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

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  Speaker 1: WRKS Pickens Jackson. Hey, what do you say we sing
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  Speaker 1: a driving song? There's not going to be any singing
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  Speaker 1: around here. Just real sports. On the Afternoon Drive with
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  Speaker 1: 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.
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  Speaker 1: It is the 27th day of August, 2026. Champ in
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  Speaker 1: little more Ole Miss football and SEC football with all
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  Speaker 1: the legalities going on in college sports. And Robbie LaSparza, mybookie.ag
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  Speaker 1: will join us at 4.30. All right, B, you had
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  Speaker 1: a little cooler day today. Did we go 50-something minutes
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  Speaker 1: today on the walk?
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  Speaker 3: No, I didn't make it because I was.
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  Speaker 3: I had to do work, which was lame.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, always is.
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  Speaker 3: And then that work led me to rage. I was
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  Speaker 3: filled with rage at you. I told you I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to punch your face into a jelly, and it really
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  Speaker 3: interrupted my walking.
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  Speaker 1: So are you saying that I inadvertently messed your walk
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  Speaker 1: up today? Yep. I'm putting it on you. This isn't good.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't good. I'm going to owe you big time
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  Speaker 1: for that. But everything else is good. Yeah. Okay, good.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure it's an empty house there in the building. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe three other people here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and your boss, including, who thought that ten people
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  Speaker 1: played on a football field?
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  Speaker 3: I forgot about that one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, ten people. All right, we've got a lot to
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  Speaker 1: get to. So Ben Portnoy, who worked for Sports Business Journal,
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  Speaker 1: is now over at Fox Sports, and we'll have to
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  Speaker 1: try to get him on just to talk a little football.
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  Speaker 1: But he says... First up, he says a dive into NIL,
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  Speaker 1: the market, and how two years after the $ 20 million
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  Speaker 1: roster won a title, spending has ballooned. He said, how
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  Speaker 1: did we get there? We asked industry people and got
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  Speaker 1: industry answers. So I do want to get into this
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  Speaker 1: piece by Ben Portnoy now with Fox Sports. And, of course,
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  Speaker 1: you can find him on X at BPortnoy15. CBS Sports
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  Speaker 1: has ranked. I know you guys are tired of rankings, right?
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  Speaker 1: We have just about ranked ourselves into oblivion this offseason.
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  Speaker 1: But we're almost there, right? You play some games this week,
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  Speaker 1: and then when we get back next week, we'll have
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  Speaker 1: nothing but game stuff to break down from Ole Miss, Louisville,
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi State, Louisiana, Monroe, LSU, Clemson, all the game stuff
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  Speaker 1: to break down next week. And we'll get away from
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  Speaker 1: the list, and we'll get into the actual stuff. But CBSSports.com
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  Speaker 1: has ranked the SEC quarterbacks by Brad Crawford. He has
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  Speaker 1: Trinidad Chambliss. I think I said it right that time.
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  Speaker 1: Chambliss is the number one quarterback in the SEC. Arch Manning,
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  Speaker 1: number two. Sam Leavitt, three. Gunnar Stockton, four. And he
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  Speaker 1: gives his top ten, and it goes Sellers, Mateer, Keylon Russell, Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: Byron Brown, Marcel Reed, and Faison Brandon at Tennessee. No
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  Speaker 1: Camario Taylor inside the top ten. Again, I think that
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  Speaker 1: he probably placed his way into this list. It's just
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  Speaker 1: which one does he unseat, so to speak. College football
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  Speaker 1: playoff leaders are expected to meet soon to discuss a
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  Speaker 1: policy barring teams with professional players from postseason competition. courtesy
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  Speaker 1: of Ross Dellinger. So we will get into that story.
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  Speaker 1: And you rarely see college athletics all go in the
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  Speaker 1: same direction on issues, right? I mean, how many playoff
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  Speaker 1: spots do we need? Well, it's 12, it's 16, it's 24.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody gets on the same page about anything. Most everybody
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  Speaker 1: got on the same page with the Brendan Sorsby issue,
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  Speaker 1: the sports gambling issue in sports. And now almost everybody
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  Speaker 1: outside of LSU and Lane Kiffin is getting on this
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  Speaker 1: train about the NFL players coming back. So now the
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  Speaker 1: college football playoff jumps in as well. We are at
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  Speaker 1: Heinz Junior College today. It's game day here in Raymond. 6.30 kick,
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  Speaker 1: Gene Murphy Field at Joe Renfro Stadium. So you want
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  Speaker 1: to come out and watch a little football tonight, you
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  Speaker 1: can do that. We'll have it right here on The Zone, 105.9. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, we'll have a pregame starting at 6. Kick
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  Speaker 1: starts at 6.30, so we'll be here. for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the day with you. All right, attorneys amend their complaint.
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  Speaker 1: Remember what's happened. LSU, they basically said no mas to
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  Speaker 1: a vote yesterday. They abstained from a vote yesterday with
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  Speaker 1: the SEC, and it was a 15-0 clean sweep. No
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  Speaker 1: players from the NFL come to the SEC. LSU didn't
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  Speaker 1: vote on it. Then representatives and attorneys and agents of
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  Speaker 1: said players that wanted to come to the SEC, back
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  Speaker 1: from the National Football League, started talking lawsuits immediately. And
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  Speaker 1: you knew that was coming. Lawsuits were coming. Lawsuits were coming.
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  Speaker 1: Here's some of the news today, less than an hour ago.
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  Speaker 1: Courtesy of Ross Dellinger, attorneys amend their complaint in the
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky eligibility lawsuit against the NCAA. Because remember, you've got
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  Speaker 1: several lawsuits, and it's hard to keep up with all
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  Speaker 1: of them. You've got the Colorado lawsuit. You've got the
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana lawsuit. You've got now the Kentucky lawsuit. You've got
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  Speaker 1: individual player lawsuits and now you're fixing to have a
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  Speaker 1: whole new batch of lawsuits because NFL players want to
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  Speaker 1: come back to college but attorneys amend their complaint in
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  Speaker 1: the Kentucky eligibility lawsuit against the NCAA requesting a judge
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  Speaker 1: hold the NCAA in contempt of court for allowing the
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  Speaker 1: SEC to issue a new policy that impacts the eligibility
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  Speaker 1: of 13 athletes including Missouri to Kentucky transfer Mark Mitchell
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  Speaker 1: now I've not heard this gentleman's name I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know who Mark Mitchell is some of you may I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea who he is. But now we have
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  Speaker 1: a new lawsuit. Also, attorney Ryan Downton tells Yahoo Sports,
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  Speaker 1: and he was in some of this yesterday, that the
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  Speaker 1: players believe the SEC's new policy and, quote, draconian penalties. Man,
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  Speaker 1: these people play on words so much. I mean, when
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  Speaker 1: you say draconian, I think really bad, right? Like, I
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  Speaker 1: think Beaver has just locked me in the basement there
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  Speaker 1: at the office and He's cut the AC on. He's
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  Speaker 1: got water dripping in my face like on a slow drip.
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  Speaker 1: He's got Taylor Swift, some song on a loop, and
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  Speaker 1: he's getting me to basically give him my birthrights, everything
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  Speaker 1: that I own. That would be draconian, just something that's very,
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  Speaker 1: very bad. I don't know how these are draconian penalties,
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  Speaker 1: but they're going to, say, interfere with their constitutional right
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  Speaker 1: to have access to the court system. as the sanctions
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  Speaker 1: may prevent schools from accepting the players onto rosters. Tons
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  Speaker 1: of word salad going on here. Tons of it. These
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  Speaker 1: draconian penalties interfere with the constitutional rights to have access
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  Speaker 1: to the court system. Now, you have access to the
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  Speaker 1: court system, but here's where we've gotten to is that
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  Speaker 1: rules are no longer rules. Rules are made to be broken,
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  Speaker 1: and then rules are made to generate lawsuits, is what
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  Speaker 1: has happened. I mean, but to call this a draconian
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  Speaker 1: penalty is really laughable by some of these attorneys, specifically
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  Speaker 1: this Ryan Downton. I doubt he's a guy you'd want
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  Speaker 1: to go have dinner with. Also, more comments from attorneys
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  Speaker 1: involved in the Louisiana lawsuit suggesting they will continue their
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  Speaker 1: legal fight and take aim at the SEC and its
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  Speaker 1: new policy. Quote, what Greg Sankey has done is a
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  Speaker 1: complete violation of state law. Now, I am not an
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  Speaker 1: attorney and I am not a, you know, a, you know, a,
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  Speaker 1: Professional in state law. But I don't know how this
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  Speaker 1: interferes with state law. Because to my knowledge, and I
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  Speaker 1: know you've got to get down the rabbit hole, there's
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  Speaker 1: no laws on the books about, you know, you can
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  Speaker 1: come back or can't come back. But, again, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to try to find a loophole here. Hey, we've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of FCS football games tonight. And if you're interested,
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  Speaker 1: here's some of them. You've got Maine at Towson. That's
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  Speaker 1: going to be on Flow Sports. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: anybody here has that. Or MNMT. Stony Brook is at
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  Speaker 1: Delaware State. Old, let's see, Ohio Dominican at Moorhead State.
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  Speaker 1: Anderson at Furman. You do have Mississippi Valley State on
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  Speaker 1: ESPN Plus tonight taking on Nichols on the road. Southern
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  Speaker 1: Illinois at West Florida. You also have Winona State at St. Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: And you have HCU at Southeastern Louisiana. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of games in the FCS tonight. LIU at North Dakota.
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  Speaker 1: And many, many more. If you want a little football
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  Speaker 1: If you're not able to get some junior college. or
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  Speaker 1: high school, Pearl is hosting Madison Central tonight, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got a big one over in Pearl tonight
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  Speaker 1: between the Jags and the Pirates. That should be fun.
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  Speaker 1: And you can get some FCS action out there tonight. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: Good afternoon. Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: And welcome back to the Afternoon Drive with Jake Wimberley,
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  Speaker 1: That is the Cowboy Maloney's text line. All right, let
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  Speaker 1: me get back into, we have this FCS games tonight. Also,
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  Speaker 1: in June, the college football playoff discussion, or the committee
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  Speaker 1: discussed participation rules, such as banning teams that rostered a
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  Speaker 1: player who bet on his or her team. Now the
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  Speaker 1: topic is back to, should the playoff committee disqualify those
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  Speaker 1: rostering a player who signed a pro contract? So again,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into this as This now has hit the
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  Speaker 1: college football playoff committee. SEC presidents reaffirmed their inter-conference transfer policy,
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  Speaker 1: prohibiting players moving within the league outside of the portal
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  Speaker 1: per a copy of a Sankey memo. Violators are subject
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  Speaker 1: to half-a-season suspension, 50% of school's sports budget, and removal
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  Speaker 1: of vote privilege. So you can't transfer from one school
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  Speaker 1: to the other. I mean, the SEC is really buttoning
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  Speaker 1: up this transfer business here amid everything going on. with
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  Speaker 1: professional athletes want to come back. Uh, the big 12
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  Speaker 1: has set things in motion as well. They have, uh,
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  Speaker 1: put out their exact language, exact language of what their
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  Speaker 1: rules are going to be. Professional athlete roster restriction. No
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  Speaker 1: member institution shall be permitted to have an athlete on
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  Speaker 1: its roster competing in a conference champ, a conference competition
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  Speaker 1: in a sport. Uh, if after the athletes initial full-time
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  Speaker 1: enrollment at a, at a collegiate institution, the athlete has
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  Speaker 1: in the same sport, uh, if they have declared for
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  Speaker 1: the draft or supplemental draft of a professional sports league
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  Speaker 1: and did not timely withdraw from the draft, been listed
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  Speaker 1: at any time on the roster of a professional sports
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  Speaker 1: league or signed a contract with any professional sports league
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  Speaker 1: to provide athletics service. This rule will apply independently of
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  Speaker 1: the status of NCAA eligibility determinations. And so it goes
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  Speaker 1: on to talk about professional sports leagues and what defines
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  Speaker 1: professional sports leagues, because I think you do. We all
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  Speaker 1: know what this means, but you have to spell it
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  Speaker 1: out for these knuckleheads. If not, you'll get sued. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it mentions, you know, the United football, the UFL,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, the CFL, the NBA, the major league baseball world,
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  Speaker 1: the minor league baseball system, the national women's soccer league.
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  Speaker 1: So they, they list everything out there in this statement saying, Hey, basically, look,
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  Speaker 1: if you have gone and signed a pro contract, you
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  Speaker 1: cannot come back. You know, if you have tested the
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  Speaker 1: waters and you pass the time to really, you know,
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  Speaker 1: come back and you can't come back. So the big
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  Speaker 1: 12 has set this in motion. NFL news, courtesy of
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  Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport, the Seahawks and star Leonard Williams have agreed
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  Speaker 1: to terms on a three-year $ 90 million extension to keep
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  Speaker 1: him in Seattle for the foreseeable future. The three-time pro
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  Speaker 1: bowler made a one last, uh, made one last year
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  Speaker 1: and is still in his prime. Um, If he sees
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  Speaker 1: the life of his contract, he'll make upwards of $ 250 million. Also,
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  Speaker 1: news out of Texas A & M camp, Marcel Reed.
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  Speaker 1: Reviews are high. Supposedly he's had a great camp down
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  Speaker 1: in College Station. Quote, he just continues to stand out
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  Speaker 1: and make plays. One source on Marcel Reed and then,
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  Speaker 1: of course, this wide receiving group at Texas A & M.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see if they can throw it a little
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  Speaker 1: bit this year. Marcel Reed, if he is... taking that
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  Speaker 1: next step that he has talked about he needs to take.
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina defensive coordinator Steve Belichick is not expected to
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  Speaker 1: be with the team to open the season on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: in Dublin versus TCU. The son of head coach Bill
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  Speaker 1: Belichick has been on indefinite medical leave since early August.
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  Speaker 1: And remember, they've got three problems going on at once,
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  Speaker 1: probably four if we include Belichick's girlfriend. You've got the
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  Speaker 1: general manager who's on a suspension. and a leave due
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  Speaker 1: to an HR issue. You've got Steve Belichick, who is
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  Speaker 1: not with the team right now. You've got the NCAA
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  Speaker 1: investigating the North Carolina football program for breaking a lot
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  Speaker 1: of rules. They're going to Dublin. And I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: the easiest win that you're going to have, probably this year,
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  Speaker 1: is this weekend. And that number continues to climb. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to Rafael Esparza about that in the next segment.
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  Speaker 1: That number has jumped two and a half to three points.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, let me go check that–
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  Speaker 1: and it was at seven to seven and a half
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  Speaker 1: just a couple days ago. That number may hit ten
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  Speaker 1: or ten and a half by kickoff on Saturday at 11.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of money coming in on TCU. That
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  Speaker 1: total's at 47. So play the total if you want,
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  Speaker 1: but I would definitely take TCU to cover in that ballgame.
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  Speaker 1: All right. South Carolina's Shane Beamer. decided he needed to
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  Speaker 1: talk before the season started. And he tells Chris Lowe,
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  Speaker 1: remember now, South Carolina, I don't know the attraction to
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina. You know, I just don't. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: get out in the world in everyday life, and you
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  Speaker 1: see two people, you know, you see, let's just say this,
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  Speaker 1: a group of guys has a buddy, and maybe he's
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  Speaker 1: not the best-looking guy. And, you know, by what every
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  Speaker 1: guy thinks of, but he's constantly always dating the best-looking girls.
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  Speaker 1: And then the buddies say, man, I just– I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 1: What does this dude– what's going on with him? He's
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  Speaker 1: got money. What's going on? I mean, how is he
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  Speaker 1: doing this? I mean, what's going on? This is South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody keeps asking the question, except South Carolina isn't winning anything.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody keeps picking South Carolina every year. They're the dark
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  Speaker 1: horse this. They're the college football playoff that. But they're
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  Speaker 1: not– the difference in the analogy I use is they're
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  Speaker 1: not winning anything. They're not dating anybody. They're just– it's
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  Speaker 1: just talking. about how good they are. Shane Beamer decides
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  Speaker 1: to talk. There's a very quiet confidence on this team
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  Speaker 1: heading into the season. We showed in 24 that we
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  Speaker 1: can accomplish everything here. All right, so Shane Beamer, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to put this in the Shane Beamer box because I,
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  Speaker 1: nor Beaver, have forgotten last year in late November during
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  Speaker 1: the college football playoff committee release, Shane Beamer, for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to interview him, a four-win coach last year,
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  Speaker 1: And he said, I can't wait to see where we
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  Speaker 1: are this time next year in the college football playoff poll.
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  Speaker 1: Have not forgotten that. Will not forget it unless something happens.
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  Speaker 1: So he said, and I quote, in 24, we showed
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  Speaker 1: that we can accomplish everything here. Well, let's go look
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: at South Carolina in 24. What in the hell is
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: he talking about? Let's see. South Carolina. South Carolina in 24.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: There they are. 24. 24. They went 9-4, 9-4. They
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: started 2-0. They had a three-point loss to LSU. They
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: beat Akron. They had a two-point loss to Alabama. Ole
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Miss beat them handily, 27-3. And they lost to Illinois
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: in a bowl game. So they finished 9-4. They were
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: 5-2 at home, 4-2 on the road, and they were
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: 5-3 in the conference. So, you know, nine wins is
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: a good season. But it's not the national championship. It's
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: not the college football playoff. They didn't even play for
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the SEC championship. Yet he says, we showed in 24
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: we can accomplish everything here. Well, you didn't accomplish everything
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: in 24, Shane. What is everything? Because you won nine ballgames.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I've tried to like this guy. I
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: really have. You know, when he came to South Carolina,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: he was funny, and everybody started comparing him to, you know,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the new age Steve Spurrier, and he'll say anything, and he's,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Handsome young man, and he's gritty, and he's got moxie.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I don't like this guy. I'm just going to be honest.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's nothing personal. I'm sure he's a good guy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like his mouth. I don't like his words,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: if I'm being honest. We showed in 24 we can
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: accomplish everything right here. You didn't win the title, Shane.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: You didn't even play for the SEC championship. I don't know.
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• 22:43
  Speaker 1: thank you, brother, for taking some time. How are you?
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm just glad that it's almost time to
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: talk about actual games than all the what's called extracurriculars.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I said the same thing earlier. I was given another
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: list of top quarterbacks in the SEC, and I said, hey,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I know you guys are listed out like we have
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: filled the cup on lists, So next week we actually
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: get to get into ballgames. We quit this season for
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: a while, don't we?
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's nice. And, you know, it seems like
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: there's always something going on in the courtroom or in
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: those sorts of situations that have to do with college
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: football and still somehow have to do with Ole Miss.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: And you can't get away from it. So I'm glad.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I think there's some FCS games on tonight if you're
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: a sicko like me. But I know that the USC
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: alumni– my season personally starts on saturday and i would
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: say i'm excited for it but i'm more worried than
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: anything now.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: You should be excited should be a good year uh
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: hopefully for sc and the big 10 all right so
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: any thoughts on man what it just you know we
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: run through these things in the off season or even
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: when it's in the real regular season and then it's
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: like we hit fast forward on the tape this this
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: whole week's been a blur with NFL players wanting to
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: come back, and then the SEC and the Big Ten
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: and Notre Dame and now the Big 12 and the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: ACC coming together essentially but separately and saying, hey, no
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: players are coming back. We're not doing that. Well, now
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: we've got lawsuits coming out. Any thoughts on this and
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: how it maybe pertains to even Ole Miss? I would
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: assume Ole Miss is in agreeance with the SEC because
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: outside of Kiffin and LSU who abstained from a vote yesterday,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: everybody in the SEC voted for this 15-0.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting because just as soon as guys are
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: ruled eligible and they're being put on waivers in the NFL,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: which again is just insane. If you had told me
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: this concept five years ago, I would have been like,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: what are you even talking about? That a guy who
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: had signed an NFL contract was thinking about coming back
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: to school for another season. But just as soon as
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: that happens, The backlash started. It was like, okay, well,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: how long is this going to last? It lasted like
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: a day or two. And then other than the conference,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: it stepped in. But now, of course, you've got lawsuits,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: and injunctions are probably on the way. That seems to
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: be the– that's kind of the– I've gotten very– I'm
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: very knowledgeable with injunctions these days, given the last six months. But, yeah,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: it's crazy. It just seems like there's always something new. And,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, think about it. If you're, you know,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: North Carolina and TCU kick off on Saturday in Ireland,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: and it's like, yeah, I don't know if this affects them, but, like,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: what if there's a situation where, like, one of the
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: guys on the team is ineligible? Or, like, maybe are
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: they looking like– there's just so many, like, what-ifs right now,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: and nobody really knows exactly what– what's right and what's
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: wrong and what's good and what's bad for the sport.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. And then, of course, you know, it comes
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: back to Ole Miss because, you know, Lane Kiffin was
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: trying to get some former Ole Miss players who had
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: signed NFL deals or been in camps to come to LSU. And,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: you know, Pete Golden's been pretty clear about, you know,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: his stance that, you know, they put this team together
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: and unless it was an injury situation, They feel pretty
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: good about the guys that they put together in the offseason. But, man,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: there's always something. It's like the few minutes that we're
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: going to be on the phone, I'm waiting for another alert,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: and I have no idea what it's going to be.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Michael Katz talking college football. It is Thursday. Make sure
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: to get him on X. And, of course, check him
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: out at the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Yeah, I agree
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: with you. It's just like what's coming next, what's coming next.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Let's shift gears and talk Ole Miss. Now I'm sure
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: everybody's getting ready for game week, have been probably for
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the last several days, staffers probably for the last several weeks.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Any injury news to report, or is everything kind of
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: clear there on the injury front?
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: When talking to Pete, I guess it was Monday, he
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: said that the depth had kind of been tested a
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: little bit during camp on the offensive line and the corners,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I believe is what he said. Nothing that was going
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: to be like long-term or like that, but I know
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: they had had to kind of work around some stuff.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: But it sounded like when it came time for the
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: games to actually begin that they were going to be
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: just fine. So, again, I think, you know, obviously we'll
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: see when they line up and, you know, what's rumor
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: and what isn't. But it sounds at least like they
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: should be in a pretty good spot.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: When you look at certain guys that maybe have, you know,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: just the notes that you guys have, the accessibility that
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: you have, and I know it's limited for most camps,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: any players that have stood out maybe that, you know,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: maybe at the beginning of camp you didn't have them
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: on the radar, but guys maybe now that you're hearing about?
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's, I mean, I think probably the
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: biggest one has been Therese Davis, who's going to take
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: over at left tackle. You know, almost tackled last year.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: were really, really good. I think they gave up a
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: combined two sacks, Jaden Williams and Diego Pounds, all season long.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: They were really good on the edges, and so replacing
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: both of them is no easy task, but Thread Davis
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: is a guy who transferred from Maryland. He started two
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: games as a true freshman there and then came over
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: here and didn't play a ton last year, battled some
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: injuries and whatnot, and he's only been playing football a
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: few years. His dad is Ricky Davis, the former NBA player,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: so he was a basketball guy for a lot of
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: his career, so he's really just sort of getting started.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: He's been a guy that, to a man, everyone has
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: said glowing things about him and the job that he's done.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I think that receiver-wise, there's been a few guys who
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: have come up. We know what Deuce Alexander is and
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: the impact that he can have. Jontae Cook's name has
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: come up a lot, Horatio Fields, both transferers. And then
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: freshman Samari Reed, or I guess retrofreshman, sophomore, I'm not
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: sure what the classification is anymore. But he's a young player.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: He's come up in conversations a lot. And then I
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: think on the defensive side, just really that safety room
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: has been talked about in pretty high regard. They brought
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: in some new guys, Edwin Joseph from Florida State and
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Shreve Denson. from Florida. I think they feel really good
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: about that, and in talking to both of them at
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: various points over the last few weeks, it sounds like
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: they really like what they've assembled in there.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Michael Katz talking Ole Miss football. Rebs get ready for
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: the season opener next week versus Louisville, Thursday edition of
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the program. Any other notes before I ask you one
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: SEC question? Any other notes to pass along for Ole
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Miss camp?
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Not really. I mean, I think it's, you know, I
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: think everybody, including the guys in camp, are anxious to
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: see another team and not line up against the same
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: guys that they've had to go against. Obviously, for corners,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: seeing the same receivers every day, there are some positives
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: to it, but I'm sure eventually you're looking forward to
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: seeing somebody new. I think everybody's ready, and this is
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: a Louisville team that is not to be taken lightly.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I know they're ranked number 24th, I know they've got
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: a new quarterback, and we'll see how that looks, but
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: they've got two really good running backs. I think Brown
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: is a baller. I think he averaged like eight-something yards
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: to carry last year and had almost 1,000 yards despite
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: missing like three games. So that is not a gimme game.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: So I think it sounds like everybody's ready, and I
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: think they have a– a first game where you can
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: get hyped for it. You know, obviously every first game
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: teams are going to say that they're excited, regardless of it. Yes. Yes. Team.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: If it's, you know, Georgia stays, you know, whoever it is. Uh,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: but I think that when it's a quality opponent, everybody is, is,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: is ready to go and locked in.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Hey, have you picked a, uh, sec, uh, you know,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: championship matchup just for fun?
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: You know, I, yeah, I, It's really hard for me
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: to pick against Georgia just because I know they've got
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: a lot of new, but Kirby Smart always does this,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: and it always ends up, for the most part, going
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: his way. I know Texas is a really popular pick,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: and I think Texas is really, really talented, but I
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: think so much of it depends on is there another
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: year for Arch Manning. It's been a weird few weeks.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: with like social media saying, Oh, he's looked terrible at practice.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: And then some people being like, no, he's looked awesome.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: You know, I think that the truth is usually somewhere
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: in the middle of what you hear. I think that
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: if he is as good as he's supposed to be,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I think Texas has a chance to be stellar. So
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if that is the matchup, but it's,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: it's just so hard for me to pick against Kirby
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: smart in Georgia. And, you know, they've got a veteran quarterback.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Gunner Stockton is, is so underrated. He's really good. Ole
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Miss fans know how good he is. It's hard for
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: me to go against Georgia.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Good stuff, as always, from Michael Katz. Get him on X.
• 32:17
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• 32:19
  Speaker 1: a little rest. Enjoy your USC Trojans this weekend, and
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: we'll do it again next week. It'll be game week.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: All right, sounds good, man.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Talk to you later.
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  Speaker 1: more rankings. They've ranked all 138 college football teams in
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the country. And their number one team in the country
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: is Indiana. So, you know, when you look at what
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: they've done this year, They've done it a little differently.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first poll that I've seen where Indiana
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  Speaker 1: has been number one. And again, you know, pick the
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  Speaker 1: poll you want. I mean, if you want to use
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  Speaker 1: the Associated Press, if you want to use the coaches,
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  Speaker 1: you've got the athletic, which I think is equally as
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  Speaker 1: good as those two, probably better. I think the on
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  Speaker 1: three polls, the CBS sports polls, I think those are better,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: but they say the defending national champs are disrespected by
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: their number six ranking in the preseason coaches in a people, uh,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Would that have happened if a different logo were on
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the helmet? Additions like running back Turbo Richard and receiver
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Nick Marshall will help new quarterback Josh Hoover. The Hoosiers
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: remain the team to beat. I get it. I get
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: some of that. I mean, if you want to put
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Indiana at number one, I get that thought process for sure.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, especially with the pedigree of Kurt Cignetti and
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: you look at the staff and you look at the
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: guys coming back and you look at the guys they
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: brought in. Yes, Josh Hoover is new at quarterback. But
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: he is a quarterback that has, at this point in
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: his career, played more football than Fernando Mendoza. Ohio State,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: number two, says the Buckeyes will be in the mix
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: as always, always with so much talent. But there are
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: some questions about a defense that lost so much and
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: an offense that struggled in the biggest games a year ago. Georgia,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: number three, the defensive running game should return to form.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: You have to wonder how explosive, though, offensively the Dogs
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: will be. They lacked some explosiveness defensively. Now, you're starting
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: to see a trend of a lot of people late,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: kind of jump on the Georgia bandwagon as far as
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: winning the whole thing. So you've seen a lot of
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: flow and trend from Ohio State to Indiana to Georgia
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: to Texas to Miami to Notre Dame as far as
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: who the best team is. Number four on their list
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: is Oregon. This is another team that a lot of
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: people like. The Ducks may have, quote, the best quarterback
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: and defensive line in the country. Six of Dan Lanning's
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: eight losses as a head coach have come against teams
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: that played for the national title. The pieces are there
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  Speaker 1: to get over the hump. So we'll see if they
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  Speaker 1: do it. Notre Dame at number five. The Irish return
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  Speaker 1: the most production in the FBS and may have the
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  Speaker 1: best defense. But are there enough playmakers at running back
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  Speaker 1: and receivers in that receiving room for the Irish? Another
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  Speaker 1: week's schedule leaves little room for error because they really
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  Speaker 1: don't play a challenging schedule. I mean, they do play
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  Speaker 1: the University of Miami. but that's not until late, and
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  Speaker 1: they do play SMU. Texas at number six. It says
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  Speaker 1: probably the highest ceiling in the country of Arch Manning,
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  Speaker 1: Cam Coleman, and the rest of the Longhorns can pull
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  Speaker 1: it all together. We saw what the floor was last
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  Speaker 1: year for Texas. The University of Miami, the Hurricanes at
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: number seven. The Canes may be better at quarterback and
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: the skill position set than last year's squad that was
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: a college football player runner-up. The Athletic has LSU at
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  Speaker 1: number eight. It says Lane Kiffin has all the talent
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  Speaker 1: he could ask for. Can he tie it all together
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  Speaker 1: in his first season in charge down in Baton Rouge?
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech at number nine. It says if quarterback Will
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  Speaker 1: Hammond is healthy, the defense and running game are more
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  Speaker 1: than enough for the Red Raiders to run through the
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  Speaker 1: Big 12. They have Oklahoma at number 10. It says
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: the defense should be strong again. Can the Sooners run
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  Speaker 1: the ball to help quarterback John Mateer? At number 11,
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  Speaker 1: BYU says second-year quarterback Bear Williams Bachmeier, which again is
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: one of the better names for quarterbacks this year, had
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  Speaker 1: a full offseason in the system and the defense is reloaded.
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  Speaker 1: The Cougars have finished just outside the college football playoff
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  Speaker 1: the last two seasons. That might change this year. And
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  Speaker 1: you've seen some projections where BYU has been in as
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: that second team out of the Big 12. Because if
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: you're looking at two, the SEC is going to get
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  Speaker 1: multiple teams in the playoff. The Big 10 is definitely
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: going to get more than two teams in the playoff.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is, can the ACC have more than one,
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  Speaker 1: which is likely Miami, and the Big 12, will they
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: have more than one, which is likely Texas Tech? You
• 39:03
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