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October 28, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 1: It is Old Willie Wednesday. We thank you for being
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  Speaker 1: with us. We have a full show. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk a little college hoops coming up. Going to hear
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  Speaker 1: from Todd Golden, Florida. We've got Scott Clendenin here with
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  Speaker 1: his regular Wednesday visit. And Mallory is here with some
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  Speaker 1: entertainment news. World Series Game 5. The Rays rallied in
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the 12th inning last night at the
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  Speaker 1: Trop to win 4-3 and force a Game 5. Tampa's
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  Speaker 1: announced that Drew Rasmussen will be the starter on three
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  Speaker 1: days rest. 31-year-old right-hander threw 89 pitches in Game 2
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  Speaker 1: with no decision.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Mizorowski, the flame-throwing youngster from Milwaukee on his regular rest.
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  Speaker 1: And he will get the ball for game five for
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers tonight. That game will start a little after
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  Speaker 1: 7 o'clock. Major League Baseball Players Association announced their Players'
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  Speaker 1: Choice Award winners today. Jordan Alvarez, the comeback player of
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  Speaker 1: the year and the AL most outstanding player. Alvarez hit.
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  Speaker 1: 316 with 42 home runs and 106 runs batted in.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Elko reiterated on today's SEC teleconference that Marcel Reed
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  Speaker 1: is still the team's starting quarterback. The Aggies, of course,
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  Speaker 1: are off this week before traveling to South Carolina to play.
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  Speaker 1: Sam Houston has fired its head football coach, Phil Longo.
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  Speaker 1: The Bearcats just won in seven, including a loss last night.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. There will be co-head coaches, defensive coordinator Freddie Autry-Lindsey,
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  Speaker 1: And associate head coach Eric Raisbeck will finish the season
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  Speaker 1: for the Bearcats. Speaking of coaching changes, there have been
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  Speaker 1: rumors about Lincoln Riley. Lincoln Riley said today, if I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to be at this place, I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: come here in the first place. I've had plenty of
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  Speaker 1: opportunities here. This is where I want to be. This
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  Speaker 1: is the right place for me. I'm the right person
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  Speaker 1: to be here. Riley's in year five and has gotten
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  Speaker 1: plenty of blowback because, you know, they haven't done what
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  Speaker 1: they're paying him to do, which is win all the games.
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  Speaker 1: The Trojans host Ohio State this week. Texas Tech Board
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  Speaker 1: Chairman Cody Campbell, who has been in a war of
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  Speaker 1: words with people on the interweb since the Red Raiders
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  Speaker 1: were upset by Cincinnati. Campbell immediately tweeted, this is unacceptable,
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  Speaker 1: leading to speculation. Well. Head coach Joey McGuire got the
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  Speaker 1: dreaded vote of confidence today with Campbell saying he isn't
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere. If anything, we're ready, willing, and able to
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  Speaker 1: double down on him. He said absolutely nothing is going
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  Speaker 1: to change at the head coaching position at Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 1: Keep that quote handy, by the way, with Cody Campbell.
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  Speaker 1: Alabama defensive back Dre Kirkpatrick Jr. has been kicked off
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  Speaker 1: the team after a second arrest. Kalen DeBoer made that
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  Speaker 1: announcement when Kirkpatrick was arrested Friday for allegedly threatening a
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  Speaker 1: police officer. DeBoer says after gathering more information, Drake Kirkpatrick Jr.
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  Speaker 1: will no longer be a part of our program. He
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  Speaker 1: did not live up to the standards and expectations I've
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  Speaker 1: set for this team and our players. He allegedly sent
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  Speaker 1: threatening messages to an Alabama police officer who arrested him
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  Speaker 1: last year. In his initial arrest, three counts of reckless
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  Speaker 1: endangerment Attempting to elude and speeding. More college football tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Kennesaw State against Middle Tennessee. And Jacksonville State at New
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  Speaker 1: Mexico State. The headlines just continue, by the way. North
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  Speaker 1: Texas is playing tomorrow night. And Baylor... is at Central
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  Speaker 1: Florida on Friday night. So we've got that going on
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  Speaker 1: for us, which is nice. Aggie basketball player Rylan Griffin
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  Speaker 1: had an injunction hearing at the Brazos County Courthouse today.
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  Speaker 1: Judge John Brick says he will read over the material
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  Speaker 1: and will email an order later today. Griffin has been
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  Speaker 1: playing under a temporary restraining order. The injunction would grant
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  Speaker 1: him extra time, which was received by Jordan Pope a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. Pope started in the exhibition game
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  Speaker 1: against SMU on Sunday. Griffin did play. He didn't play
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  Speaker 1: a ton, but he did play in that game. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the good guys of the broadcasting business is
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  Speaker 1: retiring as host from inside the NBA. Ernie Johnson Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: with a social media video, said it's his decision to
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  Speaker 1: step away at the end of this season. And in
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  Speaker 1: his words, it's just time. Johnson is 70, says he'll
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  Speaker 1: continue to work, including the NCAA men's basketball tournament. for
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  Speaker 1: CBS and TNT. Just to be clear, said Johnson, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not retiring, just cutting back. I'll forever cherish every chapter
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  Speaker 1: we've written with inside the NBA. Johnson acknowledged he has
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  Speaker 1: dealt with heart issues in recent years. He had a
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  Speaker 1: bypass 14 months ago. He said simply, I just want
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  Speaker 1: to slow down a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: He is.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, there aren't many in this business, but
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  Speaker 1: he's one of the good ones. And I don't care
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  Speaker 1: about the NBA, but I'll tell you how good he is.
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  Speaker 1: I watch inside the NBA when I can. Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 1: Just to see him and Shaq and Charles Barkley and
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  Speaker 1: Kenny the Jet Smith. It's probably the greatest sports... kind
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  Speaker 1: of collaborative show in my mind on television. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: it has to be good because I really don't follow
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. I just want to see those guys together
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  Speaker 1: because they're just really good. They were with TNT forever.
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  Speaker 1: TNT was cut out by the NBA and ESPN gave
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  Speaker 1: them a chance to continue on ESPN. All right. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to take a break tomorrow on the program. Jared
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  Speaker 1: will be here. And also, let's see. Friday on the program,
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  Speaker 1: Ryan is back. I will have my regular weekly visit
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  Speaker 1: with Tony Catalina and also with Kirk Bowles. Next week
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  Speaker 1: on the program, Bill O'Reilly will join us to talk
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  Speaker 1: about his newest book, Confronting America. All right, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to take a break. We're going to come back. This
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's a bloody merry morning, baby. Left me without
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  Speaker 4: warning sometime in the night.
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  Speaker 1: Stan does that on purpose to see if I'll just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just grab my phone. It's like Pavlov's dog
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  Speaker 1: because he knows that's my ringtone. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Glad to be with you here on a Wednesday edition.
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  Speaker 1: We told you with an off week with Aggie football,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to delve a little into some basketball. Played
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  Speaker 1: a little Cal yesterday. Right now, we're going to hear
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  Speaker 1: from Florida coach Todd Golden. Now, this was from the
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  Speaker 1: SEC media days. Florida is one of the teams that
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  Speaker 1: is a Final Four and potential national championship favorite. getting
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  Speaker 1: players back that they've had, getting players from the portal.
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  Speaker 1: The Gators are going to be salty again this year.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't quite get there last year. Golden is going
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  Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about that as well. Hey, Todd.
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  Speaker 10: Anthony Christensen, wholehawksports.com. Just curious, you retained Boogie Fland going
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  Speaker 10: into this year. Just Looking back on when you brought
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  Speaker 10: him in, just what did you see in him there,
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  Speaker 10: and how do you feel like he's grown into the
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  Speaker 10: player he is now as you head into the new year?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, Buggs, he's been great for us. I think when
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  Speaker 11: we brought him into our program, he had big shoes
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  Speaker 11: to fill, replacing our perimeter who all got drafted in
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  Speaker 11: the NBA and coming after kind of an injury-plagued year
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  Speaker 11: at Arkansas. I feel like he did a good job
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  Speaker 11: kind of learning from that experience and obviously led us
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  Speaker 11: in our backcourt to a one seed last year and
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  Speaker 11: did a really, really nice job in conference play. And
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  Speaker 11: I'm excited for Boog and our program to get him
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  Speaker 11: for a second year. I think that continuity and kind
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  Speaker 11: of being able to continue to build a partnership with
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  Speaker 11: me and the rest of our program will suit him
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  Speaker 11: really well for a successful season this year.
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  Speaker 5: Left side, back row.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Coach.
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  Speaker 5: Abby Miller with Reflector at Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 11: After leading your team to 16-2 in conference play last season,
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  Speaker 11: what are you implementing to remain that high standard this season? Well,
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  Speaker 11: a big key was our ability to retain our best
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  Speaker 11: players and getting Tommy Kondo and Ruben back give us
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  Speaker 11: a leg up in that regard. And bringing Denzel Aberdeen
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  Speaker 11: back has been a huge lift for our program. And
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  Speaker 11: we retain, I think, six or seven of our top
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  Speaker 11: eight or nine. So we had some really good continuity
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  Speaker 11: that way. Bringing Denzel back adds to that. And I
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  Speaker 11: think for us, it's just understanding that just because we
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  Speaker 11: did it last year, it's not going to be as
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  Speaker 11: easy to do it again. So that challenge is in
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  Speaker 11: front of us. I think for myself and the players,
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  Speaker 11: you know, we have a goal to win the league again. And,
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  Speaker 11: you know, we know it's going to be a really
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  Speaker 11: hard challenge.
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  Speaker 5: On the right fourth row.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Meyer, Metcalf ESPN. What's your level of confidence that
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  Speaker 1: Denzel will be available with all of the legal stuff
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  Speaker 1: attached to his situation?
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  Speaker 11: Well, he's eligible right now. He won his temporary injunction.
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  Speaker 11: You know, the NCAA is trying to keep him from
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  Speaker 11: playing just like any other person in that class, which
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  Speaker 11: is a conversation for a different day. But we remain
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  Speaker 11: very confident. I think Denzel, first of all, I think
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  Speaker 11: he has the best facts of anybody in America in
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  Speaker 11: regards to these five for five situation. He's a great
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  Speaker 11: legal team that put an incredible argument forward. And so
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  Speaker 11: we're planning on having him and we feel good about it.
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  Speaker 5: We'll go on the second row here in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Neil Blackman, Basket Under Review.
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  Speaker 12: Todd, obviously the NCAA has spent millions of dollars just
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  Speaker 12: trying to keep these class of 2022 players from playing.
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  Speaker 12: One of the arguments they make consistently is that.
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  Speaker 5: It would cause chaos to let them play.
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  Speaker 12: Do you feel like it's caused chaos, like the lawsuits themselves?
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  Speaker 12: How has that affected how you're roster building next year
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  Speaker 12: considering they're letting the players next year play a fifth season?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a.
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  Speaker 11: Really difficult situation to navigate, and I believe the current
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  Speaker 11: stance of the NCAA taking is the situation that's causing
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  Speaker 11: the chaos right now. I think when you have a
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  Speaker 11: rule that clearly states that players get five years of
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  Speaker 11: eligibility within a five-year clock, but you're trying to arbitrarily
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  Speaker 11: carve out a class to prevent chaos when said chaos
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  Speaker 11: has never been shown and really any examples across America
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  Speaker 11: or across any sports. I mean, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 11: points in this discussion that don't make a lot of
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  Speaker 11: sense to us. The NCAA has marketed and spent millions
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  Speaker 11: of dollars promoting the Protect College Sports Act, and if
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  Speaker 11: that were to pass, the class of 22 athletes would
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  Speaker 11: be eligible to play. So there's some kind of give
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  Speaker 11: and take into where that doesn't make any sense while
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  Speaker 11: they're trying to prevent them from playing, but in the
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  Speaker 11: same time arguing that this act should pass in which
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  Speaker 11: they would be eligible. and the displacement argument, it's factually inaccurate.
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  Speaker 11: There's going to be displacement next year. I think the
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  Speaker 11: biggest thing that I think is kind of confused with
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  Speaker 11: this is they talk about congestion at the top and
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  Speaker 11: that we need freshmen to be able to come up.
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  Speaker 11: The congestion in the power leagues is, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 11: derived from the transfer legislation. When guys have the ability
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  Speaker 11: to be free agents every year, Us as coaches who
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  Speaker 11: manage these programs have to do what we think is
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  Speaker 11: best to give ourselves the best chance to win. And
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  Speaker 11: I don't think it's that hard to understand that when
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  Speaker 11: you have older guys, seniors, juniors, those guys, generally speaking,
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  Speaker 11: there's some really talented freshmen out there, but those guys
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  Speaker 11: are going to give you the best chance. So as
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  Speaker 11: long as guys and gals are able to transfer every year,
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  Speaker 11: I think there's going to be that compression felt. And
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  Speaker 11: the displacement argument, again, we're going to have– Next year
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  Speaker 11: in the cycle, there's not anybody leaving. There's not anybody
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  Speaker 11: leaving with a whole class of high school kids coming in.
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  Speaker 11: So I think you could maybe argue next year there's
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  Speaker 11: going to be some displacement if that's where you want
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  Speaker 11: to go. But, you know, I think there's just a
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  Speaker 11: lot of misguided arguments and none that really make a
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  Speaker 11: lot of sense to keep the 22 class out of
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  Speaker 11: competition this season.
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  Speaker 5: Left side, third row.
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  Speaker 13: Jack Hogan, KSR. This time last year, we talked about
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  Speaker 13: Denzel Aberdeen leaving. Now we're talking about him coming back.
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  Speaker 13: How did those conversations start back up again back in
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  Speaker 13: the spring, and how easy was it? to bring him
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  Speaker 13: back even with some of the legal hurdles that were
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  Speaker 13: going to come?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: You know, Denzel, as you know, covering Kentucky, is an
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  Speaker 11: incredible young man, you know, a great kid. You know,
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  Speaker 11: when he left, obviously we were disappointed to see him go,
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  Speaker 11: but there was never, like, any ill will. You know,
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  Speaker 11: he remained really, really close with the guys on the team.
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  Speaker 11: You know, they were and still are great friends. And
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  Speaker 11: so as soon as the season was over, he reached
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  Speaker 11: out to one of the guys on the team and
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  Speaker 11: asked what it would look like or if we had
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  Speaker 11: any interest in bringing him back because he had already
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  Speaker 11: had the mindset that he was going to fight for
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  Speaker 11: a fifth year and try to get a waiver because
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  Speaker 11: he only played 40 minutes as a freshman. And of
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  Speaker 11: course we were excited to bring him back. You know,
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  Speaker 11: we thought that he would win the waiver. Um, but
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  Speaker 11: even then we thought he had a great case from
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  Speaker 11: a five for five standpoint. And, uh, you know, the
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  Speaker 11: guys seamlessly took him back. We had conversations with every
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  Speaker 11: guy on our team about bringing him back and not
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  Speaker 11: one guy wanted to leave, uh, with him coming back.
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  Speaker 11: So I think that speaks to him as a person,
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  Speaker 11: you know, kind of the character of our program and
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  Speaker 11: that the guys wanted to have him back. And, uh,
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  Speaker 11: It's been awesome having him. He's playing great. He looks awesome.
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  Speaker 11: I think he's going to be a big addition to
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  Speaker 11: our team this year.
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  Speaker 1: On the right, fifth row.
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  Speaker 6: Dana O'Neill with CNN Sports. Todd, as your profession kind
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  Speaker 6: of evolves, how deep into the weeds are you getting
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  Speaker 6: into learning things like legalese and economy and fair market
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  Speaker 6: value and temporary restraining orders. I mean, you're throwing all
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  Speaker 6: these words out that are not what basketball coaches are
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  Speaker 6: meant to talk about. But how deep in the weeds
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  Speaker 6: are you getting into all of that stuff?
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  Speaker 11: Well, it's a really important part of our program. So
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  Speaker 11: I'm getting pretty deep into it. This legal situation is
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  Speaker 11: something that sparks my interest a little bit. My father
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  Speaker 11: is an attorney. I grew up around it. And, you know,
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  Speaker 11: I truly just believe that the class of 22 deserves
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  Speaker 11: to play, especially at this point with Everybody started school.
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  Speaker 11: Everybody's in the middle of their semesters. There's not guys
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  Speaker 11: or gals just hanging out there waiting to see if
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  Speaker 11: Wisney wins to kind of jump back and re-enroll and play.
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  Speaker 11: We're long past. that conversation that was taking place in
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  Speaker 11: May and June. So at this point, the NCAA is
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  Speaker 11: trying to argue that they're trying to prevent chaos, but
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  Speaker 11: they're really causing it, as Coach Rick Barnes talked about yesterday.
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  Speaker 11: But yeah, I believe it's my job as the leader
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  Speaker 11: of this program to have a really good understanding of
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  Speaker 11: what we're up against and what we're arguing, what we're
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  Speaker 11: fighting for. And so I've taken a pretty big interest
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  Speaker 11: in the legal portion of what we're going through right
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  Speaker 11: now in college sport.
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  Speaker 5: Go in the middle here, third row.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Skarbinski with the SEC blog. Todd, does the way
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  Speaker 1: last season ended, is that the kind of motivation that
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  Speaker 1: can carry over, or is that completely in the rearview mirror? Both,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I would say.
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  Speaker 11: You know, I don't necessarily think we needed that loss
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  Speaker 11: to create motivation, but at the same time, I think
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  Speaker 11: we've done a good job of, you know, taking the
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  Speaker 11: positives out of it, which, you know, transparently, I'm not
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  Speaker 11: sure we get Tommy, Ruben, and Kondo back if we
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: make a deep run last year. I think those guys... uh,
• 20:53
  Speaker 11: you know, are probably ready to move on, but that,
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: you know, bad taste in their mouth, uh, you know,
• 20:57
  Speaker 11: provided us an opportunity to kind of get this group
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: back together for one last try, uh, which is amazing
• 21:02
  Speaker 11: and definitely, uh, you know, a great spin off the
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: way last year ended. Uh, but I think we're doing
• 21:08
  Speaker 11: a good job kind of using that as a learning experience.
• 21:11
  Speaker 11: You know, I didn't coach well enough in the tournament game.
• 21:13
  Speaker 11: I don't think our players, you know, competed to their
• 21:15
  Speaker 11: best and, uh, you know, we have an opportunity to
• 21:18
  Speaker 11: try to get it right this year. And, uh, It's really,
• 21:21
  Speaker 11: really hard to win at a high level. I think
• 21:23
  Speaker 11: just because we get these guys back, it doesn't guarantee
• 21:25
  Speaker 11: that we're going to make the Final Four, but we
• 21:27
  Speaker 11: have a better chance. I think we understand that having
• 21:31
  Speaker 11: this group together for one last run is a special opportunity,
• 21:34
  Speaker 11: and we're doing everything we can to not let it
• 21:37
  Speaker 11: slip or not take as full advantage of it as
• 21:39
  Speaker 11: we should.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: We have a final question here on the second row
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: in the middle.
• 21:44
  Speaker 12: Todd, obviously last year, Kondo was a first-team preseason All-American,
• 21:49
  Speaker 12: and this year he's not first-team All-SEC.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: But he finished really strong last year.
• 21:54
  Speaker 12: I think he was a top-ten Ken Palm player last
• 21:57
  Speaker 12: month of the year, had a bunch of MVPs. What
• 21:59
  Speaker 12: changed for him in February and March, and do you
• 22:03
  Speaker 12: think it'll be easier for him without the kind of
• 22:05
  Speaker 12: expectations this year?
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that.
• 22:10
  Speaker 11: affected Alex individually, and I think it affected our program
• 22:13
  Speaker 11: as a whole to start last year. You know, we
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: understood that we had a lot of expectations. We knew
• 22:17
  Speaker 11: that was going to be something that we had to
• 22:19
  Speaker 11: be up against, but you can't really attack it until
• 22:23
  Speaker 11: you experience it, and we just didn't do a great
• 22:26
  Speaker 11: job handling those expectations to start the year, and Alex,
• 22:30
  Speaker 11: I think, was pressing a little bit and didn't you know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 11: play his best until, you know, really after the Auburn
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: game in SEC play. And then he played like one
• 22:39
  Speaker 11: of the best players in America the last month and
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: a half, two months of the season. To your point,
• 22:43
  Speaker 11: I think it was Ken Palm MVP five out of
• 22:45
  Speaker 11: our last 10 games or something like that, was just
• 22:48
  Speaker 11: playing at an insanely high level. And I think all
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: of our guys, myself included, can use last year as
• 22:54
  Speaker 11: a learning experience to not allow the expectations to affect
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: us or, you know, dictate how we go. And I
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: think we can use that to, to make sure we
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: get off to a better start this season, but I
• 23:05
  Speaker 11: don't think it will affect any of our players nor
• 23:08
  Speaker 11: myself negatively. Uh, I think we're more ready for this
• 23:11
  Speaker 11: this year than we were last year.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: It's hard to believe Alex Condon is back. He is
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: 54 years old. He has been playing at Florida for
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: 47 years.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Um, They've got a lot of veterans on that team.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: They should be pretty good. This league is going to
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: be pretty good. If we have time, we'll talk to Mr.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Clinton about that coming up. I'm sure we'll get around
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to some basketball. Yeah, Scott will be with us here
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: in a few minutes. Mallory is here as well with
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: some entertainment news. I want to hit on this because
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I have it and I listened to this today. We're
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: going to play a little bit of Rick Barnes, Tennessee coach.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: The Vols are a preseason top 10 team. They apparently
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: played an exhibition game against Duke last week, got beat
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: by almost 40. I mean, Rick Barnes just doesn't get
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: beat by 40. He may get beat, but he didn't
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: get beat by 40. And his teams don't give up
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: 103 points. Either Duke is the best team in the world,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: and they may be. They were last year, but they
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: didn't win, right? Or Tennessee isn't as good as some
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: people think they are. Or it's just an exhibition game.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: It's Probably it could be a little bit of all three.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Here is a little bit of the Tennessee coach, Rick Barnes.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Program in terms of having so many young guys starting
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: from scratch, but, uh, we're still looking to see what
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: we can find in terms of a group of guys
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: that are going to compete. Uh, started the game where,
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: you know, a couple of things, we made a couple
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: of plays here or there, maybe not let them get
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: so far in front.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: But, uh, Probably a few guys.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: I thought our young guys came in and were flying around,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: but the first thing we've got to get as a
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: team is a real fighting, competitive spirit, and we haven't
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: shown that at all in the last, really, 40 minutes
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: of basketball, 15 minutes we've played with the guys.
• 25:27
  Speaker 11: Coach, you talk about that competitive fire not being there
• 25:29
  Speaker 11: the last 40 minutes.
• 25:30
  Speaker 14: Does that surprise you, especially this early in the year?
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Well, I think some, honestly, some Players just don't know
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: what it takes yet to get it done. That's why
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: it's been great to play a really good team like Xavier.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: And obviously, you know, John, his team's terrific. And sometimes
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: you've got to go through this. And I've always been
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: a big proponent of playing five of these because I
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: think it really helps you get exposed. I think it
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: gives you a chance. And I'm glad we got this one.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: We got one more Saturday before we kick it off. And,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: you know, we haven't been able to put the whole
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: team together yet, but that's not– What happened here was, again,
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: the first four minutes of the game, we wanted to
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: see if a group of guys that we thought could
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: get things done early and we didn't defend the way
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: we needed to, didn't attack the way we needed to
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: attack with the force that we needed to. Do I
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: think that our guys want to? I don't think there's
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: any question. Do they know how yet?
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: That's up to me and our staff. We'll get them there.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: We've talked about it a lot. We have.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: We've talked about it from day one, what it's going
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: to take to win at the level that we want
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: to win at. But sometimes it takes this, and then
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: you'll find out who you can really count on.
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: Rick, in the practices between Xavier and now, did you
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: see improvement from your guys on the court?
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah. I mean, we did.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: But, I mean, well, there's a difference in practice. I'm
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: there on them every minute of the day. Here, I
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: can't call timeout and fix every one of their little–
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: mistakes but uh the fact is and they i really
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: appreciated some of the comments they just had in the
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: room but but the biggest one would be when things
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: don't go well how do you react we haven't done
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: that well in two games and and it'd be and
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: some of these guys this is the first time that
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: we've been together two games really and again the exhibition
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: games are good for that but we'll see uh if
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: guys are willing to listen first thing and then we've
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: got to be obviously we've got away from so many
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: different things that we like to do, that we practice.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: But the season hasn't started yet, and now we've got
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: a chance to maybe try to become one of the
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: most improved teams in the country over the next couple weeks.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: But got a rebound. You know, we've gotten killed on
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: the glass, and that's something that, I mean, last year,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: we've always been a good rebounding team.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: And that's a mindset.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: It's a competitive mindset. It's just you just refuse not to. compete,
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I don't care what size you are. You just got
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: to rebound the ball, take care of the ball better.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: We got to obviously do a better job of that.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: But I like our guys, but we knew coming in,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: or I knew, and our staff did it, we would
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: have to maybe get beat to get some attention, and
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: we'll see if we do get their attention.
• 28:31
  Speaker 13: Have you been surprised by the lack of pressure you've
• 28:33
  Speaker 13: all been able to put on the rim offensively?
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: And I can tell you, we spent so much time
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: doing that, trying to do it in practice. I mean,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: you've been there, you see it. But it's one thing
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: doing practice. It's another thing to do it when the
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: light's wrong. And you've got to fight for it. I mean, Duke,
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: they're a good defensive team. They've got strength. They've got size.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: But we go too deep.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: But Duke, I thought, did a great job of exactly
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: what we've tried to practice, drive it deep, kick it
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: out for those stationary threes. And the ball with us,
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: it sticks too much. Too many guys thinking they're going
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: to go get it on their own, and they haven't
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: proven they can do that yet.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: All right, that's a little bit of Rick Barnes. Like
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I said, they got beat really badly by Duke.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: But.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Won't count. It won't be in the win-loss column. I
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: suspect by the end of the year they'll be pretty good.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: They usually are because he's a pretty good basketball coach.
• 29:40
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• 29:43
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• 29:48
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• 29:53
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• 33:01
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• 33:25
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• 33:36
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• 34:00
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't even, because it knows it me, it
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: won't even let me look and see how bad I
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: was last week.
• 34:38
  Speaker 10: Oh, really?
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I was terrible again. Since I had a nine-in-one week,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: one nine-in-one week, which I think everybody did that week,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: it's just been a struggle. It has been difficult.
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: Struggling.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Struggling.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: For... Oh, my gosh.
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: Whatever happened to Joe Willie Namath?
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Um... You know, he was doing a lot of those
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: commercials for a while. I haven't seen him, right?
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: I hope he's doing okay.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Me too. That's a good question.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: Reverse mortgage?
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, he was doing all kinds of things.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: But you're right. I have not seen him lately.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: I hope he's doing okay.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I need to look that up.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: I hope he's not.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Getting all the struggling.
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Baseball. Let's just do baseball here.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: We've got a little minute.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I turned it off last night. It went too late
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: for me. Turned it off in the 11th. Kept expecting
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee to win because I didn't think Tampa was ever
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: going to get another base hit in the series. Plausible.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I knew that was plausible. But then they had to
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: bring in somebody that wasn't. I didn't know they had
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: anybody that couldn't get everybody out. They finally, Tampa finally
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: found somebody that couldn't get anybody out.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: So they said, you know, Oh, we're breaking, you know,
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: he had struggled in his one appearance and I, and
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: I looked at his numbers. He pitched one inning and
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: gave up a run.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: That's struggle. He's struggling.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Well, I brought Ashby in of course, and he shot
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: everybody down, but he threw 29 pitches and I get it.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, that was enough. And you figure, Hey, all
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: we need is a run and we're going to win
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the game. And I got the run and I'm going, uh,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: because I'm watching the highlights this morning, right? And I go, oh,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: home run in the 12th, of course. But then the
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: highlights kept going. I went, what just happened? Tampa Bay
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: came back, which I'm fine with, because this is the
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: last baseball we're going to see for a while, unfortunately,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: I believe.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: No, I mean.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: I think we're not going to have baseball next year.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: At all. At all. I'm too old for that. I
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: can't wait.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: It's on South 2-Vay.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Another year, yeah.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: Some guy's chasing 3,000 hits.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: Losing a year. I know. They're too old for that stuff.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I know, you're right. I didn't even think about that. But, man.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Pitchers that are chasing 300 wins.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that sucks.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: Who's going to take Max Scherzer two years from now?
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: The Rangers? Probably.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Take him back. Only if he has more elbow surgery.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: But, yeah, you know.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Look, I thought when this series began, because of the
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: style of play, I thought it was going seven. I
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: thought each game would be like last night and game one, frankly, right?
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: Game two was the same way. It was just all
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: the runs. But the difference is Milwaukee's been so good.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: The difference is they're hitting the ball. Tampa really hasn't hit.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Tampa doesn't hit the ball. They can't hit. They've got
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: one guy that can hit.
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: Let's do Ferris Bueller. He can't hit. He can't hit.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: He can't hit.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, he can't. I mean, we knew that.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: But good gosh. Milwaukee's pitching, in fairness, is doing that
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: to everybody.
• 37:58
  Speaker 18: Right?
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, they've done it to everybody.
• 38:00
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: And that bullpen is just unbelievable. And the starters have
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: to go about four innings. And I love John Smoltz,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: by the way. I think he's the best analyst in
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: the business. I just think he's terrific. And I'm watching
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: him last night, and it's like, hey, this is a
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: huge inning for Tampa. They don't score this inning. And
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: he really does that just about every game. Fifth inning,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Tampa's got to score this inning, or the game's over.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Which it has been until they finally found somebody they
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: could They could hit last night.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's going to.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: We're not going to see him anymore.
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: He's not going to be first one out after Miz tonight.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: He will not. But obviously, they're using guys basically an
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: inning at a time, right? Give or take. Like I said,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Ashby went, I think, one and two-thirds last night. Ended
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: up throwing about 28, 29 pitches. I don't think he
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: would be back tonight. Mizorowski's on the mound tonight. But again...
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Most of the time, five innings, he's done, right?
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: Maybe they'll have him dial it down to 101 tonight.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I don't think he can dial it down.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: He needs to. His elbow should tell him at some
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: point in time.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: I know, man. It's just, you know, if you guys
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: don't know, this is a kid that throws 104 every pitch.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: But they don't need him past. They have not needed
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: him or anybody other starter past five innings because that's
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: baseball today. Not crazy about it. but that's what it is. And,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: you know, it'll be, hey, I'm just telling you, if
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: you haven't seen this kid pitch, turn on the World
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Series for the first couple of three innings. Just watch
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: this kid throw, okay? Because he's going to go 103,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: 104 miles an hour, and he'll probably do it for three, four,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: five innings. And then... We'll see from there.
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, if Milwaukee puts up a five-spot.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: While Miz is on the mound, it's over. Yeah, I mean,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: the other night was just crazy. And it was just,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: you know, one of their best defensive players. And it
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: was a really hard play. It was a smashed ball,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: bad hop, off the glove. And that opened the way for, what,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: eight runs in the innings?
• 40:17
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, but that's Milwaukee. They've done that all year.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: You don't give any good teams ever four outs, ever.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: And then last night, they dropped the pop fly, Tampa did,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: in about the 10th inning. And I thought, that game's over.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: Punched them on the next one. Got lucky. Punched a
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: guy out.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: They did. They got very lucky because they dropped a
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: foul pop. And you're going, oh, no.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: Well, no, they didn't drop it.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: You got it.
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: No, I got it. You got it. No, I'm Spider-Man. No,
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: you're Spider-Man.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: The World Series, and you're going, haven't these guys had
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: time to figure this out?
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: It's still baseball.
• 40:53
  Speaker 11: It is.
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: It is. Arkansas will have a national championship if they
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: make the same play in baseball five years ago in
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: the College World Series, ten years ago.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: It's thin, but I'm telling you, the Brewers, most good
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: baseball teams make you pay. The Brewers make you pay.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: And that's why they're good. They're fun to watch. They
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: really are. You know what? Let me compare them. And
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I haven't done this yet. I'm going to compare them
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: to last year's Indiana football national champions. They are so fundamental, right? Yes.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: They're not going to beat themselves.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: And they believe that they're not going to lose.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: They've got the confidence. And they've got the manager.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: They've got everything.
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: No, I thought Craig Council left them.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he did. This guy's pretty good.
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this guy's pretty good, too. How about the fact
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: that it was cheaper to buy a ticket in Tampa,
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: a game ticket in Tampa, than it was to buy
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: a ticket to the watch party in Milwaukee? No way.
• 41:52
  Speaker 19: Yes. No.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: I saw right before the game the tickets were about
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: 800 apiece at the game last night, right?
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: I understand that, but if you had already bought them.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: But if you've watched– hey, guys, if you haven't watched
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: World Series, watch it tonight because they're back in Tampa, right?
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: It's like it's not quite a Milwaukee home crowd, but
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: it's probably 40-60, I would guess.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: And for Milwaukee, I mean, they.
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: A lot of fans that could not get tickets tonight.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Came to the World Series.
• 42:23
  Speaker 18: Yes.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: They said as long as the roads don't flood because
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: of the king tides.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's a whole other story. All right. We're going
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: to take a break. Scott Clendenin is here tomorrow. We've
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: got a high school report. Jared is scheduled in Friday.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Ryan is back. We'll visit with Tony Catalina on Friday,
• 42:49
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• 42:55
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• 44:01
  Speaker 20: I think guys just need to take a deep breath.
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: Just reset.
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  Speaker 1: It is an open week. I think everybody needed an
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• 47:55
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Um, we'll see what South Carolina does at Oklahoma on,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: on Saturday.
• 48:03
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: Um, that was an interesting pick for chip hours, sports
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: talk to.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Um, yeah, I, you know, there aren't, there aren't tons
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: of great games this weekend. I mean, there just aren't
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: a lot of great games this weekend. Um, And I
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: tried to find some close games this weekend.
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: I just don't know what you're going to get with
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: Oklahoma either.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: Oklahoma and South Carolina is another mystery game. I think
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: that's what we're finding out about college football this year.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Are there more injuries or is it just my imagination?
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: Well, the quarterback injuries obviously make it so big at
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: USC and at Mississippi State.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a killer. You hate that. That kid is special,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: fun to watch. And Kamario Taylor we're talking about. It's
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: terrible for Jeff Lebby. It's terrible for the program.
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: How's he going to get the Baylor job if he
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: can't even keep his quarterback healthy?
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: You know, I hadn't even– that's interesting. I hadn't heard
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: his name mentioned. Do you think he would go back there?
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I mean, he's in the SEC
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: right now, but obviously may be easier.
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: To Mississippi State.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: You're right. You're right. But but but if he thinks
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: he's going to hold on to this quarterback, Scott, that
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: would that would really prevent you in my mind from
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: taking that. Even if you were semi interested, I'm going, no.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: unless he's coming with me, I'm staying with him. And I,
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: from what I've heard, this is a Mississippi kid, right?
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Special kid. I'm not saying he wouldn't take money to
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: go somewhere, you know, but, but it, it, it on
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: the outside looking in and reading what I'm reading, it
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: appears that he would stay.
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: And if I'm Jeff Levy, I'm going, I'm hitching my
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: start of this kid because, you know, when they started
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: the first two weeks of the season, uh, You know,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: let me look at this real quick because I'm not
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: sure they played anybody great.
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: But he was on that Mateer Heisman list like two
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: years ago when John Mateer was everybody's flavor for two weeks.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they played Louisiana, Monroe. They won at Minnesota, which
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: has proved to be a decent win.
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: You know, because Minnesota has gotten pretty good. they went
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: to South Carolina, right?
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: He tried to play against Missouri. He tried to play
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: against Alabama. So, look, they look pretty good. I mean,
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: they did. They've got speed at the outside, receivers. I'm
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: just saying it. Jeff Levy may want to, you know,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: may want to stay put with Kamario Taylor. Yeah.
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: So that's what I think, you know. A & M
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: should get some guys healthier.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: That would certainly help them.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't hurt.
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: If you're going to make changes as far as what you're,
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: the direction you want this ship to point, a mid-season
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: buy might be that opportunity.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I've seen that. talked about and written about. And,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: you know, last Saturday, it just seemed like that Brady
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Hart was going to come in after the pick six
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: and the interception, right?
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: And he's warming up. And Elko's asked about it after
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: the game. And his answer is the same as what
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: I've said and what most people probably understand is I
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: just thought he gave us the best chance to win,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: meaning Marcel Reed, right?
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: Didn't he give him a chance to win?
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: He did. I mean, he played two quarters of really
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: good football.
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: Did he get up off the turf? Second interception is
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: not even his fault.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: No, it wasn't.
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: I don't even know if it was an interception or not.
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: I was rather surprised that they overturned that call, except
• 52:19
  Speaker 5: that the distance between that stadium and the replay room
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: is very short in Alabama. So, evidently, they have a
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: faster replay than what I saw. They could slow it
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: down because it was so fast. They could slow it
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: to the... Yeah. But, He did get up off the carpet.
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you've talked about it, Chip, or
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: if anybody has. The touchdown drive set up by the
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: most inopportune poor punt that the Aggies have had this year.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was terrible.
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: It really was.
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: And it has not been good on fourth and short.
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: They have not been.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: They've been horrible.
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: Okay. Some of it has been, you know, when you're
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: deep in your own territory and you have to keep
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: the ball going, you know, I understand that. But they
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: have not had success in fourth and short, and it
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: has led to problems.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a really curious decision with four
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: and a half minutes left to punt the ball, you know,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: about your own 45, I guess, is fourth and six.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, they've been terrible on fourth down.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: But in that situation– But.
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: You punted it to the 45-yard line for Alabama's go-ahead
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: touchdown drive.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: No doubt. No doubt. It was, you know.
• 53:34
  Speaker 5: One of your better players that has been clutch.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: He's been great.
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: He's been great. It was probably the poorest punt of
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: the year.
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: Yes, I would think so. But it was a huge point.
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: That's the kind of stuff that has happened to A
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: & M this year, that you sit there and say,
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: is this stuff going to even out? Those are the
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: things you look at and even out. Do you get
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: a punt return when you don't expect it? Things like that.
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: Does that make up for that? A & M finally
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: gets an interception. They hadn't had turnovers like they wanted to.
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: They get that. So they played better football, but you're
• 54:13
  Speaker 5: playing at Alabama. You're playing an Alabama team that was
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: in trouble as well. And Alabama was better in the
• 54:20
  Speaker 5: fourth quarter than you were.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: And Alabama is not Alabama. I mean, you know, not
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: what we're used to, okay, by a long shot.
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: Well, they're not Nick Saban's Alabama.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: They're not Nick Saban's Alabama.
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: I remember that between.
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: Have you watched the Saban yet? It's really good.
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: But I'm saying between Saban and Gene Stallings, this was Alabama.
• 54:46
  Speaker 7: True.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah. But probably with a better coach. I
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: still think Kalen DeBoer is a good coach. He may
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: not be. Two things. It may not be the best
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: fit for him. And I'm not sure that there is
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: a best fit to follow Nick Saban, frankly. Okay. We
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: knew that when it happened. And I just don't think.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: there's anybody coming along, including Kurt Cegnetti right now, who
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: doesn't have the quarterback he had a year ago, you're
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: not going to see somebody win six national championships in
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: a school in a period of 12 or 13 years.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: It's not going to happen in today's world. It's just not.
• 55:37
  Speaker 5: So I'm just going to ask you, generally speaking, do
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: you think Gene Bartow could coach basketball some?
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: Gene Bartow is a good basketball coach.
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: Gary Cunningham?
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: Pretty good basketball coach.
• 55:50
  Speaker 5: Larry Brown?
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty good basketball coach.
• 55:52
  Speaker 5: Larry Farmer?
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all these guys followed John Wooden, right? They all
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: followed John Wooden.
• 55:58
  Speaker 5: So until they got to Jim Herrick, who won one
• 56:00
  Speaker 5: national title in 95, and then he got run out,
• 56:03
  Speaker 5: and Steve Lavin, who wasn't bad either. He wasn't bad.
• 56:07
  Speaker 5: And then Ben Howland, you know, went three straight Final Fours.
• 56:11
  Speaker 5: Nobody talks about the fact that Gene Bartow went to
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: UAB out of UCLA and made them pretty good at basketball.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 56:19
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, following the legend we knew was, I mean,
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: it was problematic. And following that guy was going to
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: be problematic for whoever. I'll say again, I still think
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Kalen DeBoer is a pretty good coach.
• 56:32
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: And everybody looks around and goes, well, that's not the
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: Alabama we've seen. I go, well, I don't think. First
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: of all, standing here in my lifetime, you're going to
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: see that Alabama anymore. You may see one year of
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: it in today's. And we saw it last year at Indiana.
• 56:51
  Speaker 15: Right.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, that team was phenomenal and everything came together.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: They had veteran players. They caught lightning in a bottle
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: with their quarterback, who is terrific. Indiana's pretty dang good
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: this year, right? They're still pretty solid.
• 57:06
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: But they don't have that quarterback.
• 57:07
  Speaker 18: No.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: You know, they just don't.
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: Well, and the questions are, would he not be what
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: he was at TCU? I think he's improved.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, he has improved.
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: But he's not what they had last year.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: He's not what they had last year, right? There's no question. But, again...
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: That guy was special. He won a national championship.
• 57:25
  Speaker 5: Won a Heisman.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: Won a Heisman.
• 57:27
  Speaker 5: First pick in the NFL, said he was the best
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: player that we could go out and get, even though
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: the best player is still playing wide receiver. ohio state
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: oh and.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Or i will say again miami i saw a deal
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: today that may no it was kurt bull's nine things
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: column today in the houston chronicle he said maybe there
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: should be co-heisman winners because every time i think jeremiah
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: smith is separated and because of his size and and
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: and right that that's the biggest thing tony's a small
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: guy yeah but every time i go well jeremiah smith
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: he's he's the guy i'm going then Then Tony steps
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: up and goes, oh, wait a minute. Yeah, I'm pretty good, too.
• 58:04
  Speaker 5: Well, I would say that Tony probably has a better quarterback,
• 58:07
  Speaker 5: especially now.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: He does have a better quarterback. No doubt. He does
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: have a better quarterback.
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: If Smith continues and makes their backup look like he
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: can play because of his individual effort.
• 58:20
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: I mean, nobody ever talks about the quarterback that was
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: at Pittsburgh with Larry Fitzgerald. Don't even remember the guy's name.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: No, you're right.
• 58:27
  Speaker 5: Saw him play two times, two years, here and up there.
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: Went to Pittsburgh to watch that.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: He was pretty good.
• 58:32
  Speaker 5: He was a pretty good quarterback because he was throwing
• 58:35
  Speaker 5: to Larry Fitzgerald.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: Because he was throwing to Larry Fitzgerald, who was pretty good.
• 58:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but that's who Smith reminds me of. Obviously, a
• 58:43
  Speaker 5: big-time guy. It's like watching Smith and Jigba in the
• 58:46
  Speaker 5: NFL play for Seattle.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 58:48
  Speaker 5: It's like. I did not think I'd see Larry Fitzgerald
• 58:51
  Speaker 5: type play.