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Monday Edition of the Drive - Hour One · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: W.R.K.S.
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  Speaker 2: Pickens Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, what do you say we sing a driving song?
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  Speaker 1: There's not going to be any singing around here. Just
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  Speaker 1: real sports. On the Afternoon Drive with Jake Wimberly.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this is going to be sweet.
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  Speaker 1: And it's all right here, right now. On ESPN 105.9
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  Speaker 1: The Zone and online at thezone1059. com. 31st day of August, 2026,
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  Speaker 1: champ of the chair on a Monday. It's a Memphis Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Memphis Tigers Monday as they knock out Dan Mullen over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. They leave Dan Mullen searching for words like
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  Speaker 1: telling his game day operations staff in the press conference
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  Speaker 1: to win the play. We will rock you. Win the
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  Speaker 1: channel on third down and do the wave. That is
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  Speaker 1: a real thing, by the way. Beaver heard it. But
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  Speaker 1: it is Memphis Monday. Beaver's got on a slick. Loved it.
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  Speaker 1: You want to give a shout out to Sean C.
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  Speaker 1: Memphis on the Memphis shirt you're wearing today?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So in my Memphis sleeveless, Sean gave me this eight
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  Speaker 4: years ago. And we just decided today it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be every Monday for the season.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: at 3.30. We'll talk Mississippi State. Tony Vance, 4.45-ish, 4.40-ish,
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  Speaker 1: whenever we take that break in there. Talk a little
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  Speaker 1: Meridian Wildcats. Did you see what Meridian did to Ocean
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  Speaker 1: Springs the other night? They destroyed Ocean Springs the other night.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll talk to Tony Vance about that. And what
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  Speaker 1: looks to be a quick rebirth, maybe, we'll see, going
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  Speaker 1: on in Meridian. Chris Landry, 5 to 5.30. I had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people give me the business over my
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  Speaker 1: TCU pick. I can't help it rained, and TCU didn't
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  Speaker 1: show up. But I've got to say, you can't dig
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  Speaker 1: out of a hole if you don't put yourself in
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  Speaker 1: one early. It's one game. So let's come out of
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  Speaker 1: a hole this week. We're going to have a big week, right?
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  Speaker 1: You're not buying this.
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  Speaker 4: Your history tells me, and JC, no. You're already in
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  Speaker 4: the hole, Jake, and you're already trying to climb out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you can't dig out of a hole if you
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  Speaker 1: don't put yourself in one. That's just kind of the
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  Speaker 1: way I'm, you know, you've got to live this thing.
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  Speaker 1: You just come right back out of the hole. Did
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  Speaker 1: you see Virginia destroyed? NC State destroyed. What are they
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  Speaker 1: doing up there? I didn't know they cared about football
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  Speaker 1: in Virginia. All right, we've got a lot to get to.
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  Speaker 1: You know the SEC is talking about kicking LSU out
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  Speaker 1: of the conference? Yeah, I saw that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, let me specify. I saw that bluff. That
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  Speaker 4: is nothing but bluffing. You really think they would kick
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  Speaker 4: them out? No, that has been dumb to even read.
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  Speaker 1: It is. We've got Bill Conley's SP Plus Week 1 picks.
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  Speaker 1: He picks LSU to defeat Clemson 28-18. Ole Miss to
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  Speaker 1: get by Louisville 29-24. SMU, and I do like SMU,
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  Speaker 1: over Florida State 27-25. We'll have WIMS winners this week
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  Speaker 1: as you can get in and play. We'll have all
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  Speaker 1: the plays you need coming up this week. Let's see,
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  Speaker 1: the Irish over the Badgers easily 35-12 and more. So
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  Speaker 1: your biggest matchups this week, LSU, Clemson, Battle of the Tigers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how much football will you watch this weekend? Will you
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  Speaker 1: watch a little? Will you dabble in it? Or will
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  Speaker 1: you watch a ton of it?
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  Speaker 4: There'll be some dabbling. I don't think I've told you.
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  Speaker 4: I have two separate excitement levels for levels of football
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  Speaker 4: this year.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. No, you haven't mentioned this.
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  Speaker 4: College football for me on a scale of one to
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  Speaker 4: 10 college football for me is at a five and
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  Speaker 4: a half.
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  Speaker 2: It's just over the medium mark.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough. What about the NFL? Nine. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Nine out of 10.
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  Speaker 1: Is it because there's more stability in the NFL?
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  Speaker 4: I've just gotten to where, and this has just happened
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  Speaker 4: in the last couple of years. I told you, I've
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  Speaker 4: just gotten to where I've gone back to my roots,
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  Speaker 4: I guess. Cause when I first started watching football at
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  Speaker 4: the young age of 10, For the first, I'd say,
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  Speaker 4: 10 to 12 years, I was all about the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: It took me a while to get into college.
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  Speaker 4: I watched it here and there, but then, so it
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  Speaker 4: got there, and then for the past 20 years, I
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  Speaker 4: was college, but the NFL, I've just swung back to it.
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  Speaker 4: It's so fun now that they've And I hate it because,
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  Speaker 4: you know, my love hate relationship with them because I
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  Speaker 4: find them to be a disgusting corporation.
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  Speaker 1: You know this.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. But the fact that they try so hard
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  Speaker 4: to make it a year round thing and the stories
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  Speaker 4: that go year round and.
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  Speaker 1: They've got me. They've got me.
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  Speaker 4: That's just it's just way more fun to keep up
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  Speaker 4: with to me.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. RezDog says, Jake, I'm so glad you're terrible
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  Speaker 1: at picking games. Made a fortune on North Carolina this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you were able to pad the pocket, RezDog,
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  Speaker 1: on North Carolina and Bill Belichick. All right, you got
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  Speaker 1: Clemson LSU. That's going to be 7.30 kick, Eastern time, 6.30
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  Speaker 1: on ABC. You've got– and that'll be Saturday. You've got
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  Speaker 1: Colorado Georgia Tech Thursday night on ESPN. You've got Baylor
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  Speaker 1: and Auburn Saturday at 2.30 on ABC. Tulane Duke, 2.30
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  Speaker 1: on the ACC Network. UNLV Hawaii, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: get more Dan Mullen. They may go 0-2. Hawaii won
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend at 12 o'clock on the CW. UCLA
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  Speaker 1: Cal at 10.30 Eastern. This is the late game. 9.30
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  Speaker 1: on ESPN if you want to stay up late. Washington State, Washington.
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  Speaker 1: You got the Apple Cup on the first weekend of
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  Speaker 1: the season. Sunday at 3 o'clock on NBC. You got
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  Speaker 1: a little Apple Cup on the... Peacock. Peacock slash NBC.
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss, Louisville. Sunday afternoon, 6.30, kick on ABC. Number
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  Speaker 1: nine versus number 24. Sunday also at 6.30. On NBC,
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  Speaker 1: you'll get Notre Dame, Wisconsin. And then Monday night at 6.30,
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  Speaker 1: you'll get SMU versus Florida State. And I think SMU
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  Speaker 1: is going to go in there and beat them. Personally,
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  Speaker 1: I really like the Smoo Ponies. to go in there
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  Speaker 1: and win. So that's your key matchups over the course
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  Speaker 1: of a ton of other stuff out there. We've got
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  Speaker 1: a Mississippi gridiron top 10 after the week. And we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into some of that. Of course, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: high school football as we get into week two slash three,
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  Speaker 1: week three for the MAIS, week two for the MHSA
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  Speaker 1: coming up this weekend. And we'll get into that. Also,
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  Speaker 1: we got the JCJCs coming up on Thursday. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: Heinz football right here as Heinz will be over. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be over at East Mississippi for that ball game. SEC
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  Speaker 1: Shorts released a fantastic video. If you like SEC Shorts,
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  Speaker 1: on LSU releases a video welcoming NFL players to campus.
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  Speaker 1: It was really, really funny, as always. Also, let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Louisville All-American running back. This is a key to the
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss game coming up this weekend. Louisville All-American running
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  Speaker 1: back Isaac Brown is healthy and, quote, ready to go
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  Speaker 1: for the opener against Ole Miss. So he will play
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  Speaker 1: Sunday versus the Ole Miss Rebels. And also, we have
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  Speaker 1: something on the phones.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Lionel Messi, did you say he's retiring from Argentina? So
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  Speaker 1: he is saying I'm out. Is he going to play
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  Speaker 1: any more soccer? What is he going to do? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's retiring from international play. So we won't see him
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  Speaker 1: in any more World Cups. Okay. Well, he may come back.
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  Speaker 1: I think he comes back. Does the whole fighter come back?
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  Speaker 2: I sure hope not. I don't think he will.
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  Speaker 1: So SEC school executives are exploring extreme measures to address
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  Speaker 1: LSU's plans to add former pro players, including boycotting competition,
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  Speaker 1: sanctioning the school with probation, or expulsion and filling a
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  Speaker 1: federal legal challenge, sources tell Yahoo Sports. This is an
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  Speaker 1: interesting story we're going to get to. And there's so
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  Speaker 1: much LSU news out here. An SEC school official told
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  Speaker 1: Yahoo Sports, quote, there are plenty of other schools that
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  Speaker 1: could take their place. Are we really about to kick
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  Speaker 1: LSU out of the SEC?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, you're absolutely not. Like I said, this is
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  Speaker 2: one big bluff.
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  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, okay, LSU, call their bluff and see what
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  Speaker 4: happens now. They're not going to kick LSU out. Because
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  Speaker 4: when it comes down to it, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, talk.
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  Speaker 2: Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. What do y'all
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  Speaker 2: care about more than anything? It's money.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to say no thanks to LSU's whatever football
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  Speaker 4: money they bring in?
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  Speaker 1: You think they bring Tulane back? They bring back Swanee? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: George Tech.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, think about that.
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  Speaker 4: Sankey, while you're talking all this nonsense. Yeah, think about that,
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  Speaker 4: your replacement. What are your options?
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  Speaker 2: Swanee.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to get back in the game with Jake
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  Speaker 1: into everything with LSU. Let me ask a dumb question. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's all dumb. Why is LSU dying on this hill?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's one thing to leverage, try to leverage
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  Speaker 1: something that you think is going to get you almost
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  Speaker 1: an automatic. Like if I was going to go in
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  Speaker 1: and think that these three or four players out of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL are was an automatic. This is going to
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  Speaker 1: give me the red pill, something that's going to get
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  Speaker 1: us better than everybody, and there's no doubt. And we're
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  Speaker 1: going to go straight to the championship game. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to win the thing. We're going to get on the podium.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not automatic, and we don't even know if
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  Speaker 1: it equates into one win. Why is this the heel
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  Speaker 1: they're dying on?
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  Speaker 4: So my thinking, at least two people involved in this equation,
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  Speaker 4: factoring into this pretty hard lane.
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  Speaker 2: Kiffin and.
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  Speaker 4: The governor jeff landry which is still pathetic as a
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  Speaker 4: insert word here insert any word you can think of
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  Speaker 4: here one of the most pathetic things ever you're a
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  Speaker 4: governor and you have been so in i have i
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  Speaker 4: have heard your name so many times in the past
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  Speaker 4: year involving LSU athletics than I have ever heard your
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  Speaker 4: name mentioned as governor. I never knew who the governor
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  Speaker 4: of Louisiana was. Why would I have known that? I've
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  Speaker 4: never cared. But it shouldn't be involved this hard in
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  Speaker 4: football and basketball at a school. Anyway, so you got
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  Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin. The reason I bring these two guys up
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  Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin, he's the type of guy that's going to
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  Speaker 4: stand there and just try to bucket this because he
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  Speaker 4: thinks this will give him an advantage.
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  Speaker 2: He's a football coach.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I can't 100% blame him. He's a scummy dude,
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  Speaker 4: seems like to begin with. So he's doing that. And
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  Speaker 4: then you got the governor over here. What is the governor?
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  Speaker 4: You're a politician. What do you know better than anything?
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  Speaker 4: bullcrap empty words, which is what all of this is.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, these threats that SEC's talking and boycotts
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  Speaker 4: and all that.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, it's a bluff. It's a major bluff.
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  Speaker 2: It's bullcrap.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's why I point out that Landry, you are
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  Speaker 4: a politician. You are full of bullcrap. He knows, though. See,
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  Speaker 4: neither of these people, Lane Kiffin or Landry, although ridiculous,
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  Speaker 4: they're not stupid. They notice, too. They're probably in their
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  Speaker 4: minds thinking the same thing What are y'all going to do?
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  Speaker 4: Are y'all really going to kick LSU out of the SEC?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, come on.
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  Speaker 4: They're probably saying the same thing. So I think those
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  Speaker 4: two people are a major part of this.
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  Speaker 1: I would say that you're spot on. Now, let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Lane Kiffin first. He spoke today and said that he, quote,
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  Speaker 1: will absolutely follow SEC eligibility rules if the court order
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  Speaker 1: is reversed. If, quote, I have been in communication daily
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  Speaker 1: with the SEC to make sure we are complying with
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  Speaker 1: the SEC rules. That's just talk. But to your point,
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  Speaker 1: here are the situations that this governor, Jeff Landry, since
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  Speaker 1: he took office in 2004, has inserted himself into down
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  Speaker 1: in Baton Rouge. 2024, when he took office, live Tiger
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  Speaker 1: at Tiger Stadium. Landry pushed LSU to revive the live
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  Speaker 1: Tiger tradition for the Alabama game, bringing in a Tiger
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  Speaker 1: named Omar Bradley from the Florida company. The first appearance
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  Speaker 1: is 2015. His pack. protect Louisiana values, covered the cost
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  Speaker 1: and logistics. The Tiger appeared only briefly. Women's basketball national
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  Speaker 1: anthem issues. He publicly complained that LSU women's basketball players
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  Speaker 1: were not on the court standing for the national anthem.
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  Speaker 1: The team did not change its pregame routine. Ticket price
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  Speaker 1: increase in October 25 after a home loss against A
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  Speaker 1: & M. Landry criticized LSU's announced ticket price hikes for
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  Speaker 1: the next season. University officials reversed the plan. The Brian
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  Speaker 1: Kelly firing and a $ 54 million buyout. Landry hosted a
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  Speaker 1: meeting at the governor's mansion the night after Kelly's firing
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  Speaker 1: to discuss the contract's legal and fiscal implications. He repeatedly
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  Speaker 1: warned that taxpayers could be on the hook for the
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  Speaker 1: remaining $ 54 million and called the deal terrible. He framed
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  Speaker 1: it as protecting state finances, forcing out Athletics Director Scott Woodward.
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  Speaker 1: He did that. Hiring of LSU's system president, Wade Rousseau.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say it like that because it's down there.
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  Speaker 1: Landry played a key role in installing Roussey, previously McNeese
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  Speaker 1: State as LSU system president. So he inserts a puppet
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  Speaker 1: of his into the LSU athletic department. Hiring of Lane Kiffin,
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  Speaker 1: hiring of Will Wade. He was instrumental in that. SEC
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  Speaker 1: eligibility fight over professional players. and donors summit at the
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  Speaker 1: governor's mansion talking about private equity. So you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 1: He's pulling the strings on this. Kiffin is a puppet
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  Speaker 1: on a string because he hired him. It's like he
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  Speaker 1: hired Kiffin indirectly, so Kiffin now works for him. He
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: doesn't work for the athletics director. He works for the
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: governor of Louisiana. This is a weird deal. Very weird.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: is he even worried about the state of Louisiana on
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: a day-to-day basis? Or is he just worried about LSU sports?
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Just LSU. Everything else will come together. Everything else is
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: just details.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: This is, this is crazy. This is, this is so wild.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: What's going on here. And look, I don't think the
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: sec meets with the courts and the judges until Thursday.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: We kick off on Thursday. I mean, if you count
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: week zero, we've officially kicked it off, but the official
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: official kickoff is Thursday and they're still going through this. Um,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: The conversations within the conference are considered, quote, not league-driven,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: but membership-led. The 15 SEC University leaders, excuse me, excluding LSU,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: have gathered over potential options to address the situation. Said
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: one school official, these conversations are serious. Also, the way is,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: you know, all this LSU has helped create this whole
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: fiasco with the pro players. Statement from the SEC about
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Saturday's news. of their expected compliance, which we, you know,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: that was over the weekend. The court said, no, you
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: got to comply. You got to let them play. The
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: SEC put this statement out. The order entered against the
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: SEC and commissioner Sankey is, is a temporary restraining order,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: not a final ruling on its merits or the merits.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: The SEC and commissioner Sankey are prepared to contest the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: allegations in the plaintiff's petition at Thursday morning's hearings and
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: defend the SEC's rights as a voluntary association to fulfill
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: the its mission to its member institutions. In the meantime,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the SEC and Commissioner Sankey will continue to comply with
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the court's order. Following the hearing, the SEC will carefully
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: review the court's decision and determine the appropriate next step.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: So you've got two things going on. Based on the weekend,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: the way I understand it, correct me if I'm wrong
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: out there because I can be wrong occasionally, the court
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: order over the weekend allows the players in the NFL
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: to come back. The SEC is saying, so LSU is saying,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: come on, let's go. Get them in here. Get them
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: in here. Until they tell us no, they're coming. And
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: this is on Thursday. The SEC is going to try
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: to have this reversed. But in the meantime, they're exploring
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: what to do with LSU because LSU is the one
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: who's creating the whole mess. Does this affect LSU mentally
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: on Saturday? Or do they just not even care? And
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: they're like, hey, guns a blazing. We're shooting up the place.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: We don't care. We're going to go wear Clemson out
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and bring in our NFL players.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think they care. I don't think Kiffin
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: cares about much. I mean, because he's the most vilified
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: dude the past 10 months. And I just don't feel
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: that he cares that that's his persona. I don't think
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: he cares how hated he is. And that includes with
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: this story, because a lot more people are probably hating
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: him now. I don't get the feeling he's affected by that.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: So I don't think this will affect how they play.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Or how they're coached or any of that.
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• 23:06
  Speaker 1: are we going to replace LSU with in the SEC?
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I think maybe a better punishment would
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: be they can't play any home games and all games
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: have to be played in purple jerseys or something like that,
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: you know, and truly drive them crazy. And I say
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: this as somebody who actually likes LSU. I've enjoyed visits
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: down there and just something about the atmosphere special. But
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: when they made the hire they made, and maybe this
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: applies to more to one sport down there, they might
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: as well have given a 12-year-old boy a box of
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: matches and go say, take care of the fireworks tent
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: for an evening there. And now they're shocked that it's
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: blowing up. So, you know, Like many others say, let's
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: just play the games, get going. But there needs to
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: be some, obviously, phonology to this. And otherwise, because now
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: you already have fans of every school saying, well, why
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: don't we do the same? Because, you know, we play
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: well because it's self-destructive. It's damaging to the sport in general.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: I know that's an archaic thought. Care about the state
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: of the sport in general? All that stuff.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Anyway, it's not something we have to worry about right
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: now at Mississippi State. We're still, as of this morning,
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Jeff Levy clarified that Jerron Manning and Malik Silla will
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: not be playing this first game. They're still working through
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: the process there, waiting basically for the final ruling to
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: come out and see if it's worth their time. And
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: even if they were clear, it would be October 4.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: They could really be a factor now because they haven't
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: done anything since spring. Also, We don't know all he
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: said about the Miles McVeigh situation was that the discipline
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: was taken care of in-house, and he'll be ready to
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: roll this weekend. Maybe an interesting metaphor, given that it
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: was a rolling violation that he ran afoul of, but
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: who am I to say? And the transfer defensive lineman,
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: that's still being worked through as well, waiting for eligibility
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: status confirmation. No injury news this morning, not that we
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: expected anything, but I think the Bulldogs are coming in
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: really healthy for this preseason to the point that Kamario
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Taylor was talking today at the press conference about how
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: he'd been begging Coach Levy to let him run some
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: and not blow the whistle, and Levy would say, nah,
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: you stay in the pocket. Well, now the real game
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: has come, and let's see if he stays in the
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: pocket as told to or just can't give him to
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: the temptation and starts running a little bit. As far
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: as game interest, it's Louisiana Monroe. You're going to win
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: the game. The whole idea is what are we going
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: to see, what are we not going to see, what
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: will they hold back ahead of Minnesota, if anything. And
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: that's a long introduction to say, Jake, that it's time
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: to play a lightweight on opening weekend and get the
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: first look at the 20-2016.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: David Murray on your radio. Make sure to get a subscription.
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  Speaker 1: team on X. Yeah, David, I mean, Mississippi State, a
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: big favorite coming into the weekend. I think I saw
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  Speaker 1: it somewhere around 28 or 29 points, depending on where
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  Speaker 1: look for is how well does the offensive line block
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: throughout the game, meaning are they opening run holes or
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: is it hard to churn out run yards? If Mississippi
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: State has a couple pop plays– two or three big plays,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and they get up 21-0. That's one thing, but are
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: they opening holes? Are they allowing pressure to get to
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: the quarterback, that offensive front defensively? Are you getting gashed
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: in the run game? What are you looking for?
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm thinking along the same lines there. I want
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: to see control of the line of scrimmage on both
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: sides of the ball, obviously, in this game. You notice, too,
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: that in both of Jeff Levy's season openers, Let's see,
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: last year they scored about 90 seconds into the game
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: on a throw to, say, Detroit. Two years ago, a
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: sideline throw turned into a big touchdown pass just 30
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: seconds into the game to Jordan Mosley. So will this
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: be the game where finally State just goes on a
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: regular routine sort of opening drive, assuming they get the ball,
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: which Jeff Levy's team has been really good at getting
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: the ball first, for one thing. Yeah, I want to
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: see that. I'd rather see a grinding execution game with
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: a few explosives. I would just rather see basic execution
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: out there in this sort of game, more of a
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: scrimmage type rather than fireworks-type plays, because in the long run,
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: you're going to need to make those drives against your
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: better teams. And one thing that Levy pointed out this morning, too,
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: and I agree with, having watched some games over the weekend,
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: You notice a lot of pre-snap penalties or alignment problems
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: or getting the ball, the play you called in time,
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: getting everybody lined up correctly. I want to see that
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: done this first game because if you're taking care of
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: a basics in your first game like that, you don't
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: have a lot of pre-snap penalties, you don't commit turnovers,
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: that's probably the most pleasing way to start the season,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: at least to Jeff Levy's mind at this point. Just
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: give me a nice, efficient game, no injuries. and start
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: getting ready for the make or break games, which are
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: coming up very quickly this season with, uh, both on
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: the road, Minnesota and South Carolina.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, David, it's, it's interesting. You, you play the game
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: on Saturday and of course we'll get into Minnesota next week.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I think that is, we've talked about this all off season. That's,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: that's kind of the linchpin of this season is how
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: they play on the road. Uh, you know, on an
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: opponent that you're not familiar with. Uh, and then of course,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: South Carolina at home before coming back home to, uh, Missouri,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: as far as the health of the team, um, after
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: camp now camp now over in the game week, what
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: is the health of the team that we know of today?
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: As far as we know, it's good. I ran a
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: piece last week on the site, uh, scoured all the
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: injury news around the sec that was available. And, uh,
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: the two Mississippi teams are starting out the season and
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: really good health by all occasions there. You've got some
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: other teams that have some injuries, uh, Tennessee for one.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: And then you've got the, um, cloud hanging over some
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: eligibilities as well. So, uh, I think right now, Levy
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: could not ask for his team to be better physical shape.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: As far as emotional shape, I think that's even better.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: Camario was great this morning. Isaac Smith, Anthony Evans, we
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: talked to those guys, Kelly Jones. They're ready to play ball,
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: but not in the sense that they're just tired of camp.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: I don't think they ever got to that point. I
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: think they've been approaching this camp with a great attitude
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: all the way through so far, and that, to me,
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: is another mark that at least whatever happens in the field,
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: you know the culture is being built correctly. They've handled
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: all those assignments well. Now it comes down to proving
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: it on the field because everything's great. until you start
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: battling for minutes and snaps and things like that. I
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: want to see, like I said, lines of scrimmage established.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: If you're going to ask, what is one arcane thing
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: that I'm looking for, I would say I want to
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: see the speed in general of the front line and
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: the linebackers. I expect them to be faster this year,
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: but I want to see it actually happen. Maybe not
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: showing up in sacks and hurries, but I want to
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: see a lot more mobility potentially. from that front six
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: or so, because to me that's going to be more
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: the key once you get into the season. Is Zach
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: Arnett's defense really going to be as let it rip
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: and as aggressive as they hope to be out there,
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: which frankly I think suits the roster very well, or
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: do they hold things back for the opening game? And
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: that's one of the more arcane things I think I'm
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: watching for this weekend as well.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Talking to David Murray, Mississippi State, season opener coming up
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: against Louisiana Monroe this Saturday. Monday edition of your radio show. Yeah,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I would figure, David, you would see, because looking at
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Minnesota's schedule, they open with Eastern Illinois. Both of these
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: two coaching staffs know what next week is. It's their
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: first big game. But you're going to see both teams
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: kind of hold that back. I would assume Arnett plays
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: a base defense. He may do a little blitzing if
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: they need to here and there. And offensively, probably more
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: of a base package as well and see what you
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: can come up with and try to hold that stuff
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: to next week.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: You know, we say that. But I don't think it's
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: in Arnott's character to hold things back that much. And
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: I don't think that's in this team's character defensively. I'm
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: not talking about schematically. Obviously, they'll hold some cards back there.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: I'm just talking more about the attitude and approach to it.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: I think he does just turn them loose and let
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: them go. Because, let's be blunt, this is the kind
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: of game where you can probably afford to make mistakes
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: and not pay too dearly for it. It's one thing
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: to practice against your own offense, especially when you're not
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: allowed to tackle the quarterback or even knock your own
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: running back's receivers down too hard. This game, all the
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: leashes are off and it's time to go. I want
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: to see if they translate that aggression onto the field
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: against an opponent that they should dominate, but still at
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: the same time not take anything for granted. I know
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: it's a very fine line there that only the actual
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: play can show, But maybe offensively they hold some cards back.
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: I don't think defensively they will. I think you have
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: to be what you are from the first snap of
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: the season because that's just going to be the mentality
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: for the whole season. If you're trying to rein them
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: in and then say next week you can go loose,
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: that can get a little confusing at times. I think
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: you just establish who and what you are right from
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: the first time the ball snapped by the other team.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: David Burry, make sure to find him at jeanspage247sports. com. They'll
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: have you covered all season long with practice reports, updates,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: and more. David, thank you so much. We should have
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: some good weather on Saturday. I did see where Tuscaloosa
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: is expected to be, like 110 somewhere on the field.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: It will be rather warm on Saturday, but you'll be covered.
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll be covered, but remember, the field press box
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: does not have air conditioning.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: It never has, probably never will. So don't act like
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: I'm in the arms of comfort up there in that box.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: At least I'll be in the shade. But, you know,
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: Levy made that comment to do. 630 start, at least
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: half the stadium is going to be in shade. So
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: it shouldn't be too bad at all. And, frankly, with
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: the buildup to this team, everybody wanted to see Camario play,
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: wanted to see a faster, more aggressive defense play. And, frankly,
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: a great chance to obviously get up there and just
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: watch the team have some fun opening game. And you
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: don't get to see them again for another couple of
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: weeks because I think the turnout should be very interesting.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: We'll get a judge of what the fan base really
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: feels about this team, their optimism, by what the crowd
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: count is come about halftime Saturday.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: David and Joy, have a great Labor Day weekend. We'll
• 33:50
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  Speaker 1: Do it with Cowboy Maloney's. We'll have Tony Vance coming
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  Speaker 1: in at 440-ish, 445 in an hour. Talk a little
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  Speaker 1: Meridian Wildcat football. We'll get into some high school football
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: recap over the weekend. I will say this. Tupelo, again,
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  Speaker 1: is the real deal. And I wouldn't be shocked to
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  Speaker 1: see them win the whole thing again at seven. I just,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't, they got a really good quarterback, two really
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  Speaker 1: good running backs. They got three division one linebackers. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they are loaded. Absolutely loaded. All right, let's see here.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Kip talking about the Louisiana governor. He said, have you
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: heard about, uh, Elon putting a new SpaceX and Vermillion parish, Louisiana?
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  Speaker 1: I have says Landry also put in the work, uh,
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  Speaker 1: on that development. It's worth a hundred billion. He, uh,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Looks like he cares about day-to-day in Louisiana, because we
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: were joking, saying, does he care about the day-to-day? And look,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: of course, he's doing a lot for the state of Louisiana.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: He's infiltrated himself, though, into the LSU sports programs. More bully.
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  Speaker 1: Kiffin's approach is any news is good news. He's a
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: clueless blonde. And Toddy, Jake, have you made your lock
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  Speaker 1: pick of the week yet? I have not, but we will.
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  Speaker 1: I have not made my lock of the week yet,
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  Speaker 1: but I am leaning towards SMU, easily over Florida State. Easily.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's see here. All right, we've been talking
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  Speaker 1: about this. Ball games, of course, coming up this week.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I am glad we have ball games to discuss because
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: it feels like all we discuss is court cases, but
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: that is the news. The edge rusher for Tampa Bay,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Jack Pyburn, has been picked up off waivers by the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs, so he is headed to Kansas City,
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  Speaker 1: not LSU. So it's hard to believe we've got a
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: bidding award. Are you going to go to the Chiefs
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: or are you going to LSU? It's just crazy. Also,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Virginia Tech has named Penn State transfer quarterback Ethan Grunkenmeier
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  Speaker 1: as its starting quarterback for James Franklin and Penn State
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. And again, LSU's Lane Kiffin says he will, quote,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely follow SEC eligibility rules. If the court order is reversed,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: that would be on Thursday. He says, I've been in
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  Speaker 1: communication daily with the SEC to make sure we are
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  Speaker 1: complying with the SEC roles. So what they're going to
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: do is they're teeing these guys up. They're down in
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  Speaker 1: Baton Rouge, likely, these NFL players, four, five, six of them,
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  Speaker 1: or however many it is. And they're waiting. And if
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: the SEC gets slapped on the hand and says, no,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: you have to let them play on Thursday, they'll suit up.
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  Speaker 1: They will literally suit up on Saturday versus Clemson. If not,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: I guess Kiffin tells them to take a hike. I
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: have no idea. Let's see. The real unnamed texter. Need
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  Speaker 1: a super guaranteed lock of the week to get my
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: house back homeless again. Also, read my text from Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: Laughing.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. Saturday. Saturday. Does anyone have a cheap place
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  Speaker 1: I can move to because I lost my house again?
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  Speaker 1: I will learn one day. Well, Bieber, would you let
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: the real unnamed texter grab the floor at your house? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be like an old school sleepover.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like when Bro City used to come over.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Our room's not that big, so like it... One
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  Speaker 4: person had to sleep halfway in the closet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So real undead texture. Half your body's going to be
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: in the closet, but you've got a floor, and that's
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: the important. I make a dynamite pallet, by the way.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: And you've got- But you didn't know that. Covered ceiling,
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  Speaker 1: air conditioner, heat if you need it, water. You're good.
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  Speaker 1: It's all you need.
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  Speaker 2: I've got cooked steak and cheeses in the fridge.
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  Speaker 1: It's all you need.
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  Speaker 3: 601-897-1059.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to call us on the Mississippi sports medicine,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: call the line. Bill Conley is back out with his
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: SP plus top 772. This is one of my favorite
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: things of the year during football season. I love how
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Bill Conley does ranks every team in football. And I'm
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: talking about collegiately from division one over to the NIA
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: and more. And he gives you these weird lines. For instance,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: if Maine was to take on Maine, Mary time, Maine
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  Speaker 1: would be a minus 81 point favorite or 89, 89
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  Speaker 1: point favorite. Speaking of, I don't know if you guys
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: saw this or not over the weekend. Let me go
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  Speaker 1: back to some of this. Let me roll back to
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  Speaker 1: the stack here. Wrong way. There we go. All right.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: There we go. All right. Let's see here. Also. over
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: the weekend where did it go where did it go
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: yeah South Carolina State defeated Savannah State over the weekend
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  Speaker 1: 87 to nothing now a lot of people are saying
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  Speaker 1: this is poor sportsmanship I go back to the Steve
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  Speaker 1: Spurrier you know mantra hey look we're just running plays
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: it's up to you to stop us We're just running plays.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Anything over there? Selling taxes. All right, let's see here.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Let's get into this real kindly, real quickly. Of course,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Ohio State is his number one team, followed by Oregon,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame, you know, the list down there. So he's got,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: let me pull this back. And big win for Jackson State,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: by the way, over the weekend. Jackson State gets a
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: close victory. So the Tigers are off to 1-0. If
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: we go to the worst team in the country, We
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: pull this back and go this way. Where did that go?
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Hold on. His spreadsheet is massive. Let's see. Maine Mary
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: time is the worst team in the country. Lawrence as
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: the second worst team, Dean, New England college, Manchester, Beloit
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: and Oberlin. And let's see here. Our team Rio Grande
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: is down there, but they're moving up. Let's see. Arkansas Baptist. Westminster, Missouri.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I'm looking through some of these teams. Simpson, not like
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Simpson Academy, Simpson in California. I always look for teams
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: that we've never heard of because they just seem to
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: populate here. Swanee is rated 691 in the country. Let's see. Calvin, 625.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Mack in Vicksburg says, I'm sure Maurice Claret was fuming
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: watching all these NFL guys trying to go back to college.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Probably so. Unnamed texture. My high school coach used to say,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Get a better defense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that score, did you hear that score
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: over the weekend? It was, where did it go? Savannah
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: State lost to South Carolina State 87 to nothing. And
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: some people said it's bad sportsmanship. And I said, Steve
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Spurrier would say, we're just running plays. You got to
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: stop us. As this texture says, get a better defense. Yeah.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: And let's see here. Plymouth State is rated 622. There's
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: actually a university out there called Colby at 644. And
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: let's see here. Brevard at 598.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: Wait, we have a gate on the text line. There's
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: one you didn't read. It seems like there's a charter
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: bus gate now.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Where is this?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Unnamed texture. Just tuning in. Thank you for picking that up.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Sorry about that. We have talked about the charter bus
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: bowl game. From Friday night, Brandon versus Tupelo. The worst
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: decision ever to rent charter buses for a team that
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: hasn't done anything. Hopefully, they will be on the yellow
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: dogs for the rest of the year. Good God almighty. Yeah,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: they took... There's nothing wrong with taking charter buses. That's
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: a long trip.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: There's also nothing wrong with taking the old school yellow
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  Speaker 4: buses like teams used to do constantly.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: But y'all softer. So let's get the charter.
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  Speaker 5: Charter.
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  Speaker 1: Bus gate out in 042. Mercy me. That was the
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: best thing for Brandon on Friday because the ball game
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: was not it. Hour two coming up next. Get ready
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  Speaker 1: for dove season at Vans Outdoors in Brandon. They've got
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