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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. Your 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 here to the Boomo Bugg Show. I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird. Thank you so much for giving us free ride around the Tennessee Valley.

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 Brett Beaird, welcome in to Christmas Eve. Eve. Time to guess what Brett Beaird wants for Christmas. Good afternoon, BB. Welcome in. You get all the answers. How are you?

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 Happy Tuesday. And by the way, before you ask, I'm being naughty. I mean, I just go ahead and be up front and transparent about it.

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 Well, you're consistent.

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 There you go. Jake Wimberly, the King of Mississippi Radio, will update us about Ole Miss and Mississippi State a little bit later.

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 Las Vegas insider Bruce Marshall previews the college football playoff quarterfinals.

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 Adam is here right now to break down the Elite Eight in the college football playoff.

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 Adam is Adam Spencer. He is busy there as columnist and podcast host at Saturday Down South, Saturday Tradition Sports, Betting Dime.

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 Adam, welcome in. How are you?

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 Hey, fellas. I'm doing good. How are you?

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 I'm good.

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 And we're doing all right. Before we jump into the deep end here, we've got a connection here, Adam.

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 All you folks who are with us all the time, we all know, Adam, you're a proud Missouri grad.

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 Well, we've got a neighbor coming your way, former coach at Dashler and Calvert Heights here at the high school level,

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 played ball at UNA. He's from Madison.

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 The name, Chip Lindsey. He's one of our own.

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 How do you feel about Missouri's new offensive coordinator coming down from that, how can we describe it, mess at Michigan?

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 Yeah, I mean, the offense at Michigan didn't exactly inspire any sort of confidence, but, you know, I think that it was time to switch things up from Kirby Moore.

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 Like, I'm happy for Kirby that he got the head coaching job at Alaska State, but I think it was time for some fresh ideas in that offensive room.

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 We'll see, you know, because even though Drinkwitz hasn't been calling the plays for the last couple years, I mean, he's still pretty heavily involved in the offense.

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 So I still think it'll be, you know, mostly his playbook that Chip Lindsey's working from, and then, you know, Chip will bring in his own ideas and stuff.

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 But, I mean, it's good for the running game, and it's probably why Ahmad Hardy signed his contract to come back next year,

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 Are they going to settle?

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 Adam, before the first round of the college football playoffs, a lot of the national media said Alabama had absolutely no business being in the playoffs.

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 And after the first quarter, I think a lot of people probably agreed with him, but they adjusted defensively, went from his own to a man.

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 I'd have a smaller spread, maybe, you know, Indiana by four and a half or so.

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 Like, I would take – I don't know if the title wins, but I would take the points for sure.

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 Adam, it seemed like Texas A&M had a lot of advantages going into the first-round game against Miami.

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 And Marcel Reed, when he had a chance to put the game into overtime or tie it through a critical interception.

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 I think that it's going to be another low-scoring game when they have to take on Ohio State because, I mean, my goodness, like, those defenses are just elite.

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 Like, those are two, you know, those are two defenses where most of the guys are going to be playing on Sundays here in a couple years.

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 So, you know, 10-3, you know, we might see 6-3, we might see classic, like, 3-2 real-score line that went all of a sudden done this weekend.

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 Not to make Bear Bryant and Gene Stallings proud for a game like that.

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 Adam Spencer Saturday down south.

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 Adam, did Alabama and Miami, speaking of Miami, shut up a lot of critics saying that Notre Dame should have gotten in because they didn't deserve it.

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 To me, if you're Vanderbilt or Texas, what are you thinking now?

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 And did Nick Saban get it right saying that when you open the door and everybody gets a trophy era for James Madison and Tulane,

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 it's like in Major League Baseball in October saying, well, let's don't hurt anybody's feelings,

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 so let's go to AAA and invite a couple of teams up to play in the World Series.

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 Adam, when are they going to learn that you can't have guys like Tulane and James Madison

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 Like, I'm not opposed to James Madison or Tulane being in the college football playoff,

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 You have to be ranked in the top-12.

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 Like, I think if you're going to do that, then, you know, like if USF would have gone 12-0 this year

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 the strongest of the group of five conferences in the AAC.

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 Anybody who's in the top-12, you're in the playoff.

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 What are these weird promises to Notre Dame?

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 You know, let's get the 12 best teams, let's beat them up, and let's go.

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 You know, if a group of five teams is voted in there, great.

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 There's no automatic handouts anymore.

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 Ole Miss and Georgia are going to be an interesting game.

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 The Rebels beat Tulane again handily 41-10.

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 Trended at Chambliss nearly 300 yards passing, but over 300 with running.

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 Kewa Lacy actually got hurt his shoulder.

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 But a lot of people wondering, now, what in the world is Pete Golding going to do with Lane Kiffin?

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 He's no longer there.

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 He said, we don't need no basketball goal on the sideline.

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 I mean, kind of hit some little jabs at him, but an impressive win by Ole Miss.

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 And, you know, they've got to figure out this Gunnar Stockton situation because Gunnar Stockton had his best game of the year the first time around against Ole Miss when Georgia had to come from behind.

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 I think we can't count out the motivating factors that Ole Miss has.

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 You know, they're trying to spite Lane Kiffin for leaving.

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 They're trying to, you know, I'm sure Pete Golding is playing the nobody believes in us card.

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 You know, we'll see if they can play four complete quarters or if Georgia figures it out and does what Georgia does and comes back in the second half.

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 The Phil Knight Fighting Ducks from Oregon taking on Texas Tech.

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 Everybody says, Texas Tech, wow, look at that record.

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 And then they say, wow, look who that record came against.

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 What's going to happen in the Orange Bowl, Adam?

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 Yeah, I think that if you're Texas Tech, you have to control the game early.

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 And that's, you know, because he's, you know, Baron Morton, he's like 16th or he's 22nd in the Big 12 in past attempts and past yards in the fourth quarter.

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 So that means multiple teams have backups that have thrown for more yards in the fourth quarter.

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 And what that says is that, you know, he's even the backup on his own team has thrown more time for more yards in the fourth quarter, which means that he just hasn't had to throw.

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 And, like, all of their wins have been by multiple touchdowns, like not just one touchdown, like two scores and usually three or four scores.

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 They might get their top receiver, Evan Stewart, back for this game.

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 He's been out all year to make a debut in the quarterfinals of the playoff would be really something.

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 It should be fun.

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 We always appreciate you coming on with us on a weekly basis, normally on Monday.

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 Conor has got his yearly Christmas pieces that are always really nice.

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 The Score.

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 Welcome back in.

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 Hopefully going to be hooking up with Jake Wimbley from the great state of Mississippi here in just a short.

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 Maybe in the meantime, I thought it was interesting this week, listening to Coach DeBoer talking about the MASH report.

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 This team's been banged up, but I thought the thing that I think caught a lot of people's attention in this recent powwow with the media,

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 everybody's pretty much in count L.T. Overton out because of health issues off the field, not necessarily football-related.

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 There's something bigger than that.

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 But if I was understanding DeBoer right, he's still basically saying there's still a chance he could be ready come New Year's Day in Pasadena.

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 That actually surprised me a little bit.

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 He is the boss when it comes to sports talk in the great state of Mississippi there at ESPN 105.9 in Central Mississippi.

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 Jake, welcome in.

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 Merry Christmas to you and your family.

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 How are you?

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 Guys, Merry Christmas.

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 I'm doing well.

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 Sorry, I'm a little tardy, but I'm glad to be here with you guys.

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 How are y'all?

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 You know, the thing is, you are in the epicenter of, let's face it, stories off the field.

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 What was it like over the weekend?

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 Everybody fell in love with Lane.

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 He won.

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 He's got this social media charismatic personality.

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 He leaves on those circumstances.

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 And then you bring in, at least from afar anyway, Jake, the most blue-collar guy who can relate to that fan base,

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 as well as anybody, anywhere, in Pete Golding.

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 What was it like being in the state of Mississippi and seeing Pete Golding do something that no one ever has been able to do there at Ole Miss?

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 And that's when a playoff came in the modern era.

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 Hey, it's been a heck of a story, right?

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 I mean, you talk about Pete Golding.

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 He is.

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 He's a blue-collar guy.

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 You know, he's the kind of guy that, you know, you can sit down at a restaurant and have a conversation with.

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 You can see him in the grocery store in the same way.

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 And, you know, I mean, obviously, you know, I think Ole Miss fans are, you know, dishearted to lose Lane Kiffin.

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 But you go out and win a playoff game the way Ole Miss did and, you know, get to the second round.

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 And, you know, it's, hey, let's put all the chips in the middle of the table.

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 And, you know, you're a game for playing in the Final Four and see what happens against a very good Georgia team.

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 Jay, what are they going to do as far as coaching?

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 And we know that some of those guys kind of held over.

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 What's the situation heading into the battle with Georgia as far as its staff?

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 I mean, they feel good.

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 I think about offensively, you know, where they're at.

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 but you would assume they haven't really changed a whole lot.

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 It's really difficult, as you guys know, to change things, especially as downstream as you are in the season now.

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 So personnel knows what to do.

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 Golding knows what to do with the defense.

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 And I think you go back and take a look at that Georgia film, you know, back several months ago,

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 where you were up three quarters going into the fourth quarter, and it just kind of all fell apart.

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 The coaching staff is going to be a little different for Ole Miss.

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 then they've got an opportunity to play well into the fourth quarter.

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 So I think it's, you know, all hands on deck with what you got and go see what happens.

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 Jake, are you talking about the learning situation of a lifetime,

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 but to be able to tutor for five years under Nick Saban and for three or four years under Lane Kiffin

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 and at all of the knowledge, if you're a sponge, you want to soak all that stuff up.

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 I did get amused at him.

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 In his initial press conference, he said, I don't do hot yoga, which obviously was a reference to Lane or play golf.

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 Now, he can make a sailor blush with his language sometimes, but to be able to learn from those two

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 and to have some common sense, and I hear he's very detailed.

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 He asked the – well, one of the first things he did was he asked the players on the roster,

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 what's the number one thing you love about Ole Miss football, and what's the biggest thing you would change if you could?

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 Boy, I'll tell you one thing.

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 We'll see where it goes in the future, but as far as learning under two icons, he was able to do it.

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 Well, yeah, there's no doubt about it.

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 And, you know, there's a back and forth in this state between Mississippi State and Ole Miss fans,

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 much like Alabama and Auburn fans year-round.

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 You know, and Mississippi State fans want to point to him and go, well, this is Zach Arnett 2.0,

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 and I've been quick to say, no, this is different than Zach Arnett.

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 Now, no disrespect to Zach Arnett.

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 I mean, he's back on Mississippi State's staff, but he's the defensive coordinator now for Jeff Levy.

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 But, you know, he didn't have the toolage that just what you said.

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 I mean, to go under Nick Saban for five years and then Lane Kiffin,

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 that's a lot of time under two really, really good coaches, learning how to develop players,

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 learning how to, you know, build programs, the day-to-day operations.

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 And, you know, I think if he can get the pieces in the offseason right in certain, you know,

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 coordinator positions and position coaches, I mean, I think they'll be fine.

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 You know, I would even say that Ole Miss, I said this on another show this morning,

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 I feel like he may even have a little more attention to detail inside the state of Mississippi in recruiting.

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 I mean, Lane Kiffin picked and choose who he wanted, and he was able to do that.

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 But you look at the top 25 players in the state of Mississippi this past year,

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 and it was a pretty darn good class and a good crop.

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 State and Ole Miss both really didn't dent the state of Mississippi this year.

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 Only two or three of those players stayed in state.

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 So the rest of them went out of state to power four schools and power five schools and group of five schools.

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 So I think you may actually see him, you know, dial more into the state, more so than even Lane Kiffin did.

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 One thing I like about what I'm hearing anyway is he sat down and took an old page out of Nick's book,

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 and it's interesting because Kurt Signetti said he did the same thing at Indiana,

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 talking about bringing them in, asking them the basic questions, what do you like, what do you hate.

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 That's an old trick from Nick.

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 In other words, he listened.

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 He listened to the people who pay the bills, and that's the players at the grassroots level.

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 Your thoughts.

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 Another thing I like is he was brave enough and confident enough to say,

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 I don't really, it's this thing called offense.

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 I'm turning it over to these guys.

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 I'm a defensive guy.

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 I appreciate the humility there.

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 It's going to take all of that against Georgia because when Stockton's on, he's on.

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 Your thoughts just from that side of the ball, what Ole Miss would do differently against Georgia

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 when it comes to the next meeting they didn't do the last time on defense.

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 Well, I think the biggest thing, and you talk about, you know, just the details of, you know,

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 asking players, you know, your stakeholders, say, what do you like, what you don't like.

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 I think it's pretty, pretty simple against Georgia.

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 You've got to eliminate penalties, eliminate turnovers, and eliminate big mistakes.

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 And that's the thing.

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 And I know that's cliche, and we hear that all the time.

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 But really when you get down to, you know, these four ballgames that are coming up,

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 or excuse me, these eight ballgames that are coming up, or how many it is, you know,

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 these teams, these eight teams, it comes down to detail because all of the eight teams

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 that are matched up against each other are pretty darn close as far as, you know, talent.

422
00:28:59,820 --> 00:29:03,140
 Now there's some quarterback differentials between all the teams and such.

423
00:29:03,580 --> 00:29:07,220
 But it's really detail, and, you know, I think what they've got to do is they've got

424
00:29:07,220 --> 00:29:09,240
 to be able to turn Georgia over a time or two.

425
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,840
 They're going to give up some yards in between the 20s.

426
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:13,860
 They've done it all year long.

427
00:29:14,220 --> 00:29:16,980
 They've really kind of, you know, got to dig their heels in.

428
00:29:17,060 --> 00:29:20,060
 Red zone defense has got to be really good for Ole Miss, I think, next week.

429
00:29:20,620 --> 00:29:23,460
 And, you know, offensively, they've got to put the ball in the end zone.

430
00:29:25,060 --> 00:29:27,380
 Let me ask you real quick about Mississippi State.

431
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,800
 They're in the Duke's Mayo Bowl January the 2nd against Wake Forest.

432
00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:34,940
 They got there with the academic progress rate.

433
00:29:35,780 --> 00:29:41,240
 Blake Chapin is no longer even with the program after the Egg Bowl.

434
00:29:42,340 --> 00:29:47,100
 Jeff Lebby and Mississippi State could have beaten Texas, could have beaten Tennessee.

435
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:52,000
 They end up being 5-7, could have been 7-5, maybe even a little bit better.

436
00:29:52,740 --> 00:29:55,180
 Your thoughts on the year Mississippi State had?

437
00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:01,720
 I thought it was a much improved year, but, again, this is just my opinion.

438
00:30:02,060 --> 00:30:03,100
 Teams have to learn how to win.

439
00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:05,660
 And sometimes we see teams like this.

440
00:30:05,980 --> 00:30:09,560
 You know, we see teams that, if you remember TCU the year that they played

441
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,560
 for the national championship, I think there was five or six one-possession games

442
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,420
 that they won, you know, within 10 points or less.

443
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,240
 And, you know, you can go through Minnesota Vikings in the NFL a few years ago,

444
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 went 13-3 in the regular season.

445
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:20,820
 They had a similar deal.

446
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,480
 Those types of teams know how to win close games.

447
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,640
 State did a horrible job of closing games out.

448
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,080
 And, you know, you can throw it on the coach.

449
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:29,140
 You can throw it on the player.

450
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,040
 But they've got to get to where they can close some of these games out.

451
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:34,960
 You know, because they're going to be in –

452
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,380
 I think they've proven that they can put a roster together

453
00:30:37,380 --> 00:30:39,340
 that is going to be competitive in the league.

454
00:30:39,460 --> 00:30:40,580
 Now, does that mean they can win the league?

455
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:41,260
 Probably not.

456
00:30:41,700 --> 00:30:44,080
 But they can be competitive on a lot of Saturdays.

457
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,800
 And they've just got to learn how to close those doors

458
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,900
 and win some of those close games.

459
00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:52,980
 But I thought the progress that this team, I mean, from a year ago to this year,

460
00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:55,240
 they made big strides in the program.

461
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,080
 Jake Wimbley, ESPN 105.9 in Central Mississippi.

462
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,280
 Jake, you're in an interesting spot that they're not all that far from Baton Rouge.

463
00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:05,740
 How's Lane going to do as a new top Tiger at LSU?

464
00:31:07,740 --> 00:31:12,680
 Well, if you go back and you look at history, and we all love history in sports.

465
00:31:12,860 --> 00:31:16,040
 As you know, Nick Saban said it best, and I'm paraphrasing when he left Michigan State,

466
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:20,160
 is, hey, that place down there in Louisiana, that's a hotbed for recruiting.

467
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:21,720
 And it has not changed.

468
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 And, you know, you look at what, you know, Les Miles was able to do

469
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 and Ed Orgeron when he staffed it right.

470
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,540
 And, you know, Brian Kelly, that just didn't work out for him.

471
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:31,520
 He still won a lot of ballgames.

472
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:37,880
 So I think what you'll see Lane do is he'll really dial in this coming cycle on, you know,

473
00:31:37,940 --> 00:31:39,220
 top talent in the state of Louisiana.

474
00:31:39,940 --> 00:31:42,520
 He's going to, you know, obviously hit the transfer portal hard this year.

475
00:31:42,620 --> 00:31:44,240
 He'll land one of these big quarterbacks.

476
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,060
 And, you know, I think they'll be uberly successful.

477
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,600
 You know, does that mean he'll go win a national championship?

478
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:50,780
 Who knows?

479
00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:53,200
 He obviously hasn't even coached in a playoff game.

480
00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:56,520
 You know, and there's that joke there too, could have this year, but chose not to.

481
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,160
 But I think he's got an opportunity to be as good as anybody that's been there.

482
00:32:01,300 --> 00:32:01,700
 Absolutely.

483
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:06,880
 And I'm going to be curious, Blake Anderson taking over for Charles Huff at Southern Miss.

484
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,920
 He won a lot of games at Arkansas State and Utah State.

485
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,760
 It's proven to be a winner over the years.

486
00:32:14,740 --> 00:32:16,400
 Listen, we appreciate your time.

487
00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:17,320
 We know you're busy.

488
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,420
 You're still the king of radio in the state of Mississippi.

489
00:32:21,220 --> 00:32:23,560
 Again, Merry Christmas to you and your family.

490
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,720
 Where can we get online this afternoon to listen to your great show?

491
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,600
 Yeah, we'll be on for two hours today just because we're getting ready to take off for a week for the break.

492
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 But, Jay, you can do that at thezone1059.com.

493
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 I'm on X at Jake Wim.

494
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 And I always appreciate you guys having me on.

495
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 And I hope you guys have a Merry Christmas.

496
00:32:39,140 --> 00:32:39,680
 Thank you, Jake.

497
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:40,580
 Right back at you.

498
00:32:40,700 --> 00:32:41,860
 Jake Wimberley hooking up with us.

499
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 He's host of The Drive on ESPN 105.9 in Central Mississippi.

500
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601
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 Welcome back in.

602
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 It is an absolute pleasure for us to say hello to Bruce Marshall.

603
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 He's got it all covered there with the Las Vegas Insider, BAMSports.net, CBS Sportsline.

604
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 Winners and Winers.

605
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 He's also visited there at Bed Rivers in Vegas Insider.

606
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:16,260
 Bruce Marshall, welcome in.

607
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 How are you?

608
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 I am good.

609
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 Happy holidays, boys.

610
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:24,220
 And, you know, we got through the first round of the playoffs.

611
00:39:24,380 --> 00:39:32,940
 But I couldn't help but thinking, you know, on Friday and Saturday that college football still didn't get it quite right.

612
00:39:32,940 --> 00:39:36,500
 Because, I mean, this is, you know, the playoffs here.

613
00:39:36,820 --> 00:39:40,540
 And we got two of the games where there was absolutely no mystery.

614
00:39:40,660 --> 00:39:41,420
 The other two were good.

615
00:39:42,100 --> 00:39:44,920
 But, you know, Tulane and James Madison being in.

616
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 And I know James Madison got a backdoor cover.

617
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:51,020
 But that game stopped being competitive, you know, in the second quarter.

618
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:57,800
 And, you know, we got a 12-team playoffs and two teams were in there who really had no chance.

619
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,860
 You know, they haven't figured this out right yet.

620
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:03,440
 And we'll see what happens down the road.

621
00:40:04,100 --> 00:40:09,300
 The thing is, if you're Texas or Vanderbilt, obviously Notre Dame, you've got to be saying, we told you so.

622
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 To me, Bruce, the only thing that's going to make this thing change, we sit here and these guys are arrogant.

623
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 They don't care really what we say.

624
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 They'll say they do.

625
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 But the one thing that will move the needle is money.

626
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 When they get the ratings back on the Bama-Oklahoma game and they say, wow.

627
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,700
 And then they get the ratings back on those other two you mentioned, they're going to go, wow.

628
00:40:26,140 --> 00:40:33,360
 The only thing, in my opinion, that's going to change it is when ESPN comes to them and says, guys, we promised these advertisers a number.

629
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 And now we've got to sit here and either do make good as they call it a business or eat it.

630
00:40:37,660 --> 00:40:43,100
 To me, that's the only thing that's going to change is when ESPN comes to them and says, we've got to come up with a more competitive, like the NFL.

631
00:40:43,620 --> 00:40:48,320
 Come up with, at least on the motor committee way, a four-quarter game to keep that audience there.

632
00:40:50,060 --> 00:40:50,740
 I agree.

633
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:55,960
 And, you know, we saw that the way they scheduled those games, too, on Saturday.

634
00:40:56,120 --> 00:41:00,800
 I mean, they did give Alabama its own window with Oklahoma on Friday night.

635
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:07,980
 But with the NFL games on Saturday, they made sure the best game they put was the earlier game with Miami and A&M.

636
00:41:08,340 --> 00:41:16,640
 And I'm sure that the Tulane and the James Madison games really got whipped by the NFL in the ratings.

637
00:41:16,740 --> 00:41:17,260
 But you're right.

638
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 It's all down to money, like it always is.

639
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 And that's why they're going to, you know, they'll expand this thing at some point.

640
00:41:23,900 --> 00:41:36,740
 And it's really amazing the way the system has sort of, because of the built-in, the bowl system and the established sort of pillars of college football,

641
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 that it's taken them so long to get this far.

642
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:46,080
 And unlike basketball, where they, you know, didn't take them once they figured out, okay, we've got to get this thing up 64, 68, whatever.

643
00:41:46,820 --> 00:41:52,600
 You know, they'll get there to 16, and then it's going to go even higher than that down the road.

644
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 But you're right.

645
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 Money is going to be the determining factor.

646
00:41:58,340 --> 00:42:02,260
 Bruce, let me ask you about Alabama, and then we get into Alabama and Indiana.

647
00:42:02,260 --> 00:42:09,020
 A lot of national media didn't think Alabama should have been there in the first place, should have been Notre Dame.

648
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,760
 And after the first quarter, they actually looked right.

649
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:19,180
 And then Alabama made some adjustments defensively, went from its own to a man.

650
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:27,680
 They manned up physically and actually whipped Oklahoma the last three quarters at the line of scrimmage.

651
00:42:28,340 --> 00:42:37,640
 And Kalen DeBoer, as bad as he is, or he's either a terrible coach or he was going off to Michigan and was going to get fired if Oklahoma won.

652
00:42:38,220 --> 00:42:40,240
 Funny thing happened on the way to that.

653
00:42:40,340 --> 00:42:47,960
 He's now 20-5 against nationally ranked teams, 4-0 against AP top 10 teams on the road.

654
00:42:48,540 --> 00:42:50,340
 I think the guy can coach.

655
00:42:50,340 --> 00:42:54,860
 Your thoughts on the Alabama comeback in the matchup against Indiana?

656
00:42:56,240 --> 00:43:05,480
 Yeah, you know, I'll tell you, after the first quarter, into the second quarter, I didn't think it was going too well for Alabama.

657
00:43:05,980 --> 00:43:08,840
 But, you know, you live by the sword and you die by the sword.

658
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:17,300
 And that's, I think with Oklahoma, you know, I was going to look back and say, wow, you know, we made a lot of plays, big plays defensively this year.

659
00:43:17,860 --> 00:43:21,060
 And, you know, scooping scores and pick sixes and things like that.

660
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:26,560
 And once that turned the other way, you know, we didn't, the offense just didn't respond.

661
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,740
 And Mateer looked better than he has in the last two months since he hurt the thumb the first time.

662
00:43:31,940 --> 00:43:36,220
 But still, I thought that whole game turned around in that little sequence in the second quarter.

663
00:43:37,020 --> 00:43:41,160
 Now, Bama did, after doing nothing their first few possessions, they did, you know, march down.

664
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,980
 So they got sorted back in the game, but at 17-7.

665
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,720
 But at Oklahoma scored right there to go up 24-7.

666
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:49,060
 That would have taken the momentum away.

667
00:43:49,620 --> 00:43:54,100
 And Mateer did, remember that play, he scrambled up in the pocket and he had the guy open about at the 20.

668
00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:59,760
 And possibly a touchdown if he catches it or down, it would have been down deep in the red zone.

669
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,060
 Dropped the pass and then two plays later, the blocked punt.

670
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,400
 And then shortly after that, the pick six.

671
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:09,580
 And, boy, I really saw momentum flip so quickly.

672
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:14,460
 But, you know, you look at who Alabama on the road this year.

673
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:15,600
 I mean, they have one at Georgia.

674
00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:17,320
 They have one at Oklahoma.

675
00:44:18,060 --> 00:44:18,860
 One at Auburn.

676
00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:20,120
 One at South Carolina.

677
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:24,520
 I mean, they have taken this act out on the road this year better than last year for sure.

678
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:32,560
 And now that you've got a neutral game at Pasadena in the Rose Bowl, I think they've got this price at $7.

679
00:44:33,100 --> 00:44:36,040
 You know, we'll talk about this more maybe next week.

680
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:41,260
 But my first blush, I think, you know, I think Alabama's very alive here.

681
00:44:41,380 --> 00:44:42,420
 And I think we'll find out, too.

682
00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:44,620
 I don't want to downgrade Indiana and Mendoza.

683
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,680
 And winning at Oregon was quite something.

684
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,080
 They did beat Ohio State.

685
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,040
 But there was only 13-10 in the Ohio State game.

686
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:59,400
 And the whole Big Ten in the last two years is only a couple times Indiana has really been challenged like that.

687
00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:02,980
 And they didn't play an SEC schedule the way Alabama did.

688
00:45:03,660 --> 00:45:05,060
 I think Alabama's got a chance.

689
00:45:05,060 --> 00:45:06,680
 Well, we'll dive into this more next week.

690
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:07,820
 But they got a chance.

691
00:45:09,020 --> 00:45:11,620
 Bruce Marshall busy there amongst other places.

692
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:12,620
 Vegas insider.

693
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,860
 Bruce, what is the most intriguing matchup aside?

694
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:17,100
 Obviously, Narsip code.

695
00:45:17,220 --> 00:45:20,220
 Thanks for indulging us here at the Rose Bowl.

696
00:45:20,540 --> 00:45:24,380
 What is the most intriguing of the remaining games in the quarters for you?

697
00:45:25,020 --> 00:45:32,540
 I think that Georgia Ole Miss, that we got a rematch of that game mid-season.

698
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,900
 And Lane had a chance when he was still there.

699
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:37,380
 I mean, they were up into the fourth quarter.

700
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:43,340
 And that's the game I really started to think, you know, Georgia might really have something special here.

701
00:45:44,300 --> 00:45:48,780
 The way they came back, and it was sort of like, you know, the first Alabama game.

702
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,580
 They also came back in the second half of that game.

703
00:45:50,700 --> 00:45:53,300
 They really had a chance to win after falling behind.

704
00:45:54,100 --> 00:45:57,600
 But, you know, the whole dynamic there with Ole Miss.

705
00:45:57,700 --> 00:46:01,920
 Now, they did win that game with Tulane and they're all now in Pete Golden's bandwagon.

706
00:46:02,260 --> 00:46:06,900
 But, you know, the air comes out of the balloon real quick if they lose.

707
00:46:07,700 --> 00:46:13,080
 But you got an all-SEC matchup there and a rematch of the regular season.

708
00:46:13,700 --> 00:46:19,140
 Now, we've known, we've noted how these rematches, you know, generally we saw, you know,

709
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:23,060
 we saw last week with Alabama and Oklahoma, the second of the team.

710
00:46:23,220 --> 00:46:27,360
 It's hard to beat a team twice in the same season like that unless you're a lot better.

711
00:46:27,460 --> 00:46:31,900
 But I kind of think Georgia might do it again.

712
00:46:32,060 --> 00:46:33,340
 So that's the one I'm looking at.

713
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:34,980
 That's the other one that's really interesting, I think.

714
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:36,920
 What are your thoughts?

715
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,020
 Oregon and Texas Tech.

716
00:46:39,140 --> 00:46:41,120
 Texas Tech, of course, had the buyout.

717
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,720
 Morton, the veteran quarterback, 22 touchdowns.

718
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,600
 Jacob Rodriguez and friends.

719
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:49,540
 They've got an opposing defense.

720
00:46:49,780 --> 00:46:51,780
 They do whip you at the line of scrimmage.

721
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,980
 Dante Moore looked very good against Oregon.

722
00:46:55,620 --> 00:46:59,300
 Of course, a lot of the players, I mean, against James Madison.

723
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,980
 Your thoughts, Oregon, Texas Tech, and the Orange Bowl.

724
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:12,020
 This is interesting because, one, you know, I thought they might have kept Oregon out on the coast here,

725
00:47:12,060 --> 00:47:17,920
 but they got them back in Miami instead of down in Pasadena where Indiana is.

726
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:24,920
 We talked about Texas Tech before, Brad, on the show and how good the Red Raiders have looked

727
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:34,040
 and all the things they did to upgrade, especially along the lines and what their football GM, James Blanchard,

728
00:47:34,140 --> 00:47:37,120
 has done really working in concert with Joey McGuire

729
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:41,920
 and to put together a really dominant team.

730
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:47,900
 However, I still am not quite sure about where the Big 12 was this year.

731
00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:56,420
 And I don't know that Texas Tech faced, you know, a really dynamic offense.

732
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,520
 So this year they certainly didn't in non-conference play.

733
00:47:59,660 --> 00:48:01,780
 And they do have those two wins over BYU.

734
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:03,980
 But BYU is a little bit different.

735
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:05,600
 They're not really a quick strike.

736
00:48:05,860 --> 00:48:08,120
 You know, they sort of played into Texas Tech's hands.

737
00:48:08,220 --> 00:48:09,360
 They tried to bully you up front.

738
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:12,060
 If that doesn't work, then BYU's got trouble.

739
00:48:12,180 --> 00:48:15,320
 They missed – they weren't able – they had trouble with Arizona State,

740
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:21,360
 the one of the Big 12 teams that has sort of a diversified and dynamic offense.

741
00:48:21,620 --> 00:48:24,800
 They missed Arizona, which I thought was a team that would have given Texas Tech trouble.

742
00:48:25,500 --> 00:48:28,900
 So now they're going to be facing a really, really dynamic offense here.

743
00:48:28,980 --> 00:48:33,840
 And how is Texas Tech's defense going to manage to deal with that and that speed that Oregon has?

744
00:48:34,140 --> 00:48:34,720
 I don't know.

745
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,080
 My gut feeling is Oregon might have the edge here.

746
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:44,280
 Unless, you know, I could be totally wrong in my perception of Texas Tech really being a legitimate top 14.

747
00:48:44,420 --> 00:48:44,980
 Maybe they are.

748
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,780
 But my first blush here is Oregon and all these weapons.

749
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:55,740
 You know, they're saying if Dante Moore comes out in the draft, you know, he might be the first quarterback,

750
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:57,700
 first player taken.

751
00:48:58,100 --> 00:49:06,640
 So he will be watching that Raiders-Giants game this week here in Las Vegas, which could have a long way to determine who gets the number one pick in the draft.

752
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:07,960
 Probably wouldn't be the Giants.

753
00:49:08,420 --> 00:49:08,780
 Raiders?

754
00:49:09,260 --> 00:49:09,840
 Dante Moore?

755
00:49:10,300 --> 00:49:10,580
 Maybe.

756
00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:11,060
 We'll see.

757
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:16,340
 Bruce Marshall got it all covered against a lot of other places, Vegas Insider.

758
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:21,640
 What are Miami and Alabama fans saying to Notre Dame these days?

759
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:25,900
 And what will Miami say to Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl Classic, Bruce?

760
00:49:26,900 --> 00:49:28,940
 Well, you know, they're going to have to do more offensively.

761
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,900
 That was not a real pretty game against Texas A&M.

762
00:49:30,900 --> 00:49:31,820
 But they did win.

763
00:49:32,300 --> 00:49:36,220
 And they did shut the critics up and the Notre Dame people who thought they shouldn't have been there.

764
00:49:36,420 --> 00:49:39,880
 That was still a really good defensive effort.

765
00:49:40,780 --> 00:49:44,780
 And we talked about Miami's defense.

766
00:49:45,060 --> 00:49:46,800
 Maybe, you know, they are that good.

767
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,500
 I mean, this was the top 10 scoring defense.

768
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:52,720
 They were 11th nationally in total defense.

769
00:49:53,500 --> 00:49:55,020
 You know, they can really fly.

770
00:49:55,820 --> 00:50:00,580
 And even though Beck didn't have a great game, you know, you go into College Station and win.

771
00:50:00,580 --> 00:50:01,540
 I mean, that's impressive.

772
00:50:01,820 --> 00:50:08,280
 Now, Ohio State, you know, that whole bully thing with Ohio State, are they going to be able to bully Miami?

773
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:10,440
 I don't know.

774
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:23,480
 I mean, you saw Ohio State really blink in that game against Indiana and saying, you know, I'm still not sold on this guy, the quarterback,

775
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,980
 and having him go in the Heisman presentation and all that.

776
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:30,360
 And everything just was on a platter for him this year.

777
00:50:30,580 --> 00:50:32,220
 He had a great offensive line.

778
00:50:32,340 --> 00:50:34,400
 Everything, you know, all he had to do was hand the ball off.

779
00:50:34,460 --> 00:50:36,760
 His receivers are usually wide open when he throws to them.

780
00:50:37,540 --> 00:50:38,640
 You know, let's see what happens.

781
00:50:38,980 --> 00:50:43,420
 We saw what happened in the Indiana game when he played a real defense that didn't allow him there.

782
00:50:43,820 --> 00:50:51,040
 My gut feel is this is going to be another defensive sort of game, and Miami might stay close.

783
00:50:51,220 --> 00:50:52,180
 I just don't know.

784
00:50:52,760 --> 00:51:00,320
 I'm not sold on saying being near as good as some of those Ohio State quarterbacks we've had in recent years who are now in the NFL.

785
00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:03,260
 I think Miami might be worth a look here.

786
00:51:03,720 --> 00:51:08,400
 In fact, I'm kind of thinking all the underdogs here, except, you know, with the Oregon game, it's kind of a close spread.

787
00:51:08,620 --> 00:51:10,380
 So, this is another underdog.

788
00:51:10,460 --> 00:51:11,200
 It might be worth a look.

789
00:51:12,020 --> 00:51:12,360
 Mm-hmm.

790
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:14,440
 Two things.

791
00:51:15,260 --> 00:51:23,440
 The scuttlebutt this morning is Louisville head coach Jeff Brum has, quote, emerged as a name of interest.

792
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:28,880
 I really do get amused at some of the language we use now on social media.

793
00:51:29,060 --> 00:51:34,620
 At this point, to replace more is the Michigan coaching search.

794
00:51:35,180 --> 00:51:37,880
 You've got impeccable sources in Las Vegas.

795
00:51:38,300 --> 00:51:39,680
 What are you hearing?

796
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:43,660
 And two, listen, we can't tell you much.

797
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:44,660
 We enjoy talking.

798
00:51:44,900 --> 00:51:44,960
 Yeah.

799
00:51:45,020 --> 00:51:46,440
 We've been breaking down games.

800
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:49,140
 Merry Christmas to you and your family.

801
00:51:49,140 --> 00:51:53,660
 You are the gold standard in this business and continue to be.

802
00:51:54,300 --> 00:51:59,160
 Tell us also the number of platforms where we can get on and get all your good stuff.

803
00:51:59,740 --> 00:52:00,640
 Yeah, thanks, Brett.

804
00:52:00,860 --> 00:52:05,700
 And happy holidays to you guys, too, as far as that Jeff Brum rumor.

805
00:52:05,900 --> 00:52:13,920
 Well, you know, at the start of this process for Michigan, the first name they mentioned was Kenny Dillingham.

806
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:17,180
 And I, right off the bat, knew that's not happening.

807
00:52:17,460 --> 00:52:22,440
 Dillingham, if there's anybody who's, you know, going to be at Arizona State now, it's him.

808
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:23,140
 He went there.

809
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:25,920
 His family lives in the same street as his family.

810
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:28,820
 I mean, he's not going to leave Arizona State, at least not now.

811
00:52:29,260 --> 00:52:31,300
 So that was always a false rumor.

812
00:52:31,540 --> 00:52:38,220
 And Brum, I have trouble buying the Brum rumor because, again, he's back home.

813
00:52:38,740 --> 00:52:41,300
 I mean, that's why he left Purdue and went to Louisville.

814
00:52:41,740 --> 00:52:46,900
 And he's got a lot more rope, even though they were a little disappointing and they're playing a bowl game right now, I think.

815
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:49,120
 I'm not buying that.

816
00:52:49,220 --> 00:52:52,060
 I still think they've got to figure this out with their AD.

817
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:57,420
 I think any coach would be really reluctant to go in there without knowing for sure Ward Manuel's the AD.

818
00:52:58,100 --> 00:52:58,920
 So we'll see.

819
00:52:59,220 --> 00:53:01,300
 Anyway, thanks.

820
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:04,960
 Check me out online, VegasInsider.com.

821
00:53:05,380 --> 00:53:08,020
 Also at CBSSportsLine, SportsLine.com.

822
00:53:08,500 --> 00:53:11,240
 And the new places for picks with a different twist.

823
00:53:11,580 --> 00:53:14,560
 That's WinnersAndLiners.com, PicksAndParlays.com.

824
00:53:14,900 --> 00:53:17,660
 And Merry Christmas to everybody in Alabama.

825
00:53:18,300 --> 00:53:21,220
 Hey, Merry Christmas to you folks there in Las Vegas.

826
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:22,800
 Hold it between now and Thursday.

827
00:53:22,940 --> 00:53:23,720
 You can build a chimney.

828
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:27,460
 Probably not a lot in Vegas, but good luck on getting that chimney up for Santa Claus here.

829
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:27,980
 Okay, Bruce?

830
00:53:28,660 --> 00:53:29,340
 Will do.

831
00:53:29,660 --> 00:53:30,160
 Happy holidays.

832
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:32,300
 Thank you so much.

833
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:35,700
 Bruce Marshall, the one and the only getting ready for Christmas.

834
00:53:35,860 --> 00:53:37,860
 Bebe, are you ready for Christmas?

835
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:38,600
 I am.

836
00:53:38,740 --> 00:53:40,380
 Let me mention two quick things.

837
00:53:40,380 --> 00:53:45,760
 UNA men's basketball on January the 1st against Stetson.

838
00:53:45,900 --> 00:53:49,420
 The tip-off time has been moved from 2 p.m. to noon.

839
00:53:49,980 --> 00:53:52,220
 And we'll mention that again next week.

840
00:53:52,620 --> 00:53:57,480
 And the two of us, along with, I hope James is some too, our producer,

841
00:53:57,720 --> 00:54:01,500
 we're going to be off beginning tomorrow for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day,

842
00:54:02,060 --> 00:54:03,740
 and got bowl games on Friday.

843
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:08,260
 So Wednesday through Friday, no boom old bug show, but we'll be back again Monday.

844
00:54:08,260 --> 00:54:12,640
 In fact, we've got a bowl game then, and we'll work around a lot of the bowl games.

845
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:14,360
 We enjoy broadcasting those.

846
00:54:14,660 --> 00:54:20,600
 So, again, UNA men's basketball, the tip-off has been moved from 2 to 12

847
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:24,680
 against Stetson on January the 1st.

848
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:27,060
 Back on Monday, fatter and merrier than ever.

849
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:30,380
 So, in the meantime, going to take you all over the place.

850
00:54:30,460 --> 00:54:33,360
 Speaking of Indiana, Matt Merchell, who knows it better.

851
00:54:33,420 --> 00:54:34,520
 He's going to be checking in with us.

852
00:54:34,540 --> 00:54:37,020
 Who knows Auburn better than former QB Charlie Trotman.

853
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 And Randy Kennedy, the one, the only.

854
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 Former Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimson has been appointed to the Alabama State Port Authority.

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 Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the state will receive

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955
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:52,700
 Roll Tide.

956
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:54,000
 Firing catch made.

957
01:01:54,140 --> 01:01:54,740
 First down.

958
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:56,360
 Lottie Brooks breaks the tackle.

959
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 4-3-2-1.

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 Touchdown.

961
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:00,200
 Lottie Brooks.

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 And he dropped it.

963
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 Bama blocked it.

964
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 Bama blocked it.

965
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 New Keenan picked it up.

966
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 What a play by the Tide.

967
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 A pick.

968
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 A pick at the 45 to the 30.

969
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 Touchdown.

970
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:12,400
 Sabian Brown.

971
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 Mateers scrambling.

972
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 He's going down.

973
01:02:15,900 --> 01:02:18,020
 Fourth sack of the night for Alabama.

974
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:19,520
 Daniel breaks the tackle.

975
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 Fights his way to the goal line.

976
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 He's in.

977
01:02:22,900 --> 01:02:23,860
 Touchdown, Alabama.

978
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 The Tide advances to play top seed in Indiana in the quarterfinals of the CFP.

979
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 But as for Norman in this night, let's get out of here.

980
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 Next stop, the college football playoff quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl.

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996
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 Welcome back in our tour of the Boomo Bugg Show.

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 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird.

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 Thank you so much for giving us free ride around the Tennessee Valley.

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 Baby, I can't think of a better way to kick off our new thing going to the other end of the state.

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 The Voice on the south side of Bama.

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 Afternoons 4 to 6 on 995 Sports Talk in Mobile, Alabama.

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 Also the winner of the Mel Allen Award from the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.

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 Named one of the 50 legends of sports writers in Alabama.

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 Randy Kennedy.

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 Welcome in.

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 Sounds like Santa Claus has already been good to you.

1009
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 How are you?

1010
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:32,120
 Life is good.

1011
01:04:32,220 --> 01:04:33,200
 Merry Christmas to you guys.

1012
01:04:33,660 --> 01:04:34,260
 Hey, Randy.

1013
01:04:34,580 --> 01:04:36,860
 What's it like to always have a guaranteed white Christmas?

1014
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,940
 All you guys got to do is get out of the beach on December 25th.

1015
01:04:39,980 --> 01:04:40,380
 Right, Randy?

1016
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:41,900
 I hear you.

1017
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:42,700
 It's a different kind of white.

1018
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:44,560
 But, yes, it's good.

1019
01:04:44,620 --> 01:04:45,900
 I don't think we're going to get any snow down here.

1020
01:04:45,940 --> 01:04:48,500
 We don't usually do, but it's still going to be merry.

1021
01:04:49,380 --> 01:04:52,040
 Randy, you've been around a while, too, like some of us.

1022
01:04:52,940 --> 01:04:58,480
 Your thoughts, when's the last time you saw a game with this much at stake

1023
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:00,200
 than Alabama at Oklahoma?

1024
01:05:00,500 --> 01:05:04,580
 Honestly, what went through your mind that we can publish on family radio

1025
01:05:04,580 --> 01:05:08,340
 for the first half of that, first quarter of that game Friday night?

1026
01:05:09,340 --> 01:05:12,360
 You know, it's interesting because I had said coming into the year

1027
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:15,780
 that it was an either-or situation for Alabama and Kalen DeBoer.

1028
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 Either they made the playoff and it was a successful year

1029
01:05:19,100 --> 01:05:22,200
 or they didn't make the playoff and it was an unsuccessful year.

1030
01:05:22,700 --> 01:05:25,300
 And then I'm watching that game and it gets to 17-0, and I'm like,

1031
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:28,260
 wow, I'm going to have to change my opinion right here at the last minute

1032
01:05:28,260 --> 01:05:34,020
 because if that had kept going that way on the heels of the Alabama-Georgia game

1033
01:05:34,020 --> 01:05:37,060
 and the SEC championship game, it was going to be impossible to say

1034
01:05:37,060 --> 01:05:38,140
 it was a good year for Alabama.

1035
01:05:38,620 --> 01:05:40,800
 You know, ending on that kind of two-game losing streak

1036
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:43,180
 where you just did not look competitive.

1037
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:45,900
 And so I was just thinking, boy, I've got to change my heart

1038
01:05:45,900 --> 01:05:50,460
 whole narrative for the last nine months, and then they come rip-roaring back

1039
01:05:50,460 --> 01:05:51,300
 and they win that game.

1040
01:05:51,420 --> 01:05:54,320
 And now suddenly, I think I get the sense more people are confident

1041
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:56,620
 about beating Indiana than they were about beating Oklahoma.

1042
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:01,080
 That's what we've been hearing the last couple of days.

1043
01:06:01,080 --> 01:06:03,980
 Randy, we've enjoyed talking with you throughout the course.

1044
01:06:04,180 --> 01:06:08,800
 Of course, as you probably know, Harold and I follow recruiting very closely,

1045
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:11,440
 and you do a great job with the best of Bama.

1046
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:16,240
 The top 50 players, no matter if they're in the 8th grade or the 12th grade,

1047
01:06:16,820 --> 01:06:18,720
 in the state of Alabama.

1048
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:22,100
 We want to go through some of those with you in just a minute.

1049
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:26,860
 But one of the things that we keep talking about is,

1050
01:06:27,220 --> 01:06:32,420
 it is amazing at how much the talent in the state of Alabama,

1051
01:06:33,220 --> 01:06:35,980
 they're going all over the nation now.

1052
01:06:36,140 --> 01:06:38,800
 I know 10, 15, 20 years ago, it was, yeah,

1053
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,360
 the state of Alabama has got a couple of guys.

1054
01:06:41,980 --> 01:06:43,820
 Now they have a lot of guys.

1055
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:49,020
 They signed, players signed with South Carolina, Clemson, Missouri,

1056
01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:53,420
 Georgia Tech, Miami, Wake Forest, Purdue, Ohio State.

1057
01:06:53,620 --> 01:06:58,540
 Two of these dudes signed with Tate Jones out of St. Paul's,

1058
01:06:58,660 --> 01:07:02,960
 Kim Pritchett out of Thompson, signed with Dan Lanning at Oregon.

1059
01:07:03,180 --> 01:07:07,480
 He always seems to come to the state of Alabama and get somebody.

1060
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:10,020
 And you mentioned it in your article.

1061
01:07:10,500 --> 01:07:15,420
 You could see a lot of this talent when the Alabama All-Stars beat the Mississippi

1062
01:07:15,420 --> 01:07:20,300
 All-Stars 40-10 in the annual Alabama-Mississippi game.

1063
01:07:20,300 --> 01:07:24,460
 And we've talked with you a lot about E.J. Crowell and some of the other guys.

1064
01:07:24,620 --> 01:07:29,140
 Man, the talent, and I appreciate Alabama Public Television broadcasting that.

1065
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:32,420
 The talent was very evident in that game, Brandy.

1066
01:07:33,460 --> 01:07:34,300
 There's no doubt about it.

1067
01:07:34,380 --> 01:07:35,580
 You know, it used to be that, yeah,

1068
01:07:35,620 --> 01:07:37,000
 most of the talent would come from in-state.

1069
01:07:37,300 --> 01:07:40,540
 I saw a stat, I actually heard Kaylin DeBoer talking about this,

1070
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:45,840
 that Alabama's got 15 players who played high school football in California

1071
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:47,460
 who are going back to the Rose Bowl.

1072
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:47,960
 Wow.

1073
01:07:48,620 --> 01:07:50,100
 That's a large number.

1074
01:07:50,300 --> 01:07:50,740
 15.

1075
01:07:51,520 --> 01:07:54,120
 Now, you know, you've got a lot of coaches who are familiar with the West Coast

1076
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:56,320
 on Alabama's staff, so it's not as shocking.

1077
01:07:56,500 --> 01:07:58,120
 But that's a lot, a lot of players.

1078
01:07:58,500 --> 01:08:01,620
 But, you know, in terms of going the other direction, Oregon,

1079
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:05,360
 it looks like they're going to get the number one player in the state of Alabama,

1080
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:09,200
 or certainly one of the top three players in the state of Alabama three years in a row.

1081
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:12,640
 They did it last year with the defensive back from Parker in Birmingham.

1082
01:08:13,140 --> 01:08:19,100
 This year they got Tank Jones from St. Paul's, who you just can't be a better prospect than him on the defensive front.

1083
01:08:19,480 --> 01:08:25,520
 And then, as you mentioned, next year in the junior class, Cam Pritchett from Thompson may be the top guy in that 2027 class.

1084
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:32,120
 So they definitely come to this state and try to cherry-pick some, because I think people have come to realize that there are a lot,

1085
01:08:32,180 --> 01:08:36,100
 a lot of players here, particularly per capita, in the state of Alabama.

1086
01:08:36,580 --> 01:08:40,340
 And you mentioned the All-Star game, just real quick, that it's amazing that, you know,

1087
01:08:40,360 --> 01:08:43,120
 I go to high school games every week and you see these guys play,

1088
01:08:43,540 --> 01:08:47,360
 but it's just so different when you see them standing next to each other, running next to each other,

1089
01:08:47,440 --> 01:08:49,600
 just kind of being on the same field.

1090
01:08:50,020 --> 01:08:55,420
 I was at the All-Star game in Hannesburg, and like Brock Bradley, the quarterback from Spain Park,

1091
01:08:55,480 --> 01:08:56,380
 has signed with Clemson.

1092
01:08:56,740 --> 01:08:57,760
 I've seen him play in person.

1093
01:08:57,840 --> 01:08:58,440
 I really like him.

1094
01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:01,780
 I've seen Landon Duckworth from Jackson, who's signed with South Carolina.

1095
01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:06,700
 I've seen both those guys, and I have an opinion on both, but then you see them standing next to each other,

1096
01:09:06,740 --> 01:09:10,080
 and you just think, wow, this is, you get a completely different evaluation,

1097
01:09:10,300 --> 01:09:15,060
 seeing them actually on the same field together versus seeing one, then seeing the other.

1098
01:09:16,140 --> 01:09:17,400
 In the huddle with Randy Kennedy.

1099
01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:21,780
 Another thing about a game like that is, I've always said, you look at these kids coming out of high school,

1100
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 and it's all, what's the fancy way of putting it, relative.

1101
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 Sometimes they got big numbers, but you just stand out.

1102
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:32,080
 When you are on the platform, like in an All-Star game, and you still do what you do, look at Crowell.

1103
01:09:32,140 --> 01:09:33,200
 He still stood out.

1104
01:09:33,320 --> 01:09:35,880
 You look at the C.D. Morgan, he still stood out.

1105
01:09:35,940 --> 01:09:39,280
 This is supposed to be apples-to-apples comparison, and in a couple of years,

1106
01:09:39,320 --> 01:09:41,620
 they're going to be playing against the same guys at the college level.

1107
01:09:42,020 --> 01:09:45,180
 And for Crowell, Randy, who stood out the most to you?

1108
01:09:45,300 --> 01:09:46,820
 I mean, I saw some of the catches there.

1109
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:49,640
 Morgan, obviously Tank, you mentioned him.

1110
01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:54,360
 And not only that, now these kids, they grow up in a hurry because I think,

1111
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 I don't know the exact number, but about 80%, 90% of the kids at Alabama sign,

1112
01:09:58,660 --> 01:10:01,240
 they're there now, or will be at the end of the week.

1113
01:10:02,140 --> 01:10:03,400
 It's amazing how things have changed.

1114
01:10:04,480 --> 01:10:07,700
 Well, I did a little informal poll with all the coaches from Alabama,

1115
01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:10,200
 the people who were around the Alabama All-Star team all week,

1116
01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:11,760
 and I said, hey, who stood out?

1117
01:10:11,820 --> 01:10:15,440
 Not try to be any sort of influence, just the most basic question, like who stood out?

1118
01:10:15,860 --> 01:10:19,640
 And every one of them said the exact same thing, that they're all good,

1119
01:10:19,700 --> 01:10:22,240
 but there are two guys that are way better than everybody else.

1120
01:10:22,240 --> 01:10:26,900
 One, E.J. Crowell, the running back who's going to Alabama, and the other one, Tank Jones,

1121
01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:28,680
 defensive lineman who's going to Oregon.

1122
01:10:28,940 --> 01:10:30,340
 And there are a lot of other great players.

1123
01:10:30,440 --> 01:10:34,980
 I would think C.D. Morgan would be right in that next group, and you could name several of these guys.

1124
01:10:35,140 --> 01:10:38,300
 But every one of them said those are the two guys.

1125
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:42,580
 There are two can't-miss guys coming out of Alabama, and those two guys,

1126
01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:45,540
 running back going to Alabama, defensive end going to Oregon.

1127
01:10:46,900 --> 01:10:48,780
 Randy, I really like the list.

1128
01:10:49,420 --> 01:10:51,640
 Your top 50 has been fluid.

1129
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:53,260
 It's fluctuated some.

1130
01:10:53,420 --> 01:10:57,280
 Some of the guys, in fact, you had one, Randy, that went up.

1131
01:10:57,580 --> 01:11:01,660
 Zion Crumpton from Carver Montgomery, Mississippi State commit,

1132
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:04,400
 went up 14 spots in the final one.

1133
01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:08,600
 But I wanted to ask you about, and particularly some guys at the tail end of this,

1134
01:11:09,180 --> 01:11:15,760
 and it's absolutely not any disrespect because these guys are in the 8th or 9th grade.

1135
01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:21,100
 Captain Munderland, Jr., I remember watching his dad in the NFL.

1136
01:11:21,100 --> 01:11:27,160
 He played 10 years for Carolina at Buffalo, played college at South Carolina.

1137
01:11:27,300 --> 01:11:28,180
 He's a freshman.

1138
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:34,100
 Your 48th player is Trey Kyles, a defensive end.

1139
01:11:34,460 --> 01:11:36,940
 He's in the 8th grade for Daphne.

1140
01:11:37,700 --> 01:11:44,660
 He's got another kid, Randy from Cole Moody, an 8th grader from Southside Selma.

1141
01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:47,060
 Raylan Everett, a wide receiver.

1142
01:11:47,260 --> 01:11:50,100
 He's in the 9th grade from Central Phoenix City.

1143
01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:56,420
 Randy, how good can these guys be if they're already in your top 50?

1144
01:11:57,060 --> 01:12:00,880
 Well, there's certainly a lot of projection here, but here's the thing you need to know.

1145
01:12:00,940 --> 01:12:05,940
 First of all, the 8th grader from Southside Selma just set the all-time Alabama single-season

1146
01:12:05,940 --> 01:12:09,900
 passing record for any grade, and he's in the 8th grade.

1147
01:12:10,440 --> 01:12:14,980
 So right there, you got to think about it, right?

1148
01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:19,720
 He's at least got to be considered, and every one of those other guys you mentioned are already

1149
01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:23,160
 star players at the big-time program.

1150
01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:27,140
 I'm talking about if you're a freshman, and you're considered one of the best players

1151
01:12:27,140 --> 01:12:31,960
 on the Central Phoenix City team, and you're a freshman, well, that deserves some, wait a

1152
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:32,900
 minute, what's going on here?

1153
01:12:32,980 --> 01:12:35,640
 Because that just doesn't happen at Central Phoenix City.

1154
01:12:36,160 --> 01:12:37,220
 And you just got to go down the list.

1155
01:12:37,260 --> 01:12:39,120
 Same thing with Monterland at Williamson High School.

1156
01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:45,200
 They maybe had one of the best two or three defenses in the state this year, and he's a

1157
01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:47,440
 guy who was a really good player for them already.

1158
01:12:48,020 --> 01:12:53,460
 If you went to a Daphne game, that 8th grader you were talking about coming off the edge, you

1159
01:12:53,460 --> 01:12:57,760
 wouldn't have to have a program to say, I don't know what grade that guy is, but that's the

1160
01:12:57,760 --> 01:12:58,060
 guy.

1161
01:12:58,500 --> 01:13:00,080
 And then I would say, oh, he's in the 8th grade.

1162
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:01,860
 Well, they just say, well, put him on the list.

1163
01:13:02,080 --> 01:13:02,680
 Put him on the list.

1164
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:02,880
 Wow.

1165
01:13:03,680 --> 01:13:06,500
 If you saw Daphne play, you'd be like, put him on the list.

1166
01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:07,560
 I don't care what grade he's in.

1167
01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:08,160
 Unbelievable.

1168
01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:08,480
 Yeah.

1169
01:13:09,120 --> 01:13:15,280
 Randy, your thoughts about, obviously, we saw this last class where Alabama and Auburn

1170
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 were respectively, and now Alex Golesh is bringing a brand new blueprint as far as how

1171
01:13:20,180 --> 01:13:21,360
 he's putting a roster together.

1172
01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:26,360
 Your thoughts from a high school recruiting standpoint in the state of Alabama, where things

1173
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:31,880
 are, where they're going now with a new top tiger at Auburn, and DeBoer now, the old

1174
01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:35,280
 man, after two seasons at Alabama on the recruiting trail in the state.

1175
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 Yeah, I think that what Alex Golesh is doing at Auburn is...

1176
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:42,320
 I think that what he's doing at Auburn is far, far more responsible than anything that

1177
01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:44,320
 Hugh Freeze ever did when he was in charge at Auburn.

1178
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 I think with Hugh Freeze, it was a lot of flash, a lot of sizzle, that if we have to overpay

1179
01:13:51,480 --> 01:13:56,920
 for this high-profile in-state guy, we're going to do it, regardless of if it makes sense with

1180
01:13:56,920 --> 01:13:58,580
 our overall roster or not.

1181
01:13:58,980 --> 01:14:02,620
 And I think what's happening now is Alex Golesh is having to go through and kind of clean up

1182
01:14:02,620 --> 01:14:08,900
 some of that mess to say, look, we can't be paying a backup wide receiver the third most on the team.

1183
01:14:09,060 --> 01:14:10,560
 You know, that's just crazy.

1184
01:14:10,780 --> 01:14:13,340
 I don't know how big a recruit he was coming out of high school.

1185
01:14:13,460 --> 01:14:14,280
 This is out of whack.

1186
01:14:14,460 --> 01:14:19,160
 And so I think there's going to be some growing pains with Auburn fans being like, wow, we thought,

1187
01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:21,340
 you know, we didn't get out of that what we thought we were going to get.

1188
01:14:21,400 --> 01:14:25,360
 And I think it was Hugh Freeze just, you know, trying to win these recruiting battles at all

1189
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 cost, regardless of what it meant down the road to the health of the program.

1190
01:14:31,060 --> 01:14:32,240
 Randy, great stuff.

1191
01:14:32,340 --> 01:14:37,320
 We have thoroughly enjoyed talking with you about the talent in this state, and it really is

1192
01:14:37,320 --> 01:14:38,480
 incredible.

1193
01:14:38,660 --> 01:14:40,080
 We've got quite a bit of it.

1194
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 In fact, the all-state team was last Saturday that came out on AL.com.

1195
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 Where can our listeners get online and get the best of Bama?

1196
01:14:50,160 --> 01:14:53,540
 And, Ray, I'll tell you one thing, Mr. Football is going to be interesting, too.

1197
01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:55,860
 I believe it's January the 20th.

1198
01:14:56,320 --> 01:14:59,340
 And then the reclassification is going to be the 23rd.

1199
01:14:59,740 --> 01:15:02,320
 That's going to be a very interesting week in the state.

1200
01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:04,880
 Randy, Merry Christmas to you and your family.

1201
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:08,840
 Where can we get online and get the best of Bama and all your great stuff?

1202
01:15:09,500 --> 01:15:11,340
 Yeah, the best thing to do is just go to AL.com.

1203
01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:12,440
 You'll see best in Bama.

1204
01:15:12,440 --> 01:15:17,980
 We will have more updates on it once we get through the two All-American games coming up.

1205
01:15:18,060 --> 01:15:19,840
 There will be minor adjustments at that point.

1206
01:15:20,160 --> 01:15:23,680
 Once we see how the guys do against that elite, elite competition.

1207
01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:27,740
 And then once we get to signing day in February, we'll start it over.

1208
01:15:27,860 --> 01:15:28,860
 We'll kick out all those seniors.

1209
01:15:29,240 --> 01:15:33,580
 And we'll start over with 50 more of the guys without the current senior class.

1210
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 Randy, I echo those sentiments.

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 Merry Christmas to you and your family.

1212
01:15:37,980 --> 01:15:38,680
 And thanks so much.

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 Stay safe out there, okay?

1214
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 You too.

1215
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 Merry Christmas to you guys.

1216
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 Thank you, Randy.

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 Welcome back in.

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 Brent Beard, is it through, is it through that Santa Claus has already come early to Jeremy Pruitt?

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 Well, Santa Claus came early about three weeks ago to Jeremy Pruitt when the DeKalb County judge issued a preliminary injunction in favor of Jeremy Pruitt.

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 Well, the NCAA didn't like that, and they have filed an appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court basically trying to get a stay or overturn the injunction for Jeremy Pruitt.

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 So, we'll see where this goes after the first of the year.

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 Well, let's go from DeKalb County to Charlie Trotman's neighborhood.

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 Former Auburn quarterback.

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 Charlie Trotman, welcome in.

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 How are you?

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 Hey, Harold.

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 Hey, Brett.

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 Good to be with you guys.

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 Merry Christmas.

1310
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 Thank you, Charlie.

1311
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 Have you been a good boy this year, Charlie?

1312
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 I can't say that, but I still hope Santa Claus can find our house.

1313
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 Can we negotiate, right?

1314
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 Charlie, talk to us about it.

1315
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 Obviously, it's a different Christmas at Auburn this year compared to the last couple or so.

1316
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 We just got done talking with Randy Kennedy.

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 You know Randy.

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 And we were asking him about the plan now as far as going forward.

1319
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 And I thought Randy had a good insight.

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 He said basically, and see if you agree because you're closer to the program than any of us,

1321
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 that sometimes Hugh got caught up in trying to win the bling-bling.

1322
01:22:38,620 --> 01:22:42,680
 He wanted to spend a lot of money to win that day's press conference.

1323
01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:48,460
 He got this recruit, but then going forward, he didn't get a return on his investment necessarily.

1324
01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:51,840
 And that Goldish basically has had to come in and do some cleanup there.

1325
01:22:51,900 --> 01:22:55,680
 In other words, get a bigger bang for the buck because, let's not kid ourselves,

1326
01:22:55,760 --> 01:22:59,400
 in the modern era, it's about spending money and spending money wisely.

1327
01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:03,760
 Your thoughts about what you're hearing so far from Goldish and how he's putting together this roster.

1328
01:23:05,260 --> 01:23:11,640
 Well, I understand that so many of the players that have announced for the transfer portal

1329
01:23:11,640 --> 01:23:16,180
 will end up in the transfer portal and playing for other teams.

1330
01:23:16,180 --> 01:23:17,540
 But there are a few players.

1331
01:23:17,740 --> 01:23:24,900
 There's two or three players that the talk is that they may actually be coming back to Auburn

1332
01:23:24,900 --> 01:23:29,480
 because I think Coach Goldish is trying to strike deals with them.

1333
01:23:30,120 --> 01:23:33,680
 They didn't really necessarily want to leave Auburn,

1334
01:23:33,900 --> 01:23:36,360
 but they just knew that they could get more money.

1335
01:23:37,320 --> 01:23:41,840
 And I think that it seems to me, and I may be wrong about this,

1336
01:23:41,840 --> 01:23:50,220
 but it seems to me that Coach Goldish is a little bit better suited for this NIL landscape that we're in

1337
01:23:50,220 --> 01:23:51,860
 than was Hugh Freeze.

1338
01:23:52,460 --> 01:23:55,960
 And that's just a feeling that I get.

1339
01:23:56,620 --> 01:23:59,200
 Nothing to base that on, so to speak,

1340
01:23:59,380 --> 01:24:05,840
 other than I do know that he was not willing to come up to some of the requests

1341
01:24:06,440 --> 01:24:07,960
 that the players were making.

1342
01:24:09,440 --> 01:24:14,220
 And, you know, you have to spend your money wisely, like you said, Harold.

1343
01:24:14,220 --> 01:24:14,700
 Yes.

1344
01:24:15,500 --> 01:24:19,740
 There's only a few players that can get the really, really big bucks,

1345
01:24:19,760 --> 01:24:22,000
 and you've got to keep those guys on your roster.

1346
01:24:23,760 --> 01:24:27,320
 Charlie, the Auburn quarterback room is going to be quite interesting.

1347
01:24:27,520 --> 01:24:30,120
 We talked a little bit about this off the air yesterday.

1348
01:24:30,460 --> 01:24:35,940
 Ashton Daniels has announced that he is going to enter the transfer portal,

1349
01:24:36,080 --> 01:24:37,380
 and his quote was,

1350
01:24:37,380 --> 01:24:42,160
 I know I promised a return on this amazing place, but things didn't work out.

1351
01:24:42,740 --> 01:24:44,180
 And I thought they would.

1352
01:24:44,860 --> 01:24:51,100
 And then a day later, Byron Brown, the three-year starter at South Florida,

1353
01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:54,940
 announcing that he has entered the transfer portal.

1354
01:24:55,900 --> 01:25:00,800
 And, Charlie, maybe in this case, you can do two plus two equals four.

1355
01:25:01,460 --> 01:25:06,500
 A lot of speculation that Brown would be handed to Auburn as a quarterback,

1356
01:25:06,980 --> 01:25:08,800
 but there's a concern.

1357
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:14,260
 I know we talked about it yesterday, about if Brown comes in,

1358
01:25:14,800 --> 01:25:18,600
 Auburn's already, right now, lost Ashton Daniels.

1359
01:25:18,980 --> 01:25:23,500
 What about Deuce Knight, who seems to be the future of the program?

1360
01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:28,160
 Charlie, your thoughts on the quarterback room right now for Auburn?

1361
01:25:29,260 --> 01:25:33,280
 Well, I would not be happy if I was Deuce Knight.

1362
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:39,240
 I would not like the fact that they were feeling like they had to bring in Byron Brown.

1363
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:41,680
 I know he's had great statistics.

1364
01:25:42,080 --> 01:25:44,480
 I know he's had three really good years.

1365
01:25:45,440 --> 01:25:53,080
 You know, he's one of the 12 players at quarterback in the history of college football

1366
01:25:53,080 --> 01:25:57,340
 to throw for over the 3,000 and run for over 1,000 in one season.

1367
01:25:57,620 --> 01:26:00,540
 And so, you know, he's a player.

1368
01:26:00,860 --> 01:26:03,820
 I mean, I wouldn't want him coming in if I was Deuce Knight,

1369
01:26:04,280 --> 01:26:09,840
 knowing that, you know, this is my team and he came here to be the future of the program.

1370
01:26:10,100 --> 01:26:11,660
 It wouldn't sit well with me.

1371
01:26:12,240 --> 01:26:14,600
 Now, I will tell you this.

1372
01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:18,040
 There are some people that I know that have talked to Deuce Knight,

1373
01:26:18,660 --> 01:26:23,160
 and they have told him, wherever you go, Deuce, wherever you go,

1374
01:26:23,280 --> 01:26:25,980
 especially in the SEC, there's going to be competition.

1375
01:26:26,980 --> 01:26:30,820
 And so, you know, that's true.

1376
01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:36,480
 But, you know, I was mentioning to you yesterday, Brett,

1377
01:26:36,760 --> 01:26:40,920
 when Byron Brown comes in, he's got a leg up on everybody

1378
01:26:40,920 --> 01:26:42,800
 because he's played for our goalies.

1379
01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:43,680
 Sure, thank you.

1380
01:26:44,360 --> 01:26:49,380
 You know, so to me, I think Deuce Knight is not only going to have to beat him out,

1381
01:26:49,440 --> 01:26:54,100
 but he's going to have to beat him out badly, you know, to win the job.

1382
01:26:54,100 --> 01:26:57,760
 So, you know, Deuce would just have to, you know,

1383
01:26:57,820 --> 01:27:00,740
 this is where it comes into that money situation, guys,

1384
01:27:00,840 --> 01:27:08,100
 because the only way to pacify Deuce is to sit on the bench for his redshirt freshman year.

1385
01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:11,720
 He redshirted last year, so he'll be a redshirt freshman coming in.

1386
01:27:12,260 --> 01:27:14,840
 To sit out for his redshirt freshman year,

1387
01:27:15,760 --> 01:27:22,360
 he would have to have been paid an enormous amount to feel satisfied that he could do that.

1388
01:27:22,360 --> 01:27:25,780
 Otherwise, he's going to be looking to play somewhere else.

1389
01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:30,420
 Charlie, I saw a while ago, the quarterbacks were opening up,

1390
01:27:30,420 --> 01:27:34,480
 as far as top-line quarterbacks in the portal, one to two to three million dollars.

1391
01:27:34,540 --> 01:27:35,900
 They're now asking four to five.

1392
01:27:36,040 --> 01:27:39,380
 So, let's just say that Deuce is making a million sitting on the bench.

1393
01:27:40,080 --> 01:27:43,220
 Yeah, I'm not very good with math, but if somebody's going to pay me five million,

1394
01:27:43,320 --> 01:27:44,100
 they're not going to let me go.

1395
01:27:44,220 --> 01:27:45,520
 We talked about the competition.

1396
01:27:45,660 --> 01:27:46,740
 Competition is different now.

1397
01:27:46,840 --> 01:27:48,140
 Somebody's paying you five million dollars.

1398
01:27:48,140 --> 01:27:51,940
 You're pretty much guaranteed that starting job if you're going to go somewhere else.

1399
01:27:52,040 --> 01:27:54,400
 But what message, Charlie, you've been around a long time,

1400
01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:59,200
 and one thing that college football fans, including Auburn, Alabama, you name the school,

1401
01:27:59,340 --> 01:28:00,700
 they don't have a lot of patience.

1402
01:28:01,380 --> 01:28:02,520
 This guy's coming in.

1403
01:28:02,580 --> 01:28:05,220
 He's going to bring in the wrecking ball and restructure things.

1404
01:28:05,320 --> 01:28:09,380
 What message, in terms of patience, would you send to Auburn fans?

1405
01:28:10,660 --> 01:28:16,640
 Well, I think Alex Golesh is trying to send Auburn fans the message that I don't have time to wait.

1406
01:28:17,140 --> 01:28:20,440
 You know, I've got to bring in a guy that I know what he can do.

1407
01:28:21,100 --> 01:28:27,100
 I know when he gets in third and mediums and third and longs, I know what I can count on.

1408
01:28:27,540 --> 01:28:29,720
 I know I've called these plays before.

1409
01:28:29,880 --> 01:28:30,780
 He's seen them.

1410
01:28:31,060 --> 01:28:32,060
 He's used to them.

1411
01:28:32,140 --> 01:28:35,680
 He's not going to have to go through spring training to figure out our offense.

1412
01:28:35,680 --> 01:28:41,680
 And so I think Alex Golesh is saying to the Auburn fans, hey, you know,

1413
01:28:41,760 --> 01:28:44,260
 we're going to get this done in a hurry.

1414
01:28:44,540 --> 01:28:48,960
 It's not going to take me two to three years to get a winning team.

1415
01:28:49,540 --> 01:28:56,460
 And so, you know, the question is going to be from Alex Golesh to the fans is, you know,

1416
01:28:56,540 --> 01:28:58,700
 how quickly can we win big?

1417
01:28:59,320 --> 01:29:03,440
 And that's a question that a lot of teams are going to ask

1418
01:29:03,440 --> 01:29:08,020
 because the SEC is just so – it is so tough.

1419
01:29:08,300 --> 01:29:13,160
 I mean, next year's schedule, Auburn has in the middle of the year,

1420
01:29:13,660 --> 01:29:19,180
 they play like Georgia, LSU, Tennessee, and somebody else, I mean,

1421
01:29:19,240 --> 01:29:22,260
 just off the cuff in a row.

1422
01:29:22,740 --> 01:29:25,800
 And it's just – or it was Florida maybe.

1423
01:29:26,360 --> 01:29:28,620
 But anyway, it's a tough schedule.

1424
01:29:28,620 --> 01:29:35,280
 And I think Alex Golesh is trying to do what it takes to come out and be able to compete

1425
01:29:35,280 --> 01:29:38,840
 and to be successful and not have to wait to do it.

1426
01:29:39,840 --> 01:29:44,960
 Charlie, there are – the Auburn media is speculating on this,

1427
01:29:45,020 --> 01:29:49,020
 and you mentioned of all the players who have come out on social media

1428
01:29:49,020 --> 01:29:54,840
 and say they tend – their attention is to enter the portal when it opens January 2nd.

1429
01:29:55,840 --> 01:29:58,280
 But you're right, some of these guys can come back.

1430
01:29:58,280 --> 01:30:02,280
 Let me mention some guys, and I'll just ask you for a number.

1431
01:30:02,460 --> 01:30:05,100
 Jay Crawford is the starting cornerback.

1432
01:30:06,120 --> 01:30:08,220
 Malik Blockton, defensive lineman.

1433
01:30:08,740 --> 01:30:12,580
 Malcolm Simmons, wide receiver, had a tremendous game against Alabama.

1434
01:30:13,240 --> 01:30:15,520
 Amaris Williams, defensive lineman.

1435
01:30:15,640 --> 01:30:17,340
 And Perry Thompson, wide receiver.

1436
01:30:18,220 --> 01:30:23,060
 A lot of the media consider that to be the top five guys who may be entering the portal.

1437
01:30:23,640 --> 01:30:27,320
 Do you think one, two, three of those guys may come back?

1438
01:30:28,300 --> 01:30:30,640
 I don't know if three of them will, Brett.

1439
01:30:30,780 --> 01:30:34,880
 I would say maybe one, maybe two.

1440
01:30:36,160 --> 01:30:39,120
 I don't think – I think Malcolm Simmons is gone.

1441
01:30:39,480 --> 01:30:40,320
 We need him.

1442
01:30:41,220 --> 01:30:42,700
 Auburn needs Malcolm Simmons.

1443
01:30:42,700 --> 01:30:46,860
 He's our punt returner, and he's a very good receiver.

1444
01:30:47,340 --> 01:30:51,740
 He started coming on, and he was our most productive receiver at the end of the year.

1445
01:30:53,280 --> 01:30:56,540
 You know, he's just going to get more money somewhere else.

1446
01:30:56,720 --> 01:30:57,340
 That's what it is.

1447
01:30:57,740 --> 01:30:59,260
 And a lot more money, probably.

1448
01:30:59,920 --> 01:31:04,420
 And so, you know, when you have to pay Cam Coleman and Eric Singleton,

1449
01:31:05,240 --> 01:31:09,420
 you know, that takes a lot of money out of the wide receiver room.

1450
01:31:09,580 --> 01:31:12,120
 And not every room has tons of money.

1451
01:31:12,380 --> 01:31:15,920
 And that's one you've got to spend your – you've got to spend wisely.

1452
01:31:16,220 --> 01:31:20,520
 And so, they're just – they're counting on those two guys instead of Malcolm Simmons.

1453
01:31:20,720 --> 01:31:23,340
 And I just don't see him coming back.

1454
01:31:23,440 --> 01:31:28,040
 I don't know about Amaris and, you know, Malik Blockton.

1455
01:31:28,400 --> 01:31:33,680
 Malik Blockton is from Pike Road, right down the road from Auburn.

1456
01:31:33,680 --> 01:31:39,480
 And I just don't – I don't know why Auburn wouldn't spend the money to keep him.

1457
01:31:39,580 --> 01:31:45,060
 He's a very productive player, had a good year, and will get better.

1458
01:31:45,840 --> 01:31:52,240
 So, you know, I – but then again, guys, it's all negotiation and money issues.

1459
01:31:53,580 --> 01:31:55,520
 Charlie, let me close with this.

1460
01:31:55,640 --> 01:32:00,740
 Are you impressed – and we talked about this with you last week or two weeks ago.

1461
01:32:00,740 --> 01:32:06,620
 Well, the staff that Golinch is putting together has got a lot of experience in the SEC.

1462
01:32:07,320 --> 01:32:11,540
 And with Power 4, are you pleased with the staff so far?

1463
01:32:12,300 --> 01:32:13,040
 I am.

1464
01:32:13,340 --> 01:32:18,280
 I thought adding Larry Porter as the running back coach was really, really good.

1465
01:32:19,160 --> 01:32:26,740
 He's got a – there's a running back from West Virginia that played for him that may –

1466
01:32:26,740 --> 01:32:31,960
 he's in the transfer portal, he may be an Auburn target and a really good player.

1467
01:32:31,960 --> 01:32:43,060
 And so, I like – I think that the offensive coaching staff is going to be a step up from what Auburn had.

1468
01:32:43,360 --> 01:32:48,300
 And I know that Derek Nix is well thought of, and I think he may be going to Alabama.

1469
01:32:48,720 --> 01:32:55,180
 But, you know, I think, you know, that some of the – Marcus Davis was well thought of.

1470
01:32:55,240 --> 01:32:56,740
 I think he's probably going to Florida.

1471
01:32:57,220 --> 01:33:00,400
 And, you know, it wasn't that these guys couldn't coach.

1472
01:33:00,520 --> 01:33:07,140
 It was just that for whatever reason, the offensive line and the quarterbacks just were not productive this year.

1473
01:33:07,140 --> 01:33:11,560
 And it made everybody else less productive.

1474
01:33:11,720 --> 01:33:13,220
 The receivers were less productive.

1475
01:33:13,480 --> 01:33:15,360
 The running backs were less productive.

1476
01:33:15,700 --> 01:33:24,080
 And it just was an offensive debacle this year, you know, especially at the – kind of right after the first couple of games.

1477
01:33:24,080 --> 01:33:31,940
 And you go into that Oklahoma and Texas A&M and Georgia, you know, going to those contests, and you just have no offense.

1478
01:33:32,460 --> 01:33:36,080
 And so, it's hard to win that way.

1479
01:33:36,280 --> 01:33:43,560
 So, I think Alex Golesh's main goal is, you know, to keep D.J. Durkin and the good defense playing well.

1480
01:33:43,560 --> 01:33:54,520
 And then to make our offense transitional to – from a very mediocre to a very, you know, top-end type year next year.

1481
01:33:56,200 --> 01:33:56,680
 Absolutely.

1482
01:33:57,100 --> 01:34:00,760
 Listen, I know you stepped out of your mother-in-law's house to talk to us.

1483
01:34:00,880 --> 01:34:02,260
 We've already started Christmas.

1484
01:34:03,020 --> 01:34:05,340
 As you know, we really enjoy talking with you.

1485
01:34:05,420 --> 01:34:08,820
 God bless the family, wife, Whitney and Charlie Jr.

1486
01:34:08,960 --> 01:34:13,800
 Have a very great and fun – Merry Christmas, Charlie.

1487
01:34:14,500 --> 01:34:15,840
 Well, thank you all so much.

1488
01:34:15,840 --> 01:34:21,040
 And I think my mother-in-law, she's telling me I'm not going to get any dessert because I can't even let the –

1489
01:34:21,040 --> 01:34:22,160
 Hurry back in, Charlie.

1490
01:34:24,200 --> 01:34:25,920
 He's in the doghouse again.

1491
01:34:26,660 --> 01:34:27,400
 See you guys.

1492
01:34:27,540 --> 01:34:28,240
 Thank you so much.

1493
01:34:28,240 --> 01:34:28,760
 Thank you, bud.

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 Charlie Trotman, we know all about that, do we now?

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 The Score.

1595
01:41:33,180 --> 01:41:34,320
 Welcome back in.

1596
01:41:34,360 --> 01:41:38,900
 Brett, do you know of anybody who knows Indiana sports in this world?

1597
01:41:39,140 --> 01:41:43,880
 Well, first of all, Harold, he knows about every sport in the world.

1598
01:41:43,880 --> 01:41:47,540
 But, yes, our next guest can give us the lowdown.

1599
01:41:48,180 --> 01:41:52,620
 He lives in the state of Florida, but his roots are the Hoosier State.

1600
01:41:52,740 --> 01:41:55,140
 Matt Merchel, College Insider with the Orlando Center.

1601
01:41:55,240 --> 01:41:57,360
 His podcast is called Gridiron 365.

1602
01:41:57,800 --> 01:41:58,780
 Matt, welcome in.

1603
01:41:59,340 --> 01:42:00,280
 Merry Christmas to you.

1604
01:42:00,300 --> 01:42:00,740
 How are you?

1605
01:42:01,700 --> 01:42:02,660
 I'm doing well.

1606
01:42:02,740 --> 01:42:03,960
 Happy holidays to you guys.

1607
01:42:04,520 --> 01:42:04,840
 I'm good.

1608
01:42:05,220 --> 01:42:06,380
 It's 2025, Matt.

1609
01:42:06,620 --> 01:42:11,000
 Alabama and Indiana, not in basketball, in football.

1610
01:42:11,440 --> 01:42:13,340
 It's an upside-down world, is it not, Matt?

1611
01:42:13,420 --> 01:42:14,280
 Your thoughts.

1612
01:42:14,680 --> 01:42:16,520
 You've got roots to the state of Indiana.

1613
01:42:16,520 --> 01:42:17,660
 What's going on, my friend?

1614
01:42:18,720 --> 01:42:24,280
 Yeah, you know, I think this is what Indiana had always thought could happen at some point.

1615
01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:27,060
 It's the reason why they've invested heavily in Kurt Cignetti.

1616
01:42:27,180 --> 01:42:31,220
 It's the reason why they've invested heavily in their football program over the last couple seasons.

1617
01:42:31,460 --> 01:42:36,080
 And now we're going to get an opportunity to see whether or not they can take that next step.

1618
01:42:36,220 --> 01:42:40,640
 You know, I think making the playoff and being the top seed, the top team in the country,

1619
01:42:41,040 --> 01:42:42,220
 is an incredible accomplishment.

1620
01:42:42,600 --> 01:42:46,460
 But, you know, it doesn't mean anything if they can't get past Alabama this weekend.

1621
01:42:46,660 --> 01:42:52,540
 I mean, you know, having the bye and not having to play and then getting beat, you know,

1622
01:42:52,560 --> 01:42:56,560
 would probably be a pretty bitter pill for the program to swallow.

1623
01:42:56,560 --> 01:42:58,780
 So, but it's going to be a challenge.

1624
01:42:59,020 --> 01:43:02,440
 You know, I mean, the advantage they have, Indiana has, is they've had some time off.

1625
01:43:02,740 --> 01:43:07,220
 They've had an opportunity to rest up, get their guys who have been maybe banged up and get them healthy.

1626
01:43:07,660 --> 01:43:12,600
 And, you know, you get a chance to watch Alabama get past Oklahoma.

1627
01:43:12,840 --> 01:43:14,880
 So now they've got an idea what Alabama's about.

1628
01:43:15,180 --> 01:43:20,540
 They understand that they can't just put them aside and think they can jump out on them early and beat them.

1629
01:43:20,580 --> 01:43:22,800
 They've got to find a way to win all four quarters.

1630
01:43:22,900 --> 01:43:24,420
 So it's going to be a challenging game for Indiana.

1631
01:43:24,620 --> 01:43:28,600
 And I think for Alabama, you know, coming off that big win at Oklahoma, you know,

1632
01:43:28,600 --> 01:43:33,480
 this is an opportunity to continue to ride that wave and see if they can get past that and get into the semifinals.

1633
01:43:34,200 --> 01:43:34,320
 Yeah.

1634
01:43:34,320 --> 01:43:35,360
 They're in an awkward position.

1635
01:43:35,480 --> 01:43:37,120
 Alabama is an underdog.

1636
01:43:37,200 --> 01:43:41,580
 The biggest dog they've been in this part of the schedule since 2008.

1637
01:43:41,780 --> 01:43:46,060
 Your thoughts about that, there's two ways of looking at the way the schedule falls.

1638
01:43:46,400 --> 01:43:49,960
 Alabama's had, what, two games since Indiana's had one.

1639
01:43:50,500 --> 01:43:54,020
 There's a two-edged sword by being off what I saw the other day, Matt,

1640
01:43:54,100 --> 01:43:56,000
 credit me if I'm wrong, something like five weeks.

1641
01:43:56,020 --> 01:43:57,920
 This is almost like a season opener for them.

1642
01:43:58,960 --> 01:44:00,460
 Yeah, it is really in a lot of ways.

1643
01:44:00,460 --> 01:44:04,620
 It's like, you know, you have to sit back and think about, you know, okay, you know,

1644
01:44:04,720 --> 01:44:06,600
 how do you stay fresh?

1645
01:44:07,000 --> 01:44:08,560
 How do you keep yourself, you know, sharp?

1646
01:44:09,220 --> 01:44:12,620
 You talk about, you know, not losing any of the focus you've had,

1647
01:44:12,880 --> 01:44:16,400
 which has been very difficult, obviously, in the postseason because, you know,

1648
01:44:16,420 --> 01:44:17,880
 we still have the transfer portal open.

1649
01:44:17,980 --> 01:44:19,860
 You know, it opens up on January 2nd.

1650
01:44:20,100 --> 01:44:20,920
 You get a lot of movement.

1651
01:44:21,080 --> 01:44:24,440
 A lot of coaches are trying to keep their players on, you know, on the team,

1652
01:44:24,540 --> 01:44:26,220
 find out who's going to be there, who's going to play.

1653
01:44:27,040 --> 01:44:28,200
 It's a challenge, you know.

1654
01:44:28,200 --> 01:44:30,880
 And then, like you said, Alabama's had an opportunity to play a couple games.

1655
01:44:31,340 --> 01:44:32,800
 They've gotten some of the rust off.

1656
01:44:32,940 --> 01:44:37,460
 They can actually feel better about going into this game and feel like maybe they've got a chance.

1657
01:44:37,540 --> 01:44:38,500
 Now, granted, they're underdogs.

1658
01:44:38,880 --> 01:44:42,420
 But I think if you look at the history of the playoff over the last couple years, you know,

1659
01:44:42,460 --> 01:44:45,100
 having the bye doesn't necessarily guarantee a win.

1660
01:44:45,440 --> 01:44:49,100
 You know, it means that, you know, you're going to have to have a chance to step up and find a way to win.

1661
01:44:49,700 --> 01:44:51,880
 So there'll be a big challenge there.

1662
01:44:52,080 --> 01:44:56,740
 But, I mean, again, you know, for both these teams, who can make the best adjustments,

1663
01:44:57,220 --> 01:44:59,720
 especially at halftime, much like Alabama did last weekend?

1664
01:45:00,260 --> 01:45:04,040
 You know, who can handle being on the road, you know, over in the Rose Bowl?

1665
01:45:04,440 --> 01:45:07,220
 Who can handle dealing with all the hoopla that comes around with these games?

1666
01:45:07,220 --> 01:45:11,500
 If you can handle all this kind of stuff, you've got a better chance of finding a way to win the game.

1667
01:45:11,760 --> 01:45:13,580
 That's where the biggest test is going to come.

1668
01:45:16,060 --> 01:45:18,680
 Frontenville, Ohio State at Miami.

1669
01:45:19,120 --> 01:45:20,860
 Miami surprised a lot of people.

1670
01:45:21,020 --> 01:45:24,600
 Texas A&M had a real advantage hosting that first-round game.

1671
01:45:25,600 --> 01:45:30,260
 At home, Marcel Reed threw, obviously, the interception.

1672
01:45:30,480 --> 01:45:33,840
 But there were turnovers, missed field goals.

1673
01:45:33,980 --> 01:45:35,600
 Nobody wanted to make a field goal.

1674
01:45:35,720 --> 01:45:37,220
 It was a very windy day.

1675
01:45:38,280 --> 01:45:40,920
 Miami holds on to win at the end.

1676
01:45:41,020 --> 01:45:46,260
 Ohio State's gotten some rest after losing to Indiana in the Big Ten game.

1677
01:45:46,560 --> 01:45:49,960
 Your thoughts on what should be a very intriguing game in the Cotton Bowl?

1678
01:45:50,900 --> 01:45:57,160
 Yeah, you know, I think, again, much like what we talked about last, I think Miami found a way to survive, you know, in the second half.

1679
01:45:57,260 --> 01:46:04,280
 I think, unlike the Alabama-Oklah game, this came down to just someone finding a way to get the final point, you know, win the game.

1680
01:46:04,380 --> 01:46:10,180
 I think Miami was able to take advantage of, you know, some turnovers and was able to do some of the things they needed to do.

1681
01:46:10,380 --> 01:46:11,620
 I was a little shocked by this.

1682
01:46:11,720 --> 01:46:15,160
 I mean, I thought A&M had a good chance, again, hosting this game.

1683
01:46:15,640 --> 01:46:17,080
 You saw what A&M was able to do.

1684
01:46:17,520 --> 01:46:21,760
 You know, but Miami's defense stepped up and made the plays when it counted.

1685
01:46:21,880 --> 01:46:28,420
 It was able to shake off the fact that their field goal kicker basically was, what, one for three, I think, one for four or something like that, you know, in this game.

1686
01:46:28,540 --> 01:46:34,620
 You know, so, you know, I think the challenge from Miami, though, is, you know, they're going to go in and they're going to face off against an Ohio State team.

1687
01:46:35,520 --> 01:46:41,100
 Much like Indiana has a good quarterback, there's a guy who's a Heisman finalist, a guy who's put up a lot of points.

1688
01:46:41,600 --> 01:46:43,520
 You know, Ohio State's going to try to put up a lot of points.

1689
01:46:44,020 --> 01:46:46,580
 I don't know if Miami has faced an offense like this.

1690
01:46:47,020 --> 01:46:47,620
 You know what I mean?

1691
01:46:47,640 --> 01:46:49,300
 And I think it's going to be a challenge for them.

1692
01:46:49,380 --> 01:46:53,920
 And I think that they're going to have to find a way to slow things down if they want a chance to win this game.

1693
01:46:54,600 --> 01:47:01,640
 Matt Merchelle, the Orlando Senator, everybody talks about Indiana's schedule being, as far as strength of schedule, saying he's trying to poo-poo it.

1694
01:47:02,000 --> 01:47:03,060
 But here's the bottom line.

1695
01:47:03,060 --> 01:47:08,220
 In the quarterfinals, two of Indiana's wins have come against teams still rocking and rolling.

1696
01:47:08,360 --> 01:47:11,300
 One, just the aforementioned Buckeyes from Ohio State.

1697
01:47:11,920 --> 01:47:13,740
 The other against Oregon.

1698
01:47:14,100 --> 01:47:16,440
 Your thoughts about the Ducks next battle?

1699
01:47:17,580 --> 01:47:19,620
 Yeah, I think Oregon's got to have a big challenge here.

1700
01:47:19,720 --> 01:47:21,740
 I mean, you know, Texas Tech, I've seen Texas Tech play.

1701
01:47:22,260 --> 01:47:24,880
 I think the Red Raiders are one of the best teams in the country.

1702
01:47:25,360 --> 01:47:28,160
 They're very, put together very much like an NFL team.

1703
01:47:28,720 --> 01:47:29,920
 You know, they've got a solid quarterback.

1704
01:47:30,160 --> 01:47:31,040
 They can run the football.

1705
01:47:31,040 --> 01:47:34,500
 Their defense is one of the best defenses I've seen in the country right now.

1706
01:47:34,940 --> 01:47:36,180
 I think they've got an opportunity.

1707
01:47:36,400 --> 01:47:37,560
 It's going to be a challenge for Oregon.

1708
01:47:37,720 --> 01:47:41,720
 You know, again, Oregon comes off a big win, but they rolled kind of over James Madison.

1709
01:47:42,060 --> 01:47:45,060
 Even though the score was a little closer at the end, you know, they rolled over them.

1710
01:47:45,140 --> 01:47:48,560
 So now they've got to go into a Texas Tech team that feels like, you know, listen,

1711
01:47:48,880 --> 01:47:52,700
 if they don't get to the national championship game, this season is probably a failure based

1712
01:47:52,700 --> 01:47:54,940
 on how much money they spent to build their roster.

1713
01:47:55,340 --> 01:47:58,400
 So, you know, Oregon is the day of the life kind of thing.

1714
01:47:58,660 --> 01:48:02,860
 Even though Oregon's not considered, you know, when you look at it, not considered one of

1715
01:48:02,860 --> 01:48:07,720
 these underdog type teams, their team has got to go in there and find a way to knock off

1716
01:48:07,720 --> 01:48:09,280
 a very good Texas Tech team.

1717
01:48:09,400 --> 01:48:12,100
 Joey McGuire, Texas Tech coach, is not a dummy.

1718
01:48:12,220 --> 01:48:16,340
 And I think he's got to find a way to try to slow down Oregon, find a way to keep them

1719
01:48:16,340 --> 01:48:20,140
 kind of contained, and have an opportunity for their offense to maybe put up some points.

1720
01:48:20,420 --> 01:48:23,540
 If they can continue to do what they've done all season long, I think it's going to be a

1721
01:48:23,540 --> 01:48:24,160
 high-scoring game.

1722
01:48:25,060 --> 01:48:28,400
 Let me ask you about two things off the field.

1723
01:48:29,220 --> 01:48:38,660
 Speculation that Jeff Brum at Louisville may be on a short list now to replace Moore at Michigan.

1724
01:48:38,860 --> 01:48:40,300
 We've talked to two of our guests.

1725
01:48:40,300 --> 01:48:46,720
 They said they didn't actually believe that because he came from Purdue to Louisville.

1726
01:48:47,400 --> 01:48:50,560
 Obviously, that's his alma mater.

1727
01:48:50,760 --> 01:48:54,540
 He played there, and they were a little bit skeptical of that.

1728
01:48:55,040 --> 01:48:59,500
 And one of the funniest things I've seen this week, we'll see how it ends up, but it's a

1729
01:48:59,500 --> 01:49:00,680
 marriage made in heaven.

1730
01:49:01,340 --> 01:49:08,400
 Bill Belichick is expected to hire the one and only Bobby Petrino as the new North Carolina

1731
01:49:08,400 --> 01:49:14,860
 offensive coordinator, actually replacing Freddie Kitchens, the former Alabama quarterback.

1732
01:49:14,860 --> 01:49:21,100
 You're on the marriage made in heaven, and then who will eventually take over at Michigan?

1733
01:49:22,280 --> 01:49:28,680
 Well, you know, I think for the Petrino situation at North Carolina, I think Bill Belichick is trying to find an answer.

1734
01:49:28,800 --> 01:49:36,080
 He wants to bring in someone he believes that can kind of light a fire in that offense, felt like they didn't do some of the things they needed to do this past year.

1735
01:49:36,140 --> 01:49:40,540
 I saw North Carolina a couple times this season, and they weren't very good.

1736
01:49:40,620 --> 01:49:41,400
 They weren't a very good team.

1737
01:49:41,580 --> 01:49:43,780
 I don't think it had anything to do necessarily with coaching.

1738
01:49:43,840 --> 01:49:49,080
 So I think this is a team that, you know, I think Belichick struggled to kind of adapt to the college game.

1739
01:49:49,240 --> 01:49:56,620
 I think he kind of, you know, I think they brought in coaches that were NFL guys who figured that these players were going to come in and play at a certain level.

1740
01:49:57,000 --> 01:49:59,180
 And, you know, they're college players.

1741
01:49:59,420 --> 01:50:00,820
 You know, they still need a little bit of coaching.

1742
01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:03,700
 They still need to understand how to tackle correctly and all those things.

1743
01:50:03,800 --> 01:50:04,980
 And I just think they struggle.

1744
01:50:05,080 --> 01:50:07,880
 I think they did do a very good job when it came to putting together that team.

1745
01:50:08,000 --> 01:50:09,580
 So you're bringing a guy like Petrino.

1746
01:50:09,700 --> 01:50:15,360
 You think, okay, here's a guy who's obviously, you know, had some success and put up some good offenses.

1747
01:50:15,920 --> 01:50:18,120
 Now, what does it look like optic-wise?

1748
01:50:18,360 --> 01:50:19,100
 Not very good.

1749
01:50:19,220 --> 01:50:22,240
 I mean, it looks like, you know, everyone saw the jokes online yesterday.

1750
01:50:22,420 --> 01:50:25,860
 I mean, it's just been non-stop memes and gifs about this.

1751
01:50:25,980 --> 01:50:27,880
 I mean, but that's still Belichick.

1752
01:50:28,060 --> 01:50:29,500
 Does he really care?

1753
01:50:29,580 --> 01:50:30,600
 I mean, probably not.

1754
01:50:30,940 --> 01:50:33,700
 I think the Michigan situation, I'm with your guests.

1755
01:50:34,080 --> 01:50:36,320
 I'm not sure Jeff Brom fits this role.

1756
01:50:36,940 --> 01:50:38,720
 And I don't know if he would want this job.

1757
01:50:38,720 --> 01:50:43,800
 I don't think he'd want to leave a place that you, you know, your alma mater can go somewhere else

1758
01:50:43,800 --> 01:50:50,260
 and try to coach a program that is basically broken, you know, right now.

1759
01:50:50,460 --> 01:50:53,980
 I mean, you've heard, I mean, Biff Pogge, who's the interim coach, has said many times,

1760
01:50:54,280 --> 01:50:56,940
 this program has been broken for about five years now.

1761
01:50:57,440 --> 01:51:02,900
 And when you've got an interim coach telling you that, that just says a lot about what they think they're at.

1762
01:51:03,000 --> 01:51:07,800
 And I think this is a program, too, that let's not forget, I'm not sure Ward Manuel is still going to be the AD.

1763
01:51:07,800 --> 01:51:11,480
 I think at some point he's going to be gone.

1764
01:51:11,740 --> 01:51:13,060
 I think they're going to clean house.

1765
01:51:13,480 --> 01:51:19,700
 So why would you as a coach who's had success at Louisville, why would you go to Michigan and want to be, you know,

1766
01:51:19,700 --> 01:51:21,120
 step right into that dumpster fire?

1767
01:51:21,280 --> 01:51:25,840
 I mean, you might as well just stay where you're at and have success and everything else.

1768
01:51:25,940 --> 01:51:32,620
 So I think whoever takes over that job, it's going to be someone who comes in with the idea of, okay, you know, I'm rebuilding.

1769
01:51:32,760 --> 01:51:34,200
 This is going to be a rebuilding process.

1770
01:51:34,200 --> 01:51:37,440
 It's going to take a few years before we're back to where we need to be.

1771
01:51:37,560 --> 01:51:38,640
 I'm going to probably have a new AD.

1772
01:51:39,240 --> 01:51:42,080
 The school president has made it very clear they're going to make some changes.

1773
01:51:42,520 --> 01:51:46,960
 Your roster is probably going to be, you know, depleted after a lot of players leave.

1774
01:51:47,900 --> 01:51:48,740
 It's going to be tough.

1775
01:51:48,860 --> 01:51:49,820
 I'm not sure who they get.

1776
01:51:49,960 --> 01:51:51,280
 I mean, there's a lot of names out there.

1777
01:51:51,340 --> 01:51:52,580
 You've seen Brian Kelly's name.

1778
01:51:52,740 --> 01:51:54,540
 You've seen some other guys.

1779
01:51:54,760 --> 01:51:57,420
 But, you know, I just think this is a toxic job right now.

1780
01:51:57,840 --> 01:52:03,800
 I'm not sure how many coaches really want to leave a good paying job to go there, even though it is Michigan, I get.

1781
01:52:03,800 --> 01:52:07,400
 And even though it's probably going to pay them a lot of money, it's still one of those challenges.

1782
01:52:07,580 --> 01:52:08,800
 Do you really want to deal with that?

1783
01:52:09,140 --> 01:52:11,920
 And, oh, by the way, NIL and revenue share that we're all still doing.

1784
01:52:12,560 --> 01:52:20,180
 And the other thing, Matt, the question is when, because not only that, but one week from Friday, the portal opens up.

1785
01:52:20,540 --> 01:52:25,120
 Wouldn't it be wise if you got somebody in mind to kind of lock that down to keep as many as you can there?

1786
01:52:25,960 --> 01:52:35,380
 Your thoughts just about the timing and if you were taking a wild guess, when will they be coming up with somebody to kind of keep this thing together?

1787
01:52:36,340 --> 01:52:43,140
 Yeah, I mean, everything I've seen so far says they'd like to have something in place by the bowl game next week.

1788
01:52:43,620 --> 01:52:46,280
 You know, I mean, I think they have to.

1789
01:52:46,280 --> 01:52:54,580
 I mean, you don't want to go into the interim coach trying to keep players around and try to make, you know, keep your start Bryce Underwood, their start quarterback.

1790
01:52:55,100 --> 01:53:00,080
 You know, he's probably thinking, okay, if I don't like who this coach is going to be, I'm gone, I'm leaving.

1791
01:53:01,120 --> 01:53:04,780
 You're going to have to start building a roster through Portland with only one portal window.

1792
01:53:05,380 --> 01:53:06,140
 It's crucial.

1793
01:53:06,300 --> 01:53:08,740
 You've got 15 days to find guys and try to build off.

1794
01:53:08,960 --> 01:53:10,560
 So I think they've got to find somebody.

1795
01:53:10,660 --> 01:53:11,780
 I think they're searching.

1796
01:53:11,960 --> 01:53:15,920
 I think they've got several different names out there that they think are going to be a good hire.

1797
01:53:16,620 --> 01:53:19,240
 Whether or not it's going to be a good hire will have remains to be seen.

1798
01:53:19,320 --> 01:53:24,440
 This could be a choice where maybe they just get a coach in and this is a guy who's kind of a transition,

1799
01:53:24,440 --> 01:53:28,300
 a bridge to someone else down the road and maybe they bring in someone who's, you know,

1800
01:53:28,520 --> 01:53:31,140
 it wouldn't shock me if Biff Pogge got the job for a couple of years.

1801
01:53:31,660 --> 01:53:32,100
 You know what I mean?

1802
01:53:32,180 --> 01:53:37,780
 Just let him have it for a few years and, you know, then you can step in and maybe hire someone else.

1803
01:53:38,860 --> 01:53:40,400
 I think you're right about that.

1804
01:53:40,540 --> 01:53:42,420
 Listen, we can't thank you enough.

1805
01:53:42,540 --> 01:53:46,160
 We always enjoy the Tuesday conversations with M.M.

1806
01:53:46,700 --> 01:53:49,060
 Merry Christmas to you and your family.

1807
01:53:49,200 --> 01:53:51,100
 Have a great holiday season.

1808
01:53:51,420 --> 01:53:53,920
 Where can we get online to get all your great stuff?

1809
01:53:54,580 --> 01:53:59,300
 Well, you can go to OrlandoSentinel.com to check out the latest or follow me on social media.

1810
01:53:59,440 --> 01:54:00,180
 Oh, that's Matt Michelle.

1811
01:54:00,440 --> 01:54:02,600
 And you guys have a happy holidays as well.

1812
01:54:02,700 --> 01:54:03,360
 Enjoy yourself.

1813
01:54:03,500 --> 01:54:05,840
 And I'll talk to you in the new year.

1814
01:54:06,860 --> 01:54:07,820
 Thanks so much, Matt.

1815
01:54:07,880 --> 01:54:08,720
 Right back at you.

1816
01:54:08,780 --> 01:54:11,400
 Matt Michelle, the Orlando Settled.

1817
01:54:11,480 --> 01:54:14,500
 Brett Beaird, what is your Merry Christmas message?

1818
01:54:15,260 --> 01:54:18,420
 Family, food, and football, a big part of it, Harold.

1819
01:54:18,560 --> 01:54:21,840
 But the real reason for Christmas is Jesus' birth.

1820
01:54:22,000 --> 01:54:23,040
 Don't forget that.

1821
01:54:23,040 --> 01:54:33,460
 But on behalf of the staff of 93.9 The Score, we wish our advertisers, listeners, and supporters a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

1822
01:54:33,540 --> 01:54:38,600
 We're going to take the rest of the week off with Christmas Eve, Christmas Day.

1823
01:54:38,720 --> 01:54:41,360
 And James has got some bowl games playing on Friday.

1824
01:54:41,540 --> 01:54:45,500
 But, again, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to our listeners.

1825
01:54:45,920 --> 01:54:46,700
 Echo those sentiments.

1826
01:54:46,920 --> 01:54:50,440
 And, again, the reminder, always remember the reason for the season.

1827
01:54:50,520 --> 01:54:54,380
 We're going to take care of bids for now on behalf of B.B., Greg, James, Blair, the entire crew here.

1828
01:54:54,460 --> 01:54:56,240
 Harold Buck, thank you so much for your time today.

1829
01:54:56,380 --> 01:54:57,040
 Merry Christmas.

1830
01:54:57,220 --> 01:54:58,020
 Stay safe out there.

1831
01:54:58,080 --> 01:55:01,160
 And let's do it again next time right here on 93.9 The Score.