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Jake Thompson Interview · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Jake Thompson on three Sports the Ole Miss Spirit on
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  Speaker 1: They'll take it at on three Sports. Jake, welcome in brother.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing well. Just on my way to Lincoln, Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: So you've made that trip before.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's a long interesting trip or maybe not as interesting,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean, hey, you're going for a you know,
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  Speaker 2: a big deal there Ole Miss a two seed and
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  Speaker 2: the Lincoln Nebraska Regional there in Nebraska, Ole Miss also
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  Speaker 2: Arizona State and South Dakota State.
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  Speaker 1: Your thoughts about the seeding.
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  Speaker 2: Was that about where you felt Ole Miss, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not maybe not necessarily that region, but just about that
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  Speaker 2: picking order.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they've they've been considered a one of the top
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  Speaker 3: four two seeds. I guess you could call it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if you're breaking it down that way. They've always been
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  Speaker 3: right there at that cut line of hosting. It was
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  Speaker 3: like a six seventeen eighteen nineteen and all the projections,
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  Speaker 3: and we knew how close they came to getting a
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  Speaker 3: host you know, opportunity this weekend in Offstar, but it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't to be. And you know, they've had a nice
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  Speaker 3: two weeks off after that lost in Missouri and coming
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  Speaker 3: into this regional, which I think a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: view as a you know, kind of a really tough regional,
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  Speaker 3: all eyes are kind of on it. They've there's you know,
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  Speaker 3: ESPNS and then their A crew announced team or one
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  Speaker 3: of their A crew teams, and the Ole Miss games
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  Speaker 3: on TV tomorrow night or Friday night. That is, so
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  Speaker 3: it's all eyes or on the this regional and it's
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  Speaker 3: more specifically dispatch up between them and the sun Devils
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  Speaker 3: Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: So let's start first off, health of the team, just
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  Speaker 2: kind of an update of the status of the team is.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they get the break from the tournament like
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  Speaker 2: everybody does as they prepare to you know, obviously take
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  Speaker 2: the field coming up Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think you know, in hindsight, they
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  Speaker 3: all realize that it's you know, it was probably a
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  Speaker 3: blessing in the skies. Was kind of the phrase they
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  Speaker 3: all use with us Monday afternoon in terms of getting
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  Speaker 3: health and getting guys ready, especially when it to you know,
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  Speaker 3: Hunter Elliott, K Townsend and Taylor Rady getting your three
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  Speaker 3: guys to not throw a pitch and hoover and they
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  Speaker 3: get a good two weeks off, you know, heading into
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  Speaker 3: what I think was obviously more important, which is the
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  Speaker 3: regional than the SEC tournament, with how the lack of
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  Speaker 3: importance it was put on that it seems for other teams.
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  Speaker 3: So no, they're in a good spot health wise, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And the biggest I think was for K Townsend. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he's he had that shorter issue in Texas that first
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  Speaker 3: weekend of SEC play, missed the weekend and has made
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  Speaker 3: all of you know, those eight starts since, but had
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  Speaker 3: us some tough outings against A or A and M
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  Speaker 3: in Alabama. So it was probably really good for him
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  Speaker 3: to get a coup, you know, some downtime outside of
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  Speaker 3: some scheduled bullpens sessions with no like live competitive throwing.
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  Speaker 3: So I think they're in a good spot with those
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  Speaker 3: three guys, you know, heading into a regional, and I
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  Speaker 3: think they're they're a really good starting trio. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's what we've seen all year is they've been they've
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  Speaker 3: on's kept on missing games if the offense, you know,
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  Speaker 3: trying to get the offense time to wake up or
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  Speaker 3: score some runs. So having a healthy trio like that
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  Speaker 3: is going to pay dividends. I think, you know, start
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  Speaker 3: Friday visiting.
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  Speaker 1: With Jake Thompson.
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  Speaker 2: He is with ol Miss excuse me, the on three sports,
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  Speaker 2: the ole Miss Spirit as he is headed to Lincoln,
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska for the ole Miss Regional coming up this weekend
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  Speaker 2: in Lincoln, Nebraska. So ole Miss pitching has been pretty
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  Speaker 2: darn solid this year. You have to like the bullpen
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  Speaker 2: and the lineup in this as long as you stand
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  Speaker 2: in the winners bracket, and you know, even in this
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  Speaker 2: you can move into the loser's bracket because it's not
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  Speaker 2: a massive tournament. Talk a little bit about that, and
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  Speaker 2: it's how Ole Miss might match up with, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the other bullpens in this fourteenth regional.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I did a kind of a deep dive.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like ole Miss may have the more battle
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  Speaker 3: tested bullpen or just pitching staff as a whole, going
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  Speaker 3: against you know, ten straight weekends of SEC opponents in
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  Speaker 3: what I probably is the strongest top to bottom conference
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  Speaker 3: in baseball. And so I think that's going to play
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  Speaker 3: a factor. You know, obviously you're excited to have a healthy,
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  Speaker 3: arrested walker. You hope that the time off is maybe
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  Speaker 3: got in Hudson calfoun right a little bit. And then
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  Speaker 3: from there you just kind of got to see what
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  Speaker 3: you have from some other guys, some midweek guys like
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  Speaker 3: Will Libbert and others that have been more of your
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  Speaker 3: midweek or bullpen guys in certain games. So you know
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  Speaker 3: you've got your whole staff. You got two games, you
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  Speaker 3: know for sure, you hope that's a win win, and
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  Speaker 3: then you've got a third one guaranteed on Sunday if
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  Speaker 3: you can do that. And so I think they had
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  Speaker 3: the edge and depth of pitching staff in the bullpen.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, the key to me is they've got
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  Speaker 3: to get past the Arizona State. That seems to be,
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  Speaker 3: at least from what we're writing or what others are saying,
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  Speaker 3: Nebraska's kind of that quote unbook disrespected host where it
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  Speaker 3: feels like they're the third best team and it's like
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  Speaker 3: Ole Miss Arizona battling it out to who might pull
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  Speaker 3: that regional out, and then there's Nebraska. And so I
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  Speaker 3: think it feels like whoever gets one to know Friday
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  Speaker 3: night between the Rebels and Sun Devils is going to
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  Speaker 3: have a good be in a good spot the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: So when you look at you know, Ole Miss isn't
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about this, but you look at the
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  Speaker 2: cross you know, kind of we can talk about this.
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  Speaker 2: Paired up with the Auburn regional Auburn, Milwaukee, n C State,
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  Speaker 2: and Central Florida, And obviously you would think Auburn is
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  Speaker 2: going to walk through that regional. We know that sometimes
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't happen in this tournament till you look up
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  Speaker 2: on a weekend and Milwaukee has won a game, or
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  Speaker 2: UCF and NC States in the Winter's bracket. But just
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  Speaker 2: looking at the pairing of the eight, Ole Miss, if
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  Speaker 2: they can get through this regional how do you feel
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  Speaker 2: about the the pairing with the Auburn regional. Obviously Auburn
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  Speaker 2: the clear favorite there a team that you know obviously
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  Speaker 2: plays in the same conference there, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: see a lot of this. I think next week is
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  Speaker 2: you know, several of these SEC rematches in the supers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I was saying to people you know
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  Speaker 3: around here and others I've talked to that once the
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  Speaker 3: SEC irregular season was done and everybody and Hoover was
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  Speaker 3: done and all the SEC teams kind of went their
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  Speaker 3: separate ways. The ones who made the tournament went in
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  Speaker 3: some you know, other regionals, I feel like it has
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  Speaker 3: the potential to be a very good weekend for the
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  Speaker 3: SEC as a whole and to lead in the way
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  Speaker 3: you're saying, there's the chance for a few SEC SEC
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  Speaker 3: Super Regions matchups, you know, potentially Georgia State as well.
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  Speaker 3: Ole Miss Auburn is an option, and I think there's
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  Speaker 3: a couple. More so, it's it has the chance for
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  Speaker 3: the conference to have a good weekend in that regard,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, in terms of if ale Miss can
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  Speaker 3: get to Auburn next weekend, you know, they didn't face
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  Speaker 3: them in the regular season, So it's hard to say.
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  Speaker 3: And I know Auburn kind of started hot and non
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  Speaker 3: conference scuffled a little to start the conference play, but
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  Speaker 3: obviously are peaking at the right time to earn a
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  Speaker 3: four seed, you know, a four national seeds. So they've
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  Speaker 3: played well to end the season, which is what you
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  Speaker 3: want to do. So that would be an interesting matchup,
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  Speaker 3: A tough one, I still think. But you know, knowing
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  Speaker 3: that you don't have mid weeks anymore, You've just got
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  Speaker 3: a couple of games, the game in front of you
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  Speaker 3: and your whole pitching staff for those games. I think
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  Speaker 3: that that helps Ole miss in that regard. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there is a path. I think they're happy to not
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  Speaker 3: have to go to a Texas or a UCLA or
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  Speaker 3: Georgia Tech or Georgia. I think they're happy with Auburn
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  Speaker 3: being that next step if they can get their next weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I got you for a couple of minutes. SEC
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  Speaker 2: Spring meetings are going on. Playoffs, playoffs, playoffs. Uh, that's
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  Speaker 2: that's the theme here. You know, twenty four teams are
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  Speaker 2: not I know some are in the favor. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Danny White h at Tennessee is very high spoken about Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I want more access. I love twenty four. Greg Sankie's
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  Speaker 2: not Kirby Smart has said earlier this week, Hey, if
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  Speaker 2: we break away, I'm here for the breakaway. So you
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  Speaker 2: got a smorgasboard of comments, uh and opinions on this
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  Speaker 2: has has Keith Carter or even you know they a'll
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  Speaker 2: miss anybody able then you know Pete Golding or they
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  Speaker 2: almost football. Have they commented here recently on their I
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  Speaker 2: guess opinion of twenty four teams, sixteen teams, a breakaway or.
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  Speaker 1: Anything of that nature.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I talked with Keith and that's not
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  Speaker 3: something you know at times a couple of months ago,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even think kind of check his temperature on.
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  Speaker 3: But it's not something he's publicly put a stance on
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  Speaker 3: either way to us, and I don't think anybody else really.
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  Speaker 3: And Pete is a guy that's kind of kind of
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  Speaker 3: learning on the job as terms of a head coach
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  Speaker 3: and at the podium and he kind of just as says,
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  Speaker 3: whatever the whatever the whatever it is is what it is,
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  Speaker 3: we'll figure it out. So I think whatever number he
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  Speaker 3: gets told it'll be, which is twelve for this year,
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  Speaker 3: and then obviously if I assume it'll change for twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty seven, or that's what it feels like. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he's going to just be like, all right, well now
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  Speaker 3: we've added extra spots for us to get in, you know,
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  Speaker 3: which is I think that's good for All Miss. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I know that's maybe not be what people want to think. Well,
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  Speaker 3: of course they can get in because they're adding slots.
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  Speaker 1: Just like that.
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  Speaker 3: The basketball term is expanding to seventy two or whatever
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  Speaker 3: it is. So it feels like now it's easier potentially
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  Speaker 3: for teams to get in, especially in a strong conference
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  Speaker 3: like the SEC, and for All Miss. So I feel like,
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  Speaker 3: probably in the back in their head they're okay with it,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't know if publicly that they'll ever give
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  Speaker 3: a stance one way or the other until like it's
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  Speaker 3: decided and they'll say, yeah, oh yeah, we agree with
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  Speaker 3: whatever they rubberstand.
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  Speaker 2: Jake Thompson get him on on three and of course
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  Speaker 2: you can also follow him on X. Jake, appreciate your time,
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  Speaker 2: safe travels and back to Nebraska. Enjoy this weekend and
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  Speaker 2: we'll recap next week with you