all money driven, and when you've got you're making as
1:00:54
much money as the league is. They're trying to find new zero some game,
1:00:59
right, so they're trying to find new ways to bring an extra dollar
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in. Make sure to find him at Landry football dot com. Also an
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exit Landry Football, Chris. I appreciate your time on a short week this
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talking college football, Bill and you can text us on the couble on the
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lone He's text sign six zero one eight eight five three seven seven six Jake.
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I don't think Chris Landry is completely correct when he says the entire SEC
1:02:45
is eye rolling their eyes at Texas A and M and Mike Coco. No,
1:02:47
I actually I said that, Chris did. He said, I'm a
1:02:51
State fan, but I think Elko is the best coach they've had in quite
1:02:53
a while. Could be. But you're not buying that, are you?
1:03:00
That Michael Elko is the best coach? I mean on paper? Maybe so,
1:03:05
I mean on paper, Jimbo Fisher was the best. But I think
1:03:07
everybody that follows college football realized that that was probably a facade. But I
1:03:10
get where you're going, Bill, Jake, from Yazoo Jake to Jake to
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Beeves. Been in a while miss hearing you guys. Great show today.
1:03:19
Keep the college kids medical records personal, in my opinion, gamble at your
1:03:22
own risk. What do you think about that? And Chris Landry was right?
1:03:27
There in your wheelhouse. He's like, it has everything to do with
1:03:29
gambling. They just won't say it. It's taboo. You can't say it
1:03:32
right, You can't get up there and say it. Do you think they
1:03:36
should keep the medical records private? Medical records? Now? Okay, Now
1:03:47
I wouldn't go that far because when I think of medical records, that makes
1:03:52
it sound like you are handing over these classified, you know, hippo records.
1:03:58
Yes. Yes, it's just updating an injury. And in this day
1:04:06
in college football where we're trying to make seemingly everything closer to NFL, well
1:04:15
that is a move closer to the NFL. So I hate it because,
1:04:26
like I said, and I'm glad Chris said it too, that I hate
1:04:30
that it's so geared towards because that is very geared towards gambling. Got to
1:04:34
have their info, all that business. So I think it's totally fine to
1:04:41
list injuries, like I said, medical records. That seems like a stretch.
1:04:46
You're not giving records, not giving the medical records, you're just saying,
1:04:49
hey, this guy's out, he's probably with this guy's out with a
1:04:54
knee injury, right, questionable with a knee injury. Yeah, I don't
1:04:58
see where the harm is in that, but the fact that underneath it all
1:05:04
that it so much of it is about gambling, I don't I don't care
1:05:08
much for that. But where we are for to coach Billy Napier was asked
1:05:13
during meetings this week. Early said he couldn't comment specifically about the lawsuit filed
1:05:16
by Georgia quarterback Jade Rashada. Quote, I'm comfortable with my actions and I'm
1:05:21
thankful for the university's support. Greg Sankee, SEC commissioner, was asked about
1:05:26
the same thing, and he says, quote, I'm not a fan of
1:05:30
lawsuits. I would agree with Greg on that. Sankee said the league will
1:05:33
discuss player availability reports such as injury reports, at SEC spring meetings, but
1:05:39
does not expect the decision this week. Also, Sankie quote, I don't
1:05:43
expect a lot of conversation on football scheduling, whether to remain at eight SEC
1:05:47
league games are increased to nine this week. SEC schedules are done for the
1:05:50
next two seasons, so out of all the SEC hubbub going on this week,
1:05:56
don't expect to hear ald a lot about scheduling because, as he said,
1:05:59
they're done for the two years. Also, Sankie said the SEC will
1:06:01
announce some kickoff times for SEC's first three weeks on Thursday, So Thursday you
1:06:06
will get some SEC ball game times. Also intended to eliminate collectives. The
1:06:15
NCAA settlement has triggered their next evolution. Many are transitioning into university funded market
1:06:20
agencies, marketing agencies, positioning schools to circumvent the cap and mitigation and legal
1:06:26
risk. Rosstellinger has a report on this. He says, perhaps some new
1:06:30
information from settlement docs in here more in the economic incentive for schools to bring
1:06:36
collectives in house. They can increase cap space by buying athletics, athletes and
1:06:41
IL rights, plus using those rights to generate third party in IL. Third
1:06:45
party in IL does not count towards the cap. Also, the New Orleans
1:06:49
Saints, what is this defensive end lost to the defensive end for the year
1:06:54
with a torn achilles? Do you see this be Tano Passagon? I know,
1:07:00
I just totally messed that up. Anyway, he's a defensive end for
1:07:01
the New Orleans Saints. He has done. The Patriots have agreed to terms
1:07:05
with Drake May and they do not have his terms out, but he is
1:07:12
signed with the Patriots. Also, we're one hundred days from NFL kickoff today.
1:07:16
Can you believe that? Do you think Saints Bro knows that we're one
1:07:19
hundred days away from kickoff? No way in Hill. No, I'm going
1:07:26
to text that right now and see if he even knew. Yeah, see
1:07:29
if he's got a countdown clock. Good, tell me tell don't tell me
1:07:32
that the NFL is the only thing that matters. And then not even keep
1:07:36
up right, ask him, say how many days do you think we are
1:07:40
away from kickoff in the NFL. The Arizona Cardinals have signed first round draft
1:07:43
pick Marvin Harrison Junior. They are number four overall selection, and they finally
1:07:46
got all this hubbub with fanatics out of the way. He can now sign
1:07:50
autographs, shirts, re membabilia and sell it. Post Spring Portal College Football
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Top twenty five, Jesse Simonson has put his out. He's got Georgia.
1:08:02
This is after everything's gone on. He's got Georgia one, Ohio State two,
1:08:05
Texas three, Alabama four. There's no way in hell Alabama's the fourth
1:08:10
best teen. Simonton needs to recheck. There's no way Alabama is the fourth
1:08:15
best team in college football Oregon five, Ole Miss six, Michigan seven,
1:08:19
Notre Dame eight, Florida State nine, and Missouri at number ten, LSU
1:08:25
at sixteen. Just looking at some of his others Alabama at four. Let's
1:08:30
see over the weekend, Jacksonville stayed off All Conference USA defensive lineman Chris Hardy
1:08:36
has pledged to head to ole Miss. So Almiss gets another one. Some
1:08:42
depth here and who knows you could be in the two deep sixty one tackles,
1:08:45
sixteen tackles for loss of eight and a half sacks, So almost continues
1:08:48
to bolster that defensive front before the season starts. Also, I am going
1:08:58
to assume this is a cousin or a brother, Lucia, like the guy
1:09:01
Madden Iamalava has committed to UCLA. Wait a minute, I didn't say that
1:09:10
right, Ia Amalava? Did I get it right that time? Well,
1:09:15
he has a brother. I guess it looks just like the got Madden.
1:09:17
His name is Madden. I wonder if his father named him after the game.
1:09:23
Wait, his name is Madden. Where does im Ava come in?
1:09:26
It's his last name, like Nico he said, his name is Madden.
1:09:30
Madden. Ia Amalava. Oh, Matt Okay Madden, I got you.
1:09:32
Yeah, that's pretty standard last name. So I don't know that you can
1:09:35
really think that that's his brother. That's true, and let's see here.
1:09:43
Nick Schultz reports after the NCAA and Power of Five conferences reached a settlement in
1:09:47
the House case this week, there are still plenty of questions about what the
1:09:50
new landscape will look like. Greg Saykie said he expects clarity in the coming
1:09:55
months, and I would agree with that because this is still very muddy.
1:09:58
There's not a whole lot of clarity this. There's a lot of words.
1:10:00
It's a lot of words, Salid. This reminds me of a government deal
1:10:03
where they passed the bill and you got to read it to see what's in
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Thanks for holding. How are you sir? Good? Sir? How
1:11:11
are you? He's my phone man? So far, so good. I'm
1:11:13
doing well? Okay, all right, could go? Could go either way,
1:11:16
fifty to fifty. It's like, what are you a staff predicting the
1:11:19
weather? That's right, could go either way? So am I to understand
1:11:27
that they're talking about opening up medical records for student athletes? Is is that
1:11:35
what I'm hearing? Well, not necessarily medical records for student athletes. They're
1:11:40
talking about basically, just think think the NFL having an injury report. They're
1:11:44
talking about having an injury report for college football. Okay, so when you
1:11:51
I don't understand why they just don't listen to us the viewer. Why would
1:11:57
they, you know, I mean, why would they were just the one
1:12:00
to watch it? You know, they will, these the governing bodies of
1:12:04
these this collegiate, you know, monstrosity, keep keep doing these things to
1:12:13
change the game that have You know, one of them is panning out and
1:12:18
that is the playoff expansion, one of them. And that's only because it's
1:12:23
making them more money. But in the process they're ruining, you know,
1:12:28
the pageantry of the bowl game system. I mean, you know, they
1:12:33
they've got sixty eight bowls now everybody can get in one. I think Catalay
1:12:38
just got a pre invite to the Hawaii Bowls yesterday. There's the Piano Key
1:12:44
Necktie Bowl that takes place in Bermuda, which all of seven people will go
1:12:48
to, you know what I mean? Then, and I heard just they're
1:12:53
getting rid of the gas group, not the Gassy No, don't shut down
1:12:56
the Gassy and Gasparilla Bowl. You know, that's these are just little things
1:13:01
they're doing that is eventually gonna bite these kids in the butt. The NFL
1:13:05
happens on draft days, kids that it's gonna be exactly like the only thing
1:13:11
I can compare it to is the military. When you go into mess and
1:13:15
they look down and they see a you know, a grocery list of problems.
1:13:18
They're gonna go, I don't know, I don't know, You're gonna
1:13:24
You're gonna need to do something about this. And it's it just you know,
1:13:29
a couple of years nepts change the documentation, are change the medical record
1:13:33
system. But now they see way fall back than they used to to.
1:13:38
You can just walk in and go Nope, never broke the leg You can
1:13:42
come in their boat, you can come in their bow legging as chicken bread.
1:13:46
Nope, never broke the legs. They're like, all right, good
1:13:48
the doors sounds like you're gonna be a great marine. Done. See if
1:13:51
you know what I mean, this is gonna open up. So and the
1:13:56
kids that just have bumps and bruises, they're gonna leave school because they're like,
1:14:01
I'm better go now, you know, And it's just gonna it is
1:14:04
going to further more degrade that thing they keep making fun of all of us
1:14:11
about, which is the fact that we love the tradition of college football,
1:14:16
and they call us boomers. About it. But there's a reason that it
1:14:19
worked for so long, you know what I mean, And now they're going
1:14:23
in and making a lot of these changes. It's just unnecessary. It wasn't
1:14:27
broke. Don't fix it, Wes, thank you, sir. I appreciate
1:14:31
it as always, all right. I appreciated space. Space goes sense when
1:14:35
he seeks appreciate it. Yeah, it wasn't broke. I mean, they've
1:14:40
always tried to modify it. But it's about what money, money, money,
1:14:45
money, We know that right at the end of the road when things
1:14:47
start changing. It's any walks of life all through the history of time.
1:14:54
Used to be rocks or furs. You know you you were living in the
1:15:00
ancient days as a caveman, and Wes could harvest more furs than you.
1:15:06
You wouldn't eat. Right now, it's about money. We've gone through gold
1:15:12
and silver and all this other stuff. Now we're money. It's just money
1:15:14
things. The story never changes, it just the times change. Pree Hump
1:15:18
Camel, rest in peace, Bill Walton. Absolutely, let's see here.
1:15:24
There was a report last week we gonna get a chance to did you see
1:15:26
this, Shiloh Sanders Nil earnings have been called into question after declaring bankruptcy,
1:15:31
did you see this? In a court per the Denver Westward, he faces
1:15:38
an eleven point eight nine million dollar lawsuit alleging he attacked a security guard at
1:15:44
a Texas high school in twenty fifteen. So this has been swept way under
1:15:48
the rug allegedly, So we will get into some of this. Also,
1:15:55
let's see here College of Charleston coach Chad Holbrook blast selection committee for the twenty
1:16:00
twenty four baseball Tournament snub Did you see his interview was very sad like his
1:16:05
team was really good, they didn't make it. Now, this guy I
1:16:11
think had a legitimate ripe and they didn't get in. And I mean again,
1:16:15
when you get down to the end of this thing, regardless if it's
1:16:16
World Series, March Madness, college football playoff, you're always gonna have people
1:16:21
that quote unquote get snubbed. And we'll get into ranking the college football ten
1:16:27
richest coaches based on contract buyouts and the best quarterbacks. As far as dynamic
1:16:32
quarterbacks. Let's see here an named Texter Pelt, Jake gets Pelt, what
1:16:40
is he referred to? What did I say? You were talking about?
1:16:43
The furs oh, the pel oh they hunt. Yeah, they need a
1:16:46
hunt for the Pelts and such. You're thinking of Tennessee baseball the furs,
1:16:51
That's what I went, That's what my brain goes to when you talk about
1:16:56
furs, is the fur codes by Tello all that, who, as I
1:17:01
understand, once again, showed some more trashy tendencies in the tournament last week.
1:17:06
Tennessee. Yeah, it never left. Apparently not. They just dialed
1:17:11
it back. Now it's back. Now it's back on. Dial it back
1:17:14
up, right. Yeah, it's Pelt, Jake, It's Pelt. Yeah,
1:17:15
thank you, I appreciate that. So, you know Pelts and first,
1:17:21
so is Tennessee baseball about we fixed to witness the obnoxious? Are they
1:17:26
dialing up the obnoxious version of Tennessee baseball? Of course they are. So
1:17:30
if they make the World Series, we're going to see the furs, glasses,
1:17:33
champagne in the dugout middle fingers going around the bases, that kind of
1:17:38
stuff. Yes, we will. But fortunately history, I'm talking recent history
1:17:45
tells us that they will be knocked out soon. Ex communicado. They could
1:17:50
get knocked out. You never watched John Wick digit a couple of them.
1:17:55
Two never saw the last one right, so you know, ex communicado,
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So they're going to get ex communicado from the tournament. Three Hume camels'es boots
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with the furs, yeah, apple bottom of jeans and unnamed texta. The
1:18:09
Eastern and Western NBA conference finals have never both ended in a sweep? Could
1:18:14
that happen tonight? Is that tonight? Yep? Yeah, they both these
1:18:17
series have been whatever. I mean the we saw the sweep last night and
1:18:25
tonight could be both conferences get the sweep and then I believe there's If that
1:18:30
happens, we just sit here for nine days until the finals start. The
1:18:38
NBA Finals. Yeah, that's kind of odd. God forbid you like adjust
1:18:44
the schedule. I don't know that that's really one hundred percent possible with the
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arenas they play at and whatnot, But you just set it and say,
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oh, well, no matter what, we've got to wait. If there's
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in the Knoxville regional. But looking at the Charlottesville regional, Virginia plus one
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hundred, Missisippi State plus one oh five, it's not a dime. Vegas
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doesn't think it's a dime's worth of difference really between Virginia and Missippi State.
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hour two. We were talking college NFL football and you can text a six
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us in thirty minutes, we'll talk college football. In his power rankings,
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Unnamed Texture says, yeah, expand it make the regular season even more meaningless.
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Come out baseball? Or how about this? When you're not good enough,
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you don't get in these what is that? Booty cheek feathering, Durbil?
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What is this? Beaver born in nineteen I don't even know what this
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is? What is this? What does this even mean? I feel like
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I'm breaking FCC violations here. What does this mean? It means the soft,
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delicate flowers that were born post nineteen eighty nine want to just expand everything
1:23:53
inclusion. Let's just let all the teams out. Let's have it be fair
1:23:57
to everybody, which we know is just whatever. No is eighty nine?
1:24:04
Is that the cut point? Nineteen eighty nine? Yes, nineteen eighty nine.
1:24:10
I think that's fair because that's the year your favorite Taylor Swift was born,
1:24:15
so people in that era. Yeah, I think that's a fair cutoff
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point or a fair starting point. Let's say, you know this, I
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told you this Taylor Swift stuff serious, like at a personal love You know,
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I told you my ten year old got after me. She got after
1:24:30
me again this weekend about Taylor Swift. What'd you do? I made some
1:24:35
joke about swifties and she turned from laughter and a ten year old child to
1:24:41
almost like she was a twenty year old woman and glared at me, like
1:24:45
out of it. She went straight out of child character into grown woman.
1:24:48
It was like, don't you do that? Don't you talk about and she
1:24:51
referenced her first name, Taylor. I've got a problem on my hands.
1:24:59
This is my child. She's ten right, yes see See she wasn't even
1:25:05
around when Swifty ce Swifty was making these stupid little, you know, cheap
1:25:15
radio songs, but they were so catchy. And that was before, that
1:25:21
was previous, that was before ten years ago. Like Zoe doesn't even know.
1:25:27
She wasn't even alive. Yeah, she wasn't even alive for the best
1:25:30
Swifty because back then she was just this stupid, you know, a little
1:25:35
It started. It started out country, she had a couple of couple of
1:25:41
catchy things, and then when she started going over to the more poplake,
1:25:45
we are never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever ever getting back
1:25:47
together. It's a real dumb song, but it's fun and it was catchy.
1:25:53
See she only knows this serious business. Taylor Swift, I am all
1:25:59
powerful woman. I'm going to take over everything Swifty used to be. Okay,
1:26:06
starting to think my ten year old would disassociate with me over Taylor's whip.
1:26:11
Probably is becoming a problem. Hey, let's go to Kansas where a
1:26:15
broadcaster is out of a job after he got called on a hot mic talking
1:26:21
about soccer moms who were in the stands for girls state tournament match. Awful
1:26:28
Announcing has identified the announcer as Toby Moore, who was working for the NFHS
1:26:32
network. I'm laughing because I do work for the NFL's network streaming service.
1:26:38
During a third place match between rose Hill and McPherson in the Kansas Class for
1:26:43
a Slash one a state championship tournament, that halftime, Moore, who fully
1:26:47
admitted to Awful Announcing that he was called on a hot mic, could be
1:26:50
heard in the press box ripping on a variety of topics, including the play
1:26:55
of the two teams on the field. Well one, you can't really do
1:26:58
That's that's a big no no. The high school sports, you really can't
1:27:02
do that. Eventually, the conversion or conversation more is having was an unidentified
1:27:10
male voice who voice turns to moms in the stands, and that's when Old
1:27:15
Toby let it rip. Okay, wait a minute, I can't read some
1:27:24
of this, so maybe he did get a little overboard of this. It
1:27:27
wasn't just saying he likes to look at mothers in the stands. I think
1:27:30
this was a little more. I can't speak of this on the radio,
1:27:34
So maybe this is why he got canned. He got a little little too
1:27:38
specific. Yeah, maybe, yeah, yeah, yeah, he got a
1:27:42
little too specific. You gotta be careful around these mics. You know,
1:27:46
Chris Brooks got caught on a hot mic here, didn't he? Yeah,
1:27:50
and you know Chris Brooks, I mean, the dude just non stop cuss
1:27:56
words. We were lucky that we didn't get fined old pirate mouse, Chris,
1:28:02
Let's say RTC. I don't feel like anyone born after nineteen ninety has
1:28:06
enough garden hose water in them to talk about anyone being soft. Ret may
1:28:13
be onto something there. How much garden hose water did you have as a
1:28:15
child. I didn't have a ton. I mean, outside playing basketball,
1:28:26
a little bit drink from the garden hose. I'll be it was hard to
1:28:31
get We had these really annoying bushes you had to walk behind, so there
1:28:36
could have been creatures and animals, and you know how I feel about that,
1:28:40
So I didn't. I didn't really walked behind the bushes that much.
1:28:44
So I grew up on what Rett refers to as garden hose water just out
1:28:47
in the country. Yeah, that's all. We had garden hose faucets.
1:28:51
And you knowed this day like I will literally bypass the cooler in the kitchen
1:28:57
and go straight to the sink to fill the water bottle up to drink it.
1:29:00
And yeah, I know you see the way you look at me.
1:29:02
Are you looking at me like I'm crazy? No, I'm looking at you
1:29:04
in complete. I pride. I guess I'm proud of that because I try
1:29:13
to tell I tell you what, little s won't drink the tap water.
1:29:18
And I always tell her there's nothing wrong with tapwater. She's got to get
1:29:20
her bottles. She just wants bottle water. Yeah, but I have people
1:29:25
in my life who look at me like I'm crazy and get onto me because
1:29:28
I go to the sink at the house for water. Well, there's bottle
1:29:31
water in the refrigerator, but I don't want the bottle water. I want
1:29:33
the tap We should be able to drink unless you're in Jackson. You should
1:29:38
be able to drink the tap water, right, And that's not a shot
1:29:40
at Jackson. That is public knowledge. We don't drink the water in Jackson.
1:29:44
But there is nothing wrong with water hose water or water out of the
1:29:49
faucet. We've just been conditioned from nineteen ninety up to not drink tap water,
1:29:59
which is weird to me. Maybe it does start with the tap water.
1:30:03
Yeah, you got a lot of people these days, the influencers on
1:30:08
the Instagram, they're telling us that everything's wrong with tap water. Don't drink
1:30:12
tap water. Let's see, it's gonna u I saw someone. This sounds
1:30:16
ridiculous, but this is a thing they tried to tell you that. Now
1:30:23
a lot of chemicals have seeped down into the ground, into the water supply
1:30:27
and a lot of places. But these people on Instagram and whatnot, these
1:30:30
quote unquote influencers, I've heard them say, oh, there's stuff in there
1:30:33
that can cause diabetes. The water's gonna cause diabetes. You're gonna get poisoned.
1:30:41
It's make you fat. I'm serious, I'm not even making this up.
1:30:45
We're gonna get diabetes from the water. We're gonna get cancer from the
1:30:48
water, really, yep, just by Oh. But it's very specifically though,
1:30:55
because you can't buy bottled water. It's got to be in glass bottles.
1:30:59
That's the age these days, glass bottles. It's got to be in
1:31:02
glass because even when it's in plastic, when it's in shipping, if it
1:31:10
gets in if it gets exposed to the sunlight, it can melt the plastics
1:31:14
and the microplastics could get into your water, and it's going to give you
1:31:17
cancer. So you got to get glass bottles. You know, expensive glass
1:31:21
bottles of water is I can't imagine it's cheap. It ain't. I've never
1:31:28
priced it. PT firm issue is laughing Louvier garden hose water and such amounts
1:31:33
as to make me completely immune to the issues of Jackson water. It actually
1:31:39
tastes good. I agree with that. I really do like just regular water,
1:31:46
not talking about your glacier spring water that's probably not even from a glacier
1:31:49
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1:33:16
thank you so much for moving around. My apologies on I moved this.
1:33:20
Look. If I was an offensive coordinator, I just really screwed my
1:33:24
quarterback up and that'd be you and Ben No worries. Jake. Always a
1:33:29
pleasure to hop on with you, and I'm excited to talk college football as
1:33:30
we're getting closer and closer to summer. We really are, and I know
1:33:34
you're kind of going through your rankings here kind of tell us where you are
1:33:38
in that process before we start talking some specifics here. Yeah, Jake,
1:33:43
I'm getting really close. I think by the end of this week, I
1:33:45
should be ready to publish my twenty twenty four preseason ratings Version one. I'll
1:33:50
probably have about three, maybe four versions before we get to the finalized set,
1:33:56
which will be in mid August. But they don't change much between the
1:34:00
V one version and what we get in mid August. So I feel really
1:34:04
good about where I am. Compiling all the information that I need, building
1:34:08
out the different graphics that I want to produce, and we'll be there by
1:34:11
the end of the week, hopefully. I want to talk start off with
1:34:14
an infograph you put out last week on special teams, says during the college
1:34:17
Football Playoff era, on average, San Diego State has had the best special
1:34:21
teams units per your Power rankings, And just to kind of give some context
1:34:25
to this, san Diego State won Stanford to Florida three. This is,
1:34:29
you know, obviously through the college Football Playoff era about twenty fourteen up last
1:34:33
ten years. A and M, Memphis, Tennessee, Auburn, Ohio State,
1:34:38
Kansas State, and Iowa. So, but my question for you is
1:34:41
this is, have you seen a situation where and look, we always hear
1:34:44
coaches talk about three phases of the game, offense, defense, special teams
1:34:47
to where a bad special team's number may be kept a team out, or
1:34:53
maybe even a good one pushed the team in. No, I don't think
1:34:57
so, Jake, at least as far as what I've been able to determine,
1:35:00
you know, going back through the last ten years of data that that
1:35:02
I've had access to to generate these power ratings for both the offensive units,
1:35:06
defensive units, and then the special teams units you talked about here. Special
1:35:10
teams is certainly the unit of those three that carries the least amount of weight,
1:35:14
and it makes perfect sense because that's the unit that's on the field by
1:35:16
far the least. I mean, you're talking about a half a dozen to
1:35:20
a dozen plays a game for any specific special teams unit, whether that's you
1:35:25
know, your punt team, your punt return team, and then obviously to
1:35:28
kick off the kick return team. And with some of the rules changes I've
1:35:30
gone in place and limiting the number of kick returns, it's been even fewer
1:35:33
in recent years. So special teams is a very very small component of my
1:35:39
power ratings to something that I've spent a pretty good amount of time on the
1:35:42
last two or three off seasons now trying to fine tune exactly how much weight
1:35:46
that holds. But to put it in kind of the perspective of what does
1:35:50
a special teams unit rating mean with regard to the overall team power rating?
1:35:57
At most, if you have a really, really really good special teams unit,
1:36:00
IOWA in recent years comes to mind. South Carolina's had really good special
1:36:04
teams here the last year or two. They're probably worth at most, you
1:36:09
know, two maybe two and a half point to a team's power rating overall
1:36:15
on a football point per game basis. So if you have a power rating
1:36:17
of thirty, that's gonna be you know, in the top five, certainly
1:36:20
the top ten nationally in any given year. If you have two points of
1:36:25
that associated to your special teams, your special teams is really really good.
1:36:29
So this is a small percentage of the overall team power rating. I don't
1:36:32
think that special teams in and of itself has been a reason that a team's
1:36:36
gotten in or a reason that a team has been kept out. IOWA is
1:36:40
probably the most prolific example with regard to their defense and their special teams combined
1:36:45
over the course of the last five or ten years, with how they've really
1:36:47
carried that program as a whole, with the offense being as bad as it's
1:36:51
been, because the defense and to a lesser degree, special teams have been
1:36:55
so good, that's gotten Iowa over the hump in the Big Ten West.
1:36:59
Of course, they've done away with divisions almost across college football entirely. We
1:37:02
fill ve the Sun Belt holding out with divisions, but other than that,
1:37:04
divisions are gone. So that doesn't necessarily mean as much moving forward that Big
1:37:10
Ten West title as you will since it doesn't exist. But i was probably
1:37:13
the example of a team that had a really good special teams unit that helped
1:37:16
propel it on the field with regard to win loss record, maybe more than
1:37:20
anybody else here in the last ten years. I want to go to your
1:37:24
best offenses. Some fascinating numbers here, guys. You can find this at
1:37:28
KFD Ratings on X also go to k Ford Ratings dot com. When you
1:37:31
look. And I'm bringing this up because we're heading into the new era,
1:37:34
you know, the twelve team era. This is your numbers from you know,
1:37:38
the College Football Playoff era starting at twenty fourteen, and to give contact
1:37:42
scale zero to one hundred and fifty is considered FBF average, FBS average.
1:37:45
Oklahoma, Alabama, Ohio State, Oregon, and USC. That's your top
1:37:50
five offenses in the last ten years. All mess down there at seventh.
1:37:57
I want to get to some surprises on here. But for those that think
1:38:00
again, and I know a lot of people are going to go right back
1:38:02
and beat me over the head with this and say, yeah, but Oklahoma
1:38:04
play in the Big twelve. This is why even under Brent Vnables and what
1:38:08
they have on their staff. You look at what they did last year.
1:38:11
I mean Oklahoma over the span of you know, Bob Stoops, Lincoln Riley
1:38:16
right at that end of that transition up until now, number one offense in
1:38:20
the country of the last ten years. Yeah, Jake, it's been incredible
1:38:25
the offensives that have been in Norman in the last ten years. As you
1:38:28
pointed out, and to the argument of because I hear it too well,
1:38:30
they played in the Big twelve, Well who they played? Well, what
1:38:32
about those defense they played? You hear that? Really, regardless of the
1:38:36
data that i'm presenting, you'll get somebody or some group of people that will
1:38:41
say, yeah, but strength and schedule. Yeah, but opponent's face.
1:38:44
Probably the most helpful thing to know about my numbers that the thing that I'm
1:38:47
most proud of with the numbers is they are opponent adjusted. So I am
1:38:51
taking into account before I ever present any data, I am taking into account
1:38:56
who you played, where you played, and buy how much you won or
1:39:00
lost those games. So when I say Oklahoma or sorry, when my data
1:39:04
says Oklahoma over the last ten years, since that has had an average offensive
1:39:09
k forward rating of ninety six point one, that essentially means Oklahoma over the
1:39:15
last ten years, on average, every single year waited the same I'm not
1:39:18
waiting last year more than twenty fourteen. It's just the way I chose to
1:39:21
do this exercise. They all count equal weight, but Oklahoma for the last
1:39:25
ten years has averaged an offense in the ninety six point one percent pile of
1:39:30
all college football teams. Like, that's how you can interpret this number that
1:39:33
you see on the graphics next to each team. Alabama at number two ninety
1:39:38
four point nine. Over the last ten years, they've been in almost the
1:39:41
ninety fifth percent pile of all college football teams, again on average on the
1:39:45
offensive side of the ball. So anybody who kind of comes at you,
1:39:48
Jake and says, well, yeah, but they played in this league,
1:39:51
but they played against those defenses that's been adjusted to account for that. So
1:39:57
I feel good about those opponent adjustments. You said, Ole, miss there
1:40:00
number seven, another one of your audience will care about. Mississippi State came
1:40:02
in at number twenty four for me on the best offenses of the CFP era.
1:40:05
So it was a fun little exercise, Jacobs. It's something that I
1:40:09
needed to do to get myself a break, honestly from all the data crunching
1:40:13
that I was doing trying to prepare for the twenty twenty four preseason B one
1:40:16
ratings coming out. I just needed to take a pause from all of the
1:40:19
returning production calculations, roster scraping from websites and just kind of say, Okay,
1:40:24
what can I do for fun that's still cost ball related. I'll take
1:40:27
a look at the offensive, defensive, and special teams in the last ten
1:40:29
years. Here's two surprises, well, at least for me when I think
1:40:31
about ten years, because of some of the ups and downs Memphis at number
1:40:35
seventeen, and we know they've had some high powered offenses, but then some
1:40:40
years where they're not. And then Mississippi State at twenty four. And I
1:40:43
say that because, yes, Dan Mullin had some high power offenses, but
1:40:46
then you look at at the back end of his career, they're Assissippi States
1:40:50
not so much. They had the Joe moorehead hiccup for two years, the
1:40:55
Mike Leach pop off, and then the Zach Arnett last year. Still at
1:40:59
twenty fourth. Yeah, and another thing to consider your jake again, it's
1:41:02
a ten year period, all all weighted equally, every year waited equally.
1:41:06
So you look at Memphis at seventeen, like you said, they have a
1:41:09
seventy three point one ross four, Mississippi State at twenty four sixty nine point
1:41:14
five. So in any given year, those numbers aren't going to jump out
1:41:17
at you. You know, sixty nine percent pile, seventy third percent pile.
1:41:19
That's good. Certainly, that's good, and you want to be closer
1:41:23
to one hundred than not. But over the any given year, that's not
1:41:28
really that much to write home about in terms of the yep ruchelon of college
1:41:31
football offenses, defenses, whatever, you know what we're talking about. But
1:41:34
to average that over ten years, that's where it gets impressive, because you
1:41:39
just talked about some of the ups and the downs of those programs, every
1:41:42
single program all now one hundred and thirty four of them. Of course Kennisas
1:41:45
State not included in this since they haven't met FBS for any of this period,
1:41:48
But all one hundred and thirty three that I ranked here over the last
1:41:51
ten years, they've all had their own ebbs and flows, their own ups
1:41:55
and downs, and so these two programs, in particular Memphis Mississippi State,
1:41:59
have sustained a higher level of success. They've had more up than down relative
1:42:04
to most of that SBS football, and that's how they get the numbers that
1:42:08
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1:43:34
Kelly, we might get off into the defenses. You said that you had
1:43:38
kind of a rough draft that you feel pretty good about at least to talk
1:43:40
about on the Southeastern Conference. I do want to kind of go there with
1:43:44
you, so, you know, kind of take us through what you're seeing
1:43:47
as we head towards summer with the SEC. Yeah. So, Jake,
1:43:51
again, as we talked about earlier, getting really close to the twenty twenty
1:43:55
four preseason ratings Version one Tower rating for all the teams feel good about.
1:44:00
I am really with the power five and with your neck of the woods there
1:44:02
in the SEC, thought we might want to talk about some of the kind
1:44:05
of the tiers, if you will, of the SEC teams right now based
1:44:10
on what I'm looking at. So for me and my numbers, and again,
1:44:13
Jake, this is a combination, going back what we talked about before,
1:44:15
it's a combination of power ratings, so how strong is any given team
1:44:19
projected to be, But also, almost equally importantly, it's their schedule that
1:44:24
they're gonna play, because even though all these teams are in the same conference,
1:44:27
they do not play equal schedules because of those two things, you know,
1:44:30
Georgia and Texas, those are two teams that most people, including myself,
1:44:33
are going to have, you know, at the top of their power
1:44:35
ratings. In that top five. Georgia is certainly going to be number one
1:44:39
for most, including myself. But when you look at the schedule that Georgia
1:44:42
has to play within the SEC and you compare that to Texas, they actually
1:44:45
end up pretty darn closed with regard to projected conference wins. By my numbers,
1:44:50
I mean, those two teams are neck and neck right now for me
1:44:54
at the top of the conference with regard to projected wins. Georgia, of
1:44:57
course, on paper, are the better team, but Texas might have the
1:45:00
easiest schedule in all the SEC. No, I agree with you, and
1:45:03
I'm sitting here. I just pulled up my stuff here on the quote unquote
1:45:06
hour glass that I run and what one hundred percent agree with what you said.
1:45:10
I mean Georgia a little bit better as far as the football team,
1:45:13
but when you look at schedules, I mean their bookend, like literally the
1:45:16
whole conference. I mean Georgia, Florida at one end, Texas Missouri,
1:45:20
uh you know for me right there at the other end, yep, one
1:45:24
hundred percent. So that to me is how you get Texas and Georgia kind
1:45:27
of I'll call that that Tier one and we're splitting hairs here in the SEC.
1:45:31
There's so many good teams. If you want to draw a dividing line
1:45:33
with only two making the Commerce Championship game, those two teams right now probably
1:45:39
the odds on favorite to make it to Atlanta and play in the set championship
1:45:43
game for me. Then there's a bunch of teams right after that, Alabama,
1:45:46
LSU, Ole, miss Missouri, again all for you know, a
1:45:50
combination of reasons, the projected strength of those teams and the schedule they play.
1:45:55
You mentioned Missouri certainly has one of the easier schedules in the conference as
1:45:59
well to go a Texas. Like you said, I agree with that,
1:46:01
those are probably the four teams that I'd have kind of that next step down.
1:46:04
Wouldn't be surprised at all if one or two of those teams played for
1:46:09
the SEC Championship in Atlanta. But just right now, as we're still three
1:46:13
months away from the start of the season, they're probably a half step behind
1:46:15
Texas and Georgia for projected strength and also combination of strength or scheduled difficulty as
1:46:21
I call it. So Alabama, LSU, OL, miss Missouri kind of
1:46:25
that next group for me. So Alabama, Ole miss you said Texas A
1:46:29
and M, Missouri, LSU L would be those ones. Yeah, Texas
1:46:33
A and M and Tennessee, Jake, they would comprise the next tier and
1:46:38
they'd be by themselves for me. So if you're looking at kind of a
1:46:40
Tier one C or a Tier three if you want to call it that,
1:46:43
it beat Texas A and M and Tennessee, then there's kind of a significant
1:46:46
drop down, and it's about a game, which is that's a large difference
1:46:50
when you're talking about an eight game conference schedule, which of course the SEC
1:46:54
is playing. Once you get after Texas A and M and Tennessee, it's
1:46:57
about a one game drop to that next group of teams that include, you
1:47:00
know, Oklahoma and Kentucky. So that's going to surprise some folks. I
1:47:03
think when I debut this later this week is where Oklahoma falls. Because Oklahoma
1:47:09
is a really good team, they play a really difficult schedule than the SEC,
1:47:13
and because there are so many really good teams in the SDC, Oklahoma
1:47:17
can be a top fifteen or top twenty team nationally but still be in the
1:47:20
bottom half of that conference because of just how good that conference is. So
1:47:25
I think some people might be surprised to see Oklahoma where they are in my
1:47:30
projections. I haven't even mentioned Auburn Florida, two teams that again on paper,
1:47:34
should be tradar and good. Florida might have or probably does. I
1:47:38
think I could say that depending in the now have the most difficult schedule in
1:47:41
the entire country. It's absolutely brutal for the Gators and it's been that way
1:47:45
for a couple of years. Now twenty twenty four is no exception. Jake,
1:47:48
You're a lot of your listeners probably want to know Mississippi State. You
1:47:51
know Mississippi States. I go to their actual team page here in my computer
1:47:57
on my end, they are right now for me, you know, projecting
1:48:00
to be in the mid sixties, so about FBS average. But when you
1:48:04
stack that up against other teams in the SEC, it might be that,
1:48:09
you know, Mississippi State is only better projected to be better than Vanderbilt this
1:48:13
year. And again as I go down their schedule, it's not easy,
1:48:16
right I mean, any conference game that you're looking at right now, my
1:48:20
numbers make the Bulldogs most likely an underdog in all of them. The home
1:48:25
game against Arkansas looks like the most winnable my my numbers there in week nine,
1:48:29
but it's a really difficult schedule for Mississippi State. So a decent team,
1:48:32
but when you look at the SEC standards, just not quite there,
1:48:35
at least by my projections right now, looking at twenty twenty four, Kelly
1:48:40
Ford k Ford Ratings on x also K four ratings dot Com, talking through
1:48:44
his initial data dump for the SEC he'll have that out letter on this week.
1:48:47
Let me ask you this just from you know, let's let's use you
1:48:50
know, just normal lingo here from So, you got Georgia, Texas in
1:48:54
your first tier, then you got Alabama, Ole, miss LSU and I
1:48:58
think you said Missouri, and then you got Texas A and M and I
1:49:00
believe you say Tennessee. Yep. How close are those tiers relatively? Yeah,
1:49:08
so I do think like right now, from Texas and Georgia that here
1:49:12
one is here too. You're looking at about half a game an SBC play,
1:49:15
so that's half a game out of eight, so you know that's a
1:49:18
decent, you know, decent steps. And then from Alabama though down to
1:49:21
Tennessee. So looking at tiers two and three combined, there's less than a
1:49:25
game separating all of those. So that's why I would not be surprised yet.
1:49:29
Texas and Georgia, those are the top two teams right now by my
1:49:32
numbers and with the schedules that they're about to play, those are the two
1:49:34
teams if you ask right now, who are the two teams are going to
1:49:36
be in Atlanta. That's where the money would be. If you're looking at
1:49:41
data ol Me. Of course games aren't played on spreadsheets all those things like,
1:49:44
we know that, but right now this is all we have to talk
1:49:45
about, so we're going to talk about it. But then I would not
1:49:47
be surprised at all if one or two teams out of this next group Alabama,
1:49:53
LSU, Old miss Missouri, Texas, and m Tennessee makes it to
1:49:56
Atlanta. I would be then surprised, because then I said, it's more
1:50:00
in a game step down from Tennessee to that next group of kind of Oklahoma
1:50:02
and Kentucky. I would be surprised if anybody out of this group here that
1:50:06
I'm about to say makes it to Atlanta. Based on projections right now,
1:50:10
I'd be surprised if Oklahoma, Kentucky, Florida, Auburn, South Carolina,
1:50:15
Arkansas, Mississippi State, or Vanderbilt that that would be a surprise if any
1:50:20
of those teams make it to Atlanta. Anybody else though from that kind of
1:50:23
top half at this point, I think they all have a path. You
1:50:27
spoke exactly the language that I was hoping you would spoke half a game one
1:50:31
to two and then two to three less than I mean, so razor thin
1:50:36
at the top half so it leads me to this, and I have this
1:50:39
theory. I'm not saying it's going to happen. SEC fans are beating their
1:50:43
chests. We're gonna get four teams in. We're gonna get five teams in
1:50:45
the playoff. I've said since spring, careful depending on what happens everywhere else,
1:50:51
because that matters. If the Big Twelve, for instance, has an
1:50:56
undefeated team and then a one loss team, or the ACC has an undefeated
1:51:00
team and then two, you know, two teams with one loss, or
1:51:02
the Big ten. You could find the SEC with potentially three or four nine
1:51:09
win teams, a couple ten win teams, an eleven win team, and
1:51:13
based on the way the committee wants to go, and we don't really know
1:51:15
this, I don't know that the league gets as many in as they think
1:51:17
because the league could cannibalize itself. It absolutely could, Jake. And it
1:51:23
all comes down to you touched on it, the committee's behavior, and you
1:51:28
know how much faith do we have in the committee to be able to decipher
1:51:32
objectively what is nine and three in the SDC versus what is ten and two
1:51:41
in the Big twelve or the ACC. And that's oversimplifying it, because if
1:51:45
Missouri goes nine and three, that's much different than if Florida goes nine and
1:51:50
three. Right, Like, those even those two nine and threes are not
1:51:54
the same. But let's speak broadly for right now. If a team,
1:51:59
generally speaking, if a team in the SEC goes nine to three, it
1:52:02
is more likely than not that it will buy objective numbers like mine in my
1:52:06
most deserving rankings. That's harder to achieve. That's a harder record to obtain
1:52:12
than most likely, you know, a ten and two in the Big twelve.
1:52:15
We're in the ACC. Like, that's just the depth of the conferences
1:52:19
and just the weekend, week out grind of the power rating of the team
1:52:23
that you have to play every single week in the SEC. It's just a
1:52:26
different level than even some of the other power for conferences. So to get
1:52:30
back to your point of let's just pump the brakes because we're not. It
1:52:33
might work out that the SEC doesn't get as many teams. People think,
1:52:36
I agree with you. But if the committee, if we can trust them
1:52:42
to know the difference between nine and three and the SEC and ten and two
1:52:45
and say that the ACC, I think that helps the SCC right. That
1:52:49
helps the SEC get more teams in, and my most deserving numbers will do
1:52:55
that. Jake. Hopefully we can talk about those throughout the season this year
1:52:58
as we've done in the past, because more more importantly than ever now with
1:53:01
the field at twelve as opposed to four, as you're debating, you know,
1:53:04
at large spot five, six and seven versus the first couple of teams
1:53:10
left out, you can't just look at the win loss record. You really
1:53:13
have to dive into what was the difficulty to achieve that record relative to what
1:53:17
would be expected of a baseline team against that schedule. So it's going to
1:53:23
be really, really interesting, and we're gonna have to trust the committee to
1:53:26
know the difference between the strengths of these conferences. Good stuff, Kelly Ford.
1:53:30
Make sure to find him at k Ford Ratings. Got a kford Ratings
1:53:31
dot com. Kelly, I appreciate your time, great stuff. As always,
1:53:34
we'll be looking and make sure to share that out as you continue to
1:53:38
push that out this week and we'll do it again next week. Awesome,
1:53:41
Jake, appreciate us. Always have a good one. Thanks so much,
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your college baseball odds are out at a Maristar. Let's see new SEC sixteen
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team logo kind of the same. What do you think about this? I'm
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gonna retweet this. It's a I like that. I know we've seen something
1:54:56
extremely similar to that before, but yeah, I just day with the new
1:55:00
teams. I like it. I'm okay with it. It's the new logo,
1:55:02
it's it's adding in of course, Texas A and m Orcebo Tech Texas
1:55:06
and Oklahoma here, so maybe you have some breaking news, some very disturbing
1:55:12
news. So I was just scrolling through the Yahoo and we get this.
1:55:20
Just a year ago. I think that was a last June. We're coming
1:55:25
up from the one year anniversary. I think we're close to it. Yeah,
1:55:28
right there at it that Ocean Gate Titanic submersible that was just disastrous.
1:55:34
This Ohio man plans to take a two person submersible to Titanic depths to show
1:55:44
that the industry is safe after the Ocean Gate tragedy. Why why I don't
1:55:50
want to take that chance? Why do we do this? Why why does
1:55:54
this interest these people to do this? Now? It could I'm sure that
1:56:00
it could be done a lot better because remember the guy who made the thing
1:56:05
and was steering the thing. It was controlled with a PlayStation controller. So
1:56:11
yeah, I am sure that there's a way that it can be done a
1:56:15
lot safer. But after last year, I don't I don't feel good about
1:56:21
the prospects of this. Yeah, I don't either. I don't like it.
1:56:26
Let me get caught up over here on the text line Cowbo Maloney's text
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even know where to go with that, Patrick. My liver does not care
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what kind of water I consume, as long as it's h two one percent
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possum. Nick, Joe, if someone would have told me back in the
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seventies that people would buy bottled water, it would be right there by the
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mountain dew. I never could have believed it, and it would be right
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through boy the mountain dew. Oh, I would same, Joe. I
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never would have thought we'd have bought water, Say Louis Vic, what do
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these people think that the bottlewater is sourced? My short stint working at Mississippi
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Bottle Water Company showed me all I needed to know. He says, Lol,
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ain't nothing like good old spring water. Well, my great aunt had
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way down in the county and rankin county one of percent. Vic. I
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agree, pt p ms. You just read the article about the sportscaster in
1:57:38
Kansas. That is hilariously cringey. No, it is. At first I
1:57:41
thought he just made a vague comment after reading his comments that I cannot read
1:57:45
on the air. It's pretty bad, right, that was pretty pretty bad
1:57:49
about the sportscaster high school soccer in Kansas to get canned for a hot mic
1:57:57
and comments about soccer moms. Res Dog tell Mike Kelly Ford that Goob must
1:58:02
not have watched hashtags shaping up in the spring game. I don't know that
1:58:06
he did. JC. Jake, what is ole miss odds at Ameriastar for
1:58:11
college baseball zero? JC zero? So are you do you have a favorite
1:58:20
in this college baseball odds to win the whole thing of a favorite or the
1:58:29
team that we're picking. Well, the team we're picking is not going to
1:58:32
be the favorite. The favorite. Tennessee and Texas A and M have the
1:58:38
best odds courtesy Penn Gaming at Ameria Star at five to one, Arkansas seven
1:58:45
and a half to one, Kentucky nine to one, LSU twelve to one,
1:58:50
Wake Forest twelve to one, Clemson Oregon State thirteen and fifteen to one.
1:58:57
When you get down in this list, you can get Vanderbilt at thirty
1:58:59
seven one, Mississippi State forty five to one, Florida fifty to one,
1:59:02
Dallas Baptist ninety to one. You get Southern miss at one fifty to one,
1:59:10
and JC is by He says, weird, Kendall Rogers just picked State
1:59:15
to make it to Omaha. I don't think that's weird. I mean,
1:59:18
look, it's not out of the question. Trust me. State has a
1:59:23
better path to Omaha today than they did prior to the selection committe Everybody started
1:59:28
whining because State probably wasn't going to get when State did not get one of
1:59:31
the host seats. Because I'm telling you, I will see what happens.
1:59:36
But this Tennessee team, now you seem to believe, and you could be
1:59:40
right. It's happened that karma will get this team at some point, right,
1:59:44
that the baseball gods will not allow a dog pile celebration to win the
1:59:49
whole thing in fur coats, champagne, cigars, and whatever the else the
1:59:55
hell Tony Battelle gets them to do. Yeah, it's been happening ever since
1:59:59
they started doing this trash. I mean it's the second time in three years
2:00:04
they've had the number one overall seed. We saw what happened the first time.
2:00:12
You gotta do it. It's tough to win, of course, SEC
2:00:14
has won three straight. He said, you read those in the wrong order.
2:00:16
That's the way they came in JC. Sorry, I said it was
2:00:19
weird that the odds for ole Miss was zero. Then on the second thought,
2:00:24
I was making the point that we're back because Kendall Rogers picked us.
2:00:29
Kendll Rodgers does a great job with college baseball, and if Psissippi State gets
2:00:32
back to Omaha, you can officially say they're back. Is that the moment
2:00:35
where you say State's back, if they're back in Omaha? I'm no,
2:00:42
I don't. I don't use that phrase for anybody. I got tired of
2:00:45
that who ruined that it was Texas Texas is back five years ago, And
2:00:54
after that is just it got ridiculous. We started using this team is back,
2:00:58
this team is back, next gen rev. Tennessee is number is the
2:01:01
number one overall seed. They statistically can't win it. Res Dog, our
2:01:09
two best hitters can't hit a beach ball right now, We ain't going nowhere.
2:01:13
I see what Red Dogg is doing here and unnamed Texter It's just not
2:01:19
that hard to get to Omaha. Oh come on, is that we can't
2:01:23
go down that road? If I look at this I'm trying to see how
2:01:25
many SEC teams statistically can get to Omaha Tennessee. Let's just say Knoxville,
2:01:33
Greenville. Let's just say Tennessee runs through that. They would be one.
2:01:39
Alabama is the only team in the Norman slash Tallahassee combination that could get in.
2:01:45
That would be two. You got Arkansas and Mississippi State and the Fayetteville
2:01:51
Charlotte's regionals. That would be three. If one of those teams got in,
2:01:56
and the Tucson Chapel Hill it's LSU. That's the only chance you got.
2:02:00
Now, unless she's playing really good baseball, there's no reason they couldn't.
2:02:03
So you could get four on one side. Mathematically, Kentucky is the
2:02:10
only one on the Corvallis Lexington side. Right now, it looks like their
2:02:15
toughest road is through Oregon State, South Carolina, and Georgia out of the
2:02:21
Raleigh in Athens region. One of those teams could make it. That would
2:02:28
be six. Florida is the only team out of the Clemson slash Stillwater seven,
2:02:36
and then Texas A and M out of the Santa Barbara College station.
2:02:42
So mathematically you could get all eight teams. You could get eight teams in
2:02:45
the College World Series eight SEC teams. Then that will increase next year with
2:02:53
Oklahoma the chances of and Texas coming into to the field. JC Nobody is
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who said that a long time ago. Let's see what else do we miss
2:03:18
here? I think we might covered it all today as I'm about out of
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time. Updated SEC lines per Beton Line Underscore AG Southern miss is a twenty
2:03:29
five point underdog against Kentucky in football for Week one, Georgia a thirteen point
2:03:33
favorite ever Clemson. Just some notables here. Notre Dame is still a one
2:03:38
point favorite against Texas. A and m LSU a six and a half point
2:03:41
favorite neutral site ball game against USC. Alabama is a thirty two and a
2:03:50
half point favorite over Western Kentucky. Remember catchup is King Bacon's a delicacy.
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