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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 in 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 it's time to break out the milk and bread and a brand new chapter in Alabama high school sports. Good afternoon, welcome in and how are you?

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 Happy Friday to you and the listeners. It has been a monumental Friday morning. The two things that called our attention, of course, the college football playoff committees decided to stay at 12 teams instead of expanding to 16.

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 We'll talk with our guests about that because the SEC and Big Ten could not get together.

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 The monumental announcement was this morning. Harold, give me a minute to go through this. We will talk about this throughout the show and particularly at 120 because a lot of people want to know, where's my particular school?

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 And we've been talking about this for a while. According to Stacy Long of the Times Daily, this is the largest reorganization of the AHSAA since 1968.

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 Public and public and private schools will split. We've been wondering if that was going to be official and they will. The private schools will be changed to class AA with 17 schools and class single A with 43 schools. And we'll go into where the private schools are in the shows a little bit later.

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 Now, all members will be able to play each other during the regular season, but there will be separate championships. Class 7A has been dropped. For the public schools now will be classes 1A through 6A. And there are some radical changes.

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 And I'm just going to give you one quick example before we get to Jimmy. Class 5A Region 7. These are the schools now who will be participating.

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 In class 5A Region 7. Athens, Austin, Decatur, East Limestone, Florence, Hartzell, Muscle Shoals, Russellville.

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 We talked about an incredible region, how competitive that is.

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 We will go through the regions with our Shoals teams throughout the show, and particularly at 120 with Zach Pounders of the Shoals Sports Report.

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 He's done a very good job of staying on top of this.

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 But without further ado, Jimmy is here to talk about Alabama football transfer portal.

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 Oh, my gosh.

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 And an amazing week with Charles Bidiaco.

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 Before we get to that, can you repeat that, baby?

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 I got a feeling Jimmy would like that.

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 A lot of folks would.

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 Jimmy Stein is also focused as co-host of Locked On Bama, part of the Locked On Network.

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 Jimmy, did you get all that?

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 How are you?

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 And it is huge news.

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 I'm a big, being an Alabama football guy, I'm really into recruiting.

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 And in-state high school football is just a monumental, historic day with just a sea change.

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 And heck, you know what?

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 As much as college sports is changing, why not high school?

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 Join the field, too, right?

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 Anything other than that controversial this week in Tuscaloosa, Jimmy?

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 I think Alabama's basketball program is a little unpopular nationally right now.

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 But Alabama is just simply following the lead that's already been set, the precedents that

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 Bidiaco's not the first.

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 Now, there's different facts in each and every single case.

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 But Charles Bidiaco is not the first professional basketball player to return to college basketball.

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 Jimmy, what does it mean?

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 What does your gut tell you about that question, the answer to it?

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 I got a feeling a lot of folks are for more reasons than just the final score.

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 It's not just that, although that's a big story in and of itself.

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 Jimmy, if we were grading the Alabama football transfer portal class this time last week,

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 and again, next time we turn around, it'll be the National Signing Day, quote-unquote.

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 Jimmy, your thoughts on where we are as far as this Alabama transfer class as of 12-10 on Friday?

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 Well, obviously, the emphasis was on the lines of scrimmage.

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 I think the obvious need for Alabama was going to be improving at the line of scrimmage.

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 A lot of them graduated or hit the portal, and it just needed to be replenished.

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 Have you replaced what's left with like players?

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 Jimmy Stein is co-host of Locked On, Bama.

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 Jimmy, obviously, as far as going forward, we know that it's hard to believe the final game of the season is now in the books,

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 less than a week away from now, last Monday night.

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 Now comes the situation at Miami and Indiana.

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 How much will Alabama go shopping off that tree?

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 But I think what Alabama was looking at at the running back position was they didn't need to add a guy.

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 They wanted either a big-time difference maker or they were good with what they got.

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 There was no reason to add depth.

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 There was no reason to just add any other guy.

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 I think they may have seen Pringle from Miami as an upgrade talent-wise, a guy that could improve the room.

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 They obviously saw that in Hollywood Smothers and Relique Brown, both of whom ended up at Texas.

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 They just realized that, wow, this room could really improve if we added a dude here.

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 They took a few swings.

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 Right now, it doesn't look like that's going to work out.

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 They've got a couple of guys returning with a lot of experience.

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 And then they have young guys that everyone feels are super talented in A.K. Deer and E.J. Crowell.

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 Jimmy, anything new?

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 But Nico Brown, the Yale receiver, whose brother was at Stanford, he was going to take four visits.

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 Who I believe was going to visit Alabama this week.

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 It was finalized.

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 And I think I asked you also about Jacoby Clinton, Clinton Dix, the younger brother, the linebacker of West Florida.

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 Jimmy, anything new on those three?

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 And by that, I mean, maybe you offer a scholarship to those guys and you hope that's enough, but someone else may be offering scholarship plus rep share money.

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 And I don't know that Alabama is going to do that for players that are like them, and they may not even burn the scholarship.

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 It's not about does Alabama want these guys, but how much do they want them?

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 They would really just be depth.

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 Jimmy, before we jump off, obviously Alabama, I think by comparison, has got a quarterback room right now that's the envy of a lot of teams out there.

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 And the irony is, it looks like from reports we're getting, they may be able to add some promise to it.

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 The much-coveted five-star quarterback, Elijah Haven, looks like he's got an Alabama visit schedule before the dead period.

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 So if you do get a commitment in the next month or so, you've got a long time to hold on to someone who may end, begin, or end the cycle as the number one quarterback in the class nationally.

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 He's that talented.

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 I have a friend who's in the evaluation of business, you'd say, who tells me, in his opinion, Elijah Haven's the best quarterback he's ever seen.

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 Obviously, considering Auburn, Georgia, and Florida in addition to Alabama, but it does feel like Alabama leads.

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 Well, Jimmy, you might even be able to take a nap this weekend for several reasons, but maybe this transfer portal will slow down a little bit.

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 But, again, you and Luke Robinson do a tremendous job.

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 You work with Clint Lamb.

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 Jimmy, where can we get on line to get the best broadcast for Alabama sports?

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 Yeah, locked on Bama, myself and Luke Robinson.

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 We're not even slowing down.

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 Still six or seven shows a week right now.

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 There's just too much news.

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 Maybe at some point, if we can find something that we'll call an off-season, we might knock it down to just five shows a week.

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 But right now, it's still six or seven shows, trying to keep up with all the news and our opinions about this and that.

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 So, locked on Bama, you can find us on YouTube or audio, wherever you get your podcasts.

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 Jimmy, listen, man.

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 You know the weekend is near when Blake Lovell is here.

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 He covers the SEC at Southeastern 16.

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 Blake, welcome in.

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 See if you've got the milk, the bread, and the fresh batteries for the remote to watch a lot of ACC basketball this weekend.

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 How are you?

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 Yeah, doing well, guys.

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 Had to get all that stuff.

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 Hopefully the power stays on.

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 Because we've got a lot of games to watch.

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 A lot of games that have got shifted around tomorrow.

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 So, three or four games going at once.

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 Yeah, the ultimate snow day.

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 Or ice day, I guess.

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 Yeah, Blake, we're in Alabama.

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 You're in Tennessee.

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 Anybody going to be watching that game who's not an Alabama-Tennessee game tomorrow in Tuscaloosa?

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 Yeah, I'll tell you.

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 That's an interesting one.

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 I think there is a storyline.

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 Certainly.

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 When it comes to that particular game.

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 But, yeah, it's a big one for both teams.

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 I mean, you really think about it, right?

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 If you're picking out a group of teams right now in the SEC that I don't want to say have been disappointing.

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 But, I mean, neither of these teams probably want to be sitting here with two or more losses.

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 Alabama at three and two.

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 Tennessee at two and three.

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 And so, yeah, it's like a bigger game for the Vols just from the standings perspective.

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 But, you know, for Alabama, just trying to get any sort of, I think, consistency right now just based on having guys in and out of the rotation.

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 And, of course, now you're adding in a guy that hasn't played there in three years.

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 So, yeah, quite a setup for this one.

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 Your thoughts from afar.

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 Obviously, we're close to the epicenter here.

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 What's your reaction to this mediaco news coming in?

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 Basically, with only about just a month and some change to March Madness.

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 Yeah, I mean, I've said I can understand both arguments here.

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 If I'm an Alabama fan, of course I'd be thrilled.

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 I'd be like, you know what?

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 This is something where our front court has been a little up and down, whether it's injuries, whether it's just simply performance-based.

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 Whatever you want to do.

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 Like, okay, great.

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 He can come in and probably not play 30 minutes, but maybe he gives us something, right?

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 We've seen other teams do it out there.

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 All of that.

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 But at the same time, I think we can have the awareness that if this becomes a trend moving forward, I think college basketball's viewership and interest is going to plummet.

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 Because I just don't think this is a good solution long-term.

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 And I will also say, as we did yesterday, yes, you can argue the Alabama side of it.

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 You can also say, if Auburn was doing this, would we have the same reaction?

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 And I think we all know the answer to that.

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 And I think any rival could say the same about the other team.

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 And I think it's just simply not something that is good for the game.

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 I realize other teams have done it in different circumstances and all this other stuff.

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 But, again, this has moved so much further in a direction where there's no sort of guidelines as to what you can and can't do.

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 The NCAA says, well, we won't let this happen.

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 And it's just we just keep going in the wrong direction, guys.

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 And it's nothing against the player.

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 It's nothing against Nate Oates.

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 It's nothing against Alabama basketball.

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 It's just simply the nature of where we are.

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 Yeah, if this would have been TCU or Maryland, it would have been barely a ripple on the length of college basketball and sports.

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 But, yeah, it has not been.

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 And there are a lot of Alabama fans here who actually do not agree with this, but they understand the nature of where this is evolving.

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 And one of the marquee games tomorrow, Auburn at Florida.

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 Auburn's going three out of four.

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 They beat Ole Miss the other night.

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 The Gators have just gone wild.

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 By the way, Todd Goldin had a lot to say about Alabama's situation with Bidiaco.

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 And he said, yeah, well, it doesn't matter what they do.

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 We're going to beat them anyway.

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 I wonder if that might lead to some locker room talk since Alabama plays them a week from Saturday.

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 But Auburn plays them tomorrow.

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 Chenilu has been going wild.

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 He had 21 rebounds the other night, Blake, and that tied.

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 That tied his best.

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 But Florida has been, since they got off to a five and four start, I think they're eight and one.

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 And they look like the defending national champions.

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 I think Auburn's one of the teams that actually can match up decent with Florida, just for various kind of areas.

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 And, you know, again, you can't say that about a lot of teams.

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 But when you look at kind of the way that Auburn has rebounded, I think that's a big part of it.

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 Because the teams that Florida's beating, they're just, I mean, they're beating them on the glass.

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 Offensive glass, defensive glass.

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 But Auburn is second in both of those categories in SEC play so far, with Florida at first, obviously, when it comes to offensive rebound and defensive rebounding.

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 So I think that's a big area here to watch.

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 If Auburn can just find a way to limit some of those opportunities, second chance looks, I think that's a big part of it.

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 Also, I mean, you can kind of look at it from the standpoint of, you know, Auburn's defense has gotten better in some of these SEC games.

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 Now, I don't think Florida is going to, you know, probably be to the level that an Ole Miss or South Carolina is offensively.

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 They're just simply much better.

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 But I think if Auburn come out and at least play somewhat consistently on that side of the floor, I think they've got a good chance here to make this interesting.

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 Because, again, they have the offensive power to do it.

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 Not a lot of other teams necessarily are going to be able to do some of the things, again, that Auburn can do offensively.

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 They've gotten on the free throw line a ton in SEC play.

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 These are two teams that I don't think are going to get a single basket maybe from three.

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 It's just not great shooting teams right now in SEC play.

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 So this will be a game that's played at the rim.

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 It could be a long game.

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 Get ready for another two-and-a-half-hour SEC game.

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 You can see that.

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 But I think there are some things Auburn can do to match up with Florida, and I can't say that about a lot of teams in the SEC.

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 Blake Lovell can say a lot there at Southeastern 16.

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 Blake, are Kentucky fans calling off two men in a truck to move the Pope out of Lexington?

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 I tell you, you think about the rollercoaster ride of a season for Kentucky, and, you know, it's just like, man, at one point, you know, after that Gonzaga game, I'm like, I don't know how this ever can turn around.

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 They're five and four.

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 They just got beat by whatever, 40-something points, whatever it was, and I'm just like, how are they going to do this?

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 And then they got them back with Indiana St. John's, and then they lost Alabama-Missouri, and everything was over again, and now they won four in a row.

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 So it's just kind of, you know, it's been that kind of season for Kentucky, and I think, you know, they've got a great chance to win tomorrow against Ole Miss, to go to five wins in a row.

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 Then their schedule gets interesting after that.

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 Next week, they're at Vaderborn, Arkansas.

445
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 Those are two tough road games there when you kind of consider where those two teams are at.

446
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 So I think Kentucky, obviously, turning in the right direction in a big way here, and, you know, still, though, do I trust them?

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 No.

448
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 Am I still convinced they're going to be a team that, you know, wins multiple games in the NCAA tournament?

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 No.

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 But you also can't kind of deny that right now they're just keep finding ways to win these games, three straight wins by five points or fewer, and so they've kind of built up a confidence.

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 They didn't have rugby this season.

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 They're playing better.

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 They're playing harder, and I think that certainly has accounted for something with the team.

454
00:28:16,700 --> 00:28:26,320
 Another team that's playing better and smarter is, once again, a lot of people question, well, could Buckyball, how could they do in the SEC?

455
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:28,560
 So far, so good.

456
00:28:28,700 --> 00:28:31,700
 Five and one, 15 and four overall.

457
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,940
 They're only lost in overtime, too.

458
00:28:34,860 --> 00:28:37,060
 In Tennessee, they've got South Carolina and more.

459
00:28:37,140 --> 00:28:38,380
 They've won eight of nine.

460
00:28:38,820 --> 00:28:43,300
 Once again, the Buckyball experiment, Blake, seems to be working pretty well.

461
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:44,940
 Yeah, it is.

462
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:51,920
 I mean, they are working their style to a T, and I think that's just something to me that I thought they would not be able to do this early.

463
00:28:52,260 --> 00:28:58,380
 I thought it was going to take another year maybe, you know, getting a roster together, having more time to do that.

464
00:28:58,460 --> 00:29:07,740
 I mean, remember how quickly you had to throw this roster together this year, and I think that's just something that is kind of amazing about this whole thing is this is a roster that came together very quickly.

465
00:29:07,740 --> 00:29:13,420
 And, you know, now I think as you're looking ahead, they're going to have a lot more support, probably NIL-wise.

466
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:23,120
 And so I keep saying, guys, I think this is going to be the worst team he has there, and it's a wild thing because right now they're 15 and four and five and one in the SEC.

467
00:29:23,460 --> 00:29:28,320
 And I truly, truly think that he's going to keep getting the opportunities to build this roster.

468
00:29:28,540 --> 00:29:31,900
 And so, yeah, I mean, the way they're turning people over, they're making threes.

469
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,760
 They kind of remind me of that Missouri team from several years ago that was kind of a surprise team.

470
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:43,720
 And what they did so well was they simply turned people over and they made a lot of threes, and they were very efficient in those two areas.

471
00:29:44,260 --> 00:29:55,000
 And that can account for a lot, I think, when you're talking about just the level of play in the SEC and how different of a style it can be sometimes with so many plays at the rim and all that kind of stuff.

472
00:29:55,060 --> 00:29:57,800
 If you can make shots from outside, you can really separate yourself.

473
00:29:58,300 --> 00:29:59,500
 Alabama fans know that.

474
00:29:59,940 --> 00:30:06,820
 And so, yeah, I kind of think it's one where right now they should be six and one after tomorrow when they play South Carolina.

475
00:30:07,420 --> 00:30:17,320
 And I don't think they're going anywhere in this SEC title race when you look at their schedule the rest of the way because it actually sets up not that bad when you kind of look at just the way it bounces out home and away.

476
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:19,900
 You had a good point.

477
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 If you're a big SEC basketball fan, check your TV listings because this winter weather is going to impact quite a few athletic events throughout the course.

478
00:30:29,940 --> 00:30:30,820
 Of the weekend.

479
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,700
 Great stuff, as always.

480
00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:33,940
 Where can we get online?

481
00:30:34,060 --> 00:30:38,100
 I know if the electricity stays on, you will be busy tomorrow.

482
00:30:38,860 --> 00:30:41,300
 Where can we get online to get on the great podcast?

483
00:30:42,220 --> 00:30:44,940
 Yeah, you find us there, guys, on YouTube, Southeastern 16.

484
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:50,300
 Yeah, hopefully the electricity stays on so we can have, of course, our live reaction to all these games.

485
00:30:50,420 --> 00:30:52,100
 And, yeah, they boot up quite a few of them.

486
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,460
 So quite a few early games tomorrow now.

487
00:30:54,540 --> 00:30:57,080
 Only, I think, a couple late games as it's scheduled.

488
00:30:57,220 --> 00:30:58,180
 We'll see how that sticks.

489
00:30:58,180 --> 00:31:01,280
 But, yeah, you can find us there, Southeastern 16, on YouTube.

490
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 The MVP may be TVA and the respective utility crews throughout the entire area there.

491
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:07,800
 Good luck, Blake.

492
00:31:07,860 --> 00:31:08,500
 Thanks so much.

493
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:09,720
 Let's do it again soon, okay?

494
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:10,960
 Thanks, guys.

495
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 Appreciate it, as always.

496
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 Thank you, buddy.

497
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 Blake Lovell looking up with us, Southeastern 16.

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556
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 Okay, so like everybody deals with losing, right?

557
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 To a rival on a last second field goal.

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 Whatever, it's fine.

559
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572
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 Welcome back in.

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 He is the hardest working man in the state of Georgia.

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 Bill Shanks, host of The Bill Shanks Show on 93.1 FM in Macon, Georgia.

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608
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:51,920
 Bill, welcome in.

609
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 Is it true that Dominique Wilkins is coming back to Georgia?

610
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 Oh, I hadn't heard that.

611
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 You got some scoop for me?

612
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:04,600
 Well, you know, we got Charles Bediaco coming to Alabama after a three-year absence.

613
00:37:04,940 --> 00:37:08,760
 We just wondered if Wilkins was coming back to the Georgia Bulldogs.

614
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:13,300
 I tell you, I know all about them judges over there in Alabama.

615
00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:15,780
 You're sitting by the son of a judge right there.

616
00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:16,420
 Yep.

617
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,180
 Are you accusing them of being biased?

618
00:37:19,180 --> 00:37:22,740
 I know how to annihilate things a little bit to get things made your way, that's for sure.

619
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:26,780
 We're just trying to keep up with the guys up north, Bill.

620
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 That's all.

621
00:37:28,540 --> 00:37:29,120
 All right.

622
00:37:29,340 --> 00:37:31,900
 Obviously, a big news morning for college football.

623
00:37:32,260 --> 00:37:34,500
 It looks like they're going to stay with 12 teams.

624
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:35,940
 What is your reaction?

625
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:41,040
 And how shocked are you that the SEC and the Big Ten cannot agree on a number, Bill?

626
00:37:41,580 --> 00:37:44,580
 Well, I mean, Greg, I think you need to tell the Big Ten to p*** off.

627
00:37:45,260 --> 00:37:45,500
 Yeah.

628
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:46,120
 Or more.

629
00:37:46,820 --> 00:37:52,220
 I mean, to be honest with you, I wouldn't – I'd never agree to 24.

630
00:37:52,380 --> 00:37:53,580
 24 is ridiculous.

631
00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:54,500
 Yeah.

632
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:59,360
 And, you know, 16 is a good number.

633
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:10,740
 And, you know, I'm still amazed that the non-Power 4 conferences are even involved in this conversation.

634
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:19,280
 Where's the outcry after Tulane and James Madison not – or proving they don't belong in this conversation?

635
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:19,880
 Or last year.

636
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:20,860
 Same situation.

637
00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:22,520
 Same situation last year.

638
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:23,920
 So why is this going on?

639
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:34,440
 Why – where – you know, look, Greg Sankey needs to grow a pair and tell them the power – the group of five conferences to go do your own thing.

640
00:38:34,540 --> 00:38:35,580
 We don't want you in here.

641
00:38:36,580 --> 00:38:42,000
 And there is – I'm telling you, where are the models?

642
00:38:42,180 --> 00:38:43,360
 Where are the plans?

643
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,120
 Where are the ideas?

644
00:38:46,140 --> 00:38:46,780
 Where are the nads?

645
00:38:46,980 --> 00:39:03,360
 I know I've said this on this show, and I'm just acting like another egotistical broadcaster, but where's something that I did that could be more impactful and listened to very much easier than my little rinky-dink plan?

646
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:10,300
 Because why aren't people acting on this instead of bickering about going to 24 when it's just a waste of time?

647
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:11,680
 Because nobody wants that.

648
00:39:12,140 --> 00:39:12,320
 Nobody.

649
00:39:12,660 --> 00:39:15,460
 To me – except maybe one, Bill.

650
00:39:15,580 --> 00:39:16,760
 And I'm just taking a poke in the dark.

651
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 That's the TV folks.

652
00:39:17,900 --> 00:39:20,660
 They're looking for more inventory to go sell more ads.

653
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,560
 If they make their money up front, they don't care if there's three people in stands.

654
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,920
 You know, and if the score is 100-0, they're going to cash a big check.

655
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,520
 To me, that's the only logical explanation.

656
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:35,740
 It's not logical, but the only thing that I can come up with because there is no line of logic here involved.

657
00:39:36,740 --> 00:39:43,920
 Well, there used to be a phrase in baseball, it's in the best interest of baseball, we need to do things that are in the best interest of college football.

658
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:49,360
 And the bowl games need – there are a number of bowl games that need to go the h*** away.

659
00:39:49,780 --> 00:39:52,580
 There needs to be things that are done.

660
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:59,700
 You know, a lot of people watch these big games, and I think – I don't know.

661
00:39:59,740 --> 00:40:10,160
 I just don't get – I don't know why it's so – I know it's money, and I know it's power, but there should never be a mandatory –

662
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:15,180
 and I know each of these commissioners, if they heard this, would say, well, I'm doing what's in the best interest of my conference.

663
00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:16,580
 Well, okay, fine.

664
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:17,460
 But you know what?

665
00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:22,680
 The best interest of your conference to try to get a guarantee of a certain number of games –

666
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:26,700
 what if your conference has an off year and some of your teams that are usually pretty good aren't?

667
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:31,380
 You're still going to demand them to be in a college football playoff no matter what?

668
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,120
 Is that in the best interest of college football?

669
00:40:33,340 --> 00:40:33,680
 No.

670
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:35,380
 The ACC this year.

671
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:37,360
 Yeah, yeah.

672
00:40:37,620 --> 00:40:39,260
 ACC had one team worth of d***.

673
00:40:39,820 --> 00:40:40,420
 Maybe two.

674
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:45,500
 Maybe if it was 16, you could make an argument that Virginia was the second team in the ACC.

675
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,840
 But, I mean, they had some good teams, Georgia Tech being one of them.

676
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:55,060
 But, I mean, as far as are you in the best 12 or 16 in college football in the country?

677
00:40:55,620 --> 00:40:56,060
 No.

678
00:40:56,500 --> 00:40:57,520
 You know, no.

679
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:01,020
 And so I just – I'm amazed.

680
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,460
 I'm amazed at how stupid this whole situation is, to be honest with you.

681
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:06,380
 Isn't it amazing?

682
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:16,500
 This time next year, we will be two days away from playing the national championship game, which is just incredible to me.

683
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:21,440
 And I know people have laughed about you and I talking about this on our shows.

684
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:29,840
 But you sat down at the Mexican restaurant with a napkin and pretty much laid out a better plan from anybody than what I've heard.

685
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:35,120
 And people have said today on Twitter, okay, so we're staying at 12.

686
00:41:35,240 --> 00:41:37,560
 Now, let's get to the meat of the problem here.

687
00:41:37,700 --> 00:41:39,260
 Let's condense the calendar.

688
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,380
 Let's make week zero week one.

689
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:50,560
 Let's give NIL and transfer portal guys two-year contracts, benchmark performances.

690
00:41:51,620 --> 00:41:56,520
 Let's play the championship on the year's day or at least the semifinals.

691
00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:05,040
 Let's get somebody moving in the direction, as you indicated, of making major decisions.

692
00:42:05,900 --> 00:42:12,040
 And as you say, the product on the field is still incredible, but the rest of it is a mess.

693
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:21,300
 Well, I'm almost to the point where I'm going to just type all my information out, send it to Greg Sankey, and say, here, nobody in your office has the balls to come up with something.

694
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:22,940
 Here's something you can take and run with.

695
00:42:25,140 --> 00:42:26,140
 I'll buy your stamp.

696
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:33,720
 You know, I think that football should start September, not in August, so I don't like to back up the season anymore.

697
00:42:33,780 --> 00:42:35,060
 I just don't like all these off weeks.

698
00:42:35,220 --> 00:42:48,700
 Look, with the current situation staying in place for another year, I will say wholeheartedly, honestly, that I hope Georgia does not win nor play for the SEC championship game this coming season.

699
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,060
 Because I don't want three and a half weeks off.

700
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:54,960
 I mean, we've had two years of this.

701
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,500
 Eight teams have had the bye.

702
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,460
 They're one in seven, with the one team being Indiana, but nonetheless.

703
00:43:04,460 --> 00:43:09,940
 And, you know, look, for the last two years, Georgia was the SEC champion, which is great.

704
00:43:10,100 --> 00:43:10,820
 I love that.

705
00:43:10,820 --> 00:43:16,020
 I really do honor that and respect that as an accomplishment.

706
00:43:17,060 --> 00:43:27,460
 But if having three and a half weeks off is 1% to blame for them losing the Sugar Bowl last year against Notre Dame and this year against Ole Miss,

707
00:43:27,620 --> 00:43:31,220
 then I don't want to be a bye team next year.

708
00:43:31,380 --> 00:43:35,520
 I mean, you know, and look, again, Georgia sucked in the Sugar Bowl this year.

709
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:36,480
 They were awful.

710
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,500
 And you can use it as an excuse if you want to.

711
00:43:40,500 --> 00:43:47,440
 The bottom line is, a team that gets into a mode of playing every week does not need to take three and a half weeks off.

712
00:43:47,860 --> 00:43:48,800
 It's not good.

713
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:49,400
 There's nothing.

714
00:43:49,580 --> 00:43:51,780
 You can't convince me that anything's good about it.

715
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:56,960
 You can't convince me that a coach is going to make an argument that, oh, that's fine.

716
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:03,480
 If you need three and a half weeks to heal your team, your team is probably not healthy enough to be in a championship situation anyway.

717
00:44:03,540 --> 00:44:04,500
 You need to go home.

718
00:44:04,780 --> 00:44:08,500
 So, the three and a half week thing is a disaster.

719
00:44:08,700 --> 00:44:14,400
 And I'm telling you, I pray to God Georgia finishes third in the conference this coming season in 2026.

720
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:22,120
 And that they host a playoff game in week one, the first round, because that's the only way I'm going to feel like going in,

721
00:44:22,140 --> 00:44:28,200
 that they have a chance after the last two years where they got beat after a three and a half week span of being off.

722
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,840
 Bill, we're going to cut this interview short so we can get you to thank you,

723
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:35,140
 because somebody needs to get a hold of this boy and get his brain in the right groove there.

724
00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:36,580
 Let me ask you this.

725
00:44:36,580 --> 00:44:39,300
 Back to the Godfather, Nick Saban, he said it best.

726
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,820
 He said the only reason somebody would go north if they paid him.

727
00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:48,440
 Back in the day, the book was the Southern schools did well because car dealerships would somehow,

728
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,620
 someway slot a charger to a player in a $100 handshake.

729
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:58,760
 As the world changed now up north, as Nick would say, forget those $100 handshakes in the charger.

730
00:44:59,240 --> 00:45:02,780
 Now, the north is loaded with money by comparison.

731
00:45:03,500 --> 00:45:04,660
 Is that where it's going to go?

732
00:45:04,660 --> 00:45:09,920
 The big bucks up north is just going to sit here and put the SEC where it is with Greg Sankey,

733
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,660
 basically having to sit here and say yes or no, sir.

734
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,560
 Well, I think it's going to go wherever there is money.

735
00:45:16,780 --> 00:45:25,920
 I mean, Indiana is the first of what we can look at as a NIL portal champion.

736
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:30,960
 And look, I'm not taking anything away from them whatsoever.

737
00:45:31,660 --> 00:45:38,440
 But Indiana, before Kurt Signetti walked in the door, had 14, had six, let me bring it back up.

738
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:45,040
 In the 16 seasons leading up to when Kurt Signetti took the job two years ago, they had had 14 losing seasons out of those 16.

739
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:45,360
 Right.

740
00:45:46,020 --> 00:45:50,100
 That is a losing program, one of the most losing programs in the country.

741
00:45:50,340 --> 00:45:50,520
 Yeah.

742
00:45:50,740 --> 00:45:56,540
 Never looked at as a college football power or even had the ability or the potential to be that.

743
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:05,840
 Now, obviously, with his leadership and with the changes in college football, they were able to accomplish something that you never would have thought they would have been able to accomplish in the previous system.

744
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:06,740
 Fine.

745
00:46:07,060 --> 00:46:08,560
 And you can't knock that.

746
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,600
 You can't say, well, there's this cheap thing or whatever.

747
00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:12,920
 No, they're playing under the rules like everybody else today.

748
00:46:13,580 --> 00:46:15,360
 They did what they had to do to win.

749
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,480
 But you're going to see other programs look at that and say, well, why not us?

750
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:21,500
 I used the example earlier this week.

751
00:46:22,220 --> 00:46:26,000
 Now, I'm not saying it's going to happen this year, but, you know, look what Kentucky's done.

752
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:33,160
 Kentucky's brought in a bright, new, young coach, Will Stein, who looks like he's doing a lot of good things there.

753
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:34,480
 This is no knock on Mark.

754
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:36,980
 I thought Mark did a great job at Kentucky for 13 years.

755
00:46:36,980 --> 00:46:41,200
 But, you know, a new coach, young coach, and they're spending money on talent.

756
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,720
 And, you know, there's a lot of d*** horse money in Kentucky.

757
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:46,360
 I can tell you that right now.

758
00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:56,800
 And if Kentucky, a basketball school, looks at one of their neighbors to the north, Indiana, why wouldn't they say, well, why not us?

759
00:46:56,940 --> 00:46:58,000
 Why can't we do that?

760
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:00,560
 And, you know, they've got to select the right player.

761
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:01,840
 There's a lot that goes into it.

762
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:05,260
 And there's no question that Signetti checked on the boxes.

763
00:47:05,720 --> 00:47:10,920
 But a program like Kentucky is going to look at what's happened this week and say, why not us?

764
00:47:11,420 --> 00:47:19,300
 And, therefore, I don't think this is the last time we're going to see a non-traditional college football power win a championship.

765
00:47:19,300 --> 00:47:21,220
 It's going to happen again in the near future.

766
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:22,560
 Absolutely.

767
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,520
 Before we let you go, let me ask you about a couple of things.

768
00:47:25,820 --> 00:47:32,300
 And, finally, Andrew Jones is going to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

769
00:47:32,380 --> 00:47:34,100
 I'm glad it took him long enough.

770
00:47:34,100 --> 00:47:39,020
 And then, your beloved Atlanta Falcons have got a new coach.

771
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:45,480
 And his offensive coordinator is Nick Saban's former offensive coordinator, Tommy Reese.

772
00:47:45,540 --> 00:47:50,320
 And you know how Alabama fans treat coordinators in this program.

773
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:54,960
 Your thoughts on two big news this week in Atlanta.

774
00:47:55,660 --> 00:47:57,200
 Well, so thrilled for Andrew.

775
00:47:57,420 --> 00:47:58,180
 He deserves it.

776
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,460
 He was the best fielding center fielder I've ever seen.

777
00:48:01,580 --> 00:48:02,360
 I'm not like you two.

778
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:07,340
 And this is the, you know, Willie Mays on the game of the week like y'all two old guys did.

779
00:48:08,100 --> 00:48:10,600
 Yeah, I mean, you know, Trish Beaker.

780
00:48:10,940 --> 00:48:13,040
 You know, Grover Cleveland.

781
00:48:13,260 --> 00:48:14,400
 I mean, you've got to know them all.

782
00:48:14,940 --> 00:48:18,660
 But, Andrew deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.

783
00:48:18,660 --> 00:48:24,300
 He just played at a Hall of Fame level for such a long time, even though his offensive numbers fell off the end.

784
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:25,860
 He was a great player.

785
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:27,980
 Got to get Dale Murphy in there, of course.

786
00:48:28,300 --> 00:48:36,900
 And, yeah, Tommy Reese, you know, I had someone on my show this week say that Nick Saban really wanted Tommy Reese to say,

787
00:48:36,940 --> 00:48:38,280
 Oh, that was you, Brett Beaird.

788
00:48:38,380 --> 00:48:38,720
 That's right.

789
00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:39,180
 That was me.

790
00:48:39,460 --> 00:48:39,860
 Right.

791
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:47,360
 That was you saying that Tommy Reese was going from the outhouse to the penthouse if Nick had had anything.

792
00:48:47,620 --> 00:48:48,440
 Well, you know what?

793
00:48:48,500 --> 00:48:52,120
 Look, I don't know what Tommy's going to do with the O.C. and Atlanta.

794
00:48:52,460 --> 00:48:55,700
 I have to, you know, I went through this yesterday.

795
00:48:56,620 --> 00:49:02,260
 The coordinators, as we know here in the state with Mike Bobo, who gets crucified.

796
00:49:02,580 --> 00:49:10,340
 I mean, you know, if you talk to some Georgia fans, they'd probably tell you that Mike Bobo stormed the church in Minneapolis earlier this week.

797
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:11,740
 I mean, they're going to blame him for everything.

798
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:15,280
 He was wearing a mask.

799
00:49:16,340 --> 00:49:18,980
 The coordinators are just playing so much.

800
00:49:18,980 --> 00:49:20,500
 And I get that.

801
00:49:20,500 --> 00:49:22,280
 And I understand that completely.

802
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:22,780
 I do.

803
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:23,640
 Don't get me wrong.

804
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:34,000
 But I think Tommy Reese, to have the jobs he's had, to have the respect from people like Nick, from like Kevin Stefanski, like others in the game.

805
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:38,680
 And, you know, you've got to get him a good quarterback.

806
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:48,640
 He had a roller coaster there this year in Cleveland with four different people, Dylan Gabriel and Kenny Pickett and Shador Sanders and Joe Flacco, who's my age.

807
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:50,620
 I mean, you know, you've got to get him a good quarterback.

808
00:49:50,860 --> 00:49:57,380
 But I'm anxious to see what Tommy can do and hope that – I hope the mix is right for the Falcons.

809
00:49:57,500 --> 00:49:58,880
 They need everything to fit.

810
00:49:59,420 --> 00:50:03,460
 They need their – they're going to probably hire their tour manager in the next 24, 36 hours.

811
00:50:03,620 --> 00:50:09,540
 I hope that'll be a good fit for them because they just need everything to – let me tell you, I was talking about this, though.

812
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:15,920
 I was feeling on our noon show, look at the Vikings with Mike Vrabel and Drake May.

813
00:50:16,340 --> 00:50:30,440
 That combination of coach and quarterback are so important, and you have to hope when your team like the Falcons or a team like Tennessee up near you guys can find that quarterback-coach relationship and combo that can work and become something.

814
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:34,560
 It worked in year two for Drake May and Mike Vrabel, and you know what?

815
00:50:34,620 --> 00:50:39,320
 You've got to hope it works for Atlanta and Tennessee and every other spot that's going through a transition.

816
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:40,040
 right now.

817
00:50:40,860 --> 00:50:41,380
 Absolutely.

818
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:52,460
 Now, get to work on that email or letter to Greg Stanky and lay out your plan and say, Greg, you need to quit reading books and running marathons.

819
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:55,340
 Sit here and read this, and let's get this thing worked out.

820
00:50:55,340 --> 00:51:07,960
 And if any of our incredible listeners would like to call your show as they frequently do and give their unbiased opinion about Alabama, Georgia, the SEC, and everything else, where can they go this afternoon?

821
00:51:08,580 --> 00:51:21,120
 Well, these superstations.com will be on in about an hour, a little over an hour, and yeah, I'd love to hear, you know, how all those Alabama players, you know, over the age of 30 are going to be coming back and playing and playing tomorrow.

822
00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:22,020
 That'll be interesting.

823
00:51:22,020 --> 00:51:27,100
 So, yeah, we'll be on and still searching for that brave starting pitcher.

824
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,620
 So, we're still trying to find somebody to slide in that rotation.

825
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:33,720
 Because, you know, spring training starts in about two weeks, believe it or not.

826
00:51:33,860 --> 00:51:34,160
 Incredible.

827
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:39,120
 By the way, the first weekend of games in about a month from this weekend.

828
00:51:39,260 --> 00:51:44,280
 In the meantime, Bill, stay warm down there as well as you can, and thank you so much for your time today, buddy.

829
00:51:44,860 --> 00:51:46,200
 Yeah, y'all be careful up there.

830
00:51:46,260 --> 00:51:47,720
 I heard y'all are having a blizzard.

831
00:51:47,940 --> 00:51:50,300
 Y'all got a – you got any bread yet, Brett?

832
00:51:51,820 --> 00:51:56,180
 Bill, I can't find bread within 100 miles of the Joe's.

833
00:51:57,320 --> 00:51:59,460
 All y'all need is a bunch of peanut butter and jelly.

834
00:51:59,720 --> 00:51:59,860
 I mean –

835
00:51:59,860 --> 00:52:00,580
 There you go.

836
00:52:00,620 --> 00:52:04,420
 You got the peanuts and we got the butter, so we'll put it all together and we'll be better.

837
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,420
 Listen, Bill, you stay safe, okay?

838
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:07,500
 All right, guys.

839
00:52:07,500 --> 00:52:07,900
 Thank you.

840
00:52:08,020 --> 00:52:08,440
 Be careful.

841
00:52:08,580 --> 00:52:10,580
 Bill Shanks, CSuperstations.com.

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843
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:17,080
 How about that?

844
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:22,700
 Yeah, we talked to Joel Lamp about that with the Huntsville Convention Services Bureau on Wednesday.

845
00:52:23,020 --> 00:52:30,660
 But, yeah, press conference today, UNA Sanford football, August the 29th at renovated Joe Davis Stadium.

846
00:52:30,660 --> 00:52:34,320
 We'll be talking about that, obviously, the closer we get to the game.

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 Just days after endorsing Congressman Barry Moore for his Republican Senate primary race,

915
00:56:27,380 --> 00:56:31,300
 now President Trump has set his sights on the Alabama governor's race.

916
00:56:31,460 --> 00:56:37,460
 Trump posted glowing praise of Senator Tommy Tuberville and his 2026 gubernatorial campaign.

917
00:56:37,460 --> 00:56:43,820
 President Trump called Tuberville a highly respected senator who has shown courage and wisdom in Washington, D.C.,

918
00:56:43,820 --> 00:56:46,180
 delivering strong results for the people of Alabama.

919
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:49,600
 Trump said he would love to see Tuberville continue as a senator,

920
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,060
 but Tuberville wants to be governor of Alabama,

921
00:56:52,060 --> 00:56:55,720
 and the president is now throwing his full support behind that effort.

922
00:56:56,220 --> 00:56:58,840
 I'll be back with more Alabama stories after this.

923
00:56:59,240 --> 00:57:01,580
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924
00:57:01,720 --> 00:57:04,240
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925
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 At 1819 News, the podcast, we are in pursuit of a free and flourishing Alabama.

928
00:57:16,740 --> 00:57:19,180
 Every week, we're having important conversations with guests

929
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930
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931
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932
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933
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,940
 The new mayor of Hoover, Nick Durzies,

934
00:57:31,060 --> 00:57:33,940
 delivered a State of the City speech this past Thursday night.

935
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:36,400
 Durzies has been in office for about 80 days.

936
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:39,260
 He told the members of the City Council and the Chamber of Commerce

937
00:57:39,260 --> 00:57:42,160
 that he's committed to working hand-in-hand with both of them

938
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:43,800
 to address issues facing the city,

939
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,740
 including the redevelopment of the Riverchase Galleria

940
00:57:46,740 --> 00:57:49,160
 and Patton Creek shopping centers.

941
00:57:49,780 --> 00:57:51,980
 Two arrests were made in Marshall County this week

942
00:57:51,980 --> 00:57:54,980
 following an investigation that started at the beginning of January.

943
00:57:55,140 --> 00:57:57,600
 51-year-old Kenneth Reed and 30-year-old Hannah Moore

944
00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:59,360
 are now facing drug trafficking charges.

945
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:03,160
 The search and seizure of the drugs occurred at a residence in Boaz.

946
00:58:03,380 --> 00:58:05,740
 Authorities found five pounds of methamphetamines,

947
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:06,960
 one pound of marijuana,

948
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:08,580
 and three ounces of cocaine.

949
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:09,940
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950
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951
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961
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962
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963
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964
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965
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966
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968
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969
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973
00:58:49,500 --> 00:58:50,420
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974
00:58:50,580 --> 00:58:53,660
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975
00:58:54,020 --> 00:58:57,860
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995
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996
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997
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1000
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1001
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1005
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1006
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1007
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1008
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1009
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1010
01:00:34,100 --> 01:00:39,540
 Now, your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1011
01:00:40,540 --> 01:00:42,120
 Again, our tour of the Boomo Bugg Show.

1012
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:43,760
 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird.

1013
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:46,640
 Thank you so much for giving us free ride around the Tennessee Valley.

1014
01:00:46,900 --> 01:00:49,760
 And for Mike, you're going to have taken time out of his busy schedule

1015
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:53,820
 as National College football slash basketball analyst down in Orlando.

1016
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:55,840
 Mike, welcome in.

1017
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:59,000
 Can you loan us some milk and bread and sunshine?

1018
01:00:59,340 --> 01:00:59,880
 How are you?

1019
01:01:02,380 --> 01:01:06,940
 The weather has delayed, and it's going to be like 81 here on Sunday.

1020
01:01:07,340 --> 01:01:10,060
 So, I feel bad for you guys.

1021
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:12,340
 Oh, my gosh.

1022
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:14,120
 You should be up here, Mike.

1023
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:16,760
 We would love to spread the joy, I guarantee.

1024
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:17,880
 Enjoy the sunshine.

1025
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:22,700
 Mike, your thoughts about the latest news from the home of sunshine, the NCAA.

1026
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:27,540
 Are you shocked that the SEC and the Big Ten just simply cannot agree

1027
01:01:27,540 --> 01:01:29,240
 on a fair number for the playoffs?

1028
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:33,660
 Right now, it looks like it's going to stay at an even dozen 12 teams.

1029
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:34,540
 Mike, your reaction?

1030
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:39,600
 I think 12 is a good number.

1031
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:46,720
 I'm not a fan of the potential of a 9-3 team playing for a national title,

1032
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:51,620
 which would occur if there were 16 teams.

1033
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:56,680
 I think the one issue with the playoff calendar,

1034
01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:02,100
 I think it's obvious, using the first two years as an example,

1035
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:06,960
 that having the extra week off, having the bye, is a negative.

1036
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:08,120
 Yes.

1037
01:02:08,780 --> 01:02:11,620
 One school that's had a bye has one.

1038
01:02:12,580 --> 01:02:13,660
 That's Indiana.

1039
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:17,800
 And Cincinnati seems to have some kind of magical wand anyway.

1040
01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:22,480
 But, yeah, I like 12 teams.

1041
01:02:23,100 --> 01:02:24,740
 And you're right.

1042
01:02:24,980 --> 01:02:30,320
 The SEC and Big Ten are the only ones with a true say,

1043
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:31,880
 and they obviously can't agree.

1044
01:02:32,420 --> 01:02:33,480
 And I think that's fine.

1045
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:37,720
 I know the Big Ten eventually wants 24, which is ludicrous.

1046
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:40,460
 But there's a lot of money involved.

1047
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:41,340
 I get that as well.

1048
01:02:41,420 --> 01:02:45,100
 But the idea that it's 12 again next year, perfectly fine with that.

1049
01:02:45,740 --> 01:02:48,940
 Mike, other than just the obvious money being the reason,

1050
01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:53,440
 what's the logic and justification, rationalization going into 24?

1051
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:56,740
 For that matter, 16, given what's happened with the teams down,

1052
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,280
 just to sit here and give everybody a trophy mentality,

1053
01:02:59,740 --> 01:03:02,700
 this year and last year, I haven't seen the TV ratings.

1054
01:03:02,780 --> 01:03:06,520
 I can't believe those games generate a lot of money.

1055
01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:09,100
 But what would be the rationale, other than the obvious,

1056
01:03:09,160 --> 01:03:11,620
 of expanding to certainly 24 teams?

1057
01:03:13,740 --> 01:03:14,420
 It would be money.

1058
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:19,620
 And I do know the title game with Indiana-Miami was incredible ratings.

1059
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:23,200
 I believe I read it was the highest-rated,

1060
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:27,940
 non-NFL sports show in like a decade, the Indiana Finals.

1061
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:33,580
 But, yeah, I mean, again, 24 teams, are you kidding me?

1062
01:03:35,660 --> 01:03:37,040
 That's way too many.

1063
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:38,780
 16 is too many to me.

1064
01:03:38,860 --> 01:03:39,700
 I like the 12.

1065
01:03:39,860 --> 01:03:45,700
 But I think the only rationale is commissioners can say what they want.

1066
01:03:45,700 --> 01:03:50,080
 More teams with a chance, keeps more fan bases involved.

1067
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:51,020
 No.

1068
01:03:51,180 --> 01:03:55,420
 The bottom line is don't listen to what they're saying.

1069
01:03:55,960 --> 01:03:58,100
 Watch what they're doing.

1070
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:00,260
 And what they're doing is putting more money in their pockets.

1071
01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:03,560
 Mike, I mentioned this earlier in the show.

1072
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:08,820
 This time next year, we're two days away from playing the national championship game

1073
01:04:08,820 --> 01:04:13,680
 on January the 21st of 2027.

1074
01:04:14,180 --> 01:04:20,800
 And some of the other dates, the following years, are like the 20th, 25th, 23rd, etc.

1075
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:26,380
 And a lot of people are saying, okay, well, they finally made a decision on not expanding.

1076
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:27,680
 We're going to stay at 12.

1077
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:28,340
 That's fine.

1078
01:04:28,420 --> 01:04:30,300
 Let's do that for another couple of years.

1079
01:04:30,300 --> 01:04:38,820
 But all of the other issues as far as the calendar, the early signing date, Mike, you know,

1080
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:46,860
 eventually NIL with, I've heard that the two-year contract performance-based, when do you start

1081
01:04:46,860 --> 01:04:53,320
 with the schedule, so many other issues that are on the table that people keep saying over

1082
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:56,880
 and over again, okay, let's start addressing some of those.

1083
01:04:59,380 --> 01:05:02,740
 The calendar is focused only on one number.

1084
01:05:03,060 --> 01:05:04,900
 Is it 12, is it 16, or is it 24?

1085
01:05:05,460 --> 01:05:07,800
 Meanwhile, Rome is burning.

1086
01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:08,900
 That's it.

1087
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:12,280
 The calendar needs to be fixed.

1088
01:05:13,260 --> 01:05:18,840
 The early signing period, maybe instead of in December, you actually make it early and put it in August.

1089
01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:19,860
 Yes.

1090
01:05:20,140 --> 01:05:22,820
 They've tried with the transfer portal.

1091
01:05:23,860 --> 01:05:25,120
 I give them credit for that.

1092
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:26,180
 At least they're trying.

1093
01:05:26,380 --> 01:05:33,200
 So it is a little bit interesting that, you know, the transfer portal closed the 16th of January.

1094
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:38,980
 Some schools already were an entire week into their second semester by the time that happened.

1095
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:43,820
 And, yes, academics obviously doesn't mean anything anymore, but this sort of drives it home.

1096
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:54,880
 But it is, it's almost annoying that they're so hyper-focused on the playoff that they can't get anything else fixed.

1097
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:55,100
 Right.

1098
01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:57,100
 Or even try to fix.

1099
01:05:58,780 --> 01:06:01,780
 Yeah, it's discouraging.

1100
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:02,680
 It's disappointing.

1101
01:06:03,140 --> 01:06:04,400
 It makes me mad.

1102
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:11,020
 I think it makes a lot of college sports fans mad because they have the potential to do some changes with the calendar.

1103
01:06:11,580 --> 01:06:19,180
 So let's put the playoff number aside and sit down and start making some harder decisions on other things as well.

1104
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:24,160
 Mike, obviously it's going to be interesting to see the influence of this past season going forward.

1105
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:25,440
 The portal rankings are out.

1106
01:06:25,540 --> 01:06:27,780
 Back in the day, they always had these recruiting rankings.

1107
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:30,040
 Now they have got a new cottage industry.

1108
01:06:30,140 --> 01:06:30,820
 The portal rankings.

1109
01:06:31,040 --> 01:06:31,560
 Shock, shock.

1110
01:06:31,700 --> 01:06:33,240
 LSU is number one.

1111
01:06:33,300 --> 01:06:38,080
 That's what happens when we get an NFL coach who wants to stay in college with an open checkbook.

1112
01:06:38,180 --> 01:06:39,080
 LSU is number one.

1113
01:06:39,220 --> 01:06:39,760
 Shot, shock.

1114
01:06:39,880 --> 01:06:41,680
 Texas Tech is two.

1115
01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:43,400
 And Indiana is third.

1116
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:48,920
 I bring this up because down at the other end of the spectrum, Georgia is 22.

1117
01:06:49,060 --> 01:06:50,500
 Alabama is 23.

1118
01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:53,200
 So who's going to win going forward?

1119
01:06:53,300 --> 01:06:59,400
 These pop-up teams like Indiana and Texas Tech or teams like Georgia and Alabama who have been there and done that?

1120
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:01,400
 They're still not shopping hard in the portal.

1121
01:07:01,540 --> 01:07:02,480
 They're down the board.

1122
01:07:03,060 --> 01:07:04,600
 Your thoughts about going forward?

1123
01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:11,080
 Transfer portal rankings with a gigantic grain of salt.

1124
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:18,400
 It's interesting to me that the Indiana portal rankings the first two years weren't very high, and they lost two games.

1125
01:07:18,540 --> 01:07:26,280
 It's almost like, okay, now they're starting to give Indiana credit for who they signed in the portal, and I don't think they really did in the past.

1126
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:30,420
 LSU, not surprising.

1127
01:07:30,620 --> 01:07:32,500
 They brought in a ton of guys because they had to.

1128
01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:36,280
 Texas Tech obviously is spending a bunch of money.

1129
01:07:37,300 --> 01:07:40,020
 Miami evidently is willing to spend a bunch of money as well.

1130
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:41,980
 They're behind the Darian-Minsa thing.

1131
01:07:42,700 --> 01:07:48,300
 Damon Wilson to Georgia to Missouri to portal guy evidently is going to Miami as well.

1132
01:07:49,460 --> 01:07:55,800
 But I think a lot of, again, the transfer portal rankings, I worked at ON3 when they did transfer portal rankings.

1133
01:07:56,380 --> 01:08:00,680
 Let's just say that it's a very inexact science.

1134
01:08:01,480 --> 01:08:01,600
 Yeah.

1135
01:08:02,700 --> 01:08:10,120
 I think in some cases, they're still too worried about what a guy was as a high school recruit.

1136
01:08:10,260 --> 01:08:10,580
 Right.

1137
01:08:10,780 --> 01:08:18,500
 And overlook production at the group of five level or for a team like, you know, let's use Dylan Dieneman as an example.

1138
01:08:19,020 --> 01:08:19,960
 He started at Purdue.

1139
01:08:20,100 --> 01:08:20,700
 They were horrible.

1140
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:21,560
 Goes to Oregon.

1141
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:22,600
 Has a great year.

1142
01:08:22,980 --> 01:08:23,840
 Oh, yeah, he's really good.

1143
01:08:24,020 --> 01:08:24,980
 Yeah, he is.

1144
01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:26,100
 That was.

1145
01:08:26,340 --> 01:08:31,520
 So, the portal rankings to me are, I would not.

1146
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:32,080
 Subjective.

1147
01:08:33,060 --> 01:08:34,180
 Very, very objective.

1148
01:08:34,320 --> 01:08:38,540
 I would not put a lot of, what's the word I want to use here.

1149
01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:44,260
 If your team ranks low in the portal rankings, I would sort of like, I really don't care.

1150
01:08:44,780 --> 01:08:46,980
 Because, yeah, I don't think they're very good.

1151
01:08:48,620 --> 01:08:55,000
 Mike, the Charles Bidiaco story was dropped in our lap earlier this week.

1152
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 And we've heard, as you can imagine, both sides of the argument.

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 Well, you know, he's got, he's still in the five-year window, and that's something else, five years to play five.

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 But played two years when early thinking he was going to get on one team in the NBA, three teams cut him.

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 He's been in the G League.

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 He signed three contracts.

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 And I know that European players come over here and play every year.

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 The kid at Baylor was another one I've heard about all week long.

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 And actually, Alabama fans see both sides of this as far as, and Nate Oates had a press conference an hour ago and said, yeah, right now we plan on playing him.

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 And a lot of people say, well, you know, this is the next natural step in the destruction of the NCAA.

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 Mike, how do you feel about this?

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 You know, there are rules in place in college athletics, just like there are rules in place in NFL, Major League Baseball, and, you know, real life.

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 And some of the rules the NCAA has are stupid, beyond stupid.

1164
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 I don't think this one is beyond stupid.

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 Now, he didn't know.

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 You're right.

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 Baduyakura did not play in the NBA.

1168
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 But he played in the G League.

1169
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 And the last time I looked, G League was professional.

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 And I get the fact that, yes, there are a lot of Europeans who come over after playing in the, quote-unquote, pro leagues in Europe.

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 I would argue that that's a different situation because you're basically playing pro basketball when you're 14 and 15 in Europe, unlike the United States, which has a high school system or a prep school system.

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 So, I'm not agreeing with Nate Oates on this.

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 And if I'm not mistaken, Nate Oates said something when Baylor signed the Nodgy kid that this is getting ridiculous.

1174
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 And, yeah, here he is, potentially playing him tomorrow against Tennessee.

1175
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 Yeah.

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 It's on, hey, look at things, right, Mike?

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 Let me ask you this.

1178
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 One thing it's going to do is it's going to spice things up.

1179
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 Todd Golden already laying it down in Florida.

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 He's got Alabama a week from tomorrow.

1181
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 He says, let him have him.

1182
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 We're going to beat him anyway.

1183
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 But first things first, they got Auburn coming up tomorrow.

1184
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 How good is Florida relative to last year's team, which they tell us it was pretty good?

1185
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 The guard play is not close.

1186
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 The front court is better.

1187
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 Chinuilu has become unstoppable almost inside.

1188
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 Hawk kid is playing out of his mind.

1189
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 Condon is still pretty solid, hand-locked.

1190
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 And it's nice you can bring a 7'1 guy off the bench who's an offensive rebounding machine.

1191
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 The guard play has been exceedingly uneven.

1192
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 But I would argue that while Florida isn't as good as they were last year, neither is Auburn.

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 And I think Florida, the way they're playing, the games in Gainesville, Florida's playing really well right now.

1194
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 And, you know, Todd Golden, I think Auburn fans like him because he's a former Bruce Pearl.

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 Yeah.

1196
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 But I like him to an extent.

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 But, you know, he and Pearl are good buddies.

1198
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 Florida's playing really well right now.

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 And, again, that front court, you know, these are grown men.

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 These are big.

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 Chinuilu, he's had two games with 21 rebounds this season.

1202
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 And if you watch the game against LSU, it was like he was an NBA player playing with junior high guys.

1203
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 Wow.

1204
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 Because he was just dominating down low.

1205
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 Still doesn't have much of an offensive game.

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 But when you get to when you're that big and that strong and you can dunk, you can be effective on offense as well.

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 Yeah, absolutely.

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 Yeah, that was amazing when I saw he had tied his best in rebounding with 21 again.

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 Quite a feat.

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 Mike, always great stuff, football and basketball, buddy.

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 We envy the 81 degrees because they're not going to be 81 degrees up here for a while.

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 Mike, enjoy the weekend, buddy, with some college basketball.

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 Let's do this again next week.

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 If we look in the mirror, we've got 81, except we're just reversing the 8 with a 1.

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 It's closer to 18 here.

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1298
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 And I think at the end of the day, you know, when you have a home court advantage, it's a big difference.

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 That sound you heard might have been the rush for the last loaf of bread at the local Walmart or the folks down in Montgomery blowing up high school sports as we know it going forward.

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 Zach Pounder's got that and everything covered at Shoals Sports Report.

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 Zach, welcome in.

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 How are you?

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 Doing good.

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 How are y'all?

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 Hey, Bill.

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 We're doing all right.

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 Zach, obviously, weather's a big story, but specifically about sports, when's the last time you've seen news this big with this many ramifications from one end of the state,

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 from the Shoals to the Shores, hitting after today's news from Montgomery?

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 Where do you want to start with the question?

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 Do you want to start with the private schools or the public schools?

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 Do you want to start with the...

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 Well, first off, I'll start with the private schools.

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 That's the biggest groundbreaking aspect of all this today.

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 Yeah.

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 And the big issue I'm seeing around the state with the conversations is the travel.

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 If you look at the WC, which is the large school private, is what you can call it in short.

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 They have regions set up that include schools like Madison Academy, which is in Huntsville, and then schools down in the Selma in the same region.

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 Which is Montgomery West, basically.

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 Yes.

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 They went more like 7A used to be with the Huntsville-Bermingham-Mobile-Montgomery model.

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 Yeah.

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 And big directions as a base.

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 But the WC, you have Madison Academy up in Huntsville.

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 And I think you also have Westbrook, the Westminster Christian, and the other Christians with Randolph.

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 But then, you have schools all the way spread out and for playoffs as well.

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 And then, in the other private divisions, you've got a region with Marthill, Shoals Christian, Wattsburg Christian, and Kusa Christian.

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 That goes from Florence to Decatur to Huxville to Gadsden, the North region.

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 The middle region is Tuscaloosa to Anderson to Selma.

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 That's only up to Selma, my bad.

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 And then Montgomery and Mobile-Dosan.

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 You're looking at possibly three hours of travel.

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 What is the process of schedule for a team on Friday night?

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 That's rough on not only the players, but also fans and parents.

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 And a lot of money.

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 I mean, for schools and mamas and daddies and fans, that's a lot of money involved.

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1376
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 Let's go out this year, up at 1230, to go back to the Christian.

1377
01:22:32,540 --> 01:22:34,040
 How sustainable is that, Zach?

1378
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 I mean, to me, that's just – I mean, I understand you can live in Disney World or you can live in the real world.

1379
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 I understand theories and all that stuff.

1380
01:22:41,980 --> 01:22:45,820
 But when you come back to common sense, how sustainable is this going forward?

1381
01:22:46,540 --> 01:22:53,400
 I'm interested to see the basketball, baseball, softball divides on this, divisions on this, because football is once a week.

1382
01:22:53,680 --> 01:23:00,400
 On a Friday night or Thursday night, you don't let school in, play it on Friday, or you've got a Saturday coming up from other people, and you're out of school.

1383
01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:01,700
 So it's no issue.

1384
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 You go to it three and a half hours.

1385
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 We'll wait on a Friday, five-hour trip.

1386
01:23:05,460 --> 01:23:08,100
 Leave it at three, get back at one in the morning.

1387
01:23:08,600 --> 01:23:13,440
 Most coaches and players get home about 11, 12, whether more than he went on Friday night in the Saturdays.

1388
01:23:13,760 --> 01:23:19,560
 But with baseball, basketball, softball, and this was my big argument with this, too, if we're still calling them student-athletes,

1389
01:23:20,040 --> 01:23:28,880
 we cannot tell an athlete or a family to go from Shoals Christian or Mars Hill to go play in Huntsville for every area game

1390
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 or in Coleman for every area game and come back to Florence for every game.

1391
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 It hasn't happened in the last two years in 4A when Hatt was coming to the Shoals with Wilson, Deshler, Brooks, and Central.

1392
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 When they could have went to the Cater, which is maybe closer, I think Hatt's not in the middle, but it doesn't matter that much.

1393
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 But they're kind of in the middle of both.

1394
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 So do you want to make an athlete student or student-athletes who are still students?

1395
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 Because I don't let people realize that's something to be it.

1396
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 Yes, it's hard to support, but it's also moms, dads, brothers, sisters, siblings who have homework, assignments, projects,

1397
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 parents over to 5 o'clock at night, can't get off until maybe 4.30, as early as they will.

1398
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 And they can't get off to the state for an area game.

1399
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 Yeah, Jimmy Lay, who covers Westminster and a lot of the Huntsville teams,

1400
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 sent me a text about 30 minutes ago and said they've got four opponents.

1401
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 Lee Scott Academy, close to Auburn, that's 210 miles.

1402
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 John Carroll's 104.

1403
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 American Christian is 150.

1404
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 Just to reiterate your point,

1405
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 Before we move on to public schools and where the Shoals teams, as far as classified,

1406
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 they've got two private schools.

1407
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 They've got two divisions based on Class AA, 17 schools, Class AA, 43 schools.

1408
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 Now, during the regular season, private schools can play public schools.

1409
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 Again, they can in the championship.

1410
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 They've got a separate championship.

1411
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 But, once again, to your knowledge,

1412
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 they can play any school during the regular season, correct?

1413
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 Yeah.

1414
01:25:18,180 --> 01:25:20,100
 Nothing changes as far as regular season goes.

1415
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 The way I thought about it is it's not Notre Dame in college football.

1416
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 Alabama can play their NCAA schedule and Notre Dame as an on-conference opponent.

1417
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 But every week, Notre Dame has to play a non-conference game against somebody.

1418
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 So, every week of the season,

1419
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1420
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 It's the same way it'd be.

1421
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 Notre Dame, Shoals Christian, and Covenant Christian will just be non-region, non-area games

1422
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 for a Deshler, Brooks, Fennell, Wilson, whoever, in whatever form.

1423
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 Talk to us about – that's a private – talk to us about the public schools.

1424
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 Obviously, Florence, Monster Shoals, Brooks, we'll go up and down the list.

1425
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 What does it mean going forward for the public schools in their area?

1426
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 The public schools, 6A becomes, what, 7A1.

1427
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 And now, 5A is an absolute gauntlet up here in the Shoals area.

1428
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 And statewide, excuse me, sorry.

1429
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 But statewide, he's now put 6A as the old 7A.

1430
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 And now, 5A is what 6A used to be.

1431
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 So, they'll show Florence, Florida, Decatur, Austin, Athens,

1432
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 and they're also all together in 6A – or 5A, my bad, now.

1433
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 But that's going to be an absolute gauntlet.

1434
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 And then 4A is a big similarity back.

1435
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 So, where it's like Brooks, Deshler, Westmore, and all those.

1436
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 But that 5A is an absolute gauntlet, most of the region.

1437
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 I mentioned that at the beginning of the show.

1438
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 But several people have told us, of course, and I know you've heard a lot of things, too,

1439
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 in the last three months, that a lot of the schools, that Austin, Florence, and Muscle Shoals

1440
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 are probably going to go down.

1441
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 It is an incredible region to be.

1442
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 Again, Athens, Austin, Decatur, East Limestone, Florence, Hartzell, Muscle Shoals, Russell.

1443
01:27:09,400 --> 01:27:12,200
 This is now Class 5A Region 7.

1444
01:27:13,220 --> 01:27:17,220
 Zach, that would seem like a playoff game every Friday night.

1445
01:27:18,600 --> 01:27:22,840
 I think it would be like 4A was two years ago when you had that loaded 4A region up here.

1446
01:27:23,500 --> 01:27:23,860
 Yes.

1447
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 But it's going to be a battle every week, especially with Athens, Austin, Florence, Muscle Shoals, Hartzell.

1448
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 And Russell, maybe depending on who the new coach he is, that's the school in APM region.

1449
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 And East Limestone and Decatur, good luck.

1450
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 I mean, what do you think?

1451
01:27:43,580 --> 01:27:46,420
 That's a good point.

1452
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 Zach, before you jump off, obviously, it's going to be interesting where this goes going forward.

1453
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 But back to basketball with the impending weather.

1454
01:27:54,340 --> 01:27:56,160
 Looks like tonight's going to be one of those deals.

1455
01:27:56,340 --> 01:27:58,880
 Your thoughts just about both boys and girls.

1456
01:27:59,040 --> 01:28:02,880
 Any impacts so far as far as how the weather may alter things over the weekend?

1457
01:28:03,420 --> 01:28:08,740
 And your impressions, who's hot as we get ready to, it's hard to believe, wind down the regular season,

1458
01:28:09,160 --> 01:28:12,300
 getting ready to head down 65 to Hensville here in a few short weeks?

1459
01:28:12,980 --> 01:28:18,660
 From what I know, this weekend, no one is playing on tomorrow, unless Desher and Carpent County find a way to play tomorrow.

1460
01:28:19,480 --> 01:28:29,620
 Everyone else is playing just for 9 or tomorrow, except for Sarktown Covenant, Act Covenant, and then Mars Hill hosting the Canada Heritage tonight also.

1461
01:28:30,700 --> 01:28:35,420
 But right now, that 4A region, that 4A area is coming more into light now.

1462
01:28:36,420 --> 01:28:40,820
 Looks like the boys' host is going to be either Brooks or Hatton, depending on some more chaos.

1463
01:28:40,820 --> 01:28:46,260
 And the girls, it looks like the only seeds left is the 2, 3, 4 seeds to the size.

1464
01:28:46,860 --> 01:28:49,280
 I think Hatton is almost locked into the 2.

1465
01:28:49,720 --> 01:28:57,540
 But if Wilson beats the Brooks or Dantzler, then Wilson gets the 3 seeds, potentials the 4, and Brooks is the 5, walk in.

1466
01:28:59,300 --> 01:29:04,520
 Yeah, the Dantzler girls with another milestone this week, another 20-win season.

1467
01:29:04,520 --> 01:29:10,440
 That is the 95th time that the Dantzler girls have been either 1 or 2 at the state rankings.

1468
01:29:10,880 --> 01:29:14,820
 That's 3rd all-time, which is absolutely incredible.

1469
01:29:15,420 --> 01:29:25,080
 Listen, you've got a lot more information about, and I know a lot of our listeners, we did not get the opportunity to go through every one of the regions.

1470
01:29:25,080 --> 01:29:31,860
 But, number one, Times Daily has got a good article about this as far as listing the realignments.

1471
01:29:31,980 --> 01:29:33,820
 But I know you've been on top of this.

1472
01:29:34,320 --> 01:29:36,920
 You've got a podcast on Facebook.

1473
01:29:37,320 --> 01:29:45,200
 You will have a lot more information about these specific regions and where teams have been reassigned,

1474
01:29:45,760 --> 01:29:49,420
 along with covering all of the great basketball tonight.

1475
01:29:49,960 --> 01:29:54,000
 We wish everybody safe as far as getting back late tonight.

1476
01:29:54,560 --> 01:30:01,380
 Zach, where can we get the realignment stuff and then also the coverage of the great basketball coverage tonight?

1477
01:30:02,120 --> 01:30:07,220
 On Facebook, we have every local field that we cover in our coverage area.

1478
01:30:07,320 --> 01:30:09,760
 They're reaching for football on our page right now.

1479
01:30:10,380 --> 01:30:15,660
 And then we also have a 25, 27-minute live video we did about 10, 30, about 11 o'clock this morning,

1480
01:30:16,460 --> 01:30:21,740
 where we went through all the regions locally and some of the impacts with schools dropping classes

1481
01:30:21,740 --> 01:30:23,680
 and dropping regions and moving around regions.

1482
01:30:24,380 --> 01:30:27,700
 Also, that's on our YouTube, our Twitter, and our Facebook page.

1483
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 All show sports reports, same name for all three.

1484
01:30:31,180 --> 01:30:36,020
 And with basketball schedules, we'll see how it goes for weather this weekend.

1485
01:30:36,420 --> 01:30:39,240
 I don't think anybody will play on Monday, Tuesday.

1486
01:30:39,620 --> 01:30:40,120
 We'll see.

1487
01:30:40,480 --> 01:30:44,700
 But I think by Wednesday, we should be in the clear and be back to games by Thursday, hopefully.

1488
01:30:45,900 --> 01:30:46,900
 Les, hope so.

1489
01:30:46,960 --> 01:30:48,720
 In the meantime, Zach, stay safe out there.

1490
01:30:48,780 --> 01:30:50,100
 And thanks so much for your time today.

1491
01:30:50,800 --> 01:30:51,240
 Thank you all.

1492
01:30:51,900 --> 01:30:52,440
 Thank you, buddy.

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1604
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 Alabama's at home to host Tennessee.

1605
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1606
01:36:06,380 --> 01:36:10,400
 South Alabama will play at Marshall, while Troy is at Georgia Southern.

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1644
01:37:33,880 --> 01:37:38,660
 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1645
01:37:39,140 --> 01:37:39,840
 Welcome back in.

1646
01:37:39,880 --> 01:37:40,960
 Just in from the Ripleys.

1647
01:37:41,060 --> 01:37:41,640
 Believe it or not.

1648
01:37:41,700 --> 01:37:45,020
 We know a lot of schools may be closed due to inclement weather.

1649
01:37:45,080 --> 01:37:46,640
 We have to see come next week.

1650
01:37:46,740 --> 01:37:49,460
 One school system has already closed down today, baby.

1651
01:37:49,680 --> 01:37:59,840
 Lawrence County Schools, according to reports, they have dismissed class, not because of weather, but because of, quote, a skunk issue in the main building.

1652
01:38:01,280 --> 01:38:03,920
 They have dismissed the classes for the day.

1653
01:38:03,920 --> 01:38:05,560
 That's a good reason to dismiss it.

1654
01:38:05,980 --> 01:38:11,800
 And parents have been advised, you can pick them up after a shower.

1655
01:38:11,960 --> 01:38:14,120
 From the gym or you can let them stay there the weekend.

1656
01:38:14,660 --> 01:38:16,040
 They're smelling better.

1657
01:38:16,140 --> 01:38:17,220
 My goodness, baby.

1658
01:38:17,320 --> 01:38:17,820
 Oh, my.

1659
01:38:18,900 --> 01:38:21,160
 I think a lot of parents may be considering that option.

1660
01:38:21,320 --> 01:38:22,040
 Justin Ferguson.

1661
01:38:22,520 --> 01:38:24,720
 Hopefully things are smelling better on the other end of the state.

1662
01:38:24,800 --> 01:38:26,580
 He's got the Auburn Tigers covered.

1663
01:38:26,920 --> 01:38:27,960
 There with the Auburn Observer.

1664
01:38:28,120 --> 01:38:28,980
 Justin, welcome in.

1665
01:38:29,200 --> 01:38:32,240
 Anything stinking going on in Auburn territory today?

1666
01:38:33,160 --> 01:38:34,700
 No, nothing that bad.

1667
01:38:34,780 --> 01:38:38,340
 I don't think I've ever heard of a school having to get let out because of a skunk.

1668
01:38:39,240 --> 01:38:43,800
 I went to a pretty country high school growing up, but I didn't have anything close to that.

1669
01:38:44,920 --> 01:38:45,680
 That's a new one.

1670
01:38:45,700 --> 01:38:49,000
 Just when you think you've seen or heard or smelled it all, along comes this one.

1671
01:38:49,480 --> 01:38:50,720
 Justin, what's going on?

1672
01:38:50,820 --> 01:38:55,500
 How are things down the plains minus the skunks as far as where we are with the portal?

1673
01:38:55,580 --> 01:38:57,780
 Now that it's closed, how do you feel about this class?

1674
01:38:58,700 --> 01:39:00,540
 Yeah, it's a really good class for Auburn.

1675
01:39:00,540 --> 01:39:04,780
 I think they're continuing to add, even today, picking up some more guys.

1676
01:39:06,820 --> 01:39:08,120
 It's been a lot of volume.

1677
01:39:08,900 --> 01:39:13,700
 This is a group that I think one of the big ones that a lot of people were wanting to see was the offensive line.

1678
01:39:14,040 --> 01:39:17,700
 Auburn lost a good bit on the offensive line, but it brought in even more.

1679
01:39:18,060 --> 01:39:19,560
 Got some guys with some starting experience.

1680
01:39:19,680 --> 01:39:21,260
 Got some guys who could develop for the future.

1681
01:39:21,740 --> 01:39:23,260
 Got some guys who knows USF system.

1682
01:39:24,180 --> 01:39:25,620
 So I think that was a pretty big one.

1683
01:39:25,980 --> 01:39:30,440
 Obviously, when you hit as big as you did, bringing in your quarterback that you wanted.

1684
01:39:30,900 --> 01:39:34,520
 Bringing in one of the SEC edge rusher into Sean Womack.

1685
01:39:34,740 --> 01:39:37,380
 Bringing in one of the top big ten quarters in Andre Jordan.

1686
01:39:37,380 --> 01:39:39,660
 The big names are ones that are really popping.

1687
01:39:39,800 --> 01:39:44,120
 I really like the amount of depth Auburn's got at the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball.

1688
01:39:44,320 --> 01:39:46,240
 They continue to add, and they continue to add.

1689
01:39:46,540 --> 01:39:48,120
 So it's been a really good job.

1690
01:39:48,260 --> 01:39:51,660
 I think Auburn lost a lot in the portal, so they had to bring in a lot.

1691
01:39:52,320 --> 01:39:57,320
 They've gone above and beyond, I think, and just bringing in a lot of guys and trying to set up this year one.

1692
01:39:58,020 --> 01:40:01,340
 I'm looking at some of the, and again, you can take it with a grain of salt.

1693
01:40:01,540 --> 01:40:03,340
 ESPN comes out with their rankings.

1694
01:40:04,040 --> 01:40:05,380
 Auburn is at number 11.

1695
01:40:05,460 --> 01:40:07,920
 To put that in perspective, LSU is one, no shock.

1696
01:40:08,580 --> 01:40:09,720
 Alabama is 23rd.

1697
01:40:09,720 --> 01:40:15,860
 So Auburn is somewhere between LSU and Alabama as far as ESPN's way of looking at things.

1698
01:40:16,420 --> 01:40:17,760
 Your thoughts about the mix.

1699
01:40:18,500 --> 01:40:23,540
 Schools like LSU, I think they're going to pretty much take an all-in approach to the portal.

1700
01:40:24,040 --> 01:40:27,680
 Looks like teams like Alabama and Georgia, they're going to sit here and try to get the right mix.

1701
01:40:27,860 --> 01:40:29,380
 Your thoughts about Auburn's strategy.

1702
01:40:30,620 --> 01:40:34,100
 Yeah, I think Auburn had to be one of the teams that are a little bit closer to what LSU's done this year

1703
01:40:34,100 --> 01:40:36,420
 just because of the amount of guys you lost in the portal, right?

1704
01:40:36,540 --> 01:40:38,660
 You lost so many, so you're going to have to backfill.

1705
01:40:39,220 --> 01:40:40,740
 You didn't sign a very big high school class.

1706
01:40:41,020 --> 01:40:45,660
 So I think they were going to have to go with a lot of volume in the transfer portal.

1707
01:40:45,740 --> 01:40:50,780
 What I do like, though, about this group for Auburn is that it's not just a bunch of dudes

1708
01:40:50,780 --> 01:40:53,900
 who are going to only be here for a year who only have one more year of eligibility.

1709
01:40:54,280 --> 01:40:57,840
 You have the opportunity to retain some of these guys and develop them for the future.

1710
01:40:57,860 --> 01:41:03,640
 Pretty much every position group, you know, I'm thinking, just rolling through my head right now,

1711
01:41:03,680 --> 01:41:08,260
 like I think every position group has multiple guys that they brought into the transfer portal

1712
01:41:08,260 --> 01:41:10,560
 who have more than one year of eligibility remaining.

1713
01:41:10,800 --> 01:41:14,180
 So that's a really, really good thing to have.

1714
01:41:14,260 --> 01:41:15,560
 It's like, yeah, you needed a lot of guys.

1715
01:41:15,640 --> 01:41:16,400
 You need a lot of volume.

1716
01:41:16,580 --> 01:41:17,820
 You needed to put a lot of dudes in.

1717
01:41:17,820 --> 01:41:23,120
 I think teams like Alabama and Georgia and, you know, several others, Texas, you know,

1718
01:41:23,140 --> 01:41:27,560
 do a, you know, I think they are a little bit more consistent, you know,

1719
01:41:27,580 --> 01:41:30,580
 with obviously with the way they've recruited recently, keeping their coaches.

1720
01:41:30,720 --> 01:41:34,840
 They're not having to hit the reset button, so they can kind of be a little more selective in the portal.

1721
01:41:34,980 --> 01:41:38,520
 I think Auburn had to go big with numbers, and then they did just that.

1722
01:41:39,520 --> 01:41:41,660
 Let me double-check with you.

1723
01:41:42,140 --> 01:41:50,400
 Right now, Auburn, at least my last count, they were up to 17 offensive linemen after Derek Plotts,

1724
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:57,040
 the Miami offensive lineman, committed to Auburn or announced he's transferring.

1725
01:41:57,380 --> 01:42:05,920
 I know they had a visit from Tommy Kinsler, the fourth, a Miami transfer, and believe me,

1726
01:42:05,980 --> 01:42:07,420
 they've gotten a lot of attention.

1727
01:42:08,480 --> 01:42:17,640
 Totally, my last one was Arliss Boardingham, the 39th transfer for Auburn from Florida,

1728
01:42:17,820 --> 01:42:21,320
 Bowling Green, who is a tight end.

1729
01:42:21,320 --> 01:42:28,200
 And before him was Hampton, linebacker Michael Matthews-Canty, and before him, the 37th,

1730
01:42:28,280 --> 01:42:32,180
 was Tate Meadows, a running back for Troy.

1731
01:42:32,300 --> 01:42:36,580
 You may have anywhere close to that, 17 offensive linemen to 39 overall.

1732
01:42:37,500 --> 01:42:38,640
 Yep, yep, you're right on it.

1733
01:42:38,680 --> 01:42:41,380
 Yeah, it's been a big one for Auburn on the offensive line.

1734
01:42:41,380 --> 01:42:47,000
 I think they only had three guys come back from this year's offensive line,

1735
01:42:47,160 --> 01:42:49,880
 so, you know, they needed to add more.

1736
01:42:50,680 --> 01:42:53,280
 And so they're up to 17 linemen, that's a good number to get.

1737
01:42:53,360 --> 01:42:55,360
 They could probably add another one if they wanted to.

1738
01:42:55,860 --> 01:42:58,240
 But, yeah, they've made a run.

1739
01:42:58,340 --> 01:43:01,380
 I think they've added, like, three or four tight ends out of the portal already.

1740
01:43:01,700 --> 01:43:04,660
 Now, you know, that's Alex Golesh's former position.

1741
01:43:05,300 --> 01:43:09,000
 You know, he came up as a tight ends coach, so he puts a lot of emphasis on that.

1742
01:43:09,240 --> 01:43:11,160
 So, you know, you got that going on.

1743
01:43:11,160 --> 01:43:12,700
 And you mentioned Tate Meadows.

1744
01:43:12,860 --> 01:43:14,320
 I really like that Tate Meadows pickup.

1745
01:43:14,840 --> 01:43:18,360
 Auburn obviously getting Bryson Washington, who's one of the better Big 12 running backs.

1746
01:43:18,660 --> 01:43:20,040
 They're bringing Jeremiah Cobb back.

1747
01:43:20,040 --> 01:43:23,380
 Like, you know, they get Nakaya Davenport from USF.

1748
01:43:23,880 --> 01:43:30,200
 Tate Meadows, if you watch Troy any this past year, he's a good little player, really good runner.

1749
01:43:30,920 --> 01:43:34,740
 I think he's going to fit in really well with, you know, what Auburn's system is there.

1750
01:43:34,860 --> 01:43:36,220
 So, yeah, a ton of guys.

1751
01:43:36,520 --> 01:43:38,440
 I don't think they're even quite done yet.

1752
01:43:39,140 --> 01:43:44,440
 But you're at a point now where, you know, you have 105 scholarships to play with now in college football.

1753
01:43:44,600 --> 01:43:47,000
 You might as well just keep adding if you can.

1754
01:43:48,460 --> 01:43:50,380
 Justin Ferguson, the Auburn Observer.

1755
01:43:50,500 --> 01:43:52,620
 Talk to us about where things are going forward.

1756
01:43:52,800 --> 01:43:55,560
 Everybody thought a week ago the portal closed, and it did.

1757
01:43:55,760 --> 01:43:58,440
 But then you got Indiana and you got Miami.

1758
01:43:58,560 --> 01:44:01,080
 They still got some good fruit on the tree there.

1759
01:44:01,240 --> 01:44:05,020
 Will Auburn continue to look at that and shop, or where will they go next?

1760
01:44:05,080 --> 01:44:08,380
 What needs still needs to be met as far as a position, Justin?

1761
01:44:08,980 --> 01:44:11,660
 Yeah, I mean, I think they're pretty good in terms of needs.

1762
01:44:11,760 --> 01:44:14,760
 I think there's, you know, some things they might want.

1763
01:44:15,080 --> 01:44:19,260
 Or anything like, could you use another wide receiver that wasn't one of the USF guys?

1764
01:44:19,380 --> 01:44:23,180
 Yeah, Auburn went after a few of those in the portal and weren't able to land them.

1765
01:44:23,380 --> 01:44:24,880
 So, that might be something to look at.

1766
01:44:25,220 --> 01:44:28,580
 If they could get a little bit more help at edge rusher and on the defensive line,

1767
01:44:28,640 --> 01:44:30,740
 I think those would be positions where you would like it.

1768
01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:34,400
 I think they're really set in the secondary running back, quarterback now as well.

1769
01:44:35,140 --> 01:44:40,200
 So, yeah, maybe a little wide receiver, maybe a lineman or two, maybe an edge rusher if you can.

1770
01:44:40,520 --> 01:44:44,880
 But, I mean, I think right now it's just a pretty deep and balanced roster

1771
01:44:44,880 --> 01:44:46,280
 they've been able to rebuild in the portal.

1772
01:44:47,760 --> 01:44:51,940
 Well, they've got quite a few receivers, too.

1773
01:44:52,080 --> 01:45:01,800
 I think projected starters may be Singleton, Jeremiah Coger, Chaz Nimrod, you know, Bryce Cain, Sam Turner.

1774
01:45:02,480 --> 01:45:04,720
 Some of the guys I'm sure they want to develop.

1775
01:45:05,100 --> 01:45:11,000
 But, yeah, let's see, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

1776
01:45:11,140 --> 01:45:11,760
 Is that right?

1777
01:45:12,400 --> 01:45:13,840
 Yeah, they've got a lot of receivers.

1778
01:45:13,840 --> 01:45:17,440
 And, you know, they were able to keep Bryce Cain, like you said, Sam Turner,

1779
01:45:17,440 --> 01:45:19,080
 both of the Smith brothers are back.

1780
01:45:19,420 --> 01:45:21,440
 They've got three guys out of high school as well.

1781
01:45:21,640 --> 01:45:23,740
 So, yeah, I mean, they've got good numbers there.

1782
01:45:24,120 --> 01:45:26,840
 I was just, you know, it's a ton of USF guys.

1783
01:45:26,960 --> 01:45:28,120
 You know, they went after Noah Rogers.

1784
01:45:28,320 --> 01:45:30,940
 They went after a couple other guys that were after.

1785
01:45:31,160 --> 01:45:35,140
 So, it's just like maybe you could get like maybe one more if you've got a little more room to play with.

1786
01:45:35,420 --> 01:45:37,000
 But, yeah, I mean, they've definitely got numbers.

1787
01:45:37,160 --> 01:45:39,660
 I think pretty much every position group's got a ton of numbers now.

1788
01:45:40,900 --> 01:45:45,280
 Football, basketball coming up tomorrow, taking on a pretty good team.

1789
01:45:45,780 --> 01:45:46,540
 No stranger.

1790
01:45:46,680 --> 01:45:49,080
 Todd Golden knows the Pearl family, does it not?

1791
01:45:49,140 --> 01:45:51,840
 Your thoughts about the matchup tomorrow with the Tigers and the Gators?

1792
01:45:52,980 --> 01:45:56,160
 Yeah, it's the toughest matchup Auburn's got the rest of the season, you know, bar none.

1793
01:45:56,160 --> 01:46:01,560
 I think Florida's looking like not only the best team in the SEC, but one of the best teams in the country again.

1794
01:46:01,900 --> 01:46:04,080
 Winners of five straight, they're playing excellently.

1795
01:46:04,260 --> 01:46:04,920
 They're huge.

1796
01:46:05,740 --> 01:46:08,760
 They've gotten real comfortable in what they do.

1797
01:46:09,300 --> 01:46:11,820
 They brought back that starting front court from last year.

1798
01:46:11,940 --> 01:46:16,280
 Thomas Hawk has taken that next step from sixth man to their leading scorer this year.

1799
01:46:16,680 --> 01:46:26,840
 I think when their guards, you know, got off to a slow start this year, Boogie Flynn and Davian Lee, they've, you know, they've started to settle in a little bit more.

1800
01:46:26,920 --> 01:46:28,780
 And I think you're seeing the benefits of that on the field.

1801
01:46:28,780 --> 01:46:31,320
 So, I mean, it's a brutal matchup for sure.

1802
01:46:31,960 --> 01:46:35,780
 You know, Auburn is feeling good about winning back-to-back games.

1803
01:46:36,120 --> 01:46:38,840
 You know, not shooting very well, but winning with defense and rebounding.

1804
01:46:39,120 --> 01:46:45,420
 And it's kind of funny, it's like those things that they absolutely had to do to survive, or sorry, those things that they did to win.

1805
01:46:45,920 --> 01:46:50,520
 In these last two games, you've got to do that to survive against a team like Florida, especially on the road.

1806
01:46:51,520 --> 01:46:54,380
 Auburn's going to be, what, nine, ten-point dog in this game.

1807
01:46:54,880 --> 01:46:56,420
 They haven't won in Florida in 30 years.

1808
01:46:57,300 --> 01:46:59,720
 Florida's playing the best basketball in the SEC right now.

1809
01:47:00,000 --> 01:47:14,320
 So, it's really, can Auburn go down there, hit some threes, hang in there on defense, and put some pressure on Florida and see if they can make it a 40-minute game and maybe pull off what I would think would be one of the biggest upsets of the last several years for Auburn basketball.

1810
01:47:14,480 --> 01:47:16,080
 I think they'll get it tomorrow night.

1811
01:47:17,080 --> 01:47:28,180
 Do you think Steve and Pearl has mentioned to the guys, you need to block out Chenilu, who has had two, not one, two 21 rebound games?

1812
01:47:28,300 --> 01:47:28,800
 My goodness.

1813
01:47:29,060 --> 01:47:29,220
 Yeah.

1814
01:47:29,960 --> 01:47:36,960
 Yeah, no, I mean, Pearl told us yesterday when we were talking to him, he said, here's the thing, if you don't box out, you better come sit by me and watch the game there.

1815
01:47:38,300 --> 01:47:40,740
 It is a non-negotiable in this game.

1816
01:47:40,880 --> 01:47:43,120
 Everybody, all five guys got to box out.

1817
01:47:43,940 --> 01:47:50,020
 It's a funny thing is, like, you know, Auburn's the number two team in the SEC in rebounding on offense and defense.

1818
01:47:50,220 --> 01:47:51,760
 They've done a really good job on the boards.

1819
01:47:52,460 --> 01:47:56,720
 Florida's the number one team in the country in rebounding by a long shot.

1820
01:47:57,080 --> 01:47:59,980
 So, you know, this is, you know, it is a war.

1821
01:47:59,980 --> 01:48:06,680
 And I think the best way to put it is, you know, the last couple days here at practice for Auburn, the message is simple.

1822
01:48:07,320 --> 01:48:09,240
 Hey, there's no magic formula.

1823
01:48:09,500 --> 01:48:10,160
 There's no secret.

1824
01:48:10,460 --> 01:48:12,240
 There's no rah-rah speech.

1825
01:48:12,440 --> 01:48:13,960
 You know what you got to go do.

1826
01:48:14,160 --> 01:48:16,280
 And it's going to be one of the toughest tests you got all year.

1827
01:48:17,640 --> 01:48:18,040
 Absolutely.

1828
01:48:18,440 --> 01:48:25,100
 Well, listen, I know you've got everything on the website, except maybe you had to make snow ice cream, and you may be working on that.

1829
01:48:25,700 --> 01:48:32,320
 The e-mails for Wednesday, the mailbag on Friday, the podcast, football, basketball, transfer portal.

1830
01:48:32,840 --> 01:48:35,080
 Where can we get online to get all the great stuff?

1831
01:48:35,620 --> 01:48:36,720
 Yeah, AuburnServe.com.

1832
01:48:36,780 --> 01:48:37,100
 Check it out.

1833
01:48:37,140 --> 01:48:38,840
 $6 a month or $60 a year.

1834
01:48:39,020 --> 01:48:44,140
 I am very much looking forward to the fact that I'm about to head south here in a couple hours and head down to Gainesville.

1835
01:48:44,660 --> 01:48:50,440
 You know, Auburn plays at Tennessee next week, and I'm like, man, I'm glad those two games weren't swapped around.

1836
01:48:50,880 --> 01:48:52,700
 So I'm going to take advantage of the failure.

1837
01:48:53,020 --> 01:48:54,000
 I looked at the weather today.

1838
01:48:54,640 --> 01:48:56,400
 Gainesville's supposed to be 70 degrees tomorrow.

1839
01:48:56,540 --> 01:48:58,300
 We'll take plenty of advantage of that.

1840
01:48:58,680 --> 01:48:59,960
 Go cover that game down in Florida.

1841
01:49:00,380 --> 01:49:05,940
 And then, obviously, we've got a lot of stuff going on next week with basketball and continuing to cover the transfer portal in football.

1842
01:49:06,160 --> 01:49:07,980
 So AuburnObserver.com, check it out there.

1843
01:49:08,140 --> 01:49:08,560
 Sign up.

1844
01:49:08,940 --> 01:49:12,100
 All of our podcasts, all of our e-mails go straight to your inbox as soon as they drop.

1845
01:49:13,000 --> 01:49:14,020
 You are a lucky boy.

1846
01:49:14,020 --> 01:49:15,040
 Safe travels, Justin.

1847
01:49:15,840 --> 01:49:16,540
 Appreciate you all.

1848
01:49:17,000 --> 01:49:17,640
 Thank you, buddy.

1849
01:49:17,740 --> 01:49:18,920
 Ferguson, the Auburn Observer.

1850
01:49:19,040 --> 01:49:24,080
 If these weather hacks have their way, some places may be looking to make seven in pockets, BB.

1851
01:49:24,480 --> 01:49:26,520
 Bottom line is, obviously, we have a lot of fun.

1852
01:49:26,660 --> 01:49:29,920
 But when you see the ice storm, snow is one thing, BB.

1853
01:49:30,700 --> 01:49:32,200
 But we can't say it enough.

1854
01:49:32,280 --> 01:49:33,960
 Make sure that you stay safe out there.

1855
01:49:33,960 --> 01:49:39,100
 And to me, one of the more dangerous situations, we kind of get cautious on the front end of some of these ice storms.

1856
01:49:39,100 --> 01:49:44,600
 But come, like, Monday, certainly Monday morning, Tuesday morning when it rains and it maybe clears off a little bit.

1857
01:49:45,000 --> 01:49:48,020
 And then that sudden drop in temperatures, a lot of black ice out there.

1858
01:49:48,140 --> 01:49:51,160
 So, BB, please, please, please, please tell everybody you know to be careful.

1859
01:49:51,560 --> 01:49:55,800
 It's going to be – I think there's going to be a lot of sleet, freezing rain.

1860
01:49:55,980 --> 01:49:56,560
 I don't know.

1861
01:49:56,580 --> 01:49:59,120
 I think probably two to three inches of snow.

1862
01:49:59,340 --> 01:50:00,340
 But you're right.

1863
01:50:00,380 --> 01:50:06,680
 When you get the sleet and the freezing rain, and then the lows for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are about 10.

1864
01:50:07,300 --> 01:50:13,140
 So, whatever falls tomorrow and Sunday is probably not going to go anywhere for a while.

1865
01:50:13,140 --> 01:50:19,220
 Yeah, make sure you say how much you appreciate those utility guys working out there this weekend to keep the lights on.

1866
01:50:19,280 --> 01:50:23,160
 BB, obviously, basketball, it's going to be a very interesting Alabama.

1867
01:50:23,160 --> 01:50:27,820
 It's always – when Alabama and Tennessee get together in anything, I'm not clear if it's pickleball, it's always fun.

1868
01:50:27,860 --> 01:50:30,840
 But this weekend should be extra spicy, to say the least.

1869
01:50:31,260 --> 01:50:35,160
 I'll be curious to see the TV ratings for that game tomorrow night.

1870
01:50:35,280 --> 01:50:37,940
 Everybody's going to probably be home because of the weather.

1871
01:50:38,140 --> 01:50:43,000
 And then they wonder what Bidiaco does and the rugby reaction to him.

1872
01:50:43,220 --> 01:50:45,880
 So, yeah, that's going to be quite a game tomorrow night.

1873
01:50:46,080 --> 01:50:51,180
 You can watch it on the tube and listen to it with Chris and the guys here on 93.9 The Score.

1874
01:50:51,380 --> 01:50:53,840
 Make sure you're tuning in coming up tomorrow night.

1875
01:50:53,920 --> 01:50:54,880
 It's going to take care of this for now.

1876
01:50:54,980 --> 01:50:59,780
 On behalf of BB, Greg, James Blair, the entire crew here, Harold Bogg, thank you so much for your time today.

1877
01:50:59,880 --> 01:51:05,420
 Let's do it again hopefully Monday noon to 2 for the Boomo Bugg Show back here on Sports Radio 93.9 The Score.