Latest / Off The Bench / Hour Three | Lane Kiffin’s Expectations, Greg Sankey & Billy Liucci
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn's.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Say, Hester and Hester got it by a pie.
- 0:07Speaker 1: From carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each other.
- 0:11Speaker 3: On the air, there's brought control for they.
- 0:16Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine Studio.
- 0:19Speaker 4: It's off the bench, all right, Welcome back an OTV
- 0:34Speaker 4: here live from SEC Media Days in Tampa. Gonna be
- 0:39Speaker 4: joined now by Blaine Crane on three Now.
- 0:43Speaker 5: Yes, sir, look at you made.
- 0:45Speaker 6: It moving one Jeffersons.
- 0:48Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just feels great.
- 0:51Speaker 6: It is a it is a crazy rise. And congratulations
- 0:54Speaker 6: on him, by the way, but.
- 0:55Speaker 4: I remember talking with your brother Jake, and he was
- 0:59Speaker 4: like basically holding the equipment together as he was interviewing me.
- 1:04Speaker 6: And that wasn't that long ago.
- 1:05Speaker 4: He was like holding it together so it didn't fall apart.
- 1:08Speaker 4: And to go from that, and you've had a couple
- 1:10Speaker 4: of different stops and a lot of elevation, which again
- 1:13Speaker 4: congratulations on all that. But how quickly everything's kind of
- 1:16Speaker 4: come together for y'all.
- 1:17Speaker 5: Man, I swear I might I might be in a coma,
- 1:21Speaker 5: you know, like sometimes I think I don't know if
- 1:24Speaker 5: it's real, just the way that it happened from starting
- 1:26Speaker 5: in the back. I'm only went down here. My brother's
- 1:28Speaker 5: probably they're having a baby next week.
- 1:30Speaker 6: And I was I figured that was.
- 1:32Speaker 5: Like fourteen kids. So you know, they said who among us?
- 1:35Speaker 7: You know what I mean?
- 1:35Speaker 5: Yeah, So yeah, it's been crazy just to stops and
- 1:39Speaker 5: start in the back of my grandmother's house.
- 1:41Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 1:41Speaker 5: Colin Cowherd the Daily Wire.
- 1:43Speaker 8: And now what was that? How long ago was that?
- 1:45Speaker 8: That started?
- 1:46Speaker 5: Five or six years?
- 1:47Speaker 8: Yeah?
- 1:47Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it was COVID. It was COVID, like
- 1:49Speaker 5: me and my brother were both coaching, and it.
- 1:52Speaker 6: Was Jake was he was it j Boy?
- 1:54Speaker 5: Yes, it was yeah, Oh, trust me. He still has
- 1:57Speaker 5: sweatshirts he wears around with this based on us as the.
- 2:01Speaker 9: Jay Boys show.
- 2:01Speaker 5: So I don't let him got in public that much
- 2:03Speaker 5: with it. But no, man, it's been a crazy turn events.
- 2:06Speaker 8: We're blessed.
- 2:07Speaker 6: We're we're extremely blessed in Nashville.
- 2:09Speaker 5: Now, yeah, yes, sir, that's awesome, Yes, sir, that's right.
- 2:12Speaker 9: I mean.
- 2:12Speaker 5: And the good thing about it, like when we went
- 2:14Speaker 5: from the Deaily Wire two on three, we're both.
- 2:17Speaker 4: In nash right there, right five minutes away from each other,
- 2:20Speaker 4: so you're getting a chance to see the city grow
- 2:22Speaker 4: because it's i mean, the fastest growing city for sure.
- 2:24Speaker 4: But you know what, you also get to see Vanderbilt
- 2:27Speaker 4: football on the rock.
- 2:28Speaker 5: I'm telling you doesn't get talked about enough. Clark Lee.
- 2:31Speaker 5: I mean, I know James Franklin won maybe ten games
- 2:33Speaker 5: or something like that twice, say, but what he's building there.
- 2:35Speaker 5: I know, Diego Pave is gone, they lost some pizzas,
- 2:38Speaker 5: But this Jared Curtis kid. Seeing him in person, he's
- 2:41Speaker 5: going to be a problem. Yeah, he might be fourteen
- 2:43Speaker 5: years old. One he's a giant, but two he's got
- 2:46Speaker 5: all the ability. Obviously he's young. He's gonna have some
- 2:48Speaker 5: learning curves and stuff like that. But Van, he's not
- 2:51Speaker 5: going anywhere, right, And I don't think so anything.
- 2:53Speaker 10: It seems like Clark Lee's not going anywhere either. No,
- 2:55Speaker 10: he's I don't think it's one of these like let's
- 2:58Speaker 10: build this up and then go.
- 2:59Speaker 8: Take Texas job.
- 3:01Speaker 5: Yeah, it feels like it's and like he's the c
- 3:03Speaker 5: suite staying the same. No O, see the DC, they
- 3:06Speaker 5: got a blueprint right there right now that that's working
- 3:09Speaker 5: and they're sticking to it.
- 3:10Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, Tim Beck's don an incredible job. We
- 3:12Speaker 4: were talking about that earlier. It's not trick them stuff,
- 3:14Speaker 4: it's actually ball plays that they execute at a high level.
- 3:18Speaker 4: Steve Gregory, I was teammates with him for a long
- 3:20Speaker 4: time in the NFL.
- 3:21Speaker 6: That guy is incredibly sharp.
- 3:23Speaker 4: But I think last year was a big year for
- 3:24Speaker 4: him too, sure cause you know, Clark's like, hey, it's
- 3:26Speaker 4: yours now, like this is your defense. I'll be here
- 3:29Speaker 4: like you know, I'll watch film with you, but it's
- 3:31Speaker 4: now your defense.
- 3:32Speaker 6: And as you know, that's a big deal.
- 3:33Speaker 4: Whenever the head coach is kind of the decordinator, he
- 3:35Speaker 4: goes all right, I'm trusting you, here's the keys.
- 3:38Speaker 6: And then Steve did what he did and they went
- 3:39Speaker 6: tend too.
- 3:40Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not it's not Vannerbil's not winning football games
- 3:42Speaker 5: because of luck. Yeah anymore like you you look at
- 3:45Speaker 5: those guys get off the bus and you're like, wow,
- 3:47Speaker 5: they belong Yeah right, and it's not finesse football. A
- 3:49Speaker 5: lot of rpo game, but they'll run it straight at
- 3:51Speaker 5: your teeth and no doubt you got to live that
- 3:53Speaker 5: way in the SEC, especially a weekend week out.
- 3:55Speaker 10: Yeah, let's let's talk about today, Like what we're seeing
- 3:58Speaker 10: here on I guess digital dry radio whatever.
- 4:03Speaker 2: Dry.
- 4:03Speaker 11: That doesn't make it Nascar.
- 4:05Speaker 5: It's just they're just making stuff up at this point.
- 4:08Speaker 10: They're just make you stuf that to sound cool and
- 4:10Speaker 10: making church it up a little bit. It's okay, but
- 4:13Speaker 10: you got Alabama, Alabama, you got Florida, Ole, Miss Texas
- 4:16Speaker 10: A and now, like, what's a couple of storylines that
- 4:19Speaker 10: you're hoping to kind of get out of, whether it's
- 4:21Speaker 10: the players, whether it's the coaches, whatever it is.
- 4:24Speaker 5: Today, Well, the big thing with me, we had Kealyn
- 4:26Speaker 5: Deboron and you know the fact that Alabama and Oklahoma
- 4:30Speaker 5: you can put in the same boat made the playoff
- 4:32Speaker 5: last year's insane to me because Alabama and Oklahoma won
- 4:35Speaker 5: the worst running teams in the country. Like, I know
- 4:38Speaker 5: you had Ty Simpson, but you have no Alabama football
- 4:41Speaker 5: is with all the skill position players they had to
- 4:43Speaker 5: Julio Jones Is. You can go through the list, like
- 4:46Speaker 5: Alabama won all those national championships because they killed people
- 4:48Speaker 5: up front, Yeah, on the boatside, on both sides of
- 4:50Speaker 5: the ball. And it's going to be interesting this year
- 4:52Speaker 5: because I don't think a finess head coach can fit
- 4:55Speaker 5: at Alabama for too long. And I think right now.
- 4:59Speaker 5: Ryan Grubb even go back with the Seahawks, he kind
- 5:01Speaker 5: of had a little bit of complaints in not running
- 5:02Speaker 5: the ball enough. So my big thing is a mentality
- 5:05Speaker 5: at Alabama. Is it going to stay the same or
- 5:08Speaker 5: are they going to be, Hey, we're gonna throw it
- 5:10Speaker 5: forty times a game, We're gonna live on the outside.
- 5:12Speaker 5: Don't worry about the trench because I don't think college
- 5:14Speaker 5: football is training that way anyway. I think it's all
- 5:16Speaker 5: it's all as a pendulum. It swings back and forth.
- 5:18Speaker 5: Running the ball is still very important, especially in the
- 5:19Speaker 5: sec to pull wins out. But the big thing one
- 5:23Speaker 5: John Sumral two. It's just there's so much excitement at
- 5:26Speaker 5: Florida right now. It feels so much. It feels so
- 5:29Speaker 5: different than when Billy Napier was there. Yeah, it's just
- 5:32Speaker 5: the fives that are Florida right now are extremely high.
- 5:35Speaker 5: And I'm a big John Sumrall guy, so I'm interested
- 5:38Speaker 5: to see his imprint on how quick he can place
- 5:41Speaker 5: his mentality in that team just absolutely vibe around.
- 5:44Speaker 4: We said this earlier today. There's gonna be some people
- 5:46Speaker 4: that don't know John Sumraw. Maybe he didn't fall him
- 5:48Speaker 4: at two lane and we've had a chance to catch
- 5:50Speaker 4: up with him a bunch. There's gonna be half that room.
- 5:53Speaker 4: That's gonna be like, Okay, I see it now. I'm
- 5:56Speaker 4: gonna change my view on Florida just based off him
- 5:58Speaker 4: at the podium.
- 5:59Speaker 5: I think it was a winner. Everywhere he's been, he's
- 6:02Speaker 5: a winner and he's a He's not Nick Saban, I
- 6:05Speaker 5: know that, but he's got the same little bit of
- 6:07Speaker 5: that mentality, and I think that's what Florida needs. Like
- 6:09Speaker 5: this sounds like you're you're lacking athletes at Forlida, and
- 6:12Speaker 5: I think Florida is one of the most interesting teams
- 6:13Speaker 5: if they can fix patchwork that offense line together where
- 6:16Speaker 5: it's acceptable and okay, and I don't know who's going
- 6:18Speaker 5: to start a quarterbacks what I've been here, so rum
- 6:20Speaker 5: is gonna be the Tremell Jones kid. You know, I
- 6:23Speaker 5: know you bring Buster Faulkon over Filo from Georgia Tech.
- 6:25Speaker 5: That fits already there in that chemistry. If Florida can
- 6:28Speaker 5: get back to just being playing Florida, because it was
- 6:30Speaker 5: just I remember watching Florida play on Saturdays and the
- 6:33Speaker 5: guys they had running around in there would keep me
- 6:35Speaker 5: up at night. You know the Brandon spikes, that Carlos
- 6:37Speaker 5: dun Laps, the major riots of those type of guys that,
- 6:41Speaker 5: yeah problems legitimately. Well, I mean has you were different?
- 6:45Speaker 5: You know, you just ran everybody over.
- 6:47Speaker 6: But they still they kept coming.
- 6:49Speaker 5: Yeah, had option.
- 6:52Speaker 8: He has the shortest little bull eggs ever.
- 6:55Speaker 6: They had one direction. You know, if they can make
- 7:00Speaker 6: anybody miss, that's for sure.
- 7:02Speaker 8: Let's not forget that.
- 7:04Speaker 10: Today walk in these halls is going to be what
- 7:07Speaker 10: I think probably the best quarterback leading into the college
- 7:10Speaker 10: football season in Trinidad Chambliss. So that whole you know,
- 7:15Speaker 10: with the Lank Kiffin that the golding situation, not a
- 7:19Speaker 10: lot of people have. Like I don't know how much
- 7:21Speaker 10: opportunity they are going to availability they're going to give
- 7:24Speaker 10: their kids or not. But what do you want to
- 7:27Speaker 10: hear from the Old Miss players?
- 7:29Speaker 5: I don't want to hear anything about LSU. I don't
- 7:32Speaker 5: want to hear because, to be honest with you, Louisville's
- 7:35Speaker 5: a good football team. They are Jeff Brown will have
- 7:37Speaker 5: those guys ready to go. So you can't look over
- 7:40Speaker 5: a team like that. Old Miss needs to be focused
- 7:42Speaker 5: on Old Miss. And to be honest with you, if
- 7:44Speaker 5: you think any other quarterback is better than Trinidad Chambliss
- 7:48Speaker 5: after last year, I just can't trust you.
- 7:50Speaker 6: Yeah, you didn't watch the Georgia.
- 7:52Speaker 8: You didn't watch Yeah, I can't.
- 7:54Speaker 5: I can't, like if you're just crowning arch Manning for
- 7:57Speaker 5: no reason, Like watch the tape, go through the tape,
- 8:00Speaker 5: Trinidad Chambliss is it's not even that close to me. Yeah,
- 8:03Speaker 5: I mean we'll see what Sam levit is for a
- 8:05Speaker 5: health sample.
- 8:06Speaker 8: He's going into the season.
- 8:07Speaker 10: He finished the season as no doubt second best quarterback
- 8:11Speaker 10: in the country.
- 8:11Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, And to be honest with you, I mean
- 8:14Speaker 5: they get that ball back against Miami. I think they
- 8:16Speaker 5: win that football game at the end of the day.
- 8:18Speaker 5: So and I think they give it Indiana a run
- 8:19Speaker 5: for their money. But no, I think Pete just needs
- 8:22Speaker 5: to be Pete, not try to do too mony. Yes,
- 8:24Speaker 5: because Lane wants to drag you in it now like
- 8:26Speaker 5: he wants if you want to drag get get dragged
- 8:28Speaker 5: into the deep water of trolling and do all this.
- 8:30Speaker 5: That's a tough guy to go against. Yeah, all right,
- 8:32Speaker 5: Pete just needs to focus on Pete and Ole Miss
- 8:35Speaker 5: and what they can do to have a good football season,
- 8:37Speaker 5: because look, I know he hadn't gone through a whole season,
- 8:39Speaker 5: but he went toe to toe with Darth Vader.
- 8:40Speaker 11: In the playoffs.
- 8:41Speaker 5: Yeah, and Kirby Smart and won that football game. So
- 8:44Speaker 5: I believe in that Pete in that program is building
- 8:46Speaker 5: right now.
- 8:46Speaker 4: Over under cuss words at the podium for three and
- 8:49Speaker 4: a half.
- 8:50Speaker 5: Over, I'll take the over. You could have said five
- 8:52Speaker 5: and a half, and I'll take the over. If it
- 8:53Speaker 5: gets close, I'll ask a question to get him going on.
- 8:55Speaker 4: That's the part of him that actually do love is
- 8:58Speaker 4: that's just him and he did the matter for playing
- 9:00Speaker 4: a round of golf with him. If you're talking football
- 9:03Speaker 4: on a white board, if he's at a podium at
- 9:04Speaker 4: SEC media day.
- 9:06Speaker 6: He's going to be Pete Golden.
- 9:07Speaker 5: Pete's going to be Pete and that's what makes him great.
- 9:09Speaker 5: Like he's a d C. Yeah, and the dcs are
- 9:12Speaker 5: different types of guys. It doesn't matter the setting, They're
- 9:14Speaker 5: going to be themselves. And this I think that ole
- 9:16Speaker 5: miss needed. I think when you look at the highers
- 9:19Speaker 5: around the country, Pete's going to be a really good
- 9:21Speaker 5: fit with them. And to keep the OC in house,
- 9:23Speaker 5: I'm gonna look, oh, miss I don't think ole Miss
- 9:25Speaker 5: is just going to wake up and disappear, especially bringing
- 9:28Speaker 5: back two stars that you have in the backfield. I
- 9:29Speaker 5: think ole Miss is going to be in the conversation
- 9:31Speaker 5: at the end of the year.
- 9:32Speaker 10: Well, it was Pete's first full year as the head
- 9:34Speaker 10: coach there, He's going to have an opportunity to do
- 9:38Speaker 10: a One of the hardest things to do that he's
- 9:41Speaker 10: gonna have You've already mentioned it is keep his team
- 9:43Speaker 10: focused on Louisville. So he's going to have the opportunity
- 9:45Speaker 10: to do one hell of a coaching job early on,
- 9:48Speaker 10: early and often. And he's got the best quarterback in
- 9:50Speaker 10: college football. And a lot of the reason for that
- 9:52Speaker 10: hype is Lane Kiffin, of course. So let's let's get
- 9:55Speaker 10: to it. What a Lane Kiffin, Your thoughts, what you
- 9:58Speaker 10: want to what you want to hear from him, just
- 10:00Speaker 10: kind of your overall thoughts of how situation played out
- 10:03Speaker 10: and Lane kipping as the LSU head coach.
- 10:06Speaker 5: Yeah, well, the calendar in college football sucks. I think
- 10:08Speaker 5: it was awfully we can all admit that. I feel
- 10:11Speaker 5: like the SEC kind of missed an opportunity to put
- 10:14Speaker 5: LSU and all Miss on the same day that would
- 10:16Speaker 5: be fun from my perspective, But is it just me?
- 10:19Speaker 5: And I'm gonna get y'all's opinion on this is everywhere
- 10:22Speaker 5: I turned left and rind if elis you don't win
- 10:24Speaker 5: a national championship this year. Guys that if Laane doesn't
- 10:28Speaker 5: win the Masters, you come home with Olympic gold medal,
- 10:31Speaker 5: win a hot dog contest, it's a failure talked about that.
- 10:34Speaker 6: It's like, that's wild behavior.
- 10:37Speaker 4: It's crazy that they got to get to the national
- 10:39Speaker 4: championship game. They got to be successful, no doubt about it.
- 10:43Speaker 6: But if you get to the college football playoff after how.
- 10:46Speaker 4: Bad it has been, after last year seven wins and
- 10:48Speaker 4: playing in a Texas Bowl, Yeah, LSU fans, we're boots
- 10:51Speaker 4: on the ground, We're there every day, they would be thrilled.
- 10:54Speaker 5: I'm like, there's no other coach in the country. Year
- 10:56Speaker 5: one us getting this type type of behavior.
- 10:58Speaker 4: The SEC I was telling him they hadn't played for
- 11:00Speaker 4: a championship in three years. Yeah, and you're telling this
- 11:03Speaker 4: guy he's got to at least make it to that
- 11:04Speaker 4: game to be a success.
- 11:05Speaker 5: It's insane to me. And I look, I understand trying
- 11:08Speaker 5: to get clicks and stuff like that I get it,
- 11:10Speaker 5: but sooner or later you have to really sit down
- 11:11Speaker 5: to think about what you're saying. Yeah, there's LSU Lan Kevin,
- 11:16Speaker 5: he's a fix LSU. Yes, right, that's when he needs
- 11:19Speaker 5: to bring back what else he was about. I think
- 11:20Speaker 5: I'm gonna be really good this year obviously depends on
- 11:22Speaker 5: one thing. I'm hearing Sam levit's healthy. That's gonna be
- 11:25Speaker 5: a massive part of it. You have a veteran back,
- 11:27Speaker 5: You're got twn junking on the field goal picks.
- 11:30Speaker 6: So, like, you know, like I thought, that's where you say,
- 11:32Speaker 6: that's your go to line.
- 11:33Speaker 5: I've said this, you know, since Lane get hired. It's
- 11:36Speaker 5: a huge high. It's a great hire for LSU. But
- 11:38Speaker 5: I think it's just as important that they kept Blake
- 11:41Speaker 5: Baker on the other side of the ball.
- 11:42Speaker 8: Oh yeah, that's his biggest recruit.
- 11:43Speaker 5: Yeah, because Elis Hugh's at their best when that defense
- 11:47Speaker 5: is at their best. I mean, I think LS is going.
- 11:49Speaker 11: To be a problem per problem.
- 11:51Speaker 5: This year as long as Sam's good to go with
- 11:53Speaker 5: that offense, that offensive line, especially Jordan Seen, who's gonna
- 11:56Speaker 5: be a top five pick to me, and a guy
- 11:58Speaker 5: who's not getting talked to it. Jase Brown from Kansas State. Yeah,
- 12:01Speaker 5: I'm telling you if you haven't gone and watched his tape,
- 12:04Speaker 5: this kid's going to be the next thing at US.
- 12:06Speaker 5: And also you have Groot at tight ends six seven,
- 12:09Speaker 5: who could go play power forward right now to the NBA
- 12:12Speaker 5: if he wanted to. And I think he has a
- 12:14Speaker 5: chance to actually be the best tight end to come
- 12:15Speaker 5: through Elsie.
- 12:16Speaker 4: I'm very yeah, I'm very excited to see how that
- 12:18Speaker 4: staff utilizes trade eds Green.
- 12:20Speaker 6: I mean, they're going to make sure they do it
- 12:21Speaker 6: the right way.
- 12:22Speaker 4: I mean, even last year, old Miss had a tight
- 12:24Speaker 4: end that didn't have anywhere close to the skill set
- 12:26Speaker 4: and he was a really good player. He made big
- 12:28Speaker 4: plays for them. I do agree with you last thing,
- 12:31Speaker 4: and we'll let you get out of here.
- 12:32Speaker 9: Blaine.
- 12:33Speaker 4: I think LSU and Ole Miss have to be careful
- 12:36Speaker 4: week one. Yeah, because they're talking about we three and
- 12:38Speaker 4: I understand why. I don't think Clemson's a good football team.
- 12:42Speaker 4: I think they're okay, but they're still Clemson. They're still
- 12:44Speaker 4: going to come in. They're gonna have some jimmies and
- 12:46Speaker 4: Joe's not as many as you, but they're going to
- 12:47Speaker 4: have them.
- 12:48Speaker 6: LSU has to be careful, and I think.
- 12:50Speaker 4: Old Miss has to be careful with Louisville because if
- 12:52Speaker 4: you're looking too far ahead, and certainly Louisville's a better
- 12:54Speaker 4: football team maybe than even Clemson.
- 12:56Speaker 5: Like what to say that those.
- 12:58Speaker 6: Two teams have to be careful.
- 12:59Speaker 4: We've all seeing the game that's Week three, But you're
- 13:02Speaker 4: not playing directional score you you're playing Clemson in Louisville.
- 13:05Speaker 5: Yeah, And that's the job of the head coach. Yeah, right,
- 13:08Speaker 5: that's the job of the head coach and keeping going
- 13:10Speaker 5: the ole Miss for LSU shouldn't even be mentioned until
- 13:13Speaker 5: that week. Same goes for the other side. So that's
- 13:16Speaker 5: going to fall in both the head coaches. But I
- 13:18Speaker 5: believe both these guys will get there because when it
- 13:21Speaker 5: comes to like LSU, like, look, you're at the point
- 13:23Speaker 5: now where you can't overlook any game. Yeah, it's not
- 13:25Speaker 5: like you've been winning ten eleven games a season. Every
- 13:28Speaker 5: game has to matter. So I think they'll fall in
- 13:30Speaker 5: the head coaches. But I think they'll get it right
- 13:32Speaker 5: and get the job.
- 13:32Speaker 6: Done, all right. Blamee.
- 13:34Speaker 4: We appreciate Lilian Crane on three daven though he's here
- 13:40Speaker 4: and his brother got a decent excuse decent Jake Beghone
- 13:45Speaker 4: about to have it, about to have a child. Can
- 13:48Speaker 4: you imagine you missed the birth of your child for
- 13:50Speaker 4: being at sec ME days.
- 13:51Speaker 6: That wouldn't be good.
- 13:53Speaker 10: Well, I mean, there's no bigger venue in the world
- 13:56Speaker 10: than this right here.
- 13:59Speaker 6: A lot of good stuff there.
- 14:01Speaker 4: The old Miss Louisville game something we talked about earlier
- 14:03Speaker 4: in the week, and you heard me a couple of
- 14:05Speaker 4: weeks ago talk about LSU and Clemson. I think it
- 14:07Speaker 4: could be the biggest trap game of the year for LSU.
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- 15:50Speaker 4: Media Days in Tampa, Florida.
- 15:51Speaker 6: Well done, Luandra, Little JT. Every time we're on.
- 15:55Speaker 4: Like location, like it's always the biggest banger and I'm
- 15:58Speaker 4: like this is I'm letting this thing bring for thirty second?
- 16:01Speaker 10: Yeah, I heard J's voice. What's the what's the song?
- 16:03Speaker 10: Where there the videos that like us? It's that they're
- 16:09Speaker 10: like Mary, I think so that was that the puppet? Yeah,
- 16:11Speaker 10: I think on the strings.
- 16:12Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be me.
- 16:14Speaker 11: We know that.
- 16:15Speaker 10: Okay, that's what I think about. So I started doing
- 16:17Speaker 10: this dance, is wonder what.
- 16:19Speaker 6: That was that was in sync? Actually?
- 16:21Speaker 8: J though, I mean, I get that.
- 16:23Speaker 4: I mean j C was the lead singer. Let's go
- 16:24Speaker 4: ahead and get that out there. I think we all
- 16:26Speaker 4: know that j C was the lead singer of Been Seen.
- 16:31Speaker 4: He had the most solos, he had the most individual parts.
- 16:35Speaker 10: I agree, Okay, JT the best second string? Was he
- 16:40Speaker 10: the best second string in the history of bands?
- 16:42Speaker 11: Yes?
- 16:45Speaker 8: Is there any other second string that made it bigger?
- 16:48Speaker 8: And McCarty did decent, you know he had he did.
- 16:53Speaker 6: Okay, he had a run.
- 16:54Speaker 8: They're pretty billy here?
- 16:58Speaker 6: Oh, I mean, well that's Bill. Billy's got a great
- 17:01Speaker 6: answer to uh.
- 17:03Speaker 4: Billy Lucci, our guy from text Aggs before we get started.
- 17:07Speaker 6: Here was the lead singer of n C, j C
- 17:10Speaker 6: or justin Timberlake?
- 17:13Speaker 11: It depends on the song.
- 17:14Speaker 6: Okay, now we got a whole different layer to it.
- 17:16Speaker 11: I think it was j it was I think it
- 17:18Speaker 11: was j C. Or what yeah, j C.
- 17:22Speaker 3: What's the guy with the brother though, Oh that's Backstreet
- 17:24Speaker 3: Boys Nick Carter. I was like, wait, that guy was yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 17:30Speaker 3: I don't. Timberlake had you know, a couple where he was.
- 17:33Speaker 4: Yeah, and he had a huge career, but he wasn't
- 17:35Speaker 4: the lead singer of in zync.
- 17:36Speaker 3: No, I'm good. Who's the lead singer here?
- 17:44Speaker 11: Yeah?
- 17:45Speaker 6: You got more upside?
- 17:49Speaker 9: Uh.
- 17:49Speaker 4: He's that guy like in the old Motown you know
- 17:51Speaker 4: band that would like go away from the microphone then
- 17:53Speaker 4: come here real quick and.
- 17:54Speaker 11: Be like, yeah that was basic base.
- 18:01Speaker 4: How's this week been for you. We've had a chance
- 18:03Speaker 4: to catch up with you a little bit here, a
- 18:04Speaker 4: little bit there. It's always a little wild and crazy
- 18:06Speaker 4: for you.
- 18:07Speaker 3: I know it's you know, this has been a lower key.
- 18:10Speaker 3: I actually snuck off to the beach yesterday afternoon.
- 18:14Speaker 11: I was a little further than I thought.
- 18:15Speaker 6: How hard did you sneak? Or do you say? Hey, guys,
- 18:17Speaker 6: y'all got this?
- 18:18Speaker 4: I'm out, That's what I say.
- 18:22Speaker 3: I always give them a hard time because like, we
- 18:24Speaker 3: came with seven of us, so it's me and six others,
- 18:27Speaker 3: and I'm like, hey, you know, I pay all six
- 18:29Speaker 3: of y'all, like I'm investing money to get back time. Yes,
- 18:34Speaker 3: And they do a great job, y'all know they do,
- 18:36Speaker 3: and so it's cool to not worry about it. But
- 18:40Speaker 3: I mean, three and a half days here, I'm leaving
- 18:43Speaker 3: midday tomorrow, but I'm like, I'm gonna go. I have
- 18:45Speaker 3: a friend here in Tampa. So I went to I
- 18:48Speaker 3: just went to clear Water. It was you know, I honestly,
- 18:52Speaker 3: I think I was in the ocean for seventeen minutes,
- 18:54Speaker 3: but I just like, I just want some salt water.
- 18:56Speaker 11: My hair looked good last night.
- 18:58Speaker 7: Good after that.
- 19:00Speaker 4: Yeah, where is somebody that lives in College Station? When
- 19:03Speaker 4: you go to the beach, because you have beaches you
- 19:05Speaker 4: know close to you, but do you go to the
- 19:08Speaker 4: Panhandle the Florida beaches?
- 19:10Speaker 3: Most people in Texas do you know I've been. I
- 19:13Speaker 3: wouldn't say I've been all over the country. There's a
- 19:16Speaker 3: couple of very notable spots I haven't been that are
- 19:19Speaker 3: kind of like mind boggling. Northern California I've never done,
- 19:22Speaker 3: which is weird.
- 19:23Speaker 11: Never been to DC.
- 19:26Speaker 3: And I've never been to the White Sand Beaches Florida.
- 19:31Speaker 3: Where everyone in Texas, everyone in the SEC. That's very surprising.
- 19:35Speaker 3: And you know, like all of us we know people
- 19:38Speaker 3: with the houses there.
- 19:39Speaker 6: The NFL head coach has one there.
- 19:40Speaker 3: Yeah, and every one of your friends and especially for y'all,
- 19:44Speaker 3: but your Texas got everyone in Texas knows people, every Aggie,
- 19:48Speaker 3: every LSU you know, never done it.
- 19:50Speaker 11: And I really wanted to.
- 19:53Speaker 3: Last summer, I was at Pet's wedding and Biloxi and
- 19:55Speaker 3: I knew a girl that was there and she said, come,
- 19:57Speaker 3: we have a house. And I had a second way
- 20:00Speaker 3: wedding in Tennessee the next day.
- 20:01Speaker 11: Almost skipped it.
- 20:02Speaker 9: So popular.
- 20:03Speaker 3: But with that said, where do we go to beaches?
- 20:09Speaker 3: You know you ain't going to Galveston to get in
- 20:11Speaker 3: the water.
- 20:12Speaker 10: How many how many thirty A stickers are on the
- 20:15Speaker 10: back of cars in College Station?
- 20:18Speaker 11: College Station?
- 20:19Speaker 3: Not not a lot stickers, Aggie, Aggie Wise, There's there's
- 20:23Speaker 3: a ton of baggings that But I don't thirty I
- 20:26Speaker 3: never knew what a thirty A sticker was till that.
- 20:28Speaker 11: Morgan Walling song. I didn't know who he was.
- 20:30Speaker 3: Or thirty A sticker on our back when yeah, I
- 20:34Speaker 3: was like, okay, the thirty as the beach.
- 20:36Speaker 11: But now we I think you.
- 20:38Speaker 3: Go down to like Padre Corporate, like that area down there,
- 20:42Speaker 3: Port of Rans.
- 20:42Speaker 11: It's that that's made a made a come up.
- 20:45Speaker 4: Our producer back in studio just got back from there.
- 20:48Speaker 4: She said it was incredible. Yeah, there's a thing called
- 20:50Speaker 4: like Cinnamon Shores.
- 20:52Speaker 3: Now that it kind of it's kind of like a
- 20:54Speaker 3: copy kind of like a copy of what you see
- 20:57Speaker 3: all through.
- 20:57Speaker 11: That part of Florida. So it's okay.
- 20:59Speaker 3: But yeah, to me, I would just if I would
- 21:04Speaker 3: go there, but I would probably just get on a
- 21:06Speaker 3: plane and go to like Nantucket or Cabo Oh, there
- 21:11Speaker 3: you go.
- 21:13Speaker 8: Why not?
- 21:17Speaker 3: I'm debating in in August, I'm either doing Nantucket or Whitefish, Montana.
- 21:22Speaker 11: Which Whitefish I've never been.
- 21:25Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll choose a mountain material beach any any day.
- 21:29Speaker 9: I agree.
- 21:29Speaker 10: I'm with you there, all right. So Billy you everybody
- 21:31Speaker 10: here knows you. You've you got people all over the place.
- 21:34Speaker 10: You've done You've done this a long time. You've got
- 21:36Speaker 10: a lot of really cool relationships, a lot of cool
- 21:38Speaker 10: stories in the last twelve months.
- 21:39Speaker 8: What's the what's the coolest sporting event that you've been
- 21:42Speaker 8: able to go to?
- 21:45Speaker 11: Sporting event?
- 21:46Speaker 7: I mean.
- 21:48Speaker 3: I went to you know, I went to a World Cup.
- 21:50Speaker 3: But it was Canada Morocco. What I mean, it wasn't
- 21:52Speaker 3: like two good teams. Yeah, it ended up being a
- 21:55Speaker 3: crazy with one one nil until like a few minutes left.
- 21:58Speaker 3: But I would I mean, honestly, it was.
- 22:05Speaker 11: A and M at Notre Dame. It really was like
- 22:07Speaker 11: just I'd never been to South Bend.
- 22:10Speaker 3: The game was obviously one of the games of the
- 22:12Speaker 3: year in college football. It was one of those breakthroughs
- 22:14Speaker 3: for AM that they don't have enough of. So that
- 22:16Speaker 3: was and then the fact that it was, you know,
- 22:19Speaker 3: a fourth down finish and and you made a weekend
- 22:23Speaker 3: of Chicago out of it. So I would say that
- 22:27Speaker 3: that was the coolest I haven't been done.
- 22:30Speaker 9: Were they were they allowed?
- 22:31Speaker 3: Were they They were louder than I thought, you know,
- 22:34Speaker 3: their fans were even saying, this is the loudest it's been,
- 22:37Speaker 3: you know, in recent memory. Because they were coming off
- 22:39Speaker 3: of national title game appearance, they had lost to Miami,
- 22:42Speaker 3: there was a bye week in between. I think they
- 22:44Speaker 3: were completely desperate, you know, and the way that game
- 22:47Speaker 3: was going, it was it was just a back and forth.
- 22:50Speaker 11: It was cool. I was, you know, not a sporting event.
- 22:54Speaker 3: But I did get a call from Johnny a few
- 22:56Speaker 3: weeks ago say hey, let's go to UH.
- 22:58Speaker 11: You want to come down to Houston grab dinner.
- 23:00Speaker 3: Sure, we went to just casual dinner, ended up UH
- 23:04Speaker 3: the rest of the night with Drake. So that was okay,
- 23:07Speaker 3: all right, a sporting event, but a.
- 23:09Speaker 4: Well Drake roots for every team, so kind of like
- 23:11Speaker 4: a sporting trying.
- 23:12Speaker 3: To get him on board. I'm trying to get him
- 23:13Speaker 3: towards A and and we we even talked about that.
- 23:16Speaker 3: He's got a ranch in Chapel Hill, Yeah, by Brenham. Okay,
- 23:20Speaker 3: so he's forty minutes away from college station.
- 23:22Speaker 11: It's like, dude, like, but there's.
- 23:24Speaker 8: A Drake curse is real?
- 23:25Speaker 11: What if we wanted? What if we won?
- 23:27Speaker 6: That's that's another fair.
- 23:30Speaker 11: We're like a match made.
- 23:31Speaker 10: And maybe the Drake curse would be the LSU beat
- 23:36Speaker 10: saying them, oh no, that.
- 23:37Speaker 4: Would be to those I guess we got to get
- 23:41Speaker 4: to the sports stuff.
- 23:42Speaker 6: We'll ask you about A and M.
- 23:45Speaker 4: It does feel like and you know me, you know
- 23:47Speaker 4: my relationship with Jimbo Fisher. I love coach Fisher. And
- 23:50Speaker 4: before Mike Elko got there, that year, y'all had uh
- 23:53Speaker 4: going to the Orange Bowl maybe the best year certainly
- 23:55Speaker 4: in recent memory.
- 23:55Speaker 6: Right, So it was great, it was good.
- 23:57Speaker 4: Coachlo feels like he's even elevated past that, and it
- 24:00Speaker 4: feels like it is very steady, and it feels like
- 24:03Speaker 4: you have finally found the guy that's going to be
- 24:04Speaker 4: there for a long time, that's going to make sure
- 24:07Speaker 4: the ship is steering in the right direction, and you're
- 24:09Speaker 4: gonna achieve things that you haven't, you know, year after
- 24:11Speaker 4: year after year of consistency.
- 24:13Speaker 11: Yeah, it definitely feels like that to me. It feels like.
- 24:19Speaker 3: Every box you want him to check, every coach you hire, right,
- 24:23Speaker 3: it's all about the coaches. Like I was, I'm older
- 24:26Speaker 3: than y'all. I know y'all will pretend you're old. I'm older.
- 24:30Speaker 3: I remember you guys as recruits, but I also remember
- 24:33Speaker 3: when A and M would go in LSU and they're
- 24:35Speaker 3: just like dust on the shoe, Curly Hall and Jerry DeNardo. Yep,
- 24:40Speaker 3: you could pick any program.
- 24:42Speaker 11: You can pick Texas the coaches before.
- 24:45Speaker 3: Mac Brown, between him and Daryl Royal, the coaches since
- 24:47Speaker 3: until start. You can do that to Michigan, Miami, Florida State, Alabama.
- 24:54Speaker 3: Nick Saban brought Alabama and LSU back, you know, so
- 24:57Speaker 3: every program USC has been going through it. You went
- 25:00Speaker 3: through it till that you got to find that guy.
- 25:03Speaker 3: And I think Mike Oco could be A and M's
- 25:06Speaker 3: A and m's Bob Stoops.
- 25:07Speaker 11: I almost said ms Mark Stoops, which is that that
- 25:13Speaker 11: is a very no. You almost we almost was he was.
- 25:17Speaker 6: Mark but for a couple of minutes.
- 25:23Speaker 3: But I think he's He's A and M's Bob stoops
- 25:26Speaker 3: and from the standpoint that, I just think he's going
- 25:29Speaker 3: to be, like you said, the guy for a long
- 25:31Speaker 3: time and he gets it on every level. It's the
- 25:33Speaker 3: n I l it's the coaching, it's the culture. And
- 25:38Speaker 3: one thing I think even A and M fans underestimated
- 25:40Speaker 3: he I can tell he gets prickly about it. He
- 25:44Speaker 3: thinks people are surprised by how well he recruits, and
- 25:47Speaker 3: I think it annoys him and pisses him off. It's like,
- 25:49Speaker 3: why why why do people think I can't redem He's
- 25:53Speaker 3: been incredible on the recruiting front.
- 25:54Speaker 11: People go, well, it's nil.
- 25:56Speaker 3: Yeah, there's about a dozen teams that play the nil
- 25:59Speaker 3: game at like the A plus plus level. Right, You're
- 26:02Speaker 3: so every guy at LSU gets A and M wanted
- 26:05Speaker 3: Texallanian guy gets so he can recruit and uh.
- 26:10Speaker 11: I think this year is big for him, though.
- 26:12Speaker 3: Guys like not not in terms of make or break,
- 26:15Speaker 3: but just if they can get back after losing ten
- 26:19Speaker 3: NFL picks and say we we reload here at a M.
- 26:22Speaker 3: We don't rebuild, And that's what carried you guys for
- 26:25Speaker 3: so long. It's hard to do and they have a
- 26:27Speaker 3: chance to do it this year.
- 26:28Speaker 6: All right, Billy, you're the man.
- 26:30Speaker 11: All right, fellas, I appreciate you.
- 26:32Speaker 8: Appreciate it.
- 26:33Speaker 4: Later on, I hate that you get to leave early
- 26:36Speaker 4: here from sc media. So Billy Luci text that is
- 26:39Speaker 4: getting up to join us. Drew Fabian is just going
- 26:42Speaker 4: to join us, the executive director of the.
- 26:44Speaker 6: Senior Ball when we come back here on O TB
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- 28:24Speaker 4: All right, Welcome back in OTB. Here live from SEC
- 28:28Speaker 4: Media Days in Tampa, Florida. We are joined now by
- 28:31Speaker 4: the Commissioner of the SEC Greg Sankie joins us here
- 28:36Speaker 4: and Commissioner Sankie, It's always a pleasure.
- 28:38Speaker 6: We love having you. And I promise you we are.
- 28:41Speaker 4: Not talking nil, We're not talking Congress, We're not talking
- 28:44Speaker 4: anything like that last year we had you, and I
- 28:47Speaker 4: made you a promise.
- 28:47Speaker 6: When you sit down with us, We're gonna have fun.
- 28:49Speaker 4: We're gonna talk about all the other things and not
- 28:53Speaker 4: the stuff that you've got to talk about here for
- 28:54Speaker 4: four straight days.
- 28:56Speaker 7: I'm a little concerned because I'm prepared for all those others.
- 29:01Speaker 4: Hey, we were talking right before we hopped on Oklahoma
- 29:04Speaker 4: winning the College World Series. Just adding another feather to
- 29:07Speaker 4: the cap of SEC baseball, and it shows you the
- 29:10Speaker 4: depth of the conference. It shows you that like any team,
- 29:13Speaker 4: because of how many good players and coaches we have
- 29:15Speaker 4: in this league, if they get hot at the right time,
- 29:18Speaker 4: and there's a formula in Omaha and they figured it out.
- 29:21Speaker 12: Yeah, Skip Johnson to be specific, as they walk through
- 29:25Speaker 12: the Omaha experience, repeatedly talked and I didn't ask him
- 29:28Speaker 12: to do this about how conference play.
- 29:31Speaker 7: Despite that eleventh place finish, had prepared.
- 29:34Speaker 12: That team where every weekend feels like a regional or
- 29:37Speaker 12: Super regional. So then when you're in a regional or
- 29:39Speaker 12: super regional, it's another weekend. Yeah, and you're gonna be up,
- 29:43Speaker 12: you're gonna be down, You're going to face great talent,
- 29:45Speaker 12: but you have the confidence to continue to play. And
- 29:50Speaker 12: I was sharing during that conversation, I was on a
- 29:52Speaker 12: video conference with people not affiliated with the SEC. When
- 29:56Speaker 12: the home run goes over center field, Oklahoma Beach, Georgia Tech,
- 30:00Speaker 12: and I yelled, Oh wow, what's going on? Like this
- 30:04Speaker 12: stuff actually means something to me?
- 30:06Speaker 5: Oh?
- 30:06Speaker 8: Absolutely, questions saying it.
- 30:08Speaker 10: So we discussed this last year, but I got to
- 30:12Speaker 10: commend you today a great job picking out the colors.
- 30:14Speaker 8: Of the outfit today. I know it is is probably
- 30:18Speaker 8: a story here too.
- 30:19Speaker 10: It's probably very strategic based on the teams coming in,
- 30:23Speaker 10: on how you pick.
- 30:24Speaker 8: But like during the.
- 30:25Speaker 10: World Series, multiple SEC teams obviously vying for a national championship.
- 30:30Speaker 10: Now as teams get eliminated, do you feel a little
- 30:34Speaker 10: bit more freedom to where any team's particular color if
- 30:38Speaker 10: they're the last ones least?
- 30:39Speaker 9: So here's a true story.
- 30:40Speaker 12: Yesterday I had a green tie with a little bit
- 30:42Speaker 12: of orange. I wore that to our Legends dinner in
- 30:46Speaker 12: Atlanta in twenty eighteen, the night before the Auburn Georgia
- 30:51Speaker 12: SEC championship game, and George's president looks at Mike tie
- 30:54Speaker 12: and says, nice, you were an Auburn tie, just because.
- 30:56Speaker 9: There's a little little bit micro meter bits of orange.
- 31:02Speaker 12: So when I go to Omaha, I have left home
- 31:06Speaker 12: usually a week before, and we may have three or
- 31:08Speaker 12: four teams still in. So I have a lot of
- 31:10Speaker 12: green polo shirts and green quartersip and like people will ask,
- 31:15Speaker 12: like I'll be asking a question because my colleague was
- 31:18Speaker 12: there and he's got North Carolina colors on from the ACC.
- 31:22Speaker 12: And there are two things. I had so many teams.
- 31:24Speaker 9: This is like my fas. Nobody has this problem.
- 31:27Speaker 12: I've had so many themes that could have been any
- 31:29Speaker 12: number of colors.
- 31:30Speaker 9: Green is a safe color for me. So I was
- 31:33Speaker 9: in green the whole time.
- 31:34Speaker 12: When Vanderbilt Mississippi State played in twenty one, I ran
- 31:37Speaker 12: out of green and I had a black pullover and
- 31:42Speaker 12: I walked in and said hello to Mississippi State's president.
- 31:44Speaker 12: He says game three. He says, nice, you worry Vanvelt colors?
- 31:48Speaker 9: Yeah? Yeah, black, and is all I had.
- 31:52Speaker 12: I am careful about doing that in the lastly once
- 31:55Speaker 12: I will will ties. In fact, if you look at
- 31:58Speaker 12: me on the stage with Joe Burrow, I had a
- 32:01Speaker 12: purple time there you go. But people will take those
- 32:04Speaker 12: at some point and say, well, look, you know, he's
- 32:06Speaker 12: a fan of this school on the color of highs.
- 32:09Speaker 12: So I'm actually a lot more careful than it's safe
- 32:11Speaker 12: to say.
- 32:12Speaker 10: If there's ever expansion, new teams get welcome into the
- 32:16Speaker 10: sec that it's safe to say, no, Green.
- 32:18Speaker 5: You come in.
- 32:20Speaker 9: Come.
- 32:20Speaker 12: Otherwise I'm stuck with brown, which is just not like green.
- 32:26Speaker 9: Oh guy, shouldn't joke about that in this enviroral Yeah no.
- 32:29Speaker 11: Green, Okay, commish?
- 32:30Speaker 4: What do you do to get away sometimes from all this?
- 32:34Speaker 4: I know you're a big music fan. You and I
- 32:36Speaker 4: have had great discussions about your love for you two
- 32:38Speaker 4: and going to see a concert. We were talking the
- 32:41Speaker 4: other day funny enough about you know, the Buffalo Bills.
- 32:43Speaker 4: Now that I'm on the NFL side of things over
- 32:45Speaker 4: on serious XM, it's fun to talk a little NFL.
- 32:46Speaker 4: I was like, oh, you know, have you been to
- 32:48Speaker 4: the New Stadium. You're like, I hadn't been since the eighties,
- 32:50Speaker 4: because you probably haven't had time to go to a
- 32:52Speaker 4: Buffalo Bills game for you to get away from all
- 32:55Speaker 4: this craziness. Will you have a chance to have you
- 32:58Speaker 4: had a chance to do something for youself and you.
- 33:00Speaker 6: And your wife.
- 33:01Speaker 12: We we've been to three or four concerts since Destin,
- 33:05Speaker 12: which is a nice you know. A few hours went
- 33:09Speaker 12: to see Kenny Chesney at the Sphere, which was fun.
- 33:14Speaker 6: Because you wear your Tennessee orange in that moment the
- 33:16Speaker 6: people next.
- 33:17Speaker 9: To me did and I knew who I was. I
- 33:20Speaker 9: actually had it. It was an sec crowd. I took
- 33:22Speaker 9: more photos.
- 33:24Speaker 12: I bet you more people that evening than I have
- 33:26Speaker 12: at any other concert. We got to see Alan Jackson's
- 33:28Speaker 12: Farewell time.
- 33:30Speaker 6: We talked about that on the show.
- 33:31Speaker 12: It was really neat, I mean, and it was interrupted
- 33:34Speaker 12: by by weather, but he stayed played two hours and
- 33:38Speaker 12: just there was a level of attachment and emotion there
- 33:40Speaker 12: that Kenny Chesney was.
- 33:42Speaker 9: I texted him afterwards because.
- 33:44Speaker 12: We've we've been become nixt friends and said, I don't
- 33:47Speaker 12: know if you feel it from the stage, but the
- 33:49Speaker 12: connection with your audience is really special. In a group
- 33:52Speaker 12: called Third Day, Yeah, Christian a bunch of of awards
- 33:58Speaker 12: like award winning double Ords, Grammys, and they were at
- 34:02Speaker 12: Red Rocks with Michael w which was a great night.
- 34:05Speaker 6: Red Rocks is incredible.
- 34:06Speaker 12: I got to go backstage, I know, Mac Mark Lee.
- 34:08Speaker 9: The guys have phoned.
- 34:09Speaker 12: It, actually all of them, Ty Anderson and got to
- 34:14Speaker 12: walk through the tunnel.
- 34:15Speaker 9: I've heard about it.
- 34:16Speaker 7: Red Rocks were all the artists have signed, so that
- 34:18Speaker 7: was pretty cool.
- 34:19Speaker 11: Cool.
- 34:19Speaker 4: There might be a better place to see a concert
- 34:21Speaker 4: commissioned than Red Rocks.
- 34:24Speaker 9: Yeah, I've I've. I would agree. It's pretty stretched on
- 34:28Speaker 9: a good night.
- 34:28Speaker 12: We went there once and lightning interrupted it, so that
- 34:30Speaker 12: was not a good ye as a venue. We have
- 34:33Speaker 12: a little lake place where I grew up, where I
- 34:35Speaker 12: spent a few weeks, but you never get away.
- 34:37Speaker 9: So the concerts.
- 34:38Speaker 12: Generally my phone doesn't ring, But like the last couple
- 34:42Speaker 12: of weeks, I've been up there trying to prepare for this,
- 34:45Speaker 12: trying to wink down, and it just hasn't stopped.
- 34:47Speaker 9: It's been non non stop this summer. At least the views.
- 34:50Speaker 4: Guys, at least the concerts. If your phone is ringy,
- 34:53Speaker 4: you can't hear it, so it doesn't matter.
- 34:54Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right. Usually people will understand that. Yeah, it
- 34:59Speaker 9: did a couple.
- 35:00Speaker 6: Of times commisser.
- 35:03Speaker 10: So SEC has the best, so Jake, And if we've
- 35:06Speaker 10: played a lot of different stadiums, NFL stadums, and there's
- 35:09Speaker 10: a lot of good atmospheres, a lot of good crowds,
- 35:12Speaker 10: SEC is the best bar none. The World Cup this
- 35:15Speaker 10: summer had some pretty cool environments. Do you think that
- 35:18Speaker 10: the World Cup crowd environment came.
- 35:21Speaker 8: Close to matching that of an SEC crowd.
- 35:23Speaker 12: I was invited to World Cup games, but I go
- 35:26Speaker 12: to enough games and yeah, a lot of travel anymore.
- 35:30Speaker 9: I went to a friendly.
- 35:31Speaker 12: Game between FC Barcelona and Scottish Celtic in Dublin in
- 35:35Speaker 12: twenty seventeen and MESSI played. Yeah, I didn't really know enough,
- 35:41Speaker 12: but people told me it was a big deal. When
- 35:44Speaker 12: Barcelona got up three three nil, as they were all
- 35:49Speaker 12: the Scottish fans had green and white rugby style shirts
- 35:53Speaker 12: and they turned around back to the pitch. Yeah, as
- 35:58Speaker 12: I've told you, I am love around put their arms
- 36:02Speaker 12: around each other, swayed back and forth and saying some song.
- 36:06Speaker 12: And it was I said to my wife, I said,
- 36:08Speaker 12: this feels like one of our games, because you'll have that,
- 36:10Speaker 12: you know, texas, I will put their arms around each
- 36:12Speaker 12: other and saying that they Aggie wore him, So yeah,
- 36:16Speaker 12: there are parallels there. I like our sport better, and
- 36:19Speaker 12: I said the other day, as big as that is,
- 36:22Speaker 12: our football attendance average is the highest average sports league
- 36:28Speaker 12: attendants in the world.
- 36:29Speaker 9: So there's something especially. I'll finish with this.
- 36:31Speaker 12: One of my memories was it was that twenty nineteen season.
- 36:35Speaker 12: I was at the Auburn LSU game in Baton Rouge
- 36:37Speaker 12: on Saturday. I went to a Houston Texans game on Sunday.
- 36:41Speaker 12: I think the Raiders were at the Texans. And I've
- 36:44Speaker 12: done this with Falcons on a Sunday because I'm invited
- 36:47Speaker 12: giving our relationships there, and go to an Auburn home
- 36:50Speaker 12: game or a Georgia home game to get to Atlanta. Man,
- 36:54Speaker 12: the difference between Saturday and Sunday and the environment and
- 36:58Speaker 12: the feel.
- 36:58Speaker 9: And the vibe is like night and day. Yeah, night
- 37:01Speaker 9: and day.
- 37:02Speaker 4: I gotta tell you a story where I was kind
- 37:04Speaker 4: of I was a rookie and I guess you know,
- 37:06Speaker 4: I was just young and couldn't help myself.
- 37:09Speaker 6: So I get drafted to San Diego.
- 37:11Speaker 4: And when you get drafted, you go to like a
- 37:13Speaker 4: stadium party for all the fans, and so we're in
- 37:15Speaker 4: the stadium for the first time, and there's a guy
- 37:17Speaker 4: walking us around and he's like, we walk out of
- 37:20Speaker 4: the ton and goes, can you imagine Qualcomm Stadium, sixty
- 37:23Speaker 4: eight thousand people screaming for you? And I am such
- 37:26Speaker 4: a turret. I raised my hand commissioned. I was like, hey,
- 37:29Speaker 4: is this a non conference game that we're up in
- 37:31Speaker 4: the third quarter? And he's like he just like got
- 37:34Speaker 4: so defeat. I'm like, why'd you do that? Couldn't help myself.
- 37:36Speaker 4: I'm like, Sunday's not Saturday Saturday. It's one hundred thousand
- 37:41Speaker 4: people screaming, loving you, living and dying by everything that
- 37:45Speaker 4: you do there. And there's nothing that can replicate that.
- 37:47Speaker 4: And so even to that same conversation, like when I
- 37:50Speaker 4: go cover a game now at Vanderbilt, knowing that what
- 37:52Speaker 4: it was when we played there to what it is now,
- 37:55Speaker 4: it's incredible. It's an environment that they've done a really
- 37:57Speaker 4: good job, and it's never going to be one hundred
- 37:59Speaker 4: thousand people, but now it's theirs and it's unique to them,
- 38:02Speaker 4: and it's a great atmosphere.
- 38:04Speaker 12: And uh, you know, I'll go back to I think
- 38:06Speaker 12: it was two thousand and nine Alabama LSU end of
- 38:10Speaker 12: regulation field goals block.
- 38:12Speaker 9: Alabama was kicking LSU blocks a field goal.
- 38:15Speaker 12: That was the loudest noise in a moment I've ever
- 38:17Speaker 12: experienced like that, And you realize it's disorient you know,
- 38:22Speaker 12: when you're down in the field and all that's directed here.
- 38:25Speaker 12: So whether you're a player or a coach or an official,
- 38:27Speaker 12: like being in that environment doesn't just magically happen that
- 38:31Speaker 12: everything works because it's just so different from anything else
- 38:34Speaker 12: you will experience.
- 38:36Speaker 4: All right, commission we appreciate your time. Hopefully we got
- 38:39Speaker 4: it all figured out. What you're going to wear for
- 38:41Speaker 4: the rest of the week. I think you probably already
- 38:43Speaker 4: got to figure out.
- 38:44Speaker 9: And this is one of these trips I packed for
- 38:45Speaker 9: three weeks ago, so.
- 38:48Speaker 12: Was such bad shape I had to send it out
- 38:51Speaker 12: to be pressed. So it was supposed to be yesterday,
- 38:53Speaker 12: so it was less fastic than the conference colors.
- 38:57Speaker 6: It looks great, It looks great.
- 38:59Speaker 4: Well, we apolog that you've got to get back to
- 39:01Speaker 4: the other stuff now we've had some fun with.
- 39:02Speaker 9: Appreciate the conversation.
- 39:03Speaker 4: Thank you, absolutely all right, Commissioner Greg, thank you good
- 39:05Speaker 4: enough to join us here on OTB.
- 39:08Speaker 6: We've got more coming back.
- 39:09Speaker 4: Your way when we jump back here live from Tampa, Florida.
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- 40:03Speaker 1: Live from the twenty twenty six SEC Football Media Days
- 40:07Speaker 1: in Tampa, presented by FMOL Health. Our Lady of the
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- 40:15Speaker 9: No one is around, ju baby, I love you game.
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- 40:22Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in OTB here. One final segment
- 40:26Speaker 4: sec media days. We talk a little Senior Bowl. Drew
- 40:31Speaker 4: Fabianis joins us to do so the Panini Senior Ball
- 40:34Speaker 4: Executive director of the game. Always a pleasure of one
- 40:37Speaker 4: of our favorite guys. Love going to the Senior Bowl
- 40:39Speaker 4: every single year. Drew, how are we doing good?
- 40:42Speaker 2: Feel real good about it because I'm not five months
- 40:45Speaker 2: behind like I was last year.
- 40:47Speaker 4: I mean I was, and you know that's that's tough
- 40:49Speaker 4: and take it over and then not only like once
- 40:51Speaker 4: you took over, but also getting players to the game.
- 40:54Speaker 6: This year was another hurdle, little weather situation.
- 40:58Speaker 2: I have eighty five players. We had to bring in
- 41:00Speaker 2: three days early, and I thought that it was really
- 41:03Speaker 2: going to affect the drop rate. Huh, And it actually didn't.
- 41:05Speaker 2: Actually did the lower drop rate than over the last
- 41:08Speaker 2: four years.
- 41:09Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah.
- 41:09Speaker 8: It was a rogue freeze, right that came through.
- 41:12Speaker 2: And an ice storm. Ice storm hit Dallas that actually
- 41:14Speaker 2: hit parts of Atlanta. We had trouble getting some guys
- 41:17Speaker 2: out of Florida because they were connecting out of Charlotte.
- 41:20Speaker 2: We had to bring them in on Friday.
- 41:21Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of media members like struggled to get there.
- 41:24Speaker 4: So luckily, you know, you know, we're in bad Usia.
- 41:26Speaker 4: We could just drive over. But y'all did a great
- 41:28Speaker 4: job there. The game's great. As always. We love going
- 41:31Speaker 4: to one of our favorite events to go to because
- 41:33Speaker 4: it's like it's the next wave.
- 41:35Speaker 6: It's going to be the guys that are going to
- 41:36Speaker 6: be pros.
- 41:36Speaker 4: It's one last time we get to see them in
- 41:39Speaker 4: their college uniform.
- 41:40Speaker 6: And so I know that.
- 41:41Speaker 4: You know, they always talk about coaches always recruiting, you're
- 41:44Speaker 4: always scouting.
- 41:45Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know the thing is, like you said,
- 41:47Speaker 2: it's it's really their first pro practice in their first
- 41:49Speaker 2: pro game.
- 41:49Speaker 9: Yeah, it really is.
- 41:51Speaker 2: And the league wants wants the players to go through
- 41:53Speaker 2: the whole process because what's important to find now are
- 41:57Speaker 2: guys that love to play and be competitive, right because
- 42:00Speaker 2: if you don't, you guys run in an NFL locker room.
- 42:02Speaker 2: If you're not competitive, you don't love the damn game,
- 42:05Speaker 2: you can get your ass weeded out pretty quickly quick.
- 42:07Speaker 11: You know, we expose you for sure.
- 42:08Speaker 2: Yeah, and those guys, that's stuck around. And I mean,
- 42:11Speaker 2: like my perfect example is Bryce Betcher, Right, he he
- 42:15Speaker 2: got screwed. Two linebackers on his side walked like on Friday,
- 42:18Speaker 2: So he was going to play about fifteen snaps, ends
- 42:20Speaker 2: up playing.
- 42:21Speaker 6: Like forty yeah right, Well he puts.
- 42:23Speaker 2: In ten tackles and he could have been damn MDP, right,
- 42:26Speaker 2: you know, and he went from like a fifth round
- 42:28Speaker 2: pick back in three Yeah, you know. So I mean
- 42:31Speaker 2: that showed everybody what kind of person he was, and
- 42:34Speaker 2: you know what they were getting, you know. So it's
- 42:35Speaker 2: it's important and people don't understand that. And I keep
- 42:39Speaker 2: saying this to people too. I mean, it's a cheap ticket.
- 42:41Speaker 7: Practices are free, yep.
- 42:43Speaker 2: Right, it's a cheap ticket for the game. Parking is cheap, right.
- 42:46Speaker 2: The hotels don't gouge you for the game, right, And
- 42:49Speaker 2: where can you find more draft more draftable players at
- 42:52Speaker 2: one place at one time?
- 42:53Speaker 6: Yeah, work camp? Yeah it yeah.
- 42:55Speaker 10: And one of the one of the great stories to
- 42:57Speaker 10: kind of this is what the senior bolls kind of
- 42:59Speaker 10: all of about. Garrett I spied last year bad last season.
- 43:03Speaker 10: Of course, he was able to heal up from an
- 43:05Speaker 10: injury that not a lot of people knew about and
- 43:08Speaker 10: goes out and how is a hell of a week?
- 43:10Speaker 10: And could he have gone to a better spot for
- 43:14Speaker 10: his potential future NFL career?
- 43:17Speaker 2: Well, no, I don't think so, not at all. Yeah,
- 43:20Speaker 2: like you said, being behind him, and I mean, and
- 43:23Speaker 2: you know he's gonna end up playing eventually because Mahomes
- 43:26Speaker 2: is going to go down at some point, I mean,
- 43:28Speaker 2: just because of the way he plays. You know. The
- 43:30Speaker 2: one thing I was disappointed what happened with Garrett is
- 43:33Speaker 2: I know for a fact those conversations that were going
- 43:36Speaker 2: on when they found out the medical and it was
- 43:38Speaker 2: like everybody's got their own trainer, everybody's got their own physician.
- 43:42Speaker 2: And the comment I mean, I know what the comments were, Well,
- 43:45Speaker 2: is he going to be pup? Is he going to
- 43:47Speaker 2: need surgery now? Is he gonna need surgery later? Can
- 43:50Speaker 2: we invest in him right now? Knowing this, that's what
- 43:53Speaker 2: made him drop. But then he lands perfectly.
- 43:56Speaker 8: Where, right to the perfect spot.
- 43:59Speaker 2: Yeah, and called me even he goes, he goes did
- 44:01Speaker 2: you see anything wrong? I was like, no, Was he
- 44:04Speaker 2: got healthy? I know that because he looked like a
- 44:07Speaker 2: different animal at our game? Yeah he did, and he
- 44:09Speaker 2: did during the year because he took a beating, dude,
- 44:12Speaker 2: I mean he was hurt. Plus he took a beating.
- 44:14Speaker 10: Yeah, and it wasn't the best quarterback conditions that week either, cold, Wendy.
- 44:17Speaker 2: Uh, but you know the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday weren't bad,
- 44:21Speaker 2: like you said, a little bit of win. But now
- 44:23Speaker 2: Saturday was brutal. Yeah, I mean it was cold.
- 44:25Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 44:26Speaker 2: You know I was down on the field going like, okay,
- 44:28Speaker 2: I go.
- 44:28Speaker 4: Upstairs for a little right, right, Drew got about a
- 44:31Speaker 4: minute left before out of here today. Give me one guy,
- 44:34Speaker 4: doesn't matter what school that you're most excited to have
- 44:37Speaker 4: a conversation with and scout this year.
- 44:39Speaker 2: I already had a conversation with him. Who's that Jabriel Rawls? Okay,
- 44:43Speaker 2: Florida State corner. Huh you got hurt Week six last
- 44:47Speaker 2: year and I'm calling it right now. He's a first
- 44:50Speaker 2: round corner. Yeah, and nobody's talking about him.
- 44:54Speaker 4: That's probably pretty exciting for you that nobody's talking about him, Like.
- 44:57Speaker 6: Come on, I got no place you can go.
- 45:00Speaker 2: Put it this way, it's already the works. You know,
- 45:02Speaker 2: it already the works. And that's something I don't have
- 45:04Speaker 2: to recruit these guys, you know, right, Yeah, Yeah, they
- 45:06Speaker 2: know that the value they can grow their their no
- 45:09Speaker 2: doubt their draft stock exponentially, no.
- 45:11Speaker 6: Doubt about it.
- 45:12Speaker 7: Drew.
- 45:12Speaker 4: We appreciate you hopping on with us. I know you've
- 45:14Speaker 4: got ninety seven interviews to do. Nobody better to end
- 45:17Speaker 4: our show with. Thank you, Executive Director Joy of the
- 45:21Speaker 4: Senior Ball, So we appreciate you. I know we had
- 45:23Speaker 4: some technical difficulties.
- 45:24Speaker 6: Earlier in the show.
- 45:25Speaker 4: We do apologize for that, but we'll be back strong
- 45:28Speaker 4: as ever. Lshe going to be here tomorrow. We'll see
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