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

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 The Boomo Bugg Show. New exclusive inside track to the Tigers, Tennessee and the rest of the SEC. Now your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

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 Good afternoon and welcome here to the Boomo Bugg Show. I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird. Thank you so much for giving us free ride around the Tennessee Valley. Brett Beaird, welcome in where? Who says Alabama can't win a national championship in 2026 and it started in August. It comes to an end tonight. Good afternoon. Welcome in. Are you ready to party by the beach tonight in the NCAA topper? Are you ready for the ball game, BB?

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 Happy Monday, yes. I think a lot of people have selections. Sunday was December the 7th to announce the college football teams in the playoffs. Six weeks later, the national championship game will be played tonight. Next season, the national championship game will be played nearly a week later, January the 25th.

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 Still, college football needs to work on its calendar. We'll recap how Alabama-Auburn to Tennessee did in the transfer portal this weekend.

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 Adam is here right now to preview the game tonight, potential changes in college football, and talk some SEC basketball.

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 Adam Spencer with plenty to cheer about. We alluded to it. Alabama with plenty to cheer about. Sue, they've been wanting to win a national championship.

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 They did over the weekend, the cheerleaders. What a national championship with the Crimson Tide. Adam Spencer's always got something to cheer about as he's got it all together there at Saturday down south, Saturday tradition and sports betting time. Adam, welcome in. Are you ready for the big ball game? How are you?

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 I'm doing great, guys. Yeah, I'm ready. It should be a good one. So, yeah, I can't wait to dive in.

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 Yeah, I guess, where do we start with it, Adam? I guess, what can Miami do that Alabama, Oregon, and just about everybody on their schedule could not do this season with Cinderella from Indiana?

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 Well, what they can do is they can run the ball. You know, Oregon had some defensive backs that they had to convert to running back ahead of that game

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 because they weren't sure if one of their guys was going to play and their top guy was hurt.

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 So, you know, Alabama's running game was a mess all year, even when Jim Miller was playing.

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 So, I mean, if you want to look at what Miami can do, I mean, that's where you have to start is at the running game because not only do they have Mark Fletcher Jr. back in the mix, who's a bruiser.

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 But Chamar Brown, you know, don't sleep on him. They're back up, running back. He's been a force in the red zone all year, and especially in the playoff.

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 I mean, he's gotten nine red zone carries, scored three times compared to 12 red zone carries with three touchdowns for Fletcher.

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 So, those two guys are pretty interchangeable. They have a couple of draft picks along that offensive line, including a guy who's probably going to go in the top ten.

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 So, you look at what Miami could do to pull off what would be a massive upset, it starts with the running game.

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 And there's no question Miami could win this game. They ran for 191 against Ole Miss, 41-18 in time of possession, and they can do that.

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 Indiana, on the other hand, one fumble in the first game of the season, and another stat, to me, that's mind-boggling.

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 They had 13 penalties the entire season. They're so efficient.

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 But, yeah, James Brockermeyer leads that Miami offensive front, which is very good.

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 If they can run the ball short in the game, there's no question Miami's got a chance to win the game.

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 Yeah, I mean, it's going to come down to if they can move it like that.

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 And, I mean, keep in mind that Indiana is still without one of its star defensive linemen, Stephen Daly, who hurt himself in the aftermath of the Big Ten championship game.

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 And he was a big piece of that defensive line.

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 So, it hasn't really been tested so far because Alabama and Oregon were disasters in the running game.

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 So, we'll see if that loss has felt a little more keenly tonight.

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 Adam Spencer, Saturday down south.

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 Normally, these pressers are normally about as exciting as watching paint dry.

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 But, I thought it was interesting to see you agree, Carson Beck's quote, leading into the game tonight, when asked about as far as distraction with class and everything, he said,

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 no class, I graduated two years ago.

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 Adam, does that not illustrate what everybody, the worst kept secret in the world, this is no longer a student athlete.

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 These are basically paid athletes who are staying in college and milking as much as they can and then go to the pros and make more money.

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 So, in other words, can we just do away with that student-athlete thing?

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 I mean, Beck is like 25 or something like that, too.

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 So, I mean, these aren't even young athletes anymore.

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 25 is almost the expiration date for an NFL running back these days.

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 So, yeah, I mean, I think that, yeah, that's, you know, we've got to call it what it is.

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 Like, these teams are just marketing arms for the schools now.

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 They're just paid employees who wear the jerseys of the school.

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 Your logo.

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 Yeah, they don't bother with class or anything like that.

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 But, I mean, it does help.

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 You know, Indiana, you know, is experiencing an uptick in applications.

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 You know, they weren't hurting for applications or anything, you know, with their large alumni base and all that stuff.

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 Miami certainly wasn't hurting for applications.

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 But you get more attention and you get more students who want to come in when your football team is good.

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 And so, I mean, that's what it is.

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 It's a marketing arm.

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 And, you know, it's still entertaining.

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 It's just, yeah, we just need to fix up what we call these guys because, yeah, student-athletes does not cut it anymore.

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 Unless we want to start calling, you know, everybody student-athletes.

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 You know, NFL players, are they still student-athletes?

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 I mean, they're going to class about as much as these college guys at this point.

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 That's right.

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 Adam, Ken, Carson Bank duplicate what he did against Omius.

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 11 to 15 on a third down.

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 Had some key runs.

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 Two great drives in the fourth quarter.

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 Both of these quarterbacks are amazing.

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 Mendoza was 17 out of 20 for 177.

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 But Beck, who threw through for all of 133 against Texas A&M, has really improved the last couple of games.

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 Going to be fun to watch the quarterbacks tonight.

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 Yeah, I mean, I think that the battle there, I mean, especially something to watch for Mendoza is just what they do in the first half.

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 Because Miami's top corner, Xavier Lucas, was suspended for the first half of this game due to a targeting penalty in the second half of the last game.

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 So, you know, I expect Miami's secondary to be a little bit shaky in that first half there.

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 And that's dangerous when you're going up against a guy who's as precise as Mendoza.

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 And then, you know, on the other hand, yeah, Beck has been playing really, really well.

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 But you know in the back of your head that he's still the guy that will occasionally put the ball in danger.

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 And, you know, you can try to coach that out of him.

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 But that's part of what makes him good is that he's, you know, willing to take chances in certain situations.

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 You know, sometimes he gets a little reckless.

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 But, you know, it's like, you know, I'm not comparing him to Brett Favre.

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 But, like, that's, you know, the kind of gunslinger mentality that some quarterbacks have to have to be able to make plays.

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 Because if he's just playing it safe all the time, you're not going to beat this Indiana defense.

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 Because I expect him to come out and attack that third cornerback that's going to be probably not very experienced tonight.

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 Adam, what's the over-under in television?

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 They call it cutaways.

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 Another way of putting it is when TV shows a crowd shot or something, a cheerleader shot, that type thing.

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 What's the over-under on TV going to Mendoza's parents and the back story there?

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 Mendoza grew up a Miami fan, didn't get the offer, goes elsewhere.

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 Basically, he's playing on his home field.

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 There's a lot of backstories with Mendoza.

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 You know he's got an extra, as if he needed another reason to do well tonight.

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 Yeah, I mean, I think that's so cool.

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 Not only is Miami playing in the home stadium for a national title, but then you have the Mendoza story and playing in his backyard, basically.

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 His brother is the backup quarterback, which is pretty cool.

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 So, I mean, you know, there's going to be a lot of Miami residents down there that have a little bit of a split because Mendoza is going to be a popular hometown kid returning home.

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 We'll see if, you know, hopefully it's because he's playing well and it's a good game and not like, oh, wow, this game is getting out of hand.

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 Adam, one of the other side stories for this weekend was the college football powers to be met yesterday, their annual meeting before the national championship game.

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 And the Big Ten and the SEC seem to be far away as far as deciding on is it going to be 16 or the Big Ten wants 24.

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 The SEC and the SEC and the other conferences seem to want to stay or move to 16.

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 And it's also on the calendar.

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 Next year, this game will be played nearly a week later.

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 NIL, two-year contracts, performance-based, start week zero.

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 There are just so many agenda items for college football right now that are not really being worked on.

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 Like, I mean, I think that there is a path towards, you know, reasonableness and stability in college football.

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 You know, we talked about it last week with the DeMond Williams thing.

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 I think that was a good start where he was like, wait, hold on, we're not just going to let you go to LSU without that.

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 So I think that, you know, we're starting to see the path forward towards getting this back to a product that we can be proud of.

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 The product on the field is still amazing.

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 I just think we need to work on, you know, weeding out some of these guys in their mid-20s that are on their seventh and eighth years of eligibility.

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 We've got to stop suing everybody for, like, if you tell me I can't play, I'm going to sue you.

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 You know, I think that, you know, as much as I would love to see Trinidad Chambliss, Joey Aguilar, Diego Pavia, all these guys,

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 as much as I would love to see them back at college next year, it's like, it's time to move on, guys.

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 You're usually 20, so let's try your hand at pro football.

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 That's where the next step is, it's not suing to come back to school for yet another year.

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 I mean, come on.

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 So I think, you know, hopefully the reasonableness prevails in those lawsuits, and we can start getting the sport back to what we love,

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 even if the metrics are different.

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 Like we said, they're not student-athletes anymore.

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 They're just athletes who are paid to wear school colors, but that's fine.

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 I don't care about that.

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 The product on the field is great.

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 We just have some of the stuff around the fringes that hopefully we can work out and get the calendar in line and all that sort of stuff.

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 Well, the reason Pavia and some of those others don't want to go to the NFL, they don't want to take a pay cut.

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 That's amongst the reasons there.

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 But, hey, Adam, to your point, here's, I think, a good illustration of it.

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 Alabama thought they had their running back situation lined up, and then a little bit of a screw up there with the paperwork.

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 But, apparently, Mensah already inked it, and now he says, gee whiz, guys, I love you, but the grass is greener over there.

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 And now, all of a sudden, Duke is left here in the 11th hour and 59th minute to go shopping for a quarterback.

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 Yeah, I think that's tough when, you know, especially because, you know, with the one portal opening, you know, now that there's not a spring window, too, you know, you're kind of getting locked in.

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 And, yeah, it's going to be tough because Miami players, Indiana players, have, like, five days after the national championship to decide.

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 But, yeah, that's going to be, you know, it's a step in the right direction that we can't just, we don't just have guys transferring all the time for any reason without any limits.

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 So, I think that that's probably the way to go forward and have it open for two weeks or whatever you want to do.

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 There's still some work to be done that we'll see.

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 Hopefully, in a couple years, the calendar situation is a little cleaner and crisper and we figure out what we're doing with some of these early round playoff games.

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 And, you know, hopefully we take over that Army-Navy weekend, you know, keeping a window carved out for the game to be a standalone game, but also having, you know, some playoff games going on at that time, too.

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 Adam, we'll get more into SEC basketball.

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 The Gators look really good.

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 Started five and four.

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 Maybe the best in the SEC.

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 Van, you lost two games.

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 Bama won two road games.

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 Georgia, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Missouri Tigers beat Auburn Matin.

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 We'll get into that more next week.

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 Yeah, SaturdayDownSouth.com.

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 Adam, listen, man, thanks so much and have a great and safe week, okay?

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 Yeah, thanks a lot, guys.

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 Thank you, Boone.

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 You, too.

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 Welcome back to End Championship Monday.

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 Of course, going to be talking about that a time between now and 2 o'clock.

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 I would imagine this fellow by the name of Paul Feinbaum will pick it up after that and

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 BB, in the meantime, obviously the portal closed, what, Friday night at midnight.

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 If you were going to be asked where as an Alabama and Auburn fan you are today compared to maybe

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 Max is ready now, but I think both of these teams really improved themselves the last three

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 Well, Max, I think he was contemplating into the portal, and now I think he's back with

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 a thing called Sports Talk in the entire Southeast.

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 Max, welcome in.

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 How are you?

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 Doing great, guys.

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 I thought y'all sure b****** at LSU, though, with Lee Kiffin, since he finished, I think,

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 number one as far as recruiting out the portal.

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 The question, Max, how could he not when he's basically, they begged him to come down there

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 and give him a checkbook and said, right, whatever amount you want, why would he not be

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 He's going to go to the truth.

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 It's the NFL in college.

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 He didn't want to go to the NFL because he only gets one draft pick.

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 Now he can get, what, 85, you know?

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 That's right.

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 He's got the money to pay him.

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 And he's got the money to pay him.

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 Everybody was fussing at that governor down there, and is he now being regarded as a genius?

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 And, of course, the proof will be in the pudding when they kick it all off.

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 This is a place I don't want to be.

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 I don't want to be in Oxford, Mississippi, the third Saturday in September.

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 Ooh!

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 It ain't going to be nice.

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 They're going to call him things you can't say on Sunday morning.

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 I guarantee you.

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 Some things you can't even spell.

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 Max, obviously, tonight is the night outside of Pinocchio, who's known for lying.

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 Who would have said, like we told you so 12 months ago, it's going to be Indiana and Miami

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 playing for all the marbles.

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 Yep.

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 I'll be honest with you.

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 I think these are the teams playing.

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 I'm not saying they're the best team, but they're the teams playing at their best right now.

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 And I think that's what, you know, championship's all about.

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 I think a lot of people haven't really dug into the structure of what Signet has done at Indiana.

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 It's just amazing.

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 And it's some things that I don't jump at.

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 I didn't realize they almost double the other universities as far as contributions from the graduates and their booster club.

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 Wow.

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 850,000 active members in their booster clubs around the country.

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 Those numbers just surfaced this past week.

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 Of course, Mark Cuban has been with him since they started.

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 He's already doubled his contribution somewhere up around, personal contribution up around $20 million right now.

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 So, you know, they've got all the parts it takes to make.

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 I ran across the staff the other day.

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 The last term they personally, the team being, turned the ball over to the opponent, they've had over 1,000 offensive plays since that happened.

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 So, I look for a good ball game.

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 I don't, I'm taking Indiana.

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 I think it's going to be, I don't think they cover.

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 I think it's, what, an eight and a half right now.

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 But I think they'll come back and win.

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 They don't make mistakes like Miami did.

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 Miami's got talent now.

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 We all know that.

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 You don't get to where they are without that.

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 But I think, I think Indiana is so methodical.

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 They're so well coached.

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 And here's another number that I jumped up.

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 The average age of that football team, guys, they don't have high school kids.

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 It's like 23 years and seven books.

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 No, and Max, they do have high school kids, too.

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 The team has high school kids.

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 They're the parents of those high school kids.

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 That's about true.

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 That's about true.

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 Watch football run.

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 Yeah.

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 That's exactly right.

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 Well, I think it's, you know, I think it's going to be extremely entertaining.

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 You know, the guys that really bet big money on that, I think they're going to have a nervous night if they take money.

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 Not to say they won't win, but the fact is, I think it's going to be really, really entertaining.

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 I can't wait.

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 I'm going to turn the TV on to get ready about 6 o'clock.

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 Just be ready when the kickoff starts.

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 All right, Max.

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 Indiana is so efficient.

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 And I know we've talked about this to death the last two weeks.

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 They've had one fumble on the entire season.

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 That was in the first game.

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 They've had 13 penalties all year.

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 That's unheard of when you look at what can happen in a game.

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 And Miami's got the talent to stay in this game to the end.

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 But that's the key, Max, is they just seem to, in really big games, there is a breakdown.

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 There is a key turnover or there is a mental mistake.

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 And Indiana, so forth this year, just doesn't make mental mistakes.

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 I agree with you.

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 Now, I mean, those are the things that are so evident that most people, you know, they don't dig into that.

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 They'll sit down and watch.

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 You know, we jump to the other side of that.

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 The people that's going to be in attendance there, the price of the tickets are just off.

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 I mean, it's like going to a World Series game or, you know, an Olympic event.

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 It's absolutely, I don't want to say ridiculous practically.

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 And it's projected, I've read some numbers this morning, it's projected that

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 Indiana will control the numbers in that state.

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 Yeah, I think so.

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 There will be more Indian people there than it will be Miami people there.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 So, I mean, it's just shaping up to really make an interesting ball game first.

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 And second is set some records that I don't think many people are expected, have been expected all year.

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 So, I don't know.

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 I'm tickled to death to get down, to sit down.

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 I don't have, I'm not, I'm not going to actually pool feed the team.

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 I'm just going to watch the perfection.

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 Enjoy.

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 You know, and I think they've found ways to take them to isolate.

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 I'm pretty well known from some experience and contacts I've talked to before.

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 Jimmy Johnson's pretty well had been signated with his defense down there.

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 I mean, these e-books will see Miami do well.

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 And I think that, of course, they'll have, you know, Miami will have the sideline loaded

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 with ex-players and they'll be running down the field as well.

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 So, you know, it's just, I don't know that we've ever had a game like this, you know,

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 with the background like it is.

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 Right.

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 And I think it's extremely, I can't wait tomorrow to see the numbers, the television numbers that

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 come out.

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 I mean, how many viewers asked to watch the game tonight.

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 Well, I'm not going to doubt anybody from Indiana.

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 You know how this business works, you work with a lot of different folks over the years

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 and one of the smartest groups of people I ever worked with came down from Indiana.

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 My gosh, I thought I knew a lot about radio and TV.

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 I was a student, trust me.

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 There's some smart people up there.

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 Max, let me ask you this.

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 Obviously, Alabama and Auburn's trying to get there.

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 The portal season is how you go out and supposedly plug and play for your needs come next season.

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 Now that the portal has closed, your thoughts about Alabama and Auburn,

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 have they closed and, you know, remedied their problems from this past season via the portal?

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 I think, I think based on what they were looking for, they probably have, but I'm going to take it another step.

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 Harold, that's just, that's just the scratch of the surface.

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 What happens is, regardless of who you bring to, you got to coach them.

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 And I think that's where we've had some problems with both of those teams in the last year or two.

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 They just hadn't been coached up.

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 And I'm not saying, you know, deliberate.

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 I think they're doing probably the best they can do.

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 But they've left both schools.

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 If you watch any games whatsoever, they're not complete.

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 You know, they may emphasize one or two things, but, you know,

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 Alabama never get together with a good offensive front.

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 I mean, I think that's what happened to Ty Simpson this year.

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 He was beat up too badly.

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 The situation at Auburn, I don't know that they could ever settle on whether they want to be a running team or a passing team.

436
00:29:01,620 --> 00:29:09,580
 I mean, you can just sit back and pick apart the incomplete philosophy, I think, of putting together a good staff,

437
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 regardless of what the talent level was on the field.

438
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 Max, I sent you a copy of a 1977 August the 1st letter from Bobby Bowden to the freshman.

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 And my help, things changed.

440
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 Now, some of this stuff is just absolutely priceless.

442
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 Have your hair cut before you report.

445
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 Be sure to have your head.

446
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 This is literally what he said.

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 Be sure to have your head screwed on right when you get here.

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 We will work toward one common goal when you report, and that is to get the 50 best men ready to get after Southern Miss.

449
00:30:10,220 --> 00:30:14,880
 Bring a coat and tie and a dress shirt with you for the trips.

450
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 We will dress like men, not children.

451
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 Leave all pants at home.

452
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 I do not want them in our housing.

453
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,560
 See you August 19th at 11 a.m. underlined.

454
00:30:31,420 --> 00:30:33,240
 Signed, Bobby Bowden.

455
00:30:34,100 --> 00:30:34,360
 Yep.

456
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 That was him.

457
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 I mean, listen, he was as much about teaching life lessons as he was coaching football.

458
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 I think that was the biggest takeaway.

459
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 It was amazing, the transition that I'd be in.

460
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 Of course, I'd been at Troy.

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462
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 And then ended up at Florida State.

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 And I'm telling you guys, it was like daylight dark.

464
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 People, I think, and I think the University of Florida witnessed that in the past couple of years with Napier.

465
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 I mean, he came out of a, you know, that lower division in Louisiana and had a great record and done well in there.

466
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 But I don't think people that can't be on the inside didn't realize the difference when you get to that top level.

467
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 And at the time that, of course, that was a letter that was written when Coach Bowden was just getting started.

468
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 I happened to show up on that staff, guys, the first year.

469
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 I was there the first two years that he was in the top five.

470
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 Of course, that went on 12 years after that.

471
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 But it was just the way that he presented himself.

472
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 It was a caliber of recruiting that was going on.

473
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 And a lot of people today, because of their kind of fall for grace in the last couple of three years,

474
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 didn't realize that we were playing at the level Alabama's been playing for the last three or four years.

475
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 We didn't recruit guys.

476
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 We selected.

477
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 We'd have guys.

478
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 It was all American high school players in California pay their own way to fly to the campus to talk us into recruiting them.

479
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 I mean, it was amazing how that was working at that particular time.

480
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 But, hey, he was a unique guy and a completely individual person that the public rarely ever got a chance to glimpse, I'll tell you.

481
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:34,720
 Yeah.

482
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:38,560
 Absolutely amazing.

483
00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:45,320
 Max, we cannot tell you how much we normally get to the end of the football season to give you a little bit of a break.

484
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 Hopefully, we can get back with you maybe during spring.

485
00:32:48,580 --> 00:32:50,920
 I know Auburn's already announced their spring game.

486
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,980
 We'll see how many of the other teams do.

487
00:32:54,140 --> 00:32:57,300
 But I can't tell you how much we enjoy your insight.

488
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:04,020
 Coaching about as far as what goes on in the sideline, on the field, and off the field.

489
00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:06,240
 We appreciate it tremendously.

490
00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:08,560
 Have a great winter and spring.

491
00:33:08,900 --> 00:33:11,760
 And, Max, we'll do this again with you just as soon as we can.

492
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:13,660
 I hope so, guys.

493
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:14,740
 It's always my pleasure.

494
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,660
 And, you know, I'll certainly be available any time you want to call.

495
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 Thank you so much for the opportunity.

496
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 We're going to hold you to that, Max.

497
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 And make sure that you get up close and personal with the Lazy Boy tonight.

498
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:25,780
 Okay, Max?

499
00:33:26,700 --> 00:33:28,400
 I'm sitting right here on it now.

500
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 Warming it up.

501
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 Max Howell, the one, the only.

502
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 Coming up, time to check in.

503
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 Is Freddie ready?

504
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505
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 Welcome back in.

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 Quickly, latest basketball poll is out.

623
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:18,700
 Alabama cashing on that win.

624
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625
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 After we say hello to the Mr. Freddie Kirby Show.

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 He is the general manager down at Southeastern Athletics.

629
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 Freddie, welcome in.

630
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 How are you?

631
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 Doing just fine, guys.

632
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 And everything.

633
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 Doing my favorite thing I always love to do, working on taxes.

634
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 Oh, boy.

635
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 Freddie, Freddie, Freddie.

636
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 I tell you what, I'll make you happy.

637
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 You can work on mine, too.

638
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 How's that?

639
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 So I'll make you a very, very happy guy.

640
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 Let me ask you this, Freddie.

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 We're sitting here, obviously, to the games tonight.

642
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 Everybody's sitting here looking and trying to get fired up about it.

643
00:39:57,540 --> 00:39:59,500
 In our neck of the woods, I'm seeing more.

644
00:39:59,620 --> 00:40:02,160
 Let's talk about the portal, and we'll talk about the game.

645
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 Freddie, your thoughts, if you were going to do that,

646
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 as far as Alabama and Auburn meeting their needs via the portal,

647
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 what would you say?

648
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 Well, right now, I think the situation, especially with Alabama,

649
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 I think they have met their needs,

650
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 but I think they upgraded over the players that they lost.

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 Because any time I can look on here,

652
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 and I see five offense, five defensive linemen,

653
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 and to go along with five offense and five defense

654
00:40:31,460 --> 00:40:33,800
 in the high school recruiting society,

655
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 20 linemen in any year is a great accomplishment.

656
00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:41,860
 And I think the ones that they have brought in

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 have a higher potential and a higher production rate

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 than what they lost.

659
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 But it comes down to both sides of the ball.

660
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 Who's going to coach them?

661
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 Can they develop them and get the most out of them?

662
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:56,000
 Yeah.

663
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 Let me ask you this, Freddie.

664
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 You look at it, and I'm looking at the stars.

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 That's all we've got right now.

666
00:41:02,720 --> 00:41:03,180
 It's on paper.

667
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 Time's going to tell whether or not they live up to the potential,

668
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 of course.

669
00:41:06,180 --> 00:41:09,440
 But you're seeing a lot of more and more three stars,

670
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 and a lot of these guys who left were four and five stars.

671
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 Is it safe to say that maybe these guys never lived up to their expectation?

672
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,780
 And just because somebody is a three-star doesn't mean you can't make

673
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 a national championship game.

674
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 Just ask Indiana.

675
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 Your thoughts, are things changing with some of these stars' evaluations?

676
00:41:27,780 --> 00:41:31,420
 Well, most of these people that throw a star raking on them

677
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 are basing it off just a little bit of film footage,

678
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 and they've never seen the kid play in person,

679
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:42,240
 and they've never seen the kid in a personal conversation with them

680
00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:42,860
 a lot of times.

681
00:41:43,240 --> 00:41:44,860
 All they do is they don't know about the kid,

682
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:46,300
 so they throw a three-star on him.

683
00:41:46,620 --> 00:41:46,820
 Right.

684
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,420
 And then, because, like I told people last year

685
00:41:51,420 --> 00:41:52,660
 for the Alabama side E-class,

686
00:41:53,060 --> 00:41:54,960
 if Lotseer Brooks was a three-star player,

687
00:41:55,300 --> 00:41:57,280
 then I'm president of the United States.

688
00:41:59,860 --> 00:42:03,080
 And because anybody that could watch that kid

689
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:06,760
 could see that that kid was by far better than a three-star player.

690
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:10,280
 Back in the day, I had Marcel Dares rated number two player in Alabama.

691
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:11,640
 Everybody else had him a three-star.

692
00:42:12,860 --> 00:42:15,820
 And everything, I go by what I see and everything.

693
00:42:15,980 --> 00:42:18,360
 I don't let star rating get into my decision-making.

694
00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:19,820
 It's what I think.

695
00:42:19,860 --> 00:42:24,400
 I go by what I see in my experience over 40 years and everything.

696
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:28,580
 But it all comes down to how big a heart does the kid get?

697
00:42:29,340 --> 00:42:31,440
 Does he want to become the best player he can be?

698
00:42:31,900 --> 00:42:33,420
 And is he going to get out there and fight for it?

699
00:42:33,780 --> 00:42:35,980
 Or is he going to lay down and just go through the motions

700
00:42:35,980 --> 00:42:37,740
 like some of the players do this day and time?

701
00:42:38,460 --> 00:42:39,860
 Pout because they don't get your check.

702
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,620
 Freddie, let's start with the offensive line.

703
00:42:44,620 --> 00:42:47,420
 Alabama, as you noted, they brought in five.

704
00:42:47,540 --> 00:42:49,200
 They're looking at a few other guys.

705
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,700
 Caden Strawhorn, Ty Hayward.

706
00:42:53,620 --> 00:42:57,300
 Earlier in the season, Hayward, of course, was the commitment to Alabama

707
00:42:57,300 --> 00:43:01,340
 a couple of years ago and then went to Michigan and followed the money.

708
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,340
 Kel Pauley, offensive lineman, Rayson Del Gaudi.

709
00:43:05,380 --> 00:43:10,720
 I know you love him, and I'll let you talk about him at length, 6'4", 3'10".

710
00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:18,200
 Nick Brooks from Loganville, Georgia, initially, I believe,

711
00:43:18,260 --> 00:43:23,800
 recruited as an offensive lineman, switched in, I mean, tackle, switch inside.

712
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:28,720
 Ethan Fields, redshirt junior, played at Ole Miss.

713
00:43:28,860 --> 00:43:32,200
 Freddie, talk a little bit more about the offensive line class.

714
00:43:33,100 --> 00:43:37,320
 Well, what you got there, Brad, like you said, Ty Hayward was committed to Alabama,

715
00:43:37,500 --> 00:43:39,700
 and that's where the young man wanted to be all along.

716
00:43:40,580 --> 00:43:43,880
 The Michigan throwed a ton of money at his family and everything,

717
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,600
 and they seen that chance to get glory dollar-wise and get out of debt, probably,

718
00:43:48,740 --> 00:43:49,860
 and everything, and jumped on it.

719
00:43:49,860 --> 00:43:50,980
 But that don't make the kid happy.

720
00:43:51,500 --> 00:43:53,040
 If you're not happy, you're not going to perform.

721
00:43:53,940 --> 00:43:57,240
 And the opportunity presented itself for him to go into the portal

722
00:43:57,240 --> 00:43:59,940
 and come back to Alabama, and the door was still open for him.

723
00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:04,900
 They did not close it, and he's a young man that's got position flexibility.

724
00:44:05,180 --> 00:44:07,740
 I think he could be a big guard, but I think he's a tackle all the way.

725
00:44:08,540 --> 00:44:11,100
 And everything, he can go left or right tackle, in my opinion.

726
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:15,540
 Everything, he's got feet, and he's got the length on his arms

727
00:44:15,540 --> 00:44:17,600
 to where he can keep the rushers at bay.

728
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,520
 Rayson Delgatti, as you said, is a player I love.

729
00:44:20,940 --> 00:44:26,140
 His fundamentals, his techniques, his punch on the snap of the ball,

730
00:44:26,660 --> 00:44:27,800
 and everything is extraordinary.

731
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,320
 No, he was not playing as he seemed to be a talent.

732
00:44:32,180 --> 00:44:35,880
 But, as I told people, fundamentals travel.

733
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:37,620
 Technique travels.

734
00:44:38,340 --> 00:44:42,840
 And a mean streak he's got inside him travels.

735
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:47,180
 And everything, I think he starts from the first day he's here.

736
00:44:48,180 --> 00:44:51,860
 And I think he's going to really pick up right where Brailsford left off.

737
00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:55,940
 And Alabama really met their major need there.

738
00:44:56,820 --> 00:45:01,340
 And Caden Strayhorn is another center possibility that can also play guard.

739
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,040
 Alabama recruited him out of high school.

740
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,000
 Same situation, very physical at the point of attack and everything.

741
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,220
 I think he's got a chance to play right away as well.

742
00:45:10,700 --> 00:45:13,540
 Ethan Fields is a young man that I think can play in the guard position

743
00:45:13,540 --> 00:45:14,680
 and everything.

744
00:45:15,020 --> 00:45:21,060
 And he comes from a place in Louisiana called Dutchtown.

745
00:45:21,780 --> 00:45:24,060
 And Geismer High School.

746
00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:27,180
 Can you tell me the last player I ever got out of that school, Brett?

747
00:45:28,100 --> 00:45:28,900
 Eddie Lacey.

748
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:30,200
 Exactly.

749
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,280
 And if this kid turns out to be half as good as him, I'll be tickled.

750
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:42,180
 But, like I said, they lost a few players.

751
00:45:42,500 --> 00:45:48,420
 Like with Wilson Foreman going to Texas A&M for a big payday and everything.

752
00:45:49,060 --> 00:45:51,780
 I think Haywood's going to fill that void there and never miss a leak.

753
00:45:51,980 --> 00:45:53,460
 And that may be probably exceeding.

754
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,420
 And everything with Michael Carroll already still there.

755
00:45:57,300 --> 00:45:58,520
 I think they're there.

756
00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:02,120
 Plus, you've got your five high school kids that you signed on top of.

757
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:05,280
 You've got people like Bryson Cooley who's got a chance to play early.

758
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:07,840
 Chris Booker's got a chance to play early.

759
00:46:08,660 --> 00:46:12,380
 And I've not seen very many offensive linemen in my time, guys.

760
00:46:13,180 --> 00:46:14,200
 Like Barrett Fretwell.

761
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,920
 He's 327 pounds running a 4-7-7.

762
00:46:17,720 --> 00:46:18,560
 That's pretty good.

763
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:20,600
 That's pretty good.

764
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:27,180
 But I think all five of the players that they signed, Nick Brooks, is one that's a huge guy.

765
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:29,640
 340-something pounds.

766
00:46:30,420 --> 00:46:34,940
 I hear he's had a little run-in out of Texas and everything.

767
00:46:35,180 --> 00:46:39,020
 But he comes out of Loganville, Grayson High School in Georgia.

768
00:46:39,240 --> 00:46:41,720
 And I've seen that team play my own two eyes.

769
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:43,580
 I know what kind of talent that's over there.

770
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,440
 If they get his full potential out of him, I think he'll be in very good shape.

771
00:46:49,020 --> 00:46:59,680
 But as far as the offensive line, Fred, to answer your question, I think there will be a lot more holes to feel for running backs to go through this year than it was this past year.

772
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:01,880
 Freddie Kirby in the huddle with us.

773
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:03,400
 Freddie, you hit on a good point.

774
00:47:03,460 --> 00:47:07,540
 As good as Nick Saban was, he showed you better have a pretty good list of assistants under you.

775
00:47:07,860 --> 00:47:10,200
 We saw that tail end of his tenure there at Alabama.

776
00:47:10,740 --> 00:47:16,540
 Your thoughts back to the point that you alluded to, the players now look like they're in the corral.

777
00:47:16,980 --> 00:47:21,500
 What kind of tweaking would you do on the coaching staff to get the most out of that talent?

778
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,460
 Well, the first thing I'm going to do is the positions we're talking about.

779
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:28,700
 I'm going to change both coaches on the line of scrimmage and everything.

780
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:30,860
 Because I'm going to break some fierce mentality.

781
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:35,400
 Because what made Alabama and Nick Saban so great on the line of scrimmage

782
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:39,100
 was when you had Jeff Stoutman going against Bo Davis every day in practice.

783
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:39,640
 That's it.

784
00:47:40,380 --> 00:47:47,020
 And both coaches pushed each one of them to whoop the other guy.

785
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:49,440
 And that brought about the fierce competition.

786
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:54,140
 And on Saturday, it kind of felt like it was a step down from what they're facing in practice.

787
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,380
 But that's definitely where I would start.

788
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:03,360
 And Alabama is what I hear brought in reinforcements for the special teams as well.

789
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:08,580
 Getting a very strong kicker from the country of Ireland by way of Marshall University.

790
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:13,100
 Great punter from UNA that I know they hated to lose and everything.

791
00:48:13,340 --> 00:48:15,380
 And they've got two long snappers coming in.

792
00:48:15,420 --> 00:48:16,500
 One is a preferred walk-on.

793
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:21,880
 And the other one is a young man that I think they brought in through the portal.

794
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:27,600
 So they brought in reinforcements there because you've got to improve these special teams and everything.

795
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:34,140
 Blake Dowd is not okay at times and everything, but there were several times he got off 30-something yard punts,

796
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:35,380
 which is not going to hit you.

797
00:48:36,180 --> 00:48:41,180
 And Caleb Woodson is a linebacker that they've got that's going to start from day one.

798
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:48,200
 He's a very good replacement for, well, the double zero for Alabama.

799
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:48,860
 I lost his name.

800
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:49,840
 I was fixing to say it.

801
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:52,280
 Lawson?

802
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:53,960
 Lawson, yeah.

803
00:48:54,340 --> 00:48:56,360
 I started to say D because I didn't get him to come out.

804
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,980
 But Lawson is going to be a big loss because he's been there.

805
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:01,940
 He's been a bell cow in that defense for years.

806
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:03,900
 And everything is probably some injury.

807
00:49:04,020 --> 00:49:06,380
 But Caleb Woodson is going to fill his void very quickly.

808
00:49:07,020 --> 00:49:09,700
 And everything, he's actually quicker to the ball than Lawson was.

809
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:14,920
 And then, but he's got the same kind of force on the tackle.

810
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,740
 The most time when he hits you, you don't go forward.

811
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,000
 He stops your momentum very quickly.

812
00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:23,960
 And he'll play very, very quickly.

813
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,600
 Then you've got Xavier Griffin from the high school ranks.

814
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:28,500
 He's going to flank you outside and everything.

815
00:49:29,100 --> 00:49:32,540
 Once he gets strong enough physically to match ACC quality,

816
00:49:32,620 --> 00:49:33,780
 you're going to see him as a freshman.

817
00:49:34,900 --> 00:49:38,800
 But that's the players right there that are going to be reinforcers.

818
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:41,920
 And special teams in both lines of scrimmage are different places

819
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:46,300
 that I would start as far as looking to upgrade Harold.

820
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,060
 But I would also take a strong look at running back.

821
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:49,980
 Yeah.

822
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:55,300
 For the defensive line, you love Terrence Green from Oregon.

823
00:49:56,620 --> 00:50:00,400
 Desmond Yu from South Carolina has impressed you.

824
00:50:00,820 --> 00:50:06,520
 Devin Tompkins from USC, Kendrick Billing, Bingley Jones from Mississippi State,

825
00:50:06,660 --> 00:50:07,560
 Caleb Smith.

826
00:50:08,460 --> 00:50:12,340
 Talk about Desmond Yu from South Carolina and Terrence Green.

827
00:50:13,780 --> 00:50:17,520
 Well, Terrence Green is that big body that you've got to have in the direct center

828
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:18,560
 of the defensive line.

829
00:50:19,220 --> 00:50:23,200
 He's going to take up two tack blockers, I should say.

830
00:50:23,780 --> 00:50:28,480
 He's going to fill that void in the middle and make running backs take a different slot.

831
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:32,720
 He's a bigger body than Keenan was as far as height.

832
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:37,280
 But Tim Keenan, I'll give him his deserved honor.

833
00:50:37,820 --> 00:50:41,100
 I think the young man stood for what Alabama stands for.

834
00:50:41,260 --> 00:50:42,240
 He played his heart out.

835
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,540
 He's the only guy on the defensive line, I should say,

836
00:50:45,780 --> 00:50:48,020
 that I think gave me that on every play.

837
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:52,920
 And Terrence Green has got a chance to fulfill his void

838
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:56,740
 and pick up right where Keenan left off.

839
00:50:57,500 --> 00:51:03,600
 Having Desmond Yuma Zulu on the outside rushing the passer,

840
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:05,940
 I think is a major upgrade.

841
00:51:06,540 --> 00:51:11,460
 Keenan Keenan has come on this past year and everything.

842
00:51:13,100 --> 00:51:20,920
 So is Obertin, Obertin had the situation with the illness and everything.

843
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:26,680
 Zulu is going to give you an opportunity to play him in green side to side,

844
00:51:27,380 --> 00:51:33,100
 both of them in a very high, tall range, 6'6", and everything.

845
00:51:33,100 --> 00:51:40,280
 And you're going to get more push in the middle than you had this past two years.

846
00:51:41,340 --> 00:51:45,080
 And then because, plus you've got ACC experience,

847
00:51:45,340 --> 00:51:50,040
 and Terrence played at Oregon, you know he didn't start right away.

848
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:51,800
 He was in the rotation.

849
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,040
 And that's what it's going to be in the ACC, too.

850
00:51:54,180 --> 00:51:55,860
 You're not going to play every play.

851
00:51:56,600 --> 00:52:01,140
 And Devin Thompson gives you another physical presence that you can put on the opposite side.

852
00:52:02,260 --> 00:52:06,340
 Guys can't just focus on one person and everything.

853
00:52:06,720 --> 00:52:10,500
 You've got a chance to get a real big push out of three guys in the middle there,

854
00:52:10,660 --> 00:52:13,120
 which is going to free up your Yonsei Piers.

855
00:52:14,380 --> 00:52:16,080
 People like that to rush the passer.

856
00:52:17,220 --> 00:52:22,120
 When they get a little experience on them and everything, people like Caleb Smith out of Parker.

857
00:52:22,540 --> 00:52:24,460
 He played at Washington and everything.

858
00:52:24,580 --> 00:52:29,820
 He's got a chance to come in and play and everything because he does have a motor.

859
00:52:29,820 --> 00:52:32,920
 He's got quickness off the edge and everything.

860
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:39,540
 But if people are going to be focused on Pierre, which is going to free him up to where he's one-on-one,

861
00:52:39,620 --> 00:52:40,780
 all he's got to do is beat his man.

862
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:51,240
 And a guy like Bingley Jones from Mississippi State and everything, he is another middle guy that's going to be in that rotation,

863
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:55,420
 that's going to be physical at the point of attack.

864
00:52:55,700 --> 00:52:57,220
 And guys, we haven't had that in a while.

865
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:06,100
 But like I said, it's going to come down to can whoever's coaching them get it out of them because the material is there and everything.

866
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:09,620
 Can you sew that material together and get a force?

867
00:53:10,900 --> 00:53:14,140
 Freddie, let me close with you in about two minutes.

868
00:53:14,260 --> 00:53:17,800
 Nico Brown, the Yale All-American, good numbers.

869
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:19,240
 Yeah, snicker, snicker.

870
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,800
 I know he's from the Ivy League, but the kid can play.

871
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,140
 I was impressed with that.

872
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:31,600
 Ha-ha, Clinton Dix has a younger brother, Jacoby Clinton, from West Florida.

873
00:53:32,220 --> 00:53:36,140
 78 tackles, 19 tackles for a loss, and seven sacks.

874
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:44,600
 And while they were at it, they picked up a receiver for the 2026 class, Maurice Mathis from Georgia.

875
00:53:45,660 --> 00:53:48,520
 62 receptions for 1,200 yards.

876
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:52,600
 My Walker County math tells me that's 20 yards a catch.

877
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,400
 Freddie, those dudes real quick.

878
00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:59,360
 Well, let's start with Mathis and everything.

879
00:53:59,500 --> 00:54:01,440
 The young man they picked up for the 26 class.

880
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:07,840
 Watching his film and everything, I see a little bit of Jeremy Bernard in him and everything.

881
00:54:08,140 --> 00:54:10,680
 He's a guy that's going to run your slants.

882
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:12,160
 He's going to run your crossing patterns.

883
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:18,060
 He's going to do your, what I call, 845 pattern to the post and everything.

884
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,600
 He's very good at getting in the gaps.

885
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:23,840
 He's very good at catching the ball with his hands, which Alabama needs.

886
00:54:24,780 --> 00:54:37,880
 And everything, he's not necessarily a burner burner, but he is one that's going to make it feasible for your light seer, Bruce Ryan Williams, to not be double-teamed.

887
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:43,980
 And the safeties are going to have to account for him in the middle, or he's just going to wear him out like Bernard is.

888
00:54:44,580 --> 00:54:49,500
 And so then, but he's the one that, yeah, he was committed to Sanford.

889
00:54:49,660 --> 00:54:52,200
 Last time I checked, Sanford threw that ball around quite a bit.

890
00:54:52,340 --> 00:54:52,780
 Yeah, they did.

891
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:56,360
 Under Chris Hatcher before he got let go.

892
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:57,320
 Yeah.

893
00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:07,140
 And then, Clint Dixon's brother, West Florida, I can tell you up front, it's not your everyday Division II football program.

894
00:55:07,300 --> 00:55:07,400
 Right.

895
00:55:07,820 --> 00:55:13,060
 I expect him actually to move up into the Division I ranks for too many more years.

896
00:55:14,220 --> 00:55:18,080
 And then, he had quite a few tackles.

897
00:55:18,220 --> 00:55:20,360
 He's a lot bigger than Ha-Ha was.

898
00:55:21,260 --> 00:55:29,160
 And he will, for what a little bit of film I've seen on him, he's another one that's very physical on the tackle and everything.

899
00:55:29,820 --> 00:55:33,440
 He's a form tackler, and he can pursue sideline to sideline.

900
00:55:34,940 --> 00:55:41,500
 And they need quite a few of those guys too, because we've lacked in that area.

901
00:55:41,740 --> 00:55:50,080
 But Luke Mets is one I expect to really come on this year and start making a pretty big name for himself after he redshirted last year.

902
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:54,020
 And you mentioned one other bread that's slipping my mind.

903
00:55:54,020 --> 00:55:55,020
 That's Nico Brown.

904
00:55:55,480 --> 00:56:00,280
 The Yale wide receiver and everything.

905
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:06,540
 Like I said, the numbers and stats that he put up, I don't care what league you play in, the kid's a football player.

906
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:08,780
 And he's another one.

907
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:09,880
 But he's got the opportunity.

908
00:56:10,380 --> 00:56:13,560
 He can get deep on you and everything.

909
00:56:13,900 --> 00:56:21,520
 And he's one that people use to say, like Slade Bolden, people like he used to question, why was he at Alabama?

910
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 Slade Bolden made a lot of plays for Alabama.

911
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 And those kind of receivers have their place and everything.

912
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 But this kid is actually a potential game-breaker that knows how to get open and knows how to win.

913
00:56:36,820 --> 00:56:38,340
 And, yeah, he's visiting Stanford.

914
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 He left Alabama going out there.

915
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 His brother's at Stanford.

916
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 But I don't think he's going to make a decision based off of his brother being there.

917
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 He's from a very smart situation.

918
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 He goes to Yale.

919
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 It tells you he's got a pretty good head on his shoulders.

920
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 And being looked at by Stanford is another situation.

921
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 In my business, guys, I've had one girl, one person, recruited by Stanford University in my career.

922
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 And get this, eighth grader, 31 ACT.

923
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 Wow.

924
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 That's up there.

925
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 That's up with the beard boys.

926
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 Together.

927
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 No question.

928
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 We put our three ACTs together.

929
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 We might equal that.

930
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:22,480
 Yeah, you're right.

931
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:28,800
 And there's also a young man, wide receiver, out at Utah State.

932
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 Brady, you can keep your eye on it.

933
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 His last name is Duarte.

934
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 And I think he's a slasher also.

935
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 He's in the 5'8", 5'9", range.

936
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 But he had a lot of yardage this year as well.

937
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 And he can slash a defense open, kind of like Waddell used to on those crossing routes.

938
00:57:50,380 --> 00:57:54,460
 Get two steps on you out of the break and go the distance on you.

939
00:57:55,060 --> 00:57:57,280
 And I don't think Alabama's done in the portal.

940
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,220
 I think you can look for them to go one or two more wide receivers.

941
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:07,020
 And I think if somebody is good enough that they can't afford to turn it down, I think they'll do it.

942
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 But I want to give you a position that this staff loves to recruit, and apparently they know how to do it, and that's tied in.

943
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 And they love these 6'6", 6'5", 225 to 265 pounders.

944
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 And they do a very good job there.

945
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 Yeah, the forward kid.

946
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 Listen, we've got to run to the break, buddy.

947
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 Great, great stuff.

948
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 Southeastern Athletics is a great organization, too.

949
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 We will have you on again soon, bud, and look at the 2026 upcoming season.

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951
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952
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953
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 As long as I take rubber checks, we should be in good shape.

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1053
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1054
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 Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall says he's not going anywhere

1055
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 regarding the Republican Senate primary race.

1056
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:57,380
 Marshall's statements come after President Trump gave a long-awaited endorsement

1057
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 of U.S. Congressman Barry Moore in this primary race.

1058
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 Marshall is also in this race, along with former U.S. Navy SEAL Jared Hudson,

1059
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 Tuberville aide Morgan Murphy, and businessman Rodney Walker.

1060
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 Despite President Trump singling out his preferred candidate in this race,

1061
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 Marshall maintains that he has never played it safe and will not be backing down.

1062
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 Marshall also pointed out that as the state attorney general,

1063
01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:22,500
 he supported President Trump in his agenda, as well as putting the people of Alabama first.

1064
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 Marshall also agrees with the president that the 2020 election was stolen on behalf of Joe Biden

1065
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 and that Marshall opposed the Biden administration every chance he got and, in many cases,

1066
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 was victorious in that legal fight.

1067
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 A shooting occurred on Sunday night at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Bessemer.

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 One man has died as a result of that shooting.

1078
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1081
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 A teenager was killed in Adamsville after a multi-vehicle crash occurred.

1082
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1114
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1118
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1119
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 With that, we head on down to the south end of the state and say hello to Ben Thomas.

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 He's got it all covered there at AL.com.

1121
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 It used to be called the beach.

1122
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 Now, it's called the snow belt of the state of Alabama on the beach.

1123
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 Ben, welcome in.

1124
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 Did you survive the blizzard of 26?

1125
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 I just put my sled back up.

1126
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 No, we didn't get it.

1127
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 I think we got something like in the 4 a.m. hour the other night, but I didn't see it.

1128
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 Look, we're never going to – I can't imagine we're ever going to beat what we had last year

1129
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 when we got nine inches about this time.

1130
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 I mean, I think my son now thinks it's going to snow every year in Daphne, Alabama.

1131
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 That's probably not going to happen.

1132
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 But, no, we didn't have much.

1133
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 We had a little bit, but nothing to speak of.

1134
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 It's all that global warming that's going on.

1135
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 I would imagine the reason we're getting so much snow down where the palm trees grow.

1136
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 Ben, obviously, the big news tonight with the national championship game,

1137
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 but the bigger news tomorrow, Mr. Football is going to be announced in the state of Alabama.

1138
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 Ben, unless you have to shoot us any hints on who it might be.

1139
01:07:55,440 --> 01:07:56,580
 Yeah, that's the bigger news.

1140
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 Mr. Football is the bigger news for me than –

1141
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 There you go.

1142
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 Anyway, in my line of work.

1143
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 But, although we do have some local – some Alabama players playing tonight,

1144
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 so I'll be interested in following them.

1145
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 But, yeah, you know, I think we've talked about it before.

1146
01:08:12,900 --> 01:08:15,380
 I mean, I think we got – I was just looking at all the candidates.

1147
01:08:15,460 --> 01:08:17,660
 We got some guys who had tremendous years.

1148
01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:23,420
 I mean, you got to start with Trent Seaborn, who we've been talking to since you and I were in college.

1149
01:08:23,420 --> 01:08:29,800
 It just seems like he's the junior quarterback from Thompson that led the Warriors to the state championship.

1150
01:08:30,140 --> 01:08:35,640
 You got, obviously, E.J. Crowell, the Jackson running back who's already enrolled at Alabama.

1151
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:40,380
 I think most people think those two guys would probably be the primary contenders.

1152
01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:42,400
 But, also, you know, you got some other good players.

1153
01:08:42,540 --> 01:08:45,900
 Aaron Fry had an unbelievable year for Clay Chalkwell.

1154
01:08:46,020 --> 01:08:48,380
 He was the MVP of the 6-8 state title game.

1155
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:53,280
 And of the north-south game, Gunnar Rivers, another big year.

1156
01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:56,800
 I think he threw for over 3,000 yards and 46 touchdowns.

1157
01:08:56,800 --> 01:09:00,520
 Of course, he's the son of our buddy, NFL star, Phillip Rivers.

1158
01:09:01,960 --> 01:09:02,680
 Jamison Roberts.

1159
01:09:02,820 --> 01:09:03,920
 I mean, the list could go on and on.

1160
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:07,040
 But, really, if you look at the invitees for tomorrow's event,

1161
01:09:07,540 --> 01:09:11,920
 there are some guys that we're going to see on Saturday, not just in the future,

1162
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:13,740
 but some on Saturday, I think, next year.

1163
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:14,620
 Yeah.

1164
01:09:15,900 --> 01:09:17,360
 No question about that.

1165
01:09:17,460 --> 01:09:22,800
 D.T., Mr. Football Banquet tomorrow, Friday, reclassification.

1166
01:09:23,140 --> 01:09:26,200
 I know you've been asked about this.

1167
01:09:26,340 --> 01:09:28,000
 We've talked about it at length.

1168
01:09:28,380 --> 01:09:34,060
 The last two or three weeks, executive director of the Alabama High School Athletic Association,

1169
01:09:34,240 --> 01:09:37,980
 Heath Harmon, did confirm that it's, according to your report,

1170
01:09:38,100 --> 01:09:42,060
 that it will indeed take place on January the 23rd.

1171
01:09:42,060 --> 01:09:46,200
 We've got a lot of teams going up and down based on student enrollment.

1172
01:09:46,940 --> 01:09:49,720
 Also, the public-private issue is still out there.

1173
01:09:50,220 --> 01:09:53,520
 B.T., in your gut, what do you feel about the upcoming week?

1174
01:09:54,580 --> 01:09:58,980
 Well, I would tell you what I would know, but I have to kill you.

1175
01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:01,200
 But, unfortunately, I don't know very much.

1176
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:08,820
 I mean, I've talked to a lot of people, including Heath Harmon, who didn't tell me much of anything other than the fact that,

1177
01:10:08,940 --> 01:10:13,680
 as you said, Brent, they do plan to go ahead with reclassification on Friday.

1178
01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:17,920
 I think, like has been reported, I think there's multiple plans on the table.

1179
01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:22,680
 Mr. Harmon will recommend whatever plan he feels like is the right way to go,

1180
01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:26,660
 and then the central board will try to come to a conclusion on it.

1181
01:10:26,740 --> 01:10:32,580
 I think the meeting's at 9 a.m. on Friday, and so we ought to have that news, you know,

1182
01:10:33,020 --> 01:10:36,600
 depending on how long it goes, late morning or early afternoon for sure.

1183
01:10:37,260 --> 01:10:38,740
 And I've gone back and forth on it.

1184
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:39,880
 We talked about it last week.

1185
01:10:39,980 --> 01:10:45,760
 I mean, for a while I was kind of thinking that, you know, maybe the best plan is just to kick it down the road

1186
01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:51,280
 and if they want to do it, you know, form some committees to make sure they do it the right way in two years.

1187
01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:56,560
 But it just seems like from the people I'm talking to that everybody kind of gets the feeling

1188
01:10:56,560 --> 01:11:02,380
 that they might try and separate the private schools into championship play this year.

1189
01:11:02,700 --> 01:11:04,560
 But they could go either way.

1190
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:07,520
 I'm interested to see where they go.

1191
01:11:07,660 --> 01:11:12,760
 And, you know, I think, you know, if it stays pat, you have fewer questions.

1192
01:11:12,940 --> 01:11:17,180
 If they do decide to separate them, well, that brings a whole other bunch of questions in.

1193
01:11:17,420 --> 01:11:17,820
 Oh, boy.

1194
01:11:18,060 --> 01:11:19,220
 You know, how does that happen?

1195
01:11:19,220 --> 01:11:22,420
 Is there one or two different divisions for private schools?

1196
01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:24,840
 Do they even stay in the AHSAA?

1197
01:11:25,260 --> 01:11:26,980
 Where do they play their championship game?

1198
01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:31,720
 I mean, there's just, you know, a thousand questions if that comes up.

1199
01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:33,700
 So I think a lot to be decided.

1200
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:36,260
 It'll be, I'm sure, some anxious moments.

1201
01:11:36,460 --> 01:11:40,480
 I'll see, obviously, see Mr. Harmon tomorrow at the Mr. Football Bank.

1202
01:11:40,540 --> 01:11:44,880
 I suspect he won't have very much to say about it other than they're looking at the data

1203
01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:47,160
 and they'll do what they feel is best.

1204
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:51,220
 But I don't think anybody really knows for sure what's going to happen.

1205
01:11:52,100 --> 01:11:54,220
 Politics at its best, Ben Thomas.

1206
01:11:54,480 --> 01:11:56,920
 Ben, I appreciate what you guys do at AL.com.

1207
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 You can sit here and make decisions or you can make it interactive.

1208
01:12:00,780 --> 01:12:03,920
 And a good job of you guys letting folks get involved.

1209
01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:05,220
 We mentioned Mr. Football.

1210
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:11,520
 The other award is the People's Choice Award, and it just shows you how popular this kid is.

1211
01:12:11,580 --> 01:12:13,720
 The aforementioned Trent Seaborn winning that.

1212
01:12:14,080 --> 01:12:15,040
 He's the People's Choice.

1213
01:12:15,140 --> 01:12:23,180
 People don't realize this kid, he plays in the state of Alabama, but he's got strong roots to Hawaii of all places.

1214
01:12:24,020 --> 01:12:24,960
 He does, yeah.

1215
01:12:25,100 --> 01:12:28,260
 He's, you know, like I said, I joked before, we've known him for so long.

1216
01:12:28,360 --> 01:12:34,140
 I mean, he was the MVP of the 7A state title game as an eighth grader when he was still at the middle school, you know.

1217
01:12:34,180 --> 01:12:41,060
 And they had the banner, welcome, welcome back state championship MVP, Trent Seaborn to Alabaster Middle School or whatever it is.

1218
01:12:42,080 --> 01:12:49,600
 But he is, you know, he just, he's going to set, I can't imagine any 7A quarterback ever playing as many games as he's going to play.

1219
01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:54,220
 I mean, I think he's in the 50s now, 7A games started with another year left now.

1220
01:12:54,660 --> 01:12:54,820
 Yeah.

1221
01:12:55,560 --> 01:12:57,720
 Obviously, he's already committed to Alabama.

1222
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:00,760
 Great player, very smart player.

1223
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:04,620
 He threw for about 3,700 yards and 35 touchdowns this year.

1224
01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:06,660
 And, of course, Thompson won another state title.

1225
01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:12,640
 And he, you know, our People's Choice Award was interesting this year because the seeds kind of held.

1226
01:13:12,820 --> 01:13:20,460
 I mean, we see 16 players going into it, kind of like the NCAA, and then the fans vote on it round by round.

1227
01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:24,540
 And it came down to number one versus number two, which was Crowell versus Seaborn.

1228
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:27,400
 And many people think that'll be the Mr. Football debate as well.

1229
01:13:28,860 --> 01:13:30,060
 And Seaborn won that award.

1230
01:13:30,140 --> 01:13:30,660
 Very close.

1231
01:13:30,740 --> 01:13:31,820
 It was very close to the rallies.

1232
01:13:32,340 --> 01:13:36,720
 You had seven days to vote, and a couple of days it was within a few votes.

1233
01:13:37,160 --> 01:13:39,240
 Trent ended up pulling away there at the end.

1234
01:13:39,660 --> 01:13:41,580
 So he's the People's Choice Player of the Year.

1235
01:13:41,660 --> 01:13:45,540
 And last year, you know, it was the 16th seed, the Tuscaloosa Academy quarterback that won.

1236
01:13:45,740 --> 01:13:49,020
 So it was interesting to see the top two seeds hold this year.

1237
01:13:49,080 --> 01:13:54,120
 But we do that, you know, we've started to do that in basketball, girls and boys basketball as well.

1238
01:13:54,220 --> 01:13:55,260
 People seem to like it.

1239
01:13:55,440 --> 01:14:02,280
 And it's just, you know, any way we can continue to give these high school athletes deserved attention is what we're trying to do.

1240
01:14:03,360 --> 01:14:09,100
 Yeah, in fact, you had the Power 10 for girls basketball out earlier this afternoon.

1241
01:14:09,100 --> 01:14:13,280
 If not already, I know you're going to have the Power 10 boys.

1242
01:14:13,700 --> 01:14:17,580
 You will have the latest as far as coaching changes, too.

1243
01:14:20,620 --> 01:14:22,800
 Destin Goodwin ended up at Demopolis.

1244
01:14:22,920 --> 01:14:24,760
 I think that's going home for him.

1245
01:14:25,420 --> 01:14:31,860
 Josh Niblett, who was in Georgia, former Hoover coach, is going to be the tight end coach for Coach Prime at Colorado.

1246
01:14:32,240 --> 01:14:33,840
 Boy, that was quite a step up.

1247
01:14:34,420 --> 01:14:35,980
 We'll be talking about these.

1248
01:14:36,060 --> 01:14:38,040
 Good luck with the conference tomorrow.

1249
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:39,620
 Safe travels.

1250
01:14:40,080 --> 01:14:43,840
 And this time next Monday, we're going to have a lot to talk about, I'm sure.

1251
01:14:44,620 --> 01:14:48,160
 What else is on the agenda this week and where can we get online to get it?

1252
01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:51,340
 You might have to extend my segment next week.

1253
01:14:51,900 --> 01:14:52,300
 Yeah.

1254
01:14:53,420 --> 01:14:55,200
 Yeah, I'm excited about tomorrow.

1255
01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:59,220
 I don't know if worry is the right word, but I'm anxious about Friday.

1256
01:14:59,540 --> 01:15:02,280
 But tomorrow we're going to try not to worry about that.

1257
01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:05,520
 We're going to celebrate these 48 young men and what they accomplished.

1258
01:15:06,260 --> 01:15:11,400
 Bill Clark is our guest speaker, our keynote speaker, so I think that's going to be fun.

1259
01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:14,940
 And then, you know, we're going to see what happens in reclassification.

1260
01:15:15,180 --> 01:15:17,560
 But we'll have it all covered on AL.com.

1261
01:15:17,700 --> 01:15:21,280
 And like you said, Brett, we have the high school power rankings today and tomorrow

1262
01:15:21,280 --> 01:15:23,340
 and the basketball rankings on Thursday.

1263
01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:26,240
 So a lot of good stuff coming your way.

1264
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:32,320
 And whatever the decision is made on Friday, I think there will be a lot more stories to come out of that.

1265
01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:35,160
 And plus, you know, we didn't even talk about the government situation

1266
01:15:35,160 --> 01:15:36,340
 and what they're trying to do.

1267
01:15:36,560 --> 01:15:40,260
 So that's a whole other alley to go down.

1268
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:41,240
 Yeah.

1269
01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:44,400
 Whatever it is, you know it's going to rattle the cage no matter the answer.

1270
01:15:44,540 --> 01:15:45,360
 Ben, listen, enjoy.

1271
01:15:45,540 --> 01:15:46,240
 Safe travels soon.

1272
01:15:46,320 --> 01:15:46,580
 Promise.

1273
01:15:46,700 --> 01:15:47,720
 Do it again soon, okay?

1274
01:15:47,980 --> 01:15:48,340
 All right.

1275
01:15:48,400 --> 01:15:48,860
 Thanks, guys.

1276
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:49,420
 Y'all have a good week.

1277
01:15:49,440 --> 01:15:49,900
 Thank you, bud.

1278
01:15:50,320 --> 01:15:53,300
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1353
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 Okay, so like, everybody deals with losing, right?

1354
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1355
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 Now, back with Boomo Bugg.

1404
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 On 93.9, The Score.

1405
01:21:39,780 --> 01:21:40,620
 Welcome back in.

1406
01:21:40,660 --> 01:21:43,660
 It is always a pleasure for us to say hello to the V-Man.

1407
01:21:43,800 --> 01:21:45,660
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1408
01:21:45,740 --> 01:21:49,140
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1409
01:21:49,220 --> 01:21:50,880
 V-Man, welcome in.

1410
01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:55,500
 Are you ready to pull a curtain on the 2025-26 football season?

1411
01:21:55,580 --> 01:21:56,100
 How are you?

1412
01:21:56,860 --> 01:21:57,680
 I'm good.

1413
01:21:57,680 --> 01:22:02,800
 Yeah, because this is kind of drug out, I think, in my opinion.

1414
01:22:03,880 --> 01:22:06,700
 Yeah, I'm ready to see tonight's game, obviously.

1415
01:22:07,540 --> 01:22:11,500
 But, I mean, there's been so many other things going on.

1416
01:22:12,020 --> 01:22:18,740
 It's kind of, especially with the portal when you have to track that, it kind of takes your attention away from the national championship game.

1417
01:22:18,820 --> 01:22:20,640
 And it's unfortunate when that happens.

1418
01:22:21,300 --> 01:22:26,920
 So, yeah, let's put a closure on this because so much work's already being put in the next year.

1419
01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:29,660
 Yeah, and next year they're going to be even a week later.

1420
01:22:29,720 --> 01:22:33,100
 I think it's like taking a gallon of paint and you keep on adding water to it.

1421
01:22:33,120 --> 01:22:34,600
 You just dilute it when you do what you do.

1422
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:35,780
 But let me ask you this, V-Man.

1423
01:22:36,820 --> 01:22:43,540
 For a long-time baseball fans, remember, this goes back to the Houston Colt 45s before they were the Astros.

1424
01:22:44,020 --> 01:22:46,700
 They had a guy named Rusty Stobb.

1425
01:22:46,700 --> 01:22:54,240
 V-Man, does Tennessee finally have their quarterback solution in Ryan Stobb coming over from Colorado?

1426
01:22:55,700 --> 01:23:00,620
 Yeah, I don't think that would be the common description for him.

1427
01:23:01,480 --> 01:23:07,040
 He is a QB, so that checks one box.

1428
01:23:07,620 --> 01:23:09,400
 A QB, not the QB, right?

1429
01:23:09,700 --> 01:23:15,880
 Right, AQB, not the desired QBs because of his rating, one.

1430
01:23:16,280 --> 01:23:18,920
 And two, he's not experienced.

1431
01:23:19,340 --> 01:23:26,920
 And part of the whole pursuit, the profile that they were looking for is an experienced guy,

1432
01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:34,560
 maybe with one year of eligibility left that could bridge the gap to get you to your really talented young players,

1433
01:23:34,740 --> 01:23:40,140
 second-year guy to come in George McIntyre, and first-year five-star phase on Brandon,

1434
01:23:40,380 --> 01:23:43,220
 and to give you time to make sure they're ready to go.

1435
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:50,360
 Ryan Stobb from Colorado, who they got a commitment to from the portal over the weekend, does not do that.

1436
01:23:50,760 --> 01:23:51,640
 He hadn't played enough.

1437
01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:56,760
 He started one game this past year, and so he's got a little bit of on-the-field

1438
01:23:56,760 --> 01:24:01,600
 time in a powerful conference, but not a whole lot.

1439
01:24:02,180 --> 01:24:05,300
 And so, you know, the numbers don't overwhelm you.

1440
01:24:05,440 --> 01:24:10,680
 There are some, you know, decent throws and plays on tape, but there's not a whole lot of it.

1441
01:24:11,660 --> 01:24:13,840
 He's just not overwhelming in any way.

1442
01:24:14,020 --> 01:24:19,120
 So does that mean he won't be, you know, a good quarterback?

1443
01:24:19,520 --> 01:24:20,260
 We don't know.

1444
01:24:20,260 --> 01:24:23,940
 I mean, nobody thought that Trinidad Chambliss was going to be.

1445
01:24:24,600 --> 01:24:34,000
 But Trinidad Chambliss also, you know, won championships and played a ton on his level before he moved up.

1446
01:24:34,480 --> 01:24:40,440
 Stobb doesn't have that experience, so he is a third quarterback, a scholarship quarterback that they needed in the room to compete.

1447
01:24:40,440 --> 01:24:51,600
 But I don't think it changes, you know, the likelihood of George McIntyre, if he's ready, probably being Tennessee's starting quarterback next year.

1448
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:58,060
 And at least you have, you know, a fallback with someone with some experience before you get to phase on Brandon.

1449
01:24:58,060 --> 01:25:13,360
 The court date for Joey Aguilar's case to be heard by Chief District Judge William Campbell is February the 10th.

1450
01:25:13,440 --> 01:25:23,320
 And Campbell ruled on another case last week for eligibility and did not rule, I believe, in favor of the player.

1451
01:25:24,260 --> 01:25:26,860
 Has Tennessee informally moved on?

1452
01:25:27,080 --> 01:25:28,080
 Are they still waiting?

1453
01:25:28,200 --> 01:25:32,700
 I know they would certainly accept him if it's a favorable ruling.

1454
01:25:33,160 --> 01:25:38,280
 But your thoughts on the court date and what that may entail for Tennessee?

1455
01:25:38,900 --> 01:25:44,380
 Yeah, I don't think Ryan Stobb changes them accepting Joey Aguilar back.

1456
01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:50,340
 So had they been able to land one of the top quarterbacks, that's a different story.

1457
01:25:50,340 --> 01:25:57,460
 Then you're paying, you're investing so much money in the NIL that that is now your guy for this year.

1458
01:25:57,600 --> 01:26:03,500
 And then Joey Aguilar would likely have to find somewhere else to play and he would get that opportunity.

1459
01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:07,980
 There's no doubt out of what's left that hasn't already filled it.

1460
01:26:08,660 --> 01:26:16,940
 So, but no, he would immediately come back, I think, and be the front runner for Tennessee's starting quarterback.

1461
01:26:17,160 --> 01:26:23,900
 Now, I think they would approach it as, hey, we're going to let everyone come in and compete rather than giving it to Aguilar.

1462
01:26:23,900 --> 01:26:31,740
 But he would be the, you know, the front runner by a landslide to get that gig.

1463
01:26:31,860 --> 01:26:35,140
 So, no, that could be another addition, there's no doubt.

1464
01:26:35,620 --> 01:26:41,720
 But I think it's highly unlikely, you know, based on the court case last week, based on the NCAA.

1465
01:26:41,720 --> 01:26:49,560
 Ross Dellinger has mentioned this, the NCAA is having success in these cases being declined.

1466
01:26:49,700 --> 01:27:03,320
 And either them declining eligibility in cases they're ruling on or them winning some of these court cases in their favor of not granting eligibility.

1467
01:27:04,480 --> 01:27:08,380
 I think it's tough sledding in this situation.

1468
01:27:08,900 --> 01:27:10,920
 So, yeah, it's tough.

1469
01:27:11,020 --> 01:27:15,320
 And then the timing of it, also not ideal for anyone.

1470
01:27:15,440 --> 01:27:19,240
 But I guess it would, you know, it would be before spring practice.

1471
01:27:19,240 --> 01:27:22,540
 But then, you know, is Joey Aguilar still enrolled in school?

1472
01:27:22,820 --> 01:27:28,360
 Probably should be in order so he doesn't miss spring practice if he does get that ruling.

1473
01:27:29,420 --> 01:27:31,960
 I would guess, but I'm not certain on that.

1474
01:27:32,760 --> 01:27:36,220
 Hey, man, talk to us before we jump off here.

1475
01:27:36,300 --> 01:27:38,940
 The grade, obviously, the portal window has closed.

1476
01:27:39,040 --> 01:27:40,780
 We know there's still going to be some action out there.

1477
01:27:40,920 --> 01:27:45,140
 But to date, what kind of grade would you put on this class for the Big Orange?

1478
01:27:46,640 --> 01:27:49,700
 Well, I would say somewhere in the B range.

1479
01:27:50,960 --> 01:27:54,760
 You know, they, you know, quarterback and running back were their two biggest needs.

1480
01:27:55,100 --> 01:27:57,060
 And they filled them at the very end.

1481
01:27:57,060 --> 01:28:01,860
 And the quarterback, like we talked about, didn't get, you know, one of the top-level guys.

1482
01:28:02,520 --> 01:28:06,360
 And that running back ended up getting Javin Gordon from Tulane.

1483
01:28:07,620 --> 01:28:12,300
 And, you know, that was late in the process after having a number of other guys you brought in before that

1484
01:28:12,300 --> 01:28:15,620
 commit to other schools or sign with other schools.

1485
01:28:15,900 --> 01:28:18,080
 So, you know, they addressed a lot on defense.

1486
01:28:18,460 --> 01:28:20,460
 I think it's seven defensive backs.

1487
01:28:20,900 --> 01:28:24,580
 It was a safety-driven defense by Jim Knowles.

1488
01:28:25,380 --> 01:28:27,640
 They added, I think, three more on the D-line.

1489
01:28:27,840 --> 01:28:30,800
 They could, honestly, could have done more on the D-line.

1490
01:28:31,140 --> 01:28:33,220
 In terms of experience, they have a lot of numbers.

1491
01:28:33,440 --> 01:28:36,840
 But they're a freshman in the class.

1492
01:28:37,520 --> 01:28:42,960
 You know, so it's a very young group still, even with the portal auditions they did.

1493
01:28:43,220 --> 01:28:44,720
 It does include Chaz Coleman.

1494
01:28:44,720 --> 01:28:50,480
 And it depends on whether you include Arian Carter in that grade.

1495
01:28:51,140 --> 01:28:51,360
 Right?

1496
01:28:51,600 --> 01:28:58,640
 He's a starter, productive, all-ACC-level linebacker that declared for the NFL draft.

1497
01:28:58,800 --> 01:29:03,600
 And Friday was reported he was pulling out of the NFL draft and was entering the transfer portal.

1498
01:29:04,060 --> 01:29:07,260
 Then, after discussions with Tennessee, reverse course.

1499
01:29:07,680 --> 01:29:13,440
 And he's coming back to Tennessee, announced on social media yesterday or over the weekend.

1500
01:29:13,780 --> 01:29:20,640
 So, now that linebacker room looks pretty strong for Tennessee because they added Penn State's Mike linebacker,

1501
01:29:20,720 --> 01:29:24,860
 who's familiar with Knowles and Amari Coleman, or Amari Campbell, excuse me.

1502
01:29:24,860 --> 01:29:31,000
 So, they have good pieces that they've added on this defense through the portal.

1503
01:29:31,700 --> 01:29:34,360
 I still think they could use an experienced wide receiver.

1504
01:29:34,540 --> 01:29:38,400
 They had one, and he flipped and went to Baylor.

1505
01:29:38,920 --> 01:29:42,680
 So, incomplete, I think, still on offense.

1506
01:29:43,320 --> 01:29:51,120
 But good things on defense that fits Knowles and being able to communicate the, you know, air-quote complicated defense.

1507
01:29:51,740 --> 01:29:55,060
 So, I think they helped themselves a lot in that area.

1508
01:29:55,180 --> 01:29:56,120
 Not enough on offense.

1509
01:29:56,500 --> 01:29:59,660
 So, it evens out to about a B, I think.

1510
01:30:01,220 --> 01:30:03,500
 Tennessee with a last second.

1511
01:30:04,500 --> 01:30:08,680
 Kentucky comes back to stun Tennessee 80-78.

1512
01:30:08,680 --> 01:30:16,880
 The second two-point win by Kentucky on the week after a Hail Mary pays off against LSU.

1513
01:30:17,620 --> 01:30:19,740
 Vols have a week off before they do what?

1514
01:30:19,820 --> 01:30:27,660
 They travel to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Saturday night, 7.30, I believe, Central Time is the tip-off.

1515
01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:30,700
 Great stuff, Bud, as usual.

1516
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 Where can we get online to get these great stuff?

1517
01:30:34,440 --> 01:30:35,320
 Yeah, I appreciate it.

1518
01:30:35,320 --> 01:30:37,580
 A lot of work to do for that basketball team.

1519
01:30:37,580 --> 01:30:39,480
 Fans are quite frustrated.

1520
01:30:40,840 --> 01:30:43,900
 And, you know, the way they turn the ball over and not being able to execute.

1521
01:30:44,140 --> 01:30:48,580
 And having players talk about lack of effort, that is not the norm with Rick Barnes.

1522
01:30:49,100 --> 01:30:56,980
 They got a lot of looking in the mirror and soul-searching to do this week before they head to Tuscaloosa, which will be a tough game for them.

1523
01:30:57,220 --> 01:30:58,740
 You can follow me on all the socials.

1524
01:30:58,800 --> 01:31:00,820
 It's Vince Sports, V-I-N-C-E Sports.

1525
01:31:01,860 --> 01:31:06,600
 Retweeted an interview we did with the great Tom Luganbill from front of your show as well.

1526
01:31:06,900 --> 01:31:14,880
 And I'm about to put on my YouTube channel that video version of that interview with a preview of the national championship game

1527
01:31:14,880 --> 01:31:18,440
 and talking about the transfer portal, including the ball.

1528
01:31:18,580 --> 01:31:20,640
 So really, really good stuff from that.

1529
01:31:20,700 --> 01:31:22,640
 So check that out on YouTube.

1530
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 And then SportsSource Digital Network on YouTube as well.

1531
01:31:26,560 --> 01:31:31,720
 Tom, Clark Kent Luganbill, I guarantee you check it out if you don't know what to check out that photo.

1532
01:31:31,860 --> 01:31:33,580
 Listen, B-Man, good to hook you up with you.

1533
01:31:33,640 --> 01:31:35,020
 Stay safe and warm up there, okay?

1534
01:31:35,600 --> 01:31:36,840
 All right, you do the same.

1535
01:31:37,020 --> 01:31:37,780
 Thank you, buddy.

1536
01:31:37,880 --> 01:31:38,180
 Appreciate you.

1537
01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:40,240
 B-Man hooking up with us.

1538
01:31:40,300 --> 01:31:40,960
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1539
01:31:41,120 --> 01:31:44,080
 It's going to be interesting to see the crowd Saturday night for that Tennessee game, BB.

1540
01:31:44,160 --> 01:31:48,600
 If these weather guys and girls have a forecast, it could be iffy at best.

1541
01:31:48,600 --> 01:31:52,120
 In the meantime, speaking of Alabama, the Redfish on deck.

1542
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1555
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 We want to wish Coach Burleson and the entire Falcon basketball team good luck this season.

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 Well, here we are again, and I got to tell you, Jim, this match has me really concerned.

1571
01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:45,500
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1572
01:33:46,000 --> 01:33:50,840
 and this hasty lightweight Challenger, a car at just one and a half tons.

1573
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 This does not bode well for the car or the people in it.

1574
01:33:56,300 --> 01:33:57,680
 It's no contest.

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1634
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 Glenn Campbell had the Wichita lineman.

1635
01:37:14,760 --> 01:37:17,060
 Alabama had the offensive lineman.

1636
01:37:17,200 --> 01:37:20,880
 William Redfish-Barcher now also busy as Cole Sabam's radio.

1637
01:37:21,040 --> 01:37:21,880
 William, welcome in.

1638
01:37:21,940 --> 01:37:22,620
 How are you?

1639
01:37:23,520 --> 01:37:24,340
 Doing good, guys.

1640
01:37:24,420 --> 01:37:26,000
 Hope y'all are having a good month as well.

1641
01:37:26,320 --> 01:37:27,640
 Hey, we're doing all right, William.

1642
01:37:28,400 --> 01:37:35,340
 Obviously, as a former lineman, who's got a better eye to evaluate where Alabama is now?

1643
01:37:35,480 --> 01:37:40,920
 It's one of those deals where if you lose some, you better gain some, and they better be as good or better.

1644
01:37:41,480 --> 01:37:51,340
 William, with the lineman coming in, we know only time is going to tell, but what does your gut tell you about where Alabama is now with the respective lines as opposed to where they were before the portal?

1645
01:37:52,760 --> 01:38:11,700
 Well, I mean, I think so far of the ones, you know, that they've kind of brought in as new guys, I think that Delgatti, the center, and Brooks, the transfer from Texas, are probably the two that stand out the most to me for a couple of reasons.

1646
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:24,580
 You know, Delgatti, for what he's asked to do at his position, is absolutely dominating, you know, at the level of football that he was playing at Cal Poly.

1647
01:38:25,380 --> 01:38:39,100
 And, you know, he's got a spring practice to, you know, get adjusted and, you know, get used to life in the SEC, and I think he's going to be a plug-and-play guy right off the bat.

1648
01:38:39,320 --> 01:38:49,200
 You know, Brooks is a guy that, you know, really kind of shocked the Texas coaches, and, you know, I don't think they were, you know, real happy about losing him.

1649
01:38:49,460 --> 01:39:00,060
 You know, they brought him in as an offensive tackle, he was a true freshman, and they just got decimated early in the season at offensive guards, so they were forced to play him.

1650
01:39:00,100 --> 01:39:11,820
 And he actually got three starts in SEC games versus Oklahoma, Mississippi State, and Kentucky, and really kind of surprised the coaches with how well he performed, you know.

1651
01:39:11,940 --> 01:39:22,380
 And so, you know, I think those are two guys that will, you know, if not start, push for starting jobs and certainly amp up the competition.

1652
01:39:22,380 --> 01:39:28,420
 And, you know, I can probably put a, you know, a 1B besides Ty Haywood's name.

1653
01:39:28,760 --> 01:39:37,320
 You know, I think he's a guy that I know Alabama's probably going to evaluate, you know, at one of the guard spots.

1654
01:39:38,460 --> 01:39:46,280
 He's got more of a tackle body, as does Brooks, but he's got more of a left tackle body frame, but he's put on some weight.

1655
01:39:46,440 --> 01:39:48,520
 Now he's, you know, right around 320.

1656
01:39:49,440 --> 01:39:57,360
 So, you know, does he push for a starting guard spot, or is he a really, really good backup?

1657
01:39:58,360 --> 01:40:02,240
 Or, you know, can he push Jackson Lloyd at left tackle in the spring?

1658
01:40:02,360 --> 01:40:03,300
 We'll have to wait and see.

1659
01:40:03,440 --> 01:40:11,240
 But I think those three guys are, you know, kind of guys that they really, really kind of hit it out of the park with.

1660
01:40:12,060 --> 01:40:14,060
 Rampish, talk to us about the intangible.

1661
01:40:14,120 --> 01:40:19,140
 Obviously, these kids in high school, they're gifted physically, and who knows, in all kinds of ways, so they stand out.

1662
01:40:19,440 --> 01:40:23,380
 Talk to us about the learning curve, and you go back to your day, a high school standout,

1663
01:40:23,860 --> 01:40:29,840
 and just talk to us about the speed, the mental part of the game, because you can bring in a class on paper that looks great,

1664
01:40:30,280 --> 01:40:36,600
 but sometimes they lack experience, and the only way you get it is like going to a cave and sitting in the select tight and select might.

1665
01:40:36,640 --> 01:40:37,700
 It's a drip at a time.

1666
01:40:37,800 --> 01:40:38,600
 It's a slow process.

1667
01:40:38,720 --> 01:40:45,360
 But talk to us, as the guy who you've been there and done that, trying to get up to speed at this level as a lineman.

1668
01:40:46,700 --> 01:40:52,800
 Well, you know, it was more of a physical curve for me because I actually played tight end in high school.

1669
01:40:53,240 --> 01:40:59,980
 And there was a little bit of a difference for me, you know, stop blocking 150-pound safety

1670
01:40:59,980 --> 01:41:06,980
 or being asked to block a 200-pound defensive end, you know, versus what I was asked to do.

1671
01:41:06,980 --> 01:41:14,840
 And so, but I think in today's game, when you see that, you know, the majority of these high school offensive linemen

1672
01:41:14,840 --> 01:41:18,660
 are already around 300 pounds or close to it when they come out,

1673
01:41:18,780 --> 01:41:24,720
 really the mental aspect of it is where the adjustment is.

1674
01:41:24,720 --> 01:41:24,900
 Yeah.

1675
01:41:24,900 --> 01:41:32,260
 It's because of, you know, the blocking schemes and, you know, if you're going up against, you know,

1676
01:41:32,300 --> 01:41:38,740
 a front seven that does a lot of slanting, stunning, blitzing of the linebackers, you know, i.e. Oklahoma,

1677
01:41:39,520 --> 01:41:45,240
 you know, the things happen in such a quick amount of time, you know, when the quarterback gives you that,

1678
01:41:45,460 --> 01:41:52,380
 you know, red call and, you know, your antenna goes up to see what the play is and then the ball is snapped.

1679
01:41:52,380 --> 01:41:55,780
 All that happens in the course of about two and a half or three seconds.

1680
01:41:56,180 --> 01:42:00,000
 So, you know, you can't really have a lot of potato farmers up there.

1681
01:42:00,080 --> 01:42:04,580
 No offense to potato farmers, but you can't really have a lot of potato farmers up there.

1682
01:42:05,020 --> 01:42:10,760
 I mean, really and truthfully, you know, outside of the quarterback position, you know,

1683
01:42:10,800 --> 01:42:17,400
 that that's really probably the second most cerebral position on a football field at the SEC level.

1684
01:42:18,160 --> 01:42:21,160
 William, your thoughts on the defensive line.

1685
01:42:21,380 --> 01:42:24,800
 Devin Tompkins, the redshirt senior from USC.

1686
01:42:25,960 --> 01:42:28,520
 I've already heard some good things about him.

1687
01:42:28,680 --> 01:42:34,420
 Kendrick Bingley-Jones, a redshirt senior from Mississippi State.

1688
01:42:34,560 --> 01:42:39,560
 The one I've really heard a lot about is Terrence Green, the junior from Oregon,

1689
01:42:39,900 --> 01:42:44,100
 Caleb Smith from Washington, and then Desmond Yu,

1690
01:42:45,100 --> 01:42:47,880
 Yumi Ozula from South Carolina.

1691
01:42:47,880 --> 01:42:54,120
 I've heard a lot, he played behind some very good players on the D-line against South Carolina.

1692
01:42:54,680 --> 01:42:59,440
 William, your thoughts on the defensive line transfer guys they brought in?

1693
01:43:00,600 --> 01:43:06,760
 Well, I mean, the two easy ones right out of the gate that you can talk about, you know,

1694
01:43:06,860 --> 01:43:09,820
 are Stingley and Green.

1695
01:43:10,300 --> 01:43:12,300
 You know, think Tim Keenan there.

1696
01:43:12,300 --> 01:43:16,580
 You know, those are two, you know, heavy-bodied run stuffers.

1697
01:43:16,820 --> 01:43:22,800
 You know, they're not guys that you're really going to expect to put a lot of pressure on the quarterback.

1698
01:43:23,300 --> 01:43:27,380
 But more run situation guys, and I think they made a, you know,

1699
01:43:27,400 --> 01:43:30,440
 a concerted effort to get a little heavier body guys there.

1700
01:43:31,060 --> 01:43:34,960
 You know, Tompkins, you know, I think what you might end up seeing with Tompkins,

1701
01:43:35,560 --> 01:43:39,180
 and I really hope they leave him, you know, maybe at the bandit position,

1702
01:43:39,180 --> 01:43:44,820
 because when USC tried to move him inside, his productivity went down in a hurry.

1703
01:43:45,340 --> 01:43:46,780
 So I think he's more comfortable.

1704
01:43:47,000 --> 01:43:48,560
 He's a former basketball player.

1705
01:43:48,880 --> 01:43:54,740
 You know, I think he enjoys playing in space more than in that home booth on the inside.

1706
01:43:55,040 --> 01:43:58,800
 So you may end up seeing a kind of a two-for-one deal there.

1707
01:43:58,800 --> 01:44:05,280
 You know, maybe going back to the Denzel Duvall, you know, Tim Williams combo,

1708
01:44:05,280 --> 01:44:10,080
 where, you know, in run situations you see Tompkins, and, you know,

1709
01:44:10,120 --> 01:44:14,360
 in obvious passing situations, which they really needed another piece to this.

1710
01:44:15,040 --> 01:44:18,620
 You know, he might be the guy on the opposite side of the line of scrimmage

1711
01:44:18,620 --> 01:44:23,440
 from Yonzi Pierre on the outside in obvious passing situations.

1712
01:44:24,460 --> 01:44:26,840
 William, Redfish Barge in the huddle with us.

1713
01:44:27,120 --> 01:44:29,420
 Obviously, the portal has officially closed,

1714
01:44:29,500 --> 01:44:31,920
 but there's still going to be some shopping going back and forth.

1715
01:44:32,560 --> 01:44:34,280
 William, in your opinion, as far as positions,

1716
01:44:34,380 --> 01:44:36,500
 we won't necessarily talk about people unless you want to,

1717
01:44:36,600 --> 01:44:38,800
 but as far as the position, what would you like to see,

1718
01:44:38,940 --> 01:44:41,540
 and where would you like to see Alabama maybe shore things up

1719
01:44:41,540 --> 01:44:43,880
 heading into the offseason or heading into next season?

1720
01:44:45,200 --> 01:44:47,640
 Well, you know, I think we've still got a month.

1721
01:44:48,620 --> 01:44:53,000
 You know, where they can continue, you know, working around and looking.

1722
01:44:53,800 --> 01:45:00,340
 I mean, I think mid-February is when, is the last day that you can kind of enroll in school.

1723
01:45:01,020 --> 01:45:07,000
 So, you know, you might see them continue to look for a proven commodity at running back.

1724
01:45:07,160 --> 01:45:12,560
 I would like to see them maybe add one more experienced inside linebacker.

1725
01:45:13,680 --> 01:45:18,060
 You'll probably see them do some shopping for a proven,

1726
01:45:18,060 --> 01:45:19,760
 another proven wide receiver.

1727
01:45:20,480 --> 01:45:23,440
 But really, you know, if they can grab onto a, you know,

1728
01:45:23,500 --> 01:45:27,160
 a guy that they like at O-line or D-line, you know, you might see them.

1729
01:45:27,280 --> 01:45:31,480
 They've still got, you know, a lot of spots they can add if they want to, numbers-wise.

1730
01:45:32,180 --> 01:45:38,940
 But, you know, I think for sure they would probably like to have a proven commodity at running back,

1731
01:45:39,040 --> 01:45:41,060
 another one at wide receiver and linebacker,

1732
01:45:41,820 --> 01:45:44,980
 and, you know, maybe, you know, a couple more D-line.

1733
01:45:45,100 --> 01:45:48,320
 And I think they've probably gotten pretty close at the offensive line.

1734
01:45:48,760 --> 01:45:51,060
 And, you know, that's what I think, you know,

1735
01:45:51,120 --> 01:45:53,840
 one thing that you don't hear a lot of people talking about

1736
01:45:53,840 --> 01:46:00,140
 that it's going to be interesting to see with all these people that have gone into the portal

1737
01:46:00,140 --> 01:46:05,040
 is whenever a particular school spring practice is over,

1738
01:46:05,460 --> 01:46:10,040
 you know, some of these kids that hit the portal and left multiple schools,

1739
01:46:10,040 --> 01:46:14,460
 I'm not just talking about Alabama, but, you know, they're at their new destination,

1740
01:46:14,460 --> 01:46:22,240
 and all of a sudden, you know, most people know where they kind of stand with things

1741
01:46:22,240 --> 01:46:24,700
 and the pecking order and the 2-D depth chart.

1742
01:46:25,420 --> 01:46:26,700
 And, you know, I really do.

1743
01:46:26,780 --> 01:46:29,260
 I think if a lot of these kids in their new homes,

1744
01:46:29,780 --> 01:46:33,880
 if they go through spring practice and they don't like the circumstances that they've done,

1745
01:46:34,460 --> 01:46:37,060
 you're going to see them load up the U-Haul again

1746
01:46:37,060 --> 01:46:40,520
 and maybe try and go somewhere else and come in as a walk-on.

1747
01:46:40,940 --> 01:46:41,340
 Yeah.

1748
01:46:42,140 --> 01:46:46,280
 I don't think we're, you know, in a safe place yet

1749
01:46:46,280 --> 01:46:49,760
 when it comes to departures and entries.

1750
01:46:50,600 --> 01:46:51,900
 Well, the thing is, too, William,

1751
01:46:51,900 --> 01:46:54,040
 I think a lot of folks are still in a cultural shift here

1752
01:46:54,040 --> 01:46:57,460
 because with Nick, you were guaranteed to have been heavy with 4 and 5 stars,

1753
01:46:57,860 --> 01:46:59,580
 but that was an 85 limit.

1754
01:46:59,700 --> 01:47:00,460
 Now it's 105.

1755
01:47:01,160 --> 01:47:03,980
 You're also, you've got a budget to work with, so it's a brand new era.

1756
01:47:03,980 --> 01:47:07,100
 And I think a case in point to illustrate that was over the weekend

1757
01:47:07,100 --> 01:47:08,940
 to add depth to the wide receiver room.

1758
01:47:09,300 --> 01:47:12,900
 They got a high school kid with zero stars out of Georgia.

1759
01:47:13,660 --> 01:47:15,420
 Who knows what the kid can do,

1760
01:47:15,540 --> 01:47:18,860
 but I don't think Nick Saban ever recruited a zero star at any position,

1761
01:47:18,860 --> 01:47:20,920
 but it's just where we are in the modern world.

1762
01:47:22,260 --> 01:47:26,060
 Yeah, we are, and, you know, I think that, you know,

1763
01:47:26,060 --> 01:47:27,740
 the people lose track of this,

1764
01:47:27,740 --> 01:47:33,060
 and you've got a really good, you know, way to look at this

1765
01:47:33,060 --> 01:47:35,180
 coming up here in a couple of weeks, always.

1766
01:47:35,180 --> 01:47:39,280
 The only NFL game that I ever watch every year from, you know,

1767
01:47:39,300 --> 01:47:41,960
 the coin toss to the final whistle is the Super Bowl.

1768
01:47:42,740 --> 01:47:47,100
 And I'm always amazed, especially at the offensive line position,

1769
01:47:47,900 --> 01:47:53,300
 and how many guys that are offensive linemen, you know,

1770
01:47:53,320 --> 01:47:56,260
 end up making it to the Super Bowl, and, you know,

1771
01:47:56,300 --> 01:47:59,180
 they've come from places that you've never heard of before.

1772
01:48:00,180 --> 01:48:05,060
 And, you know, I think last year, I think the average starter in the Super Bowl

1773
01:48:05,060 --> 01:48:08,380
 was, you know, a three to a three-and-a-half star recruit.

1774
01:48:08,380 --> 01:48:12,180
 But you'll see these offensive line rosters for, you know,

1775
01:48:12,520 --> 01:48:15,280
 North Dakota State and Weber State.

1776
01:48:16,080 --> 01:48:22,400
 It's kind of like me when I printed out a copy of the 2025 Alabama football team

1777
01:48:22,400 --> 01:48:23,920
 schedule this past summer.

1778
01:48:24,420 --> 01:48:25,880
 I look down through there, and I'm like,

1779
01:48:26,040 --> 01:48:29,520
 I didn't even know that Eastern Illinois had a football program.

1780
01:48:30,640 --> 01:48:34,860
 I didn't see any NFL Super Bowl starters on that team when we played them.

1781
01:48:36,500 --> 01:48:37,180
 That's right.

1782
01:48:37,260 --> 01:48:37,900
 You never know.

1783
01:48:38,380 --> 01:48:38,880
 Yeah.

1784
01:48:39,640 --> 01:48:44,800
 William, you mentioned receiver as far as bringing in another experienced one.

1785
01:48:44,960 --> 01:48:50,040
 Nico Brown from Yale, and I know there's some people who snicker about the Ivy League,

1786
01:48:50,200 --> 01:48:52,560
 but this kid's a proven production.

1787
01:48:52,920 --> 01:48:58,240
 71 catches, over 1,000 yards, 108 yards per game,

1788
01:48:58,320 --> 01:49:01,980
 which was one of the top two or three in the nation.

1789
01:49:01,980 --> 01:49:05,780
 And then West Florida with Jacoby Clinton.

1790
01:49:05,900 --> 01:49:06,880
 Who's Jacoby Clinton?

1791
01:49:07,000 --> 01:49:09,300
 He's Ha-Ha Clinton Dix's younger brother.

1792
01:49:10,380 --> 01:49:14,260
 78 tackles, 19 tackles for a loss, seven sacks.

1793
01:49:14,800 --> 01:49:18,160
 And I know they're looking at other kids, but that's another good example.

1794
01:49:18,720 --> 01:49:24,200
 William, do you think Alabama will end up with one or possibly even both of those guys?

1795
01:49:25,340 --> 01:49:26,760
 I mean, I think they possibly could.

1796
01:49:26,760 --> 01:49:38,900
 Now, you know, the fact that Brown left Tuscaloosa without signing a contract and he's fixing to spend time with his brother who's on the current Stanford football team on a visit.

1797
01:49:38,900 --> 01:49:41,740
 That doesn't give me warm and fuzzies about him.

1798
01:49:42,140 --> 01:49:44,720
 But, you know, stranger things have happened.

1799
01:49:44,840 --> 01:49:53,900
 But, yeah, like I said, I certainly think that they're not done and, you know, they've got scholarships to give out and available scholarships.

1800
01:49:54,700 --> 01:50:01,960
 And, you know, I don't think they're just going to take, you know, people just to fill, you know, scout team roles.

1801
01:50:02,240 --> 01:50:04,220
 But, you know, yeah, I still think they're looking.

1802
01:50:04,360 --> 01:50:07,500
 And if they can find the right people available, they'll make more additions.

1803
01:50:08,640 --> 01:50:11,380
 So, in the meantime, who wins the ball game tonight, William?

1804
01:50:12,780 --> 01:50:13,620
 God almighty.

1805
01:50:13,920 --> 01:50:21,740
 You know, I got a pull for Mario Cristobal, one of my favorite former Alabama, probably my favorite former Alabama assistant.

1806
01:50:22,960 --> 01:50:25,920
 You know, but it's hard to see.

1807
01:50:26,080 --> 01:50:31,340
 You know, I think they can more than compete with them on both sides of the line of scrimmage.

1808
01:50:31,480 --> 01:50:36,760
 I think this is, you know, an old school Miami team when it comes to the line of scrimmage.

1809
01:50:36,940 --> 01:50:41,400
 But, you know, Miami's defense kind of reminds me a little bit of Brent Venerables.

1810
01:50:41,400 --> 01:50:48,740
 If you can survive those two defensive ends rushing the passer, I think there's a lot of plays to be made, you know, on their secondary.

1811
01:50:49,340 --> 01:50:51,320
 And, you know, Indiana is so efficient.

1812
01:50:51,840 --> 01:50:55,780
 But I would be surprised if Indiana does win.

1813
01:50:56,440 --> 01:51:02,040
 I don't think it's going to be the Alabama or Oregon type of cakewalk that they had.

1814
01:51:02,220 --> 01:51:04,860
 I think this is going to be a much more contested contest.

1815
01:51:05,180 --> 01:51:09,460
 And, you know, I want to see Mario, you know, get a national championship.

1816
01:51:09,820 --> 01:51:18,920
 He's had a, you know, tough little road to overcome, you know, kind of choking away some games that he should have won that he ended up losing.

1817
01:51:19,280 --> 01:51:22,360
 And so I'd like to see him kind of totally get over that hurdle.

1818
01:51:23,640 --> 01:51:26,740
 And, you know, get a natty as a head coach.

1819
01:51:26,920 --> 01:51:36,000
 But, you know, I don't know if they're talented enough at the skill positions to slay the dragon that's become Indiana.

1820
01:51:37,680 --> 01:51:40,120
 William, you mentioned efficiency with Indiana.

1821
01:51:40,400 --> 01:51:41,920
 I'm still amazed.

1822
01:51:42,860 --> 01:51:51,020
 With the one fumble in the first game the entire year, but Alabama had 17 penalties in one game in Knoxville two games ago.

1823
01:51:51,700 --> 01:51:53,980
 Indiana's had 13 the entire season.

1824
01:51:54,920 --> 01:51:56,840
 That's nearly unheard of to tell you.

1825
01:51:57,500 --> 01:52:01,860
 William, that is incredible when you look at the efficiency of those two stands.

1826
01:52:02,540 --> 01:52:11,880
 Well, you know, if this was 1992, you could win a lot of football games by having a defense if you didn't give up a lot of points.

1827
01:52:12,640 --> 01:52:18,480
 If you didn't create a lot of, you know, give up, you know, a lot of turnovers, if you didn't commit a lot of penalties.

1828
01:52:18,740 --> 01:52:22,080
 You know, that was efficiency, you know, 35 years ago.

1829
01:52:23,600 --> 01:52:32,380
 But, you know, in today's game, you know, obviously Indiana has all those components, but plus they've got a pretty explosive high-scoring offense as well.

1830
01:52:32,560 --> 01:52:36,840
 So, it's just a tough algorithm to overcome.

1831
01:52:37,980 --> 01:52:41,240
 Better or not, here at Kimes, William, kick back, enjoy the game.

1832
01:52:41,320 --> 01:52:45,240
 And, listen, man, thank you so much for your time today, and let's do it again real soon, okay?

1833
01:52:46,240 --> 01:52:46,820
 All right, guys.

1834
01:52:46,860 --> 01:52:48,080
 Hope you all have a good rest of the week.

1835
01:52:48,560 --> 01:52:49,100
 Thank you, buddy.

1836
01:52:49,100 --> 01:52:49,660
 Thank you so much.

1837
01:52:49,780 --> 01:52:56,160
 William, Redfish, Barger, BB, is it the case that Indiana is not going to win, but by how much?

1838
01:52:56,260 --> 01:52:58,060
 Or are you taking the upset tonight?

1839
01:52:58,980 --> 01:53:03,160
 I'm kind of going back and forth at this game, but Indiana is so efficient.

1840
01:53:03,360 --> 01:53:08,920
 I just think Miami makes a mistake, be it a penalty or a minimal mistake in the fourth quarter.

1841
01:53:09,040 --> 01:53:11,460
 I think Indiana wins 28-24.

1842
01:53:11,840 --> 01:53:13,980
 I got about at least a couple of touchdowns, right?

1843
01:53:14,060 --> 01:53:17,860
 Whatever score you want, but kick back and enjoy the game.

1844
01:53:17,860 --> 01:53:22,120
 Hard to believe the last game of the 2025-26 college football season.

1845
01:53:22,440 --> 01:53:23,600
 That's going to take care of me guys for now.

1846
01:53:23,680 --> 01:53:25,960
 On behalf of BB, Greg, James Blair, the entire crew here.

1847
01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:28,040
 Harold Buck, thank you so much for your time today.

1848
01:53:28,460 --> 01:53:33,120
 Let's do it again tomorrow on noon to two for the Boomer Buck Show, back here on Sports Radio, 93.9th Score.