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 Now, get ready to roll Shoals, Decatur, Athens and all of Northwest Alabama and Southern Tennessee. It's time for the Valley's Exclusive FM Sports Voice.

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 The Boomo Bugg Show. New Exclusive Inside Track to the Tide, Tigers, Tennessee and the rest of the SEC. Now your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

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 Good afternoon and welcome in to the Boomo Bugg Show. I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird. Thank you so much for giving us a free ride around the Tennessee Valley. Brett Beaird, welcome in where after getting a big A whooping in the big A, Alabama now hopes to get it together and goes storming to Norman. Good afternoon, welcome in and when's the last time you've seen such a big blowout with basically no fallout? Welcome in and how are you?

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 Happy Monday to you and the listeners. We'll recap a tough day for Bama in Atlanta, even though they do get in the college football playoffs at number nine in preview on the other SEC teams in the college football playoff and bowl games.

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 Former UNA quarterback in 2002, Harlan Hill winner, Will Hall, named as the new head coach this morning at Tulane.

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 And Teal Banks is the former defensive coordinator at Tennessee since he was let go this morning.

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 ThomasDeVale.com will recount the storylines of the Super 7.

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 Adam is here right now to talk about the SEC in postseason.

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 Adam Spencer is busy there as a fine columnist at Saturday Down South, Saturday Tradition and Sports Betting Time.

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 Adam, welcome in. How was your weekend?

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 Hey, guys. Pretty busy weekend over here. How are you guys doing?

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 Man, we're sitting here scratching our heads. Have you opted out of covering the bowl season like Notre Dame yet, Adam?

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 I wish I had the kind of money that I could opt out of a million-dollar payday and be okay.

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 Now I'm going to be working through bowl season, guys.

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 Yeah. You know how it is. If I don't get in my way, I'm going to take my toys and go home.

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 We'll talk about that, but let's talk a little bit about what's closer to our zip code, and that's the obvious.

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 Adam, where do you start breaking down what I guess was a game in Atlanta over the weekend?

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 Yeah, I mean, it was just some of the things that we've seen from Alabama over the past few weeks finally coming to fruition here.

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 You know, they've had some, you know, obviously after the four-game winning streak, I mean, that was part of, you know, going into Athens and winning was part of that.

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 But, you know, after that four-game winning streak against top 25 teams without a break, I mean, it just kind of, they just weren't the same, really, after that.

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 Ty Simpson started getting sloppier with the ball, and, you know, the defense, you know, played okay.

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 They were just put in bad situations by an offense that couldn't really get anything going.

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 And it's the same song and dance we've seen all year with Jim Miller when he's out there.

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 I mean, every time it seems like he gets going, then, you know, like that Mizzou game, for example, he leaves with an injury because, you know, he was doing really well before that.

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 So he's just been snakebitten this year, and not being able to run the ball at all has been a real Achilles heel for this Alabama team.

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 And that showed itself again against the Georgia team that has its defense peaking at the right time.

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 Adam, for the folks who are just joining us the first time, no secret, you are a Mizzou grad.

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 And you mentioned the Missouri game.

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 Alabama hasn't been the same since, in particular Ty Simpson.

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 A lot of folks say that was the turning point.

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 He's suffered some type of injury there that hasn't been fully discussed.

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 Is it that, or is it just that people are starting to adjust to Ryan Grubb, that they've got his number, just drop two safeties and just bring the jailhouse rush the rest of the way and move defenses around and get him frustrated?

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 Your thoughts, how much of it is Ty Simpson not the same since the game against your team from Missouri, and or is it just coaches unable to adjust to the second half of the schedule?

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 Like the ball security, I mean, it wasn't his, you know, right hand that got hurt if it was anything.

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 You know, he should be, you know, taking care of the ball a little bit better.

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 And, you know, some of the stuff that it looks like he's seeing out there, you know, just not really there.

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 His receivers, notably, you know, Ryan Williams, have been a little bit spotty.

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 Like, everybody gets banged up during the season.

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 And that's, you know, so it takes some adjusting to get your body used to that kind of punishment.

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 Alabama will be playing Oklahoma 2.0.

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 That will be the Friday night game, the first playoff game, Friday night at 7 o'clock Central Time.

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 Georgia's going to have to wait another few weeks, but they're going to get the winner of the Tulane-O Miss game.

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 Like, I just think that, you know, with Indiana and Ohio State, I just, I know that it was a battle of two great defenses,

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 Adam, Missouri at Virginia.

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 And, again, I know a lot of people wondering what's the future of bowl games,

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 I mean, I still think that there's, you know, a lot to play for.

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 I mean, the bowl games make it, you know, worthwhile for players.

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 They have gift packages and all that sort of stuff.

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 You often get a trip to a nice place, and I just think it's worth it.

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 And I think it's worth it from, you know, I think, you know, I don't know what the rules are on this,

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 but if you decline a bowl invitation, like, I would imagine that you don't get those extra, like, three weeks of practice.

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 Maybe they're okay with foregoing that this day and age because they're just like, well, these guys are going to leave in the spring anyway.

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 You know, I don't know what the deal is there, but, like, that used to mean something to have those two weeks of practice.

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 I mean, I think that it's something that you could build on over the next few weeks, and I'm excited to see that game.

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 Adam Spencer, Saturday-down staff.

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 If you don't mind, let's circle back to the Bama-Oklahoma game.

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 Obviously, we know what happened the last time.

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 A thin margin.

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 Bama, at last report, is actually the favorite on the road by a slim point and a half.

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 Adam, is it safe to say the first team to two, not three, may win this ball game,

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 Our Mason Thomas, who's arguably Oklahoma's best defensive player, hasn't been playing the last couple weeks.

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 So, yeah, I mean, it's going to come down to, you know, is John Mateer, the John Mateer from earlier in the season?

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 Whoever can play, like, the first half version of themselves is going to lead this team to a victory.

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 But, yeah, I think that this comes down to whichever quarterback looks the most like his, you know, first half of the season itself.

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 Adam, I've heard all the issues with bowl games, again, rehashed over the weekend.

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 I'm well aware of it.

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 You've got interim coaches, coaches leaving.

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 I get all this stuff.

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 There were seven teams who actually were five and seven and had the opportunity to go to a bowl, and they turned it down because players are scattered, coaches are scattered.

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 What is the answer, long-term, to this?

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 Do you tie an NIL reward to this?

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 Do you play some of these bowls at the beginning of the season where it would be a big deal?

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 It's just so whiny and just not physical, and it's just terrible.

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 They just don't have a conference to find them because I think some of the teams that have declined bowl bids in the Big 12 were fined $500,000.

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 I think there's ways to do this that really has more of an impact financially than a $500,000 fine, and I think that maybe that's the way to go.

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 Why are the players scattered when there's a chance that there's a bowl game to be played?

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 There's a lot of entitlement going on right now, and that's true across society and not just in sports, but sports could be a leader to try to fix this.

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 The pros outweigh the cons as far as the benefits for going through a bowl game practice time, rewards, the gift packages for the players, et cetera, et cetera.

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 Adam, great stuff.

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 A lot of things going on.

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 I know you and the team are going to be looking at the SEC in postseason, a lot of good basketball going on.

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 Adam, where can we get online to get yours and the team's good stuff?

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 We've got you covered, and, you know, yeah, we're shifting gears.

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 We're going to have a lot of basketball this week, and then we'll have you covered all postseason long.

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 Thanks for saying that about Notre Dame, Adam.

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 I got a feeling a lot of folks agree with you outside of South Bend.

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 I wonder if they're going to get some cheese with that wine.

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 I thought Clark Lee at Vanderbilt was a man in the room.

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 When asking, everybody's fussing about Vanderbilt not getting in.

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 Those are the rules we should have taken care of business on the field.

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 Those are the rules we've got to man up and live by.

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 He is the Max in the room.

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 following Sunday's win against UTSA.

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 trying to get more old boards than we give up, because we haven't been very good at that.

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 Welcome back in.

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 It is always a pleasure for us to welcome in the Big Daddy of Sports Talk back in the entire Southeast.

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 And Max H***, also busy as a former assistant coach there at Ole Miss and Florida State.

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 Max, welcome in.

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 How are you?

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 In Mississippi today, it's 41 degrees and raining.

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 So, I'm going to let you figure out how to do it.

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 Yeah, you know what?

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 It's about the same on this side of the state line, too, Max.

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 Alabama got blown out over the weekend in your hometown, Atlanta, and still no fallout.

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 And, Max, can you believe Danny Connell and others are upset about this news?

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 Where are you here with the weekend called the Alabama Crimson Tide?

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 Well, you know, I looked at that, and I don't think their performance warranted them making the playoff, the tournament, to say the least.

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 But, however, I understand why they used the system they used.

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 You know, they took the wins in the middle of the season when they were in a hot spot.

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 I still believe Simpson's hurt.

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 I don't know what's wrong with him on that critical third-day situation.

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 He runs out there and falls down.

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 Nobody within three or four yards of him at the time.

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 It's just little things like that.

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 It's hard to read, guys.

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 I mean, Washington, Alabama, for the last ten years anyway, they've been almost, you know, they've perfected almost every system they've read.

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 They played on the field where, you know, they were 100% every snap.

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 I got where I kind of isolate some different players from different times, and I don't see 100% coming from a lot of them.

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 And that all starts in practice, you know, everybody, but they do where they start.

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 So, I don't, it's, something's missing.

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 I wish, if I could put my finger on it, I'd sell it.

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 But I can't, you can't do, you can't do that, because you've got the human emotion involved there.

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 But, anyway, they're there, and they go, you know, they play in Oklahoma, they've got to go out there.

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 If you recall, and I know y'all do, Oklahoma writes their own rules when you play on their campus out there.

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 We can tell about the, in the Auburn situation where they, they had the illegal play, and they said that was their playbook, and they were going to keep it there.

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 I never heard a, you know, an apology for using it or whatever.

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 It isn't about the places that happened along the way.

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 They just, you know, they're going to play their own.

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 But Alabama lost to them in Tuscaloosa.

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 So, you know, that ought to be motivation enough for them to pick up and try to win the ball game down.

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 I was just noticing the, told me yesterday when they listed the, the book says that if they beat Oklahoma, how about this, they get to play Indiana.

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 So, it's going to be a, you know, it's going to be an uphill battle for them.

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 I think that's starting to take a couple of weeks.

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 Max, Georgia deserves all the credit in the world, and particularly for the block punt.

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 L.T. Overton was out.

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 And even Kellen DeBoer said they ran through a hole where he normally is.

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 And they picked up on that and exploited it.

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 Alabama, by the time they got to the end of the third quarter, had eight starters who were out of the game.

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 And, again, give George, this game reminded me of the first Oklahoma game with turnovers in short fields.

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 Georgia's scoring drives were 12, 21, 39, and 57.

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 And, again, they took advantage of that.

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 Max, let me ask you from a coaching perspective.

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 In the third quarter, after Alabama had gone three and out another two consecutive times,

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 would you as a coach have considered replacing Ty Simpson with the backup quarterback to give the offense a little bit of a spark?

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 I don't think there's any doubt about that.

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 That's what should have happened.

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 But let me tell you what happens, get close to the end of the season, though, guys.

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 When they get in a bowl, they particularly got to play an opponent like a Georgia,

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 where there's total physicality.

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 Georgia's just way more physical than Alabama was.

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 What happens is, from Monday to Thursday, guys, they don't practice time.

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 They don't run number twos in there.

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 They're so concerned about ones.

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 And you know where that comes from?

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 That comes from the NFL.

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 How many times have you seen number two and number three play quarterback in the NFL team?

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 Almost never, no matter what the score is.

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 And I think that's the drift down from that.

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 But the fact is, I mean, why not put him in there for a couple of plays?

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 Thank you.

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 Absolutely.

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 I remember on the punt situation, I believe that was a young freshman they stuck out there on that corner.

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 Yeah, that's right.

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 The block.

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 Well, how smart is that?

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 Not.

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 There's a breakdown somewhere in the communications of this thing.

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 And I don't want to isolate it because I'm not there every day.

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 But I sure watch it on Saturday, and I chart every game I watch just like I did when I coached.

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 And I got all my notes.

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 I got a book full of notes on every game.

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 It's just little stuff.

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 Like, you know, and I was number 74 at the left tackle for the longest time.

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 They finally adjusted his stance.

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 It got him a little closer to the guard to at least block the linebacker company.

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 But he never did.

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 90% of the time, he never reached that deep rush in out there.

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 I mean, just little things like that has to be corrected.

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 I hate to see coaches that get things locked in their mind like a tackle is a tackle.

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 I mean, 50 years ago, if a tackle couldn't move his feet, we moved him to guard.

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 If he was the best player, it finds somebody else to put out there.

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 I mean, but I don't see any of that going on anymore.

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 You know, they just recruit to a special position, and that's what they're going to play regardless of his ability.

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 Those are just little things that I've picked up that I think could be corrected between Monday and Thursday every week.

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 But it's a little bit late in the season.

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 Talk about that now.

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 Amen.

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 It's their last ball game.

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 Max, let's talk about the boys in your state.

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 It's Lane Kiffin going to the committee and saying, give us Tulane.

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 I need that bonus money.

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 I'm rooting for Ole Miss.

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 I'm leaving my boys there so they can get an extra cash as if I need it.

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 Is Tulane turning into North Alabama?

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 John Somroth from Huntsville.

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 Will Hall, the coach coming, he played at UNA.

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 So, yeah, they're going to turn into North Alabama connection there.

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 They're facing Ole Miss.

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 How nervous is Ole Miss over the green wave, Max?

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 Well, they beat them by 48 the last time they played in the early part of the season.

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 So, I think they're already looking to, you know, Ole Miss better be looking at who the next team they got to play,

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 which I believe is Georgia, where they win this week.

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 So, yeah, I believe the tape ought to go right down during the next couple weeks they got.

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 Use the first week or so to look at Tulane.

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 But they've already got all the tape they need on there in the game plan to beat them.

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 And nothing's probably changed over Tulane's part of it because they use the same system they've used all year to get to where they are.

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 So, I think it's an easy transition to start working over Georgia and get at least, you know, probably three good weeks of work for Georgia.

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 Now, whether that can do anything or not, Georgia's, you know, you've heard Kirby say, they don't even recruit kids that they don't think are physical enough.

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 They're one of the few teams that's left, I think, in Division I that really counts on the physical.

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 Everybody else tries to out-for-desk people, not coach them.

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 Kirby just said, put your hand in the dirt and knock them off the ball.

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 And that's what he's been pretty good at it, I think, to say the least.

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 But, anyway, it's here.

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 We see it, you know, we see the 12 teams play off.

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 The thing is, the backlash we're getting from the two or three of the big boys that are pouting because they didn't make it.

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 They're going to take the football and go home.

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 They're not going to play in the ball game.

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 So, let me ask you this, guys.

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 When there's individual schools in a conference, for example, and I understand Notre Dame, but in a conference, they say,

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 they say, no, we don't feel like playing the ball this year.

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 We're not going to play.

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 Just let us pass.

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 Well, we've got about five or six that's already done this.

432
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 I thought the conferences got the check and then it's redistributed to all the teams in the conference.

433
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,920
 Well, how does one school choose not to play?

434
00:29:58,220 --> 00:30:02,480
 It makes go with the big – do what the Big 12 conference did.

435
00:30:02,660 --> 00:30:05,700
 They had two schools that opted out of a ball game.

436
00:30:05,820 --> 00:30:07,500
 They've done them $500,000.

437
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,560
 There you are, Matthew, at least that.

438
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:10,040
 That's the answer.

439
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:10,900
 Yeah.

440
00:30:11,220 --> 00:30:11,460
 Yeah.

441
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 Well, you think they'll pay that?

442
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 I bet you.

443
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:17,060
 Probably not.

444
00:30:17,180 --> 00:30:18,960
 But here's the answer to your question, Max.

445
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 It all started when the bosses left their nads at home.

446
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 That's when it started.

447
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 I think that's true, too.

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 But, you know, of course, my answer is we're watching the whole athletic facilities, say,

449
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 of the athletic programs change right before our eyes.

450
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 You know, and some of the changes are okay.

451
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 I don't – I'm not so old school.

452
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 I say just take them all out and start over, but no.

453
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 But the things that just didn't make sense anymore, common sense, they're just letting

454
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 them ride along.

455
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 I'd say they've got the fighting ability.

456
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 But I want to know how many of these teams that rush the field get five, 50,000.

457
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 I want to know how many of those fans are paid.

458
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 If I had to guess, very few.

459
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:10,260
 What they're going to do, the comps are going to kick them out of the conference.

460
00:31:10,740 --> 00:31:12,900
 The conference office says, no, you can go home and play.

461
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 And the schools are stupid because they know that a large chunk of their money comes from

462
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 conference distribution.

463
00:31:22,540 --> 00:31:29,480
 Look, I did 10 shows in my career in Destin, Florida on the more weekend, the weekend that

464
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,740
 they just – in the SEC where they distribute the money.

465
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,760
 And I always – I saw that thing go from 15,000 to 20,000 up to the last thing I did, I think,

466
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 was somewhere around 40,000, 50,000, up to 70,000 of school.

467
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,760
 So they need each other, let's say that.

468
00:31:46,220 --> 00:31:52,000
 And I just get really upset when I see some of these guys just take it upon themselves

469
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 to make their own rules.

470
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,420
 If they want to do that, they need to become independent like Notre Dame is.

471
00:31:57,780 --> 00:32:01,860
 If they think they can make it independently, God bless them, which I don't think they can

472
00:32:01,860 --> 00:32:02,300
 do that.

473
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:08,980
 Well, Notre Dame thinks they can, Max, because they've got that NBC TV money, but that

474
00:32:08,980 --> 00:32:10,960
 backfired on them at this time.

475
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:16,280
 And hopefully that they can get their butt in the conference if they want to solve the

476
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 problem.

477
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 Max, we've got to run to our next guest.

478
00:32:18,820 --> 00:32:22,780
 He's got to go to a press conference, but we always enjoy it.

479
00:32:22,820 --> 00:32:28,380
 We'll pick this conversation up next Monday and look at a lot of the SEC teams.

480
00:32:28,820 --> 00:32:31,840
 Always a pleasure to talk with you and get your great insight.

481
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 Max, have a great week.

482
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 Let's do this again next Monday.

483
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 That'll be great.

484
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 Thank you, guys.

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 Brian, we know you're busy.

607
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 Are you about to announce that you are entering the portal?

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 And if not, who has announced that they're entering the portal these days?

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 How are you?

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 I'm doing great, guys, but I'm way too old and slow to enter the portal right now.

611
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 As long as I can.

612
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:18,840
 Yeah, well, who is young and fast?

613
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 Talk to us because a lot of teams are looking at bowl games.

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 Other teams, if they're not going to be looking at the portal here, they will be in a few weeks.

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 Let's talk about Auburn.

616
00:38:27,820 --> 00:38:32,380
 We know where they are with the situation with the bowls, but talk to us about, we know your time's limited there.

617
00:38:32,380 --> 00:38:39,300
 Let's just jump right in with the names that you know of anyway that may be or are already in the transfer portal window.

618
00:38:39,940 --> 00:38:44,100
 Yeah, so nobody's in officially yet, but there are several that have announced that are going in.

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00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:50,000
 Demari Austin, of course, left the team, you know, two years away in the season or so.

620
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 So he'll be entering, I'm sure.

621
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:56,240
 Antonio Coleman, who was a freshman defensive lineman who didn't really play this year.

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 Perry Thompson, who's a receiver, who's played a little bit and started playing more here his second year here.

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 Rayon Strader was a transfer in the past year at cornerback.

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 Didn't play a whole lot.

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 He's leaving Caleb Wheatland, the same thing, at linebacker.

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 And then Jackson Arnold, which is no surprise there.

627
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 I'm expecting him to move on, too.

628
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 But there's going to be a lot more.

629
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 I would expect a whole lot more as we get closer to, was it January 2nd, January 3rd, whatever the official date is.

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 It's always interesting.

631
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 Talk to us about the window right now.

632
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 When you have a changing of the guard, and especially one like this, I can't imagine going from Hugh Freeze to Goldish.

633
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 That's a change.

634
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 Talk to us about the personnel, personalities that may be coming in, and compared to where Auburn's been over the last couple of those seasons.

635
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 I think that's kind of interesting.

636
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:55,380
 You know, Auburn put a lot of money into its wide receiver room, and I don't think that really necessarily paid off for them this year.

637
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 I put a lot in the quarterback room, but, you know, that ended up a lot, too.

638
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 Wah, wah, wah.

639
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 That made some changes later, right?

640
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 But I think you're going to see with Goldish maybe spread it out a little bit more, and put more into the running backs and the tight end rooms.

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 You look at Auburn's tight end performance this year.

642
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 No offense to anybody.

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 It just weren't very good in a lot of areas.

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 which seems to be a trend.

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 just to balance this offense out a little bit.

653
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 Let me ask you about the coaching staff.

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 I know we talked a little bit about it last week, and you're going to be –

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657
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 I've heard – I don't believe Will Redman is coming back.

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 What are you hearing as far as a few more coaches who may be coming in?

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 Well, the only ones we've necessarily confirmed as far as returning from the old staff or Cody –

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 I mean, excuse me, D.J. Durkin and Von Chalking-Williams are still waiting on Marcus Davis and rushing

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664
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 We know that Cody Burns is here.

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 We know that Joel Gordon is here.

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 They're the co-offensive coordinators.

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 Tyler Hudnick, the offensive line coach.

668
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 Demarcus Dyke.

669
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 Van Dyke is coming over.

670
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:00,460
 Potentially cornerbacks.

671
00:42:00,580 --> 00:42:01,440
 There's some sort of DB.

672
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:11,740
 So, he's bringing in a lot of guys from USF and a lot of the positions as far as personnel and recruiting analysts,

673
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:12,820
 that type of thing.

674
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:16,780
 I think they're being filled out by new people, but we don't have a complete roster yet.

675
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,660
 Brian Matthews, senior editor, AuburnSports.com.

676
00:42:20,740 --> 00:42:23,940
 Brian, we know this thing called the portal of the pendulum swings both ways.

677
00:42:24,060 --> 00:42:26,340
 We talked about who may be leaving.

678
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,220
 Let's talk about who may be coming that you are hearing.

679
00:42:29,380 --> 00:42:33,420
 And to me, it's very interesting to hear the conversation about quarterbacks coming from South Florida.

680
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,760
 I know Brown, he created a lot of headaches for a lot of teams.

681
00:42:36,980 --> 00:42:40,740
 But Auburn, basically, last year seemed like the end of the season.

682
00:42:40,980 --> 00:42:44,480
 They planted a lot of equity into building the room next year.

683
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:50,760
 Talk to us about who may be coming, particularly from South Florida, maybe starting with the quarterback room.

684
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:56,840
 Well, I mean, this is an area to watch real closely because I do think it's possible that Auburn,

685
00:42:57,140 --> 00:43:02,840
 Byron Brown goes into the portal A and B, Auburn pursues him and eventually lands him.

686
00:43:03,620 --> 00:43:08,520
 And I think if that's the plan, that they're probably going to clear out most of this room or all of it.

687
00:43:08,620 --> 00:43:08,920
 We'll see.

688
00:43:09,060 --> 00:43:09,960
 We'll see what happens.

689
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,220
 You know, Ashley Daniels preserved that extra year's eligibility.

690
00:43:13,580 --> 00:43:18,100
 But, you know, if Auburn brings in another guy that they're expecting to start that's been with his staff before,

691
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,700
 you would think he'd want to move on and find some where he can start.

692
00:43:20,820 --> 00:43:21,900
 Maybe I'm wrong on the program.

693
00:43:22,540 --> 00:43:23,400
 No, you're right.

694
00:43:23,940 --> 00:43:29,420
 Deuce Knight is a guy that, you know, another school might want to pay a little bit extra to come in there

695
00:43:29,420 --> 00:43:30,700
 and be the starter for them.

696
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:32,580
 So that'll be one to watch.

697
00:43:32,860 --> 00:43:37,700
 He's already being paid well, you know, to be a freshman, a star freshman coming out of high school

698
00:43:37,700 --> 00:43:38,460
 and to be a backup.

699
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:42,380
 But, you know, when you become a starter, you can get paid a lot more.

700
00:43:42,500 --> 00:43:44,840
 So that will be one, to me, that'll be the most interesting.

701
00:43:45,100 --> 00:43:47,880
 So will they have to rebuild their entire quarterback room?

702
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:49,460
 Will they just go with Ashton?

703
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:50,620
 Will they bring in Byron Brown?

704
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:51,720
 I think that's all to be determined.

705
00:43:52,900 --> 00:43:54,780
 Let me ask you about the defensive line.

706
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:59,460
 Kendrick Falk, a lot of these guys will be moving on to the NFL and they deserve it.

707
00:44:00,460 --> 00:44:06,940
 Byron Crawford, Bobby Jamison Travis, Jay Hardy, Dallas Walker, Xavius Walker.

708
00:44:06,940 --> 00:44:14,640
 How many of those guys do you believe will be going on to the NFL or possibly to another team?

709
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,000
 I actually think most of them will.

710
00:44:18,660 --> 00:44:25,560
 We know that they're eligible, especially if they get the right news from NFL scouts, right?

711
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:34,280
 And I'm still not entirely sure, you know, about the eligibility of some of these guys because the eligibility, you know, tends to change a lot.

712
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:42,540
 But I think a lot of those guys, I think a Mars Williams is one to watch closely because, you know, he almost left last offseason.

713
00:44:43,180 --> 00:44:44,220
 He is from North Carolina.

714
00:44:45,420 --> 00:44:51,380
 If he stays, he's going to be taking over for Kendrick Falk, probably as Auburn starting a defensive end, you know.

715
00:44:51,460 --> 00:44:53,280
 So that's a big position, potentially.

716
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:58,140
 You know, it led to Kendrick being what's, I think, going to be a top 15 type pick.

717
00:44:58,140 --> 00:44:58,580
 We'll see.

718
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:00,840
 But he may move on.

719
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:07,520
 And then, you know, you've got some guys there like Jamonte Waller, Joe Phillips, who haven't really played much, you know.

720
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,460
 So you're not necessarily expecting them to come back.

721
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:18,060
 If somebody's been in any program, Auburn, Alabama, Georgia, wherever, for two years and haven't played, a lot of times they're going to be looking to move on, no matter how highly recruited they were.

722
00:45:18,140 --> 00:45:20,220
 Unless they know they're coming in as a starter next year.

723
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,540
 And I couldn't say that about those two guys.

724
00:45:22,860 --> 00:45:25,960
 So Mike Blackton's a guy on defensive line that you can expect back.

725
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:31,240
 You know, they've got some young guys, Jordan Crawford, Malik Autry, they need to get back.

726
00:45:31,340 --> 00:45:33,560
 They need to have, be really good players for them.

727
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,700
 But I think this is an area they're really going to have to address in the portal.

728
00:45:38,020 --> 00:45:39,480
 I mean, really, really have to address.

729
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,520
 Jared Smith may be a terrific pass rusher.

730
00:45:43,620 --> 00:45:46,400
 You know, J.J. Falk, we'll see if he's a buck or the end in the future.

731
00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:51,260
 But they've really got to go out there and get some more proven guys, both defensive end and buck and interior.

732
00:45:51,540 --> 00:45:53,540
 So that's going to be a huge position for them.

733
00:45:54,500 --> 00:45:57,360
 Brian, put your Professor Grader's hat on.

734
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:03,740
 What kind of grade do you give Golisht's first recruiting class with a whopping 48 hours to put it together?

735
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,120
 I mean, I'm not going to say it's Golisht's class.

736
00:46:07,820 --> 00:46:11,120
 This is John Coleman's class, right?

737
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:22,620
 Because he's the one, or his staff, him and his staff made that decision back, you know, late spring, early summer to not progressively offer NIL packages as other schools, most schools.

738
00:46:22,620 --> 00:46:24,360
 I would say not just others, but most schools.

739
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:26,780
 Those are their peers in the SEC did.

740
00:46:27,660 --> 00:46:31,420
 And Auburn just kind of devolved from there as far as their class.

741
00:46:31,580 --> 00:46:41,780
 It's currently 46th on rivals, which is by far the worst class since these numbers started being compiled by rivals back in 1999.

742
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:44,020
 And it's not even close.

743
00:46:44,100 --> 00:46:45,920
 I think the worst class before this was 25th.

744
00:46:46,020 --> 00:46:48,680
 So 14 out of 16 teams in the SEC.

745
00:46:49,060 --> 00:46:51,620
 So I would give that class an F if I'm being honest.

746
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:53,660
 But I don't think Golisht has anything to do with that.

747
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:58,600
 And then we'll see, you know, if he can maybe find some gyms, you know, in the late period.

748
00:46:58,720 --> 00:46:59,400
 There's still that option.

749
00:46:59,720 --> 00:47:02,180
 And we'll see how hard he goes.

750
00:47:02,820 --> 00:47:06,060
 I mean, he's going to have to go hard in the portal, right, just to rebuild the roster.

751
00:47:06,180 --> 00:47:09,020
 But it'll be interesting to see what his plan is going forward.

752
00:47:09,060 --> 00:47:14,020
 Does he want to make high school recruiting the building block of the program and supplement with the portal?

753
00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:14,440
 Yeah.

754
00:47:14,780 --> 00:47:20,460
 With the portal, or does he want to build it more through, you know, put more emphasis on the portal going forward?

755
00:47:20,540 --> 00:47:22,520
 So that'll be something I want to talk to him about.

756
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,740
 I always enjoy reading Monday Musings.

757
00:47:25,900 --> 00:47:29,800
 And you had several very good points about the college football playoff.

758
00:47:30,240 --> 00:47:33,360
 Look, this is not a slump at Tulane and James Madison.

759
00:47:33,580 --> 00:47:34,400
 They're good teams.

760
00:47:34,540 --> 00:47:36,280
 They've got good programs.

761
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:40,160
 But you suggested a group of five playoff.

762
00:47:40,380 --> 00:47:42,360
 I've been hearing that for a while.

763
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:44,880
 That makes sense to me.

764
00:47:45,380 --> 00:47:53,300
 Your second recommendation was please get rid of the soap opera on Tuesday nights from the selection committee.

765
00:47:53,300 --> 00:47:59,360
 and whoever the chairman is gets up there and embarrasses themselves in the committee.

766
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:03,560
 Just literally list the names of the schools and let it be.

767
00:48:04,060 --> 00:48:05,020
 That's all you need to do.

768
00:48:05,020 --> 00:48:05,980
 30 seconds or less.

769
00:48:06,300 --> 00:48:10,820
 And number three, you're fine with the Notre Dame snub.

770
00:48:11,460 --> 00:48:14,200
 I agree with all three of those recommendations.

771
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:14,840
 Well, thank you.

772
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:15,580
 Thank you.

773
00:48:15,620 --> 00:48:15,900
 Thank you.

774
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:21,040
 And the thing with the show is it really undermines the credibility of college football in general, right?

775
00:48:21,340 --> 00:48:21,520
 Yeah.

776
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:23,120
 Because every year it's the same.

777
00:48:24,020 --> 00:48:28,700
 It's a different AD going up there getting just destroyed because they can't make sense of what they're doing.

778
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:31,560
 And they make up new reasons and new excuses, right?

779
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,620
 So why continue to do this if you're college football?

780
00:48:34,740 --> 00:48:36,780
 They need to tell ESPN that that feels off.

781
00:48:37,100 --> 00:48:42,220
 And they're going to have to find a different way to generate this show or this revenue or whatever they're doing with it.

782
00:48:43,060 --> 00:48:44,800
 Yeah, I've got a good suggestion.

783
00:48:44,940 --> 00:48:45,800
 Get rid of it.

784
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:47,860
 There's no chance of having it.

785
00:48:48,660 --> 00:48:50,980
 Quite frankly, listen, we appreciate it.

786
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:52,680
 I know you're pushed for time today.

787
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,780
 Good luck with the press conference, basketball transfer portal.

788
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,420
 Next time we turn around, a lot of things going on.

789
00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:02,140
 Where can we get online and get all the good stuff?

790
00:49:03,020 --> 00:49:03,920
 Hey, I appreciate that.

791
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,020
 And we've had tons of coverage, and we're right here at the Golds' press conference.

792
00:49:07,540 --> 00:49:11,100
 About to start here in about 10 minutes, and we'll have full coverage of that at auburnsports.com.

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798
00:49:21,660 --> 00:49:22,480
 Sounds great, Brian.

799
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:23,380
 Listen, man, thanks for your time.

800
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:24,480
 Let's do it again soon, okay?

801
00:49:25,060 --> 00:49:25,960
 All right, appreciate it, you guys.

802
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803
00:49:26,900 --> 00:49:29,500
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804
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 BB, the AP basketball poll is out.

805
00:49:32,540 --> 00:49:35,580
 Speaking of Auburn, number 21, Tennessee number 20.

806
00:49:35,860 --> 00:49:39,200
 I'm telling you, the team to watch for in the SEC is at 15, Vanderbilt.

807
00:49:39,900 --> 00:49:41,000
 Alabama's at number 12.

808
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 And guess where Alabama's opponent, Arizona, this weekend is located, BB?

809
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:50,120
 Well, they're number one, and they're coming to Linguacy Arena in Birmingham

810
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812
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813
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814
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815
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 The Islamic Academy of Alabama has now withdrawn its application for rezoning to take place at the Meadowbrook Corporate Park.

886
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 Where I was living was not a great place to live anymore.

893
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 I began to pray for a place to go, praying for all of these things that a nine-year-old would want.

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900
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901
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 A third case of rabies has been confirmed in Houston County.

902
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:58,980
 The rabies was confirmed in a raccoon that was found dead in a homeowner's yard.

903
00:54:59,100 --> 00:55:01,820
 The homeowner's dog got into a fight with that raccoon.

904
00:55:02,100 --> 00:55:05,900
 Fortunately, the dog's owner kept their pet up to date on his rabies vaccines.

905
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 An organization that helps foster children in Alabama is now expanding.

906
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:16,360
 Kids to Love has opened up a mental wellness center alongside its trauma care service in Huntsville.

907
00:55:16,540 --> 00:55:22,700
 The organization also offers scholarships to low-income families who are in need of the mental wellness and trauma care.

908
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:23,740
 I'm Andrea Tyson.

909
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915
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919
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949
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950
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951
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955
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956
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 Now, get ready to roll, Shoals, Decatur, Athens, and all of Northwest Alabama and Southern Tennessee.

978
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979
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980
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981
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 Tigers, Tennessee, and the rest of the SEC.

982
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:37,660
 Now, your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9, The Score.

983
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:39,260
 Welcome back, Ken.

984
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:40,480
 Hour 2 of the Boomo Bugg Show.

985
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:42,100
 I'm Harold Bugg, alongside Brett Beaird.

986
00:59:42,180 --> 00:59:44,960
 Thank you so much for giving us a street ride around the Tennessee Valley.

987
00:59:45,060 --> 00:59:50,100
 And, BBL, I wonder if Ben Thomas is finally, finally going to be able to catch his breath.

988
00:59:50,100 --> 00:59:51,140
 He's been busy these days.

989
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:51,720
 Would you agree?

990
00:59:52,400 --> 01:00:01,280
 He saw some very good football teams and some very good football players and some teams who could run the ball very effectively.

991
01:00:01,740 --> 01:00:02,880
 He's at the heart of it all.

992
01:00:02,980 --> 01:00:07,600
 Ben Thomas got the high school scene covered from one end of the state, from the mountains of North Alabama.

993
01:00:07,740 --> 01:00:09,640
 The seashores is the south end of the state.

994
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:12,740
 They're at AL.com and everything in between.

995
01:00:12,860 --> 01:00:13,780
 BT, welcome in.

996
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:14,520
 How are you?

997
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:15,800
 Hey, guys.

998
01:00:15,860 --> 01:00:16,520
 Doing good.

999
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:22,340
 Mildly recovered from the last couple of days and ready for another week.

1000
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:23,060
 How are you guys doing?

1001
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:24,440
 You're doing all right.

1002
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:26,880
 First of all, Ben, good job by you guys.

1003
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:28,500
 But we've got to give it up.

1004
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:30,100
 We live in such a cynical world now.

1005
01:00:30,140 --> 01:00:31,240
 Everybody's looking for false.

1006
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:36,720
 I've always said, I can see your good side and I can talk about your bad side, and I'll probably be right either way.

1007
01:00:36,740 --> 01:00:38,280
 That's what we choose to focus on.

1008
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:47,820
 In a world where we're so critical of everything, hats off to Alabama Public Television for not only bringing these games into people's homes,

1009
01:00:47,900 --> 01:00:52,820
 but I'm telling you, they did an absolutely professional job.

1010
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:57,240
 Hats off to a network that was able to bring these games in.

1011
01:00:57,240 --> 01:01:03,660
 These kids worked just as hard as anybody at the college or NFL level, and not to mention the bands and the fans and everything else.

1012
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:11,200
 And I'm assuming you would agree, thank goodness, they showed these kids to a lot of people who otherwise would not have been able to see them in person.

1013
01:01:12,380 --> 01:01:13,720
 Yeah, 100% I agree.

1014
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,820
 I mean, obviously, I was there, so I didn't watch any of the games.

1015
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:22,860
 But I did watch a lot of the, you know, they did a game of the week each third day, and then they did a playoff game.

1016
01:01:22,860 --> 01:01:31,240
 And I tell you what, it made my job as a Super 7 a lot easier because I would get numerous emails during the Super 7 before.

1017
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:35,340
 I think last year was the first year Alabama Public Television did it.

1018
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:39,420
 And before that, they weren't really available in the south half of the state.

1019
01:01:40,420 --> 01:01:46,140
 They had some games available on WOTM or whatever, but you couldn't get them below really Montgomery.

1020
01:01:46,140 --> 01:01:52,920
 And for Alabama Public Television to come in and broadcast those games, I think a lot of people enjoyed it.

1021
01:01:53,020 --> 01:01:54,080
 I know they did.

1022
01:01:54,340 --> 01:02:00,660
 I know they do a first-class job, and certainly I was glad not to answer those constant tweets and emails.

1023
01:02:01,060 --> 01:02:02,600
 Hey, how can we watch this game?

1024
01:02:02,780 --> 01:02:03,240
 And that and that.

1025
01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:06,140
 Now everybody knows you can watch it on Alabama Public Television.

1026
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:07,560
 So kudos to them.

1027
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:15,900
 BT, we've talked with you about E.J. Crowell for most of the season.

1028
01:02:16,780 --> 01:02:19,780
 And people were saying, well, how good is this guy?

1029
01:02:20,300 --> 01:02:30,880
 Well, after running for 304 yards and five touchdowns as Jackson beat what I think is a very good Aniston team, 52 to nothing.

1030
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:34,140
 I think a lot of people have got the answer.

1031
01:02:34,140 --> 01:02:40,480
 He finished his career 6,329 yards and 91 touchdowns.

1032
01:02:40,540 --> 01:02:46,580
 And you could go on and on with the stance, was named the Alabama Gatorade Player of the Year.

1033
01:02:46,820 --> 01:02:49,500
 And we've talked about Jackson with Duckworth.

1034
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:53,060
 And they've got quite a few D1 prospects.

1035
01:02:53,500 --> 01:02:56,680
 But what a performance in the Super 7.

1036
01:02:57,680 --> 01:03:05,700
 Yeah, you know, I think in the last two 4A championship games, they've outscored their opponents 121-6 or something like that.

1037
01:03:05,700 --> 01:03:09,620
 That was in Cherokee County last year and Aniston last year.

1038
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:11,040
 And Aniston had a good football team.

1039
01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:15,340
 They were athletic, but Jackson was on their game, and it was pretty heavy.

1040
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:17,920
 And, you know, they handed him the first carry of the game.

1041
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:19,580
 Crowell ran for 26 yards.

1042
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:21,320
 Second carry of the game, he scored a touchdown.

1043
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:25,700
 And it was pretty evident what was going to happen after that.

1044
01:03:25,700 --> 01:03:33,040
 I think through three quarters, he was like 13 carries for 254 yards and five touchdowns.

1045
01:03:33,540 --> 01:03:36,120
 And that was more impressive, really, than his total.

1046
01:03:36,420 --> 01:03:37,940
 They played him in the fourth quarter.

1047
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:44,860
 They said they were trying to – they wanted him to be the season-leading rusher, which I'm not – I guess they based that on Max Pratt.

1048
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:46,580
 I'm not sure what they were basing that on.

1049
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:50,280
 But I was – that was a dangerous gamble, I thought.

1050
01:03:50,460 --> 01:03:51,360
 Yes, it was.

1051
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:57,640
 I mean, if he had a helmet or something like that in a game that was already won, that's going to be bad, bad press.

1052
01:03:57,860 --> 01:03:59,380
 But he's fantastic.

1053
01:03:59,380 --> 01:04:02,440
 Like you said, he won Gatorade Player of the Year last week.

1054
01:04:03,020 --> 01:04:11,000
 I would assume that he and Trent Seaborn will be the leading contenders for Mr. Football, maybe Gunnar Rivers, maybe some other guys in there as well.

1055
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:13,380
 Certainly, we've got some great players all over the state.

1056
01:04:13,540 --> 01:04:20,260
 But I think those two guys are probably the top candidates, and we'll see in January, you know, who gets that honor.

1057
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:27,500
 ThomasAO.com, Ben, we've had this conversation over the years, this hot shot in high school.

1058
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:29,920
 He's going to be the next Superman at the college level.

1059
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:31,820
 Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't.

1060
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:38,220
 But there's a school of thought out there that's saying if he's in Tuscaloosa right now, he'd probably be the best running back in that room.

1061
01:04:39,360 --> 01:04:40,420
 We'll see about that.

1062
01:04:40,460 --> 01:04:47,020
 But your thoughts about his potential based on your expertise at the next level when obviously the defenses are going to be a little bit better.

1063
01:04:47,700 --> 01:04:49,520
 Yeah, well, obviously he's built for it.

1064
01:04:49,580 --> 01:04:52,540
 I mean, you know, he's got the frame for it.

1065
01:04:52,660 --> 01:04:53,140
 He's fast.

1066
01:04:53,260 --> 01:05:01,120
 I mean, you know, he'll have some adjustments to make like everybody does at that level as far as the blocking scheme and the speed of the game and that type stuff.

1067
01:05:01,260 --> 01:05:11,380
 But he will report, you know, I understand, in January, which I originally thought he might have to go through this whole year because he's really graduating a year early.

1068
01:05:11,380 --> 01:05:20,160
 But, of course, Lorne told me last week that he will indeed graduate and report to Alabama in January or as soon as he can whenever he finishes school, I guess.

1069
01:05:20,500 --> 01:05:25,720
 So, I noticed they had a celebration for some of those guys who were signing at Jackson High School this morning.

1070
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:31,000
 But he'll be, you know, I would think at the top of the depth chart pretty quick.

1071
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:34,420
 I mean, you know, you think he missed the first game of the year against Sarah?

1072
01:05:34,660 --> 01:05:47,040
 B.T., I occasionally mention Morris Hill on this segment throughout the course of the season.

1073
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:50,520
 They usually had a competitive game against Bayside.

1074
01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:52,440
 Bayside is a good team.

1075
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:56,380
 Morris Hill pulled away in the fourth quarter, 38-21.

1076
01:05:57,420 --> 01:06:02,500
 And one of the themes of the Super 7 was teams that were dominant running the ball.

1077
01:06:02,780 --> 01:06:04,400
 Believe me, Morris Hill is.

1078
01:06:04,460 --> 01:06:07,440
 I think they end up with 398 yards.

1079
01:06:08,100 --> 01:06:11,080
 Jackson Penn, Hudson Higgins doing their thing.

1080
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:13,540
 They've got a lot of other players, too.

1081
01:06:13,620 --> 01:06:18,240
 Corey Pig, Isaiah Owen, the receiver, Samuel Sweeney.

1082
01:06:18,420 --> 01:06:23,460
 But, once again, pardon the pun, Morris Hill runs past Bayside Academy.

1083
01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:24,880
 They did.

1084
01:06:24,980 --> 01:06:27,000
 And it was a competitive game.

1085
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:29,300
 It was 17-14 going into the fourth quarter.

1086
01:06:29,300 --> 01:06:32,460
 So, it was one of the few competitive games, unfortunately.

1087
01:06:32,660 --> 01:06:37,320
 I thought, I think I told you guys, I expected it to be a very competitive Super 7.

1088
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:39,100
 Unfortunately, it really was not.

1089
01:06:40,340 --> 01:06:42,480
 But, yeah, they were up 17-14.

1090
01:06:42,680 --> 01:06:43,920
 Bayside was hanging in there.

1091
01:06:44,060 --> 01:06:46,400
 But just too much of those guys running the football.

1092
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:49,660
 They were able to control them a little bit, you know, in the first half.

1093
01:06:49,780 --> 01:06:52,480
 But, 10 goes for 206 and three touchdowns.

1094
01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:55,560
 He then's 195 and two touchdowns.

1095
01:06:55,960 --> 01:06:59,700
 The quarterback completed five of eight passes, but he really didn't need to.

1096
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:01,400
 Bayshore was a good team.

1097
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:04,100
 I think that shows how good Morris Hill is.

1098
01:07:04,220 --> 01:07:06,080
 I mean, you know, our Bayshore, Bayside.

1099
01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:10,900
 And, you know, Bayside won that semifinal game over Southside Selma 51-20.

1100
01:07:11,140 --> 01:07:13,680
 And Southside had been lighting up the scoreboard.

1101
01:07:13,900 --> 01:07:16,440
 So, congratulations to Coach Higgins and those guys.

1102
01:07:16,560 --> 01:07:19,820
 Great win for them and another state title for Morris Hill.

1103
01:07:21,140 --> 01:07:24,460
 And a hat off to the old-fashioned way of doing it with a running game.

1104
01:07:24,540 --> 01:07:25,120
 Nothing fancy.

1105
01:07:25,220 --> 01:07:27,260
 Just give it to a boy, let him run through the ring.

1106
01:07:27,540 --> 01:07:30,720
 You know, it's kind of refreshing to see that still being a winning formula.

1107
01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:33,000
 Ben, let's go down to the Class 2A.

1108
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:36,220
 What can you tell us about Kuso Christian and their coaching staff?

1109
01:07:37,180 --> 01:07:37,940
 Oh, my gosh.

1110
01:07:38,020 --> 01:07:41,380
 Yeah, that was maybe my favorite part of the week.

1111
01:07:41,900 --> 01:07:42,640
 Yeah, brush approach.

1112
01:07:43,260 --> 01:07:50,300
 And, really, the only competitive game down to the wire that we had,

1113
01:07:50,380 --> 01:07:53,060
 which was unfortunate, but a good football game.

1114
01:07:53,140 --> 01:07:57,580
 Kuso Christian wins 29-22 over a good Lynette team.

1115
01:07:58,460 --> 01:08:00,740
 Yeah, Rush Prokst was the story.

1116
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:05,400
 Kind of made himself the story, as you expect him to do.

1117
01:08:06,220 --> 01:08:12,060
 His first time back in 19 years and the first time he'd won a title in 20 years

1118
01:08:12,060 --> 01:08:12,900
 in Alabama.

1119
01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:17,560
 But he was full on rush.

1120
01:08:18,060 --> 01:08:22,980
 I talked to him after the press conference, and my favorite quote of the week was, you know,

1121
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:27,140
 he said, I want to coach for six or seven more years, wherever it's going to be.

1122
01:08:27,540 --> 01:08:28,640
 I'm open for business.

1123
01:08:29,340 --> 01:08:30,420
 That's a long run.

1124
01:08:30,660 --> 01:08:31,660
 He's open for business.

1125
01:08:32,300 --> 01:08:33,860
 He's like a Hollywood husband, ain't he?

1126
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:35,340
 It really is.

1127
01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:37,000
 Seven years, seven wives.

1128
01:08:37,620 --> 01:08:37,900
 Yeah.

1129
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:43,500
 I mean, the big question now is they've got to answer, you know, in the irony of all ironies,

1130
01:08:43,620 --> 01:08:49,500
 Rush took over Kuso Christian because the previous coach, Mark O'Brien, had to be suspended for the year.

1131
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:50,600
 Of course.

1132
01:08:50,840 --> 01:08:55,080
 You know, the question is, what will Kuso do?

1133
01:08:55,300 --> 01:08:56,960
 Will Kuso bring Coach O'Brien back?

1134
01:08:57,120 --> 01:08:58,220
 Will they want to keep Rush?

1135
01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:02,900
 And if they bring Coach O'Brien back, where does Rush end up?

1136
01:09:03,340 --> 01:09:06,260
 He certainly sounds like he wants to keep it going.

1137
01:09:06,380 --> 01:09:08,960
 He said, I don't like retirement.

1138
01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:13,300
 I just lay on the couch and watch Fox News and figure out what to do with my day.

1139
01:09:13,480 --> 01:09:15,680
 So, we'll see where he goes from there.

1140
01:09:15,900 --> 01:09:18,720
 But one thing for sure, the Rush Prope story is never ending.

1141
01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:19,720
 No.

1142
01:09:21,480 --> 01:09:24,200
 BT, let me ask you about another impressive performance.

1143
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:28,740
 Clay Chalkwell beat an undefeated Muscle Shoals team.

1144
01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:35,920
 I knew then they were very good, and they beat Sarah Land 38-21, got off to a very good start there.

1145
01:09:36,440 --> 01:09:46,060
 Their quarterback, Aaron Fry, and I noticed him against Muscle Shoals, ran for 192 yards, 8 of 10 for 167.

1146
01:09:46,220 --> 01:09:50,100
 He's not the only one there, but any stretch of the imagination.

1147
01:09:50,100 --> 01:09:58,320
 Sarah Land, Deshaun Spencer, the receiver, the Auburn signee, 10 catches, 135.

1148
01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:02,100
 Roberts, the quarterback, had a big game, 265.

1149
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:09,360
 But Clay Chalkwell, and I noticed that was a tough decision in your final power rankings.

1150
01:10:09,500 --> 01:10:14,300
 He was going to be number one between Thompson, we'll get to them in a minute, and Clay Chalkwell.

1151
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:16,280
 I think you made the right choice.

1152
01:10:16,420 --> 01:10:19,580
 Clay Chalkwell in 6A may be the best team in the state.

1153
01:10:20,440 --> 01:10:25,700
 Well, they beat Thompson, you know, in a very good game midseason, and they won.

1154
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:29,300
 I think they beat them the last couple of years, so that's big there.

1155
01:10:29,300 --> 01:10:31,620
 But, yeah, I was surprised.

1156
01:10:31,860 --> 01:10:41,740
 I thought Sarah Land, you know, having been there four years in a row and losing the last two, I thought they would find a way to win this game, and it was just really dominated by Clay.

1157
01:10:41,900 --> 01:10:47,540
 I mean, there was an opening or two for Sarah Land to get back into it, and they just couldn't make it happen.

1158
01:10:48,620 --> 01:10:53,380
 I will say that on Sarah Land's behalf, the quarterback is only a junior, Jameson Roberts.

1159
01:10:53,540 --> 01:10:57,880
 He's excellent, and Auburn people are going to love what they see in Deshaun Spencer.

1160
01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:04,620
 I mean, that was really their only two guys, and he caught 10 passes for 135 yards and a touchdown.

1161
01:11:04,900 --> 01:11:07,280
 He'll be a good one at Auburn.

1162
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:09,060
 But Clay Chalkwell, give them credit.

1163
01:11:09,220 --> 01:11:11,140
 I mean, Sarah Land could not block them.

1164
01:11:11,140 --> 01:11:16,660
 I mean, they had eight attacks on defense, just rugged defense.

1165
01:11:16,820 --> 01:11:21,120
 And then, as you mentioned, Aaron Fry accounted for his Alabama State signee.

1166
01:11:21,240 --> 01:11:27,680
 He accounted for five touchdowns, three running, two passing, and it was just a mismatch.

1167
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:34,400
 And I didn't necessarily think it would be, but congratulations to Coach Floyd and his guys winning their second title in three years.

1168
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:42,260
 Thomasale.com, is there a more intriguing high school story than Trent Seaborn?

1169
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:44,220
 He does it again.

1170
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:49,040
 The kid looks like he should be basically coming out of the seventh in the eighth grade,

1171
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:51,820
 and all he does is win state championships year in and year out.

1172
01:11:51,900 --> 01:11:52,660
 He's not at Thompson.

1173
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:55,740
 Well, we saw him play in the eighth grade.

1174
01:11:56,260 --> 01:11:56,480
 Yeah.

1175
01:11:57,300 --> 01:11:59,560
 He won his first state title in the eighth grade.

1176
01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:06,200
 I think most people knew if they had to pick out a game heading into the Super 7, that might be a mismatch.

1177
01:12:06,300 --> 01:12:07,940
 I think most people thought this was it.

1178
01:12:08,120 --> 01:12:13,460
 I mean, most people, including myself, thought the championship game was probably that semifinal game

1179
01:12:13,460 --> 01:12:17,880
 between Thompson and Central Phoenix City that Thompson won 35-34.

1180
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:20,140
 I give Opalak a credit.

1181
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:24,800
 Brian Moore did a great job getting them there, but they were never really in the game.

1182
01:12:24,980 --> 01:12:27,240
 And Seaborn didn't ever look affected.

1183
01:12:27,540 --> 01:12:28,800
 They didn't sack him at all.

1184
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:35,420
 He threw 259 yards and three touchdowns, and Thompson was able to pretty much do what they wanted.

1185
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:36,920
 It was lopsided.

1186
01:12:37,100 --> 01:12:43,200
 I mean, it was, you know, 41-3, 34-0 at one point, and then 41-3 at one point.

1187
01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:44,400
 So, I don't know.

1188
01:12:44,500 --> 01:12:46,020
 There's a lot of talk about reseeding.

1189
01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:49,560
 Now I hear it in every classification, not just 7A.

1190
01:12:49,740 --> 01:12:54,220
 But, you know, first thing we've got to do is figure out what the reclassification looks like,

1191
01:12:54,320 --> 01:12:55,820
 and then we'll go from there.

1192
01:12:55,820 --> 01:13:00,120
 But it certainly was not a competitive game.

1193
01:13:01,040 --> 01:13:01,520
 Yeah.

1194
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:04,480
 And two more, BT, just to mention them.

1195
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:12,280
 Maplesville, with those 10 shutouts, beat Wadley, 10 shutouts during the course of the season, 42-22.

1196
01:13:12,440 --> 01:13:17,640
 Eli Herbert, just a, again, their defense is incredible.

1197
01:13:17,880 --> 01:13:20,240
 Moody beat Viger, 25-0.

1198
01:13:21,740 --> 01:13:25,720
 LeCamry and Meadows had a huge game running for 186.

1199
01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:28,420
 He's going to Western Kentucky.

1200
01:13:28,620 --> 01:13:35,220
 But, again, certainly appreciate you and your staff's coverage every day of the Super 7.

1201
01:13:35,420 --> 01:13:36,480
 It's a great event.

1202
01:13:36,620 --> 01:13:41,060
 Going to be moving to, again, Mobile, coming up very soon.

1203
01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:44,580
 And I'm like Harold, I appreciate Alabama Public TV.

1204
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:52,340
 Our buddy Kevin Scarbinsky did a really good job of the pregame, halftime, and postgame coverage.

1205
01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:54,760
 But it certainly is a great event.

1206
01:13:55,320 --> 01:13:56,880
 What else have you got on the docket?

1207
01:13:56,960 --> 01:14:00,000
 A lot of basketball going on, postseason awards.

1208
01:14:00,900 --> 01:14:04,700
 BT, when will the reclassification be announced?

1209
01:14:05,900 --> 01:14:06,380
 Well, right.

1210
01:14:07,340 --> 01:14:11,300
 The date is December 15th, which is next Monday, if nothing changes.

1211
01:14:11,700 --> 01:14:13,300
 That's what Heath Harman's told me.

1212
01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:15,480
 That's when the central board meets.

1213
01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:20,560
 I mean, the project bill situation is still up in the air with the Choose Act and the legislature.

1214
01:14:21,420 --> 01:14:25,280
 And I've heard that there's some type of mediation on the 17th for that.

1215
01:14:25,480 --> 01:14:29,160
 So, right now, we believe it's the 15th, but that could change.

1216
01:14:29,680 --> 01:14:30,500
 And then it could change.

1217
01:14:30,620 --> 01:14:33,960
 You know, they could assign the reclass and then change it again.

1218
01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:37,280
 I still think it's up in the air what's going to happen there.

1219
01:14:37,980 --> 01:14:39,460
 But, yeah, we've got a lot going on.

1220
01:14:39,560 --> 01:14:44,300
 We're going to be starting our AL.com Player of the Year bracket next Monday, I believe.

1221
01:14:44,420 --> 01:14:45,500
 So, we're working on that.

1222
01:14:45,900 --> 01:14:47,940
 We vote on All-State later this week.

1223
01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:51,960
 So, the All-State teams and the All-Region teams and all that stuff will be coming out.

1224
01:14:52,220 --> 01:14:54,500
 And we're not quite done with football yet.

1225
01:14:54,580 --> 01:15:00,320
 We have the North-South game at Hancock-Whitney on Friday and Alabama-Mississippi on Saturday.

1226
01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:06,040
 So, we'll see Crowell and some of those other guys one final time competing for Alabama against Mississippi.

1227
01:15:06,220 --> 01:15:06,960
 So, that'll be fun.

1228
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:10,960
 And then, when you go inside and what to call, cover basketball.

1229
01:15:11,160 --> 01:15:12,980
 Ben, listen, man, it's always good to hook up with you.

1230
01:15:13,040 --> 01:15:13,720
 Thanks so much.

1231
01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:15,160
 I echo BB Sinema's there.

1232
01:15:15,220 --> 01:15:15,760
 Great job.

1233
01:15:15,860 --> 01:15:16,320
 Keep it up.

1234
01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:17,780
 Thanks so much for your time today.

1235
01:15:18,440 --> 01:15:18,740
 All right.

1236
01:15:18,780 --> 01:15:19,200
 Thanks, guys.

1237
01:15:19,260 --> 01:15:19,960
 Y'all have a good week.

1238
01:15:20,440 --> 01:15:20,940
 You too, bud.

1239
01:15:21,360 --> 01:15:22,160
 The BT Express.

1240
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:24,400
 Ben Thomas, AL.com.

1241
01:15:24,400 --> 01:15:29,240
 Tennessee said, big orange defensive coordinator, here's your pink slip.

1242
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:29,860
 Good luck.

1243
01:15:30,600 --> 01:15:31,880
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1305
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1306
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1307
01:19:09,640 --> 01:19:14,740
 Vince Rora, he is busy there at 99.1, the sports animal in Knoxville, animal, the ball, radio network.

1308
01:19:14,860 --> 01:19:16,000
 V-Man, welcome in.

1309
01:19:16,100 --> 01:19:16,900
 How are you?

1310
01:19:17,480 --> 01:19:18,260
 I'm good, gentlemen.

1311
01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:18,720
 How are we doing?

1312
01:19:19,180 --> 01:19:20,080
 We're doing all right.

1313
01:19:20,180 --> 01:19:25,180
 V-Man, is it true that you and Tennessee fans have a condo in Nashville in the bowl season?

1314
01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:27,020
 Here we go again, right?

1315
01:19:28,440 --> 01:19:28,920
 Yeah.

1316
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:32,300
 Good to be on with you guys, as always.

1317
01:19:32,900 --> 01:19:37,340
 It is not really resonating or exciting fans.

1318
01:19:38,100 --> 01:19:44,580
 Generally, ones that we've heard from, when you see people react on the SportsSource TV show

1319
01:19:44,580 --> 01:19:49,440
 that one of the panelists saw, and they ran a poll on Sunday.

1320
01:19:50,180 --> 01:19:52,720
 What bowl would you want to go to?

1321
01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:59,860
 And then one of the choices was, don't care, decline it, something to that effect.

1322
01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:04,760
 And that was the runaway winner, like 53%, something like that.

1323
01:20:04,860 --> 01:20:09,660
 And the Music City Bowl got one of the least of both.

1324
01:20:09,940 --> 01:20:11,660
 We got like 3%.

1325
01:20:11,660 --> 01:20:14,280
 So fans don't look at it as a high-level bowl.

1326
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:19,880
 They look at it as sort of a consolation, participation bowl.

1327
01:20:20,580 --> 01:20:23,140
 You know, the standards have raised in what they expect.

1328
01:20:23,340 --> 01:20:25,420
 The Florida Bowls have a different cachet.

1329
01:20:25,860 --> 01:20:31,920
 I know the Bowls are not what they used to, but if you're going to go to them, the Florida

1330
01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:33,020
 Bowls have more prestige.

1331
01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:39,580
 So, you know, Illinois really doesn't move the needle.

1332
01:20:39,960 --> 01:20:45,340
 I mean, they've never played them, so at least it's different, and it's not Iowa, which would

1333
01:20:45,340 --> 01:20:49,160
 have really made fans mad because we've seen that bowl matchup before.

1334
01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:55,220
 But fans are just still so sour from the way the season ended.

1335
01:20:55,940 --> 01:20:58,280
 They were not going to be happy regardless.

1336
01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:02,840
 But going to Nashville, where they've gone, I think, like five straight years, and they've

1337
01:21:02,840 --> 01:21:06,500
 gone to that bowl before, not really exciting fans yet.

1338
01:21:06,500 --> 01:21:12,840
 Even though I think as we get closer, some people, out of curiosity and because your Tennessee

1339
01:21:12,840 --> 01:21:15,960
 fans are going to watch football, will buy in a little bit more late.

1340
01:21:16,520 --> 01:21:20,400
 Yeah, and the thing is, you better watch that bowl because Alabama is, I think, they're old

1341
01:21:20,400 --> 01:21:21,100
 for the music city.

1342
01:21:21,100 --> 01:21:22,340
 I was there for the first one.

1343
01:21:22,460 --> 01:21:24,960
 Brett, too, back there, played Virginia Tech back in the day.

1344
01:21:25,020 --> 01:21:26,340
 They lost that in a sleep storm.

1345
01:21:26,420 --> 01:21:27,920
 Then they went and played Minnesota.

1346
01:21:28,140 --> 01:21:29,380
 They got beat in that thing.

1347
01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:33,140
 So you may not be in a good mood, but you don't want to be embarrassed as well.

1348
01:21:33,140 --> 01:21:35,320
 You mentioned the mood right now.

1349
01:21:36,380 --> 01:21:40,720
 It really, at the end of the day, yes, it all matters as far as the season.

1350
01:21:41,120 --> 01:21:43,240
 But people forget what you do in the first half.

1351
01:21:43,680 --> 01:21:45,980
 The taste that's going to be left is at the second half.

1352
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:50,860
 And then especially when the Tennessee lost the way they did by three at home to, speaking

1353
01:21:50,860 --> 01:21:56,600
 of Vanderbilt or Nashville-Vanderbilt, where are fans right now as far as optimism going

1354
01:21:56,600 --> 01:21:57,440
 into the offseason?

1355
01:21:58,560 --> 01:22:03,280
 Well, I think fans actually got a jolt today, and I'm sure you guys are going to bring it

1356
01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:09,480
 up, and that's the firing of defensive coordinator Tim Banks, because a lot of fans have been

1357
01:22:09,480 --> 01:22:11,980
 outspoken in wanting that.

1358
01:22:12,500 --> 01:22:18,740
 Even when he took a lot of criticism, even over the last two years, when he had some of the

1359
01:22:18,740 --> 01:22:24,360
 best defenses in the SEC, especially last year, fans are still critical of him.

1360
01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:29,840
 I mean, they really never stopped from, you know, 2022, especially where Tennessee had

1361
01:22:29,840 --> 01:22:30,780
 a really bad defense.

1362
01:22:31,040 --> 01:22:37,780
 So you have a really bad defense in 2022 when you have the best offensive nation, and then

1363
01:22:37,780 --> 01:22:43,540
 a much improved defense in 2023, and an even more improved defense in 2024.

1364
01:22:44,100 --> 01:22:51,860
 Now you had the 14th best defense in the SEC this year, and really, despite some key injuries

1365
01:22:51,860 --> 01:22:58,300
 that were no doubt an impact, did not expect them to take such a dramatic fall in terms of

1366
01:22:58,300 --> 01:22:58,920
 their defense.

1367
01:22:59,280 --> 01:23:08,920
 So I think, and it's so out of character for Josh Heupel to make a decision to let go of

1368
01:23:08,920 --> 01:23:09,380
 a coach.

1369
01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:14,820
 I don't think he's ever done it, not at Tennessee, not in terms of firing a coach.

1370
01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:18,020
 Guys have gone, have left on their own.

1371
01:23:18,580 --> 01:23:20,520
 I don't think it happened at UCF either.

1372
01:23:20,820 --> 01:23:26,020
 So I expected there to be some staff changes, whether they encourage someone to go get another

1373
01:23:26,020 --> 01:23:26,960
 job or whatever.

1374
01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:33,600
 But, you know, with Pete Damos' report that it's a firing, I think the fan reaction that

1375
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:36,300
 we got early on was, let's go.

1376
01:23:36,500 --> 01:23:38,420
 Maybe now we can move a step forward.

1377
01:23:38,680 --> 01:23:46,620
 And I think whether it's this move or something else, there had to be changes, and there had

1378
01:23:46,620 --> 01:23:52,880
 to be a level of accountability that I think has been in question within this program, despite

1379
01:23:52,880 --> 01:24:01,080
 doing a lot of winning and resurrecting a program that was obviously a mess when Josh

1380
01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:02,460
 Heupel took over.

1381
01:24:03,460 --> 01:24:11,180
 Just to reiterate your point, last year in 2024, Tennessee was ranked seventh nationally in

1382
01:24:11,180 --> 01:24:17,640
 scoring defense, only allowing 16 points per game in this day and modern era of college

1383
01:24:17,640 --> 01:24:18,020
 football.

1384
01:24:18,160 --> 01:24:19,620
 That's pretty dadgum good.

1385
01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:25,560
 The lowest in a season since the 1998 National Championship.

1386
01:24:26,140 --> 01:24:28,160
 Team only gave up 14.

1387
01:24:29,020 --> 01:24:36,260
 They tumbled the 92nd nationally in scoring defense and gave up 33.6 points per game.

1388
01:24:36,380 --> 01:24:41,020
 In fact, Tim Banks was a Frank Broles Assistant of the Year finalist.

1389
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:44,000
 In my memory, serves me the man.

1390
01:24:44,260 --> 01:24:48,300
 Yeah, that was too much of a fall for Tim Banks to overcome.

1391
01:24:48,940 --> 01:24:55,180
 Well, and look, the temperature has increased for Josh Heupel.

1392
01:24:55,300 --> 01:25:01,560
 When you lose to Vanderbilt and the bar of expectations has increased, I'm not saying he's on a hot seat.

1393
01:25:02,080 --> 01:25:08,260
 I'm saying now you start to hear more fans being outspoken about their frustration where

1394
01:25:08,260 --> 01:25:12,720
 really didn't hear a whole lot of that prior to this year.

1395
01:25:12,820 --> 01:25:21,380
 Yes, fans wanted them to win at Ohio State, but despite what happened in the offseason with

1396
01:25:21,380 --> 01:25:27,440
 Nico and the quarterback swap, when he stood his ground, fans were saying, hey, we'll give

1397
01:25:27,440 --> 01:25:30,640
 him a pass for what happened at the quarterback situation.

1398
01:25:31,960 --> 01:25:36,580
 And I don't think fans are giving him a pass for what happened at the quarterback situation

1399
01:25:36,580 --> 01:25:38,880
 because he brought in the right guy.

1400
01:25:39,520 --> 01:25:44,520
 And so you make the right move there, and now you're held to a higher standard, and now

1401
01:25:44,520 --> 01:25:51,620
 it flushes you standing your ground and kind of that buffer you thought you were having.

1402
01:25:51,880 --> 01:25:56,380
 Nonetheless, I mean, this team needs to take that next step.

1403
01:25:56,560 --> 01:26:02,340
 You reached the playoff last year, and you just brought in your highest recruiting class

1404
01:26:02,340 --> 01:26:02,960
 under Heupel.

1405
01:26:03,300 --> 01:26:09,360
 So that's good that they didn't have the on-the-field disappointments for fans didn't impact their

1406
01:26:09,360 --> 01:26:10,220
 signing class.

1407
01:26:11,040 --> 01:26:18,540
 But you've got to still make the right decisions in terms of your personnel, the portal, and getting

1408
01:26:18,540 --> 01:26:22,820
 guys back, and all those kind of things, and then with your staff.

1409
01:26:23,100 --> 01:26:26,900
 And so I'm not surprised that there were changes.

1410
01:26:27,220 --> 01:26:28,880
 I expected there to be.

1411
01:26:29,380 --> 01:26:35,900
 We'll see on who they hire, and if it's an upgrade or if it's someone without the experience

1412
01:26:35,900 --> 01:26:40,180
 that maybe has a relationship with Josh Heupel, maybe from a group of five level.

1413
01:26:41,340 --> 01:26:46,600
 I think with all the moves you're starting to see in coordinators today, the Monday after

1414
01:26:46,600 --> 01:26:51,840
 championship games, I think you've got to get it out in front of it before a lot of the

1415
01:26:51,840 --> 01:26:54,800
 guys that you're interested in are no longer available.

1416
01:26:55,160 --> 01:27:00,020
 So I think that necessitated them making this move and not waiting it out.

1417
01:27:00,880 --> 01:27:05,480
 Hey, man, aside from Tennessee, just in general, your thoughts about the Notre Dame news?

1418
01:27:05,620 --> 01:27:07,820
 Obviously, Notre Dame fans, I understand what you're upset.

1419
01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:11,180
 They just can't believe that the Notre Dame brand is not in.

1420
01:27:11,560 --> 01:27:16,060
 They've got merit, but the other side of the coin is, quote, you can't have it both ways.

1421
01:27:16,160 --> 01:27:18,260
 You want to be independent when it's convenient for your interest.

1422
01:27:18,360 --> 01:27:20,080
 I'm reading some of the critiquing from that side.

1423
01:27:20,500 --> 01:27:24,500
 They want to be independent when it's good for them, but they want the ACC to throw them

1424
01:27:24,500 --> 01:27:26,740
 a lifeline like COVID back in 2020.

1425
01:27:27,780 --> 01:27:30,240
 Where are you with the decision of Notre Dame?

1426
01:27:30,400 --> 01:27:34,500
 Are they, again, the privileged few or are they legit in their argument?

1427
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:44,300
 Well, first off, I think we can maybe table the, hey, this is just made for TV in terms of the

1428
01:27:44,300 --> 01:27:45,480
 teams that they put in.

1429
01:27:45,680 --> 01:27:48,960
 Because if that was the case, they're going to put Notre Dame in.

1430
01:27:49,360 --> 01:27:55,940
 You know, by drawing eyes to your TV and selling ads, if they're manipulating it on that, they're

1431
01:27:55,940 --> 01:27:56,920
 putting Notre Dame in.

1432
01:27:57,040 --> 01:27:59,180
 So I think we can flush that.

1433
01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:04,600
 I also think that Miami deserved to be ahead of Notre Dame, and so did Alabama.

1434
01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:11,500
 And, you know, Notre Dame, a lot of what they were complaining about, I don't really like

1435
01:28:11,500 --> 01:28:15,180
 Marcus Freeman, but what he was talking about, what Notre Dame was talking about is, you know,

1436
01:28:15,180 --> 01:28:18,820
 how well they were playing and beating teams by 30-plus points per game, a 10-game winning

1437
01:28:18,820 --> 01:28:21,260
 streak, and who's playing better and more balanced.

1438
01:28:21,660 --> 01:28:22,400
 That doesn't matter.

1439
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:29,800
 That's not, their task isn't picking the 12 hottest teams that we think would win the

1440
01:28:29,800 --> 01:28:31,700
 most games if we put them in.

1441
01:28:32,380 --> 01:28:37,720
 It's who earned it and who deserved it based on the entire season.

1442
01:28:37,720 --> 01:28:38,200
 Right.

1443
01:28:38,600 --> 01:28:44,040
 And so they didn't punish Alabama much, they didn't punish most teams, except for BYU a little

1444
01:28:44,040 --> 01:28:48,840
 bit, for losing in their conference championship games at that extra data point.

1445
01:28:49,380 --> 01:28:52,660
 You know, Alabama, both teams ended up with two top 25 wins.

1446
01:28:52,820 --> 01:28:59,320
 Alabama's resume kind of came back to Notre Dame a little bit because that gauntlet of games

1447
01:28:59,320 --> 01:29:06,100
 afterwards, because Missouri and Tennessee dropped off and LSU wasn't as good, their schedule

1448
01:29:06,100 --> 01:29:11,860
 at the time looked more daunting than what the reality of it was in the end.

1449
01:29:12,900 --> 01:29:18,980
 And Alabama's schedule is still much more difficult than Notre Dame in terms of opportunities to

1450
01:29:18,980 --> 01:29:19,660
 lose.

1451
01:29:20,320 --> 01:29:22,280
 And the same with BYU.

1452
01:29:23,420 --> 01:29:27,420
 So I didn't have a problem with Notre Dame getting left out because it has nothing to do

1453
01:29:27,420 --> 01:29:30,060
 with who's playing the best or who could win the most games.

1454
01:29:30,640 --> 01:29:37,260
 That's their rules of the five highest seeded-ranked conference champions deserve to get in.

1455
01:29:37,540 --> 01:29:38,300
 That's the setup.

1456
01:29:38,700 --> 01:29:39,460
 And that's what they did.

1457
01:29:39,640 --> 01:29:46,440
 And because the ACC fell flat on their face and they didn't have the right procedure for

1458
01:29:46,440 --> 01:29:51,180
 their conference tournament, that's where Notre Dame obviously can complain.

1459
01:29:51,720 --> 01:29:57,080
 Had they done that, Miami maybe would have been the champion and then earned an automatic bid

1460
01:29:57,080 --> 01:29:59,520
 and opened up an at-large and then Notre Dame gets in.

1461
01:29:59,600 --> 01:30:00,800
 So from that aspect, yes.

1462
01:30:01,140 --> 01:30:07,040
 But we're playing the best has no merit whatsoever because you never know game to game what you're

1463
01:30:07,040 --> 01:30:11,560
 going to get from a team, especially with all the length of time you have in between games

1464
01:30:11,560 --> 01:30:13,240
 where teams can look much different.

1465
01:30:14,680 --> 01:30:15,200
 Absolutely.

1466
01:30:15,460 --> 01:30:23,500
 V. Tennessee finishes, at least right now, number seven in own3.com, 24-7, 23 commitments.

1467
01:30:24,060 --> 01:30:26,980
 Flipped a lot of guys at the end.

1468
01:30:27,780 --> 01:30:31,380
 And Tristan Keyes, the wide receiver, former LSU commitment.

1469
01:30:32,900 --> 01:30:35,160
 Faison Brandon, the quarterback.

1470
01:30:35,620 --> 01:30:37,620
 It was a very good class for Tennessee.

1471
01:30:37,860 --> 01:30:40,100
 What I hear, the best in 10 years.

1472
01:30:40,720 --> 01:30:43,000
 We'll be talking with you about that throughout, buddy.

1473
01:30:43,380 --> 01:30:48,180
 Basketball still going on, a little bit of a lull, three consecutive losses.

1474
01:30:48,380 --> 01:30:51,460
 We'll be talking more UT basketball in the future.

1475
01:30:52,120 --> 01:30:54,560
 V-Man, where can we get online to get all the good stuff?

1476
01:30:55,180 --> 01:30:59,660
 Yeah, Tennessee definitely needs these, I guess it's eight or nine days now until they

1477
01:30:59,660 --> 01:31:04,800
 play Louisville, another good team next week to get things right with that tough three-game

1478
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:05,460
 losing streak.

1479
01:31:06,460 --> 01:31:10,740
 Yeah, you can follow me on the socials, at VinceSports, V-I-N-C-Sports.

1480
01:31:11,040 --> 01:31:17,820
 On there, you can see retweeted an interview we had with Craig Halbert, the national coordinator

1481
01:31:17,820 --> 01:31:19,320
 of recruiting for ESPN.

1482
01:31:19,560 --> 01:31:24,320
 He and your friend and our friend Tom Luganbill do an awesome job for covering recruiting in

1483
01:31:24,320 --> 01:31:24,820
 ESPN.

1484
01:31:24,960 --> 01:31:27,880
 So you talked about Faison Brandon and that recruiting class.

1485
01:31:28,120 --> 01:31:33,760
 And yeah, I mean, all these coaching changes and everything else, who's in the portal, who's

1486
01:31:33,760 --> 01:31:36,860
 opting out, all that kind of fun stuff leading up to the Bulls.

1487
01:31:36,920 --> 01:31:38,840
 So we'll have it on on all the socials.

1488
01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:43,980
 And then you can catch my TV work on the SportsSource, SportsSource Digital Network on YouTube.

1489
01:31:45,120 --> 01:31:47,360
 V-Man, as always, you're knocking it out of the park.

1490
01:31:47,460 --> 01:31:48,260
 Keep up the good work.

1491
01:31:48,300 --> 01:31:50,040
 And thanks so much again for your time today.

1492
01:31:50,680 --> 01:31:51,440
 Always enjoy it.

1493
01:31:51,460 --> 01:31:52,200
 You guys stay warm.

1494
01:31:52,240 --> 01:31:52,820
 Appreciate it.

1495
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 And you do the same.

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01:37:50,060 --> 01:37:54,820
 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1611
01:37:55,360 --> 01:37:56,200
 Welcome back in.

1612
01:37:56,280 --> 01:38:00,100
 I'm sure if you've heard from Alabama fans since Saturday night,

1613
01:38:00,180 --> 01:38:05,260
 every one of them's got the answers to what went wrong and the perfect solution to what will go right.

1614
01:38:05,320 --> 01:38:08,340
 I wonder what former Alabama players are saying.

1615
01:38:08,460 --> 01:38:11,860
 And, B.B., do you have anybody who might be able to help us out with that?

1616
01:38:12,100 --> 01:38:16,560
 Our next guest can do an exceptional job in answering those questions.

1617
01:38:16,560 --> 01:38:21,060
 Former Bama offensive lineman, William Redfish, barging out co-host of Bama's radio.

1618
01:38:21,320 --> 01:38:22,260
 William, welcome in.

1619
01:38:22,320 --> 01:38:22,980
 How are you?

1620
01:38:23,740 --> 01:38:27,260
 Well, I hate to ruin y'all's intro there, but I'm taking the fifth on everything.

1621
01:38:29,340 --> 01:38:34,480
 I think a lot of folks thought Alabama was drinking the field Saturday night or Saturday, William.

1622
01:38:35,100 --> 01:38:37,060
 Where do you start breaking down that game?

1623
01:38:38,200 --> 01:38:44,900
 You know, I'm not surprised that they lost, but, you know, I am surprised in the manner that they lost.

1624
01:38:44,900 --> 01:38:45,500
 Yeah.

1625
01:38:45,600 --> 01:38:59,740
 That was probably the most inept Alabama offensive performance I've seen since I made the mistake of driving three and a half hours north in 2004 to watch the Music City Bowl against Minnesota.

1626
01:39:00,600 --> 01:39:00,860
 Yep.

1627
01:39:01,260 --> 01:39:02,100
 We were there.

1628
01:39:03,400 --> 01:39:05,420
 And we just talked about that a while ago.

1629
01:39:05,620 --> 01:39:07,580
 I mean, here's the thing.

1630
01:39:07,680 --> 01:39:16,920
 How in the world, with all these, who was wrong, the recruiting fanatics or the coaching staff, all these guys are three, four, and five stars coming out of high school.

1631
01:39:17,460 --> 01:39:22,040
 William, since 1968, no Alabama team has had less rushing.

1632
01:39:22,160 --> 01:39:26,400
 How do you have a team like Alabama and rush for a whopping total of minus three yards?

1633
01:39:26,440 --> 01:39:27,540
 I don't even see how that's possible.

1634
01:39:28,620 --> 01:39:36,800
 Well, you know, it's mathematically, you can get into that scenario when you're not real good at running the football and you're kind of good at giving up sacks.

1635
01:39:37,460 --> 01:39:37,660
 Yeah.

1636
01:39:38,660 --> 01:39:41,920
 It ends up working out that way, unfortunately.

1637
01:39:42,920 --> 01:39:57,740
 You know, and I think that's something that the coaching staff certainly has to address, you know, once this playoff venture is complete, whether it's this month or in January.

1638
01:39:57,740 --> 01:40:10,880
 You know, they need to really do some self-scouting and self-evaluations with, you know, why they couldn't generate just, you know, 100 yards rushing per game on average.

1639
01:40:11,980 --> 01:40:20,140
 And, you know, it's really made, you know, when we, you know, let's take Kirby Smart and Brent Venerables and Glenn Schumann out of the equation.

1640
01:40:20,880 --> 01:40:25,160
 You know, it'd make the defensive coordinator at Thompson High School's job kind of simple.

1641
01:40:25,160 --> 01:40:29,140
 And, you know, they're going to see, you know, they saw it from Kirby Saturday.

1642
01:40:29,780 --> 01:40:33,820
 You know, y'all aren't going to be able to run on our front seven.

1643
01:40:34,040 --> 01:40:36,080
 We're not going to put the safeties in the box.

1644
01:40:36,220 --> 01:40:39,260
 We're going to stack them too high 20 yards down the field.

1645
01:40:39,660 --> 01:40:44,940
 And, you know, Venerables did three safeties across the middle of the field like that at times.

1646
01:40:45,480 --> 01:40:49,860
 So, you know, it's something that they're going to have to really, you know, pay attention to.

1647
01:40:49,860 --> 01:40:57,960
 And, you know, they both know each other, you know, as far as the, you know, the matchup in November and then last year as well.

1648
01:40:58,080 --> 01:41:03,360
 So there's not a whole h*** of a lot of secrets or stuff that they're going to be looking for.

1649
01:41:03,460 --> 01:41:11,960
 It's just, you know, Alabama's going to have to play this one on the road, you know, mistake free this time and not give them cheap, cheap turnovers.

1650
01:41:12,500 --> 01:41:15,260
 It's all on the road at nine Oklahomans for the weather.

1651
01:41:15,360 --> 01:41:15,760
 Who knows?

1652
01:41:15,800 --> 01:41:18,280
 It could be 40 above or 40 below out there.

1653
01:41:18,340 --> 01:41:18,860
 You never know.

1654
01:41:18,920 --> 01:41:20,180
 It's a crazy part of the world too.

1655
01:41:20,260 --> 01:41:22,080
 But you're a former offensive lineman.

1656
01:41:23,480 --> 01:41:26,000
 What in the world from your perspective is the answer?

1657
01:41:26,100 --> 01:41:27,360
 We know, you're right.

1658
01:41:27,440 --> 01:41:34,540
 They just put two high or maybe in the case of animals three and then just bring the house and keep Ty confused with all the motion.

1659
01:41:34,960 --> 01:41:42,980
 If that's what you know they're going to do, William, I mean, I'm not the smartest man in the room, but if you know that, what is the counter to that?

1660
01:41:44,780 --> 01:41:49,900
 You know, at this stage in the game, you know, I don't know really what they can do different.

1661
01:41:49,900 --> 01:41:59,020
 Now, once it's over with, you know, they can look at the scheme, they can look at the coach, and they can look at the jimmies and the joes.

1662
01:41:59,500 --> 01:42:22,980
 And, you know, it's kind of getting into a six, one-half to a dozen, the other, you know, type scenario when you see, you know, teams like Indiana and Texas Tech making the college football playoffs with basically a, and, you know, Vanderbilt having such a good season with basically 90% portal-driven rosters.

1663
01:42:22,980 --> 01:42:23,480
 Thank you.

1664
01:42:24,160 --> 01:42:37,980
 You know, you might be getting into a scenario where, and I'm not trying to discourage anybody from continuing to sign, you know, just stud pony offensive tackles out of high school like Michael Carroll and Jackson Lloyd,

1665
01:42:38,560 --> 01:42:48,640
 but can a coach afford to wait on, you know, a Michael Carroll and a Jonah Williams and a Cam Robinson are unicorns.

1666
01:42:48,640 --> 01:42:54,720
 You're not going to find, you know, guys that are SEC-ready like that.

1667
01:42:55,020 --> 01:42:58,940
 You know, sometimes it takes two and three years for those guys to develop.

1668
01:42:59,540 --> 01:43:12,400
 So can a coach, especially if it's been an issue, you know, can a coach afford to, you know, it used to be, you know, in the 80s and 90s, if you were an offensive lineman, you got redshirted.

1669
01:43:12,400 --> 01:43:18,920
 And, you know, don't even ask questions, mainly because you had to gain 40 or 50 pounds before you just got on the field.

1670
01:43:19,040 --> 01:43:20,240
 That's not the case anymore.

1671
01:43:20,640 --> 01:43:31,060
 But can a head coach in the, you know, today's climate of, you know, you got to produce a trophy in three years or we're going to go find somebody else that can.

1672
01:43:31,140 --> 01:43:37,340
 Can a coach afford to wait on that type of development any more like they used to do it?

1673
01:43:38,280 --> 01:43:46,280
 William, I give all the credit to Georgia for being prepared, for being more physical in the line of scrimmage.

1674
01:43:46,500 --> 01:43:48,320
 But I will mention two things.

1675
01:43:49,000 --> 01:43:51,840
 Georgia, this game reminded me of the Oklahoma game.

1676
01:43:52,100 --> 01:43:53,920
 Mistakes in special teams.

1677
01:43:55,280 --> 01:43:57,820
 A player, L.T. Overton, being out.

1678
01:43:58,480 --> 01:44:00,720
 Georgia saw that, took advantage of it.

1679
01:44:00,720 --> 01:44:02,880
 A huge turnover with the interception.

1680
01:44:03,180 --> 01:44:14,460
 In short fields, Georgia scored on drives of 12, 21, 39, and the longest they had to drive was 57.

1681
01:44:15,080 --> 01:44:18,940
 They had eight drives starting in their own territory and scored one time.

1682
01:44:19,500 --> 01:44:30,580
 And something you mentioned the last couple of weeks, last week, I don't know how much more is left in the tank because of the injuries or the guys who are playing hurt.

1683
01:44:30,580 --> 01:44:38,200
 By the time they got to the fourth quarter, they had eight starters out of the game or who missed for a long time.

1684
01:44:38,340 --> 01:44:42,820
 And that's not even Parker Browsford, Browsford playing on one leg.

1685
01:44:43,240 --> 01:44:44,920
 Daniel Hill's been hurt.

1686
01:44:45,340 --> 01:44:46,720
 Ty Simpson is hurt.

1687
01:44:47,180 --> 01:44:51,420
 Again, I know people say, well, that's excuses, but it's also reality.

1688
01:44:52,460 --> 01:44:53,500
 Yeah, it is.

1689
01:44:53,600 --> 01:44:59,720
 And I also think, you know, it kind of circles back around to what we were just talking about.

1690
01:44:59,940 --> 01:45:10,840
 You know, because even Kirby Smart, you know, being the second best, it's back in elite depth on a roster next to Nick Saban in the last, you know, 10 years.

1691
01:45:11,560 --> 01:45:13,800
 You know, he doesn't even have that luxury anymore.

1692
01:45:13,900 --> 01:45:14,440
 That's right.

1693
01:45:14,820 --> 01:45:26,860
 You know, it's not like you've got a Marlon Humphrey sitting over there on the sideline if something happens to Zabian Brown or Dijon Lee.

1694
01:45:27,140 --> 01:45:34,620
 So, you know, it's the dynamic and the reality that we're dealing with now.

1695
01:45:34,880 --> 01:45:38,180
 And, you know, all these other teams have bumps and bruises.

1696
01:45:38,720 --> 01:45:43,820
 And, you know, don't get me wrong, not all of them have played the schedule that Alabama's played.

1697
01:45:44,000 --> 01:45:54,960
 And the way they were able to navigate that schedule, you know, September after FSU up until the end of October is the only reason why they're sitting where they're sitting.

1698
01:45:55,100 --> 01:45:58,260
 I'm kind of stuck in the middle on that debate.

1699
01:45:58,440 --> 01:46:01,120
 I mean, if you look at their resume, yeah, they deserve to be there.

1700
01:46:01,120 --> 01:46:14,200
 But I also think there needs to be a, you know, kind of a priority put on, you know, yeah, they did this damage in a good way in September and October.

1701
01:46:14,200 --> 01:46:16,560
 But what does this team look like today?

1702
01:46:17,560 --> 01:46:24,880
 And, you know, I thought that was a little bit of a gamble in Kalen DeBoer's sales pitch.

1703
01:46:24,940 --> 01:46:37,240
 And I don't blame him for doing it, but, you know, to, you know, make some assumptions that the majority of these people are going to be ready to go, you know, in two weeks.

1704
01:46:37,240 --> 01:46:41,600
 And the reality is the majority of them probably aren't going to be ready to go.

1705
01:46:41,980 --> 01:46:42,420
 Wow.

1706
01:46:43,200 --> 01:46:44,780
 Let me ask you this, Redfish.

1707
01:46:45,340 --> 01:46:52,920
 We know that week to week you don't have time in practice to give the backup quarterback enough quality time to get ready.

1708
01:46:53,300 --> 01:46:55,480
 But now you've got a little extra pad time.

1709
01:46:55,840 --> 01:46:57,160
 And you know where I'm going with this.

1710
01:46:57,300 --> 01:47:08,740
 Is there any, what would you do, as they say, if obviously Ty's going to start, if at the half, would DeBoer pull a Saban and go to the bullpen and bring out a Russell or a Mack?

1711
01:47:10,000 --> 01:47:18,280
 You know, I think that's kind of an, I get where you're coming from, and it's certainly a legitimate question, but it's kind of an apples to orange comparison.

1712
01:47:19,000 --> 01:47:23,560
 When you fit, when you factor in that when Saban did that, they were at a neutral site game.

1713
01:47:24,200 --> 01:47:42,820
 I don't know if on the road at Norman, Oklahoma against Brent Venerable, excuse me, Brent Venerable's front seven is maybe the, I don't know if the analytics would lean towards that decision being made.

1714
01:47:42,820 --> 01:47:58,080
 But, you know, if you want to give your team the best chance to win and you've basically seen the body of work that the, you know, QB1's been able to produce on that given day, you know, you might have to make that call.

1715
01:47:58,640 --> 01:48:01,980
 You know, I didn't understand why they didn't do it last year when they were at Oklahoma.

1716
01:48:02,080 --> 01:48:03,140
 Right, right.

1717
01:48:04,760 --> 01:48:05,840
 I agree with you.

1718
01:48:05,840 --> 01:48:11,920
 We have talked about, when positive, the depth that has been developed defensively.

1719
01:48:12,000 --> 01:48:19,280
 Now, they've lost a lot of players and they were forced to do that, but we've talked about Pierre and some of the guys.

1720
01:48:19,420 --> 01:48:22,540
 One guy that caught my attention Saturday is Justin Hill.

1721
01:48:23,940 --> 01:48:34,700
 A lot of these guys have come quite a way since the beginning of the season, William, and we could go down the list, but that's certainly a part there for 2026.

1722
01:48:35,040 --> 01:48:43,900
 The number of reps, a lot of these freshmen, redshirt freshmen, sophomores have received, I know hopefully will pay off in 2026.

1723
01:48:45,200 --> 01:49:04,780
 Yeah, it is, and I think, you know, Pierre's a good one to highlight because they really need to either hit the portal or have a plan in place for somebody to be, you know, maybe it's a healthy Quay Rousseau, maybe it's Keelan Keeley, you know, maybe it's KJ Henry.

1724
01:49:04,840 --> 01:49:16,020
 But they need to come up with another edge rusher because now you're seeing teams basically focus all their attention on keeping Pierre hemmed up.

1725
01:49:16,600 --> 01:49:26,320
 And they really don't have another guy, certainly not having L.T. Overton, you know, to provide that push on the pocket from the interior part of the defensive line.

1726
01:49:26,320 --> 01:49:38,640
 But they really need another guy where they can get back to the days of, you know, having, you know, Dallas Turner on one side and Braswell on the other and Will Anderson.

1727
01:49:38,820 --> 01:49:48,480
 I know the Will Andersons don't grow on trees, but they need to have another guy where you just can't double team or chip with the tight end or the back and shut the pass rush game down.

1728
01:49:48,820 --> 01:49:50,480
 That was an issue Saturday as well.

1729
01:49:50,800 --> 01:49:59,720
 Yeah, William, just quickly on recruiting, number four ranked in on three, number five in some of the other services.

1730
01:50:00,580 --> 01:50:05,240
 Crowell could come in, probably could come in and get a few snaps against Oklahoma.

1731
01:50:05,940 --> 01:50:10,020
 Xavier Griffin, Edwards, Sindarian Morgan.

1732
01:50:10,340 --> 01:50:15,120
 Again, it's going to take time to develop these guys, and they've got to go into the portal, as you mentioned.

1733
01:50:15,120 --> 01:50:20,960
 But your thoughts are what seems like, certainly on paper, an impressive recruiting class.

1734
01:50:22,100 --> 01:50:27,180
 Yeah, I mean, you know, all those guys are, you know, elite, highly ranked players.

1735
01:50:27,420 --> 01:50:33,000
 But, you know, the thing that excited me the most was seeing them take five offensive linemen and five defensive linemen.

1736
01:50:33,060 --> 01:50:33,960
 Yes, thank you.

1737
01:50:34,100 --> 01:50:41,020
 You know, that's where, you know, this is still a line of scrimmage league, and it's going to be for, you know,

1738
01:50:41,020 --> 01:50:46,260
 if you look at the teams that are doing well, you know, it's still that.

1739
01:50:47,280 --> 01:50:53,820
 But, yeah, man, I'm never going to complain about adding a six-foot-four wide receiver.

1740
01:50:54,280 --> 01:51:03,880
 You know, I'm never going to complain about, certainly, probably the best running back I've seen come out of the state of Alabama

1741
01:51:03,880 --> 01:51:06,760
 since a guy named Carnell Williams, and that was a long time ago.

1742
01:51:07,540 --> 01:51:08,380
 Yeah, absolutely.

1743
01:51:08,920 --> 01:51:15,880
 Yeah, and you could see that Ohio State-Indiana game, how much winning the line of scrimmage paid off.

1744
01:51:16,000 --> 01:51:16,700
 Great stuff.

1745
01:51:16,880 --> 01:51:18,920
 We sincerely appreciate the insight.

1746
01:51:19,520 --> 01:51:20,340
 Have a great week.

1747
01:51:20,400 --> 01:51:21,760
 Let's do this again real soon.

1748
01:51:22,420 --> 01:51:23,160
 Sounds good, guys.

1749
01:51:23,200 --> 01:51:24,220
 Always good talking to you.

1750
01:51:24,880 --> 01:51:25,960
 Right back at you, William.

1751
01:51:26,040 --> 01:51:29,440
 William Redfish Barger, former University of Alabama offensive lineman.

1752
01:51:29,520 --> 01:51:34,300
 Again, in case you missed it, Alabama in at nine, Oklahoma at eight.

1753
01:51:34,300 --> 01:51:37,920
 It's the first game in the playoffs, a Friday night, seven o'clock.

1754
01:51:38,020 --> 01:51:39,440
 Who knows what the weather's going to be?

1755
01:51:40,160 --> 01:51:44,840
 And if Alabama, by the way, Vegas says Bama is favored by one and a half.

1756
01:51:45,280 --> 01:51:47,660
 If that holds true, they will head even farther west.

1757
01:51:47,840 --> 01:51:50,780
 They would play Indiana in the famed Rose Bowl.

1758
01:51:50,860 --> 01:51:53,020
 Over the years, that's been a pretty nice place for Alabama, BB.

1759
01:51:53,520 --> 01:51:55,420
 Yeah, they've won a few games.

1760
01:51:55,420 --> 01:51:55,780
 With some extent.

1761
01:51:57,240 --> 01:52:00,440
 First things first, they've got to get rid of those guys from Norman.

1762
01:52:00,840 --> 01:52:02,880
 First things first, again, on December 19th.

1763
01:52:02,880 --> 01:52:04,160
 That's going to take your bids for now.

1764
01:52:04,280 --> 01:52:06,680
 On behalf of BB, Greg, James, Blair, the entire crew here.

1765
01:52:07,040 --> 01:52:08,900
 Harold LeBug, thank you so much for your time today.

1766
01:52:08,980 --> 01:52:11,080
 Let's do it again tomorrow, noon, to two, for the Bilbo Bug Show.

1767
01:52:11,140 --> 01:52:13,280
 Back here on Sports Radio, 93.9 The Score.