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 Alabama loses to Vanderbilt 96-90 after 62 fouls are called.

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 Is it feeling like winter or spring in Ohio?

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 Who's in?

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 Now that we're down, frankly, to the end of this, a lot of people are looking at 2026.

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 Ross Dillinger of Yahoo came out with this.

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 That's a week full of events.

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 And let's get this thing done around now instead of a couple weeks from now because you guys know we're playing games on Thursday and Friday for a reason.

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 Let me ask you this, Bill.

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 These are some suggestions about where we are with college football and trying to get a handle on some of these transfers and money that's being thrown around.

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 Two, contracts with these guys need to be two years with a buyout and payback clause in them.

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 If they leave early, they've got to pay back to balance that issue.

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 Number three, change the portal the spring or summer.

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 You're getting paid to play, not sit out.

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 If you sit out, you lose or have to pay back the money.

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 How can you argue with that logic?

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 Check, check, check, check.

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 You're just making you, we're just making you the commissioner.

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 You know, you got it that way.

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 You're not leaving after your freshman year, unless the coach leaves.

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 If the head coach leaves, then you can go.

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 You know, just the commissioner part to get the four power conferences and maybe all the conferences on the same page.

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 Right now, the person technically kind of doing that in some ways is the CFP director.

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 And that's not, but that's not all of college football.

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 That's just for the playoff.

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 So we need somebody in charge of everything.

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 Right.

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 Portal makes sense.

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 NIL makes sense.

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 You know, sooner or later, we've got to start talking about a salary cap, too.

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 Because the math and the numbers and, you know, you're hearing about certain schools spending more than other schools.

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 And these numbers are getting, they're getting out of control.

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 There's no doubt.

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 Yeah, I agree with you.

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 It's not sustainable for the long term.

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 Enjoy the two games tonight and tomorrow night.

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 I know we'll be transitioning into college basketball.

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 But all they need to do is name the three of us to solve all the problems in college football.

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 And we'll be glad to do that.

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 What else are you working on?

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 And where can we get online to get it?

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 I got a couple pieces on the Packers and Bears coming, too.

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 Obviously, you guys know I'm a big Green Bay fan.

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 Excited for that.

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 And then getting ready to go to Miami on Thursday.

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 And I've been looking at myself on some of these podcasts.

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 I definitely could use a suntan.

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 So I am as pale as it can be right now, guys.

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 I look like a ghost.

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 You got that Ohio tan in January, right, Bill?

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 I do, man.

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 Casper would be jealous of me right now, man.

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 I got to get down there.

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 I hope you are able to make it down safe travels.

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 Listen, man, thanks so much for your time, Dave, Bill.

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 I had no problem.

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 Thanks for having me on.

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 Thank you, buddy.

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 A little Ben to the Sporting News.

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 You mentioned that Vandy game last.

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 I asked you, just before you go to the break, 62 fouls.

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 Now, here's what the ticker.

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 It wasn't the 62.

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 Yeah.

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 But you know what?

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 50 of them were against Alabama.

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 So Alabama fouls 50 times.

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 Vandy, 12 times.

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 Do the math.

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 Of all the fouls, that's about 90% on Alabama.

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 Where did they play the game?

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 There you go.

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 Coming up, what's shaking in the show is Caleb Suggs.

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 To a rival on a last second field goal.

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 The Score.

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 Welcome back again.

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 Really appreciate it.

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 It's free ride around the Tennessee Valley.

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 And for Caleb Suggs, taking time out of his schedule there at the Decatur Daily.

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 Caleb, welcome in.

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 Hopefully, 2026 is off and rolling on the right foot.

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 How are you?

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 How are you?

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 I'm doing good, guys.

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 Sorry.

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 Hey, buddy.

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 We're doing all right.

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 So, favorite time of the year.

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 Obviously, football is coming to a head.

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 SEC basketball is starting to get into the meat of their schedule of conference play.

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 But high school basketball, after basically, in effect, taking a backseat to high school football for a while,

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 now they are center stage.

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 Caleb, who, in your opinion, is rocking and rolling to kick off, in this case, tip off 2026 on the high school hardwoods?

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 Yeah, I think you've got to look at, in our area, Decatur Aaron's point.

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 I know that their record is, you know, it's a good record.

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 It's around 13-6 or so, you know.

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 But, you know, you look at all those losses.

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 I don't think they've lost.

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 The only team they've lost to below 5A was Madison Academy, who's, you know, a ranked team 4A.

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 So, I mean, they play such a super tough schedule for a 2A team.

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 They're ranked number four right now.

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 But I really think they're the best team in 2A.

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 And I think that, you know, they were in the Final Four last year.

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 They've made three or four Final Fours since 2019.

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 I really think they're going to make another run there this year.

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 And Jordan Davis is going to lead.

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 So, you know, they're a team you have to watch.

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 And then Price was with the girls.

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 You know, they went to, you know, a Sweet 16 last year.

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 But they were missed at Ivy Lane.

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 Now she's back.

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 She's averaging a double-double.

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 She's just so hard.

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 It's such a force inside.

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 It was her size and her athleticism.

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 And, you know, their 15-4 also played a tough schedule.

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 So, those are two teams that are going to be you need to watch, you know, going forward as we get to the second half of the season.

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 How many times do we talk to you during the course of a football and basketball season about programs that have great athletics?

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 West Morgan is another one.

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 I know we talk with you a lot about Austin and Athens, et cetera.

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 West Morgan boys are 12-5.

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 The girls are 13-4.

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 And, again, it's a little bit misleading.

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 A lot of these teams play a tough preseason.

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 And, as you noted, the West Morgan boys are ranked fifth in Class 4-8.

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 The girls are number eight.

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 The boys have lost some games just because they lost to teams in Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

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 And the girls are 13-4.

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 They're ranked number eight.

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 And one of their big wins was beating Morris Hill.

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 Believe me, they're the number two team in the state in the girls.

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 But, every year we talk about West Morgan, and we'll talk about their football team in a minute with your postseason awards.

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 West Morgan boys and girls advance to the lead eight.

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 May do it again this year.

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 Yeah.

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 What they've got going on athletics-wise right now is one of the best in North Alabama, especially below the 5-8 level.

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 There's not much better that's going on.

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 The boys, I knew that they were going to be great.

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 You know, they've been to the lead eight's last two years.

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 And, you know, they're bringing back most of their stud players.

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 Landon, Anderson, Keele Murphy are two of the best players in North Alabama, in my opinion.

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 Second year in the system under Bobby Meyer.

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 So, that was always going to be a plus.

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 You know, Bobby Meyer's a great coach.

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 Coached Nick Coleman for a long time.

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 And then, yeah, I mean, just look at it.

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 You know, they actually lost four of their last five, but moved up in the rankings.

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 It goes to show you the teams that they were playing.

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 You know, they went down to Coleman, you know, a top five team in 6A and, you know, lost by three.

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 So, I mean, you know, they're a really good team.

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 And I expected that.

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 The girls, I think, have been a surprise.

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 I thought that they could be good.

459
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 I did not think they would be as good as they've been.

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 And they've really turned it up here lately.

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 As you mentioned, they beat Marcelle, which was shocking to me.

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 We all know how good Marcelle is with Mel Hill.

463
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 So, I did not see that coming.

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 So, you know, they've been really good.

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 And, yeah, I mean, you're talking about any time you have one team from your school that has a chance to be really good and make a run, that's great.

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 But when you have two, that's a special thing that not a lot of schools can do.

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 So, that could be what's working this year.

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 Caleb Suggs, the Decatur Daily.

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 BB mentioned it as far as handing out some awards in football.

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 Very interesting player of the year.

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 Carter Lee, shock, shock out of heart.

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 So, one completed pass would have probably pushed him over 2,000 total yards.

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 1997, just three shots, 2,000.

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 The Decatur Daily 5A through 7A player of the year.

475
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:37,780
 And the coach of the year, Brett Beaird's former neighbor, Seth Parker, after a 2-8 season last year, rocking and rolling this year.

476
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,200
 Your thoughts about Carter Lee and Seth Parker?

477
00:25:42,580 --> 00:25:46,920
 Yeah, you know, you look at it, Carter, you know, stepped in his senior year.

478
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:55,560
 He's only here as a starter, which has become, you know, Hartsell hasn't had a quarterback start a season opener in back-to-back years since Luke Godsey in 2017 and 2018.

479
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,940
 That's just kind of the way it rolls there.

480
00:25:58,060 --> 00:26:00,100
 I mean, they got, you know, their offense is so complex.

481
00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:04,600
 I mean, you have to stay in it, you know, for a while to really learn and be able to do it.

482
00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:07,320
 It's not just whether you're talented enough to do it.

483
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,120
 He could have easily started just from a talent standpoint.

484
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,320
 But he stepped in and he was really good.

485
00:26:12,420 --> 00:26:15,500
 And I think he was even better than a lot of people thought he was going to be.

486
00:26:15,980 --> 00:26:19,660
 Just from, you know, everybody knew how good he was as a runner.

487
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,440
 But it shocked a lot of people how good he was throwing.

488
00:26:22,580 --> 00:26:24,500
 I mean, he completes almost 70% of his passes.

489
00:26:24,980 --> 00:26:25,180
 Yeah.

490
00:26:25,220 --> 00:26:27,520
 So, that's really good at the high school level.

491
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:28,760
 And so, he was really good this year.

492
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,540
 And then, you know, Coach Parker, you know, what he did at Priceville this year was amazing.

493
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:37,640
 You know, jumping from 4A to 5A last year, they had a rough year in his first year going 2-8.

494
00:26:38,220 --> 00:26:40,700
 But, you know, I think they were better than 2-8 last year.

495
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 I think they had a couple games that could have gone out of the way.

496
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:44,840
 But then they just turned up this year.

497
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,940
 And I think the big thing was beating Guntersville in the first round of playoffs on the road.

498
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 I think if they had finished 7-4, it would have still been a great year.

499
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:53,880
 You know, something to build on.

500
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:58,300
 But the fact that you could go in and beat a team that's always good like Guntersville, that was a huge win.

501
00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:02,320
 And I think that's going to spark a lot of momentum for this program going forward.

502
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:04,240
 Yeah, absolutely.

503
00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:10,100
 Well, they were behind two touchdowns or 13 points, came back and won that game in the last two minutes.

504
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:10,800
 Incredible.

505
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,820
 Class 1A through 4A, all-area football team.

506
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:16,520
 You can look at both of these.

507
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:23,540
 You did player of the year, coach of the year, and then first team, second team, an honorable mention.

508
00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:26,400
 Again, we come back to West Morgan.

509
00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:30,800
 Macari Johnson, we've talked about him now for two or three years.

510
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,900
 1,800 yards, 28 touchdowns.

511
00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:37,100
 He played through some injuries, and particularly in the middle of the year.

512
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:47,500
 And then Drew Phillips, as you mentioned, I bet you can count on one hand the number of coaches who have had three consecutive 10-0 regular seasons.

513
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:53,240
 Yeah, you know, it started with Macari, you know, just an amazing year.

514
00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:56,400
 You know, really took his game to the next level.

515
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,020
 I mean, he was extremely good last year.

516
00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:59,540
 He could have been player of the year last year.

517
00:28:00,140 --> 00:28:02,760
 But, you know, he took his game to the next level.

518
00:28:02,940 --> 00:28:10,440
 I think, you know, what's not going to get, you know, show up on the stat sheet is, you know, when they went through so many injuries in the middle of the year.

519
00:28:10,540 --> 00:28:12,340
 I mean, they had to really rely on him.

520
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,940
 And, you know, he had one game against Hatton, which was a huge region game, where he carried it 37 times.

521
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:23,620
 Because the starting quarterback was hurt, and the backup quarterback got hurt the first drive, and all the quarterback could do was hand the ball off.

522
00:28:24,180 --> 00:28:31,460
 So, I mean, you're just talking about a guy that, from a leadership standpoint, just really carried the load for a team that really went through it in the middle of the season.

523
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,780
 And then, yeah, Drew Phillips, I mean, you know, what can you say?

524
00:28:34,900 --> 00:28:37,720
 I mean, he's won our coach of the year four years in a row now.

525
00:28:38,380 --> 00:28:41,580
 And, you know, generally we like to try to share the love.

526
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,280
 But, I mean, what you're doing is so impressive.

527
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,120
 And I think, you know, they didn't go as far this year.

528
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:48,660
 They got upset in the second round.

529
00:28:48,740 --> 00:28:51,420
 I think the injuries and stuff kind of caught up with them at some point.

530
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:57,020
 But, you know, for them to go through everything they've been through, they lost their quarterback, they lost their best defensive player,

531
00:28:57,140 --> 00:29:03,020
 they lost several other injuries, for them to go through all that, still end up going 10-0 and winning the region.

532
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,840
 I think, you know, even though they didn't go as far as last year or the year before,

533
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:12,440
 I think he would tell you it was probably one of his best coaching years and one of his staff's best coaching years.

534
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,540
 So, well-deserved, you know, for a coach that I think is one of the best in the entire state.

535
00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:18,180
 Absolutely.

536
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,140
 You mentioned Hanton on your first team.

537
00:29:21,260 --> 00:29:27,040
 Tayshaun Love was the quarterback, 1,500 yards, ran for another 500.

538
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:32,240
 In fact, he made the winning basket the other night in the basketball game.

539
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:33,180
 Boy, that's a shock.

540
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:38,700
 Severius Evans ran for 1,700 yards, came from Decanter Heritage.

541
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:39,960
 Congratulations.

542
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:48,200
 Certainly recommend getting online and looking at, again, the first, second, and third in honorable mention teams.

543
00:29:48,740 --> 00:29:50,760
 Always enjoy catching up with you.

544
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,440
 A quick update on basketball.

545
00:29:53,220 --> 00:29:59,800
 We'll get more into it as we, next time we turn around, it's going to be area play and then going down to Wallace.

546
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,680
 You've got the scores, the wrap-ups every night.

547
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,940
 Where can we get online and get yours and the team's good stuff?

548
00:30:08,140 --> 00:30:10,500
 Yeah, you can get online at decaddaily.com.

549
00:30:11,180 --> 00:30:16,660
 As you said, we're in the second half of the basketball season, so it's about to start going real quick.

550
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:21,020
 Before you know it, we'll be down in Wallace, and it's always a great time, so I'm looking forward to it.

551
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,860
 And we always look forward to catching up.

552
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,140
 Let's do it again soon, Caleb.

553
00:30:25,220 --> 00:30:27,800
 In the meantime, stay safe out there, and thanks for your time today.

554
00:30:28,820 --> 00:30:29,240
 All right, guys.

555
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:29,840
 Thanks for having me.

556
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:30,620
 Thank you, buddy.

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686
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 He's from the state of Oregon.

707
00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:40,780
 So we'll see what happens with that one.

708
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:47,920
 And outside of that, it might be waiting to see if Joey Aguilar will get clearance for an additional year of eligibility.

709
00:37:48,380 --> 00:37:52,460
 If things don't work out with Sam Leavitt, Tennessee not currently involved with anyone else,

710
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:53,900
 maybe they go get somebody else.

711
00:37:54,060 --> 00:37:57,540
 But their next best option might be just to see if they can run it back with the quarterback

712
00:37:57,540 --> 00:38:00,380
 who kind of bailed them out last year out of the transfer portal

713
00:38:00,380 --> 00:38:06,660
 and see if he can get some clearance for another year that would come as part of this lawsuit

714
00:38:06,660 --> 00:38:11,440
 that he's now a plaintiff on that Diego Pavia, the Vanderbilt quarterback, started last year.

715
00:38:11,940 --> 00:38:13,800
 There's some optimism that it'll work out.

716
00:38:13,860 --> 00:38:15,380
 But obviously, that's a wild card.

717
00:38:15,780 --> 00:38:17,460
 You don't know when he would be cleared either.

718
00:38:17,580 --> 00:38:20,420
 But that might be Timothy's best option if Sam Leavitt would have not worked out.

719
00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:34,300
 Aguilar had surgery after the Music City Bowl, had a tumor, benign tumor, in his arm, a bicep that was causing a lot of pressure.

720
00:38:34,980 --> 00:38:38,060
 I know Tennessee fans are not exactly happy with his.

721
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:43,400
 I think he threw for about 130 yards in the loss.

722
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:55,200
 And we've talked about that quite a few times, the mistakes, and particularly the safety, the 99-yard pick six against Alabama.

723
00:38:56,020 --> 00:39:00,820
 And I wonder if that had started bothering him, and particularly in the month of November,

724
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,860
 your thoughts on Aguilar as far as recapping the season.

725
00:39:05,860 --> 00:39:11,420
 And I know, obviously, he's waiting on the judge to make a decision.

726
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,640
 But your thoughts on how he ended the season?

727
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:19,600
 Yeah, not a great end of the season when you combine the Vanderbilt game at the end of the regular season

728
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:27,360
 with the bowl game, where, you know, Illinois, I should say, did what a lot of teams did against Tennessee this year,

729
00:39:27,420 --> 00:39:33,060
 which is kind of sagged defensively down the field to make sure they weren't beaten over the top.

730
00:39:33,420 --> 00:39:38,080
 And with Chris Brazel out for that game, opted out to get ready for the NFL draft,

731
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,880
 Tennessee just wasn't as explosive in the passing game.

732
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:48,280
 Season low in passing yards, snapped Aguilar's 36-game streak in which he'd thrown for 200 yards every game for three years, basically.

733
00:39:48,900 --> 00:39:51,780
 And, you know, tough way to end the season for him.

734
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,840
 Raised some questions about Tennessee's offense going into next year.

735
00:39:55,020 --> 00:39:56,540
 But give Illinois credit.

736
00:39:56,660 --> 00:39:58,860
 They played well, coached well going into that game.

737
00:39:59,580 --> 00:40:03,000
 You know, you always wonder about motivation, as we talked about before the game,

738
00:40:03,100 --> 00:40:05,840
 how much was Tennessee worried about that game.

739
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:09,000
 But bottom line, not the kind of end of the season Joey Aguilar wanted.

740
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:14,180
 And frankly, after that game, he didn't sound like a guy who was really expecting to be back at Tennessee.

741
00:40:14,380 --> 00:40:18,120
 I think he knew the Vols were interested in going to the transfer portal.

742
00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:24,600
 You know, it just might kind of fall back into his lap to see if he can get that job again for the second consecutive year.

743
00:40:24,740 --> 00:40:31,060
 But this time, I think he knows if he gets that job, much like last year, he will not be Tennessee's plan A.

744
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:36,460
 They know they can't really afford to wait if he were to be rejected in that court case.

745
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,540
 And, yeah, so we'll see where that one goes.

746
00:40:39,660 --> 00:40:41,400
 But, yeah, definitely not an ideal end of the season.

747
00:40:41,620 --> 00:40:46,120
 And certainly Tennessee fans are kind of wondering when he might have started to feel some discomfort

748
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:53,800
 related to that tumor because you could trace that back to some of his poorer performances the second half of the season, certainly.

749
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:58,400
 Yeah, absolutely.

750
00:40:58,760 --> 00:40:59,860
 Let me ask you about it.

751
00:40:59,860 --> 00:41:03,520
 And I know you've got 50 names running around in your head.

752
00:41:04,060 --> 00:41:09,820
 A couple of guys that, in our neck of the woods, are quite familiar with.

753
00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:17,300
 Defensive lineman James Smith and edge rusher Quay Roussau from Alabama entered the portal,

754
00:41:17,660 --> 00:41:19,680
 and they are planning to visit, too.

755
00:41:20,340 --> 00:41:26,200
 At some point, these guys were teammates at Carver High School in Montgomery.

756
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:28,480
 We're certainly quite familiar with them.

757
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,280
 When they both play well, they're very, very good players.

758
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:35,720
 Roussau got hurt, missed quite a few games during the course of the season.

759
00:41:36,300 --> 00:41:41,160
 James Smith showed flashes for years, for a couple of years.

760
00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:46,000
 Your thoughts on both James Smith and Roussau and the chances Tennessee may pick them up?

761
00:41:47,020 --> 00:41:51,740
 Yeah, Tennessee was involved with those guys, particularly James Smith, coming out of high school

762
00:41:51,740 --> 00:41:55,960
 and certainly has a relationship there, enough interest to kick the tires.

763
00:41:56,100 --> 00:41:57,680
 A lot of competition for both those guys.

764
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,140
 But they're top 50 players in the transfer portal right now.

765
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,600
 Certainly going to cost a pretty penny to get both of those guys as a package deal.

766
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:09,380
 And, you know, I think they would fill major needs for Tennessee at the same time.

767
00:42:09,460 --> 00:42:11,320
 They really need some help on the defensive line.

768
00:42:11,820 --> 00:42:12,860
 They need edge rusher help.

769
00:42:12,940 --> 00:42:16,820
 They've got two of their top returning edge rushers in the transfer portal.

770
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,260
 And Jordan Ross, who could be headed to Alabama.

771
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:20,700
 We'll see where that one ends up.

772
00:42:20,700 --> 00:42:26,940
 But he might be headed back to his home state after playing at the Sabia Hills and visit LSU first.

773
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:28,860
 But Alabama is definitely involved there.

774
00:42:29,380 --> 00:42:35,220
 And then Caleb Herring, a talented guy out of the mid-state here in Tennessee that, you know,

775
00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:38,640
 it's a little bit surprising that some people would leave after having four sacks this year

776
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,140
 and going into his final year of eligibility.

777
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,500
 But that's opened up a big hole in Tennessee's depth chart.

778
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:48,240
 They need all the edge rushers they can get for defensive coordinator Jim Knowles' system.

779
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,960
 And, yeah, James Smith would obviously address a major need in the middle of the defensive line.

780
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,360
 So we'll see Tennessee's scheduled to get those guys on campus over the weekend.

781
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,320
 It sounds like on Sunday as of right now.

782
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:00,580
 But Ohio State heavily involved there.

783
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:04,700
 Some other programs that I think will be major contenders for them.

784
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,760
 But we'll just kind of have to see what the – this all comes down to money a lot of times.

785
00:43:08,900 --> 00:43:11,280
 Obviously, the transfer portal, we'll see how the numbers stack up

786
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:12,860
 and where Tennessee is at that point.

787
00:43:12,860 --> 00:43:15,740
 But they're, you know, trying to get some other defensive linemen on campus,

788
00:43:16,180 --> 00:43:18,200
 seeing what other options there are out there at edge rusher.

789
00:43:18,340 --> 00:43:22,600
 But they've definitely got some major needs to fill on the defensive side of the ball.

790
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:24,580
 And those two could fit the description for sure.

791
00:43:25,540 --> 00:43:27,300
 Ryan Callahan, Go Vols 24-7.

792
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:28,440
 You mentioned Jordan Ross.

793
00:43:28,620 --> 00:43:31,740
 Talk to us about – and I've seen the same stories, I'm sure.

794
00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:34,800
 There is a strong interest, it seems, from Alabama's standpoint.

795
00:43:34,980 --> 00:43:36,420
 The question is, is it mutual?

796
00:43:36,620 --> 00:43:37,900
 What kind of player is Ross?

797
00:43:38,340 --> 00:43:41,960
 And I looked the other day, Ryan, the average number of teams as far as numbers,

798
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,780
 losing players to the fours around 20.

799
00:43:45,300 --> 00:43:47,540
 Right now, Alabama's right at that number 19.

800
00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:50,460
 Where's the overall number with Tennessee right now?

801
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:54,500
 We know that's not the final one because this thing is still open one week and one day.

802
00:43:54,580 --> 00:43:57,620
 It closes a week from tomorrow, so still more movement to come.

803
00:43:58,060 --> 00:43:58,740
 Total numbers.

804
00:43:59,180 --> 00:44:01,720
 And back to Jordan Ross, what's your assessment of it?

805
00:44:02,420 --> 00:44:07,000
 Yeah, I think Tennessee's up to 21, if I'm not mistaken, departures via the transfer portal.

806
00:44:07,140 --> 00:44:10,380
 So getting a little higher than you would probably like in a year like this.

807
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:15,160
 And the key thing there is you've got five or so major contributors.

808
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:19,320
 And one of them signed with another SEC school today, Ricky Gibson, the cornerback.

809
00:44:19,820 --> 00:44:21,420
 That's a guy who would have been a starter for them.

810
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,780
 Certainly Caleb Herring and Jordan Ross in that same category.

811
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:29,260
 Lance Hurd, Tennessee's starting left tackle the last two years back in the transfer portal.

812
00:44:29,380 --> 00:44:30,300
 So some big names.

813
00:44:30,780 --> 00:44:33,080
 Guys who played a lot of football for Tennessee the past two years.

814
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,380
 In addition to some guys that are headed for the draft now.

815
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:37,700
 So Tennessee losing a lot of talent.

816
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,800
 And some depth, obviously, that's probably the other main thing.

817
00:44:40,900 --> 00:44:46,280
 Just needing some bodies for the two deep on the offensive line and some other positions like that.

818
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:52,720
 But yeah, Jordan Ross, I think, a really talented guy that's still looking to reach his full potential.

819
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,180
 Only had one and a half sacks this year.

820
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,140
 You wonder about sort of scheme fit.

821
00:44:58,460 --> 00:45:00,460
 Is he going to be a better fit in another system?

822
00:45:01,140 --> 00:45:02,920
 What kind of opportunity will he have?

823
00:45:03,420 --> 00:45:07,760
 He's going into his third year, kind of a make or break year for a lot of guys in that position.

824
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:09,740
 Can he take a big step forward?

825
00:45:09,820 --> 00:45:10,940
 I think he's ready for that.

826
00:45:11,300 --> 00:45:14,900
 But he's got to get somewhere he can be developed and I think to reach his full potential.

827
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:17,800
 And certainly going back to his home state would make a lot of sense.

828
00:45:18,300 --> 00:45:23,080
 Certainly I've heard from a lot of people close to that one who think Alabama might be the favorite right now.

829
00:45:23,180 --> 00:45:25,760
 But LSU, they're going to be aggressive too.

830
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:31,360
 They're involved with Chaz Coleman, the Penn State transfer who's the number one overall player in the transfer portal.

831
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,060
 So they need edge rusher help there with playing Kiffin's staff.

832
00:45:34,060 --> 00:45:35,460
 So we'll see where that one goes.

833
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:39,280
 But Jordan Ross definitely heard a lot of smoke about Alabama being pretty heavily involved there

834
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:43,220
 and would make sense on both fronts because Alabama obviously could use some pass rush help as well.

835
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:48,140
 Speaking of numbers, I saw where Auburn, by comparison, depends on how you measure this thing,

836
00:45:48,220 --> 00:45:51,880
 some of the neighborhood of 30-plus because of the coaching change there.

837
00:45:52,700 --> 00:45:54,360
 And what is it between Tennessee and Auburn?

838
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,300
 Coaches leaving one place going to the other one.

839
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,580
 Are the players and coaches meeting each other between Auburn and Tennessee?

840
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:05,680
 Yeah, it's a little unusual that you have so many guys leave.

841
00:46:06,420 --> 00:46:10,660
 Certainly any time you have turnover, a new relationship, that can lead to some turnover.

842
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:15,520
 But I'm sure a little bit concerning there on the Auburn front that Alex Kulish's staff is having this much turnover

843
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,600
 and losing some guys like Kay and Lee, who's now headed to Tennessee, the cornerback transfer.

844
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,240
 Not a guy Auburn was eager to lose there, I think.

845
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,020
 And Ohio State also hosted him.

846
00:46:24,180 --> 00:46:26,280
 But losing some pretty good players to the portal.

847
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,060
 So, just a reminder of how tough it is out there.

848
00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:31,560
 Auburn had one of the top ten portal classes last year.

849
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:33,480
 Now a lot of these guys on the way out.

850
00:46:34,460 --> 00:46:36,800
 It's tough to hold things together for even a new staff.

851
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:38,920
 So, yeah, we'll see about that.

852
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,520
 But definitely Tennessee, some common ties.

853
00:46:41,780 --> 00:46:44,420
 They're going head-to-head for some guys in the transfer portal.

854
00:46:44,900 --> 00:46:48,000
 There will be some interesting conversations, I'm sure, before Tennessee takes on Auburn.

855
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,500
 I think it's late September when Alex Kulish returns to Neyland Stadium.

856
00:46:52,340 --> 00:46:59,500
 Let me ask you, what is the number of transfers coming in that Tennessee has signed?

857
00:47:00,060 --> 00:47:05,520
 Quay Moss, a Kansas State defensive back, confirmed that one for us.

858
00:47:05,580 --> 00:47:14,940
 And also, Ori Williams, O-R-Y, from LSU, all 6'8", 3-35 of him, is a pretty good player.

859
00:47:14,940 --> 00:47:17,180
 Now, are those two guys officially signed?

860
00:47:18,300 --> 00:47:23,400
 Yeah, those two guys have signed, along with, I believe, K and Lee signed during his visit yesterday as well.

861
00:47:23,500 --> 00:47:25,000
 And that's what happens with a lot of these visits.

862
00:47:25,820 --> 00:47:28,040
 It's different from high school recruiting, very different.

863
00:47:28,180 --> 00:47:31,560
 You can sign your scholarship papers while you're there on campus.

864
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:37,020
 So, that does add a sense of urgency, I think, to a lot of coaches and what they do during these visits.

865
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,280
 And, yeah, Tennessee was fortunate to get that one locked in with K and Lee.

866
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:45,700
 But, yeah, just those three signees so far for Tennessee, which is a little bit of a slower start than Tennessee fans have been hoping for.

867
00:47:45,700 --> 00:47:48,500
 Kind of a recurring trend with Josh Heupel's staff.

868
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:53,460
 I think Tennessee fans would like to see the staff be a little bit more aggressive in the opening days of the portal window.

869
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,460
 But they've still got some good possibilities out there in play.

870
00:47:56,640 --> 00:48:02,300
 But usually, as the window progresses, prices only go up as the options dwindle.

871
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:09,560
 So, I think Tennessee fans are a little bit eager to see some additional pickups for the Vols here by the end of the weekend, for sure,

872
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:19,240
 with the coaches' convention coming up next week leading to a three-day dead period for recruiting that will kind of allow a little bit of a reset for the transfer portal activity early next week.

873
00:48:19,980 --> 00:48:24,880
 Ryan, before you jump off, looking in through the eyes of Tennessee fans, you look at the wins this year,

874
00:48:24,940 --> 00:48:28,940
 and you can look at it in terms of numbers or you can look at who you beat and who you lost to.

875
00:48:29,060 --> 00:48:30,020
 Did I see this right?

876
00:48:30,060 --> 00:48:34,240
 As far as quality wins, Tennessee almost was shut out in terms of big wins.

877
00:48:34,500 --> 00:48:36,200
 The wins came against lesser opponents.

878
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,440
 I'm not a genius, but I'm assuming that's not going to cut it with the Big Orange Nation.

879
00:48:40,580 --> 00:48:45,440
 Your thoughts about how hot the seed will be under Heupel as this trend continues?

880
00:48:46,420 --> 00:48:47,920
 Yeah, no question.

881
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:51,920
 This is not an ideal situation for Josh Heupel to be in going into year six.

882
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:55,300
 They thought this was going to be a potentially big year for them.

883
00:48:55,760 --> 00:49:03,380
 And then the departure of Nico Iamaliava, fair or not, I think kind of reset the expectations for this past season.

884
00:49:03,540 --> 00:49:08,280
 But then what happened is Tennessee came out with a better passing game than most people reasonably expected,

885
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:12,300
 and that sort of caused fans to think, okay, well, they played with Georgia.

886
00:49:12,420 --> 00:49:13,460
 They took them to the wire.

887
00:49:13,860 --> 00:49:16,060
 Why can't they beat any of these teams on their schedule?

888
00:49:16,380 --> 00:49:22,300
 So to go 8-4 after the way they looked in September, definitely seen as a disappointment by a lot of Tennessee fans.

889
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,000
 And, yeah, you can kind of view this season however you want.

890
00:49:25,500 --> 00:49:27,500
 Tennessee didn't beat an FBS team with a winning record.

891
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:28,880
 That's probably the bottom line.

892
00:49:29,540 --> 00:49:33,320
 They beat ETSU, and that was the only team with a winning record they beat all season.

893
00:49:33,540 --> 00:49:38,520
 And on the flip side, they lost to three playoff teams and a fourth team in Vanderbilt who easily could have been in the playoffs.

894
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:42,720
 So, you know, that's not where you want to be under any SEC staff.

895
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,140
 You want a quality win there to hang your hat on.

896
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:46,600
 They just didn't get it this year.

897
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:51,760
 But I think that can sort of mislead fans into thinking they're farther away from being competitive than they are.

898
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:59,040
 But at the same time, yeah, to your point, fans are going to be excited about that going into year six when they expected a nice follow-up,

899
00:49:59,100 --> 00:50:01,340
 at least to a first-ever playoff appearance the year before.

900
00:50:02,340 --> 00:50:09,180
 Some fans had wondered if former Penn State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles also was at Ohio State.

901
00:50:09,300 --> 00:50:12,520
 Would he bring some players eventually with him?

902
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:13,860
 Let me ask you about two of them.

903
00:50:13,940 --> 00:50:18,820
 King Mack, yes, he played at Alabama, then transferred to Penn State.

904
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:27,200
 I heard that he's on Tennessee's radar, and Amari Campbell, a linebacker, was the third team off Big Ten.

905
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:32,340
 Are those two guys from Penn State viable options for Tennessee?

906
00:50:33,380 --> 00:50:35,540
 Well, I think a couple of Penn State players are.

907
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,380
 I would say King Mack is off the radar now.

908
00:50:38,500 --> 00:50:40,940
 It sounds like he signed with NC State earlier today.

909
00:50:41,100 --> 00:50:44,500
 That's one that Tennessee never got a visit officially lined up with him.

910
00:50:44,500 --> 00:50:50,400
 But DeJuan Lane, another Penn State safety who's entering the transfer portal if he's not officially in there already,

911
00:50:50,780 --> 00:50:54,500
 he's another guy who's expected to make it to Tennessee sometime in the next couple days.

912
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:59,740
 Sounds like Amari Campbell, one of the top linebackers in the portal, will be at Tennessee in the next couple days as well.

913
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:06,260
 They hosted Chaz Campbell, the edge rusher, who's been visiting LSU and some other schools in Ohio State,

914
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:07,800
 one of the main contenders for him.

915
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:12,040
 Doesn't sound like he's likely to end up at Tennessee, but the ball's at least got a visit there.

916
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:18,720
 And then Xavier Gillum, the other guy we're watching closely today, four-star defensive line transfer, also from Penn State.

917
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:23,480
 So some definite Penn State connections there, having Jim Knowles and Anthony Poindexter,

918
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:26,320
 the new co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach.

919
00:51:26,580 --> 00:51:31,540
 Those guys being on staff have kind of helped Tennessee get some of those guys on campus right away.

920
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:36,200
 And we'll see if those ties pay off in the end, but certainly Tennessee is hoping that at least a couple players

921
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:38,960
 will follow those guys from State College down to Knoxville.

922
00:51:39,660 --> 00:51:45,200
 Boy, don't you know everybody's looking forward to a three-day respite from the transfer portal.

923
00:51:45,540 --> 00:51:51,100
 Man, this stuff is just an hourly as far as updates are concerned.

924
00:51:51,780 --> 00:51:53,620
 Great stuff, as always.

925
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:58,300
 Tennessee basketball getting the conference schedule off and rolling.

926
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:01,840
 They'll be playing Alabama in a couple of weeks.

927
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:06,960
 Still a lot of transfer portal, Tennessee baseball getting cranked up here down the road.

928
00:52:07,720 --> 00:52:10,940
 Where can we get online and get all of your great stuff?

929
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 And is there a transfer portal special for GoBoss247 in our future?

930
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 There is.

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932
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 So, great time to check out the site.

933
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 Basketball season, as you mentioned, full swing, baseball just around the corner.

934
00:52:30,660 --> 00:52:36,820
 Fun time of year and no dull conversations being had right now on our message board, as you might imagine.

935
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:42,820
 A lot of fans feeling a lot of different ways about Tennessee's transfer portal activity and lack thereof in some cases.

936
00:52:42,820 --> 00:52:46,860
 So, lots to keep track of, though, and lots that's expected to happen over the next few days.

937
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 So, great time to join the site and check out all that coverage at GoBoss247.com.

938
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 I'm sure it's all rated PG-13.

939
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:55,600
 Ryan, listen, man, thanks so much for your time today.

940
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,340
 Have a great rest of the week and weekend, all right?

941
00:52:59,140 --> 00:52:59,660
 Sounds good.

942
00:52:59,740 --> 00:53:00,220
 Thanks a lot, guys.

943
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:01,240
 Thank you, bud.

944
00:53:01,260 --> 00:53:02,620
 All right, Callahan, GoBoss247.

945
00:53:02,700 --> 00:53:06,820
 Quickly, BB, we talked about the 62 fouls in the Bama-Bandy game.

946
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:10,080
 You go back to what happened with Auburn against Texas A&M.

947
00:53:10,420 --> 00:53:13,620
 At what point are folks going to say, I wouldn't have the job of a rep?

948
00:53:13,620 --> 00:53:20,400
 It's a tough job, but if you sign up for it, isn't it the time that we sit here and say, what's going on here?

949
00:53:20,820 --> 00:53:24,460
 Well, we're going to talk to Blake Lovell about that tomorrow, Harold.

950
00:53:25,060 --> 00:53:31,920
 And you go back to Auburn's issues with officiating in the Oklahoma game and the Georgia game.

951
00:53:32,060 --> 00:53:35,060
 Yeah, NCC officials have not had a great year.

952
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 Coming up, we're going to have a great second hour.

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1017
00:56:24,540 --> 00:56:27,200
 Okay, so like everybody deals with losing, right?

1018
00:56:27,260 --> 00:56:29,120
 To a rival on a last-second field goal.

1019
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:30,040
 Whatever, it's fine.

1020
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:30,700
 I'm totally fine.

1021
00:56:30,860 --> 00:56:34,500
 But I cope with losing with an ice-cold Dr. Pepper.

1022
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 Those 23 flavors are like so delicious.

1023
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 They totally wash away the pain of your college football team taking a big fat L.

1024
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 College football.

1025
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 It's a pepper thing.

1026
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 1819 News.

1027
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:55,860
 Republican leaders here in Alabama are defending the actions of an ice agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota

1028
00:56:55,860 --> 00:56:58,000
 that resulted in the death of a young woman.

1029
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:03,800
 Ice agents were seeking to remove vehicles that were creating a blockade around law enforcement operations

1030
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:10,040
 when one of the drivers directed her vehicle at an ice officer who then returned fire into the car.

1031
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:15,340
 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville said that ice agents are being violently attacked by radical leftists

1032
00:57:15,340 --> 00:57:20,500
 opposed to the deportation of illegal aliens and that law enforcement has a right to defend themselves.

1033
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:25,800
 U.S. Congressman Barry Moore called this a deliberate act of violence and not a normal part of a protest.

1034
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:31,500
 Democrat congressional members Terry Sewell and Shamari Figures are siding with the woman in the vehicle,

1035
00:57:31,660 --> 00:57:36,360
 Renee Good, saying that the shooting was not justified and they are now calling for an investigation.

1036
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 I'll be back with more Alabama stories after this.

1037
00:57:39,340 --> 00:57:42,120
 Where I was living was not a great place to live anymore.

1038
00:57:42,460 --> 00:57:47,120
 I began to pray for a place to go, praying for all of these things that a nine-year-old would want.

1039
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 I wanted horses, big house with a bunch of people my age.

1040
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 I wanted parents.

1041
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 I wanted a mom and a dad.

1042
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 Before I even prayed it, the Lord had already answered my prayer with the Big Oak Ranch.

1043
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 Who would that nine-year-old be if she never came to the Big Oak Ranch?

1044
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1045
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1046
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 Residents in the Demopolis community are mourning the loss of a 16-year-old teenage girl

1047
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 who was killed in Marengo County after a two-vehicle crash occurred on Highway 80.

1048
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:22,060
 The fatality is identified as Braley Busby, a student at Demopolis High School.

1049
00:58:22,220 --> 00:58:24,380
 Another teen was critically injured in this crash.

1050
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:29,420
 U.S. Congressman Dale Strong confirms this week that a second veteran's cemetery for the state of Alabama

1051
00:58:29,420 --> 00:58:31,180
 will be located in Madison County.

1052
00:58:31,420 --> 00:58:36,580
 Strong has secured a $13 million federal grant to help assist the state in developing this cemetery.

1053
00:58:37,100 --> 00:58:37,820
 I'm Andrea Tice.

1054
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1057
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1058
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1059
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1060
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1061
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1099
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1100
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 And, baby, what a way to kick off the second hour on pre-TGIF Day.

1101
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 And saying hello to Coach Pete Cordelli, former head coach at Kent State,

1102
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 assistant coach at Arkansas, Minnesota, and a place called Notre Dame.

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 Now on the network for the Arkansas State Indians.

1104
01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:29,460
 And his book is called Making the Grade.

1105
01:01:29,620 --> 01:01:30,760
 Coach, welcome in.

1106
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:32,060
 Brett and I have one question.

1107
01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:35,880
 Why didn't we read your book, Making the Grade, when we could back in school?

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 How are you?

1109
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 Well, fellas, Happy New Year, number one.

1110
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1111
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:44,920
 Number two, I'm just, I'm a little puzzled.

1112
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:45,980
 Yeah.

1113
01:01:46,060 --> 01:01:52,140
 Why was I not invited to the pontoon boat at Pickwick today with the weather being this good?

1114
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:59,600
 Because I know you two are at Pickwick on that big pontoon boat celebrating this great weather on January.

1115
01:02:00,260 --> 01:02:00,980
 What is it?

1116
01:02:01,020 --> 01:02:02,040
 The 7th, 8th?

1117
01:02:02,100 --> 01:02:03,040
 I mean, my goodness.

1118
01:02:03,540 --> 01:02:04,740
 The 7th, January 8th.

1119
01:02:04,740 --> 01:02:07,180
 Thank you for mentioning Pickwick.

1120
01:02:07,260 --> 01:02:09,620
 To me, that is the best kept secret.

1121
01:02:09,740 --> 01:02:12,760
 Every smallmouth bass fisherman out there knows it.

1122
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:18,640
 But there's a place on the river that a lot of young men was, it was like going to Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

1123
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:19,880
 There's a place called the Waterfall.

1124
01:02:19,980 --> 01:02:23,380
 I don't know if you've ever been there, but I guarantee you, a lot of guys listening right now,

1125
01:02:23,420 --> 01:02:26,400
 they've been to the Waterfall, and their life changed in one day.

1126
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:31,980
 If I admit I've been there, my probation officer is going to come.

1127
01:02:31,980 --> 01:02:32,580
 Oh, man.

1128
01:02:33,980 --> 01:02:39,780
 I'm telling you, that brings back some really good memories.

1129
01:02:39,940 --> 01:02:40,480
 Big smile on my face right now.

1130
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:41,720
 And some bad ones, too.

1131
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:54,760
 Hey, the reason you couldn't get to re-making the grade is that when I wrote it in hieroglyphics on the Ark with Noah,

1132
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:58,880
 we couldn't translate it to the English language.

1133
01:02:59,900 --> 01:03:01,120
 So, but now that it's...

1134
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:02,800
 That's because you've been at the Waterfall too long.

1135
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:04,960
 Yeah, that's exactly right.

1136
01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:07,240
 Yeah, the Waterfall, Washington, Washington.

1137
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:08,940
 Blame it all on the Waterfall.

1138
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:15,740
 You know, Pete, the Eagles back in the day had a song called when, speaking of Greek, I'll bring it up,

1139
01:03:15,780 --> 01:03:19,960
 when Hades freezes over, Ole Miss is in the Final Four.

1140
01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:21,380
 Has Hades frozen over?

1141
01:03:21,380 --> 01:03:28,040
 Well, with 70-degree weather, and I'm sure it's in Oxford as well.

1142
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:28,640
 Heck no.

1143
01:03:28,820 --> 01:03:31,260
 I mean, it's open for business right now, fellas.

1144
01:03:31,860 --> 01:03:40,100
 What a great job that Pete Golding, these players, fellas, look, we've been around sports all our lives,

1145
01:03:40,300 --> 01:03:45,800
 and adversity either tears you apart or galvanizes you, and it brings you together.

1146
01:03:46,820 --> 01:03:59,300
 And nothing brings a community, a town, a state, a country together quicker than a successful underdog sports story

1147
01:03:59,300 --> 01:04:04,440
 that's continuing on, and Lane Kiffin is the villain.

1148
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:14,560
 And, you know, I use the term ISO, that acronym, I-S-O, in spite of Mr. Kiffin.

1149
01:04:15,860 --> 01:04:22,660
 Ole Miss is moving on, but guys, the other thing it's done is, I think it's shown the country that Charlie West Jr.

1150
01:04:22,660 --> 01:04:29,500
 is calling a heck of an offense, you know, all those question marks, well, who's really calling the plays?

1151
01:04:30,140 --> 01:04:38,400
 Well, Charlie Weiss is, and he had a discussion with his dad, long-time NFL guy, Charlie Weiss Sr.,

1152
01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:44,780
 had great success with the Patriots and Belichick and Brady, and he asked his dad for advice.

1153
01:04:44,900 --> 01:04:45,700
 He said, what should I do?

1154
01:04:45,740 --> 01:04:48,460
 And his father said, you stick with that team all the way through.

1155
01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:56,060
 You don't give up on those kids, and he's been the guy that has stuck it out all the way through.

1156
01:04:56,180 --> 01:05:01,960
 The running back coach has come back now after spending a few days, but Charlie Weiss Jr.

1157
01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:09,360
 has galvanized this team, and I just got to believe, I couldn't believe Georgia couldn't get

1158
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:13,800
 Trinidad Tramless on the ground the other day because they were taking bad angles.

1159
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:20,340
 I mean, they, how many, three, four different times they had him for huge losses, which would

1160
01:05:20,340 --> 01:05:25,700
 have changed field position, and the guy runs to the inside and Trinidad Tramless just scrambles

1161
01:05:25,700 --> 01:05:33,980
 around, and fellas, he was a great point guard in high school in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

1162
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:35,000
 Quick twitch.

1163
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:40,280
 And the guy who recruited him to Ferris State, he and I, his name is Brian Rock.

1164
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:45,320
 Brian and I coached together at Western Michigan, and I talked to Brian a while ago, and he told

1165
01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:50,440
 me back then, he said, Pete, he said, I was actually going to a high school basketball game

1166
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:51,640
 to watch somebody else.

1167
01:05:52,640 --> 01:06:01,540
 He said, and Chambliss had about, I think, 21 or 22 different assists that night.

1168
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:04,300
 And he said, we got to look at this guy.

1169
01:06:04,660 --> 01:06:10,300
 And that's how he got to Ferris State, is that they were watching a basketball game on someone

1170
01:06:10,300 --> 01:06:13,240
 else, and they finally got Trinidad on campus.

1171
01:06:15,020 --> 01:06:21,680
 And so, you know, when you watch him play, he's truly a point guard in his mind, finding

1172
01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:23,880
 the open person and distributing the ball.

1173
01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:31,040
 I mean, every time you see him come out of a potential sack or lost yardage play, his eyes

1174
01:06:31,040 --> 01:06:36,540
 are upfield, and he's always finding the open receiver with accuracy.

1175
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:42,420
 You know, a lot of times we see guys on the run, and man, they can't throw it in the ocean,

1176
01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:43,740
 you know, standing on the beach.

1177
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:47,360
 But this guy, he loves the pressure.

1178
01:06:47,540 --> 01:06:48,580
 He loves this stage.

1179
01:06:48,580 --> 01:06:54,260
 You know, his last year at Ferris State, they won the national championship there.

1180
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:59,560
 So, this kid's been in pressure situations and has really done a great job.

1181
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:07,220
 And I think with TeeJuan Lacey healthy, this is going to be one heck of a game tonight because,

1182
01:07:07,660 --> 01:07:09,560
 fellas, it's Miami defense.

1183
01:07:10,300 --> 01:07:14,420
 They remind me of Miami defense when I was at Notre Dame when we played them in 88.

1184
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:15,320
 Yeah.

1185
01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:19,120
 Man, there was a long night, a lot of nightmares trying to block those dudes.

1186
01:07:20,580 --> 01:07:23,920
 That's what I was going to ask you about running the ball.

1187
01:07:24,420 --> 01:07:26,440
 Again, stop the run, run the ball.

1188
01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:28,340
 Nick Saban's mantra.

1189
01:07:28,980 --> 01:07:31,640
 TeeJuan Lacey has had a bad shoulder.

1190
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:39,480
 It still ran for 98 yards against Georgia with this ferocious Miami front seven.

1191
01:07:40,140 --> 01:07:44,280
 And their secretary is pretty good, too, with Bain and Mesidor and friends.

1192
01:07:44,940 --> 01:07:46,700
 Can Ole Miss run the football?

1193
01:07:48,220 --> 01:07:54,920
 Well, Brent, I'm glad you brought that up because Mesidor and Bain get so much of the credit,

1194
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:58,840
 and deservedly so, because they control that front.

1195
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:05,480
 But the guy that everybody better watch tonight on that defense is Keontae Scott, the safety,

1196
01:08:05,780 --> 01:08:07,520
 the kid who returned the pick six.

1197
01:08:08,580 --> 01:08:19,800
 He's basically a big nickel in terms of he can play safety, but, man, when he comes down in the box,

1198
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:25,340
 he is a big-time outside linebacker, and he doesn't miss tackles in the open field.

1199
01:08:26,340 --> 01:08:33,060
 I have to believe that any time Lacey gets outside the tackles one side or the other,

1200
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:39,120
 it's going to be Keontae Scott setting the edge and turning them back to his side to their friends.

1201
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:48,560
 The other thing is you've got to be able to spy Trinidad, and you have to play what they call cage defense.

1202
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:51,900
 Don't let him get outside the tackles.

1203
01:08:52,500 --> 01:08:58,780
 So you take a little wider rush and have him step up inside and make him play in a cage.

1204
01:08:59,420 --> 01:09:03,580
 And if you can reduce the cage to a phone booth, you're going to win.

1205
01:09:04,320 --> 01:09:06,820
 I don't know if you can reduce it against this guy.

1206
01:09:07,620 --> 01:09:09,260
 That's a big booth.

1207
01:09:10,340 --> 01:09:11,120
 Yes, it is.

1208
01:09:11,380 --> 01:09:12,220
 Yes, it is.

1209
01:09:12,780 --> 01:09:19,580
 But Keontae Scott, I think, is going to be the key to Miami defense, slowing down Lacey

1210
01:09:19,580 --> 01:09:23,020
 and just the quick stuff they're getting out on the perimeter.

1211
01:09:24,440 --> 01:09:27,440
 But this Ole Miss, it's going to be a heck of a game to watch, fellas.

1212
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:32,380
 Yeah, and the coach, Pete Cordelli, that's two of Nick's former boys.

1213
01:09:32,900 --> 01:09:35,560
 Tomorrow night, two more of Nick's former boys.

1214
01:09:36,020 --> 01:09:37,500
 Who wins that showdown?

1215
01:09:37,980 --> 01:09:42,880
 And as Kurt Cignetti is starting to write out prescriptions of how to put together a team going forward,

1216
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:47,260
 don't overspend, know how to evaluate talent and get the bang for your buck.

1217
01:09:48,500 --> 01:09:51,320
 Well, Kurt Cignetti has always been a great evaluator.

1218
01:09:52,580 --> 01:09:55,420
 Julio Jones, by the way, when he was at Alabama.

1219
01:09:56,440 --> 01:10:03,620
 Yeah, his dad was a longtime coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a small school.

1220
01:10:03,940 --> 01:10:05,560
 Played UNA in a championship game.

1221
01:10:06,480 --> 01:10:07,000
 Exactly.

1222
01:10:07,540 --> 01:10:14,000
 And my dad was a high school coach for 45 years in Pennsylvania, and he knew Coach Cignetti,

1223
01:10:14,460 --> 01:10:16,180
 the older coach, Kurt's dad.

1224
01:10:16,780 --> 01:10:20,100
 And I got to tell you, Kurt is just like his father.

1225
01:10:20,100 --> 01:10:23,540
 I mean, thorough, can develop talent.

1226
01:10:24,460 --> 01:10:31,580
 But, fellas, Cignetti brought 16 guys from James Madison with him a year ago.

1227
01:10:32,580 --> 01:10:39,760
 So, in this day of the transfer portal, and I've said this all along, my dad's always said it,

1228
01:10:40,080 --> 01:10:41,300
 continuity matters.

1229
01:10:42,060 --> 01:10:46,960
 When you understand the scheme on offense, defense, and you have the same guys coaching,

1230
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:51,740
 the technique, the fundamentals, and you're on the same page.

1231
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:52,860
 Everybody benefits.

1232
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:59,480
 That's why Cignetti wanted to lock up all these offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, special teams guys.

1233
01:10:59,820 --> 01:11:03,300
 He gave them all new four-year contracts before the playoffs started.

1234
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:06,740
 Pay for success.

1235
01:11:08,220 --> 01:11:19,820
 Hey, guys, the other thing is, the starting five offensive linemen and the starting four down defensive linemen are all 21 years or older.

1236
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:20,740
 Yeah, that's it.

1237
01:11:22,100 --> 01:11:29,020
 And when you have those older guys that have been through it, but they buy into the plan,

1238
01:11:29,440 --> 01:11:34,020
 their leadership is absolutely priceless.

1239
01:11:35,220 --> 01:11:39,600
 Because they're the guys looking at those younger guys going, hey, you don't get this right.

1240
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:43,060
 We may have to go old school and take you behind the shed now.

1241
01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:44,640
 Say a while.

1242
01:11:45,260 --> 01:11:45,420
 Yep.

1243
01:11:46,440 --> 01:11:48,660
 Hey, you guys, and you'll be familiar with this term.

1244
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:50,760
 They're going to mollywhop some folks.

1245
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:51,980
 There you go.

1246
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:52,820
 And you're going to like it.

1247
01:11:52,820 --> 01:11:54,000
 They're going to put some mollywhop on them.

1248
01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:55,720
 And you're going to like it.

1249
01:11:56,560 --> 01:11:58,220
 Yeah, that's right.

1250
01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:08,720
 I think it's going to be Miami and Indiana in the national championship game.

1251
01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:16,640
 But, my gosh, if Carson Beck reverts back and starts throwing it to the other team, Miami's going to have a long day.

1252
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:19,520
 How about that place kicker for Ole Miss?

1253
01:12:20,020 --> 01:12:20,700
 Oh, my gosh.

1254
01:12:21,140 --> 01:12:21,500
 Incredible.

1255
01:12:21,860 --> 01:12:23,200
 Yes, incredible.

1256
01:12:23,540 --> 01:12:23,980
 Wow.

1257
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:29,340
 Unbelievable how these kickers are just banging their foot through from distance.

1258
01:12:29,780 --> 01:12:31,540
 So, I think we've got two great games.

1259
01:12:31,980 --> 01:12:34,700
 But tonight, I like Miami, and tomorrow night, I like Indiana.

1260
01:12:36,340 --> 01:12:38,520
 Harold mentioned making the grade.

1261
01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:44,940
 I ordered it off of Amazon and have read it from cover to cover.

1262
01:12:45,300 --> 01:12:46,460
 It is a blueprint.

1263
01:12:47,180 --> 01:12:50,460
 It is a road map for any middle school.

1264
01:12:50,980 --> 01:12:54,600
 Yeah, you just lay everything out for a family.

1265
01:12:55,000 --> 01:13:00,760
 And if you follow that blueprint, you're going to be successful getting to the next level.

1266
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:06,140
 Pete, in a couple minutes, tell us, again, the synopsis of the book and where we can order it.

1267
01:13:07,140 --> 01:13:08,780
 Well, I appreciate that.

1268
01:13:08,780 --> 01:13:20,200
 And all my years in coaching and the years I spent in the NFL as a scout, I just felt like there was a lack of information out there to parents, young coaches.

1269
01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:32,720
 I wrote this for high school kids and coaches and their parents and youth coaches because at some point in a young man's career, he's going to be evaluated on all those position specifics.

1270
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:35,280
 And it's a starting point.

1271
01:13:35,280 --> 01:13:40,480
 Believe me, it's not an ending point at all because you still have guys.

1272
01:13:41,020 --> 01:13:45,080
 We're going to watch them this weekend playing in the NFL playoffs, getting all the way to the Super Bowl.

1273
01:13:45,540 --> 01:13:49,560
 They're still looking for ways to refine and develop techniques and fundamentals.

1274
01:13:50,780 --> 01:13:55,620
 And this book, like you said, Brett, it's basically a road map.

1275
01:13:55,740 --> 01:13:56,660
 It's a reference book.

1276
01:13:57,060 --> 01:14:00,100
 So, it's a checklist of things you can go through.

1277
01:14:00,780 --> 01:14:06,320
 And what I recommend is that you work on one specific a day.

1278
01:14:06,780 --> 01:14:09,920
 So, if you take the first five, that's your first week.

1279
01:14:10,060 --> 01:14:11,400
 Second five, obviously.

1280
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:13,400
 Third, fourth.

1281
01:14:13,640 --> 01:14:20,640
 At the end of a month, you'll know what you feel really good about, what your strengths are, what's average and what's below average.

1282
01:14:21,180 --> 01:14:25,280
 Now, go back and work on the below average and raise your game.

1283
01:14:25,540 --> 01:14:27,180
 So, this is the road map.

1284
01:14:27,800 --> 01:14:30,200
 It was kind of like I was riding in a car the other day.

1285
01:14:30,320 --> 01:14:34,400
 And I'm like, in the old days, I used to carry a mat when I was recruiting.

1286
01:14:34,780 --> 01:14:35,940
 I don't think people know what.

1287
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:37,320
 Exactly.

1288
01:14:37,900 --> 01:14:44,760
 So, I had to go to Siri, please, you know, drive the direction.

1289
01:14:45,280 --> 01:14:51,820
 Well, this is a football version of Siri with the directions of how to get there.

1290
01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:55,180
 That's a great read.

1291
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:57,480
 Coach, listen, man, it's always good to hook up with you.

1292
01:14:57,520 --> 01:15:00,380
 By the way, we'll save you a seat on the Pickwick pontoon.

1293
01:15:00,440 --> 01:15:03,400
 And bring that pontoon coach with you named Lane Kiffin, okay?

1294
01:15:04,780 --> 01:15:08,880
 You know, he, I don't know if he likes, like, he's more of a destined guy.

1295
01:15:08,980 --> 01:15:14,280
 He likes to go down there and hang out with his girlfriend and the hot yoga crowd.

1296
01:15:15,280 --> 01:15:17,720
 So, but you know what?

1297
01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:22,640
 It's going to be fun to see what happens in the next few times.

1298
01:15:23,420 --> 01:15:25,720
 Guys, it's always great being on with you.

1299
01:15:25,940 --> 01:15:30,660
 But don't get too close to the falls now, fellas.

1300
01:15:32,220 --> 01:15:34,680
 Or you will fall more than once.

1301
01:15:37,380 --> 01:15:38,820
 Hey, guys, happy New Year.

1302
01:15:38,940 --> 01:15:40,220
 Always a pleasure being with you.

1303
01:15:40,300 --> 01:15:41,160
 Hey, you too, Pete.

1304
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:42,940
 The pleasure is all ours.

1305
01:15:43,060 --> 01:15:45,080
 The one, the only coach, Pete Cordelli.

1306
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1327
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 In this game, the key thing to watch will be the offensive line versus their front seven.

1328
01:17:07,860 --> 01:17:10,020
 If they can get pressure without blitzing, this could be a long night.

1329
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 Okay, Kirk.

1330
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1337
01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:30,080
 A lot of bobbleheads.

1338
01:17:30,440 --> 01:17:31,540
 Baseball bobbleheads.

1339
01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:33,080
 Race car bobbleheads.

1340
01:17:33,400 --> 01:17:34,860
 Little chihuahua bobbleheads.

1341
01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:37,900
 He's got an entire room strictly for bobbleheads.

1342
01:17:38,340 --> 01:17:39,080
 Does he need them?

1343
01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:39,560
 No.

1344
01:17:39,780 --> 01:17:40,900
 Is his wife mad about it?

1345
01:17:40,980 --> 01:17:41,680
 A little.

1346
01:17:41,900 --> 01:17:44,520
 But Tim works with Empower, and he got good at money.

1347
01:17:44,780 --> 01:17:46,140
 So he can be a little bad.

1348
01:17:46,420 --> 01:17:47,940
 Ooh, horse bobblehead.

1349
01:17:48,240 --> 01:17:49,120
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1354
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1355
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1367
01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:30,160
 The Colonel despised the word empty.

1368
01:18:30,460 --> 01:18:31,180
 Empty plates.

1369
01:18:31,500 --> 01:18:32,180
 Empty tables.

1370
01:18:32,640 --> 01:18:33,520
 Empty stomachs.

1371
01:18:33,940 --> 01:18:36,360
 That's why he made the KFC $5 bowls.

1372
01:18:36,600 --> 01:18:37,680
 Like the famous bowl.

1373
01:18:37,940 --> 01:18:39,040
 Creamy mashed potatoes.

1374
01:18:39,240 --> 01:18:39,960
 Crispy chicken.

1375
01:18:40,140 --> 01:18:40,480
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1376
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1377
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1378
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1379
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1399
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1401
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1404
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1415
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1416
01:19:55,140 --> 01:19:58,460
 From the University of Alabama, this is Crimson Tide Today.

1417
01:19:58,840 --> 01:20:03,080
 It's a daily update on Bama Sports and it's brought to you by Crimson Drive, driven by NASCAR.

1418
01:20:03,080 --> 01:20:09,800
 Streaming live at 2 p.m. Central on all CTSN social media platforms at UA underscore CTSN.

1419
01:20:10,120 --> 01:20:10,780
 Hello again, everybody.

1420
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:11,820
 I'm Roger Hoover.

1421
01:20:11,820 --> 01:20:20,540
 On Thursday's edition of Crimson Drive, driven by NASCAR, we'll be joined by Alabama women's basketball head coach Christy Curry to preview tonight's game against Kentucky.

1422
01:20:20,760 --> 01:20:22,780
 So when you watch them on film, what stands out?

1423
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:24,000
 Just their size.

1424
01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:26,140
 You know, they're phenomenally talented.

1425
01:20:26,880 --> 01:20:28,260
 You know, they have a great backcourt.

1426
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:30,840
 They've had some transfers as well.

1427
01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:32,440
 They've come in and filled the void.

1428
01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:35,520
 And, you know, Claire Strack's one of the best post players in the country.

1429
01:20:35,620 --> 01:20:36,400
 Her versatility.

1430
01:20:36,940 --> 01:20:37,800
 Face in the basket.

1431
01:20:37,980 --> 01:20:38,640
 Stepping out.

1432
01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:40,660
 You know, her inside presence.

1433
01:20:40,820 --> 01:20:42,520
 I mean, she's a phenomenal shot blocker.

1434
01:20:42,980 --> 01:20:45,360
 And so it'll be a great matchup for Naomi and Essence.

1435
01:20:45,900 --> 01:20:48,520
 You know, we're excited about the opportunity tonight.

1436
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:50,280
 It's a great, great one for us.

1437
01:20:50,300 --> 01:20:52,860
 And we need to try to get this one at home and take care of our own court.

1438
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:55,360
 Hey, Bama fans.

1439
01:20:55,360 --> 01:21:00,720
 Each Tuesday and Thursday at 2 p.m. Central, join us live for Crimson Drive, driven by NASCAR.

1440
01:21:00,720 --> 01:21:12,020
 This live streaming talk show features the latest on Alabama athletics with exclusive conversations with Tide student athletes, coaches, and media members giving their perspective on the Crimson Tide.

1441
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:18,740
 You can watch on YouTube, Facebook, and X with all conversations archived as well on the Alabama Insider Podcast.

1442
01:21:19,400 --> 01:21:22,260
 Roll Tide with Crimson Drive, driven by NASCAR.

1443
01:21:23,400 --> 01:21:27,400
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1444
01:21:27,640 --> 01:21:31,400
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1445
01:21:32,260 --> 01:21:33,440
 The Score.

1446
01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:38,620
 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1447
01:21:39,240 --> 01:21:39,860
 Welcome back here.

1448
01:21:39,940 --> 01:21:42,140
 Time to say hello to Logan Fowler.

1449
01:21:42,220 --> 01:21:46,360
 He's got the Auburn Tigers cover there at 1819 News and Tailgate Auburn.

1450
01:21:46,560 --> 01:21:49,400
 That's T-A-L-E, Gate Auburn.

1451
01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:50,560
 Logan, welcome in.

1452
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:51,120
 How are you?

1453
01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:52,500
 Doing well.

1454
01:21:52,600 --> 01:21:55,040
 Thanks for reaching out and having me on the show, guys.

1455
01:21:55,240 --> 01:21:56,520
 You're more than welcome, Logan.

1456
01:21:56,600 --> 01:21:57,780
 Obviously, a lot on your plate.

1457
01:21:57,820 --> 01:21:59,560
 I want to talk, obviously, football in a second.

1458
01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:02,540
 But what a week for basketball for Auburn and Alabama.

1459
01:22:02,740 --> 01:22:06,920
 And the one thing I think that these two fan bases probably never agree on anything.

1460
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:08,720
 Both of them would disagree that water's wet.

1461
01:22:08,820 --> 01:22:09,300
 One said it.

1462
01:22:09,300 --> 01:22:10,380
 The other one would deny it, probably.

1463
01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:16,300
 But I think this week they can agree that the SEC officials lead a very interesting life, do they not?

1464
01:22:16,660 --> 01:22:18,480
 Let's start with the Auburn story first.

1465
01:22:18,480 --> 01:22:23,740
 Logan, has peace finally been restored to the plains after that ending with Texas A&M?

1466
01:22:24,860 --> 01:22:28,540
 Yeah, look, I think that was obviously a controversial ending.

1467
01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:35,400
 And you have really no choice but to kind of push aside and move on because you've got Arkansas coming to town on Saturday.

1468
01:22:35,820 --> 01:22:39,060
 But, yeah, I mean, look, I woke up this morning.

1469
01:22:39,120 --> 01:22:41,280
 I didn't catch the end of the Alabama game last night.

1470
01:22:41,280 --> 01:22:48,280
 But I woke up this morning and saw over X, the Alabama fans and Auburn fans coming together, talking about the SEC officiating.

1471
01:22:49,040 --> 01:22:50,080
 So that was great.

1472
01:22:50,900 --> 01:22:59,060
 But, look, no, I thought that that call the other night that happened with Keyshawn Murphy, his buzzer-beater shot getting waved off,

1473
01:23:00,220 --> 01:23:02,380
 it was a tough one for Auburn fans to have to swallow.

1474
01:23:03,580 --> 01:23:07,320
 I personally, on initial reaction, I thought he got it off.

1475
01:23:09,020 --> 01:23:12,760
 And then after looking at the replay, maybe I could see where they could come from.

1476
01:23:12,760 --> 01:23:19,680
 But, again, I thought that there wasn't enough indisputable video evidence to overturn that call.

1477
01:23:20,540 --> 01:23:27,360
 And so, therefore, I think that it should have stayed what it was on the floor, which was a made shot, which would have given Auburn a win.

1478
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:32,400
 But, guys, regardless, I mean, Auburn had a 16-point lead in that game.

1479
01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:32,720
 Thank you.

1480
01:23:33,060 --> 01:23:33,900
 That's the point.

1481
01:23:34,780 --> 01:23:42,620
 And, you know, three turnovers under the basket, 11 straight points for Texas A&M in 31 seconds.

1482
01:23:42,620 --> 01:23:44,660
 That turns into a 31-6 run.

1483
01:23:45,540 --> 01:23:47,580
 And A&M ends up getting up by 12 points.

1484
01:23:47,900 --> 01:23:52,320
 So, you know, yeah, that's a tough pill for Auburn fans to have to swallow losing a game like that.

1485
01:23:52,760 --> 01:24:00,420
 But, again, you guys, you know, if you're Auburn, you've got to find a way to just put the nail in the coffin when you're out 16 and win the game.

1486
01:24:00,620 --> 01:24:01,300
 Yeah, right.

1487
01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:03,620
 Yeah, you're exactly right.

1488
01:24:03,740 --> 01:24:06,240
 That was the epitome of Bucky Ball.

1489
01:24:06,740 --> 01:24:10,480
 And he's just really getting started at Texas A&M.

1490
01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:10,920
 You're right.

1491
01:24:10,980 --> 01:24:17,120
 It was a 31-33-6 run credit to Texas A&M with their defense.

1492
01:24:17,300 --> 01:24:19,700
 And then they make the three-point shots.

1493
01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:22,480
 But, also, a lot of teams would have folded.

1494
01:24:22,800 --> 01:24:26,200
 Auburn went on a 14-3 run to end that game.

1495
01:24:26,300 --> 01:24:34,740
 And we all know how everything happened, you know, that the controversy, quote, as far as the clock on the free throws by Texas A&M.

1496
01:24:35,080 --> 01:24:44,900
 But I also give Auburn some credit that they had a 14-3 run to get back in that game, close it out, and, again, as we all know, had a chance to win it.

1497
01:24:46,280 --> 01:24:47,140
 Yeah, absolutely.

1498
01:24:47,500 --> 01:24:56,260
 And, you know, Filip Jovich, who's been coming on really strong as of late, his first career double-double against Georgia to open up SEC play.

1499
01:24:56,360 --> 01:24:57,420
 He's been playing really hard.

1500
01:24:57,500 --> 01:25:01,760
 And Stephen Pearl's been very high on him over the past couple of weeks.

1501
01:25:01,760 --> 01:25:08,140
 He was out for that second half with a knee injury, and there's not a time frame for his return as of now.

1502
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:11,660
 That might have been a bigger factor in this game than we thought.

1503
01:25:11,860 --> 01:25:13,900
 I mean, he talked about against Georgia.

1504
01:25:14,160 --> 01:25:20,340
 He guarded the guards better than, you know, than the backcourt guys did.

1505
01:25:21,060 --> 01:25:28,600
 And, you know, you saw Isaac Pops for Texas A&M go off in that second half, ended up with 19 points and I think three triples.

1506
01:25:28,600 --> 01:25:35,800
 But, you know, having Jovich and his presence out there to kind of defend those guys during that run, I think that was big.

1507
01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:42,820
 Another thing for me, man, is I think that Auburn, you know, I love Keyshawn Murphy and I love what he brings to the table.

1508
01:25:43,120 --> 01:25:49,720
 But it's apparent right now that Auburn's missing a big man in a physical interior presence down low.

1509
01:25:49,800 --> 01:25:50,300
 Got to have it.

1510
01:25:50,300 --> 01:25:54,480
 And I think that that was another reason as to why that game happened.

1511
01:25:54,540 --> 01:25:56,000
 But, again, you got to give Auburn some credit.

1512
01:25:56,260 --> 01:25:58,440
 Like you said, 14-3 run, Keyshawn Hall.

1513
01:25:59,980 --> 01:26:06,520
 You know, I think he scored eight of the last – or eight Auburn's – Auburn's eight last points there in that game.

1514
01:26:06,640 --> 01:26:07,920
 He had a couple of clutch free throws.

1515
01:26:08,340 --> 01:26:09,820
 So, yeah, they fought.

1516
01:26:09,980 --> 01:26:13,080
 They rallied behind them, you know, the crowd that was left there.

1517
01:26:14,080 --> 01:26:21,760
 But, again, for me, got to find a way to put this thing in the rear view mirror when you're up by that much.

1518
01:26:22,600 --> 01:26:24,460
 Logan Fowler, got Auburn covered there again.

1519
01:26:24,500 --> 01:26:26,640
 18-19 News and tailgate Auburn.

1520
01:26:26,740 --> 01:26:28,480
 Logan, let's talk football.

1521
01:26:29,260 --> 01:26:33,640
 If you were going to slap a grade on the portal class so far, what would it be?

1522
01:26:33,760 --> 01:26:40,360
 What's the number that – I know it changes by the second – what's the last number you heard as far as the folks entering the portal from Auburn?

1523
01:26:40,420 --> 01:26:42,720
 And the other side of the coin, how many have come in?

1524
01:26:42,720 --> 01:26:47,040
 And, again, what kind of grade would you give this new coaching staff so far?

1525
01:26:48,020 --> 01:26:48,320
 Right.

1526
01:26:48,480 --> 01:26:53,380
 Yeah, I mean, what a portal window we've seen so far for Auburn.

1527
01:26:53,580 --> 01:26:59,820
 You know, it was tough for Auburn fans for this whole last month to have to sit there and watch their roster just leave one by one.

1528
01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:04,880
 And there was absolutely nothing they could do about it because the portal didn't open until January 2nd.

1529
01:27:06,020 --> 01:27:12,060
 I think we're going to see – I think we've seen 33 Auburn players enter the portal from last year's roster.

1530
01:27:12,060 --> 01:27:19,100
 I think you've had over 50 supporters, including NFL, out of eligibility, and those things.

1531
01:27:20,020 --> 01:27:25,160
 You know, as of right now, where we're at with Auburn's incoming portal class, I'm going to give it a B.

1532
01:27:25,600 --> 01:27:32,560
 And that's because, obviously, the signing of Byron Brown was huge.

1533
01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:42,360
 I think that, you know, you've brought in 10 USF transfers, and there's obviously some people skeptical of the growing, you know, USF to Auburn pipeline.

1534
01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:49,700
 And, you know, I've seen where a lot of people are pointing toward Kurt Cignetti in year two, bringing his guys over from JMU.

1535
01:27:49,820 --> 01:27:50,720
 It's no different.

1536
01:27:51,520 --> 01:28:01,040
 Auburn's going to have a lot of cohesiveness and camaraderie on that offensive staff, especially with, you know, half of the wide receiver room right now is going to be coming over from South Florida.

1537
01:28:01,460 --> 01:28:07,020
 You look at Joel Gordon and Alex Goalish, Byron Brown, they've had a lot of success on that offensive side of the ball.

1538
01:28:07,780 --> 01:28:10,400
 Byron Brown led all of college football last year in total offense.

1539
01:28:10,560 --> 01:28:13,180
 So, that's a huge signing.

1540
01:28:13,320 --> 01:28:25,060
 I think that the fact that he is going to be playing under the same system with some of the same familiar faces that he's seen is going to be big for the transition for Goalish and this offense into the SEC.

1541
01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:30,740
 I think you still, you know, you've got to bring in about four or five more offensive linemen if you're Goalish.

1542
01:28:31,680 --> 01:28:38,140
 There's still a lot of positions on defense that need to be focused in on, especially that front seven.

1543
01:28:38,360 --> 01:28:43,960
 Not necessarily the linebacker room, but you're going to have to get some SEC-ready bodies on that defensive line.

1544
01:28:44,480 --> 01:28:48,700
 And, again, you've had some exits out there on the back end of your defense.

1545
01:28:49,160 --> 01:28:55,140
 Still some work to do there, but all in all, you know, you've still got, what are we, six days into this portal period now?

1546
01:28:55,240 --> 01:29:00,000
 So, you've got a couple more days to kind of right the ship and get this thing going.

1547
01:29:00,240 --> 01:29:03,760
 But I do like some of the additions that Auburn's brought in thus far.

1548
01:29:04,640 --> 01:29:16,020
 Logan, I've talked with several Auburn fans who really, they're not mad, but they really wanted to see Ashton Daniels played well

1549
01:29:16,020 --> 01:29:19,120
 in the very limited time that he had.

1550
01:29:19,820 --> 01:29:23,380
 Deuce Knight, a lot of people looked at as their future.

1551
01:29:24,240 --> 01:29:31,700
 But I do understand, when you've got the opportunity to bring in a kid who has, last year, led the country in offense,

1552
01:29:31,880 --> 01:29:38,220
 over 3,100 yards passing and adds another 1,000 yards rushing.

1553
01:29:38,400 --> 01:29:39,620
 He's a known commodity.

1554
01:29:40,400 --> 01:29:44,720
 Of course, the staff knows him, and he fits their system very well.

1555
01:29:45,160 --> 01:29:53,700
 I do understand the potential, and it would have been fun to have seen what either one of those two quarterbacks could have done in the future.

1556
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:59,320
 But Byron Brown is a known commodity, and certainly the staff has worked with him for years.

1557
01:30:00,680 --> 01:30:01,480
 Yeah, absolutely.

1558
01:30:01,640 --> 01:30:02,840
 I think that's a big positive.

1559
01:30:03,940 --> 01:30:07,720
 Yeah, you know, I've seen a lot of Auburn fans who are upset about not having Deuce Knight

1560
01:30:07,720 --> 01:30:13,220
 or, you know, more geared towards Deuce Knight for the next couple of years.

1561
01:30:13,580 --> 01:30:19,720
 Here's my thing with that, guys, is, you know, college football the way it is now, you can't promise.

1562
01:30:19,980 --> 01:30:25,040
 I mean, a kid can tell you he's going to come for three years but enter the portal the year after, right?

1563
01:30:25,120 --> 01:30:28,740
 So, I mean, you've got to win now if you're Alex Golesh.

1564
01:30:28,740 --> 01:30:33,200
 I'm not saying that he's got to go out there and run the table, but he's going to put an emphasis on year one,

1565
01:30:33,200 --> 01:30:34,980
 and he wants to start this thing off right.

1566
01:30:35,140 --> 01:30:39,320
 Byron Brown coming in is obviously a big positive, and it's going to help that.

1567
01:30:40,660 --> 01:30:43,760
 And I'm sorry, guys, but you've got to have three quarterbacks on your roster.

1568
01:30:44,320 --> 01:30:49,120
 So, you weren't going into next season with just Deuce Knight on your roster,

1569
01:30:49,380 --> 01:30:55,800
 and I think that you made a great trade and a bump up in what you're going to see in this quarterback room with Byron Brown.

1570
01:30:56,940 --> 01:30:57,340
 Absolutely.

1571
01:30:57,760 --> 01:30:58,920
 Listen, great job.

1572
01:30:59,220 --> 01:31:01,720
 We look forward to talking with you in the future.

1573
01:31:02,280 --> 01:31:06,780
 I know Al Blanton's a friend of mine, and he has started Hellgate Auburn,

1574
01:31:06,920 --> 01:31:10,500
 and you're going to be more or less carrying the ball with that.

1575
01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:16,900
 And 1819 News has been a staple on our station for a long time.

1576
01:31:17,000 --> 01:31:20,540
 Logan, where can we get online and get your articles?

1577
01:31:20,720 --> 01:31:25,300
 You had a good one as far as the tough night for Auburn the other night.

1578
01:31:25,400 --> 01:31:27,920
 Where can we get Twitter and also get your articles?

1579
01:31:28,700 --> 01:31:29,400
 Yeah, absolutely.

1580
01:31:29,540 --> 01:31:33,560
 You can go give me a follow on Twitter, X, and Logan F Fowler.

1581
01:31:34,340 --> 01:31:37,820
 You can catch my work with Tailgate Auburn where we've got the ball rolling there.

1582
01:31:37,880 --> 01:31:39,160
 We've got some good stuff rolling out.

1583
01:31:39,220 --> 01:31:43,860
 We actually sat down this morning with Ben Tamarello, a former Auburn offensive lineman,

1584
01:31:43,960 --> 01:31:47,200
 an All-American, and Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman.

1585
01:31:47,260 --> 01:31:51,720
 He was a great interview, and that will be coming out tomorrow on Tailgate YouTube,

1586
01:31:51,720 --> 01:31:55,860
 and then we'll have some exclusive content for some Tailgate Auburn members there.

1587
01:31:55,960 --> 01:31:58,660
 And then, obviously, you can catch my work with 1819 News.

1588
01:31:58,980 --> 01:32:02,940
 Got some game coverage going out there throughout the week.

1589
01:32:03,600 --> 01:32:06,220
 And, yeah, so I appreciate you guys having me on the show, man.

1590
01:32:06,240 --> 01:32:09,080
 I'm looking forward to getting to speak with you guys more often.

1591
01:32:09,920 --> 01:32:10,280
 Absolutely.

1592
01:32:10,460 --> 01:32:11,560
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1667
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1668
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 To a rival on a last-second field goal.

1669
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1670
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1671
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 College football Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson passing up his senior season and has declared himself eligible for the NFL draft.

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 Welcome back to In Time to say hello to the voice of T-Town, Ryan Fowler,

1720
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 host of the game on Tide 109 FM weekdays in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

1721
01:38:17,560 --> 01:38:18,740
 Ryan, welcome in.

1722
01:38:18,840 --> 01:38:23,940
 Is it true that the Alabama basketball team got more whistles last night

1723
01:38:23,940 --> 01:38:26,920
 than Brett Beaird on the beach at Destin from the ladies?

1724
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 Hello, how are you?

1725
01:38:28,660 --> 01:38:30,740
 Yeah, a lot of whistles, a lot of whistles, a lot of whistles.

1726
01:38:31,360 --> 01:38:33,820
 Yes, yes, yes, a lot of whistles, a lot of whistles.

1727
01:38:35,020 --> 01:38:36,080
 Oh, wow.

1728
01:38:39,560 --> 01:38:44,000
 Oh, the world, the world, the world, the world we live in, the world we live in.

1729
01:38:44,560 --> 01:38:45,680
 Oh, my gosh.

1730
01:38:45,900 --> 01:38:46,920
 Ryan, what's going on, man?

1731
01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:48,380
 It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.

1732
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 Now, it's crazy, isn't it?

1733
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 Yeah, I mean, it is.

1734
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 It is.

1735
01:38:53,880 --> 01:38:54,320
 It is.

1736
01:38:54,520 --> 01:38:55,000
 It is.

1737
01:38:55,660 --> 01:38:57,320
 And I don't know who's got the answer.

1738
01:38:57,320 --> 01:38:59,440
 As far as mortal man, I don't know who's got the answer,

1739
01:38:59,540 --> 01:39:02,260
 but we'll let somebody else smarter than us to figure it out.

1740
01:39:02,380 --> 01:39:03,880
 We'll talk about the basketball game,

1741
01:39:03,920 --> 01:39:06,220
 but let's talk a little bit about that thing called football.

1742
01:39:06,680 --> 01:39:10,420
 Who would have thought after the Florida State game that Alabama would have hope?

1743
01:39:10,480 --> 01:39:12,700
 And then once they went through the meat of their schedule,

1744
01:39:13,240 --> 01:39:17,460
 I think a lot of folks thought Alabama would be getting ready for a Final Four appearance.

1745
01:39:17,660 --> 01:39:22,720
 Ryan, now that we know the verdict for this season, what grade do you put on?

1746
01:39:22,820 --> 01:39:23,600
 How do you describe?

1747
01:39:23,680 --> 01:39:25,660
 If you're looking for a word or a handful of words,

1748
01:39:25,720 --> 01:39:28,100
 how would you describe this season for Alabama football?

1749
01:39:28,980 --> 01:39:29,280
 All right.

1750
01:39:29,400 --> 01:39:31,000
 So, and guys, it's so funny.

1751
01:39:31,100 --> 01:39:32,560
 We discussed this yesterday.

1752
01:39:33,400 --> 01:39:33,680
 Yeah.

1753
01:39:34,080 --> 01:39:35,560
 We discussed this yesterday.

1754
01:39:35,960 --> 01:39:38,760
 We literally discussed this on the air, okay?

1755
01:39:39,080 --> 01:39:46,800
 Now, you've got a group of fans that will always be national championship or bust.

1756
01:39:46,800 --> 01:39:48,140
 That's what they feel like.

1757
01:39:48,260 --> 01:39:49,100
 It's a logo.

1758
01:39:49,400 --> 01:39:49,960
 It's a logo.

1759
01:39:50,260 --> 01:39:50,420
 Right.

1760
01:39:51,100 --> 01:39:51,380
 Okay.

1761
01:39:51,540 --> 01:39:59,880
 But I must tell you, if that is your goal, and I'm not talking about Alabama fans, Ohio State, Georgia, whomever.

1762
01:40:00,300 --> 01:40:00,460
 Okay.

1763
01:40:00,860 --> 01:40:04,000
 If that's your goal, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

1764
01:40:04,460 --> 01:40:04,620
 Okay.

1765
01:40:04,780 --> 01:40:05,040
 That's right.

1766
01:40:05,180 --> 01:40:06,700
 It's just, it's not going to happen.

1767
01:40:06,700 --> 01:40:10,880
 The new college football is here.

1768
01:40:11,240 --> 01:40:12,840
 We are in a situation.

1769
01:40:13,040 --> 01:40:15,940
 We are in a situation where that's not going to happen.

1770
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 You're not going to have repeat champions.

1771
01:40:19,560 --> 01:40:27,240
 You're literally going to be sitting here where you are disappointed every year.

1772
01:40:27,640 --> 01:40:33,080
 So, you have to understand, I thought in so many different ways, this team took a positive

1773
01:40:33,080 --> 01:40:33,740
 step, right?

1774
01:40:34,000 --> 01:40:36,160
 They took a step in the right direction.

1775
01:40:36,660 --> 01:40:36,940
 Right.

1776
01:40:37,060 --> 01:40:38,780
 They went undefeated on the road of the SEC.

1777
01:40:39,160 --> 01:40:41,100
 They went to the SEC title game.

1778
01:40:41,500 --> 01:40:43,420
 Yes, they were beat up and they had to play.

1779
01:40:43,700 --> 01:40:46,100
 But you still had to play the game and they didn't play the game very well.

1780
01:40:46,660 --> 01:40:46,940
 Right.

1781
01:40:46,940 --> 01:40:49,620
 So, at the end of the day, the results matter and the loss.

1782
01:40:49,920 --> 01:40:50,360
 So, they did.

1783
01:40:50,420 --> 01:40:51,120
 They lost that game.

1784
01:40:51,940 --> 01:40:53,440
 You have to calculate that.

1785
01:40:53,980 --> 01:40:54,920
 You went to the playoffs.

1786
01:40:55,280 --> 01:40:57,420
 You went on the road in a hostile environment.

1787
01:40:57,620 --> 01:41:01,100
 Now, but to be fair, you created that hostile environment.

1788
01:41:01,160 --> 01:41:04,100
 Because if you beat Oklahoma, you don't have to worry about something.

1789
01:41:04,200 --> 01:41:05,100
 You don't have to go on the road.

1790
01:41:05,600 --> 01:41:09,360
 But you did counter that and you made that a success, right?

1791
01:41:09,400 --> 01:41:13,160
 You went on the road and you beat those guys in Norman, Oklahoma.

1792
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 You get that one.

1793
01:41:14,860 --> 01:41:18,220
 Then you go to Indiana and then that's the par problem.

1794
01:41:18,660 --> 01:41:28,880
 If you would have lost that game, let's just say 38-17 or 31-14, I think we'd have a much different opinion.

1795
01:41:29,460 --> 01:41:36,580
 But it's the way that you lost it, in the manner that you lost it, and the non-verbal said that a lot of your guys just kind of melded in.

1796
01:41:37,220 --> 01:41:38,040
 That's the part.

1797
01:41:38,040 --> 01:41:44,820
 I still think it's a success, but Alabama fans, they're killing me because I'm saying it's a success.

1798
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 Because the opposite word of success is a failure.

1799
01:41:51,100 --> 01:41:52,800
 So tell me this.

1800
01:41:52,900 --> 01:41:56,120
 Is it a failure to go to the college football playoffs and go to the second round?

1801
01:41:57,740 --> 01:42:00,420
 Well, to me, two things can be true at the same time.

1802
01:42:00,500 --> 01:42:01,720
 It's not a failure, obviously.

1803
01:42:01,860 --> 01:42:04,140
 But the other side of the coin is you're Alabama.

1804
01:42:04,140 --> 01:42:14,800
 You should not lose by five touchdowns because you look at the money laid down compared to Indiana, and how much faith are people going to have in ratings now coming out of high school?

1805
01:42:14,880 --> 01:42:16,940
 You've got all these four or five stars compared to Indiana.

1806
01:42:17,140 --> 01:42:19,660
 So it's not a failure to go to the playoffs.

1807
01:42:19,780 --> 01:42:21,840
 It's a failure to sit there and play soft.

1808
01:42:23,840 --> 01:42:24,500
 That's right.

1809
01:42:25,360 --> 01:42:25,980
 That's right.

1810
01:42:26,700 --> 01:42:31,220
 And it looked like a soft football team because it was.

1811
01:42:31,220 --> 01:42:37,140
 But so then Alabama fans, they get upset because things will go into the portal.

1812
01:42:37,740 --> 01:42:40,240
 But you want to change, right?

1813
01:42:40,320 --> 01:42:41,520
 You want a change.

1814
01:42:41,640 --> 01:42:51,260
 You want to be able to go, you know, you want to be able to move in that direction that you feel that you're headed in the right direction.

1815
01:42:51,480 --> 01:42:53,080
 And I think in a lot of ways you are.

1816
01:42:53,540 --> 01:42:55,860
 I think they were able to overcome some things.

1817
01:42:56,060 --> 01:42:57,380
 Injuries was a huge part.

1818
01:42:57,960 --> 01:42:59,660
 I look back at Greg Sankey.

1819
01:42:59,660 --> 01:43:08,780
 You know, if he tweets out one more leadership book without an application method, I'm going to throw up.

1820
01:43:09,360 --> 01:43:12,060
 Because, no, I mean, I look at Greg Sankey.

1821
01:43:12,220 --> 01:43:17,460
 People don't realize, okay, and this is a part that has not been discussed.

1822
01:43:18,100 --> 01:43:21,340
 The Big Ten this year played with 105 scholarships.

1823
01:43:22,320 --> 01:43:22,420
 Right.

1824
01:43:23,300 --> 01:43:24,440
 The SEC played with 85.

1825
01:43:25,220 --> 01:43:25,580
 Yeah.

1826
01:43:26,060 --> 01:43:30,620
 I mean, whether you want to call, guys, that's an entire recruiting class.

1827
01:43:31,800 --> 01:43:32,780
 And that's a Greg Sankey.

1828
01:43:32,960 --> 01:43:33,780
 That's a Greg Sankey.

1829
01:43:34,040 --> 01:43:35,580
 That was a Sankey.

1830
01:43:35,800 --> 01:43:36,940
 He did not push that.

1831
01:43:37,260 --> 01:43:41,800
 Now they have pushed it, and it will be implemented in 2026.

1832
01:43:42,580 --> 01:43:43,940
 But he was a year late.

1833
01:43:44,460 --> 01:43:44,860
 Yeah.

1834
01:43:44,980 --> 01:43:48,660
 And he's going to lose, because I don't think Ole Miss is going to carry the SEC.

1835
01:43:49,240 --> 01:43:53,440
 He's going to lose his third straight to the Big Ten.

1836
01:43:53,440 --> 01:43:55,020
 He's going to capture their third national title.

1837
01:43:55,220 --> 01:43:56,000
 Yeah.

1838
01:43:56,740 --> 01:43:59,220
 So, I look at the Big Ten.

1839
01:43:59,600 --> 01:44:01,940
 Has the Big Ten surpassed the SEC?

1840
01:44:03,060 --> 01:44:04,820
 Resources, money, NIL.

1841
01:44:04,820 --> 01:44:04,940
 Yeah.

1842
01:44:06,540 --> 01:44:08,340
 I mean, why the facts go right now?

1843
01:44:08,500 --> 01:44:10,720
 All you got is the facts in front of you, you know?

1844
01:44:12,020 --> 01:44:13,340
 Easier road to get there.

1845
01:44:13,520 --> 01:44:15,360
 Look, I mean, look at the easiest road to get there.

1846
01:44:15,980 --> 01:44:16,200
 Right.

1847
01:44:16,280 --> 01:44:18,580
 I mean, they have an easy road to get there.

1848
01:44:19,620 --> 01:44:26,860
 I mean, when you look at the Big Ten, I mean, sometimes it is an advantage to sit back and wait and be fresh.

1849
01:44:27,460 --> 01:44:27,820
 Right.

1850
01:44:28,240 --> 01:44:31,540
 And play one or two game schedules.

1851
01:44:32,240 --> 01:44:35,460
 The SEC just made life harder with going to nine.

1852
01:44:35,460 --> 01:44:39,220
 And I go back to what Kirby said after the SEC title game.

1853
01:44:39,720 --> 01:44:42,080
 We're making it difficult for ourselves.

1854
01:44:42,900 --> 01:44:43,300
 Yeah.

1855
01:44:43,480 --> 01:44:46,040
 And he's the only guy that will go after Greg Sankey.

1856
01:44:46,120 --> 01:44:47,100
 And I applaud him for that.

1857
01:44:47,680 --> 01:44:48,860
 Because somebody's got to.

1858
01:44:48,940 --> 01:44:50,260
 We think that's just not all about the money.

1859
01:44:50,960 --> 01:44:52,580
 We understand that there's a bigger paycheck.

1860
01:44:53,620 --> 01:44:55,960
 But I just look at Greg Sankey.

1861
01:44:56,080 --> 01:45:02,320
 He's been a couple steps behind in most of the moves that he's made in the last year and a half.

1862
01:45:02,700 --> 01:45:06,440
 It doesn't look like he's no longer the most powerful person in college football.

1863
01:45:06,740 --> 01:45:07,600
 I'm not buying it.

1864
01:45:08,620 --> 01:45:09,500
 Just my opinion.

1865
01:45:10,380 --> 01:45:13,460
 Ryan, he's more of a reactionary.

1866
01:45:13,820 --> 01:45:15,820
 Mike's love was a visionary.

1867
01:45:16,620 --> 01:45:18,080
 There's a big difference.

1868
01:45:18,080 --> 01:45:23,640
 And I would use the word improvement when you look at 2025.

1869
01:45:24,720 --> 01:45:31,140
 Everybody's disappointed, certainly, in the bookend losses to begin and end the season.

1870
01:45:31,420 --> 01:45:33,920
 But, again, I've mentioned this all year.

1871
01:45:34,860 --> 01:45:39,180
 They beat four ranked top 25 teams consecutively.

1872
01:45:40,400 --> 01:45:46,980
 And to get to the SEC championship, which I still think is a big deal,

1873
01:45:46,980 --> 01:45:50,720
 make the playoffs, win one game, win two more games.

1874
01:45:51,260 --> 01:45:55,820
 But in some ways, Ryan, as painful as it was, getting beat 38-3,

1875
01:45:57,320 --> 01:46:01,600
 it makes you stop and refocus.

1876
01:46:01,920 --> 01:46:05,840
 What am I doing in the weight room in strength and conditioning?

1877
01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:08,140
 What am I doing in recruiting?

1878
01:46:08,860 --> 01:46:12,580
 How is my scheme not being able to run the ball successfully?

1879
01:46:12,780 --> 01:46:18,720
 I think the silver lining of this is I've got to look at it.

1880
01:46:18,720 --> 01:46:23,480
 You don't need to tear it down, but I need to tweak the program in several areas.

1881
01:46:23,740 --> 01:46:29,240
 I think the coaching staff after the portal is going to be addressed, and we'll see where that goes.

1882
01:46:29,800 --> 01:46:37,980
 But it was an improvement, but I do think getting beat that emphatically, it forces you to look at your entire program.

1883
01:46:38,640 --> 01:46:39,540
 No, it does.

1884
01:46:39,680 --> 01:46:40,020
 It does.

1885
01:46:40,220 --> 01:46:45,700
 And I think we have to have something to talk about.

1886
01:46:46,500 --> 01:46:48,360
 Okay, so we talk about the portal, right?

1887
01:46:48,400 --> 01:46:51,520
 We talk about what's making the portal.

1888
01:46:51,780 --> 01:46:53,880
 But I think you've got to judge the end result.

1889
01:46:54,560 --> 01:47:03,780
 You know, you've got guys that are in, but I'm telling you, you know, the names that we're hearing that Alabama has a really, really good shot at,

1890
01:47:04,860 --> 01:47:09,420
 if it happens, it could shape the state and the SEC.

1891
01:47:10,560 --> 01:47:12,520
 Now, you know, you've got to land them.

1892
01:47:12,820 --> 01:47:14,020
 You've got to be able to land them.

1893
01:47:14,260 --> 01:47:18,540
 And you see those big schools that are involved, you know they're going to run the price tag up.

1894
01:47:18,540 --> 01:47:24,100
 Even if they're just going to run the price tag up just where Alabama – I mean, this kind of reminds you so much of the NFL.

1895
01:47:24,780 --> 01:47:26,140
 It's like, I'm going to run it up.

1896
01:47:26,240 --> 01:47:28,860
 I'm going to run it up simply based on what?

1897
01:47:28,900 --> 01:47:35,560
 I'm going to run it up because I'm going to make my Dallas Cowboys spend more money, and then I'll have more money here.

1898
01:47:35,660 --> 01:47:37,700
 I mean, that's where this world is at.

1899
01:47:38,480 --> 01:47:43,760
 I mean, we're watching a professional model being implemented in college football.

1900
01:47:44,520 --> 01:47:46,960
 And in some ways, maybe worse.

1901
01:47:47,520 --> 01:47:47,920
 Worse.

1902
01:47:48,200 --> 01:47:50,520
 There's no boundaries with college.

1903
01:47:50,800 --> 01:47:51,580
 And here's the deal, Ryan.

1904
01:47:51,620 --> 01:47:54,080
 It's only going to get worse until they put those boundaries in there.

1905
01:47:54,320 --> 01:47:54,920
 A couple of things.

1906
01:47:55,000 --> 01:47:58,920
 What are you hearing as far as – we've been talking about who's already in the house.

1907
01:47:58,980 --> 01:47:59,820
 Your thoughts on that.

1908
01:47:59,920 --> 01:48:03,480
 And a couple of names I think it's interesting from our neck of the woods.

1909
01:48:03,600 --> 01:48:06,260
 Adam Watford out of UNA from all reports.

1910
01:48:06,360 --> 01:48:08,240
 He's on campus today visiting Alabama.

1911
01:48:08,380 --> 01:48:09,440
 He's from Dothan.

1912
01:48:09,440 --> 01:48:14,360
 And to me, one of the guys that really and truly amongst the visitors is Jacarius Peek.

1913
01:48:14,780 --> 01:48:19,160
 He's a number one offensive lineman in the on-thread transfer portal player rankings.

1914
01:48:19,400 --> 01:48:25,180
 He's already got his partner down there, and that is Hollywood Smothers from NC State.

1915
01:48:25,600 --> 01:48:27,180
 Peek is from NC State.

1916
01:48:27,560 --> 01:48:28,560
 What are you hearing there?

1917
01:48:28,600 --> 01:48:33,580
 And if you pick up the number one offensive lineman, they tell me Alabama needs to improve their own line next season.

1918
01:48:33,580 --> 01:48:37,400
 And what are you hearing about probably the rock star right now, Cam Coleman, Ryan?

1919
01:48:38,300 --> 01:48:42,020
 Well, I do think that there's an interest, and I think it's interest on both sides.

1920
01:48:42,900 --> 01:48:46,640
 I think that there is some consideration with Cam Coleman.

1921
01:48:47,780 --> 01:48:53,120
 I know that at some point he's going to take a visit, and he's going to be in Tuscaloosa,

1922
01:48:53,340 --> 01:48:56,280
 and they're probably going to get one of the last pitches to him.

1923
01:48:56,780 --> 01:49:01,220
 I think what's going to help is now you've got Derek Nix coaching him.

1924
01:49:01,940 --> 01:49:02,280
 Right.

1925
01:49:02,640 --> 01:49:02,960
 Right.

1926
01:49:03,180 --> 01:49:07,500
 I think that's a big, you know, and listen, don't play.

1927
01:49:07,920 --> 01:49:11,560
 I'm not talking about you guys, but if you're out there, don't play dumb

1928
01:49:11,560 --> 01:49:17,900
 and look at Derek Nix coaching wide receivers that that was announced conveniently yesterday.

1929
01:49:18,060 --> 01:49:18,880
 Thank you.

1930
01:49:19,380 --> 01:49:19,580
 Right.

1931
01:49:20,540 --> 01:49:24,880
 I mean, you don't need to counter that.

1932
01:49:25,000 --> 01:49:27,760
 I mean, that's a big, you know, yes, yes.

1933
01:49:28,140 --> 01:49:31,380
 So I think when you step back and you look at it and you begin to analyze it,

1934
01:49:31,480 --> 01:49:33,620
 guys, I think there is a shot at Cam Coleman.

1935
01:49:34,760 --> 01:49:38,660
 You know, I've been told when he's coming in, but I can't say that

1936
01:49:38,660 --> 01:49:41,080
 because they don't want that out because of the schools.

1937
01:49:41,260 --> 01:49:45,340
 But he will be here soon, very, very soon.

1938
01:49:47,280 --> 01:49:48,200
 Yeah, absolutely.

1939
01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:48,860
 But that's an option.

1940
01:49:48,860 --> 01:49:50,400
 I mean, hey, that would be a win.

1941
01:49:51,100 --> 01:49:51,540
 I mean, I mean.

1942
01:49:51,680 --> 01:49:54,340
 Well, it would be a big PR win, if nothing else.

1943
01:49:54,540 --> 01:49:58,700
 If these kids watch each other like Hawks, they see a guy like that coming to Alabama,

1944
01:49:59,200 --> 01:50:01,380
 that builds up momentum for somebody down the chain.

1945
01:50:01,380 --> 01:50:03,180
 He's the number one guy on the board right now.

1946
01:50:03,300 --> 01:50:07,120
 So that, what message does that send to folks down the board to come there as well?

1947
01:50:07,840 --> 01:50:08,220
 Yeah, right.

1948
01:50:08,280 --> 01:50:11,460
 And I've been told that they already have him a baptism set up.

1949
01:50:11,820 --> 01:50:14,760
 Because any time somebody comes from Auburn to Alabama,

1950
01:50:14,860 --> 01:50:16,920
 they dunk them in there and get all that stuff off of them.

1951
01:50:16,940 --> 01:50:17,340
 Really?

1952
01:50:17,920 --> 01:50:19,960
 The things we find out here.

1953
01:50:20,540 --> 01:50:23,260
 What do we find out behind the scenes?

1954
01:50:25,500 --> 01:50:27,540
 I'm making all that up, but it sure did tell me that.

1955
01:50:29,440 --> 01:50:33,480
 Well, listen, 2026, we look forward to talking to Ryan Fowler.

1956
01:50:33,600 --> 01:50:36,040
 You know, we cherish our relationship with you.

1957
01:50:36,140 --> 01:50:38,200
 Glad you had a good trip out west.

1958
01:50:38,380 --> 01:50:38,660
 Yeah.

1959
01:50:38,940 --> 01:50:42,660
 Going to be a fascinating end to the transfer portal.

1960
01:50:42,800 --> 01:50:46,940
 I think the ones they've gotten so far, I'm certainly impressed with that.

1961
01:50:47,620 --> 01:50:49,120
 Tell us about the show.

1962
01:50:49,480 --> 01:50:50,940
 Who have you got on today?

1963
01:50:51,060 --> 01:50:52,660
 And where can we get online and listen?

1964
01:50:53,640 --> 01:50:54,800
 Yeah, we've got Rodney Orr.

1965
01:50:54,880 --> 01:51:03,440
 We're going to go out to Seattle and talk with Dave Mahler and really dive into that situation with DeMond Williams.

1966
01:51:03,560 --> 01:51:08,780
 We're going to dive into that because that seems to be a fight that not just having consequences this year,

1967
01:51:08,840 --> 01:51:13,620
 but it can be, you think about us, having some chaos, you know, what's the rest of the world,

1968
01:51:14,060 --> 01:51:19,220
 and we're going to see if the NCAA still has any power, the CSS, the Clearinghouse, whoever, we're going to do that,

1969
01:51:19,660 --> 01:51:23,060
 and then we've also got to talk with Nick Kelly, so that'll be our guest,

1970
01:51:23,060 --> 01:51:26,720
 and we'll dive into a lot of different things, but I appreciate you guys as always.

1971
01:51:27,060 --> 01:51:28,160
 Happy 2026.

1972
01:51:28,440 --> 01:51:29,720
 Can't wait to talk with you guys.

1973
01:51:29,840 --> 01:51:30,700
 Always a lot of fun.

1974
01:51:31,040 --> 01:51:32,140
 Have a great rest of your day, guys.

1975
01:51:32,680 --> 01:51:33,800
 Right back at you, Ryan.

1976
01:51:33,860 --> 01:51:37,940
 Ryan Fell 109 FM down in Tuscaloosa talking about that Washington quarterback.

1977
01:51:38,180 --> 01:51:38,580
 What was it?

1978
01:51:38,920 --> 01:51:42,380
 He signed a $5 million deal while last Friday with Washington,

1979
01:51:43,060 --> 01:51:46,080
 and then a couple of days ago said he's entered the portal.

1980
01:51:46,240 --> 01:51:49,440
 I got a feeling they got some lawyers on speed dial there.

1981
01:51:49,440 --> 01:51:52,240
 BB, UNA basketball tonight at Eastern Kentucky.

1982
01:51:52,440 --> 01:51:55,280
 You can catch that game on ESPN3.

1983
01:51:55,900 --> 01:51:57,240
 It tips off at 6.

1984
01:51:57,320 --> 01:52:00,160
 So, the Lions and Eastern Kentucky tonight, Brett Beaird.

1985
01:52:00,500 --> 01:52:01,000
 Certainly good.

1986
01:52:01,240 --> 01:52:03,360
 Again, they got two games in Kentucky.

1987
01:52:03,600 --> 01:52:09,320
 One tonight, as you mentioned, with Eastern Kentucky playing again Saturday.

1988
01:52:09,620 --> 01:52:12,540
 Certainly good luck to the Lions, Tony Pujol and Curry.

1989
01:52:13,400 --> 01:52:18,000
 Ole Miss and the boys getting busy tonight from Miami.

1990
01:52:18,160 --> 01:52:19,180
 First to the Final Four.

1991
01:52:19,280 --> 01:52:20,120
 Catch it later on.

1992
01:52:20,200 --> 01:52:21,120
 Going to take care of business for now.

1993
01:52:21,200 --> 01:52:23,400
 On behalf of BB, Greg, James Blair, the entire crew here.

1994
01:52:23,700 --> 01:52:25,560
 Harold Buck, thank you so much for your time today.

1995
01:52:25,560 --> 01:52:28,040
 Let's do it again tomorrow noon to two for the Boomwell Buck Show.

1996
01:52:28,340 --> 01:52:30,380
 Back here on Sports Radio, 93.9 The Score.